This City Changed Me… Here’s Why

A broken pickle jar, a weeping mother, and a choice to turn back—our year’s most powerful stories begin in ordinary places. We look across Owensboro and gather five conversations that shifted us: grief that found compassion in a grocery aisle, mental health made honest, a portrait of Emmett Till rebuilt to carry history forward, mentorship that quietly saves the day, and a faith-fueled program helping women build steady lives from shattered starts.

We get real about imposter myths and why the “syndrome” label can mask a very human loop of analysis paralysis. Therapy helped, writing hurt in the best way, and a simple framework did the heavy lifting: What is this teaching me? What must change in me? What’s the next right step? Progress is often just getting out of bed, not getting a title. That honesty threads through every voice we feature and every neighborhood we love.

Impact beats influence when presence shows up week after week. An educator-artist recut a canvas and found a public home for truth. A mentor learned that students hear more than they let on. At Fresh Start for Women, redemption looks like pay stubs, clean drug tests, credit scores, and Habitat for Humanity keys. We lighten the weight with joy: hidden taco counters inside tiendas, tamales from a trunk, and food trucks that stretch our comfort zones and our palates. We close by bringing our family on mic, because community starts at home and spills into the streets we share.

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Transcript

Opening Reflections And Purpose

SPEAKER_04 0:00

I didn't want to see anybody. I felt like it was in this official because it was on the news every night. It was in the newspapers. And I was like, you know, I just felt like everywhere I went and it was like, there's a lady or so we got murdered.

The Pickle Story And Grief

SPEAKER_08 0:18

Alright, Blue Bridge crew. Welcome to a very special episode of All Things Owensboro, our 2025 Rapht. When the podcast started, there wasn't a strategy meeting, a content calendar, or a master plan. In fact, there was just a simple belief that this ordinary town is full of extraordinary stories, and that if we slow down long enough to listen, we might actually learn something about ourselves, our neighbors, and our community. Over the past year, I've had conversations that made me laugh out loud, conversations that challenged how I think, and conversations that stayed with me long after the microphones were turned off. Some strengthened my faith, some reminded me how important community really is, and some reminded me not to take myself too seriously. So tonight, instead of a normal episode, we're going to reflect. We're revisiting five conversations that shaped this show, shaped me as a host, and really captured the heart of Owensboro. These aren't just the most downloaded episodes, they're the moments that reminded us why stories matter and why this town does too. Let's take one more walk in 2025 across the Blue Bridge together.

SPEAKER_04 1:33

Some of those stories are a little longer and complicated, but two in particular I share a lot when I speak, and one of them I call it the pickle story. And I hadn't been out of we actually moved in with my friends after this happened. We never lived in our home again since it happened in our home. So we were staying, my children and I were staying with some friends, and I had been on the out of the house for weeks. And I decided while the kids went back, had just gone back to school, and my friends were at work. I was like, I'm gonna go to Walmart. But I didn't want to see anybody. I felt like I was in this fish bow because it was on the news every night. It was in the newspapers, and I was like, you know, I just felt like everywhere I went, people was like, there's that lady, you know, her husband got murdered, which they probably weren't, but that's what it felt like. So I had a cap on, sunglasses on, and I looked like death. I didn't sleep, I had nightmares, I couldn't eat. I mean, I had so many things going on mentally and physically. So I just wanted to go in and do my business. And this woman was in the aisle, and she had two crying little kids in the cart, and she's appeared to be pretty stressed, but you know, she had two small children, who's not sometimes when you're grocery shopping. And one of the kids pulled a big jar of pickles off the counter or off the rack or whatever, and it just busted in the floor and made a mess. And so she was trying to pick up the glass and she was crying. And the Vicky before this tragedy would have been right there to help her. But I was literally having this argument with God, like, I'm not helping this lady. I'm a hot mess myself. I'm gonna go on down this aisle and I'm gonna act like I never saw that, and I'm not, I'm not doing it. And so I go down the next aisle, the next aisle, and I just kept feeling this tug at my heart, you need to go back and help this lady. And I'm still having this conversation. I'm just being real, like I don't want to. So finally I gave in and I went back, and she was still there. And at this point, she was just weeping in the floor, and these kids are crying and they don't know what's going on with mom. So I just started consoling her and telling her, it's okay. You know, it's it's okay. We can call to get help. It's just a jar of pickles. You tend to your kids. I'll wait till somebody comes here and cleans it up. Don't worry about it. So I'm just kind of rubbing her on her back, and then she looks at me like with just disdain and says, Lady, it is not okay. Don't sit here and tell me it's okay. You don't know what you're talking about. She kind of had some other little words in between there.

SPEAKER_10 3:55

Yeah.

Faith That Holds In Dark Days

SPEAKER_04 3:55

And I was like, wow. And then she said, You don't, you don't know what I'm going through right now. And she proceeded to tell me that her 27-year-old husband died in a car wreck a week ago. Oh, wow. And here she was with these two babies on her own. So I still almost get emotional talking about it. But so I told her, I do get it. So I shared with her what happened to me, and I said, I have two little girls too. They're six and ten. And in that moment, I knew that God had me there that day for a reason, even though I didn't want to be there. And I didn't feel like I had any energy or anything within me to help this woman, but he had another plan. So that's just one story. But there were many I used to call them golden nugget. Those days were very dark, and I can honestly say if I did not have faith, if I did not have people praying for me, people in my church showing up for me and my kids, I don't know where I'd be today. I think I would have turned to something darker. Romans 838 through 39, and it says, For I'm convinced that neither death nor life, nor angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor death, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. And you know, this scripture emphasizes that there's no external forces or circumstance that can separate us from God. I mean, I think it's still a small community, and ironically, me to share my story. This may sound sound weird for me to say it, but it is a fairly safe community. But we still have a lot of cool things here that we can do, or we're two hours away from bigger cities if you want to go and do other things. But I think Orange Boro has progressed so much and offering more. I'm a music junkie.

SPEAKER_10 5:49

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 5:50

I love it and all the music opportunities we have in this town.

SPEAKER_08 5:58

That moment stayed with a lot of us. It reminded us that even in pain, God can still meet us right where we are. Another conversation this year hits closer to home than I expected. We talked honestly about mental health, self-doubt, and the quiet pressure so many of us carry, especially when we feel like we're supposed to have it all together.

Mental Health And Imposter Myths

SPEAKER_02 6:22

Yeah, so I think we get it twisted a lot of times. Like imposter syndrome is not like this, uh, I think the word syndrome kills people off. It's not like this diagnosable.

SPEAKER_08 6:33

Yeah, it's not like uh whatever.

SPEAKER_02 6:36

To some extent, that probably does exist. I'm sure I'm not a mental health professional by any stretch. I did not want to write the 4D book. Yeah. But you know, the whole we all have self-doubt at some point or another. No matter our background, our our faith, our beliefs, any of those things, at some point we all have we question ourselves. I think that's just a human experience. But when it becomes a problem and it's something that we name like imposter syndrome, it's when it gets in the way of like actually progressing forward, right? You know, I've heard I've heard it referred to as like analysis paralysis. Like you you run through every bad scenario in your head instead of actually doing the thing, you sit there and worry about the thing.

SPEAKER_08 7:23

So kind of in a sense of like a form of anxiety.

SPEAKER_02 7:26

Yeah, yeah. But it's just uh it's self-inflicting.

SPEAKER_08 7:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 7:30

And it's also it's it's not the truth.

SPEAKER_08 7:34

What was the hardest part of putting your struggles on paper? Like what kind of freedom, you know, I a lot and we both we've talked about we both are medicated for OCD, you know, like mental health is real. I've had Jason Grobon, I know he deals with it, but you know, like we're not it's hard to be vulnerable with it. Yeah. So so you know, what has come from that? Like, what freedom have you experienced through writing your thoughts and and struggles on paper?

SPEAKER_02 7:57

Yeah, and and I touch on them a lot in the book. You know, I put together a carefully curated highlight reel of what I wanted people to think about me.

SPEAKER_08 8:09

Okay, yeah. Well, that's a lot of people do that on social media. Right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 8:13

And so like I lived the Pinterest perfect life and the Instagram, you know, reel and all that. And it all fell apart, you know, without giving the whole book away. Like, life didn't go the way that I had intended for it to. And when I stopped not only lying to others, but lying to myself, when I was found out, you know, uh it was really liberating. I had some freedom then to be like, okay, this is what I really am. Yeah. You know, instead of what I want you to think I am, you know, all American family going to retrieve your voice pick your chance, like lived that life. And it didn't work, and it was miserable. And you know, it was just one of those things to where you know some people got hurt, and I got hurt in the process, and you know, I've I've kind of almost like 12 steps, kind of gone through and made amends with a lot of people. And so, but all that to say, like the fact that I can live authentically now and not have to worry about keeping up with images or keeping up with the Joneses or anything of that nature is really cool. Uh, it's really freeing. And but the process of kind of like ripping my chest open and spilling it out on paper, it was pretty painful. Yeah. There are the draft of the book that you have is not the first draft of the book. Yeah, yeah. There were some things that I had to get real honest with myself about. Again, a a licensed therapist wrote the forward to the book, and I mentioned it in the book. Like, you know, I think therapy is a great thing.

SPEAKER_08 9:47

Oh, yeah, I would agree, yeah.

Writing, Therapy, And Living Honestly

SPEAKER_02 9:48

And and, you know, that especially for like tough guys like us, right? We don't do that. And, you know, I don't know if it's because society told us boys don't cry or whatever when we're younger, but the truth is like you know, the human experience requires emotions. And and the thing is, is like all emotions are welcome, but not all actions are. So how do you process it? What do you do with it, and and what what comes next? And I am giving the whole book away here now, but no, you're good, you're good. Hey, you know, a lot of people are audio, you know, so but you know, so I'm I'm in the last couple years I've come with like three questions. Like when I'm dealing with something, I'm like I'm kind of running through this filter of three questions. And the first one is always what is this teaching me? Okay, what am I supposed to be learning from this? Whether I believe it's God putting me in this position as like divine teaching, or if I believe that just you know, this is a learning experience of some sort for some reason. So, what is this teaching me? The next question is what needs to change not what needs to change you, what needs to change is meaning because that's all I can control. Yeah, and then the third question becomes what's the next right? Yeah, we're not processed it that way. And when I started addressing things in my life through that prism, I found myself moving forward. And moving forward does not always mean promotion.

SPEAKER_08 11:20

Oh, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 11:21

Moving forward means I got out of bed the next day.

SPEAKER_08 11:24

I feel like even with the podcast, I'll reach out to people like, well, no one wants to hear from me. Like, you know what's the, you know, and so that is untrue, yeah, because everybody has a story, and you don't know who you can like you don't know who you're gonna speak, like who that speaks to. And so, like, you know, my what you can learn. Yeah, what you can learn, yeah, and every every story is different. So you're not gonna like you sit down and write your story, I sit down write mine, they're gonna be completely opposite, you know. And so I think that's what I like about podcasting, is like we get to highlight people's stories because people have stories. If you felt seeing that conversation, you weren't alone. Sometimes naming the struggle is a first step towards healing. One of the most powerful reminders this year came from a conversation about impact, not influence, not platforms, but showing up, especially for your next generation.

SPEAKER_00 12:15

How can I be how can I make my voice, you know, sing?

SPEAKER_08 12:20

Like utilizing your platform.

SPEAKER_00 12:22

True, and so I I created a painting. It's in a paint, it's a painting that is probably one of my more favorite paintings, and it's a painting of Emmett Till. Okay. And the painting that I did of Emmett Till was I just did the portrait. Uh, and I had to take three different references and kind of put it together because I didn't want him smiling, but I didn't want him frowning either. So there's there's there's there's good references where his eyes look a certain way, where the muzzle looks a certain way, and then just like you know, where I can see his head. So I took those three things, created a sketch, and I did a pretty large painting. It's a 38 by it was 36 by 48 each painting. And so a three-foot by four foot painting. Uh, but when I originally did the painting, I had one quote by his mother, and it's essentially what the quote stated was what happens to one of us, happens to all of us. And so she was basically communicating why she wanted to have the open casket to show you know what happens to us here is obviously gonna it's happened to all of us. Uh so we can't hide the truth. It didn't tell the story strong enough though. Uh it fell flat. And so uh I did something that I I still haven't done since then, but I cut the portrait out.

SPEAKER_08 13:30

Really? Okay.

SPEAKER_00 13:31

I cut it off the I cut the canvas out. Uh and I have um I have a reel on my my Instagram page where it shows you know me taking the X-Acto knife and me cutting around the portrait of the painting. Okay. And what I did was I created a collage of the newspaper clippings that that covered the uh the the story, uh the court proceedings, the funeral. And what was really impactful about it was that I took some printing paper and I stained it with tea and coffee to age it, flattened it back out, and then I printed all those stories on, and then I created a huge collage and then I just mosh potch it all together. And I mean, it was it was it was pretty awesome. And so it told the story. Uh it was it was impactful. And what was really cool about that one is I got a few opportunities to to go to Chicago and display my work, and that was one of the paintings that sold while I was there. But the thing of it is, it was a retired teacher who bought it.

SPEAKER_07 14:31

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 14:31

When she bought the painting, she bought the painting not to put in her own personal collection, she bought the painting with the charge for me to find a home for it in Chicago. Wow. She said that it was this is a$4,000 painting. So we're not just talking about you know some pennies. She paid for the painting and she said, I I don't I don't want it in my home. What I want you to do is I want you to find a home for it to where it can be viewed. Because, you know, it it shouldn't just sit in my, you know, in my personal collection where everyone can see it. It needs to be viewed by all people, but it needs to be in Chicago. You know, this is this is a challenge. You know, and I'm and I mean that, you know, so as as did you ever think of like, man, what am I doing? So a lot of that.

A Three-Question Framework For Growth

SPEAKER_08 15:19

I and I would say I I do that. Like I'm a character coach at Apollo, and there's times where I'm like, and I I love Apollo, so hear me out. Like there's times where I'm like, what am I doing? So I just didn't know if you went through that too with that group. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:31

A lot. And you know, and and sometimes when the beauty of it all is that when you're going through those moments, you're trying to figure it out and you're asking yourself, like, what in the world's going on, and what am I doing? You know, are we really getting anything out of it? The thing that surprises you most is that now being in because this is my 11th year in administration.

SPEAKER_08 15:49

Oh, wow. I didn't think I didn't realize it'd been that long crap.

unknown 15:53

I know, man.

SPEAKER_08 15:53

It's nuts.

SPEAKER_00 15:56

The thing that I can realize now is that you know, children learn most through failure. You know, and so when I was hitting, when I was getting to a point where I felt like we were failing and you know we weren't making progress, and you know, my messages that I was trying to deliver were were falling short or were falling on deaf ears when I felt that way, at the end of the day, they were soaking all of it up. They were a sponge. They may not have, you know, wanted to, they may have wanted to save face and act like you know it wasn't important to them. But in the long run, one of the the the and this was kind of hard for me, I'll be honest. But I remember it like it was yesterday. One of my guys shook, you know, rest his soul, he's passed away now. But he came up to me, you know, after well, it was before graduation, but he was like, he was like, Mr. Lewis, you don't think I pay attention, do you? You don't think I'm listening, do you? I said, no, man, ain't got to do with that. I just think you know you are here. He's like, man, I listen to everything, man. I I I I I hear you. And he just said it again, I I hear you. And like in that it was it was such a validating moment for me because we beat our head against the wall sometimes. And sometimes we don't know what the outcome is going to be. And sometimes it's really hard. And you see, and you see, you see the young men what they go through, you see where where they're trying to get to, and they want to be treated like human beings, but sometimes they're they don't feel that way. Sometimes they feel like they've been lost and they've been forgotten. And they go through our processes that we have available to them trying to be the best version of themselves. A lot of times it works and sometimes it don't. But you know, him saying that to me, it it struck a chord in me. It really did. Because listen, I love him. But that that boy was hard hit.

Impact Over Influence With Art

SPEAKER_08 17:54

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I feel like I feel like that's a lot of times. Like I hear from a lot of people who've been in the mentoring or or even just a teacher, and like they'll come back and be like, You're my favorite teacher. Yeah. And my wife's a third-grade teacher at Craven's and she'll have kids over that. She's like, Really? Because you're in class, like, I thought you hated me and you're a target. Real change doesn't start with headlines, it starts with presence. Faith doesn't always look loud. Sometimes it looks like consistency, sacrifice, and saying yes when it would be easier to walk away.

SPEAKER_01 18:31

Well, that kind of is a good question, uh, especially with what we're getting ready to speak about. I guess I would say that my um biggest long shot that I've ever taken is fresh start for women. Um, it came like to me as a vision from God after I've been praying about it for a while. And um yeah, here we are. That started in 2015, and uh we started moving women in the end of 2016, and here we are in 2025. So I guess when my long shot comes from God, then of course it's gonna work out. If it comes from me, not so much.

SPEAKER_08 19:09

Who is Miss Cindy Jean?

SPEAKER_01 19:12

Well, um, I guess I would say um after coming from a life of dysfunction and bad choices and a dysfunctional childhood, um, I grew up without a father and my mother had a severe mental illness. And so I grew up making bad choices as a child and into teen years and into my 20s and 30s, and making bad choices and bad relationships and having kids out of wedlock and um struggling with addiction. And in 2008, uh, when I was I think 41, um, I got saved and everything changed after that. Before that, I had tried to live my life right by my own power, but in 2008 I surrendered to the Lord and everything just started. fallen into place after that. And so, you know, um after getting my own life together and having my own struggles with, you know, homelessness and addiction and, you know, just building credit and learning to live life on life's terms. That particular girl happened to show up. You know, those are the little God things that happened. She happened to show up and somebody introduced me to her and um I met her and the lady there that was that was um teaching is a friend of mine, Brandi Harris with the Kentucky Revival Hub. And she said, this this is Kiki and she needs to go to Fresh Start. And I'm like, of course she does everybody brings people up to me and says hey they need to be at Fresh Start but we don't usually have a lot of openings and so I was like yeah yeah okay let me talk to her. And I was kind of you know in the back of my mind having doubts or rolling my eyes like yeah everybody needs to be at Fresh Start. I'm trying to go to the revival you know and so but when I met her the Lord automatically just instantly put it on my heart that she belonged with us here. And I I felt the Lord speak to me about it. And so we brought her in. She got a job at River Valley as soon as she was uh released from the River Valley Treatment Center and um she's been there ever since and she's been here for the I think a year and a half now and so she not only is raising her child but um she had given a child up for adoption which was an open adoption and she has a relationship with that child as well and another child that she had previously she is paying um money to him and visiting him as much as she's able and she has really really progressed and been promoted at her job. She has gotten her credit fixed her credit score's high she has money saved she's in the Habitat for Humanity program she's improved her education I mean she has just really grown leaps and bounds and within the next year she'll be owning her own home through the Habitat for Humanity program which we're really thankful for. Let me just give a shout out to Habitat for Humanity because they kill it here in Ownsboro and they really help a lot of our women we have several in their program and we have a lady that was our first our very first resident here is a Habitat for Humanity owner and I was going to share her story in a minute but um going back to um talking about Kiki the first girl that I was talking about is she's now um we have three women that live on site out of 15 that are leaders here and they kind of help when I'm not on site to kind of watch over things. They help with drug tests they help me with interviews and so Kiki's a leader and she's she's one of the best moms I know so I'm just really proud of her.

Mentoring, Failure, And Being Heard

SPEAKER_08 22:45

Hope grows when someone is willing to believe before the outcome is clear. And after some heavy moments this year we also need reminders that joy matters that laughter belongs in the story and sometimes the most meaningful conversations happen over a play of really good food. Yeah so it seems like then when you first started it was very much you were like a voice for the community in a sense of sharing about other people's experiences at the restaurants around town yeah okay well I I guess as long as you're not finding a finger in there we're good you know we haven't found a finger yet yeah so so when you know I'm thinking the Wendy's finger I'm like I don't know if I do twenty's finger I remember uh but yeah so uh well when we talked about you know uh what set up some controversy but what is the most surprising or underrated place you've eaten in an area that just totally blew you away uh locally yeah let's do locally then maybe even one not locally yeah locally I I really love the the taco shops in the back of the tiendas which is which is a Mexican store there's one on triplet yeah one on triplet and you know you you pass that place and the average person might look at it and think I'm not gonna go in there there's nothing in there for me but you know I encourage you walk in there people are nice you might be nervous that there might be a language barrier there's not you'll be fine get the tacos they're great yeah I think I went in there I've been there once I need to go back more uh but I've moved to the west side of town so not over here as much but well you have one over there too we do yeah and I need to get over there as well but the uh tour I had a torto there and it was it was fabulous they're great so yeah so yeah I would agree with you was it La Tienda uh yeah uh there's it's like a big word I think uh oh but you guys know what we're talking about Raleigh's on Tripoli La Vera Cruz yeah there you go so there you go yeah that is a really good place you said the west side and I probably have heard of it but but what is what is the one on the west side um I don't know the name because I'm not on the west side a whole bunch but it's it's on believe it is on Bosley oh yeah is it from Ep Tree like Bosley that's a sell like oh what is it tamales tamales out in out in the front trunk pop yeah yeah yeah don't be scared of those places it's good can't find them in Kentucky that is right yeah there's a hey there there's a lot of things I lived in New Orleans for a while yeah I'm talking about a food uh you know melting pot for food uh people were telling me like oh you have to have the Cajun food over in this town in Kentucky I'm like ah it's just not the same I'm sorry New Orleans is a big cold cold I think that's where I I think that's where I'm I that's where I became cultured.

SPEAKER_07 25:34

Yeah that's uh that's where I should live yeah yeah oh it's man I miss it uh and most of us the food so um you're making me miss it I know I know so yeah maybe we need to go down to New Orleans sometime so all right well uh let's see so let's look at some of these other coins we have yep we have like really two more we have rapid fire um this has been a great conversation and so uh why is Owensboro so important to you and what makes Owensboro unique and different uh you know Owensboro is I feel like it's a wonderful place to raise children.

SPEAKER_09 26:06

I moved here as a child 12, 13 years old.

SPEAKER_10 26:08

Okay.

SPEAKER_09 26:09

Uh went back several times back and forth to California and always came back to Owensboro. Last time I was out there I was 18 and you know I have no desire to ever go back to California again even though that I love seafood.

Fresh Start For Women: Redemption

SPEAKER_08 26:22

I love the diversity and stuff but I feel like Owensboro in that aspect is growing food wise we're seeing a lot more uh food trucks pop up yeah we are yeah we've had Filipino food truck the flavors of India yeah and we got uh you know we got some authentic Mexican food popping up we got Chinese yeah so I think I feel like it's growing in that aspect and I really love that be adventurous be adventurous okay don't don't stick to you know trying what what you know is good go explore go explore I would completely agree with that uh because you might try it and it might surprise you sometimes reflection looks like grief sometimes it looks like growth and sometimes it looks like sitting around a table laughing with people you love all right blue bridgers let's switch gears before we close out the year I want to do something a little different because this show doesn't just exist in the studio or wherever we record it exists in our home too so here's 270 seconds of fame with the people who know me best alright guys so for the New Year's Eve episode 270 seconds of fame I did bring my family on and so first my wife Brittany I have a few questions for you right Brittany?

SPEAKER_03 27:43

Mm-hmm alright what is one thing you love about Owensboro what I love about Owensboro I like all of the different community events we have I think they're fun little pop-ups and I like the all the stuff on Griff I don't know on what on griffin yeah what is that called I don't know dog budazilia no that little thing where they have all the bands a porch fest fest is okay all right what's one thing God taught you this year one thing God taught me hmm I think one thing he's taught me is to be more grateful for what I have and who I have and not to take any of that for granted.

SPEAKER_08 28:24

Okay and then the last one is is what's one thing you wish people knew about ministry families?

SPEAKER_03 28:30

One thing one thing I wish people knew um I think that would be that we're not all perfect and we're not all um like I don't know uh I don't I don't know the word for it we're I mean dry yeah we're not all cut and dry we're not all I don't know we got some personality too sometimes I know I'm not the typical pastor's wife and I know that I have a little bluntness to me and a little sarcasm that's not always appreciated so that's something that I think most people don't realize about ministry families is that we're real people too.

SPEAKER_08 29:11

Yeah that works okay thank you all right so Evie you're up next but I have three questions for you the first one is is what is your favorite thing about Owens Roll?

SPEAKER_05 29:20

Uh I kinda like how we have all the events like how we have in like different places like at food places like we have the kids museum and all those amazing things.

SPEAKER_08 29:32

Okay what's one thing you're thankful for this year?

SPEAKER_05 29:36

I'm thankful that we have a car so we can travel it to our families.

SPEAKER_08 29:41

Okay and then what has been your favorite thing about attending Newton Parish?

SPEAKER_05 29:45

Um how we have so much great teachers how they can help other students around and like learn different languages.

SPEAKER_08 29:54

Okay alright thanks Eevee alright Ellie you're next it's the last three okay alright Ellie what is your favorite food?

SPEAKER_06 30:02

Mine is mac and cheese.

SPEAKER_08 30:04

Okay what's your favorite place in Owensboro?

SPEAKER_06 30:07

Mine is probably the kids museum. Kids museum why because there's like a lot of fun things you can do there. Okay and then last one is what do you think daddy does for work um he just like works on papers and like he goes to other like offices to drop things off.

SPEAKER_08 30:30

Okay alright thank you guys alright uh what's your what's been your favorite thing about 2025?

SPEAKER_06 30:35

About this year this past year mine was probably like at school we do this stocking thing and we get toys out of stockings.

SPEAKER_08 30:46

Alright what about you Evie?

SPEAKER_05 30:48

Um my my favorite thing was probably Christmas because we gotta see our cousins that we don't get to see a lot.

SPEAKER_08 30:55

Alright and Brittany last question what is one thing that you really liked in 2025?

SPEAKER_03 31:01

2025 I really liked all the fun we've been having at school lately pulling pulling pranks on each other and just being goofballs.

SPEAKER_08 31:12

Alright and then do you guys have any one question do you guys have one question for me? anybody um why do you think faith mean what do I think faith means I think it means having a relationship with Jesus and that means sorry that means reading the Bible and praying and going to church and telling others about Jesus.

SPEAKER_06 31:32

Can I ask you two more questions? If you want to real quick what are you thankful for?

SPEAKER_08 31:37

I am thankful for my family I know that sounds really cheesy but I've really enjoyed watching you guys grow over the last year.

SPEAKER_06 31:44

What's your favorite food?

SPEAKER_08 31:46

My favorite food I love food uh so that is really hard uh my favor my favorite food is probably ice cream wow you were eating that today I was I was I was okay eevee um my I think I'm gonna ask you what's your favorite part of this podcast so far my favorite part has been meeting all the people I got to meet I've gotten to meet a lot of people through others and because of that I feel like it's been really fun getting to hear different stories.

unknown 32:13

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 32:13

Is that it? Alright and I got a question. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 32:16

Who's your favorite person in Owensboro? Please don't answer wrong.

Joy, Food, And Hidden Gems

SPEAKER_08 32:19

Oh it's my wife it's really I love her so much I know you do uh no we've so we've been in Owens Pro five years really enjoyed it it's been fun uh but ladies thank you so much for coming on and I'm glad I was able to say that that you should say God in Jesus I probably should yeah yeah alright guys well it's been great and that was our 270 seconds of fame as we close out 2025 I'm grateful grateful for the stories grateful for the people grateful for a town that keeps showing up for each other if these conversations meant something to you share them if one of them reminded you you're not alone hold on to that and if this year was heavy know that hope still walks these streets from our family to yours to all the blue bridge crew happy new year Owensboro