are multi-generational compounds, a dream or a nightmare? Jeff and I are going to hive into this.

We have strong opinions here at family teams, but it's fascinating to see how people are describing

these things. We're going to look at Willie Robertson from Duck Dynasty, what he says about living

close to his family, what Dave Ramsey says, about why maybe you wouldn't want to do this. And then

we're going to give you guys our take on this. But first of all, check out what Willie Robertson says about why it's awesome to live close with family. One of the greatest things I've done that I can actually brag about. I live right here and my kids, I can hit all their houses with one set of golf clubs. That's great. So there's something to when your kids want to come back and actually be around you. I mean, I've seen it, people's eyes going, oh, that. So many people are like, if I could have just that. Yes. It's not the money. It's not. That's right. If I could, where you can see, those grandkids, they're in my house every day. Now, the cheater I did there, in-ground trampoline.

Nice.

Awesome.

In-ground trampoline. Nice. Awesome. In-ground trampoline. Jeff, have you guys figured that out yet? Yeah, I would. I mean, I'm not at the grandparent stage at all, so I want to hear from you guys, and I think you guys have done this well. But yeah, we actually say that with hosting, and I actually want 100% believe it translates to grandparent era of like kind of make the home you want everyone to have like a magnetic force towards. So for us, we like over leverage to making sure we always have the food, making sure we have the trampoline, making sure we got the pool, making sure we got the pickleball courts, all that stuff for hosting and friends so that we can be that magnetic force for our neighborhood and for other families while the kids are young. And then I think I hope that energy will definitely translate to like a grandparent household as well. So that's the kind of the cheat code. I do think that's a cheat code is make it a house that everyone wants to go to. And then, but I would say from the serious side of the family compound, yeah, they have done, you know, the Robertson family is amazing and being friends with them and having even visited. Like, he's, he's right. There's, there's, I don't know, six, seven, eight homes all kind of sprawled throughout this like acreage and property and they're not all living under the same roof. They're not all in one house. Um, but it's just a beautiful kind of symbiotic relationship of homes and relationships. And I think he nailed it that first, you want to create an atmosphere where they want to come back. And then I think second of all, what you then leave open the door for is a million, probably nothing short of a million, probably more than a million unplanned spontaneous interactions that you get to have for the next 25, 30 years of your life before you die when you're a grandparent.

I'm like, that is the goal.

The goal's not so that you just have a formal Wednesday one hour tea.

The goal is that you just have these unplanned decades of interactions and live together

on, and planned, on mission together, in relationship together.

And so, yeah, I think it's deeply, deeply important. I think a lot of most of human history has lived like this, and I love how he framed it. But what would you say? Yeah, you know, one of the things he mentioned was how people's eyes light up when you say this. And I've seen the same experience. Like, it's almost like people like, wait, like that's the dream. Like, isn't that amazing? Like, and they, they get, they get emotional immediately because they sense that there's something just right about that. But there's also, it's almost like, um, man, are, we give them permission to do that? I was speaking at a, uh, homesteading festival, the Azure standard homestead festival. And I'm like, why am I here? I don't have a homestead. I don't know anything about homesteading.

But they're like, no, to just share about family. And after I was done just sharing about the idea of multi-generational family and living multi-generational. There was so many tears in conversations with people. And, you know, one of the other speakers said, hey, like, Jeremy, you have to understand. And this is what, you know, people are really into homesteading, but this is really what they want.

Like, like, they're you have to understand this is what, you know, people are really into homesteading, but this is really what they want.

Like, like, they're chasing a dream of family. Like, and they realize that if we had enough land, maybe, maybe our kids would come home, you know. And so we've all sort of been a little bit brainwashed into like figuring out how do we maximize our kids independence so that they

get as far away from us as possible and live this this lifestyle of whatever hyper independence

completely separated and then we're all you know sort of sitting in empty house saying was that

was that the dream and and there there there are people who feel like that is the dream um and

you know one of the odd things about these clips we're going to share with you guys is that that last clip of Willie Robertson was actually on Ken Coleman's show, which is a part of the Dave Ramsey kind of network of shows.

But Dave Ramsey actually has his own hot take on family compounds, a very boomer,

in my opinion. He's like, not into it. He gives a very strong, um, like, reaction to why he

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