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Speaker 1: As a podcast listener, Where do you go to get

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those stories that you can tap into on your time?

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You know, having that power of choice. That's the reason

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why I created a r Roe dot net arow dot

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net so that you do have a power of choice.

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Maybe you don't want to talk to a foody expert today,

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Maybe you want to talk with an ia author the

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power of choice. Enjoy the exploration. My boy boy, Ernie.

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He is a Blue Crown conyer and for over thirty

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two years he and I have overlooked this beautiful forest

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right here in South Charlotte, North Carolina. I mean every day,

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Ernie and I sit here in this beautiful home, overlooking

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the trees, the nearby lake, and every bit the wildlife

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that is strolling so peacefully across the land. Ernie and

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I share the same vision. It's this forest. We both

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look at the trees, we study the earth below. There's

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something very spiritual going on here. But do you think

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we can identify it? We're here to pick up on it,

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but I can't figure it out. To Ernie's forest, we

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both receive an amazing amount of positive energy. I put

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all of my trust and skills as a student into

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what he is willing to share with me. Remember these

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are my words. These are the lyrics from Ernie's Forest,

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chapter number four hundred thirty one, June eleventh, twenty twenty four,

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Andrew Jackson State Park. So many memories have been pinned

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out here during our multiple visits to the park. Now,

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this particular campsite. The last time that we were at

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this location was in twenty seventeen. I wrote this in

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twenty twenty four, and I'm reading about it in twenty

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twenty five. See, it's this kind of stuff that stunts

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me as a creative person. I mean, I invest so

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much energy in trying to be in the presence of

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all things right now, Yet it took me seven years

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to get back to this campsite. The two experiences have

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nothing in common. When we were here in twenty seventeen,

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it was about performing live music at a wedding. It

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wasn't about taking the time out to enjoy Carolina's beautiful,

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beautiful story. This trip into the park has been a

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total release of energy, putting our focus on our love

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for culinary arts. We are supper heroes with food presentations

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that you know many of these campers, Mmm, I'm not

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going to be able to relate with it because we're

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doing it like Gordon Ramsey. Oh yeah, cheffing in a

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forest is a true blessing. And then we share dinner

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in what is left in the sense of it being

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prepared for this moment of all things right now, when

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nature becomes your kitchen, we prep several days out and

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then enjoy the walk and way through all weather conditions.

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Oh yeah, we've been out there when it's raining. We

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still prepare our dinners just like Gordon Ramsey because that's

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exactly what he would do. Nothing gets in the way

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of preparation. So now I got to turn that around.

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I don't want to talk about food anymore. I want

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to talk about the preparation of your daily life, not

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to sound like your father, your grandfather or somebody who's

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going to sit there and preach something to you. What

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are you doing to prep for your next event? Did

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you even prep or are we still locked in this

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age of just winging it? Or in radio they called

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it bang it out. But if you came into my

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production studio and said, hey, man, I need you to

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bang out this commercial, I would look at you with

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fire in my soul. But I had to speak with

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angelic tones. And the reason why is because people don't

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understand my side of the process of the preparation. The

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interviews that I do for my seventeen podcasts, they don't

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just happen. I start prepping for those weeks and sometimes

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months in advance. You gotta land the damn thing first,

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and then you allow it to start growing. And the

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closer and closer you get to the day that the

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conversation is going to take place, or the dinner is

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going to be prepared at this particular campsite and I

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haven't been to since twenty seventeen, you gotta prepare for

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it because when it's happening, if anything goes wrong, you

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knew about it before the storm hit. See that's another

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fault that I have to face with my wife, and

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that is don't write the story before it happens. And

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yet you're put face to face in a situation of

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if we wouldn't have written the story before it happened,

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then it would have gone to hell. So many sides

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of the fence, so many personalities that we all begin

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to walk between. But the question is, how are you

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preparing for your next event? I believe Inside my heart,

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I'm the crazy fool. I believe that we should prepare

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for all things, especially the little things. These are not

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my words, these are the lyrics from Ernie's Forest