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Hello everybody, welcome back to That's Life

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podcast. I'm your host, Abbey Luckett, and life

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has a lot of highs, a lot of lows, and many in

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-betweens, but the thing that remains consistent

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is our God. So let's see what we talk about today.

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Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail

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of water. Jack fell down and broke his crown,

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crown, his crown, and Jill came tumbling after.

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This is a story, an unfortunate story, a story

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that some may say crazy. Is it anonymous? debatable.

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However, it ended in a way that Jack and Jill

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did not expect. However, they they learned something.

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Okay people, Jack and Jill definitely learned

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a story from this. Going up that hill. Running

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up that hill. Running up that road. Running up

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that hill. And the moral of the story is sometimes

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we just have stories in our life that teach us

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things. give us a resolution, or may end very

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poorly. And today we're going to hear all of

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the stories from you, specifically, pacifically,

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specifically everything, specifically your sports

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slash hobbies stories slash everything that you've

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ever done. Ryan, why are you hating on me? I'm

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trying to be inclusive. Mine's not even working.

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Hello, hello, hello. Hello, hello, hello. Hi,

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my name's Ryan. Oh, there we go. Wait, was it

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working the whole time? Yes. Oh my gosh, I'm

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so sorry. Are we leaving that in? Yeah. Oh, okay.

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Because we're not like most podcasts. We've used

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that way too much. I think you just hit your

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mute button on your microphone. I think I did

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too, honestly. Oh, it's not working. Maybe because

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you hit the mute button. I felt a little button

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press. Bro, were you hitting the button as you

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were saying hello? Yeah. And you thought that

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it was just gonna work when you hit mute? I wasn't

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sure, because I wasn't sure if I had already

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hit it or not. Okay, I'm regulating, hold on.

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Bro, I just want to say - Wait, I can't regulate

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if I'm laughing. Yep, go ahead. Can I say something?

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I need a haircut so bad. I have wings around

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my ears right now. Okay, enough regulation. Gosh.

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All right, my aura ring probably says that I'm

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in a relaxed state now, so I'm good. I was just

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like taking some deep breaths because I felt

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heightened by that moment. And okay, Ryan. What?

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Can we, we could have done this beforehand. Didn't

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have time. Sorry, I'm hating on you. Was in prayer.

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I really am hating on you. I just want to give

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the people a polished. Show like they always

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have. Nothing about this show is polished. The

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polished, prim and proper, very clean cut. If

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they knew what I was looking at right now, they'd

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be like, what is your all's life? Well, I'm looking,

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what do you mean? We have a great home. What

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are you talking about? I'm talking about the

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curtain that is being held back by a vacuum and

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it is not even close to being the same height

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or on the wall. Yeah. Okay. So, okay. What you

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guys are seeing is us. Unless you're listening,

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then you're seeing nothing. So we're going to

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be as descriptive as possible here, okay? This

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is what peeling back the curtain, breaking the

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fourth wall behind the camera, okay? So we have

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a curtain, like Ryan said. One side of the curtain

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is being held up by, in fact, our vacuum. The

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other side of the curtain is just hanging there.

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On the floor, we've got wires everywhere. Everywhere.

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That's not unusual for a podcast. No, it's not.

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Okay. A little chaotic for my brain, but that's

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fine. To my left, off of the camera, like cut

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off from the side of the camera, we have a bunch

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of clothing and PR items that we were gifted

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so generously that we are saving up to do a big

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giveaway. That's what we always do when we have

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either an abundance of things or things that

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we don't use or don't need or things that we

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just want to save and give to somebody else.

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We just kind of accumulated over time. You spent

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a long time on that one. Well, I was, yeah, I

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did. Yeah, I did. And then as we journey on farther

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back, we have a bunch of packages and plastic

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bags that we need to return. Yes. Or throw away.

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One thing about Abby is she will not return something.

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No. It is completely on me to return. No, I won't.

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That's Ryan's. That's your job as the husband.

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It's 100 % my job. Is to go to the UPS store.

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And I have my rules, too, that you don't do.

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Yeah, I know. You're right. I don't think I've

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ever seen you put the dirty clothes from the

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dirty clothes basket into the wash. Have you

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ever done that? That is not true. Yes. When?

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Name it. I can't name a time. Yeah, exactly.

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Because you don't. And yeah, then we have the

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rest of our house. But it's just a little bit.

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It's a little chaos. There is a lot of chaos.

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That's what makes life with you so fun. That's

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the journey of life. Me and Bae just going through

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the chaos, making our way through the mud. One

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step at a time, waffling hands, going through

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it together, me, you and luck. That's right.

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Wink. Wink. Do you have any crazy hobby stories

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or sports stories? You grew up playing a bunch

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of sports. I can imagine you have a crazy baseball

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story. Yeah, I mean, I have a couple probably,

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yeah. Any worth noting for the odd? I would say

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my craziest one is probably whenever I, um, tore

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my UCL, I would guess. You tore your UCL? Yeah.

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In your leg? No, my, my elbow. There's a UCL

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in your elbow? Yeah. Is, am I dreaming or is

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there a UCL in your leg? I think it's, you're

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thinking of ACL. Yeah, yeah. There's ACL, MCL

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in your knee. That's your knee. I remember, I

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don't I don't know why. But UCL is an ulnar collateral

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ligament and it runs pretty far, I'm pretty sure,

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but I had Tommy John surgery. So I would say

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that's probably one of my craziest sports stories.

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This is squirrel brain of me, but going back

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to the ACL thing, which I'm not trying to discredit

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your Tommy John surgery at all. I want to go

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back to that, but before I forget. Why do you

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keep doing this? I don't know. Ryan, if people

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are listening, they're going to be so confused.

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You have to describe what you're talking about.

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When Ryan said, why are you going like this?

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It's because I was smacking his chair, grabbing

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my chair, my arm chair, my arm of the chair.

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There are probably a lot of people that are like

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running listening right now and they're going

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to be like, what is this? Yeah. What does the

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guy mean? You think we have more people that

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listen that are runners, like they're running

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while they listen or more people that are just

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casual on the couch, headphones in. Well, we

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could probably just look at the views. and see,

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like, views on YouTube versus listens? Well,

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no, I'm talking about what our community's doing

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while they're listening. I would guess running.

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Running's one. Y 'all let us know what you're

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doing. Maybe driving in the car. Maybe, like,

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eating a meal. Who knows? How do you listen to

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your podcasts? Uh, either in the shower or when

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I'm running. Yeah. I listen. I don't really watch,

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ever. Yeah. I watch one of mine. Um, am I being

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mean to you? No. Why do you do this once a month?

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I feel like I'm picking you apart right now.

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I'm kind of like, Ryan, do this. Ryan, do that.

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I don't feel picked apart. Do you feel like I

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am kind of picking you apart? No, I don't feel

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picked apart at all. Then maybe it's just my

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irrational thoughts. But I wanted to voice it

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out that if I was doing that, I'm sorry. And

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now I'm going to stop doing that if I was doing

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that. You weren't. OK, so the ACL. I needed to

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talk about this because I remember for some reason

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people only tore their ACL in high school. Like,

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I never saw anyone in college who tore their

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ACL. It was only people in high school. Well,

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you weren't friends with anybody that played

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sports in college. Yeah, but like, I was still

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walking around campus. Like, I just feel like...

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I guarantee you somebody on the basketball team

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while you were at Belmont tore their ACL. Yeah,

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well, I never went to a basketball game. That's

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my whole point. Yeah, I guess you're right. But

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the cast for that is huge for your leg. It's

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not a cast. What is it? A brace? Yeah, it's like

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a bionic thing for your knees. You had that for

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your arm, didn't you? I did, yeah. Gosh. Yeah,

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that's probably my craziest story. I was trying

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to think of something else that was like super

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crazy. I'm missing something. I've had some crazy

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moments in my life that I'm just not thinking

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of, but like concussions, stuff like that. How

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did you? How did I tear it? So if you're not

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a baseball fan, baseball or softball fan and

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don't really care about that part you can skip

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like a minute ahead if you want but so essentially

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my senior year at western kentucky where i was

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playing college baseball i was pitching in the

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fall it was around october and um this is probably

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the the best i had been it was like i finally

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felt like i was in a really good spot with pitching

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and stuff and felt like i was at the peak of

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my powers and i felt a little grab in my elbow

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and kind of like a pinchy feeling And it's like

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right beside the bone. And what we thought me

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and the athletic trainer and the coaching staff

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and everything thought was a strain or like inflammation.

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So I had essentially probably slightly torn it

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then. And then I did a bunch of PT on it to try

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to try and strengthen it, which was ultimately

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just tearing it probably even more or hurting

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it even more because obviously you can't just

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strengthen a tear. and so I went through Christmas

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break doing PT all this stuff came back to try

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and pitch in the spring and was throwing a bullpen

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which is just a practice round of pitching basically

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and I went to throw a curveball and I vividly

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remember it I tried to like pull down my pitch

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and the ball just went flying like straight up

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and I come that's when I completely tore it And

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it hurt really bad. Yeah, it hurt pretty good.

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I mean, it wasn't like excruciating pain, but

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I mean, I knew something was up. And then a couple

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of weeks later, got the MRI results and I had

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Tommy John surgery. I was actually running when

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I found out I was I was on a treadmill running.

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Oh, when I found out that I had was having Tommy

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John surgery. Were you so sad? Or were you kind

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of like numb? Well, the thing was, is I was so

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annoyed with how that was like all that stuff

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went down because I had spent so much time rehabbing

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and like nothing had gotten it better. So I was

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pretty I kind of expected something was done.

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And so that ended my senior year of baseball

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thing. And at that point, you were already kind

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of prepared for it. Yeah, for the most part.

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I mean, I didn't think it was going to be some

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quick fix and I was going to be like pitching

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in a few weeks. So yeah. That's probably my craziest

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story that I can think of. I had some crazy basketball

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stories in high school. Like I took an elbow

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and like split my elbow or split my eye and had

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to get stitches. But that's that type of stuff

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makes me cringe. I mean, it just happens when

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you play sports, you know? Yeah, I guess. I wish

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I was there for you playing baseball. It's like

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I feel like there's just a whole nother version

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of you out there that I never knew that I don't

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know. Yeah, and i'll never know like i'll literally

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never know baseball ryan, which was like your

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whole life. Yeah, it was my whole life until

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my fifth year of college really like I never

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knew bc ryan I never knew baseball ryan But I

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know the stories of both of those ryans. It's

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just weird to think like i'm gonna meet a lot

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of the people Yeah, yeah, but it's not like walking

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through like that one friend that you have who

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his wife like grew up with y 'all and yeah saw

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him like play baseball and through high school

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through everything like That's just so cool.

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That is cool. Like a high school sweetheart is

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pretty cool Yeah, but even just the fact that

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like she was able to see they were able to see

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so many different versions of each other and

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grow together because when we hung out we went

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on a double date with them it's a friend of mine

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from college and The girl's name is Bri. We were

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telling stories back and forth and Bri was getting

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in on the stories and Abby was like, oh great.

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Now I'm literally the only one that doesn't know

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what's going on. It was like ping pong. I was

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like, oh yeah. Smile and nod. It was cool to

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listen to. It wasn't my place to add into the

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story. I didn't have anything to add, but it

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was fun to listen to, but it was just really

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cool. I don't know. It was just really cool that

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there are people out there that have seen those

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versions of each other. I do think there's something

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special though about Don't know like just clicking

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with someone you just meet to like, yeah, you

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know, there's not it's not discrediting our story

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at all But there's just it's just so cool. I

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feel like it's more common for people to meet

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I feel like more marriages happen college on

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you think I Don't know. I think maybe post college

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even today. Yeah, I feel like college is becoming

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less and less common Really? Yeah, I feel like

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maybe for my parents like they grew up just Going

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to college like wasn't an option For them. It

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was an option. Yeah, I was just like you're going

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like it was just already decided for them Like

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it wasn't an option whether they were going or

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not Really? I don't really well I think it also

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just depends on how you were raised What like

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what your finances are what your story is eighties

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college was less common. Maybe I don't know like

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I feel like college Going into like the early

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2000s has gotten a lot more popular Yeah, I mean,

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I don't have any stats to back it up All I know

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is the conversation today is like well You don't

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really need to go to college to accomplish your

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dreams But like that's like brand -new like ten

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years ago Like whenever I was graduating high

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school, everybody would just there's yours going

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to college. That's what I'm saying But that's

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not our parents our parents were 30 years before

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that. Yeah, true true true Yeah, I guess you're

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right. I guess I just think anyone that's like

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older than me is my parents. Well, I'm older

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than you and I'm not your parentage. You're old.

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Old guy. Mr. Old guy. No, I do feel like though

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today it's like. College like. Whenever I ask,

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so I used to when I was younger, I used to ask

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people like, oh, where are you going to college

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if they were of that age? But now today I'm like,

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are you going to college? Because I just don't

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assume. Yeah. You know, which I shouldn't have

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assumed back then either, but I was young. Like

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I didn't know, you know, but it's just interesting

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to think about, you know? Yeah. Like I'd feel

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like there's not really as much of a stigma now

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of like, oh, you dropped out of college or you

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switched colleges or you know, like you hear

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the term college dropout and it's got this like

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stigma to it. But like, I mean, technically I'm

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a college dropout of Belmont. Well, I do have

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my degree, but I didn't. you're not a college

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dropout you just transferred i'm a college transfer

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yeah yeah which is what i was too yeah but i

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i was forced to transfer i couldn't just stay

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at rent like yeah that's true it's only a two

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-year school you can only i mean technically

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i was forced to because god god said no yeah

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god closed that door yeah sure whatever excuse

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you want to use okay well here's my i'm just

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kidding i have many stories as well and i think

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they'll come up when we read these, but probably

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my craziest sports stories, if you've heard my

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testimony, it is way back in like the OG days

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of this podcast, like five years ago, but I'll

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give you the spark notes. I was playing, it was

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seventh grade, I was in PE and we were playing

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baseball. And to this day, I don't know if I

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told the guy that I had this interaction with,

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yeah, that like this is part of my testimony.

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No, no, it was baseball, or no, it was softball,

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softball. Anyways, but the guy who I had a collision

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with during this, I don't even know if he knows

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how pivotal that moment was in my story, because

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I remember him feeling so bad. But if you're

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listening, I'm so glad that this happened. But

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basically, I was playing second, and this kid

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comes over. He's running, trying to get to third.

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So the ball comes towards me. I bend down to

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get the ball. tap him out. And he jumps over,

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am I using the right words? Whatever. Okay. No,

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you're using the great words. It's just funny

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listening to you explain sports. He jumps over

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me to get to third. And as he's jumping over

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me, I come, I start standing up because I don't

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see him. Yeah. And so just the right time I stand

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up as he's right like over me and he knees me

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in the head. And I just get knocked unconscious.

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And at this point, I'm actively struggling with

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my first ED. And I was just so lightweight too.

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Like I just had no cushion, no weight. I mean,

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I literally remember waking up in the nurse's

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office. You're a fragile little girl. Yeah, I

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was very fragile. My teeth were imprinted in

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the side. It also was a hard hit. Like my teeth

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were imprinted in the side of my cheek. I had

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like bite marks in my tongue, like imprinted

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bite marks in my tongue. And then just like a

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huge knot. on my forehead, anyways, and just

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like bruising everywhere. My glasses kind of

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like went into my head. Yeah, it was pretty bad.

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Like it was really bad. And obviously I had a

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concussion. I was out of school for the last

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like six weeks. Yeah, but then after that, I

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started eating again, just randomly. I couldn't

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explain it. Didn't follow a protocol. I mean,

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I literally just started eating. Couldn't couldn't

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explain it at all. And so that's when something

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clicked in for me in my brain of like oh This

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was a miracle and like the guy that does miracles

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in the Bible is still doing those same miracles

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today So I should like figure out what that's

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about. So I got really serious about my faith

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and then learned about just salvation and And

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and chose Jesus for myself after that time. I

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couldn't give you an exact date. I think it was

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like a over time kind of thing, but I did choose

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him during that period of my life for myself

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rather than just kind of, you know, go to church

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because that's how my parents raised me. So yeah,

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a really tragic concussion story turned testimony.

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And there you go. That's my crazy sports story.

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You know, I've got all the running stories and

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the pooping myself and the diarrhea and all that

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sort of stuff, but very open about all those

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things on all other platforms. So we don't need

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to dive into it right now. Yeah. Well, it's not

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our story time today. Yeah. It's not our story

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time. It's y 'all. So you know what? Should we

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get into it? Shall we? I think we have six stories

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today. I'm really excited to read these and I'm

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glad that we're getting started earlier so that

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we can really just dive right in. Okay. Here

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we go. Story time. All right. Here we go. Don't

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share my name, please. It's the first thing that

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it says. Of course not. Never, ever, ever. Hello,

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Abby and Ryan. Loving the podcast. Keep it up.

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Now my story is very traumatic for me, but I'm

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going to still share it with you guys. So here

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it goes. The last year I finished up my sophomore

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year of high school. And this year was not just

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a big year for me, but for our whole school.

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Our class of seniors were the most athletic class

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our school had ever seen. And we were dominating

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the basketball season that year, mainly because

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of them. I was lucky enough to earn the sixth

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man role on our team. So I was getting a lot

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of minutes, especially in the game I'm about

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to tell you about. It's the state semifinals

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versus our division rival. Like we do not like

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these guys. Laughy face. We were fresh off a

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conference champion. So now we were hoping to

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complete the dream season by seizing state title

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as well to provide some wild Context one of our

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starters on the rival school We were playing

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was one of my friends who literally played and

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started for our basketball team just last year

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But he left our school and joined the other school

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without ever telling anyone remember him for

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later Oh, no, he's like Katie in 2016 There was

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a lot of juice to this game and we found ourselves

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down by a lot at one point in the game But we

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powered through the game came down to the wire

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Our best player fouled out, so we kind of had

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to make something out of nothing. We ended up

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cutting their lead down to one and they were

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shooting free throws. They missed both and we

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grabbed the rebound on the second one. Went coast

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to coast to lay it in for the lead. I'm going

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to pause right here. This is a lot of big sports

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terms words for me. Yeah, I'm really having to

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concentrate. Make sure I'm reading this right

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because it like it's making sense, but I'm like.

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I don't get it but I get it. Okay. Okay. Resume.

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The other team panicked and tried to inbound

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the ball because there were probably five seconds

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left to the game at this point and they threw

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the ball out of bounds with 0 .5 seconds remaining.

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We had won against all odds we somehow came back

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and won or so we thought. Through a series of

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unfortunate events the other team ended up with

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the ball and they inbounded it to the same guy

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who used to be on our team the year before and

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as he He got the ball, the buzzer sounded with

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. . . the ball still in his hands but he shot

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it anyways it went in but it was a whole second

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and a half after the buzzer sounded and it was

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so obvious so it shouldn't have counted right

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the ref didn't think so he called the shot good

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and left the court immediately in summary this

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is the devastating way that we lost our chance

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to win our second state championship in three

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years off of a shot that didn't count by the

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guy who left our school and joined our rival

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absolutely brutal anyways sorry for yapping so

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long have a blessed day wow dang i thought you

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would like that one i do like that so for some

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context i skimmed through the emails just to

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like pick some because there's just no way that

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we could read all of them i wish we could read

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all of them like i truly do but there's just

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no way that we could get it all done um but i

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was like right i think ryan's gonna like this

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one this is literally like kevin durant leaving

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the thunder and winning the championship the

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next year on the Warriors, the team that he lost

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to the year prior. That's exactly what I thought.

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That's brutal. No, that actually is. So I would

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have been really upset. I will say I think in

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high school nowadays, there's a lot more moving

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schools than what there used to be. Yeah. Yeah.

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Why? My brother coaches baseball in high school

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and there's always guys like in and out. Is it

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for like what's the purpose? Sports. I know,

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but like, because there's a better team trying

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to go to a better team or they feel like they'll

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get more playing time somewhere else. Interesting.

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Yeah, it's kind of lame, honestly. Oh, really?

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You think that's a hot take? No, I don't think

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so. I just I feel like there's a little bit of

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a lost art of just. staying where you're at and

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kind of going through the ups and downs. And

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like when it gets tough, you just don't need

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to go to a new school, like stick it out. Unless

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like something actually happened, which it doesn't

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sound like that. In that case, it did. Didn't

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you go to a different school? No, I went to the

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same high school. Oh, I thought you went to a

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different school because they had a better team.

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When? During high school. No, I went to the same

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high school. Then your brothers? No, I went to

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a different high school than my brother's because

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the team was better No, I I went to a dip. I'd

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switch schools in middle school. It wasn't so

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it was from fifth to sixth grade Why'd you switch

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is because the not because the school was better

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is because the competition was better like I

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didn't switch schools so that my team specifically

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would be better. I switched because like the

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leagues itself, the competition wasn't very good.

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So do you think that's why maybe some other people

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switch? No, he's literally in the same league.

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He's in the schools or rivals. It's like the

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same thing. He's playing the same teams. Huh?

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Interesting. Dang. That that's got to be crazy

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on the kid though. I got to put myself in the

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kid's perspective who like played the year before.

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Like he probably has a lot of pressure on him

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because if the school that he he was at the year

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before If they had won. Which sounds like they

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did win and just didn't didn't count for it.

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Yeah, but he probably would have been like, oh

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man, you know, because they won. He would have

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deserved it. Ryan! He would have. He left. He's

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the one that left. He chose to leave. Oh my gosh.

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I mean, I... This is all in good fun. I don't

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like actually mean this personally. It's just...

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Here's my thing. Okay, I feel for you, but I'm

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not going to sit here and be like... Man, I know

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how that feels because this was me when I went

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to the high school basketball games. OK, she

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left after like the second quarter. No, I didn't.

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No, I didn't. No, I didn't. I went. I was actually

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I got voted. My senior superlative was most school

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spirit. Really? I could see that. I could see

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that. And so I would go to all the games every

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game. Loved it. Loved it. Loved it. You went

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to like all the sports games. I went to every

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sport game, but this was my role. I would go.

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My back would fully be turned to the court because

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I was sitting talking to everybody else, leading

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the chance. I would just, it was so flower for

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me. You were like the leading the, you were leading

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the like the chance, the student section. Oh,

00:24:48.230 --> 00:24:51.190
yes. Oh wow. Yeah. I loved it. That's pretty

00:24:51.190 --> 00:24:54.130
cool. I would carry the ore. We had an ore. Oh,

00:24:54.410 --> 00:24:56.990
and uh, yeah, you guys are the gators. Yeah.

00:24:57.009 --> 00:24:59.190
We're the gators. So we were in the swamp. So

00:24:59.190 --> 00:25:02.470
we had an ore. Wow. It wasn't just me. Like it

00:25:02.470 --> 00:25:06.019
was a combined effort. But I mean, usually there

00:25:06.019 --> 00:25:08.660
are a select few seniors that kind of just take

00:25:08.660 --> 00:25:13.180
the reins. Yeah. And I had a loud voice. So yeah.

00:25:13.539 --> 00:25:15.819
So there I was. I also was the president. So

00:25:15.819 --> 00:25:17.319
it was kind of like part of it. You're Brooke

00:25:17.319 --> 00:25:22.400
Davis. I was Brooke Davis. But. But not doing

00:25:22.400 --> 00:25:25.200
what Brooke Davis was doing. You were Brooke

00:25:25.200 --> 00:25:27.119
Davis. Brooke Davis is a character in a show.

00:25:27.420 --> 00:25:30.069
Kind of Haley James a little bit. I don't want

00:25:30.069 --> 00:25:32.549
to be associated with Hayley James. Ryan and

00:25:32.549 --> 00:25:34.710
I are watching One Tree Hill right now and we're

00:25:34.710 --> 00:25:36.990
on season two. So I'm not a fan of Hayley James

00:25:36.990 --> 00:25:40.490
right now. I was, if I had to compare myself,

00:25:40.509 --> 00:25:46.130
maybe I was like Erica. But like Erica also did,

00:25:46.190 --> 00:25:48.829
I was a goody goody. I still am a goody goody.

00:25:48.829 --> 00:25:51.509
I never went to a party until I went to like

00:25:51.509 --> 00:25:54.849
three parties in high school because they were

00:25:54.849 --> 00:25:58.009
like end of year senior parties and I was the

00:25:58.009 --> 00:26:02.359
DD. Which means designated driver. I still have

00:26:02.359 --> 00:26:04.000
never had a taste of alcohol to this day, which

00:26:04.000 --> 00:26:07.140
it doesn't matter, but just for people to know.

00:26:07.640 --> 00:26:09.440
I didn't drink in high school or do any of that,

00:26:10.099 --> 00:26:13.140
but I think my maybe energy might have shown

00:26:13.140 --> 00:26:17.259
otherwise because I just always was the person

00:26:17.259 --> 00:26:22.140
that like, I don't know, I was like... So yeah.

00:26:22.349 --> 00:26:25.269
there's that that's a that's a fun man i can't

00:26:25.269 --> 00:26:27.569
wait one day i hope we have kids and they they

00:26:27.569 --> 00:26:30.569
play sports so that we get like get to like experience

00:26:30.569 --> 00:26:33.049
high school sports with them yeah i'm gonna be

00:26:33.049 --> 00:26:35.690
a loud mom i'll just tell you that right now

00:26:35.690 --> 00:26:40.630
yeah oh i know i'm gonna be the dad that like

00:26:40.630 --> 00:26:43.950
has to go to the corner and not be by anybody

00:26:43.950 --> 00:26:45.930
yeah unless they do theater then i'm gonna have

00:26:45.930 --> 00:26:49.859
proper theater etiquette Yeah. Man, I hope they

00:26:49.859 --> 00:26:52.539
do sports. They can do theater, but I really

00:26:52.539 --> 00:26:54.279
hope they play sports. I hope they do everything

00:26:54.279 --> 00:26:57.539
that they want to do and more. Sports. Whether

00:26:57.539 --> 00:27:00.500
that's skateboarding, football, archery. The

00:27:00.500 --> 00:27:02.319
basketball story just takes me back. The debate

00:27:02.319 --> 00:27:05.500
team, forensics, I don't care. High school sports

00:27:05.500 --> 00:27:08.000
are a lot of fun. Yeah. Especially too when you

00:27:08.000 --> 00:27:10.880
get good crowds and the community's kind of gathered

00:27:10.880 --> 00:27:14.420
around it. It's so much fun. I wish that I did

00:27:14.420 --> 00:27:17.150
cross -country or track in high school. A lot

00:27:17.150 --> 00:27:21.089
of people think I did. I never did that. A lot

00:27:21.089 --> 00:27:23.470
of when did you start cross -country at questions,

00:27:23.589 --> 00:27:26.430
I feel like. Yeah, I mean I ran summer training

00:27:26.430 --> 00:27:28.170
in third grade with the cross -country team and

00:27:28.170 --> 00:27:30.630
that was it. But I just started running in middle

00:27:30.630 --> 00:27:33.410
school. I was 13 but I just always did it by

00:27:33.410 --> 00:27:36.930
myself. Were you like get up early before high

00:27:36.930 --> 00:27:40.009
school and run? Yeah, I've been getting up at

00:27:40.009 --> 00:27:44.589
least like 5 a .m. every morning since my sophomore

00:27:44.589 --> 00:27:47.089
year of high school. So like before school you

00:27:47.089 --> 00:27:50.069
would go on a run? Mm -hmm. Like every day? Mm

00:27:50.069 --> 00:27:54.529
-hmm. That's crazy. I don't know. I mean I will

00:27:54.529 --> 00:27:58.089
say though my junior my junior and senior year

00:27:58.089 --> 00:28:01.769
well first of all the c -word COVID happened

00:28:01.769 --> 00:28:04.950
my junior year. Oh right. So school was wonky

00:28:04.950 --> 00:28:08.250
that year but then my senior year when we went

00:28:08.250 --> 00:28:10.509
back I had a lot of dual credit classes which

00:28:10.509 --> 00:28:13.740
are Co combined like you get credits for high

00:28:13.740 --> 00:28:15.799
school and college. Well, they're usually taken

00:28:15.799 --> 00:28:19.059
with a college your high school Career was weird.

00:28:19.059 --> 00:28:21.240
Just like my college career, but I didn't my

00:28:21.240 --> 00:28:22.660
senior year. I didn't have to go into school

00:28:22.660 --> 00:28:26.299
till 11 o 'clock Wow, because I took online college

00:28:26.299 --> 00:28:29.099
classes that counted for my high school credits.

00:28:29.140 --> 00:28:31.420
Mm -hmm Every day you didn't have to go until

00:28:31.420 --> 00:28:33.619
11. No, and I had one class and it was choir

00:28:33.619 --> 00:28:36.680
So I was there from 11 to 1 That's crazy, and

00:28:36.680 --> 00:28:38.960
then I would come back for rehearsal. So I would

00:28:38.960 --> 00:28:43.410
I would run and then I would go to choir, and

00:28:43.410 --> 00:28:46.349
then I would come home, eat lunch, do whatever,

00:28:46.869 --> 00:28:48.450
and then I would work out, and then I would go

00:28:48.450 --> 00:28:51.089
to rehearsal, and then I would go home. So I

00:28:51.089 --> 00:28:54.549
was basically training for what I do now, which

00:28:54.549 --> 00:28:56.930
is run and make videos, but I was just doing

00:28:56.930 --> 00:28:59.309
it in high school, the high school version, which

00:28:59.309 --> 00:29:05.450
was run and theater. Yeah. God has been preparing

00:29:05.450 --> 00:29:08.170
me for a long time, I think. so that would have

00:29:08.170 --> 00:29:10.430
been yeah my junior year of college would have

00:29:10.430 --> 00:29:15.049
been covid for me yeah we were we were on our

00:29:15.049 --> 00:29:21.690
way to uab university of alabama birmingham and

00:29:21.690 --> 00:29:26.890
got stopped on the way and drove back and that

00:29:26.890 --> 00:29:28.609
like that's when like covid was announced for

00:29:28.609 --> 00:29:35.650
you wow i was on the second day of my show My

00:29:35.650 --> 00:29:38.390
junior year show we were doing newsies and the

00:29:38.390 --> 00:29:40.829
principal came did you guys get to finish? Nope,

00:29:41.089 --> 00:29:44.269
we got shut down on a Saturday Wow, they did

00:29:44.269 --> 00:29:45.650
let us I don't know if I'm allowed to say this

00:29:45.650 --> 00:29:48.470
I guess it's been enough time now But they did

00:29:48.470 --> 00:29:50.609
let us do like a private because we were already

00:29:50.609 --> 00:29:53.410
in costume and mics like we were like an hour

00:29:53.410 --> 00:29:55.809
before Oh, you're not allowed to say this We

00:29:55.809 --> 00:29:58.049
were like an hour before. You guys don't get

00:29:58.049 --> 00:30:02.150
to know. I'll say it. We were like an hour before

00:30:02.150 --> 00:30:05.230
we were about to go perform. So we had done like

00:30:05.230 --> 00:30:07.430
sound check and like stretches and whatever.

00:30:07.890 --> 00:30:11.809
We were all in costume, hair, makeup. And yeah,

00:30:11.849 --> 00:30:14.890
so they let our like family come. Oh, that's

00:30:14.890 --> 00:30:16.609
cool. They didn't open it to the public, but

00:30:16.609 --> 00:30:18.410
they let like parents come and stuff. We have

00:30:18.410 --> 00:30:21.829
maybe, I don't know, 200 people. Still like quite

00:30:21.829 --> 00:30:25.269
a lot. But I just remember everyone was really

00:30:25.269 --> 00:30:27.549
sad like it was pretty sad especially for the

00:30:27.549 --> 00:30:30.890
seniors because In the theater world like if

00:30:30.890 --> 00:30:33.609
you're if you did theater in high school if you

00:30:33.609 --> 00:30:35.589
had a good experience Which I feel like a lot

00:30:35.589 --> 00:30:39.410
of people do It's I mean you get it. It's it's

00:30:39.410 --> 00:30:42.490
emotional like when you leave cuz you're You

00:30:42.490 --> 00:30:44.269
know, I tell you like oh, I'm going to listen

00:30:44.269 --> 00:30:47.359
to senior speeches um now that I help out with

00:30:47.359 --> 00:30:49.259
like the high school and do choreography like

00:30:49.259 --> 00:30:51.380
I'll go sit in at their senior speeches and it's

00:30:51.380 --> 00:30:53.940
just a really like emotional time because they're

00:30:53.940 --> 00:30:56.400
saying their farewell to like these people who

00:30:56.400 --> 00:30:58.440
you've lived with basically for the past three

00:30:58.440 --> 00:31:00.420
months so you're spending school all day with

00:31:00.420 --> 00:31:02.240
these people and then you're rehearsing from

00:31:02.240 --> 00:31:05.039
after school until like sometimes 10 11 o 'clock

00:31:05.039 --> 00:31:07.279
at night yeah and you're just spending a lot

00:31:07.279 --> 00:31:10.519
of time with these people um so yeah I don't

00:31:10.519 --> 00:31:11.920
know and everyone just kind of comes from a different

00:31:11.920 --> 00:31:14.559
place you know we've got sports kids and we've

00:31:14.559 --> 00:31:17.339
got Band kids. And we've got theater kids too.

00:31:17.380 --> 00:31:19.519
We've got kids that just did it randomly because

00:31:19.519 --> 00:31:21.099
they needed something to do after school. Like

00:31:21.099 --> 00:31:22.720
you get all walks of life, but everyone's coming

00:31:22.720 --> 00:31:27.400
together to do this one thing and provide this

00:31:27.400 --> 00:31:29.920
show for the world. So I've only done one story.

00:31:31.039 --> 00:31:33.259
Yeah. All right. I'm moving on. Sorry. Okay.

00:31:33.799 --> 00:31:35.660
Hi, Abby and Ryan. I have a hobby story I wanted

00:31:35.660 --> 00:31:37.559
to share with you guys. I've always loved running

00:31:37.559 --> 00:31:40.119
in high school. I'd run between other sports.

00:31:40.659 --> 00:31:42.539
To stay in shape and would occasionally sign

00:31:42.539 --> 00:31:44.960
up for local 5k's after graduating last summer

00:31:44.960 --> 00:31:47.400
I had my heart set on running my first half marathon

00:31:47.400 --> 00:31:49.740
as soon as my senior track season ended. I jumped

00:31:49.740 --> 00:31:52.180
right into training Well, I went away I went

00:31:52.180 --> 00:31:54.140
way too hard way too fast and ended up with some

00:31:54.140 --> 00:31:56.180
pretty bad shin splints and I just couldn't run

00:31:56.180 --> 00:31:58.740
I was so frustrated discouraged and completely

00:31:58.740 --> 00:32:01.119
unmotivated. I remember thinking God Why wouldn't

00:32:01.119 --> 00:32:03.359
you want me to run when I love it so much? Looking

00:32:03.359 --> 00:32:05.140
back, I realized my priorities weren't in the

00:32:05.140 --> 00:32:06.880
right place. I wasn't putting the Lord at the

00:32:06.880 --> 00:32:08.619
center of my training. I was leaning on my own

00:32:08.619 --> 00:32:10.720
understanding instead of his. Since I couldn't

00:32:10.720 --> 00:32:12.940
run to stay active, I would walk anytime I could.

00:32:13.019 --> 00:32:14.799
For at least 20 minutes a day, I would go for

00:32:14.799 --> 00:32:17.200
a walk and make myself talk to God. During this

00:32:17.200 --> 00:32:18.839
time, I learned so much from the Lord about what

00:32:18.839 --> 00:32:20.940
it looks like to live a holy life, actively pursue

00:32:20.940 --> 00:32:23.500
him, and honor him above everything else. My

00:32:23.500 --> 00:32:25.440
walks got longer and eventually I found myself

00:32:25.440 --> 00:32:28.900
listening to every sermon and podcast I could

00:32:28.900 --> 00:32:32.579
to help me understand my true purpose. Fast forward

00:32:32.579 --> 00:32:34.559
to this summer and I was finally able to train

00:32:34.559 --> 00:32:37.940
for four strong healthy months for my half marathon

00:32:37.940 --> 00:32:40.779
This time every mile was for his glory instead

00:32:40.779 --> 00:32:43.200
of my own I ended up it ended up being one of

00:32:43.200 --> 00:32:45.299
the biggest blessings in disguise because I literally

00:32:45.299 --> 00:32:48.720
had to walk to run on June 6th I ran my very

00:32:48.720 --> 00:32:50.660
first half marathon not to prove something to

00:32:50.660 --> 00:32:53.119
myself but as a reminder of God's faithfulness

00:32:53.119 --> 00:32:55.640
and all he has done in my life and Because God

00:32:55.640 --> 00:32:57.599
had such a sense of humor that wasn't even the

00:32:57.599 --> 00:32:59.839
best part of the day Later that same day, my

00:32:59.839 --> 00:33:02.299
boyfriend of five years proposed. I got to say

00:33:02.299 --> 00:33:04.539
yes to my best friend, a God fearing man who

00:33:04.539 --> 00:33:07.180
loves the Lord and who I get to spend forever

00:33:07.180 --> 00:33:09.299
with. It was one of the sweetest reminders that

00:33:09.299 --> 00:33:12.940
God's timing is always better than ours. I've

00:33:12.940 --> 00:33:15.299
been a long time listener since Abby's college

00:33:15.299 --> 00:33:17.500
days and love hearing how the Lord is working

00:33:17.500 --> 00:33:19.599
in your lives. I look forward to every Tuesday

00:33:19.599 --> 00:33:21.299
and admire the work you guys do to share the

00:33:21.299 --> 00:33:23.930
good news of Jesus. That's sweet. So sweet. She

00:33:23.930 --> 00:33:27.549
also included pictures. Oh, that is so sweet.

00:33:27.549 --> 00:33:30.390
I'm crying. They're so cute. Look at them. She's

00:33:30.390 --> 00:33:32.750
going to force him to run now. Yeah, seriously.

00:33:32.990 --> 00:33:36.849
That's how it works. I mean, get ready, guy,

00:33:37.089 --> 00:33:39.609
whatever your name is, guy, because you're going

00:33:39.609 --> 00:33:42.369
to be running a half marathon next. Let's go.

00:33:42.430 --> 00:33:44.910
Have you ever had shin splints? Yeah, I've had

00:33:44.910 --> 00:33:47.700
shin splints. It's not very fun. I used to get

00:33:47.700 --> 00:33:49.980
them all the time whenever I would go back and

00:33:49.980 --> 00:33:52.480
forth between Nashville for school and home because

00:33:52.480 --> 00:33:55.099
Nashville's really hilly. Yeah. Now we get shin

00:33:55.099 --> 00:33:58.380
splints a lot. What creates shin splints? Is

00:33:58.380 --> 00:34:02.119
it the pounding on the pavement? I actually should

00:34:02.119 --> 00:34:04.660
know that. Yeah. And I don't, but I know it's

00:34:04.660 --> 00:34:07.059
something about like your form changes because

00:34:07.059 --> 00:34:10.539
if you're like going up or down, it changes the

00:34:10.539 --> 00:34:13.639
impact. But I actually don't know I should know

00:34:13.639 --> 00:34:15.880
that I'm a fraud. I'm a fraud runner. What can

00:34:15.880 --> 00:34:19.579
I say? I love this story. Yeah, that's your type

00:34:19.579 --> 00:34:22.599
of story. We would be great friends you and I

00:34:22.599 --> 00:34:28.000
But seriously, I mean the Lord I say this I I

00:34:28.000 --> 00:34:29.800
said this the other day to someone I was talking

00:34:29.800 --> 00:34:38.139
to the Lord for me Will use what I so Repetitively

00:34:38.139 --> 00:34:40.860
and commonly put above him, which is my body

00:34:41.039 --> 00:34:43.619
To get my attention. Yeah, and it sounds like

00:34:43.619 --> 00:34:45.380
it's the same thing with her. It's like, you

00:34:45.380 --> 00:34:48.639
know, she went in Probably with good intentions

00:34:48.639 --> 00:34:51.800
being excited post -grad like okay. I'm ready

00:34:51.800 --> 00:34:54.440
to do this like I want to train like I'm so excited

00:34:54.440 --> 00:34:59.000
and It just got way too out of hand way too quickly

00:34:59.000 --> 00:35:01.559
and so the Lord was like well Let me get your

00:35:01.559 --> 00:35:04.039
attention because you're obviously not allowing

00:35:04.039 --> 00:35:06.480
enough room for me to speak into this right now

00:35:06.480 --> 00:35:11.539
but how kind of him to do that because He sees

00:35:11.539 --> 00:35:15.179
the full picture. I just think it's really cool.

00:35:15.320 --> 00:35:17.000
I don't know. I've been reading a lot of stories

00:35:17.000 --> 00:35:23.559
in Genesis about Noah, Abraham, Isaac, all the

00:35:23.559 --> 00:35:26.800
way down. Right now I've made it to Leah and

00:35:26.800 --> 00:35:32.500
Rachel and that whole fiasco. What I am learning

00:35:32.500 --> 00:35:34.239
right now when going through and reading the

00:35:34.239 --> 00:35:37.389
Bible in a chronological standpoint like starting

00:35:37.389 --> 00:35:39.289
from adam and eve the creation story to where

00:35:39.289 --> 00:35:45.010
i'm at right now it is just so funny to me how

00:35:45.010 --> 00:35:47.909
when i was younger growing up we would learn

00:35:47.909 --> 00:35:51.849
about these bible characters and they didn't

00:35:51.849 --> 00:35:54.289
they don't highlight the brokenness of these

00:35:54.289 --> 00:35:56.849
humans they just highlight the glory of god when

00:35:56.849 --> 00:35:58.789
teaching the story because i mean we're learning

00:35:58.789 --> 00:36:02.969
about the glory of god of course you know um

00:36:02.969 --> 00:36:07.000
but As I'm reading them again in my adult view,

00:36:07.239 --> 00:36:14.139
I'm like, I am Abraham, I am Noah, I am Isaac,

00:36:14.460 --> 00:36:19.880
I am Cain and Abel and Esau and these broken

00:36:19.880 --> 00:36:24.460
human beings who try to get in the way and take

00:36:24.460 --> 00:36:28.360
the reins themselves and... Get provisions for

00:36:28.360 --> 00:36:30.079
their life from God because he's generous and

00:36:30.079 --> 00:36:31.800
telling them the promises that he has for them

00:36:31.800 --> 00:36:33.659
And so then they try to get in and manufacture

00:36:33.659 --> 00:36:35.320
it in a way that makes sense to them that they

00:36:35.320 --> 00:36:40.880
have control of yeah and yet God is so good that

00:36:40.880 --> 00:36:43.760
even though our humanness gets in the way and

00:36:43.760 --> 00:36:47.239
we don't trust them and we try to intercede and

00:36:47.239 --> 00:36:50.579
tell our husband to go sleep with the servant

00:36:50.579 --> 00:36:54.389
to have a baby or to go do XYZ of what all these

00:36:54.389 --> 00:36:56.590
other people did or take the birthright of the

00:36:56.590 --> 00:36:59.469
brother or kill the brother or whatever. These

00:36:59.469 --> 00:37:00.969
are all sins that people did in the Bible, by

00:37:00.969 --> 00:37:05.809
the way. But even though we get in the way and

00:37:05.809 --> 00:37:08.989
trying to take it into our own hands, God still

00:37:08.989 --> 00:37:12.510
delights in his promises that he has for us.

00:37:13.630 --> 00:37:15.409
And it's not like he's just going to take it

00:37:15.409 --> 00:37:17.769
back. Never once have I ever seen him do that

00:37:17.769 --> 00:37:20.949
in the Bible, ever. No matter how sinful we are.

00:37:21.980 --> 00:37:24.179
Could you tell me time he's done that? No, I

00:37:24.179 --> 00:37:27.119
can't. Yeah, exactly I just think this is a beautiful

00:37:27.119 --> 00:37:30.500
image of that. It's such a It's such a funny

00:37:30.500 --> 00:37:33.500
things. I've asked that so many times of like

00:37:33.500 --> 00:37:35.559
why won't you let me do this when I want to do

00:37:35.559 --> 00:37:38.579
this? But our brain just literally can't comprehend

00:37:38.579 --> 00:37:42.400
what God is doing in our lives And I just I don't

00:37:42.400 --> 00:37:45.099
know. I think it's a beautiful Beautiful story.

00:37:45.159 --> 00:37:48.469
Yeah, it is a beautiful story. Yeah This girl's

00:37:48.469 --> 00:37:51.570
name is Miley. I have a crazy marching band story

00:37:51.570 --> 00:37:53.989
for you. So my freshman year, our show had these

00:37:53.989 --> 00:37:56.449
huge props. They were the destruction of many

00:37:56.449 --> 00:37:59.030
things, including instruments and feet. And while

00:37:59.030 --> 00:38:01.489
they brought others up, literally raised people

00:38:01.489 --> 00:38:03.449
up with a harness, they were also the downfall

00:38:03.449 --> 00:38:05.469
of many. For context, the props were comprised

00:38:05.469 --> 00:38:09.469
of wooden board attached to a metal frame at

00:38:09.469 --> 00:38:12.130
both ends so the wooden part could flip. At one

00:38:12.130 --> 00:38:13.829
part of the show, the props were lined up and

00:38:13.829 --> 00:38:15.610
down the center of the field and everyone in

00:38:15.610 --> 00:38:18.630
the band... with everyone in the band behind

00:38:18.630 --> 00:38:22.030
them. Bro, I need to slow down. Okay. Then one

00:38:22.030 --> 00:38:24.789
person behind each prop would flip and lock the

00:38:24.789 --> 00:38:27.010
prop in place so it wouldn't come back up and

00:38:27.010 --> 00:38:29.869
hit someone. Little freshman me got assigned

00:38:29.869 --> 00:38:34.079
with this job, tear emoji, though I never. I

00:38:34.079 --> 00:38:36.139
never had a problem with doing this until our

00:38:36.139 --> 00:38:39.099
first football game performance of the season.

00:38:39.420 --> 00:38:41.980
We got to that point in the show and to my dismay,

00:38:42.039 --> 00:38:44.780
I physically couldn't lock the prop up after

00:38:44.780 --> 00:38:47.400
I flipped it. I was stuck behind the prop holding

00:38:47.400 --> 00:38:49.739
it so it didn't come up and hit someone. However,

00:38:49.920 --> 00:38:52.159
the show went on without me and as I was panicking,

00:38:52.340 --> 00:38:55.619
the upperclassmen offered no help. I was alone

00:38:55.619 --> 00:38:57.639
behind the prop watching as everyone moved to

00:38:57.639 --> 00:38:59.480
the next part of the show still being stuck.

00:38:59.739 --> 00:39:02.380
I then hit a crossroads when another band member

00:39:02.380 --> 00:39:05.130
came to move the prop away. I could either follow

00:39:05.130 --> 00:39:06.909
them and stay behind the prop for the rest of

00:39:06.909 --> 00:39:09.730
the show or run to my correct position. And with

00:39:09.730 --> 00:39:11.809
the new encouragement and pressure of the other

00:39:11.809 --> 00:39:14.130
band member next to me, I booked it to my spot.

00:39:14.489 --> 00:39:17.030
It was painfully obvious to the entire audience.

00:39:17.050 --> 00:39:19.489
I was not there when I was supposed to be as

00:39:19.489 --> 00:39:21.690
I was running the opposite direction as everybody

00:39:21.690 --> 00:39:24.789
else was lol. But I was able to eventually get

00:39:24.789 --> 00:39:26.489
back to the right place and finish the show.

00:39:26.610 --> 00:39:28.650
That night after the show, I remember my dad

00:39:28.650 --> 00:39:30.650
asking me, Were you the saxophone player who

00:39:30.650 --> 00:39:32.409
was running across the field in the middle of

00:39:32.409 --> 00:39:37.409
the show? humbling. I have had my fair share

00:39:37.409 --> 00:39:41.929
of performance mishaps and mistakes and it is

00:39:41.929 --> 00:39:44.110
never fun to feel like you were the odd man out

00:39:44.110 --> 00:39:47.670
especially because of a reason that you literally

00:39:47.670 --> 00:39:52.349
can't control. I remember for one show we did

00:39:52.349 --> 00:39:58.210
it was Peter Pan and We the you fly in Peter

00:39:58.210 --> 00:40:00.469
Pan. So we all have these harnesses and literally

00:40:00.469 --> 00:40:02.570
it's like we're wearing these harnesses that

00:40:02.570 --> 00:40:05.769
feel like diapers that have a wire connected

00:40:05.769 --> 00:40:08.110
to your back. So when you pull up, bungee jumping.

00:40:08.309 --> 00:40:10.849
Yeah. Yeah. But it's like putting all this weight

00:40:10.849 --> 00:40:13.030
on your pressure or on your pelvis and it just

00:40:13.030 --> 00:40:17.329
hurts. But they backstage are pulling these lever

00:40:17.329 --> 00:40:20.590
or thingies basically to like have you go up.

00:40:20.809 --> 00:40:24.090
Anyways, we're up in the air and there's a scene

00:40:24.090 --> 00:40:28.070
change that happens as we're flying. So four

00:40:28.070 --> 00:40:31.650
of us are up in the air as the house is getting

00:40:31.650 --> 00:40:35.289
rolled off the stage. These are legitimate walls,

00:40:35.789 --> 00:40:39.369
heavy walls on wheels, okay? So we're flying

00:40:39.369 --> 00:40:43.849
and we're swinging side to side, side to side.

00:40:44.070 --> 00:40:46.289
We're supposed to do that. There was a mishap

00:40:46.289 --> 00:40:49.900
or something. And one of the guys who was on

00:40:49.900 --> 00:40:52.900
the far left side as these walls were leaving

00:40:52.900 --> 00:40:57.340
is swinging and the wall didn't get moved fast

00:40:57.340 --> 00:41:02.719
enough. And he just BAM right into the wall.

00:41:02.760 --> 00:41:04.420
He was fine. That's why I'm laughing. Like nothing

00:41:04.420 --> 00:41:09.780
happened. But looking back now, I wish I wouldn't

00:41:09.780 --> 00:41:12.039
have been in the air so that I could have just

00:41:12.039 --> 00:41:14.980
seen. He was literally like right into the wall

00:41:14.980 --> 00:41:17.059
and everyone was like, wow. And he was like,

00:41:17.159 --> 00:41:21.409
I'm good. Like, I could. But yeah, when dealing

00:41:21.409 --> 00:41:24.670
with big props, I'm surprised they gave that,

00:41:24.670 --> 00:41:28.869
like, big amount of responsibility to a freshman,

00:41:28.909 --> 00:41:30.329
not because you couldn't handle it, but because

00:41:30.329 --> 00:41:32.210
you're a freshman. They gave it to a freshman

00:41:32.210 --> 00:41:34.909
for that reason, probably. You think? Oh, yeah.

00:41:35.150 --> 00:41:38.210
Dang. That's the classic, oh, just make a younger,

00:41:38.210 --> 00:41:41.489
underclassmen do it. That's so, no, don't do

00:41:41.489 --> 00:41:45.389
that. That's the way I see it. Man. I just, my

00:41:45.389 --> 00:41:46.789
brain would be like, Oh, they're freshmen. Like

00:41:46.789 --> 00:41:49.489
you don't want to stress them out. It feels like

00:41:49.489 --> 00:41:52.989
it was, they gave it to somebody younger is intentional.

00:41:53.190 --> 00:41:55.570
Yeah. Dang. That stinks. Not to like, hopefully

00:41:55.570 --> 00:41:58.489
that they mess up, but just like, well, I mean,

00:41:58.510 --> 00:42:01.449
when I was in school, like they did say that

00:42:01.449 --> 00:42:05.110
they in college, they like structured it to where

00:42:05.110 --> 00:42:07.730
you weed out. That's what they said. Like weed

00:42:07.730 --> 00:42:10.630
out the people that couldn't handle the pressure.

00:42:10.809 --> 00:42:12.650
I don't know if that's true, but that was like,

00:42:12.639 --> 00:42:14.239
the thing that went around they were like if

00:42:14.239 --> 00:42:15.900
you can survive your freshman year like it's

00:42:15.900 --> 00:42:18.599
designed to be super hard yeah i don't know if

00:42:18.599 --> 00:42:20.159
that's true though i don't know if they would

00:42:20.159 --> 00:42:22.280
have done that in high school yeah that's true

00:42:22.280 --> 00:42:24.099
i just didn't know if it was like the same but

00:42:24.099 --> 00:42:25.760
also none of my professors ever told me that

00:42:25.760 --> 00:42:27.619
so that might have just been like a fib i don't

00:42:27.619 --> 00:42:33.289
know okay next one sports story Hi, Abby and

00:42:33.289 --> 00:42:36.070
Ryan. I'm a longtime podcast fan and I'm super

00:42:36.070 --> 00:42:38.010
excited to share this story. Please keep this

00:42:38.010 --> 00:42:41.070
anonymous. LOL. I grew up in competitive gymnastics

00:42:41.070 --> 00:42:43.510
with some pretty intense coaches. When I was

00:42:43.510 --> 00:42:45.429
a sophomore in high school, I was at our regional

00:42:45.429 --> 00:42:47.429
competition competing with two of my teammates.

00:42:47.869 --> 00:42:49.730
Gymnastics is pretty much an individual sport,

00:42:49.809 --> 00:42:52.389
at least until the elite or college level. So

00:42:52.389 --> 00:42:54.469
if any of us placed in the top seven in the all

00:42:54.469 --> 00:42:58.010
around, each event score added up, we would qualify

00:42:58.010 --> 00:43:00.349
to nationals. The competition was a pretty big

00:43:00.349 --> 00:43:03.329
deal. We started on balance beam at this meet

00:43:03.329 --> 00:43:07.250
and unfortunately all three of us fell this incurred

00:43:07.250 --> 00:43:11.789
a zero point five five tenth deduction from each

00:43:11.789 --> 00:43:14.590
of our individual scores and our head coach was

00:43:14.590 --> 00:43:17.369
pretty upset to say the least. A little tangent,

00:43:17.389 --> 00:43:19.730
I have been doing some reflecting after you shared

00:43:19.730 --> 00:43:22.349
your pelvic floor journey and I think most high

00:43:22.349 --> 00:43:24.530
level gymnasts probably need pelvic floor therapy.

00:43:24.889 --> 00:43:26.630
For anyone who doesn't know, it's pretty common

00:43:26.630 --> 00:43:28.610
in the gymnastics world for athletes to pee their

00:43:28.610 --> 00:43:30.869
pants a little when tumbling, especially forward

00:43:30.869 --> 00:43:34.030
tumbling because of the pressure the body position

00:43:34.030 --> 00:43:36.190
and pounding mechanism puts on their bladder.

00:43:36.469 --> 00:43:38.210
While this might not be common knowledge to the

00:43:38.210 --> 00:43:40.909
public, coach most definitely knew this. That's

00:43:40.909 --> 00:43:43.610
interesting. That's crazy. Very interesting.

00:43:43.630 --> 00:43:46.349
Wait, what was the movement? It was just saying

00:43:46.349 --> 00:43:48.510
like any movement. It doesn't, it's not a specific

00:43:48.510 --> 00:43:50.710
movement. Oh, not a specific gymnastic movement.

00:43:50.849 --> 00:43:53.110
Yeah. Well, you're just like jumping and pounding.

00:43:53.309 --> 00:43:55.590
Yeah. Yeah. You know? Yeah. I mean, definitely.

00:43:55.730 --> 00:43:57.469
Yeah. I mean, think when you watch the Olympics

00:43:57.469 --> 00:43:58.690
and those girls are just boom, boom, boom. It's

00:43:58.690 --> 00:44:00.849
one of the most entertaining Olympics sports

00:44:00.849 --> 00:44:03.090
to watch. So awesome. Okay. Back to the story.

00:44:03.190 --> 00:44:05.170
We had all three fallen on the beam and we were

00:44:05.170 --> 00:44:07.880
heading to the floor the next event. At every

00:44:07.880 --> 00:44:10.699
practice we would all go pee before floor to

00:44:10.699 --> 00:44:12.800
try to prevent ourselves from peeing when tumbling

00:44:12.800 --> 00:44:15.099
and at meets we would do the same thing. We had

00:44:15.099 --> 00:44:16.960
plenty of time to go to the bathroom before floor

00:44:16.960 --> 00:44:19.539
but when we asked our coach she said no you should

00:44:19.539 --> 00:44:21.619
have thought of that before you all three fell

00:44:21.619 --> 00:44:25.340
on the beam as if we tried to fall lol and walked

00:44:25.340 --> 00:44:27.719
away. We were shocked to say the least but we

00:44:27.719 --> 00:44:30.599
listened and went to wait by the floor. As we

00:44:30.599 --> 00:44:33.289
started warming up for floor All three were getting

00:44:33.289 --> 00:44:36.369
the front tumble peas and kept trying to figure

00:44:36.369 --> 00:44:39.829
out what to do. I realized I had a travel pack

00:44:39.829 --> 00:44:42.289
of tissues in my competition bag. So I got them

00:44:42.289 --> 00:44:44.369
out and we started drying our inner thighs in

00:44:44.369 --> 00:44:46.610
between turns. Oh, they were peeing, peeing.

00:44:46.650 --> 00:44:50.260
Yeah. Yeah, by this point our other coach asked

00:44:50.260 --> 00:44:52.840
what happened. We told him he probably didn't

00:44:52.840 --> 00:44:55.260
want to know and then continued with our warmups.

00:44:55.400 --> 00:44:57.079
We kept having to dry our legs with tissues,

00:44:57.199 --> 00:44:59.320
but eventually all competed. Our floor routines

00:44:59.320 --> 00:45:01.880
dried our legs some more and then finished the

00:45:01.880 --> 00:45:04.679
last two events for the rest of the meet. I was

00:45:04.679 --> 00:45:07.099
disappointed of course with my fall, but now

00:45:07.099 --> 00:45:08.980
I look back on this memory and laugh at the fact.

00:45:09.369 --> 00:45:12.469
that as 16 year olds, we were all peeing over

00:45:12.469 --> 00:45:15.489
our expensive sparkly leotards and my legs while

00:45:15.489 --> 00:45:17.349
tumbling at the biggest meet of my life because

00:45:17.349 --> 00:45:19.650
I fell on beam. The whole experience was super

00:45:19.650 --> 00:45:22.090
embarrassing and uncomfortable, but now I can

00:45:22.090 --> 00:45:24.929
look back and laugh it off. Anyhow, I think maybe

00:45:24.929 --> 00:45:26.869
some pelvic floor therapy or just a trip to the

00:45:26.869 --> 00:45:28.369
bathroom could have prevented this whole thing.

00:45:28.389 --> 00:45:30.710
But alas, that's my crazy sports story. I hope

00:45:30.710 --> 00:45:35.230
you enjoyed. Hopefully this made sense. That

00:45:35.230 --> 00:45:37.730
made sense. I didn't know that about gymnastics.

00:45:38.789 --> 00:45:42.050
So it sounds like tumbling is what does it? Well,

00:45:42.190 --> 00:45:44.030
yeah, I mean, anything. What is tumbling? Any?

00:45:44.730 --> 00:45:47.889
I mean, that's like a cartwheel. How does one

00:45:47.889 --> 00:45:49.650
explain? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like you're doing

00:45:49.650 --> 00:45:52.730
a bunch of stuff. Yeah. Well, you know, the event

00:45:52.730 --> 00:45:55.329
in gymnastics where there's that really big blue

00:45:55.329 --> 00:45:57.550
mat and then there's like, yeah, and they run

00:45:57.550 --> 00:45:59.710
and do the flips and everything. Yeah. Yeah,

00:45:59.730 --> 00:46:02.809
that's tumbling. OK. Yeah. So cheerleaders do

00:46:02.809 --> 00:46:05.429
tumbling. Yeah. OK, I know what it is. They're

00:46:05.429 --> 00:46:07.510
like different styles, though. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:46:07.550 --> 00:46:12.639
Yeah. Wow. I don't even know what to say. Like

00:46:12.639 --> 00:46:14.840
I literally don't even know what to say. I'm

00:46:14.840 --> 00:46:17.739
shocked right now. That's the classic coach is

00:46:17.739 --> 00:46:20.780
just like so mad at their kids. Like that used

00:46:20.780 --> 00:46:22.639
to happen in junior college a lot. Oh, really?

00:46:22.900 --> 00:46:25.500
Not peeing, but just like, you know, you play

00:46:25.500 --> 00:46:27.860
bad and then it's like the most simple thing

00:46:27.860 --> 00:46:29.980
that you usually go do. You ask your coach and

00:46:29.980 --> 00:46:32.119
they're like, no, you should perform better.

00:46:32.139 --> 00:46:36.300
So here's the thing. Okay. It's one thing to

00:46:36.739 --> 00:46:38.860
have the routine of going to the bathroom before

00:46:38.860 --> 00:46:41.300
you like do a specific thing and then be told

00:46:41.300 --> 00:46:43.360
not to and then get nervous because you think

00:46:43.360 --> 00:46:45.219
you're going to pee because you normally go pee

00:46:45.219 --> 00:46:47.079
but then usually it's like okay I didn't actually

00:46:47.079 --> 00:46:48.920
pee like I was just nervous yeah like I call

00:46:48.920 --> 00:46:50.300
that the nervous piece when you feel like you

00:46:50.300 --> 00:46:51.599
have to pee but then you start doing something

00:46:51.599 --> 00:46:53.940
and it goes away you on a daily basis me on a

00:46:53.940 --> 00:46:55.500
daily basis but I know a lot of other people

00:46:55.500 --> 00:46:59.059
could probably relate yeah however no no no these

00:46:59.059 --> 00:47:03.440
girls literally All three of them literally had

00:47:03.440 --> 00:47:05.380
to pee. Yeah, they weren't just nervous. No.

00:47:05.500 --> 00:47:07.159
They had to pee. It is interesting though that

00:47:07.159 --> 00:47:10.019
she brings up pelvic floor physical therapy because

00:47:10.019 --> 00:47:13.559
I think this is a lot more common than I knew.

00:47:13.920 --> 00:47:15.719
Because like why would I know about it if I hadn't

00:47:15.719 --> 00:47:18.079
had gone through it before just because there's

00:47:18.079 --> 00:47:20.960
not a lot of exposure about it. It's one of those

00:47:20.960 --> 00:47:22.980
things I feel like you start talking about something

00:47:22.980 --> 00:47:25.599
or like just say something out loud and you just

00:47:25.599 --> 00:47:28.099
see it everywhere. Yes. Yes, that's how it is.

00:47:28.559 --> 00:47:31.519
I hope that it becomes More of a thing though

00:47:31.519 --> 00:47:33.480
because I had seen people talk about it before

00:47:33.480 --> 00:47:36.280
but it was mostly just pregnant women like man

00:47:36.280 --> 00:47:39.880
I would like a mansion a really nice house would

00:47:39.880 --> 00:47:44.739
be cool Phone are you listening to me? We have

00:47:44.739 --> 00:47:48.960
a house for you No, but I mean it makes sense

00:47:48.960 --> 00:47:51.099
with like pregnant women obviously cuz you have

00:47:51.099 --> 00:47:53.559
to like repair everything Yeah, so you're like,

00:47:53.679 --> 00:47:55.400
oh, yeah, I'll go to pelvic floor physical therapy,

00:47:55.400 --> 00:47:58.219
but you don't think about it for just regular

00:47:58.219 --> 00:48:02.070
sports Women have to go through a lot, man. I'm

00:48:02.070 --> 00:48:05.170
just saying. That may be one of the best stories

00:48:05.170 --> 00:48:08.230
we've read so far. I mean, I hate that you went

00:48:08.230 --> 00:48:10.269
through that, but for our sake. She's got a good

00:48:10.269 --> 00:48:13.090
attitude about it. Yeah, she does. Okay, this

00:48:13.090 --> 00:48:18.170
is our last one. Hi Abby and Ryan. I'm a professional

00:48:18.170 --> 00:48:20.130
ballet dancer and I have experienced - Oh, that's

00:48:20.130 --> 00:48:22.699
cool. Some crazy stories let me tell you. I got

00:48:22.699 --> 00:48:24.840
my degree in dance and so many of my years of

00:48:24.840 --> 00:48:26.500
college were spent rehearsing and preparing for

00:48:26.500 --> 00:48:28.539
shows. The story I'm telling you today took place

00:48:28.539 --> 00:48:30.280
my first major performance my freshman year.

00:48:30.300 --> 00:48:32.989
This is your kind of girly. freshman year i was

00:48:32.989 --> 00:48:35.269
a part of a dance ministry ensemble that performed

00:48:35.269 --> 00:48:37.250
dances centered around different topics of faith

00:48:37.250 --> 00:48:39.889
and ministry this show i was performing a dramatic

00:48:39.889 --> 00:48:41.969
solo about times in life when you're struggling

00:48:41.969 --> 00:48:44.590
crying out to god and surrendering to him in

00:48:44.590 --> 00:48:46.409
the dance there are a few moments where i had

00:48:46.409 --> 00:48:49.030
to dramatically fall to the floor on a specific

00:48:49.030 --> 00:48:51.130
light cue which often meant that i ended up having

00:48:51.130 --> 00:48:53.489
to slide a bit to make it to the right spot we

00:48:53.489 --> 00:48:56.269
had been rehearsing the piece every day for a

00:48:56.269 --> 00:48:58.090
week leading up to the show and each time we

00:48:58.090 --> 00:48:59.949
practiced i ended up taking a tiny bit more skin

00:48:59.949 --> 00:49:02.300
off the same spot on my knee each slide from

00:49:02.300 --> 00:49:04.820
the floor burns I got. Opening night that weekend

00:49:04.820 --> 00:49:07.320
went so well the energy was high the whole time

00:49:07.320 --> 00:49:10.920
and I was very in the moment. Next morning however

00:49:10.920 --> 00:49:12.940
I woke up with severe Achilles tendonitis in

00:49:12.940 --> 00:49:15.440
one of my ankles. The day of the show in question

00:49:15.440 --> 00:49:18.440
was crazy. I was trying to figure out how to

00:49:18.440 --> 00:49:20.159
handle my injury and do everything I needed to

00:49:20.159 --> 00:49:22.440
do while feeling pressure, mostly self -inflicted,

00:49:22.820 --> 00:49:25.280
to perform because it was the first major show

00:49:25.280 --> 00:49:27.320
of college and all my professors and prospective

00:49:27.320 --> 00:49:29.880
students were watching that day. The solo was

00:49:29.880 --> 00:49:31.619
the first piece in the program and I was not

00:49:31.619 --> 00:49:34.000
feeling settled at all. I got treated by our

00:49:34.000 --> 00:49:36.219
athletic trainer just before going backstage

00:49:36.219 --> 00:49:38.719
and at the last minute we had decided to change

00:49:38.719 --> 00:49:40.780
the piece from dancing in pointe shoes to doing

00:49:40.780 --> 00:49:43.369
it in normal flat shoes. All this to say I was

00:49:43.369 --> 00:49:45.570
feeling extremely flustered and full of adrenaline

00:49:45.570 --> 00:49:47.429
by the time I was sitting on stage waiting for

00:49:47.429 --> 00:49:49.329
the lights and music to play. When the dance

00:49:49.329 --> 00:49:51.889
started, all began well. Soon, however, I completely

00:49:51.889 --> 00:49:53.710
blanked on what came next in the dance, which

00:49:53.710 --> 00:49:56.510
very rarely happens to me. I started doing the

00:49:56.510 --> 00:49:58.650
end of the dance while I tried to figure out

00:49:58.650 --> 00:50:00.769
where I was supposed to be. Soon a light cue

00:50:00.769 --> 00:50:03.170
came on and I remembered I needed to dramatically

00:50:03.170 --> 00:50:05.030
fall on the floor into the light, the same fall

00:50:05.030 --> 00:50:06.789
that had been increasingly taking my skin off

00:50:06.789 --> 00:50:09.119
my knee during the week. I dove into the light

00:50:09.119 --> 00:50:11.940
and proceeded to do the section kneeling in the

00:50:11.940 --> 00:50:14.320
light. To my surprise, I briefly looked down

00:50:14.320 --> 00:50:16.000
during that time to find my knee was bleeding

00:50:16.000 --> 00:50:18.599
and a small pool of blood onto the stage about

00:50:18.599 --> 00:50:21.239
the size of a nickel. I had to roll on the floor

00:50:21.239 --> 00:50:23.000
to transition to the next section of the dance,

00:50:23.000 --> 00:50:25.059
so I had to think quickly and move strategically

00:50:25.059 --> 00:50:26.719
so that I wouldn't get the blood all over the

00:50:26.719 --> 00:50:28.780
back of my costume. After the dance finished,

00:50:28.940 --> 00:50:30.659
our athletic trainer had to walk out on stage

00:50:30.659 --> 00:50:32.789
to clean up the blood with a blood kit. kit.

00:50:33.130 --> 00:50:34.630
The craziest part of the story, though, comes

00:50:34.630 --> 00:50:36.570
later. I didn't know it at the time, but one

00:50:36.570 --> 00:50:38.590
of the prospective students watching the audience

00:50:38.590 --> 00:50:40.829
that day would become one of my closest college

00:50:40.829 --> 00:50:42.789
friends. She remembered the incident, but it

00:50:42.789 --> 00:50:45.110
was only when we were talking about it a year

00:50:45.110 --> 00:50:46.949
after becoming friends that we connected the

00:50:46.949 --> 00:50:49.510
dots. LOL. That's all I have for now, but thank

00:50:49.510 --> 00:50:55.849
you for all that you do." Wow. What a way to

00:50:55.849 --> 00:50:58.570
round out the stories. Let me just start here,

00:50:58.590 --> 00:51:02.250
okay? The fact that they changed the shoes on

00:51:02.199 --> 00:51:06.619
You, the last minute, is crazy to me. I was never

00:51:06.619 --> 00:51:08.699
in pointe as a dancer, but if you don't know

00:51:08.699 --> 00:51:10.380
what pointe is... It's what the Rockettes wear.

00:51:10.719 --> 00:51:14.360
Yes. Well, the ballet dancer, the Nutcracker

00:51:14.360 --> 00:51:16.780
dancers in the Rockettes. The Rockettes wear

00:51:16.780 --> 00:51:18.920
character shoes. Yeah, but they have... And they

00:51:18.920 --> 00:51:20.619
wear tap shoes too. They throw on the pointer

00:51:20.619 --> 00:51:22.739
ones. No, no. The Rockettes don't do pointe.

00:51:22.960 --> 00:51:24.840
Yeah, with the Nutcracker they do. Yeah, but

00:51:24.840 --> 00:51:26.940
the Nutcracker dancers are different from the

00:51:26.940 --> 00:51:29.480
Rockette dancers. Oh, oh yeah. That's a different...

00:51:29.940 --> 00:51:31.579
That's a that's a different group. Oh, that's

00:51:31.579 --> 00:51:32.960
right. You remember in the Rockets Christmas

00:51:32.960 --> 00:51:35.739
Spectacular when there's great show, there's

00:51:35.739 --> 00:51:38.000
the dancers that it's like four guys and four

00:51:38.000 --> 00:51:41.320
girls. That's those dancers. Yeah. Wow. Yeah.

00:51:41.639 --> 00:51:45.519
And Clara, she's a little kid. But anyways. So,

00:51:45.559 --> 00:51:47.440
yeah. So point is it's basically like a hard

00:51:47.440 --> 00:51:50.079
piece of wood that's flat and you go up on the

00:51:50.079 --> 00:51:52.019
tips of your toes, like the tops of your toes,

00:51:52.099 --> 00:51:55.059
like you're not bending your toes to. go higher

00:51:55.059 --> 00:51:58.539
you're literally on your tippy tippy toe flat

00:51:58.539 --> 00:52:00.739
ballet shoes are like sock texture why would

00:52:00.739 --> 00:52:03.320
they change that i don't know it sounds to me

00:52:03.320 --> 00:52:05.199
like they had been rehearsing in the pointe shoes

00:52:05.199 --> 00:52:07.800
and so i get why you're flustered because you

00:52:07.800 --> 00:52:09.860
got the achilles tendonitis and then you've also

00:52:09.860 --> 00:52:12.039
i thought she was gonna say i ruptured of my

00:52:12.039 --> 00:52:14.440
achilles while i was performing my first college

00:52:14.440 --> 00:52:17.219
show yeah that's rough well also let's let's

00:52:17.219 --> 00:52:20.840
just posit the fact that it's her first college

00:52:20.840 --> 00:52:24.340
show and They switched the shoes on her and she

00:52:24.340 --> 00:52:28.239
has this Achilles thing going on. So the nerves

00:52:28.239 --> 00:52:30.179
are crazy. So the fact that you blanked out isn't

00:52:30.179 --> 00:52:32.480
like, Oh, why did this happen? Like it makes

00:52:32.480 --> 00:52:34.380
sense. I hate that it happened, but like you

00:52:34.380 --> 00:52:38.139
got a lot on your plate. Then it's like, this

00:52:38.139 --> 00:52:42.800
is the first show. So this is the first, um,

00:52:43.000 --> 00:52:46.340
like what's the word exposure or the first, what's

00:52:46.340 --> 00:52:49.239
the word? Like the first time everyone's seeing

00:52:49.239 --> 00:52:54.139
of you, seeing you, it's the first, No, no. It's

00:52:54.139 --> 00:52:57.820
like everyone's first time meeting you. Everyone's

00:52:57.820 --> 00:52:59.699
first experience meeting you. What's that word?

00:53:00.820 --> 00:53:04.019
Why can't I think of that word? No, no, no. I

00:53:04.019 --> 00:53:08.059
don't know what you're saying. Like if it's my

00:53:08.059 --> 00:53:11.739
first time meeting you. Then we just had like

00:53:11.739 --> 00:53:13.900
an interaction. You're like, oh impression. It's

00:53:13.900 --> 00:53:15.980
everyone's first impression. Oh, yeah All right.

00:53:15.980 --> 00:53:18.340
I just knew yeah, okay So this is everyone's

00:53:18.340 --> 00:53:20.440
first impression of you and how you perform and

00:53:20.440 --> 00:53:22.420
how you do on stage because they don't know High

00:53:22.420 --> 00:53:24.199
school you and they don't know like this isn't

00:53:24.199 --> 00:53:26.940
normal for you, you know, so it's just horrible

00:53:26.940 --> 00:53:29.519
timing too Yeah, cuz it's like dang now everyone

00:53:29.519 --> 00:53:31.519
thinks that I just blank but that's not me. Is

00:53:31.519 --> 00:53:34.619
that the biggest? Performance fear right there

00:53:34.619 --> 00:53:38.250
blanking blanking on something. Oh I don't know.

00:53:38.570 --> 00:53:41.789
I mean, it's definitely, I think every performance

00:53:41.789 --> 00:53:44.489
person has probably had the nightmare where they

00:53:44.489 --> 00:53:46.610
forget everything on stage. Oh, that sounds like

00:53:46.610 --> 00:53:48.289
my worst nightmare. I've had that nightmare.

00:53:48.309 --> 00:53:50.409
If I was a musical theater or ballet dancer.

00:53:50.409 --> 00:53:52.949
Yeah, many a time. I've had many nightmares where

00:53:52.949 --> 00:53:55.730
I like get put on for a show where I don't know

00:53:55.730 --> 00:53:57.190
the script or anything and I just have to make

00:53:57.190 --> 00:53:58.889
it work. Like that's like a reoccurring nightmare

00:53:58.889 --> 00:54:03.110
for me still to this day, which is crazy. But

00:54:03.110 --> 00:54:04.730
also it's kind of like something that you just

00:54:04.730 --> 00:54:07.300
have to go through. I would find it very hard

00:54:07.300 --> 00:54:09.380
to believe if you didn't forget something while

00:54:09.380 --> 00:54:12.019
you're on stage your entire performance career

00:54:12.019 --> 00:54:15.619
Like people are human it sounds like her the

00:54:15.619 --> 00:54:18.440
rest of her college dance career went well because

00:54:18.440 --> 00:54:20.960
she's a professional ballerina Yeah, so I think

00:54:20.960 --> 00:54:24.099
it turned out to be pretty well also the blood

00:54:24.099 --> 00:54:28.659
of it all is Because you're not only like bleeding

00:54:28.659 --> 00:54:33.260
which stinks but also now it's like a huge deal

00:54:33.260 --> 00:54:35.380
because it's contaminating everything it's a

00:54:35.380 --> 00:54:38.699
health hazard, like it's a safety thing. There's

00:54:38.699 --> 00:54:41.340
just a lot to it. I've had my fair share of bleeding

00:54:41.340 --> 00:54:44.360
experiences. I sliced my finger open one time

00:54:44.360 --> 00:54:46.880
in a show. I had a nosebleed during a show. I've

00:54:46.880 --> 00:54:49.000
had a couple nosebleeds. Your nose has been bleeding

00:54:49.000 --> 00:54:52.260
a lot lately. No, it hasn't. You had a nosebleed

00:54:52.260 --> 00:54:54.860
just the other day. Oh, it was a razor. Never

00:54:54.860 --> 00:54:58.659
mind. But you did have a nosebleed a couple months

00:54:58.659 --> 00:55:01.599
ago. You mean when I had a razor cut? Yeah. And

00:55:01.599 --> 00:55:03.940
then you asked if I was on my period? Yeah. Then

00:55:03.940 --> 00:55:05.400
now you're just saying, I don't know. Well, no,

00:55:05.420 --> 00:55:07.420
but then you also had a nosebleed. I did have

00:55:07.420 --> 00:55:09.340
a nosebleed. That was weird. Yeah. It was just

00:55:09.340 --> 00:55:11.380
random. But you had one in Bowling Green, too.

00:55:11.980 --> 00:55:15.460
Well, it's when it's dry. Like theaters are very

00:55:15.460 --> 00:55:17.480
dry. So my lips always get chapped. That's right.

00:55:17.480 --> 00:55:19.420
It was when you were in that show, your nosebleed.

00:55:19.599 --> 00:55:22.380
And my lips always get chapped, too. And that's

00:55:22.380 --> 00:55:26.460
why I don't know because like my voice doesn't

00:55:26.460 --> 00:55:30.500
do well in theaters because it's so dry. So like

00:55:30.500 --> 00:55:34.000
maybe that's just why I struggle to sing. Sweetie,

00:55:34.000 --> 00:55:36.380
your singing is amazing. But no, no, this is

00:55:36.380 --> 00:55:38.280
what happens. Thank you for saying that first

00:55:38.280 --> 00:55:43.739
of all. Thank you. I get so nervous that I can't

00:55:43.739 --> 00:55:46.500
support my singing so then I crack because I'm

00:55:46.500 --> 00:55:49.860
so nervous and I'm so not confident and I start

00:55:49.860 --> 00:55:51.820
listening to myself. Yeah, that makes sense.

00:55:51.860 --> 00:55:54.500
Like when I'm at home in my comfort place, in

00:55:54.500 --> 00:55:58.219
the shower, in the bedroom, I know that even

00:55:58.219 --> 00:56:02.039
if I mess up, It's only me that hears it, and

00:56:02.039 --> 00:56:06.900
so I don't get nervous. But if I'm around anyone

00:56:06.900 --> 00:56:09.659
else, I'm like, they might hear me mess up. That's

00:56:09.659 --> 00:56:12.840
the thing I constantly think about. I don't know

00:56:12.840 --> 00:56:15.400
how this developed, but I need to work through

00:56:15.400 --> 00:56:20.260
it because something flipped when I, like my

00:56:20.260 --> 00:56:22.960
junior year of college, something flipped. I

00:56:22.960 --> 00:56:24.380
don't know what it was. You should talk to your

00:56:24.380 --> 00:56:27.480
therapist about it. Yeah, I guess uncover the

00:56:27.480 --> 00:56:30.400
layers. Yeah, I don't know. I mean my honestly

00:56:30.400 --> 00:56:33.619
I should talk to my professors Because they watched

00:56:33.619 --> 00:56:36.059
it all happen. Well as you met me and you're

00:56:36.059 --> 00:56:38.260
just like so in love and you're like, yeah ready

00:56:38.260 --> 00:56:41.599
to ready to Escape reality and go be in love

00:56:41.599 --> 00:56:44.480
with your it's exactly what happened No, that's

00:56:44.480 --> 00:56:46.139
probably what it seemed like from the outsider

00:56:46.139 --> 00:56:48.619
because I met you at just the time that all of

00:56:48.619 --> 00:56:51.760
my performance anxiety started developing so

00:56:52.759 --> 00:56:54.860
The Lord provided that at the beautiful time

00:56:54.860 --> 00:56:57.300
though, because I really needed some joy. I was

00:56:57.300 --> 00:57:00.860
really struggling with performing. But no, that

00:57:00.860 --> 00:57:02.980
wasn't the case at all. But yeah, I guess it

00:57:02.980 --> 00:57:04.460
just stems from there and it's something I haven't

00:57:04.460 --> 00:57:06.400
worked through yet or I'm trying to work through.

00:57:07.300 --> 00:57:08.920
I think from the acting side, I've worked through

00:57:08.920 --> 00:57:12.099
it. I think... I never really had that with dance.

00:57:12.179 --> 00:57:14.079
I just miss dance. I haven't danced in a while.

00:57:14.199 --> 00:57:15.719
Well, you signed up for a studio today, right?

00:57:15.880 --> 00:57:17.840
Well, I'm trying to I'm looking for some studios.

00:57:17.960 --> 00:57:19.619
How does that work? Do you just like sign up?

00:57:20.139 --> 00:57:21.980
Well with yeah, they have adult like dropping

00:57:21.980 --> 00:57:24.000
classes so you can just go take it and they'll

00:57:24.000 --> 00:57:26.840
teach you a combo It's kind of like Zumba not

00:57:26.840 --> 00:57:29.940
the style but well, no, so you walk in and you'll

00:57:29.940 --> 00:57:32.519
do like a warm -up which is you know, like someone

00:57:32.519 --> 00:57:34.159
like me couldn't go in there and do no You could

00:57:34.159 --> 00:57:37.280
go you would do like beginner. I would probably

00:57:37.280 --> 00:57:41.539
do more like intermediate advanced. Oh depending

00:57:41.539 --> 00:57:44.400
on the studio. I mean I'm not going just so you

00:57:44.400 --> 00:57:47.519
know. The thing is though my confidence is my

00:57:47.519 --> 00:57:52.280
biggest enemy because I don't want to go to a

00:57:52.280 --> 00:57:54.780
studio where I feel like people are going to

00:57:54.780 --> 00:58:00.179
see me because I'm like self -conscious. I feel

00:58:00.179 --> 00:58:03.239
like maybe a lot of people experience that. The

00:58:03.239 --> 00:58:05.199
thing is though sweetie is you're going for fun

00:58:05.199 --> 00:58:06.920
like you're just going to enjoy it. I know but

00:58:06.920 --> 00:58:10.710
my The way that I grew up in this world, I wasn't

00:58:10.710 --> 00:58:14.030
doing it for fun. I don't know what this world

00:58:14.030 --> 00:58:16.630
like like the theater world. Did you just like

00:58:16.630 --> 00:58:19.130
sometimes you talk like we're living in a movie.

00:58:20.289 --> 00:58:23.590
I just want to be an actor so bad I talk in script.

00:58:24.769 --> 00:58:30.110
No, but I I've never once done theater besides

00:58:30.110 --> 00:58:33.170
my first ever show for fun. Yeah, I know, but

00:58:33.170 --> 00:58:36.079
I don't know what that means. That's like me

00:58:36.079 --> 00:58:39.320
telling you, like, oh, go play baseball for fun.

00:58:39.320 --> 00:58:42.260
I could do that. OK, well, we're different. I

00:58:42.260 --> 00:58:44.699
don't know what to tell you. It's not that easy

00:58:44.699 --> 00:58:48.719
for me. I just developed this thing where I have

00:58:48.719 --> 00:58:52.539
to prove myself. I think it's because when I

00:58:52.539 --> 00:58:54.739
went to college, it was like, oh, you have to

00:58:54.739 --> 00:58:56.860
do this to get a job now. You have to do this

00:58:56.860 --> 00:58:59.000
to earn your income. Maybe it's that way, too,

00:58:59.000 --> 00:59:04.500
because you're meant to do it full time. I don't

00:59:04.500 --> 00:59:08.099
know, I mean, I would love that, but I also,

00:59:08.960 --> 00:59:13.019
like, where do I go from here? Like, how, where

00:59:13.019 --> 00:59:15.239
do I start? What do I do? I also need my coworker,

00:59:15.579 --> 00:59:18.920
so. Yeah, I mean, I think if the right opportunity

00:59:18.920 --> 00:59:21.820
presented itself, I would go, but it would have

00:59:21.820 --> 00:59:24.579
to be very obviously a god door opening. That'd

00:59:24.579 --> 00:59:27.840
be pretty cool if you somehow, like, I'm not

00:59:27.840 --> 00:59:31.840
saying this is not foreshadowing at all. Careful

00:59:31.840 --> 00:59:35.559
what you say. Careful what you say. I just, I

00:59:35.559 --> 00:59:38.159
love New York so much. So if we were ever forced

00:59:38.159 --> 00:59:39.840
to live there, I'm not, I'm just not like, I'm

00:59:39.840 --> 00:59:41.940
going to be like, Oh dang it. Man, we got to

00:59:41.940 --> 00:59:45.179
go to the city. We got to go to the place where

00:59:45.179 --> 00:59:48.420
dreams are made of. There's nothing you can't

00:59:48.420 --> 00:59:52.340
do. Speaking of, there's a really popular Christian

00:59:52.340 --> 00:59:57.539
from, uh, she's like mega like popping off right

00:59:57.539 --> 00:59:59.340
now. I don't remember her name. She's the Dallas

00:59:59.340 --> 01:00:01.039
Cowboy cheerleader. Oh, you may have heard of

01:00:01.039 --> 01:00:03.699
her. She's this mega Christian girl, but she's

01:00:04.799 --> 01:00:09.340
Huh? The Dallas Cowboy Trailer Girl. Oh. Reese?

01:00:09.559 --> 01:00:11.380
Yes. Well, I'm saying - You made her sound like

01:00:11.380 --> 01:00:14.340
she's this underground, like - I just said mega

01:00:14.340 --> 01:00:16.780
famous, underground. Oh, well, sorry. I didn't

01:00:16.780 --> 01:00:18.440
know who you were talking about. How is that

01:00:18.440 --> 01:00:21.260
underground? I just like called her - Sorry,

01:00:21.300 --> 01:00:24.760
I'm being mean again. You just like said exactly

01:00:24.760 --> 01:00:27.860
the opposite of what I just said. I was like

01:00:27.860 --> 01:00:30.309
- Yeah, this mega famous person that's popping

01:00:30.309 --> 01:00:32.409
off right now. I didn't, I thought you were being

01:00:32.409 --> 01:00:35.010
silly. No, I'm talking about her. Yeah, Reese,

01:00:35.070 --> 01:00:36.809
the girl that's going to be in the show. Sorry,

01:00:36.809 --> 01:00:39.309
that was a miscommunication. What's the show?

01:00:39.929 --> 01:00:41.630
Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. No, but she's going

01:00:41.630 --> 01:00:43.210
to be on Broadway, right? Yeah, she's going to

01:00:43.210 --> 01:00:45.090
be in Chicago. Yeah. Okay. It took us a while

01:00:45.090 --> 01:00:46.909
to get there. We landed the plane. That's what

01:00:46.909 --> 01:00:48.869
we were just talking about is going to New York

01:00:48.869 --> 01:00:51.829
and being in a show. Yeah, I would love that.

01:00:52.869 --> 01:00:57.449
Oh my gosh. Am I okay? All I was saying was,

01:00:58.049 --> 01:01:02.030
If like, I know, um, they just, they moved back

01:01:02.030 --> 01:01:04.769
somewhere, right? Alabama. Yeah. And so her husband,

01:01:04.769 --> 01:01:07.789
uh, is going to be living in New York. If that

01:01:07.789 --> 01:01:09.809
was me, I would, I wouldn't just be like, Oh

01:01:09.809 --> 01:01:12.710
man, that stinks. I would be like, let's go.

01:01:13.110 --> 01:01:15.090
Cause that would be so cool to live in New York.

01:01:15.210 --> 01:01:16.809
Just like, if you actually had a purpose to,

01:01:16.869 --> 01:01:19.070
if we had a purpose to live there. I'm just,

01:01:19.230 --> 01:01:21.730
here's the thing. I'm going to get real vulnerable

01:01:21.730 --> 01:01:26.980
here. I'm like craving so desperately that That

01:01:26.980 --> 01:01:31.559
lifestyle again. Oh But I know it's funny, but

01:01:31.559 --> 01:01:37.019
can I finish my butt? but I Know now is not the

01:01:37.019 --> 01:01:39.820
time. I know now is not that time It's funny

01:01:39.820 --> 01:01:41.739
though because I feel like whenever you do get

01:01:41.739 --> 01:01:45.340
in it you struggle so much Like it's such a grind

01:01:45.340 --> 01:01:48.679
for you and you're like, oh Well, I think if

01:01:48.679 --> 01:01:52.599
I was in a place where it could be what I give

01:01:53.300 --> 01:01:56.860
My my energy to rather than trying to juggle

01:01:56.860 --> 01:01:58.900
it all if that makes sense. I know that definitely

01:01:58.900 --> 01:02:02.019
makes I think the reason I When I was doing these

01:02:02.019 --> 01:02:05.559
shows while having you know the job job many

01:02:05.559 --> 01:02:08.920
jobs And I was like ah is because at the time

01:02:08.920 --> 01:02:11.639
in my life when I was doing these shows post

01:02:11.639 --> 01:02:16.239
grad meaning three shows I think I did The no

01:02:16.239 --> 01:02:18.760
two shows I did grease and then I did the show

01:02:18.760 --> 01:02:22.059
steel Magnolias when I did grease I was working

01:02:22.639 --> 01:02:26.280
three jobs, four jobs at the same time and planning

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a wedding. So I didn't know how to balance all

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that. I, yeah. And I was also still coming out

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of school. I had a lot of resentment towards

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theater. I was over it. I was just done. During

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Steel Magnolias that I did this past year, love

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our sweet puppy. We had just gotten a deaf border

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collie dog and were stressed out the wazoo. Cause

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we had no idea what we were doing. So yeah, I

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think just at the time, theater wasn't... I don't

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think... Lucky doesn't need to be in New York

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City anyways. I don't know. She's a great apartment

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city dog now. Yeah, that's a whole nother level

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of city. I guess, but you can find your parks.

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You can find your places, you know, I mean there's

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a lot of bikes. She loves yeah, but she does

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great here She does she's doing a lot better

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and she and it just depends on where you live,

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you know Like you could live in brooklyn and

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ride the subway. Yeah every day and like, you

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know, brooklyn's a little less It's a little

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chill. That would be so cool. That would be really

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cool All that to say though. I've never like

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not enjoyed doing a show There have just been

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the most recent experiences that you've seen

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when I do a show There's just a lot going on

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and i'm and it feels like just another thing

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that I'm trying to balance. But me talking about

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like not knowing baseball you, like I never knew

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baseball you. You came in when all this stuff

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started developing, but from the age of like

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nine to 20, theater is like my love. I haven't

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really tapped into this part of where my brain

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has gone these past couple... months, I guess,

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but there's just this desire of like I want to

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sing again. I want to dance again. Like I want

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to somewhat like train again, but I just know

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now is not the time. I mean, I'm singing and

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dancing for fun, but like I really do miss like

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I've got rehearsal today. I've got rehearsal

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today. I miss that. And I'm eager to get back

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into it, but there's just. I just feel the Lord.

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And hopefully I'm interpreting him right. But

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I feel the Lord's like hey like that time will

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come but I just it's not right now. Hmm. It's

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kind of how I feel like do you know how the there's

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like a I don't know but how like God can call

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you to something but Not call you like immediately

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to that thing. Mm -hmm. I feel like maybe Maybe

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that could be the case. I don't know. I need

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to pray about it more but hmm So I'm not saying

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God's calling me to anything Except for telling

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people about Jesus because I know that's my calling

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everyone Thank you for all of the stories that

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you submitted and we love you so much and we

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will talk to you next week