Almost Brothers Podcast
Whats up whats up whats up.. welcome to your new favorite podcast. Join your hosts Michael, Richard, and Tyler as we discuss God, church, life, and the journey through this crazy world. Get away from the stresses of life with this podcast. We will be hitting on various topics from sports, to life with Christ.
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Almost Brothers Podcast
Life Outside the Box: Where Legos, Music, and 14 Kids Collide
What happens when life doesn't follow the expected script? When your story reads more like an adventure novel than a conventional biography? The Almost Brothers dive deep into the beauty, challenges, and unexpected gifts of taking unconventional paths through life.
From one host's remarkable journey as a teenage parent who defied the overwhelming statistics (only 5% of teen parents marry, and even fewer stay together) to celebrate 19 years of marriage, to another's spiritual awakening at 38 years old that completely transformed his worldview and parenting approach – this episode celebrates the road less traveled. With raw honesty, our hosts share how their unconventional beginnings shaped unique perspectives that conventional paths might never have provided.
The conversation takes unexpected turns as we explore what it means to feel perpetually "different" in various settings – from growing up as a racial minority in a homogeneous town to navigating social spaces with different interests and outlooks than most. One host shares his struggle with wanting to fit in while simultaneously embracing his uniqueness, a tension many listeners will recognize from their own lives.
We also tackle unconventional family dynamics, including raising 14 children through both birth and adoption, and the humorous challenges of connecting with children whose passions (like an obsessive love for Legos) leave parents completely baffled. These stories highlight how unconventional love stretches us beyond our comfort zones in the most beautiful ways.
Throughout it all runs a powerful thread of authenticity – the freedom that comes from embracing your unique journey rather than forcing it to fit societal expectations. As our hosts remind us, there's profound beauty in charting your own course, even when (especially when) it doesn't look like everyone else's.
Join us for this thoughtful exploration of life outside the box, and perhaps find the courage to embrace your own unconventional path along the way.
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Speaker 2:It's because he's worried about you. He's worried about getting you in there rich I don't want to be on there today.
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Speaker 3:I mean that's true, saturday I'm moding, moding Mode, moding A mode. Saturday I'm a mode and Let me get a shot. I'm moded.
Speaker 1:Liver.
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Speaker 1:Yeah, what'd you burn?
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Speaker 3:I'm Zeke and thank you for joining the Almost Brothers podcast.
Speaker 1:That is a good thing.
Speaker 2:There you go, Tyler.
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Speaker 2:Oh, the zeekster leading us off today, not in person, but unfortunately yeah and in recording? Yes, exactly, exactly, but what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up? Everybody, welcome back to a brand new episode of the almost brothers podcast. As ze said, thank you for joining us yet again. Do us a favor Make sure you share this with your friends, get it out there, help us spread the word of just this goofy podcast.
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Speaker 2:Exactly, we are live on TikTok. All those things? Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1:Here, as always with the mighty Tylerler wilkerson, mighty I'll take it well, I mean, there was a character called mighty mouse oh, it might be before your time though oh man, that's true that I was gonna say something mean, but I'm sorry, I'm not going to oh, but look, apologizing before he's
Speaker 2:choosing love, choosing the high road choose kindness I was gonna say there's also a character called job of the hood, but never mind.
Speaker 1:Oh, I'm sorry, that was anyways, I'm on a diet, I'm good, I'm I'm I'm doing good. So, and richard, randall no e that's right. How's it going? I'm good, big, rich 77 on xbox live.
Speaker 2:I wish you'd stop saying it no, I'm just saying, I'm just like gotta let them know your gamer tag I'm not on live.
Speaker 1:It doesn't even matter.
Speaker 4:Oh, how are y'all doing?
Speaker 1:They want to be trying to find me. They're like he's not even there. He lied.
Speaker 2:I'm trying to play.
Speaker 1:I'm trying to play. You don't want to play with me?
Speaker 2:I make. Tristan so mad. No, you have to shoot the guy Right, you're just like running around. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I can see that.
Speaker 1:I always have to turn my sensitivity down.
Speaker 2:Oh gosh, You're just going everywhere?
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, I don't. So what'd you think, your?
Speaker 2:first time at Strawberries it was all right.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Just all right, you didn't get the pork steak.
Speaker 3:though I didn't get the pork steak, though I didn't get the pork, well, I tried it I tried yours?
Speaker 4:yeah, it was.
Speaker 3:I don't want to get, I don't get, I don't want to get hate from people oh, it was good it was good, okay and that's. I think that's kind of all I will say it was good I don't care about hate mail.
Speaker 1:I will. I'm the one that has to deal with it, I know. That's why I don't care about hate mail?
Speaker 2:I do. I'm the one that has to deal with it.
Speaker 1:I know that's why I don't care, but I will say that several years ago it was way better, like when it became famous or whatever.
Speaker 2:Because it is famous, Walmart carries their dry rub for a reason they do, they do indeed.
Speaker 1:So yeah, I mean it used to be better, but it is good. I mean it's not bad.
Speaker 2:Well, on today's episode, we're not going to be talking about strawberries or barbecue at all you brought it up, I know, but I'm just saying it was funny.
Speaker 3:You asked me the other day how do you feel about strawberries for lunch?
Speaker 2:I was like, I don't like strawberries.
Speaker 3:I was like I don't like strawberries, I'll just bring my own.
Speaker 2:That is funny, just chocolate covered strawberries.
Speaker 1:Just us three sitting in a circle with chocolate covered strawberries, fruit salad oh my gosh. So my nephew?
Speaker 2:he has autism and he's just the greatest. And he used to hate that song when he was little, he was probably 12 or 13. So we'd sing it to him.
Speaker 1:I'd just be walking through the house like fruit sally. Be like uncle michael. You better stop the wiggles, right?
Speaker 2:yeah, so bad so on today's episode, we are going to be talking about an unconventional road, cool and all. I wasn't even done, sorry. Go ahead in all aspects of our life just being unconventional.
Speaker 4:Yeah Cool, there you go, there you go.
Speaker 2:Well, and I had this idea, because our man, jamie's anniversary just happened. 19 years Happy anniversary. The slow clap is supposed to start the clap, not end it. Ay yi yi.
Speaker 4:I go against the green.
Speaker 1:It takes an unconventional role.
Speaker 2:That's what I was about to say oh man, I was thinking about this because our marriage is very unconventional, our life together is very unconventional. You know, usually you graduate high school, right, you get married, you have kids. We had a kid, graduated, got married. So it's very unconventional. And then I got to thinking about you and how.
Speaker 1:Oh, my entire life has been unconventional.
Speaker 2:Well, just you coming to know jesus. Yeah, it's very unconventional. You were later on in life. You know most of us we kind of grew up in church, right, you know. But you get saved at what? 30 38 38 years old man, so that that's a big deal, you know very unconventional. And then you have tyler, who is himself unconventional he is an unconvention I myself am strange and unusual.
Speaker 3:I too am extremely humble drax.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, and was I mean just thinking about, especially today. Them being married at their age is kind of unconventional, usually they're you know, people are waiting a little bit later and later on in life, still being married, and still being bright and still being married.
Speaker 3:Yeah, because I know a lot of people my age that got married around, you know, early 20s, yeah, and married for three, four years.
Speaker 2:Now they're divorced yeah, what time, or what time. What time did you get married?
Speaker 3:uh, well, it was about two in the afternoon. I think 3 in the afternoon it was 1 o'clock on a Wednesday.
Speaker 1:It was stormy.
Speaker 2:When did y'all get married? At what age?
Speaker 3:It was four years ago, 24. Liv was 22.
Speaker 2:Oh, you were 24. She was 21. Cool, you got married at at like the first time which one which time 28? What?
Speaker 1:are we talking with?
Speaker 2:jennifer, when'd you get married?
Speaker 1:uh, we've been married 16 years and I'm 47, so 20, I don't know 31 yeah wow 31.
Speaker 2:We got married at 19, so all three kind of unconventional yeah you know so, and they and tyler and live met online and that's true.
Speaker 3:That's another there, you go.
Speaker 2:Another different, especially from our generations, you know is that that's a very, very different, yeah than any fun fact never, ever been on a dating website I haven't either, nor do I want to seems like a scary world out there meet people like tyler out there.
Speaker 1:I'm not right like like you.
Speaker 2:You know how easy it is to get co-works ask live like I mean they just she on her first date had her best friend and her cousin.
Speaker 3:Uh, just, oh, what's the word I'm looking for?
Speaker 2:escort her coincidentally go oh yeah, yeah, yeah, just kind of yeah sitting and watching and yeah, um carrying pepper spray right I know that, I know that a lot of people would do like the phone call, like the emergency phone call. You know, oh, I've got to go, you know, but yeah, I like that, the little exit and the little pop-up, yeah. So how was the first date? Apparently pretty good, or was it like, I don't know, like let me keep going on this website. And then you were like, okay, you know what?
Speaker 3:For me, don't lie.
Speaker 2:Ooh don't lie, ooh don't lie.
Speaker 3:For me it didn't feel as awkward as most first dates. Yeah, I would say Okay, I guess I did something right yeah, considering, you know, five years later, here you are.
Speaker 2:That's true, that's true. What'd y'all do?
Speaker 3:uh, we went to las brisas and they surprised one chinese, I'm not gonna lie yeah, that's right. Yeah, I think at that point I didn't know because I was living in bernie and I just moved there. I I didn't know there was one in malden.
Speaker 1:Yeah, at the time that's okay, you're not missing anything. Where'd you go to dexter?
Speaker 3:no, we went to.
Speaker 2:We went to malden, oh okay malden nice, nice, and then just all down here downhill after that your words, not mine oh, he took a pause, dude yeah, I'm not gonna agree with that. Yeah, but yeah. So do you, either one of y'all, ever feel kind of that, man, my life is so different or my journey was so different than someone else's?
Speaker 1:just listening to them, like, maybe, talk about their life and then you start to realize like, oh man, our journey is a little bit different yeah well, and that's not talking about mine, but yours for a second, because we talk about, like all the time we tell the youth that yours and jamie's situation, y'all's road is so not the typical high school pregnancy story yeah right. Usually you get married in high school because of a pregnancy. It doesn't last, right I would. I would wager 80 of those do not last.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I would say it's, it's. It's a more than uncommon circumstance, but the result of you guys is far and few in between yeah yeah, I'm gonna look up um the statistic yeah the exact statistics?
Speaker 1:yeah, I don't know where you're getting your statistics I made mine up out of thin air, so you remember that?
Speaker 2:uh, what is that? Uh, um, not bruce almighty, but uh phone with dick and jane. It's like I don't know where you're getting your statistics. They made a video out of it. It was funny. Anyway, approximately one-third of teen pregnancies result in teenager cohabitation, marrying or having a child. Of those who have a child, a smaller percentage 22% cohabitate before the birth and a smaller percentage five percent marry.
Speaker 1:Five percent, wow of teen pregnancies actually get married wow that is a staggeringly low number I didn't know it was that I'm willing to bet that of those five percent, even less stay married, and that's what I was yeah, that's what I was going to try to to.
Speaker 2:To kind of allude to is I wonder how many of those then stay married.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and that's because Jamie's awesome, she's pretty amazing. Has nothing to do with you.
Speaker 2:She's pretty amazing. Yeah, so 19 years of marriage and about 27, 26 together.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Something like that, and it is. It's a testament to how amazing she is, how blessed we are to have met each other in high school, to have dated, to have went through these life-changing things.
Speaker 3:The one time she broke up with you, man. It was a couple times. She broke up with me, man I got to bring that up, man.
Speaker 4:That's part of the story Dern.
Speaker 2:Speaking of.
Speaker 3:That's her Dernity, dern Dern up. That's her. That's what she said. She said, yeah, she did.
Speaker 2:I'm breaking up she was such a hater back then well I got.
Speaker 1:We got me and my high schools. We are. We got married in high school, or you know that whole story, yeah but we were only married for like four years yeah so we were that statistic right the other side of the coin of you and jamie it just did. And then subsequent marriages. I've just been a terrible husband yeah you know, because I didn't know, I didn't know god, so I didn't know what real love was. Right, it was just selfish love yeah, that's what you know.
Speaker 2:you try to teach people you especially those that are kind of unconventional either it's later in life or it's earlier in life when they're getting married, you know is trying to explain to them put God number one in your life and everything else, you know. It's that pyramid the closer you get to God, the closer you get to each other, you know. So I've just really been thinking about that over the past few days is just how, how blessed we are, how, how lucky we are and how much we had to fight to to keep this together, because I'm I too have been a terrible husband, terrible father, terrible, everything you know before and terrible human beings right and her just sticking through it and and seeing the best in me.
Speaker 2:You know we got married at 19, so we still had a lot of growing to do, you know. So being able to grow but grow together, you know it really. It really is a testament to how amazing she is, how strong she is, and I'm just grateful and thankful for that's the difference between, uh, young couples then, even though then was what?
Speaker 3:almost 20?
Speaker 2:years ago. Why do you say it like that? And then?
Speaker 3:and then young couples, young couples now, because you know, kind of like you said many times, jamie could have just packed up her bags and left. Yeah, but she didn't, whereas it seems very common as soon as there's a hiccup, someone's ready to pack their bags.
Speaker 2:Yeah have y'all ever got to that point, to where y'all are like flat out like fighting to the point of maybe not even talking about, because now we, we that's one thing that we've now got to the point where we say that's something you can't even bring up.
Speaker 3:That's not even an option that you can and you have to. You have to get there. That's where we were from day one. That's not even an option. Oh yeah, Good.
Speaker 1:And y'all had the advantage of growing up in church. Y'all had godly examples of Christian marriage, and it makes a huge difference. I truly believe we're on our second group of children, so to speak.
Speaker 2:We raised man, you ain't lying, yeah, yeah, that's a good way to think about it.
Speaker 1:Second class of children Class of 22. I don't know, but anyway I never thought of it that way yeah.
Speaker 3:The graduating Randall class. Start your own school, Okay go ahead.
Speaker 1:So we raised six children, yeah, and then we kind of started over when we adopted and we started fostering and we adopted. So it's it's. It's a totally different example that we're setting for these kids now than we did for our adult children, and I believe it shows yeah because our adult children aren't seeking God like I would like them to, and it's because, as younger kids, they didn't have that Christian example.
Speaker 2:Do you ever have regrets in that?
Speaker 1:Oh dude.
Speaker 2:That's how I am.
Speaker 1:Because I've talked to you a lot about this recently. I'm kind of getting to a point to where, yes, I feel guilty, but during my Christian walk since I've become a Christian at 38, I have done everything I can to show them that now, and to witness to them and to try to live a life that that that they would be proud of, to see a godly life, yeah. So while I didn't show them that when they were younger, I have, I have tried to make up for that and I, you know, as adults you can't make their decisions for them.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:You know you can show them a better life, tell them what God did for you, because Lord knows he changed me. But at the end of the day they have to make that decision for themselves.
Speaker 2:Right and and and, even with those that maybe didn't grow up in church, they still they got to see both sides of that too. So they had they also have an advantage of seeing you live without god and live with god, you know. So it's like, yeah, you, you and I've had to learn this because I was the same way, you know, with with alia. We were so young that we had a lot of growing up to do as well, so we didn't race. We raised her in church, but not as much. We didn't set the best example for her, because we too were again struggling through life, growing up and dealing with a bunch of stupid decisions. But she got a different advantage than my two youngest, because she got to see the entire coming from, where we're going, the entire arc of our life, as opposed to, as he can say, no, nothing but church, like that. They know nothing.
Speaker 2:But mommy and daddy is in church is what we're doing, you know, for their entire lives right but I struggle with that a lot is is feeling that guilt of living that unconventional life and not having my stuff together when Aaliyah was young and wishing man. I wish I would have had my head on my shoulders a lot better than I did, saving up money, you know, college fund for her, things like that. So I feel bad about that because we did start so young, you know.
Speaker 1:But yeah, and Tristan gave me one of the best compliments and he wasn't trying to, but we were talking and he said that he hopes that he can get to a point of the life that I'm currently living where nothing will pull me away from god yeah like I'm at a point in my life where it's being god's my ride or die, right, right yeah literally, but to to know that he sees that it's, it's overwhelming yeah to to know that that that's recognizable in me when I don't see it in myself right you know, because it's it's.
Speaker 1:It's easy to to miss that when you're self-reflecting.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so and not seeing what others see and right yeah, one and a beautiful thing about tyler, especially with our three, the almost three almost brothers is that there is. There's a lot, you know there's things love you, man um is that when y'all finally do have kids, you're gonna you're gonna have an unconventional road when it comes to us three, to where you're not gonna have to deal with that. They're gonna start in church knowing that mommy and daddy love jesus and that you know. So that's a that's gonna be a beautiful thing too.
Speaker 3:I was gonna say uh, I feel like me and live in that sense, have an advantage yeah absolutely being around, obviously, people like you guys but also seeing bad examples yeah, not in our, our personal lives, but but have seen that uh in other people and that's kind of like I uh, leadership I talked about leadership before being in the military. There's bad leadership. When I was in the military and I was able to take away the the bad, to know what not to do yeah kind of. So kind of in that sense not saying I think we're going to be perfect parents, but I think we've. I think we have a pretty good upper hand.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and so your parents are still together, right? No, oh, okay. Okay, that's what I was about to say. I thought both of y'all said to parents were still together, persons, yeah, so even that that's even something that not a lot of couples get is an example like that of parents yourself that are still together, because most of us come from divorced homes. It's just what the stats are, you know. So even that you have a, you have a good view on, especially like long-term marriage, like that's such a rare thing anymore for anyone under the age of 80 years old. Yeah, so it's cool to see that and you get kind of a different perspective because you see, you know you can go to this couple like how do y'all 50 years like that's crazy, you know. So that that's really cool. And also, when y'all do have kids, it's amazing that you're so both of y'all are so great at music and at singing that they've got an upper hand even in that.
Speaker 3:I'll tell, I'll tell them live, because, uh, because we have a foster kid and what it, and in men, in men, yeah, in like you're going in. He can't do it going in a man in men, in men, uh he's he's really into. He's really into pokemon and there's one I. There's something I had to do and, uh, like the next day I had to go and do something. I think live was like off work or something and I was like it's a good opportunity for you and him to. You know, hang on, do something.
Speaker 3:She's like it's hard to connect with him yeah, I was like I was like yeah, but think of it as good practice because I you know there's a 50 50 chance with me and you doing music and raising a child around music that they're not going to want to do music and be interested in something else yeah and regardless, we have to show interest in that yeah, that's so true.
Speaker 1:That's such a frustrating thing, you know, because as a parent you have to show interest in what they're interested in. Yeah, and it's. It's so hard when it's something that's so far away from anything that you could give a crap about. Zane loves legos. I want to throat punch the ceo of lego gosh because they are that annoying I can't, and I know it's a whole culture. I get it.
Speaker 2:I just I don't understand I'm having to like keep myself in my seat he's about to come, unglued, crash out d1 legos is not my thing.
Speaker 1:You're gonna be yelling, let go here in a minute made a whole show about it on hulu.
Speaker 3:It's, it's. You know, they go masters like yeah, build legos like and that's and that's.
Speaker 1:He's so creative and I swear he's going to be a structural engineer one of these days, because he can build a lego in like 10 minutes and it's like but you didn't even the directions are over there I'll tell you something about this.
Speaker 3:This is interesting.
Speaker 2:Somehow it's not what it was, but it's better right this is confirmation right here I was sitting, so so I believe it was you that got me the fast and furious car lego set and I want to put it together, but I'm like sitting here looking at, I'm like man, I really don't want to spend the time. I love putting them together, but I'm like I don't really have time. So I was like you know what, if I go to zane and be like zane, I'll give you five bucks. Put this together for me.
Speaker 1:Which one is it.
Speaker 2:It's the. It's um Brian's car from the from too fast too furious.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's done blue and silver. Yeah, yeah, actually he's done two of them and both of them got broke.
Speaker 2:Oh well these won't get broke. This will get put on display, but I was like you know I might have to.
Speaker 1:Oh he'll he'll, he's good at it but I love that is having.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you have to show and that's what I had to do with lee. You know I couldn't tell you anything about art. You know I tried to push her to play basketball, you're six foot tall, like play basketball come on and and I had to like go out of my way to learn things and become interested and sit with her and watch her, and and have to make myself become interested in that because yeah, she like y'all are probably going to run into eventually is they'll go the opposite way of what you love and it's like all right.
Speaker 2:well, I guess you know whatever you're into or, god willing, it inherits it.
Speaker 3:I don't say it, it inherits. I don't say it, it inherits. Our children inherit our musical ability.
Speaker 2:There you go, and that's entirely possible as well. That's usually how that goes. Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1:Sometimes, it skips a generation. Well, and they may inherit the talent, but not the passion. Yeah, so they may be a fantastic singer and hate music altogether.
Speaker 3:That might drive me crazy.
Speaker 2:Or, like me, where you have the passion but no talent.
Speaker 3:Right, I would love to sing Like I love to sing man. And then it's not working out.
Speaker 2:For me it's like no, oh, my gosh Sissy Now with her little attitude all the time oh she's sassy. She makes sure to let me know, dad, uh, uh, uh uh uh, uh, nope, no stop.
Speaker 3:She could be a reality TV star.
Speaker 2:She's like stick to preaching. I'm just like go.
Speaker 3:She's telling you to stay in your lane.
Speaker 2:She's telling you to. She's telling you, she's telling you to stop writing checks. You can't cash. It's like man and I discipline her right there, on the spot. Uh what's what's some other ways that you kind of see yourself or your situation or your life in an unconventional way.
Speaker 3:I'll tell you I'll tell you mine outside the box went to college for five years. Yeah, got a degree, not using it, not using it at all.
Speaker 2:All right, with no want to even you. It's not like you have it and you're looking. I don't want to use it?
Speaker 3:yeah, I don't want to use it and I saw that when I quit teaching as great I wasted five years of my life right. But with what I'm doing now, with music, I'm still able to use the knowledge that I learned in college and apply it in right in that aspect, which makes me regret now regret going to college. I loved college. It was the best and worst times, um it was the best of times.
Speaker 2:It was the worst of times, gosh dang it um but it makes me.
Speaker 3:It makes me feel less of like I wasted five years right yeah, because, oh yeah, yeah, you carry that with you for sure.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's a good one man that's so true uh, just the fact that we have 14 kids is unconventional, that's that's as well, and anytime I tell people that it's don't you know what causes that.
Speaker 3:It's the same thing every time.
Speaker 1:And then they start asking you know which ones are birthed, which ones are adopted?
Speaker 4:I'm like nah, oh yeah, man, I was watching Impractical Jokers today.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, that's it, man. Yeah, I was watching Impressible Jokers today and they're doing one little thing where they had to go up to a random stranger and they had something in a bag. They didn't know what it was, but the goal was to be able to get the stranger to take whatever it was. Well, there's this guy and his wife and his kids. He had like five or six kids. Joe's, like I got this for you, opens it back. I was like, oh my gosh, well, this might help. It was a long thing full of condoms, oh god he was.
Speaker 3:He was like you know, you know what, what cause?
Speaker 2:yeah, he's like you know what causes that right yeah that reminds me of that.
Speaker 1:That's funny now I just answer yes, adoption, yeah right, and you're just like yeah, I do know what.
Speaker 2:Yeah thank you thanks well, it's like it's like going to the store and something's not ringing up and and you're like, oh, I guess it's free, all right. I've never heard that one before.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. Well, we when we go out to eat, obviously it's quite a spectacle, but it's. It's weird that some people are actually rude about it. Yeah, and our kids are not missed. They don't misbehave in public yeah because I'll smack them. I say that on the podcast, smack them, but they just they look at us like how dare we have?
Speaker 2:any kids in public? Yeah, what are you thinking?
Speaker 1:I mean they want it out of their cage. What do you?
Speaker 2:we didn't have another show till tomorrow, so we had a free night yeah, and I feel like I am just everything about me and the area in which we live and, for the most part, grew up is unconventional.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I feel very much, and sometimes it gets to where I feel out of place right to where, like I'm just, I was plucked and dropped in the middle of where everyone else is just different and I'm different from everyone else and it's hard to relate and it's hard to, I mean, just to look around and see everyone is kind of the same in a way and I'm so different from all of that.
Speaker 3:I know how you feel you know, growing up in an all-white town yeah.
Speaker 1:The Pucks are cool. The only minority in the school how long you been in the states oh my gosh yeah
Speaker 3:surprisingly, never been asked that until that one time and it's crazy it caught me off guard because, like what do you mean? What? The united states? Yeah, the states that are united, but yeah well, you do have a pair of camo pants.
Speaker 2:I do have that now. I do have that now. That's so true.
Speaker 1:Well, I've got the same thing going on because I was raised by a single mom. So you know those manly men are like do you hunt, do you fish? No, sir. I don't do any of that my mom didn't teach me any of that, but yeah, it's which I don't. And I don't think that being unconventional is necessarily a bad thing. Yeah, Because it allows you to think outside the box.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You know, whereas, instead of doing things the way they've always been done, it allows you to be a little more creative, a little more imaginative.
Speaker 3:Yeah, well, I think it kind of going back to you know you're talking about when you take your family out to restaurants and people are rude about that because that's not normal.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and they're like how dare they not be normal?
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 3:And it's being normal is dumb.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I I mean part of me wants to hand them my check, but I don't do that, so yeah there's, there's, but there's.
Speaker 3:There's beauty in the unconventional and the normal yeah the unconventional being it's not normal and that's cool and the normal. For me, the normal being normal is comfortable. It's, yeah, comfortable that's, that's how.
Speaker 2:That's a lot what I, what I sometimes crave is just fitting in, you know, because I I never really have right in any like fully in anywhere.
Speaker 1:I've kind of always been different than the group that I'm with well, and you've talked about it before you know and in school you were, you know, heavier and so you didn't fit in there and then. But in high school you fit into the basketball team, but even then you were probably different then, but yeah, yeah for sure there's nothing necessarily wrong with that right, yeah, and it's just and it's, yeah, it's.
Speaker 2:It's something that you could take on and make it your own and be happy with is being a little different, because god made you that way, right, and it's a beautiful thing yeah, and I'm.
Speaker 1:I'm unusual in the fact that yes, I'm sorry, I'm. I'm sorry, go ahead, I'm very comfortable with myself yeah and and the way that I am, and I, and I believe that if you're not change it, yeah, you know. If, if you're, if you want to know how to hunt, learn how to hunt. If you, if you, if you want to change something about yourself, do so.
Speaker 2:I hunt for deals on Amazon.
Speaker 1:Do you just have no filter between brain and mouth?
Speaker 2:I'm sorry, I swear. I'm saying this in my head, not out of hand.
Speaker 1:You're not. But yeah, just if you want something different, change it, and I crave ice cream.
Speaker 2:Speaking of cravings, no, I'll save it for we'll save it for a later episode.
Speaker 3:Rain check well, that's a great segue into a segment that we call that's what. Uh, I'm not sure how that led into that, but okay, it was unconventional, the unconventional segue.
Speaker 2:So that's what's up is a segment that we talk about some things that we're watching, listening to, maybe a new show, new movie, something that's coming out.
Speaker 1:Pastor Rich, what you got, so I'm going to talk about something that Mike does not want to talk about, but I want to talk about it anyway taxes, oh, man oh american idol oh let me tell you we are down to which brings up my next, my next topic that you need to be accepting of what your friends are into as well, not just yourself. I went to anime con with you.
Speaker 2:I'm just saying you went to comic-con whatever, it's the same thing. It's not. Those are two different events, but continue. It's like saying the voice and American idol are the same show.
Speaker 1:It's not exactly so anyway, we're down to the top 12, right, and I I'm giving American idol a hundred percent props, regardless of their motivation. Um, Let me preamble that by saying that they're having a worship night next Sunday night. They're going to have Brandon Lake and CeCe Winans and Christian music being played through a three-hour special episode. Sorry.
Speaker 3:Are you excited?
Speaker 1:Brandon will be on there.
Speaker 2:Oh, brandon, I didn't know what you said.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was a little hard to understand.
Speaker 2:Man.
Speaker 1:But yeah, I think it's an amazing thing that they're doing regardless of their motivation. I think it's just another way to get the word out.
Speaker 3:So it's a good deal and I think it was all carrie underwood it probably was, even though it do you call in and vote?
Speaker 2:no, do they still do that I have?
Speaker 1:no, they actually have an app for it now oh, that's not surprising, yeah, okay I used to you know years ago yeah because we watched it forever. Carrie underwood won 20 years ago this season, yep I know you don't care, so also, uh, the show extracted. Yeah, season finale is next week and that show is phenomenal. It's on hulu, it's a fox show, but it's so good.
Speaker 2:I got the first two in and I really liked it but then we, yeah, yeah, you need to.
Speaker 1:You need to binge, watch it when you get a chance yes, for sure, it's a good one.
Speaker 2:It's good, it's a good premise to a show it was it yeah you know, it gets intense yeah what you got nice cory asbury's got a new song out.
Speaker 3:It's really good it's called Good For Nothing. I like it. It's a fantastic song.
Speaker 2:What was that one you shared? I think it was Brandon Lake. It was Brandon Lake.
Speaker 3:Right, yeah, it's called Daddy's DNA. Yeah, that's another good one.
Speaker 1:I saw that.
Speaker 3:I'm excited for it.
Speaker 1:You sent me another one that he was like Did a part of, but it was like it was like a harder rock type song oh it knows, uh, another one.
Speaker 3:There's another one. He wrote that'll be on his next album okay, yeah, it's, yeah, it's pretty awesome yeah, and speaking of corey asbury, yeah, oh my gosh, for those that don't know.
Speaker 3:So friday was it friday, I think it was friday scrolling through tiktok, already in bed at this point, scrolling through tiktok and I see cory asbury live and went on there, and so I've got, I I've started going on TikTok to kind of create a following on there and and and make a little bit of cash. Um, by, I'll go live on my own or other people will go live and bring other musicians up on their live and people can send gifts which have monetary value and things like that. So I went on his and he was promoting that song and I took a chance and just said hey, or comment on the live, like, hey, can I sing you one of your songs? And, completely not expecting, he, he saw the comment, read the comment and it was like sure, and and and sent me a, an invite to his live, and so you had to get out of bed.
Speaker 3:I got out of bed, put on some shorts, a shirt, I ran downstairs, my guitar was downstairs, I was freaking out. I didn't have my camera on, just the microphone. I was like. I was like, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, give me just a minute because I am in bed, holy crap. And you know, just hear me just run up down the stairs.
Speaker 2:Completely played it cool yeah, played, yeah, just you know yeah, cool as a cucumber.
Speaker 3:Yeah, definitely was not fangirling or anything. And oh, I was, I've, I've played in front of, I think the most. I played in front of like 800 people, 900, nowhere near as nervous as I was playing right not even in front of him, right I'm playing through a phone that he's watching me. Yeah, with the one that one on one, yeah, yeah, well, it's, and it's another thing if you're, you know, just playing music, for you know someone of kind of importance like that, but I'm playing one of his songs yeah, right, yeah so it's another, even a whole another thing, and I was just so nervous I was shaky the whole time.
Speaker 3:Um that's pretty awesome, mine was not mine and he was impressed.
Speaker 1:I saw it. So he was impressed with your uh singing. So, yeah, expect that phone call any day now. Yeah, and what is your tiktok?
Speaker 2:just so is it like a crazy?
Speaker 1:name no, oh, I think it's please tell me, you know your own tiktok name well I go, I go by tyler hayes on there.
Speaker 3:I well, I know there's like a certain I don't know it's tyler hayes on okay, thank you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I cleared it up. Yeah, figure out why later I don't understand it.
Speaker 3:Well, it's like there's like you have your name and then there's like a like the at something whatever I don't yeah I don't, I don't remember that one.
Speaker 2:It's always something you just kind of crazy, yeah you just look up tyler hayes gotcha I do music on there?
Speaker 3:I don't have any. I'm still working on recording middle of writing a new song how many you have completed not not even recorded just completed six, six nice, six Nice.
Speaker 1:Nice what you got, Michael or Robert.
Speaker 2:Still waiting on Nintendo Switch 2. Oh Lord Dude, let's let this go Moving on.
Speaker 3:Did he tell you what he's doing? Hey, who?
Speaker 4:what.
Speaker 3:Did he tell you what he's doing? Wait, did he tell you what he's doing? I said did he tell?
Speaker 1:you what he's doing? Hey, Mike, what is he trying?
Speaker 3:to ask I'm confused. Well, you told me in the car what you're doing.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 3:I'm selling my Switch to get the new one. I was expecting that reaction.
Speaker 1:Cool, yeah, I mean, and I'm happy that you're happy I feel like that's not true.
Speaker 3:That's very backhanded, it's 100% true.
Speaker 1:I'm glad that you're happy. That's very backhanded, it's 100% true.
Speaker 2:I'm glad that you so anyway the Mario Kart Direct comes out tomorrow, so I'm excited to see that.
Speaker 1:And then just I saw that they have an open-world Mario game coming out like a GTA thing. It's.
Speaker 4:Mario Kart.
Speaker 2:It's a new Mario Kart, so even while you're waiting on matches to populate, it's free roam and all that which they're going to explain. They're going to explain some more to it tomorrow, but it's going to be 24 people racing at once. But yeah, it's going to be fented. No, he's on the cart, he's not shooting. Oh my gosh, he's a grandpa, golly, yeah he is a grandpa, literally. Uh, I am so that what?
Speaker 1:did we watch? I thought we watched a new movie this week. He is a grandpa, literally Grandpa.
Speaker 2:Rich I am. That's Pawpaw. What did we watch? I thought we watched a new movie. This week we watched National Treasure, which that wasn't a new one, but we watched that.
Speaker 1:You did watch a new movie because you were telling me you were watching it.
Speaker 2:Yes, it's called the Ritual. It's crazy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 2:It's a Netflix original movie.
Speaker 1:Pretty crazy that greenland that you told me that was really good. Gerard butler, that's really good. Yeah, I like gerard butler. I do too. Really good actor.
Speaker 2:He's in the new how to train your dragon live action yep yep might be worth watching just for that got star wars episode three. The anniversary is coming up, that's right, sorry, yeah, I don't care that's one of the.
Speaker 3:I remember that was one of the first movies I watched in theaters that I can remember. I'm watching it in theaters next week.
Speaker 1:Now, which one is that?
Speaker 2:Episode three is Revenge of the Sith.
Speaker 1:So that's not you and my brother Anakin. Yeah, it's where Calm down.
Speaker 4:Spoiler alert I had the high ground.
Speaker 2:If you haven't seen this movie from 30 years ago. It's where anakin officially turns into vader okay, so it's that one okay yeah, I got you so good. That was a good one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I got the high ground which one was the one with uh, dark maul? One first one see, and I thought he was such a cool character that's just just just to literally
Speaker 3:oh, he's literally kill him off just like he's so awesome and I think people kind of split down the middle.
Speaker 4:Yeah, that is it I see what you did there, that that double-ended light lightsaber that was cool it's pretty sick, yeah, yeah, well, it's like boba fett, like all the best characters, all the like coolest.
Speaker 2:Anyway, they like kill off yeah you know, it's like boba fett which they brought him back.
Speaker 3:But they just kind of kill off pretty. I think, quite on, jen had potential too. Yeah, yeah, old liam nissan did you watch the mandalorian?
Speaker 1:did you ever?
Speaker 2:yeah, I watched. I watched just season one, yeah, and then, after they fired gina carano, I stopped watching.
Speaker 1:Okay, because all that oh yeah all that madness I don't know, I've watched the first season politics yeah I was stupid apparently it was twice as stupid do we just become best friends?
Speaker 2:yep, you want to go to the?
Speaker 1:garage and do karate double the stupid yeah.
Speaker 2:so, um, yeah, a lot of geek stuff coming up this week, so I am very, very pumped and excited.
Speaker 1:Speaking of being different.
Speaker 2:I was bummed out because I had to miss two different events because of all the rain and flooding. Yeah, had to miss the Tyler Hilton concert that we had tickets to go to, with a meet and greet that we didn't get to meet or greet. Not happy Not happy and I missed AnimeCon in Cape. Yeah, because all the roads were closed, so it was not fun.
Speaker 1:It was crazy, not fun, it was nuts.
Speaker 2:Not fun.
Speaker 3:A lot of rain.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But that concludes our segment of that's what's Up.
Speaker 3:What's up, what's?
Speaker 4:up.
Speaker 3:No, no, our truth, no, okay, wow, what's up, what's up? No, no, our truth, no okay, wow, wrestlemania, that's what's up, that wrestlemania this weekend?
Speaker 2:it sure is this weekend here is my, here is my prediction for the seth rollins, roman reigns and the other guy. That doesn't really matter.
Speaker 1:Is that a triple threat? Yes, it is.
Speaker 2:CM Punk. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I believe this is my prediction that Seth Rollins is going to win and that Paul Heyman is going to side with him. That's my prediction.
Speaker 1:That's interesting, you heard it here.
Speaker 2:You heard it here. You heard it here first.
Speaker 1:I don't know where that's from.
Speaker 3:Write that down. You heard it here first.
Speaker 1:Y'all got anything else on your heart? No Cool.
Speaker 2:Nothing Cool.
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