[00:00:00] Speaker A: This is the Morning Journey Rewind with Mark and Brittany. Never miss a moment.
[00:00:05] Speaker B: This week on the Morning Journey podcast, Mark and Brittany get to talk to Michael Iskender about playing David in the Amazon TV series House of David. Mark celebrates his 60th birthday and Britney takes a cookie decorating class. Also, partner invitation is right around the corner. Do you count audiobooks as reading? And the strange reason why people are going to bed earlier.
[00:00:26] Speaker C: The Amazon prime series House of David tells the story of David's rise to becoming King of Israel. More than 40 million views of this story. Michael Iskander stars in the role of David and he is with us this morning. Michael is here to speak at Liberty University today. Michael, welcome. Thank you.
[00:00:43] Speaker D: Hello. Hello. Thank you so much for having me.
[00:00:46] Speaker C: So great to have you here. Talk a little bit about this part that you are playing.
What interested you in the part and then is it true that really the connection for you came through watching the Chosen?
[00:00:59] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah. I mean, you asked what interested me in the part. I mean, I think when we think of David, like what doesn't interest us. Yeah, you know, he's one of the most complex biblical figures and, and he, he really just goes through all of it. You know, he goes through the ups and he goes through the downs. Yeah.
Watching the Chosen, I remember, you know, the Chosen was the kind of, the first of its kind series about a biblical story. And it's, and it was, it's really high quality. It's, this is, you know, art and excellence.
And I was telling my family, you know, you should check out this show. It's a really great show.
And they said, well, you know, you're an actor, you should do something like that. I said, no pressure, I would love to mom.
And she goes, well, who would you play?
I said, you know, I would love to play King David maybe, maybe out with the sheep and in the pastures playing the harp. Either that or young Jesus. But I would love to play King David.
[00:02:01] Speaker E: Do you feel pressure representing one of the most known characters in the Bible?
[00:02:07] Speaker D: You know, I think it's easy. It's easy to feel pressure and easy to feel the world's expectations of what this is. But it's important to remember the heavenly expectation of what God expects, you know, and I believe that what God expects us to do is exactly what he says in scripture. Die to ourselves, put ourselves completely aside and let the Holy Spirit speak. You know, and I think that's what we try to do in day to day life, but especially in this role. I, I try, I Think acting is an exercise in letting go. And so I'm like, all right, I'm going to let go. Holy spirit. And you speak.
[00:02:49] Speaker C: Yeah. The work to. To play the part and the audition process was not necessarily easy. There was a little bit of back and forth for you to be able to land the part.
[00:03:00] Speaker D: It was, you know, they put me through the ringer for two months.
You know, I got that first audition and I remember, you know, I called my mom. Oh, you're not gonna believe it.
And I sent the audition, they came back, no, you know, it's not gonna be it.
And then, you know, I got another chance at it and, you know, this time. So my mom was like, I want you to fast and I want you to pray. So I fasted and I prayed and then next thing I know, I'm having lunch with John Irwin and he's like, all right, buddy, let's do this. You know, so we do the screen test after screen test after audition, after this and after that, you know, and it was a long process.
And I remember midway through I'm like, you know, if I book this role, I'm going to have to start filming right away. I need to get started now, even though I don't have the confirmation.
So I went on Amazon, I bought a harp and I started learning and making my own tunes and I would send it off to the production team.
And then that's when I made a sling. I had some paracord laying around. I work with leather, so I made my own.
Yeah, made my own sling.
[00:04:07] Speaker E: Very cool.
[00:04:08] Speaker C: Wow.
[00:04:08] Speaker D: I was in New York and so I was in a tiny little apartment, so you can imagine how that went, you know.
[00:04:13] Speaker E: Well, how many things did you break in that apartment?
[00:04:16] Speaker D: Quite a few, I would say.
But I got there, you know.
[00:04:22] Speaker E: Well, that is so awesome. We're gonna ask you to hang around for another break with us, but thank you so much for being here with us this morning.
[00:04:27] Speaker D: Thank you guys so much.
[00:04:31] Speaker C: Joining us today is Michael Iskander and Michael is in the role of King David. This is the Amazon prime series House of David. He's been sharing a little bit about that and the process of getting the role. The thing about David's story to me is that even if somebody is not familiar with the bible, but they read it or they see the series, they. That David's life is an action adventure story.
What was the training like to get ready for that role? Kind of the physicality of it.
[00:05:04] Speaker D: Yeah, I mean, there was.
There was a lot of training in so many different aspects. You know, we forget David is a shepherd, warrior, and king, so that takes so many different skills.
And on top of that, his personality, he was just so well rounded. There's so many aspects of him, him that God really crafted. But, you know, the first step, it was the harp. You know, I was like, all right, let's get on that harp. You know, I already played guitar a little bit, so it translated a little easy. And then one of the really cool things about David is the psalms and singing them on the show.
And I remember during the audition process, I told the team, I was like, you know, when we do this, we're going to have to do this in Hebrew.
And I went online and I learned, like, a snippet of the Shema prayer, which is in Deuteronomy, Hero, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.
And so anyways, there's a famous Hebrew sung prayer of that. So I learned that and I sent it off to the team, you know, hoping to inspire them. Like, hey, like, this is what it should sound like. And, you know, it worked out. And we were able to do the psalms of the show in the original language with the original ornamentation. Even the instruments, I worked with the orchestration team, and they're just phenomenal. And they used, like, all these ancient instruments. And, you know, the show is not only a great TV show, but it recreates the psalms in a way that's never really been done before. And, like, this is as accurate as we can get to what they might have sounded like.
[00:06:40] Speaker E: Yeah, and you had to use the sling, too. So you had to learn how to do that, and you had to learn how to, you know, fight a lion.
Kind of important.
[00:06:50] Speaker D: Yeah, it was just. It was one of our stuntmen dressed up in a teddy bear lion suit.
[00:06:57] Speaker C: I love it.
[00:06:57] Speaker D: It was terrifying.
[00:06:59] Speaker C: Now, the sling. You made the sling, is that correct?
[00:07:02] Speaker D: Yeah, the first. My first ever sling. It made it while I was auditioning, and I got some paracord and a little bit of leather.
[00:07:09] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:07:10] Speaker D: And, you know, tied the two together, and I made my first sling.
[00:07:14] Speaker E: That's so cool. How hard was it to use, like, the slingshot, to learn Hebrew, to play the harp? Was one of them harder than the other? They all just kind of come naturally.
[00:07:21] Speaker D: It was. Yeah, I would say, you know, came naturally, you know.
Yeah.
[00:07:26] Speaker E: I just feel like that's such a testament because you're like, oh, yeah, it was easy to do these things, but it is such a testament to how God's, like, I feel like prepares Us for the roles that we're going to have later in life, whatever that might be. And, like, he's clearly been preparing you along the way for this role.
[00:07:39] Speaker D: He does, yeah. Without us realizing. He's always moving.
And, like, for example, with the Hebrew, like, I speak Arabic. And if you look at Arabic and Hebrew, they're both Semitic languages, and they both have, like, the same letters, the same. Sometimes even the same words, you know, And I would be. I would be on in the recording studio, like, asking my Hebrew dialect advisor, like, does this word mean this? And they go, yeah. How'd you know? I guess we have the same word in Arabic. That's awesome. You know, and realizing the similarities between the two. And then with the harp, I mentioned I played guitar before, and then the slang I did shot put in discus in high school. And then, oddly enough, as the coach on set was giving me all my slinging tips, I was like, these are the same notes that my coach in high school gave me.
[00:08:27] Speaker E: That's awesome.
[00:08:28] Speaker C: So being prepared for the role for your entire life.
[00:08:31] Speaker D: Yeah. Without even realizing, I was like, all right, this is. This is weird. This is weird.
[00:08:38] Speaker E: God definitely has a plan. That is for sure. What's been your favorite part of the series so far?
[00:08:42] Speaker D: Oh, well, you know what?
Season two comes out March 27th. It comes out worldwide. And. And, you know, season one, we saw the shepherd, but season two, we get to see the warrior. And this is. This is the part we kind of overlook. You know, we get to the David and Goliath, and we forget, like, this is the same guy who was chased by King Saul. This is the same guy who was in a civil war in Israel, you know, and led Judah for years and eventually reunited the kingdom and then had his downfalls, but then was able to make it all the way back to God. And the story of David all throughout is a story about human frailty. You know, it's how we make mistakes. It's how we fall.
But then God's extending that hand and saying, no. Like, no matter how far you go, I will bring you back. You know, and we think of. We think of Peter now.
[00:09:39] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:09:39] Speaker D: In the same way Peter denied Christ three times, and yet Christ, when he came back, said, peter, do you love me? Yes, Lord, I love you. Feed my sheep.
You know, And.
And I find. I find. So, like, we have Peter. That's. That's our David.
[00:09:57] Speaker E: You know what I mean?
[00:09:58] Speaker C: And.
[00:09:58] Speaker D: And all these biblical characters, they're always telling the same story. Like, Christ is always gonna reach out for us. No Matter how far we go.
[00:10:06] Speaker C: Yeah, that's great. Michael, thank you so much for taking some time and being with us today. We appreciate it.
[00:10:11] Speaker D: Thank you guys so much.
[00:10:12] Speaker E: Make sure you check out House of David. Amazon prime too, by the way. It's really good. I've just started watching it.
[00:10:19] Speaker A: Good company makes for a great day. The morning journey with Mark and Brittany.
[00:10:24] Speaker C: Big thank you to everyone that wished me a happy birthday on our Journey Facebook page. I appreciate that. Had a good weekend. It was kind of a birthday weekend celebration. My birthday was yesterday. My dad's birthday is later in March.
And then my great niece Augie, who. Her birthday was March 1st.
[00:10:45] Speaker E: Oh, look at that.
[00:10:46] Speaker C: Yes. So we had the whole family in town over the weekend, so that was fun. When I to dinner, got to play some golf with my brother in law, weather was fantastic. Yeah. We were outside quite a bit on Sunday.
Yeah. Or Saturday, actually. Yeah. So, yeah, we had a lot of fun. It's a good weekend.
[00:11:03] Speaker E: Good, good. Yeah. We had fun talking about you yesterday.
[00:11:06] Speaker C: So I heard a little bit of that.
[00:11:07] Speaker E: It didn't say anything too embarrassing. Just told everybody to eat breakfast for dinner. Talked about you driving race cars. Kate said she wants to drive. I said, I would just like to be a passenger. I don't want to be in control. I would like to just be in the passenger seat.
[00:11:19] Speaker C: Well, you should go down.
They can do that, you know.
[00:11:23] Speaker E: Oh, okay.
[00:11:24] Speaker C: So you may not want me to drive you. I don't know. You may not trust me, but you can have that.
[00:11:28] Speaker E: I mean, I'm okay. Yeah, I think I trust you enough with that. And then we talked about your Mark salad and how to stay healthy in your 60s.
We will not be eating it, but we told everybody else to try it.
[00:11:41] Speaker A: Start on a positive note. You're on the morning journey with Mark and Brittany.
[00:11:46] Speaker C: Brittany, you took a baking class, is that right?
[00:11:50] Speaker E: I did. Thankfully, I did not have to bake.
The cookie was already baked for me, so that was good. I just had to decorate it, which I think is actually harder. And this is what we were trying to make.
[00:11:59] Speaker C: Okay. Also the bookcase.
[00:12:02] Speaker E: Yeah. Looks pretty difficult. It was like a giant cookie that you turn into a bookcase and you add, like books and plants and pictures. Now, luckily, the pictures were already printed and they're printed on edible paper.
[00:12:13] Speaker C: Oh.
[00:12:13] Speaker E: So you could eat the pictures. So that was nice. So I didn't have to decorate the pictures themselves.
[00:12:19] Speaker C: Okay. So that's two steps gone. You didn't have to bake the cookie.
You didn't have to it was already kind of pre done.
[00:12:26] Speaker E: Right. The pictures were pre done, so this is what I made.
[00:12:29] Speaker C: That's nice.
[00:12:30] Speaker E: I think it turned out pretty good.
[00:12:31] Speaker C: It turned out really well.
[00:12:32] Speaker E: Yeah. Now she changed the background color and the bookshelf color.
[00:12:35] Speaker C: Yeah, the original was like the brown.
[00:12:37] Speaker E: The original was like brown. This is like blue. And so I think overall I did pretty good. And the cookie itself tasted really good. I had nothing to do with that.
I didn't bake the cookie, but the cookie was delicious. So it took a lot of time and a lot of steady hand. And I didn't know what to put on the shelf other than books and plants. So I needed some more creativity there. But I think it turned out okay.
[00:12:59] Speaker C: Now, how did the others in the class do?
[00:13:01] Speaker E: Good. Everybody's turned out about the same, I think. Like, none really, like, stood out except the teachers, obviously. Cause she's a professional, so hers looked really good. But I was like the redheaded stepchild in class because I told her I wasn't artistic. And she said, if your cookie's ugly, you're not leaving here with it. Cause I'm not gonna have you tagging me on Instagram.
Look at what I learned. So she kind of helped me out a little bit and walked me through some things before I actually put it on the cookie.
[00:13:24] Speaker C: So now that you've done this, would you. Now would you try it from home? Like the whole. Bake it everything? Do the whole thing from scratch? No, no.
[00:13:31] Speaker E: There's way too many icing colors that had to be mixed. And that one cookie took me to over two hours. So no, I would not do this at home. I would take another class with her, though. That was a lot of fun.
I turn y' all on in the morning when I get in my truck. It's helpful. I'm taking the kids to school. Here we go.
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[00:14:56] Speaker A: on a positive note. You're on the morning journey with Mark and Brittany.
[00:15:01] Speaker C: Do you listen to audiobooks?
[00:15:03] Speaker E: No, I actually read books.
[00:15:05] Speaker C: Okay. Oh, okay.
Right to the point.
[00:15:09] Speaker E: I read books. I don't listen. I don't think they sound the same.
[00:15:12] Speaker C: You don't listen audiobooks at all?
[00:15:13] Speaker E: No. Do you?
[00:15:15] Speaker D: No.
[00:15:15] Speaker C: I've listened to some samples of them and downloaded those, but I'm still more of a. I actually read the books. So 4 in 10 parents now consider listening to audiobooks as cheating.
[00:15:27] Speaker E: I agree. I mean, you're not reading the book. Like, me and my husband get into an argument about this all the time because you can't say you've read the book if you've listened to it. You've listened to the book. Yes, but you're not reading the book if you listen to the audiobook, I don't think it counts.
[00:15:44] Speaker C: So this audiobook expert says that listening to the book, especially for children, it's as effective for children as traditional physical books.
[00:15:56] Speaker E: I don't see how. Because you're not learning how to read if you're listening to the book. Like, does that make sense?
[00:16:03] Speaker C: She says that listening still provides them with exposure to more words to absorb, in turn helps increase their vocabulary.
[00:16:11] Speaker E: Yeah, but they won't know how to spell the words or recognize the words because they won't know what the words look like.
This is one of those things that I am, like, stuck on. I'm like, it does not count. If you came to me and you said, I read 50 books this year and you pulled up your thing and it was all audio books, I'd be like, no, you listen to 50 books this year. It's a lot faster to listen, I think, as well than it is to actually physically read a book.
[00:16:34] Speaker C: Yeah. She says that when children lose themselves in a story, whether reading or listening, so much is at play, they're not just absorbing the words, they're developing empathy inhabiting other people's experiences, so forth, understanding the world around them.
[00:16:49] Speaker E: I could see that.
[00:16:50] Speaker C: So, I mean, she makes some points, but. No, I get it too.
I still just prefer to actually read the book. And I think if I, you know, I would want. If I had children, I would want them to read, learn how to read,
[00:17:01] Speaker E: to read the book.
[00:17:02] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:17:03] Speaker E: My daughter has one of those Tony boxes and they tell stories, and she loves listening to, like, those stories. And you can tell her imagination's working and she's picturing the characters and things like that. So I get that that's still beneficial.
But listening and reading are two different things. Like sight and sound are two different senses that we have. So whenever I get in an argument with adult about it, I'm like, you listened to the book, you didn't read it.
[00:17:25] Speaker C: Now, I do like the audiobooks that they have multiple characters. Basically, they've taken a book and they've adapted it, and it's a audio drama.
[00:17:36] Speaker E: Now, some books I like enough that I would like to go listen to after the fact, because I'm like, oh, I wonder what this sounds like. And some of them have done a really good job matching the characters to the story and turning it into something else. And so I think after the fact, fine.
But if you're listening, I don't think you're reading.
[00:17:53] Speaker C: You're a hard no.
[00:17:54] Speaker E: I'm a hard no on that one.
[00:17:56] Speaker C: So Brittany and I were talking about whether audiobooks are considered cheating when it comes to reading, because 4 out of 10 people say that when they're. When they're talking about their kids using them. Brittany is a hard no on the audio book.
[00:18:11] Speaker E: I'm like, you didn't read it. You listened to it. We got a call from Jeremy. He said, what if they're looking at the book while they're listening to it? Yeah, I said, that's helpful because they're still seeing the words. They're still reading the words, and then they're listening to them. I mean, that's what we do to our kids when we read them stories. It's basically, you know, the same thing so they can recognize the words that we're saying.
[00:18:29] Speaker C: Yeah, I think Jeremy has. He's found the solution. I think that works.
[00:18:33] Speaker E: I think that's really good. He also said it would be beneficial, like when learning a new language as well. So if that's your technique. But the definition of reading, I looked it up because I wanted to know. It says the activity or skill of looking at and comprehending the meaning of written or printed matter Looking at. So you're not reading if you're listening to something.
[00:18:54] Speaker C: I do think, though, a lot of people, especially these are adults, if they're saying, hey, I want to read 20 books this year, right. I think more and more people are counting their audiobooks as reading.
[00:19:04] Speaker E: Shame, shame.
I'm going to start asking people. When they tell me, oh, I read 50 books this year, I'm like, how many did you listen to? Let's cut that list in half.
[00:19:14] Speaker A: Uplifting and encouraging because you need it now more than ever.
[00:19:19] Speaker C: You betcha.
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[00:19:22] Speaker C: Brittany and I are kind of used to having to go to bed a little earlier probably than most people because we get up so early. But there's new information out there that more and more people are going to bed earlier.
The reason you would think, well, maybe they need more sleep. No, the reason is so they have more time to drink their coffee in the morning.
[00:19:43] Speaker E: I've never desired to wake up earlier just for coffee. Yeah, I wake up. Like you said, we have to wake up early. And I will say that that's the first thing I do in the morning is get a cup of coffee. Now it's decaf, so it doesn't do anything for me. I just really.
[00:19:57] Speaker C: You only. Okay.
[00:19:58] Speaker E: I like the taste and the warmth on my throat more so than like any, like, the caffeine. Caffeine is like I'm immune to it. I feel like I've never had any, like, wake up feeling from caffeine, but I would not purposely, like, wake up to have more time with my coffee, if that makes sense.
[00:20:15] Speaker C: No, it does. I mean, it's very interesting. So my routine is I do that in the morning. I mean, I get up, go downstairs, I will make my breakfast, and then I'm making my coffee at the same time.
[00:20:26] Speaker E: Right.
[00:20:27] Speaker C: So I have that one cup. And truthfully, I drink one cup a day. That's it. I'm not a big. I don't need, you know, four or five cups of coffee to kind of get through the day. But apparently a lot of people do.
The information in this survey that came out said that people spend on average more time making and drinking their coffee in the morning than they do spend showering, eating breakfast, or doing their hair and makeup.
[00:20:54] Speaker E: How long does it take people to make a cup of coffee?
[00:20:57] Speaker C: So making and drinking the coffee on average, 16 minutes. Okay.
[00:21:01] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:21:01] Speaker C: Well, so they're spending 11 minutes showering, nine minutes eating breakfast, and then hair and makeup, eight minutes, 16 minutes.
[00:21:10] Speaker E: Well, okay, so this is like My routine, like, I'll make the coffee and then I'll drink it while I'm doing like, the first 15, which takes about.
[00:21:15] Speaker C: Okay, yeah.
[00:21:16] Speaker E: So that's like 16 minutes a minute to make it, and 15 minutes with the first 15. Devotional.
So I guess I'm one of those people who does spend more time doing that than anything else. But I'm not gonna wake up early on purpose to do that.
[00:21:29] Speaker C: No, I just thought that was hilarious. Like, you really think, okay, well, it's people. Maybe they're just trying to get more sleep. That kind of their sleep score, you know, they want to improve that. 82.
[00:21:38] Speaker E: I always look at my sleep score, like, every day. I'm like, how did I sleep last night? 82 last night.
[00:21:42] Speaker C: No, it's all about the. It's all about the caffeine, all about that coffee.
[00:21:47] Speaker E: I just kind of channel surfing through the radio.
[00:21:49] Speaker A: Families are catching on, and I'm like,
[00:21:51] Speaker E: wow, this is pretty cool.
[00:21:52] Speaker A: To the best way.
[00:21:53] Speaker E: So now this is the only thing
[00:21:54] Speaker A: I listen to now to wake up.
[00:21:55] Speaker E: My style of Everything has started and changed.
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Here's the story.
[00:22:03] Speaker C: A lovely lady who's bringing up three very
[00:22:09] Speaker E: well. I'm pretty sure we all remember that song.
[00:22:11] Speaker C: Yeah, I remember watching that as a kid. And then so many people then remember it from the reruns. The Brady Bunch house, now an official historical landmark in Los Angeles. The house was used in the exterior shots for the TV show that ran from 1969 to 1974.
[00:22:30] Speaker E: Yeah, Mark and I have been watching Brady Bunch probably forever. I remember watching it growing up, too. And the funny part is, you said that the exterior of the house was used. So the interior was actually not shot in that house.
[00:22:43] Speaker C: No, the interior scenes were all filmed on a studio lot. But the exterior house, of course, became one of TV's most recognized sites.
[00:22:52] Speaker E: The magic of Hollywood.
[00:22:53] Speaker C: Yeah, you've got the house. Remember the station wagon that's set outside of the house?
Home and Garden TV HGTV bought that house back in 2018.
And then they remodeled the interior to look exactly like the TV show house.
[00:23:08] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:23:08] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:23:09] Speaker E: Are they opening, I wonder now if they'll, like, open it up because it's now listed as a historical thing. If they'll open it up for people to come and tour it and see it and kind of feel like you're living almost the Brady Experience.
[00:23:19] Speaker C: Yeah, I think that's what they're going to do. It was sold then in 2023 to another person. She was a historic home enthusiast, and so she bought it and she has opened it up to the public. They've done some charity fundraisers and that kind of thing. So it's been opened to the public. But so now the interior of the home has the floating staircase, the burnt orange and avocado green kitchen. You remember that. And then the backyard with the swing set.
[00:23:44] Speaker E: Yes. And even the or Marcia got hit with the football.
[00:23:47] Speaker C: Marsha got hit with the football. Yeah. They even included Tiger's dog house.
[00:23:52] Speaker E: Wow. I always love it when people who are enthusiastic about stuff like this open their home to the public so that people can enjoy it with them. Because there's some people who buy historic houses and are like, get off my lawn. Which I'm like, why buy a historic house? So very cool. So now if you want to see the Brady house, it actually looks like it did on the inside.
[00:24:10] Speaker C: We're just going to worship, we're going
[00:24:12] Speaker E: to be encouraged, and we're just going to be together.
[00:24:15] Speaker A: That's the idea. You're on the Morning Journey with Mark and Brittany.
[00:24:20] Speaker C: Great to have you with us this morning. By the way, if you listen on the My Journey FM app, would you do us a favor and share that with someone that you know? Maybe they live in an area where they can't pick up the Journey on the radio. The app is a great way to listen. I listened to that a little bit yesterday while I was out and enjoyed that. But it's a great way to share the music. But more than that, it's a great way to share the encouragement it is.
[00:24:45] Speaker E: It's a great way to share Jesus with others. You can listen to it while you're enjoying this nice weather. If you're going for a walk, make sure you download the app, share it with your friends, just send them a little encouraging note and say, hey, this app's really helped me out. It gives me the journey wherever I go. And so wherever you're listening, if you're listening via the app, let us know. We'd love to hear from you this morning.
[00:25:03] Speaker A: Hosts that make you feel like family. You're on the Morning Journey with Mark and Brittany.
[00:25:08] Speaker C: It's called the welcome Home Initiative. And this is for veterans who may be suffering through various degrees of post traumatic stress disorder. That is one of the events you will find on the Journey's hometown events page and you can find that@myjourney fm.com
[00:25:24] Speaker E: we have lots of concerts coming up as well. If you have an event you want to get shared with the community. You can submit your event there. Myjourneyfm.com click on the hometown events and you can find an upcoming event near you.
[00:25:36] Speaker A: Thanks for catching up on the morning Journey Rewind podcast with Mark and Brittany.
