Almost Brothers Podcast
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Almost Brothers Podcast
Red Bull For Breakfast, Encouragement For Lunch
The most powerful encouragers often struggle to encourage themselves. This paradox forms the heart of our conversation as we explore how small, intentional acts of affirmation can transform someone's entire outlook.
When's the last time you sent that morning text to your spouse? Acknowledged someone's hard work with specific praise? Or simply told someone "I'm proud of you"? These seemingly minor gestures can become lifelines for the people around us. We share personal stories about how unexpected encouragement lifted us during moments of self-doubt – like the worship leader questioning their performance who receives a timely, specific compliment, or the weight-loss journeyer who needs that regular accountability and celebration of progress.
What makes encouragement truly effective isn't grand gestures but genuine attention to what matters to someone. Setting reminders for your friend's important day, noticing specific efforts rather than general outcomes, and being present when someone needs affirmation. We dive into the fascinating dynamic between outward confidence and inner self-consciousness – how many of us "portray confidence while feeling self-conscious" in our work, ministry, and relationships.
The conversation takes unexpected turns through American Idol critiques, martial arts training adventures, and summer movie recommendations (including an F1 racing film starring Brad Pitt that surprisingly has us all interested). But the message remains clear throughout: your encouragement matters more than you know, and someone in your life desperately needs to hear from you today. What small step could you take right now to lift someone else's spirits?
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Speaker 1:This isn't asmr. 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. Thank you for joining us yet again with me. As always, you're welcome, richie, rich, how's it going? What you and ty ty, so muted, just start off, it's right off the jump muted. Today we're going to be talking about encouraging one another. Boom, encouragement, exactly Encouragement, encouragement.
Speaker 1:I find it hard to encourage myself. I'm a good encourager but hard at kind of encouraging myself. So I want to talk about both things of how you can encourage your friends, your family, your spouse, whoever, because, rich, you're on this weight loss journey, man, and and and you know you'll send us your weight and we try to encourage you as much as we can. And, tyler, saying with you on on writing music, we try to encourage oh man, that sounds so good, you know. And trying to encourage one another.
Speaker 1:But sometimes it feels like the biggest encouragers are the ones that are struggling, just fighting, fighting, fighting. So how are some of the ways one will start with just encouraging others? How are some of the ways that that you find that people in your life are, are encouraged? You know things you say, things you do. You know, I'll try to tell Jamie, you know, just randomly, like babe, like I am so thankful and grateful for you, just randomly, like babe, like I am so thankful and grateful for you, you know, like just the small things that she does, that that means so much. I try to encourage her in that, that that they, they mean a lot, that they don't go unseen, you know when I used to.
Speaker 2:For a little while I sent jennifer because I get up before dawn most of the time but I would send her a uh, just a little text message so that when she woke up it'd be the first thing she saw. You know, hey, have a great day, blah blah. Kind of got out of that. I just realized that.
Speaker 1:Oh, just now, during this conversation, I'm talking about having an epiphany.
Speaker 2:That's what I'm talking about but uh, but I didn't know that it meant anything to her. And then one day she's like I want you to know that those make my entire day. Yeah, and she just, she just never mentioned. I mean, she wouldn't even respond to the text.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then just go just nothing. Leave me on read, all right.
Speaker 2:But you know, she told me that one day that that that just made her day that that I was thinking of her yeah so yeah, and it's, it's, it's about being intentional you know listening to what somebody's got going on and, um, I can't remember what it was. Somebody had something going on, so I set a reminder in my phone for that date. I don't know it was a court date or something, just to you know. Hey, just letting you know.
Speaker 2:Thinking about your day yeah you know it's just being intentional and listening to what everybody's got going on that is good time what was the question? I don't muted.
Speaker 1:So I know one thing for us on the podcast. I'm going to bring you back here in a second. Okay, I want you to sit and think about what you did. Okay, well, nathan, shout out to nathan. He, he came up to us, you know, and and just kind of told us a story about him being at work and and listening to the podcast and to where his boss, like came over and thought he was hurt because he was laughing, yeah, and and yes, okay, oh, yeah, okay, tyler hasn't heard the story, yeah. So he said you know, nope, he's, I will mute you again. He was down like in, like in this machine.
Speaker 2:He made a whole facebook post.
Speaker 1:Yes, oh, it's so funny. And he said he was down there listening and like laughing, like hysterically laughing, and said like his boss like came and said, hey, are you okay? He's like oh yeah sorry, I'm just in here laughing, you know, he said. Apparently it sounds like he was in a lot of pain, and just hearing that is encouraging that in itself is like man cool we're. You know we've got somebody that's enjoying the podcast. It's awesome getting that feedback and that happens.
Speaker 2:I won't say often, but when it does happen it's just like somebody will randomly say hey, I heard such and such on the podcast.
Speaker 1:It's like people really listen yeah, it's like oh man, that's awesome yeah yeah, oh god, oh god help us all.
Speaker 2:What was the question? How?
Speaker 1:how do you encourage others? What's some good ways that you encourage? Maybe your friends, the people on your worship team, people at your church, your wife um your foster child?
Speaker 3:For me. I know one thing that I like, like for people to you know, encouraging me is kind of, we're not to that part. Well, I'm getting to.
Speaker 1:We're not to that point yet. What I'm people to you know, encouraging me, it's kind of we're not to that part.
Speaker 3:Well, what I'm getting to we're not to that point yet. What I'm getting to is that I try to reciprocate that and it's kind of pointing out the small things a little bit like, uh, like our, our drummers, have you? Know, an important role on the team, just them. It's really important. They know the songs and stuff. So I'll say like, hey, I appreciate you taking the time to, to know, know this and yeah, you know, because what you do is important.
Speaker 2:Well, that's a really good point that you barely made. Thank, you. That it doesn't have to be a giant gesture right, it could be a little. Hey, love you thinking about you yeah it doesn't have to take a half an hour out of your day to just give somebody that little bit of encouragement man?
Speaker 1:I hope not. Half an hour, that's man. That's a lot. I'm an encouraging human being. Sit down. Yeah, have a seat. You got some time to a seat.
Speaker 3:You got some time to be encouraged.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I got a few minutes. I'm going to encourage the crap out of you. Sit down. Sit down and take my encouragement. I got a few minutes.
Speaker 3:No, I need at least half an hour. Now we're going to have to start scheduling these encouragements.
Speaker 1:I take it serious, yeah, but man, when you have somebody that just does, that encourages you and kind of pours into you, it can, it can just lift your day you could already be having a good day or feeling oocy, I'm going to have to look that up.
Speaker 2:I got to get an urban dictionary, like I'm so lost.
Speaker 1:But it could just lift your spirits. It could just make you realize, man, it's not unseen, it's not unheard. And it could just lift your spirits. It could just make you realize, man, it's not unseen, it's not unheard, and it could even put away your doubt. That's what many times happens to me when I preach, when I'm doing something, and someone says, hey, that really really reached me or touched me. That encourages me, because a lot of times I'm doubting Like, oh man, was that good? Did they get anything out of it? Like out of it, I wanted to say this or that, and it really does. It kind of lifts me out of that, like okay, good.
Speaker 3:I feel the same way as a worship leader oh man, that was good, are you sure? Were you listening to what I was doing?
Speaker 1:did you have earphones in you ever been discouraged by somebody afterwards?
Speaker 3:who does that?
Speaker 1:it's like a nuclear bomb just going. I'm just like, oh, I thought I killed it no, I've never. That's terrible it's like yeah, you know, oh, yeah, I've had that happen. Where it's like, yeah, you know, I thought you were gonna kind of bring it around and really drive home that last point, but it never really happened.
Speaker 3:It was good you didn't land the plane. You're still in the air.
Speaker 1:I'm in the first part of a series. I'm not even done yet. I literally had that happen probably six months ago. It's like oh man. Good thing it's a series. Can you imagine watching episode one of a series and going well, there's a mystery going on. I don't know why they didn't tell us who it was.
Speaker 2:That's how Jennifer watches TV.
Speaker 1:It's the whole point of the series.
Speaker 2:I watched an episode. I didn't care for it.
Speaker 1:So we're done. It's like you watch Iron man and be like where's Thanos the heck.
Speaker 3:I don't think I've ever had anyone come up to me.
Speaker 2:Maybe it's just because I suck Encouraging?
Speaker 3:I don't think that's it. But I will say, as a musician, one of the most discouraging things is when you're playing in front of people and you finish a song and it's just crickets.
Speaker 1:Yeah, or during the song they're just looking at you.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's terrible. It's pretty discouraging. So it's one thing if it's church yeah, I guess we're playing out.
Speaker 1:It's the worst if it's church, church should be worshiping with you. Well, I mean, like in public. It's more of a.
Speaker 2:It's more of a, a performance yeah, well, that's what he's saying in public. It's, it's general music yeah kind of in church, you kind of know what to expect yeah, I'm not looking for people to.
Speaker 3:You know, clap for us. You know, if people still got their hands raised, keep them raised, don't bring them down and start clapping yeah, um, but like just I don't know. Yeah like kind of, kind of like when you say, can someone give me, give me an amen, and it's just nobody does amen, no, moving on.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, and that's why I'll make a I'll try to make a joke out of, because sometimes jokes just don't land right. So I'll try to make a joke out of the joke not landing, you know, like you know, I'll say a joke and it's like I found that funnier than what y'all did.
Speaker 3:Uh, moving on, so and then that usually gets them to laugh. You know, I'll say a joke and it's like I found that funnier than what y'all did Moving on, so and then that usually gets them to laugh.
Speaker 1:You know, it's like OK, moving on. So it's like OK that one didn't land. Let's move past that and act like this didn't happen. It's an acquired taste in humor, it is, it is yeah.
Speaker 2:Mike Simmons is an acquired taste.
Speaker 1:I, I don't know docks me right here on the what docks. You don't know what that is either. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:All right, grandpa, oh she's gonna tell me what it means, or I'm putting all your personal information out anyways oh, that's dumb, but all right yeah, hey, watch, watch your language so moving on, moving on to how you yourself like to be encouraged.
Speaker 1:So here's a big because some people, sorry, hold up mute, because some people they don't take encouragement well at all yeah, like you try to and they're like and there's such a you trying to suck up, it's like no, I'm just trying to or or they're debbie down, they're like no, I really right, no it's like oh man, you're awesome. No, I'm really not, I'm just, I'm not at all, I'm you know what you're right, you suck, oh gosh jennifer ashley randall oh snap, now you're doxing.
Speaker 3:Jennifer yes, literally what's her?
Speaker 2:social, too, hang on let me get it for you. You don't want to steal that identity. Trust me nobody. I don't even want my identity, but anyway, she is the worst. Hey, you're really pretty today, oh, thanks right, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:I mean, I just I think you are like yeah, no, you're not take that. It's just like man.
Speaker 2:And I'm I am my own worst enemy. Like I've anything that I do, I just, I just think I do, terrible at it.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And it's it's. It's always been a problem, I guess, but it's kind of a weird. I have a weird mix of confidence and self-conscious.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Yes, Cause I, I'm, I'm. I portray confidence while feeling self-conscious.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's good. Sometimes you got to fake it until you make it. That's how I got my degree.
Speaker 1:Yeah, killed it Did I? I don't think I did. I think I messed up like six times.
Speaker 2:Are you sure I get this?
Speaker 3:Because we have a couple of our youth that I'm starting to bring on to the worship team. I remember their first Sunday or not Sunday Wednesday, because I had them doing worship on Wednesdays and I'm now going to start bringing on Sundays their first Wednesday on stage in front of their peers and the rest of the youth got off and I was like so is it as nerve-wracking as you thought? And they're like it was a little more.
Speaker 3:And then the next time I was like so is it as nerve wracking as you thought? And they're like it was a little more. And then the next time I was like y'all nervous? They're like, oh yeah. I was like, well, it's kind of like sleep. You kind of have to, you know if you're not like just dead tired, you kind of have to close your eyes and act like you're asleep before you actually fall asleep. Put it out there like you are confident and eventually you'll, you'll get there, you'll get into that confidence. It's kind of like a um, I can't remember what the pastor's name, um, but basically he was saying like and like worship. He'll make himself worship and we, when he doesn't feel like it, and his spiritual self will catch up to him physically.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, because, yeah, you have to do, you have to lift your hands when you don't feel like it, and then all of a sudden, you start feeling like it.
Speaker 2:Now you're like oh man, okay, let's go, that's good, yeah, yeah I still, I'm ridiculously nervous anytime I sing with the praise team or I preach or even which, and I'm getting better at it, like, not better at it, but better at preparing and and and being ready and and being able to put those nerves aside and and. I have found, the more prepared I am, the less nervous.
Speaker 2:I am but I still and it's because it's such a big deal right. I mean, you're leading worship, You're bringing in the presence of God. It's kind of important. You're preaching. You're preaching the word of God, it's important. You're teaching. Whatever it is you're doing, it's important. So you don't want to ever take that for granted.
Speaker 3:Yeah, there's freedom in preparation.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Because you're write that down, you're you're controlling the things that you can control which is yourself. Right, and that's, that's an understanding that is um will help build that you know confidence and self-assurance in yourself, knowing that, what, what it is, whatever it is that you are doing, you know what you're doing. However, if you're in front of people, or whatever they react, how they react, but you are in control of yourself, Control the controllables is what we say in coaching.
Speaker 1:You can't control whether they're going to make the shot or not, but you can control the controllables, could try to play good d you can. You can strategize, do what you can to have people in the right place and then let everything fall.
Speaker 3:Will, it will, and then it drives me crazy to hear ball teams that ref had it out for us if you didn't foul people, you wouldn't be called for a foul we were just talking about, uh, this the other day in our staff meeting, about you know, some parents or whatever, and I was like I've been at games where, because, like you know me and you michael for those who can't see um, I'm pointing to me and, michael, we, we, we know the, the rules of basketball and we know what an actual travel is, we know what an actual foul is. And then you hear, oh, that was a travel. No, he, they get two steps towards them it wasn't.
Speaker 1:But okay, that's what always kills me. It's like a parent or yell like I'll be coaching or whatever, and a parent or yell well, get up there, go play defense. I had one, one parent, his son was on the team and it drove me crazy. One of our better players had four fouls five hours you foul out. Okay, had four fouls. So I tell him, give him some space. His dad yells from the state get up on him, get up on him. What are you doing? Go try to take the ball. Went fouled, fouled out. Dang. He's walking off the court. I turn around and look he goes. That's my bad coach. I was like yeah, yeah it is.
Speaker 3:You're right, I never uh, like, shut up. There's a one of the staff members talking about there's a soccer game and there was one dad that was like yelling not yelling, but like you know, loudly trying to coach from from the sidelines. I think it was that his daughter. It was a soccer game, and not only him, but, like some other parents, like listen to your father's sweetheart, right.
Speaker 1:And right it's like no, your father hasn't been at practice, your coach has.
Speaker 2:My mother was the world's worst when I played little league. She was that mom dude she was. It was so bad don't even know the rules of the game, like swing it every pitch.
Speaker 1:What are you doing?
Speaker 3:I love being at your games and you get mad. Hey, sit down, coach, shut your mouth.
Speaker 1:It's like dude I'm working here what's? The matter with you, man hey.
Speaker 3:Coach Simmons, you mad. Hey, get you a sucker.
Speaker 1:That's funny, I know like there's. There's ways where jamie will. It's like she knows again I bring her up a lot. But it's like she knows when I need it, you what? So it's like you like her a little bit. She knows the exact time when I need it, like we'll come home from church or whatever, and it's in between services and she's like babe, that was really good this morning and it's just like really, it's like she knew.
Speaker 3:Yeah, she almost read my mind and how I was feeling, because I'm sitting there just yeah, I think it's so cool like you know, like in a marriage, you over time you know that person so well, just by like the tiniest little thing, yeah, that you notice about them. You know how to respond yeah like I know, just based on live's face or if she's bouncing her leg, there's something going on. Yeah, like, what are you thinking about?
Speaker 2:you okay, yeah and that's the I mean generally. Our spouse is the one we want to impress the most, you know, so that that encouragement from them is it's, it means more than just a random person yeah.
Speaker 1:So in saying all this, I just want to encourage y'all a bit today. No, you don't. Well, I just want to tell you, muted, I just want to tell you Richard.
Speaker 2:I'm stuck in a mic.
Speaker 1:I just want to tell you I'm so proud of you and your weight loss journey, man, you're doing a great, great job.
Speaker 2:You're muted nobody.
Speaker 1:Every time. Every time you send just a text Just like, hey, I'm down to this, I'm down to this, I'm down to this. It is so awesome because we joke with you on here a lot about it and we mess with you a lot. But, man, we are Negative reinforcement. Right, we really are proud of you, man. You're doing a great job and just stepping in to help teach and help do stuff here at the church. It's just, it's awesome, man, and I appreciate you and I'm just really proud of you to watch where you've come from and where you are now.
Speaker 3:Thank you. I was telling Liv that she's like where did he start? I think he's like 324. She's like that's insane, it's awesome.
Speaker 2:I'm at a point to where I'm kind of losing like four or five pounds a week, yeah, yeah, so it's pretty awesome, it's just awesome, tyler, what you Me.
Speaker 1:I don't have to mute, you do I.
Speaker 2:I'm good.
Speaker 1:Okay, mute him, do it. You Muted, ha you. I think you get self-conscious when it comes to music. So bad, to the point of being in the middle of praise and worship, messing up and thinking everybody saw this so you have to say something and fix it. But you are so anointed and gifted Oil, you are so gifted and anointed in singing and, and, and I never want you to get to the point to where you, you know it, like you're walking in that, like I know I'm good. But I want you to get to that point, to where you have that confidence, knowing that not the music is good, but lives are being changed because of your music. That is so much more important than just the music is good, but lives are being changed because of your music. That is so much more important than just the music being good.
Speaker 1:There's a lot of people that can put out good music. There's not a lot of people that's. Music can change lives and you are one of those. So keep it up, man. Hearing the new songs, hearing the lyrics and all this you kind of just started stepping your toes into songwriting and to hear some of your stuff is is really awesome and, man, I'm just proud of you, seeing where you've come from, from being the one going yeah I don't know if I'm ready to kind of step up and lead and I don't know, I don't know, I don't know to now somebody who is leading, who is affecting people and lives are being changed.
Speaker 1:You're doing great, man, and I love you.
Speaker 2:Thanks, all right, y'all are unmuted, well while we are encouraging, because why, why not let mike get encouraged also?
Speaker 2:I'll see you in the show that's messed up man I know, I know, know you struggle with your own confidence. No, yeah, but the fact that you have built a culture, not only in this church, but in our old remnant family that follow you in these ministries not you, but God through you you is a testimony to your leadership ability. I swear, tyler, what'd you do? Not only is that an anointing of its own, but we talk about this also that talking to you away from church and then the person that the holy spirit brings out on stage, they're two totally different people. God doesn't use people unless he has a purpose for people, and you are anointed to do what you are currently doing well, thank you you're welcome it's a, it's a truth, truth, it is one whole fact.
Speaker 1:It is one whole fact.
Speaker 3:It's you care about people.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 3:And that's a very. I think that's, next to love of God, the most important quality in a pastor and someone leading the church For sure, because it's that the whole world has a negative view on Christians, and it's pastors like you that it's your responsibility to, and all Christians too, but in that position, to change those views and change those opinions.
Speaker 1:Yeah that's awesome. I feel encouraged feeling Oosie.
Speaker 3:I'm feeling my Oosie level it's just me, oos. He's like I'm sorry you'll get it, you'll get it.
Speaker 1:You go home, do some research, and then you'll get it I don't care enough to do that research also, we want to encourage our listeners.
Speaker 1:Every single one of you has a purpose, has a reason for being here. We don't know where you are on your journey with jesus. You can, you can. You may have been saved for 50 years. You may not know jesus, that's okay, you still have. You still have a reason for being here. So be encouraged today that you are making a difference in someone's life, that you have meaning, you have purpose. You are not here for no reason. You have value.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, and we love you.
Speaker 1:I don't care if I've never met you, you could be in. I mean, we've got listeners in different countries a thousand miles away away. We love you and you have purpose yes, we do and yes, you do and yes we got to do the that's what's up.
Speaker 2:So yeah, that's also a whole fact that's a whole fact.
Speaker 1:One, yeah, one whole fact and a half so now we're gonna move into a segment that we call that's what's up, that's what's Up. I told you not to do that. Oh, okay, Something that you've been listening to watching music, movie, TV show, whatever it may be that you are really enjoying this week.
Speaker 2:I'm going to go first this week, okay, you usually go first.
Speaker 1:We don't have a boo button, sorry.
Speaker 3:I'll do it.
Speaker 2:Now I'm less encouraged and all that just got wiped away. So I was excited about the american idol finale. Right, yeah, check that box. But I saw a spoiler oh, it ruined on the winner yeah, and it was the one person you didn't want that, I did not want to win dang, so now I'm hurt.
Speaker 1:But I tried to tell you they would hurt you, richard they did, they hurt my feelings.
Speaker 2:But I mean, he's an amazing singer. It's just his general attitude.
Speaker 1:He's like one of those guys that just knows he's good and doesn't give a crap on it, and that's where it gets to the point. Where I don't like those shows is that, oh yeah, he's a really good singer. It's like they're all really good singers. Like what do they have that it factor? And it seems like a lot of them that come out of that don't have that. So it's like, oh, here's the winner. It's like why were they the winner over someone else when everybody was outstanding singers? Like what made them the one?
Speaker 3:one thing I'm not liking about shows like American Idol anymore is how much of a factor social media comes into play. Because ain't no one that's on TikTok, that has 100 followers on any social media, is going to win that Guarantee? Before he even got on the show, he had hundreds of thousands.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, probably, and that's exactly the thing. It's kind of like every winner I've seen in the past few years is kind of a result of where the popular culture is at at that moment. So it's like, oh, so-and-so's a winner, and they have a distinct feature that goes along with where culture is at at that moment, as opposed to being, oh, this is somebody that's just got something different than the rest of them.
Speaker 2:I mean, you know, you say all the time that nobody cares about American Idol or whatever. The finale got 26 million votes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, don't care, that's a lot. How many of those are double votes?
Speaker 2:Well, you get 10 per method or whatever, it doesn't matter 26 million is a lot of votes but that's not all I have. Oh sorry, okay, so just well.
Speaker 1:No, I'm still talking about the brakes, okay but, like you know, when kelly clarkson won, she had, like you see, clearly, like she's different than the rest, like they're all good singers, but she's got something different. When carrie underwood won, she's got something different. Right, you know, even the ones that didn't go on to have a great career, what was it? Adam Lambert he had a good career, but, you see, he had something different.
Speaker 3:I mean he's still, I mean he's headlined a queen tour. Right, I know he has. Yeah.
Speaker 1:I know he's got a, but he's just not as big Most people wouldn't know that David Archuleta.
Speaker 3:Right, yeah, right, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's like you look at him and you're like, yes, I've got it. They've got something. Daughtery, right one.
Speaker 3:Yeah, chris, daughtery he was runner up, or I think he he made to one of the last couple rounds.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but it's like now. It seems like the person wins and it's just a popularity contest.
Speaker 2:That's 100% what it is well, the top three. It was pretty cool. So the top three you can see representing three totally different musical genres yeah, you had a country singer, a christian artist and an r&b artist and they all represent their genre really, really well. Like they're going, top 10 in american idol has a real shot at making something out of themselves yeah, yeah, well, what else?
Speaker 2:so I said a couple weeks ago I was starting a new series fantasy book series, yeah called the alex rogers series. Well, I am on book four of that series and it is really good it's not a lot of reading well, it's audio books, but still a lot of listening it's a lot of listening, but the they still don't reach hell divers yeah, that's what I was gonna say.
Speaker 1:Hell divers is the one I really want to, really want to get into. I remember you talking about that series and that's like what, like a dystopian yeah, like the world is is in chaos, post-apocalyptic kind of thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I want to watch one of my favorite genres of books, but but this is a really good one too. But this is a fantasy series, um, you know, dragons, magic, that kind of thing, and it's it's a really good series. It's well written, well read very.
Speaker 1:Have you ever? Oh, what is? I'll think of it later and I'm gonna ask you on a book, on a book series that it's almost like comic book like, but it is a book series, it's not. It doesn't have like drawings and stuff like that, but the storytelling is very comic book like yeah but I'll have to remember later on.
Speaker 2:Cool, you know what it was, but yeah, there's like Helldivers has like 12 books and then now they, now he's, there's a prequel that he's coming out with.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they kind of spin off and that's how that series was. It kind of like spins off.
Speaker 2:It's not our fault. You can't read all right, I can read.
Speaker 3:I just don't like reading.
Speaker 1:Okay, tyler what do you have? I'll tell you what I got. Oh, we just started reaching. That would be the point of a podcast, to tell us what you've got.
Speaker 3:Let me show you. We started reacher. Yeah, um, let's see what did you start suits?
Speaker 1:la, no, we have not. Okay, I remember you saying something about it. I keep forgetting to start it.
Speaker 2:It's on the list.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we are actually going to start me and Inman are going to start taking jiu-jitsu classes.
Speaker 1:Nice.
Speaker 3:I went to one last night. Yeah, I'm very sore. Yeah, where's? It at Dexter Nice. That's what's up.
Speaker 1:I'm very sore, very humbled, that's right so I had some buddies that did that, which they mixed martial arts fought, so they had different styles that they did and I went and rolled around a little bit and, yeah, you get 110 pound dude. You're like, oh man, I've got this.
Speaker 3:I, I didn't I didn't have it. I didn't have it, tyler why can't I breathe?
Speaker 1:I didn't, I didn't. Why? Why am I seeing the bottom of my foot like I don't not supposed?
Speaker 3:to be seeing that, yeah, yeah. So I went to say off they let you take, you know, one the first class, free to try it out. So I did that last night. We're taking inman to do because I have a kid's class for his age um next tuesday.
Speaker 2:Yeah that's awesome. You want to hear the weird reason? I've never done anything like that is it because you're um never?
Speaker 3:mind because I don't like feet. That's, that's fair.
Speaker 2:I don't like feet either, but that's what I don't think about. That's all done barefoot. I don't want other people's feet in my face and junk in my face.
Speaker 3:That's fair. That's just one of the things I don't think about Now you will Thank you.
Speaker 1:Did I say we were going Cancel?
Speaker 3:We wanted to put him in something that would boost his confidence, and I mean, if there's any form of martial arts that has real-life, like… Application Like complete real-life application is jiu-jitsu. Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 2:And that's what I've always loved about MMA is the…. There's no other sport that has the level of sportsmanship that MMA does. Like they can….
Speaker 1:For the most part, there are some outliers.
Speaker 2:I mean they beat the tar out of each other for three or five rounds and then it's all respect afterwards. I mean it's an amazing thing.
Speaker 1:That's awesome man. Good luck with that.
Speaker 3:I'm sorry, I'm sorry and it is. It is so crazy to think of, like, because I, because I rolled with, uh, a blue belt and a brown belt and then I rolled with the instructor, you know, obviously taking it very easy on me, and I the whole time thinking, man, they're, they're just dangerous people, yeah, yeah well, it's people like bj penn.
Speaker 2:You know that just this world class hoist gracie was a legend, is a legend, and they're usually like the most like chill people too.
Speaker 1:You know you never see them in and it's yeah, you know they don't have to be Right.
Speaker 2:Last resort, make you smell your own toenails, yeah.
Speaker 3:That's oof. My bad, my bad, my bad. We don't like that. The one thing I liked about the class last night is he didn't. He didn't like teach and like okay. And this is, you know, in a like a competition type instruction, but he's like okay. So say you gotta, you're, you know you're out somewhere at a bar, whatever, and some guys you know trying to get in your face and like he's like he's teaching it with real life application.
Speaker 2:I thought that was that was it is. Who is the?
Speaker 3:Ray Carrillo. That's what I thought. That's awesome.
Speaker 2:I used to work for him years ago at Holloway Distributing.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Awesome dude.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he's real cool. Liv actually did Taekwondo with him.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 3:When she was five, five.
Speaker 2:He's been doing it for years, yeah been doing it for years.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, I am on. I'm on summertime movie kick now. Yeah, I'm in movie mode. So now every monday I plan on going to the theater watch a movie if you can find one, if I could find one to watch.
Speaker 1:So now I, every time I go in. I've done this for years now. Anyway on, I love previews. I love watching the previews of upcoming movies, so I'll just write them down in my notes. There's a few ones. You're gonna be surprised at one of these, but you got superman coming out 28 years later. Tron, a movie called together I knew I know what you did last summer mission impossible comes out this, this upcoming week I've got to get caught up.
Speaker 1:I've watched the first three oh, oh, my gosh, they're 20, 20 to go, so good and this is supposed to be the last one yeah, uh, what's the last one? Supposed to be the last one no, it was part one get off tom cruise all right um, lalo and stitch I know the kids are wanting to watch that and there is a movie. I am shocked. I was like watching. I'm like I really want to see this movie. It is starring brad pitt what it?
Speaker 2:looks great, and let me guess it's because of a supporting cast.
Speaker 1:Not because probably, but right, right it looks like it's kind of he's kind of the main, a little encouragement yeah he's going to get a little encouragement, he's getting my ticket money, so it's, it's f1, it about F1. It looks great. I guess he's like the aging F1 driver and he's got like the up-and-coming young stud kid and it looks fantastic. It really does. It was the first time I heard anything about it, saw the preview and was like oh yeah, I'm going to see that as soon as it comes out.
Speaker 2:As a general rule, I'm not a big fan of like race track racing movies.
Speaker 1:Like days of thunder was pretty good yeah but you had that movie driven with stallone yeah, it was okay, gran turismo cars, that's not, that's not it's not even in the same. It's not even in this conversation talladega night.
Speaker 2:oh, that was not a racing movie, that was a comedy movie, racing movie isn't a genre of movies.
Speaker 1:We realize that.
Speaker 3:It's like a topic of movie.
Speaker 2:Look, my point is movies based around racing.
Speaker 1:That's what Talladega Nights is. It was. Talladega Nights has more racing in it than Tropic Thunder.
Speaker 3:Or than not Tropic Thunder and Creeps. It was all about racing and crepes.
Speaker 2:I no longer want to make my point.
Speaker 1:You put a crack in my arm like a crack in the Liberty Bell. That's what he says. You break my arm, pepe Le Pew. He did it, he broke it.
Speaker 2:Okay, let's calm down, sorry.
Speaker 1:It's really really funny. You haven't even seen it. I have seen.
Speaker 2:Oh, have you okay it's okay, I don't know, it's hilarious. I'm not a big will ferrell, fun fact one of my exes from college.
Speaker 3:Her uncle was will smith stunt double in that movie.
Speaker 1:Will smith wasn't in that movie but all right, not will smith will ferrell, there you go what did he need a stunt double for?
Speaker 2:to climb out of the car in his underwear? He was on fire.
Speaker 1:I'm on fire so I stopped the invisible fire from burning my friend. It's so funny.
Speaker 3:Oh Bobby, it's embarrassing Come on, man Don't you stab yourself with that knife, Bobby.
Speaker 1:I'm going to do it. You are not paralyzed. You cut it out. You have to cut around it. Give it. You are not paralyzed, you cut it out. You have to cut around it. Give it to me straight though.
Speaker 3:How long is it going to be in the chair? Oh, he just found that in the hallway. He's fine Maybe it's better than I remember.
Speaker 1:He's like out there playing basketball, like kicking people away.
Speaker 3:You know what would be so funny? Did you ever watch the movie? Be Kind, rewind. Oh yeah, it's been a while yeah. That would be the funniest thing if someone just remade these movies so low budget.
Speaker 1:Yes, oh man.
Speaker 2:And just redid parts of it. That's so funny. That's how we could spend time together. Oh, absolutely. Oh gosh, Remaking home.
Speaker 1:That would be the funnest. That'd be the best.
Speaker 3:We'd have to dip into the podcast budget which is zero.
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Speaker 2:Write that down you never told us what the name of the brad pitt movie was yeah, I did f1 f yeah you did, I just forgot yeah, yeah, good talk, yeah wow and then it went downhill from there it, it's okay.
Speaker 1:I mean, we still love you Rich.
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