April 21, 2024 • 30 mins
In this episode, you'll hear highlight clips from the past week of some of the podcasts on The Nashville Podcast Network- The BobbyCast, 4 Things with Amy Brown, Sore Losers and Get Real with Caroline Hobby. You can listen to new episodes weekly wherever you get your podcasts!
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-The BobbyCast- @BobbyCast
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Hey, welcome to the Sunday Sampler.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Coming up with Amy, you'll hear Gracie Mochler, who is
an entrepreneur.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
She's also the wife of Steve Mochler.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
But they talk about signs, and you know how Amy
loves his sign She loves all signs, street signs, signs
from above.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Gracy got a good one from her sister and he.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Jumped into this.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Who knew on the other side?
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Are you even here?
Speaker 5 (00:27):
Wow' a yeah, no, I'm here.
Speaker 6 (00:29):
Welcome.
Speaker 7 (00:30):
We also talk business, being that she is an entrepreneur
so and going through hard things as a small business owner.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
That's coming up in just a few minutes. On the Bobbycast,
I sat down with new artist Zach Top, who is
getting a lot, lot, lot of love right now, and
so he talks about playing at his family band, dropping
out of college to play music Jacob and support how
at seven years old he booked his first gig. That's
gonna happen in just a second. Caroline Hobby sore losers.
All that's here on the Sunday Sampler. So let's get
(00:55):
going now with Zach Top on the Bobby Cast.
Speaker 8 (00:59):
The amount of time that like I probably from the
ages of five to fifteen, I probably played guitar like
three hours a day or something. And just like knowing
other artists and people that have started, you know, in
their teen years or something, I can't imagine because you
just don't have time anymore to do that, you know,
let alone being actually having to work full time as
(01:20):
an adult. I remember my dad for a second was
gonna so we had I played guitar, obviously, my little
brother played mandolin, Maddie and my sister played fiddle, and
then the oldest sister lake and played bass for the
little bluegrass family band. And so we're missing the banjo.
So my dad got a wild hair that he was
going to be the banjo player at some point, but
it was the same sort of thing where, you know,
(01:41):
he it was probably a couple months. He had a
lesson every week, but yeah, you know, he ain't got
time to sit down and practice and let alone just
your you know, you get older, it's hard to Yeah, it.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Has already established how it's gonna work.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
You say you were basically the leader of uh top
top strings.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Yeah, the top string. Yeah, my mom was really proud of.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
That one still, but you're not you weren't the oldest.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
No, so how do you lead if you're not the
oldest sibling. I would just think naturally the oldest of
the oldest would be like, I'm the leader of the band.
Speaker 8 (02:09):
Yeah, I think I think I wanted it worse than
anybody else. For sure, they did it and had fun
with it most of the time. I think I was
pretty difficult to work with at times. Maybe that hasn't changed.
I don't know, but anyways, uh, yeah, we hic. I
booked our first show, I guess an old family friend
of ours, Randy, had called my dad and asked the
(02:32):
first show we played was opening for a Passiklin musical
at the at the local high school. And Randy had
heard that we were He was part of the rotary
clip you know, help him put it on or whatever.
He had heard that we were taking music lessons, and
you know, we kind of we didn't even weren't even
doing it as a band. Everybody was just learning their
instrument individually and we were all doing our own thing
kind of. We had nothing worked up together. And he
(02:53):
called and asked my dad if we'd like to come
do the come open for that musical, And my dad
said well, Randy, you're gonna have to ask them. I
can't answer answer that for him, and so he put
me on the phone. I don't remember that.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
How were you seven? I've been told the story enough.
He uh. He was like, Hey, we'd like you come
do the show. And I said, well, Randy, that sounds great,
we'd love to and he's in.
Speaker 8 (03:18):
My first question was how long is it or how
much time do we have? And he was like, oh,
showing for a couple months and I said, well that's perfect.
We'll know some songs by then and we'd love to
do it. So then you start rehearsing yeah, yeah, and
then we started actually, yeah, trying to work up stuff together.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
So yeah, kids do the darness things?
Speaker 9 (03:36):
Do they ever?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
That was you at seven, running the business?
Speaker 9 (03:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Why would you play guitar for hours at a time?
Speaker 9 (03:42):
Meaning?
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Was it pure enjoyment? Was it pursuing the dream of music?
Was it pursuing the idea of getting out of Washington?
Not a negative way, but you know, right, yeah, why
would you dedicate so much time to it?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
In your mind as a kid, what did you think
it would lead to?
Speaker 8 (04:00):
I really don't know that I thought it would lead
to anything. All I knew was I loved the music,
and country music specifically. I remember my folks had a
remember them briefcase things that had a bunch.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Of slots for tapes. Yes, at tapes.
Speaker 8 (04:16):
They have one of those down downstairs, and we still
had a tape machine. I think it was pretty out
of date at that point, but we had a tape
machine down in the basement and I would go through
that thing, just one by one, take one out, play
it through, trying to learn every song on there, learn
how to sing them, learn how to play them, just
sit down there in front of that tape machine for hours,
sitting there with my guitar. Did you want to be amer?
(04:39):
I loved performing, Yeah, for sure. I loved being on stage.
I was always, you know, the front man from the start,
the one talking between songs, doing most of the lead singing.
My sister Maddie's an awesome singer as well, and Jorman
Laken are too, but we the two of us, did
most of the lead singing. And yeah, I really it
(04:59):
was a long time before I ever thought anything about, nah,
maybe I could actually do this for a living. It
just I was ate up with the music. I loved it.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
It was just passion, it was just it was just
a love yep.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
A whole bunch of old bluegrass records.
Speaker 8 (05:11):
I remember I got a box sit thing with like
eighty George Jones songs on a CD. I went through
all of those, learned all that stuff. I remember the
first time they had the uh Don't Close your Eyes
tape of Keith Whitley, and I about lost it when
I heard that thing.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Learned every song off of it.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
And then it's like you're two hundred inside of a
body of a seven year old. Yeah, now twenty five.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Kind good, kind.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Cast up man, little food for your soul.
Speaker 10 (05:51):
Life ain't always pretty bad.
Speaker 9 (05:53):
It's pretty beautiful, family, beautiful.
Speaker 10 (05:55):
Laugh, a little more exciting man city cut, you're kicking
with full with Amy Brown.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
Hey, it's Amy Brown from Four Things with Amy Brown.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
And here's what.
Speaker 7 (06:09):
We talked about this week on my podcast. What advice
do you have for people from what you've experienced, not
just in like focusing and keeping on the one thing,
but like in your expansion, Like what does it felt
like for you to be able to expand and open
yourself up to all these different possibilities? And then what
advice do you have for people that are like, well, yeah,
(06:30):
that's great. If someone's telling you, you know, you're a
product not a brand, it's very scary to launch into
all of that. So what advice do you have for
people that maybe need to take that next step to
grow And maybe it's not a business, It could be
in anything, putting themselves out there, getting on a dating app,
whatever it is that they maybe need to take the
next step to do, Like you just dive right down.
Speaker 11 (06:51):
How would say, first of all, just go for it,
just try it, Like things usually go better than you think,
Like again, but what if it goes well? That's on
half our products out because like but truly, like what
if it did go well? You never know till you try.
So I'm a big proponent of just trying and then
from there know your why because I think when things
get hard, your why connects you to your purpose and
that's going to help you on the hard times. And
(07:11):
so as I've been like this, you know, experiencing these
growing pains which have felt very painful, that why and
feeling that purpose of you know what, this feels crazy
or like what did I do? But I'm like, no,
I believe I'm called to bring joy and to bring
this product, and this like feels like what the Lord
has called me to and so that why really helps
ground you when you want to bolt. Yeah, you know,
(07:33):
and I think I never want to knock anybody on
social media, but I feel like we're in this culture
where it's like it just feels like I go online.
This might just be me and it's my own issue
for comparing, but when it feels like this culture of like, oh,
here's how I make seven figures? Will I make machas
in homeschool my kids? And I'm just like, that is
not my story. That literally could not feel further from
the truth for me. And so I think just to
(07:53):
feel like for encouragement for someone that it's okay if
it feels hard, and that like pain and purpose are
not separate, and that I think for me, I like ease.
I always want something to be the easiest and the
most fun. And so in this season, it's been like, no,
I feel pain, and this feels hard. I feel a
lot of growing pains. But you want the garden, but
you don't want to pull the weeds, you know, So
just being willing to dive in and like really plug
(08:13):
into what you're called to and just that like it's
okay if it feels hard right now, and it's okay
if starting something is not just this linear path to
like all this money and free time, And does that
make sense?
Speaker 6 (08:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 12 (08:23):
No?
Speaker 7 (08:23):
And I love that saying like if you know you
want the garden, but you don't want to pull the weeds,
and you have to get.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
On there your hand sturdy?
Speaker 11 (08:30):
Is that part of a song he wrote that song
that was his idea that wasn't mine.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
I took it for him.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
Well, I think it's a beautiful way to put it
because it's so true. Sometimes you just want to like
skip to the good part. But then we miss out
on some of the expansion. We miss out on the growth,
We miss out on the development.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Like that's how we.
Speaker 11 (08:46):
Who you're becoming, who you're becoming.
Speaker 7 (08:48):
We are in the different challenges and what does this
make possible for us? And then where's it going to
take us next? And even when we hit certain obstacles,
knowing that like Okay, well maybe this isn't the way,
but supposed to pivot and go this way. And you've
been great at pivoting and also taking feedback and then
making decisions from there, and one of the decisions you
had to make was taking out the helock to make
(09:10):
this expansion possible. And I know that that's been a
huge thing for you of like, oh, but I love
that you're very clear about Okay, I'm not going to
get focused on that.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
That's not my identity. This part of it doesn't.
Speaker 7 (09:22):
Define me and who I am. And I think sometimes
we get wrapped up in some of our stuff that
feels overwhelming at the time. Yes, and I speak as
someone has a helock too. It's like or any kind
of debt that you may be in, or whatever circumstance
where there's a lot of pressure. It's like, Okay, this
is here, We'll get through this. But this right here
(09:44):
doesn't define me.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Absolutely.
Speaker 11 (09:46):
Yeah, we had a moment. It was last month, So
this is all very raw, but you know, I like
talking about it in real time because that's just that's life,
you know. But there was a moment last month where
I just it was feeling heavy, the helock was feeling heavy.
I'm like, I have taken this very big risk, which
I'm so happy to do, but it affects my family,
you know, it affects all of us. It affects what
we're able to do, and it affects It's just a
big decision that we did not take lightly. But it
(10:08):
was starting to feel little bit heavy where I'm just like, okay,
the only way I just threw it.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
But we're in.
Speaker 11 (10:13):
And one morning I was sitting there breakfast, I just
felt this way on me and Steve just looked at me.
He said, you know, the helock, it's not who you are.
The loan is not who you are. You really need
to remember that. And I instantly, like I felt like
my breath entered my body again, like I felt this
just instant release of you know what, You're right, Like,
I'm putting so much identity on my business and I
(10:33):
do that for better or for worse. It's like I
love being oh entrepreneur, It's so fun, and I love
other women in business, and I love being.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
A mom all the things.
Speaker 11 (10:40):
It's like, it's so easy to equate what you do
with who you are, and I just didn't. I honestly
didn't realize how much I was doing that. And I
think that's why the helock was feeling so heavy, because
it felt like, well, if I was like a great
business owner, I would have already figured out how to
be profitable, and I would have already figured out X,
y Z. So then you start to be like, well,
am I even that good at this? And we'll you know,
(11:00):
and just so many like first of all lies and
then ties that just weren't they're not meant to be there.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
You know.
Speaker 11 (11:06):
And so when he said that, I literally just felt
this giant release of like, oh, you're right, it's not
who I am. And if this thing goes a hell
in the handbasket tomorrow, I am loved. I'm worthy, I'm
brave for trying this, and I hope inspire people to
try something themselves, you know, just like to be a
little bit less tied to the outcome, even though I
still hope the outcomes good, you know, I still hope
we can grow and do all the things. But that
(11:26):
was like a really helpful lesson for me of like, oh, wow,
I have way too much identity tied up in this.
Speaker 7 (11:31):
Yeah, And well, I do think that, like you mentioned earlier,
social media can make it hard when sometimes you're seeing
the highlight reel of people and you're seeing some of
the success in business and they're doing all the things
but you also don't have the full picture. You don't
know what it took to get there, and maybe it
did work out for them and a snap of a
finger like that. But everybody's story is different. And I
(11:52):
like that you're sharing the.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Honest side, like in the middle.
Speaker 7 (11:55):
You're in the middle of it, You're in the thick
of it. You're you're pulling the weeds, and it doesn't
define you. I like that you said that, or that
Steve said that to you. And now because even your
business like Emergency Competti doesn't define you.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
At all, Like you're so much more than that, and.
Speaker 7 (12:10):
You did we had to do to expand the business,
and I think it's going to pay off well for sure,
I hope.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
So.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Yeah, And I think that.
Speaker 11 (12:17):
Listen back to this podcast years from now and be
like either this way or this way, we're going home.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
We're hep, it's good.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
I think expansion.
Speaker 7 (12:23):
I like that word, and you've expanded in so many
different ways, and now this is something that doesn't define you.
Speaker 12 (12:28):
You know.
Speaker 7 (12:29):
That reminds me of the saying of the data versus
the drama, because I think sometimes we get wrapped up
in the drama of something when really if you just
look at the facts, it's like, Okay, I have a business.
I wanted to expand it. Therefore I needed to take
out a loan. I'm expanding my business. This is part
of the process.
Speaker 13 (12:46):
It's like the data.
Speaker 7 (12:47):
It's not the drama of Oh, I took out this
loan and I haven't been able to pay it back yet,
and now I'm a failure. You know.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
That's the drama.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Yes, that is.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Sometimes we have.
Speaker 7 (12:57):
To present it as the data and then also have
the reminder like Steve was telling you, and have good
people that are in your life that will look at
you and say like, they'll let you kind of say
process and say what you need to say, but then
they're gonna look you in the face and be like,
that doesn't define you.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
By the way, remember that.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
We're gonna do it live.
Speaker 12 (13:28):
Oh the one, two, three, sore losers?
Speaker 9 (13:33):
What up, everybody? I am lunchbox. I know the most
about sports, so I'll give you the sports facts, my
sports opinions, because I'm pretty much a sports genius, y'all.
Speaker 12 (13:42):
It's Sison. I'm from the North. I'm an alpha male.
I live on the North side of Nashville with bays
er my wife. We do have a farm. It's beautiful,
a lot of acreage, no animals, a lot of crops.
Hopefully soon corn pumpkins.
Speaker 9 (13:55):
Rye.
Speaker 12 (13:55):
I believe maybe a little fescue to be determined. Over
to you, coach.
Speaker 9 (14:03):
And here's a clip from this week's episode of The
Sore Losers. And here's a clip from one of And
here's a clip from one of the episodes this week
on The Sore Losers. Take this clip and play it. Ray,
have you ever what recently in your life has given
you the most amazing, like wow moment, Like this is
(14:26):
something so freaking cool? Uh?
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Sporting event? Concert? Say concert?
Speaker 9 (14:32):
Probably because I told you I signed up the boys
for T ball and I was going to be the
coach and we are being named the Expos, so we
are the Expos. And it was jersey pickup day, Ray,
not in my country, it was jersey pickup day. And
the boys like, Dad, Dad, Dad, can we come with
(14:54):
you to pick up the jerseys? And I'm like, getting
the car, boys, let's go.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
They're going to Zazl.
Speaker 9 (15:01):
So we got in the car, buckled them in their seats,
turned it on, and we drove windows down. Said boys,
we're going to get your baseball jerseys, and they're yelling,
go exposed, go expos, go expos, go expose. The entire
way to the ballpark.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Deve doesn't even exist.
Speaker 9 (15:21):
The entire way. They're screaming it. And we pull up
to their field where they said they're going to be
on the picnic table. Look for the people on the
picnic table with the jerseys, and there's no one there.
Well timed and I look back at the email and
it says between four and six pm.
Speaker 12 (15:39):
That's parents running in the nine different directions at its finest, and.
Speaker 9 (15:44):
I'm like, well, it's four forty five. They should be here. Oh,
have to go to the big field, not the little field.
Back in the car boys, Boys, it was a tactical
arier by your dad. Get back to them in here,
drive a little bit, go expos, oh expos. We get
out there, they are the picnic table with a bunch
(16:06):
of boxes and bags waiting for people to come pick
up their jerseys.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Who's there waiting somebody from Zazzle or who is it?
Speaker 9 (16:14):
Ah? There was a man and a woman, don't know him,
never seen him. They married, don't know, didn't catch their names.
Ray and you must be my extra large Come here, buddy.
They said, oh, what team are you? And I said,
I'm the and I hear xbos kids yell it. I
(16:37):
don't even get to tell them where that exposure.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
I'm Zsky.
Speaker 9 (16:40):
How do you know Zelensky? How do you know Zelensky?
Worry about it, dude, you're watching Survivor. No, his name
was Jelensky? Are you really watching Survivor? I was trying
to name the Prime Minister of Canada. Is the Exposer Canadian?
Got it?
Speaker 5 (16:59):
But it's definitely not Zelenski. No, I think it's true though,
that's who it is.
Speaker 9 (17:03):
Anyway, back to the story, so they're like, oh, you're
the expos How exciting. They hand me the bag. It's
got the jerseys. They hand me a sleeve of hats.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
You got the bag?
Speaker 9 (17:14):
Man got the bag, and my boys are like, data, Data,
Can we traw our jersey on right now? Can we
put the jersey on right now? And I'm like, yeah,
let's see what number do you want? And I pull
it out of the bag has their names on.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
The back of them.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
So the numbers were already picked.
Speaker 12 (17:33):
For him, already picked for him, and so interesting why
would they at the level of upper upper upper parenting.
Why would that not have been a choice of number.
They don't know their numbers very well.
Speaker 9 (17:46):
They don't really care about numbers. They're just excited to
have a jersey. And when I'm first going through the bag,
it's last names. So I pull out the first jersey.
I'm like, I don't have a Jackson on my team. Oh,
that's Connor, that's Jackson Hollow.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (18:02):
But then I pull out the next name and it's
like Abernathy. I'm like, we don't have an Abernathy guy
for the Cardinals, right, he was great. It's when I
realized that it's last names. So I go through the jersey.
Still not my kids. Still not my kids.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
All year, you've just been calling them nicknames. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (18:20):
So I get to number eleven, Come marry you a
little shit, and it says box and my five year
old's like, that's the one I want. That's our name.
That's our name, that's my jersey, that's my jersey, and
he rips off his shirt flings it. I'm like, Bud,
why don't you just hand it to me? And he
(18:41):
puts that jersey. He puts that jersey on and he's
just go, I'm number eleven. I'm number eleven. Next one
out of the bag, Brady's number number twelve. There it
is box the second box boy. And my four year
old's like, Dad, is that my jersey? Is that my jersey?
(19:02):
Is that my dada? Can I put it on right now?
Rips off the shirt? Puts that jersey on, Dada? Can
we have our hat? Let us have our hat, Dada.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
It's called a lid.
Speaker 9 (19:15):
They take their hats, they put them on.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
Were they a little crooked? They put them on, and.
Speaker 9 (19:20):
They put them crooked, and they had it way too big,
so it almost covers their eyes.
Speaker 12 (19:23):
Hey, you know now they all got pants, sagon, hat sideways,
gold chains on.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
What's up?
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Boys?
Speaker 9 (19:29):
They are going bananas? Where's Dad's triple XL? I am
sitting there and they just take off running around the bases. No,
just around like on the outside of the field, going
expos exho.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Expose, And I mean, you guys are all smoke man.
Speaker 9 (19:50):
I am just like this moment in history. This is
the great Like they may not turn out to be
major league baseball players, or they could. This is the start.
This is the start of their baseball journey. Where is
it gonna lead them? I have no idea, but the
pure excitement.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
Is it gonna lead them to hate their dad?
Speaker 9 (20:11):
The pure excitement that they had from slipping on the
jersey for the first time, Yeah, was incredible.
Speaker 12 (20:20):
Never forget it. What about the man and woman there?
What were they doing this while they were.
Speaker 9 (20:24):
Just like I guess they're pretty excited.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Huh are they high?
Speaker 9 (20:27):
No, they weren't high, And I was like yeah, and
they're like pretty neat first time playing. I was like,
first time playing. They're like, oh they played in the womb. Uh,
well they could have played t ball last year.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Oh got it?
Speaker 9 (20:38):
And they're running and then they come back over the
table like, Dad out the exposed won the exposed one.
And I'm like what. He goes like, yeah, we just
scored five points.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
I'll be sure to tell them the first game.
Speaker 9 (20:50):
And I'm like, all right, noon, and he's like, yeah,
so excited.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
Let dad go get us a run.
Speaker 9 (20:56):
So then they're like, Dad, did you get a shirt?
Did you get a shirt? And I look in there
in the bottom of the bag, says coach.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Oh, that's our merch.
Speaker 9 (21:07):
And I'm number ninety nine.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
That's merch.
Speaker 12 (21:10):
Idea, and they're like, our merch is gonna say, Coach
ninety nine, they're gonna get your jersey.
Speaker 9 (21:15):
They should and we're gonna sell merch. And my boys
are like, Dad, I put your jersey on. Put your
jersey on.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Let me take it my shirt off.
Speaker 9 (21:22):
So in front of that man and woman, I peeled
my shirt off. I put the jersey on.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
I'll let the pie apple.
Speaker 9 (21:30):
And they're like, Dad, I take our picture. Take our picture.
So I took a picture of them, and then they're like,
all right, take a picture of all of his family.
Photo took a picture of us. I'm not very good
at the selfie. The woman's like, do you want me
to take it for you? I'm like, oh, would you
do that? Take a picture. So we get in the
car and we're heading back and they're like, oh, I
can't wait to show mom. She's not gonna believe that
(21:50):
we got our jerseys. And I'm like, well, we just
told her we were going to get the jersey, so
I think she's gonna believe we got the jerseys.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
Hold your excitement. Dad's going to the beer store.
Speaker 9 (22:00):
We go, we go home and they are just amped
and they're running around the house in their jersey. Oh
it's continued. Dude, Dude, when was the last time you
got these kids new clothes? Man, I don't ever buy
new clothes. My two year old has never had a
new shirt.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
It sounds like it.
Speaker 9 (22:16):
He wears the clothes that his older brothers wore. That's
what I was excited for, the clothing. My two year
old does not know what a new clothes and what
new clothes mean.
Speaker 12 (22:23):
He you see his day one sweat your ray what
he's gonna wear when he's twenty pretty much.
Speaker 9 (22:30):
I mean, my poor two year old has no idea
what new clothes are, and that's probably bad parenting to
each his own.
Speaker 12 (22:36):
Who gives a rip? Man, what are you trying to
be like the Joneses? No, Ray, they're called the Abernathy.
Speaker 9 (22:40):
I know. I'm not like Jerry Jones. I'm not going
to promise that double the nil money for any recruit
that comes to Arkansas. He said, any kids that we're
gonna go to Kentucky, if they come to Arkansas, I'll
double it.
Speaker 12 (22:51):
Oh, there you go, and they're back in the news,
just like I said. Calipari in Arkansas and leaving my
TV for three sixty five and that's three sixty five
days around the moon man. But one learned about it
right Eclipse here Moon sun Earth.
Speaker 9 (23:04):
But once again, it doesn't matter. Calipari can always recruit.
He wasn't gonna have roblem recruiting. It's about coaching. So fine,
pay him all the money. I want to get him
to go to Little Rock. That's a great point.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
Ain't nobody going to that?
Speaker 9 (23:15):
A lot of people go because Calipari is there and
the money's there.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
It's any little rock, it's Fayetville, tricked your ass.
Speaker 9 (23:21):
Whatever. Now maybe they're going to a Little Rock for
a scrimmage. You're not the sports. Yes, I wasn't paying attention.
I was too talking about the expos.
Speaker 12 (23:30):
So, oh, this is gonna be I'm gonna make sure
I tag all our Canada stations. This episode is gonna
be huge in Canada.
Speaker 9 (23:36):
It's gonna be awesome. So then we're at the house
and they're just running around, they're still partying. Then here
comes the two year old.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
He goes, where's my shirt?
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Carl Line, she's a queen and talking, so she getting
not afraid to fas episode, So.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Just let it flow.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
No one can do we Crid car Line. He's sound
with Caroline.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Hey, y'all, it's Caroline Hobby from Get Real with Caroline Hobby.
And here is a clip from this week's episode.
Speaker 13 (24:26):
Because I mean, I feel like with you, it's like
it is all divine.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
I really feel like everything that happens like you're supposed
to have a large presence because you are so clean
and pure for God, and like it's such a clear vessel.
But it's like things just keep getting stacked up of opportunities,
like big ones, and people keep coming and voting for you,
and you keep winning, and like one of your best
friends is Landy Wilson and she's on your new album,
and you just did a big show with Chris Tomlin
(24:51):
and it's just like everything is just You're just like
in these big spotlight positions from the start with the
biggest stars.
Speaker 14 (24:59):
Yeah, I know, I can't believe it. It's crazy. I'm
so grateful. It's just amazing what God's done in my life.
And I'm just I truly can't believe any of it.
Like I do think it's divine for sure. I Mean,
there's no like other explanation. My first song ever, my
Jesus came out and in twenty four hours had.
Speaker 13 (25:16):
Like nine million views on Facebook.
Speaker 14 (25:18):
What Yeah, it was crazy and it just went viral
overnight and my life forever change And I was like, okay, God,
like clearly you're doing something.
Speaker 13 (25:26):
And then since then feel pressure that God's using in
such a big way.
Speaker 6 (25:29):
I mean, like this is like it you're yeah, chosen one,
Like you're like you are chosen, like we are all
special and divine, but like you even chosen.
Speaker 13 (25:37):
Handpicked for a big message. Is that scary? I think
if I think about it too much, it is.
Speaker 14 (25:43):
But if I don't, then I just I guess my goal,
like I mentioned earlier, is kind of just like keeping
my eyes on him because if I get to like,
it's easy to kind of get swayed away with like
the fame and the success and the career. You know
that creepen sometimes sometimes, but mostly I'm not no, because
I don't.
Speaker 13 (26:01):
Do you like the fame and the tension? I don't
you don't Why don't you like it?
Speaker 14 (26:06):
I guess it's just because I don't do it for myself,
you know, I do for God. So it feels kind
of like weird to me.
Speaker 13 (26:11):
It's like when people are fawning over you.
Speaker 6 (26:13):
When I fond over you, sorry, I literally am like, because.
Speaker 13 (26:19):
You're just so amazing. It's so amazing to be in
your presence.
Speaker 6 (26:22):
I mean, I'm not trying to put you on some
like weird holy pedical because I know that's not why
you're doing it, but like you just don't meet people
at the same age who are following the assignment of
God in this chosen I.
Speaker 13 (26:35):
Just feel it like you're just such a like you're such.
Speaker 6 (26:37):
A chosen soul to be this light, especially in this
very dark world that we live in. What do you
do when people fawn over you and they're like, oh
my god, Ann, Like you're saving my life. Your music
is healing me, and like.
Speaker 13 (26:48):
That's so your story is giving me hope.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
That you know there's redemption and good things can come
from suffering, because so many times people get stuck in
the suffering and they can't get out of their pain.
Speaker 14 (27:00):
Yeah, when people say things like that, it really does
mean a lot. Like I never take for granted people
are always like I know you probably hear this a
million times, but like, no, I want people to tell
me their stories.
Speaker 13 (27:08):
Like that's what keeps me going.
Speaker 14 (27:11):
I think when when it's more about me and less
about like my music or what God's done.
Speaker 13 (27:16):
I always just one.
Speaker 14 (27:17):
Of my friends told me one time, like she kind
of used it as like every time someone gives her
a compliment, it's like a flower, and then at the
end of the day, it's like a big bouquet, and
at the end of every day she hands it to
God and it's like, here's my bouquet of flowers for
the day. So mentally I do that on show days,
like if I've done a meet and greet and I've
met a ton of people and they're saying super sweet things,
it's like I just kind of give it back to
God because it's not mine anyway, you know, it wasn't.
Speaker 13 (27:39):
Ever to begin with. So it's just like, okay, thank
you so much.
Speaker 14 (27:42):
Like it does mean a lot to me, but I
think if you're not careful, you start to really like
believe it, which it's good to believe it, Like Okay,
I'm yeah, I believe God's using me, but.
Speaker 13 (27:52):
Like you don't want I don't ever want to let
it get to my head. So it's just a continuous like, Okay, God,
you can have it.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
It's not mine.
Speaker 14 (27:58):
You know, the pressure off, because then I'm reminded like,
oh wait, I don't have to like continue to like
prove myself or do this and this and this, Like
you've already gone before me. So all I got to
do is just surrender and trust and you're going to
continue to guide me. Which back to what you said
about like all the crazy things happening in my life.
It's like that's what it is is because.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
I could be very overwhelming for a human if you're
just in your human being, that could be very overwhelming,
Like all of a sudden, like oh my gosh, all
these eyes are on me, all this attention is on me.
I'm having all these accolades on me. A lot of
times people have like nervous breakdowns because they feel like
they have to keep it up or like the pressure.
Do you feel that or if you feel it, do
you immediately just know how to turn it over?
Speaker 14 (28:37):
I feel it a lot. I don't always know how
to turn it over. I think it just depends on
the like the day I really try to. But I
do definitely get a lot of anxiety and like just
you know, it's just it is a ton of pressure.
Speaker 13 (28:49):
What for sure?
Speaker 6 (28:50):
What is your anxiety, Like, where does your anxiety stem from?
Speaker 13 (28:54):
I think it's just all these big things that happen.
Speaker 14 (28:56):
It doesn't make you feel like, wait, I'm not equipped
to that, Like me, like I'm not able to do this.
Like I'm just little and from Kentucky. I still feel
like I'm fifteen with braces on high school.
Speaker 13 (29:05):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (29:06):
Yeah, dude, I do think I'm forty years old and
I still feel like I'm seventeen in Wago, Texas, and
I'm like, what in the world am I raising a
kid and having responsibilities?
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 13 (29:15):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Yeah, uh huh.
Speaker 13 (29:17):
It's crazy, isn't it. It's just like going from that
to this and such extreme differences and people looking up
to you so much.
Speaker 14 (29:24):
Yes, and the pressure of that, which is a beautiful
it's a good pressure. It's like, Okay, this is amazing,
Like I'm so glad I can be a role model
for these little girls and people. But yeah, I think
just for me, it's just been kind of anxiety just
from just carrying the.
Speaker 13 (29:40):
Weight of all of it. Is a lot, but it's good.
It's like the beautiful parts of it, and there's obviously
hard parts of it.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
I hope you enjoyed this week's Sunday Sampler. If you
missed any of those episodes, go check them out. Maybe
you just like the Sunday sam that's cool too. If
you can subscribe, rate, and review the podcast that you like,
that would help us a lot.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Hope you guys have a great week.
Hey, welcome to the Sunday Sampler.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Coming up with Amy, you'll hear Gracie Mochler, who is
an entrepreneur.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
She's also the wife of Steve Mochler.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
But they talk about signs, and you know how Amy
loves his sign She loves all signs, street signs, signs
from above.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Gracy got a good one from her sister and he.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Jumped into this.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Who knew on the other side?
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Are you even here?
Speaker 5 (00:27):
Wow' a yeah, no, I'm here.
Speaker 6 (00:29):
Welcome.
Speaker 7 (00:30):
We also talk business, being that she is an entrepreneur
so and going through hard things as a small business owner.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
That's coming up in just a few minutes. On the Bobbycast,
I sat down with new artist Zach Top, who is
getting a lot, lot, lot of love right now, and
so he talks about playing at his family band, dropping
out of college to play music Jacob and support how
at seven years old he booked his first gig. That's
gonna happen in just a second. Caroline Hobby sore losers.
All that's here on the Sunday Sampler. So let's get
(00:55):
going now with Zach Top on the Bobby Cast.
Speaker 8 (00:59):
The amount of time that like I probably from the
ages of five to fifteen, I probably played guitar like
three hours a day or something. And just like knowing
other artists and people that have started, you know, in
their teen years or something, I can't imagine because you
just don't have time anymore to do that, you know,
let alone being actually having to work full time as
(01:20):
an adult. I remember my dad for a second was
gonna so we had I played guitar, obviously, my little
brother played mandolin, Maddie and my sister played fiddle, and
then the oldest sister lake and played bass for the
little bluegrass family band. And so we're missing the banjo.
So my dad got a wild hair that he was
going to be the banjo player at some point, but
it was the same sort of thing where, you know,
(01:41):
he it was probably a couple months. He had a
lesson every week, but yeah, you know, he ain't got
time to sit down and practice and let alone just
your you know, you get older, it's hard to Yeah, it.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Has already established how it's gonna work.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
You say you were basically the leader of uh top
top strings.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Yeah, the top string. Yeah, my mom was really proud of.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
That one still, but you're not you weren't the oldest.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
No, so how do you lead if you're not the
oldest sibling. I would just think naturally the oldest of
the oldest would be like, I'm the leader of the band.
Speaker 8 (02:09):
Yeah, I think I think I wanted it worse than
anybody else. For sure, they did it and had fun
with it most of the time. I think I was
pretty difficult to work with at times. Maybe that hasn't changed.
I don't know, but anyways, uh, yeah, we hic. I
booked our first show, I guess an old family friend
of ours, Randy, had called my dad and asked the
(02:32):
first show we played was opening for a Passiklin musical
at the at the local high school. And Randy had
heard that we were He was part of the rotary
clip you know, help him put it on or whatever.
He had heard that we were taking music lessons, and
you know, we kind of we didn't even weren't even
doing it as a band. Everybody was just learning their
instrument individually and we were all doing our own thing
kind of. We had nothing worked up together. And he
(02:53):
called and asked my dad if we'd like to come
do the come open for that musical, And my dad
said well, Randy, you're gonna have to ask them. I
can't answer answer that for him, and so he put
me on the phone. I don't remember that.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
How were you seven? I've been told the story enough.
He uh. He was like, Hey, we'd like you come
do the show. And I said, well, Randy, that sounds great,
we'd love to and he's in.
Speaker 8 (03:18):
My first question was how long is it or how
much time do we have? And he was like, oh,
showing for a couple months and I said, well that's perfect.
We'll know some songs by then and we'd love to
do it. So then you start rehearsing yeah, yeah, and
then we started actually, yeah, trying to work up stuff together.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
So yeah, kids do the darness things?
Speaker 9 (03:36):
Do they ever?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
That was you at seven, running the business?
Speaker 9 (03:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Why would you play guitar for hours at a time?
Speaker 9 (03:42):
Meaning?
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Was it pure enjoyment? Was it pursuing the dream of music?
Was it pursuing the idea of getting out of Washington?
Not a negative way, but you know, right, yeah, why
would you dedicate so much time to it?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
In your mind as a kid, what did you think
it would lead to?
Speaker 8 (04:00):
I really don't know that I thought it would lead
to anything. All I knew was I loved the music,
and country music specifically. I remember my folks had a
remember them briefcase things that had a bunch.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Of slots for tapes. Yes, at tapes.
Speaker 8 (04:16):
They have one of those down downstairs, and we still
had a tape machine. I think it was pretty out
of date at that point, but we had a tape
machine down in the basement and I would go through
that thing, just one by one, take one out, play
it through, trying to learn every song on there, learn
how to sing them, learn how to play them, just
sit down there in front of that tape machine for hours,
sitting there with my guitar. Did you want to be amer?
(04:39):
I loved performing, Yeah, for sure. I loved being on stage.
I was always, you know, the front man from the start,
the one talking between songs, doing most of the lead singing.
My sister Maddie's an awesome singer as well, and Jorman
Laken are too, but we the two of us, did
most of the lead singing. And yeah, I really it
(04:59):
was a long time before I ever thought anything about, nah,
maybe I could actually do this for a living. It
just I was ate up with the music. I loved it.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
It was just passion, it was just it was just
a love yep.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
A whole bunch of old bluegrass records.
Speaker 8 (05:11):
I remember I got a box sit thing with like
eighty George Jones songs on a CD. I went through
all of those, learned all that stuff. I remember the
first time they had the uh Don't Close your Eyes
tape of Keith Whitley, and I about lost it when
I heard that thing.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Learned every song off of it.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
And then it's like you're two hundred inside of a
body of a seven year old. Yeah, now twenty five.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Kind good, kind.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Cast up man, little food for your soul.
Speaker 10 (05:51):
Life ain't always pretty bad.
Speaker 9 (05:53):
It's pretty beautiful, family, beautiful.
Speaker 10 (05:55):
Laugh, a little more exciting man city cut, you're kicking
with full with Amy Brown.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
Hey, it's Amy Brown from Four Things with Amy Brown.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
And here's what.
Speaker 7 (06:09):
We talked about this week on my podcast. What advice
do you have for people from what you've experienced, not
just in like focusing and keeping on the one thing,
but like in your expansion, Like what does it felt
like for you to be able to expand and open
yourself up to all these different possibilities? And then what
advice do you have for people that are like, well, yeah,
(06:30):
that's great. If someone's telling you, you know, you're a
product not a brand, it's very scary to launch into
all of that. So what advice do you have for
people that maybe need to take that next step to
grow And maybe it's not a business, It could be
in anything, putting themselves out there, getting on a dating app,
whatever it is that they maybe need to take the
next step to do, Like you just dive right down.
Speaker 11 (06:51):
How would say, first of all, just go for it,
just try it, Like things usually go better than you think,
Like again, but what if it goes well? That's on
half our products out because like but truly, like what
if it did go well? You never know till you try.
So I'm a big proponent of just trying and then
from there know your why because I think when things
get hard, your why connects you to your purpose and
that's going to help you on the hard times. And
(07:11):
so as I've been like this, you know, experiencing these
growing pains which have felt very painful, that why and
feeling that purpose of you know what, this feels crazy
or like what did I do? But I'm like, no,
I believe I'm called to bring joy and to bring
this product, and this like feels like what the Lord
has called me to and so that why really helps
ground you when you want to bolt. Yeah, you know,
(07:33):
and I think I never want to knock anybody on
social media, but I feel like we're in this culture
where it's like it just feels like I go online.
This might just be me and it's my own issue
for comparing, but when it feels like this culture of like, oh,
here's how I make seven figures? Will I make machas
in homeschool my kids? And I'm just like, that is
not my story. That literally could not feel further from
the truth for me. And so I think just to
(07:53):
feel like for encouragement for someone that it's okay if
it feels hard, and that like pain and purpose are
not separate, and that I think for me, I like ease.
I always want something to be the easiest and the
most fun. And so in this season, it's been like, no,
I feel pain, and this feels hard. I feel a
lot of growing pains. But you want the garden, but
you don't want to pull the weeds, you know, So
just being willing to dive in and like really plug
(08:13):
into what you're called to and just that like it's
okay if it feels hard right now, and it's okay
if starting something is not just this linear path to
like all this money and free time, And does that
make sense?
Speaker 6 (08:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 12 (08:23):
No?
Speaker 7 (08:23):
And I love that saying like if you know you
want the garden, but you don't want to pull the weeds,
and you have to get.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
On there your hand sturdy?
Speaker 11 (08:30):
Is that part of a song he wrote that song
that was his idea that wasn't mine.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
I took it for him.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
Well, I think it's a beautiful way to put it
because it's so true. Sometimes you just want to like
skip to the good part. But then we miss out
on some of the expansion. We miss out on the growth,
We miss out on the development.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Like that's how we.
Speaker 11 (08:46):
Who you're becoming, who you're becoming.
Speaker 7 (08:48):
We are in the different challenges and what does this
make possible for us? And then where's it going to
take us next? And even when we hit certain obstacles,
knowing that like Okay, well maybe this isn't the way,
but supposed to pivot and go this way. And you've
been great at pivoting and also taking feedback and then
making decisions from there, and one of the decisions you
had to make was taking out the helock to make
(09:10):
this expansion possible. And I know that that's been a
huge thing for you of like, oh, but I love
that you're very clear about Okay, I'm not going to
get focused on that.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
That's not my identity. This part of it doesn't.
Speaker 7 (09:22):
Define me and who I am. And I think sometimes
we get wrapped up in some of our stuff that
feels overwhelming at the time. Yes, and I speak as
someone has a helock too. It's like or any kind
of debt that you may be in, or whatever circumstance
where there's a lot of pressure. It's like, Okay, this
is here, We'll get through this. But this right here
(09:44):
doesn't define me.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Absolutely.
Speaker 11 (09:46):
Yeah, we had a moment. It was last month, So
this is all very raw, but you know, I like
talking about it in real time because that's just that's life,
you know. But there was a moment last month where
I just it was feeling heavy, the helock was feeling heavy.
I'm like, I have taken this very big risk, which
I'm so happy to do, but it affects my family,
you know, it affects all of us. It affects what
we're able to do, and it affects It's just a
big decision that we did not take lightly. But it
(10:08):
was starting to feel little bit heavy where I'm just like, okay,
the only way I just threw it.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
But we're in.
Speaker 11 (10:13):
And one morning I was sitting there breakfast, I just
felt this way on me and Steve just looked at me.
He said, you know, the helock, it's not who you are.
The loan is not who you are. You really need
to remember that. And I instantly, like I felt like
my breath entered my body again, like I felt this
just instant release of you know what, You're right, Like,
I'm putting so much identity on my business and I
(10:33):
do that for better or for worse. It's like I
love being oh entrepreneur, It's so fun, and I love
other women in business, and I love being.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
A mom all the things.
Speaker 11 (10:40):
It's like, it's so easy to equate what you do
with who you are, and I just didn't. I honestly
didn't realize how much I was doing that. And I
think that's why the helock was feeling so heavy, because
it felt like, well, if I was like a great
business owner, I would have already figured out how to
be profitable, and I would have already figured out X,
y Z. So then you start to be like, well,
am I even that good at this? And we'll you know,
(11:00):
and just so many like first of all lies and
then ties that just weren't they're not meant to be there.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
You know.
Speaker 11 (11:06):
And so when he said that, I literally just felt
this giant release of like, oh, you're right, it's not
who I am. And if this thing goes a hell
in the handbasket tomorrow, I am loved. I'm worthy, I'm
brave for trying this, and I hope inspire people to
try something themselves, you know, just like to be a
little bit less tied to the outcome, even though I
still hope the outcomes good, you know, I still hope
we can grow and do all the things. But that
(11:26):
was like a really helpful lesson for me of like, oh, wow,
I have way too much identity tied up in this.
Speaker 7 (11:31):
Yeah, And well, I do think that, like you mentioned earlier,
social media can make it hard when sometimes you're seeing
the highlight reel of people and you're seeing some of
the success in business and they're doing all the things
but you also don't have the full picture. You don't
know what it took to get there, and maybe it
did work out for them and a snap of a
finger like that. But everybody's story is different. And I
(11:52):
like that you're sharing the.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Honest side, like in the middle.
Speaker 7 (11:55):
You're in the middle of it, You're in the thick
of it. You're you're pulling the weeds, and it doesn't
define you. I like that you said that, or that
Steve said that to you. And now because even your
business like Emergency Competti doesn't define you.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
At all, Like you're so much more than that, and.
Speaker 7 (12:10):
You did we had to do to expand the business,
and I think it's going to pay off well for sure,
I hope.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
So.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Yeah, And I think that.
Speaker 11 (12:17):
Listen back to this podcast years from now and be
like either this way or this way, we're going home.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
We're hep, it's good.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
I think expansion.
Speaker 7 (12:23):
I like that word, and you've expanded in so many
different ways, and now this is something that doesn't define you.
Speaker 12 (12:28):
You know.
Speaker 7 (12:29):
That reminds me of the saying of the data versus
the drama, because I think sometimes we get wrapped up
in the drama of something when really if you just
look at the facts, it's like, Okay, I have a business.
I wanted to expand it. Therefore I needed to take
out a loan. I'm expanding my business. This is part
of the process.
Speaker 13 (12:46):
It's like the data.
Speaker 7 (12:47):
It's not the drama of Oh, I took out this
loan and I haven't been able to pay it back yet,
and now I'm a failure. You know.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
That's the drama.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Yes, that is.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Sometimes we have.
Speaker 7 (12:57):
To present it as the data and then also have
the reminder like Steve was telling you, and have good
people that are in your life that will look at
you and say like, they'll let you kind of say
process and say what you need to say, but then
they're gonna look you in the face and be like,
that doesn't define you.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
By the way, remember that.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
We're gonna do it live.
Speaker 12 (13:28):
Oh the one, two, three, sore losers?
Speaker 9 (13:33):
What up, everybody? I am lunchbox. I know the most
about sports, so I'll give you the sports facts, my
sports opinions, because I'm pretty much a sports genius, y'all.
Speaker 12 (13:42):
It's Sison. I'm from the North. I'm an alpha male.
I live on the North side of Nashville with bays
er my wife. We do have a farm. It's beautiful,
a lot of acreage, no animals, a lot of crops.
Hopefully soon corn pumpkins.
Speaker 9 (13:55):
Rye.
Speaker 12 (13:55):
I believe maybe a little fescue to be determined. Over
to you, coach.
Speaker 9 (14:03):
And here's a clip from this week's episode of The
Sore Losers. And here's a clip from one of And
here's a clip from one of the episodes this week
on The Sore Losers. Take this clip and play it. Ray,
have you ever what recently in your life has given
you the most amazing, like wow moment, Like this is
(14:26):
something so freaking cool? Uh?
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Sporting event? Concert? Say concert?
Speaker 9 (14:32):
Probably because I told you I signed up the boys
for T ball and I was going to be the
coach and we are being named the Expos, so we
are the Expos. And it was jersey pickup day, Ray,
not in my country, it was jersey pickup day. And
the boys like, Dad, Dad, Dad, can we come with
(14:54):
you to pick up the jerseys? And I'm like, getting
the car, boys, let's go.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
They're going to Zazl.
Speaker 9 (15:01):
So we got in the car, buckled them in their seats,
turned it on, and we drove windows down. Said boys,
we're going to get your baseball jerseys, and they're yelling,
go exposed, go expos, go expos, go expose. The entire
way to the ballpark.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Deve doesn't even exist.
Speaker 9 (15:21):
The entire way. They're screaming it. And we pull up
to their field where they said they're going to be
on the picnic table. Look for the people on the
picnic table with the jerseys, and there's no one there.
Well timed and I look back at the email and
it says between four and six pm.
Speaker 12 (15:39):
That's parents running in the nine different directions at its finest, and.
Speaker 9 (15:44):
I'm like, well, it's four forty five. They should be here. Oh,
have to go to the big field, not the little field.
Back in the car boys, Boys, it was a tactical
arier by your dad. Get back to them in here,
drive a little bit, go expos, oh expos. We get
out there, they are the picnic table with a bunch
(16:06):
of boxes and bags waiting for people to come pick
up their jerseys.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Who's there waiting somebody from Zazzle or who is it?
Speaker 9 (16:14):
Ah? There was a man and a woman, don't know him,
never seen him. They married, don't know, didn't catch their names.
Ray and you must be my extra large Come here, buddy.
They said, oh, what team are you? And I said,
I'm the and I hear xbos kids yell it. I
(16:37):
don't even get to tell them where that exposure.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
I'm Zsky.
Speaker 9 (16:40):
How do you know Zelensky? How do you know Zelensky?
Worry about it, dude, you're watching Survivor. No, his name
was Jelensky? Are you really watching Survivor? I was trying
to name the Prime Minister of Canada. Is the Exposer Canadian?
Got it?
Speaker 5 (16:59):
But it's definitely not Zelenski. No, I think it's true though,
that's who it is.
Speaker 9 (17:03):
Anyway, back to the story, so they're like, oh, you're
the expos How exciting. They hand me the bag. It's
got the jerseys. They hand me a sleeve of hats.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
You got the bag?
Speaker 9 (17:14):
Man got the bag, and my boys are like, data, Data,
Can we traw our jersey on right now? Can we
put the jersey on right now? And I'm like, yeah,
let's see what number do you want? And I pull
it out of the bag has their names on.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
The back of them.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
So the numbers were already picked.
Speaker 12 (17:33):
For him, already picked for him, and so interesting why
would they at the level of upper upper upper parenting.
Why would that not have been a choice of number.
They don't know their numbers very well.
Speaker 9 (17:46):
They don't really care about numbers. They're just excited to
have a jersey. And when I'm first going through the bag,
it's last names. So I pull out the first jersey.
I'm like, I don't have a Jackson on my team. Oh,
that's Connor, that's Jackson Hollow.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (18:02):
But then I pull out the next name and it's
like Abernathy. I'm like, we don't have an Abernathy guy
for the Cardinals, right, he was great. It's when I
realized that it's last names. So I go through the jersey.
Still not my kids. Still not my kids.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
All year, you've just been calling them nicknames. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (18:20):
So I get to number eleven, Come marry you a
little shit, and it says box and my five year
old's like, that's the one I want. That's our name.
That's our name, that's my jersey, that's my jersey, and
he rips off his shirt flings it. I'm like, Bud,
why don't you just hand it to me? And he
(18:41):
puts that jersey. He puts that jersey on and he's
just go, I'm number eleven. I'm number eleven. Next one
out of the bag, Brady's number number twelve. There it
is box the second box boy. And my four year
old's like, Dad, is that my jersey? Is that my jersey?
(19:02):
Is that my dada? Can I put it on right now?
Rips off the shirt? Puts that jersey on, Dada? Can
we have our hat? Let us have our hat, Dada.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
It's called a lid.
Speaker 9 (19:15):
They take their hats, they put them on.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
Were they a little crooked? They put them on, and.
Speaker 9 (19:20):
They put them crooked, and they had it way too big,
so it almost covers their eyes.
Speaker 12 (19:23):
Hey, you know now they all got pants, sagon, hat sideways,
gold chains on.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
What's up?
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Boys?
Speaker 9 (19:29):
They are going bananas? Where's Dad's triple XL? I am
sitting there and they just take off running around the bases. No,
just around like on the outside of the field, going
expos exho.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Expose, And I mean, you guys are all smoke man.
Speaker 9 (19:50):
I am just like this moment in history. This is
the great Like they may not turn out to be
major league baseball players, or they could. This is the start.
This is the start of their baseball journey. Where is
it gonna lead them? I have no idea, but the
pure excitement.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
Is it gonna lead them to hate their dad?
Speaker 9 (20:11):
The pure excitement that they had from slipping on the
jersey for the first time, Yeah, was incredible.
Speaker 12 (20:20):
Never forget it. What about the man and woman there?
What were they doing this while they were.
Speaker 9 (20:24):
Just like I guess they're pretty excited.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Huh are they high?
Speaker 9 (20:27):
No, they weren't high, And I was like yeah, and
they're like pretty neat first time playing. I was like,
first time playing. They're like, oh they played in the womb. Uh,
well they could have played t ball last year.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Oh got it?
Speaker 9 (20:38):
And they're running and then they come back over the
table like, Dad out the exposed won the exposed one.
And I'm like what. He goes like, yeah, we just
scored five points.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
I'll be sure to tell them the first game.
Speaker 9 (20:50):
And I'm like, all right, noon, and he's like, yeah,
so excited.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
Let dad go get us a run.
Speaker 9 (20:56):
So then they're like, Dad, did you get a shirt?
Did you get a shirt? And I look in there
in the bottom of the bag, says coach.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Oh, that's our merch.
Speaker 9 (21:07):
And I'm number ninety nine.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
That's merch.
Speaker 12 (21:10):
Idea, and they're like, our merch is gonna say, Coach
ninety nine, they're gonna get your jersey.
Speaker 9 (21:15):
They should and we're gonna sell merch. And my boys
are like, Dad, I put your jersey on. Put your
jersey on.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Let me take it my shirt off.
Speaker 9 (21:22):
So in front of that man and woman, I peeled
my shirt off. I put the jersey on.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
I'll let the pie apple.
Speaker 9 (21:30):
And they're like, Dad, I take our picture. Take our picture.
So I took a picture of them, and then they're like,
all right, take a picture of all of his family.
Photo took a picture of us. I'm not very good
at the selfie. The woman's like, do you want me
to take it for you? I'm like, oh, would you
do that? Take a picture. So we get in the
car and we're heading back and they're like, oh, I
can't wait to show mom. She's not gonna believe that
(21:50):
we got our jerseys. And I'm like, well, we just
told her we were going to get the jersey, so
I think she's gonna believe we got the jerseys.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
Hold your excitement. Dad's going to the beer store.
Speaker 9 (22:00):
We go, we go home and they are just amped
and they're running around the house in their jersey. Oh
it's continued. Dude, Dude, when was the last time you
got these kids new clothes? Man, I don't ever buy
new clothes. My two year old has never had a
new shirt.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
It sounds like it.
Speaker 9 (22:16):
He wears the clothes that his older brothers wore. That's
what I was excited for, the clothing. My two year
old does not know what a new clothes and what
new clothes mean.
Speaker 12 (22:23):
He you see his day one sweat your ray what
he's gonna wear when he's twenty pretty much.
Speaker 9 (22:30):
I mean, my poor two year old has no idea
what new clothes are, and that's probably bad parenting to
each his own.
Speaker 12 (22:36):
Who gives a rip? Man, what are you trying to
be like the Joneses? No, Ray, they're called the Abernathy.
Speaker 9 (22:40):
I know. I'm not like Jerry Jones. I'm not going
to promise that double the nil money for any recruit
that comes to Arkansas. He said, any kids that we're
gonna go to Kentucky, if they come to Arkansas, I'll
double it.
Speaker 12 (22:51):
Oh, there you go, and they're back in the news,
just like I said. Calipari in Arkansas and leaving my
TV for three sixty five and that's three sixty five
days around the moon man. But one learned about it
right Eclipse here Moon sun Earth.
Speaker 9 (23:04):
But once again, it doesn't matter. Calipari can always recruit.
He wasn't gonna have roblem recruiting. It's about coaching. So fine,
pay him all the money. I want to get him
to go to Little Rock. That's a great point.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
Ain't nobody going to that?
Speaker 9 (23:15):
A lot of people go because Calipari is there and
the money's there.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
It's any little rock, it's Fayetville, tricked your ass.
Speaker 9 (23:21):
Whatever. Now maybe they're going to a Little Rock for
a scrimmage. You're not the sports. Yes, I wasn't paying attention.
I was too talking about the expos.
Speaker 12 (23:30):
So, oh, this is gonna be I'm gonna make sure
I tag all our Canada stations. This episode is gonna
be huge in Canada.
Speaker 9 (23:36):
It's gonna be awesome. So then we're at the house
and they're just running around, they're still partying. Then here
comes the two year old.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
He goes, where's my shirt?
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Carl Line, she's a queen and talking, so she getting
not afraid to fas episode, So.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Just let it flow.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
No one can do we Crid car Line. He's sound
with Caroline.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Hey, y'all, it's Caroline Hobby from Get Real with Caroline Hobby.
And here is a clip from this week's episode.
Speaker 13 (24:26):
Because I mean, I feel like with you, it's like
it is all divine.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
I really feel like everything that happens like you're supposed
to have a large presence because you are so clean
and pure for God, and like it's such a clear vessel.
But it's like things just keep getting stacked up of opportunities,
like big ones, and people keep coming and voting for you,
and you keep winning, and like one of your best
friends is Landy Wilson and she's on your new album,
and you just did a big show with Chris Tomlin
(24:51):
and it's just like everything is just You're just like
in these big spotlight positions from the start with the
biggest stars.
Speaker 14 (24:59):
Yeah, I know, I can't believe it. It's crazy. I'm
so grateful. It's just amazing what God's done in my life.
And I'm just I truly can't believe any of it.
Like I do think it's divine for sure. I Mean,
there's no like other explanation. My first song ever, my
Jesus came out and in twenty four hours had.
Speaker 13 (25:16):
Like nine million views on Facebook.
Speaker 14 (25:18):
What Yeah, it was crazy and it just went viral
overnight and my life forever change And I was like, okay, God,
like clearly you're doing something.
Speaker 13 (25:26):
And then since then feel pressure that God's using in
such a big way.
Speaker 6 (25:29):
I mean, like this is like it you're yeah, chosen one,
Like you're like you are chosen, like we are all
special and divine, but like you even chosen.
Speaker 13 (25:37):
Handpicked for a big message. Is that scary? I think
if I think about it too much, it is.
Speaker 14 (25:43):
But if I don't, then I just I guess my goal,
like I mentioned earlier, is kind of just like keeping
my eyes on him because if I get to like,
it's easy to kind of get swayed away with like
the fame and the success and the career. You know
that creepen sometimes sometimes, but mostly I'm not no, because
I don't.
Speaker 13 (26:01):
Do you like the fame and the tension? I don't
you don't Why don't you like it?
Speaker 14 (26:06):
I guess it's just because I don't do it for myself,
you know, I do for God. So it feels kind
of like weird to me.
Speaker 13 (26:11):
It's like when people are fawning over you.
Speaker 6 (26:13):
When I fond over you, sorry, I literally am like, because.
Speaker 13 (26:19):
You're just so amazing. It's so amazing to be in
your presence.
Speaker 6 (26:22):
I mean, I'm not trying to put you on some
like weird holy pedical because I know that's not why
you're doing it, but like you just don't meet people
at the same age who are following the assignment of
God in this chosen I.
Speaker 13 (26:35):
Just feel it like you're just such a like you're such.
Speaker 6 (26:37):
A chosen soul to be this light, especially in this
very dark world that we live in. What do you
do when people fawn over you and they're like, oh
my god, Ann, Like you're saving my life. Your music
is healing me, and like.
Speaker 13 (26:48):
That's so your story is giving me hope.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
That you know there's redemption and good things can come
from suffering, because so many times people get stuck in
the suffering and they can't get out of their pain.
Speaker 14 (27:00):
Yeah, when people say things like that, it really does
mean a lot. Like I never take for granted people
are always like I know you probably hear this a
million times, but like, no, I want people to tell
me their stories.
Speaker 13 (27:08):
Like that's what keeps me going.
Speaker 14 (27:11):
I think when when it's more about me and less
about like my music or what God's done.
Speaker 13 (27:16):
I always just one.
Speaker 14 (27:17):
Of my friends told me one time, like she kind
of used it as like every time someone gives her
a compliment, it's like a flower, and then at the
end of the day, it's like a big bouquet, and
at the end of every day she hands it to
God and it's like, here's my bouquet of flowers for
the day. So mentally I do that on show days,
like if I've done a meet and greet and I've
met a ton of people and they're saying super sweet things,
it's like I just kind of give it back to
God because it's not mine anyway, you know, it wasn't.
Speaker 13 (27:39):
Ever to begin with. So it's just like, okay, thank
you so much.
Speaker 14 (27:42):
Like it does mean a lot to me, but I
think if you're not careful, you start to really like
believe it, which it's good to believe it, Like Okay,
I'm yeah, I believe God's using me, but.
Speaker 13 (27:52):
Like you don't want I don't ever want to let
it get to my head. So it's just a continuous like, Okay, God,
you can have it.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
It's not mine.
Speaker 14 (27:58):
You know, the pressure off, because then I'm reminded like,
oh wait, I don't have to like continue to like
prove myself or do this and this and this, Like
you've already gone before me. So all I got to
do is just surrender and trust and you're going to
continue to guide me. Which back to what you said
about like all the crazy things happening in my life.
It's like that's what it is is because.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
I could be very overwhelming for a human if you're
just in your human being, that could be very overwhelming,
Like all of a sudden, like oh my gosh, all
these eyes are on me, all this attention is on me.
I'm having all these accolades on me. A lot of
times people have like nervous breakdowns because they feel like
they have to keep it up or like the pressure.
Do you feel that or if you feel it, do
you immediately just know how to turn it over?
Speaker 14 (28:37):
I feel it a lot. I don't always know how
to turn it over. I think it just depends on
the like the day I really try to. But I
do definitely get a lot of anxiety and like just
you know, it's just it is a ton of pressure.
Speaker 13 (28:49):
What for sure?
Speaker 6 (28:50):
What is your anxiety, Like, where does your anxiety stem from?
Speaker 13 (28:54):
I think it's just all these big things that happen.
Speaker 14 (28:56):
It doesn't make you feel like, wait, I'm not equipped
to that, Like me, like I'm not able to do this.
Like I'm just little and from Kentucky. I still feel
like I'm fifteen with braces on high school.
Speaker 13 (29:05):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (29:06):
Yeah, dude, I do think I'm forty years old and
I still feel like I'm seventeen in Wago, Texas, and
I'm like, what in the world am I raising a
kid and having responsibilities?
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 13 (29:15):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Yeah, uh huh.
Speaker 13 (29:17):
It's crazy, isn't it. It's just like going from that
to this and such extreme differences and people looking up
to you so much.
Speaker 14 (29:24):
Yes, and the pressure of that, which is a beautiful
it's a good pressure. It's like, Okay, this is amazing,
Like I'm so glad I can be a role model
for these little girls and people. But yeah, I think
just for me, it's just been kind of anxiety just
from just carrying the.
Speaker 13 (29:40):
Weight of all of it. Is a lot, but it's good.
It's like the beautiful parts of it, and there's obviously
hard parts of it.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
I hope you enjoyed this week's Sunday Sampler. If you
missed any of those episodes, go check them out. Maybe
you just like the Sunday sam that's cool too. If
you can subscribe, rate, and review the podcast that you like,
that would help us a lot.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Hope you guys have a great week.
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