Teen Talk With My Son, Beau Gravel

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Kim:

Today we have a very special guest. My son. They say he's got tons of Riz. I don't even know what Riz is. So we're going to talk about it. Welcome, Beau Gravel. Are you comfortable being here?

 

Beau Gravel:

Sort of. Sort of?

 

Kim:

Well, I've asked you to do this. How many times? How many times have I asked you to do this?

 

Beau Gravel:

Five times.

 

Kim:

And every time you said okay. Well, first you said no.

 

Beau Gravel:

Yeah, because I just thought, big step, okay. For me in my life.

 

Kim:

Okay, tell us why it's a big step for you in your life.

 

Beau Gravel:

Because it's just very, like, out. I'm very an in person. This is very, very, very out. Outgoing. And you're talking and you're with a bunch of people watching. The nervousness and all that.

 

Kim:

Are you nervous?

 

Beau Gravel:

Not right now. Because I thought that it was a different. Like, I thought there was people in the room and stuff, but.

 

Kim:

No, I know, but there'll be, like millions of people watching it.

 

Beau Gravel:

Sure. But this, they're not watching right now, so I'm good. They're not watching right now. I'm good.

 

Kim:

Everybody's heard about you, you know. Because I talk about you all the time. Yeah, what is that? Do you know that I talk about you all the time?

 

Beau Gravel:

Yes. Because when dad turns the TV on and you're talking, then you'll talk about your clothes and then you'll talk about me.

 

Kim:

What do I say about you, Beau?

 

Beau Gravel:

Tell everybody that I'm messy.

 

Kim:

And what is it like having me as a mom? Do I get on your nerves? Tell the truth. Be honest. Because I'm crazy, aren't I?

 

Beau Gravel:

Yes.

 

Kim:

How am I crazy? Tell the truth. The hard, cold, flipping truth.

 

Beau Gravel:

It's just a lot puts a lot on me. Like you put a lot on me.

 

Kim:

I do? Like what?

 

Beau Gravel:

Like. Like something like this. This is a lot, especially. It's a huge step for me.

 

Kim:

What do you mean it's a huge step? Expound. Talk how you talk. Because what people don't understand is Beau can talk the hair off a monkey's butt. Like you talk all the time. People don't know that because everybody, like all your teachers, like Beau, is so quiet. Or they say, Beau is so funny. Like, I just had a teacher, Mr. Freimire, he just sent me a note saying you were so funny and that he actually said, your timing is perfection.

 

Kim:

That's what he wrote in the note. I didn't know you were that funny. I didn't know you took after me.

 

Beau Gravel:

Okay, I took after dad, but okay.

 

Kim:

You Think you took after. You think dad is funny?

 

Beau Gravel:

Yes.

 

Kim:

You think your father is funnier than me?

 

Beau Gravel:

Close. I'd say it's close.

 

Kim:

Oh, Zac, that is the biggest lie from the pits of hell.

 

Zach Miller:

I just want to say I'm loving this so much. I'm just gonna sit here and just watch you two.

 

Kim:

The fact that he thinks his father is funnier, maybe because.

 

Beau Gravel:

Maybe because I hang around him a.

 

Kim:

Lot like you do hang around. Well, no, it's like, we hang around, too, but I think it's like, sure.

 

Beau Gravel:

I sort of look up to him more than I would look up. It's because you're a girl. But as a dad.

 

Kim:

Did he just say he looks up more to dad than.

 

Zach Miller:

That's what I heard. That's what I heard.

 

Kim:

Okay, so tell me about what it's like being a teen in 2025. It's so different, right?

 

Beau Gravel:

Yeah, a lot different.

 

Kim:

When I was growing up, we did not have cell phones. Like, I remember when there was no cell phones, Beau. There was a. There was a phone on the wall in the kitchen, and you would do a whole. It was actually like a rotary phone. So you would. You would. You would do a number and then it would go back.

 

Kim:

It wasn't even a touch tone phone. I remember when pops got the first cell phone in his car and it was like this big.

 

Kim:

Do you remember that, Zac?

 

Zach Miller:

Oh, I. I remember. I. We had an old cell phone, and the battery, like, as big it fits on it was a car phone and.

 

Kim:

It costs, like a hundred dollars a minute to make a call. So, like, how is it today for a teenager?

 

Beau Gravel:

Just a lot of people with, like, these apps Nowadays, it's so easy to talk to people.

 

Kim:

And, like, that's scary, though, in my opinion.

 

Beau Gravel:

Sure.

 

Kim:

Should I be scared about apps? Talking to people and apps and stuff? Meeting people over the Internet, that's weird to me.

 

Beau Gravel:

Meeting people. I don't know if it's that much of meeting people, but it's more of just talking. Talking on the Internet.

 

Kim:

Are you tired of the grind, though? Because let me say this about high school kids and Zac, you're going to learn this. There's so much pressure on these kids to do, like, great grades and to, you know, play sports and be the best. And I mean, do you feel that. That kids are dealing with that a lot and then social media and then having a girlfriend and then, you know, doing all of that?

 

Beau Gravel:

Yes, I would say, like, at school and all the pressure of being, if you want to be the queen, cool. Guy or whatever for you.

 

Kim:

What's being a cool guy?

 

Beau Gravel:

I don't know. Dad just taught me a different mindset to be.

 

Zach Miller:

I like that. It's dad that taught him a different mindset, not you.

 

Kim:

I swear. I'm. I'm chopped liver. All I do is clean his toilet and feed him. That's it.

 

Beau Gravel:

Okay, well, the show's all it says. The Kim Gravel Show. I gotta mention somebody else. I'm sorry. Gotta give us someone some love, man. Get some other people some love. Get some love.

 

Zach Miller:

Okay, is this hard? Is it hard to be on this?

 

Beau Gravel:

I mean, sort of, but not like crazy hard because it's just like. I mean, I can open up sometimes and I can get to a certain extent. But like, if she was acting, asking crazy questions, I don't know how. I don't know how I would be able to like.

 

Kim:

What are you looking for in a girlfriend?

 

Beau Gravel:

Like, that's no, no comment there. I'm good.

 

Kim:

No, I'm serious. Like, I mean, seriously, because I don't. It's so hard being a teen now. I would never want to be in your spot being a teenager now would you, Zac?

 

Zach Miller:

Seriously, I feel so weird about being a teenager these days because a. I feel like kids are way over programmed. I feel like kids are. Have so much pressure on social media. Like I have a thousand questions. I feel like I want to ask.

 

Kim:

Go away, ask away. We've got time. I'm serious. Ask. I mean, this is. This is. We're teen talking. We're talking to teens.

 

Zach Miller:

Okay, now I think the first question I want to ask is, Beau, what do you look for in a girlfriend?

 

Beau Gravel:

Just like a good personality. Like the looks don't really just not. They don't mean as much to me as maybe some other people, but just like the personality and like, you just have to like kind of not be like me, but like just have the mindset there. Like, not mindset, but like some of the. Some of the decision and choices that I make, I would make. I would look and say, would you make that decision? And if so, I'd be like, huh.

 

Kim:

Okay, you know what the Bible says? The Bible says that's equally yolked. So what do you mean by making choices? Give me what you're get specific about. Like what are some of the important.

 

Beau Gravel:

Smarts, like decisions that I wouldn't want to make. Like if bad things pop up or like sin pops up that you would just.

 

Kim:

Oh, God, you going to the sin place.

 

Beau Gravel:

Go like, go away from that. Like, just.

 

Kim:

Do you want a person of faith?

 

Beau Gravel:

Yes.

 

Kim:

Okay. What does that mean to you?

 

Kim:

What does your faith mean to you?

 

Beau Gravel:

Like a believer who trusts God, just like you and dad and like my family. Just like, who trust God and believe in God and that God is the only one that can change all these things and.

 

Kim:

Okay, I'm going to get deep with you here. So are you living your faith because of dad and I's faith, or has God been real for you in your life?

 

Beau Gravel:

No, God has been real in my life so many times, I couldn't even talk about it forever. I couldn't even talking so many times.

 

Kim:

Do you feel comfortable sharing a time?

 

Beau Gravel:

I mean, sure, share it. So many things that have happened that you're just like, I'm sure if this does. If this doesn't happen, I'm not gonna be mad, but I'm sure if it. God wants it to happen, it'll happen.

 

Kim:

You want to give an example of that? Give an example.

 

Beau Gravel:

There was this college athlete kid that plays at Oregon, and he's like, super tall. And his dad used to play in the NBA. He's passed away. His name's Manute Beauwl. And I've always looked at this kid because he just wears. He just wore exotic clothing and he just looked cool. And I seen it on the Internet and like.

 

Kim:

He was like 7 foot tall, wasn't he?

 

Beau Gravel:

Yeah. And his personality was just crazy cool. And I just followed and read about it. My dad took me to the like a G league game. It's like the lower end of the NBA. People like to go meet him. I got there and some dude, like, randomly that was warming up like some random player was just like, oh, he's not even here. I don't know why you're waiting.

 

Beau Gravel:

I don't know what you're waiting for. I was like, oh, I just felt so devastated.

 

Kim:

You were devastated, you were angry, you were sad.

 

Beau Gravel:

A couple days later, my dad was like, okay, well, then I was. He surprised me with a real game, like an NBA game. And I was like, okay, well, he's definitely going to be here now. So, like, I, you know, now I can get my autograph and I get to meet him and stuff. He wasn't there. Like, he wasn't there.

 

Kim:

Right? But you had a fit. Like you pitched.

 

Beau Gravel:

Oh, yeah, Because I was mad at that point.

 

Beau Gravel:

Guy's not here. I went twice.

 

Kim:

But didn't dad tell you to Pray about it.

 

Beau Gravel:

Yeah. Dad told me eventually that he asked. And then he told an usher to tell us that he was in the locker room, and this usher dude's, like, running, chasing after us, telling us that he's sitting down there waiting for me. And I was just, like, astonished. And I walked down the stairs, and I just like, holy cow. I got. I literally stopped in my tracks and was like, that is so much God right there that I can't even, like, imagine, like, how that could happen. That some now I went to see him, and he went after and chased me down.

 

Kim:

Oh, come with it. Okay. Won't he do it? Say that again. Oh, my gosh. People need to listen to this. It's so profound. Say that again, boy.

 

Beau Gravel:

That I went chasing after him, and he came back chasing me at the end of the whole story.

 

Kim:

Yeah, but that's what God does. That's what God does, y'all. That's what God does. We think we have to chase God, but God's like, hey, hold up. I got you. You don't have to work for it. I'm going to have it chase you down. Wow.

 

Kim:

Dad said it was, like, nuts. Like, that's not normal. NBA players don't go and find fans just. They don't do that well. And then there's another time. You've just had such a tumultuous time with the fricking basketball. I. I just.

 

Beau Gravel:

Yeah, I wasn't going to mention that on basketball.

 

Kim:

I loathe basketball, like, because it's just been. I think for you, it's just been such a learning. Like, I think God has just been teaching you so many things through this sport. So some of you watching this right now, want to watch your kid go through rejection, still be good. Go through rejection. I mean, like, it's. It's hard, but, you know, knowing all along you were learning a lesson. Do you remember last season?

 

Beau Gravel:

Yes. When I was sitting.

 

Kim:

Beau had a coach and a team, and he loved his team, and the coach was just. God love him, but that's. I'm gonna say this as a Southerner, bless his heart. Beau was ready to quit. Do you remember this? You were ready to quit,

 

Beau Gravel:

Sitting on the stairs, crying.

 

Kim:

You were sitting on the stairs, and he was crying. Thank you for being honest. You were very passionate. You're like, I'm quitting. I can't deal with this anymore. Blah, blah, blah. And I finally. Because I never would say you could quit.

 

Kim:

Remember? I would say, you don't want to quit. You don't Be a quitter. Don't be a quitter. And your dad and I were like, you can quit. Tamara, take the jersey, lay it on his bless your heart desk and say, peace out. Remember that?

 

Beau Gravel:

Yeah.

 

Kim:

I said, pray about it one more night. And what happened?

 

Beau Gravel:

So we prayed that day. Like, we prayed before I went to the game that if God wants that to happen, he will push everybody away and just put you in.

 

Kim:

That's what I said. And you were like, there's no way. I said, he will push all the plate. Because, like, you were like, seventh, eighth man off the bench. Right? Ninth man off the bench. And I said, I tell you, if God wants you to play basketball, he will sit every single person down so that you have no other way but go in. All right, go ahead.

 

Beau Gravel:

We weren't playing good and we just did. We weren't playing as a team. And it was just a couple people on my team were just ball hogging the whole time. And it was just like, oh, okay, well, here we go. We'll have another loss and we'll go yelled at in the locker room or whatever. One of the players just didn't like the play or like, didn't know what was. I don't know what it was. He just didn't like the play.

 

Kim:

Right.

 

Beau Gravel:

And he was trying to, like, go against it. So he just. He would just ball hog and take it himself.

 

Kim:

Right.

 

Beau Gravel:

And then my coach subbed him out. So that moved that person out of the thing and then it moved somebody and then three people joined him and that moved them out.

 

Kim:

They kept taking guys out of the game.

 

Beau Gravel:

Yeah, they kept taking him out of the game because they kept not listening and they didn't want to do what the guy told him to do.

 

Kim:

Right.

 

Beau Gravel:

And then all of a sudden, he puts me in the game and I just. God shines right through me. And no one has scored a basket, like, the whole second quarter, like maybe one basket the entire time. And he put me in, and I think I scored like 17 points that game. The first thing I made one three pointer and then kept going it over and over and over and over again until the game, like, went out. And I just remember all the people just looking at me at the end of the game like, wow, the guy should have put you in the beginning. And I was just.

 

Kim:

And what did they call the game?

 

Beau Gravel:

The Beau time game.

 

Kim:

The Beau time game. And I say that to say, whatever about basketball, who cares? But did you think that was you on that court doing that that night?

 

Beau Gravel:

No.

 

Kim:

Right.

 

Beau Gravel:

My personal body Cannot do that. Like, I cannot physically put myself in because I've tried. Like, I wish I could.

 

Kim:

Right.

 

Beau Gravel:

The guy wouldn't do it. Like, my coach wouldn't do it. It was so physically impossible to do that. I was just like, that's just God. You can't say that anything else.

 

Kim:

Right. Do you think God shows up for people, Beau, all the time and they just don't recognize it?

 

Beau Gravel:

Yes, I would say.

 

Kim:

Do you recognize it more in your own life now when you see it?

 

Beau Gravel:

I do, yes. And I look for it.

 

Kim:

Whoa. Come on with it. What do you mean you look for it, Beau? This is deep, dude. This is deep.

 

Beau Gravel:

Like what? I would look for it and want to figure out what God is doing in my life and want to figure out what he has planned or what he wants to do in the situation. Like, it's like a mystery because you would never know. That's why when you look for it, hopefully you would see it.

 

Kim:

Do you think that we can do anything in our own power and strength?

 

Beau Gravel:

Sure.

 

Kim:

Do you think that a lot of impossible things can happen to people with God?

 

Beau Gravel:

Yeah.

 

Kim:

Something else happened not too long ago. Can I set it up?

 

Beau Gravel:

Sure.

 

Kim:

So I can't, you know, as a mom and all you moms and grandmoms and all these people, you know what I'm saying? You know, when your kids are off, you know, when they not being normal, you know, And I push Beau hard, and I'm going to tell you why I push him hard in a little bit, but I could just tell there was something off with your cadence, your spirit. I could just say you weren't the Beau I know. Beau is. His superpower is strength. He's strong mentally and he's strong physically. So I knew there was something off. You felt a little off to me. And remember I said that to you? I said, what's wrong? What's going on with you? And you're like, nothing.

 

Kim:

I'm. I'm cool.

 

Kim:

It's all good. Remember that? Yes. And then you take it from there.

 

Beau Gravel:

It's just one of those social media apps where it's just like. It's just nothing good comes from it. And I don't even understand why we still have it on the App Store.

 

Kim:

Why does nothing good come? We won't. We won't tell the app. But I'm just saying, like, why is nothing. Why. Why is it dangerous for young people?

 

Beau Gravel:

Because it's like, there's a lot of, like, predator people out there these days. And there's more of it than back in the day, like, when y'all around. I'm sure there was barely any.

 

Kim:

We didn't even have apps, honey. You know what we had to do? Phone a friend. We didn't have no app.

 

Zach Miller:

We had Craigslist. It was like you were on. That was the dangerous space. Yeah, Craigslist.

 

Kim:

Well, I remember Craigslist. Okay, Go ahead, Beau. I'm sorry.

 

Beau Gravel:

Yeah, it's just a super dangerous app and could get. You know, people are hacking people on there and getting their address and, like, threatening them. Just not a great app to be on. And I just remember, like, as a kid, I never really understood the purpose of it.

 

Kim:

The thing about being a young person is, you know, the pressure to be perfect. Right. And the pressure to always, like, put on this facade and this. This. I've got it all together.

 

Beau Gravel:

Yeah. Mask. There's just a lot of people that have mask and, like, just not great. Like, just not great personalities and people you talk to on there and just.

 

Kim:

Have you ever put on a mask?

 

Beau Gravel:

I try not to. I'm sure I have. I mean, we're all not. We're not all perfect, so I'm sure I have before, but not for, like, a long period of time. I'm sure I put on a mask for something that I have to put a mask for, but I try not to.

 

Kim:

But when you have. How has that made you feel?

 

Beau Gravel:

It doesn't make you feel great. It's just like, it's not you, you know, you can't not be you. And I just feel like. And I get mad when people don't. When people put on a mask, like, when they're talking to me. So I shouldn't be. I shouldn't do it if I'm judging other people to not do it.

 

Kim:

Going back to the kind of girl you want to date, you like a challenge, don't you?

 

Beau Gravel:

Not a super duper hard one, though. Thank you, though, Beau.

 

Zach Miller:

That was the perfect time for you to say, yeah, but so does dad.

 

Kim:

Well, it's hard. Marriage is hard. Family is hard. What do you love about our family?

 

Beau Gravel:

That we're so close? Like, I just. Some of my people, like some friends in my school, are just not as close as they were with their parents because they think that their opinion is, you know, whatever they want to do is what should. What should go. And sometimes it's just not what God wants.

 

Kim:

Do you think we push our agenda on you? You can be honest.

 

Beau Gravel:

Some of the agenda stuff that I like that y'all push that I like, so I might as well just have you push anyways. And then some of it's just. I don't know. Some of it's.

 

Kim:

Am I hard on you?

 

Beau Gravel:

Hate to be honest, but you are. Yeah.

 

Kim:

All right. And I'm not gonna quit either, by the way.

 

Beau Gravel:

I'm just letting you know. Oh, I know. Trust me.

 

Kim:

What is it like being a young man in today's world? You're seeing a lot of teens are lonely, especially young men. They're lonely. Why do you think that is?

 

Beau Gravel:

Because they're on these apps. Do all these apps come bullying and all this stuff is going on.

 

Kim:

What's your favorite TV show?

 

Beau Gravel:

I don't really have one.

 

Kim:

Why?

 

Beau Gravel:

Because I don't really watch tv.

 

Kim:

Okay. All right. Like, do you watch QVC ever?

 

Beau Gravel:

1. I've watched you before. Yes.

 

Kim:

So you think TV is, like. Is. Is changing?

 

Beau Gravel:

I really wouldn't know how to answer that because I don't watch tv.

 

Kim:

Why don't y'all watch tv? What do you watch? What indie world are y'all watching? Every time I go in there, you.

 

Beau Gravel:

Only video games or watching YouTube.

 

Kim:

YouTube. Who's your favorite YouTuber?

 

Beau Gravel:

I have a lot of favorite YouTubers.

 

Kim:

Like, if I had somebody on the podcast, and you'd be like, are you kidding me? Like, who would that person be?

 

Beau Gravel:

They probably wouldn't be in the podcast.

 

Kim:

Well, I don't know. You never know. Oh, my God.

 

Zach Miller:

Yeah, I know, right?

 

Kim:

Their moms might watch me on qvc. You don't know out there.

 

Beau Gravel:

Jesser the Lazy. It's like some funny guy. I think he's hilarious.

 

Kim:

What is his name?

 

Beau Gravel:

Jesser the Laser.

 

Kim:

Jesser the Laser. Look him up. Zac, pull Jesser the Laser up right now.

 

Beau Gravel:

He's a big, like, goofy kid. He's just funny.

 

Kim:

Jesser the Lazy.

 

Beau Gravel:

Watch them for funny content.

 

Kim:

Okay.

 

Zach Miller:

Okay.

 

Kim:

Can you pull them up, Zac? We gotta pull up Jesser the laser. I'm gonna try to get him on the podcast.

 

Zach Miller:

Okay.

 

Kim:

Who else, though? And why do you call me bro? Like, why do you and your brother call me bro?

 

Beau Gravel:

I don't call you bro.

 

Kim:

You've called me bruh. You've called me bro. And then why do y'all call me. And now Blanton's calling me G. He's calling me G. So why. Why don't you just say mom?

 

Beau Gravel:

I don't know. I feel like that's out of style.

 

Kim:

It's. It's out of style. There he is.

 

Zach Miller:

There it is.

 

Kim:

There he Is. That's Jesser?

 

Zach Miller:

Yep.

 

Kim:

How many. How many followers does he have?

 

Zach Miller:

23.6 million.

 

Kim:

23.6 million followers.

 

Beau Gravel:

Well, I've. I've watched him before, all that famous stuff, but.

 

Kim:

Oh, you watched him when he. Oh, yeah.

 

Beau Gravel:

When he was nothing. Yeah.

 

Kim:

Oh, that's another thing your dad and you have in common. Y'all can call him out. You can say, this person's gonna be big. This person.

 

Beau Gravel:

Because they're funny. Because the guy's super funny.

 

Kim:

Well, I'm going to try to get Jesser on the podcast.

 

Zach Miller:

All right, Jesser, we're coming for you.

 

Kim:

Jesser, we're coming down the. We're coming for you, my friend.

 

Zach Miller:

Okay, Beau, on a scale of 1 to 10, how famous is your mom?

 

Kim:

Oh, God.

 

Beau Gravel:

On a scale of 1 to 10, I would say 8.

 

Zach Miller:

Okay, that's pretty famous.

 

Kim:

Very generous. Yeah, yeah.

 

Beau Gravel:

Man's generous. Yeah.

 

Kim:

Okay. Okay.

 

Zach Miller:

That's like. I'm impressed by that. What do you think, Kim, if you had to answer that, how famous are you?

 

Kim:

I don't. I think I'm a two. Okay.

 

Beau Gravel:

Yeah, Yeah. I would say, like, eight or something.

 

Kim:

I'm just. There's nothing famous. I'm just. Am I the same person at home as I am? Yes.

 

Beau Gravel:

Yeah. No, yeah.

 

Kim:

Okay.

 

Zach Miller:

That's. Actually. I would say that, too, like, for the Kim I know. And obviously Beau, you know your mom a lot better than I do, but.

 

Kim:

Like, he knows the not so good side, too. Cause I have a temper. Tell everybody how I got a temper. You can tell me. I'll go butt crazy on you, won't I?

 

Beau Gravel:

Well, they've seen Allisyn, and I'm sure she's had a temper with you, so I'm sure that.

 

Kim:

Who's your favorite aunt?

 

Beau Gravel:

Amy.

 

Kim:

Oh, my gosh, you are going to get killed.

 

Beau Gravel:

Then why'd you ask?

 

Kim:

Are you.

 

Beau Gravel:

Why did you.

 

Kim:

Oh, my God.

 

Beau Gravel:

I'm just being.

 

Kim:

Everybody loves Amy. Do you love Amy?

 

Beau Gravel:

Yes, I do.

 

Kim:

Why do you love Amy? Say it.

 

Beau Gravel:

Because she's smart and, like, just 15 steps ahead most of the time.

 

Kim:

Oh, my God.

 

Zach Miller:

That is really funny.

 

Beau Gravel:

Yes.

 

Kim:

All right, I'll give you that.

 

Zach Miller:

I have more questions for Beau. Can I ask more questions for bo? I just read an article about air pods, like, in your ears, Right. And how the article was Talking about how AirPods are destroying your generation because you are able to be in public and walk around and be in the world without having to engage anyone else. Like, you have your AirPods in. You're listening to your own thing. You don't have to make small talk. You don't have to do anything. What do you think about that?

 

Kim:

Lean into the mic.

 

Beau Gravel:

That article is 1000% correct. Like, you just like, if I don't want to talk to somebody, throw my AirPods in and I have to speak to anybody or like an old friend that I don't want to talk to. I could just throw in AirPods and they wouldn't even. I wouldn't even have to talk to them. I just could just walk by them and never speak. And I don't know about like destroying. I mean, if you like small talk, I mean, then yeah, but I don't think this generation really likes small talk. But I personally, my, myself, I don't like small talk.

 

Kim:

What is small talk? No, no, no. You have to define what small talk is.

 

Kim:

I'm telling you, this is epic. It is epic. He's like, he's 70 years old in a, in a 17 year old body. What do you mean by small talk?

 

Beau Gravel:

I'd rather talk like about life instead talking about what food you ate yesterday. Don't really care.

 

Kim:

Do you think it's going to be hard for you to find someone like, to go out?

 

Beau Gravel:

I don't say hard, but it would be a chat. I think it would be a challenge.

 

Kim:

It's a challenge because, you know, you're very particular too.

 

Beau Gravel:

Yeah.

 

Kim:

Yeah. Your dad is really particular. Some might say kind of weird. Like, you know, my mom and dad, Nana and pops, when they first met dad, they said he was a little weird. And they know I'm weird, so they were like, they thought we were perfect together because we're both weird.

 

Beau Gravel:

Sure.

 

Kim:

But weird is not a bad thing, right?

 

Beau Gravel:

It can be a good and bad thing.

 

Kim:

Did you ever watch Kim of Queens?

 

Beau Gravel:

No.

 

Kim:

Tell you want to talk about?

 

Beau Gravel:

I watch one episode because my old, old girlfriend, like, made me watch an episode with her.

 

Kim:

With her?

 

Zach Miller:

Yeah.

 

Kim:

Which episode was it?

 

Beau Gravel:

I don't remember. So long ago. I must have been like, do you.

 

Kim:

Remember how y'all, you and your dad and Blanton were on the show and.

 

Beau Gravel:

They cut y'all out.

 

Kim:

So this is a true story. So they taped several episodes. You know, Zac was a producer. He was one of the line producers on the show.

 

Beau Gravel:

No.

 

Kim:

So you, your dad and Blanton were on the show and they kept cutting y'all out. And so remember the time I came to you, I said, Beau, they want you and your dad and Blanton to be on the show again. What did you say?

 

Beau Gravel:

I didn't refuse, but I was just like, are they gonna cut me out again?

 

Kim:

It goes, no, I'll never forget what you said.

 

Beau Gravel:

What did he say?

 

Kim:

I'll do it, but are they gonna cut me out again? That you were like six saying that you were young, seriously, you were little. And I never forget that. And I thought, oh my God, I've got, I've got some, I've got a, I've got a live wire here on my hands. I've got an independent thinker. He did, he goes, I'll do it. But like, aren't they gonna. I'm, I'm.

 

Beau Gravel:

Why is it just wasting my time if you're gonna cut me out again?

 

Kim:

It's six. We're wasting.

 

Zach Miller:

It's six. Yeah. He's got more important playgrounds to play on.

 

Kim:

Where do you see your future? Like what do you see yourself doing 10 years from now? Be honest.

 

Beau Gravel:

Owning like a multi million dollar business or that's just where I want to be.

 

Kim:

I could say, say that again louder.

 

Beau Gravel:

Nobody you owning a multi million dollar business like you are.

 

Kim:

Finally I get some credit. Do you know how to do that?

 

Beau Gravel:

Not yet, but I'm learning.

 

Kim:

Okay.

 

Beau Gravel:

I'm sure I would learn. It takes a long time.

 

Kim:

Won't you come work with me?

 

Beau Gravel:

You said that about like 60 times and I say yes and nothing happens. So. Yeah.

 

Kim:

What about being an entrepreneur at your age? Like because, because you make a good, you make a good amount of money, B.O. for 17 year old.

 

Beau Gravel:

Sure.

 

Kim:

You're very blessed. You, you, you, what are you doing? You can't get, you can't lay down in the interview.

 

Beau Gravel:

I'm not, I'm just. The pillow is getting comfy.

 

Kim:

So as an entrepreneur, what is the most important thing you think goes into owning your own business? Because you're 17, you, you make, you do well, you do very well for a 17 year old. And so many, and I think when you started your business, so many people in your school started their own businesses.

 

Beau Gravel:

Right.

 

Kim:

So you kind of were a pioneer there. So what do you think is the most important thing about being an entrepreneur?

 

Beau Gravel:

Just like marketing your product.

 

Kim:

Yeah.

 

Beau Gravel:

And like finding people that will buy your product and buy it multiple times and well, having good pricing and having just basically just overall the set, like something to have a selling point.

 

Kim:

Does entrepreneurship feel like work to you?

 

Beau Gravel:

Oh yeah, yeah, it kind of is. It's not that hard, but it takes time. I would say it's takes time and effort. You have to be really determined and really want to keep pushing and pushing and pushing or you'll never get anywhere.

 

Kim:

Greed. What is. What does pushing look like to you?

 

Beau Gravel:

Like, just working hard and pushing your. Like, you know, promoting your product and want, like making your product look nice and just. And promoting. It's really all about promoting these days anyways. Like just promoting and promoting, promoting and, you know, even though you're only getting two customers, but promoting that you keep promoting till you get a thousand customers and you keep promoting when you get 10,000 customers and just keep going and going and going and going.

 

Kim:

Just. You don't quit.

 

Beau Gravel:

Yeah. Never stop.

 

Kim:

What is one thing that you really, really love about yourself?

 

Beau Gravel:

I would say my music. Like the music choices that dad taught me and learning from dad of music. And I think that's really affected my life. And it's just something that I really, really like and just I'm super passionate about.

 

Kim:

Why.

 

Beau Gravel:

I feel like it's. It's been in my life, but like not at, like not at a super young age. But I feel like I just didn't like, listen and pay attention to like maybe till junior year high school. Just like, like my friends at school, all I listen to is AirPods in class and AirPods is nerd. Just music is just crazy influential these days with like Taylor Swift and all these people just like, for me, just like.

 

Kim:

Are you a swiftie?

 

Beau Gravel:

No, I'm good.

 

Kim:

Do you like girls who are swifties?

 

Beau Gravel:

I don't doubt is that. I mean, I could probably talk about how they spend a bunch of money for no reason. To me, their parents spend buttloads of money for a jacket that costs $800. But yeah, I'm not. I don't. That's not like a.

 

Kim:

That's not your thing.

 

Beau Gravel:

Yeah. That's not a defect if you're a Taylor Swift fan. I'm sure there's a thousand people, a million people out there are Taylor Swift fans. So I'm probably not trying to make them mad.

 

Kim:

I like Taylor Swift.

 

Zach Miller:

Wait, can I. I feel like through this whole interview you've been. You've stopped yourself from saying things that would be read by people, affect other people. Yeah. Like, you won't talk smack about certain bands. You won't call out like certain people, obviously, which is fine, but like, do. Are you constantly having to think about that as a kid these days? Because, like, you're just, you know that this will be on social media forever?

 

Beau Gravel:

Yeah, because it's just like, that's like college and stuff. They look at that stuff and like it just. It's. That's what people have to think about. Like, as a child, that's what you'd.

 

Kim:

Have to think about because it lives forever.

 

Beau Gravel:

And you don't want to say this, because if you say this and someone's going to make fun of. Of you if you said that or, you know, whatever you say could be used against you for something, and. Yeah, I would say that. Yeah, I'd have to think about that a lot.

 

Kim:

I think it's so hard on teenagers today, Beau, to perform at such a high level. When I was a teen, you could make so many mistakes, and, like, getting into college was not this, like. Like, if you paid, you got in. You know what I'm saying? Like, it was not like, this competition and collegiate sports and got to win, win, win, win. You know, it was about the team. It was about growing. And now it's just so different. Okay, you got to sit up.

 

Kim:

You're laying down, so you're gonna have to just sit up. I mean, you basically laying down because.

 

Beau Gravel:

This is like a couch. You're supposed to lay. Like.

 

Kim:

I know, but you're not gonna lay down.

 

Zach Miller:

Put that pillow behind you or something.

 

Kim:

So, like, what I'm saying to you is. Is I forgot what I was saying. What was I saying, Beau? You don't remember?

 

Beau Gravel:

No.

 

Zach Miller:

I think I know what you were getting at, which is something I was just writing some notes on, which is, like, the pressure that kids are under these days and how it's just totally different than, I think when you were coming up, Kim, and when I was coming up, and I just, like, there's so much pressure that you're under from social media, from stuff, you know, having to sort of perform in certain places, from your parents. Like, you talked about pressure that your mom's putting on you. You talk like, school, your sports, basketball activities, scholarships. Like, how. You know, I was surprised when you said, like, oh, I have to be careful about what I put on social media because of getting into college. Like, colleges are looking at your social accounts. Is that serious? Are you serious?

 

Beau Gravel:

Yes.

 

Kim:

What is the biggest thing facing young people today, the biggest challenge? Because you've had a lot of friends come to you and share their challenges.

 

Beau Gravel:

Yeah. From my personal standpoint of all my friends that I've dealt that have dealt with stuff mainly like drugs and drinking, and it's the worst thing. And it's the worst thing.

 

Kim:

Why is it the worst thing?

 

Beau Gravel:

It just can affect you so much. Like, that stuff affects you so much. You can.

 

Kim:

Are you. Do you Ever feel tempted with those things?

 

Beau Gravel:

No, because y'all so hard on like you beat us down so much that we can't even think about it. We die and think about it and I don't like that stuff anyways, so it ain't that big of a deal for me.

 

Kim:

What? What would I do if I found that out?

 

Beau Gravel:

I'm not the craziest crap probably ever. You probably smack the crap out of us. Do something crazy.

 

Kim:

So. So do you think you're more scared of us as parents than you would.

 

Beau Gravel:

To do that? Yeah.

 

Kim:

Okay. Which is let's say on a scale of one, who would you be more afraid of if you did something like that? Your mom and dad or the police?

 

Beau Gravel:

My mom and dad.

 

Zach Miller:

Wait, I have another. I have a follow up question. Who would you be more afraid of? Your mom or your dad?

 

Beau Gravel:

Oh, her. No, because she would rib me a new one and I.

 

Kim:

You know what? Your dad said that if there was ever a zombie apocalypse, that who would survive? You know, they asked the question, who would survive in a zombie apocalypse? Would it be dad or me? Oh, who would it be?

 

Beau Gravel:

Dad.

 

Kim:

Dad. He'd get eaten the first day. No, your dad said me, I'd cut them up. You ain't gonna mess with my kids. I don't care if you're a zombie or not. You know I love you, right?

 

Beau Gravel:

Yes.

 

Kim:

Do I love you too much? Sometimes?

 

Beau Gravel:

Like. You mean like being hard? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'd say sometimes.

 

Kim:

What's the hardest thing I. What's the hardest thing about living with me? Oh, be honest.

 

Beau Gravel:

It's not like. No, it's not hard living with you. It's just like.

 

Kim:

Well, you said yesterday you had to walk on eggshells around me.

 

Beau Gravel:

Yes, well, because you're always getting mad and stuff and it's just like. I don't.

 

Kim:

Do you think it's hormonal? Do you think I'm going through menopause?

 

Beau Gravel:

No, I think it's just you're getting mad.

 

Kim:

Why you think I'm getting mad?

 

Beau Gravel:

Because you just. Sometimes you just want to get mad.

 

Kim:

No, it's not. I don't want to get mad. Do you understand I live with three men. Do you know what that's like?

 

Beau Gravel:

No, but I'm sure you want to get mad.

 

Kim:

Would you like for me to tell.

 

Beau Gravel:

I'll pass.

 

Zach Miller:

That'll be the next time you come on the show.

 

Kim:

Can I ask you this one very serious question? This very deep?

 

Beau Gravel:

You've already asked five, but yeah, I'm.

 

Kim:

Going to Ask this, my sixth one final question. Why in God's name, in this green, Beautiful earth that he's created, do you and your brother and your father not flush the flipping toilet? I went into the media. I went into the media room bathroom, and there were logs sitting in there.

 

Beau Gravel:

That's Blanton, but, yes.

 

Kim:

It's always bland.

 

Beau Gravel:

No, no, I've done way better than that. I don't. I don't. You don't probably pay attention because I totally pay attention. I've barely seen you do it anymore, but I've gotten way better at that than anybody.

 

Kim:

I'm not asking that. That's not the question. I'm not asking about your performance. I'm asking you why do you not flush the toilet?

 

Beau Gravel:

You just forget. You just walk out the bathroom.

 

Kim:

You're standing right there in front of it. You've got it aimed at the toilet. You're going to town. There's the lever. What are you not thinking about?

 

Beau Gravel:

I know we ain't. No, we're not doing it. Well, I'll pass it tomorrow.

 

Kim:

All right, sit up. Sit up. Here.

 

Zach Miller:

Wait, wait, wait. Before. Before.

 

Kim:

Don't look at that.

 

Zach Miller:

I have a. I have a ser. I have another question before we get to rapid fire, I want to stop for a second, okay? Because I just want to dig into one thing, and I think that Beau, this is. This is very much like. Pretend your mom's not here for a second. Okay?

 

Kim:

Okay. Because let me back up.

 

Zach Miller:

Like, you talk about how much your mom is, like, you know, your parents are, like, putting pressure on you and stuff. Like, what does that look like? What is it like? Tell me what it is like to. Cause your parents are really hands on, too. Like with your schoolwork and your relationships and everything. Is that right?

 

Beau Gravel:

Little more to hand. Little much, yeah.

 

Zach Miller:

What's that like? Talk to me about it, because I think this is, like, a difference in parenting styles that, like. And, you know, the parenting style of today is like a very hands on parenting style, right?

 

Beau Gravel:

Yeah, I would say yes. Like, caring a lot for their kids and making sure their kids don't, you know, wreck their life or, you know, bad things, whatever. But, like, living with her, like, an instance would be like, I would have homework due Wednesday, and she would come ask me on Sunday, like, do you have the homework? And I'm like, no, I don't have the homework. We haven't even gone to school yet.

 

Zach Miller:

Wait, but how does she know you. Okay, work due Wednesday. Wait, how does that even.

 

Beau Gravel:

She'll look. She'll look on My. We have a thing called Schoology. And she'll look at the calendar and be like, you have homework Wednesday. And she'll be like, so you already have the homework, right? And I'm like, no, I don't have the homework. I don't know how you want me to do the homework if I don't have it.

 

Kim:

Beau. What's that? What's one thing that about you that I don't know? That is that. You know what I'm saying? Like, everybody's not who they are to their parents. What's one thing. Come on, now.

 

Beau Gravel:

I don't.

 

Kim:

Don't even.

 

Beau Gravel:

I'm very open.

 

Kim:

You're not that open.

 

Beau Gravel:

Yes, I am. At the house, I'm very open.

 

Kim:

You think you're more open than me?

 

Beau Gravel:

No, I think you're way too moral. Wait, what much. You're a little too much open. Not gonna lie.

 

Kim:

Why do you think? Like, give me an example of how I'm too open.

 

Beau Gravel:

Just talking. You talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk.

 

Kim:

No offense, but this doesn't take him.

 

Beau Gravel:

You're like Allisyn sometimes, and it's just.

 

Zach Miller:

That's hilarious. Okay, wait, but isn't that kind of your mom's superpower? Like, what. What makes your mom. Let me ask you this. What makes your mom so successful at what she does?

 

Beau Gravel:

Well, I could say the way she speaks and the way she, like, is so charismatic with other people.

 

Kim:

What? Oh, that is so sweet. What do you want?

 

Beau Gravel:

Nothing. I don't need anything. I'm.

 

Zach Miller:

Oh, my God. Wait, last question. Just about this whole thing. Life 360. I don't get it. I don't have kids that are old enough to share it.

 

Kim:

Thank you, Jesus, for life 360. I stalk, I track. I know where you're at all the time.

 

Beau Gravel:

It's so dope.

 

Kim:

Presented by Teen Talk. Presented by Life360. I love it.

 

Beau Gravel:

I actually generally can't stand it. They should just ban the app, like, altogether. It's so dumb now, but who is going to go somewhere that your parents don't need to go nowadays? Seriously, like, honestly, honest to God, who is going to go somewhere that there's.

 

Kim:

Been many a time you like, I'm going here, and you're a little happy butt in that little bronco is going the opposite way. And when that happens, what do I do?

 

Beau Gravel:

Sure, but it's not like I'm going anywhere in a. Like I was anywhere appropriate or anywhere. But at least bad for you to be at, like, people are. Kids are more. And I'M sure some kids need it, but they shouldn't open this up. This should be like 50 bucks to a. Should be giving it to juvenile parents. Not people who have random people that their kids go to Walmart and so they go to Target, then Walmart.

 

Beau Gravel:

Then I get a text message, why are you at Walmart? And I got to go explain to you why I went to Walmart instead of Target. Because there's traffic or there's something else and I'm.

 

Kim:

What do I tell you about that phone? What do I say about the phone? When you can what? Pay the what?

 

Beau Gravel:

Oh, the bill.

 

Kim:

Then what? You can get rid of life360.

 

Beau Gravel:

Sure. I just don't think they should have it. But that's just my opinion.

 

Kim:

I love life360. I would love for you to be a sponsor of the Kim Gravel show. I'm a firm believer in that. I paid the extra fee to see the little black mark wherever all over you've been. I stalk and track you, do I not?

 

Beau Gravel:

Why would you pay extra money to do that?

 

Kim:

Because I'm going to see wherever you have gone, there's.

 

Beau Gravel:

I'm not going anywhere weird.

 

Beau Gravel:

I don't know what. That's just untrustworthy right there.

 

Kim:

That's right. I don't trust. If you think I trust a teenager as far as I could pick your little. Well, you're a little. Your big old house body up and throw you. I do not trust you.

 

Beau Gravel:

I'm not going anywhere. So.

 

Kim:

You're a good kid, though. You're a really good kid. And I'm going to tell you a smart kid. And I've told you this since you were a little kid. God gave you a the gift of discernment and physical and mental strength. I don't know a teen at your age that has the mental strength you have. I've seen you be bullied. I've seen you fights.

 

Kim:

I've seen you have to deal with you, your father and I, who have a lot of pressure and a lot of stuff on you. I've seen you be a steady friend. I've seen you be an amazing son. I've seen you stick up for people that did not stick up for themselves since you were a little kid. God has huge things for you, boy. How many times do I tell you that? A day?

 

Beau Gravel:

A lot.

 

Kim:

Because he does.

 

Beau Gravel:

Yep. This is true.

 

Kim:

You're a strong leader. And also I tell you this. How do I know you're a leader?

 

Beau Gravel:

Because you've seen it.

 

Kim:

I've seen it because People follow. That's how you know you were a leader. People follow you. You're not. You're not this loud person like me. You're quiet and you're steady.

 

Beau Gravel:

I'm shocked. I'm doing this right now. Seriously.

 

Kim:

Okay. We do this every show, right, Zac?

 

Zach Miller:

We do this thing called.

 

Kim:

We do this thing called rapid fire. Okay, so what that means is I'm going to ask you a question, Beau, and you're just going. The first thing comes to your mind, you're going to spit it out.

 

Beau Gravel:

Sure.

 

Kim:

Okay. Rapid fire questions. Is there an assignment that you did not finish in the homework that you need to do that you before you went into the break?

 

Beau Gravel:

No, there's not.

 

Kim:

You're a lie.

 

Beau Gravel:

No, I'm not lying. I swear. No, you.

 

Kim:

Dude, I just had an email from a teacher this morning who is usually right, me or your dad?

 

Beau Gravel:

Beauth.

 

Kim:

That's not.

 

Beau Gravel:

No, no. Beauth.

 

Kim:

What do you mean by that?

 

Beau Gravel:

For different situations. You're both right. In different situations.

 

Kim:

Give me a situation where he's right. Give me a situation where I'm right now. Do it. Go.

 

Beau Gravel:

When it's about someone's character or like, you know, something like that would be right. And if it's about someone's personality or someone like that you like are talking to, you'd be more right.

 

Kim:

All right, he's got the character. Okay, whatever. What do you want to be when you grow up?

 

Beau Gravel:

Business person.

 

Kim:

Who is the biggest influence on you?

 

Beau Gravel:

My dad.

 

Kim:

I love it. What's one secret I don't know about you?

 

Beau Gravel:

That's what I'm saying. I don't. I generally. If I'm the only person I've heard that question asked a thousand times and I've generally thought every single time. And I don't think there's a single secret that I. That you don't know at this point.

 

Kim:

Well, there's nothing you can't tell me. I love you to the day you die. If you go out there and murder somebody, call me. I'll help you bury the body. I'm going to kill you in the meantime. But yeah, there's nothing you can't ever not tell me.

 

Beau Gravel:

Yep.

 

Kim:

Okay. Is social media good or bad?

 

Beau Gravel:

Medium.

 

Kim:

Okay.

 

Beau Gravel:

It's good and bad. It has its qualities.

 

Kim:

Got it. Would you buy a self driving car?

 

Beau Gravel:

No.

 

Kim:

Why?

 

Beau Gravel:

Because I'm not. I don't got to be that bougie. I'm good. I'm good. I think I can drive myself.

 

Kim:

Oh, my God. Who wins in a fight, me or aunt Allisyn?

 

Beau Gravel:

Who Do I want to win or who.

 

Kim:

Who would win?

 

Beau Gravel:

Allisyn.

 

Zach Miller:

Who do I want to win?

 

Kim:

Are you crazy?

 

Beau Gravel:

Okay? No. Tell me why you think she goes to Walmart and fights people and. Not fights, but, like. Okay, like. Like mentally fight.

 

Kim:

She's more scrappy.

 

Beau Gravel:

Parking. Yes. With weirdo stuff, it doesn't even matter. With weirdos, it doesn't even matter. She's not physically fighting, but fighting. You know, in her mind, yelling or screaming at somebody or honking or something.

 

Kim:

What is the most. What is one area? And what is one time in your life that I've embarrassed you the most?

 

Beau Gravel:

Oh, Lord, embarrass me the most. I've embarrassed you is probably something at school.

 

Kim:

Like what?

 

Beau Gravel:

1. I can't remember exact time, but it's probably like you screaming outside a car when you're dropping us off or something. Yeah, something like that.

 

Kim:

Make good choices.

 

Beau Gravel:

Yeah, something like that. Yeah.

 

Kim:

What I always say to you when you were little, when you got out.

 

Beau Gravel:

Of the car, God made us special. Yeah.

 

Kim:

All right, who's your favorite 80s band? This is a no brainer.

 

Beau Gravel:

Let's be a band. It's be a single artist. It could be either dismiss.

 

Kim:

Yeah, that's a band. It's your father. What is the one song that I love that you're like? No, I can't deal.

 

Beau Gravel:

A lot of songs. A lot.

 

Kim:

A lot.

 

Beau Gravel:

Yeah. Some of them are cheesy.

 

Kim:

Like, which songs, mom, you have so many.

 

Beau Gravel:

You listen to so many songs and send us so many songs on text. And do.

 

Kim:

Do I send you a lot of tick tocks and stuff on text?

 

Beau Gravel:

A thousand.

 

Kim:

Like. And what are they? Like what. What are the subject matter of all of them?

 

Beau Gravel:

All different things, to be honest.

 

Kim:

Do I do it every day?

 

Beau Gravel:

More than every day. More than every day. I hate to break the news.

 

Kim:

If you could open a fortune cookie and have any fortune on it, what would it be?

 

Beau Gravel:

You're gonna be a millionaire. I don't know.

 

Kim:

Really? I didn't know you were, like, into that.

 

Beau Gravel:

Who's not into that? Who's not into that, bro? That's crazy.

 

Zach Miller:

He just called you bro.

 

Kim:

Should Tik Tok be banned?

 

Beau Gravel:

No, I don't think. It's not as bad as other apps. No, I don't think it should be banned.

 

Kim:

Who is the most famous person I know that you're impressed by?

 

Beau Gravel:

Like the Dion Sanders, probably.

 

Kim:

Yeah. You know, he's like a. Like a. Like a brother to me. I love him to death. That's pretty cool. That's got to make me some Cool. As a parent.

 

Beau Gravel:

Yeah. No, that's. That's all we thought about. Like, with the cool thing with.

 

Kim:

That's all I've got.

 

Beau Gravel:

And then you got the Mr. Beast thing. That's. That was cool.

 

Kim:

That was.

 

Zach Miller:

What's the Mr. Beast thing?

 

Kim:

Okay, wait.

 

Zach Miller:

What's the Mr. Beast Thing?

 

Kim:

Well, we were going to do something together. Are you a Sigma male, an alpha male, or a beta male?

 

Beau Gravel:

I don't like that cheeseball stuff. No comment there. So, next question. You get into that stuff. I don't care.

 

Kim:

What's one thing that. That you love about yourself on the outside and one thing that. Your physicality.

 

Beau Gravel:

My personality.

 

Kim:

Okay.

 

Beau Gravel:

And then I'm strong.

 

Kim:

Okay. I didn't even get to the inside yet. You went ahead and answered it. Yeah, because that's what makes you strong, though. What makes. What makes a person strong?

 

Beau Gravel:

Just have the mental strength. There's like being an athlete, just having mental strength and pushing through hard times and stuff like that.

 

Kim:

Who helps you push through hard times?

 

Beau Gravel:

Beauth of y'all and God.

 

Kim:

Do you think it's important for young people to have faith?

 

Beau Gravel:

Yes, I think it's very important.

 

Kim:

Why?

 

Beau Gravel:

Because you're so young that you can make. So you can make mistakes at, you know, whatever age that you just. That guide you through the mistakes and you learn from them and you're just. Once you get older, that you won't make those mistakes again. Like that you will just learn.

 

Kim:

What are you going to miss from high school?

 

Beau Gravel:

Just having so, like, not, like, just having time with your friends, like.

 

Kim:

Yeah.

 

Beau Gravel:

Or just like. I don't. Just, like, goofing around in class or something. Probably.

 

Kim:

What are you looking for?

 

Beau Gravel:

Forward to leaving free time and leaving the house.

 

Kim:

You're gonna miss me. You know that, right?

 

Beau Gravel:

Sure.

 

Kim:

What are you gonna miss most about. Sit up straight. Cause we're almost done. I know. I love you. What are you going to miss most about being at home?

 

Beau Gravel:

My family.

 

Kim:

What are you gonna love about not being at home?

 

Beau Gravel:

Just free time and getting to do what I want.

 

Kim:

You get to do what you want now? Basically, yeah.

 

Beau Gravel:

But, like, I can get to go do, like, I can go out and do things that y'all won't let me do.

 

Kim:

Like what?

 

Beau Gravel:

Like go to concerts. They don't let me go to any. Which.

 

Kim:

We'll be right back. No, wait a minute. I got to. Go ahead. Go ahead.

 

Beau Gravel:

They really don't let me go to very many concerts.

 

Kim:

I'm not gonna let you go downtown Atlanta. I'm sorry. These people murdered Death kill.

 

Beau Gravel:

I can't even go to Georgia. I can't even go to Athens.

 

Kim:

No. Okay, well, when you go to college, you can go to Athens. Okay. I will be still tracking you on, like, 360 because I pay for. Here we go. Am I cool?

 

Beau Gravel:

Yeah.

 

Kim:

What makes me cool?

 

Beau Gravel:

Just being, you know, I couldn't say a specific thing, just the charisma and the nice people. That's cool to me.

 

Zach Miller:

Look at that.

 

Kim:

Okay, this is. This is a good one. Your favorite junk food?

 

Beau Gravel:

Let's say a burger, I guess.

 

Kim:

A burger, right. What's your favorite, like, sweet junk food?

 

Beau Gravel:

An ice cream.

 

Kim:

Oh, yeah. What kind?

 

Beau Gravel:

A regular vanilla ice cream.

 

Kim:

Did you know last night I bought Nutty Buddies and hid them in the freezer so you couldn't find them? You and your brother, I'm sure.

 

Beau Gravel:

But Bland's going to find them anyway, so.

 

Kim:

Do I hide food a lot?

 

Beau Gravel:

Not as much recently, because I don't eat that stuff.

 

Kim:

No, but I'm saying, like, am I known to hide food from y'all?

 

Beau Gravel:

Yes.

 

Kim:

Why?

 

Beau Gravel:

Because you're. You may mostly hide it from Bland because, you know, Bland will eat everything.

 

Kim:

Everything. You know I love you to the moon and back, right?

 

Beau Gravel:

Yep.

 

Kim:

You know, I'm excited about what God's got for your future.

 

Beau Gravel:

Yes, ma'am.

 

Kim:

Are you excited about your future?

 

Beau Gravel:

Yep.

 

Kim:

Are you really?

 

Beau Gravel:

No, seriously, I am. Yes.

 

Kim:

We'll leave you this last question. I've been saying it since you were knee hat or grasshopper.

 

Beau Gravel:

Do you know that God made you special?

 

Kim:

That God made you special?

 

Beau Gravel:

Yes, I do.

 

Kim:

Well, then my job is done. Thank you, Beau, for being on the podcast.

 

Beau Gravel:

No problem.

 

Kim:

Will you come back?

 

Beau Gravel:

I don't know. I'm not sure. I have to reconsider. Have to be some money involved or something else.

 

Kim:

Money. Okay, we cutting this. He's already gotten full of himself.

 

Zach Miller:

Oh, my gosh.

 

Kim:

All right, I just want y'all to know, please do not reach out and connect with Beau on social media because he spends too much time on the Internet and social media already. But if you're ever in Auburn, Georgia, please go visit the card shack. He is there. You can really text. I mean, call or text and let him know. He'll open up the shop, show you what he's got, and thanks for coming on. I love you. I'm proud of you.

 

Beau Gravel:

Love you, too, Mom.

 

Kim:

I love you, Smee. Hey, what do we always say? When we were.

 

Beau Gravel:

When you were little, God made you special.

 

Kim:

God made you special. And best friends forever. Love you.

 

Beau Gravel:

Love you. Mom.

 

Kim:

You know what I'm saying? Like, sip straight. Be natural. Quit picking your hand. Sit up straight. Be conscious of how you, you know, you don't want to slouch. Are you comfortable being here? Now smile. See that little dimple?

 

Beau Gravel:

Ooh.

 

Kim:

Smile. Sit up straight away. Lean into the mic. Say that again. Louder. What are you doing? You can't lay down in the interview. Sit up straight because we're almost done. I know.

 

Kim:

I love you. Are you regretting this?

 

Beau Gravel:

100%.

 

Kim:

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