Anita became an internet sensation when her YouTube video of her singing everything a mother says to her children in a single day to the tune of “The William Tell Overture” in just two minutes and fifty-five seconds was viewed by millions.
Renfroe was featured on morning and late night entertainment and news programs and resulted in her becoming a comedy contributor for GMA.
When I started my podcast, Anita Renfroe was on my bucket list of guests I would love to have on the show, because I saw her perform in 2008 and still reference parts of her routine (and we talk about it on the episode) And I couldn't believe it when I spoke to her assistant and we made it happen.
She is brave, she is funny, and everything she says is what women think in their heads, but don't say out loud.
We talk about how she got her start in comedy, and her first performance, because people kept telling her she was funny....and she thought,...."well maybe I am funny". We talk about the challenges she faced as a female...and is she a Christian who is a comedian, or a Christian comedian....being married to a Pastor....and can a Pastor's wife really be funny....is that okay?
Here's a link to Anita's Website
https://www.anitarenfroe.com/about/
Here's a link to Menopause Miracle (once a day takes the hot flashes away)
https://pinklotus.com/elements?r=74
Anita became an internet sensation when her YouTube video of her singing everything a mother says to her children in a single day to the tune of “The William Tell Overture” in just two minutes and fifty-five seconds was viewed by millions.
Renfroe was featured on morning and late night entertainment and news programs and resulted in her becoming a comedy contributor for GMA.
When I started my podcast, Anita Renfroe was on my bucket list of guests I would love to have on the show, because I saw her perform in 2008 and still reference parts of her routine (and we talk about it on the episode) And I couldn't believe it when I spoke to her assistant and we made it happen.
She is brave, she is funny, and everything she says is what women think in their heads, but don't say out loud.
We talk about how she got her start in comedy, and her first performance, because people kept telling her she was funny....and she thought,...."well maybe I am funny". We talk about the challenges she faced as a female...and is she a Christian who is a comedian, or a Christian comedian....being married to a Pastor....and can a Pastor's wife really be funny....is that okay?
Here's a link to Anita's Website
https://www.anitarenfroe.com/about/
Here's a link to Menopause Miracle (once a day takes the hot flashes away)
https://pinklotus.com/elements?r=74
spk_0: 0:00
Welcome to someone that I have on the show today. That I know I did a little pre record before the episode and I'm just so thrilled to have her here. And, um, when I made my wish list when I started this podcast, Anita was top of the list because I saw her perform over a decade a decade ago. And I told her when we were chatting a bit before the interview just that I still I referenced that so many times so many pieces that she did in that performance. And it's not funny when I deliver it, but it is. You just you have such a gift, and I'm thrilled to have you here, so welcome. Anita Renfroe.
spk_1: 0:38
Well, thank you so much. I, um one of the things that I think I valued the most is if something I said or did was memorable. Now, sometimes for the right reason. Sometimes for the wrong reasons, that memorable is ah high value for me. So the fact that you still recall it is, uh, thrilling
spk_0: 0:58
to me yet. Thank you. And I think my husband could actually probably perform it because I've said it so many times, so many pieces of it. It's just something that resonated. Um, I always
spk_1: 1:09
asked the Lord for there to be something that lingers or lasts. I know are always looking for those of us who are God. Followers are king for something that has eternal value. And I certainly wouldn't, um, assign that to most of the foolishness, that idea on stage. But the fact that the joy from that day lingers with you, I feel is a huge validation for what I feel comedy does for people that it it creates. I love to say, like a joy hangover. You know, that's kind of love Later. And if my name could ever be associate ID with something, um, after I passed the fact that people receive joy in the moment and then maybe joy hangovers that lasted even if it just lasted a week. I'm excited. But 10 years was way beyond the pale. So congratulations. They feel good about what I chose to do for me. Whichever way
spk_0: 2:10
together there you go. I love it. Um, you were so incredibly relatable, you know, to the to the women in the audience, and it's like there's no need to edit because you're saying what everybody wants to, but they don't, and they're all thinking it. So I No, I feel like I'm talking to somebody
spk_1: 2:29
about this. The other day it was about anybody that communicates speakers, pastors, teachers, entertainers of any sort. We were talking about the difference between something that you you you can hook into that you that you get into that you personally feel invested in as a listener. The subject matter was a person. He was on the stage that we it was like a day after we were all together. We were trying to figure out like what was missing. Like the information was good. The flow of the thing was good, you know? But there was something personal missing, and I tried to talk my way around it like I do normally, I'm I'm trying to figure out step out in my own head. Um, but we were talking around it, and it finally came to the point where I realized what it waas and it was that this person did not lay anything down. Um, as an offering of themselves and for me when I'm listening to someone they have to lay some piece of themselves down like there's a gap that exists between the person speaking and the audience. And I'm not talking about physical gap that could be 4000 feet in a sanatorium or a coliseum or, you know, big. Or it could be in a 14 feet between you and the person in the front of a very small room. It doesn't matter the size of the room. The gap exists between our heart and their heart and so right. I'm always trying to bridge that gap, and I I guess I've always done it intuitively. But I didn't really know how to put words to it until I was trying to identify what was missing in this other person, and they laid nothing of themselves down like it was just great information package in a great package, right? Right. I didn't feel a connection to them. So when you say to me, you're so relatable that again, one of the highest things that that I value that you could say, because every night I feel like I'm started, identify what it is that I lay down, and
spk_0: 4:36
I think it's my dick D. I think I just yet? Yeah, just
spk_1: 4:40
lay my dignity down. And I'm willing to not only appear foolish in, but really confessed the foolishness in all of us, right? Yeah, me. The fact that I'm willing to lay my dignity down, whatever if I ever had any, uh, is what I think creates this sense that you're talking about. But like, I didn't know I was doing it till I tried to put words on what was missing from someone else. And it's just the ability to lay a piece of yourself down with whatever the material that you have developed at night. And so I think that's where people feel a sense the hook in It's like she Cray.
spk_0: 5:19
Yeah, get on that train. She Cray, like we
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Kray, you know? So I I feel that part of that is just, you know, I'm a native Texan and we shoot pretty straight, and they were not trying to preserve our dignity. Maybe I pride sometimes, but not your dignity is not really associate it with
spk_0: 5:42
being a native Texan. But I think that I
spk_1: 5:45
came package like that. I think I'm hard wired like that. But it took me till this many years old, Like two weeks ago when I was having this discussion to figure out what it was. And I love that you say that it makes me feel that there is. There is once again value in what I bring, not just in the joy, but in the fact that I'm really willing delay myself. Part of myself as a person is exactly let's go on this trip together so
spk_0: 6:11
that they get that is a gift cruise. Over. When? When did this comedy thing start? For you? I mean, let's take us back, take the listeners back a little bit, but I didn't really start. Yeah, I mean, you're obviously funny. You were. Were you born this way? I
spk_1: 6:25
think so. I think I was hard wired with the ability to poke holes in things. Um uh, I was always having his party in my head. Always. Like when I was younger. I grew up in a faith culture that wasn't really fun. You know about the rules and regulations and not so much about the grace, you know? Great. But you know Justus a parsley, right? It was entree. Entree was right. That's right. So um, Mark Mallory and I have talked about this on many occasions that we feel that we're way more able to enjoy the life and the laughter because we were kind of repressed his Children.
spk_0: 7:07
There you go. Yeah, like a straitjacket about
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the rules and regulations that all of a sudden, when you not only find out, you can bust out of that, but then you can make fun of it. Why? You
spk_0: 7:18
know. Yeah. Mind blowing
spk_1: 7:20
travel, right? Uh, yeah, but I think I would say the couple of seminal events that happened in my life that led me to unleash the potential, even out the career. Um, the 1st 1 was I worked in radio in morning drive time radio while my husband was in seminary. Yeah, um, we had to be funny on purpose. You know, I think I'd always been kind of personally funny, but not for public consumption. So we had to entertain people very early in the morning. And so, um, the
spk_0: 7:54
last half shift that is a tough shit.
spk_1: 7:56
The laughter was highly appreciated. We would have come in and say, Oh, you had me rolling. I was in my car on the way to work. And I was like, Wait a minute. Okay, that good? I enjoyed that. And then I had my first child, and I remember the first time I heard and laugh, and it delighted my heart. So Lee and broadly, that it was the first time I might have made the association that our laughter might delight the heart of God as far as our parent. And in, uh, that was kind of a far reach for me from how I had been raised, right? Oh, great. Great connections. So I would see those happened in my early twenties. Okay. And then the outworking of that didn't really make any sense. Uh, as a career or professionally or ministry wise uncle, I was almost 40. I was raising my kids. I would have been was a pasture. We were in full time, you know, Christian service doing, you know, Children's choir. An adult choir. I was writing music for, um, Southern Gospel on Coral in Nashville, You know, trying to figure that my spot or why? Because I've always had this love of music. So a CZ, Much as I enjoyed all of that, it did not occur to me that God made me funny. So I talk about this sometimes when people are asking about my path and, you know, I would say that I might have been the last one to know. Um, apparently, I'm not. I'm not that quick on the uptake, because I would do music at women's conferences and people would say, Oh, my
spk_0: 9:39
gosh, you're so funny. Do some of that money is
spk_1: 9:42
definitely I don't know what you're talking about. I was talking. How is
spk_0: 9:46
that? That's their funny Okay, I knew what they
spk_1: 9:49
would call it Funny stuff. And I'm like the last one to know, like people that can just let's just say you're great at cooking pies and people are like Oh my gosh, how do you do that? It's so amazing and you even give them the recipe and they still can't make it like you make it and you're like, What's wrong with them? This is not unusual, so I feel like sometimes regard gives you innate gifts. You think they're remarkable, You think, Shouldn't everybody be able to do this? This is not This is just how my brain works. How can this be extraordinary. So it's not out of a false sense of humility. And I wasn't really trying to be, like, all humble about it. I honestly didn't see it as remarkable. I thought, everybody thinks these things, you know, just maybe maybe they weren't raised to talk about it this way or whatever. You know, I gave it ever use in the world that it was not are calling, you know? Right. How could this beef and I grow up seeing people do comedy, you know, in the people might have been funny. They're up after Comptel jokes. Not this is a ministry path, right? So that that was a surprise to me. So after and I'm gonna be conservative in my estimate, like 800 people said to me, You know what? You're really funny. I have that V a palm to the forehead, like wait a minute. Maybe I'm funny.
spk_0: 11:17
Maybe I am. Yeah, they might have something here. Yeah, I think I am a
spk_1: 11:20
huge. I think it's a huge commentary on how the body of Christ working is that people would call that gift out in me and continue to reiterate the truth to me until I became convinced of it. So that's maybe yes. Maybe that's like a, uh ah challenge. Thio Could people like listen to what people say about the things you do because sometimes you don't know it. You don't
spk_0: 11:51
exactly. There's so much truth there. I completely agree.
spk_1: 11:55
Um, especially I would say, for your audience people that are, um, in transition times in their lives. And they're like, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. We'll listen to what people say about you. Yeah, they don't
spk_0: 12:09
actually listen and and hear it. Yeah, so true. And just maybe, maybe if you
spk_1: 12:14
don't even believe it, just stick the colonel, the nut, the little thing away in your ass card. Is this true, or is this something you could use? Or is that thing I've been denying or something I've been afraid to hold on to your grasp onto? So, um, eventually women's ministry leaders, I would say we're we're a big catalyst because they would come and do music at ah, women's conferences because I was a cheap date because I could play the piano thing.
spk_0: 12:44
Right? You're the whole package, right? Great.
spk_1: 12:48
And I would be talking about you know, just as an example, Um, like, if we were at a church in the country and there was septic instead of city water, they would say, Okay, now, on our next break, we're gonna need everyone Thio not flush at the same time because our system really can't handle it. It would be so funny to me. And so during the break, I'd make up a song about, you know, taking turns flushing or something like a 15 2nd ditty or something. Yeah, and the mystery ladies would be late.
spk_0: 13:21
Oh, yeah, that was hilarious. How did you do that?
spk_1: 13:24
Because you don't have a slowing about subject. I was like, No, no, I made it up in the moment or what it's for. Oh, next year when you come, can you do more stuff like that? And I was like, I just did that in this moment for this thing. How am I gonna take up stuff a year in advance, right? The seed was inside, like, Okay, maybe I could plan some funny stuff. So it was a very long, slow burn between making at the septic song. I am actually doing my first comedy video I That was a long, slow five year ramp.
spk_0: 14:01
So how old were you when you did, um, the William tell Overture the mom sense, You know that
spk_1: 14:07
you tell you Because this is your 12 and I'm 57 so that will help. Years 45. I was 45.
spk_0: 14:17
Good for you. You know that. That's that's right there. That shows so much courage. You know, I mean, old. Go back to that first time if you can. If you don't mind. Like
spk_1: 14:26
I'm doing William tell or doing my first tell your folks about your first comedy. That was six years before that. So
spk_0: 14:35
they'll 48. 40 right? Almost 40. I'm not very good at math. I
spk_1: 14:39
was 39 when I did my first comedy video. Wow. Yeah, I was almost 40. But this is the gift of 40 is you are so much braver.
spk_0: 14:51
Even the true. I think this is
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a correlation. Like I have a fear, um, that as the as we look at the windows of opportunity in life and they look like the gap is narrowing, right, we become a so much braver. I know it's a wonderful thing. And I think, you know, in the Bible theory of, ah, generations, right? It's 40 years. Yeah. I think you're just coming into owning the voice that God gave you around 40. Yeah, and then the next decade is honing that voice. And maybe you're just worth something about 50. You know this about all the energy of the twenties and thirties, I'm like, but what have
spk_0: 15:41
they got, right? What are they talking
spk_1: 15:43
about? You know, I don't know. I know that God gives gifts. I'm not I'm not discounting those, but I'm saying right, we don't look at things in the slow grind of the kingdom. And the slow grind of the kingdom means at 40 you're just now figuring out how it works. And I I think you can take risks, and you can be braver. You know how What? Were
spk_0: 16:06
you scared? I mean, what did you do the video first? I mean, where you say it was this a stage in front of people? Or was this like a video
spk_1: 16:13
you recorded? Oh, no, no, no. My first video in in 1999. Yeah. On the cusp of the two thousand's, uh, was in a performing arts center, and I got a couple 100 friends together, and we we let the cameras roll. And I didn't know if I had an hour's worth of material. Never done an hour before, and I ended up having to ours, and we had to edit it down to one hour. So did you really
spk_0: 16:41
stood up there for two hours? Oh, yeah,
spk_1: 16:43
Well A I didn't know what I was doing. We had to stop a lot for makeup breaks, but I'm saying it was it was way more than I thought I had. But apparently when I'm just cut loose and talking about things, it takes longer than I thought. So there
spk_0: 16:57
you go. But she did it like I would have broken out in a rash. I talked about that often on my podcast. How I break out in a rash. When I get nervous about something, I mean, there did it.
spk_1: 17:06
There is the rash. And then there's the adrenaline. And then there's the cup, and those things can happen all at the same time. Uh, true. I think people like, Oh, if I have a rash, maybe this isn't my path. Well, maybe that's just how you work up your energy is through those I don't know. I don't know how that makes your physiology work exactly. But I think now that there was a sense of stepping into destiny even though I was really, really scared, and I didn't know. But there's something about how God hard wired me that that felt like a like a universal hum. You know, um, and I knew that this was something I could do, even though I didn't understand how it was gonna work itself out. And even though I was still only doing gosh, you know, state state level women's conferences or whatever, it wasn't a big It was just faith towards something people had called out on me. And I'm like, Okay, well, I must be funny. Let's go ahead and give this a try. So
spk_0: 18:08
did your kids. Thank you for funny. How old were they then?
spk_1: 18:10
I had one in elementary, one in junior high, and I think my oldest son made it May have been starting high school freshmen, And you know what? What my kids would say is, back then, um nobody's funny when they're grounding you. Right? So, um I don't know that they thought I was consistently funny, but they would also tell you with adults that were way funny or at home that they think I am on stage.
spk_0: 18:37
Do they do say that? Yeah,
spk_1: 18:39
for sure they're late. Well, I mean, I don't know. I I would say that the comedy that we share a home nobody else would get, So it's not palatable for the stage. It's just our witness. So
spk_0: 18:52
right. Um, yeah. So it was a
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long burn, and but it was over. I would say that I also have the opportunity to sequence my life. Even though I didn't know, I didn't know that's what I was doing. All right, all right. I got to have my kids. I got to raise my kids. They were mostly, you know, everybody could get their own cereal by the time I was doing at house much, and it was very slow burn in the sense that I would be gone one weekend a month for two years and then on your B 02 weekends a month, right? It was very, very slow. So by the time I got the women of faith had already been doing it six or seven years,
spk_0: 19:34
right? Right. And I mean, that was through, like, you know, you think of menopause and all that. You're going through all that. So are you writing? You're right. So this is, like way T m I. And
spk_1: 19:45
if you want to edit this out, this is fine. But I had uterine ablation during that cause I was having way too many periods, right?
spk_0: 19:51
Oh, yeah. Relatable be up So that
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there were two way too close together and I was getting anemic and all of that in. So the real reason I had that done is because I was on the road and I could never guess how would be feeling on the road. And I obeyed. Julian was like, We can fix that. Are you done with kids? Was, like, a long time ago. What were
spk_0: 20:11
you doing that
spk_1: 20:13
she's like, Do that? And I'm telling you immediately, my energy came up. I was able to do more things, so you'll listen. Listen to your o b g y in exactly. That's true. Don't really for unnecessarily you know it. Get things done. Take those. Whatever. Bio identical hormones. Whatever you gotta do what you got. You know, I messed nabs rural, and I know God made it good. You know, our ovaries to shut down production at some point. But, you know, you got to get through it too. So do it. Just pray about it. Ask the Lord to help you with it because there are solutions. And not every solution is right for everybody. That's why you can't say. Oh, how did you do it? It doesn't matter how I did it. It matters how your body needs it done. So encourage your listeners to pray and consult. You know, some people are all about, you know, natural doctors and, yeah, Herb and all that. Whatever the Lord gives you to do, work out working, it's like work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. Just go. Just go. What? You get what you need?
spk_0: 21:22
Yeah, Self care. How did you do that? You know, you're on, you're on tour. So you're touring a lot and you know you're on the stage and and that adrenaline is there, and then it's over, and then you're on the road, you know? I mean, you're going back to hotel. How did how did you take care of yourself
spk_1: 21:39
For a good 20 years? It was room service, french fries. But then then I figured out I could not dodge the, uh, genetics bullet. My mommy, my biological father both have diabetes. And so how I found out my blood sugar was headed the wrong direction up. So I found a way of eating that I don't have to take drugs. So let's just say room service break fries are off the menu. Right. Um, I called them planned breakdowns on. And this might be a good concept for your listeners. Yeah, when you're doing things that have to be done, you keep in mind that at some point at the end of this thing, there is a day in my pajamas with I'm not even gonna I'm not gonna wash my hair. I'm not gonna do anything for anybody else. Right to re Juve. Nate. Yeah, that that is a mental health issue. That is also a stress issue. That is also, um, you know, you don't want to get so far into your goals and your work life that you do the thing where it says you know hope deferred makes the heart sick. I don't know where that's written in the Bible, but it's in there looking at
spk_0: 23:02
right. Yep. Yep. You don't want to
spk_1: 23:04
defer your hope so far that your mind says this is never gonna happen. You have to have short term respites.
spk_0: 23:13
Yeah, exactly. But women women think that's being selfish. You know, that's what I find, you know, when people will write in or call in or whatever and say I just shouldn't take that time. I should be doing something else. But it isn't selfish. And you have to carve out time
spk_1: 23:27
will do better by our cars than we will buy our bodies and our body vehicle. Yeah, you would ever take your car across country and not stop for gas or let the engine cool down. Ever. I mean, how dumb. I mean, that would be, like, the worst mismanagement of a vehicle ever. And then you say I need to stop any fuel. A need, oil. I need these windshield wipers changed out. They're not really doing the job right? If we do that personally, people like Oh, I could never I could never take a day off what I get off the grind. You know, you can die from grind an ex pressure, but then we have the Puritan work ethic that says, you know, you must work, work, work all the time in that. That is so in denial of Sabbath. You know I deserve this. You know what's funny is people will do that, Uh, that Oh, I can't stop. I can't stop. But you know what your body will make you. Yeah, it's true. Make you lay down. You know, he makes me lie down in green pastures. Yeah, sometimes shepherd just make you lie down if you won't do it, you know? But we were built for Sabbath. We were built for work. Seven mi six times the amount of work as rest, right? Yeah, exactly. You just do the math, you know, just honor your body in a way that the designer made our bodies to go, and so I would call them a plan to break down. I can't break down these four days on the road, but I get home on Sunday. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna see my family, and then I'm gonna check out on Monday. Yeah, I don't I don't participate in life on that Monday. Is that drug my body across America, You know, we have to. That's another area, I would say. Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, you know? Yeah. Do you have? Do what your body requires of you and for different people, it's gonna mean different things. But you can't treat your body less respectfully than your car.
spk_0: 25:34
Yeah. There you go. Go. So So what's going on for you now? So what's 2020 gonna look like for you? Does it seem like I'm the kind
spk_1: 25:42
of person who knows that people scheduled things in there? Like you show up that day? You do that thing? I don't know. I I would love to be the person who said, Aw, I chartered this journey out. I right on top of it. Um, I was surprised all the time. I'm still being
spk_0: 26:02
surprised Time. You're probably surprised you're talking to me right now, Eyes
spk_1: 26:06
that this is happening. I'm surprised that people still come to the shows. I'm surprised all the time, and I just put on my instagram, um, a little picture that says prepare to be surprised because
spk_0: 26:18
I saw that. Yes, I think that I was because
spk_1: 26:22
Because I believe in both sides of that equation, I believe in preparation. I think you should You should be on your grind. You should be asking the Lord to give you, um, divine direction and creativity and whatever it is that you choose to do with your life, that should be the preparation part. Should be on you. Right. But then, to be surprised means that he is sovereign and divine and create more creative than you are. And you should always be suspicious that God is up to stuff that you can't free but be prepared when it comes across like, you know, if somebody serving you across the net in a game of tennis, you don't know what's coming across really gonna be fast. It's probably gonna be, you know, But you need to be prepared to go for that thing wherever the ball comes across the net. And so I hate to use a sports analogy because I don't play any. And I'm I'm very, very sloppy hole in general. But all I'm saying is be prepared for God to surprise you because he will. He's calm. No, I didn't know. This is what people ask me all the time. You know what's up with you? Where do you think your career's going? I was like, I don't I don't know. I've never known no day. It's always been surprising to me. Um, I work and I do the work. But then God always does things I'm not expecting. Um and so I don't know what's next, because I didn't know this was coming, so I just love to to live in the, you know, the perpetual. I don't want to be ignorant. I'm not talking about that or or stupid, but also a student of wonder, and to recognize that when God brings something your way that you know, you didn't engineer and you knew that was outside of your capabilities to make that happen, make sure you're putting the praise in the right place, which is thank you, God, for this opportunity. And I'm just gonna bring the best of the gifts you put inside of me. Plus the knowledge I can gain, um, from talking to other people. And then I'm gonna I'm gonna show up with that, and then the results really are yours. They're the same God who brought me this opportunity. Knew it. He needed to teach me something through the failure. Or to, you know, bring me to another level through the whatever the definition of success is. I don't know what that looks like for everyone. So say, um that people I heard this in a Can't Richards a Ted talk or Oprah thing or something. People. Awesome. You know, follow your bliss, you know? Right. But I think a lot of your listeners like me wouldn't have known what the bliss waas. We knew what the gifts God put inside of this. But that was a bust. So
spk_0: 29:11
I would say, you know, follow your curiosity. I mean, can you
spk_1: 29:18
believe to the bliss? But don't shut things down just because you've never done that before, you know, just shopping in. And, you know, the Lord who brought you to that opportunity will guide you through it. You know, just believe he's been at work all your life. Preparing.
spk_0: 29:34
Yeah, exactly. What? What's it like being a grandma? Um, bliss? Uh, yeah. You might say that. I didn't
spk_1: 29:45
have ah known. I don't think anyone can. That's once. It's useless to say it to anybody. You're about to embark on the most fulfilling part of your journey, and you'll be like, I don't think so. You lock eyes with that newborn that smells like heaven and like, Oh, wait a minute. Yeah, This is it. I thought I knew what it was. Yeah, great. I think it's a wonderful gift of this age grouping. Is that about the time you get super jaded about the world? Right. New fresh thing comes in and you see the world all over again. Uh, what a gift.
spk_0: 30:24
What gift yet? Yeah. How many? Seven grandchildren. Seven that I know about. Ah, they go. I'm gonna
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stay all of my green. All of my Children are adult child bearing age. So there's always the possibility that one is cooking somewhere that you don't know about. So, uh, I always say seven that I know about because I'm always opened some or we'll we'll see who brings it next. My middle son and his wife seemed like the most, um, likely cause they started later,
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right? Oh, exciting. That could be 2020. Who knows?
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You know, just prepare to be surprised.
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Prepare to be surprised. Um, So I'm just gonna ask you this, and, uh, I'll certainly edit it out if you don't. But I have to tell you the one thing that I referenced the most from when I heard you 10 12 years ago, whatever it was, is your navigation system. Do you remember doing that?
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Well, when I saw, the question is like, I think I have to.
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Oh, my gosh.
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One of them is about the GPS woman trying to take my husband because she's always sexy and always right, you know, um and then Ah, and she's always willing to recalculate. Yes, take. I'm not I'm not willing. I'm just telling you what an idiot who was not to get in the left lane to exit anyway. Um, but the other one was about a man on metal in an airplane. Who was the chairman of a company that makes GPS or babies coming out of the birth canal. So I don't know which one you're talking
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about. What's that one? I swear it was one. Now maybe I just Maybe I dreamed it, but I swear it was like you were standing there And you were saying, You know, it would say you'd get in the car and it would give you a compliment, because one thing we never close take compliments. That's the one that
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I wanted for me. That's after. Okay, See, 12 years ago, it's all coming back. Okay, So what I wanted was a GPS for me that would tell you, you know, Antonio Banderas boys forbid exit on the right. And I love what you've done with your hair. Yeah, I hate him for that. Yes, now that you bring it up. But, um, you know what my my husband tells me this all about? He said, And you, you know, that you forgot more jokes than most people ever, right? And I was like, You
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may be right. I think I have amnesia about jokes. D'oh, that's so funny. Yeah, e mean, everything you do is funny and beautiful. And he's
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Please don't put that on it, cause that'll jinx it. But I'm right working on a bit about something. I read about crafters and quilters. But it applies to my life so much that I was like, Oh, that's an amazing concept in the though the terminology. It's an acronym in its S A B l E Sable people, huh? And they use it to refer to let quilters that go and get scraps because they might have a quilt that it'll fit in five years from now. Right? Right. April Sable refers. It is the first time you're hearing it for me. So I haven't even really worked that bit out yet. But it has been treating to me stable refers to the words stash acquired beyond life expectancy E that if you quilted every day for the rest of your life, you could never use up all of the fabric that you have. And I recognized how many categories I have of sable, including black shoes.
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I think I'm right there with you. Yes. And so I'm trying todo I'm never
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going to be a minimalist. Let's just be honest. I like stuff I'm not ever be. You know, the person who has the capsule wardrobe of seven pieces on, like never could I limit myself. But at the same time, I'm trying Thio figure out where I'm stabling it. Try it. But my husband hasn't do. If you've seen our garage, he is stabled up downs and nuts and bolts. Yes. Uh, anyway, so I'm doing I'm doing a marriage cruise this year in, so I'm trying to figure out how some how to create a way that it's funny. And yet people go home and like, Look, we're Rhys Ebeling. We need
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Yes, I need to get
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a A lid on. This
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is gonna be a household word. Uh oh, I hope so. Uh, thank you so much just for taking time, cause I know how busy you are, and I just so appreciate it. Um and if you could just, you know, I always asked at the end of my podcast, I like to leave the the guests with the last words. If there's someone listening a woman, that's 50 year whatever. Age doesn't matter. What would you tell him? If they just need to start something, you know, they want to finish something they started or they want to go back to work or they want What? What advice would you give him? I
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think your curiosity is the breadcrumbs that God uses to bring you to the thing you're supposed to be doing. And here's the problem is none of
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us are
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gonna know that until we're stand before God. And we think that it's a grand, glorious thing that we're supposed to be doing. And maybe the thing that we think we're supposed to be doing that so grand and glorious is just a tool. Gods using toe lead us to the people we need to encourage. So we don't know where the real value is. We're all trying to guess. Yeah, and we're trying to do the best we have with the gifts God gave us, you know, and I'm that we have here. But none of us are gonna know what the real mission waas until we stand before him. And so, in the pursuit of the thing that you think you're supposed to be doing, be aware of the people most of them about people don't step over people or use people. Try to be there for people while you're trying to get the thing done that you think you're supposed to be doing. And I guarantee you, in God's economy that people part will outstripped any accomplishment.
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Um, well said thank you so much. Thanks for spending the time. I really appreciate it for making us laugh and keeping
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it riel. You're the best. We'll stop it. You're just really feels you're making me feel more articulate than I am. But thank you.
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You're welcome. And I'll put a link to your cruise and your website and everything in the episode notes, but
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I really appreciate it. You're so kind. Thank you for letting me talk. I I hope it encourages somebody.
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Absolutely. All right. We'll talk soon, okay?