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
Blessed BUT stressed
Ever had one of those days where everything seems to go wrong from the moment you wake up? In this refreshingly honest episode, Tyler arrives stressed and the guys immediately rally to cheer him up, revealing how friendship can be the ultimate stress-reliever when life feels overwhelming.
The celebration of Tyler's twins' gender reveal brings lighthearted energy as the hosts share how Michael nearly ruined the entire event by accidentally biting into a special cake pop before the announcement. The reveal that Tyler and his wife are expecting both a boy and a girl leads to a touching discussion about their carefully chosen names that honor family heritage on both sides.
As the conversation shifts to stress management, the brothers open up about their personal struggles and coping mechanisms. From Michael's quick gaming breaks as well as vinyl record listening sessions, they explore practical ways to reset when feeling overwhelmed. They dive deep into how our physical wellbeing directly impacts our mental state, with candid discussions about diet challenges, intermittent fasting experiences, and how exercise releases stress-fighting endorphins - even when finding the motivation to start moving feels impossible.
The episode takes several hilarious turns, including possibly the worst rhinoceros impression ever recorded on a podcast and a spirited debate about the ethics of eating while driving. The guys close by sharing their Father's Day experiences and discussing upcoming entertainment, from new music releases to movie recommendations.
Whether you're navigating your own stressful season or just need some genuine laughs, this episode offers both practical wisdom and the comforting reminder that we all struggle sometimes. Subscribe, rate, and share the Almost Brothers Podcast to join this authentic conversation about life's challenges and celebrations.
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Speaker 2:I'm Batman. All right, bruce, calm down.
Speaker 3:And Ty Ty I want to beat you with a stick.
Speaker 2:You don't have a stick, I'll find a stick, oh too blessed to be.
Speaker 1:Let the beatings commence.
Speaker 2:Right, we here at the Almost Brothers Podcast do not contone violence. Unless it helps, it might have you ever been to one of those? Uh, what stress rooms, yeah, yeah, where you can break stuff.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no, I haven't I feel like I need that.
Speaker 2:Well, let's talk about it. Man, tyler's having a tough morning this morning. So far, we're just here. We just want we want this episode right here, tyler, to just be focused on you. No, we want to cheer you up, and he loves being the focus of attention. Want we want this episode right here, tyler, to just be focused on you.
Speaker 1:No, we want to cheer you up and he loves being the focus of attention. Yeah, we want to.
Speaker 2:We want to put a smile on your face let's just stare at him he's like he'll make eye contact and then look down and then make eye contact and then look down well, let's first, first let's. Let's start off with this. We found out what the genders of the baby are the baby, the babies all right both of them go ahead and mike almost messed up the gender reveal.
Speaker 1:I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2:I said I'm so sorry about that, like I did, I'm dead. That was like man. Of course I would be the one to do this and I'm trying to just get there and sit down and he's over here.
Speaker 3:Ooh a cake pop man.
Speaker 2:No, no, no.
Speaker 3:So sorry man.
Speaker 2:So to give the story for everybody. So I was running late to the gender reveal and I got there and they had cake pops they were handing out to everybody and as soon as I got there they handed me a cake pop.
Speaker 3:Unbeknownst to him, the cake pop was the gender reveal.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so in the cake pops there was whatever the babies are.
Speaker 1:Yeah, almost.
Speaker 2:And I had no idea. I didn't hear the breakdown. It apparently happened right before I got there. Legit Yeah't hear the breakdown. That apparently happened right before I got there, legit yeah.
Speaker 3:Missed the instructions Because before we hand them out, I was like all right folks, this is the general, please wait until we give a countdown or something to take a bite of the cake pop. And then I start passing out and I turn around and there's Michael with a cake pop and he wasn't there.
Speaker 1:Half a cake pop and he wasn't there.
Speaker 2:Half a cake, half a cake yeah, and they're like they're like hey, don't, don't. I'm like, I'm sorry what I just like and hit it in my hand.
Speaker 3:I'm like and for those that still aren't sure. So we made a bunch of cake pops, enough for everyone that was there. They're all just regular white. Uh, vanilla pops, except for two, had the colors of the ginger Ginger.
Speaker 1:Ginger Ginger.
Speaker 3:Had the colors of the genders for each baby, yep, which were the best of both worlds.
Speaker 2:And then I got there and almost ruined it yeah, because I was late and bit into it as soon as I got it. I'm really sorry, I'm really sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry for being late. I didn't want to be late anyway, but so just the whole thing, I'm sorry. No, it was funny. Ah, dang it, it was fun, just like sitting over there, like, oh, my god, I'm so glad I didn't ruin it oh, that would have been bad yeah so it was uh to be fair to be fair, we knew which, like the plates that were that they were on.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we knew which plates that they were on.
Speaker 1:We knew which ones they were on, so they knew not to give you I didn't know.
Speaker 2:I didn't know.
Speaker 3:I'm sorry so they are the best of both worlds. A boy and a girl yeah, snaps. And share the names. Boy and a girl yeah, snap, snap.
Speaker 1:And share the names.
Speaker 3:The boy is Ezra.
Speaker 2:You have to take a deep breath for these. I'm telling you there's some names.
Speaker 3:It was Liv's idea for two male names. I'm fine with that. So the boy is. It's like when you're going to have to get on to you get to be like the boy is ezra lewis, wayne lewis is my dad's middle name, wayne is lives dad's middle name, and Hayes is not only my middle name but my mom's maiden name.
Speaker 1:What's their last name?
Speaker 3:Probably Wilkerson. We didn't decide on that one. I can't believe. I forgot about that part.
Speaker 1:The signs were really cool that y'all made of their names. They were really cool.
Speaker 3:Let me tell you the story about the signs. That's right.
Speaker 2:Y'all were of their names. They were really cool. Oh, let me tell you the story about the signs. Oh, boy.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's right. Yeah, because y'all were kind of telling me a little bit. Oh boy, okay. So we've had their names picked out, probably at least a month and a half before Saturday, right, mm-hmm? And well, so originally Esther's middle name was going to be Renee Rose. Rose is my grandma's name, mm-hmm. Well, literally Friday, the day before I text Liv, I said hey, you know what I just realized. I said the twins are using every parent's name except for my mom, and I was like I not saying like, oh, it's gonna be fair, but my niece already has rose as her middle name. Yeah, right, and I know, if I was in those shoes I would probably be a little upset.
Speaker 1:Right, my kids used all the parents' names except for mine.
Speaker 2:There's a certain kind of way about that. Skip over me, man.
Speaker 3:And you know, being sure, I want to honor all the parents. You know, I told Liv I said you know Malani's already got Rose as her middle name, so I mean, and she was not happy about it. So what?
Speaker 2:what did you have to? It was at the, so at the bottom you had a piece of wood with with the name on it.
Speaker 3:Did you have to?
Speaker 2:add that to it okay. Under the names are in black uh paint, yeah, uh, renee rose okay, that's what I thought when y'all were like we had to change it. I was like I wonder how they did that.
Speaker 1:I bet that wasn't there at first it looked good, though it looked good I thought so Liv was stressing out that last one.
Speaker 3:I was like Liv, I'll fix it.
Speaker 2:I got it. It's okay, no worries. So you weren't stressed about it. No, I wasn't stressed about it Perfect, segue Gosh. I'm about to leave, so make like a tree and get out of here. He doesn't know that because he's never seen Back to the Future. We got to watch it. We have to have a movie day, don't A movie day?
Speaker 1:on the Almost Brothers podcast. It's amazing movies with horrible plot holes.
Speaker 2:Oh, it's so good, shut your plot hole. Just being stressed, like we all kind of go through those days where everything seems to kind of be off and go wrong. And I know me and Tyler talk about this and I think you're the same way, rich is where, if you start the day off kind of late, it seems like everything that day is just like. I might as well just go back to bed.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you feel rushed, start over, you kind of feel just off the rest of the day. You know, and what are some of the things that y'all do or y'all see in your own lives when you get stressed, like Tyler was this morning, which at least we've had a few laughs, we got to see a smile breathe, deep breath, okay, okay, what are some of the things that you do to help, right in the middle of that Kind of calm yourself down, like I know, you know for me, because it then spills out onto everybody around me, I start kind of getting irritable with everybody. Yes, yes, you do See, that's what I'm saying. I admit that, all right.
Speaker 1:Dang, so I don't know it. It's really hard for me to recognize in myself when I'm getting there yeah until I start snapping at people because I do the same thing, you know things will start going wrong. And then, instead of taking that breath and and saying, okay, let me, let me deal with this, I'll let it build up until it becomes a bigger deal than what it should have been, and it's so.
Speaker 2:I don't really have anything because I don't recognize it in myself yeah so if y'all have any tips for that, so the only tip I have comes from Carl Winslow the one of the original 90s dads yes, okay, he used to every time was that family matters.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, it was. Yeah. Good job, man. I'm proud of you he was two. So he, he would do, he would do three, two, one, one, two, three. What the heck is bothering me I remember that it's so dumb. It's real stupid and I remember the episode he would start doing that like steve always drove him crazy, steve, urkel. So he would go three, two, one, one, two, three, what the heck is bothering me.
Speaker 2:And he'd look over at steve and just be like three, two, one, one, two three and he's just trying to breathe through it, you know, because I think he had like heart problems at that time or something like that. But uh, for me it's literally especially right now. It's been stop what you're doing and and play 20 minutes of a game. Yeah, just calm down, let it go Breathe a little bit. Tal, what about you? What do you do this morning? What's something that you try to do?
Speaker 1:I guess he'll let us know when he does it, because he's still stressing.
Speaker 3:No, I've been in a season of stress.
Speaker 1:The whole season.
Speaker 3:That's not good man, that was compounded by the babies.
Speaker 1:Is that it's okay?
Speaker 2:yes, because I'm trying to take as much stress off of live right yeah, yeah, I could say, well, and that's where it gets to, it's where your normal stress is there. You're kind of used to that. You're like, okay, I know kind of what the day is going to bring, and then you add on a pregnancy and you add on the hurts and the pains and being tired and being irritable and all that that you kind of have to take on as the husband.
Speaker 2:It definitely can begin to build up, for sure. Good thing you have brothers that you can lean on.
Speaker 3:That's right, almost thing.
Speaker 2:good thing you have brothers that you can lean on.
Speaker 3:That's right almost see what you did there.
Speaker 2:Oh, you're so funny almost almost we're in their parents, that's it yeah, brother from another mother well, how was, how was your first father's day? It was good. There you go, cool, it's just man, man a few words. It was, it was, it was good. How was your father's day rich?
Speaker 1:it was really good, man. I got most of my kids jennifer arranged for most of my children to come to church with us. Yeah, it was like a pew and a half that we took in the church. It was awesome and then we all went to lunch after and took up a very large section. You did, yeah, you sent me that video.
Speaker 2:I'm like, did they have seating for anyone else? And then we all went to lunch after and took up a very large section. You did, yeah, you sent me that video.
Speaker 1:I'm like did they have seating for anyone else in this restaurant? Well, we went in and I was like, hey, I need 17,. You know a table for 17. And they was like is it okay to be at separate tables?
Speaker 3:You just ran out the restaurant, yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, I mean, it was really really just great to, because you know how it is, dads don't get celebrated the way moms do, so it was really nice to have all my kids there to celebrate me. It was really awesome.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Mom was good. Mom was good. After church went home, took a nap, got to eat, watch some movies Exactly what I wanted to do. Jamie was really wanting to take me out to eat and I'm like I really just want to go home. I just want to go home and chill out, hang out with you and the kids and that's it.
Speaker 1:And that's what you got. Got a call from.
Speaker 2:Aaliyah, or a text from Lela, and it was pretty good.
Speaker 1:I saw a post on Facebook. It was like a split image and the top image said it was like a cartoon. It said happy. It had a big old party with presents and everything. Everybody was there and it said happy Mother's Day. And then the second one had just a little homemade banner that said Father's Day and then the dad was just sitting in a recliner reading a text that said happy Father's Day. Lol.
Speaker 2:Yeah, lol, I thought loud.
Speaker 1:And it generally is a huge. Even in my house, you know, usually there is a difference between Mother's Day and Father's Day, and it's really something that we need to break Like. It's a stereotype for a reason and it needs to change.
Speaker 2:Richard is really upset about this.
Speaker 3:I'm not upset about it, not even just the holiday, not even just the the holiday. It's just. I don't know how many times I've been told, since live got pregnant, that whatever I'm dealing with whatever is not important, right yeah?
Speaker 1:and that's, and that's goodbye, tiktok. So in the whole abortion arena of of conversation, oh, it won't take long well, definitely boot us off.
Speaker 1:but you know, when you, when you see these videos of of the mother going to get an abortion and you see these, these fathers that are just broken down because they have no say so, it's just nonsense that the father has zero say so in a child's life because a mother is so important, yeah, and they are. I'm not. I'm not disregarding what mothers do, I'm just saying there is an important role for a father.
Speaker 2:There is.
Speaker 1:That's that's right and unfortunately, there's a lot of fathers that don't step up and take that role, which is probably where it comes from.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've seen. I've seen this one post before. That was, I found, very interesting because it kind of got to the point and it's like I mean it's true. They said if it wasn't for the welfare state, there'd be a lot more deadbeat moms than deadbeat dads. And I was like, wow, yeah, because I don't understand what that means so well. First date like moms, single moms, on welfare that don't go have jobs. I was like man that's, that's uh pretty harsh, but it is well, I know a lot of.
Speaker 1:I know a lot of people that don't get married because they'll lose their state benefits I mean it's, it's just, it's, it's just nonsense. But yep, we can have a very long episode about that. Yeah, that's way off of off of well and it, and because this was my first father's day without my dad, so well I say first he was anyway, it doesn't matter. So it was especially hard for me.
Speaker 1:So, jennifer, stepping up and making it a little more special for me really meant the world to me yeah you know, and the kids really being there for me it was it was pretty amazing to to to have that. So that's that's the point I was trying to make yeah, it was good.
Speaker 2:It was good for sure. And I know something else that kind of gets me out of that when I'm really stressed is I'll put on a record and just a record music a lot noise.
Speaker 1:Yes, the vinyl, exactly exactly put on some record and just listen to music.
Speaker 2:A lot of noise. Yes, the vinyl. Exactly, exactly.
Speaker 1:Put on some good music. How many records are you up to in your collection now?
Speaker 2:Well, I've got some at Dad's house. I've got to dig out. I've asked him 10 times to please find them, because he put them up somewhere, but at the house 15, 20.
Speaker 1:Cool.
Speaker 2:Something like that of new ones and I house 15, 20, cool. Something like that of new ones and I've got, my, I've got all kind of got video games at his house somewhere in storage and all that. So I've got to dig through all that stuff. But awesome yeah, it's just putting on a good song, putting on some worship, putting on, you know, a good video game will just kind of de-stress well and part of my problem.
Speaker 1:You know I've struggled with weight loss and I swear dude, I have quit drinking, I have quit smoking. Dieting is the hardest thing I've ever done in my life.
Speaker 2:Like it is so hard, but well, it's the one. It's the one out of all those things that is the most society right approved of in america.
Speaker 1:It is addiction but in that stress eating as where I was going with that is, I'm, I'm horrible about that like I'm stressed straight to the cabinets yeah I mean it's, it's. It's just like not I don't even think about it, yeah, like you just go and eat and it's just insane for me it's when I'm bored I do that too yeah and I stress eat. I bored it.
Speaker 2:I just eat now that I think about it, you know what I eat when I'm happy doesn't matter what emotion it is off of austin powers. I eat because I'm unhappy I'm unhappy because I eat but yeah, it, it and it is. It's just, society accepts it. It's just fine, it's right, it's okay. You know even more than you know smoking or drinking or anything like that it's. It's a lot of us. We eat unhealthy and we think it's just fine, right because we've got all these normal.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean it's, it's, it's completely and totally normalized well, even that part of of stress is how the things that you're putting in your body are sending chemicals to your brain that allow you to be more stressed and less relaxed, and you know you go through more pain and more mood swings and things like that. Did you notice that when you were on your strict diet, a change in stress levels, energy levels, stuff like that?
Speaker 3:Oh, 100%. Well, your food is the fuel for your body, and when you make. Tackling fuel. Tackling fuel.
Speaker 2:I'm movie quoting today. I'm a water boy Tackling fuel.
Speaker 1:Sorry, go ahead. That was fantastic.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no food is fuel for your body when you make such a drastic change like that, because it I mean it it affects everything, including, you know, your hormone levels and things like that and and the quality of your sleep and the quality of your emotions and attitude and things like that. Oh, I was getting the worst sleep, I was in the worst moods, I had zero energy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and that was just from cutting everything out. Is that what that like?
Speaker 3:yeah, well, you know, I was I. When I was bulking, I was eating about 35 3600 calories a day, which is a lot of yeah to less than half of that, like 1300, yeah, 1200 a day I talked.
Speaker 1:I talked to a guy. I went to school with the one time I went to the gym anyway, he was there. It was a wednesday, it was a dark and stormy day but he said that what he did and he lost like a person like he was. He looked amazing and he's my age and it kind of made me mad. But he said that he eats one meal a day and I'm like dude, I would. No, there's just no way that my brain can wrap around eating one meal a day.
Speaker 3:Well, there's different techniques of dieting and all those things. It's more like three. No, all those things, it's more like three.
Speaker 3:um, but because everyone, everyone's bodies are so different, not one thing will work for this for another person that works for another um, because I know intermittent fasting worked well for me and I know it doesn't work well for a whole lot of people, um, most mostly, uh, you know heavier people, you kind of. You know you can't starve yourself but you have to be able to sustain yourself and kind of being, you know, smaller and more fit. When I was doing that, you know my body was able to adapt to that and be okay with that.
Speaker 3:You know I wouldn't. I wouldn't eat past past, I think, 7 PM at night and I wouldn't eat till noon the next day.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, and and and it. It can directly correlate with your mental state, with your wellbeing, with how your body functions. And we just don't think about that. You know we're. I don't know why I'm so stressed. I don't know why I'm so stressed. It's like, well, you've been eating like crap, you've been putting a bunch of junk in your body, like you're probably not running at your healthiest you know, right now, right, we need to.
Speaker 1:We need to call dudes in christ and see what they say.
Speaker 2:Man lifting guys, yeah, lifting guys I don't know, why are they?
Speaker 3:lifters, guys. I don't know what they do with their lives. Y'all don't actually go to the gym. That's what we do at the gym we lift each other, just lift guys.
Speaker 2:You don't even need. You just walk in. There's nothing At church.
Speaker 3:We lift each other up spiritually at the gym.
Speaker 2:We physically pick each other up. I'm never going to the gym. I I'm never going to the gym Shoulder press each other. We're doing that. Count me out. Y'all know, y'all know, y'all get it. Oh, that's funny.
Speaker 1:And that's where I've been doing my intermittent fasting. And you know, because of our job, I never know what hours I'm going to have. So I plan on eating at 11, but if I have people I can't do that. So come 1 o'clock, if I haven't eaten anything, I get a little woozy, a little lightheaded Hangry. I get hangry, I guess, if that's not a scientific term, but we'll go with it. It's philosophical, it's not, but I don't know how to balance my job and my diet Can you not bring something with you?
Speaker 2:I guess, but then I have to figure out.
Speaker 1:I've got to bring a cooler and it's it's just it's, it's very inconvenient.
Speaker 3:It's tough, especially like I know you do, like the one where you're driving around like was, was it the, the bus?
Speaker 1:where you're picking up multiple people.
Speaker 3:Part of it that's yeah I know, for me sometimes it's hard because I'll be driving someone from st louis. Um, let's say it's hard because I'll be driving someone from St Louis. Let's say it's super early. I picked them up at four o'clock in the morning. Take them to St Louis. Well, I'll pick them up at 11. So, let's say 1130. It's getting close to lunchtime. I'm driving for three, three and a half hours, maybe four, depending on where I'm taking them back home.
Speaker 2:By the time I get back, it's almost three o'clock in the afternoon.
Speaker 1:Yeah well, and that's why I don't get like, if you work at a factory, you bring a lunchbox. Well yeah, but even so it's.
Speaker 2:I don't like to eat and drive when I have a person in the vehicle it sounds to me like you're making all the excuse I don't like, I don't want, I don't want just think of the safety factor.
Speaker 1:Do you feel safe riding with somebody that's eating a cheeseburger running down the road?
Speaker 2:I didn't say cheese, a sandwich.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you'd be fine with that, absolutely Well, not everybody is, I mean.
Speaker 2:I don't look down while I'm eating.
Speaker 1:Well, because some of the people we haul have opinions about this sort of thing, so I won't even talk on the phone when I've got somebody in the car.
Speaker 3:If it's something that you can legally do in a car, it's probably pretty safe. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2:I don't know, I don't know if there's a law on eating in the car.
Speaker 3:There's not, I know there's one drinking and driving there is that.
Speaker 2:That's a. That's a thing you're right. And not even drinking regular drinks, it's a certain type of drink. To me, that's the same thing If you drink a coffee while you drive, it's.
Speaker 3:Same concept there's more logistics with eating though the chewing, I guess no, oh, I gotta dip my french fries.
Speaker 1:He's not talking about a full meal.
Speaker 2:Or then I eat my sandwich.
Speaker 3:Oh, I'm getting messy.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:Sound effects.
Speaker 2:But you would do the same with a drink. A drink could get on you also. You're putting your hand to your mouth Blip.
Speaker 3:What was that?
Speaker 2:And that'd be the same if you're eating like chips, so anyway, I'm not talking about dip, like I've got a ruben, that I've got a dip in this sauce while I'm driving talking about just normal sandwich and chips.
Speaker 1:Got the, got the plate and the steak knife driving with your knee.
Speaker 2:I'm a knee guy, it's okay.
Speaker 3:It's okay, I'm a knee guy, all right, everybody's safe now, like the guys I see on tiktok where he's got this whole like it's a like a lap size, like fryer, you got the oil in it, but it's, it's a whole like. That's his whole page is he's in bed. He's got the tv on his night time. He's in bed covers on. He's got this little platter and it it's got the little fryer in it, the oil he's got a tiny little microwave or toaster oven. It's like small food.
Speaker 1:I've seen that guy Like a small knife. I've seen the small food guy.
Speaker 3:Making like a fried chicken. That's not even leaving his bed.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's probably not healthy.
Speaker 2:That's just another level of lazy, yeah.
Speaker 1:That's a whole nother side of it too. It's just laziness. We were talking this morning about needing to exercise more, and it's it's like you get into that cycle of I hurt, so I don't exercise and I hurt because I hurt, because I don't exercise, so it's, it's.
Speaker 2:It's just so hard to to do all that, so that's another exercise and getting to jujitsu, and that's another thing with with your stress levels, like just exercising yeah sends endorphins to your brain.
Speaker 1:Yes, I've heard that too, that since all the endorphins are yeah, all the.
Speaker 3:That's what I think of every time someone says endorphins, I think of dolphins, but no jujitsu I've. There are two things that have never made me sweat more in my life. That's hiking and jiu-jitsu.
Speaker 2:Is jiu-jitsu your new Brandon Lake? You have to say at every episode.
Speaker 1:No, I'm just one. Him and Ray Carrillo have a deal.
Speaker 3:Are you?
Speaker 2:sponsored by the UFC.
Speaker 3:Fun fact, the UFC is now doing a Brazilian jiu-jitsu division.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think you told me that I don't know how that's going to going to work out, but I think it's working out pretty well. Well, it's pretty cool it gets into a whole other class of stuff, but so are they going to have weight class breakdowns in. Yeah, it's going to be a lot lightweight, but anyway.
Speaker 2:No, I'm not doing bjj, so it's fun but yeah, yeah it, because people, oh, I just don't feel good. I don't feel good. It's like how much do you get up and move?
Speaker 1:oh, never and that's, and it happened a few weeks ago. I had a saturday where I didn't have anything to do, so me and jennifer just sat all day long, yeah, and watch the tv. And the next day I thought I was broke, like I don't know my body's not working and I hurt everywhere and it's that's what it is. It's your body locks up if you don't use it.
Speaker 3:I mean it stands up.
Speaker 1:Oh whoa, sit back down, heard somebody say the other day you hurt in places, you didn't know you had places right I don't.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what's wrong with you? I don't know.
Speaker 1:I got up this morning and I woke up, I got, it was all downhill from there I saw this lady this morning when I was headed here, like walking on our like a highway, and she was just drenched in sweat and I was like you go girl.
Speaker 2:Man Right, ok, go ahead on. Yeah, I should do that, I should totally.
Speaker 3:We were leaving the house and there were. We were driving the road and there's these two women walking, and one of them was wearing a Nike shirt. You know, nike, just do it, just do it yeah.
Speaker 3:Well, we were behind them and the back of her shirt said just do it. Well, edmund goes, he goes, oh, don't hit the ladies walking. And then he's like but her shirt says just do it. This. This kid's been saying the weirdest things this morning. Well, he was asked. He was uh, we got in the car. I was like, oh crap, I need an oil change. And he was like what's an oil change?
Speaker 3:I kind of explained to him you know how well kind of lubricates this, all that stuff inside the engine or whatever. I don't really know the technical stuff for all that but it does.
Speaker 1:He was like. He was like what's lubricate mean?
Speaker 3:I'll say, well, uh, so imagine a slip and slide. You know, slip inside, got water or whatever. Slide down there, right. Imagine going down and slip and slide with no water. Yeah, it's very painful.
Speaker 2:He's scraped my nipples, oh, gosh, it's like yeah, that'll, that'll do it. Yeah, scrape them right off if you go far enough caught me off guard that. That's exactly what would happen, yeah yeah and that's what happens to your car if you don't put oil in it same thing, you know just no good, can't work without that.
Speaker 3:I mean obviously michael mills yeah, I know cars.
Speaker 2:Okay, you are the manliest man I know you're daggum, right, that's tell your friends about me that was definitely sarcasm so moving on now to a section that we call. That's what's up. We talk about movies, video games, songs, tv maybe a new exercise that you're doing.
Speaker 1:Why do you got to bring it up again?
Speaker 2:Tybo.
Speaker 1:I'm not doing it all right Okay.
Speaker 2:What do y'all got, what you got going on this week.
Speaker 1:So I got to eat crow a little bit. This is going to hurt, uh-oh. So Mike brought the Switch 2 to dinner the other night and we played it a little bit and I gotta say it's pretty awesome, yes it's not really good it's coming to the it's.
Speaker 3:It's not bad, it's better graphics.
Speaker 1:It's a bigger machine, like the handheld part, which I've always had a problem with the switch as a handheld device because it was so small.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like cramped.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm on your fingers yeah, so having the bigger system is pretty awesome and the new tracks on Mario Kart were great, yeah we just unlocked the new Rainbow Road. I hate it's great it's a terrible, terrible place but it is great uh, we, we watched the Marine last night, you remember?
Speaker 1:that, yeah, and I forgot how dumb these movies can be, man, it's just like wow, and I've watched a couple. Like. I watched a stone cold steve austin movie the other night it was called the recoil and between these two movies I've got all the dumb action I can take for the next month, but I mean it's just, it's summertime, it's the time of the year for that, though, so good, I saw. Independence day is on, uh, something. I saw the other day. But yeah, it's uh.
Speaker 1:But that's about oh oh oh, I started my first hell divers spinoff book yesterday. It's called rhino. Pretty excited about that nice, rhinoceros.
Speaker 3:Um what kind of noise is that is?
Speaker 2:that what a rhino does what I mean, I'm not look, I'm not a zoologist, but I'm pretty sure I'm almost. What in the name of our lord and savior?
Speaker 1:what's that dying rhinoceros?
Speaker 2:it is like a chicken with its head cut off or something.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, rhino.
Speaker 3:It was good. No, this is what a chicken with no head sounds like. Because it's dead. Wow, Because you ain't got no head. Oh gosh.
Speaker 2:Ty, what's going on with you? And that's what's up, other than making bad Rhino noises.
Speaker 3:Brandon Lake's new album came out last week.
Speaker 1:There it is.
Speaker 3:There's the plug. It's pretty good, so there's the plug.
Speaker 1:What's the album called?
Speaker 3:King of Hearts, king of Hearts, it's got a few.
Speaker 2:Did you see what he wore to the award show? I can't remember what award show. Are you talking about the pink hat thing?
Speaker 3:Yes, so that was a whole? Yes, that was a whole. I don't even remember. I don't know what we're talking about.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's pretty bad, but you see the so stupid.
Speaker 3:When Billboard put out he did an interview with Billboard, I don't know, maybe their cover which people kind of spoke their opinions on it, yeah of spoke their opinions on it, yeah which, uh, I don't know if it was him or maybe his, his pr team or whoever someone stepped up and made a change, but the cover said the church of brandon lake yeah, that's bad but literally later that day they changed it to where it just said brandon lake yeah, yeah, yeah, that's rough, that's rough and that's, that's what happens, man, when you get that big.
Speaker 2:Within that, within that genre well, when you start, you start dealing with a lot of secular areas which, again, you, you don't blame you, you want christian right influence in those things, but you, you have to look out for that and that's why he has a pr team that watches stuff like that, because they they will purposely kind of skew it in a way that they know it'll get people talking yeah, you know so well, that's good they caught they, they stopped that from happening yeah, that'd have been pretty rough.
Speaker 3:I saw that I was like, oh no yeah, what else?
Speaker 1:Oh no.
Speaker 3:Yeah, what else you got? Really haven't been counting into anything, we've been so busy Just making babies.
Speaker 1:You already made them, I guess.
Speaker 3:Now you're just cooking them.
Speaker 2:Now they're just cooking, slow cooking, yeah.
Speaker 3:Slow roasting. Yeah, slow roasting in the oven. No, really not a whole lot other than yeah, All right cool.
Speaker 2:We watched a new movie last night. Yeah, it was my birthday yesterday.
Speaker 1:Happy birthday, thank you. Where's the clapping thing? I don't have the buttons.
Speaker 2:I wasn't going to do it for myself.
Speaker 1:Well, I did it for you. You want one more? It's messed up Darn.
Speaker 2:So, you know, we just kind of sat around after I got off work, sat around watched movies. So we watched a new movie last night. I can't remember the name of it, but it has Sidney Sweeney and Moore Redhead, Julianne.
Speaker 1:Moore.
Speaker 2:And it's like a thrill, like a psychological thriller. We got about three quarters of the way through it and I'm like I don't like this movie.
Speaker 2:Like I really don't and then it kind of had a little twist towards the end and I'm like, okay, it's kind of coming back around, never mind, because all the all the stuff we're just like this is real stupid, like what is going on then. Then the twist kind of made it all like, okay, okay, cool. So it was pretty good. It was probably six out of ten. It wasn't bad. It wasn't bad. A good movie to watch Just sitting around. Good twist yeah, it was an Apple TV movie, so it was a movie made by Apple.
Speaker 1:I always forget we have Apple TV, yeah, apple. I always forget we have apple tv. Yeah, yeah, and you should watch it. It's really it's got a pretty good, pretty good little twist to it. It seems like on apple tv.
Speaker 2:Everything is for rent or buy, like they know. If you get, well, if you get apple tv plus, it's like the streaming so they have their own, their own content. But it was, it was pretty good, it really was, it was, it wasn't too bad. So, uh, we watched that. We watched um, I don't, we watched something. Oh, just go with it. Adam Sandler. Oh yeah, we watched that, laughed a lot.
Speaker 3:It's such a it's a comfort movie.
Speaker 2:Yes, it is yeah, and that's what me and Jamie were talking about Really any Adam Sandler movie is kind of a comfort movie.
Speaker 3:You can put on. It's okay to fall asleep through it. You're just there with your blankie or maybe some ice cream, you're just watching now a sandler movie, and pretty, because you're feeling comfortable.
Speaker 2:Stop looking at me, richard. Especially like kind of the newer ones that are more like family, friendly, right, you know the grown-ups that you know even just go with it. You know it's got some stuff that's a little bit edgy, but there's not a lot of cursing in it, you know, and it's just pretty good movies to watch with your family?
Speaker 1:is that the one where he's a plastic surgeon?
Speaker 2:yeah, yeah, yeah, that one guy can't, can't feel his face.
Speaker 1:He's like oh, I just want to be in the game, baby. Okay, I don't want to hit home runs, just singles just singles. He's like, do you?
Speaker 2:have any feeling in your face. He's like just right here and then from the eyebrows below nothing and he's like is that a car?
Speaker 3:alarm going on in my favorite, which no, it's not even a um. I'm pretty sure it was uh produced by uh happy madison.
Speaker 2:No, the bench warmers oh, that's a good movie that was.
Speaker 1:I've seen that in forever.
Speaker 2:I love that, david Spade he's a funny dude he's like oh, I nicked it. You're still out, you're still fat.
Speaker 3:I nicked it yeah, I've seen that he's gone now.
Speaker 2:I was really trying to get under it and rip it into left, but a dog was barking and threw me off what dog he's gone now All right you're up.
Speaker 3:Yeah it's a good one. I am 12. Yeah, he's like he's got a mustache, yeah.
Speaker 2:He's like sir, I don't know, and he just hands him a paper that just says I am 12, with a $20 bill.
Speaker 1:He's got documentation yeah those are good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, documentation, yeah, those are good. Um, yeah, we did that played some switch.
Speaker 1:Like me, me, jamie and the kids have been playing mario kart so we've been playing that hanging out and it's been a great take, tyler out.
Speaker 2:It's been a great time. It's been a great time, man, that that um, I was beating everyone what is? It, the world, world tour. What was the one where it's just constant? Oh, grand Prix, grand Prix. No, no, it wasn't Grand Prix, it's a new one Knockout.
Speaker 3:Oh, knockout Tour, Knockout Tour. It's brutal.
Speaker 1:Oh, that was mayhem. That's a lot of people on there.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh. It's like the freaking baby track, whatever it's called. You can be in first and a whole race. You've got time to catch up until that last little bit.
Speaker 3:And that's the whole thing 24. Yeah, 24 racers, that's a lot of people.
Speaker 2:It's fun though.
Speaker 3:Because it was 12 last time, wasn't it yeah?
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it went up from 9.
Speaker 3:It was 9 for a long time, then it went to 12, but man, it's the best when our big group is all together and we're all playing and taking turns. I don't know if you can split the screen.
Speaker 2:24 controllers, right which next time we need to do teams where, like two people on each team and they do. Oh, I can't imagine one lap and then they have to exchange.
Speaker 1:I do not want to be on your team. Why I?
Speaker 2:I know I do not volunteer as tribute, why man?
Speaker 1:because you, you, you kind of take stuff a little seriously.
Speaker 3:You're going to be in first Hand off to Richard Just do it, pass him.
Speaker 1:What are you doing?
Speaker 2:That's accurate right there. So again we are taking applications for.
Speaker 1:You yelled at my 14-year-old son playing basketball. Well, he needed to learn and he didn't he did.
Speaker 2:He stopped doing what he was doing you're a little bit competitive no yeah, a little bit.
Speaker 1:We watched uh on angel network.
Speaker 2:We watched that homestead movie yeah, I know you said he was wanting to.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's pretty good yeah, it wasn't as good as I thought it'd be, but it was good.
Speaker 2:Neil mcdonough's, he's amazing, he's so good, trying to remember some of the movies that are coming out in theaters pretty soon. We were talking about superman. That's coming out pretty soon, so I'm looking forward to that. That's my stress reliever, and monday is where I can go watch.
Speaker 1:I haven't been to the theater. What was the last movie I saw? I don't even know the last movie I saw. I don't even know the last movie I saw at the theater.
Speaker 3:I think the last movie we saw we actually went and watched was the Last Spider-Man.
Speaker 1:Good, it's been longer for you than me. Yeah, yeah, we're not really movie people. Yeah, and if you're not, you're not. I mean it's.
Speaker 3:Or no, no, no, no, no. W Wicked, that was the last one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because y'all took the kids. That was the last one. Y'all actually spent money on that, all right.
Speaker 3:It was good yeah.
Speaker 1:Sissy liked it. The second part's coming out soon.
Speaker 3:I know we're excited about that. Yeah, she liked it a lot.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we'll watch the second part, me and her and Liv were singing it on the way up there and during the movie it was really slow, though, like the first one, like it felt like it was just getting good and then it was okay, wait for part two.
Speaker 3:That's the whole point well, the whole the it's because it's, you know, it's a broad right musical. That's now how it was, basically kind of a must be a long musical, yeah I mean normally. Those are usually about four hours or so.
Speaker 2:I was going to say, aren't most of them three or four hours on the Broadway? I've never been to one.
Speaker 1:I saw that Sykeston has like a theater. Yeah, sykeston, cape, sykeston has a theater. I think Jonesboro has one.
Speaker 2:I want to start doing stuff like that. That's cool stuff to kind of get away and spend time with the family. It's different than uh, you know your everyday.
Speaker 3:Uh, see him over in cape on river campus. They have a theater department.
Speaker 1:They put on really good shows the three rivers does too, but they don't do it very often oh, the same mode.
Speaker 2:Does a couple every semester and uh, I think proper bluff does, also at the rogers theater, I know, and, and when we lived in alabama I was, I was gonna go and audition for one of those and do some stuff like that.
Speaker 3:I love it. Random guy number two.
Speaker 2:I was in drama forever at the church and doing stuff like that, and I really loved it, you're still in drama at the church. That's a good point. That's what you did there.
Speaker 1:It's involuntary now.
Speaker 2:Thank you.
Speaker 3:Thank you for that one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it would be fun, but it's finding time to do it.
Speaker 2:It's another thing altogether. Well, ty-ty do you feel better after your chaotic morning. I'm still stressed. You're too blessed to be stressed, brother. I'm stressed.
Speaker 1:Blessed and highly favored.
Speaker 2:Just wait till them babies come out and they both start. One starts crying. That makes the other one cry.
Speaker 3:One starts pooping and the other one poops, and then this one's awake, and going on. That is why I don't talk about stress, because most of the time when I talk about, I'm stressed. Oh, you don't know stress, I know right.
Speaker 2:Oh, you don't know stress, just you wait, oh just wait, man it's like that's not helping at all Great, I'll shut up Right, appreciate it, just you know invalidate my feelings. You okay. Go ahead. No, I'm saying no. I was acting like Tyler, I was you calling him a crybaby.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:I'm saying like no, I'm saying Not everybody cries the way you do.
Speaker 3:Me and Richard are looking for a new host.
Speaker 1:Who's going to?
Speaker 3:operate all this. Screw your applications. We're attacking applications. Who's going?
Speaker 1:to upload all this stuff.
Speaker 3:I own the patent to this. Thank you very much. You know what this is the end of the Almost Bros podcast.
Speaker 2:You know what? We've got an announcement to make.
Speaker 3:This will be our last episode Series finale? Absolutely not, even on a cliffhanger.
Speaker 2:We do need a new intro. I've been thinking about that, so we're going to be working on a new intro for the podcast.
Speaker 1:You've been saying that for a while.
Speaker 2:I know we need one, which you won't. I was going to make one, for that's what's Up. I'm going to make it and record it and then see what y'all think. That's what's up. No.
Speaker 1:He's not in charge of it anymore.
Speaker 2:No, yeah, so we're going to need. So, tyler, what you're saying is you're going to make us an intro. I couldn't. Okay, not, I will, I can. I didn't say you can. I didn't say do you have the ability to?
Speaker 1:You know why he?
Speaker 2:can.
Speaker 1:Because he's got a degree.
Speaker 2:Write that down.
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