Welcome to all you Joyriders out there. This is a fantastic show from the guys you know. I'm speaking of none other than the Band of Brothers. My name's Keith, producer for such fine truth network programming like The Masculine Journey and Masculine Journey After Hours. In this podcast, you can expect to laugh and smile with godly men who want nothing more than to honor and glorify God.
So sit back, relax, and enjoy the joyride. Hey Joyriders, welcome to a brand new episode of the Joyride. And today, I hope you have your thinking caps on because you Get to guess. The topic.
Okay, lock in people because the game starts Now. This is a four-word topic. I will give you a hint on each word. First hint is Blank Atlanta. I say again.
Blank Lanter.
Now, if you guessed Atlanta, you. We're wrong. Terrible guess. Don't guess that ever again. Tell you what, I'll give you a second hit.
Here it is. Did you get that? You get it now? The first word of the topic is My. Get it?
My Lanta? For those of you that like spicy food, well, You know what I'm talking about.
Now. On to the next word. Here's your clue.
Something old, something blank.
Something borrowed.
Something blue. I'll give you a second to think about it. Think you got it?
Well, for those who don't, here is the answer.
Okay. For those keeping score at home, Two words have been revealed, which are my new. with two words to go. For the third word. A riddle.
I follow your beginning. But not your face. I travel on paper and live in a place. You can borrow me. change me or acclaim me the same.
I point to your being, but am only a blank.
So, what say you joyriders? Are you putting your thinking caps to work?
Okay, time's up. Pencil's down. The third word for this week's topic is somewhere. In Isaiah 62. Two.
The nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory. and you will be called by a new name. which the mouth of the Lord will designate. The third word is name, which leaves us with one final word. We have my new name blank.
And if you want to know what the fourth word is, you're going to have to listen to the masculine journey because we are out of time. Yes, I know, I know. But nobody leaves the joyride empty-handed.
So here we have two clips for the price of one. Enjoy and thank you for playing Yes THE TOPIC! My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius. Commander of the Armies of the North. General of the Felix Legions.
Loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance. In this life or the next. Um It uh you go out you hear this clip.
Right, and you hear it, and you're like, Oh, yeah, I'm ready to go. I'm ready to go out and get my name. Right, I'm going to get Maximus, I'm going to get William Wallace, I'm going to get something really cool. And so, my, and I've gotten many names over the years. The longer you stay with God, you know, God gives you more names, just like Jesus has many names, God has many names, you have many names.
As Santa Claus had in our clip last show, there's many aspects of your personality, many aspects of your identity in Christ, right? And so, when I went out for my first boot camp, I'm ready for this name, man. I'm ready, He's gonna give me a great name, I know it. And I go out there and he goes, uh, teacher. Like, okay.
You got another one? And so I'm sitting there and he says, and he gave me another one. He's like, facilitator. I'm like, great, God, you're giving me vocations. I appreciate that.
You know, I mean, I don't thank you, I guess. I don't really know. You know, and I complained about those, even though God gave me some other names. And that was in 2002. And it took until 2025 No, we're in 25.
24. in the fall of 24 where God finally harvested that. I was complaining about it once again on stage as I'm doing the new name talk at the time. And I'm going to share more of what God's done. And in the middle of complaining about saying the word teacher, saying, you know, He tells me teacher and then he tells me facilitator.
God obviously has a thesaurus, you know, because I'm thinking they're the same thing. And as I'm complaining about that on the stage, I hear Jesus whisper in my ear, Well you know they called me teacher. And I was floored. You know, I realized that that was an incredible honor. That he had given me, and it took me so many years.
He was trying to tell me in 2002, and it took me to 2024. To really understand it more fully. And in 2002, you had no concept of. having done, I don't know, close to 900 radio shows and podcasts either. No.
And talked at You know, 25, 30 boot camps. Right. Yeah, that's when I thought I could never even get up and do an announcement because of my wounding. Right. God gave me a name of something that felt so abstract.
Mm-hmm. The and it felt so impersonal. But at the end of the day it was incredibly personal and then Robby helped me understand that a lot of what God's had me do on the radio show when I'm hosting is to play facilitator. That they are different things. You know, and I've embraced those in a special way, just as I have other names.
Andy, like you, they can make fun of me as well. My dad was not expecting a boy.
So they, I don't know what my girl name was. It's not as great as Tina Marie. But I'm sure there was a name, or Sasquatch Match, or whatever your name was. I don't remember what that was. Sapsawana.
I don't I I don't remember what yours was. Yeah, I didn't I didn't even have uh anything to come back with. And that brings us to our first clip, Andy, you have it. It's from the show, The Office. Do you want to tell us a little bit about it?
Yeah, so Um When I saw this clip the first time, I think I was watching this show and I don't watch office all often but You know, being Andy, my name it kinda perked up whenever Andy. The character begins to call himself Drew and it's because he wants a new identity. He wants to rename himself because he wants it to align better with his better actions. And sometimes there's I've wanted to do name because I haven't always shown the best of who I am. It's You know, it's just trying to escape kind of almost like to go into a pose because all this junk camp comes out.
And I was having problems at work and I couldn't identify this. I didn't do what he does on this clip. But he's just struggling with this anger issue that he has, and he's letting the go hide behind a new name.
Well, he didn't change or anything. And sometimes that's what we do is. We want a new identity and we'll go try to make it a way instead of allowing God to speak into our lives and tell us who we are.
So it's here Andy becoming Drew. That's right. Oh. True.
Sorry. Apology not accepted. because it wasn't even necessary in the first place. Several weeks ago, Andy Bernard had an incident. Yeah, yeah.
But after five weeks in anger management, back. And I've got a new attitude. And a new name. And A bunch of new techniques for dealing with the grumpies. Morning Jim.
Hey, Andy, how are you? Good. True.
What's that? You can call me Drew. No, I'm not concluded. Cool. I can't control what you do.
I can only control what I do. And he true. I mean it's just It's just too bad you can't just Get a new name. Yeah. Uh what I loved about that though is You can almost see in Jim's character God stepping in, saying, I'm not going to let you off easy.
Right, right. You know, no, I'm you're Andy and you gotta learn to live as Andy. Your identity for sure. Yeah. I mean, they had the name for me.
I was Angry Andy. Angry Birds was popular at the time, and it was like they call me Angry Birds or whatever. And I was just going through a lot. I see a meme in the future. Exactly.
Yeah. I hate this vulnerability stuff. Why do I do this to myself?
So from The Guides A Masculine Journey, I'm Keith and we'll see you down the road.
