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Almost Brothers Podcast
Breaking the Mental Health Silence
We tackle the often-silenced topic of mental health, particularly focusing on how men struggle to discuss their emotions and challenges due to societal expectations and church cultures that oversimplify complex issues.
• Rich shares his regret about dismissing his daughter's anxiety rather than helping her get support
• Tyler observes how mental health issues can distort your perception and damage relationships
• Mike opens up about his recent struggle with unexplained low mood and irritability
• Discussion on how men are conditioned to "suck it up" rather than address their feelings
• Exploration of helpful coping mechanisms including crying, journaling, spending time with family, and creative outlets
• Observation that speaking about mental health struggles diminishes their power
• Importance of having supportive people who listen without judgment
• Recognition that physical health (diet, sleep) directly impacts mental wellbeing
• Critique of dismissive responses like "just pray about it" without offering genuine support
If you're struggling with mental health issues, please reach out to someone you trust, or seek professional help. You can also comment on our page, and one of us will reach out to get you connected with resources.
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Speaker 2:Probably I don't know, I don't know the inner mechanisms of my mind.
Speaker 1:Oh god, help us all if we ever figure that out. Now you've got to get them air drumsticks, yeah to go with.
Speaker 1:I need, I need new, uh, new heads for my air drums okay, I'm right, I just busted my my heads on my air drums. That is funny. What's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up? Everybody, welcome to a brand new episode of the almost brothers podcast. Hi, hi, what's up? On today's episode, we're going to be talking about a well-known topic, oh one that's very talked about in society and and not talked about so much in church circles. Facts mental health, fax machine, fax machine. Wow, it's going back, throwback, throwback rich how you doing today.
Speaker 3:I'm good, I've been running all day, but I'm good, not not physically running oh good, lord. No, if you see me running, you better run faster, let's see Richard running.
Speaker 1:We're both running now I don't even know what he's running from, but we both run. It's bad.
Speaker 3:Must be a good reason to run.
Speaker 1:Right right, Either something is after him or Burger King's having a sale One or the other, but I'm all in.
Speaker 3:Yeah, let's do that.
Speaker 1:I didn't mean that I'm sorry I felt it deep in my soul ty ty, how you doing. I'm getting kind of hungry and I know it don't sound too bad right now. I'm brought it up man.
Speaker 3:I had a couple pieces of fish and some waffle fries on my way here, so I'm good waffle fries are the best they're really.
Speaker 1:Where'd you get waffle fries from?
Speaker 3:That gas station outside of Malden. Oh okay, oh yeah, um yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay. Yeah, I don't know I'm not from.
Speaker 1:Malden, not duck fries.
Speaker 2:Rubber duck? I don't. I'm not sure what you're insinuating.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, are we trying to eat? No duck.
Speaker 1:Yeah Well, how's y'all's week been?
Speaker 2:Good, good. I'm trying to think of what I've been doing.
Speaker 3:the last couple of days.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's how bad my memory is.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, we've had a week, we know it has existed.
Speaker 1:It's happened, we've had some sun this week. Yeah.
Speaker 2:That's yeah of.
Speaker 1:That's what's up. I'll tell you how my week has been. It's not been good. Good to hear okay, yeah, and I'll explain it, all foreshadowing, later on. So, uh, this is kind of a a hot, hot topic as of as of late, because I think we're finally getting to an era where we're where we're thinking about mental health as a actual serious thing that people go through. Right, do y'all in your families or with friends have anybody struggling from, from mental health issues?
Speaker 3:well, and I, I have a very personal story about it because, silver, you know, when she was in high school, she which and jennifer too, my wife, but they for for years, anxiety was not something that I, I was just like that's nonsense, right, you know, it's just deal with it, suck it up, right? So when, when my daughter Silver was coming up, she, she had a lot of anxiety about being around people and and just socializing in general, right, and, of course, being the great father that I am, I just dismissed it. I didn't, I didn't, I didn't get her any of the help that she really needed to deal with that and it's one of the many things that has caused a rift in our relationship.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, and you know we talk about church circles because that's kind of where we come from. But I think this is a huge or was a huge thing just in society, where we would do that exactly like, oh no, just suck it up, like you need to get on with your life, it'll be fine. Or in in churchy with churchy people it's oh, just pray about it, right, you know? As opposed to getting down to the actual thing that is going on. You know what about you, tyler? Have you ever dealt with that or had somebody that that was close to you deal with that?
Speaker 2:I mean, I don't know, I personally haven't Not saying I don't have my own little issues. Yeah, a lot of those.
Speaker 1:Listen. A lot of those, yeah, a lot of those.
Speaker 2:Listen A lot of those, but I mean nothing to an extent that would concern people. Yeah, and I'm seeing kind of how you were talking about. We're in an era where it's more talked about. I'm learning it's more of an issue than what I think that it actually is, because, you know, I personally don't like everyone gets anxious, yeah, at times about certain things. But, to you know, have you know, seen professional or sought out professional help, got the help and and been diagnosed with some kind of anxiety and things like that? It's a, it's a whole nother ballgame.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I've learned it's scary what your mind can trick you into thinking Right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and and and doing that, tricking you and thinking when, when someone is doing something or does something to you, you almost take it completely different than it really is. You start seeing things that aren't there, you start contributing oh, this person is saying or doing this and feeling this way, when they're really not. They're just trying to talk, but your anxiety and your stress and depression is switching things around in your brain, so you're thinking they're trying to do something else and I think it's such a dangerous thing because it ruins relationships and therefore isolates you even more. So now you really are it's. It's making it worse. So it's like a just this bad cycle, especially for men. Like it's. It's something that we were, all you know, brought up like, hey, you just suck it up and move on Right and you don't really talk about it and it's so destructive, the word depression, it's whispered about.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Especially among men. You can't be depressed.
Speaker 3:You're a wuss, you're being a girl or whatever stupid thing that men say to each other, so you can't deal with the issue that you're having, You're being a girl or whatever stupid thing that men say to each other, so you can't deal with the issue that you're having. The older I get, I have anxiety about crowds. I don't like being in crowds. Jennifer should be like hey, let's go to this concert. I'm like that's a lot of people or airplanes. I thought I was going to jump out of the airplane. I wasn't meant to help. The opposite of the fix Right.
Speaker 3:But no, the older I get, the more anxieties I realize in myself, which is a weird thing to experience.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, and you almost feel bad for saying it, you know, for admitting hey, I'm struggling, hey, I'm going through this. Um, you know, and, and before we started I said well, this is a perfect subject because I've I've been kind of dealing with it this week, just and again, me and Jamie all week. It's been for about the past six days where it's just I woke up and just didn't feel like doing anything.
Speaker 3:I just kind of wanted to shut the curtains and yeah, I really didn't.
Speaker 1:I just and it didn't get the to the point of just crippling depression or anything like that, but it got to the point where I was agitated and frustrated and just don't know why. Right, you know not don't really have anything to point at it like everything's going okay, it's just. I was just agitated at life and just didn't want to do anything yeah, and you can get.
Speaker 3:You can get overwhelmed by just normal things. Yeah, you know they pile up on you and it's like I just can't.
Speaker 1:I can't deal with anything else going wrong in my life yeah, and I think my mind and my body started both kind of working against me at the same time, you know. So not only am I kind of feeling down and just discouraged, but my body's not feeling well either. You know, I haven't been feeling good all week, so it's like man, it's all kind of piling up on me and and if you don't have a good outlet to to be able to get that out of your system like a lot of times that's video games video games for me will help just kind of pull me out of that and just getting some time to myself. But, um, that's been a really a bad struggle for me this week. And talking with james and and telling her like, hey, I'm just struggling this week and she's like, well, what you know, what can I do? I'm like I don't know I don't know because I don't even know what?
Speaker 2:That's the crappy part. You don't know what to do to fix it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, cause I don't even know what it is that started it and I'm just like, I just don't feel good, you know. So she kind of she knows the way to kind man, it is me and live kind of, kind of like you and jamie called a phone me and live will call it one of those days.
Speaker 2:Like she'll, I'll show, and it could be like one thing, that kind of just like ruin the day, but like no, no, there'll be a day. She come, come home, she's in a bad mood, it's like what happened. Um, in a bad mood one of those days.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, and you kind of it's cool having a loved one that's like that to where you understand, oh, okay, right, you know like let's, let's try to get out of this, let's see what I can do to try to help and and not make it worse and it's cool to have that. Oh, it's one of those days, okay, cool. And then you, you you kind of take your behavior and you change it to help accommodate that, that one that you love and it. There are certain things that I know and I want to ask y'all what certain things that that you have that can instantly pull you out of that or instantly help. You know they're, like I said, there's video games, there's certain movies, there's I don't know why I say again, I don't know why I share this stuff with y'all Give us ammunition.
Speaker 1:So one of the things yesterday that really helped me Project Runway.
Speaker 2:It's wow, Did I?
Speaker 1:I was like, oh man, it's like, wow, you are not even close.
Speaker 3:Whatever, it was close no it's.
Speaker 1:Sometimes it's a song, like a, a certain song, and I just sat um in the bedroom yesterday morning and this song happened to kind of come come across my feed and I just listened to the whole song and just sat there and cried, you know, and and again, especially for men, like even I hear it a lot oh, my gosh Simmons is crying again but it really did help kind of bring me out of that, because it wasn't like a sad down tears, it was just the song was really getting to me and it helped kind of bring me out of that, being able to kind of sit there and just have time to myself and Jamie doesn't even know about this, but it kind of just helped bring me out of that, you know, being able to kind of sit there and and just have time to myself, and jamie doesn't even know about this, but uh, it kind of just helped, yeah, kind of just helped bring me out of that man.
Speaker 3:Just take a moment and just listen to a good song well, that's, and again, you as a man, you don't want to admit that, but sometimes, man, a good cry really does hit the spot.
Speaker 1:That's my safe if you can laugh, if you could think and if you can cry all in one day. That's a.
Speaker 2:That's a fulfilling day sounds like good. Try to do that. Every day sounds like a long day. I'm exhausted.
Speaker 1:What if I cry while I'm laughing, like that's the best kind?
Speaker 3:right there, I have done that and then you know the kids.
Speaker 1:You know I know that they can instantly bring me out that me and sissy sat down and put a lego set together and that that helped and even though it was frustrating at times. You know I'm trying to put it together, but um, little things like that can really really help pull me out.
Speaker 3:My kids are a double-edged sword man because I have a bunch of them, so they can simultaneously not simultaneously. They are both of those things at different times. Sour patch kids no, first they're sour, then they're sweet something like that opposite so being with them can pull me out of a funk, but also when I'm in a funk, they, they like to poke the bear.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And literally, because I'm a large guy, leave me alone.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And they just they don't. They don't because they're kids. They don't understand. You know when dad's having a bad day and you know to kind of back off, but they just want to be with me, which is great. You know it's a good, it's a good problem to have, but at the same time it's like all right, I just, I just need a minute.
Speaker 1:Yeah, uh, have you ever had to catch yourself like snapping at your wife or your kids and then like have to have to go back and like, look, it was nothing that you did. It's just kind of I'm in this mood today.
Speaker 3:We call that Tuesday.
Speaker 1:That's what it is. Yeah, it's just a.
Speaker 3:I don't know why I have a. I think I let stuff build up so much that that one kind of the straw that broke the camel's back thing It'll be the dumbest thing, but it's just been a buildup and in that one dumb thing I just blow my top and they're like but all I did, no, no.
Speaker 2:Consider my lid flipped.
Speaker 3:That's all you did right now.
Speaker 1:Consider, consider my bonnet bead. What now? Consider, consider my bonnet bead. What be in my bonnet? You'd have to go back to yeah, that's a fast episode for that one throwback.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's okay, tyler, you don't remember it I barely remember what I ate.
Speaker 1:That's yeah, that's so true, yeah, yeah. And I think, I think, I think you're absolutely on when you said that is that you'll let things pile up and then this thing makes you mad, and then they think that it's that thing that made you mad, and it's not. It's all the other things that now you know I've added, and that's, it's so unhealthy yeah you know, and and I think it's unhealthy.
Speaker 1:Equally, when churches just say, oh, oh, just pray about it, oh, just read your Bible and don't realize that depression, anxiety, that all these things are real and I think it comes from. We like to use those words a lot in society and put them in places that maybe they don't belong. It's like, oh, I'm anxious. It's like, yeah, like you said, we all are, we all get anxious about something. Like you said, we all are, we all get anxious about something. So I think people like to put the label depression or anxiety onto something that's not really that and I think in doing that, they lessen people that actually do struggle with those things.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, it's kind of like I was saying it's scary what your mind can lead you to think and believe in doing it. That, uh, that comes from seeing uh people, mostly veterans, uh, with PTSD, ptsd, ptsd.
Speaker 2:And and just yeah, and and just an instant you know they're at home with their family, or something. An instant there, you know back at home with their family, or something. An instant they're you know back in iraq, or something. Yeah, and I mean thinking about like that's what they're seeing, that's physically what they're seeing, and they're about to choke out their wife because they're they're.
Speaker 3:they think they're fighting some right surgeon, something that reminds me of a scene from American Sniper, the Chris Kyle movie, where he's like staring and you hear all this gunfire and stuff and you assume he's watching TV and it pans around and the TV's off. It's just in his head. You know he's dealing with all that and veterans, in particular man, they deal with so much. And veterans, in particular man, they deal with so much.
Speaker 3:And they don't get the help that they need, because mental health with veterans specifically is not talked about, is not treated and is not even cared about.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and we as a society have to do better at having those difficult discussions about hey, how are you mentally right, like, really, how are you, are you doing? Okay, what is going on? Are you struggling and being able to have those back and forth conversations in a healthy way, to where we can actually get to the problem and actually put people in their, in their correct boxes and areas, saying, okay, you actually do struggle with depression and and anxiety and those things and you are just having a tough day because I think we can jump over the fence when it doesn't really need to be. We've got, you know, millions of people say, oh, I battled depression.
Speaker 1:Okay, have you went and seen a doctor? Well, no, it's like. Well, that probably is your first step to know that that's actually what's going on. You know, you may have things in your mind where you're just you need to change your diet and your and the chemicals in your brain need to be switched and changed a little bit. You know, because I think that is a huge part of it too is that that your diet can directly affect the way you think?
Speaker 3:it directly affects your hormones. Yeah, people do not realize that at all. Yeah, I think that's a lot of jennifer's problem, because she's diabetic and eats whatever she wants. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're gonna have problems I go back to uh, sorry no, you're good.
Speaker 2:No, you're good going back to when I did that competition and I was on a super, super restrictive diet. I was in the worst moods and had got the worst sleep.
Speaker 1:So it directly affects your, your livelihood really, and I really am wondering if that's what is going on with me this week, because I've been a little bit stricter on my diet and I've really been trying to change things up a little bit and I really do think that it's affected me right, just getting you know, because once you switch your diet you have to kind of you know, move over, your body has to get used to it. So I think I may be in that transitioning period of getting used to being back on a stricter diet and not having the junk and kind of detoxing from all you know, all the crap that I've been been eating all right, and I've.
Speaker 3:You know, I've been on this diet for a while now and it I'm finally to a point to where I can look at cookies and stuff me like, no, I'm good. You know, I had a cupcake the other night cupcake.
Speaker 1:I love cupcakes, man. Every time I go to jones where I pass ggs and I'm just like oh, keep going.
Speaker 2:I don't like that. That was in my ear and now it's there forever.
Speaker 3:Oh, sorry about that um.
Speaker 1:So if you're listening and you struggle with these things, please talk to someone. That that is the best thing that you can do is try to talk to someone. If you don't have someone in your life, find someone that you could talk to, you can open up to, you could share your feelings with, you can actually talk about, especially, like I said, the men, because men's mental health is something that definitely is never talked about. You know, we we we kind of focus a lot on women's mental health and and we should but also men struggle a lot. You know, men's suicide is is through the roof. It's by far the largest demographic of that people that do that, you know. So we need to be able to have a space where we could talk, we can encourage one another and just say, hey, you've got somebody that you can talk with.
Speaker 2:that's what I was going to say. Uh, you know more, so you know, be open and willing to talk to people, but also be the person that people feel comfortable coming to and talking to, like you're saying, you know, especially a lot of people in church, but I'll just pray about it. That's so disingenuine, yeah. Because, if, if I came to someone that, like you see a pray about it, that's okay, you really don't care that Right.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, instead of, instead of sitting and listening to me, and, and listening to me, and, and trying to figure out what you can do to help me or what we can do together to figure this out, oh, you just need to take that and take it to god. Yeah, well, that's yes, we get we.
Speaker 3:Yes, I for sure will yeah but I also need someone to talk to yeah well, it's you know when, when somebody loses a family member, you, you have those platitudes that do nothing. Yeah, you know, I try to avoid giving just nonsense platitudes. I'm sorry for your loss. I'm here.
Speaker 2:Right, that's.
Speaker 3:I mean, that's all you can say there's nothing that you can say or do to ease that pain.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it's, it's tough. So find somebody, find some, find a, you know, a small group of people that you can go to and just vent to and just talk to about what you're feeling, what you're going through, the struggles that you're having, and I'm telling you sometimes just talking about it and getting it out and having somebody be there to support you, that's kind of all you need 100%.
Speaker 2:Because I've learned, the longer it stays in your head, the longer you allow it to grow. The longer it stays in your head, the longer you allow it to grow Once, once you have spoke, what you're thinking, what you're feeling, like it's out there, it can't grow anymore. Now you're able to, not only just someone else, but yourself. You're able to look at what you said and and you you think about what you said in a different perspective than what you were thinking. It, and it almost seems like not that it the problem or whatever you're dealing with gets easier. But it's like, oh, maybe I can figure out what I need to do, or, oh, here was, here's my issue. You know, it becomes a lot easier to tackle that stuff once you've even if you're talking, like talking to yourself out loud and just physically speaking, it just make even just a tiny bit better.
Speaker 3:Yeah, well, yeah, I mean, if you don't have anybody to reach out to, by all means comment on our page. Yeah, we will, one of us will reach out to you to get you somebody to talk to yeah, and, and I've done this.
Speaker 1:Oh, mike's a wussy, you're a wussy, awfully defensive right now I've, I've you heard it first I started just journaling just like kind of writing a you know a paragraph of of what today is what I'm doing today, like what I got going on how I feel today and just being able to go back and look at it and look at, you know, the week and my days and cause.
Speaker 1:It's the same same concept of getting it out and talking with somebody, but you're writing it down and you're able to get those feelings and those thoughts out, you know. So I'm able to go back and look at it and again, nobody knew this until now, but I'm able to go back and look at how I was feeling Because, also, you'll see good days that you had and realize a lot of your blessings that sometimes you'll forget and you're overlooked. So I'll go back and go oh man, yeah, I really have a lot to be thankful for and I had. You know, this week was a good week. And then you can go back and look at those writings and say, man, things are going pretty good.
Speaker 2:I just had an image of you with that bedazzled movie, dear diary. The really sensitive he's, the real he's the real gossip girl.
Speaker 3:Xoxo, gossip girl darn darn. Did he darn darn what is that dang sun gonna set?
Speaker 1:I just got to thinking about the dolphins, you know. Oh, that's funny. So we are gonna now segue into segue that's right, not the one you ride. Paul blart, we're gonna segue into.
Speaker 1:He didn't say no, no a segment that we call that's what's up sup. So we're talking about in this segment. We talk about what we're watching, what we're listening to, things that are going on in our life that we are excited about, or things that maybe have let us down. You know that we were excited about, which is what's going on with me, but I'll let y'all start that's a lot sorry that's a big old intro right there.
Speaker 3:Uh, do you want to? Uh? No, y'all are gonna start I said that I'm giving y'all the floor I'm sorry, I know you're right, he has had a bad, it's a lot of hostility so big news we got a sponsor yeah, that's right. That's right, dunkin county transit, me and tyler, you know, actually work for dunklin county transit, so it's you represent county transit, our new sponsor.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we love them, I mean it is really a just an amazing company to work for well, it has to be pretty amazing to allow y'all to to work there. Listen listen that just speaks to their low standards speak for yourself.
Speaker 1:I can't argue against that well, I know y'all have talked about it and how much y'all enjoy working there.
Speaker 3:Because I've worked a lot of places. I'm 47 and I've had a lot of jobs.
Speaker 2:I'm 27 and I've had a lot of jobs. Yeah, probably it says more about me than you.
Speaker 3:It does. I wasn't going to say that, but since you did, this company is like I took a week off, I don't, I don't have vacation. I've only been there a few months. They allowed me to take a week off, you know, to take vacation with jennifer and I didn't get paid for it, but that was a choice I made, you know. But it's just the day-to-day operation of how they, how they do business. You know they're, they're ran by amazing people and it's just a really good job.
Speaker 2:That's what's up.
Speaker 3:And it's physically easy, that's always good.
Speaker 1:Well, ty, what do you got going on in your life, watching, listening to something that's going on Me and Liv are actually watching Great American Family this morning.
Speaker 2:That's the story about the.
Speaker 3:Italia, grace girl.
Speaker 2:It's crazy, the episode we watched today. It put I need to learn more about the story. The actual story, yeah, to really form an opinion and valid thoughts on it. But the episode I watched today so these are your invalid thoughts?
Speaker 3:Yes, they're invalid, because I don't know the whole story.
Speaker 2:They haven't been validated yet, but they put that disclaimer because it was mainly on the girl. It wasn't like the girl and then the family. It was really just an episode of just the girl and they put the disclaimer. This is how she told the story and the whole situation. I was thinking about it. I was like it was making me sad, because I was like, by all means, is she not the victim in this situation? But she was put in this situation somehow.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:There was no way that she was from Czechoslovakia or something, some foreign country. And she was like, hmm, I want to go to America and use my rare form of dwarfism to con people.
Speaker 3:Maybe she did in fact make that plan, maybe I don't know. But that's where my thoughts and opinions are invalid because I don't know the whole story there.
Speaker 2:But it made me saddened because she was a little girl at one point and someone was exploiting her for that Right. And then it got me in a mindset of gratitude that I was not in that same kind of situation. I had parents that loved me and raised me well and I have a loving wife and four I think they love me dogs dogs, doggos.
Speaker 1:They love me more.
Speaker 2:Like, let's be real here, listen what frank has for you is on another level, and I don't think it's healthy I think it's just the beard yeah, I think so. He's like. I think so he's probably like. Oh, something else that has a beard frank is my spirit animal he just lays.
Speaker 1:He's like a doorstop, yeah that is oh, that's what's up and that's on netflix, right, hulu, hulu.
Speaker 3:I've been meaning to try to watch that, but you know it's I noticed the other day that I went to go onto my hulu and now you have to have a my disney account because apparently that's a they bought. Yeah, I know they're under disney, so now you have to have a my disney account, even though I have a hulu account I don't know how that works.
Speaker 1:I don't know. You shouldn't well according to hulu, I do different. Yeah, I don't know I wouldn't know.
Speaker 2:If you had to, I'd have a disney plus account and hulu.
Speaker 1:There you go, yeah well, I don't know well, I'll tell you what's going on in my life, and I am not happy with it yeah, let's hear it talked last episode about the nintendo switch 2, that's coming, oh gosh, okay, back on this listen dude this is my.
Speaker 3:I gave you all the floor man.
Speaker 1:So so the they had. Last week they had the big breakdown of what it's going to look like the price, the games, all that. It was exciting. It was like man, there's so much good and then a lot more information started coming out about it. The price is outrageous.
Speaker 2:The price of the games is crazy. I've heard nothing good about that.
Speaker 1:It has just gone. I was at a 9 out of 10 in excitement and now I'm at a 4 out of 10 of excitement.
Speaker 3:That is a punch in the gut.
Speaker 1:It really just, I mean, after it ended, it's like oh awesome. And then, just, I mean, after it ended, it's like oh awesome. And then all this stuff came out and it just started just kind of crashing and burning. Well then we found out this week pre-orders were start, were supposed to start to open today. Well, in the us pre-orders were canceled. You cannot pre-order in the us at this time of recording this episode.
Speaker 3:Oh, so now we know why you're in a funk. That's part of it, I'm telling you.
Speaker 1:So now we have to wait. It still comes out in june, but we don't know if pre-orders are going to go up. We don't know when they're going to go up. We have no idea, so you have to hope that you can get one eventually I don't have a clue.
Speaker 3:What is the price of the switch to?
Speaker 1:it is 450 500 if you get it with Mario Kart bundled. And the games are 70 to 80 dollars a piece.
Speaker 2:Remember when video games were like 20? Yes, I do, and I was a kid thinking dang, that's expensive and there's no rhyme.
Speaker 1:Or they're saying like oh, we're going to see how much development it took to make the game and then we're going to raise the price 20 dollars over what it was last generation, which I get. The cost of games is going up, but 20 per game from a company that that profited like six billion dollars last year is a little bit. Uh, I remember when you could rent nintendo and super nintendo games yeah, so it's been. It's been rough man, the whole switch to situation I'm here for you, but thank you
Speaker 2:I appreciate it. Whatever you need, he's there for you yeah, oh, oh, gosh wow man, the only, the only good thing I heard about this new switch is like the like the controllers you pull off the side, aren't they magnetic? Yeah, they're magnetic. Yeah, that's it, and that's all you got.
Speaker 1:That's all I've heard the screen is better like everything about it is better like updated yeah, and yeah, like it's got a better screen but like it's got worse battery. Um because? It has a better screen, right but it could play 4k on your tv. It's like a lot, a lot is better, games look better, but it's just a lot of just grimy stuff that's coming out about it, that they're trying to nickel and dime you here and there and it's just not okay and it's just man 2025, being a gamer is tough I guess, I haven't played.
Speaker 3:I haven't played my xbox. It's tough in the streets. I haven't mario kart.
Speaker 2:I haven't owned a console since I was like 12. Y'all have a Switch. Oh yeah, that's right. It shows how much I play it.
Speaker 3:Right, that's so true, yeah, we also have a. Switch Never play it.
Speaker 1:Man. So it's just, I don't know what's happening with it.
Speaker 3:I'm sorry to hear that I'm sorry for your loss.
Speaker 2:It's in a better place.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's in a better place, yeah, so, uh, I'm still somewhat excited about it. We'll see how everything shakes out and if it, if it starts bumping up, you know, in price it's going to be a problem I can tell you what I will not do you want the new switch
Speaker 3:not pay 450 for any console period I was right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and that's what most people are kind of saying is now, because Nintendo used to be kind of the cheaper, fun family console that you could also buy for your kids. Now it's become the same price as the rest of them, so it's getting pretty rough.
Speaker 2:I mean that was what they were selling, the PS5 sort of thing.
Speaker 3:Yes, 500 something that's insanity.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so that's where we're at in the gaming community.
Speaker 2:I think it's just greedy.
Speaker 1:Greedy, greedy and that's kind of where you're getting at with these companies that say, well, the price of games are going up, but they make billions of dollars in profit every year and act like they can't have games.
Speaker 3:That are $60. Can't really justify that, yeah.
Speaker 1:So you know that's where we're at, but I mean other than that Well you'd think where we're at. But I mean other than that, well, you think they'd sorry, you think they try to keep kind of that same spiel of you know having cheaper stuff because, yeah, it's a smaller yeah it's a it's popular, obviously, but they can profit off popular yeah, and that's how they've done for years is they sell a console at a loss, but they make their money on their games and there's a bunch of games.
Speaker 3:Stay in your lane, Nintendo.
Speaker 2:And the accessibility of getting the games are so much you don't have to go to a store and buy it, you just download it right from the store on the Switch. So we'll see how it goes.
Speaker 1:But I mean other than that. You know, here we are, that's what's up Looking. But I mean other than that. Here we are Looking forward to the new iPhone that will be coming out In September. Things are leaking about it, so it will be interesting.
Speaker 3:I've got an iPhone 13 and I will have it until it blows up in my pocket. So I did with mine.
Speaker 2:Just joking. It didn't blow up, it just fell apart.
Speaker 1:Yours was held together by hopes and dreams.
Speaker 3:I'm not adriana just bought a 14. It was like 350 refurbished yeah, probably that's not bad yeah, so well, that's what's up, is it? I guess it is anything else on y'all's, I'm pretty disappointed by your entire spiel.
Speaker 1:Why are you disappointed?
Speaker 3:That was quite a buildup that you were talking about. I thought it was something important.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because you were like I've been dealing with it, Because we're like what are we talking about? We're talking about mental health. Yeah, I've been dealing with that, so this is why I'm upset.
Speaker 1:I, I'm not saying. That's why I'm saying I've been dealing with it and I think that's part of it.
Speaker 3:No, at the beginning of the episode you're like I got a big thing to share on. That's what's up and that's what it was.
Speaker 1:That was. That's a big thing. It's a big thing to me. See, this is the problem. This is the problem you can't share with people what you're going through. So y'all two are contributing to this.
Speaker 2:Okay, so I want y'all to know we're the, we're, y'all are the problem, we're those. No, there there's a I remember watching it was like a. It was a tick tock of like a someone like streaming their games and the dude was like, hey, if I was going through a tough time and it's like playing with like his guy friends if I was going through a tough time, would y'all be there for the?
Speaker 3:for me, no yeah, no, what you're going through is tough, tough time.
Speaker 1:Would y'all be there for me?
Speaker 3:No, yeah, no what you're going through is tough. Oh, kill that guy.
Speaker 1:Y'all are those people, man, I'm telling y'all hey.
Speaker 3:Mike suck it up See.
Speaker 2:Hey, be a man. I love those videos, the be a man videos, where the dude's like it's like, when you're trying to fix something in the garage, don't look for a reasonable solution, be a man, throw a wrench.
Speaker 3:I love those man we do care about your situation. I don't believe that hey, listeners, we just want to thank you for your continued support for the Almost Brothers podcast. Do us a favor and go to your favorite platform and rate us and like us and share with everyone that you know. Thank you so much, love you.
