Trusting God, Moving Forward & the Moon Landing

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Wolves & Wisemen Reignited — Episode 20

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About This Episode

Episode 20 gets back to the heart of Wolves & Wisemen Reignited with a Check In about trusting God when you can't see the whole road ahead.

The guys dig into Colossians 3:2 and Proverbs 3:5–6 and talk about anxiety, uncertainty, major life changes, surrendering control, leaving the past behind and learning to trust that God sees a much bigger picture than we do.

It's also a personal conversation.

With a job ending, a move happening and a new chapter beginning, the discussion isn't theoretical. It's about actually trying to live out the verses we're reading when the future isn't completely mapped out.

The question becomes:

Are you going to spend your life staring at what happened behind you—or trust God enough to keep moving forward?

Then the show gets considerably less responsible.

Sacked brings bottle rockets, gym accidents and another terrible decision involving smelling salts.

Folks on Fire celebrates family, friends and the kind of people you can actually trust.

And Fringe Files finally tackles something the guys have been threatening to discuss for weeks:

The Moon.

Did we really land there?

Why did we stop going?

What about the Van Allen radiation belts?

Why do people claim the Moon “rang like a bell”?

Could the Moon be hollow?

And why, with technology dramatically more advanced than what existed during Apollo, has returning humans to the lunar surface taken so long?

The guys have questions.

A lot of questions.

And very few of them are normal.

What We Talk About

The Check In

Trusting God through uncertainty

Colossians 3:2

Proverbs 3:5–6

Where you choose to focus your mind

Anxiety and trying to control the future

Giving problems to God

Major life changes

Leaving a job

Moving and beginning a new chapter

Trusting the process

Prayer during good times and bad

Faith requiring action

Why your own understanding is limited

Closed doors and new opportunities

Learning from the past without living there

Forgiveness

Brotherhood and having people you can talk to

The Whiskey River Bible-study weekends

Reigniting your faith

Trying to “suck less” as a Christian

The Rest of Episode 20

Rebel Report and current events

Sacked

Smelling Salt Roulette

Folks on Fire

Today in History

Boners

Trucks, tires and Murphy's Law

Technology that refuses to learn how the guys actually text

Fringe Files: The Moon

The Apollo Moon landings

Why humans stopped going to the Moon

Van Allen radiation belts

Moon rocks

Moon-landing conspiracy theories

The “hollow Moon” theory

The firmament

Modern technology versus Apollo-era technology

And whether America would really plant one flag and simply never build a Moon town

Scripture From This Episode

Colossians 3:2

“Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.”

The key word for the guys is set.

Your mind doesn't automatically stay focused on God.

You have to intentionally put it there.

The conversation isn't about ignoring your job, money, family or responsibilities. It's about refusing to let temporary circumstances become the thing controlling your peace.

Earth-centered thinking says:

I'll be okay when everything around me is okay.

Faith says:

Things around me may not be okay—but God is still God.

That's a major difference.

If your peace depends entirely on circumstances, your peace will constantly change because circumstances constantly change.

The challenge is learning to look at today's problem through something bigger than today's problem.

Proverbs 3:5–6

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.”

This becomes the foundation of Episode 20.

Trusting God doesn't mean turning your brain off.

It means recognizing that your perspective is limited.

You see what's happening today.

God sees the entire road.

You might think a particular job, relationship, opportunity or plan has to work because it's the only path you can see.

Then the door closes.

That doesn't necessarily mean everything went wrong.

Maybe you were never supposed to stay behind that door.

Maybe something else is opening that you're standing too close to the problem to see.

Stop Trying to Control the Whole Road

One of the biggest themes in this Check In is control.

We want answers.

Where am I going?

What's going to happen?

How will this work?

What's the next job?

What's the next chapter?

What happens if the plan fails?

And when we don't know, anxiety can fill the empty space.

But Proverbs doesn't promise you'll receive a complete map.

It says to trust God and keep walking.

That's important because faith still requires movement.

Giving something to God doesn't mean sitting down and refusing to do anything.

You pray.

You trust.

You take the next step.

Then you take another.

You may not understand where the road is going until you're far enough down it to look back and recognize why certain things had to happen.

The Windshield Is Bigger Than the Rearview Mirror

Episode 20 produces another piece of accidental Wolves & Wisemen redneck wisdom:

There's a reason your windshield is this big and your rearview mirror is this small.

You still need the mirror.

Your past matters.

Mistakes matter.

Pain matters.

Lessons matter.

But the rearview mirror isn't where you're supposed to spend the entire drive looking.

Take the lesson.

Remember what happened.

Don't repeat the same mistake.

Then put your eyes back on what's ahead.

Because if you try driving forward while staring backward the entire time...

eventually you're going to crash.

And the same thing can happen in life.

Forgiveness Helps You Move Forward

Sometimes the thing keeping us trapped in the past isn't the event itself.

It's what we're still carrying from it.

Anger.

Resentment.

Regret.

Betrayal.

Pain.

That leads the conversation back to something Wolves & Wisemen has discussed before:

Forgiveness.

Forgiveness doesn't erase what happened.

It doesn't mean pretending somebody didn't hurt you.

And it doesn't automatically mean restoring the same relationship.

Sometimes forgiveness is simply refusing to keep carrying the weight.

Give it to God.

Take the lesson.

And keep walking.

“I'm Striving to Suck Less as a Christian”

One of the lines that probably best explains Reignited comes out of this Check In:

“I'm striving to suck less as a Christian.”

That's basically the show.

The guys aren't trying to become pastors.

They're not pretending they've figured Christianity out.

They're middle-aged men reopening the Bible, rebuilding their faith and trying to understand how Scripture applies to the lives they're actually living now.

Work.

Marriage.

Kids.

Friendships.

Mistakes.

Stress.

Change.

Loss.

The future.

And instead of waiting until they have everything figured out, they're talking about the journey while they're still on it.

That's what Reignited is supposed to be.

Whiskey River Church

The guys also talk about another trip to the property for their informal Bible-study weekend.

There was snow.

Trucks got stuck.

There wasn't much sleep.

And somewhere in the middle of it all, there was Scripture, brotherhood and honest conversation.

The point isn't that everybody needs a cabin or a property in the mountains.

It's that faith grows differently when you intentionally create space for it.

Get some friends together.

Open the Bible.

Ask questions.

Talk.

Pray.

You don't need a stage.

You don't need a microphone.

You don't even need Wolves & Wisemen.

You just need people willing to show up.

Key Takeaways

Your life follows your focus. Pay attention to what controls your thoughts.

Trust doesn't require understanding everything first. That's why it's trust.

Giving it to God doesn't mean doing nothing. Pray, trust and keep moving.

Don't make temporary circumstances the foundation of permanent attitudes.

Pray when life is good too. God shouldn't only hear from us when everything falls apart.

You don't see the whole road. Your understanding is limited to where you're standing now.

Closed doors aren't always failures. Sometimes they're redirection.

The people around you matter. Trusted friends can see things you're too close to recognize yourself.

Learn from the past without living there.

Forgiveness can remove weight you've been carrying for years.

Faith isn't perfection. It's continuing to grow.

Keep moving forward. You may not understand the path until later.

Sacked

Episode 20's commitment to serious theological discussion lasts approximately until Sacked begins.

First up:

Bottle Rocket Ballistics.

A bottle rocket, questionable engineering and one extremely unfortunate target create what may be the most scientific sack shot the show has featured.

Aerodynamics.

Propulsion.

Trajectory.

Testicular impact.

Science.

Then things somehow get worse with another clip involving a particularly unfortunate collision and a gym attempt where lifting heavy things goes exactly as badly as Sacked viewers would hope.

Smelling Salt Roulette

Because apparently Sacked wasn't dangerous enough, Episode 20 introduces another brilliant idea:

Smelling Salt Roulette.

One bottle contains older smelling salts.

The other is freshly opened.

They look identical.

Mix them up.

Let the chat choose.

If Rob picks the fresh one, he has to take the hit and chug the warm beer that's been sitting beside the couch.

Nothing about this should become a recurring segment.

Which means it probably will.

Folks on Fire

Danica

A special Folks on Fire goes to Danica for her birthday.

She's playing college softball on scholarship, has spent years developing her game and gets a birthday tribute from her uncle featuring exactly the kind of embarrassing photographs a loving family member is supposed to keep private.

Happy birthday, Danica.

Keep crushing bombs.

TV Green

Another shoutout goes to TV Green for everything she does behind the scenes for Wolves & Wisemen.

Moderating.

Helping with Rumble.

Making connections.

Talking trash.

Pushing the show.

And continuing to support three guys who frequently make that job considerably harder than it needs to be.

The Bros

The final serious Folks on Fire is about the people you can actually trust.

The kind of friends where you could leave $10,000 sitting on the counter and know every dollar would still be there when you returned.

Your beer?

That's probably gone.

Your whiskey?

Also questionable.

But the money is safe.

And sometimes knowing you've surrounded yourself with people you can trust like that is worth more than the money itself.

Today in History

Episode 20 lands on March 3, giving the guys several historical rabbit holes to work with.

The conversation includes:

The Star-Spangled Banner becoming the official U.S. national anthem

The first session of the United States Congress

Rodney King and the infamous videotaped police beating

Helen Keller meeting Anne Sullivan

Naturally, a segment containing important moments in American history eventually deteriorates into jokes.

Because this is still Wolves & Wisemen.

Boners

Episode 20 begins Boners with a very expensive lesson in tires.

After going to help with two flats, Murph manages to destroy one of his own massive truck tires on the way back.

Three tires.

One day.

One very unhappy truck.

The upside?

A replacement tire happened to be available for a fraction of what it normally would have cost.

Murphy's Law strikes again—but at least this time it came with a discount.

The guys also get into political-media commentary before moving on to a subject almost everyone can understand:

Autocorrect.

After a phone update, years of carefully training predictive text to understand the show's vocabulary apparently disappear.

When your phone suddenly starts replacing the words you actually use with considerably cleaner versions...

technology has officially gone too far.

Fringe Files: Did We Really Go to the Moon?

Finally.

After teasing it for multiple episodes...

The Moon.

Fringe Files dives into one of the most famous conspiracy theories in modern history:

Did humans really land on the Moon?

The hosts are openly skeptical, and the discussion moves through many of the questions and claims that have fueled Moon-landing conspiracy theories for decades.

This section reflects the hosts' questions, theories and speculation—not established scientific conclusions.

Why Didn't We Keep Going?

This is the question the guys keep coming back to.

If humans reached the Moon using technology from the 1960s...

why did crewed lunar missions stop?

The guys compare Apollo-era computers with modern phones, computers and electronics and struggle with the idea that technology could advance dramatically while returning humans to the lunar surface remained difficult.

Their argument isn't simply about computing power.

It's about human behavior.

If America actually reached the Moon, planted a flag and demonstrated that it could be done...

would we really just leave?

No permanent base?

No tourism?

No mining?

No Moon town?

No United States of Space?

That doesn't make sense to the Wolves.

The Technology Problem

One of the guys' biggest sticking points is the massive difference between Apollo-era technology and what exists today.

Modern phones contain computing capabilities that would have seemed unimaginable during the Apollo program.

That leads to the obvious question:

If we could do it then, why does doing it again seem so difficult now?

The hosts view that gap as suspicious.

But computing power alone doesn't establish whether Apollo happened or didn't happen. Spaceflight also depends on rockets, life-support systems, radiation management, mission architecture, budgets, safety requirements and countless other engineering factors.

That's exactly why the Moon remains perfect Fringe Files territory:

There are real technical questions surrounded by decades of speculation.

The Van Allen Belts

The discussion eventually turns to the Van Allen radiation belts.

The guys play and react to material discussing the radiation environment beyond low Earth orbit and question how Apollo astronauts could travel through those regions decades ago while modern spacecraft still have to account carefully for radiation exposure.

For the hosts, it becomes another piece of the larger question:

What did they know then that we're supposedly still working through now?

Again, the existence of radiation challenges isn't itself evidence that the Apollo missions were faked—but it's exactly the kind of detail that keeps the conspiracy alive.

Did the Moon “Ring Like a Bell”?

Another famous Fringe Files claim enters the conversation:

The Moon rang like a bell.

The guys connect seismic experiments associated with Apollo missions to theories that the Moon might be hollow—or at least dramatically different internally from what people imagine.

Then comes the obvious Wolves & Wisemen leap:

What if the Moon isn't simply a natural rock?

What if it's artificial?

What if it's some kind of ancient structure?

Or even a spacecraft?

Now we're officially in Fringe Files.

Moonfall, Hollow Moons & Something Up There

The movie Moonfall enters the conversation because its story revolves around the idea that the Moon isn't what humanity thinks it is.

That opens the door to:

Hollow Moon theories

Artificial-Moon theories

Ancient technology

Moon bases

Things astronauts supposedly encountered

Why humanity supposedly stopped returning

Whether something—or someone—might already be there

None of those theories are established facts.

But they're excellent questions for a segment whose entire purpose is asking:

What if?

The Firmament

The conversation eventually connects the Moon discussion back to another subject that has appeared on Fringe Files:

The biblical firmament.

The guys discuss interpretations of biblical descriptions of the heavens, water above and below, rockets, the shape of the Earth and whether the firmament could represent some kind of physical boundary.

As with previous Fringe Files discussions, these are religious interpretations and theories rather than a scientific conclusion about the structure of Earth or space.

And naturally...

it creates more questions than answers.

Fringe Files Disclaimer

Fringe Files is where Wolves & Wisemen explores conspiracy theories, unusual claims, religious interpretations, unexplained stories and questions that don't always have easy answers.

The discussion in this segment should not be taken as proof that the Apollo Moon landings were faked, that the Moon is hollow, that it is an artificial spacecraft or that a physical firmament prevents space travel.

We're exploring the theories.

We're asking the questions.

You decide what you think.

The Bigger Conversation

Episode 20 starts with trusting God when you can't see the road ahead.

Strangely enough, that's also where the entire episode eventually ends up.

We don't know everything.

About our lives.

About our future.

About history.

About the universe.

Sometimes we become so convinced that we need every answer before taking the next step that we stop moving completely.

But faith doesn't promise that you'll understand everything.

It asks whether you're willing to trust God anyway.

Look at the past.

Learn from it.

But don't spend your life staring into the rearview mirror.

Look forward.

Pray.

Pay attention to the people God has placed around you.

Take the next step.

Then another.

And when you don't understand where the road is going...

trust the One who can see the whole thing.

Also, apparently don't trust NASA.

At least according to two-thirds of Wolves & Wisemen.

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Keep moving forward.

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And apparently...

keep asking what the hell is going on with the Moon.