Welcome to the Christian Car Guy Radio Show. With today's guest host, our Christian Body Shop Guy, Jerry Mathis.
I say this calls for action, and now. Welcome to Christian Car Guy Radio. Hey, this morning is Saturday before Thanksgiving, so we've got a lot to be. We're going to talk a little bit about Thanksgiving and all the excitement of that. But I also just want to mention that this morning Robbie is out of town on a men's retreat and I know they're going to have a blessed time and there will be a lot of good times and soul searching and those things and I'm always excited to hear the stories when he comes back and tells about them. But I'm Jerry Mathis, Raised Body Shop and Record Service Christian Body Shop Guy and in the studio with me, I'll tell you what, I'm excited about this morning.
There's a couple reasons. I have two of my favorite people and I'm going to tell you, we're moving up on the A-list. We haven't made the A-list, but we're edging.
We're edging towards. Yeah. Well, I have Mark Garrow and Bob Young and I tell you what, if you've been listening, you're familiar with both of these guys and this morning we're going to sort of dive in a couple interesting things and also going to take a moment just to talk a little bit about I always like to when I do the show and stuff is something to save people money in the collision industry are some things to be aware of to make the process a little easier.
So we'll get to that also. You know what rule one is there if you want to save money in the collision business? Don't have the red.
Don't have the red. There he is. Don't park near you. All right, I'm going to let you introduce, I'm going to let Mark and Bob introduce themselves then we're going to swing back around and I'm going to kind of kick it off. I'm Bob Young. I'm former owner of 109.
You pull it. Most folks know that I retired six and a half, uh, well almost seven years ago now and uh, you know, we just didn't really make a big announcement about it. Uh, and the other folks are doing really well there and uh, life is good. Got a wonderful wife at home.
Get to spend a little time at the beach now play a little pickle ball, try to catch a few fish, uh, come and do radio shows, come and do radio shows, try to get out and do a little visiting when I can. Do you do any more commercials? We have not done commercials right when the people bought the place.
Um, false recycling, um, Warner did a little more than I did and uh, we made them proud owners and uh, we made commercials for them for two years and I told them that they could play those commercials as long as they want to, uh, at no charge and um, they were just really good to us and you know, anything we can do to help them, even now I would do. How many years did you say that? I can, I think it's almost seven years. Wow.
It seems like yesterday. Wow. Yeah. Oh yeah.
All right. Glad you're in here this morning with us. I am very glad to be here too. Well Mark, go ahead and introduce yourself and I'll tell you what, the voice, people are going to know the voice. If you're a NASCAR fan, you're going to know this voice. Well I will just say this, having been broadcasting NASCAR races since 1982, there's two of us left at the racetrack, my joy on Fox and myself on PRN that are the only two people left at a NASCAR track that were on the air broadcasting Richard Petty's 200th victory. And that was 1984 I believe if my math is correct, fourth of July, Ronald Reagan showed up and I've always dreamt of being on who wants to be a millionaire. And the final question for $1 million is who finished second to Richard Petty when he won his 200th because the iconic picture is him and Cale Yarbrough smashing each other in the door as they're coming to the finish line to what was the checkered flag, but it was actually the yellow flag and the white flag for the race. And so Cale was second at the line by a fraction of a second, but thinking the race was over, he pulled on to pit road. So he never did finish second.
Harry Gantt I believe, or who, what, now I forgot. You won't be a millionaire on that question. But that's how long I've been doing it. I've been privileged to work with Motor Racing Network and then with the Performance Racing Network for 30 some odd years now. And back in the day, I also had a syndicated show with Capital Sports out of Raleigh called Winston Cup today that I started with them. We started from nothing and grew that into a 400 station coast to coast show. And so I've done a lot in this business, PR director at Dover, once upon a time, helped the website called JSKI.com go from, you know, just kind of a small little thing to something big enough that ESPN wanted to chew it up and swallow and bring into their deal. So I've been very fortunate. And nowadays, I, you know, I still working for Performance Racing Network, I referee volleyball is going to be my passion, I think in retirement, just signed up for a three year program was accepted to be into a program where they really start trying to elevate you so that you can get a national license at some point, and go around the country and do this in the big, big tournaments and the big colleges and a lot of different things that go with that.
And it's a three year program. And of course, then, you know, my daughters went to Union Grove, Christian school. And matter of fact, when I leave here today, we've got three basketball games to help them announce this afternoon. So I try to help that way as well, you try to use my time and talent, wherever I can in that process. You have one of the most recognizable voices.
So do you? Well, yes, but on a much different level, on a much and a singing voice on top of that, so many people when they hear, I'll be sitting somewhere, they don't see my face. But if I'm talking, well, I thought that was you, you know, but we were in your neighborhood. One of the boys in our youth group lived in your neighborhood of Bowman's. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. And you were out in the yard talking to us, is somebody got the radio on?
I hear Mark Garrow. But yeah, it was a you definitely have a unique voice and you have used it well. And I appreciate that. I've been blessed by, you know, it was a situation that I never intended, you know, to be in radio broadcasting or television broadcasting. I was a seven time boxing champion, I was in college, and I was working on a degree where I could work with kids with kind of special needs kind of thing.
And you know, do phys ed classes and different things like that because I was always in shape. And after one of my fights, you know, a guy from the local radio station interviewed me and after the interview said, you really don't sound like a typical boxer. And I said, Well, at five years old, they gave me the nickname TJ, which was short for Thunder jaw. I said, I can talk, I've always been able to come over to my radio station.
And as it turns out, his son and I became best friends, we went to high school together, we went to college, about 20 miles down the road and commuted back and forth to our houses together. And so I got involved started out with a little daytime am radio station in Rutland, Vermont. And one day, a guy walked in, and his announcer at his little dirt track about 25 miles away, had to retire because of health reasons right in the middle of the season, and he needed somebody quick. And I raised my hand and go like, I need the money.
I'll do it. And he said, Do you know anything about racing? Well, I'd grown up around it. My dad was a flagman, my mom scored races at a little short track over in New Hampshire where I was born.
And so I said, I'll do it. And then somebody told me about something called motor racing network. And they said, Yeah, they broadcast races down south on the radio. And I go, Oh, you're kidding me. Really? So yeah, they got some guy, you know, like 100 miles away from us here that does it.
You got to go listen to him at the racetrack one day at the local track, went listen to him and at you know, 20 years old, you know, how typical 20 year olds I can do that. Yeah. Is that a problem? Is that all there is? If I can't do that? I'll just I'll quit.
As easy as you're cutting the firewood. Yeah. Yeah. So in the weird part is I went back and told the college professor about it. And he said, Well, let's let's go write a letter to motor racing network.
So one day at lunch, went back to his house, we wrote a letter, I went in the grandstands at this little dirt track, and had a realistic Radio Shack cassette recorder with one of these little plastic microphones that were probably like 25 cents apiece and terrible quality. But I climbed up in the end of the thing. And I did play by play for this race as an audition tape, sent it down to motor racing network, and they sent me back a nice letter, which I thought was the you know, was a nice way of saying thanks, but no thanks. But they said, Look, you got a lot of raw ability. Keep working at it. You know, you may you may have something to work with. You have potential potential.
And three and a half years later after that, I'm in the tower at Daytona, doing a race going like how in the world I get here. I'll be back more with a man I tell you what's been interesting conversation. Remember, this is a calling show 866-348-7884.
You have any questions or comments, give us a call. You're listening to the Truth Network and truthnetwork.com Gonna save all my money. Welcome back to the Christian Car Guys show. And now back to our host, the big leaders, the grand poo paw down at Ray's body shop in record service, where they have perfected the art of invisible repair. The one that women I'm not done. Oh, one, the only drumroll.
Jerry Mathis. Well, okay, I'm starting to look at he said my name. I wasn't sure who was talking about that. Hey, I'm talking about cars. That's one of them getting something really important because I do like I said, I like to always say something that's on save money during a collision and Mark, you're right.
And Bob, they both are correct. One way to save money just don't be in a collision. But one of the things that I have more questions about over the last couple years, well, not more, because there's a lot of them, but this is one of them that people come in and they're stressed and they're upset because insurance companies, you know, there was a day when you had an accident and adjuster would come out and look at your car, or you'd go to the driving claim and somebody would look at it. Well, now there's a couple options.
One, you either go to a DRP shop, a direct repair facility that's certified by them. We are with most of the major insurance companies. But also the other avenue they use is photo claims. And people will come in every day with, they've got, they told me to take pictures and they come up with this estimate and they've gone to somebody else and they've told them, oh, that don't, that ain't going to cover half of the damage.
And I'll have to tell, I have to tell people and just continue to remind them, don't get stressed out over that because all that does is really, that photo claim doesn't do anything but get the claim started. Because when they write one, these guys that are sitting behind a desk have never been in the, most of them, there may be one out there that I don't know about somewhere in some, in the network somewhere that has been involved in repairing an automobile. Most of them are just looking at the pictures and they got a screen and they're trying to match it up and they put what they see. They're usually 40% under the repair cost.
Every one of them, 40% at the, if they did a really good job because they just only looking at a screen. But people get upset because they think, well, that's all they're going to pay, but really they're going to pay to repair it. So it's a matter up to the vehicle owner to take it to a shop that knows how to work with that company and also going to do it, do it correctly. Because when we get that estimate, we know that that's not, we're not bound to those repairs because we're going to document what it really needs. But people get so stressed out about it and when they get so worked up, it's even hard to explain to them, don't worry, all you do, choose us, choose wherever you want to go, take that estimate and let them work off of it.
Because at that point they'll just supplement them and make contact with them. Sometimes you have to take pictures or whatever it is, but they're going to repair your car and just go to a shop that understands how to work with the system. And it's like anything, if you don't work with the system, you will get yourself in trouble because I have people who come in who won't bring you that. They have that estimate and they come in and you write an estimate and then they come and after they're ready to pick up the car, they go out of magically out of the back pocket, they pull this estimate and say, this is all my insurance that paid me. Well, the car has been repaired and now it's tough going back and explaining to them and trying to explain the damage because you didn't take pictures, you didn't do the documentation.
So then it just really puts everybody in a pickle. But the matter of just trust the shop you're going to and let them work with the system and that that's in place and don't get stressed out. I know this is not supposed to be an advertisement for Ray's Body Shop and Record Service, but I have a truck I bought in two thousand thirteen. Last year, they made the Chevy Avalanche.
It's now what, two thousand twenty four, twelve, thirteen years old. Looks almost brand broke in, just about broke. It's got two hundred thousand miles on it. Looks almost brand new. And then people say, how does it look so good? I said, well, I had a deer had to take it down there. They did a repaint job and fix it. Then an 18 wheeler threw a belt, took out the front of the truck again. So if you get a repaint, you get something happens, you get it repainted every two or three years.
It looks mint, you know, when it's over because they have it. They have perfected the art of invisible repair. I've told the story several times. I backed into Lori's car back when we were just dating and is a little Honda Accord and carried it over to the jury and and they fixed it. We went back to pick the car up. I was trying to remember which side I had hit because you just it was invisible repair.
So there was a lot of pressure at that point because I was thinking, if we don't do a good job, she may run Bob off and say, I knew that. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
And it's funny how I got up with Jerry, because, again, you know how God kind of like connects the dots the way he wants to connect the dots. My daughter had an accident when she had just got her car when she was 16 years old. And it's pretty, pretty rough. It took out the whole driver's side of the vehicle. Thankfully, she wasn't hurt.
Nobody else was hurt. And I just asked nationwide, where can I go? I don't want to. I bought it from Rick Hendrick. I get all my vehicles through Rick Hendrick Hendrick cars dot com.
Again, another not an ad I pay for my vehicle. And but I didn't want to take it all the way down to Charlotte. And so I said, give me somebody local. And they gave me five names.
And the first place I stopped was Ray's. And I just thought after talking to Jerry came out, did the estimate, and I'm thinking, you know what? These guys are going to make it right. Just something tells me they're going to make it right. So they fix the car, get it back. She's driving it. And 10 days after she got it back, it's wrecked again.
Oh, this time, not her fault. Beer came out at four o'clock in the afternoon going down this road, destroyed the right side. So we had the driver's side destroyed first. Now we got the now but now we got the passenger side.
And I called him out. So can you send me a flatbed and get this thing taken? He goes, Are you kidding me? You just picked it up, you know, so they fixed it and we got done. And and Jerry and you know, they leave you little Christian tracks on the seat when when the vehicle is ready to go and a calendar and all that.
And he says to me, he goes, you know, how about doing some commercials for me? And I thought, sure, no problem. And, you know, since, you know, we're we're brothers with different mothers, I said, I'll be glad to do them for free.
No, no sweat. And we just kind of became friends after that, but all because God connected that kind of dot. And here I am today because that. So it's kind of cool. Again, you know, that's that is so neat. You know, many times in our lives how God just kind of puts these things in place. I've had a Bible study from at seven thirty on Tuesday mornings for over 10 years.
It was 10 years old in in September. Pastor David Beverly of Triad Journey Church, which was the old Hebrew church out there on old 52. He leads it. And when he started, he wasn't a pastor of that church or anything, and they didn't even have a church. And through all the different connections in that Bible study, he gets a church and they find they find a place to worship. It is amazing because that because I'm going to feed off that when we come back and put Bob on the spot, because how God puts things together and stuff and just out of the blue.
We'll be back in just a moment again, I'd like to hear your story. Welcome back to Christian Kargile Radio. I'm Jerry Mathis in the studio with I mean, I would like to say it would begin and man, these are two guys that I really appreciate and think a lot of and ledgers in our own mind. Yeah. Yeah.
All that good stuff. But Mark was just talking about how God kind of puts things together and connects the dots sometimes that you just never expect. And you mentioned about the Bible study you do on Tuesday mornings.
Well, we do have a Bible study I do on Wednesday mornings. And Bob has been really nudging him for a few years to start showing up and well, Bob has been showing up. Well, one of the first times he showed up, it just amazed me how there was a gentleman there that I've known for years, that son ended up getting killed.
And he's just really struggling. And when Bob sat down, they had bought, Billy had bought parts from Bob over the course of time, over the years and stuff in there. Their boys were friends, Bob, Rob and his son. But when I'm sitting there and I just thought how in the world, you know, God illustrated that. It just amazed me because then Bob later on that day called and said, you know, I sit out in the parking lot and we talked for 45 minutes to an hour.
And he goes, you know, to me, it just, just amazes me just how God places people. You had been working on me a really long time and, and I finally got there and I had a connection with at least four people in the room. Some of them were through theirs.
Their sons or offspring had spent time with my offspring in school and social gatherings and stuff. And you know, I had a connection to several people in the room right away. And I didn't know that the whole time I was not coming and see what you missed.
Yeah, I missed a lot that nobody can fix yesterday. And I just try to get there when I can, as often as I can now, because I know I'm connected to the group. This suddenly makes me remember a story years ago, and unfortunately, Bobby Allison just passed away. But he was one of the first NASCAR drivers I ever met. I was the PR director for Dover, the racetrack up there. Back once upon a time, NASCAR had a thing called the winner circle program. And if you were a driver, the one the year before, you were paid an extra five, $10,000 a race.
But to get that money, you had to pick out two or three racetracks and you went in a couple of weeks early and then went around to radio stations, TV stations and things like that to promote the race. And I was so lucky. The first guy that I had was Bobby Allison.
The other one was Ricky Rudd, and you couldn't have picked two more straight up guys to have that happen to a young guy. And they certainly helped me in that process. Anyways, fast forward, you know, Bobby's retired, he's been injured, kind of struggling financially. And I had a company, Jim Walter Homes, called up and said, I need a driver for a driver appearance down in Mobile, Alabama. And they wanted a current driver, and I go, no, you don't. And I go, and they go like, why is it because current drivers can make people mad, right?
So if they get, they wreck with your favorite driver the week before, and then you go make an appearance, they you know, things could get a little you think the Donald Trump this that politics things bad, you wreck somebody's favorite driver, then be in the line for an autograph that that makes things a lot a lot of fun. So I said, you need to get Bobby Allison. And they said, Why is it Bobby Allison in Alabama walks on water?
I mean, this is like super Superman from popularity standpoint. So they took me up on it. I called Bobby, and he said, Yeah, I'll be glad to do it. And he picked me up, he had just gotten his plane license, his pilot's license back picked me up in Martinsville, Virginia. On a Saturday afternoon, we flew all the way down to Mobile, Alabama to do this appearance about five o'clock. So we did the appearance.
And again, typical thing line out, I mean, line mile long, right? And Jim Walter Holmes ecstatic and know that everything went well. And as we're leaving, this guy walks up to Bobby and he shakes his hand. So Bobby, I'm so so sorry about Clifford. And so so sorry about Davey, of course, Bobby lost both of his sons. And he said, I know how you feel.
And I understand that. And so you know, Bobby was kind of shaking hands and we're moving towards the card to head back to the airport. But this man wouldn't let go of his hand. And he started to cry. And so Bobby took him off to the side. And we were probably an hour late getting back to the plane. But Bobby Allison sat there with that that man had just lost his son a few days before in a terrible accident at Six Flags in Atlanta. Matter of fact, four or five young people had lost their lives. Somebody put them on this ride because the gravitron and then left.
And these these poor kids were were killed by this machine that was whipping around for, you know, 20 minutes on unchecked. And but Bobby sat there for one hour and let this man talk and they hugged it out. And I'll never forget that. And Bobby came back and, you know, apologized.
There's three or four other people with us. I apologize, he said. But, you know, this was the story. And I go, you don't have anything to apologize for. I said, I thought you were coming here to make a personal appearance. God had another idea.
I said, God had another idea. He you were here for that man. You didn't end up.
Yeah, you got paid by Jim Walter Holmes and you made a lot of people happy getting pictures and autographs. But God said, this is the real reason that you came. This is the reason we used to run into him every year. We still go to Daytona every year.
And after the Saturday race, we always go to Portofino. Oh, yeah. And we would run in here a little Italian.
Yep. We'd run into him and a bunch of the Woods Brothers guys. And you know, we didn't know him on a personal basis or anything, but it was always cool to be eating somewhere with that. That was that was the go to place. Once upon a time, the great some of the best Italian food in Daytona Beach is off.
It's authentic and absolutely. We go every year at least once and sometimes twice. But that's where the NASCAR crowd hung up, hung out once upon a day. Yeah.
Unofficially. Hey, that's going to lead me right into when I said I was on a Thanksgiving, I mean, we're sitting there and I'm going to read very certainly going to think Thanksgiving. I'm gonna read Jeremiah. And and this this passage is I don't know, it really just hits home a read two passages out of Jeremiah and both of them kind of have a way of keeping me on on track. Sometimes I'll go back and read and bless it is the man who trust in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord.
He is like a tree planted by the water that stand that sends out its roots by the stream and does not fear when the heat comes for its leaves remain green and it's not anxious in the year of drought for it does not cease to bear fruit. And you think, what does that got to do with Thanksgiving? It's got everything to do Thanksgiving to me, because that tree that that's us and stuff and and when you're talking about with with Bobby and I know, Bob, your situation and and we all go through those things that are droughts in the season we're going through. How do we have Thanksgiving in that?
It's hard. I mean, that's it's easy to sit there and say the words, but deep down in your heart to really have Thanksgiving when you're going through a drought. If we're stay connected to our Lord and Savior, we're able to do that. If we are not connected with our Lord and Savior, and that drought withers our leaves and leaves us in the dust.
I've always thought and I'm trying to remember where I was when I heard this. But always having an attitude of gratitude, you know, makes you thankful for even the smallest things. I mean, we get blessings every day. Even I have to remind myself, you know, we get things that we don't necessarily think are a blessing and they're so small, but they are and you just get them one after the other.
But one thing that I have found to try to keep me balanced through the ups and downs of my life is, is that when I wake up in the morning, the alarm goes off. I go, thank you, Lord, for another day. And when I go to bed at night, the last thing I say is thank you, Lord, for another day. And it just sort of it doesn't mean that all day that I'm remembering to have the attitude of gratitude because we all, you know, don't always act Christian as well as we like throughout the day. But you just if you start out thankful, hopefully you kind of remember to be thankful throughout the day, I guess. It's pretty amazing how God took the most horrific event of my life, losing my son and turned it in. I've always been optimistic in a lot of ways. I've always looked for silver linings on clouds and everything. But God took that event and between him and my wife, I got through that event and we were able to do some good for others. After that, we promoted the seed back that day.
Back in that day, the Narcan, you know, you know, it was very, very, very rare to see anybody that had Narcan, but we got to promote that and it saved some lives, saved some lives. You did. Absolutely.
Absolutely. And having Thanksgiving during the drought, I'll be back in just a moment again. It is calling show eight six six three four eight seven eight eight four. We'd love to hear from you. You're listening to the Truth Network and truthnetwork.com. Welcome back to Christian Car Guy Radio. I'm Jerry Matheson.
We're in the studio with Mark and Bob. And real quick, I just want to make mention of something coming to Pinedale Christian Church on December the 14th here in Winston-Salem. If you're in the area, I know we've got listeners throughout the country and stuff, but Jason Crabbe will be in concert December 14th at Pinedale Christian Church doing his Christmas program Miracle in the Manger tour. So I mean, a ticket to that it is great.
Yeah. So if you're in this area, man, get your ticket. You can call Pinedale Christian Church or just just go to Jason Crabb's website and has a link to get tickets.
Pinedale Christian Church, December the 14th. No, since we have volunteered for this show, don't you think he ought to buy us a ticket to Jerry should buy you like you and your wife a ticket and he's he's a very generous soul. Yeah. But you got to push him sometimes. He is. He's a very generous guy. But you've got to hit me in the right direction.
Okay. Now we just talked about in Jeremiah 17 about putting our trust in the Lord and being able to make it through the drought. I'm also going to just go and read Jeremiah 29 11 for I know your plans.
I have I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord plans for welfare and not evil to give you a future and a hope. All I can say is that's what we ought to be thankful for Thanksgiving. And so I said early on was asked a question. What is your favorite? We're going. This is the Saturday before Thanksgiving. Favorite Thanksgiving that you can remember.
Oh, you pointed a point at each other. I'll tell you, when I was growing up, it was a big deal in our family. And what was kind of neat is that my two grandmothers lived within, I don't know, 500 yards of each other on the same street.
Wow. And that was good in in sometimes bad because on Thanksgiving, of course, you had two big meals and you didn't have a whole lot of time to walk it off and not very far to walk it off. And my dad's mom was so crazy that and she was Italian, Italian. I mean, on a non Thanksgiving week, she would start about midnight on Saturday. She'd make her own noodles. She'd make her own ravioli shells. I mean, everything was handmade and homemade. And if you live within 90 miles, you had to be there by one o'clock on Sunday.
I'm not asking you, you you're going to be here. So in 90 mile radius, you had you had to be there at one o'clock for that meal. But she cooked, obviously, a big Thanksgiving as well. And she'd give you a plate and you'd eat that. And then she'd, you know, want to give you more. Oh, I'm full. I'm full. And she finally wear you down.
All right, I'll get seconds. And she would give you more the second time than she gave you the first time. And you couldn't leave the table until it was all done because they're starving kids in Africa.
If you can breathe, you can still eat right. And so she so I just I just remember those big meals, you know, like 500 yards apart on Columbian Avenue in Rutland, Vermont. And and as I grew up, and we our own family traditions began, my mom was always, you know, cooking on Thanksgiving. And I remember we had a little grocery store. And one Thanksgiving, she went and she left about like six in the morning, we go like, Where's she going? She put our turkey in there.
She's gone. And there was a couple of men down the street that room together. They were both blind. And they were roommates in this little apartment. And they wanted to have a Thanksgiving, but they didn't really know how to cook. And of course, a little trouble getting around the kitchen. So she went cook them.
Got their Thanksgiving deal done, came, got ours all finished up, and went back, got theirs all finished up. So I just remember it being a big deal for my mom and her wanting to to serve people as well. So maybe that's where I got a little bit. So I like to think that I try to serve the best I can where I can. And I think it started with, you know, maybe that kind of thing.
Absolutely. I can't pick an individual Thanksgiving that that rings out. I have Thanksgiving eras, like as a child, we would go to my grandparents house in the eastern part of the state. And my dad was from Vance County, my mom was from Franklin County. And when we got to go down and do Thanksgiving with all the cousins and all that, those were really, really, really special to me and have some great memories from those. But when I married my wife, she's from a big family. And my family had dwindled in this area.
And but since I've married her, I have a huge family. And I've always been a kids person. And there's one in particular where all the kids were lined up on the steps. And, you know, sometimes, oh, y'all better get off of those steps. Bob's going to get you and, you know, somebody's got to have a little discipline around, but and y'all need to be quiet.
And who had had the discipline? We we got up there and I had them all screaming at the top of their lungs. And just there's a picture of them and one of them, you can just tell they're having the best time. They're getting loud on the steps. And instead of me being need to behave and need to calm down, you don't need to run.
You know, I was promoting fun. And it just was a great memory for me to all those kids screaming on the steps. Now a lot of them are grown up now. And they're not the little ones they once were, but there's some fresh little ones in the crowd now to have fun with. Absolutely. I think they've got a big enough crowd.
Somebody could crash that deal and nobody would know. Mark, I think we could just go down there. We just get just we'll get us a plate and we'll just get lost in the crowd.
Who are you? I'm Bob's kid. I'm cousin Bob's kid, you know, between 40 and 65 people will be at my house on Thanksgiving.
So Mark, if we go, that'll be 67. There we go. And I'm sure y'all both will have been fed at least once. Yeah, well, Thanksgiving, you can you can manage.
You can look at us and tell we do not miss Thanksgiving. All right. Let's just put it that way. That's for sure.
Okay, next question. What are you thankful for today, man? I'm just thankful for my life. And I'm thankful that late my life that I got saved. You know, I grew up an altar boy and all that the Roman Catholic Church and and just, you know, got away from quote unquote religion. And I'm always thankful for my father in law.
Joe Bill Green was just great Christian man and started going to church with him and eventually got saved. And I've gone through a lot since then. But I think that, you know, just just the idea that I know that, you know, driving down the road, I can say, God, I messed up and be able to talk to them and in and talk to him and say, Jesus, you know, just help me right now, you know, just get this thing straightened out a little bit. And I'm thankful for my daughters. And I'm thankful that, you know, eventually not only they got saved, I became a dad. And I'm just just thankful for my life and my career and just thank thankful for the talent that I've been given in. And again, I try to use that in various different ways so that God understands that I I do appreciate all that.
At least I try to. Well, I have so many things to be thankful for. But the biggest change in my life. When me and Miss Laurie got together, things turned around for me.
I had one foot and poop and nothing on a roller skate. And she loved on me and and inspired me to be a better person. And a lot of the the bones that are in the closet, she helped me put them there. And you know, I get them out and look at them, but I don't polish them like I used to. You know, I don't dwell on my past.
I've told Robbie so many times, I chose to be a product of my past instead of a prisoner of it because I was I was not a good person. And there were parts of my life where I did OK, but things really seem to come together when she came into my life. And, you know, yes, we have to cook a lot and yes, we have to prepare a lot. But, you know, for us, it wouldn't be the same if I didn't have this big family. It reminds me of the big family things I went to years ago when my parents were alive.
And we'd load up and go to Henderson and Wahoo with all the cousins and everything. We have so many great stories from that. And we've made some new great stories since I married into a huge family again. And it's just been a really great thing.
Wow. I'll tell you what. One thing I'm thankful for is this morning, man. I've enjoyed it.
It's been great. I'll tell you what. This coming week, Thanksgiving, everybody will get together celebrating the birth of our country in a way. It's a big Thanksgiving meal. Remember to take time and give thanks to Jesus Christ, because really, that's man. I'll tell you what. God works through us. And I just appreciate you guys. And just thank you for listening this morning. This is the Truth Network.
