Best of Kim's Family

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Amy Goins:

And that was during a time where I was actually praying to the Lord about helping me to trust him in my finances.

Zac Miller:

Hey, there. Welcome to the Kim Gravel Show. I am Zac, the show's producer. Welcome to the show. Thanks for being here this week. Kim and I have put together an amazing episode for you that we're calling the Best of Kim's Family. That's right. We've got Kim's sister Allisyn calling into a live show from the most unexpected place that you could ever imagine.

Zac Miller:

We've got supernatural stories with Kim's mom, stories from Kim's best friend Amy. We've got pranks. If you did not see the prank show with Allisyn, buckle up, because that's hilarious. And ends with Beau, Kim's son, talking about the biggest challenges that modern teenagers are facing. It is an incredible episode. We spent a lot of time taking the best moments that we have had from Kim's family and putting them together for you. As Kim would say, gird your loins, because this show is going to be out of this world. And it starts right now.

Zac Miller:

We have a special guest who's finally figured out how to come out. Are you ready?

Kim Gravel:

Yeah, I'm afraid to see who it is. Allisyn, what are you doing? Get my hair did. Talk about confidence, girl. Listen, I really wanted to join in, and I'm thinking to myself, how can I do it? Jennifer and I were sitting there trying to figure it out. We figured it out.

Zac Miller:

Oh, my gosh.

Kim Gravel:

Now, Jennifer, y', all, she's been up there getting her hair done for four or five hours, and I'm paying the bill. How much is this gonna be? Listen, listen. You don't know on today.

Zac Miller:

Look, Jennifer, you. You have to add your appearance fee to whatever that's charging, okay? So this is going to be double.

Kim Gravel:

No, I know y' all don't understand. I have to pay for her. Her personal hygiene because she's. She's a bell ambassador for qvc. I need to keep her in here for four more hours today, then. Listen, this is so terrible. This is called loving yourself and. And.

Kim Gravel:

And caring about yourselves. Self care. Well, you've got that down. Allisyn, what do you think makes a woman confident? Experiences and knowing that don't take life too serious. Obviously, I don't. Red wine and red wine. Red wine.

Zac Miller:

Oh, my gosh.

Kim Gravel:

Well, Allisyn, what kind of haircut are you getting? Hold on, Jack. Hold on, hold on. I have to say something. I have to say something. So Allisyn's fix to having confidence is really just don't take yourself too seriously and get drunkard and Cooter Brown. That's what I'm hearing. You say amen to that. Amen.

Zac Miller:

That was translated. That was good translating, Kim. I like that.

Kim Gravel:

Although the wine does give you a little bit of liquid courage. I will say that. No, we're not promoting that as having confidence. Promoting it. I'm just saying it's not a bad thing every now and then. Jesus take the wheel. Okay, so my question. Okay, y', all, this is a question, right? This is a one.

Kim Gravel:

This is a question. This is a question. You're in.

Zac Miller:

Okay.

Kim Gravel:

Kim. Yes. How do you feel about me being a very inspiring, confident person? Do you feel that I am? And why or why not, baby? Okay, so do you want me just.

Zac Miller:

To kick her out? Kim? Should I just. Just.

Kim Gravel:

No. I think this is so special. I will tell you. Come on. There is some. There is some truth to. To Al. There is some.

Kim Gravel:

I don't want to say truth. There is some valid things about Allisyn and her confidence that I'm going to describe. And no one judge me when I say this because Allisyn is the most joyous, fun up person. She's the most high maintenance, needy taking person I have ever seen in my entire life. Now, to say that she's very confident. There's a little bit of delusion there, and I think it works. Okay, well, I'll take that, girl, however you just spun it. I liked it.

Kim Gravel:

See what I'm saying?

Zac Miller:

You're like, it's delusion.

Kim Gravel:

That's fine. No, no, no. I'm okay with that, really. But Allisyn, you know what I'm saying, don't you? Like what? Allisyn is a person. Allisyn is a person. To say, okay, I'm going to be a rocket scientist. Well, I've never been trained in that. But you know what? If they can do it, I can do it.

Kim Gravel:

I mean, that's how she is. It's delusional, but somehow it works. So that's. I mean, I was telling somebody earlier, you got to take that first step in faith. You've just got to go through that. Let that fear be your frenemy and do it anyway.

Kim Gravel:

And it works for Allisyn. Well, I've taken that first Step in faith. I've taken step. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. 2. Okay. And how does that working out for you? Pretty good. Okay.

Kim Gravel:

Now, Allisyn truly is the reason I think Allisyn is so confident, in all seriousness, is because she's not afraid to be her real, authentic self, good, bad, and ugly. She'll tell you all her mistakes, all her messes, and how she's turned that into her message. And it really. That's all we can ever do, y', all, because we've all got. We've all made huge mistakes. We've all screwed up. We've all needed grace and mercy and forgiveness. And when you are authentic, that is when you truly can be confident.

Kim Gravel:

And you do that quite well, my friend. I love you, sis. Sister. That's a very. That's a. I'll take a very. I'll take that from you. Thank you so much.

Kim Gravel:

I love you. Now, listen, call me later so we can decide what we gonna make Thursday for dinner. All right, Girl, we're so excited. Zac, I hope you and your family have a wonderful, wonderful Thanksgiving, honey.

Zac Miller:

You, too, Allisyn.

Kim Gravel:

I love working with you. And Jennifer, girl says, love y'. All. Bye, Jennifer. And then go easy on the bill, okay?

Zac Miller:

All right. And that's it for Allisyn's haircut hour.

Kim Gravel:

We will. My mother always and my father always wanted us to be fiercely independent. I'm probably more independent than Allisyn. But listen, we all get there in our own time. But that went through with our faith life, our spiritual life, as well. And I don't think we've ever publicly told this story. I've told it when I've spoke throughout the world, in places in churches and community centers and women's groups. But I'm not nervous to tell the story because I know we all experienced it and we lived it.

Kim Gravel:

But I think, you know, people wonder why we have such strong faith. And I think our faith is definitely in our culture. And we were brought up in the church, and we read the Bible, and we, you know, we're in church all the time, and that was a great community thing. But our faith goes so much deeper than that because of the experiences we have had together. Right? And experiences that we've had with the Lord and the personal relationship that we've had and the manifestation of all that in our lives. I will never forget this story. And we've never told it publicly. Do you want to start it off, or you want me to start it off and you pick it up? My father traveled a lot.

Jo Hardee:

He traveled from Monday to Friday because he was a regional director. He did that. And that left us, it was just.

Kim Gravel:

The three of us and it was mom, me and Allisyn. And so we, we had the best life. We ate out all the time. We shopped. Dad wasn't there. I remember we had Friday afternoons. We have to clean up really fast and get it all together and hide all our packages and everything. We really had like this girl's girls life, right? This girlfriend's life.

Kim Gravel:

But this was, I think it was like on a Thursday night and dad was coming home the next day.

Jo Hardee:

That's true. It was on Thursday.

Kim Gravel:

And I, we had our little house that we lived in on Shunway. I'll never forget our phone number. 925-4454. That was our phone number. And our house had a long porch all the way across the front of.

Jo Hardee:

It with rock, with, with rocking chairs.

Kim Gravel:

And you know, had the, the front door and it was a long porch and mom, you woke me up about what, what time do you think it was?

Jo Hardee:

About 3:00 o' clock in the morning? Yeah, about 3 or 3:30 in the morning.

Kim Gravel:

And she woke me up and she said, kim. And I was a teenager.

Jo Hardee:

Let me tell.

Kim Gravel:

Go ahead, start.

Jo Hardee:

I was laying in bed and I heard the sound and I thought and it was footsteps. And I thought, oh, somebody's in the house. So he traveled. So I have a gun. I had a gun. I get.

Kim Gravel:

You had no idea how to use it and still do not.

Jo Hardee:

Well, he had shown me how to use it. I never fired it. But you know, he put the safety on and showed me how to take the safety off.

Kim Gravel:

Right.

Jo Hardee:

So I get up and I get the gun. Because the footsteps sound like they were in our house, right? And so I turn any lights on and I get up.

Kim Gravel:

Mom, can you please mute your. Dean. I don't know. Give me the watch.

Jo Hardee:

Oh goodness.

Kim Gravel:

Give me the watch.

Jo Hardee:

And anyway, so I, I get up. I did not turn any lights on. And I go to Kim's bedroom and I said, kim, get up.

Kim Gravel:

Why? I will never forget. Get up. Now I was a teenager and I.

Jo Hardee:

I guess you heard that in my voice. And she got up and I said, I think there's someone in the house. And so we go to the top.

Kim Gravel:

That's not how you said it. You go girl, get up. I got the gun and there's somebody in this house. Well, Kim, you were scared to death.

Jo Hardee:

I, I, well the second time I said it, she got up, okay. Because I mean I did. It was my experience a little different. And so we go to the stairs. And we sat on top of the stairs.

Kim Gravel:

Right. So our staircase, we had about 16 stairs, right. We had a staircase that we sat there. And so the front porch was. So when you walked in our front door, there was a staircase going upstairs.

Jo Hardee:

And there was a big foyer.

Kim Gravel:

A big foyer.

Jo Hardee:

And then on the right. The right.

Kim Gravel:

Well, not a big. For you.

Jo Hardee:

It was a. Oh, it was a pretty big. For you for that because it had the double door with the double.

Kim Gravel:

Okay.

Jo Hardee:

But anyway, then he had the living room on the right.

Kim Gravel:

Right.

Jo Hardee:

And the den on the left. And that porch covered the whole.

Kim Gravel:

Whole thing. Right.

Jo Hardee:

Okay. And so we sat and we kept hearing it, and it was just like.

Kim Gravel:

And you were like. It was like someone was marching.

Jo Hardee:

It was like a. A man. It was like when you see a guy in service with those shoes.

Kim Gravel:

Yeah. That's marching on boots. Yes.

Jo Hardee:

It was footsteps.

Kim Gravel:

Yeah.

Jo Hardee:

And we sat there. I said, kim, what is he. What is he doing? Because I figured it was.

Kim Gravel:

It was pitch black.

Jo Hardee:

It was pitch black.

Kim Gravel:

We had no lights on, no nothing.

Jo Hardee:

And so we sat there, and it kept right on. It would go from one end to the other.

Kim Gravel:

And we did. We listened for about.

Jo Hardee:

No, wait a minute.

Kim Gravel:

Okay.

Jo Hardee:

And then we. We've sat there about 45.

Kim Gravel:

I know.

Jo Hardee:

Almost 45 minutes. Then we moved down to the middle of the stairs. We were so stupid. And then it kept right on. It got closer, and you could.

Kim Gravel:

Louder.

Jo Hardee:

We were closer. Louder. Yeah. And so we sat there. I don't know how long we sat there. We finally, after a long time, got to the bottom. And when we got to the bottom, I mean, it was as clear as day.

Kim Gravel:

Yeah.

Jo Hardee:

They was like. They were going from one end to the.

Kim Gravel:

They were marching.

Jo Hardee:

I said, now, Kim, here's what we're going to do. We sat there for a while, too, because we were scared. We were really, really not scared, but because we had a door between us. We had a wall between us, and he.

Kim Gravel:

We found nobody was trying to get outside.

Jo Hardee:

Nobody would do in the doors.

Kim Gravel:

Right.

Jo Hardee:

But I said, now I'm going to tell you what we're going to do.

Kim Gravel:

Right?

Jo Hardee:

I said, you go down to the living room. I'm going to go to the den, and we're going to. We're going to see when he walks from one end to the right, because.

Kim Gravel:

You could hear it. Yeah. You could hear it walking. Like, she could hear it on her side. Okay?

Jo Hardee:

And so Kim, she goes down there and she pulls the blind. She does this. And he was. I mean, Sam was right there.

Kim Gravel:

Yeah.

Jo Hardee:

She said, he's not here.

Kim Gravel:

I don't see anything.

Jo Hardee:

Nothing there. So I said, well, wait, so we coming on down. And he got right. He got right in front of me. There was nothing there. Nothing. And by that time, I guess it was 5:30, close to 6, and the sun hadn't come out. But the daybreak was.

Kim Gravel:

Daybreak was there.

Jo Hardee:

I said, let's just turn the light.

Kim Gravel:

I said, let's turn it.

Jo Hardee:

We turned the light on, guys. And the sound, it still walked from one end to the other. There was nothing there. We saw nothing when the window. When the daybreak. But then when the sun started peeping up, it stopped. Completely? Yeah, completely stopped. And I thought that, you know, you're kind of all confused.

Jo Hardee:

And I didn't know how to explain it. Kim didn't know how to explain it. Allisyn slept through the whole thing. We didn't wake her up. So that morning, I worked at Brookwood High School. And so I got ready, put the kids, took the kids to school, got them off, went to work. And I was driving into the parking lot, and what came to my mind was I was protecting you. I sent an angel.

Jo Hardee:

I knew it. He didn't say it. I just knew it.

Kim Gravel:

It was a knowing.

Jo Hardee:

It was in the mind. It just came to the mind. I was protecting you. So that was an angel. I knew that. I knew that. When it spoke to me, I. In that moment, I knew what it was.

Jo Hardee:

It was an angel. I don't know what the angel was protecting us from, but he did it from three o' clock till the sun started peeping out the next morning. And, you know, I don't really care if people believe it or if they don't believe it. I know.

Kim Gravel:

I know it. I was there.

Jo Hardee:

I know it.

Kim Gravel:

I am a big, huge prankster. Meaning. And I'm really, really good at it, too. Like, I mean, I hate to toot my own horn, but toot, toot. This is what we've done. Everybody's listening to this. Just hang on. Gird your loins, put on your seatbelt, and get ready for the ride, because I have been for a solid month, one month, doing a prank on my sister Allisyn.

Kim Gravel:

There is this thing called Cameo, okay, Where, like, pseudo celebs, you know, or real celebs. Or real celebs, almost famous people, whatever, get on there and buy these messages to people. So, like, I could go, Zac and I could buy, like, let's say if Brad Pitt was on there, right? If Brad Pitt.

Zac Miller:

Real Housewife or Real Housewife.

Kim Gravel:

Like, Teresa Giudice on Hero Housewife. I could go and get buy a message from her. So she would just say to my husband, happy birthday, Travis. So you pay and they do a little video and send it to you to, you know, send to somebody or whatever. Okay. So Zac and I have been doing this and buying my sister's cameos for a solid month. Zac, do you want to tell everybody, like, the details of all this? It's okay.

Zac Miller:

Yeah. This. Because this is next.

Kim Gravel:

Can I just say this? It's the most expensive episode of the Kim Gravel show we've ever made.

Zac Miller:

Yeah. And it turns out it's most expensive because Allisyn's the one making all the money. So I created many fake email addresses. We crafted these storylines. You know, we'll get into it, but let me just.

Kim Gravel:

Can we just roll a teaser of it and then we'll talk about it?

Zac Miller:

Okay, Let me roll. This is. This is just a teaser to give you a taste of, like, all these different ones that we had her do.

Allisyn Lambes:

Allisyn here from Kim of Queens. Happy birthday, Martha, from Tim. Hey, Lara. This is from your mom, Stacy. This is for the marketing team at your flooring company. Hey, Amy. It's Allisyn from Kim, Queens. I got your request. This is for Samantha from your beautiful owner, Jane.

Kim Gravel:

Y'all. And when I tell you so, the whole time this has been going on, Zac, she has been texting me going, girl, you're not going to believe this. You're not going to believe this because. Because you kept getting progressively wilder. So Cameo is an app, okay, that if you want to reach out to a celebrity, you can find that celebrity if they are enrolled on Cameo. Is there a lot of celebrities enrolled in there? Have you looked? Oh, all the Real Housewives. And you know how I feel about them.

Kim Gravel:

So anyway, so who's. That's just putting it legit. It's legit. Okay. So anyway, so can't you mean Cameo's legit? Because it has the Real Housewives on there. Of course. Got it, honey. They.

Kim Gravel:

Their Cameos, they making some coin on them. Okay? So listen, wait.

Zac Miller:

How much have you made on Cameo?

Kim Gravel:

Don't tell my business, okay? Cause that's just a girl out there just trying to make a living, okay? Working nights of time. What a way to make a living. Okay, So I thought this was going to be really, like, an inspirational experience that I was going to have. These little girls from pageants want to reach out and say to me, allisyn, I need a good luck. Send me a little video. A good luck video for your Next national pageant. And I've been doing some of those, and they've been so great until they just started getting weird, man. They started getting weird, and I don't know.

Kim Gravel:

I don't know if that's normal. First couple were great, and then I got one that said, hey, Allisyn. My dog, Samantha sits in front of the TV every day while I'm at work. And I'm not giving anybody else's names. Samantha's the dog. And she watches you. She's in love with you. She's your biggest fan.

Kim Gravel:

The dog. The dog. Could you please sing her happy Birthday, but bark like a dog. Okay, Zac, you have to. Can you find it? Can you go real quick? Just put. And can we see this? Can we get it? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Zac Miller:

Hold on. Okay. Yeah, hold on, hold on, hold on. Yeah, let me.

Kim Gravel:

Let's see if we can pull it up.

Zac Miller:

Okay, Here we go. I can share it. I can share it. I can share it. Here. Here it is. Here it is. Here it is.

Kim Gravel:

Well, this is for Samantha from your beautiful owner, Jane. Okay, I don't think you can see me really good, so I'm going to turn on some light for you. I just want to say happy birthday to. To you, Samantha. Happy birthday to you, Samantha. Happy birthday to. That's the best bark I got. I hope you enjoy it.

Kim Gravel:

Love you all. Have a wonderful birthday. And kiss that little pooch for me. Thanks. Bye. Okay.

Zac Miller:

I mean.

Kim Gravel:

Okay, I just peed a little bit on myself. Sorry. But I got one more that you're not gonna believe. What? My God, how many you have? We've gotta do it. It's the final one. This final weird one that I've got. Okay, Saturday, I'm sitting at the baseball. Okay, you text me about this one.

Kim Gravel:

Okay, so I'm sitting at the baseball field, and I open up my cameo, and there's a request for $50. Oh, wow. So this must be something that people like. $50, that must be very important. Whatever they paid, it must be, like an important something, I'm thinking, because when I opened it, the thing was, like, this long, right? To read it, and I'm thinking myself, good Lord. Well, says, hey, Allisyn. We are the Wills family. Because it's going to tell it obviously.

Kim Gravel:

We're the Wills family. We are having a baby. And we're naming her Allisyn. And we've decided to spell it just like you do. And I do have a very original name. A L, L, I, S, Y, A, Y, N. Yeah, mom, she screwed me. She did.

Kim Gravel:

But she's always touched a little extra. You're never going to find that. Spelling is tough to find, ever. If you ever wanted anything pre printed. Good luck. Good luck. Yeah. Okay, so I thought that was cool.

Kim Gravel:

I'm reading this message, and I'm like, that is so sweet. Like, people are naming their babies after me. That's. That. I. Okay, well, I mean, that's pretty cool. But the next part, they said we would like for you to send Allisyn, who's still in the womb, a message. Oh, that's sweet.

Kim Gravel:

You know, to the future Allisyn. Giving her a pep talk. The only thing is. Here it goes. We are a part of a nudist colony. Oh, God help me Jesus. What? And we want you to do this in the nude. That ain't real.

Kim Gravel:

No. Yeah, look, but look, we don't want to see anything. We want you to be nude because we believe being nude is free. Did you do this? You'll say.

Zac Miller:

I don't see any of you being nude. I see this. Okay.

Kim Gravel:

I see me being nude.

Zac Miller:

I think I found it.

Kim Gravel:

My whole baseball, mom, get up. That's my baseball mom. Get up. But you'll see how I handled it, because they did pay a pretty big. Have we gotten off on this? Zac, go ahead and show this.

Zac Miller:

But can I just say, this is good television. Kim, as a producer, I approve of this.

Kim Gravel:

Yeah. Okay.

Zac Miller:

Okay. All right. Here we go. Here we go.

Kim Gravel:

Hey, Williston family. It's Allisyn from Kim of Queens. And I love that y' all are going to name your daughter Allisyn with a Y. I don't know if y' all know, but that means noble and light. So our name, Allisyn, means noble and light, and that's so awesome. Listen, I could not do the nudist part. That's just not me. I hope y' all understand, but I ain't knocking you.

Kim Gravel:

And there's no judgments here. I think that's pretty, pretty cool. Do you, boo? That's the way I feel. Anyways, we just want to say that we love y'. All. Allisyn is going to be absolutely beautiful. I wish y' all send me a cameo when she's born. I'm sending her light and love and all the good things.

Kim Gravel:

Hey, listen, I hope you all have a wonderful day. Everybody be safe with that delivery. So excited about that. And stay, stay well. Bye, guys.

Zac Miller:

Oh, my God.

Kim Gravel:

That's how you handle those requests. That was nice, though.

Zac Miller:

That was good.

Kim Gravel:

Very uplifting. I just said, look, the newest thing ain't me, that's you, boo. I ain't judging. Do this thing. Well, she texted me. She texted me about that. Said, should I do it? I said just ignore that part. Like don't.

Kim Gravel:

I didn't give it really any light, but I didn't want them to give me a bad review. Oh, you get reviewed on these things? Yes. And then nobody will want to book you. So. Uh huh. I like to keep my five star review. Do you have five stars? I have five stars. Zac.

Kim Gravel:

I have no words. Do you have any words for this?

Zac Miller:

I mean, I'm really glad you weren't naked in the like line picking up your sign.

Kim Gravel:

You could have pulled your shirt down like this. Kelly. You know what Kelly or esthetician says? What? Why don't you just put a towel. I said, kelly, I don't even want them imagining me naked. That's not. Well, you can't get a towel around them things. You ain't gonna be able to get a towel around all that. You're such a witch.

Kim Gravel:

I really am. You are. You really am. You know why? Why? Tell me why. Cause we're Jackson. Nuh. We're Jackson. We're Heather.

Kim Gravel:

No you're not. We're Penelope. We're all of them people, Jack and I. You've been pranked for a solid month. A cameo. Olivia. Hey girl. Allisyn here from Kim of Queens.

Kim Gravel:

Happy birthday, boo Boo. Bud, honey, butter biscuit. This is for the marketing team at your flooring company. It's the best bark I got. I'm sending you this message and it's from the Jackson. He said it's just not working out and he wants to break up. Hey Jackson. So there goes all.

Kim Gravel:

Heather reached. I can't make the money anymore. She said, no sir, you're not gonna break up with her on cameo. Listen, I could not do the nudist part. That's just not me. I hope y' all understand. I love you girl, and I hope you have a fabulous day. This is going everywhere.

Kim Gravel:

It's going on YouTube. We have been playing for 30 days. The fact that I'm not gonna get like that anymore, I was putting that into my budget. Now my QuickBooks, I started plugging in about 250 a week.

Zac Miller:

You budgeted?

Kim Gravel:

Everybody knew. Amy knew, Kelly knew. The only person didn't know was mom because she would have told you all of it. Zac made it all up. He got all the emails. We paid all of the things. We. Strategically, you've got to reach out and let us know your supernatural experiences.

Kim Gravel:

Because I've had so many. You've had so many. Let's start with a fun light one. Okay.

Kim Gravel:

Washer and dryer.

Kim Gravel:

Did I ever tell you this story, Zac? Did I tell this the other day when mom was on there about the washer and dryer? I can't remember.

Zac Miller:

I think you did tell it before, but go ahead, let's.

Kim Gravel:

I'll let Amy tell it because she gonna tell it more accurately. Do you remember when we first became friends?

Amy Goins:

Yes.

Kim Gravel:

And you didn't have a pot to pee in.

Amy Goins:

I did not have a lot.

Kim Gravel:

No, you were making. How much did you make at a Christian school? She was assistant principal. She got snake. Well, how much did you.

Amy Goins:

If I remember correct, I made $13,000.

Kim Gravel:

Do you remember when you told me that you made $13,000? I thought this woman should be on food stack. What are you. What? I didn't even. I couldn't believe it.

Amy Goins:

Well, that even of itself is supernatural, because I swear to you, I don't know how I made it.

Kim Gravel:

I don't know how you made it. Your apartment. Right. Rent was expensive when I first met you.

Amy Goins:

Yeah, Zac, that it was a miracle in of itself because I know how much I had coming in and I.

Kim Gravel:

Knew how much I would.

Amy Goins:

It was going out.

Kim Gravel:

But you did a lot of side hustles.

Amy Goins:

I did. I talked about voice lessons and stuff like that.

Kim Gravel:

So when we first met and you lived on your own, you know, we lived together for a long time. And then I got married to Travis. And then you bought your first house.

Amy Goins:

Tell the story about the washer and dryer. Yeah, well, so I had a miracle. Yeah, so I had.

Kim Gravel:

No, no, no. First tell the $100 story. Okay, okay. Tell that one first. Cause that was. You were younger.

Amy Goins:

Yeah, that was. I think I'd met you, but I don't remember. But anyway, so I was at my church and we were doing a big building program, and I really wanted to give, really, you know, and. But I had literally no money.

Kim Gravel:

$13,000 a year.

Amy Goins:

Yeah, I mean, I literally had not anything, not a spare, you know, but I really. I felt that. And I want to give. So we had our little decision, you know, our little commitment cards. And I said, you know what? I'm just going to put $100 down here, and I'm gonna. And I'm gonna trust if you know, that the Lord's gonna give it to me to be able to give that to the building program. So I put it on the card, turned it in, didn't think anything else about it. Like maybe a week or two later, it was actually the end of school.

Amy Goins:

And we were at the end of school program or whatever, and one of my students came up to me and she said, you know, she gave me a hug and just. I think she was graduating or something. She said, I just want to give you this. And so she gave me a card and I'm getting chills right now. And I opened up and there was $100 bill in there. And I was like, that is. This is the $100 that. Yeah, that I asked God to give me to give to the building program.

Amy Goins:

So that was a big. A big moment.

Kim Gravel:

Was that the first time that something like that had really like that? Not probably it's not the first time that something happened to you because y' all these things happen to us all the time. We just don't recognize it.

Amy Goins:

That was one of the biggest for me to recognize it. Right. And where I put it out and it was exact. It was like A. Put $100 on the card and then I got $100 bill. So I was like, there was no question, you know, when I got. I was like, okay, I hear you going to see. And that was during a time where I was actually praying to the Lord about helping me to trust him in my finances.

Amy Goins:

Because I grew up with money. Was a very big.

Kim Gravel:

Just say it.

Amy Goins:

It was just hard. It was just. There was a lot of.

Kim Gravel:

Tell a little bit of your background because people. People know you through me and they're like, cam, Cam, Cam. Well, do you feel comfortable or no? Yeah. I mean, just because God broke that. That curse of that he did.

Amy Goins:

Yes, that's a miracle. It was just growing up that we just had a lot of money problems growing up. And then my dad committed suicide when I was 24. And you know, largely based on financial pressures and issues. So money, to say the least. Growing up. And it's a trigger into my early adulthood was definitely a trigger and definitely an area where I had some strongholds. Bought my first house.

Amy Goins:

And that in and of self was just a miracle. Yeah, a miracle. And so amazing. So. But I didn't have a washer and dryer at all. And so it was. I think it was like day before Thanksgiving or something. I can't remember Black Friday.

Amy Goins:

I remember I was so. I think we had gone and had our Thanksgiving meal or something. And then the next day I had already planned. I was planning to get ready to go the next day to buy a brand new washer and dryer, which I really didn't have the money for.

Kim Gravel:

But can I say this about you Y' all have to know this about Amy. I'm gonna have to put pause you. Because I want to set the stage.

Amy Goins:

Okay.

Kim Gravel:

Because Amy is. I'm obsessive and compulsive. So is she. So she is the person. I got to get a washer and dryer. I'm going to get a washer and dryer. Like, it wasn't like you were saying, God, give me a washer. It was not faith based.

Kim Gravel:

Like, meaning, like you weren't believing for a washer and dryer. You're just like, oh, I'm going to pay for a washer and dryer. Like, it was. You were a little. You talked about it to the point I'm like, dang, let me just get you a washer and dryer. Yeah.

Amy Goins:

Yeah.

Kim Gravel:

Okay.

Amy Goins:

Talked about a lot.

Kim Gravel:

Yeah, you were, you were. It was, it was a.

Amy Goins:

It's a little bit of anxiety because I needed a washer and dryer, but I didn't have really to have the money to do it. You know, when you buy a new house, there's a lot of expenses. You were stressed.

Kim Gravel:

You were stressed.

Amy Goins:

I was stressed about it. Yeah.

Kim Gravel:

All right.

Amy Goins:

So anyway, so. So we were. I had already planned.

Kim Gravel:

We.

Amy Goins:

I was going the next day to buy a washer and dryer. And so it. We. It was getting to be evening. We were driving through your neighborhood, and.

Kim Gravel:

I think it was Thanksgiving night.

Amy Goins:

I think it was Thanksgiving night. Yeah. And we were driving through your neighborhood, and sitting on the side of the road in front of a house was a washer and dryer. And it had a sign on it. I'll never forget it had a sign on it said free to anybody who will take. And I was like.

Kim Gravel:

And it looked like brand new.

Amy Goins:

Yeah.

Kim Gravel:

Like, it was like. I mean, it was used, but it looked nice.

Amy Goins:

Yeah. And so we were driving about our.

Kim Gravel:

And rushed.

Amy Goins:

I was like, what was that? And so. Because I, you know, of course, we'd driving by it. I couldn't see what the sign said, so I backed up and I saw it said, free anybody takes it. I was like, oh, my goodness. So I dropped out of the car.

Kim Gravel:

Didn't I tell you to sit on it?

Amy Goins:

I did sit on it. And then I went, we didn't want anybody take it. So I think we. We were going to get. Go get somebody who had a truck. So anyway, I got out and just sat on the washer dryer.

Kim Gravel:

She was like, you ain't getting my.

Amy Goins:

Washer and dryer until. And. And we got it. Got it in my house. And that washer and dryer worked it and it worked for me to the whole, you know, I think until you.

Kim Gravel:

Got to the new house.

Amy Goins:

Yeah.

Kim Gravel:

What is the biggest thing facing young people today? The biggest challenge? Because you've had a lot of friends come to you and share their. Their challenges.

Beau Gravel:

Yeah. For my personal standpoint of all my friends that I've dealt, that have dealt with stuff mainly like drugs and drinking and it's the worst thing. And it's the worst thing.

Kim Gravel:

Why is it the worst thing?

Beau Gravel:

It just can affect you so much. Like that stuff affects you so much you can.

Kim Gravel:

Are you. Do you ever feel tempted with those things?

Beau Gravel:

No. Cuz y' all so hard on like you beat us down so much that we can't even think about it. We die and think about it and I don't like that stuff anyways, so it ain't that big of a deal for me.

Kim Gravel:

What, what would I do if I found that out?

Beau Gravel:

I'm not the craziest crap probably ever. Probably smack the crap out of us or something. Do something crazy.

Kim Gravel:

So do you think you're more scared of us as parents than you would.

Beau Gravel:

Be to do that?

Kim Gravel:

Yeah. Okay. Which is let's say on a scale of one, who would you be more afraid of if you did something like that? Your mom and dad or the police?

Beau Gravel:

My mom and dad.

Zac Miller:

Wait, I have a follow up question. Who would you be more afraid of, your mom or your dad?

Beau Gravel:

Oh, her. No, because she would rib me a new one and I.

Kim Gravel:

You know what? Your dad said that if there was ever a zombie apocalypse, that who would survive. You know, they asked the question, who would survive in a zombie apocalypse? Would it be dad or me? Oh, who would it be?

Beau Gravel:

Dad.

Kim Gravel:

Dad. He'd get eaten the first day. No, your dad said me, I'd cut them up. You ain't gonna mess with my kids. I don't care if you're a zombie or not. You know I love you, right?

Beau Gravel:

Yes.

Kim Gravel:

Do I love you too much? Sometimes.

Beau Gravel:

Like. You mean like being hard? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'd say sometimes.

Kim Gravel:

What's the hardest thing I. What's the hardest thing about living with me? Oh, be honest.

Beau Gravel:

It's not like. No, it's not hard living with you. It's just like.

Kim Gravel:

Well, you said yesterday you had to walk on eggshells around me.

Beau Gravel:

Yes, well, because you're always getting mad and stuff and it's just like I don't.

Kim Gravel:

Do you think it's hormonal? Do you think I'm going through menopause?

Beau Gravel:

No, I think it's just you're getting ma.

Kim Gravel:

Why you think I'm getting mad?

Beau Gravel:

Because you just. Sometimes you just want to get mad.

Kim Gravel:

No, it's not. I don't want to get mad. Do you understand? I live with three men. Do you know what that's like?

Beau Gravel:

No, but I'm sure you want to get mad.

Kim Gravel:

Would you like for me to tell you?

Beau Gravel:

I'll pass tomorrow.

Zac Miller:

That'll be the next time you come on the show.

Kim Gravel:

Can I ask you this one very serious question? This very deep.

Beau Gravel:

You've already asked five, but, yeah, I'm.

Kim Gravel:

Going to ask this, my six. One title question. Why in God's name, in this green, beautiful earth that he's created, do you and your brother and your father not flush the flipping toilet? I went into the media, I went into the media room bathroom, and there were logs sitting in there.

Beau Gravel:

That's bland, but yes.

Kim Gravel:

It's always blank.

Beau Gravel:

No, no, I've done way better than that. You don't probably pay attention because I totally pay attention. I've barely seen you do it anymore, but I've gotten way better at that than anybody.

Kim Gravel:

I'm not asking that. That's not the question. I'm not asking about your performance. I'm asking you why do you not flush the toilet?

Beau Gravel:

You just forget. You just walk out the bathroom.

Kim Gravel:

You're standing right there in front of it. You've got it aimed at the toilet. You're going to town. There's the lever. What are you not thinking about?

Beau Gravel:

I know we ain't. No, we're not doing it well past me tomorrow.

Kim Gravel:

All right, sit up. Sit up here.

Zac Miller:

All right. Wait, wait, before I.

Kim Gravel:

Wait, don't look at that.

Zac Miller:

I have a serious question. I have another question before we get to rapid fire. I want to stop for a second, okay? Because I just want to dig into one thing, and I think that, Bo, this is, this is very much like. Pretend your mom's not here for a second. Okay?

Kim Gravel:

Okay. Because. Let me back up.

Zac Miller:

Like, you talk about how much your mom is like, you know, your parents are, like, putting pressure on you and stuff. Like, what does that look like? What. What is it like? Tell me what it is like to. Because your parents are really hands on, too. Like with your, with your schoolwork and your, and your relationships and everything. Is that right?

Beau Gravel:

A little more two hand. Little, little much. Yeah.

Zac Miller:

What's that like? Talk to me about it, because I think this is like a difference in parenting styles that, like, I, I. And you know, there's, there's the parenting style of today is like a very hands on parenting style, right?

Beau Gravel:

Yeah, I would say yes. Like, caring a lot for their kids and making sure their kids don't, you know, wreck their life or, you know, bad things, whatever. But, like, living with her, like, an instance would be like, I would have homework due Wednesday, and she would come ask me on Sunday, like, do you have the homework? And I'm like, no, I don't have the homework. We haven't even gone to school yet.

Zac Miller:

Wait, but how does she know you. Okay, Wednesday. Wait, how does that even.

Beau Gravel:

She'll look. She'll look on my. We have a thing called Schoology. And she'll look at the calendar and be like, you have homework Wednesday. And she'll be like, so you already have the homework, right? And I'm like, no, I don't have the homework. I don't know how you want me to do the homework if I don't have it.

Kim Gravel:

Bo. What's that? What's one thing that about you that I don't know? That is that. You know what I'm saying? Like, everybody's not who they are to their parents. What's one thing. Come on, now.

Beau Gravel:

I don't.

Kim Gravel:

Don't even.

Beau Gravel:

Very open.

Kim Gravel:

You're not that open.

Beau Gravel:

Yes, I am. At the house, I'm very open.

Kim Gravel:

Do you think you're more open than me?

Beau Gravel:

No, I think you're way too more.

Kim Gravel:

Wait, what?

Beau Gravel:

You're a little too much open. Not gonna lie.

Kim Gravel:

Why do you think? Like, give me an example of how I'm too open.

Beau Gravel:

Just talking. You talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk. No offense, but this doesn't take him. You're like Allisyn sometimes, and it's just.

Kim Gravel:

He's right.

Zac Miller:

That's hilarious. Okay, wait, but isn't that kind of your mom's superpower? Like, what. What makes your mom. Let me ask you this. What makes your mom so successful at what she does?

Beau Gravel:

Well, I could say the way she speaks and the way she, like, is so charismatic with other people.

Jo Hardee:

What?

Kim Gravel:

Oh, that is so sweet.

Kim Gravel:

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