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This is Later with Lee Matthews The
Lee Matthews Podcast more what you Hear weekday

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afternoons on the Drive. Ashley Shick
is a proud native Texan and two time

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Emmy Award winning television hosts for the
Austin and San Antonio markets. Her husband

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is Jacob Schick, a war hero
from the Iraqi War, proudly served and

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was wounded. Together, they host
a podcast that can be heard anywhere you

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get podcast including the iHeartRadio app called
The Good Stuff. Good morning guys,

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and what were you going? What
are we gonna hear? Ashley? What

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good stuff are we gonna hear?
On the good Stuff? All the good

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Stuff, Lee, all the good
Stuff. We are so thrilled and honored

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to be able to present this to
the world because there's so much negativity out

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there that we decided, you know
what, there's a lot of good as

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well, and it's time we start
telling those stories. So you'll hear everything

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from three time Super Bowl champions telling
their story about how they grew up in

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the ghetto and how they got out
of there, to a thirty year old

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autistic rapper who's living independently in Seattle. We talked to everyday people who have

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been through hard stuff, because we
all go through hard stuff, but they

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have come through it and come out
of it and are now doing so much

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to give back and inspire. And
I imagine some of that inspiration is coming

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from your own experience, Jacob,
A lot of it is. And you

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know, I don't I don't know
about the whole hero thing, but I

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appreciate the sentiment and you know that
that's the whole the whole point behind this

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thing is to give people the perspective
and to help shift in the mindset to

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move forward and understand you do not
have to be defined by society because of

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your past or things that you've done. Every day is a new day,

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and there's always, always, always
hope to live a life will lived.

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Talking to Ashley and Jacob Chick the
Good Stuff podcast heard everywhere you get podcasts,

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including the iHeartRadio app and Ashley,
I gather you're drawing on your experience

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as a television journalist and maybe some
of your sources. Absolutely, I love

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telling other people's stories. It might
be some of the Irish blood in me,

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but you know, everybody's got a
story to tell, and that's the

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thing to remember. Everyone has a
story to tell. Whoever is standing in

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front of you at any given time, they've been through something. And this

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is also encouragement for all of us
to just lean into each other and be

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kind. You never know what that
person has been through. So if we're

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all able to just talk, stop, listen, take a step back,

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and really just understand. You know, we're all getting through this life together,

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and that's the best way to do
it as together. Jacob, how

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did you and Ashley come to this
podcast? Did she come up with the

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idea? Was it something you were
already working on you It's something that we

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both really thought about even before the
pandemic, And then once the global pandemic

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happened, and that's when the world
shut down. Just in case any of

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you guys forgot when that happened,
it was everything was negative and everything was

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doing in gloom and it just seems
to be the twenty four seven news cycle,

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and we just thought, you know, we're tired of this crap.

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Let's change it. We know a
lot of very interesting people. We know

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a lot of people who are very
successful and well known, who have experienced

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a lot of life that most people
don't know about. We could get them

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to dig deep and tell us about
the lessons that they've learned and the tools

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that they use to fight forward.
I think that the world needs it.

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The world needs a good positive perspective
and need to understand that. You know,

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we can all lean in and love
each other even if we disagree,

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especially here in this country. Well, that's what makes us best. I

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mean that one of the things I've
I've been saying on this program again and

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again and again into the night.
Our country was founded upon one large principle

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compromise, coming together, finding out
what we have in common, and working

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toward that goal. Not the division
Ashley that seems to be prevalent in society

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now. Absolutely it is. And
you know, Jake and I both come

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from military families. Obviously his service
to our great country and the Marine Corps,

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but his grandfather fought on Iwo Jima, his uncle in Vietnam. My

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grandfather paid the ultimate sacrifice while serving
in the Air Force when he was twenty

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four years old. So this is
something that's very near and dear to our

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heart. We are huge patriots of
this country, and as Jake just said,

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we can disagree and still love each
other because at the end of the

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day. We're all Americans, right, We're all humans first, So if

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we could just lean into each other
and listen Ashley and Jake Schick the name

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of the podcast is the good Stuff
and Jake the This is almost counterproductive to

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modern journalism, which seems to be
let's find the most horrible story we can

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and if we can't find a story
and make it even more horrible, you're

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going the opposite direction. Yeah,
I tend to I've got a track record

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going against the tide, and I
don't have a problem with that because look,

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you only get one shot around the
sun. And it's like we tell

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our sons, you know, live
a life worth writing about. And that's

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the thing is that just because society
has an agenda, or we've been conditioned

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to think or do or feel this
way or that way, doesn't mean that's

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what we have to do. In
order for us to truly get our soul

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food and to help others. In
order to help others and be forced multipliers

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so they're great or good, we
have to have a genuine authenticity to beat,

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to march to the beat of our
own drum, and we have to

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have the courage to be willing to
go against the tide in order to be

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able to live a life. Will
Live the Good Stuff podcast. It delves

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into inspiring stories of success and perseverance. It's host by Ashley Shick and husband

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Jake Schick. And Ashley, with
your television background, finding those negative stories

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that I've just mentioned not hard.
Just open your phone each and every morning.

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Where do you get your sources for
this material? Because it seems to

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me that's harder to find. Yeah, but it's not. And we kind

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of thought the same thing originally,
Lee, but then we you know,

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that's that's the thing. Everyone has
a story, and so the more you

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get to know people and just start
talking to them, they open up and

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then you find out people you've known
for years have been through some truly horrific

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stuff. And like Jake said,
we get them to go deep on this

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podcast. It's it's not something where
we just sit down and we do a

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quick interview. We go deep on
the podcast. And so it's it's really

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interesting to see where you're sitting across
from someone who you know has achieved and

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accomplished incredible things, to know where
they came from, and a lot of

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times it's the hardships. That was
the motivation they needed to get to where

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they are. Ashley and Jake Schicker
with us and the Good Stuff is the

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podcast. To Jake, I don't
know how you are with your public relations

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related wife. My lovely wife is
a nurse and the last thing she wants

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to do is get into a studio
with me and talk for fifteen to twenty

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minutes. Did you have to overcome
a comfort level? Not at all.

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The good thing is is that I
just get to show up and do me

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because I've learned I suck at everything
else and actually, really when it comes

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to all the technical things and what
plug goes where, thank God for her

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because if it were left up to
me, it would absolutely not be a

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thing. The good Stuff is the
thing. It is the podcast. You

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can hear it anywhere you get podcasts, including the Heart Radio app Stories of

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Inspiration, Perseverance and Success, hosted
by Ashley Shick and her husband Jacob Schick.

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I thank you for joining us and
we'll be looking forward to hearing the

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podcast. Thank you, sir.
Thanks for listening to Later with Lee Matthews

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the Lee Matthews Podcast, and remember
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