Podcast appearances and mentions of wiley coyote

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The Spin Chagrin, a concept that finds Frank having to watch a movie he's never seen before based on the random spin of a wheel filled with off-the-wall genres, continues into its third year; the twist this year is that all the categories are quotables from Frank himself. In this episode, Frank's category was "Wiley Coyote-esque Ways.” For this category, he watched and reviewed two different movies: the 2016 Turkish adult animated movie Bad Cat and the recent Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Chris Evans Christmas action movie Red One.

Chris Jamroz is the CEO and chair of the board of Roadrunner, a less than truck load, (LTL) trucking company. You get to learn, as I did, all about this industry as described by a fascinating man who clearly understands leadership and how to build companies as he did with Roadrunner and other companies before his current one. Chris was born in Polland. Throughout his life he also has lived in France, England, Canada and now he calls the United States home. Chris tells us that he greatly values the American way of life and finds that here he, and the rest of us, can exercise our entrepreneurial spirit like nowhere else in the world.   As I said, we get to learn about the trucking industry with Chris. He also talks about the economy in general including discussing the forces that lead to events such as recessions and successes. Chris and I even discuss AI and how it will in some ways affect his industry.   Chris is quite a thought-provoking individual. I learned a lot not only about his industry, but I gained knowledge about management and leadership. I think you too will value greatly from listening to our conversation.   About the Guest:   Chris Jamroz is the Executive Chairman of the Board and CEO at Roadrunner. Chris is a highly experienced executive focused on creating shareholder value through active executive management of portfolio companies in transportation, logistics and cyber security. Chris has made great contributions to the open office environment and culture at Roadrunner.    Previously, Chris served as the Executive Chairman of the Board and CEO at Ascent, a privately-owned freight forwarding and domestic brokerage services provider. Chris has led the transformative investment in GlobalX (TSXV: JET), a full-service passenger and cargo airline headquartered in Miami, FL. He is the founding partner of LyonIX Holdings LLC, a specialty investment, equipment leasing and direct operations private fund.   Before coming to Roadrunner, Chris served in executive roles at Emergent Cold, STG Logistics, and Garda Cash Logistics. He also serves as Governor of the Royal Ontario Museum (‘ROM'), Canada's largest museum. Chris is a lifelong advocate of education, promoting diversity, equity & inclusion, and mentorship. Chris has been a tenured mentor to students at Schulich School of Business. He holds a BA in Business Studies with First Class Honors (Summa Cum Laude) from Birmingham City University in the UK as well as an MBA with Distinction from York University in Canada.   Ways to connect with Chris:   LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/christopherjamroz Contact email chris.jamroz@rrts.com Roadrunner Company Website www.RoadrunnerLTL.com   About the Host:   Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog.   Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards.   https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/   accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/   https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/       Thanks for listening!   Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? 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Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson ** 01:21 Well, hi everyone, and once again, welcome to unstoppable mindset. We get to interview, well, not interview, because it's the conversation, of course, but we get to talk with Chris Jamroz, who is the executive chair and the board and CEO of Roadrunner. Ah, Chris, it must be lonely at the top,   Chris Jamroz ** 01:43 but it's Thank you for having me, Michael and to keep my company.   Michael Hingson ** 01:49 There you go. Well, we're really glad that you're here, and I'm glad that we have a chance to visit. It's been a while in coming. I know you've been pretty busy. We we originally chatted last December, but now we get to do it, and that's fine. So I'm really appreciative of your time, and this is all about you and talking about being unstoppable and so on, and so to start that, why don't you tell me a little bit of kind of, maybe, about the early Chris growing up and all that sort of stuff.   Chris Jamroz ** 02:21 So little Chris was born in Poland, behind the at that time the Iron Curtain under the socialist regime dominated by the Soviets. And little Chris spent his childhood dreaming of playing with real cars and dreaming of having a vehicle, which was a luxurious scarcity back then in that part of the world, and and looking through the Disney Disney movies, I learned a lot about Road Runner, so little that I knew that 40 years later, Road Runner will die be part of my path. But that journey has taken me through being a farmhand in France, a student in England, a banker in Canada, all the way to be an honest operator in the United States, when I finally make my way over to this greatest country on Earth,   Michael Hingson ** 03:19 well, and I agree it's the greatest country, and I hope we continue to do great things. I know we're working at it, and sometimes we all tend to take some missteps, but it all balances in the end. And I think that's one of the neat things about democracy, and I'm sure you have a lot of thoughts about that, as opposed to what life was like in the Iron Curtain,   Chris Jamroz ** 03:42 I certainly do. And while we do have our challenges here, and they are undeniable, the spirit of American people is the force to be reckoned with, and one of the most inspirational forces I've ever encountered my life.   Michael Hingson ** 03:56 There's a lot of creativity here, and it shows and it continues to advance, and I'm sure that it will, least, that's my belief in the in the whole system, which is cool well, so you have been in a variety of countries, and I'm sort of curious, having had experience in Everything from Poland through France and England and Canada. And here, how would you come other than the country and the politics? How would you compare life in in those different countries? And what did it teach you?   Chris Jamroz ** 04:34 I think, listen every every country has the unique history and culture and customs. Which argument wants life experiences when you have a chance to immerse yourself and in the local context, and if you do it truthfully, and not necessarily from a tourist vantage point, but as a as a person who tried to fit into the society. And performs, you know, a function or role, or whatever that may be. I think that that enriches one's lives. At the end of the day, you know, when you think about history, these two are all men and women brave enough to board, you know, ships and embark on a voyage to an unknown. We're willing to cut ties with everything they've ever known and the history and legacy and potential prosecution and all those things that may have not been kind to them or they were escaping from and come to North America and make the United States their home and start fresh. And what I do love about that the nation that now I call home, is that unstoppable force of entrepreneurialism, resourcefulness, resilience, that truly burning desire to accomplish something remarkable with with your life. And that's I've never experienced that anywhere else in the world.   Michael Hingson ** 06:01 I've been blessed since escaping from the World Trade Center back on September 11. I've been blessed to be able to travel to a variety of countries and speak and one of the things that I very much enjoy is experiencing different cultures and different attitudes. And sometimes I may not necessarily agree with them, but it isn't about agreement. It's really about understanding and broadening one's horizons and understanding. And I think it's so important to be able to do that, to really understand where various people come from and how they live and what they do. And you know, even in the US, it is such a large country that the way you experience life in Florida or West Virginia is different than what we experience in California. And it is not to say that one way is better or worse than another. It's just all part of the same country. And what's wonderful is to see all of it meld together   Chris Jamroz ** 07:01 Absolutely, absolutely, and it's,   Michael Hingson ** 07:04 and it's so much fun to be able to do that, but you said that you originally learned about Road Runner a long time ago. And how did that happen? Or what, what did you learn? Or how did you experience Road Runner years ago?   Chris Jamroz ** 07:17 Oh, that was, I was just being a little bit joking of watching Disney cartoons, and you know, got   Michael Hingson ** 07:24 it? Okay? Wiley Coyote. As I said, there you go. Wiley   Chris Jamroz ** 07:28 Coyote, but later that, I knew that would become such an important part of my adult life.   Michael Hingson ** 07:33 So do you find Wile E Coyote creeping up every so often today we   Chris Jamroz ** 07:38 do have we divided teams between Wiley coyotes and Roadrunners, and we have a contest and and a very healthy rivalry going between the two groups and, but it is, you know, it is nice to have something that is so embedded, and an industry culture and the name is so well known, and, and we Finding, and I think we found a way back to the original glory days of the beginning and the excitement and that kind of youthful and youthful excitement about our brand, which is a delight to me right now.   Michael Hingson ** 08:16 I suppose one of the advantages of watching Roadrunner years ago in another country, is that, since it was really a cartoon with very little, if any, talking, it was easy to show without having to worry about translators.   Chris Jamroz ** 08:32 But there's, there's a lot of lessons from that Michael to think about sure that that little, that little bugger, was resilient, and, oh, he was absent, and there's, there's a lot of valuable lessons to never let, never let the circumstances get you down, and always find a way to come back on top.   Michael Hingson ** 08:50 And no matter which Acme Company Wiley Coyote went to to get something that never worked, correct. I was in Montreal once, and turned on the TV. It was late morning, and there I was listening to the Flintstones in French, which didn't help me a lot, not speaking French, but it was fun to to know that the Flintstones are in different languages. Yeah,   Chris Jamroz ** 09:17 that's true. Our chief operating officer Hey, it's from Montreal, and he's now, obviously stateside, but there's and now we've, since we've opened service to the French Province of Canada, we maintain those links, and it's very interesting when we encounter French language in our daily emails and communications, it just gives us the the indication of the the fastness of the culture and and the customs across even this North American continent that we share, which   Michael Hingson ** 09:50 is really cool. I was in British Columbia in early October of 2001 I had been invited up to. Because people heard about my story, and I went to a guide dog organization that asked me to come and speak. And we got there on Saturday, and the next day, we were down in the hotel restaurant having breakfast when the news hit the TV screens that the United States had invaded Afghanistan. What a strange feeling to be, not only away from home, but in a foreign country, when our country was responding as they did, and invaded Afghanistan because of september 11, it was, it was a strange feeling. But at the same time, people were so supportive, which was a wonderful feeling, and mostly that was the case. There were a few people who said, well, America got what they deserve, and they were really shut down pretty quickly around Canada.   Chris Jamroz ** 10:53 That's correct, that's correct. Yeah. That was a very special time in our show history,   Michael Hingson ** 10:58 yeah, yeah, it was and it was strange we when we were at the airport in Newark getting ready to fly across country to Canada. It was Saturday, and the airport was pretty empty, and as my wife said, it's strange to see these 18 year olds with machine guns strapped to their bodies patrolling the airport and And nevertheless, it was, it was an interesting time. Well,   Chris Jamroz ** 11:31 strange to us here is actually a common occurrence, and yeah, many places around the globe to see those young men and women patrol airports and train stations with machine guides ready to be deployed   Michael Hingson ** 11:43 well, and as my wife said, The problem is these kids probably don't even look old enough to know how to really work the gun, but I'm sure they did, but it was, it was an interesting time, and it's unfortunate that we, we all had to experience that, but that's kind of the nature of The world? Well, tell me a little about Roadrunner, what it is, what it does, and so on, how you got involved, rather than through the Wiley Coyote.   Chris Jamroz ** 12:09 That's right. But Roadrunner originally was built as a metro to Metro, direct transportation, trucking service in the sub market referred to as less than truckload, so called the LTL. And what it means is that within you know, when you see a semi tractor, you know, speeding down and very hopefully observing the speed limit, usually about 90% of the market. When you look at those, those trucks, they are full truckloads, or referring an industry as truckloads, it's TL, TL and truckload means that all the contents, all the freight contained within the space of that trailer, is destined to one shipper. And shipper is the term we use for customers here interchangeably. So Lt. The difference of LTL is that within that same trailer, same 53 foot long trailer, you have freight for a lot of different shippers, and LTL is the sub segment of the broader trucking dedicated to service those customers who do not have the need or cannot necessarily afford the cost of chartering the whole trailer, and that may not have any specific need to for that kind of space, and they utilize pallet positions within that trailer to transport the freight from point A to point B. That accounts for about 10% to 20% depending on who you talk to of the overall market, and it's and Roadrunner became an expert and a specialist in taking loads directly across the continent from it started in Milwaukee, in Cudahy, Wisconsin, and Shooting loads directly to America's southwest to, you know, and back that's obviously was linked to the port activity and intake in intake freight input point from Los Angeles and Long Beach ports. But he became an expert, and over time, the different management teams and different constituency of shareholders embarked on a strategy of growing it across different modes and a lot of things, and it became bit of a problematic story for the last four years. We We spend a concerted amount of time and discipline effort to unwind those those layers and bring it back to the specialist metro to Metro, long haul, specialist tracking service, which has kind of helped us resume our path to sustainability and excellence.   Michael Hingson ** 14:52 Is there a lot of competition for well among LTL companies? Yeah.   Chris Jamroz ** 15:01 I think there's a fair degree or healthy competition among them. It's, it's a fairly limited market of players. It's, I came up through my, through my experience in LTL, I I've coined this phrase that LTL stands for, less than likely to go perfect. It's, you know, despite the fact that you think it's a pretty simplistic concept of picking up the palette in in Philadelphia and delivering it in Dallas, it's actually an extraordinary complex and difficult to execute service, and from a perspective of being on time, of not losing, not damaging, the freight and trust to you. And obviously do it in a sort of in a fairly compressed timeline. So it is, it is a very specialist place. It's very different from what I mentioned, about 80% of the market, which is the truckload market, which is, you know that, you know, full trailers picked up from pay B, they just go to to the destination. This one is a consolidation play. There's, there's different touch points. It's a very complex so while the competition is very healthy, it's a good competition because it's sort of a tide that raises all the bonuses. These are very high quality providers, and as we compete, our customers win,   Michael Hingson ** 16:29 yeah, which is kind of important, and as long as everybody recognizes that it makes perfect sense that it ought to be that way. Why are what makes Road Runner kind of unique, or what sets it apart from other companies.   Chris Jamroz ** 16:42 What it said that we specialize in doing that one thing, which is taking loads directly and connecting a very far apart points across the United States, Canada in increasing Mexico direct. So a lot of large, large carriers or trucking companies have a very densely populated terminals, and they've, you know, they may have in excess of 300 terminals in the United States alone. What they do is they like very much, like an airline. They created a sophisticated hub and spoke system where the shuttle service connects the entire network. So for example, the freight from picked up from Long Beach destined to a planner may go through five different hubs as the network is designed. The problem with that is that every time you have to go into an LTL trailer, that means the forklift drives inside, lifts the pallet, needs to take it out, then take the cross to CrossTalk, puts in another trailer that's going to be destined to the next point and stop on the way. Damage happens, loss happens, and time is wasted, just and time is wasted. So what we do is we only have 36 terminals, but we we're in major metro, Metro, Metro to Metro connectivity. I always say that if you have a professional sports team, ideally a good one, and you we're going to have a terminal there in those settings, and we use our team drivers, and we just just shoot those votes straight across. So we compress the time that it takes to traverse the distance, and we eliminate those points of rehandling of powers and freight and greatly reduced the risk of loss, the risk of damage, etc.   Michael Hingson ** 18:48 And presumably, as part of that, you are very creative in scheduling, so that when you take a load somewhere and you get to the final destination, you also have other material to pick up, to go back or to go elsewhere, so you don't leave trucks idle very often,   Chris Jamroz ** 19:06 correct. So that's that's the art and the science of network design. Yeah, the way we execute it. We obviously have tremendous amount of data analytics and algorithmic tools to help us route this way, because at the same time, not just the trucks sitting idle, but the drivers don't like, you know, drivers like to drive, because when they drive, they make money, yeah, and that's we are very good at keeping them on the road and making money.   Michael Hingson ** 19:38 So what got you started in deciding to be part of Road Runner and and working up through the system to get where you are.   Chris Jamroz ** 19:47 You know, over the last two decades, I've become a sort of a specialist in unlocking trapped value in logistics companies across all modes of supply chain, globally and Road Runner. Certainly one platform with very severe challenges and and I really loved the story. I was completely taken by the strength and of and the resilience of its people. And I really thought it's an incredible opportunity to orchestrate a turnaround like no other in the trucking industry. And while it may sound a little bit arrogant, it's not meant to be. But you know, as I've heard it from equity analysts and bankers, many, many trucking companies have attempted turnaround and restructuring, and very few ever made it. There was a time when Old Dominion road lawyers, which is one of the best, arguably the best LTL carrier in the nation, they used to suffer from terrible reputation. And I remember they were called the referred to as the old smelly onion. Today it's a gold standard for all of us in this business to aspire to. But there was a time in the 90s when they suffered greatly and they orchestrated a spectacular turnaround. And there were there were some others as well, but road run in recent history is definitely the most spectacular comeback in that space.   Michael Hingson ** 21:21 Well, it obviously, in part, has to do with being very creative and figuring out ways to do exactly what you do, which is to get material from one place to another, minimum of any transfer from one truck to another, because you're right that can cause a lot of damage, and it does take a lot of time, and I'm sure that the result of that is that drivers appreciate it as well.   Chris Jamroz ** 21:46 Drivers do. Drivers are, you know, hardworking people. It's tough to think when, when I do about more a group of of the more patriotic pillars of our society. Drivers are a true American entrepreneurs, and we pride ourselves in empowering them and putting them in business and helping them build their own businesses. And we have, you know, so many success stories that filled our hearts with pride. But at the end of the day, drivers stay and drivers support carrier that helps them make money, that means, helps them busy, stay them enrolled, gives them good loads. And we have become, you know, we've kind of prioritized this as our core competence.   Michael Hingson ** 22:32 So with all of that, how was it during the whole period of covid? Because, of course, a lot of things happened. A lot of things shut down, and a lot of things changed because of covid. How did all that affect Roadrunner and what you do, and how did you all come out of it?   Chris Jamroz ** 22:53 We certainly, we kind of started the restructuring, and literally in the beginning of March, which was in 2020 which was like two weeks before the entire country shut down. So obviously that made it for a very interesting time in our life. But Trucking is such an essential service, it never stopped, right? Without trucking, nothing gets delivered. You cannot do anything. It's probably next to the sanitation services, I think, the most critical part of American or any economy for that matter. And so we worked, we worked interruptly through the pandemic. We were very focused on rebuilding our business and fixing our operations so everything that was happening external to our business were kind of very much in our peripheral vision, because we had so much work to fix our business from inside out, and that kind of kept us busy for for pretty much the next two and a half years.   Michael Hingson ** 23:58 So covid was kind of a good impetus and an excuse to to do the things that you you knew you kind of needed to do anyway. It   Chris Jamroz ** 24:06 was a good it was a good time, because we would have had to do it anyway. But the people were so distracted by, obviously, the stress of of the situation, that kind of took the focus completely away from what we were, what we needed to do. And I think that was a blessing.   Michael Hingson ** 24:25 Several um, weeks ago, I had the opportunity to chat with a gentleman named Glenn Gao, who lives in Northern California, who's a business leader coach, and he promotes the whole concept of AI and specifically managers using AI to help create ideas to improve what they do and to improve their companies and so on. But one of the discussions we had, um, and he and he said something very interesting during the discussion. But one of the discussions we had was how AI is going to affect. People as we go forward, and one of his positions was artificial intelligence, and all the things that are going on with AI doesn't eliminate jobs. Rather, people eliminate jobs because either they they find that they can do things cheaper, but they're they're not really doing themselves any good by doing that, because what AI should really do is where relevant help redefine jobs. And one of the things that we talked about was exactly the whole concept of truck drivers, when AI and autonomous vehicles come more into existence, what will happen to truck drivers? And his point was, even if you let a vehicle operate autonomously and it's completely safe, what that really should do is not to require a driver to not be in a truck anymore, but rather, you find other responsibilities and other things for the driver to do while monitoring the Driving of the vehicle no matter how safe it is. And so that that prompts the question, what do you think about the whole issue of autonomous vehicles and AI, and where you think that might might go over time? Because I tend to agree with Glenn, it shouldn't eliminate jobs. It may cause some expansion or redefining of jobs, but not elimination. Yeah.   Chris Jamroz ** 26:21 I think, listen, this is a, obviously a topic that could take a day, and everybody has no yeah. I always, I always love watching those clips from the news, yeah, news from the 1990s when the first the internet, the World Wide Web, was introduced, and people kind of speculating with it, if it's going to, you know, mean anything you want to. You don't want to be that guy who voices an opinion that gets recorded, and 20 years later your kids get to see it. What you know, What a dumb Damas your dad may have been. This is, this is one of those. So I have a very specific view on this. I, you know, I always kind of think that are certain tools that I invented that help things, and some of them were very useful and don't necessarily make the life easier. An example for that is a vacuum cleaner. You know, when I, when I was born, the vacuum cleaner was still a novelty and not particularly a widely think what was happening that once a year the entire Thai family would gather to take one or two rugs that that were present. Now, take them outside, clean them, usually in the snow, because I was thinking, and come back and just enjoy the freshness for the next year. Now the vacuum cleaner comes a genius invention. Genius invention. What do we do? You know, if my mom would have her way, I would be vacuum cleaning every day, just instead of a once a thing. I have a hobby now that every time my mom is a pond to one thing, I'd better get on that and get it clean. So did it really save us? I don't know, but definitely it's full invention, AI broadly, I think has has an immense impact on our lives, to the to the extent that I don't think anybody can even appreciate right now, in terms of the logistics business, I actually think there's very limited impact of what AI can do. And this is a sort of, and this is very humble opinion, after, you know, spending the two decades and fixing different supply chain businesses, and it's just the unpredictability, the the size of these, you know, statistically viable data samples, the the the the patterns of different outcomes is just impossible to scale and up until you can lift A pallet from Portland and and it can traverse in Metaverse to Chicago. You still need a truck, you still need a forklift, you still need someone to oversee this, right? So definitely impact on jobs and logistics, I'd say minimum. I think basically, maybe quality, the quality of service, perhaps we're using machine learning and AI algorithmic methodologies in our static load plan, which basically means routing the freight the best possible way. But at the same time, it's not an infinite benefit game. At the end of the day, you have a night 10 corridor and you have a truck that can traverse as the speed limit. And what is the best case? It's just there's very limited outcomes to the upside here. So I think the AI in terms of the, you know, in terms of the logistics space, will have probably the most commute. It effects of across the board, if I think about it, and definitely as I'm looking forward to the marginal benefits, I don't see it as a particular needle mover for us here. Well,   Michael Hingson ** 30:13 as I said, even if you could completely automate a vehicle so that it could drive itself, and that's fine. I still say that ultimately, I would never want to remove the driver from the vehicle, but rather give the driver other things to do to help the company. And they're the creative people will figure that out, and I think that there is no way that it should eliminate jobs. It's ridiculous to think that it's supposed to enhance and I think that there are ways that it will, whether vehicles will really become fully autonomous anytime in the near or intermediate future, at least, is is open to conjecture. But I I don't like the idea of, well, it's going to eliminate jobs. I don't believe that that's true. And I think that's what you're saying as well, and it makes sense.   Chris Jamroz ** 31:07 Yes, yeah. Well,   Michael Hingson ** 31:09 so in terms of shipping and logistics, what does, if you will, shipping and logistics indicate about kind of the broader economy, because it's certainly listening to what you said earlier. It continued during the pandemic, and I guess that means economy continues. But in general, just the whole industry. How does that affect or fit into the whole issue of the economy, and what your industry does for the economy?   Chris Jamroz ** 31:41 So you know, the American economy, every economy has a different mix of drivers, right? The American economy is a consumer driven economy, right? A percent of the GDP is driven by the discretionary consumer spend. So everything that you and I go and, you know, whether we go to a restaurant or go to the, you know, go to a wonderful vacation spot and buy it, you know, a plane ticket and book a hotel. All those kind of things make a difference. And obviously our discretionary shopping habits, that's critical. LTL is very much driven, you know, the entire supply chain accounts for 8% of American GDP. So it's not insignificant, and it is a sort of a barometer of activity. The broader, the broader trucking index could be an indication of of many drivers in common with this, whether that's industrial out of gage, project driven infrastructure investments by, you know, oil and gas sectors, or public works, or earth moving projects, you have all this kind of interaction with LTL is predominantly linked to e commerce near shoring and a little bit to the Import activity that when we have goods imported, they enter United States either through the port of New Jersey, New York or Long Beach, Los Angeles, and obviously Seattle, Tacoma or Charleston and Houston have all these kind of different entry points and and we monitor this. So we definitely are continued to be in a third year of recession, or this, you know, the tail end of the second year of recession, a freight recession. That is where the the volume of shipments have been dramatically, muted, dramatically, and then we continue to see the excess capacity, the full truckloads that I spoke about earlier, they hurting the most from the truckers. LTL is a fairly protected niche, and again, e commerce, which is still alive and healthy near shore, obviously growing in abundance and significance. That's also helping and so those the LTO is a little bit insulated from their role, and I wouldn't, and it's never particularly good or more reliable, most reliable gage of American economy or its health, the truckload is probably in other modes of trucking are more indicative, I would say. But again, you know we can, you know this was, you know what we experienced in 2021 and beginning of 2022 which was unprecedented peak and that benefited all people in supply chain, that obviously has been a peak in a cyclical business. And no matter what you call it, the transportation business are commodity businesses. And commodity businesses cycle, and some of the modes within that sector cycle more violently than others. And and we are at the trough of that cycle. And and probably will be here for quite some time, because we see before we see any mean. For recovery.   Michael Hingson ** 35:00 Why is there such a upright recession right now?   Chris Jamroz ** 35:06 What has happened is, if you remember that, there's couple of things, number one, at any cycle, at the peak of a cycle, a lot of people make decisions, and there's this unimpeachable view of self, intellect among them, among some of the decision makers who think, Okay, this time will be different, and this time, we won't let this slip. And there are decisions made at the peak of the cycle that have consequences or carry the consequences through the trough. Those decisions in our industry usually impact capacity, such as the number of new orders for trucks and trailers and terminal expansion when, when you look at this never, ever before in the history of mankind, more tractors, trailers and terminals have been commissioned or ordered than it were in 2021 and 2022 all These orders are now coming, then, creating unprecedented capacity. And now mind you, 2020, and 2021. Tested, you know, tested our ability to function without the ability to interact with each other. So you remember, we all remember, everybody was stocking up on just about any house, good supplies, you know, toilet paper, Clorox and disinfectants and just about anything, and the volume was just that no matter how much capacity you had, you you didn't have enough to satisfy the thirst of the consumer back in those days. So people made a lot of decisions. Most profound were those of ocean shippers who commissioned more supermax container ships than ever, ever in the history of the planet. And all these ships are being launched right now in the second world so soon in the second part of 2024 never before we had such a non swap of new supply in the notion, which obviously collapsed the pricing and in an ocean market. And that has a domino effect through, you know, starts with an ocean, because everything comes from China, Indonesia, India, Vietnam. Nothing comes from, you know, nothing comes from, you know, from the American Midwest anymore to meaningful thing now, thankfully, that's been offset by those near showing trends and the resurgence of Mexico and infrastructure investment in manufacturing on this continent, which is phenomenal. But you know, you had that, that onslaught of capacity and carried from ocean ships through through train cars, through tractor trailers, through new terminals, and, you know, they're just, you know, we, we didn't stay at that peak. You didn't, you know you're not. You don't have a three month supply of paper towels in your cupboard, probably today. And those trends reversed, and they kind of reverted to more historical median. So we went to the median shipping, not not anything dramatic, but we overbuilt capacity to to to support an abnormal volume demand. So you have this, you know, you have anybody who could have a truck, you could became an instant billionaire, right? If you could commit a thing, and you could drive the truck and take somebody's cargo shipment from it from one point to another. You're in business, and you're doing extremely well. And then that, you know, at the same time, the government stimulus, the low, super low interest rate, the financing, those, those things you picked for nearly nothing in terms of financing costs, and those covid leases are still in place. So we have a bit of a delayed effect of people exiting the industry, which is a normal thing in a down cycle, and it's prolonged, because the cost of the equipment is a lot cheaper than ever before in the history of economic cycle. So you have this prolonged exits which have not rationalized the supply demand equation. You have those very committed, serious infrastructure investment in terminals and expanding the infrastructure for handling exuberant amount of freight in this in this country, and that kind of makes it for a fairly miserable outcome for for those who try to make a living in transportation.   Michael Hingson ** 39:29 Do you think that there are things that we could have done to prevent what happened? Because it's it seems to me that it is a cycle, but at the same time, how could we have avoided it, given what happened in the pandemic and everybody was stocking up and so on, how could we have avoided doing exactly the thing that occurred, which now leads to the recession in this industry? And I'd be also curious to see if you think that that's going to spread. Further to the rest of the economy. But how could we have avoided it? Or could we have,   Chris Jamroz ** 40:06 I don't think so. Now you'd have to convince people to hate making money, and that's that's a tough thing, because at the peak of the cycle, every incremental capacity you know delivers extraordinary monetary benefit. So you would, you would have to ask for restraint and discipline. That is, is not natural to us, a natural to us as humans, and definitely not part of the American, American fabric, which is obviously opportunist, opportunism and entrepreneurialism. So, and it's there's a history of that every unprecedented event, if you go back in history, tend to occur every six to seven years. We have that unprecedented event of of a of a decline in the trough that that one can fully expect we in the decade the smarter people. I mean, that's that's sort of a South tyling Kong. But you know it when, in our business, we really reserved a lot of cash in 2020, and 2021, and I directed all of my management teams to just prepare for inevitable recession and entering entering with a high, you know, high reserves of of cash helps you through the town cycle. People who have leveraged themselves to the tilt and the pursuit of getting access to that capacity can deploy to earning, earning activities, have found themselves disappointed and and at the point of, you know, difficulty or despair at times, and many of them have since exited the industry or the business and all together. But it's not a it's not, I don't think it's avoidable. It's a cyclicality of commodity businesses, a lot of businesses, go through cycles. Oil and Gas is a violent cycle, ocean shipping, transportation, businesses of all coins, all of them are extraordinary. Link to economic gravitas, and that just, you know that just happens. The question is that, can you make the landing as soft as possible? Well, because you cannot avoid not going down,   Michael Hingson ** 42:18 yeah, which is really the wisdom and the thing that you have to do, we can't prevent it, but at the same time, we, if we are wise, we can prepare for it. And that makes perfect sense, because it's it is one of those things that just too many people just run right into things, and they do things, they just react. We have too many knee jerk reactions without strategizing, and that's part of the problem. So what you did is clearly the way to go, and the hope is that you're predicting enough of the recession and the level of it that that you'll be able to survive it and it won't become too bad.   Chris Jamroz ** 43:02 Yeah. I mean, listen, people at the peak of the cycle have difficulty seeing the cliff. They always try to believe that this time will be different and and it won't end up in tears like every single time beforehand. At the same time, people at the bottom of the cycle can sometimes pass. He passed the doom and gloom of the misery of today. But you know, as Rumi, the poet, says, This shall pass too. Yeah, say, and it's just, you know, you can never predict. And I don't you know, there's just you know all the even you know a broken clock is, is right twice a day, which is one of my favorite sayings, and right if you perpetually predict the negative you one day, you'll be right. If you you know a perpetual optimist, one day, you'll be quoted that you had predicted it. But I don't think there's this ability to put the timing on severity of these swings. What you can do is to do your absolute best to prepare for the cyclicality and inevitability of a of an economic cycle that impacts industry that are commodity industries, and try not to believe your own headlines. That's one of my favorite sayings to the things just when you have this kind of, you know, exuberant confidence in your own ability, but there's always a healthy check in that is, that is required and, and I always tell the management team don't, don't. You know, we very good, but we're not that good, and never, ever believe in your own press releases.   Michael Hingson ** 44:27 Yeah. Well, one of my favorite sayings is, don't worry about the things that you can't control. Focus on what you can and let the rest take care of itself. And you can't control the recession concept or recessions, necessarily, but what you can control is how well you prepare for it, and you think about it far enough in advance or sufficiently that you prepare as well as you can, and that's all you can do.   Chris Jamroz ** 44:52 Yeah, well said.   Michael Hingson ** 44:54 So I assume that right now, rates are cheaper than they have been in the past, and this is a good. Time to ship.   Chris Jamroz ** 45:02 It is a good time to ship. It is a good time to ship, particularly from, from a perspective of past. You know, years of 2020, 2122 and but you know, you don't. You know, the rates are byproduct of capacity and demand, right? It's always, there's the markets are very efficient when they find a market clearing price or rate for any service. The key is that you know, what do we do? Like about the LTL industry, that all the carriers are disciplined, so while everybody, nobody will be reporting record earnings this year, the what we do provides an adequate return on capital to provide for continuity and sustainability of our enterprise. Well,   Michael Hingson ** 45:49 it sounds like that you and what you do with Roadrunner, and I think in other places, have built companies and made them successful. And I think the most important part about that is that you build good teams. How do you do that?   Chris Jamroz ** 46:07 You know, everybody wants to play on the winning team. I've learned that fairly, pretty often, if you want. You know you could be not necessarily the easiest coach or not the kindest general manager of a sports team, but the players who want to join and come and play on the team, if you, if you win in championships and and it's all about the creating the little victories and momentum and creating the positive momentum, because it kind of takes a life of its own. And it's all about velocity of decision making processes. These are sort of a things that when, when I see, when I see organization crippled, you know, by the paralysis by analysis. And they kind of these full of smartest people in the world, but they just cannot make the right decision that they spend endless time through, you know, trying to model different outcomes. You attract top people who believe in the ability to become very effective as leaders, as managers, by combining the intelligence, the talent, the respect for data and analytics, and they empowered to make decisions, and they empowered to make a difference. That, you know, even through my life, you know, I've seen how many changes and the generations that are entering the workforce today are very different in behaviors that even Iowa's. And the contrast is quite stark, but what it is very magnetizing to to them is the ability to be impactful and do something they truly believe in, and do the right thing, and based upon very objective analysis, as opposed to, you know, do it because I say so, or gut based decision making and and so forth. So my teams, my management teams, evolved quite rapidly. You know, the last 1415, years, you know, I've had about probably 90% rotation in 19 million continue to upgrade, and so can people continue to find different paths so they just not good enough as the caliber of challenges I take on increases, but you know, I'm thrilled to see so many incredibly young, young folks on my team doing things that are just almost, you know, I could only describe as inspiring to me.   Michael Hingson ** 48:47 There's something to be said for energy, isn't there?   Chris Jamroz ** 48:51 Oh, energy is key. And from the leadership perspective, you need, you absolutely need credibility. So you need to act with integrity, authenticity. You need to win the respect of the people by fighting alongside with them in the trenches, you know, and being a very high energy leader, I think, is critical, particularly in industry as ours, right. I love the kinetic movement. I love the energy released by by transport and moving and and I lead the way that I would want to see the people around me behave, and I think that's critically important.   Michael Hingson ** 49:33 Yeah, I think there's a lot to be said for the fact that people need to relate to you and to leaders, because if, if they can't relate, if they can't really feel like they're part of the team, then they never will be. And the leaders, the person or the leaders, are the people who need to make that happen.   Chris Jamroz ** 49:57 I agree. I think there are different industries that. That that that aspect that you just mentioned is extremely important, logistics, absolutely. But there are different industries like, think about law firms or hospitals. They doctors don't need to be inspired by leadership. Lawyers need to be inspired by the Management Committee, the excellent professionals, and they operate within their own scope of autonomy, and they phenomenal what they do in logistics. It doesn't work. You could be the most brilliant person in the room. If you do not win the hearts and minds of your fellow teammates, you're not going to get anything done. And that is critical, because, if you and that's why logistics business, particularly those who do extremely well, have leaders, who have, you know, extremely personable, personable with a very high degree of energy. They're not, you know what you would have imagined in the past. You can see and sort of even the if you look in SMP and stock performance and and the shareholder value creation. You those firms who have very passionate, charismatic leadership teams tend to outperform dramatically the rest of the peer cohort. But   Michael Hingson ** 51:12 even in a law firm, if it's a real firm, and I think that's the issue, if it wants to operate as an entity, even the lawyers have their own cases and so on. But if, if it really wants to operate as an entity and find ways for people to collaborate and work together or work with each other at least, then there's got to be some level of leadership in it. And it sometimes happens, and then sometimes it doesn't. And I think that's true in in a lot of industries, but the best companies are ones where there is a a leader or leaders who can bring people together and make people all work toward whatever the common goals are, absolutely yeah, what's the best part of your job?   Chris Jamroz ** 51:58 You know the best part is seeing the people who have worked so hard, committed so much of the personal time and sacrifice of the years come to work, and you see that moment when there there are sparks in their eyes, when they see that their work matters and they Making a difference. And there's nothing more fulfilling, because everybody wants to be, you know, on the winning team. And you know, in the history of roadrun, which is obviously the most current one, but every other business that I've had the privilege of of being at the helm. You When? When, when people who make the companies start really feeling that they've made the difference and their contributions matter, and they're being appreciated, and the work shows there's no greater feeling in the world. So   Michael Hingson ** 52:49 what, what influences you? I mean, obviously you learn. You find ways to learn, and things need to probably influence you to to get to think the way you do. What are the things that influence you in the world, other than Acme and the Wiley Coyote?   Chris Jamroz ** 53:11 You know, this is I, I've, I've gone through my share of role models and mentors, and, you know, I'm profoundly grateful for the influence they've had on shaping the character of a person that I am and, and the business person that I've become and, and there were many right now, it's really sort of, you know, as you kind of, as I'm, you know, becoming more mature. It's really a kind of creating legacy and living legacy, and doing that through passing the proverbial baton to the new generations and seeing people step up and grow and become more confident in their abilities and truly believe in themselves, that's really is is is tremendous. And I think that's you know, as you know the you know, the my 20s and 30s, and soon the 40s will be over. The next, the next decade in my life will effectively about creating the living legacy, and that's probably the most powerful influence in my life. One   Michael Hingson ** 54:18 of the things that I've learned came from being a member of the largest consumer organization of blind people, the National Federation of the Blind, and the president of the Federation, years and years and years ago, started organizing what he called Leadership seminars. And that's continued with later presidents. But one of the things that the President said, well, actually, a question that he asked, I remember it clearly. It was on the Saturday Night of the seminar, is what is the most important thing that the president of the organization can and should be doing? And his response, after hearing what other people said, is. Because the most important thing I think the President has to do is to be looking for his successor, because there will become a time that he doesn't get to be president anymore, and if the organization is going to continue, then the President needs to be the one to find the person who can take over and do what needs to be done going forward. What do you think about that?   Chris Jamroz ** 55:28 I think it's very profound. I think it's critical. I I've, you know, through my, through my adventure and logistics, you know, I've been at the helm of, you know, now, the helm of eighth and ninth organization, and I've done, I've executed seven exits, and every single time that I left, what was left behind was a fully sustainable management team that could take, they would take the operation to the new The new level, but it would be their, their story wouldn't be mine anymore, right? And it's, it's tough. It's tough because first you first there's, we're humans, and we develop emotional connectivity. If we have the humans we obviously we relate, relate to fellow humans and and we we like what we do, and we tend to touch so it's difficult to let go. Second of go, particularly things going well. There's, you know, we tend to develop. There's an impeachable view of self, intellect and supremacy and irreplaceability, which is complete and nonsensical, but it is human. And I've maintained a very healthy discipline of not staying at the helm of any organization for more than three, four years, and and that's, you know, that's, that's very healthy. And I think at any given time you you have to create because, to be honest, if especially in today's, today's society, if people do not see the path forward, if they think that their abilities will not be recognized within the meritocracy of the organizational dynamics, they will leave the competition for talented spheres. And it's not a defensive play, but it's makes organization better. I've seen a lot of executives trying to hang on to the spots for decades and and to be honest, all they've accomplished. I think it's time. The the potential that organization could have had doesn't mean the businesses are not performing, but I think the reasons could have gone a lot further. And but it's time. It's difficult, right? We don't want to seem we don't want to see ourselves as impediments to growth. Who wants to think of themselves by that? It's I think, but I think it's a very healthy habits. As much as I'm a firm believer in term limits and in certain government fears, I'm a strong believer in term limits at the helm of commercial organizations, and I've lived by by example of that, having, you know, having exited seven times already. So my average tenure is just under, you know, just about two and three years well   Michael Hingson ** 58:12 and and obviously you Leave when you know that you've been able to put together a team, and even possibly including a person at the top of the team who can take over and continue the growth or whatever it is that the organization needs which is important,   Chris Jamroz ** 58:28 absolutely, absolutely. So   Michael Hingson ** 58:32 on a personal note, what do you do when you're not being CEO or chair of the board? What kind of hobbies or pastimes and other things like that do you do to be a little bit more frivolous in the world?   Chris Jamroz ** 58:45 So my absolute thing in the world is kiteboarding, which I don't get to do enough, but it is aspirations. Kiteboarding and sailing. These are the most relaxing things I can ever envision doing in my life, and it's been quite some time since I since I've sailed, and it's been quite some time since I kite board, so like, I'm targeting, you know, the end of this year to maybe get at least a few weekends out in The ocean, as   Michael Hingson ** 59:21 long as the sharks leave you alone.   Chris Jamroz ** 59:24 Well, if you outrun them,   Michael Hingson ** 59:26 well there, there's that. That's fair. Okay. Well, Chris, I want to thank you for taking so much time to be here. My hope that you've enjoyed it and had fun. I certainly have learned a lot, which is what I always like to do. And I really appreciate you taking the time to spend with us and making this, I think, a relevant and memorable podcast for people to hear. 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This morning we're returning to our study in the book of Hebrews and we'll be considering Hebrews 4:1-13. So, if you if you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to that passage right now. Hear now the word of the Lord from Hebrews 4:1-13 as always, I'll be reading out of the English Standard Version. 4 Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it. 2 For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened. 3 For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, “As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest,'” although his works were finished from the foundation of the world. 4 For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.” 5 And again in this passage he said, “They shall not enter my rest.” 6 Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience, 7 again he appoints a certain day, “Today,” saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.” 8 For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken of another day later on. 9 So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, 10 for whoever has entered God's rest has also rested from his works as God did from his. 11 Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience. 12 For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. 13 And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account. Hebrews 4:1-13, ESV This is the word of the Lord. For many of us, and I would suspect for many of our neighbors, we tend to have an uneasy relationship I think with rest. Statistically there was a study that was conducted a few years ago that found 55 percent of Americans, more than half, didn't take advantage of all of the paid time off they could have used in a given year. That amounted to something like 65 and a half billion dollars effectively left on the table when the whole pot of unused time off was considered together among Americans. Then in another separate study on another rest related issue, it was found that 36 percent of Americans just don't get enough sleep in a given night. Now, leaving aside the variety of reasons that probably account for those two statistics, it would seem that statistically speaking rest is elusive for many Americans. Statistics aside, I know that many of us have experienced that rest problem too, even if we're among the minority of those in America who happen to use all of our paid time off in a given year. How many of us have returned from a week off or a week of vacation if only to remark or at least think in our minds, “Boy I need a vacation from that vacation?” How many of us, even if we take physical time away from work, just can't seem to shake the demands of work even if those demands are only self-imposed demands? Where we just can't seem to shut off our minds from thinking about work. I'm sure many of us can agree then based on our own experience that rest is very often elusive. In the Bible we find that, particularly among the wilderness generation, rest was elusive for them too. Recall that after God delivered his people out of slavery and captivity in Egypt, all the way back in the book of Exodus, he held out for them the promise of rest in Canaan. Yet as we saw last week, and we're reminded, that promise of rest eluded so many among the wilderness generation because of unbelief. In the words of Hebrews 3:19, they, the wilderness generation, were largely unable to enter into God's rest in Canaan because of unbelief. If you remember last week that the vast majority of those who left Egypt and started out. Well, 602,548 eventually fell dead in the desert. They didn't reach God's promised rest in Canaan and the reason for that was because of their sin, rebellion, and hardness of heart. For them that promised rest in Canaan was ultimately elusive. For us this historical example of the wilderness generation, an example that we find pronounced in the book of Exodus and Leviticus and Numbers, is once again the basis for our author's appeal to you and me to not let God's promised rest elude us. To even as many of us find, I think, rest to be such an elusive concept in our own lives, more elusive than we'd like. The exhortation of our passage is, don't miss out on God's better rest, the rest that's held out for us in Jesus Christ. Instead aim for that better rest, labor for that better rest, pursue above all the various kinds of rest that we could pursue in our lives, God's rest. That's our big idea this morning. Pursue God's rest above every other kind of rest that we could pursue in this life, pursue God's rest. To give us a roadmap for where we're going three points. 1. A Parallel Predicament 2. A Promised Rest 3. A Powerful Word A Parallel Predicament First, a parallel predicament. Now you may remember, if you were with us last week, that that when we studied Hebrews 3:7-19, the passage that precedes the one we're looking at this morning. We saw how our situation in the New Covenant church, at several points, parallels that of the wilderness generation. The wilderness generation, I've used that term a number of times and if you weren't with us, to remind us of what the wilderness generation was, the wilderness generation were those people of Israel that God delivered out of Egypt, led into the wilderness, but because of their sin and rebellion died in the wilderness. For 40 years they spent time in the wilderness before the second generation was able to enter into the Land of Promise. We mentioned last week that at several points our situation parallels their situation. So, what are some of those parallels? To remind us well for one thing, just as the wilderness generation was in the wilderness, so too we talked about last week how the Christian life is often imaged in the Scripture as a wilderness sojourn or pilgrimage too, where we're making our way towards our celestial homeland in Jesus Christ. Additionally, just as the wilderness generation was hardened by the deceitfulness of sin, well so too we can be deceived in our own sin. Just as the wilderness generation anticipated a future rest in the land of promise, so too we in the New Covenant church anticipate a future heavenly rest. We'll talk about the character of that future heavenly rest in our second point. So, with some of these parallels between us and them in mind, when we come to verse 2 in our passage, we learn of yet one more parallel between their situation and ours. In verse 2 we read, 2 For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened. Hebrews 4:2, ESV Now literally the Greek tells us that they in the Old Covenant were gospelized, they were evangelized. That's the Greek word behind good news. Just as they had been gospelized in their context, so too we have been gospelized. We've heard the good news of the gospel in our own context too. To qualify that statement for a moment, the comparison here between them and us as it relates to what we have heard doesn't imply that the message we've heard is identical in every respect. After all the wilderness generation, for them Jesus Christ hadn't come at that point, he was only held out for them in promises, and prophecies, and sacrifices, and especially in the blood of the sacrificial lamb that was spread on the lintel and doorposts of their homes back in Egypt on the night on which they made their great trek out of Egypt into the wilderness. All of those means were instituted in the Old Covenant church to build up the faith of the wilderness generation in the promised messiah to come. Yet for us in the New Covenant we see not the promised Christ or the prophesied Christ, and the elaborate trappings of the Old Covenant bloody sacrificial system. We look upon the resurrected and ascended Christ in the simple and ordinary means like the preached word and in sacraments, things like bread and wine. While the church of the Old Testament, including the wilderness generation, then looked forward to Christ crucified, we look back upon Christ crucified who's now resurrected and ascended and reigning in the heavenly places. Yet even with these important distinctions in view, our author can still say as he tells us in verse 2, that both of us received the good news. Good news came to them and good news has come to us. Just as they had the responsibility in light of what they heard to respond in faith, well so too that's our responsibility to what we've heard, to respond in faith. However, here's the problem, the wilderness generation, as we learned last week, they heard the good news in many ways and in many forms. Yet according to verse 2, the message they heard did not benefit them because they were not united by faith with those who listened. Now this is admittedly somewhat of an oddly worded verse, but what it probably has in view is the failure among most within the wilderness generation to respond to God's word with the same faith that other people in the wilderness generation responded to God's word, with people like Joshua and Caleb. In other words, it's not only that the majority of the wilderness generation disbelieved and disobeyed God's word, that was in itself bad enough, but it's also that they disbelieved and disobeyed God's word. In a context where there were in fact some, a few mind you, but some who exercise genuine saving and justifying faith. Bear in mind that all the wilderness generation all 602,548, who came out of Egypt in the original exodus, all of them received the exact same benefits. All of them experienced the great deliverance out of Egypt, all of them participated in the covenant ratifying ceremony at Mount Sinai in Exodus 20. They all receive the miraculous provisions of bread and water along the way. Yet the majority of those in the wilderness generation who received all of these gracious things were you not united in faith with those among the covenant community who actually did respond in faith. For the author of Hebrews, this predicament among the wilderness generation is an example and more than that it's a warning to you and me. Again, among the wilderness generation there were members of the covenant community, people like Joshua and Caleb and later people like Phineas. Those who trusted in the Lord, who leaned on his promises, and who weren't continually looking back towards Egypt for what they lacked in the wilderness but were instead looking forward to the promised rest in Canaan. Yet among the wheat, to borrow language from Jesus's parable, among the wheat of people like Joshua, Caleb and the like were also plenty of weeds. People who may have received the same external benefits, but who didn't share in the same faith. Unfortunately, brothers and sisters, the same predicament hangs over the church today. Know that there are great advantages in being part of the body and hearing the word preached and partaking of bread and wine in the Lord's Supper and partaking of fellowship as well. Yet if we're really not united with those in the church by a true and vibrant, living, justifying faith in the promises of God, well then, we'll find ourselves in the same position as the more than six hundred thousand found themselves who ended up dead in the wilderness and failed to enter God's rest. In short, this is a warning not to allow external church membership, as beneficial and as critical and as indispensable as that is, prevent us from responding individually and personally to what you have heard in the gospel of Jesus Christ. In my church experience, and nearly every church I've been in, there have always been people in the church whose ministries and whose lives have been exemplary. People who I've really come to admire in a whole number of ways, and I'm sure the same can be said of you too. As we admire the various ministries and lives of godly people in the church, do we also share in the same faith that animates their lives and ministries? Do you respond to what you've heard in the same way that those people who you admire in the church are responding to what they're hearing? Friends, the way we respond to the good news that we've heard individually and personally determines whether or not we'll also enjoy the promised future rest held out for us in Jesus Christ. Now that our author has pressed each of us individually and personally in this covenant community to respond by faith to what we've heard, then he next moves on and tells us a little bit about the promised future rest that will one day enjoy should we respond to faith in the present and persevere by faith along the way. A Promised Rest Now notice that when we turn to the end of verse three, our author begins to unpack for us the character of this promised rest that we anticipate in the Christian life. It's a promised rest that awaits all of those who respond in faith to the gospel of Jesus Christ. Of course, if the promise of entering God's rest is a promise that still stands today, according to verse one that means it's still a promise that awaits ultimate fulfillment and realization in our lives. Well, the obvious implication then is that this rest our promised rest has to be something different than a physical plot of land somewhere in Canaan. After all Joshua led the second generation of Israelites into Canaan after 40 years and after the first generation fell dead in the wilderness. So, the promise of entering into Canaan had already been fulfilled well in advance of when Hebrews was written in the first century A.D. So, the rest we anticipate, if this is a promise that still stands today, has to be something different than that, something different than a physical plot of land somewhere in the Middle East. Yet the first thing that we read about this rest in verse 3 may initially appear to have little or nothing to do with the rest that we look forward to because our author begins to describe for us the rest that God himself entered into after creation. Notice in verses three through four that our author briefly transitions, and he looks back to the book of Genesis. Specifically, he looks back to Genesis 2:2, where we learn that after God created the world in six days and said it was very good, then on the seventh day he rested from all the work that he had done. God completed all he had to complete in creation. There was no work of creation undone that had to be done, and so as a result God rested. I'm sure many of you know that creation account and what's articulated for us there. Yet the question that remains then is what does God's rest, important as it is, have anything to do with our rest, our promised rest? Well notice in verses 8, we learn some of the answers of this. We learn that this rest, God's rest, is important because God's Sabbath rest was ultimately the rest that the people of Israel in the Old Testament anticipated too. In other words, though the wilderness generation looked forward to the promise of rest in the land of Canaan, that was never meant to be the final answer. We see this explicitly in verse 8 where we read, 8 For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken of another day later on. Hebrews 4:8, ESV Now the implication of that is that Joshua had in fact not given them rest. Yes of course it's true that he may have led the people of Israel into the land of Canaan ,but Canaan was never meant to be the final resting place for the people of Israel. They may have built houses and eventually built a temple in Canaan, but Canaan was always just a picture or a type of a future better heavenly rest with God. This shouldn't have come as a surprise, if it did, to any of the readers of Hebrews in the first century A.D. Nor should this come as a surprise to us. Guess what, the patriarchs, people like Abraham and Isaac and Jacob all the way back in the beginning of Genesis, they understood this too. In fact, later in Hebrews chapter 11 our author is going to tell us that the patriarchs didn't look forward to an earthly country or an earthly city to be the final answer. No, instead we learned in Hebrews 11 they were looking forward, through and through, to a heavenly city. They were looking forward to something far greater than just a plot of land somewhere, they looked forward to participating one day at the end of the age in God's Sabbath rest. The rest that God has been in ever since the creation of the world. They looked forward to participating in that one day themselves. Friends this is the promised rest that we anticipate too. It's a rest from all the toil and burdens that we carry with us in our wilderness sojourn and this life under the sun. It's a rest that's permanent and eternal. It's a Sabbath rest where we join in with God to do what we were created and designed to do, that is worship the Lord in communion and perfect fellowship for all eternity. This is a rest, a promised rest, that's made possible for us to one day enter into because of Jesus Christ our Lord, who when he ascended on high, entered into that Sabbath rest too. Notice again in verse 8 we read explicitly that Joshua he was unable to give the people of Israel this kind of rest, and yet Joshua's namesake Jesus Christ does. Understand that in the New Testament the name Jesus, when we encounter it, is simply the Greek translation of the Hebrew name for Joshua. When we read in verse 8 the name Joshua, if we were to take a look at the Greek underneath this, we would see that actually this is the same Greek name that everywhere else in the New Testament is translated as Jesus. I even think the King James Version translates this in verse 8 as Jesus not Joshua. I don't think the King James Version is right on that point, but all of that illustrates the fact that when we read about the historical Joshua and all about what he did, well we can't help but also think about Jesus Christ. There's a tight connection between those names where as soon as we start talking about Joshua, we can't help but think about the better Joshua, Jesus Christ. After all, while Joshua couldn't deliver his people the rest that they really desired, the rest that they really need. Well, Jesus Christ gives us a taste of that rest today. Bear in mind in the Gospel of John, what were Jesus' final words as he hung on the cross getting ready to die? Well, he declared it is finished and, in that declaration, Jesus signaled that all the work necessary for our redemption was finished, just as God finished all the work necessary for creation and rested. Jesus finished 2000 years ago all the work necessary for our redemption and then 40 days later he entered into God's Sabbath rest, the same Sabbath rest that we look forward to. He entered into it so that we could one day follow in his reign. Our hope of an eternal heavenly rest is bound up through and through in the person and work of Jesus Christ. Such that even today when we put our faith in Jesus Christ, Jesus himself promises that we will find rest for our souls in Christ. Only through faith in Christ do we find relief from the burden of the guilt of our sin, as that sin is placed upon Jesus and we receive in turn his perfect record of righteousness. So, when God looks upon us, he would see Jesus Christ and we would live. In Christ, and only through faith in Christ, do we have hope that this promised Sabbath rest with God will be our inheritance too. A Powerful Word So then with that future hope in mind, that the character of that future hope shapes a little bit what do we do in the meantime. What do we do in the meantime as we look forward to the promise of entering God's Sabbath rest? Well, this leads to our final point where we're exhorted to hear and heed in the present God's powerful word. Look with me again at verses 11 through 13 and let me read it. 11 Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience. 12 For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. 13 And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account. Hebrews 4:1-13, ESV Now recall again that our author's goal throughout all of Hebrews, and especially in this passage, is for his Christian readers, including you and me, to persevere in the Christian life. To keep pressing forward until we reach our promised heavenly rest, held out for us at the end of our sojourn. To reach that end in the future, well God graciously provides his church with his powerful word in the presence so that we would strive not according to our own wisdom, but we would strive according to the promises and commands found in God's powerful word. What's interesting about the metaphor that our author uses to describe the word of God is that he calls the word of God a sword. Now that's not an uncommon metaphor, we find that metaphor elsewhere in the New Testament too. Yet we might miss the fact, because this is such a popular verse that we come back to over and over and read again and again, we might miss the fact that our author here is associating something that brings life and perseverance with a sword. After all we don't think about life and perseverance, we don't associate being penetrated with a sword with life and perseverance. We associate being penetrated with a sword with death. That's usually something that we don't associate with life and yet when the word of God penetrates us, well it helps us put to death things that we have to put to death. It helps us put to death our sin nature and the unbelief that grips our hearts so that we could truly live in the present and eventually enter into God's rest in the future. In other words, God's word is a sword that works in us and on us for our ultimate good, when we receive it as we should by faith. So, let's look real briefly at what our author tells us about the word and the effect it has when it penetrates us for our good. First, we learn that this is God's living and active word, just as the content of the word is living and active. David's words in Psalm 95 that are cited again and again in our passage were just as relevant and just as alive 3,000 years ago as they were 2,000 years ago when Hebrews is written, as they are today. So too when we receive God's word, the spirit also works on our hearts and minds to bring us alive too. Then we learn that God's word also penetrates to the division between the soul and spirit, of joints and marrow. In doing so it discerns the thoughts and intentions of the heart. The word, in other words, is the most ableist of heart surgeons. It's able to get into the most remote recesses of our heart to make sense of things that we would otherwise be incapable of making sense of. It provides us with the kind of self-knowledge that no self-help book could hope to achieve. Then finally we learned that God's word exposes us before God. We read it again in verse 13, 13 And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account. Hebrews 4:13, ESV Now in case you're interested, there's a vigorous debate out there in the literature about what this word we have translated in the ESV “exposed” really gets at. All are agreed that this is a metaphor that has something to do with the throat, but that's where agreement ends. Some see in this a reference to a wrestling move, and I won't demonstrate that up here, but a wrestling move where the throat was held back by an opponent. Others see in this in this word “exposed” a metaphor to a sacrificial victim, where a sacrificial victim's neck was held back to do, well you can imagine to do what with. Whatever we make of this metaphor, the point seems to be that the word of God leaves us vulnerable. Just as having your neck held back in a precarious position puts you in a quite a vulnerable position, well so too when the word of God pierces us it leaves us vulnerable and exposed. It exposes the things that we really love. It doesn't let us lie to ourselves, nor to God, about the conditions of our heart. Understandably that might seem somewhat intimidating when we think about all the various ways that the word of God pierces us and exposes us. Yet when we receive it by faith and we let the word of God cut into us like a warm knife through butter, well God's word works upon us for our ultimate good. When we receive it by faith it becomes for us and for our salvation, paradoxically, a life-giving weapon. Yet by the same token, it's also true that if we fail to take the word of God seriously, if we fail to hear it and heed it for what it is, it's still a sword. The nature of what this is doesn't change regardless of our response to it, but in that case rather than penetrating us to bring about life it will be a sword that penetrates us to judge us and condemn us in our sin. Now last week you may remember that we saw one of the primary Old Testament stories that lies behind this section of Hebrews. Hebrews chapter 3 and 4 is the story out of Numbers 14. I know some of you might not have been here last week, so to review real quickly; in Numbers 14 we heard the story of the 12 spies. God and Moses had sent 12 spies into the land of Canaan to spy it out and then they returned. When they returned, they gave their report and as a result of their report while the whole camp of the Israelites erupted in rebellion against the Lord and against Moses. In view of that the Lord issued his judgment that none of those among the first generation of the Israelites would be able to enter into the land of Canaan, instead they would fall dead in the wilderness for 40 years. In the aftermath of that judgment that the Lord pronounces upon his people in Numbers 14, well we find that the people of Israel are somewhat distressed by God's judgment that he just issued. They were all the while looking back to Egypt hoping to return back to Egypt, but when God issues his judgment, and he says you're going to fall dead in the wilderness. Well, they immediately reverse course, and they begin saying that we're going to go into the promised land anyway, we're going to go take Canaan by force. When they attempt to do that, which they do, God judges them for doing that. We read explicitly in Numbers 14 that when they do that they were driven back by the sword of the Amalekites and the Canaanites. In view of that story, again a story that so permeates Hebrews 3-4, it's no coincidence why God's word here is referred to as a sword. Because if we fail to listen to God's word, we'll be in the same place as the wilderness generation was, it'll be a sort of judgment that condemns us in our sins so that we never reach the promised rest held out for us. I like the way John Calvin describes this point. Calvin uses the metaphor of the word of God as a hammer. A hammer that hits away at us in order to bring about life and to mold and to shape us. Then he mentions that unfortunately, some among God's covenant people have hearts like an anvil. If you don't know what an anvil is, an anvil is one of those big metal things that Wiley Coyote always tries to drop on the roadrunner. The point of that metaphor is that when the hammer strikes an anvil, it doesn't matter how powerful that hammer is, the anvil is always going to repel the hammer, time after time, without making a dent in the anvil once. So let me ask you this, is your heart more like an anvil? Is it staunchly resistant to what God's word proclaims, at every turn ready to fight against God's word or to cherry-pick what we like from it while leaving away the rest? Or do you receive the word of God, the entirety of it, as we should by faith? Brothers and sisters know that as we labor by faith, and in the power of the Holy Spirit, to enter God's Sabbath rest in the future, which all of God's elect most certainly will, there is a powerful word. The word of God given to us for our sanctification in the present, so listen to that word. Let the word of God be as a knife that peels back the layers of our heart to expose sin, as painful as that might be at times, to drive us to repentance and then to drive us to faith in Jesus Christ. Application So in view of these things, how should we pursue this rest today? Well, let me leave us with two applications. 1. The first is this; keep the Sabbath. Again, bear in mind how our future heavenly rest is described in our passage, it's not just a generic rest, it's described as a Sabbath rest. A rest that God first entered into after his work of creation, when after laboring for six days he rested on the seventh. Now it's true that for us this Sabbath rest that we look forward to is something that's entirely future. We rest in Jesus in present, yes, but we haven't yet entered into this future Sabbath rest described in our passage. Yet there's also a sense in which we receive a foretaste of this future eternal Sabbath rest when we're commanded to observe the fourth commandment, that is to keep the Sabbath Day holy. Friends, on the Sabbath we get to lay aside the laborers that that naturally occupy us every other day of the week and come before the Lord in the context of the church and do what we were created to do, what we get to do for all eternity. That is commune and worship and fellowship with the Lord. I think New Testament scholar Ryan McGraw is right when he says that on the Sabbath Day God has commanded us to spend the whole day in heaven, so to speak. Understand that the weekly Sabbath is intended to be a picture, an incomplete picture yes, but still a picture of heaven. A picture of what real, true, rejuvenating rest, that we so often find fleeting in our lives, really looks like. The Sabbath isn't merely a time for us to set aside our labors and it's not as if we stop working and we cease from all work during the day. No, it's a day for us to set aside our weekly labor so that we can be preoccupied with another work, that is the work of worship worshiping the Lord. It's a day for us, an invitation for us, to set aside those things that naturally occupy us every other day of the week so that we can come into the Lord's presence as his body and worship him in spirit and in truth. There are many other things that could occupy us on this day, other good things, entertaining things that we could enjoy, but because this day primarily pictures the heavenly Sabbath rest that we will one day enter into, make worship on this day a priority. Make fellowship with the body a priority. Prioritize those things that help us appreciate the picture of heaven that this day is intended to be. So that's the first application, keep the Sabbath. 2. Second application is this receive what you have heard by faith. Once again there is a future heavenly Sabbath rest held out for us a promise that should we persevere in Jesus Christ, which God's elect most certainly will do. We'll also participate one day in God's rest, but until we get there, until we finish our course, have you received what you have heard in the present by faith? Understand that nothing less than justifying faith in Jesus Christ will do. So, what does that involve? I've used this term justifying faith or saving faith a couple times in the sermon. What is that? What does that involve? What does that mean? Well, the Bible teaches us that saving faith or justifying faith consists in three things. First it requires that we know the claims of the gospel, after all we can't believe in that which we do not know. Second it requires that we also affirm or assent to those claims as true. Yet, as James tells us, even the demons do that. Even the demons know the gospel claims and even the demons assent to those claims as true. So, third saving faith also requires that we trust, that we rest the entirety of our lives on the only person who can ultimately give us rest, on Jesus Christ our Lord. So let me ask you this, do you know what the gospel claims? It claims that we're dead in our sins and trespasses and that apart from being found in Jesus Christ, and him alone, we too will fall dead in the wilderness just like the wilderness generation. Do you believe those claims? Do you receive those claims as true? Then more than that, are you resting on the person and work of Jesus Christ in the present? Perhaps as a good litmus test that we would all do well to ask ourselves is whether or not we have a healthy fear? We're commanded in verse one of chapter four, “let us fear”, which is a command to take these things seriously. Take the matter of God's holiness seriously. Take his word seriously. Take the issue of human sin and rebellion seriously. Take the matter of perseverance in the Christian life seriously. Do you take those things seriously and does the quality of your life reflect that you do? Friends while rest can so easily slip from the from our grasp in this life, keep your eyes fixed on the only one who can give us true rejuvenating rest in the future, Jesus Christ. He who offers us rest now and who holds out for us the promise of an eternal Sabbath heavenly rest in the future.

On today’s show we’re talking about the dangers of stock market manipulation and why every investor who has exposure to the stock market needs to pay attention . The performance of the stock market is a phrase that makes no sense. What we’re describing is the aggregate performance of the underlying companies that make up the stock index. There are a few things that determine company value. First there are the fundamentals. Is the company generating a profit? Is it growing both revenue and profit? Is it gaining market share? Then there are technical factors that are influenced by market sentiment? These are the headwinds and tailwinds that have more to do with the buyers and sellers of shares than the underlying companies. We’ll come back to that in a minute. Finally, there is the financial engineering that manipulates the price per share of a company without changing the fundamental value of the business. In fact, sometimes the management can goose the price of a stock artificially for short term gain while harming the long term health of the business. This is the part that is the most troublesome and we’ve seen happen on a large scale in recent years. A buyback occurs when a company uses some of its cash to repurchase its own shares. Other choices include investing for growth, acquisitions, paying down debt or paying dividends. Legalized in 1982 by the Reagan administration, buybacks took off after a 1992 tax bill created incentive for more stock compensation. Now stocks and options making up about two-thirds of executive pay. In the current low-interest-rate environment, many companies have taken on more debt, whose interest cost can be tax-deductible, to buy back shares whose dividends may be more costly. Imagine if you have a preferred share that has an interest coupon at 7%, and you can borrow funds at say 5%. You can buy back equity which reduces the number of outstanding shares, and reduce your interest expense. That would be an obvious move for any company to undertake. Where it gets dangerous is when a company retires common shares that do not pay a dividend and increase the company’s interest expense in order to reduce the number of shares outstanding. Reducing a company’s float of outstanding shares through a buy-back program increases the earnings per share, creating the illusion that the company is performing better than it really is. The increase in earnings per share can drive bonuses for company executives. Imagine for a moment that executive compensation is tied to earnings per share. In some cases the compensation might be a cash payment, or as increasingly the case, stock options. On the surface that seems like a fair and reasonable method. Let’s create a fictional example. We’re going to use the company from the Road Runner and Wiley Coyote cartoon. Our company is Acme. The company has an enterprise value of $1B with virtually no debt and the stock is trading at $10. The company is earning $1 per share in earnings. The company executives are given a stock option grant at $10. The company had a hiccup in the past year and isn’t growing. It’s revenue is flat, and earnings are flat. So the executives decide to go borrow $100 million dollars to buy back 10% of the shares of the company. The interest cost has gone up a bit, so they decide to lay off a few employees to reduce expenses. The impact of the layoffs is on projects that would deliver revenue in 3-4 years, so the immediate impact to revenue is zero. It’s merely a cost saving. With fewer shares in circulation, the earnings per share has increased by 10%. All other things being equal, the shares are now worth $11. The company executives are now sitting on $1 worth of profit on their stock options.

When push comes to shove, he's out there getting anvils dropped on his head, doing everything he can imagine to get The Roadrunner -right:))) He's battling the odds, even the cartoonist that draws him, to get success. He's in action, and I bet he's in a whole lot more action than you are, if you aren't moving towards a goal. Maybe success for you isn't an evening buffet of roasted roadrunner - I hear all you vegans going EEEww!!! .... but what is success for you, and why are you not out there getting cartoon grenades thrown at you???

Coyotes love-hate relationship with people is often misunderstood so we take a somewhat in-depth look at the biology and behavior of these wonderful predators.

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Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz! North American legend Dan Flores, the Attenborough of America, tells the historic battle between Coyotes and humans for arch predators of the continent in Coyote America. This bestseller takes us from the native legends of the half man half dog coyotl to the urban dwelling canids of today. The coyotes intelligence, pack reliance and flexibility mirrors the same qualities that got homo sapiens out of the Serenghetti. Since infiltrating the ancient Aztec city of Tenochitilan, coyotes have weaseled their way into our meta consciousness as a Wiley Coyote never willing to settle. Be sure not to anthropomorphize these killers too much, our 4% difference from orangutans is equal to the coyotes 4% divergence from wolves. Enjoy a light hearted episode exploring the wilderness we currently borrow from the long time land lord coyotes. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00:45 Introduction 0:03:05 About the Author 0:05:05 Ch: About the Species 0:16:55 Ch2: Old Man America 0:26:45 Ch3: Prairie Wolf 0:31:50 Ch4: A War on Wild Things 0:39:35 Ch5: The Arch-Predator of Our Time 0:47:45 Ch6: Morning in America 0:53:00 Ch7: Bright Lights, Big Cities 0:57:35 Ch8: Coyote America 1:02:35 Next Time & Goodbye! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2baAcSSJZI iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nicks-non-fiction/id1450771426 Thanks for stopping by!

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Wiley, (The Producer's Cousin), comes and joins the crew for some Hops Roulette and tells us some stories and Matthew McConaughey, "It's Be a Lot Cooler If You Did."

I'm on my own this week, and I touch on Wiley's anti-semitism and also reel off some of my financial & COVID-19 conspiracies. IG - @dmagicccc Twitter - @_dmagic_

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Preparing for launch sequence in 10... 9... 8... 7... 6... 5... 4... 3... 2... ABORT! System's failure, REPEAT, System's failure - NO GO for launch! Hmm, typical for ITM. Doesn't matter. We still POPPIN' OFF some garbage-destined content! In this episode, we're tying up the bow with games that we've affectionately titled: PBS Quizzies, Angsty Throwbacks for the Pre-Teen Soul, Terrible Bop-It!, and Facebook Rewind. Also... the Kennedy Space Center is 2L2Q (too legit to quit). What does Wiley Coyote's voice sounds like? McDonalds grilled cheese prize money is STILL up for grabs. Should the opposite of 'Funny' just be 'Unny'?

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This week we delve into the practice of hurling oneself into space for attention. Join us as we discuss a real like Wiley Coyote, a family of tightrope walkers with a tradition of death, and what a complete asshole Evel Knievel was. Sources: https://www.etymonline.com/word/dare https://www.etymonline.com/word/devil https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/daredevil http://www.worldrecordacademy.com/sports/longest_motorcycle_jump_world_record_set_by_Robbie_Maddison_80176.htm https://www.roadandtrack.com/motorsports/videos/a30575/bryce-menzies-sets-world-record/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Nitsch https://www.outsideonline.com/1784106/how-long-can-humans-hold-their-breath https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/07/30/488083554/luke-aikins-becomes-first-person-to-jump-from-a-plane-without-a-parachute http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-chainsaw-juggling-catches https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_stilts https://the.me/extreme-footage-dying-for-red-bull/ https://www.dw.com/en/the-dark-side-of-red-bull-the-perils-of-extreme-sports/a-16947956 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorbing https://nypost.com/2017/09/27/horrific-tragedy-cant-stop-high-flying-wallendas-comeback/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flying_Wallendas https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/french-daredevil-tancrede-melet-falls-to-his-death-preparing-for-stunt-a6802876.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3AQKc6kRCs https://listverse.com/2013/09/01/10-daredevil-accidents/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-1152282/Final-moments-cannonball-stunman-Matthew-Cranch.html https://www.niagarafallslive.com/daredevils_of_niagara_falls.htm https://nationalpost.com/news/niagara-falls-daredevil-might-have-died-in-plunge-with-snake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Evel_Knievel_career_jumps https://magicvalley.com/news/local/how-many-bones-did-evel-knievel-break/article_a64def32-2d63-11e4-bfc7-0019bb2963f4.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evel_Knievel https://www.topendsports.com/testing/tests/longjump.htm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaANi96Z-Wg

Brad Sullivan Proper 14, Year A August 13, 2017 Emmanuel, Houston Matthew 14:22-33 Walking On Water: The Martyr of Charlottesville Jesus was the Word of God which spoke all of creation into existence. On some level, even subconsciously, I’d guess Jesus began to have some inkling of who he was. I wonder if in his encounter with his disciples on the boat, Jesus just forgot for a minute that humans can’t walk on water. He was tired; it had been a long day. He’d gone away to be by himself to pray for a while after learning that his cousin, John the Baptist had been beheaded, and instead of getting a break, Jesus ended up teaching and multiplying food some somewhere around 10,000 people (including the women and children). Finally, after all that, he sends his disciples across the sea in their boat while he gets to spend some time alone in prayer. So, worn out, dog tired, Jesus spent time alone in prayer, and I think he might have been so caught up in his time with his Father, that he just totally forgot that people aren’t really that adept at walking on things that aren’t solid. So, like Superman forgetting to put his glasses back on before going to the office, Jesus just starts walking on the sea out to his disciples. Why not? Why shouldn’t he walk on the sea? He made the sea, after all. So, he’s walking out onto the water, lost in thought, barely aware of his surroundings. Eventually a storm comes, and he’s thinking, “eh, not too bad, I’ve made worse,” and then the disciples see him. They’re terrified, and he realizes what’s going on. He covers as best he can, saying, “Ok, guys, I know this looks weird, but it’s not what you’re thinking. I’m not a ghost. It’s just I; It’s just Jesus.” That calms them a little, and then Peter’s like, “Hey cool, Jesus, can I come out and play?” Perfect, Jesus thinks. “You bet, Pete! Come on!” Then we all know what happens. Peter walks on the water for a while, until he notices the wind and waves, and like Wiley Coyote walking off a cliff and staying aloft until he looks down, Peter starts to sink. So, Jesus picks him up, gets them both into the boat and decides he’s had enough of his little wind storm, dials that down a bit, and tries to pass the whole thing off, real nonchalant, “so what’s been going on, fellas?” They start to get the idea pretty quickly that Jesus is more than a prophet, but the Lord of all creation, the one who actually made all of creation. I’m guessing they got pretty excited at that point, excited and amazed at the wonder of it all. I get really excited when I think of the Word of God who spoke creation into existence becoming human and walking on this earth. I love that God was human and walked on this very earth. Whenever I start to take the world for granted, that very idea of God walking on this earth makes the whole creation hallowed again. Then we get people treating creation like garbage. We get people like the angry mob in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend deciding that only some parts of creation are hallowed, only some types of people are hallowed. All people are made in God’s image. All of creation is hallowed, and yet, despite the beauty and sacredness of people and all creation, people will all too often de-sanctify creation by driving a car into a group of people, killing someone for thinking that racism isn’t a particularly good idea. Imagine those folks holding a rally within these walls, declaring most of humanity damned. Imagine people coming in here with shields and sticks and guns, ready and willing to physically harm anyone who disagreed with them. Imagine that folks who disagreed with them did come in here and were beaten and killed. That is exactly what happened in Charlottesville, because in God’s eyes, all of creation is hallowed. Every place is a place of worship. Everywhere Jesus looks and says, “This place is great; I remember making this place. I remember speaking this place into existence, and I love this place.” The same goes for every person on earth, yes, even the angry mob of people who assume that God hates most of the people he created. Hatred and violence. Shame and anger. Assuming one type of person is better than another type of person. Jesus was pretty darn clear that we are all the same in God’s eyes. Jesus was pretty darn clear that he loves all people and he loves all of this beautiful Earth which he created. He was also pretty darn clear that as much as he loves all people, there is no place in his kingdom for the kinds of thoughts and actions demonstrated by the angry white supremacist mob in Charlottesville. Now, if we’re honest with ourselves, we all have hatred, anger, and violence within us too. Everyone does. The question is, what are we going to do with it, and what Jesus calls us to do, what he teaches us to do with our hatred, anger, and violence is not to act it out, not to act upon it, but rather to give it to him, to place it at the foot of the cross so that he can transform it into love. That is often not done, however, and we have a world that is full of anger, hatred, and violence (as well as love). So, what are we to do amidst such anger, hatred, and violence? Well, let’s call the anger, hatred, and violence of the world storms and waves. Then, let’s do what Peter did. Amidst the storms and the waves, we look up and see Jesus coming to us, not where we expect, not in the quiet sanctuary, but right in the middle of the storms and waves, right in the middle of the hatred, anger, and violence. Then, rather than waiting for Jesus to come to us in the safety of the boat, the sanctuary, we ask Jesus to summon us out into the storms and waves. Rumor has it, he’ll say yes. Then, like Peter did, we step out of the sanctuary and risk drowning in order to go and be with Jesus amidst the storms and waves. We risk drowning, going out into the anger, hatred, and violence to be the light of Jesus within the storm. Sometimes we’re not even entirely sure what we’re going to do there. We want to bring the light of Jesus with us. We want to live out the way, the truth, and the life of Jesus amidst the storms and waves, and it is darn scary. We just may be killed if we go out amidst the storms and waves. A 32 year old woman was killed in Charlottesville by a man who drove his car into a group of people who stepped out of the boat amidst the storm of anger, hatred, and violence to declare that anger, hatred, and violence have no place in this world. This woman risked and gave her life to give witness to love rather than hatred. That’s what we call a martyr, a witness. I don’t even know if she was Christian, but I know she was amidst the storm, declaring the light of love for all, not just some. She gave her life for that witness, and that is martyrdom. Stepping out amidst the storms and waves of anger, hatred, and violence, we too will risk drowning. We’ll risk our lives and well-being to live out and be the light of Jesus amidst the darkness of hatred, anger, and violence. When Peter stared to sink, Jesus reached down and picked him up. I’d like to say that his doing so is a guarantee that so long as we ask Jesus for help, we won’t be harmed, but that simply isn’t true. Peter began sinking because he became overcome with fear of the storm and waves. The call to Jesus keeps us from being overcome with fear, keeps us from succumbing to the anger, hatred, and violence ourselves. The call to Jesus doesn’t guarantee that we won’t be harmed. The call to Jesus keeps our hearts from falling into hatred, anger, and violence. The call to Jesus keeps the darkness from overcoming the light of Jesus within us. Truly to be the light of Jesus amidst the darkness of anger, hatred, and violence, we truly do need to risk drowning, to risk not only our lives and well-being, but also to risk being overcome by the darkness. In all likelihood, we will be overcome by the darkness at times, and in those times, we call out to Jesus to save us, to reach his hand out, pull us out of the storm and waves and put us back into the boat, the sanctuary. Then, once we’ve recovered, we step out of the boat, amidst the storm and waves once again to risk our lives and well-being, to be the light of Jesus amidst the darkness of hatred, anger, and violence once again. Risk is part of the deal to live as Jesus’ disciples. We’ve got to risk drowning to walk out on the water with Jesus. We also need to be able to see the beauty and sacredness of the people and creation all around us, even amidst the storm and waves. We realize the waves are there, but don’t get too daunted by the waves. Keep your eyes on Jesus. Imagine the magic, the possibility, the wonder of seeing him walking to you on the water. Imagine the magic, the possibility, the wonder of asking him if you can come out and play too, and Jesus saying ,”yes.”

Brad Sullivan Proper 14, Year A August 13, 2017 Emmanuel, Houston Matthew 14:22-33 Walking On Water: The Martyr of Charlottesville Jesus was the Word of God which spoke all of creation into existence. On some level, even subconsciously, I’d guess Jesus began to have some inkling of who he was. I wonder if in his encounter with his disciples on the boat, Jesus just forgot for a minute that humans can’t walk on water. He was tired; it had been a long day. He’d gone away to be by himself to pray for a while after learning that his cousin, John the Baptist had been beheaded, and instead of getting a break, Jesus ended up teaching and multiplying food some somewhere around 10,000 people (including the women and children). Finally, after all that, he sends his disciples across the sea in their boat while he gets to spend some time alone in prayer. So, worn out, dog tired, Jesus spent time alone in prayer, and I think he might have been so caught up in his time with his Father, that he just totally forgot that people aren’t really that adept at walking on things that aren’t solid. So, like Superman forgetting to put his glasses back on before going to the office, Jesus just starts walking on the sea out to his disciples. Why not? Why shouldn’t he walk on the sea? He made the sea, after all. So, he’s walking out onto the water, lost in thought, barely aware of his surroundings. Eventually a storm comes, and he’s thinking, “eh, not too bad, I’ve made worse,” and then the disciples see him. They’re terrified, and he realizes what’s going on. He covers as best he can, saying, “Ok, guys, I know this looks weird, but it’s not what you’re thinking. I’m not a ghost. It’s just I; It’s just Jesus.” That calms them a little, and then Peter’s like, “Hey cool, Jesus, can I come out and play?” Perfect, Jesus thinks. “You bet, Pete! Come on!” Then we all know what happens. Peter walks on the water for a while, until he notices the wind and waves, and like Wiley Coyote walking off a cliff and staying aloft until he looks down, Peter starts to sink. So, Jesus picks him up, gets them both into the boat and decides he’s had enough of his little wind storm, dials that down a bit, and tries to pass the whole thing off, real nonchalant, “so what’s been going on, fellas?” They start to get the idea pretty quickly that Jesus is more than a prophet, but the Lord of all creation, the one who actually made all of creation. I’m guessing they got pretty excited at that point, excited and amazed at the wonder of it all. I get really excited when I think of the Word of God who spoke creation into existence becoming human and walking on this earth. I love that God was human and walked on this very earth. Whenever I start to take the world for granted, that very idea of God walking on this earth makes the whole creation hallowed again. Then we get people treating creation like garbage. We get people like the angry mob in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend deciding that only some parts of creation are hallowed, only some types of people are hallowed. All people are made in God’s image. All of creation is hallowed, and yet, despite the beauty and sacredness of people and all creation, people will all too often de-sanctify creation by driving a car into a group of people, killing someone for thinking that racism isn’t a particularly good idea. Imagine those folks holding a rally within these walls, declaring most of humanity damned. Imagine people coming in here with shields and sticks and guns, ready and willing to physically harm anyone who disagreed with them. Imagine that folks who disagreed with them did come in here and were beaten and killed. That is exactly what happened in Charlottesville, because in God’s eyes, all of creation is hallowed. Every place is a place of worship. Everywhere Jesus looks and says, “This place is great; I remember making this place. I remember speaking this place into existence, and I love this place.” The same goes for every person on earth, yes, even the angry mob of people who assume that God hates most of the people he created. Hatred and violence. Shame and anger. Assuming one type of person is better than another type of person. Jesus was pretty darn clear that we are all the same in God’s eyes. Jesus was pretty darn clear that he loves all people and he loves all of this beautiful Earth which he created. He was also pretty darn clear that as much as he loves all people, there is no place in his kingdom for the kinds of thoughts and actions demonstrated by the angry white supremacist mob in Charlottesville. Now, if we’re honest with ourselves, we all have hatred, anger, and violence within us too. Everyone does. The question is, what are we going to do with it, and what Jesus calls us to do, what he teaches us to do with our hatred, anger, and violence is not to act it out, not to act upon it, but rather to give it to him, to place it at the foot of the cross so that he can transform it into love. That is often not done, however, and we have a world that is full of anger, hatred, and violence (as well as love). So, what are we to do amidst such anger, hatred, and violence? Well, let’s call the anger, hatred, and violence of the world storms and waves. Then, let’s do what Peter did. Amidst the storms and the waves, we look up and see Jesus coming to us, not where we expect, not in the quiet sanctuary, but right in the middle of the storms and waves, right in the middle of the hatred, anger, and violence. Then, rather than waiting for Jesus to come to us in the safety of the boat, the sanctuary, we ask Jesus to summon us out into the storms and waves. Rumor has it, he’ll say yes. Then, like Peter did, we step out of the sanctuary and risk drowning in order to go and be with Jesus amidst the storms and waves. We risk drowning, going out into the anger, hatred, and violence to be the light of Jesus within the storm. Sometimes we’re not even entirely sure what we’re going to do there. We want to bring the light of Jesus with us. We want to live out the way, the truth, and the life of Jesus amidst the storms and waves, and it is darn scary. We just may be killed if we go out amidst the storms and waves. A 32 year old woman was killed in Charlottesville by a man who drove his car into a group of people who stepped out of the boat amidst the storm of anger, hatred, and violence to declare that anger, hatred, and violence have no place in this world. This woman risked and gave her life to give witness to love rather than hatred. That’s what we call a martyr, a witness. I don’t even know if she was Christian, but I know she was amidst the storm, declaring the light of love for all, not just some. She gave her life for that witness, and that is martyrdom. Stepping out amidst the storms and waves of anger, hatred, and violence, we too will risk drowning. We’ll risk our lives and well-being to live out and be the light of Jesus amidst the darkness of hatred, anger, and violence. When Peter stared to sink, Jesus reached down and picked him up. I’d like to say that his doing so is a guarantee that so long as we ask Jesus for help, we won’t be harmed, but that simply isn’t true. Peter began sinking because he became overcome with fear of the storm and waves. The call to Jesus keeps us from being overcome with fear, keeps us from succumbing to the anger, hatred, and violence ourselves. The call to Jesus doesn’t guarantee that we won’t be harmed. The call to Jesus keeps our hearts from falling into hatred, anger, and violence. The call to Jesus keeps the darkness from overcoming the light of Jesus within us. Truly to be the light of Jesus amidst the darkness of anger, hatred, and violence, we truly do need to risk drowning, to risk not only our lives and well-being, but also to risk being overcome by the darkness. In all likelihood, we will be overcome by the darkness at times, and in those times, we call out to Jesus to save us, to reach his hand out, pull us out of the storm and waves and put us back into the boat, the sanctuary. Then, once we’ve recovered, we step out of the boat, amidst the storm and waves once again to risk our lives and well-being, to be the light of Jesus amidst the darkness of hatred, anger, and violence once again. Risk is part of the deal to live as Jesus’ disciples. We’ve got to risk drowning to walk out on the water with Jesus. We also need to be able to see the beauty and sacredness of the people and creation all around us, even amidst the storm and waves. We realize the waves are there, but don’t get too daunted by the waves. Keep your eyes on Jesus. Imagine the magic, the possibility, the wonder of seeing him walking to you on the water. Imagine the magic, the possibility, the wonder of asking him if you can come out and play too, and Jesus saying ,”yes.”

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