Official Average Boy Podcast #105
The Official Average Boy Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.6 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Join Jesse and the "pleasantly, perplexed, person of positivity" himself, Average Boy, for a hilarious and surprisingly insightful journey into the power of a positive attitude! Bob recounts a classic "Average Boy" family vacation that started with unexpected detours, locked doors and even a run-in with the law (sort of!). Discover how staying optimistic—even when your family forgets to make hotel reservations—can turn a lemon of a trip into the sweetest lemonade. Get ready for laughs, life lessons and a reminder that God's in control, even when things go "sort of" right!
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| 0:00.0 | average boy he's average boy he's average boy |
| 0:10.0 | he's average boy look out he's back with shoes untied and his ears slick, taking life on one day at a time, |
| 0:23.0 | Average Boy and Jess bringing the rhyme. |
| 0:26.5 | Welcome to episode 105 of the official Average Boy podcast. |
| 0:30.9 | I'm Jesse from Focus on the Family Clubhouse magazine. |
| 0:33.6 | And I'm Bob Smiley, aka Average Boy, A. A.k.a. the polite, peaceful, playful, patient, pleasantly perplexed, person of positivity. |
| 0:44.8 | Powerful persona you're projecting today, A.B. Wow. So what's got you so pleasantly full of positivity? |
| 0:52.2 | Well, you know, when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. |
| 0:56.0 | And you made a ton of lemonade recently. |
| 0:58.8 | Yeah, that didn't work out as well as I'd hoped at first. |
| 1:02.2 | But this week I had another bad thing happen. |
| 1:05.2 | But I stayed positive about it. |
| 1:07.3 | And it totally kind of worked out in the long run sort of sort of well i can't wait to hear |
| 1:16.0 | this story oh that's not the story i want to tell today but it was the story that led me to remembering |
| 1:22.3 | the story that i want to tell so maybe the old story is actually part of the new story and I should tell both stories by |
| 1:28.8 | telling the news story completely. Yeah. Wow. Wait, we must have been doing this for a while. |
| 1:34.1 | Two words. Uh, because I totally followed what you were saying. Uh, okay. Jesse, are you sure |
| 1:40.9 | you're paying attention today? Because you just shouted two words for the words, a while and not for a lot. |
| 1:48.6 | Two words. |
| 1:49.8 | Why did you do that? |
| 1:51.1 | Well, you know, as a word nerd, I thought our fans would like knowing that a while as a noun phrase means a period of time. |
| 1:59.5 | And is two words. |
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