Farren Davis and Jena Andrus

[00:06] FARREN DAVIS: Hi, I'm Farren I'm 68 years young. We are recording on Wednesday, October 5, from Ogden, Utah. My daughter Jenna is with us, and she's going to get things started.

[00:24] JENNA ANDRUS: Okay. My name is Jenna Andress, and I am 39 years old, and it is Wednesday, October 5, 2022. And I'm with Farren Davis, who is my awesome dad. And I conned him into doing this. Well, he really does anything I ask him to, so I'm glad he's here.

[00:45] FARREN DAVIS: Money.

[00:48] JENNA ANDRUS: There'S always an ulterior motive. All right, are we good to go? Okay. Okay, dad, first question I want to ask you is, what do you feel most grateful for in your life?

[01:13] FARREN DAVIS: Can't start off with them things already, can you? My family, you know, had it rough growing up as a kid, and I've been blessed for the rest of my life to have great family, beautiful wife, fantastic kids, and great friends that have loved and supported me through my whole life. And, yeah, there's been a lot of disappointments with my own relatives, my own family, but I would say that my family's the best. That's the best thing that I can say in my whole life. And my religion. I'm a firm believer. Without that belief, I don't believe I would be even alive still. I honestly don't. I have a firm hope in a brighter future that there is a life after this one, and that I'm at this stage of my life, I'm getting closer to that point of transitioning to be able to go and perhaps, hopefully be with my dad and my grandma and all those that have went on before me. Our oldest son, I'm anxious to see him again. But those are the two things that are really the most important to me, my family and you, Jenna. I mean, you're kind of important to me, you know, as the only daughter. I mean, you. You've kind of got a special spot and always have, you know, you've always been the princess. And I know that your mom spoiled you terrible when you were growing up. I mean, and the boys will say the same thing. That. And especially that older brother. He'll always say that, yeah, you were the. You were more special, but you were easy, you know? Yeah. You were easy to raise. You were easy to take care of. You were easy to love. The oldest boy wasn't. He? Was more difficult. But, you know, we still love him. And you did so much to help those two younger boys, you know, grow up, so. And I know they love you, too, just as much as we do. But you have been the special one, that's for sure.

[04:02] JENNA ANDRUS: Yeah. Heaven knew that I. I should be the only girl in the family.

[04:08] FARREN DAVIS: I know that you were very disappointed when the boys got married because then that brought in, you know, some other girls into the family. You always wanted to make sure that they knew that you were the queen.

[04:23] JENNA ANDRUS: So there's nothing wrong with that. I was just thinking, will you talk about when missionaries from the church, when they first met, like when you first met them and what drew you to what they talked about?

[04:52] FARREN DAVIS: The summer between my junior and senior year in high school. It was a dark time for me. I had good friends. I didn't have a family, though. I mean, you know, my mom was an alcoholic and we never knew which guy was going to be coming home with her. I. We never knew which house we were going to be living in from the time that dad and mom got divorced when I was eleven. I can't tell you how many different houses we lived in and how many different guys came in and out that door. It was not. It was not good. There was times when my sister and I, Cindy, we had no food, but, boy, we had plenty of. Plenty of alcohol in the cabinets. And I'd get so frustrated and I'd pour some of it down the drain and when they'd come home, I'd get a whooping because I had dumped, you know, dollars down the drain. But I didn't have any food to eat, you know, I mean, Cindy and I ate hard macaroni sometimes because there was no other food in the house. And so the only reason why I stuck around was because of my sister. And I couldn't leave her there by herself, not when she was young. I mean, I started taking care of her when I was eight years old. So that time in my life I had actually really questioned whether it was worth living or not. And I really struggled. I went to a lot of different churches looking for. Looking for answers. I needed. I needed some help. And one day I was out working in the garage or in the carport. I had an old 41 Plymouth that I was trying to put together and. And I saw these two young men coming down the street with shirts and ties on. And I knew that they were either Jehovah witnesses or they were Mormons. And so I headed for the house to get inside before they got there. And they beat me to the door and we started chatting. And come to find out one of them was from up here in Rigby, Idaho, wherever, you know, just up the road a ways from where I was born where all the family was from. And so we had some, some. Some things in common. And he had answers and they made. They made sense to me. And I decided to listen to them and to hear what they had to say. And the more I listened, the more I wanted to be a part of it. I went to church a few times, but I think the thing that really made the biggest difference was that I had a dream that in the dream I was on a bus, school bus, and we were down in, down in the city, like down in La or something, and we came to a stop sign and there was lots of people on the bus, people I really didn't know. And we were at a stoplight and it was a beautiful day, beautiful, clear day, not a cloud in the skyd. And the light changed to green, but we didn't move. And we got out of the bus because we could see up in the sky a light brighter than the sun. Coming down in that light was the savior. And it was. It was the second coming. And those of us on the bus were lifted up to meet him. And then I woke up. And the next time I went to church with these missionaries, when I walked into that chapel, the people that were in the chapel were the people that were on the bus. And it testified to me that these were the people that I needed to be with. And so I decided to join the church, joined the Mormon church. And I was excited. There was only a couple kids in my high school that were. That were members that were. That I. I knew and they were excited. And when I told my mom that I was going to join the Mormon church, she went nuts. She yelled and screamed at me that she would not allow that in her house, that if I joined that church that I was no longer welcome to live in that house and that I would have to leave. And I. And, I mean, I could feel in her voice and her actions there was hatred. And so I. I told the missionaries, I said, if I join this church, I gotta find someplace to live because I'm gonna get kicked out of my house. And there just so happened to be in the congregation some folks that took in foster kids, and, I mean, I wasn't what I considered a foster kid, but they opened their home to me. And so I joined the church and she kicked me out. And I went and lived with that family and she moved away with my sister, went down to Yorba Linda with the guy that she was living with, which was really tough for me and for my sister, but I never looked back and I remember when I called and told my dad that I was joining the church, he said, this is really what you want? And I said, yeah, dad, this is what I want. This is where I feel happy. And he said, let me tell you something. He says, if you join that church, you be the best. You do everything that you're supposed to do. Don't you be halfway? And I never have. I never have been halfway, but it saved my life. I mean, because I really felt like that I was on a path to go the other way. Then I probably wouldn't have. I probably would have taken my own life because I didn't see that there was anything, anything left to anything left to live for. I didn't have a family, you know, and I wanted a family. And so these people took me in, treated me like I was their own son. After my senior year, they moved up here, back up here to Idaho. I moved up here with them, lived with them for my first year in college. And during that first year in college, I decided I wanted to serve a mission for this church and served a mission in Puerto Rico and the islands and in Miami, Florida. Greatest time. Great, great time. Two years without a hurricane. How do you like that? I mean, one hurricane in that whole time I was there and, you know, came home and, you know, the rest of the story. Your mom was there, ready just to tie the knot. So we got engaged right after I got home, and the rest is history.

[13:57] JENNA ANDRUS: How do you feel like Aunt Cindy survived that time without you?

[14:01] FARREN DAVIS: Say what?

[14:03] JENNA ANDRUS: How do you feel like Aunt Cindy survived that time without you, after you?

[14:08] FARREN DAVIS: It was tough. It was real tough on her.

[14:11] JENNA ANDRUS: Touch with her.

[14:12] FARREN DAVIS: Yes. I mean, I did the best that I could to stay in touch. I mean, at that time, I was. I was 17, so. She was 14. Well, 13. Yeah, 13 and a half, 14. Of course, that was before cell phones or, you know, I mean, yeah, I could. I called her on the telephone and stuff like that, and we tried to stay in touch, but. But mom did everything that she could to keep us apart, too. I mean, she moved around and she didn't, you know, a lot of times I didn't even know how to get in touch with them. I had to wait for Cindy to try to reach out to me. It was. It was a tough time for her and me, you know, because we were. We weren't able to be in touch. And. And dad. Dad did the best that he could, too, you know, trying to keep in touch, and that was okay. That was the bad thing, was that when they got divorced. She's a vindictive, vengeful woman. She's just. She's evil. She's just not a good person. And she did everything that she could to keep us away from dad. In the summertime, every summer, she would split us up. She would send me to one relative and send Cindy to another relative. And most of the time, they were hundreds of miles apart. I mean, one year, I went to stay with uncle Dean in Leymore, California, and she went to Idaho, you know? And then one year, I went to Montana, and she went someplace else. And so it was really difficult for us to even stay in contact with dad. But fortunately, there were other relatives. Her sisters. Aunt Jerry would do everything that she could to, you know, to make it possible so that we could see dad, you know? And, you know, dad. Dad recognizes that he didn't do everything that he could to, you know, to stay in touch with us, but he never. He never did anything to keep us apart, let's put it that way.

[16:23] JENNA ANDRUS: So did your mom know that her sister Jerry was trying to help you keep in touch with grandpa?

[16:30] FARREN DAVIS: Yeah. And that's probably one of the reasons why that one summer, she sent me to Nebraska to work on cousin Harold's ranch, you know, because if I ended up up in Idaho or anywhere close, you know, Aunt Jerry would make arrangements. Even when I was in Montana, you know, with Aunt Jerry and uncle in. Up there in Libby, she did everything that she could aunt Jerry did everything that she could to, you know, make arrangements so that I could. I could see daddy, you know? So, um. Yeah. Um. Yeah. And you know what? What? I mean, she did everything. Your mom did everything that she could to try to split your mom and me up. I mean, and, you know, her alcoholism was. Was terrible. And then when she. When she got. Got pregnant with Echo, you know, the half sister, in the times that she would. She'd go off on some drunk, some bender, you know, for a week, and poor little echo would be left there all by herself, you know, in the house. And so, fortunately, Cindy, you know, was close enough that she could reach out and take care of her. And there were times that we wanted to, you know, to just take Echo away from her, you know, because she was. She was never there for. And so, anyways, I. The best thing that I think that we ever did was we got to the point where we just cut all ties with her altogether and just divested ourselves from her. That she's not my mother. She's just another person on the planet. And I will respect that. But when people say, oh, you have to love your mother. No, I don't, because she's not my mother. Yeah, she may have given me birth, but she's never been. She's never been my mother, and she's never been your grandmother, you know? So that's unfortunate. And she's missed out on so much because you kids have been great. There's so many things that we're proud of you, that we love you all, but she's missed all of that. That's too bad, you know, but that's her choice. She made that choice, and I wasn't going to, you know, let. Let that problem with, you know, with her destroy our family. That was it. So we had to make that decision.

[19:04] JENNA ANDRUS: Well, thank you. Thanks for all the choices and decisions that you made to help make our family so great. I love you.

[19:17] FARREN DAVIS: I love you, too, bum. See, I think we need to talk about that. We need to talk about where does the word bum come from? See, I mean, because everybody, all the. All of you have got nicknames, you know, I mean, Tony, Rony, phony baloney, little man Rony. I mean, that was. That's where his. His star, and there was yours, you know that. You know, and Jenna, you have to admit. Well, no, you might not have realized it, but as a little kid, when you had a messy diaper, it was bad. I mean, it stunk bad.

[19:55] JENNA ANDRUS: So all messy diapers stink doesn't all. I don't understand why I was different.

[20:02] FARREN DAVIS: Yours were worse than all of the other ones. I mean, Jiminy Christmas, you know, and that's where we had to come up with the stinking bum, you know? And then, of course, you can't walk around, you know, calling your teenage daughter stinking bum, you know, so you just say bum, you know, I mean, that's. That was the name, you know? And then Tati, you know, I mean, Taylor had his. Has his name and traber, you know, his little, you know, nicknames. So, you know, we all had nicknames in the family. And of course, you know, with Tony, Trey, Taylor, Taylor, Trey, Tony. You know, mom always had a problem with. Couldn't remember which one, which name call the kids, you know, especially, of course, when. When Tony was older and. And when he was gone, then it was. It was easier, because then it was Taylor and Trey. And so she would always just say trailer. Trailer. And then she knew that that meant both of them. Both of them.

[20:57] JENNA ANDRUS: It included everybody.

[20:59] FARREN DAVIS: That's right. And they were usually in trouble when she said that.

[21:03] JENNA ANDRUS: Well, I still think it's so funny. Remember when I was teaching science and I don't even remember how it got brought up in my science class probably we were talking about like nomenclature of scientific names and we were talking about funny nicknames and we gave you a call. I said we're going to call my dad right now on the phone and I guarantee you he's going to call me by my nickname. And when you picked up the phone you're like hey bum. And then I heard laughter. All the students laughing because they could not believe it, which I'm kind of surprised with that audience that they didn't call me that. But I think they had enough respect for me that they didn't call me that afterwards.

[21:48] FARREN DAVIS: Well I think that there has something to do with fear, you know. I mean as a teacher there is always this little element, you know, you mess around, you know, I'll just flunk you out of this class. You'll spend forever, you know, in 7th grade, you know, so.

[22:02] JENNA ANDRUS: Yeah, yeah, that was so funny.

[22:05] FARREN DAVIS: Let's see, my nickname. I had a lot of nicknames growing up because, you know, my, my bone disease, you know, even before that dad used to call me Chuck a boat. And it started out as far and chuckabout, you know, and I don't know where the chuckabouth, you know, chuck a boat came from but Grammy Edie used to call me Chuck a boat, you know. And then when I had my brace, you know, there was in, in the mute me in the tv show Gunsmoke. There was a character on there, his name was Chester and he was the deputy sheriff and he had a limp, you know. Well when I had that brace on my leg, you know, they called me Chester, you know, because I had that brace. But then of course when I got into, got into junior high, in high school, the guys started calling me Barney. And where Barney came from was we had a head football coach that he came from another school that apparently there was a kid on his team that looked a lot like me and his name was Barnes. And so he would never call. The guy could never call me bombing. He could never say Davis. I mean, I don't understand how it's so hard to say Davis, you know, but he always, Barnes, Barnes, get in there. Come in here. You know, this, that. And so I even taped on my helmet Davis, you know, across my helmet and the guy was still oblivious. Well then the guys, they tore that off and put Barns on my helmet. So I mean I was. So then chip and, and Rick and I and Mike and all them kind of guys, they'd always, they just called me Barney, you know, and so that's so funny to this day. I mean, that's, you know, when I call and talk to Chip, you know, I mean, his, his Barney, you know, and that's what it is.

[23:57] JENNA ANDRUS: So what positions? I don't even remember what positions you played in football in high school.

[24:03] FARREN DAVIS: Oh, man. I first started out like the all around.

[24:06] JENNA ANDRUS: You could play whatever position I did.

[24:08] FARREN DAVIS: I played everything. And because it was a small school and I was kind of a mean kid, you know, I. Even though I was skinny, I could put people on their back, you know, I mean, I'd hit them hard, you know. And so I played linebacker on defense, and, and then on the offensive line, I was the center. And, you know, I mean, I was. Of course, we played both ways, you know, most of the time, and. But most of the time I played a linebacker, and I loved, I loved playing linebacker, but there was a couple times that I got my bell rung really pretty hard, you know, that I thought, you know, football isn't for me. That's why I kind of migrated, you know, into track and basketball.

[25:01] JENNA ANDRUS: So, anyways, yeah, that's awesome. Well, I was, like, thinking back to. I'm like, what I want to ask you, do you remember when I was in high school and you would take off time from work? I don't remember what time of the day? Maybe like, 03:00 when I was done, and you would meet me at the YMCA and you would, like, train me.

[25:29] FARREN DAVIS: We'd lift the weights. Yeah, we did all kinds of stuff. Yeah.

[25:32] JENNA ANDRUS: And then you would go back to work after that. I don't. Did I drive? I don't even remember some of the details of, like, how I got to the y, if you came and picked me up at home or if I was. I hadn't been at an age, I was driving, so maybe I picked you up. Do you remember?

[25:50] FARREN DAVIS: I don't remember that part. I do remember the parking lot incident with the junior high when I. When those kids decided they were going to get a little bit mouthy. And, um, I pulled up alongside of them and got out of the car and walked over there, and the kid was going to get out of the car and I slammed the door.

[26:09] JENNA ANDRUS: Yeah.

[26:10] FARREN DAVIS: Yeah. And when there was quite the scene out in the parking lot, and I ended up down at the police station telling them that I didn't, you know, the kid was going to, you know, come after my daughter on that side of the car. And, you know, hey, I'm the dad, and that ain't gonna happen.

[26:31] JENNA ANDRUS: So did you really have to go down to the police station?

[26:34] FARREN DAVIS: Yeah. Yeah, I had to go down and talk to him, you know, because they had had. They had had problems with this kid already. They knew him. They knew the kid. And I said, okay. And I just. I had to tell him everything that happened. And they said, well, that's a little bit different story than he told. And I said, I'm sure it is. I said, but if you want my daughter down here, I says, I could bring her down here, and she could corroborate exactly what I said. So. But anyways, I understand that there was quite the. Quite the fur at school, you know, with the teachers that day.

[27:14] JENNA ANDRUS: Yeah. Because when I was involved in, like, all that school stuff, and I was in the library, and all of a sudden, teachers were like, did you see the altercation out in the parking lot?

[27:23] FARREN DAVIS: Yeah.

[27:23] JENNA ANDRUS: With my dad trying to protect me from that high school jerk.

[27:28] FARREN DAVIS: Yeah. Yeah. You don't mess with the dad. That's right. You don't mess with the dad.

[27:36] JENNA ANDRUS: And that's when I hung your crazy picture up in my locker. But, no, back to when you would, like, train me, like, what I think of, like, now that I'm a mom and just, like, what a sacrifice that was that you did that for me. Like, I guess, like, what was your thinking behind doing that? What type of, like, sacrifice was it for you to spend all that time with me?

[28:09] FARREN DAVIS: I think that for any parenthood, you want to be able to give your child, you know, the opportunities, if there is desire there, for them to exceed in whatever, you know, whether it's playing the piano or sports or scholastics or anything like that. And, you know, I mean, you. You had the drive, you know, in school to do the best that you could, and, I mean, and you worked at it. I mean, you worked at getting straight A's. So, I mean, that was it. I mean, your other brothers could have done the same thing if they had had the desire. I mean, Trey, that's not really fair, because I think that school was a joke for Trey because I think that he was so far above that that, you know, it was. It was a waste of time for him. But Tony could have done the same thing. I mean, he. And he did when he, you know, when he concentrated and did, you know. And then. And Trey or Taylor. Taylor knew that if he just got. If he got a's and B's, he was okay. I mean, he didn't have to get straight a's, and we'd still be happy.

[29:33] JENNA ANDRUS: You know, path of least resistance was his plan.

[29:36] FARREN DAVIS: Yeah, that's it. That's it. You know, but for you, I mean, of course, I love track, and when you. When you decided that you really like track, of course, that just fell into my wheelhouse. Unfortunately, you don't quite have the stature to be a high jumper. See? And so, I mean, that. That kind of, you know, I kind of had, you know, and this definitely neither one of us like distance running, thank goodness. You know, I mean, I, you know, to have to run 2 miles, just throw up. No, I don't like that at all. So, yeah, the sprints. Although I really. I really think that you could have done really, really well in the 400. But the 400 is brutal. I mean, and I know you did it once, and that's when you said, nope, no more. We ain't doing this one anymore. Forget it. You know, but. And I was the same way by. By the time I got to college, you know, I tried the 400 hurdles, and that has got to be, in my opinion, that is the hardest race in all of track. It beats the marathon. It beats all that, you know, the sprints. It breeds everything, because in the 400 hurdles, you have to be dead on every step for 400 meters. And then they throw in all these obstacles in the way that you have to jump over. But it is. It's a. It's a. It's a beautiful race when it's run well and my hat goes off always to all of those that. That do that. That run the 400 meters. Yeah, I love the hurdles anyways, and I love still to this day watching hurdles. And, you know, when. When we did the little, you know, Junior Olympics, you know, in the summer. I mean, I love doing it. I just. I loved running hurdles, and until. Until that one time over at skyline when the hamstring decided that it didn't like me doing it anymore. You know, you're getting too old to do this.

[31:55] JENNA ANDRUS: How old were you? When was that? Like, I'm trying to think.

[31:58] FARREN DAVIS: Well, you would have been. Let's see, you were born in 8983-8083 so that would have been. You would have been like, 1213, you know, so. Oh, my gosh, that would have been 95 ish, you know, 96, wasn't it? So, I mean, I'm. By that. By that time, 95, 96, you know, I'm 42 years old, and I'm out.

[32:29] JENNA ANDRUS: There close to my age. There's no way I would try and hurdle.

[32:33] FARREN DAVIS: I'm out there stretching out, and I'll tell you, set them hurdles up. And I knew that I couldn't stretch it out to, you know, at the very beginning, I couldn't, you know, go full bore. And so I kept them kind of close together, you know, went over them a few times, set three of them up, and I went over them good. I'm feeling good. I'm stretched out and everything. I'm going, this is good. I can do this. So then I stretched them back out to the appropriate, you know, distance between each one of them so I could get my three steps in. I took off. I hit that first one and, oh, it felt so good. It was just like, just like the old days, you know, I felt great. Got to the second one, I just, you know, skimmed right over that. And when I got to that third one, I threw that left leg up to go over that hurdle, and that hamstring just went thump, just like that. And I went into that hurdle and just went end over end. And that was it.

[33:31] JENNA ANDRUS: You know, that was the end.

[33:34] FARREN DAVIS: And to this day, to this day, that hamstring is not friendly anymore.

[33:40] JENNA ANDRUS: Bill.

[33:40] FARREN DAVIS: No, no, no.

[33:43] JENNA ANDRUS: What?

[33:43] FARREN DAVIS: Yeah, I can. I could if I. If I sit down here and stretched it out. Yeah, it's right there. I. It's right there. Yeah.

[33:51] JENNA ANDRUS: Oh, my gosh.

[33:53] FARREN DAVIS: But I still loved, I mean, even, you know, when we lived there in twin and I used to hijack, I set up that high jump, you know, mat in the backyard. I loved high jumping. I loved it, you know, and that was, I mean, you know, when you talk about what were your goals, you know, when you were growing up? I had three. I had three goals. Number one, I wanted to fly Badland. I wanted to fly jets bad. And that's why I tried to get in the Air Force academy. And, well, I mean, I was accepted into the Air Force academy, but because of my, my hip and my back and everything, they said, no, you'll be a medical discharge by the time you're 30. And they were going to draft me and send me to Vietnam, you know, to be a foot soldier. And I said, nope, that ain't happening. And I. So. But anyways, I wanted to fly, and I wanted to drive. This is crazy. I wanted to drive an indycar at speed, you know, just to see what that was like, you know, 200, 250 miles an hour, you know, sucked right down to the ground. And then, of course, in high school, I wanted to high jump 7ft, you know, and I had it marked right there on my. On the wall in my bedroom. You know, this is where 7ft was. And this is where I have jumped so far. You know, six four. I can do 7ft. It's only six more inches, you know. Come on. You know, so I could do it. So I made it to six six, but didn't get. Didn't make it any farther. So she just put her hand up. What does that mean?

[35:34] JENNA ANDRUS: She's giving you a high five. Five minutes.

[35:36] FARREN DAVIS: High five. There we go.

[35:36] JENNA ANDRUS: High five. Live long and prosper sign.

[35:40] FARREN DAVIS: Yes. Yes. Yeah, we gotta do that. So.

[35:45] JENNA ANDRUS: Were there any other questions you want to answer that were on my list?

[35:48] FARREN DAVIS: What else was on your list?

[35:50] JENNA ANDRUS: I have. What is a memorable experience you have with me?

[35:54] FARREN DAVIS: Oh, I think weve talked about a lot of them.

[35:57] JENNA ANDRUS: I know, right?

[35:59] FARREN DAVIS: Well, okay, the one time. The one time that you and your mom got together and decided to put that sign on the back of the little yellow pickup. Honk and wave. It's my birthday, and I'm driving around town and people are honking and everything. I'm going, what is wrong with these people? You know, and I go to the bank, you know, because I had to do the deposits and stuff and walk back out, and I see the back end of this poor guy's pickup that's got that sign on the back of the pan. Well, that's a dumb sucker. He's got that. That's my pickup. What do you. You guys had done that? Yeah.

[36:34] JENNA ANDRUS: And it wasn't even your birthday.

[36:36] FARREN DAVIS: It wasn't even my birthday. That was terrible.

[36:41] JENNA ANDRUS: That was awesome. We were always doing stuff like that.

[36:45] FARREN DAVIS: Yeah. Or the time when you and your mom decided to buy the hair removal kit from the. Wasn't even the web then. It was just on, you know, you just ordered it and you decided to try it out on dad first, you know? Yeah.

[37:04] JENNA ANDRUS: Of course. You had to be the Tessa dummy.

[37:06] FARREN DAVIS: Yeah. I'm just sleeping on the. In the recliner, and you guys go down there and put that goop on my leg and rip that off and levitated me out of that chair. And it was bleeding. I mean, I was. Couldn't believe it. It's blood. You two sit there and go, whoa. We're glad we didn't do that ourselves.

[37:30] JENNA ANDRUS: And you still don't have hair growing there, so.

[37:33] FARREN DAVIS: I don't have any hair growing there. Well, yeah, because if I did, it would cover up the scar where you ran into me with the car.

[37:41] JENNA ANDRUS: I know, right?

[37:42] FARREN DAVIS: Even at Christmas, it's a miracle that I'm even alive.

[37:46] JENNA ANDRUS: You know, I know you survived me.

[37:48] FARREN DAVIS: And that you are still the favorite daughter. I can't believe it.

[37:52] JENNA ANDRUS: I know. Isn't that crazy? I still survived. That's the other miracle is that I survived.

[38:01] FARREN DAVIS: No, I think we had such great, especially when you start playing volleyball, you know? I mean, that was so good. That was so cool, you know, go all the volleyball games and, and to get involved in. I mean, and we were, I mean, we weren't like your normal parents, you know? I mean, you know, when I start, when I start paying to see christina Davis do a spike serve, I mean, come on, you know, it helped. It helped buy the uniforms, you know?

[38:31] JENNA ANDRUS: Yep, it did. We got new uniforms that year.

[38:34] FARREN DAVIS: Yeah. And we used to yell up in the stands, fondue. Fondue. Yeah. Now those were good days. Good days.

[38:44] JENNA ANDRUS: They were. So what's, here's the last penny. Can I look at this real quick? The last question since we have like 1 minute left.

[38:53] FARREN DAVIS: 1 minute left.

[38:55] JENNA ANDRUS: 1 minute. For future generations listening to this, is there any wisdom you'd want to pass on to them and what would you want them to know?

[39:05] FARREN DAVIS: What could I do? How do you do one for the future? I think that learn how to communicate. Love your family. That's all there is to it. I mean, life is going to be tough and, you know, we've went through some tough times and are going through some tough times. I never expected to be where I'm at in my life. I mean, I've had lots of broken bones. I've had, you know, lots of problems. But having cancer gives you a totally different perspective on what's important and what's not. And what's important is, is knowing that the only thing that you're gonna take with you out of this life is the memories that you have with your family. And you need to develop those memories and hang onto them and keep them close. And this is a great opportunity. I mean, things like this, you need to do. I wish I had something like this of my dad, my grandma, because these mean so much. But that's the things that are important. Yeah, it's good. You need to make a living. You need to provide for yourself. You need to do, you need to have an education. But you can get through your life without any of that. If you have the love of your family and that you love your family and you treat them well, you know, don't be selfish. Don't be selfish.

[40:58] JENNA ANDRUS: So love you, dad.

[41:01] FARREN DAVIS: Love you, too. Bumdhead.