August 7, 2024 • 31 mins
What makes a motorhome nap so irresistibly serene? Join us on a whimsical journey through the joys of napping on the open road, as we traverse the picturesque states of South Dakota, Iowa, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Georgia. We revel in the gentle rocking of the motorhome, the refreshing breeze from a fan, and the perfect tranquility of a shaded nap. Along the way, we share our personal sleep quirks and preferences, all while building anticipation for the next installment of Mrs. Wilk's boarding house saga, comparing the excitement to the build-up before Christmas.
Switching gears, we recount a memorable road trip to Skidaway, Georgia, where a youth-led church service brought us some hearty laughs with a sports-analogy-heavy sermon. We share hilarious stories from our first Sunday at a new church in Alabama, where a guest preacher and a last-minute organist illness led to unexpected challenges. Join us as we explore the cultural contrasts in church services and attire between the South and Southern California, topped off with a nostalgic tale of a golf cart misadventure during a youth event.
Our adventure continues with a lively recount of a day in Savannah, starting with a riverfront walk that included a comical episode of losing and finding one of the kids. We then head to Savannah's Christ Church for a fun youth event, complete with quirky encounters and a Mad Libs song that eventually won over some tough audience members. Finally, we delve into the historic sanctuary, the oldest in Georgia, and hint at an unforgettable meal at Mrs. Wilkes Boarding House. Wrapping up, we draw an analogy between physical and spiritual nourishment, humorously stressing the importance of consistent spiritual engagement to maintain spiritual health. Join us for a blend of humor, nostalgia, and thoughtful reflections in this engaging episode.
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Speaker 1 (00:19):
Thank you for coming along in the ride, plopping
yourself down in the Lazy DaysMotorhome, driving down the road
, looking out at the beautifulviews.
We've seen South Dakota, we'veseen Iowa, we have seen New I
was going to say New Connecticut, which is not a state New
Hampshire, connecticut all outthe window, and we are currently
(00:40):
seeing Georgia.
One of the greatest joys inlife is to be napping in the
motorhome while someone else isdriving.
You just have this beautifullittle rocking and we had this
little fan that was there, so ithad a little bit of cool breeze
coming down on you.
Boy, those are some good naps.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Oh, take me back.
I want one of those naps.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
That's a solid nap.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
That's a solid nap, that's a solid nap.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
I don't nap anymore.
Um, if I nap, I don't sleepthat well.
So, oh happens, not really athing that I do, but that's okay
.
Are you still a napper?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I uh occasionally I don't like napping because I
don't like wasting daylight ondays off you are so so, such a
good American.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Well, I'm proud to be a hard work, ethic Well yeah, I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I think, there's some more like psychological damage
that causes me to, but sometimesI'm like I I'm going for it.
But you know what's a great nap, tell me, is an outside in the
shade nap.
It's almost as good as thegoing down the road in a
motorhome nap.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
That's good.
That's a good nap.
That's a good nap.
Yeah, and the like.
Are you in a hammock in thisnap?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I've got like patio furniture, Okay.
Or like a cushioned seatcushioned couch kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
That's nice, but you need a little bit of breeze,
right?
You don't want static like heat.
Yeah, or okay, depends it,depends, okay, okay, yeah, I, I
personally am a constant um likemoving air guy.
So when I sleep I don't reallyI can't imagine sleeping in,
just like stagnant hair oh yeahto me is like how do people do
it?
Speaker 2 (02:29):
I don't know like.
Sometimes I'll see like my kidswill be sleeping or whatever,
and it's like hot and stagnantif we're just I don't know where
and somewhere, and then they'relike under blankets on top of
that.
I'm like, oh, are you?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
are you dead?
What's your default sleep?
I met some people who, liketheir family, they all PJ up,
they have sleep masks.
I'm like, wow, oh, you guys arecommitted to sleeping.
Oh, no, yeah, my big thing ismoving air, and recently I've
definitely added a white noisecomponent to my sleep, and it's
(03:05):
pretty glorious when that allhappens.
What about for you?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
You're painting vibes of like soon you've got the
what is that?
That machine?
And like all sorts of gadgetrysurrounding your bed and cough
drops and tissues andhumidifiers.
And yeah, I'm just getting verylike.
Three pillows, the properpillows that you travel with,
and yeah, do you have a sleepnumber bed as well, with the
(03:29):
like tilt up?
Speaker 1 (03:30):
sort of that.
That would be a glorious thing.
Then you just tilt yourself oh,I'm at a 34, 23, yeah no, I'm
just uh you're about to sleeparound that well, yeah, I've
been.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
I've kind of become.
I do like to sleep on my bellyI'm a bit of a rotisserie hot
dog these days okay, just likeconstantly rolling, but but I
really struggle with sleeping onmy back, which is problematic
when you have a cold, becausethat's like the only way you
could.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Anyways, this is neither here nor there yeah,
guys, we have some bad news foryou and I know this is going to
break most of your hearts.
While you frame that right outof the gate.
I did.
I want you to think of thisepisode as like a character
building episode.
We left you on it.
We left you on a cliffhangerlast week and the cliffhanger
was Mrs Will's boarding house,which is an incredible
(04:21):
cliffhanger to be left on, mrsGould's boarding house, which is
an incredible cliffhanger to beleft on.
And you're probably all jumpingin this episode thinking, okay,
they're talking about sleep.
I can't wait to get to the foodpart of the episode.
Totally understandable, butthere's one more day before then
, so you're going to have to,just like you know how you watch
a show and they leave you on acliffhanger and you just can't
wait for the next week or, intoday's world, for the net of 15
(04:42):
seconds To go by.
His little circle Spins in thecorner and you're like, yes, oh,
but the episode Doesn't answerthe questions.
The episode does some Characterbuilding over here and you're
like, wait, wait, wait, wait.
I need to know the resolutionto that.
But the storytellersintentionally Give you a space,
so you have to wait another week.
That's what's happening to youright now.
(05:04):
Listener, feel in that momentyou're not tracking.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
I think this is true.
No, I'm tracking.
I'm just feeling like you'retelling them all to like get
ready.
We're intentionally going todisappoint you today, oh well
this is a good day.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
It was a great day.
Yeah, I said.
I should just say those aregood episodes.
We're prolonging.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Listen, here's what we're doing we're prolonging the
future joy by the anticipation,the hope.
By stretching out theanticipation.
The best part about Christmasis the season leading up to it.
We are giving you Decembertoday, Okay, as opposed to boom
(05:48):
Christmas morning.
All the presents are open andnow we're done.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Do you think children would agree that the best part
of Christmas morning is theanticipation?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Listen, I'm trying to recover from what you just said
I brought us to a dark place.
I realized that as I was sayingit, I'm like I don't know if a
lot of people are going to buyinto this, but if I say it quick
enough and move on, thenthey'll be like yeah, yeah, yeah
, okay, I get it.
What a nice thing these guysare doing for us.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
It's like when you're kids, you say something and
you're like, okay, hopefullythey'll just believe that and go
on to Just move on quickly.
They no longer make Sinter'sbars.
That's why we're not havingSinter's bars today.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Yeah, oh, they weren't selling well, so now you
got to just eat 100 grandbecause we know that's the best
120 years of Sinter's bars, butnow, nope, nope, nope.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
They stopped Just today.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Just today.
People's favor towards caramel,peanuts and nougat is really
waned and therefore you know andyour kids are like I don't
think that's true.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
It's all junior mints .
Yeah, we're still, we're stilldriving, we're not stopping,
we're not stopping.
Disneyland is closed.
Oh, what was the?
What was the um?
Oh, the end of snl was the deepthoughts with jack candy.
Oh, those were the best I lovesometimes I just drive my kids
to a burned out, abandonedbuilding and I say, oh no,
disneyland burned down, and theycry, they cry and cry, oh, oh,
(07:12):
deep thoughts.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Some of those were dark.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Some of those were dark, but boy they were funny,
they were great.
Okay, all right, all right, notto disappoint you, but here we
are.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
This is a full day, an exciting day, a fun day,
hip-hop parade day.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
It's day 55.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Sunday, november 21st 2004.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Are you ready?
I'm ready.
Where do we church today?
I'll tell you.
I know that's what I'm saying.
I was leaving you, don't getahead of yourself.
I was tossing you a softball.
I feel like today may be afeisty day.
I like softball.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Anyhow, it rained last night and the Jeep got wet.
Oh well, Okay.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Yeah, oh well.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
We attended church at Skidaway, where we were parked
outside there anyways, and theyouth ushered nice, okay, you
sunday, yeah, youth sunday.
Other than them being the youthand us, everybody was 75 years
old or older.
Granted this is my estimates asa 21 year old, two year old or
(08:24):
whatever, so they were probablyall like in their 40s, but I was
like, wow, that's so old, soold.
Look at that little bit of grayhair.
Yeah, they had a guest preacherfrom Atlanta and his sermon
revolved completely aroundsports.
It was super funny to me, notlike he told jokes and people
laughed, but like every analogyhe used had to do with football
(08:46):
or golfing at augusta orsomething like that.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
And y'all we are in georgia.
We are in georgia.
That's what you're thinkingyeah so I was like you know, I
have my alabama time and theyjust told me they said don't
plan anything on saturdays inthe fall for the church people
won't come.
It is it's alabama or auburnday.
That's the day sundays we'llgive to the church, but the rest
of the time it's thatsaturday's football.
(09:10):
Okay, so like those, thoseprobably play.
Well, he knows his audience heknows his audience.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Yeah, from from atlanta.
So, uh, I also note, note,noticed and noted here that I
called him a preacher, which, inthe South, is it always
preachers or are there pastors?
Yeah, there's pastors, but Ithink preacher's good,
preacher's good.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Preacher's good.
Yeah, reverend Preacher's good.
I want to just pause and tellthis story, because I've never
told this story before on thispodcast.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
We don't have time, just keep it to yourself.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Okay, all right, fine , we'll school before.
We don't have time podcast.
Just keep it to yourself.
Okay, all right, this is well.
This is so the very first yousaid guest preacher the very
first sunday I'm at christian umlutheran church in alabama.
We had a guest preacher and themajor pastor who I was working
with he had had back surgerythat week.
So my very first sunday he'snot there.
Okay, oh man, okay, so it's meand the guest preacher night
before church organist gets sick.
(10:05):
Now we have a differentorganist.
I start my very first Sunday atthis new church.
I'm going to be there.
I say Hi, I'm Pastor Scott.
This guy who's going to preachto you, his name is Ken.
The person in the back, that'sBobby.
You may be questioning whetheryou're at the right church.
You are.
This be questioning whetheryou're at the right church.
(10:31):
You are.
This is your right church,although none of the people are
familiar to you.
Oh my gosh, brand new.
And so the very so.
He, we're sitting up front meand the desk creature, and he
says I need some volunteers forthe children's message.
And I say I don't know anybodyright, cause this is I say I
know my wife of what?
two months at that point, andthe two people she's sitting
with were currently sleeping attheir house.
So choose them Right?
(10:52):
So those are the three.
Oh, my, gosh Okay.
So it gets up front Do, do, do,do, do and it goes.
Tom Judy, emily, come on up Now.
You know Emily and most of yourlisteners know Emily.
I'm the upfront person in therelationship.
She's not the upfront person inthe relationship.
So she comes on up and she'slike what is going on First
(11:13):
Sunday as a pastor's wife.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
First.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Sunday in Birmingham.
All of these things.
Here we are.
He goes.
Okay, guys, you four are afamily.
Tom and Judy are an oldercouple.
They're like our parents.
You guys are in a car andyou're driving along.
Oh no, you get in a caraccident and all four of you die
.
Oh Wow, Meanwhile he's cutting.
He's cutting something.
(11:36):
Here you go to the dates of StPeter and here he's doing you at
the dates, and whether you getinto heaven or not, here are
your tickets.
Okay, Tom, let me see yourticket.
Oh, nope, not right, You'regoing to hell.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
He, just he shows up and sends Tom to hell.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Judy let me see your ticket.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Not right.
You're going to hell, Judy orEmily, my current wife Right of
two months my first day ofpastor life, oh, my gosh.
You're going to hell too.
All three of them are going tohell.
I, because of his fancy cuttingtrick, have a cross that.
Oh look, he knows Jesus, he'sgoing to heaven.
(12:19):
Okay, great children's messageguys.
Go and sit down and they'relike this is 10 minutes into
Emily being a pastor's wifeshe's already told to go to hell
by the desk preacher and I um,I go home.
(12:39):
My favorite part of the story isI go home and we're with tom
and judy, met their house and Isay look, guys, I I'm really
sorry.
I had no idea what was going tohappen, but you're the only
people who I know.
And and judy, judy looks at meand she says I'm not mad about
being sent to hell.
She's like here's, here's whatupsets me.
She said we got into this carand then we went in car accident
(13:00):
.
She says my husband, he worksin um like severe brain trauma
injury.
We do not leave our parking lotunless we have our seatbelts on
.
We would not have died in thatcar accident.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Oh my gosh, that's what she.
I love it.
That's what she.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
We're alive, come on, come on, we're buckled.
We're buckled.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
We may have some injuries, but we didn't die.
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
It was a great moment .
I'm like this is yeah, this is10 minutes in 10 minutes into
Emily being a pastor's wife atthe eight 30 service and a new
church.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
What's going on?
Speaker 1 (13:32):
It was the like what a great way for her just to
launch into public ministry.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Yeah, I'm so intrigued.
I want to hear the rest of thesermon, Cause I'm like where do
you go from here?
Speaker 1 (13:43):
That was a children's message.
That was the whole thing.
That was the whole sermon forthe kids Go to kids' church now.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
It was just like.
Some of you are going to go tohell, some of you are going to
go to heaven.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Because I had the cross, I had Jesus.
So if you don't know Jesus,you're going to hell.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Oh my gosh, I mean not wrong, Does it get more?
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Southern than that, though?
I mean, does it get more liketurn and burn Southern?
I'm going to send people tohell, I guess.
Straight to the point, I'llgive you two guesses from which
Southern state that preacher wasfrom?
Yeah, well, I'm gonna say, guessone is georgia yeah, you're
wrong, I know I knew you weregonna do that, but guess.
(14:24):
Two is where I would preach.
Like that comes from not very,not very tall state, maybe
southern, maybe not southern,not very high, not a lot of
elevation florida he's fromflorida oh yeah, as you said,
not a lot of elevation.
I was, oh no but I justdesperate, sure?
Sorry, it's just one of my,it's a classic I don't know
(14:45):
where else I was gonna get it inyeah, that's funny.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
I never heard that, or I did, but I don't pay
attention to you a lot, so itmight have just been one of
those in one ear, not the other,oh scott's telling a story
again.
Well, I I'm going to go poop.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
I'm going to go, yeah , exactly.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Okay, well, let's see here yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Y'all would have laughed.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
I haven't used y'all in there.
The service on the whole wasvery traditional.
We were the only ones there notwearing jackets and ties.
Yeah that is the South.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
I would assume that is not how we go to church here
in.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Southern California.
It's like flip-flops, t-shirtsIrreverent.
Maybe that's not okay.
After the service, scott gavehis talk to the youth, in which
I have heard numerous times wentgreat Kids loved it, let's eat.
We all Hold on a second.
(15:41):
Did we ever figure out if youstill had that talk somewhere
written down?
Speaker 1 (15:47):
oh, I definitely didn't have it written down.
Do you remember it?
I, I, yes, I remember enough ofit.
I could do some of it at somepoint.
We should do it.
Yeah, but the the part that youdon't remember is remember we
had t-shirts and we would holdup t-shirts and we would tell
stories as the opening, so youand I would go back and forth
and tell some funny stories andthen I would close with a big
(16:11):
boom closing.
Do you remember that?
Speaker 2 (16:15):
It saddens me that I don't remember that very well.
Yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Especially having heard it so many times.
Yeah well, kevin, but youprobably were like, yeah,
probably I.
The the only story that Iremember telling regularly and
this was part of the talk wasthe one where I was in the golf
cart with steve and we were umbacking down the hill and I
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looked to him and I said youwant to see a fancy maneuver.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
So, listener, I was golfing with Steve and Steve
Burns, our youth pastor, andwe're in Palm Springs and we're
going backwards on this hill andwe're just going to back down
to turn.
And I looked over to Steve andI're just going to back down to
turn.
And I looked over to Steve andI said, steve, you want to see a
fancy maneuver?
And he's like, yeah, I do.
So I put the thing in reverse.
I'm going straight down thishill, golf carts have governors
(17:11):
going forwards, but it turns outthey don't have governors going
backwards, which is interesting.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
But it kind of made sense right, because you don't
think about that.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
So at the engine in reverse transmission, just like
game on.
And in my mind I'm thinkingthat turn you see people do on
the movies where they spin 180,and they flip it and drive and
they go forward.
I'm thinking this is what we'regoing to do.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Straight down this hill.
I cranked the wheel Golf cartsare not sports cars, they are
not meant for that move andcranked the wheel Golf carts are
not sports cars, they are notmeant for that move and I turned
the wheel.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
I will say one could argue that a golf cart is
exactly a sports car.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Well, okay, true, right, I like that.
I turned and about halfway, youknow we're going, I'm like oh,
this is just not, we're goingway fast.
Oh boy, you know we're going.
I'm like oh, this is just not.
We're going way fast.
Oh boy, we're sideways and boomand we just flip.
We don't flip, but we tilt onour side and there's no chance.
(18:12):
And I just look up and I justsee Steve coming down on me
because we're going to fall andwe just tuck up and just kind of
slide golf court, golf clubs,everywhere, steve on top of me.
I looked at him, I'm like yougood.
And he's like, yeah, you good.
(18:32):
I'm like I think so let's getup, get this golf cart up and
get everything in.
It was.
It was such a bad like decision, but also led to again one of
our things those little momentswhere what?
Speaker 2 (18:49):
about the dolphin trip.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
do I remember Nothing else except me looking over to
him?
Want to do a fancy maneuver?
Yeah, I do.
Yeah I do.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
That should be a red flag.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
You know what's funny ?
It should be a red flag.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
I do's funny, it's just I do remember that story
because you tell it so well, andthe part that I love the most
about it is your golf club soundthe tink, tink, tink, tink.
I was looking forward to that.
As you were telling this, I'mlike I haven't heard you do.
It's coming.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Yeah, it's a good sound and it's also like that.
Oh man, can you imagine if yousaw that like on the course, 120
degrees outside?
And we're just like, althoughwe were not the first person to
tilt a golf cart on horses?
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Yeah, they're like.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
this happens pretty much every day, but gosh, yeah,
oh man, just that backing downthe hill and here we go, jeez.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
That's what you get when already you guys are out
there in calm springs in thesummer and it's 120 degrees
playing golf.
Why?
Because you can play thosecourses for cheap in the summer.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Because nobody wants to play at 120.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
This is not this is not the clientele that's going
to respect?
Speaker 1 (19:58):
no, exactly, it's not exactly.
It's not your normal clientele.
We're playing 60 holes a day,we're exhausted, we're hot, but
man, oh my gosh, yeah, thosewere fun.
Those were fun, oh man.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
All right.
So let's see.
Okay, we all piled into thechurch van and headed to
downtown to eat at a pizzarestaurant called the Mellow
Mushroom.
Anybody who's been to the Southknows the Mellow Mushroom.
Those are good.
You must understand there aretons of art students in this
city.
Scad, savannah College of Artand Design, is here and
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responsible for the great shapeSavannah is in today.
I guess they all.
I'm going to call it SCAD, scad, yeah, so I think we must have
heard from somebody that they'vepumped a lot of money in and
kept buildings nice and whatnot.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
So yeah, I think also , like just the fact that
students were coming probablyrenting out houses, right, like,
yeah, that whole thing ofhaving a successful stool, yeah,
would be really helpful for asize of a town, that size, right
, that really makes a differenceyeah, and a similar thing has
happened here in the City ofOrange.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Shout out or plug, but the City of Orange has, I
think, one of the best sort ofold town areas in certainly all
of Southern California, maybetop three in California.
It's great.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
And it's coming up to the street.
Fair guys, Top three inCalifornia.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
It's great.
It's great and it's coming upto the street.
Fair guys, yeah, and one of thebest parts about it is, well,
not one of the best parts aboutit, but one of the reasons that
it's so great now is becauseChapman University is right
there, yep, and they've reallyexpanded the university and
brought in a lot of students.
They've pumped a lot of money.
I have heard that some peoplewho live in old town and it's
like this whole, it's a nationalhistoric district and it's all
(21:45):
these 100 plus year oldcraftsman homes.
I know some residents aren'tsuper thrilled because you know
students live down there andparties and whatnot, but all the
restaurants that are now thereand the shops and everything.
It is a super cool big trafficcircle with a fountain in the
middle of the park.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
If you have a Savannah, it's great.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Yeah, yeah and you're listening in Southern
California and you're like whereshould we go for dinner some
weekend?
Go to the great, go to orange.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
I worked at a church that was just right outside the
corner there, and so you and Ispent a lot of time in that area
and it's it's so much fun, andthe orange street fair was so
much fun and we had good parkingso we could just park at the
church.
So we can just walk in the airconditioning, use the bathroom,
walk back out, get a year oldsome.
Luca mods listen to theAmerican wake.
(22:30):
Is that the name of the band?
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
It's like Irish rock band.
It's great.
Good times, good times, uh,good times.
So anyway, as.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
I came home on Monday night, as drunk, as drunk can
be Remember that song.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's a good one, a lot of fun.
So after lunch we went down tothe riverfront and walked
through the shops with the kids.
We got back to the van andrealized we'd lost a kid.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Oops, Now, this wouldn't be the last time Scott
has has lost a kid.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Maybe that's a story for another time yeah, we'll do
that story.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
I've already done two .
Oh was it before.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
It was before that.
Yeah, yeah, that was a good one.
Uh, don't worry, we found herand got back to yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Yeah, both kids made their way home, so All is well.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Don't worry, that's the moral of the story.
You leave your kids with Scott.
They might get lost, butthey'll get found again.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
They will Let your kids wander.
It's the spirit of the world.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
That's right.
Scott and I didn't have muchtime before we had to go back
into Savannah to Christ Churchto do their youth.
We rolled up early forsomething to set up music and
stuff.
We finished that and went downfrom the fourth floor youth room
to the first floor for a quotecovered dish dinner, which is a
(23:57):
very fancy way to say potluck.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
It's a very fancy way to say potluck.
That was a very fancy way tosay potluck.
Right, it was such a coolchurch.
It was all stacked up, remember, and like it was in that one of
the squares and it was all like, yes, it was on the fourth
floor and then there was like asocial hall on the second floor.
It was right off of one ofthose squares.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Yes, it was a cool church.
Yes, it was.
So we got there a bit late, butthere was still food to eat.
We piled some food in and thenwe went back up to the youth
room with the kids.
We did our super creative MadLibs song and of course, they
loved it.
That's another thing we need tosee, if we can find the Mad
(24:38):
Libs.
So we made a song that wasbasically based on Mad Libs and
they could all fill in the wordsand then we would sing the song
.
Yeah, that was fun, it wasgreat.
We did a few more songs andthen we did the talk again, a
double header.
We were really funny tonight,maybe the funniest we have ever
been.
But man, some of the kids wererocks.
(24:59):
Yeah, they just didn't get it.
They didn't know, they didn'tknow what they were experiencing
.
The, the.
What lay in front of them wasone of the greatest things in
the world.
One girl in particular wouldnot budge, but then Scott
tripped over something and madesome comment, and that was it
for her.
She got silly.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
My, my basic youth ministry philosophy in case you
can't tell listener is if I'mhaving a good time and I'm being
silly and people are laughingat me, then they're not laughing
at each other.
And that's what I think middleschoolers and high schoolers
want.
They don't want to have to beworried about, but I think
(25:43):
everyone wants to be silly orhave fun but they don't want to
have to worry about it and it'slike, hey, he's having fun, he's
okay, I'm able to, now I can doit a little bit, yeah.
So yeah, that's that won't bedirected towards me.
That's a basic like overall.
Philosophy is just like let theroom, let the room lighten up a
little bit yeah, that's good.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
We had a lot of fun but we ran over time.
I guess some kids oh boy had tohad to bowl.
We never actually got to talkto the kids or hang out with
them afterwards because some ofthe adults came up and started
talking to us bummer rightadults.
This one couple we talked todecided to take us into their
(26:24):
sanctuary and show us the oldestchurch in georgia oh, we
thought cool, that is cool.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
It is cool, right?
Yeah, I didn't know that I'mglad you saw that.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
I didn't realize it was the oldest church in georgia
.
Hey, did you know that Savannahwas designed by King?
Speaker 1 (26:44):
George George.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
III, I think, george.
Yeah, is that why it's called?
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Georgia Probably, probably, but I'm guessing that
that's true.
Yeah, very slow, aren't we?
They didn't call it George.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
These people were odd in that cultish, over-involved
sort of way.
Don't get me wrong.
They were nice and we even gotthe church's folk group CD in
which the lady sang for, butthey were odd.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Well, we've talked about this before.
You have an ability to suck upall the like.
Hey, you strange person whoreally enjoys playing Dungeons
Dragons while dressed like awarlord and wearing that to
church.
You hang out with Andrew, yeahthey seem to be attracted to my
energy.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
For some reason they do Interesting.
Like you're too polite to walkaway.
Oh no, the church was reallymagnificent and that's about all
I can say.
Enormous organ, beautifulchandeliers and other great
church building things that Idon't know correct names for.
So trust me it was reallybreathtaking.
Love it, that's good Love it.
(27:53):
So that was a busy Sunday.
Two talks, lots of kids, lotsof food, lots of fun, lots of
Savannah Again like.
Tomorrow, next week.
I mean yes, mean yes.
Tomorrow in the story, but nextweek mrs wilkes boarding house
street lights the mostmagnificent meal in the whole
(28:14):
country.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Oh, it is my entire life.
It's one that I remember whatcould be so good.
It's one that I remember, don'tyou?
I mean, how many meals do youremember, like probably 15, 20.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Yeah, I don't know where I could like describe
details about it.
This is for sure one.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Yeah yeah, exactly so .
People go and you remember that.
And so one more little littlelittle aside there's this great
preaching illustration thattalks about you know, this guy's
calling to a radio show andsays oh, I hear these sermons
every Sunday.
I don't remember the sermon, Idon't remember what it said.
By the next Sunday, why do I goand do this?
And then a little while later,another person calls in and he
(28:54):
says man, I eat all these mealsevery day and I don't remember
most of them, but I keep eatingthem.
Why do I keep doing this?
I think I'd be a much differentperson if I've only had had
half number of meals that I have, and I think that's a really
good illustration for, like,there are things that just like
out of that talk right, thingsgot connected, things got
brought together and you're notnow going.
Oh yeah, because of that, Ithink this way, I act this way,
(29:16):
I do this thing Because of thatregular behavior.
I think that that all kind ofmakes those pathways there and
so, yes, but this is theboarding house.
That is one of the meals that Iremember.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
So I'm hearing two things from this.
That illustration, the personwho's saying if I had just had
half the meals, you probablywould be in better shape,
thinner, feeling good.
(29:47):
So I guess the parallel thereis don't go to church every
Sunday, right, just skip, likeyeah, just half the time.
That could be one takeaway forme, yeah, and correct me if I'm
wrong.
And then the other thing is um,if you well, maybe this is
related if you, if you just goto church and you get in the
habit of eating the meal and youconsume and consume and consume
, then pretty soon you'll justbe like fat.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Yeah, so you actually went the wrong direction with
that illustration.
So yeah, I know Surprising, butthink of it more like
starvation versus healthy, asopposed to overeating.
I didn't consider that.
No, you really didn't, butthat's because you're a wee
(30:30):
little man.
You probably can survive onjust one or two meals a week.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Just a left Twix and a pomegranate.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Pomegranatesate.
I like that choice.
Everybody next week.
This is what's boarding housebye.
(31:07):
Thank you.
Thank you for coming along in the ride, plopping
yourself down in the Lazy DaysMotorhome, driving down the road
, looking out at the beautifulviews.
We've seen South Dakota, we'veseen Iowa, we have seen New I
was going to say New Connecticut, which is not a state New
Hampshire, connecticut all outthe window, and we are currently
(00:40):
seeing Georgia.
One of the greatest joys inlife is to be napping in the
motorhome while someone else isdriving.
You just have this beautifullittle rocking and we had this
little fan that was there, so ithad a little bit of cool breeze
coming down on you.
Boy, those are some good naps.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Oh, take me back.
I want one of those naps.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
That's a solid nap.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
That's a solid nap, that's a solid nap.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
I don't nap anymore.
Um, if I nap, I don't sleepthat well.
So, oh happens, not really athing that I do, but that's okay
.
Are you still a napper?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I uh occasionally I don't like napping because I
don't like wasting daylight ondays off you are so so, such a
good American.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Well, I'm proud to be a hard work, ethic Well yeah, I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I think, there's some more like psychological damage
that causes me to, but sometimesI'm like I I'm going for it.
But you know what's a great nap, tell me, is an outside in the
shade nap.
It's almost as good as thegoing down the road in a
motorhome nap.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
That's good.
That's a good nap.
That's a good nap.
Yeah, and the like.
Are you in a hammock in thisnap?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I've got like patio furniture, Okay.
Or like a cushioned seatcushioned couch kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
That's nice, but you need a little bit of breeze,
right?
You don't want static like heat.
Yeah, or okay, depends it,depends, okay, okay, yeah, I, I
personally am a constant um likemoving air guy.
So when I sleep I don't reallyI can't imagine sleeping in,
just like stagnant hair oh yeahto me is like how do people do
it?
Speaker 2 (02:29):
I don't know like.
Sometimes I'll see like my kidswill be sleeping or whatever,
and it's like hot and stagnantif we're just I don't know where
and somewhere, and then they'relike under blankets on top of
that.
I'm like, oh, are you?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
are you dead?
What's your default sleep?
I met some people who, liketheir family, they all PJ up,
they have sleep masks.
I'm like, wow, oh, you guys arecommitted to sleeping.
Oh, no, yeah, my big thing ismoving air, and recently I've
definitely added a white noisecomponent to my sleep, and it's
(03:05):
pretty glorious when that allhappens.
What about for you?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
You're painting vibes of like soon you've got the
what is that?
That machine?
And like all sorts of gadgetrysurrounding your bed and cough
drops and tissues andhumidifiers.
And yeah, I'm just getting verylike.
Three pillows, the properpillows that you travel with,
and yeah, do you have a sleepnumber bed as well, with the
(03:29):
like tilt up?
Speaker 1 (03:30):
sort of that.
That would be a glorious thing.
Then you just tilt yourself oh,I'm at a 34, 23, yeah no, I'm
just uh you're about to sleeparound that well, yeah, I've
been.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
I've kind of become.
I do like to sleep on my bellyI'm a bit of a rotisserie hot
dog these days okay, just likeconstantly rolling, but but I
really struggle with sleeping onmy back, which is problematic
when you have a cold, becausethat's like the only way you
could.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Anyways, this is neither here nor there yeah,
guys, we have some bad news foryou and I know this is going to
break most of your hearts.
While you frame that right outof the gate.
I did.
I want you to think of thisepisode as like a character
building episode.
We left you on it.
We left you on a cliffhangerlast week and the cliffhanger
was Mrs Will's boarding house,which is an incredible
(04:21):
cliffhanger to be left on, mrsGould's boarding house, which is
an incredible cliffhanger to beleft on.
And you're probably all jumpingin this episode thinking, okay,
they're talking about sleep.
I can't wait to get to the foodpart of the episode.
Totally understandable, butthere's one more day before then
, so you're going to have to,just like you know how you watch
a show and they leave you on acliffhanger and you just can't
wait for the next week or, intoday's world, for the net of 15
(04:42):
seconds To go by.
His little circle Spins in thecorner and you're like, yes, oh,
but the episode Doesn't answerthe questions.
The episode does some Characterbuilding over here and you're
like, wait, wait, wait, wait.
I need to know the resolutionto that.
But the storytellersintentionally Give you a space,
so you have to wait another week.
That's what's happening to youright now.
(05:04):
Listener, feel in that momentyou're not tracking.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
I think this is true.
No, I'm tracking.
I'm just feeling like you'retelling them all to like get
ready.
We're intentionally going todisappoint you today, oh well
this is a good day.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
It was a great day.
Yeah, I said.
I should just say those aregood episodes.
We're prolonging.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Listen, here's what we're doing we're prolonging the
future joy by the anticipation,the hope.
By stretching out theanticipation.
The best part about Christmasis the season leading up to it.
We are giving you Decembertoday, Okay, as opposed to boom
(05:48):
Christmas morning.
All the presents are open andnow we're done.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Do you think children would agree that the best part
of Christmas morning is theanticipation?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Listen, I'm trying to recover from what you just said
I brought us to a dark place.
I realized that as I was sayingit, I'm like I don't know if a
lot of people are going to buyinto this, but if I say it quick
enough and move on, thenthey'll be like yeah, yeah, yeah
, okay, I get it.
What a nice thing these guysare doing for us.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
It's like when you're kids, you say something and
you're like, okay, hopefullythey'll just believe that and go
on to Just move on quickly.
They no longer make Sinter'sbars.
That's why we're not havingSinter's bars today.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Yeah, oh, they weren't selling well, so now you
got to just eat 100 grandbecause we know that's the best
120 years of Sinter's bars, butnow, nope, nope, nope.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
They stopped Just today.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Just today.
People's favor towards caramel,peanuts and nougat is really
waned and therefore you know andyour kids are like I don't
think that's true.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
It's all junior mints .
Yeah, we're still, we're stilldriving, we're not stopping,
we're not stopping.
Disneyland is closed.
Oh, what was the?
What was the um?
Oh, the end of snl was the deepthoughts with jack candy.
Oh, those were the best I lovesometimes I just drive my kids
to a burned out, abandonedbuilding and I say, oh no,
disneyland burned down, and theycry, they cry and cry, oh, oh,
(07:12):
deep thoughts.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Some of those were dark.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Some of those were dark, but boy they were funny,
they were great.
Okay, all right, all right, notto disappoint you, but here we
are.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
This is a full day, an exciting day, a fun day,
hip-hop parade day.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
It's day 55.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Sunday, november 21st 2004.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Are you ready?
I'm ready.
Where do we church today?
I'll tell you.
I know that's what I'm saying.
I was leaving you, don't getahead of yourself.
I was tossing you a softball.
I feel like today may be afeisty day.
I like softball.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Anyhow, it rained last night and the Jeep got wet.
Oh well, Okay.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Yeah, oh well.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
We attended church at Skidaway, where we were parked
outside there anyways, and theyouth ushered nice, okay, you
sunday, yeah, youth sunday.
Other than them being the youthand us, everybody was 75 years
old or older.
Granted this is my estimates asa 21 year old, two year old or
(08:24):
whatever, so they were probablyall like in their 40s, but I was
like, wow, that's so old, soold.
Look at that little bit of grayhair.
Yeah, they had a guest preacherfrom Atlanta and his sermon
revolved completely aroundsports.
It was super funny to me, notlike he told jokes and people
laughed, but like every analogyhe used had to do with football
(08:46):
or golfing at augusta orsomething like that.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
And y'all we are in georgia.
We are in georgia.
That's what you're thinkingyeah so I was like you know, I
have my alabama time and theyjust told me they said don't
plan anything on saturdays inthe fall for the church people
won't come.
It is it's alabama or auburnday.
That's the day sundays we'llgive to the church, but the rest
of the time it's thatsaturday's football.
(09:10):
Okay, so like those, thoseprobably play.
Well, he knows his audience heknows his audience.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Yeah, from from atlanta.
So, uh, I also note, note,noticed and noted here that I
called him a preacher, which, inthe South, is it always
preachers or are there pastors?
Yeah, there's pastors, but Ithink preacher's good,
preacher's good.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Preacher's good.
Yeah, reverend Preacher's good.
I want to just pause and tellthis story, because I've never
told this story before on thispodcast.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
We don't have time, just keep it to yourself.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Okay, all right, fine , we'll school before.
We don't have time podcast.
Just keep it to yourself.
Okay, all right, this is well.
This is so the very first yousaid guest preacher the very
first sunday I'm at christian umlutheran church in alabama.
We had a guest preacher and themajor pastor who I was working
with he had had back surgerythat week.
So my very first sunday he'snot there.
Okay, oh man, okay, so it's meand the guest preacher night
before church organist gets sick.
(10:05):
Now we have a differentorganist.
I start my very first Sunday atthis new church.
I'm going to be there.
I say Hi, I'm Pastor Scott.
This guy who's going to preachto you, his name is Ken.
The person in the back, that'sBobby.
You may be questioning whetheryou're at the right church.
You are.
This be questioning whetheryou're at the right church.
(10:31):
You are.
This is your right church,although none of the people are
familiar to you.
Oh my gosh, brand new.
And so the very so.
He, we're sitting up front meand the desk creature, and he
says I need some volunteers forthe children's message.
And I say I don't know anybodyright, cause this is I say I
know my wife of what?
two months at that point, andthe two people she's sitting
with were currently sleeping attheir house.
So choose them Right?
(10:52):
So those are the three.
Oh, my, gosh Okay.
So it gets up front Do, do, do,do, do and it goes.
Tom Judy, emily, come on up Now.
You know Emily and most of yourlisteners know Emily.
I'm the upfront person in therelationship.
She's not the upfront person inthe relationship.
So she comes on up and she'slike what is going on First
(11:13):
Sunday as a pastor's wife.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
First.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Sunday in Birmingham.
All of these things.
Here we are.
He goes.
Okay, guys, you four are afamily.
Tom and Judy are an oldercouple.
They're like our parents.
You guys are in a car andyou're driving along.
Oh no, you get in a caraccident and all four of you die
.
Oh Wow, Meanwhile he's cutting.
He's cutting something.
(11:36):
Here you go to the dates of StPeter and here he's doing you at
the dates, and whether you getinto heaven or not, here are
your tickets.
Okay, Tom, let me see yourticket.
Oh, nope, not right, You'regoing to hell.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
He, just he shows up and sends Tom to hell.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Judy let me see your ticket.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Not right.
You're going to hell, Judy orEmily, my current wife Right of
two months my first day ofpastor life, oh, my gosh.
You're going to hell too.
All three of them are going tohell.
I, because of his fancy cuttingtrick, have a cross that.
Oh look, he knows Jesus, he'sgoing to heaven.
(12:19):
Okay, great children's messageguys.
Go and sit down and they'relike this is 10 minutes into
Emily being a pastor's wifeshe's already told to go to hell
by the desk preacher and I um,I go home.
(12:39):
My favorite part of the story isI go home and we're with tom
and judy, met their house and Isay look, guys, I I'm really
sorry.
I had no idea what was going tohappen, but you're the only
people who I know.
And and judy, judy looks at meand she says I'm not mad about
being sent to hell.
She's like here's, here's whatupsets me.
She said we got into this carand then we went in car accident
(13:00):
.
She says my husband, he worksin um like severe brain trauma
injury.
We do not leave our parking lotunless we have our seatbelts on
.
We would not have died in thatcar accident.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Oh my gosh, that's what she.
I love it.
That's what she.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
We're alive, come on, come on, we're buckled.
We're buckled.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
We may have some injuries, but we didn't die.
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
It was a great moment .
I'm like this is yeah, this is10 minutes in 10 minutes into
Emily being a pastor's wife atthe eight 30 service and a new
church.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
What's going on?
Speaker 1 (13:32):
It was the like what a great way for her just to
launch into public ministry.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Yeah, I'm so intrigued.
I want to hear the rest of thesermon, Cause I'm like where do
you go from here?
Speaker 1 (13:43):
That was a children's message.
That was the whole thing.
That was the whole sermon forthe kids Go to kids' church now.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
It was just like.
Some of you are going to go tohell, some of you are going to
go to heaven.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Because I had the cross, I had Jesus.
So if you don't know Jesus,you're going to hell.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Oh my gosh, I mean not wrong, Does it get more?
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Southern than that, though?
I mean, does it get more liketurn and burn Southern?
I'm going to send people tohell, I guess.
Straight to the point, I'llgive you two guesses from which
Southern state that preacher wasfrom?
Yeah, well, I'm gonna say, guessone is georgia yeah, you're
wrong, I know I knew you weregonna do that, but guess.
(14:24):
Two is where I would preach.
Like that comes from not very,not very tall state, maybe
southern, maybe not southern,not very high, not a lot of
elevation florida he's fromflorida oh yeah, as you said,
not a lot of elevation.
I was, oh no but I justdesperate, sure?
Sorry, it's just one of my,it's a classic I don't know
(14:45):
where else I was gonna get it inyeah, that's funny.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
I never heard that, or I did, but I don't pay
attention to you a lot, so itmight have just been one of
those in one ear, not the other,oh scott's telling a story
again.
Well, I I'm going to go poop.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
I'm going to go, yeah , exactly.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Okay, well, let's see here yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Y'all would have laughed.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
I haven't used y'all in there.
The service on the whole wasvery traditional.
We were the only ones there notwearing jackets and ties.
Yeah that is the South.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
I would assume that is not how we go to church here
in.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Southern California.
It's like flip-flops, t-shirtsIrreverent.
Maybe that's not okay.
After the service, scott gavehis talk to the youth, in which
I have heard numerous times wentgreat Kids loved it, let's eat.
We all Hold on a second.
(15:41):
Did we ever figure out if youstill had that talk somewhere
written down?
Speaker 1 (15:47):
oh, I definitely didn't have it written down.
Do you remember it?
I, I, yes, I remember enough ofit.
I could do some of it at somepoint.
We should do it.
Yeah, but the the part that youdon't remember is remember we
had t-shirts and we would holdup t-shirts and we would tell
stories as the opening, so youand I would go back and forth
and tell some funny stories andthen I would close with a big
(16:11):
boom closing.
Do you remember that?
Speaker 2 (16:15):
It saddens me that I don't remember that very well.
Yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Especially having heard it so many times.
Yeah well, kevin, but youprobably were like, yeah,
probably I.
The the only story that Iremember telling regularly and
this was part of the talk wasthe one where I was in the golf
cart with steve and we were umbacking down the hill and I
(16:42):
looked to him and I said youwant to see a fancy maneuver.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
So, listener, I was golfing with Steve and Steve
Burns, our youth pastor, andwe're in Palm Springs and we're
going backwards on this hill andwe're just going to back down
to turn.
And I looked over to Steve andI're just going to back down to
turn.
And I looked over to Steve andI said, steve, you want to see a
fancy maneuver?
And he's like, yeah, I do.
So I put the thing in reverse.
I'm going straight down thishill, golf carts have governors
(17:11):
going forwards, but it turns outthey don't have governors going
backwards, which is interesting.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
But it kind of made sense right, because you don't
think about that.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
So at the engine in reverse transmission, just like
game on.
And in my mind I'm thinkingthat turn you see people do on
the movies where they spin 180,and they flip it and drive and
they go forward.
I'm thinking this is what we'regoing to do.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Straight down this hill.
I cranked the wheel Golf cartsare not sports cars, they are
not meant for that move andcranked the wheel Golf carts are
not sports cars, they are notmeant for that move and I turned
the wheel.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
I will say one could argue that a golf cart is
exactly a sports car.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Well, okay, true, right, I like that.
I turned and about halfway, youknow we're going, I'm like oh,
this is just not, we're goingway fast.
Oh boy, you know we're going.
I'm like oh, this is just not.
We're going way fast.
Oh boy, we're sideways and boomand we just flip.
We don't flip, but we tilt onour side and there's no chance.
(18:12):
And I just look up and I justsee Steve coming down on me
because we're going to fall andwe just tuck up and just kind of
slide golf court, golf clubs,everywhere, steve on top of me.
I looked at him, I'm like yougood.
And he's like, yeah, you good.
(18:32):
I'm like I think so let's getup, get this golf cart up and
get everything in.
It was.
It was such a bad like decision, but also led to again one of
our things those little momentswhere what?
Speaker 2 (18:49):
about the dolphin trip.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
do I remember Nothing else except me looking over to
him?
Want to do a fancy maneuver?
Yeah, I do.
Yeah I do.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
That should be a red flag.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
You know what's funny ?
It should be a red flag.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
I do's funny, it's just I do remember that story
because you tell it so well, andthe part that I love the most
about it is your golf club soundthe tink, tink, tink, tink.
I was looking forward to that.
As you were telling this, I'mlike I haven't heard you do.
It's coming.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Yeah, it's a good sound and it's also like that.
Oh man, can you imagine if yousaw that like on the course, 120
degrees outside?
And we're just like, althoughwe were not the first person to
tilt a golf cart on horses?
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Yeah, they're like.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
this happens pretty much every day, but gosh, yeah,
oh man, just that backing downthe hill and here we go, jeez.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
That's what you get when already you guys are out
there in calm springs in thesummer and it's 120 degrees
playing golf.
Why?
Because you can play thosecourses for cheap in the summer.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Because nobody wants to play at 120.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
This is not this is not the clientele that's going
to respect?
Speaker 1 (19:58):
no, exactly, it's not exactly.
It's not your normal clientele.
We're playing 60 holes a day,we're exhausted, we're hot, but
man, oh my gosh, yeah, thosewere fun.
Those were fun, oh man.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
All right.
So let's see.
Okay, we all piled into thechurch van and headed to
downtown to eat at a pizzarestaurant called the Mellow
Mushroom.
Anybody who's been to the Southknows the Mellow Mushroom.
Those are good.
You must understand there aretons of art students in this
city.
Scad, savannah College of Artand Design, is here and
(20:30):
responsible for the great shapeSavannah is in today.
I guess they all.
I'm going to call it SCAD, scad, yeah, so I think we must have
heard from somebody that they'vepumped a lot of money in and
kept buildings nice and whatnot.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
So yeah, I think also , like just the fact that
students were coming probablyrenting out houses, right, like,
yeah, that whole thing ofhaving a successful stool, yeah,
would be really helpful for asize of a town, that size, right
, that really makes a differenceyeah, and a similar thing has
happened here in the City ofOrange.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Shout out or plug, but the City of Orange has, I
think, one of the best sort ofold town areas in certainly all
of Southern California, maybetop three in California.
It's great.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
And it's coming up to the street.
Fair guys, Top three inCalifornia.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
It's great.
It's great and it's coming upto the street.
Fair guys, yeah, and one of thebest parts about it is, well,
not one of the best parts aboutit, but one of the reasons that
it's so great now is becauseChapman University is right
there, yep, and they've reallyexpanded the university and
brought in a lot of students.
They've pumped a lot of money.
I have heard that some peoplewho live in old town and it's
like this whole, it's a nationalhistoric district and it's all
(21:45):
these 100 plus year oldcraftsman homes.
I know some residents aren'tsuper thrilled because you know
students live down there andparties and whatnot, but all the
restaurants that are now thereand the shops and everything.
It is a super cool big trafficcircle with a fountain in the
middle of the park.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
If you have a Savannah, it's great.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Yeah, yeah and you're listening in Southern
California and you're like whereshould we go for dinner some
weekend?
Go to the great, go to orange.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
I worked at a church that was just right outside the
corner there, and so you and Ispent a lot of time in that area
and it's it's so much fun, andthe orange street fair was so
much fun and we had good parkingso we could just park at the
church.
So we can just walk in the airconditioning, use the bathroom,
walk back out, get a year oldsome.
Luca mods listen to theAmerican wake.
(22:30):
Is that the name of the band?
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
It's like Irish rock band.
It's great.
Good times, good times, uh,good times.
So anyway, as.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
I came home on Monday night, as drunk, as drunk can
be Remember that song.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's a good one, a lot of fun.
So after lunch we went down tothe riverfront and walked
through the shops with the kids.
We got back to the van andrealized we'd lost a kid.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Oops, Now, this wouldn't be the last time Scott
has has lost a kid.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Maybe that's a story for another time yeah, we'll do
that story.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
I've already done two .
Oh was it before.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
It was before that.
Yeah, yeah, that was a good one.
Uh, don't worry, we found herand got back to yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Yeah, both kids made their way home, so All is well.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Don't worry, that's the moral of the story.
You leave your kids with Scott.
They might get lost, butthey'll get found again.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
They will Let your kids wander.
It's the spirit of the world.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
That's right.
Scott and I didn't have muchtime before we had to go back
into Savannah to Christ Churchto do their youth.
We rolled up early forsomething to set up music and
stuff.
We finished that and went downfrom the fourth floor youth room
to the first floor for a quotecovered dish dinner, which is a
(23:57):
very fancy way to say potluck.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
It's a very fancy way to say potluck.
That was a very fancy way tosay potluck.
Right, it was such a coolchurch.
It was all stacked up, remember, and like it was in that one of
the squares and it was all like, yes, it was on the fourth
floor and then there was like asocial hall on the second floor.
It was right off of one ofthose squares.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Yes, it was a cool church.
Yes, it was.
So we got there a bit late, butthere was still food to eat.
We piled some food in and thenwe went back up to the youth
room with the kids.
We did our super creative MadLibs song and of course, they
loved it.
That's another thing we need tosee, if we can find the Mad
(24:38):
Libs.
So we made a song that wasbasically based on Mad Libs and
they could all fill in the wordsand then we would sing the song
.
Yeah, that was fun, it wasgreat.
We did a few more songs andthen we did the talk again, a
double header.
We were really funny tonight,maybe the funniest we have ever
been.
But man, some of the kids wererocks.
(24:59):
Yeah, they just didn't get it.
They didn't know, they didn'tknow what they were experiencing
.
The, the.
What lay in front of them wasone of the greatest things in
the world.
One girl in particular wouldnot budge, but then Scott
tripped over something and madesome comment, and that was it
for her.
She got silly.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
My, my basic youth ministry philosophy in case you
can't tell listener is if I'mhaving a good time and I'm being
silly and people are laughingat me, then they're not laughing
at each other.
And that's what I think middleschoolers and high schoolers
want.
They don't want to have to beworried about, but I think
(25:43):
everyone wants to be silly orhave fun but they don't want to
have to worry about it and it'slike, hey, he's having fun, he's
okay, I'm able to, now I can doit a little bit, yeah.
So yeah, that's that won't bedirected towards me.
That's a basic like overall.
Philosophy is just like let theroom, let the room lighten up a
little bit yeah, that's good.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
We had a lot of fun but we ran over time.
I guess some kids oh boy had tohad to bowl.
We never actually got to talkto the kids or hang out with
them afterwards because some ofthe adults came up and started
talking to us bummer rightadults.
This one couple we talked todecided to take us into their
(26:24):
sanctuary and show us the oldestchurch in georgia oh, we
thought cool, that is cool.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
It is cool, right?
Yeah, I didn't know that I'mglad you saw that.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
I didn't realize it was the oldest church in georgia
.
Hey, did you know that Savannahwas designed by King?
Speaker 1 (26:44):
George George.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
III, I think, george.
Yeah, is that why it's called?
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Georgia Probably, probably, but I'm guessing that
that's true.
Yeah, very slow, aren't we?
They didn't call it George.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
These people were odd in that cultish, over-involved
sort of way.
Don't get me wrong.
They were nice and we even gotthe church's folk group CD in
which the lady sang for, butthey were odd.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Well, we've talked about this before.
You have an ability to suck upall the like.
Hey, you strange person whoreally enjoys playing Dungeons
Dragons while dressed like awarlord and wearing that to
church.
You hang out with Andrew, yeahthey seem to be attracted to my
energy.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
For some reason they do Interesting.
Like you're too polite to walkaway.
Oh no, the church was reallymagnificent and that's about all
I can say.
Enormous organ, beautifulchandeliers and other great
church building things that Idon't know correct names for.
So trust me it was reallybreathtaking.
Love it, that's good Love it.
(27:53):
So that was a busy Sunday.
Two talks, lots of kids, lotsof food, lots of fun, lots of
Savannah Again like.
Tomorrow, next week.
I mean yes, mean yes.
Tomorrow in the story, but nextweek mrs wilkes boarding house
street lights the mostmagnificent meal in the whole
(28:14):
country.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Oh, it is my entire life.
It's one that I remember whatcould be so good.
It's one that I remember, don'tyou?
I mean, how many meals do youremember, like probably 15, 20.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Yeah, I don't know where I could like describe
details about it.
This is for sure one.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Yeah yeah, exactly so .
People go and you remember that.
And so one more little littlelittle aside there's this great
preaching illustration thattalks about you know, this guy's
calling to a radio show andsays oh, I hear these sermons
every Sunday.
I don't remember the sermon, Idon't remember what it said.
By the next Sunday, why do I goand do this?
And then a little while later,another person calls in and he
(28:54):
says man, I eat all these mealsevery day and I don't remember
most of them, but I keep eatingthem.
Why do I keep doing this?
I think I'd be a much differentperson if I've only had had
half number of meals that I have, and I think that's a really
good illustration for, like,there are things that just like
out of that talk right, thingsgot connected, things got
brought together and you're notnow going.
Oh yeah, because of that, Ithink this way, I act this way,
(29:16):
I do this thing Because of thatregular behavior.
I think that that all kind ofmakes those pathways there and
so, yes, but this is theboarding house.
That is one of the meals that Iremember.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
So I'm hearing two things from this.
That illustration, the personwho's saying if I had just had
half the meals, you probablywould be in better shape,
thinner, feeling good.
(29:47):
So I guess the parallel thereis don't go to church every
Sunday, right, just skip, likeyeah, just half the time.
That could be one takeaway forme, yeah, and correct me if I'm
wrong.
And then the other thing is um,if you well, maybe this is
related if you, if you just goto church and you get in the
habit of eating the meal and youconsume and consume and consume
, then pretty soon you'll justbe like fat.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Yeah, so you actually went the wrong direction with
that illustration.
So yeah, I know Surprising, butthink of it more like
starvation versus healthy, asopposed to overeating.
I didn't consider that.
No, you really didn't, butthat's because you're a wee
(30:30):
little man.
You probably can survive onjust one or two meals a week.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Just a left Twix and a pomegranate.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Pomegranatesate.
I like that choice.
Everybody next week.
This is what's boarding housebye.
(31:07):
Thank you.
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