Ever dreamt of embarking on an adventure with hilarious twists and turns? Hold your breath as we journey with the VeggieTales protagonist, Jonah, on a quest that takes him from sea to the heart of Nineveh. This episode of unlocks the classic VeggieTales story, Jonah, and unravels his comedic, yet profound, escapade.
This episode delves into the depths of Jonah's faith journey, revealing a tale of compassion, mercy, and second chances, as beautifully illustrated in the VeggieTales version.
So, buckle up for this whale of a tale!
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Ever dreamt of embarking on an adventure with hilarious twists and turns? Hold your breath as we journey with the VeggieTales protagonist, Jonah, on a quest that takes him from sea to the heart of Nineveh. This episode of unlocks the classic VeggieTales story, Jonah, and unravels his comedic, yet profound, escapade.
This episode delves into the depths of Jonah's faith journey, revealing a tale of compassion, mercy, and second chances, as beautifully illustrated in the VeggieTales version.
So, buckle up for this whale of a tale!
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Welcome to the Analuia podcast, bringing you redemptive analogies each week, everything from Disney to Naruto. We're here to present the gospel in a more animated way. Get ready to raise a hallelujah. It's time for Analuia.
Speaker 2:Hey, you're watching to the Analuia podcast. My name is Josh and we're so glad that you joined us once again and allowed us to enter in to your lives and your listening ears. So we are ready to get rolling today and have we got a show for you, and you'll understand why I need that little nod here in just a few moments. But we've had a kind of relaxing day, kind of chill day today, and the reason why is we had a little bit of a fall day today. So I'm going to go ahead and bring in my Lovie Wife, rebecca.
Speaker 1:Hey, except that my mic needs to be turned on.
Speaker 2:Yes, it does need to be turned on.
Speaker 1:Hey everybody. It's been a good day today. Yeah, we've done a lot of fall related food items specifically, which has been really nice. We started out with a pumpkin spice latte, which we posted on our story on Instagram, so if you missed that, that's where it was and then we made. I love how, josh, you were the one to want to do this whole fall day thing. You're like I'm going to plan this fall day and then I made the pumpkin spice latte and I made our little turkey sausage apple turnover situation.
Speaker 2:You know like who got the ingredients to make.
Speaker 1:You did, you did.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you did it, you did it all. They're thankful and you make things happen, which is what I love about you.
Speaker 1:I love that little thing.
Speaker 2:So it's been a good day. Then a chill day, Not quite as gone to plan or with everything that I want to do, but that's just how it happens.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you roll with the punches and it's okay, exactly.
Speaker 2:Well, you all wanted another animated Bible based story and, as I said last week, we are going to deliver. If you didn't listen to last week, then we gave you a little hint. Well, becca kind of gave it away.
Speaker 1:I did.
Speaker 2:I say you said so. I said oh, it involves a whale and you're like and an asterisks. Oh for those, maybe, who didn't grow up with what we're going to talk about. Maybe you didn't understand that they may not have. If you've been the Christians center when you were a kid, or or you have nieces and nephews who are very young, who would watch this, then you may, you may know. But nothing to be babbling, we're going to get right down to it. So what are we going to talk about today?
Speaker 1:Today we are talking about Jonah, the veggie tale story of Jonah. So a little bit of a synopsis here. We wrote one down. This time, when the singing veggies encounters some car trouble, they're stranded at old, rundown seafood at a run old, rundown seafood joint, I think, where nothing is quite what it seems. As Bob the tomato and the kids settle in to wait for a tow truck to help get their van back on the road, the pirates, who don't do anything, share a little story about a guy named Jonah. Jonah loves his job until the day comes when he has to deliver a message to the people of Nineveh. Instead of carrying out his mission, jonah turns and sets sails in the opposite direction aboard a pirate ship. Soon Jonah embarks on an adventure that leads him into the belly of a whale and to the heart of Nineveh for a hilarious showdown.
Speaker 2:So there you go, a comprehensive synopsis. Could you do a little bit more, but this movie isn't that long at all. It's just under that 90 minute mark.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it is. It's like 86 minutes or something, which is interesting. Why would they not just put a few more minutes in to make it an official full-length feature? I don't know, maybe they did that on purpose. Is that like the whole VeggieTales MO?
Speaker 2:Before Jonah, veggietales had just come out with a short length, so it's like 30, 60 minute videos on different local stories or stuff happening within the VeggieTales land or world.
Speaker 1:So this is the one that really kicked off everything. Was this before the toy that saved Christmas?
Speaker 2:No, no, this was after, so they already had a franchise going in, so they had done quite a few home videos before Jonah.
Speaker 1:Okay, which included the toy who saved Christmas.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes.
Speaker 1:Got it. I know they did like a whole silly songs with Larry and all of those. Those were really fun.
Speaker 2:Yeah, all that and already been established before this.
Speaker 1:Okay, so this was like the first released in theaters.
Speaker 2:Theater release. Yeah, this is their first theatrical release.
Speaker 1:Thank you, josh. I don't know why Where's your heart today? Okay, yeah, that's so weird. Though why would they not just a few more, literally like four minutes? I don't know, it doesn't matter. That's not why we're here. We're not here to talk about how long the movie is.
Speaker 2:We're here to talk about Jonah, that's right. So with Jonah before and this shows you how literate I was I know the Bible more. But I didn't in that moment when I was Googling, because I was like what, what book of the Bible is the story of Jonah in and thinking it would be like you know the Corinthians or Colossians or something.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's a New Testament. It's definitely Old Testament.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, so that was my first clue. And then I was like oh, jonah's got his own book. Good on him.
Speaker 1:Yes, he's a minor prophet.
Speaker 2:Now it's plain to me what a minor prophet is.
Speaker 1:Well, most people think that minor prophets and major prophets are based on popularity, but that is not true. It's actually much simpler than that. It's the length of the book that they wrote. That's it. So like Isaiah, major prophet, because he has an enormous book that he wrote. Jeremiah same way, but then you get into, like Micah and Jonah and some of those other minor prophets, they're just smaller books. That's the only thing.
Speaker 2:Okay, that makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 1:It does seem like it should be the other way around. You know that it should be by popularity, but nope, it isn't just the size of the book.
Speaker 2:Now, when you were in the synopsis prior, I loved how they made that like comparison. So Jonah was a prophet, kind of like a nail man, but his letters came directly from God.
Speaker 1:I mean for kids, though, like yeah, that's an easy. That's a pretty good way to describe it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, an easy way for them to comprehend and say, well, what is a prophet? And you know they can't so good on the veggie tales creators for doing that Like gosh in that first song, unless you run the Lord, that nail man got some shade. He's just trying to deliver letters.
Speaker 1:Poor guy, poor squash. He was a squash.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he was.
Speaker 1:I think he was a butternut squash, to be precise. Anyway, yeah, the male man, poor male man.
Speaker 2:He gets caught in that conga line.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know what I find really interesting about veggie tales in general, and particularly this movie. I know it's in other things too, but they do a really interesting blend of ancient and modern.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes.
Speaker 1:Like the male man, clearly clearly a modern character.
Speaker 2:Well, and when they're, when the pirates don't do anything, they're telling the story Right, they insert themselves into the story and they're drinking like Root beer, which is not a thing. Talking about cheese, curls, which I get us are like they're the ocean of Cheetos.
Speaker 1:Yeah definitely wasn't around then yeah, so I find that really interesting that they did that. We're pirates, a thing in ancient. I mean real and that time frame.
Speaker 2:I mean certainly, surely they would well. Well, feeds and band-aids yeah. I'm not sure about pirates? Maybe not.
Speaker 1:They probably weren't called pirates. Yeah or are they? I want to say, paul ran into some Pirates are the interesting to know. Maybe I'm a pirate in the Bible, yeah maybe I'll look that up. Like you said, these and bandits yeah for sure. Um, that's definitely going on. But I mean, if they're traveling by ship, surely there would be Pirates. But like, when we think of pirate, when I think of pirates, yeah, it may not be like the, not the modern pirates, that we think of. Not modern pirates they wouldn't be called pirates.
Speaker 2:Well, the, the, the ones that we see, picture them books and movies.
Speaker 1:Well, that's because we, when we think of pirates, typically we think of, like the 17th hundreds pirates. I mean that's what I think of. I think of pirates of the Caribbean and and that whole time frame which was in 1700s, 1800s, that time, but I mean pirates still exist today. It's different, but they do exist.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean, we probably did more than these pirates, because well, that's true movie.
Speaker 1:They don't do anything. They're the pirates who don't do anything.
Speaker 2:No, it's it not a no.
Speaker 1:So going along with this, pirates who don't do anything in the movie, there's a song that Reliant K put out, which is awesome. It's so fun. So if you haven't heard it, you should definitely check it out, particularly since it says over and over again and I've never been to Boston in the fall and it's the fall.
Speaker 2:But going along with the story Jonah, for those of you may not know and we're that kid that's actually read it in the synopsis- so a basic story is Jonah.
Speaker 1:Jonah is a prophet, prophet of God, who's like a mailman, but he, he's the one who delivers the messages of God to the people in Israel in general. And One day God says great, I need you to go to Nineveh. And Nineveh was this place where it was full of crime and hate and Immorality and all kinds of wicked and terrible things there, and they were not good to the Israelites Specifically. So there was a lot of animosity towards these two people groups. I mean, if we're making correlation here, I would assume it's a lot like the Palestine's, the Palestinian, sorry and the Israelites today. A lot of animosity, a lot of. It's a lot going on there. And and God says alright, I want you to go to Nineveh and I want you to tell them to repent, to turn away from their wicked ways and to turn to God. And Jonah is like I'm sorry, what? Absolutely not.
Speaker 2:He's not even on the math. It's all Way right over there. I mean, send me to Java, send me to me anywhere.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's, yeah, so he's not, he's not on board. He. He's like you know, these people, they don't deserve To be saved. Like they're awful people. Like no, I'm not doing that, god. And so Jonah runs away. He's like mm-hmm, I'm out of here. So he gets on a boat with these sailors and Sales to Tarshish, which is like the furthest possible away that Jonah can get away from it. And while they're on board there, the there's a huge storm that comes in. And the people, the sailors on the boat, they're like okay, obviously One of us must have angered God, their God, who watch up whatever God it is, I don't, they were not. They were not believers at the time. So they like cast lots and Jonah's the one who's picked and they do in the funniest way Go fish, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:and the veggie tails version, yeah yeah, and the veggie tails version. They're like so dramatic it is.
Speaker 1:It's intense and it's like no, you the last one left. But they throw him over board and he gets swallowed up by a whale and he's in the whale and, weirdly enough, in the veggie tails version it looks eerily similar to Pinocchio when they're in the belly of the whale. So they're in the belly of Jonah's down there and he has a Come to Jesus moment, if you will, even though Jesus is not on this earth at the moment. And so he, he repents, he turns away from. He's like, alright, god, fine, I'll go, I'll go.
Speaker 1:So the whale actually spits him out on shore, which is very close to where Nineveh is, and so he makes his way to Nineveh and he preaches the word, says alright, repent, turn away. And he gets out of there. He's like did my thing, I'm done. And he goes and he sits up on the mountain and he's watching over the city like he cut across his arms alright, let's wait and see. God Smite them anytime now, I just know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1:So, as he's sitting there, he's waiting and waiting, he's like, oh, it's so hot. He's complaining that it's hot, so God's merciful, and he Causes this weed to like instantly grow up and give him shade and he's like oh shade, this is, this is fantastic, wonderful shade. And then the weed dies and he curses the weed for dying and he's all upset and and let, and Nineveh repents, nineveh repents, and there's rejoicing and joy and and all of that wonderful stuff and and Jonah is really upset and that's kind of where the book of the Bible leaves us and where the story in veggie tails leaves us as well. He's just mad, he's upset that they repented because he didn't like them, and so there's a lot to glean from from this story.
Speaker 2:Right, and the two main topics that we want to go over today are the ones that vision tales had did the work for us. They did the happy lifting yeah and that is for these topics of compassion and mercy and I'll explain these as we go by as one of the pirates who don't do anything, it's plain it, unless they can do his voice. Now. Compassion is when you see somebody and you feel compelled to help them what a great, like Simple way of saying it it's.
Speaker 1:It's more nuanced than that. Yeah, I think that's generally what compassion is Compassion when you you feel moved to, yeah, to help someone.
Speaker 2:So in this movie, when Jonah is, you know he's, he's at Minor Prophetic. He's going through all of Israel to deliver an instruction from the Lord. He's doing great. He prays every night. Lord, where shall you send me next, as I will go nether. They're awful there. They slap each other with fish.
Speaker 1:That was one of the funniest parts. I haven't. Honestly, I haven't read the story of Jonah like in the Bible in a while, but I don't think that's yeah.
Speaker 2:I think it's a little bit more intense than fish is laughing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they, oh, my goodness.
Speaker 2:But that's what God is trying to convey to Jonah by sin and denim, the is. Hey, my messages aren't just for you know, Jews and Israel, they're for Gentiles.
Speaker 1:Well, I, yeah, I think it's um it's, it's setting up the stage for For that salvation message For the salvation message which the entire Old Testament is all about.
Speaker 1:That is the reason for the Old Testament. You know, when, when Paul and the other disciples and Jesus came, that's all they had. All they had was the Old Testament and that is what testified of Jesus's return. You know, a lot of around Christmas time, we quote Isaiah something, isaiah 52. No, I don't know, I don't remember, but it's the quote in Isaiah where he's saying you know, and unto us, a child will be born, one who will, will save us, he will be called Emanuel and Prince of Peace, and you know all of these wonderful titles. And this was talking about Jesus.
Speaker 1:Jesus is everywhere in the Old Testament and, um, yeah, I really think that the story of Jonah was in there as like a precursor to, to offering salvation, to, to the Gentiles, to everyone. Everyone is to be saved, to your enemy, to, to those you like and who you don't like. You know, I wonder if I would. I really wonder if Peter, when he was having the vision of that sheet coming down from heaven filled with all of the, you know, unclean animals in the Jewish tradition, if afterwards he thought about Jonah and that story and it kind of confirmed scripture, confirmed that vision that he had, which is really true in our, our, our litmus test, if you will, for whether or not something is from God. Scripture can back up what, what the experiences that you're having, um and messages that you receive. If it's not in line with God's character and you have to know God's character through the Bible then you know it's probably not from him.
Speaker 2:When going through what you were saying, like discernment and hearing from God. I think we've always had a little bit of the issue with that because how you, how you, that's when God likes to speak to us in a language and a way that we understand, and sometimes that's our own voice and that makes it hard to kind of like differentiate. It's like, okay, am I hearing God or am I hearing myself what I want to hear?
Speaker 2:And that's where discernment comes in and really being in tune with God and the Holy Spirit, so that you can see what he's saying to you, always asking of you. Make sure that you're avoiding it within his will.
Speaker 1:Right, you know, so often it's not even that we hear specific words. I think a lot of times there's this you know, I use the language of like, feeling like. I get the impression, like an impression of something that God wants me to do. It's that nudging or pulling of the Holy Spirit into a specific direction. I think he uses our thoughts and ideas and I think he absolutely can't speak to us. It's in different ways. A lot of times the outside world, who's not in Christianity, they would think that it sounds crazy, and it does sound crazy if you're not in tune. But yeah, you absolutely can hear from God, but there's no one specific way that people hear from God. That's what I think, because I think there can be a lot of spiritual manipulation that comes into that. Like, if you're not audibly hearing from God, then you're not hearing from God?
Speaker 2:Right, Because I don't think I've ever audibly heard from God. God speaks to me in different ways, whether it be with a nature, through a song, through what we do every week, which is animation, with shows and movies To be dogmatic about. Unless you hear audibly, you're not hearing from God, you're not in this world, you're not in tune with the Holy Spirit. Well, I mean honestly, sometimes I want to say they screw you. I mean that's not the only way to hear. I mean, if I want to do that, I would go to a legalistic church where they have all these rules.
Speaker 1:And you know it makes me think even too of like this is getting a little off topic. We'll get back on compassion and mercy in a minute here, but I think it's important to say that you know, talking about being dogmatic about things, you know there's a lot of churches who say specifically with spiritual gifts, like if you don't speak in tongues, then you're not filled with the Holy.
Speaker 2:Spirit. Yes, yes, and that's just not true. It was a big big thing growing up in the Tentacostal Church, being slain in the spirit, speaking in tongues. And if you have never spoken in tongues or you die and you've never spoken in tongues, you're not going to go to hell. You're not. That doesn't mean that you're not saved, it just means that they just haven't and you may not.
Speaker 1:Right, and that's okay, because you know, in 1 Corinthians, paul tells us that the Spirit gives the gifts that he wants to give to anyone at any time. He does what he wants. You know, that's where you know the list in 1 Corinthians 12. That's what he's talking about, is it leads up, and then he's, and that's the chapter that leads up to 1 Corinthians 13, which is all about love. So he's like you can have all of these spiritual gifts, but if you don't have love, it means nothing.
Speaker 2:Nothing, absolutely not a zilchak. Yeah, I'm sorry. The greatest of these is love, as it says in scripture.
Speaker 1:Everything of love, compassion. I would say love is compassion, compassion and love, they go hand in hand and I think that's really, really important, particularly in the story. And you know we were listening to the songs over again before we started recording and we were listening to the song it Cannot Be and I was really struck in this song with let me see if I can pull up the lyrics here yeah, while you're doing that In the song, it Cannot Be is kind of Jonah's you know, rebuttal towards you know what God is asking.
Speaker 2:You know it's it Cannot Be. You've made a mistake there. That's like well, another one, god doesn't make mistakes. And number two he's trying to persuade God. He's trying, and when he can't persuade him, he's like you know what? I'm just going to be in direct objection to you and go clear across the world. You know how are you going to get me to Nineveh? Then I'm over there. I can't feel over there.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So I found the lyrics and there's this one line in particular really struck me, where this is Jonah singing the song and he says but Nineveh should get no chance to turn, meaning to turn back. You've earned your wrath. No, it cannot be. Your messages are meant for me and my brothers. We are your chosen people and Nineveh well, they're not. We're the good guys, they're the bad guys. Please don't send me there with your message of mercy, with a message of your mercy. And it was just like wow, you know that's.
Speaker 1:And like we were talking about earlier, I think that relates directly to this message of salvation, that salvation is for everyone. But one of the things I was thinking about was that Jonah is so full of pride at that time and it's keeping him from compassion for the Ninevites, and that is really important to know. I think for us today that if we harbor pride in our hearts, then it will keep us from compassion and keep us from the love of God, or expressing the love of God, because it's like it's like this wall that comes up and it's hard to hear God, and we see that in the story of Jonah specifically. He hears the message from God. He's like yes, lord, I'm open, send me where you want to go.
Speaker 2:God says Nineveh, he's like no, I had turns and conditions. I don't do Nineveh.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, and that's what he talks about in the song. He's so. Pride rises up and he is so prideful, so fearful when he runs away. The only way that God can get in touch with him again is to have him be swallowed up by a whale and then taken to Nineveh. So I think that goes to show God will use whatever, whoever and whenever he needs to to get our attention.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean God can use a whale to swallow you up. He's out of thought of anything.
Speaker 1:Right, and you know there was a friend of mine that that was asking me this question recently and I was like that's a big question, Let me think about that one for a second. But it was like do the question was, do you think that God withholds blessings until we do what he wants us to do? And I was like that's, that's a lot. But after thinking about it I was like you know, I think my answer is kind of what I just gave was that I think God wants to put us on the right path and I think that he will use anything to get our attention and if that means withholding blessings that he wants desperately to give us, if that will get our attention so that we go.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, maybe I should leave this path and go on this path towards his will, I think. I think he'll use whatever he needs to use, and that's not. That's not true, for I don't think that's like a hard and fast rule. I don't think it works that way for everyone, but I think for some people it might. Yeah, Does that make sense, Josh, or am I completely off?
Speaker 2:No, no, no, no, no. I mean, that means okay. But I want to get into kind of the music is. Since we're on that, topic. So there are some of the great, great songs in this we have. This is from the Lord, which is the opening number. So a lot of energy and then we have.
Speaker 2:It cannot be, and we have second chances which will play a clip of hearing just a moment. And then we have a general was a prophet. Oh, they never really got it. So the true doodledoo and that's like the ending number. But God's second chances. This is the part of the movie where Jonah is in the middle of the whale saying, well, I mean I've lost my chance, all hope is lost. And you know, god is, god is through with me. And then these heavily beans come around and they're like oh, wait, you said heavenly memes. No beans.
Speaker 1:Oh beams, you said heavenly memes and I was like no no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2:Heavenly memes. No, no, that's the self-reddit. But they come down to. Jonah is, like I you know, here to help. So, oh well, I mean, are you? You know prophets and I know we come from a higher place.
Speaker 1:I mean, they, they're very similar, I would say prophets and angels.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, because I had. They had a message to deliver to Jonah.
Speaker 1:Right. Well, and that's what Jonah, that's what angels are they're messengers and warriors of God.
Speaker 2:Yes, and they sing the song called God's second chances, and we'll play a little bit of that for you here.
Speaker 1:I love that gospel feel.
Speaker 2:Yes, this is such a fun song, oh, so fun. I want to get out and run around with a flag. I know and go. That's in my, my toddler days, where I was in the Catholic House of Church. You know when I tanned the ring going up and down the aisles? Yes, you know, my grandma loves to tell that story.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, she does. She loves to tell that, yes, yeah, that's it. He's feeling it now, jonah, he's like yes, let's go, I love it. We hope you guys got a little bit of a punch out there, in the sense that words in me today.
Speaker 2:I'm not sure what it is.
Speaker 1:I get it, I do yeah.
Speaker 2:But I love that song and I love the story overall. It had been a while since I had read the story. I don't think I ever saw Jonah. I don't think I would have watched it either, unless it a our kids b we were watching something else who had kids around the stage. But if we weren't doing, oh you mean now yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. For some reason I don't know why we never I never really watched this as a kid, which is like. I mean, it was like perfect timing. Maybe it was because we were a little bit old.
Speaker 2:I love the older because VeggieTales target audience. I think it was like five, six, seven, eight years old, maybe up to 10, maybe up to 10.
Speaker 1:I definitely know we watched the. We watched their little TV show thing that they had.
Speaker 2:And it really got popularity, at least when. When I went to high school, like people would be saying oh, where is my hairbrush, oh where where. And because VeggieTales came back, it's like we need to all have a sing along. I loved that.
Speaker 1:That was an in high school for me. We had the sing silly songs with Larry on like VHS or something, I think, or DVD, whatever that timeframe was.
Speaker 2:Wait 2002.
Speaker 1:Whenever silly songs with Larry came out, that was earlier, oh earlier, quite a bit earlier.
Speaker 2:That was like very late night.
Speaker 1:And it's like yeah, like yeah, tail end of the, the millennium.
Speaker 2:Well, let's go get down to. We have a couple of Bible verses for compassion.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So one of them is Ephesians 432, which says be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God and Christ forgave you. Yeah, I like that one. And then we've got a couple of other ones. The other one is in Psalm, and there's tons of these. I mean there's so many verses that are about compassion. These are just a couple of them that we we found. So the another one is Psalms 10313.
Speaker 1:And that says as a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him. And fear, of course, here is not to be to be like afraid. Fear here is more of a respect situation. I mean, there's a little bit of the fear, I guess, in that, like I like my dad, I love my dad, but there's a there's a tiny bit of fear and respect. That goes because I know, particularly as a kid, you know, I knew that I could do something to get in trouble and he would come in with his scary dad voice and that was not very fun. So that's how I kind of I kind of think about it.
Speaker 2:Fear and the Bible, when it has to fear the Lord, is usually in the context of you know, awe and respect or reverence.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I think there's a lot of people who get that confused for sure. The other one other verse that we have is Colossians 312. And that says put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness and patience, going on a little bit further, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other. As the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
Speaker 2:And that goes right into our second topic, that will that would kind of go until already which is mercy. Now, like, how would you define mercy?
Speaker 1:Mercy is giving grace when we deserve something different.
Speaker 2:And that's where the song Second Chance comes in. It's God's way of giving Jonah grace. It's like, hey, you disobeyed, I'm going to give you a second chance to make it right. And before this whole story happens, we have another conflict between Junior and Laura, who are little kid veggies in this family.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, we haven't even talked about them and their conflicts. The whole purpose for the pirates to do anything telling this story is because Laura had this fancy ticket that she won to go to this concert and she was kind of bragging about it, waving it in everyone else's face, and Junior is really upset. He's like, okay, laura, I mean she's being kind of, she's been a little extra there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because it's like oh, everybody's like, oh, you guys go see Twitho in the concert, and Laura's like yeah, but I'm the only one who gets to meet him because I won the giveaway.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she went overboard, which is well how they got into this mess in the first place and I'm sorry, josh, I cut you off with what you were saying earlier about why, what was happening with them and Mercy.
Speaker 2:Right. So when the Tharyses don't do anything and they're telling the story to demonstrate compassion and Mercy is because of the conflict that could just explain, and that is explained between Laura and Junior, and we don't see Laura much in the videos, aside from when they do cut scenes back between the story and what's happening in the Sioux Food restaurant. It's really at the end where we get that, you know, that big resolution and that's where, Twitho the person that they're going to see, who only looks like Jonah from the story, and he's like oh well, Twitho, what are you doing here? We're going to go see your concerts.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there was some reason. Yeah, I can't remember either, but the Tharyses, don't do anything.
Speaker 2:I just finished telling the story about Jonah which, as Rebecca said, it ends on like it's like anti-clinactic, Like yes, people know they're repented, but Jonah's like, well, I mean, I'm not happy about it.
Speaker 1:And Mercy comes into play here in the story of Jonah, by God offering mercy to the city of Nineveh and mercy to Jonah for running away. When Jonah runs away, you know he kind of he deserves some punishment, but God doesn't punish him because he has compassion on him. So they go hand in hand, they go together. So that's where Mercy comes into this whole story and where, yeah, second chances we talked about that. I was trying to think of some of the instances where, specifically, mercy was in the story.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but they have a big resolution and there's a big musical number and he's like oh, you know, that's such a merciful act. You gave Laura Jonah, you gave Laura your ticket. I'm going to make sure that everybody who rides to the concert on the bus and gets that stage passes. Would never happen.
Speaker 1:Yeah right.
Speaker 2:But it's nice for a kid's movie, give them a little bit of hope before they get all jaded by the world. A couple of things I want to mention from the movie. There was a nod to Willy Wonka because with Mercy don't do anything. Jonah had paid them money to take him on the ship to Tarshish.
Speaker 1:Tarshish, yeah, it's a mouthful.
Speaker 2:And they meet him in Nineveh and they're like yeah, you know you don't want that refund because you kind of can't get it to you now. So what did you send it on? You know a thousand bags of cheese curls, and do you know what was in one of them?
Speaker 1:The Golden Ticket I could go to the Ticket.
Speaker 2:And it was to go to the factory of cheese curls which is in Nineveh. Funny enough.
Speaker 1:Of course it is.
Speaker 2:And they got like the prizes, like these hats or something. It was the stupidest prize, but you know that's the point Could at least name it the Air City Cheese Curl Factory. But yeah, the songs are fun and they're energetic. I would highly recommend this movie, even if you're not in the age range of five to ten years old. Again, we're in our thirties. I loved it. I mean it was fun. I enjoyed it more than I thought I would.
Speaker 1:I got to say, okay, the. Was it the second chances song? I think yeah. That one was the one that gave me. Was it Noah and the Ark vibes?
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, we did it last year for CrinchTover. I'm going to be in the power of the Lord and they're all doing their dance and doing their little jig.
Speaker 1:That was fantastic. I loved it. It was so fun. That was like best song out of the whole thing.
Speaker 2:If you want us to do more videos about Vigitales, go ahead and leave that in the comments, absolutely. Also DM us on Instagram, respond to our posts and yeah, so we are excited to do more of these. We'll spread them out so that it's just another Vigitales episode this week We'll do them kind of like another suit or for the princess. Or more like what else he give me, I was asked.
Speaker 2:But yeah, they'll be done sporadically, kind of like we've done the Studio Ghibli films, so kind of on that type of frequency. Well, guys, we really enjoyed this episode talking about Jonah Vigitales, all that good stuff. And if you're watching this on the day that comes out tomorrow is our live stream Again, saturday. No, then. Therefore, 6 pm Central, 7 pm Eastern, we'll be going for about an hour just doing some Q&A, some discussion, and there they can announce as well. So we're really excited. Don't want to get too much away, so we're going to keep that.
Speaker 2:We'll leave that for tomorrow, yeah we're going to leave that for tomorrow. Well, until next time, cute those hallows shiny and stay holding my friends.
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