Real Friends Podcast
Real Friends Podcast
Randy Rosanbalm
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Randy Rosanbalm has been part of Real Life Community Church since its inception. Join us on this episode, Randy shares about his faith and family,
This episode includes:
• A humorous recounting of a parking lot mishap
• Randy's family background and connection to Kentucky
• The importance of faith and inviting others to church
• Personal anecdotes about family and church community
• The role of media in sharing good news
• Insights on maintaining faith through life’s ups and downs
• The significance of living out one’s Christian values
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Hello and welcome once again to Real Life Community Church, it's Real Life Podcast. I am Preshner Matthew Renaud here with lead senior pastor. I never know anymore, with the elder board and everything else in the flow charts, what your exact title is, but it is Pastor Chris May. Hi, how are you?
Speaker 1:Fantastic. How are you?
Speaker 2:Super, thank you. Well, I'm getting better by the moment after Sunday.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you've got to share a little bit about this crazy thing that happened to you Sunday morning. I came out in the foyer and you looked a little dazed.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was a lot dazed, to be perfectly honest. We had picked up my daughter from an overnight before coming to church, which she had insisted on the night before that she still wanted to come to church. So we picked her up, all her friends were getting ready to have pancakes. She wanted to be a church. God bless her.
Speaker 2:And then when we got to the church, wendy, my wife said, hey, why don't you run a McDonald's Coffee, apple pie, great idea. And we were in her car, which is a sport version of the one I drive lower clearance and it turned out she had the seat raised much higher than I would have anticipated. After the fact, I'll tell you I still had to scrunch to get into the car. I don't understand it because she and I are the same height, but I didn't come close to clearing the doorframe getting into the car and I hit the lower part of my head hard enough that it took a good 30, 36 hours for me to have what little sense I have in my life. Actually come back, have some semblance of comparative clarity.
Speaker 1:So I didn't realize this happened. This happened in the McDonald's parking lot. No, this happened here in the church parking lot when we were switching out.
Speaker 2:We dropped off Wendy because she was running lyrics, doing some of the media stuff, and then I was going to get in the car.
Speaker 1:Now you know me. I don't say that every mishap is related to sin, but could it be that God's judgment came upon you for going to McDonald's?
Speaker 2:It's always possible, but given that I wasn't going to give everything for me, I'm thinking. You know, I don't wish a head injury on my wife by any means, but God works in mysterious ways. If that was the particular case, so I'm willing to accept that.
Speaker 1:Well, hey, today we are so thrilled to have a guest with us who hasn't had a head injury in a while, no brain trouble, free to our knowledge.
Speaker 3:Randy Rosenbaum, known all across Richmond by everybody. He's with us, randy. Welcome to the Real Friends Podcast. Thank you all. And Matthew, I've done the same thing, the same instance where driving my wife's car had to adjust the seat. I got in a little too quickly. Now I take my time.
Speaker 2:I don't want to say that. That explains a lot. But okay, well, enough said on that.
Speaker 1:Well, your wife is pretty tall as well.
Speaker 3:She is, she is, but she does like to set up very close to the steering wheel.
Speaker 1:Yeah, when I get on ours, if Nikki's been in it, I mean she's not the tallest gal and literally my knees are like into my chest.
Speaker 2:Which is surprising, because you're not the tallest guy in the world. I guess you're closer to average now that I think about it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I resemble that comment he resents that remark.
Speaker 1:I am thrilled to have you on the show, Randy, and I'm learning things about you already from your interview form. I just assumed right away, I assumed that you were Kentucky born and raised.
Speaker 3:You were not born in Kentucky, no, Toledo, Ohio, home of the Toledo Mud Hens. But I always tell people I got here as fast as I could.
Speaker 1:When did you move to Kentucky?
Speaker 3:Probably 72, 73, probably with my parents. Originally my dad was a machinist retired from Link Belt. He was a machinist at GE Aircraft in Toledo, pratt Whitney Aircraft in West Palm Beach and then Link Belt here in Richmond. So a lot of the Southerners moved up north to find work.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so are your parents originally from Kentucky.
Speaker 3:Dad was born in Tennessee, maynardville, tennessee. Mom was actually born in Corbin, kentucky. Oh, all right, and they met on a blind date.
Speaker 1:So you still do have Kentucky blood, then I do have Kentucky blood, yes, all right. Well, that's a good thing. It's kind of like finding out a Texan wasn't born in.
Speaker 3:Texas. Oh yeah, I thought this interview was over.
Speaker 2:But you go to Houston, that's. All you'll find is people who aren't born in Texas.
Speaker 1:Well, speaking of Houston. You lived in Houston for a while.
Speaker 3:We lived there for about a year and a half and again my dad was down there working. They felt they had been actually called to Houston to be in the missionary field. Oh, is that right?
Speaker 1:I did not know that.
Speaker 3:Right right.
Speaker 2:What kind of mission work were they doing?
Speaker 3:They actually hooked up with a local church, started a local church in Houston and I guess I was small I was only in third grade, so I'm assuming they did that mission and moved back. Wow, I did not know that so a church planting, essentially, yeah church planting and actually my dad, Fernando Venezuela, died this past week, Played for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2:Oh sure, I'm of the exact age where that was during my sports learning formative years.
Speaker 3:Yeah, from Fernando Mania, yeah and dad actually got to see him play against the Astros in Houston. I'll be darned.
Speaker 1:Now was that in Nolan Ryan years as well, no, I think it was before Nolan. Before Nolan Ryan.
Speaker 2:I would say that their peaks were probably 10 years apart, maybe A little less.
Speaker 1:All right. Well, while we're talking about your dad, good old George Rosenbaum, he was here this past Sunday and he was at our men's breakfast on Saturday. Love your dad so much He'll love that I'll tell this story. 10 years ago, my wife and I my family we lived in Colorado and we took this pastorate and we had to get our stuff from.
Speaker 1:Colorado to Kentucky it's not a short drive and your father, who loves to drive. He flew out to Denver Airport and we met him there with the U-Haul truck and he drove all the way from Colorado to Kentucky. Yes, he did, and we were coming a couple of weeks. We had sold our house, we had to get our stuff here, but we were not coming. We were not going to make the drive for about two more weeks. So your dad drove the truck and then a group of people here met him at a storage unit. You guys unloaded it Right.
Speaker 1:And yeah, so I so appreciate him doing that he loves to drive.
Speaker 2:He does, he still loves to drive, so he's working for Toyota now right, he's working for Toyota. Was there any connection between the two of you or the family, or you and George prior?
Speaker 3:to that? Not at all. No, not at all. That's really something. Not at all. No, he just loves to drive the first time.
Speaker 1:I met. George was at the Denver airport handing him the keys to my U-Haul.
Speaker 2:Well, I'll tell you what to go from Colorado, where it's very interesting to drive, and end up in Kentucky, which is very interesting to drive in. You've got and I say this as somebody from Iowa and with all the love I can, but you've got a lot of, no matter whether you cut north or south, or go straight east and slowly meander south, you've got a lot of uninteresting in there.
Speaker 3:So you've got to really really love to drive, to make that particular one.
Speaker 1:And he does, and he does, and he drove an 18-wheeler for many years.
Speaker 3:So particular one yes, and he does, and he does, and he drove an 18-wheeler for many years. So you went to EKU, I did, graduated in 1990.
Speaker 1:And what was your major Broadcasting journalism?
Speaker 3:And you, you know a lot of people don't use their degrees, you know they end up in some other field.
Speaker 1:Oh, sure, sure, my brother's one of them.
Speaker 3:What's your, what's Sean's major Broadcasting journalism? Oh, okay, really, right, really, and he has not done that in any way, shape or form has he Nope, he sure doesn't.
Speaker 2:So while we're on that, let's take a step back and get I was going to use the phrase flow chart. That's not right. Let's get your kind of your family tree. Tell us something about your family and where they are geographically.
Speaker 3:Okay, dad was born in Tennessee, manorville, tennessee. I actually went to school down there and my mom grew up and was born in Corbin, a little coal mine in town called Lindkamp Black Star down in Corbin. Her grandfather you either work for the railroad or you work for the coal company and my dad's side of the family, his dad's brothers and them they owned a canning factory actually in Knoxville and they were heavily involved in the restaurant business. They actually met in a blind date by mutual friends in Irvin, kentucky, and my dad ended up. That's when he moved there.
Speaker 3:He moved to Irvin. He moved to Irvin in Estrill County, right there off Possum Run and we were just talking about this the other day. His brother-in-law had some property down there and some people had moved out of the house that he had just built and wanted to know if his dad and him and my grandmother would like to move to Irvin, move in the house on Possum Run, and they did and he was moved there when they were 14, and that's how they come and mom's good friend Wanda they actually knew each other from Northern Kentucky because my mom. They ended up moving to Northern Kentucky. My mom went to Holmes High School again for work. Her dad worked across the river in Cincinnati. And she goes hey, I know some guys in Irvin, you want to come back to Estill County, and well, what's this guy look like? And they actually met as a blind date and got married pretty soon, I think two years after.
Speaker 1:How did you and your wife Janie meet? How long have you guys been married?
Speaker 3:We've been married 29 years, 30 years next year, so I don't know if you have any listeners or anybody. I don't know. What do you get your wife for the 30th? What is that? Does anybody know?
Speaker 2:You leave the house.
Speaker 3:The gift is peace and quiet. But, yeah, almost 30 years next year. Janie and I met at Faith, Created Assembly of God at church.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay. So let's get into well, before we do that and you've got, ryan is your son.
Speaker 3:Yes, Ryan's my son.
Speaker 1:And then you have two stepchildren. Two stepchildren, amy and Emily, and and then you have two stepchildren, Two stepchildren.
Speaker 3:Amy and Emily. And then, how many grandkids do you have?
Speaker 2:Last, count eight, that's the best guess, the best guess.
Speaker 3:yeah, that's a, and it seems like they're at your house constantly at least one of them right, we do a lot, yes, yes, we do a lot with the grandkids.
Speaker 1:So you know Nikki, did Nikki tell you she's substitute teaching now?
Speaker 3:Yes, she did. She actually caught me in the parking lot before I came in and actually had Luke in class yesterday. That's what I was going to tell you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's funny she said Luke just kept looking at her going. You know he saw her out of her element out of church, you know and he kept looking at her. She said do you know who I am? Something like that. And she, she said do you know?
Speaker 3:who I am, something like that. She said yes, it's me, yes, it's me, I like that.
Speaker 2:Did he behave himself? That's what I want to know. That was my first question.
Speaker 3:And yes, he did. She said he did.
Speaker 2:I'm trying to think if that's the same story she gave me. Yes, it is, it is he's a great, great kid.
Speaker 1:All right, jump ahead a little bit too and talk about Real Life Community Church, formerly Faith Created Assembly of God. So your mom and dad do I understand? They were part of the founding members.
Speaker 3:Yes, journey Church. Garrick Williams is the pastor over there and that's where my dad goes. He hops around a lot. He visits churches a lot.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he comes here.
Speaker 3:Yes, he does. Semi-frequently he does, and so actually Garrick was talking about I don't know, perhaps you've seen the video on Facebook about the importance of witnessing and just inviting someone to church how it can change lives and he actually did. The chronological order of what happened when Dad and my mother met Norma at the Church of God out on Lancaster Road, that's how they first originally met.
Speaker 1:Norma and Gordon. Yes, norma and Gordon. So, just for the people listening, norma and Gordon are the founding pastors, founding pastors, right? So they met at Lancaster Church of.
Speaker 3:God, mom and Norma and Dad and Gordon was unsaved and, for what all accounts, a real hellion and she was afraid to even mention church. And my dad said, well, I'll go talk to him. And everybody was aghast, like are you sure you want to do that? Now? My dad has the reputation being Estill County and Tennessee and some of the people he hung out with my father's not afraid of anything. If anything, I've learned he's not afraid of anything, it's just in his DNA. So he said, well, I'll ask him and he'll talk to anybody about anything.
Speaker 3:About anything, it doesn't matter. So they met. They went out to eat. They were going to a camp meeting and I don't remember what camp meeting it was. But he said hey, gordon, we're going to have chili at this camp meeting. You should come and go with us. They didn't really expect an answer and that was just in passing, meeting him at his house. We're all going, you should come with us.
Speaker 2:Gordon said yes, Hard to turn down the possibility of good chili Maybe.
Speaker 3:I'll tell you that. So he said yes. He said yes. Garrett goes on to tell the story of how many lives that has changed. Matter of fact, Chris, you're sitting here today because of that one invitation to have Chile at Camp Meeting.
Speaker 1:Wow, that is really, did he get?
Speaker 3:saved that night. He got saved that night and totally changed the DNA of the family.
Speaker 1:That is really something Of everything.
Speaker 3:So if you, haven't seen that little video. I think Garrick put it out on Facebook.
Speaker 1:Oh, I need to watch this. I see a lot of Garrick's videos.
Speaker 3:It's just really changed the dynamics of, I mean, I would say, richmond and Madison County, I mean, and beyond of everything that's happened. Wow, by that, one simple invitation.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it is such a great reminder that telling people about Christ and even inviting somebody to church here they're going to hear the gospel every Sunday.
Speaker 2:Well, it's just like tithes or offerings. I mean, the Lord can take something that might seem small and just multiply it or turn it into whatever is in His will. And it's just incredible to think about how the ripple effects of that.
Speaker 3:It sounds like this affected hundreds thousands of people and some will never know, follow the effect.
Speaker 2:That's right, not this side of the grave but there will be a harvest and it will be wonderful.
Speaker 1:And one other point here is to never count anybody out, Never look at someone and say you know, I know Jesus can transform lives, but not this person. He's too far gone.
Speaker 3:And that was Gordon. Sowers.
Speaker 1:So I think because we just talked about this, I think last episode. No, we talked about this at our staff appreciation party, but I had texted you about when the church was actually founded.
Speaker 2:Oh yes, that's right.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Janie had told me that too, I think it's 1980, 1981. I was going to say 79 or 80, somewhere around there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was 80 or 81 is the answer that Janie gave me. So your parents in 1981 helped Norma and Gordon found this church and so you were coming right away to the church and helping.
Speaker 3:Matter of fact, in 77, I was in the rafters of this church helping them spread insulation oh, is that right, because I was small.
Speaker 1:I was up there just a few weeks ago.
Speaker 2:I hope it went better for you, Randy, than it did for me.
Speaker 3:It was I was much shorter I was much shorter Because I've been up there before as a grown adult. It's quite a bit different. It is.
Speaker 2:I don't know if I'm jumping ahead too far compared to what we were thinking of here, but I feel like this is a good chance to segue. So you're not crawling around inside ceilings anymore. But you help in a lot of different ways around the church.
Speaker 3:I do.
Speaker 2:Including some that still have you fairly elevated physically.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 2:Talk to us about some of the ministries you're involved in and some of the things you do around the church.
Speaker 3:Sure, sure, I help Dylan out with live streaming. I'm part of the live streaming crew, so we will rotate around and help him with live streaming and any kind of audio or video requirements, stuff like this. And then, matter of fact, we've done some things. During COVID, of course, we pre-taped a lot of things, a lot of sermons, and it goes far back as when Faith Created was on Spangler Drive. As a matter of fact, I first got us on the public access system because I was production manager at the cable system that we would take the sermons and put them on VHS and play them back over the public access channel on cable, which was back in the early 90s, you were also a deacon.
Speaker 2:You've served actually a couple of different times as deacon at the church.
Speaker 3:A couple of terms.
Speaker 1:yes, and so you've been here for over 40 years here at the church. It's hard to believe that 1980 was that long ago.
Speaker 2:I'm really trying to push that out of my head. The advent of Madonna, Prince and Faith Created, Just celebrated my high school 40th reunion a couple months ago.
Speaker 3:Yeah, how was that? So I guess that was last month.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Well, no, first of this month, october yeah, when we're taping. So that was 40 years yeah that's something.
Speaker 1:How would you think it?
Speaker 3:would be, have you been to your?
Speaker 2:I didn't even go to my 25 there's a uh, john, uh, the gross point, blank. A comedy, uh, with john cusack and his uh sister, who's for joan cusack mini driver, and it's about this character who's going back to his 10 year 10 year high school reunion.
Speaker 2:So I can only imagine how this relates to a 40 year reunion, but one of my favorite lines from that movie. It's kind of a throwaway, but uh uh. Jones character asks her not brother of the movie, but you know, asked john. You know, john asked her what was it like when you went to your union? It was as if everyone had just swelled yeah, does that.
Speaker 3:We wore name tags Because some of them I haven't seen in 40 years. So people change a lot in 40 years.
Speaker 1:Yeah, absolutely so. 40 years ago you came to this church and you're still here, as a matter of fact. I so appreciate you and Janie, you are one of very few. Actually, I think we have probably 10 people who are still here from years ago. Right right, carol and Winston. They've been here Now. They weren't here in 1980,.
Speaker 3:I don't believe, right, no, no.
Speaker 1:But yeah, they're still here, and so just grateful for your faithfulness and just a shout out to your bride as well. I don't know if we can get Janie on here, but we preached about. Yeah, she's kind of in the background and kind of quieter.
Speaker 2:You make up for it.
Speaker 1:She's an introvert. Yeah, you're extrovert enough for the both of you extroverted enough. So we were. You know, I'm going through a series on the fruit of the Spirit and we were talking about faithfulness and loyalty, dependability, that kind of thing a few weeks ago and Nikki and I were talking you know, nikki runs our kids' ministry here and she was saying I said who comes to mind when you think of dependability, faithfulness? And both of us thought of Janie. She is one. A lot of kids' ministry isn't the easiest, let's say. A lot of times people call in, they're supposed to be working and Nikki is frantically trying to find someone. She knows she can always call Janie.
Speaker 1:We try not to take advantage of her, but she never says no, unless she just absolutely can't be here.
Speaker 3:Well, janie enjoys kids, she enjoys kids, so that's a good thing.
Speaker 1:But yeah, you both are just such loyal people and you've been such encouragers to us and so faithful to the church. So thank you. I want to tell just the quickest little Randy anecdote.
Speaker 2:I think this is during one of his terms as a deacon. But, you talk about. You know it's a short and painless one, I promise. But I remember one night I don't know what it was, maybe a year ago we had one of the toilets in the men's bathroom.
Speaker 3:Oh, I remember that Vacation Bible school.
Speaker 2:That's bathroom. Oh, I remember that Vacation Bible school.
Speaker 3:That's right, so it was not this summer, but the summer before. I remember this.
Speaker 2:And I wasn't in the media vicinity but I was pretty close and I'm seeing all this water and nobody else right there and I'm like, well, all right time to figure out where they keep the cleaning supplies, because it's not going to take care of itself. And again, it was so new keep the cleaning supplies because it's not going to take care of itself. And again, I didn't even, it was so new I didn't even realize anybody else had seen it. And by the time I found a mop, you know, guess who's already. You know, guess who's already working on it, you know.
Speaker 3:My feet were already wet, you know, sweating half to death and putting away.
Speaker 2:You know there's no questions asked. Nobody's got to ask Randy to do anything. If you see something that needs doing, that's what you do as a member of a church and I believe you're still serving as a deacon at a time I may have been. You just grab it and go. I made an effort, but nobody was faster on that than Randy.
Speaker 3:Well, gordon Sowers, pastor Sowers always had this great quote find a need and fill it. That's right. It's that simple, because many times and I learned a lot from him many times I found him cleaning toilets and then giving the message the same day. I mean, you do what you have to do.
Speaker 1:That's right, and one of the things that I really try to preach around here is ownership. Yes, Like this is not my church, it's the.
Speaker 2:Lord's church.
Speaker 1:And then collectively as members of this body. This is our church as well, right right.
Speaker 2:Right, if we're to live life together, while we will get together in fellowship and small groups and socially other places, I mean this is where the lion's share of that is going to happen, absolutely.
Speaker 1:We have a lot of people here who will jump in when they're asked, and I'm grateful for that. Sure, sure, but I love it when people, without being asked, see something that needs to be done, just as a, for instance, I pulled up one. I think it was like a Tuesday or Thursday and there's somebody just pulling weeds out back. Nobody had asked them to do that and you know a lot of people would pull them if asked. But you know you keep your yard pretty pristine and so if you saw a bunch of weeds you're going to take care of them. But in many people who are like that in the church, they'll walk by those weeds time after time again, never do anything about it. So I so appreciate when somebody takes it upon themselves to say you know what? This doesn't look good.
Speaker 1:I'm just going to do it. And then what's so interesting too about this and you're like this as well. Had I not pulled up, I'd never known that this person was doing it. It wasn't for self-glory.
Speaker 3:It didn't matter, right, I just cared about the church and took care of it Absolutely.
Speaker 1:So we mentioned Norma and Gordon and so grateful for the legacy that they left and just for their work to make this church what it is. They left just for their work to make this church what it is. But you'll get a kick out of this. You'll be able to expound on this a little bit more, but we pulled up to the church about over 10 years ago, nikki and I I turn to believe we had flown in to candidate interview and all of that, and we were not greeted by people. We were greeted by a herd of cats. Yes, and Randy, I thought what is going on? I mean they were everywhere. Yes, I mean dozens, if not over a hundred, like there were cats. Is that an exaggeration?
Speaker 3:Oh no, they were everywhere. Feral cats everywhere.
Speaker 1:And so I thought what is drawing them to this church? Yep and Randy, one day I'm here working and I see a car pull up to the end of the front parking lot and a lady gets out older lady, and I couldn't tell who it was at first. And she opens the back door and pulls out a big pan and I'm like what is happening? And I go to look and it is full of cat food. Yes, and that happened to be who.
Speaker 3:Norma Savard. She a definite animal lover and she cared about animals. She didn't care what kind of animal, and they were God's creatures. She's taking care of them.
Speaker 2:We are supposed to subdue the earth. One might wonder if that's exactly what the lord had in mind.
Speaker 1:But feed the cats.
Speaker 2:Who am I to question?
Speaker 3:a lot of cats. But you know, maybe you could, maybe you could take the pan and put it over it.
Speaker 2:You know the baptist church up there.
Speaker 3:I put it in their parking lot.
Speaker 1:The cats wouldn't know to go there so norma had something in law and in common with kamala, uh cat lady, uh well she was a cat lady, dog lady, chicken lady, dog lady, cow lady, I mean it was— oh, imagine if chickens or cows had been here to greet you, pastor.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3:Right and back in the day they might have been, he'd be back in Colorado and if she couldn't make it she would tell Gordon, you've got to go feed my cats.
Speaker 1:And you know what's crazy is like. The church was designed around the cats because, I came up. I love you know, the dark mulch right, I love that really clean. Fresh look of dark mulch and there's lava rock everywhere and I thought what? Why do they have lava rock here? And I think it's you who told me, because the cats were using this as a litter box. Absolutely so we can't have mulch.
Speaker 3:Absolutely. So we can't have mulch, absolutely, we've got to put the lava rock up. We took it all out and, gordon, we made the decision to take all the mulch out and put the lava rock in I would not have thought of that until it was far too late.
Speaker 1:But it was insane and I'm a cat guy, I like cats and I hate to admit that. But, matthew, you and I share that, so we're all right.
Speaker 2:So, in case anybody's taking a break and coming back, this is the Real Life Community Church, real Friends Podcast, the Cat P episode. That's right.
Speaker 1:Wait, what? So? Yeah, what we ended up doing, I mean, it was getting out of control. They were reproducing like crazy and so we ended up calling the Humane Society. They would not take them, but they came, picked them up, fixed them, spayed or neutered and then brought them right back. But now that has helped and we might have just a very few cats now.
Speaker 3:And Norma was part of that program. Oh, was that right? As a matter of fact, I think her middle son, doug, he was more like his grandpa. He would talk very bluntly, much like norma, and he would say norma, I wish I had the money that you would give to the relocation of cats and and other to try to get them fixed and neutered and and they should have got mission's credit for that. They should have, but you can't do that anymore that's a new program called feeding and snipping.
Speaker 1:I like it and Snipping, I like it. All right, so we've talked about church. Let's talk a little bit about your spiritual life outside of church. So when did you come to know the Lord?
Speaker 3:I'm going to say I'm going to have to refer to my notes. What did I write down on my notes?
Speaker 2:I think it was last week. It was last week, no.
Speaker 1:Service was really moving. It was, you said, around 13 years old.
Speaker 3:Yeah, around 13 years old at church camp at Crestwood Kentucky.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so our students still go there every year. Yeah, my daughter.
Speaker 2:She went twice this last year.
Speaker 1:Growing up in church, I mean it's often said you can't ride your parents' coattails to heaven. You've got to have your own moment your own personal relationship with the Lord Jesus, and so that became real for you around 13 years old Around 13, 14 years old at church camp in Crestwood, kentucky.
Speaker 2:That's the reason, janie, and I always support kids that want to go to camp. It's very important. Did you have a particular influence there, something in particular that happened? I know you grew up in church, so is that when you maybe just sort of became old enough to really critically think?
Speaker 3:and grasp everything Right? Right, I think so. And of course, back then there wasn't a swimming pool, we didn't have any air conditioning in any of the dorms, everything was open air. And, a matter of fact, years and years later our church donated and Pastor Sowers donated all the drywall where they actually enclosed the sanctuary and everything. So we went up there to work a lot as well on Camp Crestwood, and now I think it's just being overtaken by development around it. But it actually used to be out in the open. I mean, it used to be.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, it's definitely. It feels like it's in, oh sure, in suburban Louisville.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, it's definitely. It feels like it's in well within greater Louisville. Oh sure, in suburban Louisville. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah. So that was very important and a lot. You're just immersing yourself with Christ the whole week basically that's what it is.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so did you pretty much. I mean, continue to grow in Christ from that point, Did you have a rebellious time in school or anything? I'm sure I did.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you could ask my mother and father. I'm sure some of the things you would not tell until you got older, but lots of times your parents know a lot more than what they tell you that they know. My mom would say I knew that.
Speaker 3:And I would think she didn't know that, right, and my dad would say I didn't know that. Why didn't you tell me you know? So I mean, but yeah, and really from you know high school, a little rebellious years in college because you're opened up for new opportunities, new people. You want to show off.
Speaker 1:You want to. You know different things. Did you stay at least grounded in church during those years? Yeah, I did, and that's kind of my testimony. I had a, you know, I was saved at seven years old, had a little bit of rebellious years, but I just I was so grounded in church and so I didn't go, you know, go way off the beaten path kind of thing.
Speaker 2:Exactly right, you had to cut a rock and roll album or two, or whatever it was and then you were fine Well in fairness, it was Christian rock.
Speaker 3:Absolutely right, christian rock.
Speaker 1:Let's talk about what you do for a living, because you're in media communications, so that was your major as we talked about at EKU, and you hit the ground running and you've stayed in that field. So what do you do now?
Speaker 3:I pretty much tell people I'm a hired gun. Of course I operate Madison County, Live Colleen Spencer and I came up with that concept several years ago.
Speaker 3:Colleen is our chamber president Chamber president and I said, hey, you want to do a show with me? Nothing about anything else except good news. And she said well, I don't know. I said I think you have the right personality, along with mine, to keep my personality in check, because sometimes Randy will stick his foot in his mouth a lot, so a lot of times. She was the check, but she prayed about it for about a month and she decided to do it. So we do Madison County Live. I've been doing that for oh my gosh, I guess almost six years now.
Speaker 1:And what is Madison County?
Speaker 3:Live it is just simply about good news. In Madison County we talk about good news events. Of course, we do Pet of the Day, we do a little weather forecast and we do it every night.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so it's a live video show.
Speaker 3:Live video show on Facebook. Now, it's just me. She was trying to keep it up and do it the same with her schedule at the Richmond Chamber of Commerce. Of course, I knew she probably wouldn't be able to include everything, but it's just me.
Speaker 1:I do it just probably about 60 minutes. I feel like she's still on there a lot though, isn't she A lot?
Speaker 3:of people see us out and they love our show, even though we have not done the show in like a year and a half together. But they still say I love your old show.
Speaker 1:But she comes on camera still but she still does come on camera.
Speaker 3:We do some chamber chats with her. We're together, we work on various projects with the city and the county and you know different things, so it's not like we don't see each other.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and was Samantha Burford on there as well?
Speaker 3:Samantha. Is Berford on there as well? Samantha? We originally started out with Samantha and Michael Watkins. Back in the day was the first episode. Yeah, look at me, because I worked for Wallingford Media along with Michael yeah and of course Samantha Berford and I go way back to the cable television days. She first started working with us when she graduated UK in oh dear 92, maybe I think 91 or 92 when she graduated UK.
Speaker 2:Were you ever tempted to go any other direction along?
Speaker 3:the way, or have you just been?
Speaker 2:fully in love with the journalism and media the whole way.
Speaker 3:I've liked the media. I've had opportunities to do other things and I thought I'm pretty good at this. So this is what I do and of course people will hire me to do live streaming events or videos or programs, special programs, documentary-type stuff, different things like that. So I've worked freelance for lots of folks, from ESPN, horse racing to basketball to SEC KET.
Speaker 1:And you worked for the city of Lexington, did all their video content for quite a while.
Speaker 3:I did work for the city of Lexington, for the mayor's office, for 15 years.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, it's really interesting. We have a connection that goes way back. One of my best friends, rick Painter, used to own a tire store, Painter Tire in Winchester Right.
Speaker 1:And he had. I mean remember as a kid Rick was a little bit older than I was and so as a kid I was watching his commercials and he became a friend later on in life but he had the goofiest commercials but they got your attention. I still remember them today and he had one of the most successful quick oil change tire stores and come to find out. So Rick came to church not too long ago to visit and I found out that you are the one who recorded his commercials all those years ago.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, me and many others. The great thing I miss back in those days you only had a couple of outlets. You either did radio broadcast or cable or newspaper. There was no other. If you wanted to get the message out, that was other than a sandwich board. You know, on the side of the road in front of your place of business, there was no other outlet for that, and so well, whereas now it's a mishmash of everything. I mean, when I do projects, I do literally everything I do. You know, I want to get this hat that says please bring back horizontal video.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 3:I mean everything is square or vertical Vertical yeah. Horizontal.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're recording right now vertical video.
Speaker 3:Absolutely vertical video, and so that's what I miss about the old technology. It was a lot of fun, it was a lot of work, but you had a lot of fun, a lot of creativity, because you had to make that commercial last, because a lot of work, but you had a lot of fun, a lot of creativity, because you had to make that commercial last, because a lot of these people's budgets were. I mean they couldn't afford broadcast or radio or cable. I mean you were kind of left out. What would you do? I don't know what you would do.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so let's talk about media for just a minute, because we are all tired of what we might call corporate media, and I think that's a really good name for big media corporate media because I feel like they're bought by politicians and corporations and all of that, and so we hear about fake news all the time and literally I don't care what news outlet it is big media outlet. I feel like you can't trust anything. I don't remember that being the case. Growing up, journalism was just journalism. It didn't feel agenda motivated. Is that true?
Speaker 3:I think so because I think the biggest detriment is, of course, free social media. You're not paying for that, you are in a roundabout way through advertising and things like that. But I think the biggest concern I have as far as journalism same thing with the newspaper, radio and broadcast TV is there's no, to me there's no factual-based journalism.
Speaker 3:I have a great story. When I was at Eastern, one of our professors was Dr Carol Wright. She used to work for the Detroit Free Press and she was very adamant about being fact-based. No opinions, just the facts, ma'am, that's what it was. And I remember she got us a free subscription to the Detroit Free Press and she actually knew the editor-in-chief at the Detroit Free Press and our first one of our editions we got that we would basically critique the Detroit Free Press.
Speaker 3:She would go down the line and I remember one time they made an editorial comment on a headline big, bold letters with an exclamation point. I don't even remember the subject, but I remember when she got that paper she had the class get up and said everybody to my office. We all went to her office. She called the publisher of the Detroit Free Press. He knew who she was and I don't know. I'm just going to say Bob was his name. I'm not sure, bob, I am trying to teach these kids to remain unbiased and you make an editorial statement in your headline on the front page of today's paper. Oh, carol, I don't know what you're talking about. She said my God, man, look at the type and font of this. You only use this in Jesus Christ's second coming. Is that right? And she continued to berate him over the phone on speakerphone and we're all—.
Speaker 1:That is so great.
Speaker 3:And we don't have that anymore.
Speaker 3:No, I mean, growing up I never could tell, I could never definitively say I didn't know anyone's let's say political bent Right Never knew Yep Right and you're not supposed to here's what's happening Exactly and that's continued, I think with all the avenues and distribution points and corporate media, because you know, corporate media it's only owned by two or three owners, Right, and I think that really hurts and I'm really concerned because of journalism from the press aspect, from newspapers, and I'm concerned that things aren't covered to keep checks in government, individuals and businesses, because if that person or corporation is spending money with you, they don't want to lose the ad dollars. That to me is not journalism, that's right and I think that's a big major.
Speaker 1:Let me tell you what I love now. I love and I think I hope it moves more and more in this direction but independent media, particularly podcasts. That is growing by leaps and bounds. And yes, and I love it. I just I'm telling you I'm sold on. I hope that more and more people get their news from independent sources.
Speaker 3:Yeah well, and the reason I'm concerned with newspapers is you know newspapers you have to think back to the constitutionality Back then newspapers was. That was the only way to get your information. And when they talk about freedom of the press, a lot of people forget what freedom of the press actually meant. It was to keep a check on your government. There was literally no other purpose for the press and I think a lot of people, yes, they report other news items, but the fundamental reason you have a local newspaper is to keep a check on your government. What's happening? What are they doing? Why is this happening?
Speaker 3:Because in print you can get more in-depth and more involved, not 30-second sound bites If that it's more investigative journalism, and I'm like you Because in print you can get more in-depth and more involved, not 30-second soundbites if that it's more investigative journalism. And I'm like you. I don't remember it being biased. When I was growing up, when I was watching the news, you couldn't really tell. But now there's so many avenues and, like I said, distribution points of other people's opinions and stuff.
Speaker 3:I think you're going to see more and more of the Joe Rogan where people just come on and talk. Let's just talk and see how you do, see what your response is, and it's not a crime to change your mind or adapt or you know, I don't know that's a good point. I never had thought about it, so I think you're going to see more and more of that. But I'm really I've always been concerned with the decimation of newspapers and ownership of newspapers because of the journalism background, because I used to write a lot when I was at Eastern for the Progress, so that's the reason I had that journalism background of writing for news.
Speaker 1:Is that EKU's paper?
Speaker 3:That is EKU's paper and back then I mean our professors there was nothing off limits. And you hear all the time certain things, certain things newspapers won't touch today because they're off limits. They won't touch them, and to me that's not journalism. It's not journalism.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's probably what needs touching on the most. Oh yeah, absolutely Absolutely.
Speaker 3:So I'm really concerned about that, but I know it's not a journalism show, but that's just part of it. But what you said is true. I think that's why you see a lot of these other avenues popping up, of people going on different shows, doing podcasts, because it's free and open to start one tomorrow All right.
Speaker 2:so I'm going to jump in here, since we're on the subject of the good news, the best of the good news, and let's bring that back to your walk with Jesus and your sharing of the good news and how you live your Christian life. Is there something specific that you want to ask to start off, pastor, or should we just let Randy run?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I just would love to hear You've been walking with the Lord since 13 years old. How has that impacted your life, even in the business?
Speaker 3:world at home. As a father, what's it been like walking with Jesus? I think the most important thing is everything I've learned is through my parents, being brought up in a Christian home, and not necessarily, maybe, what they said, but what they did, because people watch everything you do. It's like all the grandkids and all the little kids watch what you say around your parents, I mean, and your kids, because the kids will repeat. They will repeat. They are watching. When you're not being watched, people watch you. When you think you're not being watched, people are watching you. Well, he doesn't do that. Look what he did.
Speaker 3:Now, I'm not saying I'm not human, but my walk is I basically do I treat others like I want to be treated? I think that's a great Jesus concept and if you can't say anything nice about someone, just don't say anything. If you don't have to, jesus is the way, and I think that's where people get into. Oh, I believe in God. That's why I'm not talking about God. What about Jesus? Right, and I think that's where Jesus talks about. You choose me, yeah, there is no other way.
Speaker 2:Oh sure you choose me. Yeah, there is no other way. Oh sure, Because the golden rule is anybody who's studied any kind of comparative religion will tell you, is the basis of, you know, is the, or a basis of nearly all of them? Right, but okay, why do we treat others the way we want to be treated? Is that just for our own preservation, for our own survival, to keep things civilized? No, we have the reason that we do it, that it's not for us but to point on, absolutely.
Speaker 1:To the Lord.
Speaker 3:Jesus Christ. That's right. Right and early on the name. They were called the Way, not Two Ways.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's right, not Three Ways the Way.
Speaker 3:It was called the Way, and so I like to ask people when they have their relationship. Well, I believe in God, I go to church, I go. Well, what's your relationship with Jesus Christ? That's the dividing line.
Speaker 1:That's exactly right. That is so rich. That is why Jesus came to divide.
Speaker 3:I mean, that's the whole reason and because you see it all the time, people will call themselves Christian. And you know, pastor Matthew, christian only means one thing. It means little Christ. There is no other meaning, and I think if you do the things that Jesus said to do, that's a perfect map.
Speaker 2:Yeah, otherwise you're simply a deist. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and I think, and are we all perfect? No, hence the reason for Jesus Christ, and I meet people that also say I need to get this cleaned up, this cleaned up, this cleaned up before I come to Christ.
Speaker 1:It's like you'll never come to Him then that's not the purpose.
Speaker 3:That's the reason you have Christ. It's like you'll never come to Him then. That's not the purpose. That's the reason you have Christ. We can't do it ourselves.
Speaker 1:And then he cleans you up. And we've been talking about the fruit of the Spirit, these virtues that we have. Paul doesn't say try to get love, joy, peace, kindness, goodness. He says this is the fruit of the Spirit. We are indwelt by the Spirit, which means we have it. He says walk in it. These are gifts of grace, and I love as we're talking about this and pointing others to Christ through the way we live.
Speaker 1:We were created in God's image. That image has been tainted by sin, but we're not saved just so we can quote unquote go to heaven someday. We are saved so that that purpose and that image can be renewed. The Bible says in Romans 8, we're being renewed Day by day. We're being renewed into the image of Christ, and that's so vital. So when we treat others as we want to be treated, when we turn the other cheek, when we do these things that the Bible tells us to do walking in love, joy, peace, kindness, goodness, all of those things then ultimately we are displaying God's character, his attributes, his goodness to a very, very dark world. We're called to be a light to the nations, right, right, and that's how we do that.
Speaker 3:And Paul said I die daily.
Speaker 1:That's right.
Speaker 3:The cleansing process goes on every single hour of every single day. That's right. The cleansing process goes on every single hour of every single day.
Speaker 1:That's right. Yeah, it's a daily decision to get up and to say am I going to reflect my own glory, my flesh, today, or am I going to really live today to display the glory of God? It's not an easy choice. No, no, it's not. You know this earth is marred by sin, but I love you know we talk about this all the time around here. Yes, heaven is a real place and if you know, we pass before the Lord's return, we will go there. But the most glorious news is to get to Revelation 22, to know that this earth is going to be renewed and heaven and earth will overlap, and so our home is not going to be in the sky somewhere, it's here on earth.
Speaker 2:I just don't even think about it as a for lack of better ways a physical, a specific kind of physical space, whatever. You know, that's probably not the right way to phrase it, but to me and maybe I'm off on this but heaven, you know, we're separated from God. That's why this is no longer heaven. What defines heaven, I think, is when we are in God's space, whatever that means, whether it's in the clouds, down here, in a different dimension.
Speaker 2:However you think of it, it is not the goal to. I can't remember where I've been seeing this, if it's on one of our lyric screens or somewhere else. But the goal with the Christian life should not be to get to heaven. The goal of the Christian life is to reunite with God.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and so yeah, kind of the way that the Jews would have understood. You know, the ancient Jews would have understood heaven is heaven is essentially God's space, earth is our space, and in Eden those spaces overlapped, and so when that chasm was made because of sin, where heaven and earth were separated, so to speak, god didn't abandon the project he has desired and longed to be with his people, and so he gave the Jews the tabernacle and then the temple, and that was, would you say, microcosm.
Speaker 2:Yeah, of what things were originally which was the earth as cosmic temple.
Speaker 1:That's right.
Speaker 2:So when that gets built up again, Randy will be running live stream and media.
Speaker 1:That's right, but I love that God hasn't. Just like he hasn't abandoned us as human beings, he also hasn't abandoned his good creation of the earth, and that is going to be renewed. It's going to be a new and better Eden, and I just love that thought. So we're almost to the Joe Rogan length of a podcast. So, randy, how do people find your Madison County Live?
Speaker 3:show. It's very easy. You can search it on Facebook and YouTube. Madison County Live.
Speaker 1:And what time does it live stream?
Speaker 3:every night, monday through Friday at 830.
Speaker 1:But you can of course go back and watch it, or you can go back and watch as many times as you want. Yeah, if you're here listening and you're part of this church, randy, I'd encourage you. Or really, no matter who you are, you like the show. How can they help you? Share the show. Oh yeah share it, like it, follow it, comment, love it it facebook likes.
Speaker 3:If you love it now likes, don't get as many, oh yeah, you have to love it.
Speaker 2:Things. Yeah. Oh, I didn't. I'm not on facebook, so I didn't know that it would change. There's not like a spectrum of responses matthew's like what's this facebook?
Speaker 1:you speak of shame.
Speaker 2:I'm familiar with the twitfacefacebookcom, but I do not participate. I let my wife take care of that, because I know my psyche, I know know my weaknesses and it's just better for me to not be on it.
Speaker 3:I'm a fast scroller, matthew, so I take everything in stride, but I do have to admit I have to watch myself. On the political side, I am a political junkie so I can get caught up in the arguments with folks and different things. I'm sort of like I had an argument with a friend of mine several years ago and I was quoting some CS Lewis stuff and he said that he thought he knew more than CS Lewis and I said well, I'm sorry but we're going to have to end this discussion.
Speaker 2:I read somewhere that a great way or maybe you've been preaching on it a great way to get through those situations At some point, no matter how much you disagree with somebody or how silly what they're saying seems to you or just factually is, you know you may be right.
Speaker 3:It's not admitting that, it's not saying they're right, you may be right. It's not putting anybody on the defensive, that's true, and there's really not a reasonable response to that.
Speaker 2:That's true, and a reasonable response to that that's true.
Speaker 3:My mother would fight everybody with Scripture. Choose to believe it or not. That's just what the Bible said. I can't do anything else.
Speaker 1:Well, let's move into our rapid fire.
Speaker 3:We like to end with some questions, rapid fire these personal questions.
Speaker 1:They are oh incredibly.
Speaker 3:Okay, good.
Speaker 2:But you don't get to pass. This isn't that kind of game.
Speaker 3:Favorite food. This isn't that kind of game. Favorite food, favorite food, yeah.
Speaker 2:Probably a good ribeye steak. Okay, in your paperwork you had mentioned gumbo and I wanted to ask how gumbo Is that from your brief time in Houston?
Speaker 3:No, no, actually, I don't know. I made it one time from scratch by myself and I had it at actually Bourbon in Toulouse in Lexington, a long time ago when they first opened up. I have a my sister-in-law actually knows the owner and I had it and I thought that's good, I think I can make that. And then I thought I like some good gumbo.
Speaker 1:Now do you go to Keeneland?
Speaker 3:Well, I used to work a lot at Keeneland. I did the horse racing spring and fall meets a lot. I got your electronics out of fairgrounds.
Speaker 1:So what's your favorite food at Keeneland?
Speaker 3:I'm going to say they do a good burgoo.
Speaker 2:I was going to say if you answer anything other than burgoo. You're wrong, that is not your favorite.
Speaker 3:Your favorite is burgoo, I do like burgoo and I do like their. Oh, what is it? Corn beef sandwiches? I've not had that because I just get burgoo.
Speaker 1:Oh, it's good.
Speaker 3:Now me working at Keeneland. I've never actually bought food, so it's always been from the press box. Okay, is that?
Speaker 2:a good thing or a bad thing. It's a good thing or a bad thing. It's a good thing. Are they giving you the left over? It's a good thing, oh no, it's a good thing.
Speaker 1:So I want to know, since you're a media guy and things I don't hear you talk about TV shows or movies that much, but let's ask this Favorite actor of all time Favorite actor of all time.
Speaker 3:I think everything I've seen. I mean I love a good Cary Grant. I think everything I've seen I mean I love a good Cary Grant. I mean I would love to be like Cary Grant.
Speaker 2:Now you've met a lot of famous people going through the media, actors and otherwise.
Speaker 1:I have.
Speaker 2:Whether it's an actor or not. What's best? If you want to say worst or most interesting, craziest, I'll let you pick a famous person or experience you've had.
Speaker 3:I've met Tony Bennett twice. Great guy, great guy, great guy. And I've met I'm trying to think, well, I've met so many. Richard Dreyfuss was a great guy. Oh, wow, I got a great story about Richard Dreyfuss if you want to hear it.
Speaker 3:Yes, sure, when I worked at Winter wintercom, which does a lot of the sports stuff for espn, a lot of horse racing stuff, I was always on the vip cam at derby so I'd be out on the nixon, on the nixon platform, as they called it. That's where nixon went up the back, you know, up through the wave did everybody that time? So? But they would go get famous people and we'd interview them. And I know richard dreyfuss was on the menu and ESPN Classic had just launched and it's 100 degrees at Derby that year in May and they gave these black felt ESPN caps that said ESPN Classic in red across them. So we were supposed to hand all the famous people hats when they were on the show. And I go, richard Dreyfuss is not going to wear this, it's 100 degrees out and it's a black felt hat. Well, you've got to give it to him. The producer's talking to me in the truck.
Speaker 3:Richard Dreyfuss comes out and he's actually very short and he comes out, we meet, hey, I introduce him, you know, and he goes hey, what's with the cap? And I go well, the truck wants you to wear it. While we interview you, we're launching the new channel, espn Classic. And he goes Randy, it's 100 degrees. And I said, hey, mr Dreyfus, if you don't want to wear it, you know it's your hat. He goes now. Once you give it to me, it's mine, right? And I said absolutely, sir. So he goes, how long do we have? And I said we got a couple minutes before you're live. So he goes out and he looks over the paddock area, he starts waving at people. Well, people start recognizing him. Hey, it's Richard Dreyfuss. And he goes who wants a cap? And everybody's going. I do, I do. I don't know how many mint juleps were consumed in the paddock.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 3:And so he just takes it and just whizzes it across the paddock area and he turns to me and he goes Is that okay? And I go it's your cap. That's great. It's a great story.
Speaker 1:I always like that story, yeah so we've talked a lot about height on this episode for whatever reason.
Speaker 3:Yes, we have.
Speaker 1:He is 5'5".
Speaker 3:Yeah, you looked him up, didn't you? He's not very high, he's not very tall.
Speaker 2:Easy guys 5'6", 5'6 in my shoes, oh, okay.
Speaker 1:Here's how you know if someone believes themselves to be short, if they still say you know if they use and a quarter or in a half. Oh yeah, I'm five, nine and a half.
Speaker 2:I don't do the half. I'm going to say five, six in my shoes.
Speaker 3:Okay, so Randy favorite movie with Dreyfuss oh, it's got to be Jaws, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Did you see, mr?
Speaker 3:Holland's Opus. Yes, that's a good one too, that's a good one.
Speaker 1:That's probably my favorite.
Speaker 2:I can't believe you didn't say what About Bob.
Speaker 1:Oh wait.
Speaker 2:No, that movie was weird. That's a good one too.
Speaker 3:He's a great.
Speaker 2:I have not seen that.
Speaker 3:He's a great. You're not seeing. What About Bob? Oh, you gotta watch it. Favorite vacation spot.
Speaker 2:Oh.
Speaker 3:Or favorite to the beach and just sitting and watching people. I would take that Now. My wife hates the beach because she hates sand, but she doesn't mind staying by the pool, but she likes to go to the beach to watch the beach from the pool, if that makes any sense.
Speaker 1:Do you enjoy the mountains as well? I?
Speaker 3:do like the mountains, I do like a good mountain retreat.
Speaker 1:I feel like you go to Gatlinburg periodically. I do like a good mountain retreat.
Speaker 3:But as far as vacation long time I would go. I mean, I like heat, oh, I love it yeah. See my wife, she doesn't like heat. I could be 95 and human, I'd be fine.
Speaker 1:Yeah, nikki and I, I mean 105 on the beach and we're happy. Oh no, thank you.
Speaker 3:And my wife, says no, no, no, no, but she would like to travel.
Speaker 1:Do you have a particular beach? You?
Speaker 3:like to go to. We had gone to Sunset Beach as a family with my parents.
Speaker 1:Where is Sunset Beach? Is that Florida? It is in North Carolina, north Carolina.
Speaker 3:Just over the line from South Carolina.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so our favorite is Hilton Head. We absolutely love it. I love Hilton Head.
Speaker 3:I love Hilton Head, I like Hilton Head and I guess our favorite city matter of fact we're going next week is Charleston.
Speaker 1:Oh, Charleston's a beautiful place.
Speaker 2:I love history.
Speaker 3:So we like to travel, we like to see different things All right rapid-fire whiplash, favorite Bible verse. Oh, I wrote that down. There's so many. You know what my dad's is. The whole book's pretty good. You don't think about it. You know what my dad's favorite Bible verse is?
Speaker 1:What's that?
Speaker 3:My mom would tease him because she would say, George, the only reason you say that is because it's so short. Jesus wept yeah.
Speaker 2:That's an easy one to memorize.
Speaker 3:But I think I chose the one from Isaiah, wasn't?
Speaker 2:it yeah.
Speaker 3:Isaiah 40. But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength, they will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not be faint, and isn't that? I like that, because that's basically life. I mean, it's life with the Lord, it's life with the Lord, so I think that's probably one of my favorites.
Speaker 2:I think that's probably one of my favorites Rapid fire. What's next? I don't know. That's all I've got.
Speaker 3:Do you know any other rapid fires? Because?
Speaker 1:otherwise we can soar off like eagles, right now that's too good of a transition not to close Into the editing process.
Speaker 2:And I said by we for editing, I of course mean you, Patrick.
Speaker 3:Can I tell a dad joke before we leave? Yeah, I wish you would, and a grandpa joke. So my grandkids hate it when I tell these. And I actually got this one from my wife, so it's pretty good. What do you call a hippie's wife? I from my wife, so it's pretty good.
Speaker 2:What do you call a?
Speaker 3:hippie's wife? I don't know Mississippi.
Speaker 2:That's the dad joke or the grandpa joke. That could be either, or Okay, because whichever that one it is, I'm now terrified to hear the other one.
Speaker 3:Well, thanks for having me on. Thank you for coming, randy, I enjoyed it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's been a pleasure, so appreciate your friendship and just again your loyalty and service to this church and to the Lord Jesus Christ, and I want to thank each of you for listening, and I just want to remind you it would be really helpful if you would subscribe to our podcast and leave us a review. That is massively helpful. We want others to hear this podcast and be encouraged. We want others to hear this podcast and be encouraged, and if you're here and you're part of our Real Life Community Church family, we invite you, if you've not done so, to be a guest on the show. Randy, it's not too scary, is it?
Speaker 3:No, you get past the first 10 minutes, it's fine.
Speaker 2:No, it's a conversation with fuzzy sticks in front of us.
Speaker 3:There you go, that's it.
Speaker 2:Fuzzy sticks.
Speaker 3:That's the technical I love the snacks, I love all these hors d'oeuvres and stuff you provided this whole thing is just like an empty charcuterie board, that's it. We should fill it with slice oh that is a great idea cheeses from all the land that is a great idea smoked gouda.
Speaker 2:Come on down for the podcast.
Speaker 3:We lock the door, but it's okay because it'll smell wonderful with all the cheese and and, on that note, that's how you get people to your press conferences too, by the way.
Speaker 1:Cheese Feed the TV people. Okay, there you go. This is the Real Friends Podcast.
Speaker 2:Yes, and we now leave you to soar like eagles, as the music will soar like eagles Thinking about this good life, because we know what matters, cause we know what matters being together, forever friends.
Speaker 1:Oh, oh, friends.
Speaker 2:Oh, oh, friends.