Hi friends, welcome to another episode of that sounds fun. I'm your host Annie F. Down. So happy to be here with you today. The music in the background. It's from our good friend Mr. Drew Holcomb. His new album dragons just released and it's incredible. I hope you've gotten a copy.

Today on the show of pastor that I love and respect and have enjoyed his work from afar, but also we were in college together at the same time. Just another Georgia Bulldog on here for you guys. That's how we're doing this fall. Lots of Georgia Bulldogs if I can help it. David Platt is a pastor. You probably know mostly from his teaching maybe from his book Radical or any of his subsequent books that he has written. The brand new one that comes out tomorrow is called something needs to change and you'll hear me tell him this, but this book really changed.

I'm so grateful for it. And just so glad to get to sit down and chat with him. I mean, it's been a while since we were in the same room, but I was super, super happy that we got to chat. I think you're really going to enjoy this. You know, I like to warn you when I can and I think this is a note taken one. So I think you may want to have the ability to take some notes on your list. And so with that warning, no one what's coming here is my conversation that I think you're really going to love with pastor David Platt.

David, welcome to Nashville. It's great to be in Nashville. Thanks for being here. What else are you doing while you're here? Just a variety. It's like a day trip. I flew in this morning flying out tonight. So yeah, just knocking out a bunch of these friends catching up with your people. That's right. Oh, man, that's so good. It's good. Like, yeah, it's pretty convenient to be able to sleep my own bed. Yeah. Kiss my kids. Good night tonight. Right. And be in Nashville during the day. Let's talk about traveling for just a little bit because I have some real questions about it. Tell me.

How you feel about airlines. Are you loyal? I have been loyal in the past, but that's kind of changing. Why? Well, because I'm not traveling as much as I was domestically. And so that's where. So internationally, when I'm traveling, I go overseas three or four times a year, but I'm really just looking for like best flight options. Like when I go to this country, that partner doesn't really work as well. So I'm about to lose. This will be the first time I'm going to be in Nashville.

I'm about to lose my like I've got it through the end of this year, but then I'm going to lose my all my all my perks. Oh, bless your heart. They're going away. Suffering. I'm going to be a normal person again. A normal person. Okay, but I read your most recent book that we're going to talk a ton about because I loved it. And you fly coach. Anyway, yeah, it took Adon arm Judson 114 days to sail to India. Yeah, right. I don't need to be complaining about a 17 hour flight. So anyway, I'm a huge

fan of the Wild West, which is just like a thing about me. And I think all the time when I'm out there, like if I'm flying to California, I went to Colorado this summer. I'm always like people's their whole like family story was about this thing. I just did four hours.

Well, that's what I think about. Yes, what I think about even when we've watched with our kids, like we used to watch like Little House in the Prairie, old.

Yes, it was like, man, I don't think I could have made it. Right. It's just a, yeah, anyway, I'm pretty weak.

Compared to pioneers, the real deal pioneers. Are you still drawn to this kind of stories?

Well, I mean, not necessarily. I don't know if I would call myself a Wild West enthusiast, but I mean, I'm definitely drawn to stories.

Like I just mentioned Adon arm Judson. I mean, pioneer, say his name slower. Who are you saying? Adon arm Judson.

That's not a real name. So yeah, no, he's he's great. So he's first, well, not the first one of the first missionaries who went out from

the United States. He went to India, met up with William Kerry there and moved to Myanmar. He and his wife and

what years that's yeah, this would have been. Oh, this was the 1700s. Don't quote me on that for sure. I can't believe I just did a whole biography on him.

But you wrote it or read it? Well, I did like a talk. I read a gray biography on him and then did a talk on it. 1700s is good versus like 2005.

Yeah, yeah, I was a long time ago, but it's amazing. Now it was costly. I mean, his first wife died. His second wife died. He had numerous children died.

I mean, so that kind of pioneering and never I'm first every missionary who either who'd gone to Myanmar,

had either died or left and everybody was like, don't go there. And he went there and they gave their lives there. And like today,

there are thousands of churches that are like directly traced. They're letting it back to him for climbing the gospel there. So that kind of pioneering, like I, yeah, yeah, I could go on a story after story about people like that.

Yeah, tell me the difference now with missionaries.

Well, I mean, it's just a different world, like you, the access to be able and we were just kind of joking about flying. I mean, we can we can get anywhere in the world.

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