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Introducing our crazy story and sports dilemma

[0:00] Hello friends, welcome to another episode of Tell Us a Good Story. Today, like every fifth episode, it’s Steph and I sharing our own stories with you. And today we are telling stories with two of our friends, Anna Bennett and Jeremy Hartman. You guys, we have a crazy story to share with you at the end in regards to what a recent guest invited us to do. It is absolutely crazy. We also share some stories about letting our son Tate play a sport that I cannot stand.
Oh, soccer. Yes. So what happens when we let our little man play a sport that we know nothing about?
How did that first game go? And why is Steph getting so mad at me about the guest I booked for the show? Oh, you know why I’m mad. But friends, we can’t wait for you to hear all these stories with our friends, Adam Bennett and Jeremy Hartman.
I’m Kevin. And I’m Stephanie. And during our marriage, we have dealt with an electrocution, a brain tumor, brain surgery.
Doctors telling us that children were not in our future, followed by miscarriage, and then Kevin’s cancer diagnosis. However, today we live a life completely healed and restored with three healthy children who doctors said were not possible. And we’re here to tell stories that inspire, give hope, and brighten your day. Welcome to Tell Us a Good Story.

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All right, Steph, welcome to episode 195. Oh my gosh, you guys, and we didn’t think this was gonna happen again. Every time with Hartman, it happens.
We’ve had some technical issues.
But today we have a couple of friends who have never met each other until a few minutes ago, Mr. Adam Bennett and Jeremy Hartman. They’re here. Hey, hey.
Thank you, guys. Thank you, thank you. So excited. Thank you for doing this.
Let’s start off by, let’s tell you guys about Tate, our little five-year-old. Stop.

Tate Man Mason: The Aggressive Soccer Player

[2:20] Okay, so Tate, or as he called, Tate Man Mason. He tells everybody Tate Man Mason, that’s his name like he’s some superhero.
He is super aggressive, super physical. He’s always been aggressive and physical.
I don’t know how he is in your gym class, but he is. How is he?
I would describe him as super aggressive and physical. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah, And he’s very he’s very eager to play and to please yeah, which is great. I in all honesty He’s great now has he body checked anybody in the class? I mean not more than once per period. I don’t think.

[2:55] He came to us wanting to play soccer this past summer and okay, he’s our third child Yes, I have intentionally tried to steer our kids away from soccer 100% because we’re not soccer people No soccer people not at all. And I mean if I’m being honest with you guys, I can’t stand soccer I hate soccer.
And it’s to the point where like if our kids came to us and said, hey, I can choose between synchronized swimming and soccer. I’d be like, okay, I guess you can play soccer.
But I mean, it’s literally to that point. I can’t stand it. I didn’t know you hated it that bad.
Why do you hate it that bad? Oh, I have like 10 different reasons. Why?
Give me two. One, there’s not enough action. There’s not enough scoring.
There’s so low scoring drives me bonkers, right? Because there’s so much effort that gets put out there on the field with such little reward for a goal.
There’s so much more scoring in hockey, on skates in a smaller goal than there is in soccer.
Drives me nuts.
Invisible lines that they have on the field. I don’t understand that with the offsides.
They’ll just call a whistle and like, what is that? It’s offsides.
Where’s the line at? Oh, it’s not on the field.
That drives me bonkers. I could explain that one to you at some point if you’d like.
It has to do with… there’s no invisible line. It has to do with the last defender.
The last defender moves, so there’s no line.

[4:15] It’s… There’s no way he’s going to grasp that in the amount of time.
I don’t feel like I can explain it to you in this moment.
I saw that topic dying on the vine before it was even brought up.
I’m just saying that there is a reason.
Offsides does make sense, but it’s okay.
Okay, so with that being said, we sign him up a week before his first practice.
I’m looking and I’m like, oh crap, we’re supposed to have a soccer ball.
Like we have a soccer ball and come to find out there’s different sizes.
There’s different size balls. No clue.
I didn’t know that either. No. He’s like, we need a size three ball.
Size three. Yeah, he’s a size three.
Had no clue. So we break down and bought a $7 soccer ball. Yes, we did. Nothing but the best.
Amazon, nothing but the best. And ship them off to the to the practice.
No, here’s the thing. Kevin had to get him ready for soccer.
He puts his socks on and the shin guards over his socks. And I’m like, what is this?
Like, I’m not a soccer person, but at least I knew how to dress him. I didn’t know that.
I thought the shin guards go outside the socks. For practice.
No, don’t be the dork player.
No, our son cannot be the dork. So yes, I I did make that mistake. So he goes to two practices we get to the game and.

[5:32] I’m always I’m trying to incentivize the kids on just to be aggressive, right?
I want them to be aggressive give your best the whole time. So I tell Tate listen I’m gonna give you an M&M for every time you touch the ball. Yeah, I don’t know I have no idea what he’s gonna be doing some guy in Europe just shuddered at your I guess I guess I this is this is the genesis of the problem with American soccer I’m not putting it on you but everyone like you to be aggressive score 20 goals and then it gets out of the sport by fifth grade so all he knows how to do is run down the field and kick the ball and he’s stealing the ball from his teammates I got more M&M’s brutal okay so this is this is six you right and so I’m like I just want him to touch the ball I’m not expecting goals I want him to just at least go after the go after it.

Tate’s Aggression on the Soccer Field

[6:20] Just don’t stand there and watch. I’m like, buddy, I’m going to count.
Let’s see how many times you touch the ball. All right. So I stopped counting at 23 is when I stopped counting.
So he’s out there and he is super aggressive.
He is kicking the ball everywhere, but he’s not going very far.
He’s not getting anywhere, okay? So he’s running into the goal, trips, falls into the net, gets stuck in the net, right?
So the coach comes over and detangles his cleat from the net, and then at one point he falls down and just laying there. We’re like, buddy, you gotta get up.
You’re gonna get stepped on. Get up.
But he falls, lays there, and then holds the ball so no one else can kick him.
Yes, he’s laying on the ball, and they’re blowing the whistle, but he can’t do that, right? People are gonna come over and kick at you.
And he’s just very dramatic.

[7:01] I don’t know who he gets that from. No idea where that could come from.
So they play for 50 minutes and I would say the first 40 minutes it is just like utter chaos.
And the kids are bumping into him as you can expect Jeremy knowing him and they’re falling down. He’s not budging right there. I’m watching him and kids would fall down running into him and then he’d feel bad and just like fall on the ground. He’s like am I supposed to fall down?
Thinking he’s supposed to fall down.
So then with 10 minutes to go, it was like he figured it out.
He would kick the ball far away from the pack, run to it, kick it, go.
Scores three goals in the last 10 minutes.
Nice. I mean, you should have seen our reaction. We were like, where did this come from?
Yes. Are you kidding me?

[7:49] So then all he wants to do is play soccer now. And so we’re practicing in the living room and he is like bully ball.
Just very, he’s very aggressive with me and he loves to wrestle.
So this past weekend, Steph, would you like to share what happened on Saturday?
So he’s very aggressive.
He loves contact. He doesn’t shy away from contact.
So at one point, there’s this girl that had it, and she was very good.
He put his elbow into her, knocked her down, took the ball, got back and scored the goal.
And I’m more like, oh, buddy, you can’t do that. You can’t do that.
You can’t do that. Did the referees call something on him? I mean, because if they didn’t, then he can do that.
They actually did it. But I am like hitting Kevin. Like you need to go talk to him.
Like next time you need to go talk to your son.
It got to the point where he’s like running over, pushing kids, stealing the ball.
He thought it was fun to like knock them down and just steal the ball and take off. Yeah. So we are yelling for him to knock it off.
Yeah. Pushing all this stuff. So after the first quarter I go over until I’m like Tate and I’m not supposed to be on the sideline, but I don’t care. You know?
So I go over there. He’s yeah, he’s five go over there. Listen.

Setting Boundaries on Physical Contact in the Game

[8:58] I don’t want to see you push one more kid this entire game. I said, here’s the thing, buddy.
You can bump them with your shoulder.
Do not push them.
Oh, oh, OK. OK.
So then I want to show you guys a video of what happened here.
Because, I mean, technically, he didn’t push a kid, right?
Are there referees in this game? That is. A lot of times they’re not.
There are referees. OK. Let me know if this is a penalty.

Over-aggressive behavior leads to penalties on the field

[9:28] Yeah, it is because he put his shoulder into him without really going for the ball. You guys see he found the ground after he did it. He just looked at us like, was that okay? Was I supposed to do that? Yes. So now he’s over aggressive. He’s getting penalties. So we have to get in the car. Listen, you cannot ram yourself into the other kids and knock them down. I’m pretty sure you’re not allowed to do that. No, it’s a shoulder charge. So he’s like, Oh, okay, daddy. Okay, daddy. So then Jeremy this week, he gets in trouble at in school, in the bathroom.

[10:01] He comes to me, so I get home from work and he always will tell on himself if he does something wrong.
I get to mom and dad, he’s like, mama, mama, I gotta tell you something.
I’m like, dang it, that’s not good. I’m like, buddy, what?
He’s like, um, I got in trouble today. I’m like, well, why’d you get in trouble?
He’s like, because I was wrestling in the bathroom. I’m like, ah!
I’m like, buddy, why were you wrestling? Are you supposed to wrestle in the bathroom?
Nope. I’m like, then why did you do it? because my two friends were wrestling in the bathroom.
I’m like, did they tag you in? Like, what is happening?
And he’s like, yep.
Yep, pretty much. I’m like, ugh. So he jumps in because he wants part of this deal.
He’s probably, Seth, he’s probably climbing up the urinal and jumping off the urinals.
I’m sure. Yeah. Tag him.
Tight ropes right there. WrestleMania in the bathroom. So he just loves. Contact.
Yes, they rough. Yeah. So heads up at school, Jeremy, if you see him.
You let us know. Let us know. Knock it down.
I guess I should have emailed about a month ago, but. Oh well.
It’s more of a school psychologist issue, sounds like.

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Coaching frustrations and single-booted soccer players

[12:20] So needless to say, Steph and I have a lot to learn here. We have so much to learn.
Just have him start using both feet.
I used to coach, and if I had to coach one more single booted child, I was gonna lose my mind. I can’t stand that.
I don’t know what that means. You only kick with one foot?
Like, to be able to kick a ball with any speed with both feet.
Like, most kids can dribble with both feet, but it’s time to actually strike the ball.
They gotta have it on their right foot.
It’s so awkward to watch. It’s like you see a perfect opportunity on their left foot.
And here comes the here comes the Hokey Pokey to get it over there. One good leg. It’s like they’re a bunch of stroke victims out there. It’s awful. I, cannot stand it. I’ve told I’ve told my son. I go. I can name so many so many, horrible, maladaptive behaviors I’d rather you have than being single booted at soccer. I would rather you do synchronized swimming. Yeah, no, no, I’m talking about I’d rather you be a and be single booted. It’s horrible. I, I can’t stand it, so I drill it into his head. I always did from a young age.
Hey, you’d be an amazing coach out of I was I was.

[13:27] One time one time. I was coached in the fourth fifth level and there was this, kid and you don’t you won’t get this because he was off side. He was keeping the whole other team on side the whole time he was playing way far back. He was playing too far back, which meant the other team was on side the whole time.
It’s a thing. And I go, and he comes off. I go, do you know the onside offside rule?
He’s like, no. I’m like, that explains a lot. I just walked away because I just, you can’t explain it that quickly. That’s was he like, isn’t there supposed to be an invisible line out here?
Yeah, there’s an invisible line on my little clipboard and you’re beneath it and you never should have been on this team.

[14:05] Well, this is supposed to be a therapy session for Kevin, but I’ve just got some things off his chest.
I can’t coach past sixth grade, though. I’m not, I don’t know enough.
You’re not allowed to? Well, I shouldn’t be.
All right, so Seth and I bought this game around Christmas called Best Story Wins.
I have not used this, but it has a list of topics that kind of jog your memory of, do you have a story for this topic?
Okay. I was telling Steph at this point, we have so many stories.
So it was like, why don’t we pick a card or two cards out of this and see if all of us have a story around this topic.
So first one here, worst job you’ve ever had.
Do you have a story? Worst job you’ve ever had? I’ve got a story, maybe one of the worst experiences at a job, but yeah, I do.
I, I, I actually, there’s a couple that are, that are closely tied, but I did roofing with my uncle in the summer when I was like 19, of course, blazing, Blazing temperatures carrying these things up ladders worried about falling off a roof, Being 19 and having zero skills to do any of the things I was doing, And my uncle was probably about as nice as Adam was to a soccer, His uncle was not OSHA compliant because what he’s trying to say I think I was off sides a lot.

[15:24] And had no idea where the invisible line was But I think actually truly would be When we first moved to Columbus, I was trying to find a teaching job, you know that and in the summers, you know if you’re a teacher, you don’t have a job in the summers and so I was found this gig with a guy from Craigslist for landscaping and.

[15:41] He told me I got the job without any questions training whatsoever What do you need me to do? Well, we need you to swear in Spanish at these guys. We’ll do the actual work The first red flag should have been that my first assignment was to pick him up for work as he didn’t have a vehicle I picked him up. I picked up my boss. He goes, he picks him up and says, hey, blow into this before we can start the car.
We’re driving to this really nice area in Worthington, which is, you know, it’s where we close to where we live. It’s a great area.
I have zero experience landscaping. And then while I’m landscaping, he takes my car and go run some errands.
He’s had an interlock device on it. You can’t take it anywhere.
So many red flags.

[16:22] So I’m just stuck at people’s houses, hoping I’m doing right.
And then I have a, at one point I’m pressure washing, which I had never done.
I mean, I got to be at this place for three hours and I’ve done an area smaller than this table because the the bead is like as wide as a pencil and turns out there was a setting you could turn to change the spray there is but I’m a child they hide that I’m like well I’m not child I’m 23 24 I don’t know anyway, those poor people did not get their money’s worth and your car was mule and my car was trafficking something some combination of drugs and immigrants We’re in the trunk of that car Yeah, I did. I did actually check recently and he was still in business really, Yeah, well what he’s selling is in such demand that I could see him having some longevity.

Grating Cheese Mishap at the Pizza Place

[17:10] So I think I think that’s all I got Then good stuff. Yep Adam. Do you have a worst job? Oh boy worst worst worst?
Um, I worked at a pizza place in Sunbury enough time has passed. I can give that much information and uh You see this tiny scar on the end of my finger right there?
Yes.
So I was grating cheese on a big industrial cheese grater and pushing the block in and pretty soon I grated that part of my hand.
And uh into the cheese oh yeah it goes in a big trash bag so my finger goes into the floor yeah i pushed the i pushed the brick in too far with that hand it caught my my hand went in the grater, just that little piece there came off did that cheese end up getting served still it did okay it went in the bag and they never went through the bag and i never saw the bag come out of like circulation never there was no effort to recover the part of me that was in that that pizza or that cheese i mean knowing And that owner, he was like, that kills my margin on these pies.
It’s all protein. He would, he wouldn’t have gone. He wouldn’t have taken it out.
Yeah. That guy was so cheap. There’s no way he would’ve gone.
Just put it on a Supreme pizza.
I didn’t order. I didn’t order a sausage on this.

[18:23] Oh, so not my worst job, I would say, but my sophomore year in college, I was trying to get some type of business experience outside of like construction. So went to a few banks, uh, at my hometown Lancaster and got a job as a teller at Standing Stone Community Bank.
So it’s just a local bank there. They’ve got two, I looked them up here recently.
They’ve got two branches in Lancaster. So they’ve expanded the operation, doubled in size since I left.
So I have zero experience.
All I have to do is do a, I’ve got to do a 10 key, right? So I went to back for probably 10 minutes, practice on how to do a 10 key.
And then of course that summer I got super fast with how to do a 10 key.
I don’t know what a 10 key is. 10 key is like a number pad.
Yep, it’s the number pad. Oh, I thought it was country music guitars where you slide the thing. No.

[19:20] So, the 10 key, sort of like a calculator for your hand, right?
You just have it off to the side, da-da-da-da-da-da, right? So, you get really good at it with adding up numbers.
Came in very helpful once I got into public accounting.
So, I get this job. I’m the only dude at this bank, all right?
It’s all females. I am 19 years old, I would say.

Drive-Thru Drama with Construction Worker

[19:39] And so- You were living your best life at that point, babe. I was living my best life.
There’s one day I’m working the drive-thru and learn very quickly to not make sarcastic comments while I’m working the drive-thru because either my microphone could still be on to the customer or the person beside me, their microphone could be on and they could catch me, speaking negatively about one of the customers going through the drive-thru.
They doubled in size after you left.

[20:06] That makes more sense. So one thing that totally made folks irate was if you asked them for their ID. For some reason, it was like you asked them for a kidney. It was awful. Can I see your ID, please to get money out of a bank. They would go bonkers.
Like I’ve been a customer here for years. What do you mean? I’m sorry. And so a lot of times it would happen. Construction guys would come in like on Fridays, they wouldn’t have a checking account to cash their check with a fee. I’ve got at least see your ID, right? And so you have a valid ID to be able to cash this check. And then you would write their driver’s license number on the back of the check that they endorsed.
All right, easy peasy.
So one Friday, working the drive-thru, and it’s probably 3.30 I would say, and this construction van comes to the drive-thru, same story, does not have a checking account with the bank, asking for his ID, and he just like flips out in the drive-thru.
I’m talking about we cannot cash your check without a valid driver’s license.
I mean, this guy, I mean, imagine like a tatted up guy, 45, tough looking dude.
Yeah, big dude. Because he’s construction. Vin Diesel? Yes.
There you go. now. Okay, so I’m nineteen years old. Okay, Vin Diesel is just throwing a hissy fit out here because I asked him for his ID. He’s like hey, what time does the bank close today and I’m not even thinking like oh five o’clock is when we close. He’s like okay, I’ll be out here in the parking lot waiting for you.

Nervous Trip to the Bank

[21:36] Should put a lollipop in that little vacuum tube and send it out to him.
That’s what I’d have done. Oh, good root beer flavor. Are you serious?
And so I’m like, now I’m nervous. I’ve got an hour and a half here to sweat bullets.
And there’s no other dudes in this bank. It’s just me. So it’s five o’clock. I’m like, okay, here we go. And so we’re walking out, this group in my head is on a swivel. I am just looking left, right, left, right, like, make sure I’m in the pack. Okay, make sure I’m back. And I’m just, then I start speed walking to my car. Because I imagine, I’m imagining this van’s gonna pull up.

[22:15] Flying doors open and all these dudes come out. They throw a hood over you and…
Yes, or with a, you know, a pipe and just drill me the leg.
Should’ve tweaked him even more.
Sorry, you can’t assault me without an ID. Gonna need it for that, too.
So I just remember being so nervous, just speedwalking, getting in the car, like, come on, turn on, turn on, like, get out of here.
Oh, that was… As scary as he looked, imagine the kind of guy at 45 that doesn’t have IDs.
Well, what’s the back story from that all right? When I got a prison, they just gave me this, you know, so that was one of the worst days there at the back. Oh, that took a turn. I wasn’t ready for, but I worked in a video rental store and the boss would call to audit to make sure I was answering the phone correctly and really to answer the phone correctly. I had to say I have, to inhale for this.

[23:08] Thank you for calling classic family video. This is Adam speaking. How can I I’ll help you and she would like call and check to make sure I wasn’t just answering the phone with classic family video or classic family video.
It’s Adam. She wanted to make sure that I was repeating the whole thing in a nice way because she was a severely broken toy of a human being and what and what’s funny is I was thinking, oh yeah, she was. Um, I’ve just never heard those words strung together. One time, one time I had a, this will probably get edited out. One time I had a friend of mine come up and asked about her.
The manager, right? And he brought the video back late, and he said, well, you should waive the late fee because I’ve given free substances to your manager before when we’ve been partying, and I never made her kick in on it. And I’m sitting there, I’m like, there’s no key on this computer to waive the fee because you’ve been passing. I don’t know what to tell you buddy. I think I got to put the late fee on it.

Discussing Favorite Books and Promoting Their Own

[24:15] All right, Steph, I’m going to test you again here. What is your favorite book of all time?
Obviously, it’s the Bible, Kevin. Yes. Nailed it.
Very good. This time you didn’t say the book we wrote called You Met Her Where.
But it’s still a really good book. That is true.
And it would make a great gift for friends or relatives on their birthday or for Christmas.
Friends, you can order your copy of our book titled You Met Her Where at KevinAndSteph.com.
And we will make sure to personally sign a copy for you or whoever you want.
And as always, thank you for listening to tell us a good story.
All right, let’s do one more card here. Craziest trip you’ve ever gone on.
Jeremy, do you have a crazy trip that you’ve gone on?
I do. Do you? This is my honeymoon.
Let’s just say that someone who’s never been on a plane shouldn’t plan a trip with their new bride.
All right, I’ll try to get through this quickly.
First of all, we scheduled a flight super duper early the day after you’re married.
For those of you who’ve never been married, please schedule your honeymoon like a week later.
Rest up, be ready for it.
Otherwise, I mean, we’re exhausted. We didn’t even get to our hotel till like 11 or 12 at night.
And then we’re supposed to be at the airport at like five, six in the morning.
We did the same thing, same mistake.
Rookie mistake.
So brother drops us off at the airport, go to check in. They say, sir, your flight’s been canceled.
What what do you mean my flights being it was cancelled like a month ago?

Confusion over Flight Confirmation

[25:43] My wife’s looking at me like you confirm the flight, right? What’s confirmed the flight? I’ve never been on a flight What do you mean confirm? I bought a ticket. I got a ticket.

Stuck at the Airport, Cheap Travel Plans

[25:57] Alright so that’s that’s problem one so we eventually my brother already left so he’s gone. We’re stuck at the airport, We’re in Toledo. I think I don’t know eventually get a different flight We get there. I am cheap. That’s a big part of the store, too. I do not want to spend money, I’m 23 years old. I don’t even have a job. Yeah, but I have a wife and I need to have a honeymoon, I got my roofing. That’s right. So we get we’re going to Martha’s Vineyard in the new, you know, East Coast area and, We’re not gonna rent a car. I’m gonna rent bikes because we are young healthy people and bikes are cheap, Well, we get there. We have to get a bus to take us out toward the island I was gonna say, please tell me you didn’t get a, a bike at the airport.
No, no, no, no, no. We took a bus from the airport to wait, wait, wait, wait.
How did you get a flight? Because it was canceled. The flight was canceled.
We just went to a different airline and they were able to get us in. You know, they had a flight that a couple hours later we’re on a flight.
So that part was really not terrible.
You’re like there’s more than one airline. I’m a novice. Okay.
So we are now bused out toward this area and okay, We’re renting a condo from a friend.
We’re going to get a taxi out to there, and then we are promptly told by the taxi service, oh, the taxis don’t go on ferries, and you’ve got to take a ferry to get out to that island.
Okay, well I got luggage What am I gonna do? So we’re on the bus and a woman overhears the conversation She’s like, I mean, I live out there. I can drive you out. I just gotta get my groceries first. Oh great Great, so we’re waiting outside the grocery store for an hour.

[27:24] She comes out with her groceries. We hop in the car. She drives us to this place, Well now we’re there. How are we gonna get back? I mean, we’re like a solid two three miles from the island So the first day we have to walk to the island to get the bikes So we get the bikes. This is all great. And now okay, honey, we’re gonna go to a nice dinner, Put on your nice clothes except we’re gonna have to bike on the dirt path three miles to get there. So we’ll be sweating and dirty.

Desperate Measures for Transportation on Vacation

[27:54] I’m still in the mode of like I’m a single person so I’m just calling friends and family while we’re there like, you know, ignoring the fact that I have a wife now and, The best at the end though is and I’m sure I’ve missed some of the greatest parts, But we’ve got luggage and we’ve got bicycles and those two things don’t go very well together And we got to get back for a flight to go back home. So I go door-to-door for these vacation homes knocking We don’t have a car. Would you be able to get us back and eventually someone says yes, so we have to ride our bikes, Stop there. One of us stays with the bikes. The other one runs back, which I think was me Yeah, I’m getting in a car now with this random person with my luggage to get us across the ferry It was just a series of things. It was a it was a mess. Did you redeem yourself and take her on like another?
Honeymoon or trip remember the part about me being cheap.

Izzy’s Accident and Adoption Journey

[28:54] Adam do you have one? I thought I got my mind. Oh Oh See any of your trips out west yeah, What about the ones when your daughter is the did they fall into the fire pit or something?
Yeah, I wasn’t there for that and Children’s Services can confirm this So Izzy’s pretty intense, right?
How old was she at the time? I think she was three. Okay, and so technically at that time, Izzy was a foster kid. Okay, so you gotta be careful with that. I can’t break them while they’re, you know, while they’re on a trial run with you. But Cody took Izzy and Abby out to her family in South Dakota. Okay. And Izzy, there was a campfire and Izzy fell into it and the burns were quite bad on the back of her legs. And I mean, Izzy’s just she runs with a high motor constantly. She’s hyper vigilant and all this stuff. And they took her to the ER and the doctors gave her fentanyl.

[29:51] And she’s so keyed up that they give her a fair amount like a big adult dose, and it doesn’t do anything to her. The doctor’s like, This fentanyl is doing nothing to her. Wow. Yeah. So but I was 1300 miles away, and so we got to adopt him because because Cody was the negligent party, not me. So all is well that ends well. Did she have all four kids out there?
Sounds like something she’d try. Um, yeah, I think so. She’s superhuman. Oh man, on a flight?
Wait, did she fly or did she drive? I think she might have driven, I don’t know.
Super mom. She is super mom.

[30:31] Okay, so let’s give an update on the podcast. Okay.
So folks, it’s getting crazy, it’s getting fun. You’re kind of seeing this journey in real life that Steph and I are on with Tell Us Good Story and we’re getting more notoriety, more attention, which is fantastic.
We’re getting higher and higher profile guests as well.
Then why am I here? Yes! Because of that. Good point. Because of that.
Good point. We’re bringing you on this journey with us. Oh, a charity case, good.
No, you’re definitely on the journey with us, Adam.
But we want all of our listeners to feel like they’re part of this with us, right?
Like they’re seeing this in real time, what’s happening from literally at the beginning, people reaching out and saying, hey, my cousin’s a good juggler.
You wanna talk to him on Tell Us a Good Story? To the people we’re talking to now, right?
It’s interpretive juggling. It tells a story through the juggling.
How about this? In public, you’re out at the mall, you’re out at a restaurant, whatever.
Has someone recognized you that you don’t know at all and be like, oh my gosh, are you the guys from Tell Us a Good Story? Or even just from your voice maybe, because I feel like you both have kind of distinct voices.
Has that happened to you? It’s crazy because a few weeks ago, I had somebody approach me and he’s like.
Are you Steph Mason?” And I’m like, yes, I am. I’m like, nice to meet you. I’m like, what’s your name? And he’s like, I did hug him. Oh, totally.

[31:59] He’s like, you’re illegally parked.

[32:02] They’ve been calling you over the loudspeaker for 20 minutes. Go move your car.
No, he saw us, we did a thing for our church.
We did like a, what do you call it? They interviewed us for the online church.
Yeah. One week. One week.
So he’s like, we watched that and now we are huge fans. Our entire family are huge fans of your podcast.
And I’m like, oh my gosh, they had just moved from Colorado.
So they had listened to us, I guess, on their way to Ohio, Which was just so special and then he started like the kids were coming up after they got out of children’s ministry and they’re like, This is Steph Mason. They’re like, we love your podcast. I’m like, oh my gosh, it was just it was so, Cool and so special that was like a whole family.

[32:52] But I was like, oh, where did you guys start like we just started at the beginning We’re like no, let go go start with no recent now and then go back. No, we love this. I’m like, okay Well, it gets better. It does get better this past week.

[33:05] One of Emmy’s new friends at school is a new student this year and somehow the topic came up, hey, the things that your parents had gone through. Emmy told the kid, yeah, my mom was electrocuted, she had brain tumor, brain surgery, my dad went through cancer, all of this, and she goes, wait.
Do your parents have a podcast?” And it was like, yeah. And granted, I mean, we’re a couple months into the school season. And again, this is a new kid to Grace Christian. And she goes, is it tell us a good story? And Emi’s like, yeah, that’s my parents. And she’s like, oh my gosh, my parents have been listening to them. We’ve been listening for like two years. That’s your mom and dad. And Emi was like, yep, that’s my parents. And so I don’t know how Emi took it. I don’t know how she took it. But that was interesting where she was like, yeah, my parents listen to that when we go to church, and when they drive us to school. And she’s like, I just thought that was some random people here in Columbus. I didn’t know that was your parents. So that was interesting.
It was. I thought it was really special.
So a couple things I want to share. I want to share an example of just God opening doors, and just crazy. Dallas.
DDP. DDP, Hall of Fame wrestler, three-time world champion. I came across a picture of him with Rudy when I was researching Rudy.
And so then I started looking into him, I’m like, oh my gosh, he’s got some good stories on how he’s really helped a lot of people with his DDP yoga.
So after retirement, he really put his focus and attention on building this new company.

[34:33] He had put this workout program together for him and some other wrestlers when he was still at WWE because he had injured himself, his neck, and doctor said he was never gonna wrestle again.
Well, he broke his back. Broke his back, yes.
So went to his website, found his contact information, reached out to his PR guy.

[34:48] The following week, his PR guy sent me a response and said, hey, give me a call today when you get a chance.
So he gave me his number, reached out to him, and his name is Marlon.
So I reached out, I’m like, Marlon, oh my gosh, thank you so much for giving me your contact information.
And then I started telling him about Tell Us a Good Story. And immediately, he cuts me off.
He’s like, oh, Kevin, we’re good, brother. I’m like, what do you mean?
He’s like, no, no, no, I’m already sold on you guys.
You just tell me when you want to talk to Dallas. Like, are you serious?
He’s like, oh, yeah. He’s like, I went to your website, I’ve looked at video clips, I’ve seen you’ve talked to.
We love what you and Steph are doing on Tell Us a Good Story.
Just tell us when you want to talk to DDP.
And so we set up the following Friday. Boom, done.

[35:30] The easiest thing ever. Like, I wish everyone was that easy.
Everyone, yes. I wish everyone was that easy to talk to.
But here’s the thing. Steph is getting very mad at me because what will happen to her? I’m so freaking mad.
I’m so mad. Okay, so as you guys know, I give Kevin guests, I give him ideas, and then he has to reach out to them.
That is his job. Not just reach out to them.
I gotta find their contact information. I gotta find. Okay.
First of all, are they alive? That’s the first thing. I’ve learned, I’ve learned from that.
But, I’ve gotten better where I’ll have ideas, then I will get their contact information, and I send it to you.
And you’re still not getting them. And I’ll follow up with you, did you get this person?
And you’re like, I haven’t even reached out to him yet. I’m like, do your job.
That’s all I’m asking you.
Here’s the thing she’s doing, guys. Kim Jong-un is very tough to book, all right?

[36:22] She’s sending me all these people who I don’t want to talk to, okay?
They’re so good! We even had a listener say, you need to talk to this person.
I’m like, I know, I just told Kevin about this person. One of the guests is some person who is a former Satanist.
Who is telling Christians not to do anything on Halloween. Yes.
And so I’m like, I don’t want to talk to this dude. What a drag.
Listen, listen, guys, Satan only asks for one day a year. It’s Halloween.

From Satanist to Devout Christian: A Life Transformation

[36:54] So I do not reach out to that person. He was a Satanist, but is now a devout Christian, has like completely transformed his life.
And I was like, he’d have a good story. But then you send me like somebody who played in the movie et or something like very more. Yeah, The alien say the alien himself would be a great She’s got a good story. I’m like, uh, Yes, they’re great guests. There’s some guests. I have not reached out to okay. Okay. Okay adam, Can we circle back to kim jong-un?
No, not are you about to put us in the middle of this? Totally Would you want to hear that kind of a story?
I wouldn’t if they’re gonna say we can’t celebrate Halloween or we supposed to do, What if I happen to eat a Snickers and it is Halloween? Is that celebrating Halloween?
Okay, take Halloween out of the equation. What else are we gonna talk about? Yeah.

The Debate: Booking Guests with Different Opinions

[37:53] From Satan’s a total bring down a Here’s what I think. I think if you both agree, it’s a great idea And if one of you is out then you’re out I mean how many how many millions of people in this world would you both agree on?
So if Kevin doesn’t agree on a few, what’s the big deal? The ones he agrees on, he books them. Thank you.
Sorry, Steph, I love you. Okay, no, no, no. It’s if Kevin wants them, he books them.
If I want them, he’s like, nah.
I’ll get to it. So have you given him ideas that he’s taken, though?
Obviously, as a visionary. Okay, so what’s the problem? Lots of them, yeah.
No, it’s true. Thank you. I wouldn’t want to talk to a former Satanist.
Well, here’s the deal.
Okay. You just talked about the higher caliber guests you’re getting.
You could talk to hundreds and thousands of Satanists out there.
I mean, how do you know he’s going to be a good guest?
I mean, Kevin vetted me before I got to be on the show. And I’m a, I work for his, I teach his kids.
I got vetted. He told me no, he told me no the first time. So I don’t know.

[38:47] Maybe you suggested to me that was a problem. Did your parents let you do like Halloween?
I did it one time when I was like three years old. I’ve got a picture of my older sister is Raggedy Ann and I am Andy.
I’ve got this like mop on top of my head. It’s red and then like I look like a clown.
That’s the only time I like. You never went trick or treat or anything?
No. What about at school when they had like a Halloween party?
Did you have to step out for it? Yes.
Here’s what happened. And my parents would pick us up and we would go hiking or what would they tell you like what was the reason?
It’s a devil’s holiday. Okay, we’re gonna celebrate the devil’s holiday. Even if it’s just dressing up Could you watch fun? Could you watch things that had like wizards warlocks?
No, no, so Harry Potter would have been out if it were Remember the Dungeons and Dragons panic of like the late 80s. No, I don’t remember any of that Oh, it wasn’t I wasn’t allowed. I was not watching like gremlins. Were you allowed to watch certain Disney movies?
I mean I could some yeah, not not Fantasia. Yeah. Oh, well, I could see why everyone just doesn’t watches that.

Halloween Memories and Trick-or-Treating Traditions

[39:54] My parents would take me out of school and then we would go somewhere and they would come back after Trick-or-treat was done and then all of our lights would be off. So people know that we were, Back like eight o’clock at night to clean the eggs off I was just thinking that!
Yeah. So no, there’s been a handful of people I have intentionally just added to the list, and I’ve not got to them yet.
What about your kids? Do you let them celebrate Satan’s holiday? No!
No, we do trick-or-treating Well, that’s all he asks so good for you.

[40:27] But we are very mindful of what they dress up as oh, yes, absolutely We do have specific things of what they can and can’t dress up as so so I remember the first time Steph you and I, went trick-or-treating with me almost a decade ago and.

[40:44] We got in the wagon. I didn’t really know what to expect expect. But I remember that neighborhood that we lived in is super nice. Not a lot of kids in the neighborhood because the neighborhood hadn’t really turned over yet. So there were not very many kids.
Lots of the original owners. Yes. Yes. Where their kids had grown up out of the house. Now they had grandkids. But I remember going to that first house step and them giving me a full-size candy bar.
I’m like, oh my gosh, this is amazing. And then put Emi back in the wagon, go to the next house, and they gave her Cheryl’s cookies.
And I’m like, whoa. And then we get to the next house, and Miss Linda had homemade caramel apples.
She had put them in individually wrapped bags, gave that to Emi, and I remember like, Steph, this is incredible. I hope this next house hands out cash.
Like, this is amazing.
We hit the jackpot with this neighborhood. Oh my gosh, yes. And there weren’t very many kids, so they were so happy to see us.
So I also remember at the end kind of being sad because I never experienced that as a kid.

[41:51] And leaving there, it’s like, there was nothing evil about that.
It wasn’t like they were putting spells on us, right on every single house.
No, this was something fun that we did as a family.
And that is something that I didn’t get to experience with my parents as a kid, which was kind of sad to me. So I guess my thought is.

Halloween: Fun Family Time, Not Worshiping Satan

[42:11] Just because you dress up for Halloween does not mean you’re worshiping Satan.
Just like just because you dress up for church on Sundays does not mean you’re worshiping God. Same thing.

[42:25] What we experience, what we do on Halloween doesn’t mean we’re participating in something evil. And now I get it.
There are evil things and evil traditions that take place on Halloween.
However, I’m sure there’s also evil traditions that happens on, you know, evenings with a full moon and also every Friday the 13th as well.
Yeah, you’re right.
We’re not going to pull our kids out of school on that day either.
No, I think you’re totally right. At least in our house, we treat Halloween as something fun that we can do as a family.
We go over to my sister’s house.
We all hang out with the cousins and we’re getting candy and it’s just time that we’re able to spend together making memories. So I guess I guess it’s all in how you view it.
Like you said, I understand there’s evil out there, but we try to always find the good and everything we can. Steph, what is one of the most asked questions we get about tell us a good story?
Do I really get that excited?
Besides that one?

[43:25] Oh, how do we get all these incredible guests? Correct. And some of our best conversations have been with guests who are listeners have reached out to us and said, you should talk to this person.
To name just a few, Nick Vujicic, Coach Tom Ryan, Carol Motyka were all recommendations from our listeners.
So if there’s someone you would like us to interview and think they might be a great fit for Tell Us a Good Story, please let us know at KevinAndSteph.com.
You don’t even have to personally know them. True, but do me a favor, before you submit their names, please make sure they are still alive.
That has actually happened and it is super hard for me to find their contact information.
But regardless, thank you for listening to Tell Us a Good Story.

[44:05] So, I got a text message from our friend and prior guest, Joe Sirio.
He’s been on, I guess, three times now. He’s the guy who wrote a book about him and the Russian mafia.
And so, great, great guy.
But he sent me a message. This was actually last week. He said he got in a car with a friend.
The friend was listening to tell us a good story.
And he texted me and said he couldn’t get away from us. So he said his friend was actually listening to episode two.

[44:30] Oh, wow. Oh! Episode two. And I was like… Who’s episode two?
Yes. I was like, don’t do that. I go, Joe, we always tell people, go backwards. Yeah, go most recent to the earliest ones, right? The episodes today are much better than they were that first year, just hands down. And he responded, Hey, don’t cringe about the beginning.
You guys have evolved beautifully. Everything starts somewhere. So whenever you hear the old ones, just sit back and say to yourself, Yeah, that was the beginning. And look where it’s taken us. We couldn’t have got here without them. So you can tell he is a professional speaker. And then do you guys have any questions or anything you’re curious about what’s going on with Telska story that you want to ask us? That might be the same question that one of our listeners have.
One I’ve always wanted to ask since I first started listening is, you know, the progressive commercials where they throw the challenge flag. Yes.
Do you guys ever do that to each other where you like you swear something happened and stuff’s like, no, that didn’t happen.
And so you actually go back and listen to your episodes to prove that you’re right? Because you essentially have the ability to throw a challenge flag and check where most of us don’t record our lives like you guys do. We had a guest today. Can I say who the guest was?

[45:41] Okay. So we had a guest today who is freaking fantastic. John Cooper from Skillet.
Founder of the Christian rock band Skillet, who, by the way, Steph thought we were talking to the retired football coach.
That’s what I thought. I heard John Cooper too. And so we’re like, no, no, this is John Cooper, the rock star in the band Skid Row, right?
Michael, that’s good too. Yes. That’s good.
That’s even better. That’s even better.
So he was amazing and Kevin was telling me about him like wait a second Didn’t we have our previous guest Andy Irwin? He did a rock video.

[46:15] For skillet and Andy was talking about how they were doing like this pyrotechnic thing and Kevin’s like no, I don’t think it was skillet I don’t think he said that like no. No, I think it was skillet So progressive flag went up and we went back and he never said it was skillet. We went back and listened Yeah, he never said it was skillet But the way he was talking about the band, he was like, the drummer was a female and it was a Christian rock band.
I’m like, okay, so it probably was Skillet.
So then we threw this story out to John today and he’s like, 100%, that story is about us.
Which is really cool.
But Steph does fact check me a lot on things. And then even when we were in the book, you would fact check me on like stupid stuff.
How many days I was in the hospital.
Yeah, and I was right. I felt like I was in there like 30 days and Steph’s like, no.
He’s like, I was there for like six months, wasn’t I? I’m like, how about nine days, nine days?
And he’s like, no, no, six months.
And I’m like, I will tell you when you went in and when you got out.
It was so ingrained in my head.

[47:13] Do you ever want to start having more guests appear like live with you in person or in person in person?
We’ve done a handful of those actually. Um, Damon Westwood in person.
We’ve done a handful in person, not definitely not live.
That scares me don’t want to do live. No Don’t a roll roll phone calls. I don’t want to do that. A lot of guests go long. Mm-hmm Their answers are long answers along they ramble and so to give you an opportunity to edit it down, Give an opportunity to edit out something stupid. I said that I thought was funny at the time and it wasn’t.

Editing Out Unplanned Conversations

[47:52] Okay, now let’s edit that out There’s a lot. Well, here’s a good example.
We’re talking Dallas Page, all right? He starts talking how 90% of what they do is real, okay?
He’s like, you can’t fake gravity, can’t fake a chair to the back.
He’s like, here’s the thing.
If I take this chair and I hit somebody in the back, I’m gonna hit them square in the back and it’s gonna be loud, it’s gonna be a big bang, it’s gonna be awesome, right?
But I’m hitting them in the middle of that chair.
I’m not going to hit him in this on the side and like cut him up and you hear me in the background. I’ll be like, yep, like, Jeff did that to me this morning. Like as if I hit somebody fits share. I know exactly what he’s talking about.
So stuff like that, when I’m listening to like, I stand so stupid and like mute my microphone, edit that out. Me in the background, I know what you’re talking about GDP? Like, it was at a Waffle House last week, right? And it just got escalated quick.
Yeah, it does.

[48:54] Who’s out of hash browns? Not you. So, I don’t want to do live because there’s just random stuff that I like to edit out, or our producer edits out.
Well, and like you said, sometimes these guys are guests. They will talk long. Long, long.
And they’ll go from what our question was, and then 10 minutes later, they’re completely opposite.
And we have to like circle back.
So I think listeners would be bored with their answers because it wasn’t tight and concise.
And there’s times we’re doing this fifth episode and I’m listening to us talk and I’m like, oh my gosh, I’m putting myself to sleep here.
And so I’ve got to cut out a story or edit something down or make it concise and tight just to make it more listenable, I guess.
But yeah, I don’t, live makes me nervous. and I mean, we do a lot of stuff live when we’re talking to other people when they’re interviewing us.
Hey, that reminds me, you remember the first time we got interviewed on TV?
We do a Zoom call, we’re on TV, and I don’t think it was live, but they plugged us in.
I see them, we hear them. I don’t think they saw us.
So the two hosts are like, okay, what are we gonna talk to these people about? What’s their names?
They’re looking at cards they just pulled out of their jacket.
Yes. What do we got here? Former Satanists? What’s going on here?

[50:11] So I’m like, oh, we can hear you, but they can’t hear us. They hadn’t like flipped the switch yet on their end.
So they’re talking about like what they’re going to ask us literally like 30 seconds before.
What are these, the Osmonds?

[50:25] So then they flip the switch so they can hear us. And they’re like, oh my gosh, this is Kevin and Steph.
So nice to meet you. And Steph, of course, being naturally loud that she is, she’s like, oh my gosh, it’s so nice to meet you.
And the hosts have those like in-ear monitors in and she is like, And you can see her like pointing down like turn this chick down we got a live one here folks.

[50:56] Shoot That was our first experience. But yeah, there’s that some interviews where it’s like, well, they got our names, right? Mm-hmm. Just but that’s okay, If you like what you hear, please tell someone about us as soon as this episode is over, Go tell your spouse your closest friend a parent a co-worker or share one of our posts on social media However, if you don’t like what you’re hearing, please do not don’t tell anyone don’t tell anybody just disregard this message Don’t worry about it about us Yeah, go on with your merry day and to get more information about us or our entire catalog of episodes Be sure to check us out at Kevin and Steph calm, Thank you for listening to Tell Us A Good Story.

Keeping the Momentum Going

[51:54] Yes, we were booked out until almost mid-January. And you’re gonna keep booking, aren’t you?
I’m gonna do my best. We’re gonna keep booking it. I’ll do my best.
We’re gonna keep this momentum.
Because here’s my fear, you guys. So last January, we took, I think, a month off.

[52:08] And then once we got back into it, January’s slow with people like starting, like, Getting back into the routine. Yeah, people just, they take a little while.
So like, we were reaching out, and they’re like, how about March?
How about February? And like, oh my gosh, like, we need people now.
That was two years ago.
So, what was it, two years? Remember who we called to help us out? No.

[52:28] This guy. A fill-in. Pulled through. I’m like Shandling to Carson.
Like, I need a guy. You’re the biggest celebrity we know. Good to have you Bennett here.
Yeah, I think you filled in twice with us.
Because we didn’t have any guests. That was like episode 56 of G7 or something.
Oh, it freaks me out.
Yes. So I’m like, always like, keep going. Just keep the momentum going.
Okay, so next week we have, His name is Dwayne Abel.
This man has incredible story.
So he’s a cartoonist. He does a ton of presentations, school assemblies, he goes to retirement homes, he’s a professional speaker, all of that.
During COVID, he wasn’t going to school assemblies anymore. He does a weekly comic strip for like 60 newspapers across the country.
So that’s one piece he does, but then he wasn’t traveling anymore.
So he was a theater major at, it was the University of Akron, I believe.
And so he’s like, okay, during COVID, everything’s kind of shut down, but let me go try out for a few movie parts, right? To try to get in a few films here that are, that are still in production.
So he gets one and then they ask him, Hey, you’re a cartoonist. You write stuff.
Have you written anything else? And he’s like, well, I wrote this one script for Netflix or something.
Didn’t get picked up. They’re like, do you have anything else?

[53:44] He’s like, let me get back with you. So he, the next two weeks, he just cranks up this movie script, sends it to this production company, like a month goes by, and they go, hey, we want to make this into a film.
He negotiates to do this, one, I want you to film at my hometown of Carrollton, Ohio.

[54:02] Which is maybe a half hour away from Akron.
Then he asked that he would have some type of part in the film, some type of casting part, and they agreed to it.
So he filmed that, then that’s led to him writing other stuff and being in other movies.
So during this conversation, you’ll hear this next week, folks, again, it’s getting crazy.

[54:22] But at the end of the conversation, he’s like, hey, our next film that I’ve written is going into production in January.
Hopefully. Hopefully.

Becoming Extras in a Christmas Movie

[54:29] That’s the plan. In January of 24 is when they’re going to film it.
Same thing. They’ve decided to film it in his hometown in Carrollton, Ohio, and he said he’s written it. He’s the co-producer on it.
It is a Christmas movie, so it’s going to be like a Hallmark-type movie, and he asked Steph and I to be an extra in the movie.
Y’all know I was posing. As soon as you started going, I was like, I was ready.
I was bored for this. You guys tell me when and where.
I will gladly, I’m like, okay, Mike, but Dwayne, here’s the thing, please know there is a risk.
This woman’s gonna be a scene stealer. Like, excuse me, don’t look at the camera and you don’t have to see any speaking parts, so please stop talking.
You guys will be extra customers at the Christmas tree lot. It’ll be fine.
Right as the couple’s falling in love after their high school, you know, 20 years later, that’s high school. I’m walking past the camera posing.
And they give me, hey, sir, I want you to carry this Christmas tree 50 yards to this truck.

[55:31] So, he’s gonna get back with us in January, and I’m sure we’ll have some stories from that.
Yes. Of being an extra. We told Emmy, and he’s like, mama, do they need me too?
Like, I’m like, no, baby, it’s just me and daddy.
So what happens when you get there and they’re like, sir, we need you to act like a dead body.
We need you to be a corpse. You can absolutely do that.

[55:53] Sir we’ve got a soccer scene in the movie could you strike a ball?
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