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have a great lunch. 00:04:03.520 --> 00:04:04.560 So thank you for that. 00:04:04.639 --> 00:04:05.280 It's really great. 00:04:05.360 --> 00:04:06.479 I encourage people to come. 00:04:06.719 --> 00:04:09.520 So, what do you enjoy doing outside of everything else that you do? 00:04:10.080 --> 00:04:11.919 What's what's the Tony's fun time? 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:13.520 What does he do during his fun time? 00:04:13.840 --> 00:04:23.439 Obviously, family, grandkids, my my dogs, uh gonna enjoy and I even have a cat, um, gonna enjoy being on my wife on vacation. 00:04:23.680 --> 00:04:27.199 But I am an avid tennis person. 00:04:27.519 --> 00:04:31.600 Uh I haven't played in a few years because of my health and weight, which is getting better. 00:04:31.680 --> 00:04:33.680 I'm about to pick up my racket again. 00:04:34.000 --> 00:04:42.959 But I was actually, believe it or not, not many people would think this because I know I don't look athletic, but I was ranked number three in the state in my level back in 2001. 00:04:43.120 --> 00:04:44.720 And that was a long time ago. 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:45.120 Yeah. 00:04:45.279 --> 00:04:46.800 But I didn't know that about you. 00:04:46.879 --> 00:04:50.160 I know you play some golf a little bit, but I didn't realize that you actually played tennis too. 00:04:50.319 --> 00:04:54.480 Yeah, I just started golf because I couldn't play tennis, and I enjoy golf. 00:04:54.560 --> 00:04:55.519 You and I are gonna play soon. 00:04:55.680 --> 00:04:56.240 Yeah, we definitely are. 00:04:56.720 --> 00:04:58.639 I'm not any good at it, but I'm terrible. 00:04:58.800 --> 00:04:59.439 I'm terrible. 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:01.439 Uh, Tony, tell me a little bit about your family. 00:05:01.600 --> 00:05:08.720 I, you know, I was reminiscing and thinking back, and I never put two and two together, but you had a son that played baseball at Seneca, I think. 00:05:08.879 --> 00:05:09.360 Oh, we had two. 00:05:09.600 --> 00:05:10.240 I had two sons too. 00:05:10.399 --> 00:05:24.800 You had two sons, and you used to be an assistant coach with Andy Bay, which I remember that when I was coaching there as a football staff member and coaching wrestling, but it didn't never really click for me that that was you that was an assistant coach for Andy back in the day. 00:05:24.879 --> 00:05:28.480 So I've known you a whole lot longer than I actually thought I did. 00:05:28.800 --> 00:05:31.839 Yeah, we my son Ty graduated in 2005. 00:05:31.920 --> 00:05:42.959 He went on to play at Coker College in Hartsville, and my son Alex uh was a shortstopping pitcher here, graduating in 2018, and he played at Anderson University. 00:05:43.120 --> 00:05:44.639 Uh, very successful. 00:05:44.879 --> 00:05:49.519 COVID, as it did with so many people, uh, cut down his senior year. 00:05:49.680 --> 00:05:59.519 And so, yeah, uh, very blessed with two wonderful sons, um two great stepsons, uh, grandchildren, galore. 00:05:59.680 --> 00:06:01.199 I could

talk about those all day. 00:06:01.360 --> 00:06:04.480 And then my wife, Sandy, is such a blessing in my life. 00:06:04.639 --> 00:06:09.920 And honestly, she has been part of the journey in which God has used her to help rebuild me. 00:06:10.160 --> 00:06:10.800 That's awesome. 00:06:10.879 --> 00:06:11.519 I didn't know all that. 00:06:11.600 --> 00:06:26.160 So I'm I'm and I I I was thinking last night, just kind of sitting back, and I, because I try to do a little bit of research on my own in my own head when I before I do these podcasts, and I was looking at, you know, we got another one coming up later on this afternoon that with my good buddy from Greenville. 00:06:26.319 --> 00:06:30.319 Um, it's called non-systemic vasculytic neuropathy. 00:06:30.399 --> 00:06:32.399 That's a disease that he's suffering from. 00:06:32.560 --> 00:06:49.279 So I was researching it, and then I went back after I got that script ready, and I went back and was just looking over our script, and I'm sitting here thinking to myself, I've known him longer than I think I have, and I could not figure out where, and I kept I always revert back to Voice of the Bobcats, Voice of the Bobcats. 00:06:49.439 --> 00:06:51.360 But then I I it just kind of clicked in my head. 00:06:51.439 --> 00:06:52.720 I was like, he used to coach baseball. 00:06:52.800 --> 00:06:53.279 I know he did. 00:06:53.759 --> 00:06:58.240 I was the I was the head C team coach for two years, and then I was an assistant for Varsity for a while. 00:06:58.480 --> 00:07:03.839 Yep, I do remember you being the C team guy, and I remembered you having a little he was kind of a short blonde hit his son during the time I was there. 00:07:04.079 --> 00:07:04.639 That was Alex. 00:07:04.879 --> 00:07:05.360 That was Alex, yeah. 00:07:05.600 --> 00:07:06.399 He's all grown up now. 00:07:06.560 --> 00:07:07.600 Yep, so I do remember that. 00:07:08.079 --> 00:07:08.800 That's pretty funny. 00:07:08.879 --> 00:07:10.000 That came back into my head. 00:07:10.079 --> 00:07:11.839 But Andy Bay, you know him. 00:07:12.000 --> 00:07:12.480 I know him well. 00:07:12.639 --> 00:07:13.199 Your twin brother. 00:07:13.360 --> 00:07:14.560 No, I don't know if he's my twin brother. 00:07:14.639 --> 00:07:16.240 I'm way better looking than Andy Bay. 00:07:16.480 --> 00:07:18.240 Uh but if I can, it could be a lot worse. 00:07:18.319 --> 00:07:18.720 I can tell you that. 00:07:18.800 --> 00:07:21.040 There's a lot of people out there that they could say I look like that. 00:07:21.120 --> 00:07:22.639 That's not as bad as Andy Bay. 00:07:22.800 --> 00:07:24.399 But we're in the same networking group. 00:07:24.480 --> 00:07:25.519 It's called GBN. 00:07:25.600 --> 00:07:25.839 Yep. 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:28.800 And it's it's ultimately how we have become good friends. 00:07:29.120 --> 00:07:30.800 I mean, truthfully, that's where it came from. 00:07:30.959 --> 00:07:32.399 We got to hear your testimony there. 00:07:32.480 --> 00:07:38.319 We got to hear, you know, about your your mission, your calling, your life coaching, all that kind of stuff. 00:07:38.480 --> 00:07:51.040 Let's talk a little bit about GBM, the group itself, uh, the benefits of the group and the relationships we have formed, not just to our relationship, but with some of those other people there, because we all have the a similar goal. 00:07:51.199 --> 00:07:54.079 We're all there to network, we're all there to push each other's brand. 00:07:54.240 --> 00:07:54.560 That's right. 00:07:54.720 --> 00:07:57.439 We're all there to be friends first, business second. 00:07:57.680 --> 00:08:02.160 And our group is full of great people, and we're always looking for new members. 00:08:02.399 --> 00:08:04.959 So kind of tell me a little bit about your experience with GBN. 00:08:05.199 --> 00:08:09.120 Yeah, what what you just said is the real key to GBN, friends first, business second. 00:08:09.279 --> 00:08:12.480 I've been a part of networking groups when I was doing long-term care. 00:08:12.879 --> 00:08:18.959 And now I have an opportunity to talk about Power of One, my life coaching business in the church, Grace Methodist. 00:08:19.120 --> 00:08:21.759 We'll talk about that a little bit more in just a bit. 00:08:22.079 --> 00:08:25.040 But I've realized that that's not just a slogan. 00:08:25.279 --> 00:08:27.360 We have become friends. 00:08:27.519 --> 00:08:32.720 Uh and we all have different businesses that we lean on each other and help each other. 00:08:32.960 --> 00:08:41.919 And if you've got a business that you want to uh promote and you want to expand your friendships and relationships, it is invaluable. 00:08:42.080 --> 00:08:49.120 I cannot tell you how the last few months uh have been for me and what they have meant to me in building these relationships. 00:08:49.360 --> 00:08:51.679 Oh, yeah, we're constantly looking for new members too, guys. 00:08:51.759 --> 00:08:53.440 We, you know, we and we enjoy it. 00:08:53.519 --> 00:08:56.240 We have we have people from all different walks of life. 00:08:56.320 --> 00:08:58.639 We have people from all different business models. 00:08:58.879 --> 00:09:07.919 But the thing that we all agree on is that we want to push our business, but we also want to create rail relationships that last way outside of the work that we're doing. 00:09:08.159 --> 00:09:12.639 So I know for me it's been it's been invaluable because of the relationships I've built. 00:09:12.879 --> 00:09:24.720 The people I see that come in my root my restaurant a lot of times are people that it were either in that group with us, people that have been brought here by people that were in that group, and those people continue to come back. 00:09:24.799 --> 00:09:29.200 And it's just one of those things that I'm extremely thankful for because the group's great. 00:09:29.279 --> 00:09:35.759 Now, eight o'clock on a Tuesday morning, yeah, it ain't my favorite time, but at the end of the day,

it's well worth it. 00:09:35.840 --> 00:09:37.840 And I'm usually late, I'm usually the late one. 00:09:37.919 --> 00:09:41.360 So I have to drop my kids off at school at eight, and then I come straight over. 00:09:41.440 --> 00:09:45.519 So I'm usually squilling wheels and running inside the door a little late every day. 00:09:45.679 --> 00:09:48.240 So um well, it's a great group, it really is. 00:09:48.399 --> 00:09:50.799 And and as you said, we encourage anybody to come and visit. 00:09:51.039 --> 00:09:54.639 Yeah, please, please, if you're interested, reach out chalksbbq.com. 00:09:54.720 --> 00:09:56.559 I can give you all the information you need. 00:09:56.799 --> 00:10:01.519 Um and then GBN is is on uh the internet too. 00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:03.200 You can look it up, it tells you all the information. 00:10:03.360 --> 00:10:10.879 We're the Lake Kiwi chapter, is what we're called, and we meet at um Utica Baptist Church is where we meet Tuesday mornings at 8 a.m. 00:10:11.200 --> 00:10:12.879 We'd love to have anybody that are interested. 00:10:13.120 --> 00:10:14.720 Now let's get into the good. 00:10:14.879 --> 00:10:16.639 I mean, let's get into the God stuff. 00:10:16.879 --> 00:10:19.200 Tony, I've heard your testimony a few times. 00:10:19.440 --> 00:10:21.679 Um and you talk about it often. 00:10:21.759 --> 00:10:25.759 You talk about your passion, you talk about what drives you, you talk about all those things. 00:10:25.840 --> 00:10:35.279 And I know your love for your church, I know your love for your business, I know your love for your podcast, and you say every time you're like, My podcast ain't that great. 00:10:35.360 --> 00:10:45.519 No, your podcast is great because the information you're sharing is real to people like me, real to people that are going through certain circumstances and certain situations. 00:10:45.759 --> 00:10:53.360 It may not be flashy, it may not be fancy, but you're sharing God's word in a way that people understand it, and that's big. 00:10:53.600 --> 00:10:55.759 So, Tony, I've heard your testimony, like I said. 00:10:55.840 --> 00:11:11.120 I know your love for your church, your business, and I know you're the the Lord is extremely important to you, and you you demonstrate that on a daily basis, not just by the words that you say, but by the actions you live by, especially in the short time I've known you. 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:13.600 Would you please share your testimony with the listeners? 00:11:13.679 --> 00:11:22.000 I think that's something they want to hear, and I would love for to be a part of listening to that again on top of giving my listeners an opportunity to hear that. 00:11:22.320 --> 00:11:28.639 Absolutely, Jeff, and I am forever grateful for any opportunity to do just that. 00:11:28.879 --> 00:11:34.000 I received Christ when I was very young, and I prayed the center's prayer. 00:11:34.159 --> 00:11:34.559 Yep. 00:11:34.879 --> 00:11:42.399 And uh listened to everybody who thought I was going to be a preacher, and and I became a preacher. 00:11:42.559 --> 00:12:01.360 Uh I was a United Methodist pastor for 25 years, and lots of lots of things began to happen in my life that made me realize that I had prayed the center's prayer, I had gone to seminary, I had experienced church every Sunday my entire life, but I really had never surrendered to Christ. 00:12:01.600 --> 00:12:09.600 And when things started happening to life in life, it dawned on me, it was embarrassing to say that because my goodness, I'm a preacher. 00:12:09.840 --> 00:12:12.159 Surely I'm surrendered to Christ, but I wasn't. 00:12:12.480 --> 00:12:17.440 And I just very easily say that, not easily, but I very humbly say that now. 00:12:18.000 --> 00:12:20.320 Uh I went through my mom's death. 00:12:20.399 --> 00:12:23.519 She died in 1988 when I was 25 years old. 00:12:23.679 --> 00:12:25.120 Uh I was angry about that. 00:12:25.360 --> 00:12:29.600 Didn't understand why she experienced the pain that she did in her cancer journey. 00:12:29.840 --> 00:12:41.679 Um went through divorce situations and came to a point, particularly uh after the second one, which was devastating for me. 00:12:42.159 --> 00:12:54.399 There was a moment in 2008 when I was, this is part you've heard, that I was sitting on my couch in the fetal position and literally not wondering, not knowing whether I wanted to wake up the next day or not. 00:12:54.720 --> 00:13:01.440 And I don't want to ever forget that because I know there are people in the same same situation. 00:13:01.759 --> 00:13:07.440 And so I went through what I call, and you've heard me call, a very dark season in my life. 00:13:07.759 --> 00:13:13.360 It was for probably 15 years that I ran from the Lord. 00:13:13.600 --> 00:13:16.960 I I didn't want to talk about, I didn't go to church very often. 00:13:17.200 --> 00:13:18.639 I didn't want to talk about it. 00:13:18.879 --> 00:13:30.320 Every now and then I had to be in somebody's world and they would ask me to pray for them, and it was uh it was excruciatingly painful because I I didn't want to get anywhere near that. 00:13:30.559 --> 00:13:36.960 And when Sandy and I got married, quite honestly, uh we were not very close to the Lord together. 00:13:37.200 --> 00:13:40.320 We were healing each other, trying to be there for each other. 00:13:40.399 --> 00:13:42.080 We married in 2014. 00:13:43.840 --> 00:13:50.799 I I want to tell you folks, that's a dangerous position to be in because you know scripture talks about Jeff. 00:13:50.960 --> 00:13:58.960 If we have known grace, if we have known salvation and walk away, that's incredibly dangerous. 00:13:59.279 --> 00:14:05.279 And I was in a dangerous land, and God decided that he wasn't going to give up on me. 00:14:05.440 --> 00:14:07.519 And I'm sorry, I'm gonna get emotional. 00:14:07.679 --> 00:14:27.919 Um and I was my sister who just texted me a while ago, uh, that you saw, she is on a Gaither cruise right

now, and I remember hearing a Bill Gaither song that brought tears to my eyes, and I thought, there's still emotion in me if a gospel song can bring tears to my eyes. 00:14:28.320 --> 00:14:41.679 And I was very successful in the assisted living world, you know, full buildings, deficiency-free surveys, net operating income higher than the buildings have ever experienced. 00:14:42.080 --> 00:14:50.080 And no matter how successful that became, and no matter how much praise I received, I knew something was missing inside me. 00:14:50.320 --> 00:14:58.879 And so there came a moment when I looked in the mirror and I said, God, and I told Sandy, I need to give myself to you. 00:14:59.120 --> 00:15:06.240 I read a book called Unsaved Christian, and I tell folks, to be honest, I'm not sure about my salvation during those 25 years. 00:15:06.480 --> 00:15:08.960 I just have to be really honest about that. 00:15:09.360 --> 00:15:14.639 But I do know now that what became clear to me is that I needed to surrender. 00:15:14.720 --> 00:15:20.080 And the word surrender is one you'll hear me say over and over again because surrender is the key. 00:15:20.240 --> 00:15:22.639 I'm not talking about going to church on Sundays. 00:15:22.720 --> 00:15:26.960 I'm not talking about saying the right spiritual things at the right time. 00:15:27.120 --> 00:15:29.039 I'm also not talking about being perfect. 00:15:29.200 --> 00:15:33.919 Wesley said we've got to go on to perfection, but we're not gonna be perfect. 00:15:34.159 --> 00:15:36.720 And I'm talking about surrendering. 00:15:36.879 --> 00:15:42.960 The the verse that I looked at from Hosea this morning, and I'll just share it with the folks. 00:15:43.279 --> 00:15:49.039 So do yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness, break up your fallow ground in your heart. 00:15:49.279 --> 00:15:51.120 Jeff, that's what I needed to do. 00:15:51.360 --> 00:15:53.039 My heart had hardened. 00:15:53.360 --> 00:15:56.879 I needed God to break that ground, and He did. 00:15:57.360 --> 00:15:59.279 And our lives turned. 00:15:59.519 --> 00:16:08.720 I had to, I I I planted a church, somebody called me from the Global Methodist Church, and that's what Grace is now. 00:16:08.879 --> 00:16:15.039 We're Global Methodist Church, by the way, 155 Thrift Avenue, right beside Tractor Supply, 10 o'clock every Sunday morning. 00:16:15.120 --> 00:16:16.480 There's my advertisement. 00:16:16.799 --> 00:16:22.720 But someone called me and I said, Look, I really feel God's leading in my life, but you got to know everything about me. 00:16:22.799 --> 00:16:23.919 I met with their committee. 00:16:24.080 --> 00:16:30.399 I told them everything that I had ever done, every sin that I'd ever committed, and I was for sure they would not be interested in me at that point. 00:16:30.639 --> 00:16:36.720 And they said, Tony, we need you to, it was on a Zoom meeting, it was during COVID, and we need you to go into another room. 00:16:36.960 -->

00:16:39.360 They voted unanimously, and some guy prayed for me. 00:16:39.519 --> 00:16:40.720 Don't even remember his name. 00:16:40.960 --> 00:16:52.799 And he said, God, he said, God, Tony needs to know right now that he is forgiven, he is saved, and he is going to spend the rest of his life telling people about Jesus. 00:16:53.360 --> 00:16:56.240 And I'm thinking, are you talking about me? 00:16:57.039 --> 00:17:02.799 And and then it dawned on me as you did your research, do some research, folks. 00:17:03.120 --> 00:17:04.640 God used the 12 disciples. 00:17:04.720 --> 00:17:07.279 They weren't perfect by any stretch of the imagination. 00:17:07.599 --> 00:17:08.960 Look at David. 00:17:09.920 --> 00:17:19.519 God used David, and for those of you that may not know his story, he was an adulterer, he was a murderer, and God used him in a powerful way. 00:17:19.839 --> 00:17:20.559 In a powerful way. 00:17:22.640 --> 00:17:26.640 And so now our church has grown from zero. 00:17:26.799 --> 00:17:28.559 We've been in existence for a year and a half. 00:17:28.720 --> 00:17:31.279 We've grown from zero to 74 members. 00:17:31.599 --> 00:17:37.680 We meet at that place right beside Tractor Supply, and God is blessing exponentially. 00:17:38.319 --> 00:17:51.759 And uh I I had the courage, and I haven't had courage often in my life, but I had the courage to say, Lord, I'm going to do anything that I do, ministry related, even the voice of the bobcats. 00:17:52.400 --> 00:17:54.640 I nobody has stopped me yet. 00:17:54.799 --> 00:17:56.880 I still share spiritual stuff on the radio. 00:17:57.039 --> 00:17:59.519 One day somebody may stop me, but they haven't yet. 00:17:59.839 --> 00:18:12.640 But but but Jeff, I prayed one morning after I resigned from this lucrative position, knowing the church couldn't support me full-time yet, although they are the most generous people in the world and we are not far away. 00:18:13.039 --> 00:18:18.240 I said, God, I need you to help me on the journey now because I'm not sure where it goes from here. 00:18:18.559 --> 00:18:25.920 Two hours later, the owner of the largest health care company in the state, other than maybe Prisma. 00:18:26.240 --> 00:18:26.880 Prisma, yeah. 00:18:27.119 --> 00:18:28.240 Other than maybe Prisma. 00:18:28.319 --> 00:18:32.319 And by the way, it's a it's a um primary care. 00:18:32.720 --> 00:18:34.160 It's so innovative. 00:18:34.319 --> 00:18:38.720 Scott Middleton, he called me, he said, Tony, I want you to be the director of our chaplain services. 00:18:39.279 --> 00:18:41.440 I'm like, God, I just prayed two hours ago. 00:18:41.680 --> 00:18:42.799 You're showing out today. 00:18:43.440 --> 00:18:45.680 And so that's ministry related. 00:18:45.839 --> 00:18:53.759 So now I get to hire, train, and and supervise 30 chaplains all across the state in Georgia, and they are beautiful people. 00:18:53.920 --> 00:19:00.480 Yesterday I met with one, he gave me this bracelet, Philippians 4

13, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. 00:19:00.799 --> 00:19:12.079 And so from the church to the to your health, uh, which is helping so many people, not just in hospice, but I'm a your health patient. 00:19:12.640 --> 00:19:16.160 And I'm getting to minister to folks in that way. 00:19:16.559 --> 00:19:25.359 And then the podcast, getting to do this, even GB and getting to share my testimony, I'm doing what I never thought I could do. 00:19:25.599 --> 00:19:28.319 And Jeff, I'm gonna stop now because I know I'm talking too long. 00:19:28.480 --> 00:19:38.480 But but here's what I want folks to know you can't get much farther down than I was, you can't get much more unqualified than I was. 00:19:38.880 --> 00:19:41.759 Definitely you can't get any more unworthy than I was. 00:19:42.079 --> 00:19:48.400 And God picked me up and said, I want to use you where you are. 00:19:48.960 --> 00:19:54.400 Jeff, there's anybody out there who's feeling that way today, you're welcome to put in in touch with me. 00:19:55.279 --> 00:19:56.559 Because that is my passion. 00:19:56.799 --> 00:19:59.759 Yeah, I'm definitely gonna let you share that information at the end of the show, no doubt. 00:19:59.920 --> 00:20:10.319 But I think back to my life and the people that I grew up around, the church that I grew up in as Calpin's First Baptist, and the people that invested in me, and not all of them were perfect people. 00:20:10.480 --> 00:20:11.920 None of them were perfect people. 00:20:12.319 --> 00:20:23.680 But it's I think back to just when I was a counselor at Camp McCall, which is uh RA camp, Royal Ambassador camp, and our director used to always say, God can use any vessel. 00:20:24.160 --> 00:20:31.119 Even when you're not living your life like you should for the Lord, if he wants to use you to lead other people, he's still gonna do that. 00:20:31.359 --> 00:20:43.119 And that's one thing that I've that I've seen with people that may not be living the best life, but some of their actions lead people to the Lord, and that's what the Lord wants is for people to to come to him, to worship him, to be with him, those types of things. 00:20:43.200 --> 00:20:47.599 So I know you're now doing your own podcast, The Power of One, which I love. 00:20:47.680 --> 00:20:48.880 I love that podcast. 00:20:49.279 --> 00:20:55.839 Um it's just like a 15-20-25-minute podcast, and you can hit it while you're riding down the road. 00:20:56.079 --> 00:21:02.799 Very inspirational, very informative, just kind of good information that that helps jumpstart my day most days. 00:21:02.960 --> 00:21:07.200 I don't listen to it all the time, but when a new episode pops, I listen to it automatically. 00:21:07.279 --> 00:21:09.039 So it comes up on my Spotify. 00:21:09.359 --> 00:21:13.680 And now you are doing your life coaching under the same name, the Power of One. 00:21:13.920 --> 00:21:16.960 Please share with us a little about your podcast and life coaching. 00:21:17.279 --> 00:21:17.920 Yeah. 00:21:18.400 --> 00:21:28.079 Power of One, when I when I resigned from the assisted living world, I decided to, okay, God, what I can do in ministry is kind of open my own business here. 00:21:28.240 --> 00:21:30.000 You're a business person, I'm not. 00:21:30.160 --> 00:21:36.799 And so I didn't realize that you didn't that you couldn't just open a business and be up and going the next day. 00:21:36.960 --> 00:21:38.400 So I got an LLC. 00:21:38.880 --> 00:21:45.119 Um I've got this picture, two pictures actually in my living room where Jesus is chasing after the Lamb. 00:21:45.519 --> 00:21:48.559 And I've got this t shirt that says, I am the one lamb. 00:21:49.200 --> 00:21:53.279 And is the story where Jesus left the ninety nine sheep, went after the one. 00:21:54.079 --> 00:21:58.000 And so again, sorry about my emotions today. 00:21:58.240 --> 00:21:59.759 And so I decide. 00:22:00.480 --> 00:22:01.039 That's it. 00:22:01.200 --> 00:22:03.680 I want to help people one person at a time. 00:22:03.839 --> 00:22:10.079 I've spoken to thousands of people at a time, but I want to help people one person at a time. 00:22:10.319 --> 00:22:13.839 And so I got an LLC and it's up and going. 00:22:14.160 --> 00:22:15.839 Um power of one. 00:22:16.319 --> 00:22:22.240 And so I actually through GBN got my first life coaching client, and it is exciting. 00:22:22.319 --> 00:22:27.759 I'm watching him now make little change after little change, and his life is flourishing. 00:22:27.920 --> 00:22:34.559 Uh when we started, he didn't he didn't have a job, uh, just wasn't taking care of himself health-wise, and all that is changing. 00:22:34.640 --> 00:22:35.839 It's a lot of fun. 00:22:36.079 --> 00:22:39.519 And so uh that's what Power of One is about. 00:22:39.839 --> 00:22:42.559 And I would love for people to contact me. 00:22:42.799 --> 00:22:52.799 Look, I researched life coaching sessions are$80 to$100 a session, and I decided I want to make it affordable for folks. 00:22:52.960 --> 00:22:55.599 And so I'm doing$65 for an hour. 00:22:55.920 --> 00:23:07.599 And I'm also suggesting that maybe if churches know of someone who could use uh life coaching, but from a spiritual perspective, scholarships, you know, help them. 00:23:07.680 --> 00:23:10.960 And and honestly, that is not very expensive at all. 00:23:11.200 --> 00:23:19.839 And um, I don't mind uh we said at the end, I'll I'll give the information, but the podcast is just sort of a uh outshoot of that. 00:23:20.000 --> 00:23:27.359 Uh it's a way for me to give little spiritual nuggets or even life coaching nuggets um once a week. 00:23:27.440 --> 00:23:30.000 And they usually come out on Wednesday mornings. 00:23:30.240 --> 00:23:31.759 Yep, and I I can't wait for it. 00:23:31.839 --> 00:23:32.799 I love listening to those. 00:23:32.960 --> 00:23:40.000 All right, we know Grace Uh Global Methodist Church is your calling, and it's one of the things I know you are

extremely proud of. 00:23:40.240 --> 00:23:43.119 You talk constantly about your congregation, how great people they are. 00:23:43.279 --> 00:23:49.039 I've had the opportunity to meet some of them in here at the restaurant myself, and they're all they have different personalities. 00:23:49.200 --> 00:23:50.559 They're all good people. 00:23:50.960 --> 00:23:53.839 Um, you talk about that congregation often. 00:23:54.240 --> 00:23:59.039 Can you tell us a little more about Grace Global, your calling, and your congregation? 00:23:59.359 --> 00:24:05.200 Yeah, there had been, and and we don't, we actually don't even talk about this anymore, just to give a little historical background. 00:24:05.440 --> 00:24:07.680 I'd been a United Methodist, as I said, my whole life. 00:24:08.000 --> 00:24:09.599 Yeah, I had to learn that the other day, didn't you? 00:24:09.759 --> 00:24:10.000 Yeah. 00:24:10.240 --> 00:24:11.920 And so there were some issues. 00:24:12.079 --> 00:24:16.079 Don't want to go into it because it's not it's it's not important from our perspective. 00:24:16.160 --> 00:24:17.759 It's important historically. 00:24:18.079 --> 00:24:21.759 But there were some folks that that felt like they needed a home. 00:24:21.920 --> 00:24:28.960 And I had just been asked by Eric Grayson, who's one of the leaders in the Global Methodist Church statewide, uh, if I would plant the church. 00:24:29.200 --> 00:24:30.559 And I said, sure. 00:24:30.880 --> 00:24:34.799 And a as long as, and we went through that whole committee meeting I told you about. 00:24:35.039 --> 00:24:38.319 And so we did, December the 1st, 2024. 00:24:38.559 --> 00:24:41.119 We met at a dining room in an assisted living. 00:24:41.359 --> 00:24:43.440 And we started with zero. 00:24:43.839 --> 00:24:50.319 And then there was one of the guys that you met in here, he called me one day and he said, We got a group of people that would like to meet with you. 00:24:50.559 --> 00:24:59.359 And so about 40 people came from a United Methodist church that was looking for a global Methodist church, and God just unbelievably blessed it. 00:24:59.440 --> 00:25:03.599 And so we've gone from zero to 74 in about a year and a half. 00:25:03.839 --> 00:25:17.599 Now, one thing that's interesting is, and I'd never done a church plant before, everybody wants to be somewhere that's already there, you know, that already has the big youth program, that already has the big music program. 00:25:18.160 --> 00:25:21.279 And we have just come so far. 00:25:21.599 --> 00:25:24.960 We had a couple of kids meet last night for a youth program. 00:25:25.200 --> 00:25:27.599 We've now hired a pianist, Sharon Nichols. 00:25:27.680 --> 00:25:28.400 She's incredible. 00:25:28.720 --> 00:25:32.160 Got a violinist that is with her, so our music program is growing. 00:25:32.240 --> 00:25:34.160 We've got an A V program now. 00:25:34.960 --> 00:25:38.559 Um still looking forward to getting more young people, more young couples. 00:25:38.880 --> 00:25:42.240 Young couple from GBN has been coming. 00:25:42.480 --> 00:25:44.720 Here's what I tell folks, though. 00:25:45.039 --> 00:25:45.759 Pray about it. 00:25:45.920 --> 00:25:48.240 I want you to do what God wants you to do. 00:25:48.559 --> 00:25:51.440 I am never going to not focus on preaching the word. 00:25:51.839 --> 00:25:56.160 My doctoral degree right now that I'm working on is in renewal preaching. 00:25:56.480 --> 00:26:04.880 We have lost in our world the emphasis upon preaching the word of God from an expository, getting into the word. 00:26:05.279 --> 00:26:14.079 Uh I want the preaching to be uh eye-catching and well, ear-catching, if you will, but um but it's got to be from God's word. 00:26:14.480 --> 00:26:16.640 It's not about entertainment for me. 00:26:16.880 --> 00:26:20.240 This is about people's eternity. 00:26:20.559 --> 00:26:28.240 And again, I know how close I was to almost committing the unpardonable sin and God pulling me back from the depth. 00:26:28.400 --> 00:26:32.160 You're gonna hear the word when you come, when you come to grace. 00:26:32.559 --> 00:26:37.200 But even as we continue to grow, here's what I tell folks pray about it. 00:26:37.279 --> 00:26:50.160 If it is God's leading, I don't want to take people away from their church, but if it is God's leading that you want to be a part of something from the beginning, that's pretty exciting too. 00:26:50.559 --> 00:26:51.519 What's that old saying? 00:26:51.680 --> 00:26:56.319 I ain't what I uh I ought to be, I ain't what I'm gonna be, but thank God I ain't what I was. 00:26:56.559 --> 00:26:57.119 Amen to that. 00:26:57.599 --> 00:27:01.279 And and look, Chocks is a great business right now, but you had to start somewhere. 00:27:01.519 --> 00:27:02.000 Yeah, we did. 00:27:02.079 --> 00:27:08.160 And we and you know, we started at the bottom and we we've climbed some mountains and we've went back to the valley sometimes too. 00:27:08.240 --> 00:27:14.559 It's been it's a constant roller coaster here, but you know, just always taught to never give up. 00:27:14.640 --> 00:27:16.640 And that's just kind of what you have to do, yeah. 00:27:16.880 --> 00:27:17.599 And look where you are. 00:27:17.680 --> 00:27:17.920 Yep. 00:27:18.079 --> 00:27:19.359 You feed me a couple of times a week. 00:27:19.920 --> 00:27:20.480 Exactly right. 00:27:20.640 --> 00:27:24.880 Um and and and and Tony, you know, God is definitely at the center of everything you're doing right now. 00:27:25.039 --> 00:27:26.079 I truly believe that. 00:27:26.240 --> 00:27:27.680 I know you truly believe that. 00:27:27.920 --> 00:27:30.640 The people that know you in the community truly believe that. 00:27:30.799 --> 00:27:33.039 I'm so glad I've gotten to share your story. 00:27:33.200 --> 00:27:35.279 I'm so glad I got to share your passion. 00:27:35.599 --> 00:27:37.039 The person you truly are. 00:27:37.279 --> 00:27:40.559 You are and will continue to be

someone that helps change his life. 00:27:40.640 --> 00:27:41.759 I have no doubt about that. 00:27:41.920 --> 00:27:44.319 You will continue to impact others. 00:27:44.880 --> 00:27:48.079 I'm so thankful for your friendship and what you mean to me. 00:27:48.319 --> 00:27:51.519 Thank you for the example you live and how you treat others. 00:27:51.839 --> 00:27:52.960 Well, it's all God, my friend. 00:27:53.279 --> 00:27:56.799 It is, and I really appreciate you, you know, everything you do for me. 00:27:56.960 --> 00:28:06.079 I know it's I know it's just a friendship, but just the motivation, just the the guidance when you don't even know your guiding, the life coaching when you don't even know your life coaching. 00:28:06.400 --> 00:28:08.799 Those types of things I'm very appreciative of. 00:28:09.119 --> 00:28:15.119 Um because you know, a lot of times in my life, my life's stressful, and I know yours is too, but my life's extremely stressful. 00:28:15.200 --> 00:28:16.240 I get down a good bit. 00:28:16.480 --> 00:28:18.240 Just the business just ebbs and flows. 00:28:18.319 --> 00:28:21.039 It's just it's a tough, tough business to be in. 00:28:21.279 --> 00:28:32.559 And just that 15-minute podcast, um, sometimes it's all I need to just rejuvenate myself for what I'm trying to accomplish here at Chocks Barbecue. 00:28:32.640 --> 00:28:34.400 So Well, by the way, yes, sir. 00:28:34.640 --> 00:28:39.359 This week's podcast, I'm doing a series on a book by Darren Donnelly. 00:28:39.440 --> 00:28:39.920 Yep. 00:28:40.160 --> 00:28:43.119 And uh it's a book in which he gives five principles. 00:28:43.200 --> 00:28:50.720 It's from a sports fable, uh, but he gives five principles, life principles, life coaching principles. 00:28:50.960 --> 00:28:55.279 First one we talked about was control what you can control, your effort and attitude. 00:28:55.519 --> 00:29:01.279 Uh, the second one that you have not heard yet that came out yesterday is love what you do. 00:29:02.000 --> 00:29:06.799 And so the idea of that podcast is to say love is not just a feeling. 00:29:07.039 --> 00:29:10.079 I you I did a sermon once called Love is a verb, it's an action word. 00:29:10.480 --> 00:29:20.160 So on those days, Jeff, when you are the most discouraged about everything you got to do, and three employees have called out and all that kind of stuff, love it more. 00:29:20.400 --> 00:29:20.960 Amen to that. 00:29:21.279 --> 00:29:22.000 Love it the most. 00:29:22.160 --> 00:29:23.759 And that's what this week's podcast is about. 00:29:24.000 --> 00:29:25.200 Also, I can't wait to hear it. 00:29:25.279 --> 00:29:30.880 Uh, lastly, I wanted to talk to you a little bit about your other mission field, and that's being the voice of the podcast. 00:29:31.119 --> 00:29:44.240 Tell me about the experience, how you use that to get away from normal everyday life, and how you still had the opportunity as the voice of the podcast to still honor your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 00:29:44.640 --> 00:29:50.640 So there was a time, about five or six years ago, when I was broadcasting a girls' basketball game. 00:29:50.960 --> 00:29:55.920 And you know from what you do at WGOG that you can get apps now. 00:29:56.079 --> 00:29:59.200 You don't have to just listen to the radio, you can listen anywhere in the world. 00:29:59.440 --> 00:30:03.200 And in fact, I'm hoping we're gonna have a listener from Mexico Friday night. 00:30:03.519 --> 00:30:08.640 But I had a girl basketball player come up to me with tears in her eyes and she said, Mr. 00:30:08.720 --> 00:30:10.400 Tony, thank you for what you're doing. 00:30:10.880 --> 00:30:14.960 Well, you're welcome, but you look like you have something else to say, and she said, I do. 00:30:15.359 --> 00:30:20.079 She said, My grandparents live in California and have never seen me play. 00:30:20.319 --> 00:30:25.759 And every time they say that you call my name, it's like they can see me on the court. 00:30:26.000 --> 00:30:30.400 And I thought then, if anybody ever asked me why I do this, that's why. 00:30:30.559 --> 00:30:34.400 I've had a chance to get to know a lot of young people, a lot of parents, family members. 00:30:34.640 --> 00:30:39.519 Seneca High School has been tremendous to me in allowing me to do this. 00:30:39.680 --> 00:30:55.359 And I do uh football play by play, basketball play by play, and I record every morning at five o'clock, sometimes at night before I go to bed, a sports update, which is heard three times a day on WSNW, The Lake. 00:30:55.599 --> 00:30:57.680 And so it is a hobby of mine. 00:30:57.839 --> 00:31:01.920 Remember, I promised the Lord I wouldn't do, uh whatever I did, I would do it ministry related. 00:31:02.079 --> 00:31:04.079 I consider it ministry related. 00:31:04.160 --> 00:31:08.960 Um I'm working with our girls' basketball coach now, hoping to get involved in FCA. 00:31:09.440 --> 00:31:15.680 Um, I've had a chance to uh you know greet our players at banquets and those kinds of things. 00:31:15.920 --> 00:31:30.799 I've gotten to know some of them personally, and I I want even what I do not only to reflect well on this community, not only to reflect well on Seneca High School, but um but our Lord also. 00:31:31.440 --> 00:31:35.440 And and I'm gonna tell you, we live in a beautiful community. 00:31:35.519 --> 00:31:36.960 And I'm not talking about just Seneca. 00:31:37.200 --> 00:31:43.440 Look, I've broadcast Wahala games too, and O'Coney County is the pre most precious place in the world to live. 00:31:43.759 --> 00:31:44.720 That's why I'm still here, man. 00:31:44.799 --> 00:31:45.200 I love it here. 00:31:45.680 --> 00:31:45.839 Absolutely. 00:31:46.079 --> 00:31:46.880 My family's here. 00:31:47.039 --> 00:31:53.759 You know, I have family back in Cowpins, my my my mom, my sister, that side of my family, but my family's here, man. 00:31:53.839 --> 00:31:59.599 I got I got a wife, I got kids, I got in-laws, I got ex-in-laws

that I still love and care about. 00:31:59.839 --> 00:32:02.160 So O'Coney County is a great place to be. 00:32:02.240 --> 00:32:06.640 And anybody that says it's not, they're looking at the wrong thing, they're looking at the wrong things, I can tell you that. 00:32:06.720 --> 00:32:07.119 I love this place. 00:32:07.359 --> 00:32:12.160 And Jeff's not talking about himself, but he does color for the Wahlock game. 00:32:12.240 --> 00:32:15.119 Now, we're going to be in side-by-side booths in a few weeks. 00:32:15.359 --> 00:32:15.839 Yeah, we will be. 00:32:16.000 --> 00:32:19.759 So I think they ought to listen to you and David for one half and Ken and me for the other half. 00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:21.440 But they they better listen to y'all the first half. 00:32:21.519 --> 00:32:22.960 They'll listen to us the first half. 00:32:23.119 --> 00:32:24.240 They won't change the channel. 00:32:24.319 --> 00:32:25.440 I can't assure you that. 00:32:25.599 --> 00:32:26.640 I'm just kidding there. 00:32:26.799 --> 00:32:29.440 But but Tony, a little bit about me, man. 00:32:29.519 --> 00:32:32.240 I grew up old school Southern Baptist. 00:32:32.319 --> 00:32:33.440 I mean, that's just who I am. 00:32:33.519 --> 00:32:35.039 That's how I was raised. 00:32:35.279 --> 00:32:38.079 Um attended North Greenville University. 00:32:38.880 --> 00:32:43.279 Um now we're New Sprinkers, is what I call us. 00:32:43.359 --> 00:32:48.559 I mean, I I'm not a huge fan of New Spring. 00:32:48.640 --> 00:32:54.240 Like, I'm not one of those people that just live and die Newspring, but my kids love it. 00:32:54.400 --> 00:32:55.440 My wife loves it. 00:32:55.519 --> 00:32:57.039 That's where she found Jesus. 00:32:58.079 --> 00:33:03.759 It's very important to her and my kids because they literally do exactly what they say. 00:33:03.839 --> 00:33:11.119 They take Jesus to their level, and my kids talk about Bible studies and stuff that they're doing in all these different groups at Newspring. 00:33:11.279 --> 00:33:17.440 I'm not a loud music, I'm not a flashy pastor, I'm not that's not my thing. 00:33:17.680 --> 00:33:22.480 But if my family's getting fed, I get fed because I do get fed when I attend Newspring. 00:33:22.640 --> 00:33:26.480 They are a Bible-believing church, and I that's my true belief. 00:33:26.720 --> 00:33:37.039 Um, but I'm just old school Southern Baptist, hymnal, you know, small church, people that you know, people you see in your community, like those kind of things is what I grow back to. 00:33:37.200 --> 00:33:48.079 And I'm never and I never have witnessed that kind of church miss an opportunity to have some kind of altar call or something like that. 00:33:48.240 --> 00:34:05.839 So before we get off here today, I want you to lead our listeners, anybody that's interested, that's listening to your story, anybody that's in that situation where they feel like they're at rock bottom, where they feel like they need to rededicate it, they feel like their life's not going like they want it to go. 00:34:06.000 --> 00:34:22.079 I didn't ask you to do this ahead of time, but as we've gone through this podcast, I feel like it's gonna be a disservice to you, myself, and number number three, the good Lord, if we don't at least offer the opportunity for anyone who feels like their life's a mess. 00:34:22.320 --> 00:34:23.760 What can I do to get out of that mess? 00:34:23.920 --> 00:34:38.159 I'm gonna ask you to lead those listeners in the Lord's Prayer, and then after you're done with the Lord's Prayer, I want you to go ahead and share the information where they can get in touch with you, how they can contact you, and then they can contact me, and I'll share my information after that, and then we'll wrap this thing up. 00:34:38.239 --> 00:34:41.280 But I just feel like we need to do that before we get off the air today. 00:34:41.519 --> 00:34:42.559 Let's pray. 00:34:43.440 --> 00:34:44.639 God, thank you for Jeff. 00:34:44.800 --> 00:34:46.400 Thank you for this opportunity. 00:34:47.280 --> 00:34:54.320 Lord, there may be somebody listening, whether it's immediately after this episode is published or it's a month from now. 00:34:55.119 --> 00:35:04.239 There may be somebody listening that's on their couch in the fetal position, wondering if they want to make make it the next day. 00:35:04.719 --> 00:35:10.480 God, there may be somebody that just says, I've been in church all my life, but I'm not surrendered. 00:35:10.960 --> 00:35:14.239 God, I pray that your Holy Spirit would be with them right now. 00:35:14.320 --> 00:35:18.960 And God, there may be somebody that says, Wait a minute, I haven't even heard about this Jesus person. 00:35:19.119 --> 00:35:22.239 I want to live a life of freedom and truth. 00:35:22.559 --> 00:35:31.679 And so, Father, I'm just gonna ask that person right now to pray this prayer and just ask Jesus into their heart. 00:35:32.000 --> 00:35:38.800 And Father, may it be a moment of transition and transformation in their life. 00:35:39.119 --> 00:35:49.280 So, folks, if you're listening right now and and you need Jesus in your heart, you don't have to go to seminary, you don't have to get a doctoral degree, you don't have to pastor. 00:35:49.519 --> 00:35:55.599 In fact, you may be more qualified to be used because you represent what the disciples are like. 00:35:56.000 --> 00:35:59.199 And so would you just pray this prayer with me? 00:35:59.519 --> 00:36:07.679 Dear Jesus, I am a sinner, I am down, I am discouraged, I am at the end of my rope. 00:36:08.320 --> 00:36:10.880 Would you please come into my heart? 00:36:11.760 --> 00:36:17.840 Thank you that I don't have to prepare, I don't have to become something different in order to pray this prayer. 00:36:18.159 --> 00:36:24.000 Right now, as the song says, just as I am, you love me. 00:36:26.000 --> 00:36:31.039 Save me, dear Jesus, transform me, make me new. 00:36:32.079 --> 00:36:33.920 Jeff, ask for the Lord's

Prayer. 00:36:34.159 --> 00:36:35.440 Many of you know these words. 00:36:35.599 --> 00:36:36.480 Let's pray them together. 00:36:36.639 --> 00:36:45.519 Our Father who worked in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 00:36:45.760 --> 00:36:58.719 Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. 00:36:58.960 --> 00:37:03.840 For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. 00:37:04.320 --> 00:37:04.960 Amen. 00:37:05.280 --> 00:37:14.559 And Jeff, if there is somebody that has prayed that prayer that wants to know more, um, I look, I'm gonna give I'm gonna give my cell phone number right here. 00:37:14.800 --> 00:37:19.119 I've told you the rest of my life is helping anybody that that wants to know Jesus. 00:37:19.199 --> 00:37:23.199 It's 864-430-4498. 00:37:23.599 --> 00:37:29.679 My Power of One uh email is Anthony Medlin26 at Outlook.com. 00:37:30.239 --> 00:37:37.280 The website is Power of One Spiritual Renewal.com, and you can listen to the podcast usually every Wednesday. 00:37:37.360 --> 00:37:44.800 You can go back in your past episodes as you've done, and um you can do it on Spotify, you can do it on Apple Music, on the website. 00:37:45.199 --> 00:37:46.880 All major, all major streaming services. 00:37:47.199 --> 00:37:47.360 Absolutely. 00:37:48.239 --> 00:37:52.400 And it's just called the Power of One Podcast with Tony Medellin, and I have a different episode titled each week. 00:37:52.639 --> 00:37:52.719 Yep. 00:37:52.800 --> 00:37:53.679 And it's really good, guys. 00:37:53.760 --> 00:37:55.679 I mean, I encourage you to go out and listen to that. 00:37:55.840 --> 00:38:06.320 One of the things I'm trying to do, when I created this podcast, you know, my thoughts were I'm gonna talk about barbecue, I'm gonna talk about my business, I'm gonna talk about that, but that's not how this thing's gone at all. 00:38:06.480 --> 00:38:16.800 Like for me, it's turned into more of how can I help others that are changing and doing things for the community, doing things for um for different things. 00:38:16.960 --> 00:38:23.519 How can I give them a little bit of credit for what they're doing on top of stuff that's very important to me? 00:38:23.599 --> 00:38:25.360 And that's kind of where this thing's gone. 00:38:25.440 --> 00:38:28.639 And and and I'm really excited about our podcast here. 00:38:28.880 --> 00:38:30.239 This is Jeff Jordan. 00:38:30.719 --> 00:38:35.440 Our um email address is chalksbb at gmail.com. 00:38:35.599 --> 00:38:38.320 That's chalksbbq at gmail.com. 00:38:38.480 --> 00:38:41.280 You can find us on Facebook, chalksbbq. 00:38:41.440 --> 00:38:49.519 You can also find us on on Facebook at Come GetThatSmoke Podcast, or you can find us on Facebook at Chocks on the Green. 00:38:49.679 --> 00:38:51.760 Uh, those are our three Facebook pages. 00:38:52.000 --> 00:39:00.000 We do have a Facebook page now strictly for our podcast, the hashtag family, which me and my 12-year-old daughter are doing. 00:39:00.159 --> 00:39:11.840 It's kind of been on hold with school starting and wreck going on, but we're hoping to release an episode this weekend, another episode, and then you have the Come Get That Smoke podcast going on. 00:39:12.159 --> 00:39:17.360 Episode, this is episode five, episode six with drop also. 00:39:17.599 --> 00:39:23.920 It's gonna be called The Husband and the Father, and it's a little bit about me outside of barbecue, outside of work. 00:39:24.079 --> 00:39:29.199 Like, and it's gonna be a couple of things that I try to live by, even though I fail at it daily. 00:39:29.360 --> 00:39:38.480 There's things I try to live by that makes me put my family first, and when I'm around my family, I try to be as active and involved as I possibly can. 00:39:38.639 --> 00:39:41.679 But at the same time, like I said, it's it's things that I try to do. 00:39:41.760 --> 00:39:45.440 It's not something I do all the time, but it is things I try to live by. 00:39:45.599 --> 00:39:48.880 So, Tony, I really appreciate you coming out here today, man. 00:39:48.960 --> 00:40:00.320 I know you're about to go on vacation, I know you've got a lot going on, and and just I've been ever since I heard your testimony, I've been wanting to get you on the podcast just so you can share a little bit about yourself. 00:40:00.559 --> 00:40:04.239 People in our community know who he is because he is the voice of the Bobcats. 00:40:04.639 --> 00:40:08.320 You might not know his face, but it's like I used to. 00:40:09.599 --> 00:40:14.159 Well, it used to be like I said about Gary and Chris Brutz back in the day. 00:40:14.320 --> 00:40:16.880 I used to always say they both have faces for radio. 00:40:17.119 --> 00:40:29.599 So, so, but you you might not know his face, but you know his voice, and now you know his heart, and that's the thing that's most important about Tony is that he is who he says he is, and I've witnessed that on a daily basis. 00:40:29.920 --> 00:40:31.760 Tony, I appreciate you coming out today. 00:40:31.840 --> 00:40:37.760 Thank you for your time, thank you for your energy, thank you for sharing your testimony with our listeners. 00:40:38.480 --> 00:40:44.320 And as always, guys, we appreciate you tuning in to come get that smoke!