Will Cain Country - Josh Hamilton on Faith, Redemption, and the Highs and Lows of Baseball

Episode Date: August 15, 2025

On this Friday sports edition of 'Will Cain Country,' Will sits down with Texas Rangers legend and 2010 AL MVP Josh Hamilton for a candid, emotional conversation about baseball, faith, and redemption. Josh reflects on the ceremony for his induction into the Rangers Hall of Fame and relives the magic of the 2010–2011 seasons. He opens up about the crushing heartbreak of the 2011 World Series, when the Rangers were one strike away from a championship, and the spiritual lesson he took from hitting a dramatic extra-innings home run that ultimately wasn’t enough. The two dig deep into Hamilton’s personal battles with addiction, his powerful 2006 turning point in his grandmother’s house, the discipline it takes to choose faith and positive influences over destructive habits, and much more. You won't want to miss this raw, unfiltered conversation about triumph, failure, grace, and perseverance, one that shows why Josh Hamilton’s story resonates far beyond the diamond. Subscribe to 'Will Cain Country' on YouTube here: Watch Will Cain Country! Follow Will on X: @WillCain Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Longbendy Twizzlers candy keeps the fun going. Keep the fun going. Former Major League Baseball MVP Josh Hamilton. It is Will Kane Country, normally streaming live every Monday through Thursday at 12 o'clock Eastern time at Fox News.com on the Fox News YouTube channel, the Fox News Facebook page, and always available at Spotify and Apple. My next guest is one of the most electrifying talents to ever wear a Texas Rangers uniform. A former number one overall pick, the 2010 ALMVP, a five-time All-Star. Josh Hamilton wasn't just a baseball player, he was a force of nature. His bat carried the Rangers to back-to-back World Series appearances,

and his story, both on and off the field, is as raw, real, and redemptive as it gets. From towering home runs to personal battles with addiction, from the highs of the Rangers Hall of Fame to the lows of public scrutiny, Josh has lived the full arc of triumph, heartbreak, and comeback. Today we talk about baseball, life, faith, and what it means to keep moving forward, when the world thinks you're down. Josh Hamilton joins me now. Josh Hamilton, legend, Texas Ranger Major League Baseball.

Good to have you here, man. Good to be here. Congratulations. It happened in 2019, but you got the blue Texas Rangers Hall of Fame jacket this weekend. How did it feel? It was good. It was awesome to go back to his first time in the stadium and just to see it, see the atmosphere, feel the air condition in Texas. 100 degree day. It was pretty cool. But it was a good home welcome reception. I had my wife

and my two youngest orders there and my dad, and we had a blast. It's good to hear you felt welcomed. I mean, I would imagine that to be the case. You probably are the biggest start in the second best period in Rangers history. 2023 made that to sit at the top of the mountain for a fan of the Texas Rangers. but 2010, 2011, your entire tenure, what, 08 to 13, 12, 13. I mean, it was one of the best times of life to be a Rangers fan. It was fun, right? It was so fun. You know, you're right, being a part of that group of guys,

the organization in general, John Niels, Nolan Ryan, Ron Washington. I mean, to get the best out of your players, they did a phenomenal job doing that. And then to surround each player with a guy who could make them, each player made the other better. And one guy wasn't getting it done. I'm talking even guys who didn't start, the starters were cheering for the guys that didn't start when they were in. Those guys were, it was back and forth. And so it was the team that actually loved each other and enjoyed and had each other's back the whole way through. Is that rare?

You know, there's an article up right now on the athletic clubhouse guys, guys that made. make the clubhouse fun or bring a team together. It is, people famously have said this, baseball is an individual sport masquerading as a team sport. Ultimately, what you do is on you out there, especially at the plate on offense. So is it hard to like come together as a group of guys? I think it can be,

because you know you've heard that was saying you can have all talent in the world and the best players in the world, but if they're, you know, stuck on themselves and not willing to come together and play as a team, then you're not going to win ball games because it is a collective thing once you get out there. And so, yeah, it can be hard, it can be difficult,

but when you have guys like Michael Young and Adrian Beltray and, you know, we had Vladdy, Nelson Cruz, Ian Kinsler, I mean, you can go down the list. You know, at different times those guys step up as guys who lead as far as speaking, and then you got guys who lead by the way they play. So each individual is different. Some guys like to be vocal. Some guys just like to get out there and get the job done and lead that way too. So I've read before that if you like measured the heart rate of a fan versus a guy competing on the field, it's actually more stressful and a higher heart rate for the

fan in the stands than you on the field. So I'm going to, I'm going to take that and ask you this. if I ranked my top five biggest sports, not letdown, not depression, but crestfallen moments. I know where you're going. You know exactly where I'm going. It's 2011. I mean, it is the Cardinals Award series. It's being one strike away from winning the World Series twice. I just got out of therapy for that.

No, come on, man. Thanks for bringing it back up, you know. Look, I mean, it's the 2006. I'm a Texas guy. I'm a Dallas guy. So it's the 2006 Dallas Mavericks NBA Championship. It is, and then it's that. It's those two moments.

Actually, the Rangers might be the closest and the worst because of how close it actually was. Is it worse as bad for a player? For something of that magnitude, yes. Because, like you said, the St. Louis series was the most emotional, physical, mental series i've ever been a part of um i mean it was literally up and down up and down you think you're on top and then something happens to you back down then you go back your head and it's like

you weren't worn out just physically but i mean you were absolutely drained afterwards each game was like that and uh it's funny you say the the fans heartbeat is it's going a little faster than the players uh i can attest to that and i agree with that now because watching my daughters play softball. I'm just over there like and when I was playing I was just up there like whatever you know because I was in control and I know what's going on and I know what I need to do to perform and then when you're sitting in the stands

you've paid to come in and see this and you have no control. You have no control at all and so I can imagine you're just like on the edge of your seat because I feel that when I'm watching softball all my girls. But you joked about therapy. Is it something is it something you think about that World Series? Occasionally You know, I really don't think about it a lot Until people bring it up

You know, it's just, man My life would be a little bit different now If that would have won the game And won a World Series for the Rangers Yeah But you can't think that way, you know what I mean? Like, I was part of it like... I mean, you remind me, you hit the game

The go-ahead home run in the ninth? 10th. In the 10th? Two run home to run homer yes um but the thing was like I did the interview after the game that you know the holy spirit like told me on deck I was about to hit a home run because I hadn't hit one in a while and I was like okay first pitch whack and then after the game you know I shared that story or whatever while I was talking to my wife the other day about it and I was like you know I told her exactly what I just told you hey life would have been a little bit different if that actually would have held up and she was like yeah but And she said, why do you think the Lord tells your things, but it doesn't tell you the full picture? Because if he said, you're about to hit a home run, but you're not going to win the game, like, would you really enjoy that home run in the moment? You know what I'm saying?

Yes. So hit it. He didn't say I was going to win with it, but enjoyed it because he didn't give me that full picture. And I appreciated it a lot more than if he had said, here's a homer, but you're not going to win. I've been like, what's the point? You know what I mean? I've got so many follow-ups. So, first of all, is that, how did you feel after that game?

Is that like the worst you've ever felt in terms of stuff that happens on the field in sports? Yeah, I mean, just as, like I said, as far as emotionally and mentally, just, you know, we did everything we could to win the game. And sometimes that's why you play the game, because things happen. You know, you can have the best team in the world against the worst team in the world. Well, you don't know who's going to win until you play the game. You expect a certain outcome, but you have no clue until the final pitch, final outs made. So that's what makes the game so frustrating, and that's what makes it so fun to play, is that scenario. We'll be right back on Will Kane Country.

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in-depth talks with lawmakers from opposite sides of the aisle, along with all your Brett Bear favorites like his All-Star panel and much more. available now at foxnewspodcasts.com or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back to Will Cain Country. The other thing about what your wife told you about, the Lord doesn't give you the full picture. Not all the time. Well, it's interesting you say that, and I do believe that to be the case,

I gave a talk the other day, and I was talking about the different failures that I've incurred at points in my life. And I feel like now that I get to do what I want to do for a living from Dallas, Texas, I feel like I hit a half-court bank shot. I never saw this coming. I lived in New York for way too long. And I thought, this is what my life has to be in order to do this for a living.

And I lost several opportunities along the way that would have kept me in New York. And of course, I was super disappointed after every time I didn't get that gig. But if I had, I wouldn't be sitting here right now today. Yeah. And it's easy to think about that and contextualize it with failure.

But in that case, it's success. Yeah. You're going to hit a home run. Yeah. Right. But you don't see the full picture. Yeah. Yeah, you don't.

And it's, it is. I have moments like that, exactly what you just talk about throughout life, that you have no clue. It's the next step. It's the end the moment. This is what's happening now. Because I've made plans before of what I wanted to do two or three years from now. And when two or three years comes, I'm completely somewhere else than I thought it would be. And what's still saying?

A man makes plan, God laughs. Yes. Yeah. So it's like, that is 100%. True. You know, you and I were talking before we went on air, and you were talking about your reluctance to do media. You don't love doing media. But then you said to me, but I do love telling my story. Yeah. And I didn't know. You and I, you didn't realize this, but we've met once before. But this is really the first time we've had a conversation. I didn't know if you'd want to talk

about, you know, your ups and downs. I mean, you've talked about them. You've written about them. And of course, it's a very fascinating part of your life. And I was reading through it, getting ready for this. I was looking back at things you said, I think you said, I think you said, in 2005 and 2009 maybe, various points of your career, and you did talk about the Lord a lot along that journey. Did you always feel like he was a part of your life through all of those ups and downs? Let's see, I finally made the decision to accept the Lord in, let's see, in 2006 and my grandma's back bedroom. I thought I had done it in 99 when I came back from rookie ball, but I said the prayer, you know, had the tears, but there was no fruit. There was no

getting in the word, no fellowship in one other believers, no praying. So there's no change there. So, 06, I really felt like that was the beginning of my relationship with the Lord. And I can look back at every, you're going to make mistakes, you're human, but the walk through my relationship with the Lord is when I have gotten busy with life, I've made mistakes, like bigger mistakes, like whether it's a relapse or, because it doesn't just happen like that. It's a progression. Tell me about that. What does that mean busy with life and then the progression starts? Just life. I mean, you know how life can be with kids and your career and, you know, everything that's going on. You know, maybe you're not getting enough rest. Maybe you're pushing too hard doing your show.

or me, you know, doing sports or whatever it is. And the Lord kind of goes from in the front to kind of push back a little bit. And then, you know, for me, it was what you put in comes out. So what type of music you listen to or what you watch or, you know, whatever dog you feed is going to grow, right? Yeah. So when I talk about the progression, it's that. It's not getting in the word, not praying and not fellowship and not hanging out with guys that thing like I do.

as far as wanting a relationship with Lord and, you know, having, you know, pouring into your kids and, you know, doing all the things you need to do, the things that are important start switching and then you end up falling on your face eventually. It's really interesting because you're talking about life as practice, just like in sports. It is. It's really interesting what you said about, like, what you're listening to, what you're watching. True. I mean, I think about it a lot when it comes to kids, but it's,

us as adults too like if you're listening to degenerate stuff and look i did i'm i can't pretend like i'm you know holier than now but even country music like i love country music but they talk about drinking a whole lot in country music and i'm like dear god i can only take so much of that and then i got to go back to you know some christian music and christian music i get worn out on because they play the same songs over and over and over and over and then i go back to country so it's like a you're 100% right i'll listen i mean i almost exclusively listen to country and how many times I'm like, yeah, I could sit in the back to the police right now. So somebody who's struggle with it, I can't keep feeding that because, I guess what I'm going to start thinking about.

Yeah. And I can't start thinking about that. I'll have thoughts. Like, people think I just struggle. Like, my life is like this big struggle, like, all the time of, like, fighting demons and, you know, this and drugs and alcohol. It's not. Like, I've had weak moments, but the weak moments were led up by. that progression of what am I putting in?

And what's not the focus point? And God should always be the focus point. And he wasn't at times, different times in my life. Okay, so now something else I want to go down when you describe. Let's back up for a minute. Okay, I read, you didn't drink at all until 20. Was 20 your first time you drank? Yeah, I like tried it once, like when I was in minor leagues when I was 20.

Okay. So, but then did it take off for you? No, it was 18. I did it one night when I was 18. And then 20 is where I got hurt and got for a car accident. And then I got out with a tattoo guys. Yeah. You hung out in a tattoo shop. Yeah, right?

So what do you expect? Eventually, you're going to start doing what they're doing, right? Yeah. But did you think, so like you said, you struggled, I don't know, addiction? Is addiction part of your story? It is. You know, I never, my parents didn't. drink you know i didn't know anything about it right you know everybody says it's like um what

you call hereditary hereditary i'm like dude i never saw it never knew it never you know never experienced it so i really feel like because baseball and my parents two things that were constant in my life were taking away at the same time with that car accident uh i just didn't have a foundation with the lord didn't know the lord so i started trying to fill those two spots with something else and it was tattoos hanging out and it was you know eventually drinking alcohol and doing drugs did you feel like once you did that at 20 did you feel the physical addiction like I got to keep going on this stuff I want to keep going or was it more like I'm party and I'm on that path you were talking about this is what I'm this is the beast I'm feeding I'm bored and you know

I'm going to the field at 730 in the morning every day and home by 12 in the afternoon and I got money and Parents aren't with me right now, so I'm bored. What am I going to do? So that's what I did. We'll be right back on Will Cain Country. Fandual Casino's exclusive live dealer studio has your chance at the number one feeling, winning, which beats even the 27th best feeling, saying I do. Who wants this last parachute?

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This is Jimmy Phala, inviting you to join me for Fox Across America, where we'll discuss every single one of the Democrats' dumb ideas. Just kidding, it's only a three-hour show. Listen live at noon eastern or get the podcast at foxacrossamerica.com. Welcome back to Will Kane Country. So what I was saying, you launched a thought. So my dad definitely had issues with alcohol. Yeah.

And when I tell people, and I don't talk about my dad's life, but it ended prematurely, and I only bring it up when it's important to the conversation, or people ask me directly. But when I do, they always assume that he was, when you say alcoholics, like you picture somebody who has to drink all day every day, you know what I mean, and has almost a physical addiction to him. That wasn't my dad's story. It was this, you know what I mean? And when he went, he went hard. Yeah, oh, yeah, yeah. And then he didn't go for a long time. And then bad decisions were made when he went hard.

You said, you almost said something similar to me a moment ago. People picture my life as though I have all these demons and it's a constant presence, but that's not your relationship with these substances. No, it's not. What I do, let's see, when I first was out of baseball, when I got suspended in 2003, yeah, I went at it pretty hard. Like I said, because the thing that I really loved was taken away. And it was taken away by my choice and my actions and things I did.

But I really, you know, went after it hard from 2003 to the end of 2005 for a couple of years. And that probably builds upon itself, right? You kept getting suspended, giving you more time. Yeah, and it's like, oh, man, you know, what am I going to do? So I did. And then in 2006, when I, you know, decided to really get my life right and straighten up. And like I said before, except the Lord, move forward. so 2005 it was over in 2005 2009 I relapsed again for the first time then 2000 let's see 12 I drank one time

2015 January I drank and relapse with cocaine again so it's like these and in between and in between it's no it was all good everything was good and I'd have I'd be good for a while be doing I'm supposed to and then like I said life would happen things weren't good at home things weren't this and that and so I'd get in this progression of what am I listening to what am I looking at what am I doing what are my feet what what what dog am I feeding yeah and it was that progression until something would happen you know in relationship with the eggs or whatever and I'd say screw it do it take a drink do this 2012 is the famous Arizona bar no that was 2009 that was Okay. As a fan, we remember that. We remember that moment. In the period that you were out, so 02 to 06, roughly, 02 to 05.

03 to 0, yeah, 03 to 05. You didn't play baseball for like three, almost four years, something like that, three years. And look, you're the number one pick in the draft, you're all everything, everybody, blue chip can't miss, but you're having this period now, right, where you're not playing baseball for three years. did you think ever during that period that baseball was lost from you? Sure. Sure. I mean, I didn't, there were moments, a lot of moments where I just didn't think about it or thought, hey, it was, I'm going to miss it. It was fun, but I thought that I'd never get back to doing it again.

But the Lord did tell me once I was all in that he was going to restore it and restore me to playing baseball. And that started no six in your grandmother's house? Yeah. Yeah? Yep. In the back bedroom? In the back bedroom.

Yeah, I'm right hitting the Bible. Was she with you? My grandmother? Yeah. She was in the house, but... It was an individual thing? No, it was a, okay, I'm back here in your back bedroom smoking crack right now. And she knocks on the door, I opened the door, and the house is, I can just see a haze through the house.

I love my grandma more than anything. And for the first time, all the things that my parents had told me, that she had told me, that, hey, we love you. You're better in this. You can do great things. We believe me. All these things that I've been told. And I was actually high when she was talking to me. I feel like the Lord just cleared my head and allowed me to actually hear it and see her tears.

And that's when, hey, I went to the back bedroom, shut the door. dug the Bible out from the closet, threw it on the bed, James 4-7's the first verse I read, Helm yourself for God, resist the devil, and he'll flee from me. And that's when I gave my life to the Lord. So, but I started doing the things I was supposed to do. Started praying, started reading the Word, started getting involved with people who were more experienced in their relationship with the Lord. And that's when things started turning around. Incredible, man. Thank you for sharing that story. I know you have. before, but I'm sure there's a limited amount of fun it is to revisit these stories over

and over again. Yeah, but the thing that keeps me revisiting them is you don't stay, you don't live in your mistakes. You learn from them and you don't stay there. You get up and you move forward. But hearing people at all these ballparks is still walking around, people coming to me at the gas station, hey, we really appreciate you sharing, you know, the thing, struggles you have because we have same struggles or my son has the same struggles or my daughter or whatever

it is knowing that hey I used to play baseball I do something different than you do but I still have the same struggles and you know it might be different might be you know drinking or drugs or porn or pride or whatever it is everybody's got different struggles but be honest about it and help people and help them work through their stuff, and it helps you actually work through your own stuff by constantly sharing the story of what God's done for you. And your story, while high profile is, to your point, not uncommon. Everyone has a touch point with this. Right.

It's just whether or not you're willing to talk about it. Yeah. And even you bring up porn there at the end. I mean, we know what the stats are on this. Like how many people are feeding that every day. And it's easy access. Very. So it's like, I mean...

I've got two boys, teenagers. I mean, I literally worry about that. I mean, what is that on a young mind? Yeah. That access all the time. As a fan, you'll me tell you something. You've heard this as well. You were right.

It wasn't a baseball town. It wasn't. And I was sweet and honest about what I was saying. But some people just... It's a football town. It always has been. It always will be. But the thing about it, I mean,

I lived in New York for a while so I know what a baseball town is like but I also know how a guy like you or this 2023 team are loved here you know and same thing with Luca Donchitz and the Mavericks you live here

you know how that is I heard all about that one I was like ooh but you go to you go to California and you say that I'm sorry you know I don't remember being mad

I got back as quick as I could what happened out there injuries I mean oh man it was a mess well first of all I should have taken more I should have prayed more

about where to go and whether I should have stayed or not stayed or I kind of left it up to my wife at the time and she wanted to head that way

so it was kind of like let's keep the peace and go and you know it's it was hard It was beautiful out there, but it was hard. I mean, it was just, it's a different world out there.

You're talking about the life, the culture, or the clubhouse? Everything, all of it. I mean, I enjoyed most of the guys I played with out there. That smiled me. I mean, I'm not going to make you name names. Oh, I won't name names. You won't name names. But, you know, it was just different.

I mean, it wasn't that togetherness. that I experienced in Texas. And it was even different fan-wise. It's kind of like going out for a social event for a ballgame instead of all-in, here we are, to support. So they were sprinkled in fans here and there, but the most part you look around and you see people talking, chatting it up the whole game, and taking selfies,

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or wherever you listen to your favorite podcast. Good, man. I'm a professional Uber driver, you know, that doesn't get paid. Yeah. You know how it is. I do. I do. My 16-year-old and 13-year-old are doing well.

They're in school in Grapevine, and they, the 16-year-old is playing softball, you know, and playing select and doing really well. And she wants to go to college and play ball someday. And the 13-year-old, she is playing softball in school, but she wants to be an equine vet. And so she's all in with horseback riding and doing all those things. And I told my kids, I said, I don't care what y'all do, as long as you find something, you're passionate about it and really work hard at it. So that's what they're doing.

The older two is Julia is, I see, I think she's modeling. I haven't talked to her a whole lot since she was 13, 14. Sierra has a baby and is married, hanging out home. I haven't talked to her a lot since she was 13 and 14. We kind of broke the cycle of those two. 13 and 14, they're gone. So now we've got a 16 and 13-year-old. 16-year-old lives with my wife and I full-time now.

13 year olds back and forth week to week so do you watch baseball no why yeah man I want to play it really yes so you watch and you get frustrated and you want to be out there yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah watch it and it's like man I want to it's 44 like didn't vladimir grero play till he's 65 or something yeah but he could he could kind of still run man I had a lot of knee surgeries yeah I've had like 10 or 12 since rangers need offense real bad Josh well if you could If you could write in and have MLB, have a runner standing there. I could take some hacks and, all right, I handed a bat to the bat boy and while I did the dugout, you know, like Church League softball or something.

But it's too hard to watch? Yeah, I mean, I watched, you know, in 23 when they played the Astros and the AOCS. Yeah. Because of Silver Boot was a big deal back in the day. So to see them wear them out was a lot of fun. And then, of course, I obviously watched the World Series, but since then I haven't watched one game. So if I ask you, like, who do you see today that you're like, that guy can play? That guy can swing the bat.

Well, I'm just going to guess. Like, we know Otani and we know Judge. You're just guessing? Because every time I turn the TV on, they're on like an ad for like a game coming up or something. Yeah. But, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, I mean, I know Garcia, I know Seeger and all the big names. Yeah.

That's a big shortstop. He is a big shortstop. Yeah, I walked in the other day, and he was in the case. hitting. I was like, yeah, he's a shortstop. He's a big boy. Do you like the way baseball's changed faster, pitch, clock, the things they're doing to try to make, I know you're not watching. Yeah.

But they are trying to make the game something, I guess. It's easier to consume, easier for fans. Yeah, that was the part that was so boring, I guess. It would just drag on for three and a half, four, four and a half hours. Which is great for beer sales, I guess, but not so much for people having interest in it so two and a half three hours maybe three and a half is is good i mean yeah so the clock on the pitcher is good i'm not a big fan these guys walking halfway to first flipping their bats doing all that stuff i mean it's just you're already old school i mean but it's like

you never saw me pimp a home run you know i never stood there and watched it i was afraid it wasn't going to go out and they're like an idiot trying to run the second base they don't care about that stuff anymore so um well listen man uh congratulations i think it's really great i'm glad that they've honored you you're you're you're i mean you're on the short list of the most important texas rangers in history along with nolan ryan and juan gonzalez and pudge rodriguez and i guess some of these guys from 2023 we'll have to add to that list but i'm really happy you've been embraced by the rangers i appreciate it i want to ask you a question You know, Greg Gutfeld.

Yeah. Is he is beautiful and is beastly and as tall as he looks on camera? Yes. I mean, he is, you're six, four, you tell me, six, five in boots. I mean, he does tower over us. I'm six, two, and Greg's a giant of a man. Sorry, Greg. He can play shortstop.

You watch Fox? Yeah. yeah for sure that's great yeah and i'll i'll dip my toe on the other channels every now and then i'm like i can't do you any hot political opinions here today no i already told you about opinions and everybody's got one yes so but i will leave with this though like um it's this kind this kind of addresses a little bit of what happened uh with my daughter and i've been quiet on it and i'm going to stay quiet because i've already promised the interview to somebody else When my daughter's younger two graduate high school, because I don't want them to deal with all the crap that goes along with back and forth in the media and stuff like that.

But just imagine being accused of something you didn't do and then having to, let's see, you have proof that you didn't, so you can clear it up your innocence. but then having to decide because you've got a DA that's in the election year and can't look like it's going to light on you so you got to decide okay am I going to drag my daughter who claimed this in front of a jury in a courtroom am I going to drag the my other two younger daughters in there and they'll have to testify and everything or am I going to be a good dad and I'm going to fall on the proverbial sword here for my family

and shut this thing down when it comes to them and keep them out of the media and keep out of a back and forth with my ex and the media and let them live their life and move on and take the hit for it.

Well, that's what I choose to do. We weren't going to talk about that today and we still won't. So you are going to do that interview. You're going to talk about this at some point? I will, but hey, that's going to be in five years because my youngest one's 13. I'll graduate to then.

So I will at some point, but I don't get bothered by what people think about me or what they say. And knowing my relationships good with the younger two, knowing that the Lord promised me going through all that stuff with my now 19-year-old, that he will wake her up one day and he didn't say how he was going to do that or how fast he was going to do that or when it was going to be. but just knowing that he keeps his promises and he'll restore that relationship one day it gives me a lot of hope

and so focus on the family almost married five years now love my lady the best thing's ever happened to me and just moving forward I appreciate you addressing that and I appreciate you man thank you for doing this with me I was excited to get to talk to you

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