Love some Lontemer with de Love Baby Baby. I'm taken with the notion to talk today with an iconic recording artist, one whose music I've played over and over and over for years and years and years, songs dedicated by callers to their sweethearts, to those that they love with the
sweetest of devotion. While I've been given the honorary title of Queen of sappy love songs, my guest today became known at a very early stage in her career, like before she was even twenty I think as the queen of Christian pop. She's spent over forty years so far the music world. She's racked up six Grammys, twenty six
Dove Awards. It's been thirty years since Heart in Motion was released, Whi's included her biggest worldwide hit that I just you know, tried to sing a few little notes of baby Baby, a song she wrote about her baby, and we're going to talk about that today. She's going to be celebrating the album Heart in Motion all through twenty twenty one to thirty year anniversary. We are going to have so much fun chatting with my friend Amy Grant today, but I need to stop for a minute.
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Hello there, Hey Delilah. I'm so sorry. I screw the time up. I'm just shoving some chili down my throat a fifteen more seconds to just take four.
Big fights, Amy, take all all the time you need to finish your chili. I'll just I'll just entertain our listeners in the meantime. Go ahead. She's enjoying her homemade chili, her world famous homemade chili. I've heard about it. Michael W. Smith has bragged about it. But did she offer to share the recipe? No? No, Did she offer to send me, like, freeze some and send it in a sealed container or something?
No? No, I shouldn't do that either.
All right, I think she's done, Amy Grant, Welcome back from your chili bowl. Welcome to love someone with Delilah.
Okay, thank you that I was working on some some angry behavior.
I saw a T shirt online the other day. I almost ordered it for my daughter Sheila. It says I'm sorry about what I said when I was hungry, And if it had said when I was hungry, I would have ordered it for her. Yes, yes, because she doesn't get hungry. She gets she goes from zero to hangry in five minutes. And she's got a little one who's almost three, who is just like her. I'm like, somebody find some protein right now. Find me some I don't care, some chicken strip something.
Yep, I'm speaking my language.
Sister. Welcome to love someone. Amy. It's been a while since we caught up. I think the last time I talked to you was when I saw you on your Christmas tour a couple of years ago.
Yes, I know, and I've seen your face recently with a People magazine article, and I wish I could just wrap arms around you.
I wish you could do I would take that in a heartbeat. I was talking to to a lady I just love, a girl named Brie last night. She's spent her whole career in the movie industry, in the TV industry, and she said something that just blew my mind. She said, I almost didn't want to come to your house. I almost didn't want to get to know you. I said why.
She said, because I've been so disappointed with people I've met through this industry, where you have these expectations of them and then you get to see, you know, behind the screen, they moved the curtain and they're just not real. I started laughing and I said, you know what, I am so blessed that I have people in my world in my life, in my career, in my inner circle, who are as real and as wonderful and genuine as
you imagine them to be. And I was looking I had been looking online at some stuff that you've done because I was thinking about this interview. And you and Michael are that way. You are as kind and as beautiful and as real as somebody would imagine you to be. And you never in all the times I've seen you on stage, off stage, interviews, casually with your husband, with Michael W. Smith, you have consistently been a beautiful soul and I appreciate that about you.
Thank you. Well, Hey, it's easier to be one person, it is.
Oh yeah, how hard is that for people to pretend and to put on this act and then you know, when the cameras aren't rolling or whatever, to be somebody completely different. That's like, that's like a lot of energy. Unless you've got a multiple personality disorder. There's a lot of energy.
Yeah, yeah, and you know it. And all of us that have public lives, we do have, like you said, a circle of people around us that know us. Nothing is a surprise. And on the days when you feel the lowest or you know, you have people that you trust to embrace all that too, you know, because everybody's
pendulum swings wide and and you know, it's funny. I think when you have people in your life that have constantly been supportive and nurturing, that it makes me want to be that way to other people because I go, oh no, yeah, I had a big dose of that. I was born into a family of that, and everybody should have that.
So so you have that obviously with your hobby. How many years twenty twenty years now you invents twenty.
One years, I know, but I'm telling you, I don't think. I don't think we really felt like an old married couple until COVID, because we had a chance. You know, always he's packing a bag leaving town, I'm packing a bag leaving down and there was just always so much coming and going, and it was it was such a It was really one of the many hidden gifts of COVID for us to be in the same place for a whole year.
Same here. My Hobby and I have been together, not twenty one years, but going on fourteen years married and almost went in the eighteen nineteen years together I don't even remember. But same with us because we live in two different states. His career is in one state and my studio and my life is in another state. And for our entire marriage, we've had a commuter marriage. And when COVID hit, I packed up the kids and headed to his ranch. He has a cattle ranch. It was weird.
Okay, all I want to do is ask you a million details.
Yeah, okay, so let's just pretend we're not even recording this. What's the weirdest thing that you discovered about Vents that we can talk about during the shutdown or the biggest challenge that you guys had.
I think the biggest discovery for me was that. And I'm not proud of this. I think the things about Vents that I wished were different when we were always coming and going because I would be away from him. And when now I see him, I would like project something onto him. Oh, he doesn't quite fit that projection. And what I found when I was with him all the time was that I felt like I really saw him day in and day out, the subtle, beautiful things
about his personality day in and day out. And I know it sounds crazy, but to go twenty one years and this has never struck you before, but when you're always coming and going, like for instance, I feel like he saves his best material for me, funny, silly, but he starts every day kind and humorous every single day. Big talker, you know, he's not like he's a good listener. If I feel super energetic about something that's going on, like I want, I'll say, I just want you to
know all about this. But he doesn't ask a lot of questions, and so I would find, you know, if we came together and he wasn't asking a lot of questions, I don't know, just be like, I wish you asked me more questions. I wish you were interested. But when you're together all the time, we just found our pattern of being together, and as crazy as it sounds, a lot of it was peaceful silence. And now when I'm
away from him, I go, whow I missed that? It's crazy, Like I mean, I don't know if that rings true for you. He can talk, he can He also can talk and talk and talk, but I just have such an appreciation for I don't know, just the calm center.
That do you notice how quiet I'm being?
Yeah? Why do you are you relating to that.
No, no, because there is no way I'm opening my mouth now. After that, I'm like, dang, that didn't go the way I would. Oh, he sounds so sweet and lovely and lovable. And here I was going to tell you how I didn't realize how grumpy my husband was since we've never lived together.
Can I tell you it's so funny I'm telling you that discovery to go. I mean, I think Vince is it's harder on himself than he is on anybody else, but he is he just a kind soul.
I think for Paul, because my husband is older and his children, he and his wife, his first wife, had five children and they're all grown and gone and very successfully living on their own. For the four girls. I lost my step son. He lost his only son December of twenty nineteen. But so when he came into my world, he had had already graduated in his mind from being
a daily dad. Yeah, and already was a grandpa, you know when we met, and so was I. I was grandma when we met, but I had not finished raising the ones I had, and I've adopted six more since we met. And so when we lived apart, it was easy for him to be interactive and engaged for two or three or five or six days out of the month.
But when we were all living together, nine of us in a twelve hundred square foot house, all of a sudden he realized why he had you know, only had five and gotten them out the door.
Before Whoo, that's a lot going on. Yeah, that would be hard, and maybe this is maybe you guys found this Vince and I. The more concentrated time we spent together, we realize that we we are so different from each other in how we like to spend our time, in
what energizes us. He has endless patience and stamina in the recording studio, endless stamina when it comes to something musical, perfecting a part, working on something, working on a song, And I'm like a dog in a backyard and forty squirrels have just been released.
I squirrel, squirrel, Gotta go do this, gotta do that. So what are the sorts of things that you have that endless capacity? Because it's funny, my husband and I are actually very much alike in the things that we enjoy spending time doing. We both love big equipment, We both love like being in the dirt and landscaping and being out doors and being you know, down at the creek and planting trees. We both, you know, we were very much alike in that way. But I'm the same
age you are. If I could still give birth, I would have ten more kids, and Paul's like, no, No, five was plenty for me. And now that I'm a stepdad to fifteen more, it's kind of a lot.
It's a lot, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So what are the things that you enjoy? Like you said, he's got endless capacity for recording, what are the things that that you just could spend ten hours doing.
I love cooking. I'm a lot more.
Why are you so dang skinny? Then? Every time I see you, you just you're You're so beautiful and thin and gorgeous. I love cooking, and you can tell by looking at me.
I I don't know what to say. I got a fast metable, I do, and I love to move. I love to hike. It would drive since crazy if I ask him to do what I love doing every day. And I think that's what I've really discovered, is I think when we were both younger, because we met in our thirties and now we're in our sixties, and I think we imagined that we would be inseparable because we were so drawn to each other. But what I found in the COVID year was that he's my favorite person
to return to. But there's so many ways. I just love for my days to have purpose. I've got a farm that I love to share, and I share it in such an eclectic way. Is coming Sunday, We're having our very first elderly Day retreat. I met a filmmaker and he said, I want to take people from assisted living, like truly the elderly out to be barefoot around the campfire with a loved one, tell stories, have there be some music, and you know, so I'm just providing the place.
What a precious, sweet way to share your blessings in a completely different way. I mean, when you share your music, you share your blessings. But think of the memories that's going to bring back for people who maybe grew up on a farm or had a farm, or went to their grandma's farm to be able to leave the confines of four walls.
Yeah, yeah, especially after the year we've had. And this man, Glenn, I met him through a friend of a friend, and he's he makes documentaries and he's been in the music business as a graphic artist for years. And yeah, but just to go, oh my gosh, our paths crossed. So I feel like I'm always seeing the possibilities of enlarging the community circles, even though I get regenerated and rejuvenated
in solitude. I'm an introvert that likes people anyway. But it's just like all those things are you know, that will lead to something else, that will lead to something else. I had a friend that started coming out to the farm, and now we've made connections with the Nashville Rescue Mission and we're getting ready to have a retreat there with ten women served by the Rescue Mission. And I'm so excited.
I'm like, I have, believe it or not, twenty family tents in my basement because I'm such an outdoor freak. Twenty So I'm like, I get set the tents up in the backyard, I get to wash the tents. You know, here goes my engine. How are we going to make them all sleep comfortably? How are we going to do this? And then so they'll come out in the backyard, you know, while I'm stretching the tents out making sure we have all the polls, and he'll be like, I'm head to
the golf course. You know, he loves he loves his patterns. And I'm not sure how to describe what I love. But it's just the matrix of all of our connectedness and how I believe we're all so essential to each other in how we connect what we offer. And one person has plentiful of something else that another person that they have scarcity of that, And so I'm all about, oh my gosh, connected dots, just connected dots. There's everything we need if we could just communicate it.
And so Stone Soup remember that story? Did you hear that story when you were little?
Yes? I love that.
That's what you are. You are, you are the chef of Stone Soup.
Hmm. You could not have said anything to put a bigger smile on my face.
That's what your gift is. I mean, obviously Amy Grant, who's one and how many Grammys and how many twenty six devil wards. But what you just described of figuring out who's got this talent, who's got this gift, who's got this need? Where is their scarcity? Where can my abundance flow into that scarcity. That's a stone soup chef.
Yeah, yeah, what's funny because I think just talking about scarcity and abundance. I don't even know when this really felt like a lightning bolt in my brain. But I keep looking at like the situations in the world that feel like homelessness, or you just go, oh, something seem insurmountable. Some things, you know, respectful, race relations, you just name it.
It's so easy to look at all of the failed attempts and the ongoing problems and just but I don't know, something has shifted in this last year in me, and I just go, what if every one of us were just willing to consider the possibility of saying a simple yes for good that came to us individually, uniquely to us that if we just said, I'm just going to risk saying yes, you know, I mean to me, that's where the adventure is. The adventure is starting a conversation
in the elevator with someone that looks different from you. Amen, relax and say, how's your day going. If we all just did things.
Differently, if we all said yes to the possibility of kindness, if we all said yes to the possibility of sharing, of not hoarding our resources of sharing whatever it is that God has blessed us with.
Yes. And here's the other things. I think the first time you say yes, and I think, it's a mystery how it comes to you, whatever it is, just that it's like, huh, just out of the blue, it occurred to me to do this instead of that I don't even know what it was. But something I think that that's when the adventure begins, is the first time you go slightly outside of your own script, your own thermostat temperature controlled environment that we all have tried to create
around ourselves, and it separates us from each other. But the first time you say, I'm a little nervous, but I'm going to show up at this table. I don't know if I have the skill set, but I'm going to try this thing.
Everything you need to do, it will show up.
Yeah.
Like when I the first time I went to Africa, Amy, I was so scared. I was so I didn't even have a passport. I had only traveled out of the United States to Canada a couple of times and to Mexico a couple of times. That's it. I had no travel experience. I had no knowledge of what a developing country was like. And it was people at World Vision
that said, why don't you you know? I went to them and asked them for help for somebody that had contacted me in West Africa, and they said, well, why don't you go and see what the conditions are like and see what you could do? And you might as well said why don't you get on a spaceship and go live on Mars. To me, it was just such a foreign like, no, I'm a single mom and I've got a career, And I said yes, yeah, And it changed everything. It changed everything.
Yes, it's just saying yes, Oh my gosh, and look at didn't it make your entire life less gray? And you see the edges of technicolor. And the more you step into yes, the more vivid and vibrant in your life gets?
Oh boy, did it get vivid? And did it get vibrant? And did it get filled with purpose and passion and joy? And six children and a whole different way of looking at things, a whole different understanding of family and dynamics and culture and music and traditions and food and everything. Everything changed the moment. It didn't even change the minute I got to Ghana. It changed the moment I said yes to the possibility of stepping outside that comfort zone. Yeah.
So what was the biggest yes that you can think of that has has impacted you and your family that you said.
Jilila, the way my brain works at two o'clock in the morning, I'll go. But that's the answer I should have said, but I just don't. My brain doesn't work that way. So I'm just going to say a recent yes was I have a friend. So all of our kids, you know, have launched five.
And I can fix that for you. Can I can fix that for you. If you got that empty nest there, I can fill it right back up. Oh lord?
Yeah. Well so so the summer my father died at twenty eighteen, I traveled to see two friends of mine prol college, one in North Carolina and one in New Hampshire, and I was so struck by their hospitality. It was so beautiful to me in its simplicity that it was all about the welcome. I came home and said, Okay, I'm going to take these kids rooms and I'm going to uh, I'm going to get company, you know, new mattresses. I mean, most everybody took their beds. I'm gonna I'm
going to go through I'm going to box up. You know, nobody needs seventh grade mass papers. They don't want them, you know, just to go through the clutter to make the rooms there, the old bedrooms just available. I was so moved by this trip when I was welcomed into people's homes. So I have made those bedrooms available. So events a lot of invitations. You know, hey, if you're
come to town, young artists, young musicians. A friend of mine called and she said from She called from the Washington, DC area, and she said, a friend of mine's daughter is in a band and she and her bandmate are coming to Nashville. And she asked, do I know anybody there? And it was the first time it wasn't. I didn't know any of these people except my friend. And I thought, just say yes.
Just say yes, Just say you got a room, you got a bedroom, you got a new comforter, Yes, yes you can come.
Yes. But that might seem like not a big deal, But to somebody that it's one thing. Even if you can, you control your openness. Now, what I am saying at sixty is the things that come to me. I'm going to trust are for me, the things that come to me, like I don't have the I don't want to. I don't want to waste precious energy chasing something. But if it's meant for me, I mean, I work hard, trust me. But and so I said yes. Now, I told Vents, hey, we've got two girls are going to be like him
very soon. And it was so beautiful that he was the one to greet them. That they they were so lovely. I now love their music. Thence had his birthday. They made his birthday pie, and I went, oh, my gosh. There. I feel so protective of them. And they're the ages of my children, and they're they're making beautiful music and I can think about them, I can pray for them the rest of their lives every time I hear their songs, and I'm so I'm just so glad to circle widened.
And I'm so grateful to my friend that she asked me, you know. And I've got friends whose guest rooms are full every weekend. I mean, they're blearyot, they're exhausted from company, you know. So I mean, everybody has to find their way. But you know, hotels are expensive, and.
When you're young and starting out and wanting to learn and grow. It's not even that hotels are expensive, but the value of your bring your heart into them. There's no way you can calculate that.
Yep.
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com spelled in utrafol dot com promo code hope. Amy, We were just sharing a conversation about the power of saying yes, and I wanted to share an example of that with you. Yes, my son, Zach, the boy that the People magazine had asked me about, was somebody who said yes to every possibility. Yes, Yeah, I mean, he didn't even have no in his vocabulary. If there was an opportunity that presented itself, didn't matter how crazy, how dangerous, how silly, how foolish. Yes, Yes, I'll try it. Yes
I'll climb it. Yes I'll go there. And a friend of mine called and said, have you heard the African Children's choir? You've been to Africa, you have a ministry in Africa? Have you heard them? I said, actually I have. It's been a few years and she said, well, they're going to be in a church in town today. She said, I just found out that they're going to be at this church. And I said, okay, what time and she
said on in about half an hour. I'm like, all right, I'm going to throw on a skirt and grab my kids and let's head out the door. So I grabbed my kids. We went down to the church. You know, knew several people there, and the African children's choir performed beautifully. Oh my gosh, what a treat it was, And what a treat it was because at the time I had adopted four children out of Africa, a different region, a different country, but very much the same music, same culture.
And afterwards I was talking with some people. I was standing there and the choir director came up to me and said, are you Delilah. I said yes. He says, thank you so much for the invitation. I'm like, what an invitation? He says, your son invited us over to your house. He said, you have a farm and that we could bring the kids in the choir over for lunch. He said, normally the church that we perform at does that,
but this was a surprise. Today. We didn't even know we were coming here, and so the pastor didn't have time to organize anything. And your son said you would, And I look over at Zach, who was maybe eight nine, grinning ear to ear. He had invited twenty six children and ten advisors to our house for lunch.
Oh my gosh, I love this. Okay, So then, so tell me what your brain did.
So my brain said, okay. I got to make a couple of quick phone calls. I called my husband, who wasn't home, and said, Paul, could you like maybe pick the dirty laundry up off the floor real quick, tidy up a little bit. I got to call a few people and I'm going to swing by the story. He said, what's going on. I said, oh, We've got some people coming over for lunch. And he's like, ooh, someone from the church. I said, well, you could say that twenty
six children and ten advisors. And he's like, okay, I'm picking up the dirty laundry. And I went to the store, and because I had spent so much time in Africa, I knew what they would enjoy eating and had rice here. So just put on a huge pot of rice and cooked up some beans and started a fire out in the backyard and they roasted hot dogs and very very simple, simple meal. But they played and they sang, and they
danced and they played with me my kids. And when it came time to go, my son that had invited them was crying, didn't want them to go. It's like, no, you just became a part of our family. You can't go now, you have to spend the night.
Oh man, what an open heart.
He was an open heart and he said like I said, he said yes to every possibility. And at his service, my sister said that she wanted to live with the same courage and abandonment that he had lived.
His life with. That's inspiring. That's really beautiful.
So your kids are grown and they have flown the nest. What are they doing?
Oh goodness. Jenny Jenny Gill, My I do daughter. She's such a great singer. She toured with me for ten years. But she loves film and editing, so she started the production company and she's got a couple of videos on CMT right now. It's funny. You can be good at something, but that's not your the thing you're most passionate about, And she's good at a lot of things. But she is passionate about film, cameras, video and especially editing. And so we're just She has two kids, our grandkids, Wyatt
and every six and three. And then I have a daughter, Millie, who is lovely and also a new bride, and she's just.
And wasn't it Millie that you told me you wrote baby Baby for many years ago?
Yes, Millie is like she's always been, like a concealed weapon. She's just under five feet, like she would thanks that everybody in the family's to looks at me. But she's got a wicked sense of humor. You know, once every few years she will say I love you. She is not you know who. She's just not. She's not wired that way. But Millie's the one that I came in.
It was my birthday night, and she had cooked and I probably had worked, and there was a birthday cake cooked by her with candles on the table and photographs of my favorite friends, like scattered with flowers on the table. It's one o'clock in the morning, you know, I like, so.
She made a little birthday party for you with your friends.
She gave her kidney to her best childhood friend. I mean, so yeah, Then the baby girl. Karina is just singing every chance she gets. She's she's studying music in school, and and she just released her very first song. It's called Swallow the Sun. And she just goes by Karna, C O, R, R, I and A and Karina just she just has one song on Spotify. Its called Swallow her Son.
So life is good, life is full. And how eager are you to get back out and be able to perform?
Oh? I can't wait. I love what music does two people. I love what it does with people. I love just the connected feeling of everybody participating, whether they're singing along or just listening, but just involved in a song. I've done so many Zoom performances and it is not the same. It's just the same. Oh.
Your energy, when your shoes come off, that's when that's when the magic starts to happen, when you're on stage and your energy. I love. I love the way that the last show that I went to, Jordan Smith and then Michael w and you, the way you played off each other and the energy that you shared with each other that we all became I'm a part of. Just it's the best. It's the best.
It is you know it is. It's fun to make music with people that you love, and it's it and and to me, music just that's just a great backdrop for us an evening long conversation and yeah, I know, I can't wait. I can't wait.
Well, hopefully soon, hopefully soon. As soon as you get something booked and dates on the calendar, call me so I can we can talk about it on the radio and people can go flee and be a part of that evening long conversation with you, Amy, Thank.
You, thank you. I actually do have shows booked now in August, September, October, November, December.
So yay. Where how can folks find you? How can I find you?
I'm sure they're all on my website, which I am not the one that put them on there, but I'm positive because I have the I've had people say, hey, I got I got tickets for your show at the Caverns, which is the underground theater that I've never played before. But a lot of these shows.
Is it really a cavern? Yes?
Oh coolture is going to be like whatever that underground temperature.
Is, you know, cool cool. You'll want to wear a sweater or a parka over your pretty dress.
Yeah, but yeah, so lots of shows all the way. I think the Christmas shows are already on sale and almost sold out, the twelve Christmas shows at the Rhyme, and I think people are just going, I can get out, I can go buy a picket or something, you know. So we're about to launch into a whole lot of musical fun.
Well, everybody who has missed music, go see Amy, go see her shows. Thirty year anniversary of a fabulous album.
Yeah, it's funny because we had we had a set list for the tour that didn't happen. But we'll be back in rehearsals in July. And this is the thirtieth anniversary of probably the largest selling record I've ever had, So I think we're going to go back and dust off a bunch of those songs. And you know, man, every year that goes by, I just pinched myself, going, I still get to do something I love. Now I've had to drop the keys. I can't make the same
high notes I used to sing. But oh man, music is timeless.
I just signed a long term contract for radio and the same thing I pinch myself, I get to keep I get paid to do what I love, to do what I love every night, yep, and talk to people that I love. I get to I get paid to do this. It's a good thing.
It is. And you know, now there are generations that feel about you and your voice that it feels like coming home because you've been doing what you've been doing for a long time. That's really the payoff and the gift that nobody tells you when you start doing something young and you just don't ever stop doing it, that actually you do feel the impact, not with the whole world, but with a lot of people. You just have such a longevity of experiences together.
Yeah, it really is. It's generational. And it's the same with your concerts. I mean, I took my kids and my grandkids to your last concert and I saw so many people that had three and four generations there loving you and singing along with every song because you know, we've been around the block three times maybe four.
Yep.
All right, enjoy your camp out, your big camp out with all your tents, Enjoy the seniors coming for the cookout, the barbecue in the backyard, and just be blessed, be blessed beyond measure. Thank you, thank you, honey, God, bless you.
Great to be with you.
What a delightful Congress station. Thank you again. Amy Grant popular and beloved contemporary Christian music artist. She often wrote and performed with Michael W. Smith started out in the eighties and she had a goal to become the first Christian singer songwriter who was also successful as a contemporary pop singer, and boy did she achieve that. Find a Way, Her album, released in nineteen eighty five, became the first non Christmas Christian song to hit Billboard's Top forty and
reached number seven on the Adult Contemporary chart. She scored her first Billboard number one song a year later with the Next Time I Follow, a duet she did with Chicago's Peter Setera. For the following decades, she churned out hit after hit. Heart in Motion was released in nineteen ninety one, it became a worldwide sensation. Five million copies were sold. She celebrated five top twenty hits, which became came some of the all time requests songs on My show.
To this day, I get requests for baby Baby, every heartbeat good for me. That's what love is for. And I will remember you. Amy's musical career spans more than forty years and stretches from her gospel roots into becoming an iconic pop star. She's a songwriter, she's a television personality. Mostly she's a good person. I am so so fortunate to have been on this journey with her along the way, playing her music, taking dedications night after night for her songs,
going to her shows. I can't even tell you how many Amy Grant Michael W. Smith concerts that I have been to over the years, and I can call her a friend. Amy is celebrating Heart in Motion's thirtieth birthday all year with fun throwbacks, reissues, outtakes, live version and more. You can find it all by checking in with Amy on Facebook at Amy Grant, Instagram at Amy Grant Official, and Twitter at Amy Grant. Amy thank you again for
spending this time with us. Hopefully everyone listening to this podcast will also join me on the radio every night, and I'll be back with a new podcast shortly. God bless you be