Mike's Pope-style advice: the Jonah story, part 1
Ben hands off explicitly — 'Alright. Mike. Mike's got some advice... tell a story' (seg-00484) — and Mike's ~15-minute story follows (diarized under speaker-0, a label merge; attributed to Mike via the handoff). Prepping for youth-group season while reading Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire, Mike learns a kid he was close to has died in a car accident; two weeks of spiritual flatness follow. His wife tells him to read Jonah instead of picking himself; he reads Jonah 1:1-3 aloud — 'what kind of idiot believes that he can flee from the presence of the Lord' — and realizes 'this said man is me.'
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