Hey folks, before starting this podcast, it's with real sadness that I have to tell you that Steve, who's in this podcast with Carl, has graduated to glory.

So we actually recorded this last year and at that stage, Steve was given just a couple of months to live.

And he actually lived a full extra year and he ran hard and he

gigged and he preached and he laughed and he led plenty of people to the lord and even produced

a book called The Last Laugh that sold thousands of copies and so he went out guns are blazing

and he's a great role model to us so yeah steve leg we salute you

and karl of course carl still got his ongoing battle as you'll hear so this is a very moving

podcasts all the more i mean they're both funny they're both comedians so uh there's laughter and maybe tears in the mix as you listen to this as they discuss life and death and sickness and how to handle that.

So please stay on at the end because I want to say something else that you might want to be involved in.

But right now, let's get to the podcast.

Welcome, everybody. This is Simon Gilbo with Inspired. Inspired, if you're new to us, it's all

about getting mates of mine from different walks of life to come in and share their stories.

And often, well, usually, because

if you've been on Journey of Faith, any time, you've had a few sucker punches in the mix. So it's not

triumphalistic faith, but it's the nitty gritty of what faith looks like. Sometimes when you're

down the dust and also with some incredibly powerful stories of God breaking in. And what's interesting this week is that I've never

done this, but we're having two people on from two different locations and they've both been on

before and you'll find out the reason shortly why we're doing this. But so straight away,

I want to welcome Carl Beach and Steve Legg. Welcome, boys.

Thank you. Hello, mate. So it's great to have you. You know, we relentlessly bombarded with

bad news and, again, inspired us about counteracting that with good news that stirs faith. And I think

this week it's going to stir faith in a very different way because essentially I've asked you to

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