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Jay Cooper 0:00
All right, I'm Jay Cooper here with David Wayne and we're gonna be interviewing about his life growing up in a rural eastern North Carolina. So just kind of tell me about your upbringing where you're from and things like that.

David Wayne Hardy 0:12
Well I grew up on a farm my dad was a farmer. We worked real hard on tobacco, corn, flour different stuff like that [Inaudible] tobacco, [Inaudible] tobacco. I had two other brother they all helped on the farm, until we got old enough to leave, so it wasn't no easy job it was a hard job 24 hour time we grew pigs, chicken. Had cows had mules. In the farm tractor stuff had come around. So we had all that made a little bit easier for us.

Jay Cooper 0:53
I will go and ask you the main question that you think back about your life and the challenges that you or a family member had to face? Who were some people such as family members friends, churches, neighbors healthcare professionals that would have helped you to those challenges?

David Wayne Hardy 1:09
Well the biggest challenge I went through so being on had a divorce and that took a lot out of you when you when it goes on. To help me Wilma helped me, Louis helped me. My mom and daddy because I had friends on the railroad that helped me, I'm a railroad worker, and I had them to help me look at I could talk to, of course I had the church they you know they were there, when it happened too. So I had a lot of people to help but it still hurts it kind of still hurts today but I'm married, get two more kids so I had four and all four girls so so that's all in and I got four grand boys and four grand girls and one great grand boy so I've done pretty good and on going along got a good wife and that goes a long ways when you find the right people for you just don't make a decision too quick on doing it dwelling it by. About your job about your work and by the people who you see into.

Jay Cooper 2:32
Okay, so you said the church was a pretty big influence for you?

David Wayne Hardy 2:35
Yeah, they help you along, be there with you the support, your friend and you know, we'll talk to you going through that talking does a lot good. You talk to certain people that'll listen to you. But don't talk to your friends with that much about it talk to other people, cause on the job working, don't do that. That's kind of bad to do that and I did that and find out that you know that's wrong for me to do that didn't work but I talked to other people that can help you and be with it.

Jay Cooper 3:09
So one thing that's kind of gaining more popularity nowadays is healthcare professionals like therapists. Doctors do you think that's a good thing for people to go to look into?

David Wayne Hardy 3:19
Yes it is, is very good because I needed health care and myself. I got oxygen I had COVID-19 everything things good and of course I would let my health go down so did all that same COVID-19 fall but there's a lot out of it is may not be able to get Marche a backup and I've got to be on it but they're hoping I can get off from it. So that's what I'm working for. Okay,

Jay Cooper 3:47
So that compares it back when you're growing up do you think that help is more I guess accessible nowadays and compared to growing up and how often you used it?

David Wayne Hardy 3:58
yes you got, I'm not gonna say better help, you got more help through technology got better in what they do. And then in his district a whole lot more. If you didn't find out nothing about it hings went on. It kept his kept together and just like other things. Go on your life. I found out this one day. And I was talking to my daughter, and I was talking about medicine I was taking she said Well Don't take too much of that medicine now, spread them out. And she said ha No but I got that condition. That's talking a lot. And I'm getting I get winded, you know tired talking. So when you see me quit, you know, I'm getting tired. But I'm okay though.

Jay Cooper 3:58
Okay, so I'm just gonna change the subject a school. You know, when you're growing up assuming you attended high school and things like that, um, do you think being able to talk to your friends and teachers and that was a good way for you to discuss maybe challenges you had going on at the time or anything?

David Wayne Hardy 5:21
I went to Nashville high school that was in town with a low grade that yes, it is good. We had a lot of families with small school went to and you knew a lot of people in the older grades just about, you knew a lot of the people because you've grown into neighborhoods, you've been around they a lot of people to everybody knew about everybody a lot of time. So there's like not going to meet a stranger 25, 15, or 20 people graduating, so it won't no big numbers like that. So but yes, it was, like 25 or 30 people in the class 20 people or something like that. And they were small, but time changes. Stuff gets better, the kids are smarter because of technology. They get their stuff they can get through it.

Jay Cooper 6:20
So as far as a maybe a mental aspect, do you think growing up with a smaller class and no one everybody there? That's a benefit? Or maybe a something better than what we have now where there's 100 or so people graduating every year? You don't know everybody just kind of say to your friend group, you think that's a better or worse thing? Compared to?

David Wayne Hardy 6:43
Oh, that's a kind of a tough question. No, I don't. From a small school, you don't get the best subjects. In all the people that knows more about a subject make them take in college. Except for one or two bigger school you might have 20. So it's kind of class that, you know, that's why I think the bigger schools are bad, because you are getting, you know, better school books now. But, you know what I mean you know, the better books to start by, the people that know more.

Jay Cooper 7:26
So you get more of a, it's not just four or five ideas, you get a mix of a bunch of people coming together and helps you learn more. okay, so

David Wayne Hardy 7:36
Yeah, that makes the standard higher for everybody

Jay Cooper 7:41
So growing up did you know anybody maybe a family member or a friend that went through a traumatic experience such as house burned down, car accident, loss, loss of family were too early or anything like that?

David Wayne Hardy 7:57
Yes, I know, some people when I was small will say I had a cousin to get killed in a car wreck. So I knew about that a little boy for Uncle Bill when his boys and somebody was driving the car and turned it over into little boys walking down the road got hit about car. He lived through the wreck he was on, you know, bad, you know, like they didn't have seatbelts then, had there been seatbelt stuff. He might have been alive today. If houses burned down, I don't know about it. I've seen the you know, the burn last but not no, nobody, really.

Jay Cooper 8:40
So so it's for the for the boy's family. What kind of things did they go through to help them get through that challenge? Because obviously it's very tough.

David Wayne Hardy 8:48
Yeah, it was tough on all my aunts and uncles. They spent a lot of time with their cousins it was a big family was big family. They all together ran and went up there. I took time because I remember going up there up myself, you know, being so busy. That's that that took up a lot, you know, for her family. And of course, they were Christian student churches. They ended up pools go around. Back then we had a lot of time to food come around the table. That was one good part about all that, about passing away but you know, whether you know, you get some good food too.

Jay Cooper 9:28
Yeah. Well, um, that's pretty much all I have for you. Anything you want to say?

David Wayne Hardy 9:34
Oh I hope O wasn't too bad for you?

Jay Cooper 9:35
No, it was great. It was great. Do you have any maybe advice for people watching or any follow marks anything like that?

David Wayne Hardy 9:43
Not really just be yourself and live your lifw. That's the best thing to do. You follow a good people. And listen to the old people once in a while. They can tell you something.

Jay Cooper 9:56
Thank you. It was a good interview.

David Wayne Hardy 9:58
Good. Thank you.