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The Missionary and the Podcast Ninja Discuss Golf, Chinese Dialects, and the NBA Finals (Gm 7!) Between the "Indiana Fast Horses" and the "OKC Thunderbolts" [China Compass]

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🗓️ 22 June 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Welcome to another very special NBA Finals edition of the China Compass Podcast on the Fight Laugh Feast Network! (Check out the first NBA Finals podcast we did a few weeks ago here: https://pubtv.flfnetwork.com/tabs/the-pub/podcasts/30293/episodes/95)

 
Follow me on X for updates and reminders to Pray for China: @chinaadventures - Here is the link to the Pray for China cities of the week, which I shared at the beginning of todays episode: 
 
 
If you are wondering what the NBA Finals has to do with China, keep listening (especially to the first 25 or so minutes, or check out the recent piece I wrote for Crosspolitic News: 
 
The Thunder Take The Basketball World By Storm 
 
 
On this episode, recorded on Sat/Sun (Saturday in Indiana, Sunday in Hong Kong), June 22, about 24 hours before Game 7 of the NBA Finals between the "Indiana Fast Horses and the OKC Thunderbolts" (listen to learn more), Luke McKinney (aka, the Podcast Ninja) and I discuss golf, languages, Chinese names, and then our favorite (and not so favorite) things from this 7 game series between our favorite NBA teams
 
 
I'll be back this week with your regularly scheduled Prison Pulpit podcast...
 
Finally, please visit PrayGiveGo.us for links to all of our ministry activities and resources!

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0:00.0

Welcome to a very special episode of the very special episode of the China Compass podcast on the Fight Lafeste network.

0:15.0

I'm your China Travel Guide missionary bin currently in Macau, which is just next to Hong Kong, and we are on our way to Malaysia

0:22.8

this coming week. Today, earlier today, well, today, let's see, earlier today for me,

0:30.4

and yesterday for you, I met with a friend Luke McKinney, the podcast Ninja, from the Comedian Next Door podcast, and we talked for

0:41.0

over an hour. I guess it's been about 12 hours ago now that we talked again Saturday evening

0:47.2

in the U.S. early Sunday morning here in Asia. We talked about a lot of things, primarily about

0:53.6

our two favorite basketball teams that

0:55.9

are playing tonight, Sunday night for the NBA championship this year. Neither team has won it

1:02.4

before, at least not in their current team state that they're in. It's been many, many years

1:07.8

since they won anything of any kind, even in the leagues that preceded the NBA.

1:12.1

So we're both very excited about our teams possibly winning.

1:14.9

We're also very nervous, and we had a fun conversation all about that.

1:19.0

We talked about basketball quite a bit.

1:20.8

We really started out talking about even, I think, golf.

1:23.7

Luke went golfing today, and I like to golf as well.

1:25.9

We talked about Hong Kong and a little bit

1:28.0

about China and language learning and Chinese, weird things of Chinese. One thing I told Luke

1:33.8

today, and you'll hear it on the podcast, is that translated loosely from Chinese to English,

1:39.9

the name of the Indiana Pacers would be translated as Indiana fast horses. Indiana fast horses.

1:48.1

And the Pacer is not supposed to even be referring to horses per se, but to race cars, I guess.

1:52.8

So somebody mistranslated that in Chinese many, many moons ago.

1:57.2

And the Thunder, the Oklahoma City Thunder, literally translated from Chinese back into English

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