Simple questions for one hundred people. I'm Bill Carrell, and this is my
investigation, my research project to gather data from one hundred beautiful human beings for
the sole purpose to see what actually happens across the interviews. Now, the
questions are going to be fixed and all the interviews will remain consistent, the
actual variables being just the participants themselves and their answers. Okay, So it
says, if I'm having you, Hannah, come sit on my porch to
share your thoughts so I can learn about people. We're looking forward to what
we're going to learn when we're complete, and we're very interested in the people,
the process in your particular story. Well, it's my distinct pleasure to
introduce my guest. Well, no, I won't do that. What is
your full name? Thanks for having me. My first name is Hannah,
my middle name is Faith, and my last name's Bishop. Great. Okay,
So is that all of them? Do you have like a confirmation name
or something else there? No, I especially like to have Italians on because
it seems like they have like seven or eight names, you know. Yeah,
I have some that are like that. Yeah, very very cool.
Okay, And Hannah what is your favorite nickname that most people don't know?
Gosh, I think my favorite nickname that most of my family calls me is
Hann just Hann. Yeah, are there any other ones? I mean,
some of my siblings call me Hannah banana. You know. That's that's pretty,
that's like the typical one. So yeah, all right, So,
like yourself, I came from a big family. And so I recall you're
almost split down the middle with a number of boys and girls, right or
is it like more girls than boys? Which which is it? Now?
We're perfectly even, five boys five girls. That's amazing. So and where
do you fall in the middle? I'm number eight, number eight, okay,
So yeah, I was number one in my brood and there were there
were six of us all together. So, uh, here's where I'm going
to go with this. When we had issues with our younger sisters, because
it was boy boy boy girl girl girl, right, we had nicknames for
them, and we had nicknames for them when we wanted to, you know,
make them feel good, and then we had other nicknames when it wasn't
quite so pleasant, you know, when they were acting like we were beating
on him, and my dad would come into the room and then after he
left that those nicknames would come out. Yeah, yep, I hear you.
Any of your brothers like that, or maybe your sisters, any any
You'll get a big smile out of them. I'm sure. No. I
mean, honestly, growing up, our mom, you know, kind of
she raised us to know that, like when we were angry, that we
didn't take it out on each other. So we actually didn't do a ton
of name calling and a ton of like bashing each other. But yeah,
I mean it's kind of gotten that way since we were older too, you
know, all of us just you know, we just love on each other
and try to have our arguments in a proper way, talking out like adults.
Yeah, and probably probably could get away with it one time and then
got corrected after that. Oh yeah, absolutely helping me. Remember, you
know, those years that Sarah and I were hanging out and we were talking
about doing seminars for solopreneurs and stuff. She just kept bringing up things that
your mother did and how she raised all of you. And I've got to
meet this woman one of these days, you know. Yeah, she's amazing.
Yeah, So back to you, when did you first notice what color
hair you had gosh. I would probably say maybe when I was eight,
I saw somebody else with blonde hair and I was like, wow, that's
a different color than mine. Wow. Yeah, And where do you think
that was? Was it at school or at a shopping mall? I think
it was at the grocery store. And then what did you then? What
did you wonder? I wonder what I wal looked like with the hair like
that, as everyone does. I never believed it though I never did it.
That's funny, okay. And the other thing too, is that you
all have this marvelous, curly, naturally curly hair, right. Yes,
it's quite a sight to behold, especially in your family pictures with all of
you president at the same time. I can just only imagine if the guys
let their hair grow out too, I know, right, yeah, freaking
Italian. There you go. So what is your favorite thing to do to
intentionally waste time? I would probably say read. I'm an avid reader,
so I definitely love to waste time doing that. So if you know you've
got stuff on your to do list that has to be done later on in
the day, later on the day is good for you, and you'll find
something to read between now and then kind of thing. Totally yep, excellent.
And what do you normally read? Gosh? I read a lot of
self help books. I read a lot of a lot of the Bible.
I read a lot of English literature, so I like a lot of the
older classics, Dickens Austin, a lot of poetry. So my range is
quite large. So while you're wasting your time, you're also improving your outlook
on life and growing your brain. I like it absolutely so, Canna.
What is your favorite movie to watch alone? Gosh, Well, the last
couple of years, my go to movie has been the two thousand and five
version of Pride and Prejudice. You are a brain, aren't you? Yeah?
I think I watched it five or six times last year, just on
flights, you know, at home on my phone. It's just a really
peaceful film and I just love like, I love the music, cinematography.
Yeah, that's good. The favorites of my wife too. And is that
something you think that the rest of your family and friends would know about you
at this point? I mean you get a little bit of ribbing about.
Yeah, probably. Yeah. My daughter number two, daughter Baki Becky,
watched the William Wallace movie. You know, at least one hundred times.
I mean we would come home and find her coming home from school sitting there
crying every afternoon. What are you doing? It's a good film, Yeah,
it really is. It really is. So. So, if you
were to have an action figure made of you, what superpower would it have
and what colors would its uniform be? I would probably say super strength,
yeah, and it would probably be like patriotic, red, white and blue.
So let's dive into that a little bit. Now, what would you
do with your superpower of super strength? I would just use it to help
others, you know, if someone was in need of assistance or you know,
in trouble. I would definitely use it to help other people out.
Great. So, if you're thinking in terms of any group of people,
is there anything that comes to mind? Or would it just be in general?
As you come to folks that need your strength, you're going to give
it to them. Yep? I like it and equal opportunities strong gal,
There you go, and let's go back and look at the red, white
and blue. I appreciate that. Tell me more, please, you know
I'm a patriot at heart, through and through. I love this country.
I love the people that have fought for this country. I have nothing but
one hundred percent respect for them, for their families, just you know what
they go through on a daily basis, whether they're you know, fighting overseas
or here at home. You know, just knowing what they go through,
what their families go through, you know, the struggle of having them away.
So yeah, I just I love it, like I'm obsessed with the
American flags. I never take the snackles off. Seventeen seventy six. It
was a good year. So you tear up a little bit when Lee Greenwood
starts singing, I sure do me too, Me too. I get goosebumps
just thinking about it. So all right, so this is this is what
we're gonna We're gonna go back in. And you had a house full of
people. We got to bear that in mind. What did you want to
grow up to be when you were five years old? Gosh, this one's
kind of funny. So my person that I like idolized growing up was Martha
Stewart, and I wanted to grow up to be Martha Stewart. Not a
bad choice. You know, there's some parts of her life that you might
want to skip over just a little. For the most part, there's a
lot of cool stuff going on there. Yeah, No, she's a she's
a pretty cool person. Growing up, I watched a lot of her cooking
shows, her home show, just you know, she was such a big
part in you know, learning how to bake, how to cook, all
that kind of stuff, and so, you know, for me, it
was just like, I love Martha. Have you ever seen her? No,
for the folks at home, Hannah, Hannah gets out. Okay,
she's all over the the United States and doing different things, and I'm sure
she could give us a long list of celebrities and dignitaries that she has met.
But she's also also if you did meet or what would you say to
her? Gosh, I would thank her for sharing her talents with others,
because you know, that's obviously something that she focused on and became well at
and then decided to you know, share it with other people. Obviously she
made a lot of money at it. But you know they say that the
first billion is always the hardest, right exactly? And what was it about
her in particular? You know, when you were at such a young age
that kind of caught your attention and said this is worth paying more attention to
and set other things down, and like watch her. I just love that
she was so well rounded, Like, you know, like she was so
good at so many things, and you know, whether it was cooking,
baking, gardening, you know, home making, just whatever. Like she
was so well rounded that I was like, that's a really cool person,
you know. Yeah, and a halfway decent gal too, on top of
everything else. You know, there were some that would be a little bit
nasty around other folks, you know, and you know, uh, never
saw her do that. I never heard anybody say anything negative about how she
was with the folks that were on set with her, Yeah, or in
any other way for that matter. So all right, Martha Stewart, We've
got strength, We've got red, white and blue uniform. And I'm just
piecing this all together here. I'm starting to see, you know, with
your hands on your hips and your chest out looking out for where the next
opportunity to make a difference is going to be. Yeah, and what is
your greatest accomplishment? Gosh, my greatest accomplishment, I would say, was
learning how to teach and dance, not having grown up doing it, but
I was a ballroom dancing structure for about six years, and I pretty much
learned that from scratch, so I really applied myself and I learned it as
well as taught it, so I kind of did the process at the same
time. But yeah, it was I would say that's probably one of my
greatest achievements so far. I would agree with you. I think that's pretty
much how I met you was you were posting on Facebook story and then you'd
have these marvelous you know, either you know, videos of you dancing or
with other people that were all dressed to the nines, either competing or or
doing some kind of a demonstration. Did you actually competitively dance as well?
Yes, yeah, I competitively danced with a partner of mine as well as
with my students. Good for you, that's amazing. You've got quite a
resume, so you know you accomplished all of that. And tell me a
little bit more about maybe some of the folks that you worked with and what
they went on to accomplish, because I get that, you know, your
personal part of it was pretty good for you. But I get a sense
that you know, you enjoy watching other people around you grow like weeds.
I do yes. And honestly, that was one of my favorite things about
being an instructor, was just seeing someone come in and they didn't have the
confidence. They knew they had a desire to do it, but they didn't
really necessarily have the confidence to do it, and then just kind of taking
them and holding their hand and you know, giving them that reassurance that it
was something that they could learn how to do, and then within six months
just watching them completely flourish into a whole new person that you know, they
were able to express a side of them that they almost didn't even realize was
there. I think one of my I wouldn't say my favorite students, but
he's definitely up there. He was in his or he is in a late
seventies early eighties, and he had lost his wife of forty five years and
he when he came in, he was just kind of like lost, and
I just kind of like took him under my wing and I was like,
you can do this, Like if this is something that you really want to
do, like we'll do it together. And within his first year he went
to competition, He joined an online dating forum, and he fell in love,
He got remarried, He won a ton of awards at his first competition
as well as his first showcase, and he just like he totally became this
whole new person and it was just so cool to see and he you know,
we keep in touch now and he tells me now, he's like,
you completely change my life. And I just feel so blessed that I had
the opportunity to be able to meet him and to have all those amazing,
wonderful experiences with him. Pretty much a dream come true, right, did
a heck of a monster there. It sounds like to me he was looking
for you and and and between the two of you, guys just took over
the world. Yeah, pretty much. It's amazing. That means there's still
hope for me. Okay, yeah, yeah, And I do appreciate.
I know you don't post a lot of dancing videos any longer, but I'd
love to see anymore. And if they show up on Facebook over the next
week or two, I will know that I instigated that that little bit.
You never know, one or two might pop up. Yeah, I know,
I know you're you're good in that realm. There's there's there's always something
a little bit different. So all right, Hannah, I like getting into
this a little bit more, who's your favorite person to listen to? But
that would have to be my mom. She's got a lot of great advice.
She's gone through a lot of, you know, different experiences in life,
and she's like my number one person that I run to if I need
advice or you know, if I need assistance with something, I'll always be
like hope. So yeah, she's definitely number one for sure. So this
is interesting. First of all, what was your your mom's maiden name if
you don't mind, Her maiden name was Nestor Nestor okay, and did she
come from a large family? Also, yes, she was the second oldest
of eight kids. Okay. So you do get time in grade and gain
a little bit of hard knocks wisdom as you're growing up, losing some of
your teeth, you know. So so it seems to me by the time
that she got to you, if you were number eight out of ten,
she probably had done it all pretty much by then. Yeah, so yeah,
you have more kids, it's usually the first one that knocks the walls
down so that the other kids can march in behind, you know, kind
of scott free. You know, that's how it was at my house anyway.
So if you're thinking about the types of things that she would have conversations
like, for instance, in the next week or two, what would you
go and ask her for advice on, you know, just big stuff and
small stuff. You know, so right now kind of transitioning in a couple
of different job areas, so you know, she's like my number one person
to go to about about like what I should do or you know, life
advice, and then something as small as like, you know, hey,
I'm making this for dinner, Like how would you cook it? You know,
like something as small as that. So he's very versatile in her her
advice. How frequently do you get to speak with her daily? Actually?
Excellent? Good for you. Good for you. I'm going to live vicariously
through your conversations with your mom because mine's been gone for a minute. We
lost her in twenty twelve, but I still talk to her every once in
a while, usually when I don't know what else to do and I act.
She usually answers me back in some way or another. And that's what
she's good at. She was always had an answer. Yeah, So this
next one, I especially want to hear what you have to say, please
complete this sentence. When I grow up, I'd like to gosh, when
I grow up, I would like to bless as many people's lives as I
can. You know, if I can wake up and touch two or three
people's lives in a day, then I've achieved my goal, you know,
because my goal is to you know, bless as many lives as I come
in contact with. And you know, there's a lot of crazy stuff in
the world. There's a lot of angry people. And my goal is really
to just read as much light and love and laughter as possible. And you
know, if that means me kind of being goofy or me you know,
acting a little crazy to make somebody laugh, and I will absolutely do it.
I've seen it. Uh. And I also want to ask if you
were gonna, like, you know, think about the next four or five
years and how you would get to that point. I get your blessing people
already. There has to be a little bit more a little bit more definite.
Is there a particular group of people that you'd really like to make a
difference with. I think, you know, like my generation, you know,
I think like a lot of you know, twenty year olds thirty year
olds, they're kind of lost, and I think that they need to know
that there's people out there that are good people. There's people out there that
care about them. There's people out there that you know, they don't have
to fall prey to all the crazy stuff that's going on in the our country
or the world. They can just you know, it's okay to go back
to your roots. It's okay to go back to what you were raised with.
And you know, I would definitely say probably, you know, reaching
more of like my age group for sure. Yeah, they need it,
don't they. They sure do as a group. There's a lot of work
to be done. Yep. It doesn't mean they're not good people. It
means they still need to find that out about themselves in many cases. Yeah.
Yeah. So what is the most important thing in life to you right
now? I think my family, you know, you know, realizing that
like they're the most important, Like working on those relationships, you know,
spending time with my niece, you know, just focusing a lot on like
the important stuff in life because it's so easy to get distracted by work,
by money, by bills, by you know, everything else. And you
know, unfortunately a year ago, I lost my oldest brother, So that
really haled. I didn't realize that. I'm really sorry for your loss.
Thank you. Yeah, so it kind of puts a lot of things into
perspective for me as far as you know, fixing relationships that might not have
been you know, one hundred percent, you know, whether it was the
family or you know, extended family. And so for me, yeah,
it's just my focus right now in life is just really you know, giving
as much as I possibly can to them and to those relationships. Yeah,
you're you're tending to your fences and you know, strengthening them and building the
relationships to the point where people know that you can count on them and you
know you can count on they can count on you. Yeah. Absolutely,
Yeah, So you kind of threw me there a little bit. I'm so
sorry I missed your brother passing. But and I don't know how I did
that, but I better pay attention in the future. It's okay, you've
helped me already. My goal is to be a better friend. Okay,
okay, So what would you like to leave in the world after your life
is done? I would say a legacy, you know, whether that is
you know, my children or my children's children. I don't have any kids
yet, but I hope to someday, and I hope that, you know,
I can leave them with, you know, good morals and values,
to be able to continue to help people that are around them, to bless
others lives that are around them, just to know that their impact is important.
You know, I think a lot of us don't realize how much our
lives impact others just on a daily basis. So you know, whether that
is with you know, just smiling at somebody at the grocery store, or
helping somebody out with their groceries that doesn't have enough money, or you know,
just small acts of kindness, how those really add up to something bigger
and better in life. Yeah, that would be the legacy that I would
want to leave behind. Would be you know, that people would say about
me that I was a wonderful person, that I was a lot of fun
to be around, and that you know, they learned that from me.
Absolutely. Are you doing any volunteer stuff? Not currently right now. I
am looking at you know a couple of different options as far as you know,
doing some volunteer work. Yeah, and who's been lucky enough to get
your attention in the past, and you know I've I've given it away to
a lot of friends. So I've done a lot of volunteer work for friends
and there, you know, they're different things that they're working on, they're
different, you know, community service things. You know, just given away
as much as I can. Absolutely, And you have a tremendous amount of
energy too, And I don't know where you get it from. Do you
do I get up from the Lord? Yes, you do, and you're
agree to say anything you want to about that. By the way, this
is your this is your time. I mean, honestly, my relationship with
the Lord has been the thing that has kept me grounded. It's been the
thing that's kept me, you know, going. Obviously, we all have
our down days. We have our days where we feel you know, discouraged,
you feel like, what's the point? Why am I here? But
then you know, those are the times when you really run back to the
Word. You run back to who he is and what he did for you,
and you know, that's what keeps me grounded, That's what keeps me
energized, is knowing that, you know, I have to tell as many
people as I possibly can about how wonderful this person is and how they sacrifice
their life for the whole world. Yes, yes, my favorite thing to
see on a T shirt is John three sixteen men. I agree. So
that's the first twelve questions. Do you go to a baker much? I
don't because I do on my own baking. Oh yeah, good for you.
I can't wait to try it. I know that all of you are
really handy around the house, and I know that your brothers are doing things
like remodeling homes and in that construction kind of a thing. And it seems
like like most of your women have been done doing the same thing with them
from time to time as well. Right. Yeah, we you know,
grew up very very hands on our mom. You know, she wanted to
make sure that we knew how to, you know, do the important things
in life, so you know, we could take care of ourselves. And
you know, we've we're very entrepreneurial growing up, so we obviously ran our
own businesses, and you know we're very successful with that. So yeah,
that's good stuff. So when I go to the baker and I buy a
dozen of anything, I get a free one. Okay, So if it's
cupcakes, doughnuts, roll even bread. I've never bought twelve loaves of bread
before, but I'm sure I'll get a thirteenth one. So here's your question,
your baker's question, the thirteenth one. What is the thing that most
people misunderstand about you? I would say the one thing I'm most people misunderstand
about me is my I'm a servant. I'm a giver. And I think
a lot of people sometimes think that that comes across in a way that there's
ulterior motives attached to that, And so that's misunderstood because I will just I'll
give as much as I possibly can give, you know, whether that's my
time, my energy, you know, my assistant, whatever. And I
think most people in the past, you know, they're like, Okay,
well you did this, what do you want, you know? And I'm
like, well, I don't want anything. You did it out of a
good heart, you know. So I think that's probably one of the big
things that's misunderstood about me. Yeah. Yeah, these days we hear about
quid pro quos and strings and you know, entangling, you know whatever.
You one of these days, I'm going to give you a call. You're
going to have you know, I'll ask you a question and you'll you'll you
will not be able to say no, you know that sort of thing.
Yeah, I do see you as being you know, normal and habitual for
you to just constantly be a giver. Yeah, all right, folks,
don't be misunderstood about that any longer. And so that's the questions that we
have from the script. Now, do you have any questions of me,
Hannah, I don't other than the fact of how can I share this with
others? Well, I'm glad you I never plugged the places that people can
find this. I think we're on seventeen different platforms, but all the big
ones that you can think of, Amazon, Apple, Google, Spotify,
Audible, it'll show up there. If you go in and you look for
simple questions for one hundred people, you'll be able to find it and it'll
probably come up sometimes maybe the next seven to ten days. Okay, awesome,
that sounds fantastic. So you have anything else that you want to say
to people to kind of wrap up, No, I just really thank you
for being patient with me. I know you've been asking me for like almost
a year to be on this podcast, and I just put you off because
I've been so busy for you know, continuing to reach out to me and
glad I finally, you know, was able to you know, cut some
time into my schedule to be able to do this with you. And yeah,
if anybody wants to follow me or find me, I'm on Facebook,
I'm on Instagram. The Hannah Bishop. Absolutely well, you are very welcome.
And as I always say, no wine before it's time. Okay,
I agree when we when we got together, it is absolutely the perfect time.
It always is for everything in life, isn't it. I certainly agree.
Yes, So I thank you Hannah Bishop for your time today and for
the messages out to all of our listeners, and just invite you all to
just keep tuning in and again you will enjoy, especially if you go looking
on Hannah's story you she is constantly posting all of the things that she's in
different parts of the country and the huh and the huh and then stuck with
family. So it's it's really wonderful and so thank you again, Hannah.
Thank you. It's been a pleasure. Yep, it certainly has. So
be well and all you at home, simple questions for one hundred people,
it's funny, but not everybody answers things the same way, so I guess
it's definitely worth listening. We get to hear everybody their unique wonderfulness and how
absolutely genuine everyone is. Thanks again, awesome, thank you. Thanks,
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