Talk about that.

Yeah, well, like we're saying, there's things you can talk about on your date night that are the – it can be more like a business meeting sometimes.

It's like what are the agendas, the schedules, and that's important to catch up on.

But we would often try and help couples – go a little deeper and ask some meaningful questions so you know it's easy to talk about the book you're talking about around you know connecting spiritually uh as a couple to even ask some questions about what did you see growing up what what did you see your parents do you know um And they're not hard questions, but sometimes couples have never talked about these things.

What kind of church tradition did you grow up in? And if not, what did you think? What did you believe? And so giving couples some things to chew on that are discussions that go just beyond the usual.

So talk about the importance for my younger crowd here, you know, when it comes to putting energy into your marriage, not just your wedding, but putting into your marriage.

Right, right.

Yeah.

Peter will never forget the day his colleague Sue Hendrickson showed him two bone fragments she'd found on a nearby ranch on an Indian reservation.

It was from a very, very large vertebra, and it was filled with this honeycomb pattern, and the only animal with a vertebra that size would be Tyrannosaurus rex.

So of course, I got very excited, 'cause we'd never collected a Tyrannosaurus rex [laughs] before, and I asked her if there was more there, and she said, "There's lots more." And so we ran the two miles back to where she had found it, and the whole ground beneath this cliff face was covered with pieces of bone, and there were three articulated vertebrae just poking out of the ground.

[laughs] I was absolutely sure that that was gonna be, you know, a complete T. rex, 'cause there was so much bone exposed on the surface there.

In any case, Peter insists they never looked at Sue commercially.

We have a museum in Hill City, South Dakota, and we wanted something spectacular for that museum, and this of course fit the bill.

[laughs] What could be better than, than the, the, the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton that's ever been discovered? So, and it was gonna put us on the map as a major museum, and everybody w- in the town was excited, uh, uh, that it would bring more visitors to Hill City, and they would buy gasoline in Hill City, and they would, they would shop at the grocery store, and they would stay in the motels, and the entire town was just ecstatic that, uh, this dinosaur was going to be there.

It was female, sixty-six million years old, and they called her Sue.

It's almost [laughs]-- this is gonna sound kind of weird, but it's almost, uh, like a religious experience for me to, to have the, the privilege to unearth something like this.

This is, is, is not just a pile of bones.

There's-- this was an individual animal that, that lived.

She was this life form that was on this planet that occupied the same space that we were occupying while we were collecting her.

She was-- she stood right there and died right there.

If you don't get thatYou know, I don't think you should be digging dinosaurs.

In any case, Peter insists they never looked at Sue commercially.