On your mark, get set, go. You are about to take part in the cannonball run.

If you don't know what that is, well I'm glad you stop by. We're going to talk about that day.

Welcome to Free For All Friday here on the Council of Trent podcast.

On Mondays and Wednesdays we talk apologetics and theology, but on Friday we talk about

whatever I feel like talking about.

And today I want to talk about the Cannonball Run.

I think its actual full name is the sea to shining sea

memorial trot the Cannonball Baker sea to shining sea memorial trophy dash better

known as the Cannonball Run.

Now I thought about the Cannonball Run because it is a cross-country race,

an unsanctioned, illegal cross-country race, I will say. And I I want to talk about because my family and I

we went on a not a cross-country trip but we drove pretty far across the country

with three kids in our minivan maybe one day we will win the cannonball run.

I doubt that if I tell you what's involved in trying to do it.

But we went across the country, oh by the way, tip for road trips,

get your kids coloring books. Even for our older son we got him you know a kind of more complex

coloring book and he he liked it. They just were in the back there they're dueling away so when you're on a road

trip with kids right we were rotating were rotating between Rosary, songs, we put clean comedy on for the kids. I like Brian Regan for them. A little bit of Jim Gaffigan as long as he's being clean about it. So we'll rotate through

different things. Audio books always something fun to be able to listen to with the

kids wayside school stories but I'm not talking about road trips to the kids

talk about the Cannonball run. The point was we were driving across the country. I started talking to Laura about it and so I thought hey be fun to share with you all since I since it was previously on my mind. So according to this article, the Cannonball Run

is an unsanctioned speed record driving across the United States.

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