4-77. A Light In The Barn with Weston Lackey

In this episode, Weston Lackey shares his journey of faith, his initiative 'Light in the Barn,' and how he plans to impact his community and college life through faith-driven leadership. The conversation explores the importance of seeking validation from God, trusting His plan, and living as a light in the industry and beyond.

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SPEAKER_01 0:20

Welcome back again to the One Truth Podcast. This is your host, Josh Brockman, as we continue on through season four this uh this year, this couple of years, uh, and our study of Luke here as we continue on. Today uh we take a break from our study of Luke that we normally have as we step in step into another guest episode. And I was really excited to do this one to sit down with a young man that I've known for a long time and uh just hear his story, hear his thoughts, and and hear what he's doing with his newest venture called A Light in the Barn. I'm excited to get this over to y'all and get y'all out to hear it. As as always, thanks for tuning in wherever you have. If you haven't followed the podcast uh and subscribed, uh we would sure ask you to do that. It helps more people find the podcast. Uh if you can hit the notification bell, that way you find out everywhere that it's dropped. But uh, if you haven't done that, we'd ask you to. We certainly appreciate it. And as always, we appreciate all of you listeners tuning in uh to the podcast each week. So without much further ado, uh I really enjoyed this one as we got to sit down and do this. I think you will as well. So here is West and Lackey, a light in the barn. All right, well, uh West and Lackey, welcome to the One Truth Podcast. It is uh it's a joy to have you. Uh I've been looking forward to it since we've just talked about it here recently, and uh it's been fun, you know, to see uh see you as a little guy and growing up and knowing you pretty much your whole life uh and to see uh see the Lord work, to see things come up uh in the way you've uh you've been. And and so it's fun for me to have you on here for a lot of reasons uh as a brother in Christ and and um as a friend and uh and and all kinds of things. So uh yeah, been looking forward to it and welcome. So glad to have you. Thank you. So, Weston, the way I want to start uh as we start most of our guest podcast is I just want you to tell the audience many will know who you are, many will not know who you are. So uh just just tell the audience who Weston Likey is, let us let us know about you.

SPEAKER_00 2:25

Yeah, um, well, I'm 17 years old. I just uh just graduated from Haskell High School, and I will be attending uh Texas Tech here this next semester. Um so you know I've I've shown pigs for 14 or 15 years, uh counting. Well, not counting anymore, I'm done. But that was probably that that was the biggest part of my life uh growing up, was just being the son of Jason and Jackie Lackey growing up on Lackey Livestock, and that was just kind of kind of what my daily life uh involved. And so as I got older, it was always just how can I I've always wanted to be a little bit of an entrepreneur in some way, shape, or form, and I could never really figure out what that what that looked like within our industry um alone. And so as I got older, I've been I've been lucky that my parents really never forced me into anything, forced me into my faith. Um and it's something that I just kind of found on my own, uh, which I I think is the best way. God just came to me and I I got to I got to go to him and we've built a relationship. And so uh with that leading into that, um just that relationship with him kind of started growing. And I realized that I I kind of had a calling from him that he wanted me to do something that pulls back to our industry. So that's that's kind of why I started Light in the Barn, where that came from. And that's really that's been the biggest thing here from here going into college, and yeah, that's that's just kind of that's kind of me where Light in the Barn came from and what are really what I've been involved in.

SPEAKER_01 3:49

So awesome, awesome. So so uh a light in the barn, let's uh let's talk about that because that's that's obviously gonna be the uh the title of the episode. That's gonna be a main plot around this. Uh what uh what is what is a light in the barn? What when you say that, what do you what are we referencing?

SPEAKER_00 4:07

Yeah, you know, when I was coming up with the name of what I wanted to start calling these podcast videos, things like that, uh it it really took a second to finally kind of because I wanted to do something catchy, something creative. And um, right, God calls us all to be a light in some way, shape, or form. Uh we're a light for his image. And I realized, you know, I want to relate this back as much to the show industry, as much to really anything, but mostly back into the into the show pig world. So I figured, you know, might as well just call it light in the barn. And, you know, since starting that, I've I've kind of found more people that are said light in the barns because I've seen faith in a lot of places that I never would have expected it, um, especially when starting to grow. And just watching our industry alone from everybody uh who's played a major role in it, I think the the faith of of where the industry is going has has been very, very good. And uh so that's that's just kind of the light in the barn is just the people who are willing, willing to step forward, share God's image, share his word, um, specifically in our industry. Uh, and that's just kind of where the title and the and the name came from.

SPEAKER_01 5:18

Cool. So you mentioned podcast videos, etc. So so tell me uh because I've seen some, but not not uh a ton, but they'll come across my my my stuff every once in a while. So uh let's talk about that a little bit. What uh what do you do as a part of this um uh from the like podcaster videos and that kind of deal?

SPEAKER_00 5:38

Yeah, so I post on TikTok. I'm honestly not as good on TikTok as I need to be. That kind of just goes away.

SPEAKER_01 5:45

Uh but Instagram I'm no TikToker.

SPEAKER_00 5:49

Yeah, I just I I completely forget about it sometimes. But everything is on Instagram and Facebook for sure. Um, because those those when you post, they just post together. And um me and mom were kind of building what it what I wanted it to be, and you know, mom is very she needs a plan before everything starts, and I am not that way. I just I I roll. And so mom was trying to get this plan ready of what this wanted to look like, and I was I just told her I was like, hey, I'm just gonna start, I'm gonna read scripture and I'm gonna talk about it. Um so I just started reading the scripture, and and finally something stuck with me that I wanted to talk about, and that was really the first post uh was out of the book of Romans. And so now uh when something comes across me when when he puts something in my heart that I need to talk about, uh I'll I'll say the verse online and then just kind of go into a deeper meaning of what that's meant to me uh and kind of what God calls us to do within the verse that I shared.

SPEAKER_01 6:44

Okay, cool. So so when you first started out, you would just like read one scripture kind of deal, and then it's just kind of evolved into expounding on that a little bit?

SPEAKER_00 6:52

Yeah, so like I mean, I was just I was just reading out a I don't know why I started in the book of Romans of Anywhere. Um just kind of yeah, just so I mean, and it helped me the most because it really just talks about, I mean, your your faith, your walk with Christ. And so Romans 818 uh is actually the verse that uh that hit me first, and that honestly hit me when I first started doing this when I was injured. Um and Romans 8.18 is uh I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. Uh and that one, that one really stuck out to me because I think a lot of times in our industry alone, we're so caught up in winning the banners, winning the buckles, we're so caught up in just trying to achieve the highest point of success that uh that is. And I think a lot of the times when we get caught in losing situations, whenever we don't exceed or meet expectations when we walk into the ring, uh we kind of just we kind of just get mad, give up, get just are kind of lost in what we need to do. So that was the first thing that stuck out to me, just telling people um we're all gonna lose at some point. I think we lose a lot more than we do win, uh specific and especially in our industry, but in life in general. And I just kind of wanted to share that that if if if we keep following God, if we trust in God's plan, that at some point that success is gonna come. It might not be in the industry, it might be in something else, but uh at some point or another God is gonna God is gonna give us what we've been looking for.

SPEAKER_01 8:20

Right. No, and I think that's the you know, you drive that home, and especially you see it clearly in Romans and the gospel that the ultimate success is in Christ, right? And the that the eternal things that we dwell on and focus on. That's where the the the true reward is, right? Not in the not in the world, not in the material things. So that's uh that's awesome. So so when you got started, and maybe I dreamed this up or not, but when you got hurt and some of that that that that led to some of this getting started, did uh did I hear you say that somewhere once? Yes. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 8:50

Yes, yeah, I just said that. So in this would have been 2022 to 2023. Um so the end of my freshman year going into sophomore year, I was actually like within track season, and I I used I thought that I could get along real well in the sports world. And so, you know, sports pigs just kind of took over my life. And I say this mom mom always tried to to get me to go to church with her, and I always just kind of shrugged it off as it was it was just no good. So December 26th, I believe, of 2022, we went skiing with a with friends of ours from back home, and I completely busted my knee. And you know, that didn't help me much. I couldn't run track anymore, cross-country practicing for that. Uh I was signed up for camps to, you know, to get ready for cross-country season, and it it just took that all away from me. So I had surgery early that January and still just kind of hedged away from going to church, things like that, and then I tried to walk pigs on crutches, and that didn't go very well. Yeah. Um, so within sitting inside, I don't sit down very well, so I needed something to do. And of course, our Bibles laying on our laying on our um kitchen counter, and I was like, well, I might as well just, you know, that that'd probably be a good thing to start to establish. And so I started reading scripture out of Romans and Matthew, and he kind of he helped a lot from that moment into that year, and then I kind of faded away again, uh, getting back into the swing of things and football and just getting back, and then he snapped my collarbone in half because I tripped on my own feet. And I think that was the moment where it set in that was like, okay, I I I know where he's trying to send me, so I just need to follow what he's trying to do. Um, and then that's that's kind of where my faith came about, and then within growing with my faith, I I told mom, I was like, hey, I want to start something that that impacts just more than me. Um so that's that's kind of really the my testimony where where light in the barn came from originally, uh, was just me trying to be an athlete and stay away from God.

SPEAKER_01 10:52

But it's funny how he'll uh he'll continue to remove the things that that we put in the way uh when he's when he's coming to us and convicting us and and drawing us to him. It's it's yeah, I I haven't had to suffer any broken bones, but yeah, I used to get real cocky about not breaking anything and then he brought me pretty good. Yeah, it sounds like it, yeah. So no, it's uh yeah. One of one of my uh one of my favorite movies is uh is called The Blind. It's about Phil Robertson and and and a little different story, but uh the uh the same of when he brings you to the end of yourself that to take to him. So that's uh that's it's it's always neat to hear um the the way the Lord works and in a in a manif physical manifested manner that you can clearly see and and then look back and and realize what uh what we can learn from it. So so that that's the start, and and that's still that's the kind of where you're at, just Instagram, sometimes TikTok, and just going from that standpoint. So are are you um currently do you is it uh I don't want to use the word random, but are you kind of working through uh certain passages or just as it comes or certain books or or what are you kind of you know it it really is just as it comes to me.

SPEAKER_00 12:10

Um and I'll talk about something some some some things sometimes that are just completely I don't find in scripture. Um that just I'll see, you know, I'll see a lot of stuff on social media through um influencers that I follow that talk a lot about following Christ, and then that kind of sparks the idea of what I want to talk about. But as of right now, it's pretty random. Um I know I'm gonna start try to start some Bible study here soon. Uh that's that's gonna put me on a on a path of where I need to be um in terms of reading scripture and helping others. And so I I I do want to say that it's gonna get better soon, but right now, I mean I just read all over the place, kind of wherever wherever I open to. Um I just start reading. And so it's it's it's pretty random at the at this point.

SPEAKER_01 12:53

Yeah, yeah, then I was I I was as much curious as anything, because I uh I I don't TikTok and I don't Instagram really. I don't even I don't I I'm uh yeah, I've got lots of technological impossibilities sometimes. So um, but I do see some of your stuff sometimes and I I like it when it when it comes across and get to see. So uh that was again that was kind of what led to we'll get into it again here in a minute, kind of what led into uh to uh me wanting to sit down with you and do this. So uh I I guess what we we can just go there as as we're we'll we'll jump down the page a little bit. So so the the last thing that I saw come across my feed that you had put out was was about seeking validation from God, not not seeking validation from the world. And so, you know, that that um that really caught my attention because that uh that that shows a clear principle, right? Of of where we should be focused. Uh those that that are called seeking things eternal, seeking things above, as Paul writes in Colossians, uh uh seeking things above, not things on the earth. And so um yeah, just talk about a little bit uh about that that video and and the thoughts maybe before, and maybe anything that's come out of it, and we'll just we'll let the conversation go where it will on it.

SPEAKER_00 14:11

Yeah, you know, in our industry, right, we have to seek the validation, seek the opinions of others to be successful. And I'm I'm driving to our FFA banquet, which is where I made this video. I'm driving to our FFA banquet, and something popped up on my TikTok right before I left, and it was talking about seeking validation, and I was like, I need to talk about that before I forget it. And so I think that that the struggle starts when you get into high school specifically just because you're doing a lot of things, but but the the main point I wanted to get across there was you know we live in a world that crucified a perfect man because they didn't believe in what he was saying, and they they crucified him because they didn't believe him, therefore they weren't validated by what he was saying. And I think that in on this world, when we do that, I think that that's that that's the time where we need to look up to the all-knowing God that knows what our life is gonna go. He he already has it planned out where he's gonna take us, and we need we need to seek validation from the word of God, not the word of others. Um, we need to seek validation from from what he's trying to call us to do, what he's trying to tell us we need to do in that moment, versus what our best friends and people um that sometimes don't have as close of a relationship to God as us, what they're trying to tell us. And I think sometimes we get so caught up in trying to do what the world says in order to look cool, in order to be successful, because that's what we think is gonna give us eternal life, uh, versus going back into the word and actually reading scripture and him telling us what we need to do for him in order for us to have eternal life with him.

SPEAKER_01 15:50

No, definitely. And I, you know, there's um there's an old uh older Christian movie, and it's a little corny, but but I like it. I think it's gold fireproof. Uh it's been a long time since I've watched it now. But but but in there, there's uh the the uh there's this couple that this married couple, and they're having they're having issues going back and forth, and and one side he he's seeking advice from from godly men that are that are grounded in the truth and giving him biblical advice, and then the other side she's seeking uh advice from from all of her friends that that are giving her worldly advice. And we have that every day. If if if we uh anything, it doesn't matter if it's shown pigs or or playing football or watching college football or whatever, you can ask somebody's opinion and and you can get uh very easily to find the opinion of the world, right? And the things of the world. Um it it takes uh it takes a man or a woman of God to to step up because a lot of the times that is like you just said, it's not a popular uh opinion. It it's not what people want to hear. And and kind of in the thing that I that I'd sent you to put out, it's like Paul writes in Galatians five that that as a believer we're to walk in the spirit, right? We're to seek the things above. And and Paul writes in Galatians five, sixteen, seventeen, that the the spirit and the flesh are at war with one another, right? They're they're they're they're not on the same team, not on the same page. And so we battle that amongst ourselves, uh, but then we go out into the world and you have that same battle. You've got the option to to seek godly counsel or to seek you know worldly wisdom that's that's gonna send us down one path or the other. So that uh yeah, that that video clip really uh really kind of uh it caught my attention. I thought it was awesome. I thought it was uh very good. So uh yeah, kudos to you on that one. So so you're you're coming up on uh well, I guess you're not coming up now. You're you're done with high school. You're it's you've passed it. So um as uh as as you go into college, what um what's kind of your mindset of how some of this that you've you've you've taken this this battle that we walk through as believers? Um you know, you're gonna move into a uh away from your parents, into a uh different location outside of your house and into a different town, into a much bigger town than Haskell America. What uh what what would you say uh is is on your mind of how to how to continue to combat that of again you're gonna be as a believer in the world but to not be of the world and now about to be in a whole new whole new scenario.

SPEAKER_00 18:24

You know, we can never we can never do anything on our own. Um I'm a big believer of that, right? We can we can't we can't ever we can never we can never be strong in our faith just by ourselves. And so going into college, I mean I've already found some people that that have been willing to do or are ready and excited to do things like Bible studies with me, and we're just trying to hold each other accountable. Um because I think social media especially has taken a toll on both high school and college kids of what now is normalized uh within society that is completely disregards anything biblical. And I think when we get into college and we have free will more than we had under our parents, I think I think that's when it becomes um more of an issue just having the ability to do whatever you want sometimes. And so within that, going into Lubbock, and I think that's kind of why God had had a calling for me to go there, is I want to I want to do everything in a team setting. Um whenever I start whenever I start Bible studies, I want a hundred other people to join me to do it, and not necessarily just me leading. I want all a hundred people to join and lead and show God that regardless of where we're at, um, we can do all things through Him and therefore strengthen everybody else around us. And so that that's something that's been big on my mind is how I how I make an impact and how I bring God into Lubbock, Texas, specifically, you know, I'll be more into the ag side. So how do I start it in the ag department and then take it to all of the other departments? Um and I'm trying to get into other ag other departments to see if I can figure that out. Um, but knowing that I can never do anything alone, my main mindset and my main goal going into college is to find the people and find the teams that are gonna help me uh stay accountable to Christ, and then I can help them do the same thing, and then we just expand and go from there.

SPEAKER_01 20:23

That's a very, very good answer because that is that is exactly how it's laid out. It's inner, you know, when when Christ sends his disciples out, he sends them out in pairs, right? And and we see in in the Bible that that iron sharpens iron, so let one man sharpen another. And uh, you know, we we use that principle even unbelievers use that principle, right? Surround yourself with the people that you want to be like and you want to hold each other accountable. And and that's exactly uh that's a biblical principle, even for people that that would say they don't believe in the Bible. That that's where it comes from. It's laid out in the foundation of how God's created us um to be. So that is uh yeah, that's that's a good answer because uh I was thinking when you were saying that too of of um the thing that unites believers is is the Holy Spirit, right? And Christ. Yeah, there's there's nothing when you said nothing that we can do on our own. Um yeah, because there's we talk about abiding in the vine in John fourteen, and it's it's his fruit that he sends out through us, right? We're the humble servant and and he's the Lord and the Master that sends us out. So to unite yourself with other humble servants that that are like minded that want to seek in his word and and and see when he says, If you love me, you'll keep my commandments. Well what does that mean? How do I do that? And you find others to do that with you. And that's that's uh yeah, no, I um sadly when I was at that point in my life and and for much of it, I I I seek and look for the people that had like mindedness, but it was it was on the path of the world and and antithetical to to the gospel and to Christ. So um Yeah, so with uh With the light in the barn, talked about where where it started, how it started, how it's going, what we're doing. So ultimately, as you know, now you're you're moving into we've been talking about uh uh moving a little further west uh to the glorious Texas Tech University. What's your goal as you as you step out into that? What's your goal with light in the barn uh to just continue as it is, let let it uh keep going like it is for now, or you know, as of as of right now, I can't I can't really put into picture of where I want it to be.

SPEAKER_00 22:34

Um because I want this to grow into something bigger than myself, just bigger than me. Um I want to have other people leading within my platform, and that's something that I I'm really excited to do. When when I went to Texas AM for my visit, uh there was a there was a program there called Breakaway, um, where when I got to go, we got to they got to hold something in Kyle Field, and it was I don't know, 3,000 of us just worshiping. And you know, I have a feeling that's kind of why he calls me to go to Lubbock, um, because I want to start something like that. And it breakaway was breathtaking. Um, just how many people you don't you don't realize how many people are believers until you're in that setting. And going into college, right, I'm gonna keep doing this as much as I can, trying to make an impact, trying to share, spread his word, um, but more so on a personal level. Uh, since I get to be out of Haschool America uh with a population of 3,000, I hope that I can reach a lot more of those people uh on a personal level, so because I'll I'll be 15 minutes away from everybody. Um so going into it that first year, I think I'm just gonna try to keep it keep it growing as it is, and then year two and year three. If I'm if I'm making enough profit through stores, uh I want to start donating to programs and start building my own program uh that can give out scholarship funds to kids and that hopefully um we can build something so big in Lubbock uh and everywhere that we can start having things in Texas Tex football field. I mean, is is the biggest goal right now of being in Lubbock of just you know everybody in that town who's who wants to come worship, and I hope I can I hope that that's where I can get this uh within four years of being there. But you know, I'm just gonna just trust his plan and see see where he takes me.

SPEAKER_01 24:28

Definitely. Well definitely. No, I will be praying for you on that and uh anything that we could do just uh to help. But yeah, I think you said it best of trusting in his plan and see and and uh allowing him to do what he will with it, right? And and being again the the faithful servant. So that's exciting. That's uh that's neat to to hear and and hear your uh your passion about it. So so why uh any any reason besides from that uh that you chose Texas Tech?

SPEAKER_00 24:57

You know, this was the most last minute decision I think I've ever had in my life. I had AM had to know on May 1st if I was going or not, and I decided on May 1st where I was going. And so, you know, I prayed about it for two months, just looking for an answer. I took two tours to AM. I took a tour to tech um that was pretty, it hit me hard uh when I went there because Lubbock is growing at such a fast pace with such such good momentum right now that it's kind of hard to shy away from that and try to help build on that. Um But I was talking to Mark Hogue at uh College Station when we had our when all the judging teams come in, and you know, when deciding on whether I needed to go to AM or whether I needed to go to tech, he told me, you know, who who do I want to sit by in that van? Uh because I'll be livestock judging, right? Who do I want to sit by? Who do I want to surround myself with? And you know, through a livestock judging alone, the Scott and Brothers, Spencer is at Redlands, obviously. I I didn't feel like the JUCO route was the best for me, and then Skylar's at Tech. And through bad contests, when I was 187th or when I won contests, you know, those were always the two people that that reached out to me and that have been there with me. You know, Skyler's let me go to those winter workouts with him, and watching him coach and lead those kids by example just makes me want to help and be a part of that program. Uh, but outside of just livestock judging, you know, the the people that are in Lubbock right now, I know can make a huge impact on me. And I'm not saying they can't at AM. Um because they have everything and I have so much respect for where AM is at. Um, but in terms of a religious standpoint, I believe that I can bring more impact to Lebbeck, Texas, than I can to College Station.

SPEAKER_01 26:53

I get it. Good thoughts, good stuff. So so I I've got uh as we kind of we kind of wind down here, I'm I'm gonna ask you three more questions. And uh so first one is uh do you have a favorite scripture? Um and I know we talked about Romans 8 earlier, and that may be it. And if it is, that's great. If you've got another one you want to attack on to it, then that'll be fine too. But but uh Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:20

Yes, sir. So the book of Matthew has stood out to me a lot uh here recently, and the verse that has stood out to me the most uh is Matthew 8 26. I'm just gonna read it off of here because I don't want to get it wrong. Um but it says he's talking to his disciples and it's talking about when Jesus is calming the storm, and he's it and it says, he replied, Um, You of little faith, why are you so afraid? Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the waves, and the storm was completely calm. And I think going into a college, going into college, that verse is going to help me the most because I am so scatterbrained, I'll be completely honest. I want to achieve and do and be the best at everything I possibly can be, and sometimes I lose sight of where God's actually trying to take me. Um and I get nervous a lot over little things, right? The state 4-H contest is next week, and I'm already flipping out about that, and it's five, six days away. And so I think what I have that I have that um verse written on my bathroom mirror so that every morning if I'm stressed out about something, I can just I read that and it helps me go about my day. Um, but that the past few months has been so helpful for me, especially in making where I want to go, making the decision of where I want to go to college, um, because I feel like that that verse specifically just helps me calm myself and realize that when I when I let Jesus and God take the wheel, that everything's gonna go exactly how it needs to.

SPEAKER_01 28:49

Awesome. Definitely. Now that's uh that yeah, I got I find myself when somebody reads a passage or I come across one that's one of my favorite places in the Bible, and I find myself saying that pretty much all the time. Yeah, because you come across, but there it's uh that's one of those moments that you see the the the true power of the of the God man, of of Christ as a man, truly man and truly God, who is this that even the winds and the waves obey him, right? And that's the one we follow. So that's that's exciting. Right, that's exciting. So um tell tell the audience here. So we we've talked about light in the barn, we've talked about what it is. Tell us how how exact these search in Instagram, Light in the Barn, how how can they find you? How how can they uh find your material there?

SPEAKER_00 29:34

You know, I'm pretty sure if you just search up on Instagram Light in the Barn, um, it's gonna pop up, I believe. You know, I could be totally wrong, but let me let me check, let me double check that right really quick.

SPEAKER_01 29:46

This is gonna be end time, so we know it's correct.

SPEAKER_00 29:49

Yes, okay, yeah. So if you search up on Instagram, um just type in Light in the Barn. Uh it'll pop up there directly. And my logo is just it's orange, and there's a barn in the middle of it, and it's that's the logo there. Um on Facebook, it's under my name. Um, because I I could not figure out how to create a business account. My technological skills are not awesome either. Um so I couldn't figure out how to create a business account on Facebook, so it is just under my page. Um on Facebook, and then on TikTok, the same thing, it's under Light in the Barn. Um, but all you have to do is just type that in on TikTok and um Instagram to find it, and then it's on it's under my name on Facebook.

SPEAKER_01 30:27

So awesome, awesome. Well, uh I'm sure people are are are looking for how to do that. And so I have one final question that I almost asked as we went through, but I decided I'd wait till now. Uh, you talked about that a lot of this came from from the Lord kind of uh setting you down from an athletic standpoint because you're pretty athletic and that. So do you think you got most of your athletic athletic ability from your mom or your dad?

SPEAKER_00 30:54

You know, I really have no idea. You know, they dad quit sports his freshman year to show pigs. Mom was fully involved uh in sheep and goats. So I want to say, you know, I was terrible at sports in junior high. I'll be completely honest. When I ran, it was but I I'm a person that when I get embarrassed or when I'm bad at something, I always figure it out. Um so I worked really, really hard my eighth grade and freshman year to get good at cross-country finally, and then my junior year we went to state, but of course my knee was still busted up, so we didn't compete like we wanted to. Um, but you know, my parents have been great role models in in a lot of aspects. Athletically, I'm not a hundred percent sure if that's where it came from, but they they held me every step of the way. Um, so I couldn't be more grateful for that.

SPEAKER_01 31:47

Awesome, awesome. Well, no, that's uh that's good. West and I've enjoyed this uh very much. Thank you for taking the time sitting down with me, and thank you for being uh being a light in the barn. Uh thank you. You you did get with the name too. I like I love it. So thank you. All right, well, thank you guys for tuning in again to the One Truth, and uh again, thank you, Weston Lackey, a light in the barn. Absolutely. Thank y'all, uh