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Something You Should Know - August 26 Trail Life USA event this Sunday at Falls Park · Something You Should Know!

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  Speaker 1: should know. Excited to have not one, but two guests
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  Speaker 1: joining me today. From Trail Life USA, we have Jason
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  Speaker 1: and we have Chris. And we're going to start with Chris.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, you guys have a fun event coming
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  Speaker 1: up this weekend. Tell me a little bit about the event.
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  Speaker 2: Sure. So we are just hitting off the new school year.
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  Speaker 2: Trail Life's just starting up for the year. So we're
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  Speaker 2: going to be at Falls Park Picnic Shelter on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: And it starts at 5 o'clock. We're going to do
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  Speaker 2: a potluck. Anyone interested in Trail Life, this is where
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  Speaker 2: they come to hear all about Trail Life, get all
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  Speaker 2: the information about the year, and it's what we call
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  Speaker 2: our onboarding. So we tell you everything you need to know.
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  Speaker 2: One great thing about Trail Life 1613 is that once
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  Speaker 2: we do the onboarding, it doesn't cost the family hundreds
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  Speaker 2: of dollars to belong to Trail Life in a year.
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  Speaker 2: We do major fundraising throughout the year. The cost is
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  Speaker 2: very low to families. It costs you about $ 50 to
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  Speaker 2: get in. to register and the troop takes care of
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  Speaker 2: the rest after that.
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  Speaker 1: I love that. I think that's really, really cool. Jason,
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about Trail Life USA. For folks that are going, okay,
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  Speaker 1: I've seen the name, I've heard the name, but I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what that is. Explain to people what Trail
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  Speaker 1: Life USA actually is.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Trail Life USA is a Christ-centered, boy-focused, traditional scouting organization.
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  Speaker 3: We believe that Christ is at the center of everything
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  Speaker 3: and we bring him into our program too. Spider likes
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  Speaker 3: to tell a story about carrot cake and I think
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  Speaker 3: that's a great example. You know, kids, carrots are good
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  Speaker 3: for you. Carrots are the gospel. But kids have a
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  Speaker 3: hard time just sitting down and eating a plate of carrots.
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  Speaker 3: And Chris, would you mind explaining that to them? Sure.
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  Speaker 2: So with carrot cake, we're taking the carrot, right? And
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  Speaker 2: that is your relationship with Jesus Christ, what you know
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  Speaker 2: about how Christ works in the world. And we take
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  Speaker 2: all those carrots and we break them up into small pieces.
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  Speaker 2: And then we mix it in with things the boys
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  Speaker 2: really enjoy doing. And so we're mixing that in throughout
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  Speaker 2: the whole program and throughout the day or whatever tasks
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  Speaker 2: we are doing. to show where God is in the world. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, who doesn't like a good carrot cake, right?
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  Speaker 2: And it's a lot easier to digest that and to
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  Speaker 2: see what we're trying to tell the boys and what
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  Speaker 2: we're trying for them to learn.
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  Speaker 1: The thing that I really like about that example is
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  Speaker 1: it's a way for people to, you know, be invited
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  Speaker 1: into this, to be a part of this, and they're getting...
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  Speaker 1: the gospel, but they're getting it in such a fun
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  Speaker 1: way that it's something they probably look forward to. Because,
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  Speaker 1: you know, when I was a kid, I'm sure a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people were this way. When they were kids,
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  Speaker 1: they're like, well, I got to go to church. I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to go to church. But if I could
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  Speaker 1: have done this. Instead of, you know, sitting in a
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  Speaker 1: pew listening to some old guy talk, you know, this
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  Speaker 1: would have been a whole lot more fun. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: experiencing it with my friends, and I'm experiencing it doing
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  Speaker 1: fun things that I look forward to do, some things
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  Speaker 1: that maybe I'm longing to do and I don't get
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  Speaker 1: a chance to do in my real everyday life. So
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  Speaker 1: I love the fact that you guys are giving kids
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity to do this.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, our goal is to make it Christ-centered, but not
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  Speaker 3: make it feel like school or church. Kids get enough
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  Speaker 3: of that as it is.
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  Speaker 2: And we're teaching life skills along the way. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's more than just camping and how to set up
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  Speaker 2: a tent or how to cook, which we do do.
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  Speaker 2: But we show them how they have to be responsible
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  Speaker 2: for their own lives and any action they do, you know,
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  Speaker 2: how it affects other people. And who's better to do
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  Speaker 2: that with boys their own age? I love that.
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  Speaker 1: Again, Trail Life USA. It's a group that's been around
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  Speaker 1: a while and it's been in Sioux Falls for a while.
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  Speaker 1: There's a couple of different troops in this area. And
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  Speaker 1: if you would like to get involved, what a great
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  Speaker 1: opportunity this Sunday. Jason, tell me again, what time is this?
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  Speaker 1: Where is this? And what do I do? Do I
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  Speaker 1: just show up or do I need to reach out
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  Speaker 1: in advance?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, just show up. It's going to be Sunday, August
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  Speaker 3: 30th at 5 p.m. Falls Park Picnic Pavilion. We're going
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  Speaker 3: to have We're going to have a little slingshot range
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  Speaker 3: set up. We're going to have a little hatchet range
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  Speaker 3: set up. Toy hatchet, of course. And we'll probably have
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  Speaker 3: some other games there, too.
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  Speaker 2: And, of course, some good food. Some burgers and hot
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  Speaker 2: dogs and salads and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think it sounds like a whole lot of fun.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to share the event that you guys set
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  Speaker 1: up on Facebook on our page to make it really
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  Speaker 1: easy for people to find. If somebody would like to
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  Speaker 1: learn more, there is a website I can go to. Chris,
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  Speaker 1: what is that website once again?
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  Speaker 2: That is traillifeusa.com. You can say find a troop and
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  Speaker 2: you can go to the Sioux Falls area and you'll
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  Speaker 2: see Spider Van Breezing on there. Reach out to me
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  Speaker 2: and I can give you more information. Very nice.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your time today, guys. I
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  Speaker 1: appreciate what you're doing for the community. I think this
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  Speaker 1: is a wonderful thing. So thank you for doing this
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  Speaker 1: and And again, thank you for chatting with me about it.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you very much for having us.
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  Speaker 3: Appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. If you would like to learn more, I've got
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  Speaker 1: a link to that Facebook event that's happening this Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: All of the details at Facebook.com slash Sunny Radio and Facebook.com
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  Speaker 1: slash Sioux Falls News.