Official Average Boy Podcast #108
The Official Average Boy Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.6 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Hold onto your tiny surfboards! Average Boy is back with a hilarious (and humbling) experience on the "Flamingo FlowRider"— Henry Hippo's Amusement Park’s newest ride. After navigating long lines and an embarrassing wipeout, Bob learns an important lesson about riding the waves of life with faith and purpose. Tune in for fun, inspiration and awesome listener jokes!
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| 0:00.0 | God is at work and he's calling his people to rise in truth. Truth Rising is a powerful new documentary from Focus on the Family and the Colson Center. See how ordinary Christians choose courage in a culture that needs truth. Watch Truth Rising today and find out how you can become an agent of restoration and hope. |
| 0:24.1 | Visit truthrising.com today. That's truthrising.com. |
| 0:31.5 | Average boy. |
| 0:36.6 | He's average boy |
| 0:40.3 | He's average boy |
| 0:44.3 | Look out, he's back, with shoes untied and his ears slick back, taking life on one day at a time, |
| 0:53.1 | average boy and Jess bringing the rhyme. |
| 0:56.6 | Welcome to episode 108 of the official Average Boy podcast. |
| 1:01.1 | I'm Jesse with Focus on the Family Clubhouse magazine. |
| 1:04.1 | And I'm Bob Smiley, aka Average Boy, |
| 1:06.7 | aka the warm, wispy, wishful, wacky wave rider, uh, wonderkin of water workmanship. |
| 1:17.1 | Ha ha! Boom! |
| 1:18.6 | Wow! |
| 1:19.5 | What a wonderful, welcoming wordplay. |
| 1:22.6 | Uh, but do you know what wonderkin is? |
| 1:25.7 | Oh, of course. |
| 1:26.8 | Uh, it's when you can't decide if someone's related to you or not. |
| 1:30.2 | You know, like, I wonder if he's kin to me. |
| 1:33.1 | That's called a wonderkin thinking. |
| 1:35.3 | Okay, well, that's an above-average definition, but it's not quite right. |
| 1:40.9 | A wonderkin is a child prodigy. |
| 1:43.9 | Oh. Well, I'm not a child prodigy. You know, I've never demanded my inheritance from my dad and then run off and spend it on parties and Nintendo switches and, you know, all sorts of stuff. |
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