Welcome to the Salt Strong podcast, Disrupting Fishing Entertainment as you know it.

Prepare to laugh.

Prepare to get to know fishing legends in a whole new and unfiltered way.

And on occasion, you might even learn a thing or two about fishing.

Here's your host, Joe Simons, like diamonds.

My bad Christian friend.

So the other day, I was hanging out with a friend, and this friend is a Christian,

but he doesn't always act, speak, or think like one, not all the time.

Some days, he is completely

in line with God's word and his spirit. And some days his life is a struggle and seems to get

the best of him. And as our eyes met, I really wanted to say something about it. But I decided

to let the Lord speak to his heart, knowing that nothing that I would say

would have the same impact as the Father's words. So I prayed, I prayed with him. After

some time it passed, I winked at him and I walked away from the mirror because that person

is me. And maybe as you were hearing me say that, you were thinking of some friend. I know I was

as I was reading this, I was like, oh, yeah, I've got a friend like that. And as soon as I read that

last sentence where it said, he is me, I was like, oh, man, it is so much me. And if you don't

know who I'm, I'm Joe Simon's like diamonds. He was Salt Strong and churched. And for all of you long-term listeners, you know I've

shared a lot of different struggles. And I feel like there have been some times here, especially

this year, that I've been really inconsistent. I love it when I'm consistent, when I'm

walking and talking with God, where I'm waking up super early and starting

the day off, reading the Bible, and writing in my grader two journal, and writing to God

...