Welcome in to this edition of the show. I'm Chase Parm. And today I'm going to visit with Ben Craddick. A little different show today. Ben, obviously, one of the Craddick family members, whose name is on Craddock

Court at the Pavilion, but also a longtime sponsor of the Oxford Exxon podcast, the sponsor of the Oxford Exxon

podcast. Ben and I have known each other for a long time and we have

reached now 10 years in this partnership between the podcast and his family, his company,

Blue Sky, the Oxford Exxon, Cradicle Company. So I want to catch up with him. We're going to talk

some highlights from these 10 years together. We're going to talk some of the origin story

from how we got together, how this began,

you know, way back with a lot fewer listeners and a lot less going on in the company that

has become MPW Digital and, again, the Oxford Exxon podcast, our flagship show on the

MPW Digital Network.

So a lot of stuff with Ben, this podcast probably is not for everybody.

But if you've been with us, if you've been with us for a long time, we'll probably give

some anecdotes, some things you don't know, is I really appreciate you guys.

I say this a lot.

I get a little sentimental toward the end of the year, most years.

And I pick out a few minutes of a lot of shows to talk about how much.

I really appreciate the listeners and subscribers and people that support all of our things that we do at rebelgrove.com and NPW Digital.

And this is really an acknowledgement of that because we've grown like crazy, and it's because of you.

It's because of you guys who have so many different podcast options to choose from every day and you keep hitting play, you stick with us, we are part of your routine and, you know, it's become part of our lives as well. I know many of you. We've all helped each other through a lot of difficult things. You know, the best thing in the world is getting the emails from you guys who said, hey, you know, you're able to give me an hour away from whatever hard thing was going on in life. And I know I've experienced a lot of things in my own lives where you guys have meant a lot. So again, just a catch-up session, if you will, with Ben. We even get into some parenting, some different things, talking about how our kids have grown over the last 10 years. Not really advice, but what's worked for us and maybe some things that you can take with you guys as well. So I really, I enjoy doing the interview. I appreciate Ben's time, his family, this partnership that just keeps going now, again, into its second decade. It's crazy. We met a long time ago, and we hopefully have done some good and also provided you guys with

a quality product for a long time as well. So let's go on with it. Again, hopefully you go to

have Emory Lane with us and just hang out as we've all kind of become friends over the years.

So now my conversation with Ben Craddick.

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