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Link is in the description below. And we are here in the good old Gaylord Opryland in Dallas, Texas, NRB 2025 with Dr. Abbadon Shaw, who's a PhD in New Testament textual criticism, professor at Carolina University, author, full-time pastor and the host of today's show. Dr. Shaw, happy NRB, my friend. Happy NRB. Happy NRB to you guys too. Yes.
B. Very excited to be here. We talked about it yesterday's show, but man, today has been a whirlwind. Yes. Yes.
Wow. And we had to do a show on the floor because it was prep day. Yes. It was, it was prep day. Everybody was getting their booth set up. We got our booth set up pretty quickly. It was, it was still kind of chaotic on the floor, but it was like, all right, we're going to go ahead and just do a show.
Little quags, people milling about here and there. Yeah. Then today just, it's just a little beep beep cars going around. But today we were fully in NRB.
How was NRB day one, Dr. Shaw? Whew. Well, you know, I told you earlier, some of the things that went on this morning with the different sessions and meeting people and interviewing them, it seems like it was three days ago. Yeah. Yeah.
It seems like just a whole different day, but it was just, you know, eight hours ago. Yeah. That's true. But it seems, it seems like there's so much to one day packed into one day is so exciting to be here and exciting to be around other people who have the same heart for reaching people through broadcasting and through media.
That's right. So exciting. Well, the rest of the day today is coming to us from Joel chapter two, verse 26. You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied and praise the name of the Lord, your God, who has dealt wondrously with you.
And my people shall never be put to shame. You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied. Dr. Shaw, I've eaten plenty this week. I've eaten a lot of peppermints, those pocket-sized candy bars, you know, you walk by boots and you find it's like crazy. Go to the next one.
I can take another one. And man, it's so incredible. Like you think you see these people on the screen and part of you is like, man, I really wish I was doing what they're doing.
And then all of a sudden you're sitting across a lunch table from them and they're telling you, hey, I would like to do this with you. Speaking of God's people being put to shame, by the way, I don't have my soundboard, but I think it's a drop the, what is it? The family matters theme song. Yeah.
We can just drop that in there. This is the segment of our show where we talk about really embarrassing things, things that you just have to look at yourself and say, did I really just do that? Just a little cringe.
I know I told the story on the podcast about meeting Charles Martinet at Comic-Con in 2016 where I saw him and I was like, oh my goodness, that's Charles Martinet. And I was like, just walked right by. And I said, I would never do that again.
Never again. And then this morning I did it again. So we met. But not all the way. You stopped yourself.
I stopped myself, but I still didn't, I didn't get it. So here's what happened. We met, we went to the Salem breakfast this morning in Texas. Salem, by the way, is a massive radio network.
Yes. It's a very, very well-known Christian radio network, talk show radio network. So we were invited, which was very nice of them to invite us to the, to the breakfast that they have. And they honored Chuck Swindoll came up to the stage, preached. I mean, spoke, did a panel. We got to meet him. We got to take a picture with him, speak to him.
That was really cool. We look around and we see Jack Graham and Dr. Shaw actually says, Hey, that's Jack Graham. And I was like, oh, well, let's go shake his hand. Jack Graham, very, very well-known preacher. As a pastor of Prestonwood Baptist church. It has been a president of the Southern Baptist convention a couple of times.
And you know, it has been a well-known in, in not just Southern Baptist circles, but also in just the evangelical Christian circle. So when you meet, when you meet big people like that, I know you guys kind of know what you're talking about. You want to be smooth, right? You want to, you want to say the right thing. You want to come across like you're not like your suave, like you're slick, but just like you're confident. You're incompetent. You want to, you want to just competent and competent. Well, unfortunately I came across as incompetent because here's what happened. He was like, he, he, he opened the door. He, he knocked it out of the park. Let me know what you, if you ever need something to help you.
For someone like Jack Graham to say, that's not like a janitor just pushing a broom. That's a big deal. He said, look, there's ever anything that I can do to help you guys.
Let me know. So we'll pull out a Clearview today card. I said, Hey, this is our radio show. Would you give it a listen? And he goes, yeah, well, and then he stuck in his pocket and I walked away feeling great. Now tell us what could have happened. I could have, well, we got out of the ballroom and we were walking and we were like, maybe like down the escalators and Dr. Seth said, you know, we could have asked him to be on our show.
And I said, what the heck is wrong with me? I stood in front of Jack Graham, gave him our card. He said, if you, if you need anything, let me know.
He opened the door wide. He, he basically put the little kid basketball hoop, lowered it down and was like, please slam dunk this. And I took it and threw it in the trash. And I said, if, if, if you have a moment, would you please listen to the show? He put it in his pocket and we all walked away. And then Dr. Shaw said, he said, you know, we should ask him to be on the show. I said, Oh my good gracious. So I ran back to the room. But you can find him.
He's still here. Mr. Graham here, Dr. Graham, Dr. Graham, if you are here, I promise you, I'm going to get you on the Clearview Today show. I apologize for my buffoonery. And before we go to it, I want to say, Dr. Shaw, thank you for bringing us this. Thank you for giving us the opportunity, not only to do this show, but to take it to the level that it's and it's, and then we've got great big announcements coming up in the next few weeks about the future of the Clearview Today show. Very good stuff. I want to say thank you.
Thank you. Thank you for saying that. And not just to throw it right back at you, but without you guys, and that's John and Ryan and David and Nick and Adam's not here without them doing what they're doing, we wouldn't have the show and Ellie being here, you know, leaving time away from our children and her work and to be here to network, to man the table. I mean, so much goes on and our Clearview staff, the rest of the group that's back in Henderson, North Carolina for what they're doing. I mean, without them doing all that they're doing, my wife, Nicole and Ryan's wife, Elizabeth, and Melissa, who is our secretary and you know, all these people, Katie doing what she does. You know, we wouldn't have any of this. So we're grateful to our church, our leadership at Clearview for their support, for their encouragement. I mean, this is a group effort. And of course we're thankful to Jesus Christ.
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And we are here live in Dallas, Texas. Dr. Shah, NRB. I got 15 short words for you, obtuse, rubber goose, green loose guava juice. Hang on, I'm not done. Giant snake, birthday cake, large fries, and chocolate shake.
Of course you can't have without the chocolate shake. So, really quick story. We had a whole other show planned.
We had a whole docket of shows. And I was walking on the floor and I saw this face, this face right beside me. You see this face. You guys, everybody watching has already clicked on it.
The thumbnail was there. They were like, oh my goodness. I saw it and I said, man, that guy looks familiar. I think I followed that guy on TikTok. That guy owes me money. And I said, nah. And I looked and his name tag said Butch Hartman.
I said, no way. So I walked up to him and I was like, hey, are you the Butch Hartman? And he was like, yes, yes, yes. And so I started wanting to tell him about our show. I got so nervous and I got so kerfuffled. I was like, so we have a show.
My pastor is here and I just couldn't get it out. And I was like, I swear I'm suave. And I'm actually smooth at this. I promise I'm an adult. I swear. I swear. And he addressed myself. He literally he was like, he was like, stop. Where's your pastor?
Do you want to do a show? I said, when is good for you? He said, we can do it right now. And here we are. Yeah. And I was over there talking to somebody and he's like, hey, I said, we got to go.
I said, okay. I said, do you guys know this is for the viewers to have you heard of Butch Hartman? Have you heard of the fairly odd parents? Have you heard of Danny Phantom? Have you heard of tough puppy? He's here right now.
He's going to do a podcast. And it was funny. Everybody's face was like, really?
And they just dropped immediately. We just welcome to the show. Thank you for being here. I'm grateful to be here. I was, it's funny.
I wasn't expecting to be on anybody's show today. And I'm just, I'm grateful that I'm here. And by the way, is the title sequence really 15 words?
Obtuse, rubber, good. You're talking and I'm counting the words. Giant snake, birthday cake, large fries, chocolate cake. That was amazing. Cause I wrote that song 25 years ago. You wrote the theme song. I wrote the theme song for all my kids. No one understands.
Wow. Well, my brother's name was Timmy. So I named Timmy after my brother. And when I created the show and then when I came up with the theme song, I knew how important it was for a theme songs. I grew up with the Flintstones Flintstones meet the Flintstones. You guys are too young to even know that, but when I was a kid, I'd hear the theme song and run into the rooms. My show was on. And I thought, man, if I could come up with a theme song, we'll make a kid know that the show is on and run in and want to see it. That, that was a real, um, a success. So I'm grateful you even remembered the theme song, just the theme song. One of the things that I really like and admire about you is that you draw, you draw. And so I really love your Tik TOKs cause you're drawing a lot. I used to draw Timmy Turner in my notebook. He was one of the first cartoons that I've memorized how to draw with the hair. And that's why when I saw you, I was like, there's no possible way.
This wasn't going, this wasn't happening like 10 minutes ago. Well, I mean, that's, that's the Lord for you. I'm like, I love Jesus.
Like you guys do. And um, my beautiful wife, Julie Anderson sitting right over there, we are, we are producers of animation. And as you know, I worked in Nickelodeon for over 20 years, made a several shows. You watched tough puppy too. You were, you were too old at that time.
Probably too old. It was after my time, but I remember really falling in love. I remember the pilot of Fairly Eyed Parents where he throws the eight ball and they come out and Cosmo's voice was all different.
I remember all that. But then when Danny Phantom came out, my whole world changed. I was like, oh, one second. I was like, is this love? Danny Phantom.
Wow. Danny Phantom. It's funny cause I was a Christian back then when I was making those shows and I could not put Jesus, Christianity, scripture in those shows at all. And um, but I was on fire for the Lord. I mean, how do I put Christianity in the show? And I thought it's a kid fighting the darkness. It's like Danny's the light coming into the darkness. Cause I had a lot of even Christians say to me, why did you make a show about ghosts?
How could you do that? I go, wait, what stops up? This is a boy fighting the darkness and winning every time like we do every day with the Lord. Amen.
I mean, uh, Jesus said, Jesus never said you're going to get saved and everything's gonna be perfect. He says, he says, you know, fight the good fight of faith. And so there's a good fight, but we always win. Amen. Amen.
So that's the great thing. And so we're here at NRB because we love the Lord and we're from my wife and I have a brand new animation studio. We're starting.
Uh, and we are, we have like nine pilots that we're doing. We have a brand, I've got a brand new Christian kids show out now called the garden cartoon. And, uh, it's on Apple. It's on Amazon.
It's on Google play. We have a garden cartoon, YouTube channel and a garden cartoon app. And it's, uh, it's for kids five to eight. Uh, it's going to be the next VeggieTales. Our goal is to hit the VeggieTales. We want to be as big or as awesome as VeggieTales, but it's about a little lion named Lenny, a little lamb named Lucy.
They live and work in a miraculous garden where anything can grow. And it teaches kids, um, about the Bible through scripture, but we, we pushed the funny first. Yeah.
This show is basically fairly odd parents with the scripture in it. That's what it is. Yeah. So that's what I'm doing now.
So we're here just checking it out and I'm glad I ran into you and you still owe me money by the way, 50 bucks. Yes. Yeah. Well, John and I, and now John has been working with me for 12 years, 12 years. Yes, sir.
One of the first places we connected was fairly odd parents because this one is 30 years old. That's right in the pocket. Yeah. They're right. 26 year old.
And then of course, 21 and 17, but the older two girls, Oh, these two sit there. And I would, at first I was like, this is funny. This is really funny. And so when he brought something up and I think, what was that? That I was, uh, it was the, it was the, um, I think it was the theme song. I think it was the whole obtuse rubber goose, the, the Vicky, the babysitter.
And I said something and he's like, you like fairly off parents. I've seen every single episode. I remember exactly what it was. It was something about, it was something that you said that would be redundant. It was one of the things where they were in, they were in Vicky's body. They like went down to Vicky's body.
Let's keep it clean. When I say in Vicky's body, we were like, they shrunk down into a bloodstream. I cannot remember what Wanda says, but I remember Cosmo that cadence. He was like, that would be redundant.
That would be redundant. He said that to me. And I was like, I stopped and looked at me like, well, my goal for that and this whole show, uh, cause I grew up quoting cartoons myself and what's up doc, you know, Bugs Bunny, all that stuff. And I want, I'm like, if I can make a show that's quotable, that kids will be saying to their friends the next day, that's really a success because look as, as a Christians, even as, even if you're not a Christian, you're a storyteller.
All of us are. And how did Jesus convey his message through parables, right? Through stories. It's the greatest story ever told. And if you can tell a good story and get somebody interested, especially a child, and if you can, you know, children are so impressionable and they're so vulnerable as a kid, I grew up in a broken home.
And so TV was my, was my, uh, my rescue, my escape basically. And I knew, and I, we meet my wife will tell you, we go to comic conventions all the time. I just came from one in Miami last week where kids come up and they're 25, 30, your show meant so much to me growing up and they're shaking, trembling because they, they, it means so much to them. And I don't take that lightly at all. I think it's a huge responsibility and I'm very grateful, which is why I want to tell new stories with new stuff that we're doing.
So I'm real excited about that. Well, I mean, the proof is in the pudding because I mean, John and I are in our thirties and you know, we watched Fairly Odd Parents, Danny Phantom, but now my kids are watching those shows. So you have multiple generations that you're in. So more nerds making more nerds making nerds making nerds. It's a nerd world.
We just live in it. I love it. Exactly.
Dr. Shaw, you actually have a background in broadcast and broadcast journalism, but I'm sure, you know, animation, all TV, all of this, this business, it kind of comes together. And what I really admire about you two guys is you have found a way to integrate your faith into it, even in an environment where it's not necessarily welcome. You know what I mean? It's not something that is not expected. Right. Because I look at it this way, like, you know, where did Jesus get all of his disciples from the marketplace? Right. That's right. Jesus could have brought a ton of Pharisees with him.
He could have went up. I need five. I need 12 Pharisees. You guys all know the law. You're professionals, right? That's right. He rejected them. He wanted the people from the marketplace because that's where he could reach the most people.
So he turned unqualified into qualified. And that's what I love about what we can do through our stories is take people that maybe not be expecting to meet the Lord. We have to meet the Lord right there. Yeah. You know, that'd be really fun. But be the salt and the light.
That's right. We're big on that in our church at Clearview Church and Clearview Today show. You know, how can we impact the culture? Because sometimes the church stays within our four walls.
I know. And then we say, no, no, all the entertainment stuff. Let somebody else handle that. And then, you know, when you don't clean your garage, does it get less orderly or more orderly?
Do more cockroaches come in or less cockroaches? You've got to maintain, as the Bible says, know this and the Proverbs, know the state of your flocks, know where your flocks are, know how much you have, know what you're dealing with. Because it's like the parable of the talents. The Lord's going to give you a talent and he's going to expect you to do something with it. I don't just mean a talent, like a skill.
I mean an actual, an actual goal, an actual achievement. And you need to be the one who stewards it wisely. And I tell people that all the time, especially in people like in entertainment in Hollywood, because I've worked there for 35 years.
They don't expect to see the Lord there. Right. And that's what I love doing is bringing the Lord in. We have to be wise as a serpent and harmless as a dove. That's our tagline.
You guys will love this too. My wife and I are pastors now. And we have a church.
You talk about the four walls of the church. My wife and I, we do a church and a park every Sunday. We set up under a tree with lawn chairs and preach every Sunday. And our church is called New Branch Family Fellowship because you're a new branch in your family tree.
I love it. That's fantastic. So how, so you were, I didn't know this about you. You were saved before you started working in Nickelodeon, right? I got, I got saved at age 35 in 1999.
I just turned 60, believe it or not. And so I got saved and then started working in Nickelodeon, had no idea how to be a Christian, had no idea how to be a producer. I was learning all of it at the same time. And I knew that I had to bless my work though. I knew I had to lay my hands on my work and bless it.
And I have video, one of those old camcorders, you hold it up like this of me laying my hands on drawings and just blessing all my work. This will be a number one show, Fairly Odd Parents will go around the world. And now here we are. And it's really true. I have video of it. It's pretty amazing.
Back in 2001. That's really incredible. It's changed my perspective on Fairly Odd Parents. Seriously. I mean, I'm just thinking about like the, I'm one of those guys where now I'm going to be going and trying to find the symbolism.
No, no, no. There's not symbolism anywhere. I wanted to laugh more than anything.
I mean, you know, when I, you know, every, every Fairly Odd Parents story is not an allegory for Jesus Adol. But you want to put fun stuff in there. You want to put family stuff. You want to put love in there. But man, I love superheroes.
I made the Crimson Chin. I love space guys. I came up with Crash and Nebula. I love Star Wars.
I came up with Dark Laser. You know, I love, I just love making jokes. I wanted to make fun of Arnold Schwarzenegger. So, you know, who are you?
You're tiny fairy, you know, Mr. Cracker, you know, Turner. So I wanted to, I wanted to, I wanted to have a show like the Simpsons. I wanted to have a million characters the audience could fall in love with.
And then, and again, you could watch them over and over. I have kids now coming up to me. I say kids, people your age, but like, you know, who said I didn't get the jokes when I was a kid, but now I get those adult jokes in there.
You know, do you guys feel the same way? Like you appreciate it in a whole new light as an adult now going like, Oh man, I missed that. But that's so funny. I get it now. It was kind of funny. Cause like as a 10 year old, I would be like relating to Timmy Turner, but then he would also say stuff that was like so beyond his level. And I remember thinking like, I think I'll get that one day.
I got it. I was sitting there on the couch watching with my kids and I'm like that thing they realize, but that is really funny. But then I got a chance to do Danny Phantom, which is a whole different kind of show cause fairly odd parents. We did two 11 minute episodes in a half an hour. Cause you had eight minutes for commercials.
You had 22 of entertainment, eight for commercials, but then Danny Phantom was one 22 minute story, but I've done in two halves. Right. And so, but then it was like a comic book.
We had like a, you know, we had the villain of the week. We had, you know, but Danny's 14 where Timmy's 10. So Danny's worried, you know, Timmy's worried about like candy and gum and, but Danny's worried about like girls and all that stuff. Right. And so a whole different way. And Danny had five fingers. Timmy's got four.
That's a big difference. I remember drawing him out. You had to draw the rectangles.
There were a little bit like first fingers. Um, you know, talk over a little bit about like how, how to get that Christianity out there, especially in a, in a very, very, very secular environment like Hollywood. Well, you know, it's interesting, uh, like we said it earlier, uh, you know, you need to be wise as a serpent, harmless as a dove. Many times you might want to go stand on the corner and scream about how awesome Jesus is. And you can do that, but sometimes you gotta be a little bit more subtle and you gotta be in a room and just be an example of who Jesus is.
Right. Let people see your walk. Let people see you. I had a dear friend of mine who's in Hollywood, hadn't heard from in many years. And he called me recently and said, you know, I've been watching.
I haven't heard from him for a long time either. And he said, I've been watching you. And I really admired your walk.
He's not a Christian because I'm watching your commitments and I've really been impressed by that. So people are watching you constantly and they're watching your walk. They're watching what you say, watching what you do, and you're going to be an example for them. And I look at it this way. I, my, my first granddaughter was just born. Here's a picture.
You can't see it all. That little baby girl. She was born a day before my birthday.
She's six weeks old. And that's my mission right now. Wow. Wow.
I love it. See, it's so interesting because I think we're, we're, we find ourselves in two different worlds where like you're a pastor. So if you don't talk about Jesus, people are like, what is going on? And then with you, it's like, I think people, I think people now know more, but I think back in the day they would have been very surprised. Wait, wait, which Hartman's a Christian.
You're you follow Jesus. And especially in your environment in Hollywood. Um, I don't know how hostile they are, but I know that it's not out there. You know what I mean? It's not like, I mean, it's a lot more open than it used to be. And listen, even if someone's hostile, look back into Jesus's time, they were hostile right to his face.
Absolutely. And they were nothing but hostile to him. Those were those who are against him. But what always happens when the truth shows up? The lie gets really loud.
That's right. The lie gets very angry. The lie gets cornered. The lie, the lie fights for its life and it will not go down without a fight. The lie will always fight, but the lie will always lose.
It just depends on how long it takes. And so anyway, but as the truth, as truth speakers and as truth carriers, we got to carry it no matter what. I look, I look at our president, look what he's faced. I look at, I look at it.
I'm not going to get political here, but I look at anybody who speaks for the truth. I mean, he got hammered over the years and I even took a bullet, I mean, a bullet to the ear. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, he came this close to being a very different world.
So yeah. But speaking for the truth, speaking for Christ is what we have to do. Whether you, and I love this too, or, you know, I'm a pastor now, but I always wasn't. You're a pastor now. You guys are probably in the ministry as well. But like, if you're an artist, if you're a singer, if you're a dancer, if you, if you're a barber, I don't know what you do, you can do it as unto the Lord.
Amen. The Bible says, do what you do as unto the Lord. Cause he's watching. He knows everyone's going to be a pastor. That's right.
He knows everyone's not going to want to be in a church pulpit. You could be a, you could be a guitar player. Yeah.
You could be, again, you could be out there, you could be a baker, whatever you're doing, man, but just have a place. People could come in and feel the Lord's love no matter what it is. Yeah. We talk about that.
Worship is not just in a church context. That's right. Yeah. Bringing that into the workplace, wherever you find yourself, wherever your content is, that's your mission field.
Right. Live out your faith where you are. The tagline of our church is making Christ visible. So what does that look like as a baker? What does that look like as an animator? What does that look like as a pastor?
Make Christ visible in your context. So after 20 years at Nickelodeon, the Lord was like, okay, now you're done. I need you to come and start making this stuff for me now, which is actually good for me. Cause when you work in Hollywood, you're always working for a studio, right? Someone's paying you, you're working for a studio and they own everything.
But then I had a wonderful time at Nickelodeon and had a great time there, but now I've got my own studio. So now I'm the one who buys the fax machine. I know, excuse me.
That's an old thing. I buy the copy machine. You know, exactly right. I got to buy the computers. I got to buy, you know, we got to, we got to make everything, we got to buy everything ourselves. And I got to go out and get the deals. I got to go out and get the agents and all that stuff.
So you're the one that has to do all the front work that you weren't doing before, but it's like stepping out in any way at all. What does the Lord want us to do? I just read in the book of Isaiah, lengthen your cords, expand your tents, strengthen your stakes and do not spare, you know, lengthen your cord. Don't be afraid to get out there, buy a longer cord. Strengthen that stake.
How can you strengthen that stake in the ground that you're planting? What can you do? What people can you bring in?
What people can you get rid of? You know, what, what can you do to like, like when the Lord says, do not spare, I read that, do not spare. Well, man, I've been sparing a lot. I've been afraid, not really afraid, but maybe I should, wow. Maybe I shouldn't do that. Maybe I should. Do you think that if you take a step for the Lord, he's going to let you fall?
No, not at all. It might be scary though, because nobody wants to get out of that comfort zone. Why? Because it's comfortable.
The comfort zone's comfy, but then you go out and create another comfort zone and another and another and another. So that's what the Lord wants you to do. Why did he send the disciples out? With nothing.
Take no money, take no staff, take nothing. And you're like, what? By the way, I'm going to give you the power to heal and to get demons out. And like, oh, thanks for that. Yeah. You know, which is pretty awesome, right?
But they had to rely on him when they went out. That's what we have to do as entrepreneurs, as, as, um, people who want to serve, we have to rely on him too. That's right. I can tell you this. I've got an, I've got a newfound respect for you for the entire work that you're doing. I mean, I've always, I've always, always loved your work, but now being able to look at it and say, you know, even if it wasn't known at the time, this was an act of worship. This was an act of worship to God, just like you said, your work is your worship.
And I think all that time that you spent at Nickelodeon was really God preparing you for what you're doing. Do you want to talk for just a second about your new studio and about what, what your new projects are? Oh yeah. Yeah.
I can't, I can't speak about them completely yet, but I can tell you this. We're doing a bunch of straight up Christian stuff and a bunch of straight up family friendly stuff. Just like, like, like a fairly odd person, like a Danny fan, we're doing all kinds of great stuff that anyone can enjoy. Even the Christian stuff I'm doing, I use the word Christian only because people, people will know that there's like, there's scriptural references in it, but I want to do stuff that even if you're not a Christian, you can still enjoy the program.
Amen. You don't need to have a biblical knowledge to watch the program. You can watch it. You can enjoy it.
Oh, by the way, I, I learned something there and I wasn't preached to, I wasn't talked down to, I wasn't hit over the head. You know, I just want to, I'm just trying to make enjoyable stuff. Cause like I said, I come from, I come from a broken home and I was as a kid watching this stuff meant a lot to me.
And I want, I want my stuff to mean lots of people as well. And there's one word I want to leave you with. And that word is legacy.
Amen. What is your legacy? You're leaving behind. What's the legacy of Jesus left? What legacy can we leave behind?
The legacy we can leave is the work he gave us to do. Amen. Amen. So do the work. Don't be afraid.
He's just excited when you do it. Absolutely. I think I speak for all of us.
When I say you got four walking advertisements for your new projects, 100% support. What are you guys? Thank you guys.
Dude. I'm grateful guys. And I'm really grateful. I'll be, I'll be doing a big studio announcement very soon, but you'd follow me on Tik TOK and Instagram.
Yes. And we have my new show, the garden cartoon. Check that out. We just started a brand new charitable foundation. You can donate to us.
It's called the lion and lamb foundation. And we'll be announcing that as well. Amen. I'm still, I'm still in shock that this happened. You had to go to the bathroom. I was literally just walking by 30 minutes ago.
This was not even anybody's wildest dreams. I had no clue you were even here, but, butch Hartman. Thank you for watching today on the three of you today show. Thanks again to all of our sponsors for making today's episodes possible. Thank you. Thank you.
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