Episode 7 Running, Coffee, and Christ: The Lighthearted Side of Inspiration

Join us for an enlightening and heartwarming episode of Running on Coffee and Christ, where we dive deep into the things that spark our inspirations. From cherished memories associated with our favorite coffee mugs to the enduring influence of icons like Dolly Parton, we explore how everyday objects and stories connect us to a broader narrative of joy, creativity, and purpose. 

In this episode, we reflect on powerful movies and timeless songs that uplift our spirits, alongside the meaningful moments we witness in our running community. We share how these experiences illuminate the path to persistence, resilience, and inspiration. Moreover, we delve into the ultimate inspiration—faith—offering perspectives on how our beliefs shape our lives and navigate us through challenges. 

Whether you’re on a journey of personal growth or seeking motivation, we hope to encourage you to recognize the small and significant sources of inspiration in your life. Listen in and let’s celebrate the stories and moments that inspire us all. Don’t forget to engage with us by sharing what inspires you! Subscribe, share, and leave a review to keep the conversation going.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome back everyone .
This is episode number seven onRunning on Coffee and Christ
podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Hey, welcome.
It's episode seven.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Looking forward to this conversation today.
We've got some inspirationgoing on between us, we've been
having a good day.
Today, got a lot of work done.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
We did get a lot of work done.
It's actually storming rightnow.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Uh-huh.
You might hear that in thebackground.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
It sounds a little ferocious, and I just got a
notification that we're under athunderstorm warning, so I hope
we don't lose power in this soif we do, we'll just have to
edit this and yeah, or justrecord in the dark.
Either way, we can't um so I'mexcited to talk about what
inspires us.
We kind of just wanted to do alighthearted episode, yeah for

(00:48):
sure.
And talk about things that welove and hopefully that you guys
do too, and it endears us toone another, you know.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Yeah, so we've talked a little bit about our stories
from different situations andoccasions and, you know, just
talking about what inspires us,it naturally brought up a lot of
memories of our, our history.
You know, history together,history before each other, and
just the things that we carrywith us in life and the people
we've come across and thesituations, and it's just really
interesting.
I just want to see how it goes,you know, see how it develops.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
Well, let's let's talk about what uh coffee cups
um we use I can't skip past thatif you notice, um and I know
these are not up on YouTube yet,but they eventually are going
to be up on YouTube and you cansee my mug, but you can't see it
right now, but I'm actuallyusing one of the first mugs that
we probably got when we startedcollecting mugs.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Probably there was these ones and some skinnier
ones also that were similar.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
And it's a Starbucks mug and you may think what.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
You are drinking out of a Starbucks mug.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
You own a coffee shop ?
Yes, I am, because it inspiredus yeah, 100 percent um, there
was a time where we loved it,yeah, and you have to remember
there was a time where thatreally was all there was, too,
you might have a few mom andpops, but Starbucks kind of set
the precedence for an overpricedcup of coffee, I mean well,

(02:08):
when you get like, when you getthe time and the labor that goes
into something to be to be made, and they streamlined it, they
really streamlined, they reallydid those processes and just so
you know, guys, the profitmargin on coffee is very low
yeah

Speaker 1 (02:22):
support your coffee shops go local if you can really
need.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
They need volume, we need volume, and I'm not just
speaking for us, this is acrossthe board.
That's why you see so manycoffee shops shut their doors,
because you really need a lot ofvolume.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
A lot of foot traffic , a lot of people.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
To make a profit and consistent, you have to make a
profit when you have a businessor it's not going to work.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
And most Starbucks and a lot of the larger
corporations that are in coffee.
They cater towards interstatelarge cities drive-thrus things
like that that they know they'regoing to have a high turnover,
quick rip.
And they lose a lot of thepersonality when it comes to the
coffee culture.
The coffee culture is so thick,you know, when it comes to small

(03:09):
shops and when it comes to thecoffee communities visiting
other cities and stuff like that, it's really thick.
You can basically go and relateto someone anywhere in any city
.
You know in that environmentthat you feel comfortable in, so
you know, but, but, butStarbucks did inspire us, you
know.
So that's the reason why youhave that cup and I got my cup
today.
It's actually, um, this was atopic that came up just recently

(03:30):
.
Um, that really made me thinkabout all the things that she
has done.
Um, but this is a cup that wegot when we were on vacation in
Gatlinburg and we were at theDixie Stampede.
Um, now that's Dolly Parton'sventure there in Gatlinburg or
Pigeon Forge right.
Yes, yeah, in Pigeon Forge, buther husband just recently passed
away and it got me thinkingabout how much she has done for

(03:50):
other people, but how much hashe done for her in their
relationship.
Because they were married for along time, right Over 60 years,
I believe, and that's almostunheard of nowadays that
marriages last that long, muchless.
I mean we marriages last thatlong, much less.
I mean we've been married for20 years and plus, and that's,
you know.
That's, that's still alreadywe're.
You know we're already strikingout there on some rare ground.
You know um, in my opinion,from what I understand, but you

(04:12):
know um, dolly parton's been aninspiration to a lot of people.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
I mean, our daughter's birthday party was
dolly parton you know dollyparton cake and balloons and
plates and everything, yeah, andwe really don't just listen to
Dolly.
We don't Every now and then,but her influence is
far-reaching and she has theit's Read Across America Week
this week too, and she has theImagination Library where you

(04:36):
can sign up for your child toreceive I think it's a book a
month, don't want my words onthat, but I think it is.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
Yeah, a book a month for all elementary age,
kindergarten to sixth grade orsomething like that.
They get a book a month andthat's, and it's all, non-profit
very inspiring and you knowthat she was inspired by lack of
education.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
You know, growing up.
She grew up very poor andthings like that.
So you know, I think she's justalways wanted to give
opportunities to people.
I feel like that's somethingthat we've always felt led on is
offering opportunities, and sothat's why I feel like we wear a
lot of hats.
Like we're doing this and we'redoing that, we're doing this and
we're doing that, but it's likeI just see need and I see

(05:16):
opportunity and anytime that Ican.
It really isn't about me.
It's not that I want you to payattention to me or pay
attention to Calvin, it's just,you know, it's another touch
point of how we can relate toone another and help one another
, and we need each other yeah,and sometimes it makes it hard
to say no when you have thatwhen you have that desire, yeah,
but okay, so, um, we would loveto hear you know, like

(05:39):
obviously with this conversation, what things inspire y'all.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
I'm really not sure how the comments work on podcast
reviews and things like we havegotten some.
I don't I don't know if there'sany, can you?

Speaker 2 (05:49):
but I didn't know that we had gotten any, because
it does, it doesn't notify mebut we could just be ignorant,
because we a lot of hey I justwant you guys to know.
We don't know what we're doingwe're just trying to wing it and
figure out on the way.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
Yeah and, and and, like a lot of the platforms like
we're on I think like eight ornine different podcast hosting
platforms.
I thought we were like five, sosee no, there's a lot of them,
but I don't know how they allwork either and how to get
reviews from them and comments,so, like y'all, leave a comment
if you can, please leave areview um we would like this out
you know, do we sound good?

(06:21):
Do you like what we're talkingabout?

Speaker 2 (06:22):
and we have this inspiration, receive some
valuable input.
You know where people are, like, I couldn't hear calvin blah
blah blah and that was on thatepisode that we did with caleb
our first interview episode yes,and we knew it was going to be
that way we.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
We were worried about it, but we didn't realize the
best.
Yeah, we didn't realize howimportant mic'd everyone is
versus.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
You know someone sharing a mic it'll be one of
those episodes that we'll cringeat one day.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
Yeah, it's okay yeah, it might be like our example of
worst episode ever just becausecaleb was on it.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
I'm kidding caleb, I'm kidding okay uh, but today
we're going to talk about whathas inspired us in a, in a fun,
loving way, not of, not adigging deep of oh my goodness
like what inspired you to startthis business.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
I'm going to run a marathon now that I saw them run
a 100-meter dash, so it's notgoing to be that deep.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
This is just going to be fun Things that I guess our
personalities tend to leantowards.
We've got different topics likemovies, music, activities,
people.
Of course, god is our ultimate,ultimate inspiration, for sure
and we will definitely not beleaving him out because he's at
the top of the top 100.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
Well now, uh, when it comes to like worldly
inspiration like there's a lotof like feel-good movies and
feel good things out therethey're like like they inspire
you with either people's storiesor situations now, um, caleb
was just on here last episode,or two episodes ago and and we
had.
We talked a lot, but we hadfailed to do this in our latter

(07:52):
years, our middle age years.
But for a while there, almostevery year, we got together.
Uh, it was a little stint andwe would have a braveheart day
like where we got together andwe watched and it was on a VHS
then too, so you had to take oneout and put the other one in
halfway through it.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
We actually went and saw that in the theaters.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
Oh really.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
I actually think about that now as a child.
Yeah, pretty gruesome, it washeavy, but I don't even remember
thinking that then I was justlike I had never even heard the
story of William Wallace oranything.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
Yeah, but so we do have Scottish heritage in our
family, and just the story ofWilliam Wallace and the battle
for freedom that rings true forevery American the thought of
freedom and the battle offreedom and fighting for what
you believe in.
And then seeing it portrayedthe way that Mel Gibson did

(08:43):
through the William Wallacestory, it really inspired me as
a kid to want to do somethingthat was above myself, greater
than myself.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
Do you think you also felt and I could be projecting?
I hope I'm not.
Do you feel like that moviereally resonated with you
because it showed you what areal man was?

Speaker 1 (09:04):
Oh, I was drawn to Because I know that you came
from practically a fatherlesshome.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
Honestly, that's just In all aspects.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
Yeah, my male influence was there's an
inspiration there later on that?
I want to talk about maleinfluence, but my male influence
growing up was really external,from the home.
There was only a few touchpoints that my biological father
actually had in my life and youknow those moments I can
remember.
I'm kind of I'm thankful theywere good yeah, um, but I I look

(09:35):
at like a lot of the moviesthat I lean towards, like over
the top, rocky, um and then um,you know, like braveheart and
karate kid with mr miyagi, likethere was a male role model and
inspiration to that to helpinspire you to think.
I want our son to think higherthan himself, to be selfless in
his actions and to inspire otherpeople to greatness, and we've

(09:58):
seen some really good aspectscoming out in him throughout the
years of leadership and thingslike that.
But like in Over the Top, thatwas Rocky Balboa.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
I don't even think I know that movie, not Rocky
Balboa.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
Sylvester Stallone.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
You've never heard of it.
I've never even heard of Overthe Top, because I talked about
it before, but Over the Top it'slike Sylvester Stallone, he's
like a trucker right.
And he goes through this umdifficult situation like with
leaving his uh wife and andestranged kid right okay so he
winds up getting back in contactwith him and um is trying to
build a relationship with hisson but he's a trucker, so he's

(10:35):
on the road a whole lot.
Well, his mom basically dropsthe kid, drops the kid's mom,
drops him off and says you'regoing with him on the road from
here to here, basically tryingto force him to have a
relationship, and they're bothkind of like what do we really
do?
You know, well, uh, sylvestersloan is a arm wrestling
champion.
Like he's practicing to do armwrestling, it's like oh, bring
the arm over the top.
Like you know, okay, yeah and uh, so he starts messing with his,

(10:58):
you know, training his son andinspiring him, you know, in that
way, and they started buildingthis relationship and they go
through some some difficultsituations on the road, you know
, like dangerous things.

Speaker 2 (11:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:08):
Um, but ultimately it's like he wanted to do
something.
He needed to do something toprove that he was worthy of
having his son in his life,something greater than himself
and I'm sorry if I get emotionalbut something greater than
himself.
And and we, I get emotional butsomething greater than himself.
And yeah, and we as, as fathers,you know, we have rare
opportunities to actuallyinspire our kids and then

(11:30):
they're off in the world, youknow, and um, and I just
recently mentioned, you know,mentioned this to you about like
wanting to do more things withjude because he is at that age
where it's like I remember whenI was, I remember when I was his
age and I needed my dad, Ineeded a male role model, but
those movies are all kind ofthat same way.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
They do all kind of have the same theme.
I feel like mine's a little bitmore blah.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
I say that what does blah mean?
I mean just kind of like allover the place.
Word vomit.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
Maybe, but um word, vomit maybe.
Um, I don't technically draw alot of inspiration from those
movies like what you were sayingand and like what's resonating
with you in those movies isn'tnecessarily resonating with me.
Not that I don't like it, Itotally enjoy watching those
movies, but I was always veryinspired by all the old things

(12:25):
and I don't, and I typically.
I remember there was a timewhen I was like I kind of wish
that I had been born in adifferent time because I feel
like I was supposed to be yeah,yeah, no, you're not, you're
supposed to be born like well,if you were born 40, 80 years
ago.

Speaker 1 (12:41):
But what I realized?

Speaker 2 (12:42):
is, and you can attest to this when we watch
movies, you're going to getemotional way before.
I ever get emotional, 100%.
We get emotional about thingsin a different way.
So Just to be completely honestwith you I hope I don't hurt
anybody's feelings I cannotstand a single Hallmark movie.

(13:03):
I cannot watch it.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
The predictable plot.

Speaker 2 (13:12):
To me it's not smart.
It's not smart writing oranything like that.
Is it meant to be?

Speaker 1 (13:17):
smart or is it meant to be quick?
Are they just trying to dumpstuff out there?

Speaker 2 (13:20):
That's just not entertaining to me, and I don't
think that if it is entertainingto you that you're dumb or
anything like that.
It's just like it's not whatstimulates me.
I guess and I want more than Iguess a love story.
Yeah, you know, to me it justdoesn't make sense that there's

(13:43):
constantly these like40-year-old people that are
coming back to their high schoolsweetheart.
That's just weird to me.
Like that doesn't?
I just don't think that'shappening all the time.

Speaker 1 (13:47):
No, we've watched a lot of like turner classic
movies yes.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
So I guess I should say hallmark movies do not
inspire me but turner classicbut old things do, and I think
it's because I've just all I,while I don't get really mushy
feelings about that kind ofstuff, I I do have my heart on
my sleeve, yes, in other ways,in other, in other, like, I feel

(14:12):
such a connection to my past,like when I say past I'm talking
about like my ancestors youknow.
So anything that like makes methink of them.
It I could be bawling like ababy yeah um.
So one of the movies that hasalways been an inspiration to me
, and a lot of people haven'tseen this movie, but it's called

(14:33):
light in the piazza and it hasolivia de havelin in it and
she's from gone with the wind.
That's going to be one moviethat everybody would know her
from.
She um plays the, the womanMelanie that gets with the, the
man that Scarlett O'Hara reallywanted to be with.
But anyway, you love hercharacter.

(14:55):
But in this it's she's actuallyolder in this movie and she has
a daughter that has adisability.
I just happened to come acrossthis movie because I'm I'm one
of those people too that'swilling to watch something that,
like, what is this?

Speaker 1 (15:07):
yeah, the description sounds weird.
Now we've struck out on someweird we have we really?

Speaker 2 (15:12):
have, but this one was a win.
And so the girl.
She has some mentaldisabilities.
I'm going to say nowadaysbecause this movie was made like
in the 60s, early 60s, Ibelieve.
I'm going to say nowadaysbecause this movie was made in
the 60s, early 60s.
I believe I'm going to say shewas on the spectrum somewhere.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
Autistic, somewhat Maybe, but I don't know.

Speaker 2 (15:30):
I'm definitely not a medical professional.

Speaker 1 (15:32):
I don't remember this movie.
You said we watched it together, but I don't remember.
I don't remember it, see,because it didn't inspire you as
much.

Speaker 2 (15:45):
But I think what I really like about this movie is
it actually is a love story andthe mom is really having to let
go of her daughter and I can'timagine being in that spot of
you've gone from protecting thisperson that you love so much
and then this man's falling inlove with your daughter and
you're you're questioning itbecause you're like, wait, she's

(16:05):
different, you know, and it'slike, I guess, seeing the mom
expand her mind to see thatthere was more for her daughter
yeah you know, and that this manwas just what she needed, like
he saw more in her than just herdisability.

Speaker 1 (16:22):
Well, I think that that's the case with a lot of
quote unquote disabilitiesnowadays is that people view
them and they think that peopleare limited by their disability
and not necessarily unlimited bytheir disability, because it's
like they look at thingsdifferently.
That doesn't mean that theydon't look at things.
You know they experience thingsdifferently.
It doesn't mean that they don'tlook at things.
You know they experience thingsdifferently.
It doesn't mean they don'texperience things.

Speaker 2 (16:44):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (16:44):
You know, life is way bigger than we give it credit
for I think that we can just wecan put things in a box.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:50):
Like I mean, the mom could put her daughter in a box
and be like this is how yourlife's going to be, this is how
my life just going to be devotedto that daughter, and so when
she actually—she actuallymarries the guy, and so I think
about the pathways that thisopened up for the mom, too, to

(17:12):
have—.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
Well, don't give away the ending to it.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
I'm not, but I'm just saying it is so inspiring to me
, like being able to see themore and.
I've always wanted to see more,and I know you're thinking my
gosh, you're watching a movieand you're reaching that deep.
Yes, that's how I am, and sothat's why, if there's nothing
in the movie to reach for that'smaking me think for more, then

(17:37):
I'm not interested in it.
Another movie that I love, andit just makes me happy, is
Singing in the Rain.

Speaker 1 (17:46):
It makes our family happy.

Speaker 2 (17:47):
There's so many hilarious moments in that movie.

Speaker 1 (17:51):
Hilarious and thought-provoking too, about
situations that we get ourselvesin.
I mean, it really is a funnymovie.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
It plays to the whole the Broadway side of me.
If I had to choose, like, ifyou could be anything that you
wanted to be, I would hands downsay and I've always said this
it would be a star on BroadwayBecause I love to sing, I love
to sing loud and I love to danceand I just I love all that that

(18:22):
it puts together.
So, uh, singing in the rain isjust, it's huge to me.
Um saw it as a kid.
It's.
It's never lost its luster tome whatsoever.
I have felt so inspired by thatmovie, like when you see, when
you see the, the, the purpose ofthe movie or the plot of it is
they're going from the silentera into talking movies, yeah,

(18:46):
silent film into talking film.
And the transition of that.
And then I got one more I'mgoing to talk about, and that's
not movies but it's TV, andthat's Little House on the
Prairie and if you've ever beento our shop you know that that's
on our TV a lot.

Speaker 1 (19:03):
Well, you've always said give me any life situation
that you're dealing with, andthere's a Little House on the
Prairie episode for that.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
Yes, and my brother-in-law, Mark.
He thinks that that's hilarious, and so there's been times
where he's just like spouted offa topic or whatever, and I can
tell him the episode.

Speaker 1 (19:22):
Like and.

Speaker 2 (19:23):
I can tell them the episode, like I'm a Little House
nerd, I know the names of theepisodes, I can.
I can tell you what seasonthey're in, you know.
Um, and that honestly goes backto also like I just remember
watching that as a kid, like itjust makes me feel young again,
not that I'm wanting to feelyoung, but, um, I guess just
that sense of wonder that youhave as a kid, you know, and
it's like it takes me back there.

(19:44):
But Little House, I love seeingthe family dynamic on that show
.
I love how community comestogether.
Even people that are hatefuland mean and spiteful, they
still rally together in thosetimes of need.
And I guess, when I saw them,i'm'm like that's the kind of
family I want.
That's like I mean I had eventalked about.

(20:04):
I'm like calvin, I want us tolive in the little house.
House I want you know it was,it's just a room, like,
basically, you know they theyhad the loft where the girls
slept and then they had theirbedroom, but everything's all
connected and I'm like okay, allit is is just a modern day tiny
house.

Speaker 1 (20:22):
Everyone's pushing tiny houses right now because
probably the only thing mostpeople can afford, but but
they're pushing tiny houses, butthat's what it was.
It was a tiny house where thefamily had to be okay, next to
each other, you know, and aroundeach other.
And uh, but there was, like theother day, um, we were talking
about something and, uh, we wentour separate ways for the day
to to do our running arounds andum, and I, literally I walked

(20:43):
into the, the um, the shop, andthere was on the hat on the tv
was an episode of little house.
That was like perfect for whatwe had just talked about and I
took a picture of it and sent itto you.

Speaker 2 (20:53):
I'm like, see, yeah, there's a little house, it
really is, and, like you can,you can tell me anything like
mark's been like uh, and I'mlike I know a few episodes that
deal with drugs, even set in the1800s.
It's post-Civil War, so whatwas that?
I love the history that goeswith it too.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (21:12):
And I can like sometimes I've been able to
figure out real history momentsbecause I'll be like okay,
little House, this happened inthat episode.

Speaker 1 (21:21):
That was in 1930.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
So like okay, little house, this happened in that
episode.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
That was in 1930.
Yeah, so you get, you get smartby watching it too.
But we always like, think aboutthis, like the you know that
you're in for little house, youknow episode, when you hear the
opening music coming on, youknow we like like that music can
play all the time, I don't careit.
It's kind of like the latenight Andy Griffith show you
know, you hear them whistlingthe Andy Griffith theme.
You know, and it's like youknow, you're just in for a treat

(21:47):
of just lightheartedness.

Speaker 2 (21:49):
I think I'll, and I love the little house because it
feels real to me.
Once again I'm going back tothe real um, like sitcoms and
there have been sitcoms that Ilike because I do love to laugh,
I love humor.
I don't like when it gets nasty, like when people have to go
with like vulgarities and thingslike that.
I'm like that's just dumb too,that you can't be funny without

(22:11):
going to some kind of sexualcontent or something like that.
But, so I do like some sitcomstoo, if they're smart.
You know like I always thoughtthe office was cool, how it was,
like you know the way it wasfilmed the way that it was
portrayed was really cool youhad to be careful with it too,
though you do.
But, um, you know, there's alot of popular sitcoms and shows

(22:31):
that I just I can't get intobecause I'm like this there's
it's not real, that's notreality and I'm I'm bored a lot
of the kids.

Speaker 1 (22:39):
A lot of the kids shows shows nowadays are
detached from reality.
I think the way they portrayparents and siblings and stuff.

Speaker 2 (22:45):
Okay, so that's some of our, I guess, tv and movies
that have inspired us, and maybewe're just on an entertainment
theme right now thinking aboutthis.

Speaker 1 (22:55):
but people inspire us , but some of the music that's
inspired us, music is a hugepart of our life.

Speaker 2 (23:02):
It's huge on both.
You know, your family and myfamily yeah, I grew up singing,
always having music in the house.

Speaker 1 (23:07):
Um my grandparents, they always had music.
There was like there was likethe mood music at the
grandparents house, like theyset the mood for dinner by
putting on the big vinyl console, you know, and having it just
kind of echoing through thehouse, you know soft music or
blues or jazz or they did a lotof big band music, things like
that and um, and, and I justremember like I was just always

(23:29):
fascinated about the, the feelof music, how it can change your
environment and change youryour emotion, your the way you
feel about things you know, um,but we came across an artist a
while, a good while back thatreally piqued our interest with
it.
She's very unique and we fell inlove with her, with her, um,
her songs and her musicality anduh, but her name is regina

(23:53):
specter, if you've never heardof her.
She is russian um, so most ofher performances are overseas,
but her music is so unique.

Speaker 2 (24:03):
I have to figure it out.
Yeah, yeah, I guess I like thatyou have to really think about
it.

Speaker 1 (24:07):
It's deep and very poetic, but it's musically
unique in how she's able tocontrol her voice with the music
.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
And playing the piano .

Speaker 1 (24:20):
Yeah, and playing the piano.
Yeah, and playing the piano,fantastic piano like she has.

Speaker 2 (24:24):
She has these songs that uh like, for instance,
there's one called firewood andshe talks about how the piano is
not firewood yet, and Iremember the first time that I
listened to that song, you know,was like hmm, that's an, that's
an interesting thought, becauseit's really poetic in the way
of you may think that you'rewashed up and done yeah but the

(24:48):
piano is not firewood yet,because you can look at these
old uprights.
How many of you have seen thesereally old pianos?

Speaker 1 (24:54):
oh, they're free on facebook all the time.
That's a piece of junk.
That's firewood, you know umbut put it in the right hands.

Speaker 2 (25:02):
Put it in the right hands and it's magic so she has
songs like that and they havebeautiful piano playing in them
and things like that.

Speaker 1 (25:09):
You know I think about, like when we're in
gatlinburg and we go throughkate's cove if you've ever been
up there or you haven't uh, goif you get a chance.
But kate's cove up ingatlinburg.
They have some old churchesthere and one of them has an old
piano.
I think two of them, I thinktwo of them might have there's
some old churches.

Speaker 2 (25:24):
No, it's just one, it's a honka-john.

Speaker 1 (25:26):
And it really is a honka-john and probably only 40%
of the keys actually make anoise and they're not tuned and
I thought you know what it would.
really, I think it'd be worth topay someone to go up there and
work on that thing and get it towhere, because you're getting
that old environment and youwalk in that old rackety,
rickety church.
It's just one open, you knowopening, you know room and and

(25:48):
it's just got this echo to it,you know, cause it's a hollow
space and they got the pianothere and it's I don't know.
It's inspiring to think like itstill has a little bit of life.
It's like on its last leg.

Speaker 2 (25:58):
Yeah.
But it does have life, it doesThings like that are
inspirational, and I think aboutthe hands that have touched it
or, you know, in the past, whenit was beautiful At one point,
the piano was beautiful.

Speaker 1 (26:08):
Yeah, at one point.

Speaker 2 (26:09):
So yeah, those kinds of things.
Another one of her lyrics thatalways gets me is she says I
have a perfect body.
And she says it like threetimes in a row and she does all
these cool like riffs with hervoice while she's saying I have
a perfect body and then she endsit with because my eyelashes
catch my sweat I know yeah theydo yeah I love it, it's just one

(26:33):
aspect that god has reallyblessed you with and say I got
it.

Speaker 1 (26:35):
I got it, it's all going on.
God has blessed me with thisitem and it's just perfect.
It's amazing, yeah, beappreciative, be thankful for
all going on.
God has blessed me with thisitem and it's just perfect.
It's amazing.
Be appreciative, be thankfulfor all the little things God
has blessed you with.
Don't look at what the worldsays.
Yes, now our son.
He's been playing the piano fora while now and he really
inspires me also.

Speaker 2 (26:56):
Oh yeah, every time he plays I can weep.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
I think because he loves it so much and we've never
had to say, Jude, go practice.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
Today he locked himself or shut himself in the
sunroom and turned a piano.
I always have to get on to himbecause he turns it up way too
loud, but it's like there's areason.
We got you an electric piano,son, turn it down.
But he turns it way loudbecause he loves hearing it and
he's just going through all hisold pieces that he's learned and
, uh, one of the pieces that Ireally was able to zone out on

(27:27):
was a pascaglia, which is aperformance that's based upon
repetition, and it was uh, likeI can't remember what it was d
minor or something like thatpascaglia.
And I was like jude, if youlearn this, just learn this for
me.
You know well, he learned it forme, but it was one of those
things that I would listen to inmy headphones, like in the gym
or running or something, just onrepeat, because it was so

(27:48):
soothing.
It kind of reminds me of.
There's a big piece that's likeyou see it all over on youtube
and stuff like that.
It's called a river, runsthrough.
It's played a lot on the streetcorners and things like that.
It has that kind of feel to ityeah but it was just one of
those things that it would be anemotional dump to me it's one
of those songs, too, like youcould walk down the aisle to it.

Speaker 2 (28:06):
You could.
It could be at a funeral, itcould be at.
I could see you like running tothe finish line with this song.
Yeah, it's very unique chariotsof fire.

Speaker 1 (28:15):
Yeah, but it like.
Things like that I've alwaysenjoyed, and one of the weirder
things that I enjoy is foreignmusic.

Speaker 2 (28:23):
Sometimes I don't even understand it.
This is something that we don'thave in common.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
So we share music accounts.
So sometimes when you're onrandom scroll the music that
comes up when you're on randomscroll, from what I've been
searching for intentionally,what is he listening to?
I'll listen to, like russianmusic and german, and but one of
the ones that I mean it has hadme literally in tears is spy.

(28:47):
Look it up, y'all just listento it and the main thing is lick
.
Look at the lyric translation.
Go to google translate, type itin, find the translation, type
it in on youtube and then readit while you're listening to it
so you know what they're saying.
Okay, that's what got me hookedon this song, but it's by.
The couple is Jefferson and SueEllen.
That's their names, and thename of the song is Profetiza,

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which is in Spanish.
It's prophesy.
And it wasn't necessarily aboutprophesying about your future,
but speaking over your present.
And it talks about, like Elijahwith, or Elisha when he's
speaking over the dry bones if Ispeak over these dry bones,
they will arise.
It's not like I'm predicting it, I am calling it into existence

(29:31):
.
And at this time in our life wewere, I was probably, I was
probably really, I was stillworking in Huntsville and we
were still trying to figure outwhat in the world we were going
to do as far as, like, coffeeshop business and and I was
really looking for someinspiration in my life.
And when this song hit, like itgot me, like I'd put it on
repeat on the treadmill and justjust go, you know, like that's

(29:52):
the only way I can run ontreadmill half the time as well
if I got music.
But like, like I just remembergetting so emotional, thinking
about how we have the power toprophesy over our very own lives
.

Speaker 2 (30:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (30:04):
And speak God's actions into existence.
You know, using that spiritthat is inside of us to speak
through us.
Oh man, like do it?
Look it up.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
I'm inspired.
Prophetisa, I'm listening to it.
I don't mean that flippantly,no, I really am, but it's really
cool.

Speaker 1 (30:17):
Yeah, I really am, but it's really cool.

Speaker 2 (30:19):
Yeah, obviously, praise and worship inspires me,
but it's about it's to God andeverything, so there's just too
many.
I don't get stuck on artistswhen it comes to Christian and
worship music.

Speaker 1 (30:44):
I don't have a huge need to go see artists at
concerts or things like that.
Now, artists that have storiesthat we've grown with, like Toby
Mac, he inspires us.

Speaker 2 (30:49):
Like we went the first time we saw him.
I think Jude was really smalllike baby.
And it was good, there wasnothing, it was great.
But we went and saw him a fewweeks ago and it was completely
different.
Especially after he's lost hisson.

Speaker 1 (31:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (31:03):
There was just such a humility there and it was just
real.
There wasn't all these lightsand shiny things, it was just
Raw I just felt like it was justhim singing to God and it was.

Speaker 1 (31:13):
And we got to experience it with him.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
It was so moving in a great way um also.
I mean, we did talk about dollyearlier.
Fantastic songwriter like herreach across all genres of music
um is to be applauded, you knowI know 100 like didn't she
write?

Speaker 1 (31:32):
she wrote a, a rock album, and she collaborated with
a lot of rock artists.

Speaker 2 (31:37):
I don't know if you've listened to the dolly
rock album it's, it's.

Speaker 1 (31:40):
She knocks it out of the park.

Speaker 2 (31:42):
I mean she sings um with heart that's like you know,
screechy women singing I loveheart.
By the way but um, she holdsher own, obviously but she did
that because she got a awardinducted into the rock and roll
hall of fame and she was likerock and roll hall of fame.

Speaker 1 (32:01):
I don't sing rock and roll it it's because everybody
wants Dolly a part of theirgroup.
Yeah, I know the in crowd.

Speaker 2 (32:07):
I've always been inspired by any of the 60s and
70s music and, once again, thereason is is because it makes me
feel a connection to my parents.
Because that's what they listento in their car, and I love big
band because that makes me feela connection to grandparents
and great grandparents andthings.
So or that makes me feel aconnection to grandparents and
great-grandparents and things,or you know, old Johnny Cash
songs.
I've never been just this hugeJohnny Cash fan where I'm just I

(32:30):
know other people might be likewhat.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
Yeah, we hung on to those vinyls.

Speaker 2 (32:34):
I don't think he's the most amazing singer in the
world, I just don't.
But his music has inspired mein the way that it makes me feel
a connection to the past andgoing to like touring like sun
sun studios and hearing thestory about johnny cash and and
elvis and jerry lewis.

Speaker 1 (32:49):
Yeah like they're the million dollar band.
Is that what it is, the milliondollar?
Million dollar quartet, yeah,yeah, yeah if you get a chance
to listen, that's like six hoursif you have a time, if you have
a chance to go to memphis, skipgraceland.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
Sorry for all you elvis lovers, but that is a womp
womp.

Speaker 1 (33:04):
Skip that and go to Sun Studios.

Speaker 2 (33:05):
Skip that and go to where he actually did stuff at
yeah Sun Studios is amazing, butwe have always been in a very
musical family.
We just love it.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
Yeah, what inspires you?

Speaker 2 (33:17):
But I never listen to music when I run.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
Yeah, no, we don't.

Speaker 2 (33:21):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (33:21):
There was a phase where I went through where I did
some you know, but it's, it'salmost like it running was um a
vent for me as a young teenagerI was like venting energy and if
I did, I would run to.

Speaker 2 (33:34):
You know, this is gonna sound crazy.
Like there's like one song thatI run to tainted love, baba
oReilly by the who.
I love it.
I would time out the breaks andthings like that.
I would know how much longer Ihad to run and things like that.
I know how long the song FreeBird is, so I would know I

(33:58):
should be done with a milebefore that song ends.
So things like that what's thelongest?

Speaker 1 (34:03):
song, something like Stairway to Heaven or something
like that that I don't know.
There's like some long songsanyways.
Um, so yeah, music's hugeinspiration in people's lives um
yeah, and then like so I know,obviously there are things that
you remember that you do, thingsyou do like we get these coffee
mugs from places that we go,you know, and experiences that

(34:24):
we have.
So we were like well, what arethe things that we've done that
inspire us or that you'veexperienced?
And running, just in general,you really do get a lot of

(34:44):
inspiration from running events.

Speaker 2 (34:45):
I know Caleb was talking about being able to have
people cheer you on the stormoutside right now.

Speaker 1 (34:48):
It's really I don't know if y'all can hear that or
not, but it's, it's reallyblowing out there like I'm
fixing to just get a little bitcloser.
Just storms are not my thing wehave a safe room very close
because we have been inspired by, you know, april 2011 yeah,
april's fury in alabama, ptsdsouth yeah, sorry for that, um

(35:09):
interruption but, yeah, uh, thethings that inspires, like
activity, wise, um, running ingeneral, like if you go to a
race, you're going to beinspired by
the people that are better thanyou, or the people that um are
slower than you, you can tellare are doing something greater
than what they possibly couldhave tried like other people

(35:29):
could have imagined them doing.
You know, like the, the, wealways talk about the stroller
mom or the stroller dad thatwhen you're halfway through the
race, and they get passed bythem and it looks like they're
not even breaking you low-key,hate them.

Speaker 2 (35:41):
I'm sorry, yeah, but then do.
But then you're also like yougo, oh, you go man.
You go.
That's awesome.

Speaker 1 (35:47):
That kid or that spouse or that daughter or
whatever.
They got some love in theirlife.
It's awesome.

Speaker 2 (35:52):
And they're living their best life in that stroller
too.

Speaker 1 (35:54):
Heck yeah, they're getting to eat Pop-Tarts while
they get ready, or you know wealways run the Miles for Molly.

Speaker 2 (36:01):
That's usually my first run.
I call it of my running season.
My running season hasn'tstopped in a little while.

Speaker 1 (36:07):
No, it's been pretty consistent.
I am fixing to get back into amore seasonal-based running.

Speaker 2 (36:14):
I'm going to always run, but I'm not always going to
be racing.
But, Miles for Molly has alwaysbeen one of my first races.
It's in June.
It's to celebrate Molly'sbirthday.
Not Molly, my niece, but MollyMcNutt.
That is their last name, Ibelieve.
And she is wheelchair-bound andeverything.

(36:36):
So they always have this groupcalled I believe it's Ainsley's
Angels.

Speaker 1 (36:42):
I think you're right.

Speaker 2 (36:43):
They come and they run with people with
disabilities and they have thosereally nice running strollers.
And they are always killing it.

Speaker 1 (36:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (36:52):
I mean they're running past you and I don't
know.
And because Miles for Molly wasalways my first run, I was
never prepared for it.

Speaker 1 (37:02):
Oh, yeah, because.

Speaker 2 (37:02):
I'm usually like okay , I'm getting usually Miles for
Molly was my, I'm getting backinto this, getting back into it,
yeah, I think this when I runit in June.
It's going to be the first timethat I've ran it that it's not
yes, yeah.
So Miles for Molly was alwaysdifficult for me too.
It's sneaky hills everywherethroughout that thing.

(37:24):
You think, oh, this a difficult, for me too it's a little.

Speaker 1 (37:26):
It's sneaky hills everywhere throughout that thing
you think, oh, this is gonna beeasy.
It's not no, um, but the peoplealso like at the, at every race
, there's always people in thecrowd that you can pick out,
that inspire you, and I think oflike at miles for molly, like
there's some people that I waslike, oh man, that was awesome.
But um, but some of the racesthat we've been to, there's been
people who you like we'll berunning together, but not
together Like we're at the samerace, but like we will both see

(37:47):
the same people.
And then after the race we'llbe like, did you see this person
or did you see?
And then we'll talk about itand it's like, oh, my goodness,
because they inspired both of us.
Like one in particular, therewas one gentleman that you could
tell like he struggled with hislegs growing up, like he had an
awkward gait.
Um, he had, uh, looked like,like, like, like he had a like

(38:10):
struggled, like it could havebeen wheelchair bound at some
point when he was younger I haveno idea, but um, but we both
talked about him after the raceand we're like this person could
have been told you'll neverwalk sure, sure and here, they
are running faster than me.

Speaker 2 (38:25):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (38:25):
And it's like this is amazing.
And there's been a few peoplelike that, where people with you
know, even amputees, you knowrunning in events like that and
it's like you should never giveup.
Never give up If you have adream or a hope to do something.

Speaker 2 (38:40):
Never give up, because you will inspire people
with your actions and itinspires me when I see someone
in a wheelchair or that isgetting pushed in one of those
races.
I think when I'm running Milesfor Molly, I have been inspired
by someone.
Maybe I can't even talk me,maybe passing somebody that's

(39:04):
pushing one, or them passing me,and it giving me the drive to
continue, because I'm like, ohmy gosh, you're not dying and
look how you have two legs thatare working properly, right now
to be able to do this.
And I'll say Molly's mom, janie,she's a huge inspiration and
always has when she's in races.

(39:25):
I, um, I love seeing her atraces.
Um, she has been there for herdaughter so much.

Speaker 1 (39:34):
She's an amazing mom and she, maybe we need to talk
to her one of these days, andshe puts that race together like
, and it usually like.

Speaker 2 (39:41):
I know that the, the proceeds from it, have gone to
like.
Help Molly with certain thingsWheelchair ramps Putting a
shower in or whatever, but thenalso, like I know this past time
, they give that money to otherpeople.

Speaker 1 (39:54):
Yeah, they were at a phase in their life where they
didn't actually physically needsomething for their daughter, so
they benefited other people insimilar situations their
daughter.

Speaker 2 (40:06):
So they uh benefited other people in similar
situations and I would say evenjanie doing the miles for molly
inspired me that we could put onour own race.
Yeah, you know for something.

Speaker 1 (40:12):
So, janie, if you're listening, you you have been an
inspiration to me and youinspire us yeah, I appreciate
you, I really do.

Speaker 2 (40:20):
Um.
Some other local runners thathave inspired us are, uh, like
jeff and angie hoagland.

Speaker 1 (40:27):
Um the storm again really bad.

Speaker 2 (40:33):
We're actually in a room that has a safe room in it
I'm like should we?
Should we hear a train?

Speaker 1 (40:38):
if we hear a train coming, we'll duck in the safe
room, yeah, but but yeah, soyou're talking about angie and
jeff hoagland, so a lot ofpeople in here'll duck in the
safe room, yeah, but yeah, soyou're talking about Angie and
Jeff Hoagland, so a lot ofpeople in here aren't going to
know who they are, but she isJude's cross-country coach and
he is her husband.

Speaker 2 (40:51):
And he's an assistant with her as well.

Speaker 1 (40:53):
He's an assistant coach, and both of them have had
long running careers.

Speaker 2 (40:59):
Well, they have their own story and I don't want to
get into that because I hopethat one day they'll come on
here and tell their story.
But they have inspired me.
They are so consistent, yeahthey really have.

Speaker 1 (41:08):
They have always been consistent and Jude has really
been inspired by them with hisrunning career and getting into
it yes for sure and beingspurned to better himself.

Speaker 2 (41:18):
And the other parents .
We have a lot of parents on thecross-country team that run.
You have Sam, gary, you.
We have a lot of parents on thecross-country team that run.

Speaker 1 (41:31):
You have Sam Gary, you have Amberlynn and Chase.

Speaker 2 (41:32):
Scott, you have the Shelton family.
They run yes.

Speaker 1 (41:34):
Les runs.

Speaker 2 (41:36):
Les Loggins runs and if I'm leaving you out I'm sorry
.

Speaker 1 (41:43):
I don't mean to yeah, Shelly.

Speaker 2 (41:48):
Yes, and Shelly, and Shelly, oh, oh, my goodness, she
does like these really longruns, too insane girl.

Speaker 1 (41:51):
but not to get like too local or anything like that,
but every, every everybody'srunning group inspires them.
Everybody's activity groupinspires them, even if, like say
, you're into camping and thepeople you build a community
with while you're camping, youknow, like campers or whatever
the people that you're around,seeing people progress in their
lives and seeing people grow intheir activities and in the

(42:14):
things that they're doing, itinspires you to want to better
yourself.
You know inspires you want todo more than what you're
currently doing.

Speaker 2 (42:20):
So also I follow um, I guess, running influencers on
instagram or whatever, and butthey're real people.
You know, and to see where theycame from to where they are now
, and it's inspiring, becauseit's like you don't have to be
at this level right now, likethey didn't.
They weren't at that level or,you know, like I might be at a
level higher than you right now,um, but a year ago I was

(42:44):
probably where you're at yeah.

Speaker 1 (42:46):
Well, how many of those influencers say like show
pictures of three years ago?
Versus now and it's like thatthree years is nothing.

Speaker 2 (42:53):
That's not long, that's not long at all, or two
also they'll have like amazingachievements and then they have
some kind of injury or they havelike a death in their family,
something that sets them back,you know, and then you see them
fight for it again.

Speaker 1 (43:07):
That's, it's so inspiring um, they're just
people, you know?

Speaker 2 (43:11):
yeah, they are just people, and aside from running,
because I know not everybodythat's listening to this is a
runner.
That and that's always ametaphor that we're going to use
because we do love to run.
But I'm inspired, like, like,when it comes to our Christian
faith and our Christian walk.
It inspires me when peopleactually come to the house of
God.

Speaker 1 (43:32):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (43:33):
Now I also want to.
Well, like consistency, like you, see in their testimony from
where they were to where theyare, Like your testimony is
powerful, and I want to seguethis, too, also with to where
they are.
Your testimony is powerful, andI want to segue this, too, also
with.
I do not put my faith inwhether those people are there
or not.
I think encouragement from yourfellow believers is so

(43:54):
important, but that is not whatI rely on, because I'm just
going to be honest with you,this is hard truth right here.
Okay, if I relied on theencouragement of others to go to
church, I wouldn't be at church100.
Yeah, and I'm and do I encouragepeople to go to church?
No, it's something to thinkabout.

(44:15):
But I also want you to thinkabout are you constantly having
to be encouraged?
And if you are, why?
Because, you know what mynumber one encouragement is?
I just love God, I just loveHim.
And I want to go to that placewhere I'm not at work, I'm not
at home.
There should be nothing that'sdistracting me.

(44:37):
There was a time where I wouldbe worried about VBS.
I was worried about this class,or I was worried about what
worship songs we're going to do.
I was worried about this class,or I was worried about what
worship songs we're going to do,or I was worried about this
person.
I just don't even let any ofthat bother me anymore, because
I'm just not there for any ofthose people.
They're just a bonus.
I'm there to be with him andthat's all the encouragement

(44:57):
that I need, because there weretimes when that wasn't my
encouragement.
That's not why I was going tochurch, and there was a time
where I stayed home.
I went oh, my stomach hurts.
Well, did it really?

Speaker 1 (45:09):
Or did you just not want to?

Speaker 2 (45:10):
go people, because that's why you were there.
You were just peopling and it'slike.
So now I'm like I don't everhave those instances.
I have gone to church withoutany makeup on.
I've gotten up and been like,yeah, I'm feeling lazy today.
I still going to church, itjust means.
I'm going without makeup on.
I really have changed in thataspect.

Speaker 1 (45:31):
Yeah, yeah yeah, for sure.
So yeah, definitely um peoplewho show up, that's for sure
that it is, and family to seefamily that shows up.

Speaker 2 (45:39):
You know it's important when I say that, that
it's an inspiration to me.
I'm sorry, I don't mean to cutyou off.

Speaker 1 (45:43):
No you're good, uh that, it's an inspiration to me.

Speaker 2 (45:44):
I'm sorry.
I don't mean to cut you off.
No, you're good.
That it's an inspiration to me.
I don't need you to be there.
I am not needing you to bethere.
What inspires me is that, yes,there's more people that love
you too that want to be here forthe right reasons.
We are in one mind and we arein one accord, you know, and

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that's inspiring.

Speaker 1 (46:06):
It really is.
Yep.

Speaker 2 (46:09):
So, like Calvin, do you have specific people and we
could name people after peopleafter people that have inspired
us, but we can't name them all.
I got a story.

Speaker 1 (46:23):
So who stands out to you?
Okay, I got a story, so therewas this, uh, this fellow, that.
So I was talking about earlyabout male role models, right?
um growing up.
So this fellow was, um, he wasa huge inspiration to me and he
really did a lot for our family.
When, when we were young, um,we didn't, like I said, we
didn't have a father in thehouse, well, we had, um,
anything men oriented thathappened at the church.
Um, there was a lot ofinstances where this guy would

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come and he would pick us up andhe would take us.
He had an old Dodge Ram.
It still had the Ram emblem onthe hood, you know, and it was a
five speed and and he was afarmer and drove a tractor and
everything.
I mean, it was just like this.
This is a really cool guy, buthis name was John Whitley and he
only had one leg, oh, and hedrove a five-speed.

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Now I'm like, okay.

Speaker 2 (47:09):
Oh wow, Mom, why'd you?

Speaker 1 (47:09):
let me go off with this one-legged guy driving a
five-speed on the highway.
But you know, like it was justhis, he was like really good at
just navigating life with oneleg.
The things he did I was like,wow, this is awesome.
Now I remember there was thisone time when we went over and
helped him at his house a fewtimes, like cutting grass and
doing things.
I went over there one time andI don't think I've ever shared

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this with anyone, ever, ever.
So we were over there and wewere working at this house and
we would do like, um, pullingears of corn, right, and we'd
get a bushel and we bring itback to the truck and we go back
out with an empty basket and wepull ears of corn and go back.
Well, this time I was over athis house and I was going to do
some yard work with him andeverything.

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Well, he drove me off into thisfield on the tractor and he
dropped me off and he saidthere's a lot of rocks in this
field, they're going to mess upmy tractor.
You know that I, when I, afterI turned it over anything that's
larger than a softball, justthrow it off in the woods so
that when I can come back.
And it wasn't a huge field, Iimagine it was probably, you
know, like the size of ourbuilding, probably.

Speaker 2 (48:11):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (48:11):
But as a young kid I was probably maybe third grade,
maybe fourth grade, you know um.
It looked like it was foreveryou know, it did not have my
attention, did not have my love,and he dropped me off.
Well, I literally got sooverwhelmed that I quit, I quit,
and I kind of carried that withme, you know, and I walked back

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to the house.
I got maybe like a third of itdone and I was just like I hate
this, I hate this.
I saw no value in it or nothing, and I was only thinking about
myself, obviously, I look backon that.
I did not think about him andthe value it would have for him
to not have to deal with largeboulders when he's trying to
plan a new field, yeah, and.

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But I get back to the house andum, and I and I at that point I
knew that I couldn't be cryingwhen I walked up.
I had to man up, right.
But I was a coward in thatmoment.
I gave up and I look back onthat every time that I go to do
something.
I'm like I'm not quitting again.

Speaker 2 (49:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (49:17):
You know because.

Speaker 2 (49:17):
I was young.

Speaker 1 (49:18):
I was young when that happened and I keep thinking
about like John had to do thatbecause I didn't, and he only
had one leg and I regret that.
I do regret that, but hedefinitely inspired me with his
willingness to just adapt and todo and to provide.
And his wife, jo, she wasamazing too.

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Yeah, but he was one of thoseones that I look back on.
I'm like what guys inspired youwhen you were younger?

Speaker 2 (49:48):
I'm like, okay, yeah, he's at the tops up there just
because of the situation I wasthinking about, like how we can
be that for other people too,and we might not even know, like
in that moment, he might not bethinking about that when you're
40 something years old, thatyou're going to be talking about
that moment.

Speaker 1 (50:04):
Oh, no, in the field.
You know, I don't even know ifhe ever even knew how far I went
or anything.
It was just like I'm done andyou know I'm thinking as a grown
man.

Speaker 2 (50:12):
He wasn't expecting amazing results from this third
grade boy, but you know but, andit was just right, you knew you
didn't do your best I knew.

Speaker 1 (50:20):
I did not put in my best, yeah, and I, and I've
regretted that ever since.
Yeah, john, if you happen tohear this, or anyone that knew
him knows him or anything.
I hope he's still alive.
I can't, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (50:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (50:35):
Because he was already in his 50s, I guess,
back then.
So, I don't remember.
Yeah, I need to find out.
But anyways.

Speaker 2 (50:44):
Well, like, obviously our parents have inspired us.
I never want to uh talk aboutanybody else before I talk about
them oh yeah because wherewould we be without them?
You know, I think about my moma lot when it comes to how I'm a
mom.
She displayed how to be a momso well.

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Looking back, I think of howshe was working and she would
come home and I was a latchkeykid basically Kelly and I both
were and I would stay at, kellywould have band practice because
there were five years betweenus.

Speaker 1 (51:34):
Yeah, I'm sorry sorry , there goes this.
Okay, that's really bad.
The doors are shaking.

Speaker 2 (51:37):
Right now I'm gonna look up.
Okay, we're gonna pause onesecond.
Let's pause.
All right, guys, we are backafter that crazy storm that came
through.
It's still kind of brewing outthere, but um, we did jump in
the safe room.

Speaker 1 (51:48):
Yeah, we did um.
So anywho.

Speaker 2 (51:51):
Uh, we were talking about the people that have
inspired us, and I can't not saymy parents, you know 100.
I saw them um both work reallyhard to provide us with
everything we needed and wanted.
But you know my mom inparticular, looking back, I
think about how she was working,and then she would come home
and put an amazing dinner on thetable for us every single night

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, and on Wednesday nights wewere going to church and all
that.
And so I know how tired I am asa mom and, looking back, I know
how tired she was too and shewas still doing it, and you know
, and my dad worked really hardtoo and he would do side jobs
until he eventually built up hisown business.

Speaker 1 (52:34):
But, um, so you know does it make you think about
like how tired you are sometimesand like you still put in the
effort to make sure your kidshave what they need.
Like that was your mom too, youknow?

Speaker 2 (52:47):
yeah, I think about that.
I mean that she modeled that infront of me, so that inspired
me to want to be a mom like,like she was and she is.
She still does that for herfamily oh yeah, grandkids and
everything but you know, I thinkwe have to talk about the
number one person who hasinspired us, and that is.

Speaker 1 (53:06):
Our Lord and Savior.

Speaker 2 (53:07):
That's right.
He is at the top of the top.
You know people will let youdown.
I'm going to let you down.
Do not put stock in me.

Speaker 1 (53:19):
No, because I'm fallible.

Speaker 2 (53:21):
I'm going to let you down.
I want to, but I'm going to letyou down.
I want to, but I'm going to.

Speaker 1 (53:25):
Humans on a pedestal in anything, whether it's an
athlete or a celebrity or aparent or a sibling or a friend
or a coach or whatever people ingeneral let you down?
Yes, they do.
I will let you down because Iam still human at the end of the
day.
That's right I will saysomething stupid that will hurt
your feelings, Even if it's onaccident it'll still hurt your

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feelings.
You know we're human.
I guess that's the thing about.
Why it's so important to have arelationship with God is
because he's the only constantin our life that can inspire us
to greatness and not let us down.

Speaker 2 (54:04):
Who has absolute good intended for us, as well you
know I think about not everybodyout there has good for you yeah
, do you know what I mean,because we can all be selfish.
There can be like jealousy orenvy that plays a part, um, but
god is always gonna want what'sbest for us and he knows what's

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best for us and he's so graciousand merciful that he inspires
us, he gives us ideas, because Ialways think about if I come up
with a good idea it wasn't methat came up with it, it was him
and you know I was thinkingabout yesterday.
You know me and you.
Just, we had to make a Sam'srun but we stopped at another
broken egg and had an omelettogether and we had the laptop

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and we just sat there andbrainstormed and it was like it
felt like God was there with us,like he was giving us so many
ideas for the future and we wereable to write things down
because we don't really get thattime a lot that we need to be
able to do that and I think thathe, just he was there in the
midst of us and he was helpingus and I felt, in all the

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overwhelming pressure thatowning a business can make you
feel, I still felt so inspiredin that moment, even though
there was so much that I neededto do, you know, and that only
comes from him.

Speaker 1 (55:21):
Yeah, it's the peace that passes all understanding.
And there's a reason why that'seven thing, because when you
can't understand how you canhave peace in the middle of a
storm, in the middle of, like, astorm, we got going on.
Right now we have peace andit's a security, knowing that,
no matter what comes, our hopeis not founded in things of this
world yeah, it's founded onthings of our heavenly father's

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home.
It's founded on things that areof God's intended plan for us,
which is a perfect, rightrelationship with him.
And knowing that alone it putsyou in a position of power, it
puts you in a position ofauthority over the things that
will want to drag you down.
So understanding that isinspirational.

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Nothing that comes at you,nothing that you have to deal
with, is ever going to take theplace of His love Never.
And we're so thankful for that.

Speaker 2 (56:12):
We're thankful for our God and the testimonies that
he has other people share withus constantly, either at church
or in our yeah, the stories inthe Bible as well, and I think
about all these things thatwe've listed that inspire us.
All that comes from Him, andyou're like a movie comes from
Him.
Well, he inspired somebody todo that movie, everything is
from Him the creativity, theartistry.

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Yes, and so I'm just thankfulfor Him and that he continues to
inspire us.
I'm always in awe that he evenwants to pay attention to me.
But he does, and you know, buthe does, and he's saying pay
attention to me.
He's like look at me, look atme, you know, and he's all I
want to look at.

Speaker 1 (56:51):
He really is as we look towards heaven, yeah, but
thank you all so much forjoining us today.

Speaker 2 (56:55):
It's been another great episode.
I hope you've enjoyed it and wepray for the Lord to