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slash setup welcome to the 1000 hours outside podcast actually I'm kind of nervous about

this because I have a podcast extraordinaire on today. Paul Hastings from

the compelled podcast just came out with a new book called Compelled Ordinary People Extraordinary God.

Paul welcome. Thanks Jenny. I appreciate it. We go way back like years and years and years back

through the homeschool world and we just have a lot of connections. We've been at different conferences and conventions together. And you have the most engaging, like, bubbly is probably like not a good word. It feels girly. So I don't want to say bubbly. It's like this engaging, high energy, really interactive personality. So sometimes I've been at places and they'll be like, Paul's gonna be the MC for this event. I'm like, well, of course, Paula should be the MC for this event. So can you just give a little bit of your background of like this personality, like you're up in front of people, and then you ended up with this podcast where you tell people's stories. What's the background? Yeah, so the quick story. So I live in Texas with my wife and four kids. Our kids are ages 8, 6, 4, 2. They are the ones with all the energy and bubbly energy. I'm the one who's like the one like, oh, I'm dying. My knees are killing me. But fun story. So my mom immigrated from Thailand when she was 18 years old and she was a high school dropout.

She dropped out of high school in Thailand, came to America, dropped out of high school

here as well.

My dad was a hillbilly from Arkansas and he had a 10th grade education and he too dropped

out of high school.

And so these two meet each other,

they get married, and then they decide to homeschool their kids, which seems like a recipe for

disaster. But it was also a recipe for just this incredible life growing up in this multicultural

hillbilly, Thai household. I mean, everything, you know, you didn't know if you were going to be

eating a possum for dinner or you might be eating, you know, Thai noodles for dinner. Who knew what was going to happen, you know? Okay, we never ate the possum, but we did eat many very weird and strange things. And, yeah, so it was a great life growing up. My grandparents lived next door, and my grandpa had fought in World War II. And so, and he was a very

cool grandpa. Like I know a lot, I knew a lot of other kids at that time, you know, their grandpas were

really reticent to tell any stories because it had been shocking. And they called it shell shock,

what we called PTSD today. But my grandpa was very different than that. And he had been in the thick of the war. He had been on the front lines for three months in Germany. He had actually been wounded, almost died, just crazy stuff. And so he was just full of all these stories, which, you know, now in retrospect, I realized that all the stories he was telling me, he was like derating, he was making them like rated G, right?

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