Answered Prayers | Comedian Nazareth | Episode #360
The BeatiDudes
Comedian Nazareth is back with the BeatiDudes, and the Friday half of this visit turns from punchlines to providence. It opens with a round of Blessed Are the Joke Makers at the Tiny Table, where a conspiracy theorist prompt produces Honda sponsoring the early church because the apostles were all in one Accord, plus a Sonic ice callback that should probably be reported to someone. Then Nazareth tells the story he has never stopped being amazed by. As a new believer in Hollywood, he made God a very specific and very honest promise, and then asked for a beautiful wife with a rich father who had memorized the entire Bible. Year by year, as his hairline receded and his waistline did not, he kept negotiating the request down until he was willing to accept John 3:16 and a witnessing opportunity. Years later, his dying father asked him to fly to Gaza and put the family home in his mother's name. He went. Five days after landing, he was engaged. The second story is about the 2008 crash, when nobody was hiring comedians and Bank of America was stacking late fees on late fees until the number hit around $75,000. Nazareth describes waking at three in the morning with the same question on repeat, and then a friend calling to say God told him to send a FedEx. What arrived was not the fifteen hundred dollars he expected. Paul Kolker, Nick Bezner, and Jeff Schiefelbein sit with what that kind of rescue does to a man's imagination, and Nazareth is careful to draw the line clearly: this is not name it and claim it. His own image is better anyway. He is still the same old car that keeps breaking down, but now he is married to a mechanic and he has AAA. SUPPORT THE BEATIDUDES https://www.buymeacoffee.com/TheBeatiDudes Our Partners: Sock Religious (10% Discount) Solidarity HealthShare Aquinas Wealth Advisors Lucid Private Office Divine Comedy Undivided Life Follow The BeatiDudes: BeatiDudes Website LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Twitter Jeff Schiefelbein on LinkedIn BeatiDudes Theme Song and Music By The Pencil Bureau Dave Moore Music