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Speaker 1: Let's bring up christ to Golf.

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Speaker 2: It is Chris to Golf, Risky Gall.

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Speaker 4: Sam Graves, the representative of my sixth Congressional district of Missouri,

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Speaker 4: Sam Graves has decided to retire and he's not going

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Speaker 4: issues that face our nation. And we've been through a

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Speaker 4: three times. In fact, Donald Trump he didn't need that job,

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Speaker 4: It's hung with me a lot since that day in Butler,

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Speaker 4: It's also frankly haunted me for a while that I

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Speaker 4: the midweek edition of This stick All Show. Thrilled to

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Speaker 4: We can talk about it in an ethereal way, but

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Speaker 4: and Miss Smith, it's a real treat to have you

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Speaker 1: Us, Thanks for having me on your show. Great to

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Speaker 2: You bet.

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Speaker 4: I mean that when I say it seems to me

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Speaker 4: of what's going on. So how do you assess Iran

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Speaker 4: at this hour with both your administrative point of view

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Speaker 6: Well, I think that what we're seeing is an absolutely,

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Speaker 1: Everything from accomplishing.

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Speaker 6: The three objectives that Secretary had sat laid out in

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Speaker 6: right there is just a significant difference. Having clearly defined

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Speaker 1: To, you know, build these back will, but they're.

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Speaker 6: Significantly deteriorated right now. Somewhere sometimes they say that number

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Speaker 4: Do you think that this threat that's been present for

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Speaker 4: there was something unique about this moment in time for

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Speaker 4: Because he has been in the White House, he's seen

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Speaker 6: Now, Well, we've seen previous administrations working to try to

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Speaker 1: Around the globe.

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Speaker 6: And they've been using their terror proxies to kill Americans

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Speaker 6: The explosives that they used on IDs in Iraq over

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Speaker 1: And I think that when President Trump said.

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Speaker 6: Enough is enough, like we heard Secretary Rubio come out

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Speaker 6: So the time to act was now, and waiting any

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Speaker 4: You having served Amber Smith as a former Army helicopter pilot. Again,

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Speaker 4: What is the general perspective amongst those of you who

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Speaker 2: What are you hearing?

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Speaker 4: Is this comparison that so many like to make, who

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Speaker 2: What are you hearing?

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Speaker 6: You know, veterans are a union demographic because they come

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Speaker 6: Ensure our service members return home. I saw sort of

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Speaker 4: Unfit to Fight the book, Amber Smith, the author, former

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Speaker 4: Thank you for your service, Miss Smith. Thank you for

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Speaker 1: Thanks, Chris, have a good one.

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Speaker 4: And I can't believe I just read this before this interview. Today,

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Speaker 4: Bellamy Brothers dot com. It's David and Howard Bellamy. Gentlemen,

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Speaker 5: Good morning, Morning, great to see you.

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Speaker 2: Is that right?

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Speaker 4: Fifty years David? Is that how long it's been or longer?

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Speaker 8: Fifty Well, it's actually been longer, but it's fifty years

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Speaker 4: Howard, fifty years since Let Your Love Flow? How is

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Speaker 10: Yes, it is as old as you, and it's it's

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Speaker 4: Here's what I love and I think this is you

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Speaker 4: I think, like you, you have one of two choices.

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Speaker 4: The morning I will tell you the Opry has you

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Speaker 4: listed as such. So you're gonna have to take it

443
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Speaker 4: up with those people at their website officially that they

444
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Speaker 4: go with it if the Opry published it. But the

445
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Speaker 4: Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, that's true.

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Speaker 9: Right, Yeah, Yeah, I was inducted last well about a

447
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Speaker 9: year ago.

448
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and then in the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.

449
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Speaker 4: Is that for you in terms of performing and playing

450
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Speaker 4: versus songwriting, which do you take as the bigger challenge

451
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Speaker 4: and the bigger honor being honored for performance or for writing.

452
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Speaker 8: Well, you know, everything you get in this business is

453
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Speaker 8: a good thing, you know, every little thing. Because we're

454
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Speaker 8: not very we're not very politically aligned with Nashville so much.

455
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Speaker 8: I mean, we've got lots of friends there, and we

456
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Speaker 8: work there, you know, in fact, our whole crew is

457
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Speaker 8: in Nashville, you know, our road crew and everything. But

458
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Speaker 8: but you know, I was actually surprised that they that

459
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Speaker 8: they got around to putting me in the Hall of

460
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Speaker 8: Fame because I didn't really know that what the eligibility

461
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Speaker 8: was for that.

462
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Speaker 5: But but yeah, I mean it's it's all great.

463
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Speaker 9: I mean, songwriting probably was the first thing that we

464
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Speaker 9: really wanted to do and still one of our favorite.

465
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Speaker 5: Things to do.

466
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Speaker 4: It's interesting you say you're not politically really aligned with Nashville,

467
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Speaker 4: and by that, I think I know what you mean.

468
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Speaker 4: Kind of that if you want traditional fraternity considered, you know,

469
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Speaker 4: the Country Music Hall of Fame crew whatever, that maybe

470
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Speaker 4: is that not necessarily you truck, but clearly you have

471
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Speaker 4: a tremendous amount of respect there because the Ryman is

472
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Speaker 4: a place, if I'm not mistaken, you know better than me.

473
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Speaker 4: The Ryman's a place where legends play. That's an important place.

474
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Speaker 4: So the fact that you've got a show coming up

475
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Speaker 4: there in June, that says if if you haven't been

476
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Speaker 4: politically aligned in the industry with Nashville, they seem to

477
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Speaker 4: be putting their loving arms around you.

478
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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, Well, like I say, we have a lot of

480
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Speaker 9: friends there, and we know a lot of people who

481
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Speaker 9: work a lot in Nashville. You know, it was just

482
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Speaker 9: I think we were just surprised at the Hall of Fame,

483
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Speaker 9: you know, say hey, we're going to put you in,

484
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Speaker 9: because it was kind of a you know, like Howard says,

485
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Speaker 9: it took it only took fifty years to get in there.

486
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Speaker 4: Now, what does it mean to Because I do think

487
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Speaker 4: I pick up on what you're saying, and I don't

488
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Speaker 4: want to make too much of it, but taking that

489
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Speaker 4: tour of the Operator just a couple of years ago,

490
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Speaker 4: going to my first performance last week, there's a magic

491
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Speaker 4: to that place. I mean, they do a great job

492
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Speaker 4: giving the tour because they really let you feel the

493
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Speaker 4: way you artists feel about that moment when you're singing

494
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Speaker 4: in that circle and you're inducted into that place. Does

495
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Speaker 4: that have as much meaning to you or you maybe

496
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Speaker 4: you say because you have sort of felt on the outside,

497
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Speaker 4: it's not as important a thing.

498
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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, the opery.

499
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Speaker 9: We love the opera, you know, it's such a It

500
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Speaker 9: is one of the lasting traditions, you know, country music,

501
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:23,040
Speaker 9: you know, because a lot of them are out the

502
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Speaker 9: window kind of now, you know, but that is one

503
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Speaker 9: of the lasting traditions.

504
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Speaker 10: You know, the only reason we probably never made the

505
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Speaker 10: move to Nashville was the fact that our ranch here

506
00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:35,960
Speaker 10: has been in our family one hundred and fifty years,

507
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Speaker 10: a little over one hundred and fifty years. So it's

508
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Speaker 10: you know, it's it's our whole lineage has lived here,

509
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Speaker 10: and so it's we've never been able to just pick

510
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Speaker 10: up and leave.

511
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Speaker 9: You know.

512
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Speaker 10: That's why we're kind of freaked out at the development

513
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Speaker 10: and all coming around us.

514
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, did you get into uh, did you

515
00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:59,040
Speaker 4: guys ever watch Yellowstone? Were you into that show?

516
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Speaker 5: Yeah?

517
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Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, yes, it has a sense of that maybe

518
00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:08,359
Speaker 4: that storyline. Yeah, you probably leave that story don't you.

519
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Speaker 9: Yeah, Well, most people don't realize that Florida was a

520
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:14,440
Speaker 9: lack a big cattle stay.

521
00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:17,040
Speaker 5: I mean, Florida had cattle. Actually before Texas did.

522
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Speaker 10: Well, the Spanish, you know, settled Florida and they brought

523
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Speaker 10: in we had cattle here.

524
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:22,480
Speaker 5: We were the first cattle state. Course.

525
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Speaker 10: Saint Augustine's the oldest town and city in the country.

526
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Speaker 10: So you know, there's we just have a lot of

527
00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:33,879
Speaker 10: heritage here. You know, you just can't leave that. You know,

528
00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:38,359
Speaker 10: we're native Floridians. Some people call us Florida crackers, and

529
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Speaker 10: some people think that's the same.

530
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Speaker 5: We we take that as a compliment.

531
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Speaker 4: We're with David and Howard Bellamy. Uh, they're the Bellamie Brothers.

532
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Speaker 4: Bellami Brothers dot com, their website. They're playing The Ryman

533
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Speaker 4: for the first time ever June twenty fifth in Nashville.

534
00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:56,680
Speaker 4: And you, guys, do you do individual dates? Do you tour?

535
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Speaker 2: How do you keep a schedule these days?

536
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Speaker 9: We we did uh for the past two or three years.

537
00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:06,520
Speaker 9: We've done one hundred and forty shows a year. Wow,

538
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Speaker 9: And we'll probably.

539
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Speaker 5: We do tour you We'll probably do that. And we've

540
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:13,280
Speaker 5: toured seventy two countries.

541
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Speaker 4: Holy Smokes and where do you feel you've been received

542
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Speaker 4: the most warmly. I'm sure all over the place. But

543
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Speaker 4: is there a particular venue you like to play best?

544
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Speaker 10: Well, you know, lets your lou flow was they was

545
00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:30,280
Speaker 10: saying earlier, was a hit basically all over the world.

546
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Speaker 10: So we've we've gone in every direction and there's certain spots.

547
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Speaker 5: You know, that have become more of a home away

548
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Speaker 5: from home.

549
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Speaker 10: And Switzerland is one because we there's a.

550
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Speaker 5: Venue and we play there almost every year. Uh and uh.

551
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Speaker 10: And then Norway's huge for us, but there it's all

552
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:54,720
Speaker 10: been incredible. The South Pacific of all things is it's

553
00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:58,840
Speaker 10: been a big area for us, Australia, New Zealand, and so.

554
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Speaker 5: We've you know, we lucky.

555
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Speaker 10: We had a lot of adventure in our blood because

556
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Speaker 10: we love to still do love to travel. It beats

557
00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:10,959
Speaker 10: us up a little more than it used to, but

558
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:14,520
Speaker 10: we don't, you know, bounce back from the jet lag

559
00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:16,719
Speaker 10: that we used to, but we still do it.

560
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Speaker 2: You guys have beloved hits. I mean there's so many

561
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Speaker 2: of them.

562
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Speaker 4: In particular Redneck girl, let your love flow. If I

563
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Speaker 4: said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it

564
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Speaker 4: against me?

565
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Speaker 2: Among them? I just I love your work.

566
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Speaker 4: I'm so excited for you guys playing the Ryman on

567
00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:34,320
Speaker 4: the twenty fifth, and I hope I'll get the chance

568
00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:36,040
Speaker 4: to see you in person one of these days. Bellamy

569
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Speaker 4: Brothers dot Com for all the tour dates and information.

570
00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:43,360
Speaker 4: Fifty years since Let Your Love Flow. Wow, congratulations, gentlemen,

571
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Speaker 4: Thank you so much for your time today.

572
00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:47,520
Speaker 5: Thank you to see you man.

573
00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:50,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, excellence in dentistry, that's what you're going to get

574
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:53,400
Speaker 4: at Williamsburg Dental. My friend Bob Spinado is back on

575
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:55,480
Speaker 4: the phone. He's in Brumal, just off the Blue Route,

576
00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:58,080
Speaker 4: and with two new associates now you can expand and

577
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Speaker 4: offer more hours, maybe evening out possibly weekends.

578
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Speaker 2: Bob. Yeah.

579
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Speaker 11: One of the things that I told them from early

580
00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:06,840
Speaker 11: on when they started with me was the value of

581
00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:09,080
Speaker 11: not only their own time, but other people's times. And

582
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Speaker 11: they run on a similar schedule.

583
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Speaker 5: That I do.

584
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Speaker 11: If you've got a one o'clock appointment, you're in their

585
00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:15,640
Speaker 11: chair at one o'clock. And it's something that across the

586
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Speaker 11: border Wingsburg, Gennor, we really pride ourselves on whether it's

587
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Speaker 11: an appointment with the hygienister, whether it's appointment with one

588
00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:23,560
Speaker 11: of our doctors, The other thing is we now have

589
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Speaker 11: some expanded hours in the evenings and even even there's

590
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Speaker 11: some discussion about opening again on some Saturdays for services.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but not you. You're fishing. You're not kidding anybody. It's

592
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Speaker 4: not you going to be working on Saturday.

593
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Speaker 11: Come on, I'm in my thirty third year and it

594
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Speaker 11: should be the young gun.

595
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Speaker 2: That's right. You've earned it. You've earned it.

596
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Speaker 11: I feel like I have thank you.

597
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:43,640
Speaker 4: Pick up the phone or go online make that appointment

598
00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:45,880
Speaker 4: six P one oh three five three twenty seven hundred

599
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Speaker 4: or williamsburg dash dental dot com. You know, there are

600
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Speaker 4: two ways you can go in this world. When something

601
00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:56,720
Speaker 4: bad or unfortunate sets you back. You can pick yourself up, smile,

602
00:30:56,880 --> 00:30:59,600
Speaker 4: dust yourself off, and turn it into a great story.

603
00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:04,040
Speaker 4: Or you can sour and sit on the sidelines and

604
00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:06,560
Speaker 4: pout and say why me. I'm happy to tell you

605
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:08,920
Speaker 4: that our next guest did the former, not the latter.

606
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Speaker 2: He's JT.

607
00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 4: Mesta, and he's written a book called No Bad Days,

608
00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:14,720
Speaker 4: Turning your biggest challenges into your greatest opportunities. I met

609
00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 4: JT at the National Religious Broadcasters Association convention a few

610
00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:23,959
Speaker 4: weeks ago, and I would say, if there's like a

611
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:27,920
Speaker 4: textbook picture of somebody who's an optimist at you JT.

612
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Speaker 2: Good to see you again, good morning.

613
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Speaker 12: Great to see you, and thank you so much for

614
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Speaker 12: having me on here. And it was so nice to

615
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Speaker 12: be able to spend all the time with you at

616
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Speaker 12: NRB as well.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I didn't know a lot about your story until

618
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:46,320
Speaker 4: I met you there, and I think we should probably

619
00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:48,480
Speaker 4: start with a condition that you didn't even know you

620
00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:53,160
Speaker 4: had you at birth, and the thing about it was,

621
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Speaker 4: and I noted as you were telling me this story,

622
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Speaker 4: and I'd like you to share it with the audience.

623
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Speaker 4: It's a very dramatic sound thing with which you were born,

624
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:04,920
Speaker 4: but because you didn't know any different. Sometimes I often

625
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:08,680
Speaker 4: wonder if baby's infants before they're even really aware of

626
00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:12,200
Speaker 4: maybe differences from others, is it easier to deal with

627
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Speaker 4: than if it's something that suddenly comes on after you've

628
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Speaker 4: been otherwise functioning with everyone else in a normal way.

629
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Speaker 4: So talk to the audience a little about what you

630
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Speaker 4: dealt with it.

631
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Speaker 13: Yeah.

632
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Speaker 12: Yes, So I was born with a vactoral syndrome, which

633
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:30,960
Speaker 12: is a birth the fact that affects your GI system.

634
00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:34,760
Speaker 12: So for my esophagus all the way down was compromised,

635
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Speaker 12: and I had what they call trachy esophageal fistulas, something

636
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:42,360
Speaker 12: called them perforate anus, and I had a colss to

637
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:44,680
Speaker 12: new bag for the first few years of my life.

638
00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:48,240
Speaker 12: As time went on, I had about sixteen major surgeries

639
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Speaker 12: by the time I was sixteen years old and had

640
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Speaker 12: spent over two hundred and fifty days in the hospital.

641
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Speaker 12: And with all that, I also would have more complications

642
00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:02,880
Speaker 12: from the birth effect of vactral syndrome. And so as

643
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:05,720
Speaker 12: I got older, we found out I had tethered spinal cord,

644
00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:09,400
Speaker 12: where your spinal cord actually fuses to your sacremd nerves,

645
00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:12,520
Speaker 12: so as you're growing, it's pulling against those nerves and

646
00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:16,720
Speaker 12: causing a great deal of pain. And then just recently

647
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:21,240
Speaker 12: I got diagnosed with something called klepper Field syndrome, which

648
00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:24,560
Speaker 12: can also come round with this birth deffect, and it's

649
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:28,960
Speaker 12: where your upper cervical spine actually fuses to itself.

650
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Speaker 13: And so that's a new thing I'm dealing with.

651
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Speaker 12: But with all that being said, going back to how

652
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:39,400
Speaker 12: you were saying, you know a child A doctor once

653
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Speaker 12: told us a child born with a handicap or disability

654
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Speaker 12: doesn't see it as a disability or handicap, and that

655
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Speaker 12: I believe that that's very true. I do a bowel

656
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:56,520
Speaker 12: management program every day. I cathorize myself through my belly

657
00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:59,800
Speaker 12: button where they put a port in and that flushes

658
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Speaker 12: out my system because I have no motility. But for me,

659
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Speaker 12: that's all I know, and so I'm very blessed to

660
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Speaker 12: have that ease of use as opposed to the way

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Speaker 12: I used to do my bowel management. And I think

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Speaker 12: it's very true that like for me at least that difficulty.

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Speaker 12: I know that it's different than others, but I don't

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Speaker 12: see this as a difficulty. I go and climb Mount

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Speaker 12: Kilman Jarrow, I go, you know, do one hundred mile

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Speaker 12: bike races and challenge myself with it all.

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Speaker 2: Do you And this is maybe a stupid question.

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Speaker 4: I'm sure if you had it, had a choice in

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Speaker 4: the matter, you'd rather not have the condition. But because

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Speaker 4: you came up with it from birth and learn to

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Speaker 4: manage it, do you think you this is probably not

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Speaker 4: the right word. Does your perspective make it easier rather

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Speaker 4: than say easier? Is your perspective? Is it easier to

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Speaker 4: digest because you're accustomed to it as opposed to something

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Speaker 4: that would happen, maybe say due to an accident to

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Speaker 4: someone in adulthood.

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Speaker 13: Yeah, no, I think so.

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Speaker 12: And you know, I think the other thing there with

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Speaker 12: that is I now. I mean, there's definitely been hard days.

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Speaker 12: My book being called No Bad Days is a story

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Speaker 12: from the hospital and why that is named that. But

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Speaker 12: with having hard days, we all have those and we

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Speaker 12: all have our challenges.

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Speaker 13: But for me, I look at it as like an opportunity.

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Speaker 12: I've been able to share my story and I hope

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Speaker 12: that I'm impacting others and just bringing a positive light.

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Speaker 13: I also feel that I would have.

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Speaker 12: Never started a foundation that helps with medical supplies for

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Speaker 12: children with similar conditions to myself, and so with that,

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Speaker 12: it's given me the ability to just find my passion

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Speaker 12: and find things that I can hopefully help others with.

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Speaker 4: That is something that you're one of two people, and

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Speaker 4: I wish I could claim to be more like you.

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Speaker 4: I'm afraid I'm not. I tend to be. I'm sorry

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Speaker 4: to say a little more glass half empty. Do you

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Speaker 4: think people can change their perspective? Well, I mean I

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Speaker 4: certainly turn to prayer more. I think more about my

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Speaker 4: prayer life, and I think naturally that should make us

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Speaker 4: more hopeful, certainly, But when one hears a story like yours,

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Speaker 4: relatively speaking, I don't know challenges like yours, and so

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Speaker 4: often hearing a story like yours, I'm given perspective and

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Speaker 4: I think, well, if this guy can wear a smile

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Speaker 4: and soldier on about his day, how bad do I

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Speaker 4: have it?

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Speaker 2: I suppose you. I don't know how you feel about that.

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Speaker 4: When you listen to people who don't deal with what

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Speaker 4: you deal with belly ache the way I might, does

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Speaker 4: that irritate you?

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Speaker 12: You know it doesn't irritate me because I say, it's

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Speaker 12: all perspective, and it's all you know, that challenge at

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Speaker 12: that moment, and you know someone's gonna have challenges that

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Speaker 12: are much more than mine, and someone might have something

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Speaker 12: way less than mine. But at the same point, we

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Speaker 12: have to be there for each other and we have

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Speaker 12: to support each other. I talk about in my book,

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Speaker 12: you know, finding your tribe of people and using those

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Speaker 12: people to get you through.

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Speaker 13: Those hard times.

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Speaker 12: And you mentioned something about prayer, and I think that

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Speaker 12: prayer has been a huge answer to prayer for me

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Speaker 12: and just my relationship with God, being able to talk

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Speaker 12: to him about those challenges and help me through those

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Speaker 12: tough times. And I think that we all need to,

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Speaker 12: you know, have a relationship with God and also to

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Speaker 12: have that tribe of people that's going to pick us

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Speaker 12: up and get us through the next day. And with that,

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Speaker 12: putting a smile on is a great way to do it.

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Speaker 12: Waking up in the morning and counting your blessings and

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Speaker 12: thanking the Good Lord for what you have and just

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Speaker 12: putting your best foot into this world.

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Speaker 4: Such a reminder a convicting one too. No bad days,

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Speaker 4: turning your biggest challenges into your greatest opportunities. That title

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Speaker 4: you shared that story, please do with the audience where

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Speaker 4: that comes from. That came from a discussion in the

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Speaker 4: hospital right exactly.

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Speaker 12: I was with my dad, and Dad walked into the

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Speaker 12: hospital room and he leaned over my bed after one

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Speaker 12: of my spinal cord surgeries and he said, JT, I'm

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Speaker 12: so sorry for what you're going through. And I was

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Speaker 12: a young young guy at this time and definitely was

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Speaker 12: not my words. It was definitely the Good Lord speaking

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Speaker 12: through me. And I said that Dad, it's okay. There

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Speaker 12: are no bad days. There's only hard days, and we

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Speaker 12: get through them with the Good Lord. And just became

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Speaker 12: a sort of a motto of myself and my families

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Speaker 12: and just a reminder that we can get through it

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Speaker 12: all with each other.

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Speaker 2: Golly JT.

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Speaker 4: I just think to myself as a parent, are you

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Speaker 4: a parent?

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Speaker 13: I'm not?

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Speaker 5: Not?

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Speaker 2: Okay, well I do one day.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: It's one of those things when you're when your child

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Speaker 4: is dealing with something like that. I mean, it's it's

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Speaker 4: you know, it's not literally anyone's fault, but parents assume

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Speaker 4: that weight and that gravity. I can't imagine, you know,

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Speaker 4: and God forbid anybody have to deal with it. But

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Speaker 4: when you're looking over the bed of your child because

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Speaker 4: they're ill or have some kind of surgery coming because

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Speaker 4: of a developmental issue, I guess there's an ownership in

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Speaker 4: that as a parent, whether you should have it or not,

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Speaker 4: where you just f be like, oh, this is this

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Speaker 4: is on me, This is my fault. My child shouldn't

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Speaker 4: have to suffer like that. What I mean, And to

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Speaker 4: have a child say to a parent, it'll be okay,

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Speaker 4: what a what a gift you heard to your parents

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Speaker 4: to say something.

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Speaker 13: Like that, Well, they are a huge gift to me.

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Speaker 12: And you know I always say that the the caregiver

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Speaker 12: has the hardest me As a patient. Of course, there's

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Speaker 12: challenging moments and pain and discomfort.

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Speaker 13: But to be someone to to you know, have to.

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Speaker 12: Watch someone else go through that and make decisions for them.

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Speaker 12: That is a true testament of just being able to

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Speaker 12: you know, work together as a team. And for my parents,

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Speaker 12: I know that their teamwork came down to them and

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Speaker 12: Jesus and just being able to have that relationship.

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Speaker 13: And you know, unfortunately a.

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Speaker 12: Lot of circumstances when there is a child with complications

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Speaker 12: or medical challenges, the relationship of the husband and wife

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Speaker 12: doesn't always end.

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Speaker 13: Up as strong.

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Speaker 12: And so for me, I feel very blessed that my

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Speaker 12: parents turned to the Good Lord in those moments and

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Speaker 12: he helped them through it.

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Speaker 2: Hey man, JT.

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Speaker 4: Messed, what a beautiful message, what a beautiful story, no

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Speaker 4: bad days, turning your biggest challenges into your greatest opportunities.

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Speaker 2: JT. It is great to catch up with you.

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Speaker 4: And thank you for sharing your light with people who

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Speaker 4: desperately need it right now in this world.

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Speaker 13: Thank you, my friend, well, thank you so much.

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Speaker 4: So that's a wrap for another Christiagall Show podcast. Thanks

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Speaker 4: for committing to it, listening to it all the way through.

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Speaker 4: You're a fighter.

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Speaker 2: I like that about you.

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