We pray without ceasing, so we never stop, technically.

Yeah, yeah, that's good.

Alex, Duke, thank you for being here, brother.

I've been looking forward to this, and I have been such a fan of the way.

We're going to talk about several things, but first of all,

the way you put together a beautiful podcast called Storms in the Desert, you are, I haven't

known, Marshall introduced us, and I haven't known you long, but what I do know about you is you are definitely a storyteller at heart.

When did you first start? When did you first realize you're a storyteller?

You know, it's very kind of you. You didn't prep me with questions. No, I never do, my storytelling. I wouldn't do that. Metal. You know,

maybe regrettably the answer to your question might be, might be sad. So my parents got divorced

when I was 10 and I had a lot of time on my own as a kid. You know, I don't mean to paint

some like sorted picture. I wasn't, you know, I don't mean to paint some like sorted picture.

I wasn't, you know, I wasn't all over twist or anything living on the streets.

But, but I found a lot of solace as even a young middle schooler in going to the movies.

Or going to Blockbuster, which is like a brick and mortar Netflix.

You know, so I, I have to wonder if the Lord hasn't in part redeemed some of that,

you know, that just natural knack for constantly trying to, you know,

learn or distract myself from stories of other people.

I have to wonder if he hasn't redeemed at least some of that by giving me, I don't know, a desire to tell some stories

myself. That makes complete sense. That actually makes total sense. Probably the genesis of it. I mean,

I wish I could say I've been like, you know, self-publishing novels or something since I was a kid, but that would

not be true. So I think that's part of it.

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