Real Friends Interview | Quinn Fulgham

What happens when a young Texan's journey through faith, family, and favorite cartoons unfolds on the Real Friends Podcast? Meet Quinn Fulgham, our spirited twelve-year-old guest who shares his story with warmth and sincerity. Alongside Wendy Wilkinson and Pastor Chris May, Quinn discusses the heartfelt moment he decided to embrace Christianity and what it means for his future. From his anticipation of teenage adventures, like watching "Beetlejuice," to his nostalgic love for "DuckTales," Quinn’s enthusiasm is infectious.

Amidst humorous anecdotes and thoughtful reflections, the episode offers insights into living with purpose, navigating peer pressure, and the importance of a supportive faith community. From a childhood scissors mishap to exploring passions in music, game design, and even "monkeyology," our chat with Quinn becomes a delightful blend of humor and depth. Join us for this heartwarming conversation, enriched by Quinn’s youthful wisdom and zest for life.

Transcript

Speaker 1 0:01

Once I was like I want to do this, and my mom was like, okay, well, then talk to Pastor Chris. And so I talked to you and I just decided to give my heart to Jesus.

Speaker 2 0:20

Cause we know what matters being together, forever friends. Oh oh friends, oh oh, friends All right, this is the Real Friends Podcast.

Speaker 3 0:42

I'm Wendy Wilkinson and here with Pastor Chris May and our very, very special guest Quinn Fulgham.

Speaker 4 0:50

Quinn.

Speaker 2 0:51

Hello.

Speaker 4 0:53

We scheduled this at a really good time because today's a work day. So while your parents are out. Yeah, we are While your parents are out digging out shrubbery, we get to be in here in this air-conditioned building recording. How do you feel about that?

Speaker 1 1:05

Quinn, I feel very good.

Speaker 4 1:07

Because you were out helping before we came in here. It's hard work, huh.

Speaker 3 1:10

Yeah, you're welcome.

Speaker 4 1:11

This worked out well for all of us.

Speaker 1 1:13

Yeah, yes.

Speaker 4 1:14

So, Quinn, how old are you?

Speaker 1 1:16

Twelve. I'll be a teenager in four months.

Speaker 3 1:22

We will pray for your parents.

Speaker 4 1:23

You know, you're preteen.

Speaker 1 1:28

What do you think about being a teenager in just a few months? I mean, I haven't really thought about it much, but I'll be able to watch all the PG-13 movies.

Speaker 4 1:35

Wow there you go Like the day before your birthday.

Speaker 3 1:40

no PG-13 movies but the day of Do you have a bunch of them lined up like what you're going to start with?

Speaker 1 1:46

probably, uh, beetlejuice, because it's out in the movie theater, so I wanted to watch the first one and then, oh, you haven't seen the first one.

Speaker 3 1:55

Yeah, I saw the previews for the second we were at the movie.

Speaker 4 1:59

Oh, that's right oh so yeah, let's just talk about that for a second. So our small group went and watched the Forge Quinn. I told you about this movie.

Speaker 1 2:07

Yeah.

Speaker 4 2:08

It was so wonderful. Like a lot of Christian movies, frankly, are cheesy, and so I was a little reluctant to go see this one, but it was so encouraging and motivating.

Speaker 3 2:20

I agree, I agree, I thought it was, I thought it was really good and, you know, don't wear makeup if you go.

Speaker 4 2:26

Yeah, that's why I didn't wear makeup. Good thing.

Speaker 1 2:29

Is it really that sad? I don't want to say sad.

Speaker 3 2:33

It's very moving.

Speaker 4 2:33

Yeah, I wouldn't call it sad, it's just very moving, emotional, and she was just pouring the tears and then, if I'm honest, a few might have trickled down my face. I'm not crying, you are, that's right Right.

Speaker 3 2:51

I will tell.

Speaker 4 2:52

But no, it was so moving and it's just about. I mean, it just reminds us we need godly men, strong godly men, and it reminds us how important discipleship is.

Speaker 3 3:04

And so, yeah, and the prayer because prayer, because that mother and the little old lady, the prayer lady, they said lots of prayers.

Speaker 4 3:10

They did. Yeah, I think it's a Christ-exalting film and I highly recommend it. When it comes out, I think it's off the theaters now.

Speaker 3 3:18

Probably, and you can probably watch it before you turn 13.

Speaker 4 3:21

Yeah.

Speaker 1 3:21

How about that it before you turn 13. Yeah, yeah, how about that? I've watched plenty of 13 movies.

Speaker 4 3:29

I just have to watch them with like parents and siblings and stuff boring, yeah, so now, like you get to go to the movie by yourself and watch it, okay hopefully yeah, there's probably still some pg-13 movies you shouldn't watch, and me too, right, just because it says it's appropriate for a 13 year old doesn't necessarily mean anything these days just whatever my parents say do you like movies a lot um, I I rather watch like tv shows, but movies are they're, they're just like too quick, like it's a, it's a big story in just such a little time yeah and then a you get to like, you get left on cliffhangers.

Speaker 4 4:05

Yeah, it's drawn out. Yeah, what's your favorite show right now?

Speaker 1 4:11

That's hard, I'm going to say. I'm going to say DuckTales, Definitely I've watched. I've like watched it over and over again and just constantly. Like DuckTales Like the new one, not the old one.

Speaker 4 4:29

Is it a cartoon? Okay, it's animated. It's animated, yeah, animated.

Speaker 1 4:32

Okay yeah, it's about ducks and their uncle is rich and he goes on these crazy adventures to collect ancient artifacts.

Speaker 4 4:43

Okay.

Speaker 1 4:44

So he has this big money bin and stuff filled with gold.

Speaker 4 4:47

It's yeah, so I remember the old yeah ducktales yeah all right. Well, let's move on from movies and let's let's talk about quinn and his life, his long 12 years on this earth quinn's almost 13 you live in kentucky now, but you were not born in Kentucky. Where were you born?

Speaker 1 5:04

I was born in Texas and I was only there for two and a half years, so I don't really remember much of it, but I've mainly just grown up in Kentucky.

Speaker 4 5:19

But you've been back to Texas a few times to visit so what do you think of Texas? I've driven through Texas, but I've never stayed there.

Speaker 1 5:27

I don't like the weather. It's very hot and muggy. Their normal is like 102. Yeah.

Speaker 4 5:36

I remember when I was moving to Tucson, my stepdad and I we stopped in El Paso and we were in a big U-Haul and I had my dog with me and so we couldn't go inside. We wanted like a good meal. We couldn't go inside anywhere, so we bought like a steak dinner and we couldn't find any shade. So we pulled up behind a movie theater. We ate a steak dinner with my dog on the back of a U-Haul truck and it was miserably hot and I thought, well, you can tell who's from Kentucky. But yeah, it was miserably hot. And then it was even hotter. We got into Tucson and it was 114 degrees. It was July 4th, 114 degrees.

Speaker 3 6:15

Now is that where they say oh well, it's a dry heat, so it's not so bad, and it is and that's true, but 114 degrees is 114 degrees yeah.

Speaker 1 6:27

All the buildings. Like you walk into a building to go like eat and it's just insanely cold, yeah, so you have to like step back outside and take a moment to like sit outside.

Speaker 2 6:38

It's so cold.

Speaker 3 6:39

Yeah, why do they do that?

Speaker 1 6:41

I don't.

Speaker 3 6:41

Why do places do that, Make it so cold?

Speaker 1 6:44

Well, I mean, you walk in and it's just like a refreshment of like coldness. I guess it brings in more customers. Maybe I don't know, but I mean, the houses are even like that.

Speaker 4 6:55

So you lived in Texas and that's actually a really cool thing. It's like kind of a badge of honor, I think.

Speaker 3 7:02

Have lived in.

Speaker 4 7:02

Texas. Well, to be born in Texas, especially Like if you're in Texas, they want you to be born in Texas, like have that Texas blood, kind of thing. So good for you. But then you lived in Mississippi for a while.

Speaker 1 7:15

Yeah, I don't really remember that, but it was it's probably a good thing. That's probably a good thing. We stayed with my pet ball. I think it was just for four or five months, I think they were trying to find a house, maybe.

Speaker 4 7:39

I don't really remember.

Speaker 1 7:44

And then you've lived here now in Richmond or Madison County, at least for a long time, yeah, like 10 years or nine, I guess. Yeah.

Speaker 4 7:49

You grew up here, essentially.

Speaker 3 7:51

Now you don't live in Richmond, right? You haven't lived in Richmond. You're kind of in the county, is that right?

Speaker 1 7:57

Well.

Speaker 4 7:58

It feels like you're driving to Texas when you go to his house. It's a long way out.

Speaker 1 8:03

We're on that exact line of um madison county. Yeah so I can't. We're like right on the outside of it it's it's hard to get into a school, but we so you've been at kirksville.

Speaker 3 8:18

Right, you were at kirksville yeah, I was at kirksville and now you're at and we're. I'm at Ferristown now Ferristown, that's right.

Speaker 1 8:27

Okay, ferristown, you can forget what it was, but if you're just like a car rider, then it doesn't matter.

Speaker 4 8:35

I guess the county yeah, so what do you think about Kentucky? You like living here?

Speaker 1 8:40

Yeah, kentucky is a great place. I love the weather. You get all four seasons, isn't that nice yeah.

Speaker 4 8:49

We really missed that. When we lived in Tucson we appreciated warm weather in the winter. It was really nice, but man having all four seasons here is tremendous.

Speaker 3 8:58

Well Matthew's convinced that Lake Cumberland is going to be the new destination, the new Florida place, because you've got it's in Kentucky, it's by the water, it's cheap and you get all four seasons. So if you like a little bit of snow, you get a little bit of snow, but you don't get eight months of snow like you do up north. And if you like it a little warm, you get a little warm in the summer, but you don't get 900 degrees like you do in Texas or Florida.

Speaker 3 9:21

So, he's convinced everybody's going to start retiring there. So if you need a little hot tip on where to start buying land, yeah, I was going to say, well, I might buy some real estate.

Speaker 2 9:30

All these Californians moving in.

Speaker 4 9:33

So all right. So you've got a lot of friends here in Kentucky, You've grown up here, you go to school here and you've been at our church now for about two years. Yes, I know our church now for about two years. And we ask on your little interview forum why you came to real life. And you said because you didn't have a choice.

Speaker 1 9:51

Well, I don't. My mom just like, all right, we're going to go to a different church this week and I'm like, oh okay.

Speaker 3 9:59

You have smart parents.

Speaker 1 10:00

We go to a different church and it's this one, and I just never moved.

Speaker 4 10:05

I remember your first Sunday here, so generally when to a different church and it's this one, yeah so— we just never moved. I remember your first Sunday here, so generally when new people attend church they sit like on the back wall right, mm-hmm Quinn's family. They came in a little bit after service had started and they like marched down the middle aisle and they sit right on the front row where you need to wear a poncho for the preacher spit.

Speaker 3 10:29

Did that make you nervous?

Speaker 4 10:31

It was odd, I wouldn't say nervous, but you see this you always, as a pastor, recognize new people coming in and you want to kind of see their facial expressions, how they're responding.

Speaker 2 10:41

And they're on the front row and I'm like man they are judging me.

Speaker 4 10:46

And so that was kind of crazy. But but yeah, you guys just uh, yeah, I think you decided pretty quickly to make this your church home. So are you glad to have real life as your church home?

Speaker 1 10:54

absolutely I don't. I'm I've we've explored every church in this area and this is like the only one that we've really liked as much so is there some one certain thing that just? Attracted you more.

Speaker 4 11:10

It's the community the, the preaching you said community preaching yeah yeah, yeah, you like the community, so so you just feel really close to people here.

Speaker 1 11:21

Yeah, it's just like a. It's not a. It's not a church with, like well other churches. They feel like they're companies, you know.

Speaker 4 11:30

Oh yeah, oh, that's a good way to say it, it's like a family.

Speaker 1 11:33

Yeah, it's just like you know everybody and you're just so close to everybody. It's really nice.

Speaker 4 11:40

That's why we're called Real Life Community Church and that is so important. It's kind of a lost art because people are so hyper individualistic today and a lot of people actually. It's a turnoff because they want to be able to just go kind of hide in a church and not be talked to or held accountable.

Speaker 4 11:55

Slide in, slide out yeah, here at our church we kind of do life together, don't we? Yeah, that's really awesome and you are so plugged in and I love our young people Wendy, your daughter, abby and Quinn, you and your sisters, you guys all serve in the church.

Speaker 3 12:12

That's part of the community, right? You're using your gifts.

Speaker 4 12:14

So what ways are you serving right now?

Speaker 1 12:17

I do door greeters sometimes, but I want to be on the worship team and play a ton of instruments. I guess.

Speaker 4 12:31

Like accordion and kazoo and stuff.

Speaker 1 12:36

I don't know about those, but I could try.

Speaker 4 12:38

Yeah, but right now you're working on drums and keys, right, yep, and you're taking piano lessons right now, yep, and so, yeah, piano lessons right now, yep, and so yeah. So you're already making preparation for that. So you just went through a New Believers class here with Pastor Ron.

Speaker 1 12:52

Yep, how was that? I really enjoyed it. It was just very early.

Speaker 4 12:57

Yeah, it's pre-Sunday school hour, right yeah?

Speaker 4 13:00

it's a little hard to get up and get there, but I enjoy just the lessons and the people there, yeah, and the group and so, yeah, that's kind of a requirement if you're a new believer to go through that before you join a ministry, like the music team and things. But yeah, so you went through that and so we're ready to get you plugged in. We're hoping you guys at least some of you younger people can start leading some music, helping on like a Wednesday night once a month or something, and then work you into our Sunday services.

Speaker 3 13:31

But yeah, you're a big help. That's part of the whole ploy for the community, right? Because if you're involved in what's happening in your community, then it makes it more of your community.

Speaker 4 13:41

Yeah, we have kind of this philosophy around here and we didn't coin this, but we believe for this to feel like your church, you've got to have two things You've got to have a job and you've got to have a friend, and so you've got both right A job in the church. That's what I mean. Yeah, thanks for clarifying.

Speaker 4 14:00

Yeah, so if you don't work then, this is never going to feel like your church. No, a job within the church absolutely. Wendy, it blows my mind when people say, well, we're going to leave the church, well, why? Well, we just don't feel connected. Like if you don't feel connected in this church. I'm sorry, that's your fault.

Speaker 4 14:17

But my first question is do you serve, do you give, do you come to events and do you come to events and and do you do life with these people? If not, then absolutely you're not going to like when you come in late and leave early.

Speaker 4 14:28

No, you're not going to feel connected right, you're going to be isolated in a place that offers great community yeah and so, yeah, so you're, you're a huge help and and so thank you for for your just service and in helping out with greeting and then helping my son out on the media team running the computer.

Speaker 1 14:45

Oh yeah, that too I forgot. I do that sometimes as well.

Speaker 4 14:49

Yeah.

Speaker 1 14:51

Switch the slides for the song lyrics.

Speaker 3 14:54

Yeah.

Speaker 1 14:56

I actually asked my mom about. Like you know, I don't have a job yet, so I can't really like.

Speaker 4 15:02

Dude, you're 12 years old. You should have been working like since for like four years now I'm sorry, I just couldn't.

Speaker 1 15:07

I couldn't find one, it's just not nobody's hiring eight-year-olds, nobody pays them enough. They don't pay enough yeah so I asked her if I have to give 10 of all my money. I'm eventually just gonna run out of money because I mean I don't make you know.

Speaker 4 15:24

A regular salad.

Speaker 1 15:27

And she was like well, you have to serve in the church, you have to serve that 10%, you have to get on the worship team and open door, greet and all that.

Speaker 3 15:39

That's your tithe. I like it.

Speaker 1 15:41

Yeah. Your mom's smart yeah I mean, unless you want some quarters. Yeah, every little bit helps, that's right, yeah, I expect a quarter before you leave today.

Speaker 4 15:51

That's right. A lot of people just think, well, I've paid my money, I don't need to do anything else. But we have three resources that we have to give regularly, and that is time, talent and treasure, and all three of those I mean in order for the church to function properly and us to be able to support all the missionaries we do like. All three of those are so necessary. So, yeah, I just love, quinn, your heart for that. All right, so one of the coolest things that's happened in your life in the last just maybe year has been you received Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. So tell us about that.

Speaker 1 16:26

I mean, I've always wanted to do it because I've always, just, like, grown up in a church, I've never really had another option. And so once I was like I want to do this and my mom was like, okay, well then talk to Pastor Chris. And my mom was like, okay, well, then talk to Pastor Chris. And so I talked to you and I just decided to give my heart to Jesus.

Growing in Faith and Community

Speaker 4 16:51

Yeah, that's really awesome. And let me tell you something that I use this story all the time when I talk to people and share the gospel with them. I use your story because something really cool happened. You were interested in learning more about what Jesus' death and burial and resurrection meant and how to become saved and what it meant to be a follower of Jesus, and so you and I met with your parents. We met in the fellowship hall.

Speaker 1 17:15

Yeah.

Speaker 4 17:16

And I had a great conversation and I explained to you this is what it kind of means to be a Christian. And I said you know, it's a serious thing, it's a big decision. And I said, Quinn, are you ready to make that decision? And I thought you were going to go like, yeah, right now. And you just looked at me and you said I actually want to think about this. And I think that's a really good answer because it is. I think a lot of people make this decision without thinking about all the implications and so, like you essentially were saying you know, If I'm going to do this, I want to be all in, I want to understand it.

Speaker 4 17:56

And I want to make sure that I'm going to, by God's grace, follow through with this commitment. Jesus said to count the cost right. Count the cost of what it means to be his disciple. And so you came back to me, probably a few months later, and you said, hey, I'm ready to do this. And so when you made that decision, I mean it was completely I'm in it's. And so when you made that decision, I mean it was completely.

Speaker 4 18:16

I'm in it's heartfelt. And then we baptized you, and just so proud of you for making that decision to follow Jesus, and do you feel still really good about that?

Speaker 1 18:25

choice, absolutely. I think that you need to think about that before you do anything else. I mean, you have to just like. There's so many things you have to. There's a lot of sins and you have to repent all the time for those sins, Then I mean you have to continue to learn about him, because there's so much. The Bible's huge. There's so much to learn about him. There's still.

Speaker 4 18:54

Yeah, there's a lot to God, right. Like we're not going to figure him out in a week. Quinn, I've been saved since I was seven years old. I'm now 46, and Quinn's eyes just got really big. That was funny, and I've been a pastor for 25 years and every day I'm learning something new about God, and every day I'm learning something new about God. We never exhaust the greatness of God, and so it's pretty amazing.

Speaker 1 19:25

There's just so much to learn.

Speaker 4 19:28

So I'm so proud of you, quinn, for making that decision, and I've just watched you already I think you made this decision maybe right close to your 11th birthday and I've just seen you be faithful, you're serving Him, you're asking questions, you're learning about the Bible, as you said, and it's just great. So I'm super proud of you.

Speaker 3 19:51

So I have a question. So you're spending a lot of time. You're part of the youth group, so you guys have had your own class on Sundays for a while and then Wednesday nights. So I have a 12-year-old Abby and I see at school. As parents, we worry a lot about our kids and who they're influenced by. Do you think that being a part of the youth group in the community here helps you, impacts you, has a difference with how you interact with other kids and things that are happening at school?

Speaker 1 20:25

I think it impacts it, but I don't think it impacts it negatively. It's more positive because I mean there's a lot of kids nowadays who don't even know who Jesus is. So I have a couple of my friends they haven't even thought about it as an option.

Speaker 4 20:48

So I think being able to spread what I learn yeah, to spread the gospel right, the good news of Jesus.

Speaker 3 20:58

And feel confident and have that support, because the peer pressure I mean it's so easy to go in there. You believe in Jesus but all your friends don't and they tell you that you shouldn't, and they tell you all these things. I think it would be really easy to kind of doubt where you're coming from and doubt what you believe and doubt.

Speaker 1 21:20

You know what you believe I, I agree it's hard to not be influenced by your friends and that's why it's also important to just like be. It's just like really like, have a have, not like an argument as in like a a bad argument, but like a good argument. You know, you both, you both have these two ideas and you respectfully exclaim them and you both think about it. You know, think about the two ideas. Um, like I, I have a friend named lana who's actually in a different middle school. Her dad hasn't, uh, isn't, he's really into like the Bible, but he hasn't like like gone to a church, hasn't done these things, and we talked about Jesus and he seems to have like the right, you know, idea of him and I agreed with a lot of the things he said, but I also had a lot of disagreements with him, but we had both like exclaimed them and we talked about it and it was a very, it was a very good conversation. I enjoyed it. Yeah, very amicable, so you're not fighting and arguing, yeah that's really nice.

Speaker 1 22:25

There's no negative feelings.

Speaker 4 22:26

Yeah, and you know it is very important to share the gospel. I mean you have to do that, but at the same time you have to live in a way that's congruent with the gospel. You have to live by the biblical values. If you're talking about Jesus but you're living like everybody else at school, it's really hard for people to take your faith seriously. As a matter of fact, there are recent polls, like Barna polls from the Pew Research Center as well, that show that one of the top reasons that people aren't interested in our faith in America, in the West at least, is because we tend to not live much differently than the world.

Speaker 3 23:03

We say one thing and we do another.

Speaker 4 23:05

That's right, yeah, and I mean, everyone's a hypocrite to some extent, but just none of us act perfectly. But if you claim to be a Christian and nothing changes in your life, frankly your faith is probably a sham and people see that. So we call these nominal Christians name only and those people are really detrimental to the church. So I'm glad you're really living out your faith and one of the things, quinn, that I so appreciate about you because your mom if people listening don't know, your mom's my secretary.

Speaker 2 23:40

And so I see you quite a bit. Yeah, pray for her.

Speaker 4 23:44

I see you quite a bit and one of the things I love about you is that, man, you honor your father and mother so well, and it's not like this I'm just going to obey. I mean, you do obey, but you're genuinely glad to see her. You want to talk to her as soon as you come in from school, and that's just not the case with a lot of people your age.

Speaker 1 24:07

It's not what they want to do.

Speaker 3 24:10

But I mean you do have a cool mom. So I mean there is that yeah.

Speaker 1 24:13

She's pretty awesome. Cool, dad too Cool parents. What else am I supposed to do except talk to them?

Speaker 4 24:20

Yeah, and here's what's awesome as well. Yes, they're cool parents, they're very kind, but they're not pushovers, so they're not just your buddy going to let you do whatever you want.

Speaker 1 24:31

I mean, they have rules.

Speaker 4 24:32

You follow those rules to the best of your ability, but you also just want to be with them and you want to talk to them.

Speaker 3 24:48

It's just normal to you but that's really.

Speaker 4 24:50

I mean, I was a youth minister for many years and that's just really not the norm. So yeah, I hope through your teenage years.

Speaker 1 24:56

By God's grace you're able to hang on to that relationship like, yeah, um, in in school, my teacher, my math teacher, was like I don't know what she was talking about, but it was something about, um, her parents. And it's like when the summer, or no, when the fall comes back and school starts again, the parents are like yes, my kids are finally gone, and that's just. I feel like it's just so. It's like why do you not want to see your kids?

Speaker 1 25:24

yeah, it's like are they really that such a burden you know, I mean of course they're going to be hard to take care of, but you should still have enjoyable moments with them, you should still be loving to them and I just I was like, I was just like quiet and I was just thinking about that in the class and I was like, wow, I feel like it's just upsetting to hear that people, people's parents, don't want to be around them.

Speaker 4 25:53

Yeah, they just want to pawn them off right. Yeah, yeah, my wife, I mean just always. You know she wanted to work in the school system so she could be off with them in the summer. You know she just valued and treasured that time with them so much. And yeah, so, quinn, kudos to you. I'm so glad you have that relationship with your parents.

Speaker 1 26:16

I'm glad too.

Speaker 3 26:16

So so, so picking kind. So going back to the family, so you have two sisters and you have a brother. Now has your brother been at home. He's quite a bit older, right?

Speaker 1 26:28

Yeah, he's 21,. I think soon to be 22. So he's working on buying a house right now and I mean it's just he's. He's doing a lot of adult stuff.

Speaker 4 26:45

It's scary he's adulting, yeah, so so he's.

Speaker 1 26:48

He's been out of house for a little while he's not living with us. He's. He has like a, he's a camper and he lives on the other river.

Speaker 3 27:05

First off, I am 35 years old and I live in a van down by the river, so in a sense, in many ways you're like the boy of a. It's like you and two other girls.

Speaker 1 27:16

How does that feel? Well, I mean, I feel like it's just one girl now. I mean Ella's in college, so she's two hours away, and she doesn't come to see us on the weekends and stuff, so it's, I feel like.

Speaker 4 27:31

So it's you and Ayla.

Speaker 1 27:33

Just me and Ayla. I mean it's fun, but then again I want to spend more time with my other siblings and stuff and Ayla is about to be 18 in like two months, so there's—.

Speaker 4 27:48

She's going to be going to college?

Speaker 1 27:49

Yeah, she's going to be going to college too, and I'll just be home alone.

Speaker 4 27:54

Well, you're a smart kid, Maybe you could skip some grades and go to college with Ayla Probably could, but then listen when she moves out, you get all the attention of mom and dad and yourself.

Speaker 3 28:05

You better watch out.

Scissors Incident and Forgiveness

Speaker 4 28:07

All right, so let's shift gears a little bit. Odd question have you ever been stabbed with scissors?

Speaker 1 28:24

um. So in fifth grade I was at my reading class last class of the day was about to start and I was getting scissors. All right, no, I was gonna sharpen my pencil, um. And so I went to my friend and I was like, hey, could I get a sharpener? And she's like really, really tall, and so like I'm down here and she's up here, and so she just brings the scissors. She's like has the scissors in the pencil pouch so she's tugging on them because the zipper won't budge. But she has a grip on the scissors and so she tugs it open and I'm right there. So just she throws the scissors at me and my cheek got cut and I had to.

Speaker 1 29:02

We were. I grabbed some uh, what are they called? Tissues and I we ran down the nurse's office. But what's funny is the nurse was like really panicking about the scissors. So she was like calling my mom. She's like you have to get down here immediately. This is horrible. And I'm just like sitting there with the tissues. I'm like is my mom coming yet? And so she finally comes, and instead of going to like the ER because I mean, it's my face, she didn't want like a bunch of doctors rushing to stitch up my face.

Speaker 1 29:43

So we went to a plastic surgeon and they just stitched it up, but a lot calmer and more precise.

Speaker 4 29:54

Yeah, I was with your mom, I believe, when she got the call, and what was crazy to me is that she was so chill about this.

Speaker 1 30:00

She's just like uh-huh, uh-huh.

Speaker 4 30:04

She's like, yeah, stab him in the face. Okay, gotcha, I got a couple things to finish up and I'll be right there. But yeah, she was very even, which is nice, not to be hysterical. She cared, obviously, but she was able to think clearly and made a really good decision, I think. To get you to the plastic, surgeon.

Speaker 3 30:24

How many parents would think about, oh, I'm just going to take him to a plastic surgeon. The first thing you would want to do is like, oh my gosh, it's so bad, we're going to take him to the emergency room because there's something horrible happening. So to have that kind of foresight and calmness is pretty amazing.

Speaker 1 30:40

Well, she grew up with a lot of horses, and with horses you can't be scared around them, or else they'll be scared, and so you have to be as calm as possible when they're not so that it'll calm them down and I think she's like taken that to people as to people as well, because I mean it works the same way. It's like because people are so like empathetic and they just feel every, every other person's emotions yeah, but you do the same thing.

Speaker 3 31:10

I've noticed you know you're. You're one of those also real kind of chill people well I'm.

Speaker 1 31:16

I've also grown up around horses. She's taught me a lot about them, so I think I've done the same. But also I just learned from people in general it's everyone is freaking out, you should be calm, so nope. So everybody looks uh towards you, and that's also, I feel like in my friend group. Um, I'm like the kind of like the leader, like whenever I say something, everybody's like, oh yeah, absolutely. And I think that stems from that, because I'm I'm just a lot calmer in like heavy situations. Like one of my friends is crying and my other friend was like, hey, he's crying. I'm like, oh, okay. So I walked over there and I I gave him some food because he was hungry and he's just having a bad day, so but I was like so much calmer than my friend who was telling me that he's crying, so you know that's awesome, that's a good trait to have yeah

Speaker 4 32:14

back to that story just for a second. The scissors I bet the girl just felt awful, huh.

Speaker 1 32:19

Oh yeah, she was as soon as I left. She was like mortified and for the entire class she was like crying, and during recess she was still crying and felt so bad that she like killed her friend. And I come back and I'm like oh, thanks for the cookies, by the way, Because I got cookies from the surgeons that were there at the plastic surgery place, and so she basically just gave me a free cookie, which I'm not complaining.

Speaker 3 32:53

It didn't even hurt. How many people are looking at it that way? You know he's like's, like, oh well, it's a free cookie.

Speaker 4 33:00

Yeah, appreciate it, yeah well, you know, and I get to skip school as christians too, we're supposed to be forgiving, right, I mean that's. I mean it's imperative, but and now she didn't do it on purpose, so it's not that difficult to forgive, but um, I still couldn't imagine being the perpetrator in that situation.

Speaker 3 33:19

Well and again, a lot of people would have been angry at this person, you know at the very least you know why were you careless or why did you? You know, whatever. So, yeah, it's good of you to show her that kind of grace and empathy.

Speaker 1 33:34

I didn't even feel it as like grace. I was just like, oh yeah, and you kept me in the face, it's fine. I didn't even feel it as like grace. I was just like, oh yeah, and he kept me in the face. It's fine, I'm fine, there's nothing wrong here. I mean. I got a cool scar out of it.

Speaker 4 33:46

I got a free cookie and I got to skip school. You got to make up a good story for that, and a great story yeah.

Speaker 1 34:00

I mean, I just don't think of it as like if it's an accident and it's like something as like that, but they feel so bad about it.

Speaker 4 34:03

It's also just makes it more like oh yeah, you're fine you didn't do anything wrong yeah I mean you did yeah, it's like you did stab me in the face with scissors, but but you know, I'm, I'm fine, you, you know things.

Speaker 1 34:16

Things happen, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 34:17

Things happen, Okay. So we were joking about having you go ahead and skip some classes and graduate with Ayla, which would be great it would be. But if that doesn't happen, what do you hope to do with school and after school?

Speaker 1 34:32

Um, well, for school, I just. I think I'm going to focus on learning everything, even if some of the teachers don't teach me, you know, because some teachers are just not the best at their job.

Speaker 4 34:48

Do you want to name them? I mean sure you got.

Speaker 2 34:51

I'm just joking.

Exploring Passions and Prayer Requests

Speaker 1 35:06

You know, I try my hardest through all of school until I get to college and then I think that's a whole new thing, because that's when I really start to like get into the careers. So what do you want to be when you grow up? I have like a Google Docs of like a list of things because I don't really know. I can't really choose just one. I mean, you try one, it fails and you try the other. But I think my main one is just making music.

Speaker 1 35:31

It's like just like making writing songs. It can be for games, shows, movies or just like my own thing on Spotify or something, but I don't know. I just like writing music. It's very fun.

Speaker 4 35:45

What's your favorite genre of music?

Speaker 1 35:47

I like every version of music. Some I like less, some I like more, but it's all even. They're all respectful music. If you make them good, then it's just like it's all even like they're. They're all respectful uh music, and if you make them good, then it's good music. You know?

Speaker 3 36:03

yeah, I have a good appreciation for a lot of genres well, I mean, I was a music major here at eku and you, you didn't go to so I I was going to major in music I had a almost a full ride vocal scholarship to Georgetown, but ended up going a different route. So, yeah, it's probably a good thing.

Speaker 4 36:24

Yeah, it is. I probably wouldn't be here if I had gone that route.

Speaker 1 36:27

That's all right. That's all right. Would you let me to pull up my list? I have it like right here.

Speaker 3 36:33

Yeah, let's do it. Okay, let's do it here.

Speaker 1 36:39

Yeah, let's do it. Okay, let's do it of course you have a list of all of them. Hold on, it's taking a moment to load up. So I have music creator and writer. I love science and I love all kinds of science. So I have archaeology, astrology, psychology, psychology professor. I want to be an actor, a game designer, an animator, director, writer and music professor.

Speaker 4 37:16

Okay, so yeah, one of the rules of business is to have multiple streams of revenue.

Speaker 1 37:22

So if you do all those, you're gonna you're gonna be pretty successful wow, I'm glad I know you now I, I feel like all of these need all of your attention. Like, if you wanna, if you wanna be an astrologist, you have to. You know, you have to actually study all this stuff and you have to work on on on all this stuff, actually study all this stuff and you have to work on on on all this stuff.

Speaker 4 37:47

So that's why so my vote is psychology.

Speaker 3 37:48

That's what that's what my undergrad was in, and I will say my guess is you'll have no trouble finding a job in psychology.

Speaker 4 37:55

Yeah, yeah, you're such a good listener and talker and you're. You are empathetic.

Speaker 1 38:01

I think you'd be a great psychologist. Yeah, that's very true. I don't want to be like a. What are they? Therapists? I think you'd be a great psychologist. That's very true. I don't want to be like a therapist.

Speaker 3 38:07

I don't want to be a therapist.

Speaker 1 38:08

I just want to go and study some monkeys or something.

Speaker 3 38:12

You could be like a motivational speaker.

Speaker 4 38:15

You want to be a monkey therapist, I want to be a monkey therapist, that's perfect, but, like well, they study monkeys a lot because they're so similar to humans.

Speaker 1 38:23

Interesting Like their nature with other animals. I guess, instead of psychology it'd be like Monkeyology, monkeyology, yeah yeah.

Speaker 3 38:35

Well, I guess Dr Quinn. I think you should be Dr Quinn.

Speaker 1 38:39

Animal psychology Dr Quinn.

Speaker 4 38:42

Oh, that has a nice ring to it. You know there was a show Dr Quinn Medicine Woman. I don't remember that I know, what you're talking about.

Speaker 3 38:49

That was one of Mom's favorites, Dr Quinn Medicine Woman. I don't remember who the actress was.

Speaker 1 38:55

Dr Quinn Gabriel full gym.

Speaker 4 38:57

What hobbies do you have outside of making music?

Speaker 1 39:02

I love drawing. Drawing is fun. I mean, I'm not the best at it and I don't have all those crazy techniques, but I love drawing. Uh, I don't really play as much video games as I used to, but I do enjoy playing video games like, like which ones?

Speaker 4 39:20

you're a minecraft game, right? I love Minecraft.

Speaker 1 39:26

Yeah, and.

Speaker 3 39:27

Call of Duty, but that's not PG-13, is it yeah.

Speaker 1 39:32

Well, technically it's rated infirmature, but that's only for.

Speaker 3 39:37

Your parents know you're playing this.

Speaker 1 39:40

It's not. You can click a button to make it less, less than pg-13, because yes, it's just setting.

Speaker 1 39:49

Um, it gets rid of all the cuss words and there's not even that many. And the gore which there's, again, they're not that it's not realistic gore, so it's not. It doesn't really look like anything. I think mom, my mom, has like looked at the case and seen M for mature and she's like, are you really playing this? And I'm like, yeah, but for me I have a setting, and then she forgets about it the day after. But I like reading a lot too. I love books. Books are always fun.

Speaker 4 40:29

Leaders are readers.

Speaker 1 40:32

Yes, I agree.

Speaker 3 40:34

Entirely President Quinn.

Speaker 4 40:38

President Quinn. I like it, president Quinn, so all right. So we're going to do some rapid-fire questions, oh, boy, here we go. So just quick answers Favorite food Taquitos oh. So you must have changed your answer. Those must have just become your favorite food, like last night, because you put on here pizza rolls, right.

Speaker 1 41:02

I can't decide. I'm kind of stuck because I like pizza rolls, right, yeah, I can't decide. I'm kind of stuck because I like pizza rolls a lot, but then I also love taquitos a lot. But I also haven't had taquitos in a long time and taquitos used to be my favorite food until I had a pizza roll. And then I had a taquito again and I'm like I'm confused now. So it's one of the two. You can say both, I guess Okay. That was really rapid.

Speaker 4 41:29

What's your favorite vacation spot?

Speaker 1 41:33

Texas.

Speaker 4 41:34

Have you been anywhere else besides Texas and Mississippi?

Speaker 1 41:37

Yeah, I've been to Virginia. We went to a haunted asylum. It was pretty cool.

Speaker 4 41:46

That's where you got interested in psychology.

Speaker 1 41:50

Asylum, yeah, asylum, so like where crazy people go. Half of them weren't even crazy, they were all just probably women.

Speaker 4 41:59

Have you ever been to the beach?

Speaker 1 42:02

Not the beach. Well, I might have been to the beach. People were like, oh um, not the beach, but I've. Well, I might have been to the beach, but I don't really remember it, but I think I've been to like really really big lakes and ponds and it's like it's the same thing. It feels the same. You can just see the land on the other side, right you've got to go to the ocean at some point, though.

Speaker 4 42:24

Yeah, you're good, I'm good, okay, fair enough. Oceans are scary.

Speaker 3 42:28

Not a beach guy. I have a question.

Speaker 1 42:36

What's up? Well, I mean, technically, nothing is up or down, because the world is always spinning, and also everything that we take in is flipped upside down as an image in our eyeballs. Um, but really, the sky, the sky is up. Of course it is philosopher.

Speaker 4 42:51

That's right, quinn I don't think that's philosophy, but yeah, it might be so, on your form, you we ask if you have any prayer requests and you ask for a prayer for your grandfather. What's going on with him?

Speaker 1 43:08

He was—my mom went up there recently and he was very, very sick, and so we like made a bunch of food for him that he could, you know, eat for a while, and then he just kind of got more and more sick, and a couple months ago we figured out that he had cancer, and it was like it was either like a bloodstream cancer or like a bone cancer, but like it's very hard for him to move around and walk. He's been getting better, though. He's been eating more and has gained a lot more weight, because he was very thin and malnourished, and so that's why we made the food.

Speaker 4 43:54

And your major prayer request on here, which I love. You really want him to know Jesus.

Speaker 1 44:02

I don't know his status on that kind of thing.

Speaker 4 44:07

Yeah, so he's in my prayer journal. I pray for him that he would first for his healing but then that he would know the Lord as well, and so I hope, as we talked earlier about the importance of sharing the gospel, I hope that maybe the Lord will use you. How cool would that be if God used you to point him to Jesus.

Speaker 1 44:27

I love that. I need to go down there.

Speaker 4 44:32

It's not been down there in a while Because you know that it's not just a pastor's job to share the gospel.

Speaker 1 44:38

It's everybody's, it's the whole church.

Speaker 4 44:42

Man, I would love that for you, quinn, if you were able to just lead him to Jesus. By God's grace and the power of the Holy Spirit, you can do that, and so, if you're listening, take a moment and pray for Quinn's grandfather and ask that maybe God would use Quinn to lead him to the Lord. Well, quinn, you have done awesome today.

Speaker 3 45:02

It's been fun.

Speaker 4 45:03

This has been one of the most relaxed.

Speaker 2 45:06

It's good, quinn, yeah, he does that to you.

Speaker 4 45:08

Yeah, You're a chill dude man, I'm glad you're at our church, buddy.

Speaker 1 45:13

I'm glad I am too. Yeah, I really enjoy this place.

Speaker 4 45:16

And I look forward to watching what God does in your life. Okay, thanks in your life. Okay, thanks for being here.

Speaker 1 45:28

Now back to work. Go help your dad.

Speaker 3 45:28

Yeah, just tell him I have another podcast.

Speaker 1 45:29

We're going to do another podcast. We're doing the second part two.

Speaker 4 45:32

Part two, that's right, All right guys. Thank you so much for listening.

Speaker 3 45:35

Wendy, thanks for being with us today. Thanks, and yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 45:40

Until next time, thinking about this good life Cause we know what matters being together Forever friends. Oh oh friends, oh oh friends.