¶ Appreciating Michigan and Southern California
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So the more people that listen to this and can just get word about it , man , we would love to be a part of that with you . So here we are on the Kings of the Road . Andrew , how are you today ?
I'm doing great Scott .
Good , we're trying to make our sound sound better . So Andrew has a child blanket behind him now and , very wonderful , it's beautiful .
It is . It's like roses with light . Oh light , green and white as pinks .
You look , it looks great , and so we're trying . We're , hey , listener . We're trying to make this experience all the more glorious for you . So every little , every little percent , that's better . We can try to do so . So here we are .
I'm trying to ratchet up the silky effects on my voice .
Yes , so there is a silky button that we're going to put on later .
It makes the silkyness just like .
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Green style ? I think there's some . Let me try some things . Hey listener , this is Andrew Gehr , coming to you from KXWB Jazz Radio . I hope you've enjoyed our time together .
What do you think ? What do you think ? I love it . I think that's how you should do it the whole time .
All right , that's where we should be the whole time . We'll read you the story like this and hopefully you don't fall asleep and oh , there you go , that's a new purpose .
You never want people to go you know , my favorite part about your podcast is oh , I listen to it and then I fall asleep .
I have the greatest sleep Every time I turn your podcast on .
Thanks , andrew . A couple minutes , like a baby , I just fall asleep . And then I dream about being in the lazy days , rocked on that wonderful , glorious bed and just the fan coming on you . It doesn't get much better than that . Okay , where are we in the world ?
We are in Michigan . Hey-oh . So Michigan , unanimously between Scott and I , ranked in the top three . So there's a lot of three state .
There's a lot of sentimentality , of course , because Michigan has been where I've gone most of my life , for our family cottage , which is where we're going to get to , but there's a lot of connections we have to the state . It's also in the summer and in this time , at the fall , it's really beautiful . It's a really beautiful state .
Yeah , I know You're speechless . I'm flabbergasted Because we talk about this in when we did our launch event . We'll have a detour about top three , bottom three states and we talk about Michigan a little bit . But from Southern California and knowing Scott in high school , he would talk Michigan up like it was this heaven on earth .
I know when you're from Southern California and you hear somebody talking about Michigan , you're like give me a break . Like Michigan , it snows there and there's no mountains . What's the point ? Right , like it just seems . Do you think ?
as Southern California , Is there any more like what's the right word I'm looking for ? Like prideful about their area , or like we are pretty convinced that , like as far as weather and things to do and everything is really hard to beat Southern California ?
I'm trying to think of a state that if I was talking about in high school , the high schools have been like oh oh yeah , Okay , Washington , Florida .
Tennessee .
New York . I mean , none of them would have been like we're better than them for this reason , Right .
No , because Southern , because they'd be wrong . Like Southern , california is the best for us for a lot of reasons , granted , it's not great . For other reasons .
There's other things for sure , but I mean , that's why I'm just sitting here thinking like is there any state that I could have pushed , when I was 17 , around the lunch bench outside of table number five ?
right there that you guys would have been like oh yeah , that that I agree .
Alabama , Arkansas , pick your state , it loses .
It does . I think there's things about certain places that are better . So that's the thing about Michigan . When Michigan is great , wow , yeah , it is great , it is great . But then there's a wind drop , and shockingly , because you do get , okay .
So here's one like Hawaii , right , people would undeniable paradise , right , right , and you know , do you want to live there or not ? I think that's debatable . I've heard different things . Right , certainly an incredible place to visit , sure , but Michigan I didn't even consider it being one of the greatest places in this country , and it fully is . It is .
It's great . At least not in the winter . No , it was not in the winter . Yeah , I haven't been there in the winter .
But here's another thing that I'm thinking too . So when we were in Michigan this summer my family , we had a party for my parents , some family there , and we told them we were getting some foreign exchange students . And the woman's like , oh , they're going to like being at your house because you're in California .
When we had foreign exchange students in our little town in Michigan , they always wanted to be in New York or California . They didn't want . No one's like , yeah , I came from the Ukraine to Michigan . Oh , wow , it's not on their list . And so I was like , oh , I hadn't thought about that . So that's the other thing .
Right , you're sitting around a table in Arkansas and someone's like , hey , my family has his house in Southern California that you don't . Okay , I'll go with you . Yeah , where do we leave ? Where do we go ? So , okay . So here we are , top top top , top , top , top .
Yeah Well , and I think about that too Like we'll go to the beach . Oh , I don't know . We always like , for Christmas break , we always try to go to the beach one of the days when the kids are off and I'm off and we're like okay , it's December 27th , let's go hang out at the beach .
And it's always I don't know what it is , but there's always a very beautiful day right around Christmas here in Southern California , where it's 70 something degrees and we go down to the beach and it is so beautiful , it is and warm , and you're like this is incredible .
And then you go in the summer and you're like I have to remind myself that people plan vacations to Southern California , like that's where they go , exactly .
So no , I agree it's hard to beat , but yeah , yeah , coming back to Michigan , I'm not going to pitch . There was no state that I think you all would have been like , oh , let's go , come on . Yeah , I mean , I think maybe Hawaii You're right , hawaii , maybe that's Alaska . This is so like foreign and cool .
Yeah , that's true , but as a place to live every day , like , yeah , hard to beat , it's it's hard to beat , but Michigan and they have done their darndest I feel like to push Michigan with their pure Michigan campaign , where they have Buzz Lightyear , you know , talking it up . Tim Allen was . Is he a native of Michigander ? He ?
is . You saw him once , I did , I met , okay , so he's in . Michigan , Inside . Yeah , so we're out at my family cottage and we are . We rented a boat . I love boats and do those boats . But we rented a boat for like a couple of days in this slip . We pulled into the slip Big boat .
It's this little private marina we're into this boat from , so it's only probably 10 or 15 slips . This big boat starts pulling in and the driver kind of knows what he's doing , but it's also a big boat and I'd be like oof , I mean 30 feet maybe , a nice size boat , and he's trying to pull into the slip and so we're helping him .
And then so my dad and I are both there I'm probably 17 . We're helping him and pulling and pushing and trying to get him into the the right place . And then we tie him off and my dad is kind of like joking , with the wife just making the little comments .
I go , oh husband , can't drive boats , and I just saying these like little things and we're tying it off and we're helping this guy and we get it all done . And then we get back to the car and we go wait a second , was that Tim ?
Allen oh my gosh , so you didn't notice at the moment , and then we creepily drive by slow as he's like walking down , it was , it was . But in the moment we were just like what , what ? Just helping , just doing that , the things of how to do that . It was so funny , I don't know .
And we all knew that he lives not far from that area , so like yeah , it wasn't a surprise . But we were both like oh , oh , that was . And then , yeah , then we drove by slow . He has had his sunglasses on , you know , so we weren't recognizing him . But it was just such a funny , a funny moment .
My dad's like oh , I was making fun of Tim Allen to his wife how do you know ?
Well , and that's a funny thing , like when you encounter celebrities , you you're not expecting it , especially in a place like northern Michigan , no , and so , yeah , it's kind of after the fact , but what's funny ? Another thing , to compare California with Michigan . Anywhere I go outside of California I'm like , oh , I'm from the LA area , oh , do you ?
No , I know I've , I've rarely , but you got to understand . The population of California is like the same as the entire country of Australia . Right , there's like 30 million people in California .
Yeah , a lot of them are in LA . Before we left for Michigan this last summer , I told my kids and like , look out over to from the church where we are , you can see most of the LA basin .
And I said you are currently looking at more people in the whole state of Michigan because I think there's 14 million people in LA County and there's nine million people in the state of Michigan .
Oh my gosh , yeah , but yeah it's , it's . It's funny . I very rarely have seen celebrities , but then my family moved out to Nashville or south of Nashville not that long ago . They're always running into people . Oh , we saw . I mean , they're all country music stars .
Exactly , yeah , yeah , exactly .
Yeah , but it is .
We see celebrities when we do this .
Boo-yah , oh , is that Scott Hawkins from Kingsley Road podcast ? Oh my gosh , oh hello .
Well , hello , I'm nervous , okay .
And this is Andrew Gaird , coming at you with the silkiest voice in all of Southern California . Because I have a flowery comforter draped behind my chair .
We are . We're going up in the podcast world . We sure are . Did you buy that ?
So maybe we should go . Did I buy one on Amazon ?
Oh , this blank I was just thinking do you get that Podcast blank ? Gets poop , poop .
Yes , it's way more expensive because it's specifically a podcast blanket .
Isn't this just a comforter ?
I can get that at Target All right day 14 . It is October 11th 2004 . Today we woke up . What Today ? Oh , you're right , we are recording on October 11th and we're talking about October 11th . It's my sister's birthday . Happy birthday , Andrea Hawkins shout out to you .
Yeah , okay , that's why I jumped , because I was like I just tested in there's happy birthday and then you said wow , wow , what a day .
Look at that .
What a day that 1011 , All right . Good to happen today for us .
Yes today we woke up real early . Well , not so much . It could have been close to noon , but can you blame us ? We drove across another time zone and so we are now on the eastern time zone and we're 22 years old , so we can sleep in . Yeah , so I cannot tell you . The last time I slept until close to noon .
In a Walmart parking lot too right .
So now people like deep .
They might have a third shopping trip and we're still snoring long .
Can you imagine ? I don't even think I've slept till nine in at least , and I don't know as long as my children have been alive ?
Yeah , exactly . So like hey hey , you want to give me that thing that I could totally get for myself . But I'm not gonna get for myself , so I'm gonna wait you up so you can get it for me . Love you too .
Do we need to talk about this some more ? Scott , are you okay ?
No , actually I think I just think about . That is one one of the other episodes we were editing
¶ Geography and Michigan Mansions
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Yes , okay , it was a nice short drive today to Grand Rapids , michigan . We were headed to the bushes house in Grand Rapids , who own the cottage next to the Hawkins's cottage in Northport Michigan . That's pretty cool , right ? I mean , so your family , his own this cottage up in Northport Michigan ?
I wish you could see us listener , because you can very easily show somebody where North Portage , yeah , we're got . We're actually gonna do an exercise here , I think so everybody who's listening . Yes , in front of you . Okay , hold up your left hand , thank you , and look at your left hand as you're holding it in front of you .
Now Stick your pinky out just ever so slightly . Yes , northport Michigan . So the gap between your pinky and your ring finger , that is the , the Grand Traverse Bay . How ?
am I doing so far ? Scott , you're nailing it . I'm so proud of you right now .
Yeah , scott explained this to us so many times , we just never cared . But it's in my brain now , so , okay , you've got that . You've got that gulf between your pinky and your ring finger . Yep , northport , so Traverse City , not Traverse City , but Traverse City . Very , gotta get the wrong emphasis on the right side of the world Cherry capital grant .
Traverse City is , or yeah , we're Traverse City is a Cherry capital of the world .
Airport is in Traverse City .
Man , I love cherries . I know Also , isn't there a film festival ? There is the .
Traverse City film . I mean just we're living it up right now .
Look at me . You are brought to you by the state of Michigan . Andrew is actually the new sponsor . The Kings of the Road podcast is now a sponsor of the state of Michigan . We're paying them . This isn't . This is like a John Chris comm backwards bad business move right here . We're actually trying to get sponsors , but instead we're sponsoring okay .
So Northport , where the Hawkins and the Bush's Cottages is right on the inside of your pinky , almost the tip , by by your fingernail , yep . Just inside the bay , by your fingernail , yep . So now you have a picture now Grand Rapids . Grand Rapids is right in the middle of your hand .
Yeah , it's more left-like middle , you know . So they're right right below that gap . You made about two hours . Draw two hours down on your hand , hmm , For me .
That's about , yeah , that's about that freckle ? Right , yeah , so I hope you've enjoyed the Geography lesson . There's also the Upper Peninsula of Michigan , so Michigan is the only state that has two parts . So that's true , because Hawaii's good .
Well , there has to be something about this unique about . That's a good point . Do you think anybody has a back-of-the-hand tattoo with the map of Michigan Tattooed on their hand ? There has to be someone in this world that has that . That would be funny , don't you think like there's ?
There's somebody who's like yeah , yeah , a little simple , simple Roads and highways , and , oh , look , there's Flint , oh , there's Detroit , oh , oh , that would be fantastic .
It'd be even better if they were Italian and they also had .
Italy tattooed on their leg . Oh .
So you like .
Italy and Michigan ? Huh , no , it's never been there what I Mean . But how do you resist , right ? How do you resist left hand and boot tattoo ? You don't resist .
Oh , we gotta we gotta look that up we gotta look that out , somebody's somebody's gotta have that .
Oh , if you listen , or if you have that , please email us . What's our email ? Is the Kings of the Road podcast at gmailcom ? I Think that's it Kings of the Road podcast at gmailcom . If you know of a person that has this , please Email us or go our Facebook page and do it , man .
If only there is a way to search for people .
Let's resist , let's resist .
Alright , okay , okay , let's see . So we are in Grand Rapids , you know exactly where we are , you know where Northport is .
So , anyhow , we go to the bushes house and , yeah , they , they have the cottage right next to the Hawkins , which is cool because presumably they met there and now they're family friends and we're able to go visit with them and Stay with them in Grand Rapids .
So we pull up to this house and it's a freaking mansion Three car garage , huge lot , probably over an acre , maybe two and a swamp just beyond their backyard . To give you an idea of the magnitude , the basement had its own kitchen , living room , two bedrooms and a storage room .
So I think it's a good time to introduce our new sponsor , because one of the things that we've realized is that when you travel the country you're trying to figure out and like place okay , what would it be like to live here ? So we got reached out by a new company Startup right , I think they're a startup .
Yeah , startup company that's right , you're in the whole tech world with Bluebeam and they have this new product and it's called what's the name of the company Find Home , find Home , find Home . And they have this new product and there's two levels .
There's the basic level , which you get just a pair of goggles , and then there's a next level which you get goggles and a full body suit . So you put on the goggles or the goggles and full body suit .
Yeah , so think VR headset . If you've ever done one of those virtual reality headsets where you're immersed in a space , right , so go ahead VR goggles , vr goggles and then the full body suit .
¶ Find Home: Exploring House Options With Virtual Reality
So you're wondering oh , okay , man , house prices are a lot in Southern California and I you know gas prices are a lot traffic . Maybe I should go somewhere else . Well , find home , you buy the kit , you put it on , you type in where you wanna go and then you type in , like you know , the months that you're gonna be there .
So you say , okay , michigan , july . Oh , you look around , there's green everywhere .
Yeah . So you start off with like okay , right now , like I'm considering maybe we should leave Southern California , let's cash out , like so many people did , right , Like I've got a house that's a thousand square feet and I could sell it for a million bucks . If we move to Michigan , what could I get ?
So you type in okay , I live in Southern California , a thousand square feet , a million bucks If I traded my house in and moved to Michigan , what am I doing ? And so the VR headset then generates a typical house for those parameters .
Like the Bush's house , you pull up here . This is amazing .
You're like oh my gosh , I can . I've got a basement with two bedrooms and a kitchen . I've got a huge lot . I remember they had a trampoline on this beautiful lawn and like a creek . I said swamp , but that doesn't paint a great picture . But anyways just like a lot of land . I remember it being like brick huge front yard beautiful neighborhood .
You're exploring this house with your VR goggles and you're thinking this is great . And you open the door and it's green outside and there's water and it's a little muddy because your suit is like it's a little it's Michigan , so it's a little muddy .
That's right . So spend the money up for the suit because you want to experience it . You're like , wow , it's a little bit muggy , but it feels a little bit like a friendly hug .
It's summer , yeah , yeah , so you're ready . You're like ready , like let's put the house .
Call the realtor Yep , we're going .
But wisdom would say , it's not always June or July in Michigan . So then you say okay , let's expand , let's type in January Grand Rapids enter .
Yes , so I tried this right . Yeah , so we're early adopters .
They gave us like a beta version of the suit . They gave us a free one , so it's not fully operational yet .
But I typed in the same thing , grand Rapids , michigan , and I said , okay , January , right . And the screen came up and it said walk to your kitchen . So I'm like , okay , I'm going to walk to the kitchen . It says open freezer . So okay , yeah , open freezer . They say now pull out your pants and fill it with all the frozen food you have .
And then get your kids ready to go to school .
Yes , yes . Then pull the frozen food out of your pants , put on every jacket you own , every jacket you own .
Then line up all your kids , have them all get ready , and then the VR dodgles go . Look to child one . They have to pee .
Right and demo .
Yeah , make sure you're very sweaty at this point , yes , oh well , yeah , the suit has already made you sweaty . So you think oh okay , so maybe it's not all Humpty Dory . So you're like well , let's do , let's do July . I live in Alabama for six years . July , alabama Right .
The screen says so you tried it for Alabama , right ? So the screen says go .
go into your bathroom , turn on the shower . Full heat , full hot water , close no vents going , no windows open door closed , spend your whole day in the shower and the amazing part the VR dodgles . This was really next level .
I was very impressed with this as I looked under the door , scurrying outside to get away from me the largest cockroach that you can imagine Just poof taking off , and that would happen like I don't know every 15 or so minutes , as I'm sitting in the shower and I'm thinking , oh , and it says May through September , it's the same .
So , I really think this company's onto something .
Yeah , so we did one more to . Oh , I didn't know which one's the last one you did . Well , I didn't tell you . I did this one just this morning because I had to wait for this extra thing to show up . So I typed in Florida and it said okay , give us three to five business days . And I'm like that's odd .
So I get a box in the mail and it says okay , lock yourself in the smallest room in your house . Again it says turn on your shower full heat . Full heat no choice . Okay , yeah . So then I'm in there , I'm ultra sweaty , it's hard to breathe , and it says now open the box . And I open the box and there's a plastic bucket in the box .
So I open that up and as soon as I do , about about 60,000 mosquitoes fly over the bucket and just consume my body .
I thought I was not sure I was in the bucket , but I was also ready for it . It's just being an alligator . Open bucket , open box , bam .
Yeah , put your foot in this bear trap and step down firmly . Yeah , you should now be dead .
Yeah , and the mosquitoes . And now the mosquitoes don't even have to go through your flesh to get to them , they can just drink it right there . Yeah , oh my goodness , oh goodness .
So you know don't what's really powerful about find home . And you can find them at johnchriscom , of course . Oddly , there's other goods , they're affiliated . Yes , you can get their suit in their goggles now . You can check out pricing there . But hey , if you're considering moving , it's worth it .
Before you invest the big money and you make the leap to move , you definitely wanna try find home . To make sure that you are finding the right home for yourself and not making mistakes .
This is so yeah , revolutionary , joe Johnchris . It is really revolutionary , because then you can find out what it's like to live in these places before you cash out , because once you leave , you're not coming back .
Oh , that's the thing . Yeah , people don't realize If you leave California you know what we should do .
We haven't done this yet . We'll report back to you guys , though , what happens when you put it in Southern California . You know , like if we were moving from Michigan to California , probably like small one bedroom studio .
You're like something must be wrong because it's just showing yeah , it's just showing me a space of sidewalk in a cardboard box for a tent ?
Why is there just four walls in the bathroom ? Huh , that's . I just went from that mansion to oh , okay , okay , I see , I see now why . Why can't I come back ? Yeah , so , but the Bush's house was amazing and it is a beautiful part of the thing about being from our place is that no one has houses like that . No one , no , no , no one .
And so you yeah , I don't think I've ever seen a house like this before . It was incredible , yeah .
I last year I took my youth pastor to Alabama and we were mostly in the north side of town doing work and fixing things and helping people . And then we had one night at a party at someone's house on the south side of town where and we're driving in and it's just houses like this , right , boom , beautiful , big places , and he's like how much are these ?
And I'm like what do you think ? He's like I don't know , four or $5 million , fair , fair .
Yeah , yeah , I don't know , it was in Redondo .
Beach what ? Yeah , I know , dude , it's tough to wrap your bread . He had never been outside really so in . California like that . So it was really a fun , a fun moment to experience with him .
Yeah , that's funny . Yeah , it's funny , yeah it is . It's fascinating to me this stuff , real estate and what you get for the price of other places , but there's trade-offs .
There's trade-offs , but find home will help you get the right choice .
So that's right .
That was really it . Never before has this technology existed .
It is really something . It is really something .
Yeah , this is a . I think it's find home . So yeah , johntriscom , okay , check them out , keep going .
All right . So as if this house wasn't amazing enough , let's continue on here . For dinner , mrs Bush prepared an amazing dinner of steak , fresh applesauce , sweet potatoes , garlic bread , broccoli , homemade cornbread and freshly baked pumpkin pie for dessert .
Are you kidding me ?
Like come on .
That's not at findhomecom . They don't have that kind of service .
I want to just I just want to make that my home . I know , you know , I just want to live there .
Yeah , suggestions at findhomecom I want to live with the Bush family and make them have that delicious . That was such a kind . Maybe that's just what they call dinner normally , but for us it was really nice to have like a home-cooked meal after a lot of sandwiches on the road and yeah , yeah , that was nice .
I think that was that was easily , easily one of the best meals we had on the road .
Oh , I saw her this summer too and I said I still think about the applesauce that you made us . I told her we were doing this and then , and so I'll have to send her the link so they can listen .
That reminds me so our sponsor , tinyapplescom . I have made applesauce out of tinyapples . The applesauce , strangely enough , is the same size as other applesauce .
You're only allowed to eat like two bites .
That was it . Yeah , you just have to use a small spoon , you just have to use a tiny spoon . Okay , oh gosh , all right . So that evening we went to a gun life .
We're really collecting the advertisers , though I didn't think this was successful when we started .
Yeah , I was doing some research and it's like you know , in order to get the attention of sponsors , you usually need , you know , a couple thousand listeners . The amount of sponsors we have with our , you know one to four listeners weekly , I mean amazing , it is unprecedented . So , thank you .
One to four listeners , Thank you , but you guys , you guys have purchasing power , those right demographic .
We did tell them females is the right time for tiny apples that time .
It turns out to be about the right demographic . So , thank you , I see you , we appreciate you . So young life we went to a young life event . So Corey , the eldest daughter , is the main cheese in that area , so it was cool to check out the ministry they do .
Now , I personally don't have a lot of experience with young life , though I am definitely aware of it . Right Do you ? Are you more familiar ?
Yeah , so young life exists , kind of it's .
They would call themselves a paratrooper organization , where they have no official like church body or a church home that they're a part of , but they exist to get on the school campuses , get kids to some kind of youth group and usually it's like high fun , high energy , high activity , and when they're at their best they're trying to filter those kids into local
churches and into local church youth groups . So , like , really be that that place where kids are able to have fun and experience Jesus and get to know each other and then say , oh hey , you know , you should be into this church .
When they're at their worst it kind of becomes the like it right , it doesn't have the structure and form to function as a whole church and but it becomes some people's whole church . Does that make sense ?
So , yeah , I think it's a wonderful thing to to have a group that is really intentional about pursuing those people but at the same time , at the same time , it needs to maintain its identity . I go , hey , go there , because we all really need to be plugged into a church . This is what it comes into .
Like you need multiple generations around you , you need a place , you need people who are praying for you , considering you , thinking about you , and I think that's the huge benefit of being a part of a church is that it becomes bigger than you . So , yeah , it's a great organization .
¶ Church and Adventure in Michigan
She's awesome . The report was great . It was really fun . I don't remember if it was at someone's house or it was a coffee shop or it was some . It was a . Really again , it was high energy , a lot of fun . We played some like silly games , yeah so , yeah , no , that is cool .
I do agree with what you say , but what a great need that they meet , if they can get more people plugged into churches . I mean , our story , and then my story personally , has to do with why a church body is so important .
So our youth group I started hanging out with this group of friends that included you , scott , and you guys all went to a youth group , so I started there and then , because of that youth group , music was a part of our life and I started playing in the band , and so that's what got my family to come .
They're like , well , we don't know about church , we've never been , but our son is playing on Sunday morning , so we'll go watch him . And then they heard the word and God did this thing , heard the good news , and that's what ultimately got them saved .
And then here we are on this trip because of the support of that church body , and so yeah , and so there's people in church that are older and have more liquid income that they can support , and there's younger people .
Della bills y'all . Della dala bills y'all .
Let's be real , we need it all . So yeah , exactly , and so I think it's a beautiful thing to have multi-generational church there and , at the same time , have groups that are really just pursuing the youth to get them in .
So yeah , I'm like immediately having remorse for saying Della , della , bills y'all as if I'm minimizing .
No , but I think we need it all . I mean , we need the , we need resources and we need people . Like last night at church , we had an awesome pumpkin carving night and it was so much fun and all the kids around and just having a great time . So I , you know , I love the local church .
It's my favorite thing to be a part of and love having connections like this . So and so much of this trip is a testimony to that Is a testimony to the fact that we're connected to people through the body of Christ that we never would have imagined . And back to like where we started today's podcast .
If you want to go on adventure , you have the support of a church like do it and we can plug you in . It is a powerful thing , it's huge , and we can plug you into things and help you get to know people and encourage you , and we're here . So , yeah , that's a real heart , for what we're doing is just to see people do something fun go on adventure .
Go and maybe where you're at too in your life is supporting somebody else who wants to go and have an adventure . Exactly , I mean totally . That is the multi-general part of it too .
There were people who wrote checks to say , hey , you guys go and do this . I can't like . I mean right now we wouldn't be able to go no .
Which is funny .
Yeah , yeah , go ahead . Well , people are people who are doing this and posing . So much about the road trip . I've gotten a lot of people be like , oh so , so you're back . I didn't realize you were back from the road trip . I'm like , oh well , that was years ago .
Yeah , somebody came up to me recently . I was like so how does this work ? Like you're going to leave Mary and the girls for like three months . I'm like no , no , no , no , of course not . I did this 20 years ago .
My favorite . My other favorite one was someone's like . These pictures have been posted of you . You look good Like no wrinkles , no gray hair , lots of hair on your head . I'm like , yeah , that was 22-year-old me . They're like , oh , that , that that tracks Well . Yeah , does the bald and chubby gray guy in front of me not look like them ?
Yeah , thanks for the feedback . So I don't , I don't look the same as 22-year-old Scott Interesting , interesting . So afterwards yeah so we went to this young life group and then afterwards we headed out to the bar for some buffalo wings , football and beer Good way to end a day .
That was a great day . That was a great day , great way to end a day , actually , yeah , pure Michigan , pure Michigan .
Pure Michigan . Join us in Michigan for buffalo wings , apple sauce , pretty decent weather , so long as you go during the right time of year , and Tim Allen , boat tying classes . Boat tying classes While you eat cherries . I have one thing to . I know I have a friend who's a listener . Yeah , hi , david Rekker , from Canada .
You know who you are because I just said your first and last name Social Security number four , nine , three . He went to yeah , he went to Michigan a couple of years ago with his family and we talked about that and he was so impressed with how nice Michigan was as well we talked about it is a hidden gem of North America .
Michigan . If you're listening , send a check . Yeah , we're really . We're living you up . Unlike like that could take away from our lawsuit that we got from South Dakota . That could really help fund that lawyer fees that were being hit for our . What's the word that they used ? A slander ? I think it was the word that Deformation .
Yeah , those are the front documents .
We didn't realize it would escalate that much .
No , we didn't realize that South Dakota like to bond together so quickly .
We didn't think they were really capable of anything positive , so I shouldn't say that , but we only have 13 people . It's not very hard to to router jokes , turns out when four of them are lawyers , though didn't know that , not helpful .
Gosh Avery's gonna be way outcast in Sioux Falls when she shows up . They better not realize who her father is . Don't convert into the road podcast . It's a dead and trouble . So is that the end of the day ? That's the end of the day , a great day . It's hard to express how important . Tomorrow is the next episode , friends .
So if you are listening to this , then you , you live in eager anticipation of what is to come .
That's right , it is the most one of maybe it's glorious , I'll say it it is the most monumentous event of the trip .
Oh , for sure , up until well , up until this point , it could be debated that . But it's an important day . So , okay , everybody . Jackkriscom has all of your leather good needs , and it has , it's John . Johnkriscom has all of your leather good needs .
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