There was once a beggar who lived near the king's palace, and the king invited everyone in the,

you know, realm to a big banquet. The only requirement was you needed something to wear that would be considered royal clothing.

The beggar desperately wanted to attend, but only had some old beggars rags. That was all he

had to his name. And so he was really sad, dejected, bummed. But he had an idea, and he thought,

why not give it a shot? So he went to try to seek audience of the king. And the king gave him a clear green light to come and talk to him.

So he stood before the throne, the beggar, in his rags. And he said, oh, king, you're so gracious to invite us to the banquet, but these clothes are all I have.

Do you have anything that I could, you know, do you have any idea how I could maybe come to the banquet?

And the king graciously said, I will give you the garments of my son, the prince.

I'll give you some princely garments.

And, you know, the guy thought, wow, the king would never help him.

But when the king did, he was blown away at the king's graciousness and kindness. And, you know, the beggar was given the princely robes, and the king said,

man, you can, you know, the guy was carrying his beggar clothes as he changed into the princely garments.

And the king said, man, you can throw away, you can burn those garments, man. Those are yours to keep.

The princely garments are yours.

And the guy said, thank you.

And as he walked out, he just kind of held on to his stinky old beggars rags.

But later, the feast, the food was brought to the courts, and the beggar shows up in his

princely garments, but he's still out under his arm his old beggars rags,

because you never know when you might need those again.

And, you know, he was carrying him, and, you know, they're kind of cumbersome

and sort of smelly, in fact, really stinky.

When he went to the banquet, man, he was going through the buffet,

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