And good evening. You're listening to Live from the Path on Des MoinesAmplified.com. Thanks so much for being on here tonight. What's going on around here? It's like a zoo in here already. People taking pictures, leaning over, looking at other stuff. That's not what happens at a zoo. I've never seen that at a zoo. Well, that's a good point. I have some peanuts with me. I was recently at the zoo. I was at the zoo on Saturday. What? I always check it. Leave me be. Okay. I was at the zoo on Saturday. I have no interesting anecdotes from that story. There wasn't anything going on at the zoo that was worth talking about. That's the Omaha Zoo too, right? Yeah, we went high class. That's a good zoo. I love that zoo. Yeah. We went high class with the zoo.

I went there on many, many field trips with school, so I get to go in free watching all the little kitties. That was fun. Have you ever heard of any animals escaping from that zoo? What's it called? Actually, I think I was talking about that. Henry Dorley? I assume that animals escape from that zoo all the time. The donkey escape? They have that big dome in that zoo, right? And I'm pretty sure that wild cats and things break out of there all the time. They just don't tell you. Yeah, they can keep that on the lowdown, I think. Yeah, they don't say wild animal on the lose. Please clear the way. I think they… You might come to our zoo. That's probably why they call it the Lied Jungle. Because they lied to you all the time. Is it lied or is it lead? Lied, lead. I don't know. I wasn't hooked on phonics. It's noticeable. Thank you.

Hey, man. Somebody recognized you guys already. You three handsome devils. Look at that. No one says, hey, there's Ben. There's Dan. They say, hey, there's Next Crossing on. Man. What's up, guys? I just kind of stand here like, what are we doing? Hi, guys. Hello, everybody. They say it's the Lied Jungle. It's not said Lied Jungle. Lied. That sounds right. Is that better? You said it wrong. I say a lot of things wrong. Okay. Okay, so here's what happened this week. So you remember me talking a couple months ago about that homeless guy? Oh, no. Okay, so here's what happened. So there was a homeless man.

Well, he claimed to be homeless. I was very suspicious of him. He posted himself at the Euclid McDonald's, and what ended up coming to pass is instead of praying for his betterment, I was going to set up a sting on him. I was going to put him under surveillance and see what he was up to because I wanted to know. So I felt bad about this for about a month or so, and then I saw him yesterday. Two days ago, I saw him, and he was hanging out at the Euclid Fairway, and I thought, well, he's changed locations, and I thought, this is the time, by Park Fair Mall. Oh, yeah, right. Yeah, okay. So I thought, this is the time to rectify this. So I pull over. I get out of the truck, and I go rocking over to him, and I say, hey, man, what's your deal? He says, my name's Bill. And I say, okay, Bill, what's up? And he goes, I'm homeless. I said, yeah, I read the sign. You know, what happened? The sign said, hi, I'm homeless? It said homeless vet. Remember we talked about this? Oh, yeah, sorry. Okay, so I said, so you were in the service. He goes, 77 to 81, and then saluted me.

I was not in the service. I didn't know whether it was the right time to say, I'm not in the service, Bill, or, thanks, man. You know, I don't know how that works. I don't know if you can just accept those. Just make up a number and see if he responds. Yeah, that's it. The 477 Airborne. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was in the Red Fox 72. I made that up. So anyway, I said, so you were in the service. He goes, yeah, 77 to 81. He was in the Air Force. And then, so apparently what had happened is I said, so what happened? You know, you were in the Air Force. He goes, yeah. I said, did you see any active duty? He said, no, I didn't see anything, and that's why the government won't pay me. I said, well, that sounds kind of rough. And then it went on further to say, I said, so where do you go at night, Bill? And he said, I have a tent set up at 42nd and Williams. I said, man, this really sounded legit. You know, like, I don't know what I expected. A professional beggar guy would be very likely to have a good back story. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

He'd be ready for that question. But the fact that, I don't know, that he answered me fairly quickly, I thought, yeah, you're on the up and up. I gave him five bucks. That was it. That was the end of the conversation. You didn't follow him home. No, I didn't. It was the middle of the day. I was supposed to be working. I pulled over in the company truck. Oh, man. So, anyway, here's what I'm saying, is that if you're going to question the motives of a homeless vet with a sign that says exactly that, you better be prepared to interrogate him a little bit more deeply than I did. Well, I mean, if he's a smoothie, as you think he is, he's just done a number on you. Well, and scammed you for five bucks. Yeah, but he's also knocked out his first four teeth to really get himself into character. So, that's the thing. If he's willing to knock out his first four teeth. Some dude found out he wasn't a vet. Yeah, yeah. You weren't in Red 477. I was in Red 477. I would know you. So, anyway, I checked him out. So, no longer to be blogged down by my mistreatment of this. Did you get a video of him saying, I have never listened to Live on the Path?

I did not. I did not. Yeah. You should have done it. I should have done it. You go back out. I'll get your video camera. I should have done it. I should have done a lot of things. I'm Bill from the Air Force 777. And I've never seen Live on the Path on Des Moines.Flight.com. Make sure he has a big smile. Yeah. I'll get him to say it. Have you guys ever had any run-ins with homeless people? Chicago. Downtown Chicago. I went to the Moody Founders Week several years ago. And, you know, it was a big thing in our youth group. We went down and walked around for a while. And, you know, you see some homeless people and you give them some money when you can. And then a couple years later, I ended up going back to this place. And you see the same people I did several years before. Same dude. Panhandling.

Yeah. One guy asked me, he said, I'll pay you the price of a hot dog that I can guess how many kids your dad had. And I said, well, how much is a hot dog? I don't know. It's just down the street. Two bucks or something like that. I knew it was a trick question. It would be like, your father didn't have any kids, your mother did, something like that. But that ended up going back. Did you guess that ahead of time? Because I was still kind of stumped. Well, when he asked me, I thought, well, there's got to be something else to it. I mean, if you're going to propose a question like that, you're going to have to have the advantage ahead of time. Of knowing the answer ahead of time? Like Jeopardy. Somebody else isn't going to answer that question. Do you ever find that Alex Trebek comes off being a little smug because he has all the answers? I don't know. Yes? Nobody? He's got cards there.

You're supposed to talk into this hand. Yeah. Is that what that's for? I think that's what that's for. Okay. Feel free to pass it around. Me and the musicians, you're probably not used to this high-tech microphone stuff. What is this microphone that moves? What is this crazy contraption? What are these cables coming out of here? What is this? Seriously, no one's put off by Alex Trebek. I think he does all right. Which one is he? I mean, I don't know. He does Jeopardy. Jeopardy, see that? Yeah. Are you not familiar with Jeopardy? Yeah, I remember him. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't watch Jeopardy. He doesn't think idly about it. It's so stupid. Why would I have to answer with a question?

That just irritated me enough I never watch it much. I'm just like, really? I know the answer, but I don't want to ask a question. Dan bombed on the premise of Jeopardy. Yeah, I'm just like, that's stupid. I don't want to ask a question. I think you tried out for Jeopardy, and you were kicked out directly, and you're just still a little bit bitter about it. I mean, they're like trying to trick you. Oh, you'll never get this. I'll have to ask the question. I don't remember hearing like a cackle or anything on it. Oh, that's what he's thinking. I can tell. It's in between the lines. I bet there'd be a good behind-the-scenes story for Alex Trebek, you know, who would tell like, you know, he always remembers like the top ten contestants in his mind of who would cause the most trouble or a real pain to be around. I bet they have to shave him back. Who? Alex Trebek. I think he's hairy. I think they have to shave him before they send him out. And he fights it. It's not that they have to do it, but he's still a real five-year-old about it.

Like, oh, come on. How much was the hot dog then? Two dollars or so, I believe, if I remember right. It's not bad for Chicago. True. Like it was a quality hot dog? Because the quick trip dogs aren't bad. I never actually tried the hot dog. Okay. So, uh. You know, I understand. I wouldn't go on a limb for you. They have those awesome popcorn places, though. We went to Ed DeBevick's instead. What's that? The popcorn places over in Chicago. I can't remember what they're called. That's a shocker. I don't know. That's details. That's details. It's popcorn, all right? It's good. It should be enough. Yeah.

Who cares what they're called? Who cares what the name is? I want some of that with butter. Have you, do you ever, do you buy the, what kind of hot dogs do you buy? We don't eat really hot dogs. I do the Hebrew, I do Hebrew National. I also buy the Hebrew National. Really? Yeah. I don't know why. A little kosher. No, because it's all meat. It's delicious. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, there's not like pig's eyes and stuff in there. That's it. I'm just frightened what's in them. Well, I know. That's why I buy the Hebrew National. Hebrew National. All beef. Although it's pretty pricey. Yeah. Relatively, yeah.

Yeah, when you make money like Ben. Yeah. When you're rolling in it like me, you can afford this white bandana and some expensive hot dogs. He's got a side house cleaning job. Who needs to be masculine when I've got big money? I'll have a meat amalgamate and sprinkle some gold on there. Well. With that. Clover segment. So with us in the studio tonight is Next Crossing. They will be performing here in probably another five to seven minutes. Five minutes? Five minutes. What time is flying? Okay, probably another five minutes. Next Crossing is going to perform. We have Corey, Phil, and Paul from Next Crossing. And they're going to entertain us. Frankly, we've got our nickel out of them on that hot dog deal. Yeah, exactly. You could bail and I think we could be cool. We're having those dudes on. Check that for YouTube. That's right. Phil with the hot dog.

Phil, you're a hero. I don't even like hot dogs. I didn't eat it. Phil, are you going to play the banjo? Not at this episode. Okay. Have you done it? I have. Phil is the banjo man, though. Yeah, I've been known to play a banjo from time to time. Now we have one song that I do play the banjo on. It gives it a neat little twist. And it's fun. They bring out a different instrument. Oh, yeah. You've excited them and disappointed them all at the same time. Check out these select quotes from the chat, right? I'm going to go two and two. So we say, is Phil going to play the banjo? He says, and then there is a, that would be great. And then I get a, too bad. How sad. No banjo today. I feel so bad for disappointing. You're like a roller coaster.

You knocked it out of the park with that hot dog deal. And then you're like, disappointing the masses with this banjo problem. Should have just brought your pocket banjo. Yeah, exactly. I knew it was a mistake to make friends with the banjo association. They're finicky. That's right. So I guess before we get to the, get to the tunes, where are you guys, where are you guys from? Go ahead, Phil. Well, I currently live in Oskaloosa, but I play with them and Boone for concerts and whatnot. Okay. I'm from Boone originally, so I was born and raised there. Okay, sweet. Paul. Paul. Here comes Paul. Boone. Boone. There's a lot of buildup for that. The suspense was killing me for a minute. Wait, Paul's taking the, thin black line of not disappointing or enticing the chat. I've seen what happens to dangle a carrot. If you hate Boone, I'm going down with him. Let's go.

So as a Christian man, this was something that we were talking about last week. Are you guys able to get out, you know, a reasonable amount? Are you able to find places to play? Or do you struggle with that, given what you're covering? So far, we haven't had any trouble finding any place to place. We've actually had to turn down some shows just because of our schedule with work and other things. So it's something that, you know, I wish we could devote more time to. We also lead worship at Cornerstone Church in Boone. Oh, cool. So on Sunday mornings at 11 o'clock, we lead worship there. Cool. What's the approximate address of that church? It's 111 7th Street. 6th Street. 6th Street. 111 6th Street. Paul does a one-man worship show on 7th Street. I do. It's over at the practice field. Until they show up in the band. That's the wrong way. It's the other way. Actually, every Sunday, it's the same story. Paul. Oh, right.

And there's Paul again out there with his guitar. I can't seem to get anybody here. Yeah, exactly. I'm reaching somebody. I just know it. Six weeks later, you thought somebody would have given them the right address. That's awesome. So how long have you guys been doing worship there? We've been together since 2008. That's about when we formed. And how many people were in the band total? Well, when I… Yeah, go ahead and turn. Yeah, when I came, it was Chris, who was the drummer at the time, and then Paul was playing the guitar, and then Tom was on bass. Awesome. So… Do you guys have a keyboard player? We do have a keyboard player. It's his wife. Yeah, it'd be my wife. Dang. Good luck, Mike. I could show you a picture. Of the keyboard?

Of the keyboard player. Oh. That's my wife. Yeah, she's better than me already, I can tell. Yeah. My best friend is a homeless man down by the fairway. Dang it. She's probably going to kill me for showing that picture, but… What, she doesn't like it? She looks very nice in that picture. I think she looks really nice, too. Debbie? Debbie? I think you look wonderful in that picture. Oh, Debbie. And you're awesome. Go Debbie. That's right. Go Debbie. Debbie. Debbie. Debbie it is. Debbie. Debbie. Debbie.

What did I say? Debbie? Like Keybler and Deborah, the same one? Don't say it anymore. Just give up on it. Is this a banana? I can't pull off saying Debbie. It's too bad she's not here, because we could have coached you before she came in. That's what we call her, is Debbie. You think I could beat her in arm wrestling? I think… Well, I don't know. She's pretty strong. Man, that's over two. That's pretty strong. Was she raised in Boone as well? She was raised… Actually, she moved to Boone. That's… We met when we were 15, so… Wow, cool. Yep. Dated through high school, and then she went to Provo to BYU for college, and then, like, two years later, both came back to Boone, and then we got engaged and got married. Wow.

Yeah. Is it touristy to ride the train? Do you do the… Do you ride the train? Once or twice. Once or twice. On occasion. Puffer Billy days. You say, Paul, we're holding worship on the train this time. Exactly. Phil's going to bring out the banjo. We are on the banjo riding the train. That's good American. So you just purchased a new soundboard? Yep. That's cool. What did you get? We got a Personas Live. That's what we're getting. Sweet. We're upgrading for the church. It is. Yeah, coming up. It is. It's a pretty sweet board.

We haven't got a lot of time to spend… You know, we haven't spent a lot of time with it yet, but… Are you hearing this? You can give it to us. Pathway Church in Johnson. I don't know about that, but… Did you get the 16 or the 24? We got the 16. We got the 16, so… Yep. I mean, the price jumped from the 16 to 24, and then… You get two 16s, then you get 32 channels. Yep. Yep. All right. Sounds like something I've heard recently. That's right. We're pitching… Okay. Sweet. Okay. I love it. All right. Well, while the guys get ready, they're going to get the guitars ready to go and do a song for us.

You know, I was going to… I thought it was interesting this week. I was reading on CNN, on CNN.com, and there was a story about a guy who's like some kind of modern-day evangelist, like… Jimmy Swigert? No, no. I forgot the guy's name. It was an interesting article about a guy that's, you know… That's the second time I've tried to get you to talk about Jimmy Swigert, and you refused. Yeah, I'm not biting. I'm not taking it up. But, um… What? You want to talk about Jimmy Swigert? Damn. Anyway… I got nothing. He has the same back hair issues as Trebek. We should have been able to tie it in. He enjoyed his back shave, though. One more time. Swigert. He sashays. It's guaranteed.

So, you know, but one of the things I thought was really interesting, the guy had a… His dad wasn't around when he was growing up, and so he got in line. There was a pastor that kind of mentored him and helped him with his walk with Christ. And there was a really cool quote in there, and I thought… I don't largely read news stories and think I want to live up… What are you doing? Get out of here. You took my microphone away. I'm going to say something sentimental. Anyway, so they were talking about… I'm going to close up on Mike's tear. The guy that was mentoring him. And he said something really cool. He said, whenever you're in a relationship with this guy, you knew that it was an uneven relationship. He said, you always know that you will never love him as much as he loves you. And I thought, that's a really cool thing to say about somebody. And I don't think I fit that bill. And it occurred to me at the moment that God definitely fits the bill. But otherwise, I certainly do not. But I thought that was something to think about and, I don't know, kind of move towards. You lost me five minutes ago. I'm sorry. We should have talked about Swigert. Huh? It would have been gold.

They're talking to me. Just ask him. All right, let's take a quick look. Can we see everybody? Oh, we're getting close. Yeah. We can't see Paul. Dan, tilt your thing towards Paul. Oh, I'm really busy here. I'm trying to become friends with all of you guys on Facebook. Okay, Mike. Oh, you were in good shape. We lost it again. How do I feel about it? Daniel refuses to share his camera. Okay. I'm good. Here, where do you want it? Okay. All right, fellas. They're going to start off. The first song, Noah, is I have written down as Hey Hey. Is it one, two Hays, three Hays? Just two. Two Hays, but with a possible caveat of a name change at some point.

Okay. I wrote the song, and then I was taking a look on the Internet, and I found that another Christian artist had already wrote a song named Hey Hey. So, I thought, well, that's not going to work. That's a rough go. Are there any thoughts on a possible replacement? Any thoughts, Phil? Phil is the witty one. Phil? Phil. You're in a real problem, because now you have to be witty on demand. On demand. That's great. Thanks, Corey. We do, actually, but we're not going to say anything yet. Right. That's all I got. Okay. I'm going to throw it out to the chat. Please pay attention to the song, and then after that, think of a witty name to replace Phil's non-witty thing that he came up with just there. Okay. You guys ready to go? Ready, yeah. All right.

Tentably, Hey Hey, next crossing. Go ahead, guys. Two, three, four. Hey, hey, where were you the day? I made this for you to see. Hey, hey, why do you turn the other way? Can't you see that this love is for you? I have made you for me. I have made you to see all this beauty around is for you to see. I have made you for me. I have made you to see. All this beauty around is for you to see. Why do you look so great? Can't you see that I'm here beside you? Hey, hey, hey, we're meant to live this way. Can't you see that there's so much for you? I have made you for me. I have made you to see. All this beauty around is for you to see. And I have made you for me. I have made you for me. And I have made you to see. All this beauty around is for you to see. Well, I have made you for me to see. To see.

I have made you for me to see. Very nice. What brought that one about? Like how did that one come to be? That song, obviously, just kind of usually for me, writing songs, it just kind of comes about. I come up with some kind of a rhythm with a guitar. I'm just strumming chords. And then eventually words just start to flow out. And I get a piece of paper and start writing things down. And usually just let God pour in through me. And the words kind of just come from him. And I was writing that. And the idea behind the song is just, I think that day I was struggling with, it was talking about, why do you look so gray? Can't you see me here beside you? I think I was going through a time where I just felt like, God, where are you today? Why do I feel so distant? And why do I feel like you're over there and I'm over here? And it was just a reminder song from God that there's more to life than just what we may see here, what's going on around us. The God's always with us. Very nice. Very nice. Very, very good.

I'm excited for the second one. We're going to have to wait. But I'm excited for the second one. All right. Well, Mike, do you want to try to get yourself resituated? He's like, sure. What do you want to want? Absolutely not. You got to wear that water. We'll see if this is Dan's adventure on not getting that camera too close to his face. Wait, your camera stayed, didn't it? Yeah. Hold on. I'm going to take the stick. Hey, Dan. You're looking good. Very good, Dan. Oh, really? But… There was a… What? What did I do? I didn't do anything. Here are the options. So we've got a lot of options here for the song name.

Paul. Daniel. Daniel, are we going to go grab that cooler out there? Absolutely. Thanks, Daniel. Paul, are you thirsty? I'll be the runner. I'm the bad runner. This is really strange. We don't usually get out of the studio. I did a pretty degree, though. I did a few guys, too. We must be the quietest group you've ever had. Did the camera catch Daniel's shorts when he left? Go for it. Go background music, Paul. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Go ahead, Paul. We're ready. Better do it. Whatever. We're waiting on Dan to come back. Daniel bought some shorts from a homeless trainer on the block. He had more earwax than he could handle. So we tried to sell it to Daniel.

And Daniel said, okay. Give me the earwax, my friend. And those shorts. Give me those shorts. And those shorts. Shorts. Give me those shorts. This is awesome. All right. Second verse, name is the first. Here, here. I'll harmonize with this. Go ahead. I'm the worst thing in the world. Go ahead. I'm ready. Shorts. Paul refused to be a part of such a debacle. No wonder. I will not participate. Seriously. I've been compared to a walrus in my singing style. I don't remember what we were doing. We were trying to record something at our ministry center thing. And everyone else had been there and was recording and adding to it.

And I thought, hey, I'm going to add to this deal. So I get in there and I'm going to be the bass vocal. Right? Because that's where you can tell the least that you're way off. And I can't remember what it was. But it was close to this right here. I love you too. A dead-on impersonation of what happened. Instantly, Shad came out of nowhere looking for a place to go. What do you mean? What do you mean? What? Oh, man. Shad has gotten me pegged as a terrible singer. All right. So here are the songs. So we got a lot of options on the song name. Oh, we got it. Now, here's the deal. The camera is still on you. So if you really hate it, don't betray it. Don't betray it. These people like you. Okay, cool. All right.

Here we go. We never did get the Wi-Fi working. We're like, yeah. Not in semi-approval with everyone. I like this one. We're a little slower here from Boomer. We're like, oh. Yeah. Yeah. Puffer Billy Anthem. Yeah. I like that. Okay, so here we go. Witty name for something. Oh, yeah. That's funny. It is funny. Call it, okay, beauty. Beauty. Or you were meant for beauty. You were meant for beauty. I have made you. Hey, hey, can't you see? Or just can't you see? Can't you see?

Or hey, hey, we wrote this first. That's not it. Yeah, I like that. That was mine. Let's see. Can't you see? Now I see. I think this excellent is in reference to how good the song was. Not a suggested name. Was gray an option? Gray? No, but I do like that. Yeah. Yeah. Beautiful gray. I'd like to vote for my own. Shades of gray. Don't add on to it, Daniel. Come up with your own. No one is seeking opinion of a man in those shorts. I kind of like it. Those shorts are growing on me. Yeah. I know it. It's easy to give them a hard time about it, but they actually, I mean.

They work, don't they? Yeah, they do. Yeah, they do. Yeah, they do. You're jealous. Plus, in case you need a tablecloth for your picnic. There we go. It's right there. There you go. Or a blanket for your infant. There's a baby wrapped in a plaid pair of shorts and a half-naked bag. I demand to know what happened around there. And there's only so many shirts I can wear with this, so it kind of limited my wardrobe for the evening. True. I can't wear black things because I have dogs, and they roll on my stuff. You have a, whoa, it's a black dog. I know, but she's going white on the underbelly. Well, I suggest you stay away from the underbelly. She sleeps on us. I started growing hair on my elbows, and I freaked out. Really? There's no reason for that. Is that a true story? Do you really have hair on your elbows?

Yeah. Look at these dudes checking. Hey, man. I got hair on my elbows. You should be freaked out. Can you show the camera? Daniel. What? Just wondering. Now I got to check. Doggone it. No, I think it's always been there. That looks normal. No, I grew a little. People online are going, oh, I don't know. Yeah, exactly. I think most normally with the way that you use your elbows, they go away. But I had one survivor. I mean, he was six inches if he was a foot. He was giant. He was tickling me while I was sleeping. Hey, you've used that the wrong way. What? You don't say six inches if it was a foot. Because that would imply if it's not a foot, it's not six inches.

How would I say it? It was a foot if it was an inch, is what you would say. I think I said it right. Yeah. If it was, it's a foot if it's an inch. So if it's an inch, then it is a foot. Not the other way around. It's a foot if Ben sings like a walrus. I mean. I'm still on Swaggart. Let me tell you something, Daniel. I don't do a very good Jimmy Swaggart impersonation. But if you shake your head Nixon style, people go, that's Swaggart. He feels it. What do you mean? Let me see. Wait. Show it to me. I assume that you would try to do a Jimmy Swaggart impression as if he was Richard Nixon. That would be my guess of what it would look like. I suppose they could both say almost the exact same thing. And both portray the same meaning. Did you give a 10%? The Lord up with the 15 while you were sleeping. 10% to the church, 5% to me.

That's terrible. So you've been listening to Live from the Path on Des Moines Amplified.com. Thank you so much for being on. We are in studio with Next Crossing, who is playing at the Spirit Midwest Festival on August 6th and 7th. If you didn't catch it, I would highly recommend last week's show. The shows prior to that point are very sketchy, but last week's was decent. And Julie and Al Barnes were on. Let me have that back. It's my nervous tick. Anyway, they were on, and we really had a great time with them in the studio. They were kind of at that festival, and it's very cool. There's 40-plus bands. It's at the corner of Fuller and Grand. Do you guys know Tim Cooper? I do know him. Would you say you're a friend of his? Well, we met him a couple times. I don't know. A ne'er-do-well? It's Tim Cooper and friends. We haven't actually ever played with their band, but we've played alongside with them. But they are with them. Julie says as soon as you meet Tim Cooper, you're a friend. Oh, yeah. I'd like to meet him.

Yeah, he's a very nice guy. He's going to be here. Is he going to come in studio? August 2nd. He's here on August 2nd with a potential friend. Cool. A potential friend? Oh, he's checking to see what friends can make it. Oh, gotcha. He did not say any names on the street, it sounds like. Hey, you guys know when he's going to be here. If you just show up with instruments. There we go. You're in. Tim would be like, hey, fellas. We were just here playing on the boardwalk. Exactly. The skywalk, whatever this is. We were taking pictures as we walked up here, riding the escalator. That's your next… We're from Boone. They don't have many of those. It's been Boone. That's a good question. Do you guys have a CD available or in the works?

We don't have a CD yet. We have just a rough demo. We are going to go into the studio. We just found out Riemann Music in Ames actually has a recording studio. We're going to head over there probably after the festival sometime and get in there to do it. That would be awesome. Have you guys played the festival before? Yeah, we played last year. That went really, really good. Yeah, except for that we were the one band that played and it rained on us. And then as soon as we were done, it was done. Could that have possibly been a sign from God? I think so. We still drew a crowd, though. Back to the drawing board, fellas. Yeah, exactly. The sign was, I wish those dudes were wet. It could have been. Is your style pretty acoustic like you just did? Or are you just kind of toning it down? And you're usually like, yeah. Well, we're not like, not grab, but. Yeah, Daniel, no one's going to admit to that. Well, you know, I don't want to shock people. Oh, that's a nice group of young men.

That's like when they come out to the bandit. That's like saying, look, is your normal style J. Crew or usually like a wallard in filth? Those are all detail things. I don't know. I don't know people. We're no demon hunter. What's that? I said we're no demon hunter. No demon hunter. Gotcha, gotcha. Do you know of their work? I have heard of them through Joel Pullen. Oh, I understand. Yeah, I understand. So normally these two, Paul and Phil, are on electric guitar. And so we've had comments that some have said we sound like Creed. We're not quite as rough as Gillet, I don't think, at all. But I'd say somewhere. Do you book some shows here around Des Moines? Yeah, we do shows. Where are all we played? Well, over in Boone, Cloverton, they just opened for Toby Mac on electric camp. Uh-huh. We got a chance to open for them over at Boone Cornerstone. Awesome.

They were on passing through. So if we buy this building I want to buy that we can have concerts and stuff with all the time when you guys come out? Definitely. Oh, see, we already got our first show. See? Well, good thing. Now if we can just get the building, we'll have two sticks and those shorts and we'll be halfway there. That's exactly. I was like, you could just stand out there and sell those shorts. I'll just say I will continue wearing these until we get the same thing for her. Oh, man. The same ones? I'm going on a path. That will not change. I'll give you 50 bucks. That's a start, isn't it? You don't have $50. I don't. Do you take IOUs? Dan, can I borrow 50 bucks? Wait, I forgot I was filthy rich. Never mind. I'll write you a check. Oh, hey, man. Julie's saying she can hook us up with 50 bands.

All right. We're in a good shape. We want to do this. I really want to do this. This is going to be cool. Okay. It'd be like our place. All right. So I guess for anybody that's listening that doesn't know, we're from Pathway Church in Johnson. We meet Sundays, currently at 10 a.m. at Wallace Elementary. You can find the church on thepathonline.org. I'd say Jared, our worship leader, he's kind of like a demon hunter. If I had to. And you guys have that style of. He's not on the chat. He's not on the chat. He's like, hey, wait a minute. I'm not the demon hunter. Sorry, Jared, you don't talk like that. It helped with how I delivered to say it that way. I can't deliver like you deliver. Anyway. Oh, yeah. He could stand there for demon hunter.

Anyway. You're too quiet, Phil. Say something. Phil, if you thought of something witty, you really were put into a corner of me. He is the witty. You've got me built up. I know. I got you all. People at the same time. Do you know any clean jokes? I'm leaving. Hold on. I thought of a good joke. This ought to be classic. Oh, hold on a minute. Did you just think of this? What was the joke? Dan. Oh, yeah. This ought to be classic. Dan's half co-writer. No, it was at the Bible camp. There was some kind of cheesy joke. Never mind. Doggone it.

I had it. Who said the joke? I don't know. Was it some kid? Or was it a speaker? Those kids are fun. They were good kids. So we played, me and Dan went and played at this Bible camp. We talked about this a little bit last week, and we finished it off Tuesday and Wednesday. And it was great. It was a lot like Demon Hunter as well. Yeah, yeah. I mean, it was pretty much a Demon Hunter concert. No, that's the second time Dan has referenced Demon Hunter. I'm just trying to sound cool. It was nothing like that. It was very much toned down and a very good performance as far as I know. Anyway, I thought it was great. It was fun. It was great. Yeah, it was a lot of fun. Phil the drummer dude was drumming. He was laying down the peats. Yeah, he was. Exactly.

Interesting anecdote, Dan. Thought I'd just throw that in. Make me sound important. Intelligent. As a guy. I can't even say intelligent. As a guy that took it all in. I was surprised. We did the Revelation song, and I was shocked that these kids knew it, and they really responded to it. I was like, whoa. Did you do Days of Elijah? Well, we did on Sunday, yeah. Sunday, yeah. Do you guys ever play Days of Elijah? We did. We have before. It's been a long time. Dan is the Old Testament rocker. He gets one Sunday a month, and he always picks out the most old-ish songs you have. Older Testament than that. Yeah, if it has to do with bones and oaths and swords. That's the song that Dan wants to sing. Dry Bones. Isn't there a song in Dry Bones?

I think Gunger Band or something. Michael Gunger Band. Dry Bones. You know, I was going to ask you guys, did we, anybody have any experiences? Last week, we were talking a little bit about prayer, and we got to talking about the prayer room, and, you know, prayer and the power of impact of prayer in your life, but I don't know, anything come up this week that stuck out with you on the prayer wagon? Mike, anything? Me? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I would say so. That's your voice. There are voices. That's the one. Yeah, you know, I actually kind of tried to concentrate really hard on my… Is that you? Are you kidding me? I'm sorry, just the whole concentration thing. Go ahead. No, that's it. I'm listening. Froggy's tree. I'm just glad you tried. Tell it.

Tell it, Mike. I was trying to have a moment. Anyway, I tried to concentrate really hard on my everyday, like, throughout the day. Look at this stuff. This is ridiculous. It's like, we're getting away pretty smoothly until you bring it up. Go back to business. Anyway, my everyday throughout the day prayers, you know, not just the major ones that you tend to hit throughout the day, but just my walking around praying. And, man, I find that I really like to do it in the car. I really like to just shut down the radio and talk to the Lord in the car. I think it's just fantastic. It's the only way to be. How's it going, fella? Hey. He prays, guaranteed. I've been hitting mine. I've been focusing on mine after I've been running or whatever, like attempting to run to better my health state. And I find out, like, when I'm totally winded and completely wiped out, it's a good time to seek the Lord's favor. Because I'm without any other gloss, right? I'm beaten down. I'm barely walking around. It's dark.

It's stinky. You're not looking good. It's really hot. I'm like, this is the time to be, you know, envision yourself approaching the Lord's presence and saying, I got nothing except for you. Let's, you know, whatever you got for me, I want it. Otherwise, I'm wiped. You know? And that's been helping. That's been helping. Like, it's kind of liberating. It's, I tend to run late at night, so I get to walk in the street, kind of in the middle of the road, as if, you know, I'm going to stretch out and do what I want for God here. Cool. You know? And I'm going to wait for it. It's going to happen. And I do. I like it. It's been well for me. And there was one thing. I know we, there was an introduction. I don't know if anybody's read the book, Crazy Love, but we, it's something we're getting ready to start in small groups. And one of the things he said was, you know, kind of envision as if you're standing.

Crazy Jan. Yeah. Yeah. That's a Jackie Jan. In, uh, envision like you're standing before God and like when you're praying, you know, really think of it. And, uh, uh, you know, I don't know. That changes, changes your perspective, I think, on how you approach it. So. Well, easy, good. Yeah. How about you guys, have you guys had any, uh, I don't know, any, any, any prayer experience that you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, once or twice. That's how you start. Well, so I'll, I'll, I'll set you up. What we were talking about last week, um, is we were talking about, uh, prayer being the great equalizer between, uh, the, the person, you know, following Christ and the person that doesn't even believe in God. Right. It's the, it's the same approach. It is just a conversation with God. And let's strip away all the things that we think about prayer. Um, any of the formalities that we think exist on it, any of the ways, well, this is how I'm supposed to talk to God and just have a conversation with your Lord and savior.

Uh, and that's what we've been talking about, you know, and, and, and really trying to get to what the heart of the matter is. And, um, cause I, cause I think sometimes it depends how you grow up. Um, you know, either you grow up away from it and you see the way that you see people pray, um, may give you the wrong impression of, of what your relationship with God is. Um, and that's, that's, that's terrible, right? Cause if you approach God in a non-relational way, you're missing out on the thing that God wanted the most from you. And, um, so, you know, that's what we've been talking about, you know, getting, getting prayer down to its barest core and just, just with God. So, uh, that's kind of what we've been, we've been pitching around over the last week or so. Cool. I was, I was, uh, I was actually raised in a, in a different faith than, well, it's, uh, a form, I wouldn't really call them Christian. I, I, I don't know. I hesitate to say their name cause I don't really want to offend anybody. Does that have anything to do with where your wife went to college? Yep. Gotcha. So I guess it's already out of the bag, right? Uh, yeah. So we were raised, we were both raised in the LDS faith and, uh, you know, in that faith, um, there's actually some type of a format for prayer and that you would address your heavenly father and then you would thank him for certain, certain things, blessings, just

like that. And then you can ask him for certain things that you need and then you close in the name of Jesus Christ. And, uh, you know, when I became a believer, it was, uh, in, uh, December of 2005. And, uh, I just remember, um, you know, actually having a relationship prayer with God, not so much of just going through the motions, I guess you would say, but actual, like a relationship as if I was talking to him. That's a pretty radical difference, isn't it? Yeah, exactly. Exactly. So. It's everything. I mean, really it's, I mean, that's the whole, the whole walk with God, you know, you're not, you're not, uh, you know, walking behind him and yelling at him, you know, you're, you're walking next to him. Yeah. Or can you imagine, you know, talking to your wife, you know, through, through everything written. Yeah. Uh, well, like, I think this doesn't work. Every time you walk in the door, oh, wife, what sayeth you today? I am here today to converse with you. Ooh. Exactly. Yeah.

It's, it's just kind of strange. It's like, you just want to talk to God, but you're like, okay, wait a minute. First let me go, okay, dear God. And then, you know, all these things. And it's like, how am I going to wrap this up at the end? Yeah, exactly. I don't remember. Now I just find myself, you know, just talking to God, just, you know, just little things all the time. Yeah. When I'm happy, when I'm sad, you know, just whatever it is, just like, hey God, you know, thanks for, you know, seeing whatever that made me happy today. Yeah. Just something, you know, little things even. You know, I, I, I don't know, I don't know where, I don't know where this is at in relationship wise with Christ, but like, sometimes I'll think of something funny in the car and I'll, I kind of half run it by him, you know, and then, and then kind of wonder if it's offensive. Like, I, I don't know. If you hear the little ch-chee. It's not like I'm looking for an answer, but I'll think of something, I'll go, huh. I go, Lord. And then I'll just be like, I'll just keep driving. I'm like, dad. I'm going to go, yeah. Try it again, Michael.

Try it. Try it again. The thing is, I already thought it. And he already knows it's there anyway. So, you know, it's better just to say, I'm running it by him. You know what, actually, this was kind of funny this week. You remember how we were talking about me getting a donkey? Because I wanted to be bad at it, you know, because it, because it caused all kinds of trouble. The woman says, what's going to happen is I'm going to buy a donkey and it's going to be a real complacent donkey and do everything I tell it. And it will be the complete opposite of the donkey I was looking for. Like a Roomba donkey. At the camp, we talked to some donkey owners this week. Yeah. And the thing we said was true. They, they basically just stand there all day. Yeah. We figured that we were talking about donkeys last week. Multiple weeks. You know what? And actually the week before. It's kind of our theme. Sweet. They're like life's pin cushion, you know?

Like when you come home and you've had a bad day at work and that donkey is standing right in front of the driveway and won't move, you are way more mad at that donkey than you would be at anything else that happened out through the day. So we figured if you get a donkey, there's no matter what goes on in your life, at least you can say, that donkey, you can always just be a little more upset at him than you would be at a donkey. Wearing out the grass. That's the catch 22 though. The wife said, I'm going to buy a donkey and he's not going to be stubborn and he will do everything I tell him. He's not going to be cordial. He will. He'll be super proud. He'll try to nudge his nose in the door. Can I come in? I'll come out in the morning, he'll have my car washed. I buffed it, senor. Don't sell my donkey legs. Donkeys. It's fair. Hey, so I'm going with a negative consent here. I haven't heard from Julie about having this donkey booth at her thing at the Spirit Midwest Festival. So I'm going to assume that's okay. Yeah.

We might be next to the turkey legs. Our big blow up donkey type inflatable ride. Yeah. Something like that. No, actually we were going to sell actual donkeys. Oh, actually sell donkeys. Donkey meat. It was a guilt proposition. Donkey meat. Like we were going to sell live donkeys and then if no one bought it, we were going to sell donkey meat. Oh man. Sounds like it. Okay, Paul's in. I'll go down with you. I'll tell you this. Donkey dogs on the side. I knew beforehand that Paul would be. Maybe we should call him Hebrew donkey. It'll go over like hot cake at this festival. Yes, that's right. Next to the coffee and delights. Yeah. That's us. I like it.

Coffee, delights, and friends. I'm going to have to say yes, Julie. We're going to be there. We're going to have to get some coffee. She's for it, huh? All right. I'm going to hit you with a recap of where we're sitting. You were listening to Live from the Path on Des Moines Amplified.com. We are in studio with Next Crossing. Their website is Next Crossing Band. Dot com. It's a cool website. Paul, did you do that? What? Did you do the website? No. Who did the website? I thought you were accusing me of making some kind of snapping. What the hell do you do? What the hell do you do? What the hell do you do? What the hell do you do? Paul, did you do a website? Did you do the Spirit of Man West song? No.

We have a really good friend of ours. Chris. Right. Yes. My embarrassing mistake that I've done live. There's one. Paul, please design a website so that I'm not a worse person for the next week. Guitar slash donkey shop employee slash website designer. Chris, okay. So, Chris. Can you design some donkey t-shirts for us? There you are. Because we're looking for that, too. Okay. Please do not run them by Dan first. Please let Ben or I see them before it's approved. See what I can do. Can you fit more plan on the donkey? Just some stripes on that? So, they are at next crossing Ben. We'll go with some plan. Are we talking about the thing on the donkey? I don't know. Okay. Nextcrossingben.com.

Decked out in plan. It's slick looking. And there's music on the website. Yep. Right. You'll listen to it. There's photos, I believe. Also, photos of last year's Spirit Festival on there, Chris. Do we have photos? I think we did get some on there. I think we have some of them. I recently viewed them. Okay. So, we don't even know what's on our website. I like how I'm assuming an un-narcissistic you fellas are. We don't even go and look at it. Do we have a website? Do we have a website? We have pictures. Do we have pictures of this now? We have a blog you can go to and comment on and read. The blog is slightly outdated. It is slightly. But you can catch some of Phil's wittiness on there. Is that your wittiness, Phil?

That is. I guffawed. I didn't laugh out loud, but I went. Peace in your head. Oh, my God. I bet that's Phil. That's Maxa Phil. Was that offensive? All right. So, again, next crossing will be at the Spirit Midwest Festival on August 6th and 7th. Are you guys both days? Or do you know what day? We're going to be on Friday night. On Friday night? Yep. We're the last band on Friday night. On the media stage? On the main stage, I think. Main stage. Main stage. Al, where are you at with this media stage? Is it media or main? It's going to throw me off. Okay. Spirit Midwest Festival.

You can check it out at spiritmidwest.com. It's got the full list of bands. 40-plus bands. It's free. Absolutely free. Absolutely free. Price is right. We're going to cut… Maybe. What? Mike? What's that? He's still thinking about the donkey. He's over here like… You make him sound like cheap hot dogs. You know, price to move. All right. Well, we're going to cut you guys loose to go ahead and play one more tune. Sure. And this one is… Grace Amazing. Grace Amazing. My handwriting is terrible. It looks like grave America. Great.

And this is grave amazing. This is grace amazing. The idea behind this song is that, you know, it was the night that I was reading through Revelations and, you know, God, and there he describes the New Jerusalem and what it will be like. And then it will be like streets of gold and there will be jasper and emeralds and a place that, you know, we can't even hardly describe. So, and this time, and when I was writing this song, this is an idea of that, so. Great. Cool. My fears are gone. No more death. Life eternally. Christ the risen Lord. That's my King. Yeah, yeah. With you where you go. Take me to your home above. Yeah. With you where you go. Take me to your throne above, yeah. Said you gon' make a place for me. Laced with golden sweet jazz for skies and emeral walls will be. And all around for eternity. Yeah, yeah.

You go. You go. Take me to your throne above. Take me with. Very nice, guys. Thank you very much for being here. Thanks for having us. We hope to see you again. Yeah. All right. We'll look to have you back in. And definitely catch up at the Spirit Midwest Music Festival, August 6th and 7th. Yep. Yeah. I would love to. Yeah. Thanks for coming in, guys. Yeah, thanks a lot. Great to meet you. We're going to. I'm going to show you a quick movie and why we're switching some stuff out. And what I'd hang on to this and watch this and really maybe a question is, which Jesus are you following? You know, and I think this will help. I think this will help put in perspective, maybe, which Jesus you may be following and

which one is accurate. So please enjoy this and we'll be right back with you. I am walking in the dirt. Hey, Peter. Peter. I am walking in the dirt and the rocks and the… Huh? There's Jesus. Huh? Jesus isn't a rock. Hey, Andrew. Man. Andrew is my friend. Andrew. This way. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Hey, Jesus. Hello, my son. Have a seat. Hey, Jesus. I was just sitting here with my stick enjoying the sunshine. Jesus, I thought we were playing hide and seek and you weren't hiding.

No, Peter. I wasn't playing hide and seek. I only told you that so you would leave me alone. You see, I'm Jesus. I'm an important guy. I have important things, heavenly things to think about. You're always bothering me with your problems and this guy's talking about what he wants for Christmas and… But, Jesus, I thought you are our friend. I am your friend. I just don't have time for you. Oh, man. Hello. Welcome to the first Christian church meeting. Here are the rules. Rule number one. Spend all of your free time in church. Rule number two. You're not allowed to have any fun unless you're laughing at how dumb the devil is. Rule number three. Wear t-shirts with my face on it. Rule number four. Always smile and act happy. And finally, wear a stylish beard like mine. I knew it!

Jesus! You said I could if I gave up all my fun and grew this beard. Look at my… Well, I heard that you missed the prayer meeting for a silly game. But I had tickets to the Super Bowl, Jesus! Incredible! Lose your lights, throw down, kick the field goal, and the ref's hands is good! Be quiet. Football! No. I can't believe my dad showed up. How embarrassing. Oh, crap. My fake beard fell off. They're totally gonna kick me out. Er, wait. Is… What's he saying? We're all going to play football or something? Yeah, football. Yeah. You can be a Christian if you promise to burn all of your footballs and never miss church again. Promise? Do you think he can fly? Here he comes.

It's time for me to tell you all what you've done wrong since I last saw you. And don't try and hide because I'm Jesus. I will find you. Let's start with you, Peter. You lied to your mother the other day. Andrew, you said a naughty word when you hit your finger with a hammer. James, you laughed at him when he hit his finger. Moving right along. John, you drank too much wine the other night. Not way too much. Enough to make me angry. Matthew, we fell asleep in church, didn't we? Yes, we did. And Thomas, you were slow dancing a little too close with that girlfriend of yours. Let's see. I forgot your name, so you're off the hook for now. Philip, I saw you smoking a cigarette behind that big rock the other day. Thaddeus, I hate to say I saw you stick up your middle finger as someone who cut you off when you were riding your camel. Benjamin, you aren't wearing your WJD bracelet. Jacob, I don't mind you saying my name, but not after you stub your toe. Frank, you know what you did. I just can't repeat it because I'm Jesus. All you sinners, come with me. It's time to pay the piper. There's only one cigarette.

I heard that. Listen up. Listen to me. I'm Jesus. Listen to what I have to say. I have done many wonderful things. I have healed many people of diseases. Performed many miracles. So that I can tell you this. You're all evil. There is no hope. That's it. Hey, everybody. Look at me. I have the holiest donkey in the world. I have never had so much fun in my entire life. All right. Stop. Get me off this thing. I walked on water. I think I can walk to the door. Hey, Jesus. Will my donkey get into heaven now? Just. Just one moment of peace, please.

In the name of me is going on in here. Yeah. He said that to me. Can you believe it? And so I says to Keith, I says, listen. I'm a Pharisee. I got mad ladies lining up around the block. What? Meese. Oh, man. We're going to get it. You're not supposed to be having fun. You're supposed to be praying and reading your Bible. And you guys, how do you expect to get into heaven by playing board games? Whoa, whoa, whoa. Act cool. Hey, guys. And these three think they can get into heaven just because they dress like the wise men. They said he was pretty mad. Well, I'd be mad, too, if I had to trot around the desert in those sandals. Have you seen them? They're so BC. You know, Rome's not only the most powerful nation in the world, but we're also the most stylish. I mean, do you know how cool you look? Why, thank you.

No problem. Repeat after me. Thee before thou except after thine. You know, I think your feather plume is poofier than mine. Well, they look the same to me. What do you want me to do about it? I hope you don't think you're going to the dance on Friday. Ahem. Parasite thugs. Stirring up trouble. Let's go check it out. Ahem. Yes. My associate and I were wondering. That is to say, we were hoping you could get us into heaven. We know a lot of Bible verses. As you can see, we're very nicely dressed. Nicely dressed for a camel dealer, maybe. I mean, I think you got that outfit from the temple lost and found. Well, I think he made that robe from his mother's curtains. Which money do you have? Some more. No, I'm sorry. You'll never get into heaven now. You had your chance and you blew it.

I'll be gone, man. Sucker doesn't even realize I get coins. We are back in the studio. Thanks to Next Crossing for coming in. We had a great time with those guys. And now in the studio with us is On This Rock. They're going to come in. They're going to entertain us some more tunes. We're overly blessed with tunage tonight. I'm pretty excited about it. Mike, how do you feel? I agree. It was either this or Dan and his kazoo jug band combo. I've been practicing all week. Yeah. I'm disappointed. Sorry, guys. Have you ever seen a good jug band? Actually, I don't know that I can say too many bad things about a jug band. I've seen some kitchen bands at some retirement centers before. They're pretty high quality. You guys all saw them at the State Fair once. They're very entertaining opposed to what you might think. Although, you know, why did the 3Xs become an international symbol for booze? Yeah.

Yeah, there's homemade moonshine in here. Is that kind of like a poison thing? I don't know. I don't know. Is it of Latin descent? Ben, what do you know about it? I know nothing. I've not heard. I would do the Google search, but if you Google XXX, it's not going to turn up very well. So I'm going to have to just leave her be. What could you possibly get? I'll have to ponder it. Duly noted. That's something I will never get to find out because some other guys absconded with the XXX and done vile things with it. Now I don't ever get to know. Agreed. Olsen, can you look? No. Is that wrong? Yes. Put it on some kind of filter. They've got filters for stuff like that. Yeah, I suppose they do. What was that video?

So for those of you that hang through the… Olsen's not looking. That a boy, Olsen, stick to your guns. For those of you that hung through the break, so I think we're going to… I'm going to play that again next week because we'll have a similar situation where we've got to kind of swap out. I thought that was really funny. And it basically has to do with what people think about Jesus and what is actually true about Jesus. So it's interesting. It's pretty hilarious. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They're pretty funny. So I don't know. Common misconception. What are you doing? I was actually… The first time I saw it until I watched it again. And then I think I got what they were getting at. You know what I'm saying? Like the first time I saw it, I'm like, Ben. What are you… Don't make fun of Jesus.

What are you doing? You know? We played those at church a few years ago and there… Yeah. There was a couple people that thought it maybe wasn't all that funny. Most of us were though. So they were drowned out by the laughter. I thought it was all right. Yeah. I thought they were funny. The guy that they used to do with Jesus is really funny. He's very squirrely. It's pretty funny. It's pretty funny. You guys… Did you guys catch it? You guys… No. We were moving. I think it's on par with the farting preacher videos. Have you ever seen it? Oh, yeah. Robert Chilton. I find it equally amusing. I can't stay on my chair.

It is… It is… Yeah. It's… Whenever I'm having a bad day, I just put in a little Robert Chilton. It's the biggest… I think I showed you that. Old man-ish thing. Oh, yeah. I just can't stay in my chair. What a geezer. Me and Martha talk about it all day. And then she'll do it, and I'll say, you're like that preacher. Those whippersnappers. It's the bee's knees. You been to Daniel's house? All the time. We got that voyeur site now. Dan. Daniel. What? Sorry. Pastor Dan Hudson. Pathway. That doesn't mean, you know, XXX.

No, that's true. That's true. The word voyeur has been absconded with by naughtiness. I don't know why you're peeping into people, fully clothed or otherwise, but I'm just saying, again, it does bring to mind inappropriately things. People that don't know they're being watched do funny things. That's the thing. Like Daniel picking them shorts out in the morning. You look at all your choice, you go… They look perfectly well. Definitely. This is going to work for me today. This is going to be the coolest day ever. I'm going to be styling. My legs are going to shine. Were you ever able to pull off riding a skateboard? Moderately. I mean, yeah. I never did the fun stuff I wanted to do. Like, you know, do dudes… Yeah, because I never got going very fast. Do the world around and pick it up? Yeah, I didn't do any of that stuff. You fellas? Anybody skateboard?

Yeah, I was a… In junior high, I was a skate punk. And we always get kicked off the streets. They made a rule in the city I grew up in. And we had to skate on the sidewalks, and we were always getting thrown off the streets. We'd pull our ramps out there. Oh, yeah. So you were pretty good? I didn't say that. Okay. All right. I thought I was pretty good. Don't make me show you. Okay. You're some kind of lethargic street punk. Just hold the skateboard. What are you going to do? I might ride it. I might not. I got a skateboard, a shirt with a snake on it. Street punk or not. You still do that? Like, if someone came up with the skateboard, I mean, would you feel reasonably confident that you could pull it off? No.

Okay. No, I've tried it a few times with some of my son's friends that have skateboards. No, it's not. It doesn't happen. You know, the skateboard of the street, you know, personal transportation, the skateboard kind of developed into the roller blade. And, dude, there's just nothing cool about the roller blade. Like, the skateboard seems like you're not doing near as much work. You know, you get on it, and it goes. But the roller blade, you've got to put a lot of work into it. And there's dudes wearing sunglasses. And I don't know. It just doesn't look near as a cool way to get around. Yeah, I was in New York a couple weeks ago, and the skateboard is making a comeback in terms of emotive transportation. These people are, like, street surfing there. Yeah. I mean, there's boards that are, like, literally, like, three feet long, and they've got wheels out on the sides. It's like a monster truck skateboard. I mean, just a big old honking wheel. I mean, they stick up above the deck, and there's, like, a monster truck tire on a skateboard. And they're standing in the middle of these boards, and you can see the whole board just flexing. And they just, you know, cruise with traffic right down the street.

These guys are going, you know, 10, 15 miles an hour, just weaving in and out of traffic on these big, you know, street surfers, I guess, whatever they're called. You think skateboard taxis? Quite a possibility? You know, yeah, if you've got the balance, you know, you sign a little document, just hop on behind the guy, and you just push, and you just go over town. See, I was going to do an impression here of a taxi driver, and I'm backing away from it. That's good. Because I know exactly what I would do, and it might be frowned on. Way to turn on the filter. There it is. That's nice. I'm sorry. I'm just reviewing the chat. James Dean, why do you keep saying, hey, Dan? What? Hey, Dan. Hey, Dan. Hey. Okay, sweet. I don't think if James Dean knew where that conversation was going, he would have started it. I don't know where to go. Anyway, you are listening to Live from the Path on ThePointAmplified.com.

Hey, Dan. Hey. We're in the studio with On This Rock. They're going to be at the Spirit Midwest Festival on August 6th and 7th. Do you guys know what night you're on? Friday. You're on Friday night? Yep. Do you know the stage? We don't know what stage, and we don't know what time for sure, do we? Julie, you really string them along on this deal. I want my money back. I can't say it. I got a strange email today. It was from Dan Hudson, and he said, dear Julie, please reply immediately. And I want answers now. Hard Rock Stage. Otherwise, I'll rollerblade over to your place. And Trouble Will Brew. We're on the Hard Rock Stage? Yeah. Yeah. Hard Rock Stage. So you guys must be… We better bring our A game.

Hard Rock? No. So, like, would you, how would you, if you had to classify yourselves in some sort of genre, what would it be? Yeah. Mostly folk and opera is mostly what we try to do. Awesome. That'll go over well on the Hard Rock Stage. No. I mean, you listen to some of our harder songs, and there's definitely an influence of hard rock bands of the past. The guitars have maybe kind of an ACDC vibe to them or something like that, you know? So the message isn't quite what that band's message is. Right. Would you say Foghat influenced you at all? Not really. Yeah, I could see that. If you'd have said otherwise, I think we would have cut this short. Wait. Slow ride. That's Foghat. That's all they got. Take it easy. There's not even… There's nothing to it.

Hold on. They repeat the words like 50 times. Slow ride. Slow down. Again. Slow ride. Hey, Dan. So where are you guys from? Mostly the Urbandale area, most of us, but we've got a different… I'm from Wintershed. Oh, really? And our bass player's from Ankeny. From Ankeny. Not with us tonight. I'm a transplant from South Texas. Yeah. Got transferred here for my job. But he's lived here forever, so I don't like… What is it that you do for Bunny? I'm a federal agent. I work for the U.S. government. That's awesome. We weren't going to talk about it. Can I ask more about it, or… That's all I can say.

Is that it? That's all I can ask. I'm a U.S. postal inspector. That's awesome. What is it? Like you inspect the sites themselves, or do you inspect the packages? We weren't really going to talk about that. I want to know more about it. What's in there? I do a dangerous male investigation. Drug and… Do people ever put it inside of a pineapple? That's what I would do. Because it's its own weapon. Hey, Kev is ready for you. He knows the pineapple looks shady. Doesn't let it go through. Yeah, I'll have to get later. Yeah. Dang it. Now what am I going to send it in? You're on the no-fly list. What do you… Why are you shipping it? What about a long toenail?

Like if I sent a big toenail. Is that a problem? Six inches at least. Honed it. I mean, it's obviously a problem. Okay. Oh, that sounds all right. That's the Department of Health and Safety. That's also that category. I could say I'm using it as a cheese knife. What would you know? Wait. Maybe they do know. It's Kevin's job to know stuff like that. He can pick out a cheese knife from a honed toenail. He's from the government. He knows. I'm never going to get away with anything now. That was my best two ideas. Oh. Pineapple and honed toenail. Maybe the pinky one. I'm not sure. What's it as a calligraphy pen? You think you could do that?

It's kind of gross. He didn't say whether you approved it or not. Can it be done? Why don't you just use the pen? I don't know. So, you guys, is the acoustic thing something you've done before? Like do you play stuff acoustic or is this? We only did it a couple times just for the coffee shops because, you know, when we drag all of our stuff into the coffee shops, it wasn't going over real well. So, we tried the acoustic. I mean, yeah, it works well for us because we do worship in our churches and stuff too. So, you know, that's a route that we take quite a bit, you know, in worship. So, it's not like it's unfamiliar territory for any of us. Okay, cool. Well, I tell you what, let's go ahead and let's get some cameras and stuff ready and we'll let On This Rock take it over. So, they're going to give you an acoustic tickle and then they'll be appearing on the hard rock stage at the Spirit Midwest Festival. So, I want to know, on Facebook, when I type in On This Rock, there's three separate groups. I'm really disappointed. You're one of them? Yeah. Our picture is, you'll be able to tell who we are. I mean, our picture is there.

They're small. Yeah. Okay, old man item number two for Dan. These people are really tiny. Let's see if this is it. We were the original. Everybody else just kind of copied us. Yeah. How's this game, right? There's actually a Southern Gospel group that's named On This Rock and then about three or four years after we were a band, there was another group from somewhere south, Georgia, Mississippi, somewhere down there. Their name is Upon This Rock. Tricky. That's just rude. Yeah. I think he does too. Or arm wrestle. Did you take a look at these fellas? Could you arm wrestle them for the name if you really needed to? I'll do that job. Kevin? With the full force of the American government. I've done all the research.

We're fine. We can. I can definitely make a few calls. He's got connections. So, you guys would be the ones from Des Moines, Iowa, I'm assuming. I hope so. Jeremy. Do you know how to use Facebook, Daniel? Can you not broadcast your dullardness to everyone? What? All right. I quit. All right. I'll turn it over to you guys. This is On This Rock, and you guys are doing Don't Watch the World Go By. You take back all the things that you said and done that you don't really mean. Would you walk with me all your days and take a leap of faith? Put your trust in me. This life aims to pass you high if you let it go. Don't really try. Hold on to me and see all the pain in the world and the people that'll die if you watch the world go by. Don't watch the world go by. Don't watch the world go by.

Don't watch the world go by. Don't watch the world go by. Some people just ain't satisfied if you could see past you and your life to see my world for a while. Don't watch the world go by. Don't watch the world go by. Don't watch the world go by. Don't watch the world go by. Don't watch the world go by. Don't watch the world go by. Don't watch the world go by. Don't watch the world go by. Don't watch the world go by. Don't watch the world go by. Some people just stay satisfied Very nice, guys. Very, very good. Yeah. Do you guys have a CD or anything? Yeah, we handed it to you. Well, no, I got the one you gave to me. Call him a Weisenheimer, Dan. That really nice professional-looking one that you got. I'll take it. That's very nice. We have a four-song demo is all we've been able to produce so far.

Okay. Any plans in the future for something like that? Yeah, we've talked about it. It's something we'd like to do. Cool. Yeah. Cool. Very, very good. I like it. We've got enough material to create a 10 or 12-song CD. Do you cover anything, or do you pretty much just do originals when you're out? We cover 8 to 10 songs, but we've got 16 originals, but about 10 of them that we do on a regular basis. Cool. Yeah. Not an overabundance of original material, but enough to do a decent set with. Oh, sure. Sure. Do you guys… Next time. Is there a particular place that you guys play? I mean, do you have a spot or, you know… The tomb.

The tomb. The tomb. The first part of this year, starting from January through about March, we played about the most we've ever played. We played about 8 or 9 times in that 3-month stretch. We were playing 2 or 3 times a month, and things were going real good. And then I kind of… It was a period where I needed a break and some time off, and it kind of killed some momentum, but we're coming back, and we're firing back up doing our usual summer tour, Spirit Midwest, and the fair again, and then… Do you guys play the Anderson-Erickson stage most times, or…? You know, that was where we started off. It was the Channel 5 stage. They call it the Lakeside stage is where we started off, and then we graduated the Channel 8 stage last year. We played there. Actually, two years we played there. And we played Bill Reilly stage. The first year, we moved up to the Channel 8 stage. We also played the Bill Reilly stage that year, too, on a Sunday morning,

and we played the Channel 8 stage Sunday afternoon. We typically always play the first Sunday of the fair. And this year, we're playing on the brand new… Well, not brand new, but it's the newest Susan Knapp stage. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And we played there the first Sunday of the fair at 4 p.m. So, I'll be off. So, how does that happen? Do you contact them, or do they say, Hey, we hear you're a cool band. We want you to come play, or…? We contacted them the first year, and I think, you know, as long as you don't totally stink it up, they'll invite you back after that. That was an embarrassment. Well, there's a banner for the website. On this rock band, we didn't stink it up. We don't totally stink it up. Dot, dot, dot, apparently. I see T-shirts. Yeah. We don't stink it up. That fair's kind of a sweet gig, though. I mean, you do get to, you get a lot of people kind of bopping in and out, people that maybe you wouldn't have a chance to get in front of

and can come out there and enjoy your music and maybe not even, you know, know what they're getting out of it, so… It worked out real well, especially on the Channel 8 stage. It's more in a central part of the fair, and so there's a lot of people walking by, and, you know, some people, yeah, at least stop and listen for a little while, and the Channel 5 stage, there was nothing wrong with that stage. It was a great place to play, but it's, honestly, it's over in the corner of the fair, so unless you have a reason to be there, you're not going to really be over there, so it's nice to get out and get to play on some of these stages that are more in the middle of the fairgrounds where you're going to actually catch people walking by that may not have a reason to be there. They're just walking around, so that's nice. Remember when I almost got arrested at the fair? No, I don't remember that. It's when we played at the fair. They had us play at the fair one year, and I had a convertible very similar to the one that I have parked at the Ministry Center, so it's like a 25-foot boat of a vehicle, a Ms. Giant, and I parked it in a regular parking space, and we were playing at the Anderson-Erickson stage that year,

and we get done playing, and I go up to get in my rig, and it's gone. They say, towed it away, and I thought, what happened here? So I go rocking down there, and I say, hey, that's my convertible, you know? Why is it in the impound? And they said, it was hanging over the parking space. Like, it was too long. You know, I said, well, I pulled up as far as I could. They said, ain't gonna do it, and we need you to come with us. And so we went with them, and they sat me down because I had a baseball bat and shish kebabs in my trunk. They were trying to get me on concealed weapons. I was like, well, you know, what kind of ragtag violence man keeps a baseball bat and shish kebabs? You know, have you seen a horror movie with this fella? Because he's not frightening, you know? Just don't try to mail him. Yeah, he's like the MacGyver of a troublemaker, you know? It's like, I'll just take whatever I can use and then start swiping a dude. And duct tape.

It cost me like $300 to get this thing out of the impound. It was outrageous. But I had to do it because it was a giant car, and it was very obvious. Yeah, yeah. And I was certainly guilty of whatever they said I was, except for them concealed weapon chargers. I had a ball and a glove, too. They didn't mention that. Yeah. They just wanted to get me on the bat. That's hilarious. So what you're saying is if you really do plan to assault someone with a ball bat, ball and glove along. Yeah, be ready. Have you figured it out. Be ready for an explanation. Here's what might happen. Hey, sir, what are you doing? Just looking for a game, coach. In the middle of the downtown dumpster? Yep. No one here. One could break out at any moment. So, okay, let's pretend there's, like, an old guy in the room

who doesn't, you know, all by the way to fall off his chair. Let's do that. What is the tomb? The tomb is a location downtown here, not too far from here. 6th Avenue. Yeah, 6th Avenue. And they have, was it Saturday night's Christian band night, or was it Friday night? Friday night. Friday night. I thought it was Friday. Yeah, Friday night. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, yeah. Yeah, they have Christian bands on Friday night starting about. It's supposed to be from, like, 8 to midnight, but usually somebody starts playing acoustic around 7, and then the midnight thing usually gets blown way past that. You know, usually, like, when they invite us into play, you know, they'll say, oh, you can close for us, you know, and you'll be the last band. You'll go on 11 o'clock. And so, you know, we get there about 10.30, and then about 1 o'clock, the last band before us will be wrapping up, and we'll go on about 2, you know,

and I usually come crawling home about 6 in the morning. Nice. Every time we play at the 2. So, no, but it's the guy that's running it down there, he's got a good heart and a good idea, so I think they'll get it figured out one of these days as far as their timing and amount of bands that they have in. His band's child. They're playing at the Spirit of the West. Yeah. Heavy stage, yeah. Cool. They're heavy. Hopefully they're on a heavier stage than us because they're heavier than us. They're mega heavy. Yeah. Is that what you would call it? Mega heavy? No. Mega. Super heavy? Double? Super heavy. Real. They skateboard on heavy.

Yeah. Skateboard taxi. That's a cool band name. I'm in. Dan, you want to join it? I'm in. Do you want me in your band? I think so. I think everybody heard that. You're in. We're committed. You guys, so we were talking about the name. Is this the first name you've used? On this rock? Yeah. Yeah, pretty much. I mean, it's been our name for, let's see, my oldest daughter's six years old and we've been in this band since before she was born, so. Eight years probably? Seven at least. On this rock has been her name for probably at least seven years. I mean, we've been together for probably about eight. Okay. Any other bands you guys have been in where you had different names that were interesting? No, I mean, we called ourselves The Attic for a little while and then we were kind of

in limbo for a while trying to find something else. Was there a metaphor to The Attic? Yeah, actually there was. The members of the band at that point in time were Alan, Tim, Isaac, and Kevin, so we spelled the name A-T-I-K. Oh, because I was more thinking a place where people put things they don't want. Right. And I thought, bummer. Yeah. Yeah, so that was, it was just an acronym for all of our first names. And then Isaac left and, you know. Ruined everything. A-T-K just didn't make any sense. What are we now, Isaac? We could be. Yeah, he left his shoes behind, too. Does somebody still have them? Smelly shoes? No, I don't know what happened to those shoes. Well, you know when you leave without your shoes. You're in a hurry. It was time to go. It was time to go. This is not working for me. You see a man running without shoes, you run with that man.

Not that he ever wore shoes, hardly. A few times he did. Maybe we're giving Isaac too much credit. I very rarely go barefoot. Me neither. Like, I have to be coaxed into it, like even if we're going to the beach or something. I'm not much, I don't do sandals. I don't walk around. But yeah, I pretty much have socks on all the time. So my daughter, she's 13. She's big into doing fingernails and toenails right now. She has business cards and everything. I mean, she's like really into this. Has bought a bunch of tools on eBay. And she's been trying to do my nails forever. And I'm like, no. So a couple days ago, we're sitting downstairs and she's just, you know, looking like all defeated. No, there's nothing to do. And I said, do you want to do my toe? My big toe? And she's like, I let her do my big toe. Because no one will ever see it. Unless I have thought I could die. And then we're going to be going, dude.

But I have a big Hawkeye thing on my right foot, big toe. This is going to be awkward, but I'd like to see that toe. I agree. Have you ever, what's it going to take, Dan? Well, well, as long as we're taking offers here. Hey, I can get skateboard taxi to play at your next event. I did pull it out at the Spontaneous Brain Freeze tonight at, where did we go? Cold Stone Creamery. Cold Stone Creamery in Johnston. And my wife is a little bit embarrassed that I pulled out my toe in the middle of a nice cream shop. I'm pretty sure it's not the toe that's causing the problem. It might not have been. What are you doing? You said you wouldn't come to this one. You said it would just be me. I don't know if you guys saw it, but Phil from the next crossing band, he has a giant big toe. I mean, it's humongous. He was wearing sandals. Did anybody see his toe? I do not. I told him so. I do not have a toe fetish. If he goes back and watches, it's not going to surprise him, because I told him he had

a giant. I mean, it's monstrous for a man his size. I don't know where he gets such a big toe from. I think I would refer to his king toe if it was mine. King of the toes? King toe. Not king of the toes. King toe. It could go either way. It could be an Egyptian name or king space toe. I would refer to him as Marlon. I wouldn't want to be on the bad side of the king toe by calling him Marlon. Tim, you wear sandals? Nah, I try not to. I'm not a big foot person either. I'm mostly, I'm with you. I'm in socks most of the time. You do thick socks? Yeah, what kind of socks do you wear? No, I'm thin socks. And if I'm on the beach, aqua socks, you know, are nice for the beach. Yeah, those are slick. Yeah. You also wear those in the dude showers at camps and prisons. Right.

I'd probably be a happier guy today if I had done that in the past. You don't even go barefoot on the beach? Well, see, the last time I was, well, no. I go barefoot on the beach here, you know, but I try not to. If I get in the pool, I go barefoot because aqua socks just kind of look stupid in the pool. If by stupid, you mean way cool. But, you know, Nike had some aqua socks. I thought that was kind of a fashion statement, you know, you just wear your Nike aqua socks and you can just jump right in the pool with those things. I think people start to expect a lot out of you aqua socks, like you own the water. You know, but if you're a terrible swimmer like me and you're wearing these aqua socks, and then it just kind of looks ridiculous. Like, I spent way too much money. It's like those guys that have real, you know, expensive high output running gear, but they're the guys that run that kick their feet out back on either side of them so they look like some kind of weird penguin rucking down the road. That's the exact same deal with the aqua socks. You better know how to swim if you're going to buy them. I don't go near the water. I just like the socks. Very comfortable. That's creepy, Dan. No, I'm just, yeah. Oh, you're saying someone else might say that. That's not true for you.

I would not personally agree with that. I understand. I'm not doing that. Jeremy? Yes. You let your feet out? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I have to walk around bare feet at home all the time. Are you barefoot right now? I don't want to look because it's going to be weird. I checked it out. He seems all right. No, my wife makes fun of my feet. She thinks they're really ugly, but I think they're actually very. I get that, too. I think I've got good looking feet. His wife tells you about his feet? Yeah, it's kind of weird. How does my wife know your feet? I don't know. No, I don't. Have you seen Jeremy's feet? I wish I had them all the time. Kevin? What's that right now?

Kevin, are you allowed to go barefoot in the post office? No, I'm not in the post office. Man. I'm very interested in your line of work. Thanks to Richard Reed. Can't go barefoot in the post office. Yeah, really. You get one Yahoo. I hope he doesn't do anything crazy with a white bandana. My signature masculine look is going down the tubes if he does. I don't look good in this. I'm balding, and my head shines in these lights. They're not made for balding, fellas. So I have to cover it up with this Aunt Jemima rag. There, you like that? You really dig on that? I think that's great? I enjoy it. We're going to get the syrup as a sponsor. Yeah, or that stuff from the Holiday Inn. Do you guys get to stay in a hotel? Yeah, really. Like, for what? Sorry, for the festival. They don't let us in.

No, we all live here in town. Yeah. But not considering that we live five minutes from where we're going to be playing, they probably won't spend the cash to put us up. Okay. I think Julie said they would. Well, not with that attitude. You've got to aim a little higher than that. It's going to be quite the haul in here, fellas. Listen, we're going to put us up. In the Holiday Inn. Julie's going to have to put us up at the Marriott. That's right. The Marriott, Julie. The Marriott. Come on, Julie. Have you guys ever stayed at a Holiday Inn Express? No. No. Pretty much all Marriott for me. They don't have the cinnamon rolls. I sleep on air and air only. You know, I stayed at the Embassy Suites once. I shouldn't say I stayed. I walked in, and they looked at me like, dang, we left the door open.

And then I was like, they said they didn't. They probably just said you're late for work. Yeah. That's not how you get in the kitchen. Dust pan, Mr. Foost. Dust pan. Where's your bandana? Aw, man. This pearly white doesn't get dust on it. The dark one. Oh, we sleep at the campgrounds. There is camping. On This Rock is playing at the Spirit Midwest Festival on August 6th and 7th. There's 40-plus bands. It's free to get in. There's rumors of a donkey stand selling live donkeys at this thing next to the… Selling live donkeys? We're opening a donkey stand. Julie's pretty agreeable to it. We just threw it out there, and she really went for it. She hasn't really said no. How much is a live donkeys go for nowadays? $3.50. Does that seem reasonable? No, you're out.

I'm out. We do a payment plan. Yeah, exactly. I mean, we bought it for $30. I mean, we've got to spend a profit. Let's just say we're not taking any home with us. Yeah, can you rent them? Well, for the festival, yeah. Yeah, you can borrow a round on them. Here's the deal. You can try it before you buy. You can ride on them. And then if you like them, you can keep them at $3.50, and we'll do a payment plan. If you don't like them, but you're hungry, we'd be willing to make an arrangement in the following day. Give us a few hours. We can turn around a donkey leg or whatever. But if you just approach a gentleman who says the master has need of this or something like that. I'm afraid we're going to have to give it up, but I don't like it. We could maybe do a promotion for you on stage if we could ride one up there. Yeah, absolutely. Does everybody want one? We're going to need some more donkeys, fellas. Will you wear our donkey t-shirts? Yeah. Oh, yeah.

If you've got a tank top, I'm more of a tank top whenever I'm playing outdoors, you know. Tank top, no sandals. I don't look very good in the tank top. I didn't say anything. I'm not even looking very good in the teacher these days. Tank tops for girls. Is that what you're supposed to say? Are you supposed to say cutoffs if it's a dude? Those are type words, aren't they? Tank tops for girls. Nobody can hear you over there in the corner. Austin, please, please elaborate. I said, aren't tank tops for girls and cutoffs for guys? I have a hard time saying that I would be looking through my closet and go, I should wear a cutoff today. I don't know. I don't think I'm going to. What is that supposed to be? A white meter? Yeah. What is that supposed to imply? That you're so manly someone stole your sleeves? I'm too tough for these sleeves. I had to cut the things off. They can't contain me. I told them if they don't act right, I'm going to get them out of here anyway, and they split.

If I happen to flex at any given moment, the sleeves are gone anyway. I showed them my toenail, and they said, that's it, I'm out of here. I ripped them off, I drew a snake, I got my board, and I headed out. Where's my donkey going on stage? Where's those guys that sell the donkey? What's the rumor? Sorry. I was talking about some kind of rumor. Oh. What do you, um… Shoot. Gone completely. How far is the reasonable length to grow your sideburns out? What do you mean? Depends on the era. We'll call it now, today and now. Like horizontally? I'm not sure about today. Yeah, not towards the eyeball, but towards the chin. Oh, down? Like, if you're not going for a beard, you just want sideburns. I'd say right at the bottom of that tip of your ear. That's where Kevin's at. Kevin's about middle of the ear. That's solid.

Yeah. Let's see what else we got. That gentleman, the security man, he's a little high. Ooh, both security men are a little high. There's three of them. Three security men. See? Young buck in the back there has got it down where it belongs. He's got the wolf talons on the back. On the back of his neck. You've got to watch those wolf talons. Mine grow uncontrollably and start to curl. It's fairly embarrassing. Have you ever had somebody give you a haircut and then not shave your neck appropriately? Yes. Like, so they cut the back of your… They cut a line in the back, and then there's like a one-inch separation, and then it's wolf band all the way down the back. I don't know how that could be overlooked. Like, that's the most disgusting part of a haircut. But when you could look in the mirror… I didn't notice you had hair growing up your back. I mean, yeah, I don't know how that happens. Yeah. I mean, when you look in the mirror and see stuff like fraying out on each side of your

neck, you're like, boy, I've got to get in there. And then you go in, and you come home, and you're like, yeah, oh, it's the same situation. Nothing really happened. Except for now, it's really obvious. And then they want a tip. Yeah. I always give them a tip. Olsen, I think things are fine. You've got three dudes on the prowl. Olsen is the real estate man for this building, and there's been happenings. There's been a defecation on the first floor subway, and an apparent break-in at the pizza joint over here. And, you know, Olsen, things are good. Things are doing great. We've got an eye on the place. Yeah, you've got three guys all patrolling in the same area. Top-notch staff. We don't know about the rest of the building. Right here is good. Yeah, if there's trouble, it certainly isn't going on here. So things are fine. The two short sideburns look like they mean business. The other guy? Yeah. He's long for the ride.

He might have a purse. I don't know. I don't know the man. He probably doesn't have a purse. That was just a joke. Do you guys all go to the same church around here? Not all of us, no. Not all of you? Three of us go to the same church. I go to church there in Winterset. In Winterset? Yeah. In Winterset. And you said you lead the worship at your church? On Saturday nights, yeah. We've got a Saturday night service and two Sunday morning services, and I lead the worship on Saturday night, and then I play electric in the second service on Sunday mornings. What church is it? Where does it meet? New Hope Assembly of God, 6800 Townsend Avenue, right in the middle of Urbandale, Iowa. Sweet. Cool. Sweet. Very good. Saturday night service.

What time is the Saturday night service? His dad's actually the pastor, too. Is it? Yes. You think I could beat him arm wrestling? How's the old man at the old arm wrestling? I don't know. I think he's got you. I think he's got you. His dad played basketball for Baylor. He had a full ride. That's 0 for 2. McDonald's All-American High School. Boy, that's not good for me. I was going to arm wrestle the guitar player's wife like an hour ago, and he said she could whoop me. So this is… How old is he? 57. Man. How old is he? Back in that era, you had to be really cool to play basketball. What if I grow my sideburns longer? Then you think I might have them? Yeah.

Yeah. That's what it's going to take. The question is, could he be intimidated? Yeah. You know, they do have an arm wrestling contest at the fair that you could enter. Do you have to pay money? I don't know. I just heard about it the other day. It's 75 cents. It's that plastic dude right in front of the arcade. I've told you time and again, sir. Today's not your day. Take my money. No, I was telling my chiropractor the other day about playing at the fair and telling the time we're playing. And he said, oh, the arm wrestling contest, or whatever they call it. Yeah. Showdown. Wait, so he's going to watch, or he's participating? It's right before we play, or it starts a couple hours before we go on. Yep. And he's like, well, hopefully it'll be over in time, so I can come watch you guys play. Really, arm wrestling's that exciting. I like a man that has priorities. He's like, boy, I really hope it's done, because I'm not leaving early.

I mean, I know Over the Top was a great movie. The man says it's like a switch. It's like a switch. You know what? The funny part was, I tried that exact same joke today at work, and it went over to a universal pan. Two people didn't get it, and the other two didn't think it was funny. They've never seen it Over the Top? No, the two of them haven't seen it, and the two that have seen it must have thought that I didn't give it any justice. I said, it's like a switch. And then I went, and I switched it. And then I pretended it. I mean, slow motion, the whole shebang. Every comedy element was there, and it was universally panned. It was hated. I haven't seen that movie forever. You're missing out. Okay. Yeah. I've never seen that movie. Really? I've never seen that movie. Never have either. He's a long-haul truck driver?

I've seen that. He's got one of them pump irons. He's driving the truck, and he's pumping an iron? Drew, not only have I seen it, I own it. I had to buy two copies, because I goldened one. It was for like, you know, four. Here's eight bucks. I was walking by, and there was. I had to buy it. Thanks to the packs of gum, as you check out. They're just trying to blow them out. But, pack of gums, $2.99, and that DVD was $1.99. You know, that's the problem when they start pricing movies at like, four or five bucks. You can't barely pass them up, you know? You're like, man, I saw that movie halfway through once on cable. I suppose I better get it. I mean, speed seven. I mean, you've got to know what's going to happen, but all the players involved, it's going to be pretty solid. Did you see the second speed? No, I didn't see the first one. It just didn't get me going. The runaway bus and whatever. I thought, really? It didn't look like it was going that fast.

I don't know. Sixty miles an hour, I think. I mean, it's just like, I don't know. There's bombs and whatever? It just thought it was stupid. I thought speed one was okay. Seriously? The second one was like a runaway boat, and I was like, man. Yeah, I saw part of it on TV when I'm like, wow, I sure missed that one. Yeah, I didn't see anything cool. There was a second roadhouse, which apparently was terrible. First one. You were listening to Live from the Path on Des Moines, Amplified.com. We are in studio with On This Rock. They'll be playing at the Spirit Midwest Festival on the hard rock stage, and it was on Saturday night. Friday night. Friday night. I got to start writing stuff down, or writing stuff legibly when I write it down. But if you go Saturday, you will see some good bands, too, I'm sure. Yeah, it looks, this festival just looks really cool. There's 40 plus bands there. It's absolutely free to get in. Plenty of money to spend at the donkey stand. We're doing an arm wrestling display as well.

Really? Hard rock stage. Yeah, it turns out that Skateboard Taxi is going to do it against each other. We've turned from friend to foe. I'll get you. You can catch archived shows of Live from the Path on livefromthepath.org. You can also, from there, there's links right on the front page. You can get to our YouTube channel. You can sign up for the newsletter. We're digging to try this newsletter. Right now, there's five people signed up, and that's because I knew Dan's email address and my own, and Mike's, and my wife. That we haven't done? No, I sent one out last week. Did you get one, Dan? I did not get one. Yeah. I think my junk filter filtered it out. Live from the Path in the garbage. I was like, you know that newsletter's going to be bad when your unknowing, no personality computer goes. That's garbage. That's total junk. Get it out of here. We're not letting it go in.

I signed my wife up for it automatically so I could get more people on it, and she really put up the business. She goes, I don't want your junk newsletter. How do I know what you're going to put in there? I'm like, man. Anyway, you can sign up for it there. Please do so. So I don't feel so alone. There's a link to the blog, and you can sign up for the podcast. Just to reiterate, I understand it's a two-hour show. It's late at night. The podcast is the way to go. You want to download it, listen to it in a week. That's cool. So that's where you can catch Live from the Path. We are from Pathway Church. The church website is thepathonline.org. We meet on Sundays at Wallace Elementary at 10 a.m., and we'd love to see you out. But if you're looking for a church, and more importantly, if you're looking for a relationship with Jesus Christ, we'd love to see you out there and talk to that. We are going to post the performances from tonight on the website. Yeah, we'll put them on the YouTube channel. We'll post them on our website as well. And then I'm going to make sure we get some to you guys, and you guys can do whatever you want with it.

So hopefully it's something that works for you. Frankly, I'm very excited. This is going very, very well. Everybody sounded great, and I'm pretty excited. It sounded good. Yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, they're also in the room. Right, but I'm just saying what everybody else hears. Oh, it's fantastic. Obviously, it sounds good here because we hear it live. I'm saying what you're picking up through our modern technology sounds pretty good. Okay. Awesome. That's good to know. All right. So what? I see Dan, and I think Sarsaparilla. I don't know why. I don't know why. I can't explain it. Moving on. Did you guys, now, if you saw Dan on the street and you didn't know his name, what would you guess his name to be? Roger. Roger Bull Hurley.

Now, if you combine the two and you have Roger Bull Hurley, that's the coolest name ever. I kind of like that. I really like Bull Hurley. Is that, did you just come up with that, or is that used elsewhere? Haven't you seen Over the Top? I've forgotten. Doggone it. I told you it's been a while since I've seen it. Apparently, all the cool people sit on this side of the table, because you knew it was Bull Hurley from over there. He's not bald enough. He just needs… I can take care of that. Now I've got to watch it. I'm going to have to go rent or buy it. Next time I shave my back, I'll just keep going. I don't even think there's an added comment to that. That's just folks at all. We've been in studio with On This Rock. Their website is onthisrockband.com. They've got… There's some music. Is there music samples out there? I'd look at it, and there's photos. On the website, on the MySpace, and on the Facebook, so wherever you go, you're going

to get inundated with our four-song demo. Okay, sweet. And more to come at some point. Actually, if you go to the MySpace, I shouldn't have said the MySpace, because there is a really cheesy copy of a new worship song that we wrote on there, which I need to take that down now that I've mentioned that. I'm going to go out there directly. Probably. I've got to get more of this cheesy thing. You probably get like 500 hits tonight. The one song I posted on there, because I don't figure anybody really visits our MySpace page anymore, because it's kind of like MySpace was yesterday's material. So I put it on there, because I was having trouble emailing the song to these guys to listen to. So I was like, okay, I'll put it on the MySpace, so everybody can go listen to it. I never took it off, so I need to go take that off. Dan, are you going for it right now? I don't do MySpace. I'm on their website, though. Okay. You go to the media tab on our website, which our website, by the way, was created and designed by our bass player's son, so he's pretty handy for a junior high kid. It looks nice. It looks nice. I was out there earlier this week.

It's very nice. It's very nice. Well, cool. All right. Well, we're going to get some stuff situated and turn something back over to you. Let's see. The song I have is New Walk. Yes. Right? Is there a story behind this one? Yeah, this song is just a story about salvation, is what this song is about. Okay. Okay. Very good. You'll hear in the lyrics, hopefully. All right. So we're going to turn it over to On This Rock with the song New Walk on Life in the Path. Didn't tell about something you should care about. There's never a reason to walk away or have a doubt. Some may laugh at you, and friends may never understand. I know he cares for you if you just reach out and take his hand. I know this life can be rough, and getting up can be so hard after a fall. If you're lost inside and you feel the pain grow. If your heart's grown dry and you know the rain's about to fall, don't slip away and let this chance pass you by. And with his nails scarred hands that lead you safe to the other side.

Now this new life doesn't fit the mold we used to. He's saved you, and he washed away the stain you, the sin behind you, and a life ahead in him is found. So never forget the price that he paid to save you on that cross. I know this life can be rough, and getting up can be so hard after. If your heart's grown dry and you know the rain's about to fall, don't slip away and let this chance pass you by. With his nails scarred hands that lead you safe to the other side. If your heart's grown dry and your rain's about to fall, don't slip away and let this chance pass you by. With his nails scarred hands that lead you safe to the other side. Awesome, guys. Thank you so much for being here. That was on this rock on livefromthepath.com. Austin, Tim, Kevin, Jeremy, thanks so much for being here, guys. We appreciate it. Thank you. Yeah, we'd love to have you back. They will be at the Spirit Midwest Festival again on August 6th. They're on the Hard Rock stage on a Friday night. It's free to get in. It sounds like it's going to be a great concert. I'm pretty excited for it. We will see you there. To everyone out there, thank you so much for what you've been watching live from the path on demoinamplified.com. We'll be back with you next week. We'll have another couple bands from the Spirit Midwest Festival Inn I'm excited for. Again, the video of the show tonight and the performances as well as the podcast should be ready somewhere tomorrow afternoon. I'd encourage you to go out and check it out.

Have a wonderful week again, and thank you so much for listening.