WRFH/Radio Free Hillsdale 101.7 FM - Samyang Ramen: Ask Us Anything Pt. 1

Episode Date: June 15, 2026

Ky Nam is back! Join the trio as they answer several questions from y'all about their lives and God's role in them.

back to real conversation about real people, real food, and answer, for this today episode, answer all the questions you guys have been waiting for. Yeah. Maybe not all the questions, like answer you been waiting for. We guys asked a lot of questions. But you guys did ask us a lot of questions. We did say ask us anything. But to start off, we always have a recipe to share with you guys.

And this time, Kina, who is best. back. Yay! It's going to be sharing a recipe. Okay. I was originally going to share, okay, it sounds weird, but I promise it's just the name. Pigskins. Pick skins dessert from me. Okay, guys, like, it sounds weird, but I promise it's just, it sounds like, like.

Pig skins dessert is it called? Yes. You know how like pigs have multiple layers? Ew. Okay, keep talking. I didn't even think about that. talking so it's just like a dessert that is mimic the texture of it oh yeah it sounds tasty it actually tastes good it's just basically like pondon leaf and then like mung bean like like you know green bean

it's just like a very unique one but i'm not going to do that one today a little too radical yes i'm actually going to do what is very famous among a lot of Vietnamese when they think about desserts we have almost like called chae meaning it's like kind of a soupy puddings or kind of like you know like texture wise there are multiple variation of this dessert you can make a grapefruit puddings you can make a a Thai version of the pudding and then you can also make the green bean red bean version of the pudding so it's just basically a lot of the recipe contained about like cooking the beans or with sugar for a long time. But they're not usually once they make it, it's very like not completely like too sweet

if you want it to be because we have the coconut milk or like a coconut cream added to it. And then it's just very like rich but also like there's sweet to it. So it depends. But those are the dessert that a lot of Vietnamese like we are not the biggest fan of like really sweet dessert. like a lot of them like you know American European like their desserts are a little too sweet for the mean me sweet tooth but

our just have more like fragrance to it I guess so we have like a lot of time we like coconut pondon like those kind of flavor to be the first thing that we smell when we eat things so this is like a pudding or it's like a soupy pudding you know what I mean like

so there but there's texture there are like beans you can taste you can eat the beans with inside. So like, I don't think. We're having trouble visualizing those. You need to clarify what the beans are sweet, right? Yeah, they cook it in.

Okay, okay. Okay. Yeah. So it's like, kind of like chia pudding maybe. Like not like jelloy, but like, yes. Some of them are. Some of them are just straight up beans. Like some of them are, you know, like, yes, guys.

Wait, what is it called? Uh, ch. C-H-E. C-H-E. Yeah. C-H-E. Okay, I'm going to search a picture. That'll help me contextualize.

Oh, that's pretty. Yeah, let me look this. There's a lot of version. You can actually add in, you know, like, you know, your boba, like, toppings. You can put in, like, um. Like that kind of. Yeah. Oh, that is pretty.

I know. It's like colorful. Oh. I made them one time freshman year. So it's kind of, oh, you made it for me. It was really good. Okay. So it's kind of like a sweet soup.

Yeah. thing that has um i don't know what would be think about tapioca pudding maybe in america yeah something like that okay well how do you make it well i just basically well depends on what you what's your favorite one because like vietnamese have so many kind of it but mostly continue just cooking um the main thing like you know the beans for a while and okay what kind of beans are these beans. Okay, bean, okay, you have to cook them so they kind of like become soft. No, no, like, what variety? So, okay, red bean. Red bean, okay. Green beans. Okay. Okay, I think that's not, they have a different name and Vietnamese. Um, mung bean is the correct. Yeah, not the green beans that

we eat with our steak, guys. No, no, no, no, no. Different kind. Okay. And then red bean, is that like the azuki beans that they have for like Japanese stuff? Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. So it's very much like a Japanese, like, I mean, an Asian kind of like ingredients that you would be able to make these things with. I try with American beans. You just have to soak them forever. So usually like get more the sweet kind of thing. Yes. You can. Like I'm looking at a recipe.

You can use like black beans. But you kind of cook them in sugar. Yeah. So you basically turn them into red beans. Like give them the sweet flavor. Yeah. In a lot of, Vietnamese, don't cook a, like, with. straight sugar we cook it with palm sugar. What does that do? It's just basically make it sweet,

but it's not like a straight to your face kind of sweetness, but it's like a richer, like a deeper kind of sweet. A little more roasted maybe. Yeah, like a little bit more. We even use coconut sugar sometimes. Okay, so you cook those in like sugar and cook them down until they're soft and then what do you do after that? And then I add like coconut milk or something like that to it and then enjoy it. Oh. So you just add coconut milk and ice. There's a very specific time of coconut milk you have to cook them to, but like you can just have it straight if you want. But usually I've seen my mom like cook it, the coconut milk.

Reduce it down. Yeah. She cook it with pandan leaves, you know, like the like, yeah. And then just give it a little more fragrance. And then we'll have that. And then sometimes we'll have jellies. So yeah, that's, that's what I'm thinking that usually. that's like what you can make at home.

Of course, if you go to the store, they have about like a hundred variation of this one dessert, but these are just things that you can do at home and make it. That actually sounds really good. Like it sounds weird at first, but the more you think about it, it's like that could be really good. Yeah.

If you want, I can also give you the pigskin dessert. Just let me know. I want to try that. Now that I know there's no actual pig skin. Oh, but in Vietnamese, there's a chev version. a roasted pork. I literally could you. I've never tried it,

but there is a version where you have. That, no. This is just getting weirder and weirder. I don't even like, like, strawberries and roasted pork. Yeah, no, I do not like mixing sweet. Yeah, I could do it with the black beans, like, are, like, I guess,

working with what ingredients you have in America for this dessert, but... Do you guys ever, like, I don't know if this is a thing, but do you, this American have, like, a sweet, sweet, savory kind of dessert. Is that a thing? I would say, like, a lot of the chips that you find in the grocery store have a version of that, where there's, like, some sort of sweetness plus saltiness.

It's not, I don't know if people would consider it dessert, though. They would consider it more like a snack. But that's kind of something. The American way is to add sweet sugar to savory items, but you don't add savory to sweet items. Yeah. So Americans, you'll find sugar and, yeah, like chips, like anything, they add sugar. So they'll make everything into a dessert, but they won't make a dessert into anything else. I see.

Yeah. I just remember seeing people in Vietnam who eat their oatmeal, like a porridge, and then they add, like, you know, like shrimp and, like, ground meat to it. Okay. And so I'm just like, we make a savory dish out of something that should be. Usually oatmeal is sweet, right, guys? Yeah, typically in a meal. They don't, yeah, they don't make a savory kind of oatmeal. Yeah, Taiwan definitely also mixes, like, sweet and salty a lot.

But, yeah, I'm used to it, so I like it sometimes, but it's not always my favorite either. They like to put, like, salted egg yolk into the middle of these amazing desserts. So you're, like, eating this lovely sweet thing and then you, like, bite into this crumbly, salted egg yolk. It's like, oh. Anyway. To each thorough. I think, yeah, I don't like the surprising factor of like, here, let's try this like, like, you know, like sponge cake, but we added like salted egg yolk. Yeah.

I'm like, stay away from mooncakes. Yeah. Not my favorite. I don't like the egg yolk and the main cake. No. Guys, I'm glad for the same. Yeah. When I was little, I'd just eat around it.

Me too. Serptitiously throw it away. I don't know how they usually have like a sweet pace around the egg yolk. And so I eat everything. Yeah. It's so good too. Like the sweet part is so good. And then you get to the salty.

I'm like, yeah. Yeah. Well, thanks for sharing. That sounds lovely. You've convinced us after a few minutes. It's always, I think it's, to be fair, it is always hard to translate ingredients into a different language and not make them sound weird. So, yes, they're not actual green beans.

They're beans that are green and they're different and they're good. Yes. All right. Well, we have tons of questions from all of you guys that are all, well, not all of them. Some of them are funny, but a lot of them are super deep. So we might have to turn this into a part one, part two episode. But let's just start with, yeah, let's get into it. So our first question is, what is something you are hoping?

to grow in in the near future. Ashland, I think you should start us. I'm still thinking. I feel like, did we re-talking about this in our second episode of like freshman year? And I think I was saying I still need to learn how to not care about grades so much. Yeah. I'm happy to report. Guys, ever since spring break, ever since spring break, the senioritis has started to kick in.

It just had a delayed result. guess but I'm feeling a lot more calm heading into finals and papers. I'm just telling to not fail my classes. Yeah, no, the bar is pretty low now. Yeah, as long as I get a 70, I'm set to graduate. So let's get a 70 guys. I saw one of my guy friend today on the way walked to the library. And I was like, why are you like, he's not wearing a backpack?

And me and my friend notices, like, why are you not wearing a backpack? he was like, why would I? I'm like, but apparently he'd not like, you know, he, like, he said, like, he's been, like, not bringing his backpack so that he take better notes when he get back to his room and like, whatever.

Like, this is an entire. Oh, wow. But, like, but until. Are you sure about that? Yeah, I don't think, bro. Knowing him, he probably like, you know, just like, eh, I'll wing the exam. But, like, he was like, man, but after,

like, he was like, but senior ride is, I'm like, yep. Yeah. I still have not done it. reading happy to report okay guys this is talking about growing yeah grow growing and not decaying I'm happy to report I have not written any essay so therefore guys that's not grow no but I'm saying not if I think for you guys maybe you need to care a little more for me it was more like not caring bro much there's there's always there's always

everything in moderation guys That's what we say. Yeah, my grades are like, it's going to be fine. I have a job. No, no, not a job. I have a life line up after this, guys. We're good. Okay, one thing I've been asking for, like in my little prayer group,

excuse me. Yeah. Is like not complaining so much because this was the same thing in high school when I was around the same people every day. small classrooms and it kind of becomes the way you connect with people and so I think now being married I'm with the same guy every evening and not feeling the best these past few months and so I default to complaining a lot and so I think that's and he's very patient like I don't even think he was the one who pointed it out I think I got tired with my own complaining before he did but I

Yeah, it's just not respectful. It's not helpful for either of us. And so I've been trying to be more conscious of that. I'm trying to also be more positive because my own mindset can make me feel a lot better just in and of itself. It's especially end of semester. It's very easy to start complaining a lot because summer's just on the horizon. So, yeah. This might just be me, but I feel like sometime when I'm when I know I only have a couple months left,

with a certain type or a certain group of people, you're like, oh, nobody's going to see me after this. So like, I don't know, my fault is going to come out a little bit more like less, like, for example, less conscious about like, you know, sometime I'm wording and I'm like, oh, I need to catch myself a couple of time. Like these people still, you know, even though I don't see them, they still were like part of my, um, college experience. I'm not being mean to them. Like just in general, like I just like stop putting an effort in getting to know them, I guess, because I was just like, oh, you know what, like, you know, like, I'm leaving. Like, it's easy to get lazy about that.

Yes. Yeah. Like, like, basically, you just, I guess, like, not very friendly. Yeah. So that's what I feel like should work on. I think for me, now that I've had some time to think about it, something that I've always kind of been needing to grow in. And I have since freshman year, but it's just the, the fact that a lot of my joy. in life, in everyday life, I guess you could say. Joy, my everyday, day-to-day joys are often dependent on how my interactions with other people went and not dependent on, like, God's goodness and what he did for me and how he blessed me that day. So a lot of it is, I guess it's, it goes back to my pride and wanting, like, people to think well of me

and wanting to have, like, you know, good friends and, like, good interactions with people. And so I'm always kind of looking for that and not satisfied if I didn't have, like, the feeling that people liked me or enjoyed talking about, things like that. Validation. Yeah. So I look for a lot more validation from people than I should, and when I should be looking for. just glorifying God and being content in that. So I think that's something I can always be growing in.

Cool. What is your Bible reading plan? What's with the laughs? Because I just saw Ashland reading her Bible while doing ice at like 11. Oh yeah? I was like laughing because like that was like I think I'm also eavesobbing on her I'm meeting sometimes. Yeah.

Well, Kynom, do you have one? No. Well, what do you like to do, though, when you do you have time? You have a certain time of day? Yes. I usually, okay, this is like really a pen sometime. I, okay, this is bad guys. I fall asleep in my bed and then I wake up accidentally at like a little too early in the

morning. Then I'll start like pulling out my Bible. And usually, you know, like the one that country says? I'd have like hand out like every week. You know what I'm talking about? Oh, like past a rod. Like sermon notes. Oh yeah.

Yeah. And so I would usually like, sometimes I zone off during the sermon, which is not good guys. But I usually just go back and read them and then reflect upon my notes. And that usually how I do it. Yeah.

Yeah. For me, I, I recently started this thing with a friend and I would highly recommend it. But there is 31 Proverbs. in the Bible. And so, and there's usually around 31 days in a month. So just every month, you start, like, whatever day of the month it is. So say it's the 12th. You read Proverbs 12th. And then we text each other a verse that particularly stood out to us in that problem.

And like, it's not like we have to every day. Sometimes only one person reads it and then text the verse. But that's still just like a nice reminder and like, short little thing to look at. So, I don't know. I really enjoy that. But besides that, usually my church in Taiwan has this Bible reading plan, and we're going through the New Testament right now. So I just follow along with that.

Cool. Yeah. Nice. I've been reading from a devotional, like 365-day devotional called Truth for Life by Alistair Begg. And they were handing out these like, huge like hard cover really nicely bound books for free at crosscon and that was like january first was the conference so i think this is probably the most consistent i've been in bible reading

maybe since high school um but the devotional is super well written it's just i don't know what he says is so relatable so good at re-centering my focus every morning um and he also so at the end of each devotional it's a page that you read and then you read like a chapter that he writes at the bottom there's also a bottom in like smaller font a little option to do like bible in a year so then he'll give you like the other chapters to read so that's really cool yeah i'm not that great at the ambitious bible and a year plan as i found out from the past like four years of doing my two-year Bible and two years plan. Yeah. So I just decided to, you know, start easy and just do the chapter at the bottom.

And I think just establishing that habit at the beginning of the year has been so helpful. Like, I don't think I've been this consistent forever. So highly recommend the great devotional. Okay. I think we're on, I guess, the topic of, kind of Christianity and Christian growth. This one might be a hard question. I don't know if I can answer it immediately.

But what is it cool, hit you over the head all of a sudden, in quotes? Hit you over the head all of a sudden, like smack? Like a light bulb came into your head. Yeah. What's the cool way that God has rebuked you? That's kind of been like a, like bam. Can't think. Like I'm sure we all have examples.

We had it, but like like that. I have a specific question. Oh, like in what regard? Like just I'll pride or just. Yeah, anyway, he's rebuked you during your life. I don't know if this would be considered cool. But recently, recently I had, you know, was talking about icing or me like doing my ice well, listening to me a Bible plan. And that's because I have tendonitis in my arms or like it's mostly gone, but it has

been there because I've been I've been practicing a piano concerto for a while because I got to perform last Saturday with the orchestra and it's a really hard one and I'm very much a perfectionist control-free person I work on it but I have issues with that so like leading up to this performance I've been so like working like practicing a lot and really trying to like control every detail and stuff. And then God was like, oh, now you have tendinitis and you're going to have to take a break. So that was something where he was like, you don't have control over this anymore. You actually physically cannot play for like the weekend. And you're going to have to like ice it every day and like you have to be careful. You can't practice as much as you want. And you also have to

change your practice strategy in many ways. So I think that was very helpful for me to let go of my control and trust in him and be content with whatever time I did have to practice rather than stressing about it. So, yeah. That's good. Wow. Praise God. That's cool.

That's cool. Thanks. Well, mine, I've had, I'm sure I've had several during college, but the most, I guess, embarrassing one comes to mine from, yeah, the most striking. one that first came to minus from high school. I hope I can share this. So I, this also, maybe I was thinking about this because I was listening to our hot takes episode about boundaries with guys.

And I realized we didn't really establish our ethos or credibility. So this will show you guys that I have lived the wrong way before and it's, yeah, bit me. so in high school there was this guy who was had a very flirtatious personality and he really liked me for a certain amount of time but I never really I would I would respond but I wouldn't necessarily encourage him so I gave him just about enough so that he'd keep going because I like the attention this was all subconscious um anyways he would text me every day all the time and I would just respond because I was like you know it's it's not flirting if he's the one who always texts first or like he's the one initiating everything if he's someone walking up

to me like I'm not doing anything um and so that was just kind of yeah not cool for to be kind of leading him on in this way um but when you're not flirting loudly no one else in high school is going to judge you because everyone else in high school is like crazy like flirting like also so um i was largely unnoticed and he would maybe be seen as a big flirt but i was never seen that way so there weren't really any consequences for that for me um and eventually he started dating someone and he would still text me a lot and as a friend in quotes which i just i was so i don't know what it was going on my head looking back but at the time it was just like okay we're we've always just been friends i'm you know if i don't like him that means that he doesn't like me right um and he had a girlfriend so it was also

just really fuzzy of what our friendship even was anyways you know i'd sometimes be like you know maybe i shouldn't like he shouldn't be doing this like he has a girlfriend um but i i i never said like i never just blocked him or anything, even though I would try to limit, you know, the types of conversations or the length. But, you know, one day, the girlfriend texted me and told me that she would appreciate it if I did not text him. And that was a huge, just like, God, hitting me on the head, like the shame I felt the humility, like the embarrassment of realizing that.

what I'd been doing was like such a threat to their relationship. And if anyone had been doing that like to me and Patrick while we were dating, I would have been like so mad at that girl. And she asked me so graciously, maybe she didn't mean it that way, but she's a really sweet girl. She was so just like, she explained it in like a little paragraph and I like immediately understood what she meant. I was like, yes, I'm so sorry. I would not be doing that again. but it just it was really humbling for me because I thought I was like I can have this guy friend it's fine it was just my vanity my selfishness of wanting the attention and not even thinking far enough

to respect their relationship so yeah oh thanks for sharing it was many years ago it was like six years ago but it still burns in my memory so yeah this is why I'm passionate about the topic of platonic friendships and such um well i think i was not going to share this but i guess which is fine um i had a similar experience not completely similar but i did have a couple by couple i mean like two platonic friendship in um in high school that um i thought it was platonic and to what it finally hits me that it's not platonic anymore. And I feel like, and one of them was not a Christian. So, yeah, that, like, even though, like, you know, I kept telling myself, oh, you know,

this could work out. Like, you know, like, everyone else who are, like, who at my school claimed to be Christian are dating and non-Christian. It's like, oh, yeah, it's like totally working out. Like, see, they're working it out. but it finally hits one day that it was not going to you know work and yeah I really from then on not that I yeah probably probably very much devote not to ever date a non-Christian again in that sense because I feel like that's like really like you working your will against God and I feel like

sometimes that's very stubborn and sometimes it gave me a very big wake-up call I'm not going to share what the wake-up call was. But it was a wake-up call for me to, like, really see my priority and really actually, like, focus on my faith before I ever really, like, develop a relationship. Like, that's when I got to college. I'm like, I'm going to put my faith first before going dating or, like, if I cannot figure out my, like, you know, my relationship with him, then there's no point in pursuing that.

It's a very, I think it's one of the best decision I've ever made. So that's good. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm also just real quick. Just something, like small things for me.

Like every single time, this is relating to my how I should grow, how I want to be growing in the future answer. But like every single time I'm like trying to be like super, you know, health. or something so people think well of me. Like usually something backfired and I end up and I end up just looking stupid or something. And I'm like, well, I mean, kind of your fault, girl. You like went above and beyond like pretend that you were super great. And then now you're like, oh, never mind. So yeah, that's another thing.

That's relatable. Yeah. That's more like an everyday, every day like bonk you on the head and be like, okay. Yeah, that's cool. Or you think you're just in a really great season of like getting everything done and then like you get sick or something. Yeah. Or you have this like terrible grade that comes back or something. Yeah.

Oh, hey. That wasn't me doing, you know, I wasn't the cause of my success. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah, that's a good question. Up to the next question. So we're going to shift a little bit. People are curious to know what are our family dynamics like.

like. Lily, I think you should go first. Yeah, Lily, you should go for. Oh, oh, this is a hard one. Okay, so my parents are two of, they would say this, FYI, two of the least

compatible married people I know. And they have a wonderful marriage, and I look up to the way they, have, you know, centered their relationship on God and made it work. But if they were not Christians, they would not even have the compatibility to, like, stay together, like, for people who base relationships on compatibility.

Anyways, very different personalities. My dad is a professor, and he's, like, a walking brain. And my mom is Korean. So even just that, she's, like, very emotions-driven. and she's a musician. So super attentive to detail and just knows how to convert emotion into, yeah, this beautiful thing.

So, yeah, so I guess the kids they've produced are all pretty different. I guess I could, oh, this is a hard question. I don't know how to answer this. Our family dynamic is we enjoy our intellectual conversations a lot. around the dinner table.

But then, especially Faith and Ben are like, have this really unhinged side to them. They're super smart, super intelligent, but like they can act like complete morons sometimes. I just don't know what to do with them. They're like singing and dancing all around the kitchen. And it's just, I don't know. Yeah, it's just a strange.

strange dynamic um but i have to say they're like the sweetest like most welcoming person if you ever like met them and you're like i don't like you don't like you don't feel like in your place they'll be the first one to welcome you they're yes they're very kind um i'd say overall we're just pretty eccentric like no sibling is like very similar to the other um and we all of us like look kind of different too so that just makes it even even more different. Walking into church with faith all throughout high school, I'd be like, our outfits are not matching at all today. I'd see other siblings and they kind of have like similar styles, really cute together. We're like, have the most opposite style I've ever seen.

And now Leah, look at me at Hillsdale where my dress is all preppy and then she's at Purdue nursing school where she wears hugs. Oh, you were going to say that. They're not getting those baby doll dresses. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe I'll have a better idea of how to answer this once I hear your guys' answer. But I guess. I don't know.

It's a strange jumble, I guess. I'll go next. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Go ahead. So, okay, if you guys ever met my mom, she's coming for graduation. So some of you were in. I'm so excited.

She will be the nicest people that have ever seen to anyone except me. I love that woman. I love my mom. she's very feisty with me and I'm also feisty with her I think that's just how our mother-daughter dual is I feel like if I don't fight with her sometime like it's there's like we got to find something to bicker about like you know like I'm not like like at other people like at each other we're like mom your outfit is ugly today like stuff like that but like just trying to like how you would treat we're not like you're also the only daughter yes I'm the only daughter

It sounds almost like a sister, yeah, sometimes merges into a sister relationship. Because I'm like, I'm taking my mom, oh, I'm trying to convince my mom to go to a BTS concert with me. And I think, I think she's like, no, there's no way I'm going to such a crowded place. But you know what's really funny though? She have told one of her friends that was like, and then like, you know, like without me knowing about it. And then I came and see her during spring break. And the friend was like, oh yeah, aren't you and your mom going to the, I'm like, mom. I thought you were not going to go.

But I think regardless of what I do, I think she'll always support me, including the BTS concert. I think my dad are like, okay, like he's super funny and he's really smart. And I always can have like an intellectual conversation with him and he would totally like understand me. Again, like this is a very smart guy. Really funny. um but then you know like growing up i got spank as a kid but usually i get spank for the smaller

thing with my mom like you know not going to bed like playing on my iPad for too long whatever um but with my dad like he never spank me for like little thing because he's like he want to be like you know the loving dad or whatever um he's like oh cho cho dad but i did something horrible i did not want to see my dad because i know like i would get in a big trouble like so like you know like the joke is me and my mom are like friends and whatever and we bicker at each other and me my dad are really soft and sweet to each other but when i like you know when there's like a serious matter in my life i feel like my dad would take triumph of like my mom and actually like you know so i guess that's the family dynamic my brothers do not treat me like their sister unfortunately um i love

my brothers um i always have to start the disclaimer guys i love my brothers um um um i always have to start the disclaimer guys I love my brothers. We love our families, guys. Yes, we adore our families. I would not train my family with any other people's family to tell you. Like, I'm so blessed to have them as my family members. They probably wouldn't ever hear me saying this. We're not too cringing.

I see this dynamic. I can say this because I'm not seeing their face. But we do say, like, you know, like sweet stuff to each other. But, like, my brothers, you know, like, he's only two years younger than I am. So he treat me like his little sister, which is not great because sometimes I want to feel that seniority kind of power, but I don't have that kind of power in my household against my brother. Sometimes he actually, like, you know, my mom said that, like, you know, you're like a bigger sister, but you don't act like one because my brother take, you know, whatever. He's like, you know, that's so stupid.

Why would you do that? Like, he would, like, be the one instead of my mom telling him. me not to do something he'll be the one who actually like what is wrong with you um you know but he's always really sweet like he'll be the one who bring like he'll buy perfume like perfume for me on like like like and i'm like what did you buy for bro he was like cuss and then just walk away and so like he'll be sweet like that my youngest brother that kid i love him he just like i think i think me and him love going out together like he'll be my personal like like like shopping person like who holds all my stuff like or like you know when I when we go out like um together like he'll be holding something

for me or he'll be like the one who um you know like take cares of like Google map because I cannot read a map um to save a life um but then again I always have to pay for him personally he never bring his wallet whenever he's with me so Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So, like, very much. I see.

I see it. Yeah. Well, my family is family five girls. So I don't have any brothers, unlike these other two. But I guess, I guess I can start with my parents. I think my family would be characterized by very strong opinions. Like, my dad has very strong opinions. And my mom has very strong opinions.

and my dad is probably he's very much he doesn't care so much about what other people think and really just wants to love them but sometimes he does it in a way that's like makes them mad at him because he points out things that are really good for him to point out. But like, he doesn't care as much about what they think. So he's very like clearheaded, like says, says the important things. My mom is a much more perfectionist and does like want everyone to feel happy and like a planner and everything like that. So she's always like really, you know, wants everything to work well and everyone to be happy. and to enjoy their time and stuff.

So that's kind of the family dynamic. We have two different, two different personalities, and all of those kids kind of get a little bit of that. Like, I'm definitely more on the perfectionist side. My sister Karis is more on the, tell the flat out truth, whatever. Shout out to Paris. Yeah. Yay.

Yeah, so we all have a little bit of that mix. But again, like Lily said, even though we're all very opinionated in different things. And sometimes we like rub up against each other because of these different personalities. Because we're all under Christ and we all are like looking to him and trying to become more like him, it works out. Like we always were a very close family and I love them all very dearly. As for siblings, I would say there's, so there's five of us girls and there's like, I think we kind of divided ourselves into two groups. There's the older girls,

the three older girls, because we're closer in age, and then there's a five-year gap, and then there's the two younger girls. So it was always the olders and the littles. So that was fun. It would, I guess I would say, yeah, my eldest sister and my second oldest sister have very different personalities, and I was like the third little tag along that I'll always go with And they'd like make up all the creative things when we were playing like stuffed animals or something. And I would just be like the boring side characters that they needed sort of. But like I didn't have enough creativity to deal with that. So it's a third child.

The filler. Yeah. Kind of a peacemaker too because like some they would have different opinions. And I'd like kind of go with whoever I sort of agreed with more. Yeah. And then there's the little sisters that. Yeah. I guess we were also very intellectually prone when we have conversation.

And something we always do in my family, which I think is kind of funny. And I think it was actually super helpful growing up, even though it was annoying at the time, is that every time we watch something on TV or we listen to something or we talked about something that happened, And anytime something comes up that's not, that doesn't align with like the truth of the Bible or like the truth of the world or politics or something, we'd always talk about it instead and point it out instead of just letting it slide. So like, I don't know. Like every time National Geographic is like one million years ago, my dad would be like, it wasn't that long ago. It was only like 6,000 years. So we're kind of that type of family.

I appreciate it. Yeah, I appreciate it because it kept us, you know, it kept us thinking about it and not just accepting what the world says. So that's kind of our dynamic, I would say. Consuming media as a family is like, I think, the way to approach, you know, all the big questions about what do I let my kids watch? Do I let them on social media? Like doing it with them like equips them to be able to make judgments.

by themselves eventually when they're older. So. Yeah. Well, I guess I'll describe my siblings real quick, as you guys did. This is hard. My oldest sister, Amelia, philosophy and German major, freelance writer, if that tells you anything. So she's like, that definitely head in the clouds, very artsy, dresses up her two-year-old like a fairy, puts stickers on her cheeks, and, yeah, just very adventurous.

Put polka dots and stripe outfits together. Pocodots and stripes. The craziest outfits on her kids. She, like, yeah, she has traveled abroad several times. She's very independent and has had some very crazy experiences. So, yeah, she has a very full life. Definitely kind of like the one oldest daughter, so I think she takes after my dad a lot. Very Brady.

Like, yeah, she's, she's really cool, very creative. My brother is, uh, he's like the opposite of me. Maybe, is that a good description? He's very, uh, does not care about his reputation. Does not plan. He's not plan, not detail oriented. Um, just very, he honestly, I feel like sometimes makes people, gives a worse impression. of himself just so that he can, I don't know, surprise them later.

No, he reminds me of like a free spirit, like, fairies. Yeah, he just could not care less about, like, you know, in high school, some people would come to me that like, you know, I thought Ben was just kind of like that silly guy who just wandered around and like made random comments. But then like, I realized he's like the smartest kid in my class. And I'm like, well, yeah, he's. Yeah, so he just has a lot under the surface. And, yeah, would tackle the boys at youth group all the time and embarrass me.

His hair would be sticking up and I'd be trying to pat it down, walking into school, drive us to school with the windows open. Yeah, just the opposite of me. My little sister is, I would say, very similar description to what Ashland described yourself as, like, the peacemaker, the one who's slightly abused by the older siblings. just really cute has like the best relationship with everyone um even in her friend groups she's just the peacemaker like she's so approachable so sweet and gentle um yeah you guys know of my sibling so it's kind of funny like describing them yeah i just remember there were just i think it was

just the first time i've ever met like i've met faith like a couple of time now but i've only met been the first time like I think last or like two Easter ago or something and I just remember he was like yeah I'm planning a little leave I'm like at midnight like oh yeah oh yeah I was just like that's like a weird time to like you know like leave town I'm like why don't you wait till the next I was just thinking he always does that I'm like whenever he's visiting he leaves at midnight like that's just you know people usually leave like you know either like really early or like yeah like, you know, quite, like, enough time that you get back and settle in. Trying to get back by midnight, you know.

I'm like, okay. And he, like, was like, yeah, I'm just going to go. I'm like, you know, that's going to be horrible traffic going out. Like, so that's why I knew he was not a planner. Yeah, no. And it's just, yeah, it's so funny. Like, even I get, I, who know him gets surprised by like, like, how brilliant he is, how insightful, intelligent, how godly he is.

And just like, he really hides a lot. And I think people, I don't know. be cool to see if people could see more of that. No, yeah. No, they, yeah, Ben and Faith are, like, the most welcoming people. Like, you know, like, they just make you feel like part of the family immediately. And I'm like, like, that's just, like, a effect that I don't feel with a lot of people. And Ben and Faith just do it so well.

And sometimes I just, maybe they're just like, I don't know, the same vibe sometimes. Sometimes. And they're just, like, very welcoming. So I really, like, appreciate it when we come to your house. And they just make us feel welcome. I think. I think a lot of these different personalities have also just helped us grow a lot too. Because, like, I don't know, like, thinking about, like, my mom and dad or, like, these different sibling personality dynamics, like, thief.

Someone's a big planner. Someone's not a planner. Someone, like, isn't afraid to make people mad at them. someone is like really afraid to etc um but regardless like everyone can help each other out in that way like someone can get really stressed planning things but the planning is important but then the other person can be like don't stress because it's not important and that's like super helpful yeah so yeah all all these different personalities in the end have been like really great for i think our growing experience as well and even if you come from a super cohesive family your friends shape you. Transition to next week, which we will be talking about all your questions about friendships.

Yay. So, yeah, hope you enjoyed this episode. Thank you for your questions. Go enjoy a delicious meal with someone. I was going to see someone special. That sounds weird. With a friend. And we will see you next time.

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