1 00:00:04,720 --> 00:00:08,119 Speaker 1: Everybody. It's Bill Courtney with an army of normal folks, 2 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:11,720 Speaker 1: and we're about to share with you Shop Talk number nine. 3 00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:16,120 Speaker 1: I can't believe one number nine, but we are Shop 4 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:19,919 Speaker 1: Talk number nine, and we're going to talk about the 5 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:26,479 Speaker 1: uselessness of using a vacuum in your life. It's great 6 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:30,680 Speaker 1: for getting dirt off carpet, but it's a pretty poor 7 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:35,040 Speaker 1: tool for living with. We'll get into that right after 8 00:00:35,080 --> 00:00:53,120 Speaker 1: these brief messages from our general sponsors. All right, everybody's 9 00:00:53,080 --> 00:00:57,480 Speaker 1: Shop Talk number nine. Those of you who've ever used 10 00:00:57,480 --> 00:01:00,800 Speaker 1: a vacuum to get dirt off the carpet, typically they 11 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:04,000 Speaker 1: work really well. And the way they work is air 12 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:08,920 Speaker 1: is sucked in through the input of the vacuum, and 13 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:11,600 Speaker 1: that air is strong enough sometimes with the brush to 14 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:15,240 Speaker 1: pick up dirt. And then when the air goes into 15 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:21,600 Speaker 1: a cylinder of some sort, whether it's a bag or whatever, 16 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:25,120 Speaker 1: it spins around real fast, and the dirt is heavier 17 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:27,960 Speaker 1: than the air, so the dirt falls out of that 18 00:01:28,840 --> 00:01:32,600 Speaker 1: centrifuge of air falls into the bag that collects a dirt, 19 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:36,440 Speaker 1: and then the air is expelled through the output, So 20 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:41,440 Speaker 1: air in spins fast in circles air out. That's how 21 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:45,840 Speaker 1: vacuum works. That's what a vacuum is. That's how vacuum 22 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:49,680 Speaker 1: cleaner works. But that's what a vacuum is. In spins, 23 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:54,920 Speaker 1: real fast out. The vacuum itself is the spinning, and 24 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:57,480 Speaker 1: a vacuum cleaner is a great implement for getting dirt 25 00:01:57,520 --> 00:02:00,920 Speaker 1: off a carpet, But a vacuum is a terrible thing 26 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:05,200 Speaker 1: to live in. What that means, y'all, is if if 27 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:10,000 Speaker 1: you surround yourself with people that look just like you, 28 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:15,040 Speaker 1: vote just like you, love just like you, worship just 29 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:19,600 Speaker 1: like you, live just like you, basically have a life 30 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:24,760 Speaker 1: just like you, every conversation you have is going to 31 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 1: be circular. You're all going to agree with each other. 32 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:29,520 Speaker 1: You're all gonna have the same perspective. You're all gonna 33 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:32,239 Speaker 1: have the same ideas, You're all gonna have the same ideals, 34 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:37,720 Speaker 1: you'all gonna have the same narrative on life. You're all 35 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:41,680 Speaker 1: gonna have the same everything. And so you sit at 36 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:43,520 Speaker 1: a table with a bunch of people that look just 37 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:45,560 Speaker 1: like you, act just like you, vote just like you, 38 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:47,960 Speaker 1: believe just like you, worship just like you, love just 39 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:51,399 Speaker 1: like you, and as you have conversations about things going 40 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:52,960 Speaker 1: on in the world. You're all going to be going 41 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:55,120 Speaker 1: in circles around the table, just agree with each other. 42 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:03,800 Speaker 1: That's not growth. That's thought inside a vacuum. Now, look, 43 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:09,440 Speaker 1: there's nothing wrong with having people in your orbit that 44 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:13,320 Speaker 1: are from your world where you can discuss your most 45 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:16,800 Speaker 1: intimate thoughts and your fears and your goals. And it 46 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 1: may be a small group of church, it may be 47 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:23,360 Speaker 1: a forceoment golf, maybe a group you sit down with 48 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:26,000 Speaker 1: at a corner table in some cafe and share a 49 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:29,360 Speaker 1: cup of coffee or glass of wine. And you need 50 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:33,639 Speaker 1: places like that to go to, you know, recharge your batteries. 51 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:40,960 Speaker 1: But if that's the only place you go, if that's 52 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:44,640 Speaker 1: the only place you exist, I would say you're not 53 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:50,800 Speaker 1: having a whole lot of growth because inside that vacuum, 54 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:57,720 Speaker 1: you don't get input into your mind and your ethos ideas. 55 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 1: It may be contra to what you think and believe. 56 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:04,960 Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that we ever need to give 57 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:07,480 Speaker 1: up on our principles or give up on the things 58 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:10,920 Speaker 1: that we believe in. I'm not saying that, But I'm 59 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:16,320 Speaker 1: saying to find consensus and to civilly have discourse about 60 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:20,080 Speaker 1: the things that divide us. You're never going to fully 61 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:26,040 Speaker 1: understand that perspective and to consider another person's point of 62 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:29,520 Speaker 1: view unless you're unwilling to get out of your own 63 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:34,479 Speaker 1: vacuum of thought. So while a vacuum cleaner is a 64 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:36,880 Speaker 1: great thinking, great thing to get dirt off a carpet, 65 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:40,800 Speaker 1: it's a terrible place to live because without those convergence 66 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:47,600 Speaker 1: of ideas and principles, without that expiration of things outside 67 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:52,120 Speaker 1: of your own belief set, there's no way you're going 68 00:04:52,200 --> 00:05:00,200 Speaker 1: to grow. I've learned that a number of different places. 69 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:05,719 Speaker 1: One of them was a Manassas. When I coached at Manassas, 70 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:11,479 Speaker 1: you know, that was a very very different social setting 71 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:15,480 Speaker 1: than anything I'd ever been exposed to. And I had 72 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:20,400 Speaker 1: a lot of preconceived notions about kids from New Chicago 73 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:23,200 Speaker 1: in the hood. I had a lot of preconceived notions 74 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:31,920 Speaker 1: about society, the politics of that society, and why people 75 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:36,400 Speaker 1: often ended up in poverty and how they existed in poverty. 76 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:41,320 Speaker 1: So when I went to Manassas, I got way outside 77 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:44,360 Speaker 1: of my vacuum. My thought was outside of my vacuum, 78 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:49,560 Speaker 1: and I listened and I learned, and I got to 79 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:51,599 Speaker 1: see a point of view in a perspective that I 80 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:55,719 Speaker 1: had never ever considered in my life, because I'd never 81 00:05:55,760 --> 00:06:00,880 Speaker 1: ever heard it. And once I considered and listened to 82 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:05,120 Speaker 1: a different narrative and a different perspective on life and 83 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:08,120 Speaker 1: a part of society, part of my society that I'd 84 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:12,400 Speaker 1: never immersed myself in, I started to grow and I 85 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:15,320 Speaker 1: started to change my opinions on some things. Now. Did 86 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:19,000 Speaker 1: the basics and fundamental tenets of who I am and 87 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:22,680 Speaker 1: what I believe in my faith, in my family and 88 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:27,080 Speaker 1: all of those things changed, No, not really, but they 89 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:31,320 Speaker 1: certainly evolved. And they evolved because I was outside of 90 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:33,640 Speaker 1: my vacuum. I was outside of my comfort zone. I 91 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:39,360 Speaker 1: was outside of a place that I'd always kind of existed, 92 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:43,719 Speaker 1: and through that I grew. I became a better football coach, 93 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:47,960 Speaker 1: I became a better manager and my business, and I 94 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:52,080 Speaker 1: became a better person. And I have a perspective now, 95 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:56,000 Speaker 1: an understanding of a perspective now that allows me to 96 00:06:56,040 --> 00:07:04,120 Speaker 1: have conversations that are useful and relatable and real that 97 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:06,839 Speaker 1: I would have never been able to have had I 98 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:10,680 Speaker 1: not had that experience of being outside of my vacuum 99 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:14,160 Speaker 1: and a place that was foreign and different to where 100 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:20,840 Speaker 1: I came from. And so I grew so shop talk 101 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:25,200 Speaker 1: number nine, Think about a vacuum. We often talk on 102 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:28,920 Speaker 1: an army of normal folks about how change can happen 103 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:32,400 Speaker 1: this country, but it starts with you. And I do 104 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:36,200 Speaker 1: believe that it starts with every one of you seeing 105 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:39,240 Speaker 1: a small area of need in your corner of the 106 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:42,400 Speaker 1: world and fill in it. But I will tell you 107 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:46,840 Speaker 1: the most effective way to do that is to break 108 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:50,840 Speaker 1: free of your vacuum of thought. Open your eyes, open 109 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:54,400 Speaker 1: your mind, open your heart, open your ears, and hear 110 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:58,920 Speaker 1: other points of view, other narratives than other perspectives. And 111 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:04,840 Speaker 1: if you hear those and understand those and learn from those, 112 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:08,400 Speaker 1: when you do step out of your comfort zone and 113 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:13,400 Speaker 1: you do seek to do something for your society and 114 00:08:13,480 --> 00:08:17,160 Speaker 1: your own neck of the woods, you will be much 115 00:08:17,960 --> 00:08:22,040 Speaker 1: more prepared to handle the challenges that come as a 116 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:26,480 Speaker 1: result of doing that work. And I promise you this. 117 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:29,680 Speaker 1: You will get five hundred times more out of it 118 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:32,880 Speaker 1: than you put into it, and you will grow and 119 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:36,720 Speaker 1: you will learn. That's shop talk this week. I hope 120 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:39,960 Speaker 1: you'll think about it. I'm Bill Courtney. We'll see you 121 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:40,520 Speaker 1: next week.