The Parks way with guest Jason Scarboro, Metal Shop Mechanic

Tune in to hear Jason incredible story.  He shares how he learned all of life lessons the hard way.  He used his faith and family to help overcome the setbacks and it helped him turn into the leader he is today.

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Good morning. Good morning. Hello, everybody. This is why your host of the parks way podcast, and it's a beautiful morning here about 60 degrees and doing another edition of the parks way podcast and sitting in cross for me is the Jason Scarborough. Good morning, Jason. Good morning, sir. How you doing today? I'm good, good. Well, Jason, you know, you won the quantity award for you know, all the things you did, you did like 340 different sheet metal jobs and everything this past quarter. So congratulations to that. And, you know, you have a pretty unique story and, you know, kind of leader around here, been here for quite some time. Now a young rookie, and so just wanted to, you know, kind of talk about this more, is that all right, that's cool. Good. So Jason, tell me a little about yourself. Where are you from? Where he grew up? Well, I was originally born in Atlanta. I moved here when I was five. So I still I called his home. Mom and Dad, Mom, Dad, mom passed away this year. So you know, we'll talk about that here in a minute. But uh, other than enters just brother sisters. Oh, yeah. I got one brother. One sister. Okay. They both older on the baby of the family. You are the baby of the family. Wow. Got a wife for going on. 15 years. three kids. Night 2016 five. The oldest is in the Marine Corps. Veteran really good. Very cool. So So Jason, you know growing up in In he moved to moved up here when you're five from Atlanta, right. Where she moved to gas Don't you see being Estonia since you're five? Yes, sir. Okay. Was you want to be grown up? Well, when I was growing up, I wanted to be a baseball player. But I took a different road while baseball because I loved it. Really still love it to this day. Hmm. diehard Braves fan? Yeah. You know, play ball all my life since I was a four years old played t ball all the way up to high school and then after high school I didn't play. I really didn't play in high school. When I played uh, where's your high school? Ah, Gaston. Okay. actually play pony league instead of high school baseball. I gave that up, took up bowling. And so hold on, hold on, hold on. We'll get there. Yeah, Tony league. For people out there listening. They don't know a pony league is what is pony league. I think a pony league is like, Hey, I'm on the pony. It's got my different age groups. So pony league was 1617 year olds. Okay. And then after that, you know, it's usually in high school, you're going on the college or whatever. Yeah. And then then you had the other lower age, you know, like 1415 year olds is 20 1617 year olds. Okay. And then after that, you know, if you didn't play High School ball, poignantly almost this consider like traveling leagues now. Yeah. So So who are you close to you brother sister. Both mutually are growing up. Growing up my sister. Okay. Why? Because she was redheaded and and she was she's mean and not like me. But growing up we followed all the time. And you know, is that love that? family? That's funny. You say redhead? She's redhead? I mean, true redhead. no discrimination on the podcast. So apologize to any redheads out there listening. So we'll grow you know, growing out who's your mentor? Who do you look up to Who do you know, was it was dad was a smile. It was grandpa who wasn't? It was my dad. Okay. Why? What was his lead? What was his leadership qualities of why you? I mean, I know he's your dad. I mean, I get sad that but he was all he was. Didn't matter how much he worked, or how many hours he work. We come home from school or whatever. He get out and you're in pitch, play catch he. It didn't matter. He was always my mentor of a geek. If you won't it, you got to go get it. You know. And then my mom was the same way. I mean, they both never met. Mr. ballgame them they were always there supportive. Always here mom in the background now dad, wherever, whatever boss playing third or first or outfield he was on that side of the fence. Yeah, you know, he was always there I can I can really I can relate to that what we may get it. So you said you know you talk about your dad, he he saw he kind of like kind of, you know, pushed you guys like he wanted you to do well at whatever you were doing and, and work hard and everything else. Why do you think that was? What what? You know? Do you want us to grow up and be like him? I mean, you know, he was a he really was not. He was a stern man. He raised his boys. It's like, well, watch out. Watch out. Yeah. And mama would always say hey, like yo daddy gets home. I'm like, oh, Lord, here we go. You know, it was kids. And we are we just knew as grown up not there but crossing. Right You know? And it's funny when we sit back and talk and laugh about it in my dad is like I that I was never mean dl name which he was it. He was just always had that stern voice You know, so it was childhood growing up was a neat looking back was a good one. Oh, yeah. Good. I wish I was back in a kid sometimes. You know, you heard her saying earlier this week that the week before getting a driver's license was like felt like the longest week and now years just fly by flop fall by Yeah. And I like interesting. So what was your dad do for a living? Right now? He's retired. Yeah, no. Before. He said, Oh, he was a play with you guys in the yard and all that. Well, when we moved up when we moved from when I was only five. So but to hear the stories. He was a window maker. He made window. Glass. Wow. So when he says you know, like, it's funny when you say your mom was not glassmaker, but I can tell you my dad, he was a glass maker. You know, he was there. And then he worked up here and went into the back in the 80s. The meals industries was what was booming. Yeah. Yeah. So he moved, found work and moved us all up here and don't glass. No, no, he quit the Glass Company. And moved up here and found work in a meal. Does your family appear a walk yesterday? I'm just asking. That I don't really know. But I think his mama was living here at a time. Okay. But the funny thing is all of our family to still to this day lives in Atlanta. Most of them several, one of them lives in Minnesota. Hmm. That's crazy. That is crazy. So, but So tell me a little bit about, you know, your sister brothers. Today? Ah, well, you know, what, what is it? You know, kind of kind of where I'm going with that is is you mentioned her that you were closer to your sister. Was it that it was kind of the age thing were was it just, you know, brothers clash, like, you know, let's say, me and my brothers really never seen that. I, you know, that's okay. You know, but, uh, my sister, she's just, we're only two and a half, almost three years apart. You know? She was the middle child older. Right? Okay. She was the middle of you know, she's the middle child. And she always got out of the trouble and they would always blame me. Yeah, you know, baby, no, baby. Oh, he. He's the one that did it. He's the one who did it. I don't. I guess this is something you could tell your sister. And I guess it's just that something about the sister? Yeah. The sister love. You know, they still both live in guests right now. Yes, my sister actually lives on my dad. So. Okay. And my brother lives in South Carolina. Okay. So you're talking about you know, growing up, you want to be a baseball player, right? I play baseball. A lot of baseball growing up too and everything else and that was kind of when I wanted to be. But you mentioned that you know, you didn't he played pony league playing High School. Why was that? grades? Oh, okay. Just being great. Yeah. Hey, thank you for that. Sure. You know, well, school school didn't come naturally to me. Right. Right. And and and understanding that. So you remember the feeling or knowing that hey, you know, what did you hear? It was very, very Were you like, you know what, I'm not gonna be able to be a professional baseball player. I wanted that what was that day? Like? You remember? Yeah, disappointing. Yeah. Cuz no way I could be to go on without, you had to play through high school to get scouts and look at you sure to go to a college, you know, and then get more scouts and look at you. So I knew from then I was done with baseball. I mean, I'd go out here and play softball today. I might not be able to walk for a week. But yeah, I love it, you know, as I just knew I didn't have the grades back then. And it's nobody's fault. But mine. Yeah. You know, always when I grew up, I said, I'm not smart enough. And, to this day, my wife tells me you're as smart as you want to be. That's a good thing. You're as smart as you want to be. If she tells me that every day, you know, we tell our kids that. Now, you can be anything you want to be. You got to work for you, you got to put to work and for Yes. So that that kind of transition from your dad. Right saying that growing up to write this. So you know, you're looking backwards. You're doing anything different? Or no? Ask for more help in school. Yeah. Just being honest, ask for more help and not be scared to ask for help. I learned that. Matter of fact, I've learned that when I got older. When I graduated. And Matter of fact, he went into his business. He went in in his Heating and Air business. He did graduate high school. Yes, sir. Good. I graduated, that I wasn't going to quit in the 11th grade. This is funny. I got into it, what a teacher. And about what it was, she said I was talking about her dollar and a renewer dollar. Funny. So she sends me they call it the control room in high school. And I said the heckler when the control room called home, told my parents I said I'm gonna quit. My dad said if you quit, you're going to work. Because I was 17. He says if you quit, you're going to work. You know, go lay into bed, you're not gonna lay around, you're gonna get up, you're gonna go to work. Or you're gonna go back to school. for about a week go that I went back talk, I only missed a week. And I went back and told myself I was gonna graduate. Good, because I didn't want to be known as a dropout. That's just my opinion on it. So the fear of being labeled as a dropout. At the end of the day you feel was the reason why you went back? Yes. That's good, man. Because you're at a crossroads. They're there. And nowadays, today's society or whatever you want to call it. If you don't have a high school diploma, or high school, education is hard to get a job true. And my dad told me that he said, You don't want he told me you don't want to work in a meal, or fast food for the rest of your life. That's basically what he told me when I quit. And so I went back. That's very good insight. Wow. So I mean, granted, I worked for man, I work for McDonald's all through high school. So no worries, hey, it gave me so long to make the Big Bang. So it's a he was hard at me. He always told us. Life is short. Don't take it for granted. Why do you think that is? What does that mean to you? That means I think if you take it for granted, everything you got, you can lose just like that. True. And where I'm going with this was when I graduated. I went out and bought a house at night teen Wow. Bought a brand new car at 19. Wow. And my dad sitting over here saying, son, you're too young. You're you're not ready. Hmm. And I told him I said, I'm ready. He said No, you're not. Why do you Why do you think he was what what was the reason? Because I said that I couldn't control MMA when I was working during school hours to go out and just spin spin spin. It wasn't a lot of people do that. It wasn't putting money by putting money back. I'll just go spin by this by $200 Jordans. And you know, had to had a Tommy Hilfiger clothes, man. He was you were working. I was working. But he knew I wasn't financially stable. To go buy a house. Go buy a car and he was right. Still to this day. Wow. What happened? I lost it all really when I got turned 21 but 2122 you get to that age where you can You're legal enough to go buy alcohol. Yeah. So I was partying and not paying my bills. Nobody's bought mine. Nobody's bought my my before my bills, and they didn't they didn't he put the dead mountain belly out. Nope, nope. Then because he told me that he was gonna charge me $50 a week. And I told him, I do want to go and pay him $50 a week. I want to live on my own. Well, guess what? I look back to the day. And he was right. I was wrong. Wow, that's very bad. And I'm still telling that to this day? Well, you know, let's start there first. So, you know, one, I have kids around, right? They're much younger, right into what that that is, but at the same time, and it kind of I could, I could see, you know, he kind of enabled a little bit right. And, you know, for the fact of you dad not doing that, you know, right, you know, cuz you I think you always wanted especially genuinely saying this, I don't speak for him. But you know, he kind of wants you guys to be to do better than he did you know that that's normal, especially in America, like, Hey, you know, all parents want their kids to turn out better than they had it or did better, and they had it. And for him to see you sit to sit back and start watching, you know, watching you and you making those kind of mistakes and, and you know, not not kind of listening to him and doing those things. And then when he knew or when you found out that that was not going to work out that he didn't bail you out. That takes a lot of discipline. And he was he was I sorry. He cares about you and but not enabled or make that better for you to bail you out. That speaks volumes of him and his leadership. Right. Wow. Because he is why he woods. I think one of the reasons why he didn't bail me out. It's because this is funny. I'm 40 years old. And I've seen my dad had two drinks in my whole life. Hmm. You know, he's he will never now he don't care if I drink. I mean, saying he don't. But I was partying, drinking. He didn't liked it. So he made me learn the hard way. Yeah, you know, so like I said, He's our senior how to duration my whole life. Wow. And I'm 40 He is 69 now it is I've met him he's you know, he he's in good. 69 hL right. Yeah, well, good. So you know, let's let's spin this back on you a little bit so you get Tommy Hilfiger you got the Jays which many people do you get the house, the nice car doing all that and you said you lost it all? And I again, I appreciate you sharing that right. And so you know, I wouldn't say it's rock bottom, you know, but it probably it definitely was a gut check. Definitely more like what what kind of do you do you remember any special thing any type of advice if somebody is going through that now like you could share with them that maybe listen to a yes, listen to your parents. But if they listen to my parents, but they don't have pain, they're in there. They're struggling financially I mean that that's kind of right now there's a lot of people doing a lot of people right so what would you what what did you learn from that? losing it all. Now I got to work my butt off to get it get back to where what I had been and learn from my mistakes, learn to save my money. You know? Like when you work overtime, put that money to the side. You know what you bring home for 40 hours a week do you bring anything home fixture put it aside? Save your money but work hard work hard at whatever you don't get anything in this life for free without working hard. That's you know not till like I said I tell my kids that every day 75 year old he's so so let's fast forward to today right let's kind of talk you know and again don't just disclose whatever you want to or not you know have you have you gotten past all that stuff Did you did you pay all that off to get get straight Did you did you do whatever you had to do to see where you are today cuz you're doing pretty well today? I'm doing pretty well but no, I tried to buy her manda wife tried to buy a house back in 2008 which was the worst time Yeah, you remember Alison, the heat and air business. It was tough. I was at friends at the time. It was rough. We was trying to buy a house we got approved and everything and then we did everything to make assets. Do we get to close in? They said I had to have a separate checking account and I lost it. Hmm. And the lady debt. It was the underwriters, it the lady that worked for the bank by lost her job force, because they're gonna tell me today at closing. And I couldn't touch the money. They told me I had to have in the checking account. And I couldn't get another$2,000 to open up another checking account. I said we're married her money's my money. My, her money's mine. You know, we don't want everything we work for. is ours together. And that's way my parents were grown up. That's good. Everything they work for. They wasn't his money or her money is. It's your money. You both work together. You married. You got to pay the bills equally. Yeah. You know, but the house didn't get the house. Oh, did not get to house. And that's another step. And I haven't tried since Really? No, because I feel like we're gonna get shot in the foot again. And, you know, it's just, it's hard. It is hard. It's hard. Today is really even harder to buy a house. Yeah, you got to have the 20% down and yet had the it's just it's just hard. Yeah. You know, but we will but but, you know, in a, I think he what I like about hearing about this, and it speaks true to your leadership and your character and everything else, you've kind of owned, the things that have gone on in your life, right? I've heard one time here about excuses, or somebody else's fault. Or it was this or it was that it man that that's that's big. That's really big. I think this speaks volumes to you, I think speaks volumes to your family and everything else that, you know, Hey, man, I kind of I kind of made this bed I'm laying in it that I don't like it. But I'm kind of I'm owning it. Man. You know that that's a big takeaway. That's a big takeaway that that said, I don't want you to get discouraged from not building the house and doing that. But you know, you're a hard worker. I don't think anybody here rescission, say, Jason, not a hard worker. You know, you've, you've done a fantastic job for us. But it kind of relates to why, you know, I feel like this been great on this podcast, as we found out the why why why is Jason, you know, able to do 300 some jobs. He's the only foreman here that can do this stuff for us for the middle and, you know, all the good things that you've qualities that you have. Now, it's now we know where it comes from. Right. And that's awesome. That's awesome. Wow, man, it's very powerful. So you know, look, switching gears, you went back to the start about 2008. Right? You get the house as you're working with friends, friends is no longer around. What were you doing at that time? Far as h fac wise, when friends in 2008. I was supervising for France. Okay. At the time, new construction, new construction was I was supervising and you'd like to say you know about it. The house or market crash basically. A lot of people lost their jobs. Batman, you know. I got laid off. Yeah. And once you do that, I worked at a well, I actually was laid off for almost a year couldn't find work. But the other day I'm working other than doing side jobs like cutting grass and, you know, working at life work into at that time. Ah, see here. Yes. I think she was working. I think I think she was working. I think she was Yeah, she was working for employment screening at the time. Okay. So then you like, like, a lot of Americans you find employment for a year. Right? That's another humbling thing. I'm sure. That feeling is no good being laid off and not being found work and right. You know, there's there's all kinds of psychological aspect of that. What do you do? Where do you find work from work? Right? Straight? Really? Yes. cutting grass out there working on Friday nights at dirt track? Is that kind of where the love of that because you me still? You're still involved in that right? Yes. On the flagman. there Yeah. And the flagman Oh, Friday night flag at Lancaster on Saturday nights fill in for personal when he came flag on Saturday nights. Work traveling series. Yeah. Love it. I mean, it's it's in July Speedway has been around for a long time. And the first time I ever went there, I think I was eight years old. And then we got when I got older us, me and my dad would go every Friday. I mean every Saturday night at the time. We'd be at Metro Atlanta on Friday nights in Charlotte. They close that one down. And then we'd be at Carolina on Friday nights. Well, back in 2008 when I got laid off, my wife was working in a concession stand. And now she's just score. You know, she's y'all kind of did that together. We still do. We still do. Yeah. And that's cool. So she does a lot for the racetrack. She does the their Facebook page. She does. She does a lot for for the racetrack, and does her job on top of it where her phone blowing up and we got big races. Constantly blowing up. Then she got her phone blowing up from work. You know, she can multitask well. Yeah, she does a good job. I've met her quite a few times. She's amazing woman. Yeah, that's awesome. This is my first year flagging now I've worked at the race track. Since 2008, you know, I've been there for 12 years now. And I was army do math. I started off it. Lining cars up on Friday night. Went from lining up cars to run the four wheeler pushing to pull in sheet metal to flag it now. So I loaded you back into the industry. Back in 2010 Okay, when I started here, yeah. So he came to parks What are we doing then? I was working for a fabricator like a mentor when he came work to parks. What was I doing man? He was oh when I first started here started in metal shop as a helper Yeah, as piano note and didn't really know much right? I didn't I knew what it was. I didn't know how to do it to do it in to put my hands on it and we showed how to learn from MAC remember Mac Mac yeah wow I hadn't heard that name a long time a long time. Yeah. So you see your income Ico market parks and you and you work in a metal shop it before to your supervisor at friends and then you you trimmed right I crammed rough he did all the labor back then yeah he come in the metal shop where you learn the other side right wow and then now you you do all our jobs all the duck jobs all all every single one I mean it's very rare that how many have we had anybody can do it? I mean cuz but wow man that's a that's an that's an exciting journey and everything you say there. Jason if you were out there looking for somebody who's listening in or doing what would be the advice that you've been knocked down quite a few times in your life just like most people including myself What made you get back up what makes you think in your mind that you own you know that you take the approach of Hey man I kind of made these mistakes I kind of you know didn't didn't listen to the parents for whatever reason didn't do this to do that and that were you now you know you're very humbled as omit what went on a lot of people don't do that what do you think that you know tributes to what why? What trivia is to it to today talking about today is my two kids and because the oldest one you know he's successful now he just bought a house last two weeks ago up there in Jacksonville, North Carolina. That's where he's stationed at bottom of house and happy kid appreciate sir and thank you and the other two I don't want him to wake up and I had to say hey, we got to move because it paid rent or I didn't pay to power bill 30 no food on the table. Yeah. Now granted I don't want to get up every day to come to work you probably don't want to get up every day to come to work I'm just it's like I tell my partner in the back is the hardest part is feeding at a debate once I get out of the bed is his game on the horse part is rolling out of the bed getting up and getting dressed and going to work once you do that, it's game home you know now look back is I want everything for my kids. I don't want them to grow up not have anything you know, not saying I didn't have anything so you don't want to fail? Right I don't want to fail on their eyes their eyes. Right that you know and again I'm not a big motivation guy. I don't I think motivation more or less is a feeling Right. Right. But you know, I would say your say that that that kind of if fear factor is of not failing, right and wanting better for your kids doing all that that would be what the mental check Did you get every day of why you do get to get out of bed? Right? Right? What's good man? Right? That's powerful man. You know, because there's, unfortunately, there's a lot of people that aren't that way. Right and a lot. And that's, that that means a lot, man. It means a lot about your character. And so that that kind of ties to your leadership and what this This podcast is all about if, you know, man, how you've handled adversity in your life, or negative things that would most people would say, and you've turned them into a positive and used your own inner motivation and power to to, you know, overcome it. Right. That's awesome. That is really good stuff. Jason. Thank you, man. That means a lot. Well, you know, again, you're a lot of people around here respect you a lot as well as I do. And you know, you set that assembly, you start that assembly line, man, if you if they don't, yeah, Linux or carrier, whoever makes the equipment. Yeah, we get the other supplies. But if they don't have the metal shop, fab work, done that job, don't get done. Right. They don't get done. And there's a lot of pressure with that. There's a lot of responsibility with that. And you've handled that quite well. It's all want to thank you, man. I appreciate it. It's not as easy as it looks. No, no, it is dangerous. It's dangerous. You cut yourself, you know, I've cut myself plenty of times here. Yeah, you know, but you kept coming back, keep coming back. The thing is, is, you hear him out, you hear the other guys in a warehouse or whatever they'll be like making, right if I had to cut metal all day, blah, blah, blah, I could be ahead. The way I look at why I tell them is Hey, tables open brother. They never do they never do. Because it's just it's not as easy as it looks. You know? I mean, it's, it's not hard. But it's not as easy as it looks. Because there's a lot of it's hard pulling tight man at you know, hard. Yeah, it's hard. And you know, it's really hard when you're busy, like we are now. Yeah. I'm glad actually are too. Well, you know, Jason again, in summary, as we as we wrap this up, man, I wanna I thank you for sharing your story, right? I think there's a lot of people that, you know, would listen to this and could relate, including myself, right, um, you know, of, you know, over over overspending or getting excited at a high school yellow bit of money in the pocket doing all that and then understand, you know, reality kicks in, and in reality checks and in the world out there, can hit you right, between the you know, what, yes, sir. And, and, you know, some people have let that, you know, defeat them, and you haven't, right, and that, that, that speaks a lot about your character and why you're on this podcast. So, you know, I've learned a lot there. I learned a lot about the wisdom of your father and how much you do look up to him. Right and and what how he's played a pivotal role in your life. And that kind of aligns with why, you know, we have such a strong feeling and passion to be able to help the less fortunate with kids and turning point and help with sexual assault and, and domestic violence that, you know, pears play a huge factor. They're not all the factor, but they play a huge factor in success of kids. And if we can help one person or one child or one, the one thing that are less fortunate, you know, that's why it's so important to me is why so important to us, and I know it is to eat, because your parents have you played a big part in your life. I love your brace fan. That's all sounds. That's awesome. One more, one more, man. One more. I was a huge shipper fan may still in Oh guy. He's, you're my wife. real good. Anyways, you know, in baseball, man I and and you kind of, you know, you fit the mold around here of what a parks employee should be and what they should do. And, you know, are you are I going to test you know, as a genius on the IQ test? Probably not. But my thing is, is if you work hard, he stay active and you stay disciplined. And you stay humble, right? Anything can happen. Anything can happen. And man, that's huge man. And thank you, I look up to you and I appreciate you so much. And you've done a fantastic job. You know, the only other thing I you know, I want to talk about just just briefly is yes, sadly your mom passed. Right. And I was there. Appreciate that and and everything else that goes on with that. Have you have you handled that it was sharing that? I mean, you know how how's that been? There's been a lot of people have lost lost family members recently. Yeah. she she she She died, you know, February 4. And, you know, we, we all knew she was she had cancer. The doctor told her five years prior that she has about a good five years to live. And she lived her five years that she said, what I think was she finally just gave up. You know, she's tired, taking the shoes, tired, taking the chemo, tired taking these shots, tired, taken 15 pills a day. You know, she just finally she looked different at Christmas last year. And my mom, I love Christmas and she loved Thanksgiving. Christmas was her biggest because of the grandkids. You know, and we can tell at Christmas that she was almost done. Because she wasn't herself. She wasn't joyful as she has been in the past year, you know. And then she went down here. And like that in February, you know, she died on February 4, when the hospital on Friday and called call Mike and told Mike I want coming in. And he told me not to come in and spit out Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Come to work on Monday. And when sooner Monday night, or Monday when I have to work at a nursing home when I got moved to a nursing home but a hospice Yeah. And Tuesday I had I was going bowling could just get it off my mind and got to the bone, I get a phone call. If you want to see your mama, for the last time you head on up here. So it was that quick from Friday to Tuesday, you know. And the funniest thing during that whole thing is when they gave her the morphine on Saturday, they tell us the dark doctors are telling us It can be 30 minutes, it can be an hour. Or it could be two. And my mom always said before she died, she wanted to. She didn't want us to crash. He wanted to have a party. Hmm. So she's laying in a bed and they get rid of morphine. And we're all you know, crying and sad. And she speaks. She spoke a word all day. Saturday from six o'clock that morning. to eight o'clock at night. She spoke a single word all day and get rid of morphine. And about 30 minutes later, she speak. And the funniest thing is she says Braxton like that, which is my son's my younger son's name. I said Mama, you won't Braxton you won't talk to Braxton in which his other Momo had him. So we called him called her and put Braxton on the phone with her. And next thing you know, it's like a party in the room. She's talking, looking around and knows who everybody is. And then she goes back to sleep. And then Sunday she was back into in law, you know, lala land here. But she kept saying Jesus se to light which is a great thing. It is just all she kept saying all day Sunday. Jesus, I see the light. I see the light. So we knew the and it was it wasn't gonna be long. But she followed it and followed it. We finally told her Monday. I think my dad finally told her said go on quit suffering. But she was waiting on one grandchild that she hasn't seen or heard on a phone. And that grandchild showed up Tuesday at 530. Wow, he wouldn't go into a room. He stood at the door and he said hey, my mom. Why would he go in the room? Yes, he was scared. He I think he's seven years old seven or eight. He wouldn't go in the room. So he was he stood there and said hey mom all she hurting. And then about three hours later desert she we still to this day said so she was waiting. Oh, wow. This just to hear her other grandchild. Say Hey Mama, I love you. And then three hours later, she gave up. Just ship boom. Dad with a smile on her face. That you know most people Tao would her mouth wide open or it was it was wide open, but it was like said, when they close it, it turned into a smile. So that that puts us in a good place. Yeah, I think it, it puts us in a good place. I mean, I don't go a day without not thinking about her. You know, I missed my mom every day. And I know I hear people out here before I lost a parent. Not many people can say that you've had the same parents your whole childhood. I'm one of them. I guess I'm lucky. Yeah. Yeah. You know, it's just, I think about her every day, you know, this coming holiday season? It hasn't. They always say there's nobody that one time where it's going to hit you. It's really going to hit you. It hasn't hit me hit me yet. But it's coming. And I think it's going to be over the holiday seasons, because she loved the cook. I'm talking about she can feed 100 people for Thanksgiving, and we can buy that much. She just always made sure she had more than enough, you know. And Christmas, it this holiday season can be pretty rough. I'm not scared to say it. not ashamed to say it. But I think this holiday season a beta rough is for me. Because she won't be there be the first one that she won't be there. Yeah, well, you know, I'll be praying for you and me looking at that. I mean, I remember that loss, but Wow, man, you know, that, that I really appreciate you sharing that no problem. And Jason you you've really, really moved me this morning. And this has been extremely powerful. And, you know, because the holidays are pretty tough for a lot of people. Right? And and so, you know, thank you for sharing that. And you've done a fantastic job on this podcast. And you know, we'll be praying for you thinking about you through the holidays, but it just speaks volumes about your character, man. And I know I've said a few times but I just am amazed at you know how well you've handled adversity and done things in it. That's that's that's a lot so anybody out there that's listening just just pleased you know, look in the mirror and understand that you know, it'll be okay and that you can overcome adversity if you work hard and you do things So Jason concluding this podcast again, appreciate all you share, appreciate all you do. Congratulations on the on the you know, winning the award that I did, and, you know, we're gonna we're gonna leave this morning. So this is why it's your host sitting here with Jason Scarborough and we're gonna have a good rest of the day and thank you, signing out.