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Hey, what's up everybody? Thanks for joining us on the Daily Drive. I'm Mike Bro, and I cannot believe

that summer is nearly over and school is getting ready to start,

or perhaps it's already started for some of you.

And I've been praying for all you students who listen to this podcast, not only that you

would be a light in your school, but that you would find a network of close friends to do life

with, and that your life at home would flourish with your parents, with your brothers

and sisters, your grandparents, your extended family, because we were all meant to do life together. And although there is a ton of research

about the value of connectedness, I don't think we need a bunch of studies to show that people

are pretty lonely these days. You know, I taught myself how to play guitar. I only know five chords

still to this day, but one of the first songs I ever learned to play was an old Beatles song called Eleanor Rigby.

You may have heard the song. Those of you are older probably know the song, but the chorus of the song went,

Oh, look at all the lonely people. Where do they all come from? Oh, look at all the lonely people.

Where do they all belong? There's a lot of lonely people out there

these days. I know I've talked about this before on the podcast, but has anybody ever been to the

Redwood National Forest? I haven't been there yet, but man, I really want to. These beautiful,

massive trees, and do you know that these huge trees that soar up to 300 feet tall have a root

system that only goes about five or six feet deep? That shocked me when I read about that. And here's

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