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
Strangers and Stories
Kristi Rawlings didn't expect to spend two decades at Dunklin County Transit when she first joined as a secretary. Now, as Operations Manager, she's witnessed thousands of meaningful connections bloom in the unlikeliest of places – the passenger seats of their transportation vehicles.
"You never know when a kind word will change someone's entire day, week, month, year, life," reflects one of our hosts, capturing the essence of this enlightening conversation. Though many assume Dunklin County Transit exclusively serves elderly or disabled individuals, Kristi reveals their service is available to anyone needing transportation – from airport travelers to those whose vehicles are temporarily out of commission.
What makes these rides truly special isn't just getting from Point A to Point B, but the profound human connections that form along the way. Drivers share remarkable stories of passengers who, within minutes of entering the vehicle, begin sharing their deepest struggles and life stories. Richard recounts a particularly moving experience with a passenger who shared her entire life journey, ending with them praying together as she departed in tears. Tyler describes passengers who specifically request certain drivers, having developed relationships of trust through repeated interactions.
Perhaps most striking is the revelation about loneliness in our communities. "It's sad, really, to just see the number of people that don't have anybody to talk to," Kristi observes. For many regular passengers, especially those requiring frequent medical trips like dialysis, their DCT driver becomes a consistent, caring presence in otherwise isolated lives.
Beyond the heartwarming stories, Kristi shares practical insights about their services – from all-day local routes allowing unlimited travel for one price to their expansive service area covering multiple counties. With 25 drivers and more vehicles on the way, they've grown substantially since their 1982 founding.
Ready to experience this unique service yourself? Whether you need a ride to an appointment or simply want to connect with a friendly face, Dunklin County Transit proves that sometimes, the journey truly is as important as the destination.
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I like how I could tell him to shut up over the phone instead of in person.
Speaker 2:That does make you more manly, doesn't it? It?
Speaker 1:does Wait. What, what? Why are you laughing, Tyler?
Speaker 1:Oh something funny, hey, tyler watch this Muted watch this muted okay, I guess I'll unmute you. Are you mad at me? Thanks, appreciate it. Appreciate it. Yeah, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's. Are you mad at me? Thanks, appreciate it. What's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up what's. Thank you for joining us yet again today. As always, I got Richie Rich, how's it going? And as always, but in a different form Ty, ty.
Speaker 3:Howdy.
Speaker 1:How's it going? Oh you know. Do you or Richard want to introduce y'all's boss?
Speaker 3:Richard, you go ahead since you're in there, Don't be scared.
Speaker 2:So today we have the operations manager of Dunkle County Transit, which is one of our amazing sponsors.
Speaker 1:Shout out come on, thank you, okay, everybody, everybody, calm down.
Speaker 2:This is Christy. Rawlings is her name.
Speaker 1:What's up how you doing? I'm good On a scale of 1 to 10, how nervous are you?
Speaker 4:Pretty nervous.
Speaker 1:That's funny.
Speaker 4:It's a first for me.
Speaker 1:And that's how most people they kind of get in and they see the microphones and they're like oh gosh, but it's just a conversation. You know, it's pretty simple. Once we get lights, we're not professional at all. Hey, I don't know who y'all is, but I'm professional.
Speaker 4:He says speak for yourself.
Speaker 1:That ran right. So, yeah, today we're going to talk about opportunities to connect so different ways that, whether it's in Christian circles, whether it's just in life you know there's different opportunities, kind of that we're able to connect, that people come in and out of our lives and we're able to speak life into people. You know we talk we've been talking lately here at the church just about taking advantage of opportunities when people come into your life and you never know when a kind word will change someone's entire day, week, month, year life, you know. So what y'all do with duncan county transit is you, you're almost like a taxi driver and a therapist. So you get you get a lot of opportunity to be able to just talk with people, right, conversate with people, love on people, you know, through conversation. So, uh, what are some of the best stories that y'all have had of people? I know, tyler, you had one where, uh, the dude asked you a off the wall question and you're like, uh, I don't know how, to my god I can't remember.
Speaker 3:I can't remember the name, um, but it was yeah, um. I've never been asked this question, okay. So, for those that don't, for those that listen but don't know what, like what, we look like I'm. I'm not white, okay, however. However, I was born and raised in the united states like a good, old-fashioned american like a good old-fashioned american okay, and so and you're what your, your, your family's's.
Speaker 1:from what country? I mean not, of course, the United States, but then, before that, the Philippines, the Philippines, okay, yeah, so I've never been asked this.
Speaker 3:So pick the guy up and he's older, I think he's in his 60s. He's talking about you know a lot of them. Uh will just get tell me their whole uh backstory. And so he kind of went on for a real, probably a good 10-15 minutes and then just randomly he goes uh so long. So how long you been here, I do what you know, what do you, or is that what he said? Oh crap, I can't remember, yeah, how long you been here. I was like what do you, or is that what he said?
Speaker 1:Oh crap, I can't remember, yeah, how long you been in the States.
Speaker 3:In the country. Yeah, so how long you been in the country? I was like like, so I stopped for a second. I was like so in like the United States, like did we cross a border somewhere, Like wait a second and he was like yeah, I said I was born and raised. He was no way. I'm like what? Why is it so hard to believe, right?
Speaker 1:Like you're lying, Like no, I'm not, I'm telling the truth.
Speaker 3:I'll find my birth certificate Right right.
Speaker 2:Christy's been with the company for like ever, so she's probably got it Forever.
Speaker 4:How long have you? Been 20 years.
Speaker 1:Oh, so it has been a good one, oh, cool. And then were you there like at the beginning. Were you there like for the start? No, or was it just coming along after? Okay, how long has it been around? Oh gosh 1982. Oh, okay, and man, I remember when Richard first started working there and he was talking about it and I'm like and kind of what you wanted to get out of the thought of it's just for you know, old people to go to the doctor. That's what I thought it was.
Speaker 4:A lot of people just think it's handicapped or disabled.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so it's like it's cool because Richard started explaining to to me oh no, like you can get a ride. Because even after that I thought, oh okay, it's just for people with like Medicaid, medicare. And he's like, oh no, you can just book a trip with it.
Speaker 3:You know, so me and my wife, I've taken someone and they're just like, yeah, my truck's in the shop. Yeah, they were just like, yeah, my truck's in the shop.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, and it's such a cool thing Like me and my wife were going to Memphis to fly out to Boston to go visit my family. You know, that's where my family's from.
Speaker 2:Not the Philippines, not the Philippines.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that has been the country. Yeah right, that has been the country.
Speaker 1:Even though you get there, it feels like a different country. It's a whole other world. So we're going to book with y'all and just get a ride to the airport. So it's really cool, man.
Speaker 2:It really is.
Speaker 1:Well, when you look at paying for parking and all that, yeah, it's pretty darn good and just not having to worry about all that. Just get dropped off and you can go. So, rich, what's story that you that you may have of where you just had a, was able to?
Speaker 2:have a conversation with somebody and just kind of open up. And now the one that really jumps out to me is I hauled a lady hopefully the person didn't jump out that would be unfortunate anyway. So I hauled her. I can't remember where we were going, cape I think, but by I mean she's that what you call it like hauling, like I just haul them around can you focus?
Speaker 3:I'm sorry can you imagine someone asked richard, hey, what do you do for living right, doesn't that?
Speaker 1:sound like wait a second legally, especially if if you were driving and tyler was with you, it would really be like wait a second.
Speaker 2:We're going toward Texas.
Speaker 1:Don't worry about it, right so?
Speaker 2:anyway. Oh, that's funny. So I transported her.
Speaker 1:Okay, does that help your brain? Yes, thank you.
Speaker 2:Geez, I'm doing a podcast with a 12-year-old I'm 13. Thank you, sorry. So I took her to Cape and during this trip she told me her life story and it it's so amazing to me that these I mean you have some that you haul often, but for the most part these are strangers. You know when you first haul them and they just unload right. I don't.
Speaker 2:I don't know if it's because you're a stranger, because they think, well, I'll never see this guy again. But I mean she told me her entire life story. So by the time we got back, I mean I dropped her off and she is in tears and she allowed me to pray with her and it was just. It was just one of those really cool connections, that that you just don't get at a normal job.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah and that, and you just never know, that whole conversation was probably something she wanted to get off her chest yeah apparently she's probably holding on to it for a while and it's like man, it's cool, you know.
Speaker 1:You always see it in a movie or a TV show, like the person serving drinks at a bar or at a party or something. They kind of unload what's going on with them onto that. So unload, you know they're what's going on with them, you know, onto that. So it's cool to. It's cool to have those conversations. I got to talk to a guy and pray with him yesterday at uh sam's club and same thing. He just started sharing all these these different things and got to kind of talk to him and you know he told me his wife passed away not too long ago and he's probably just pretty lonely yeah, christy, what do you got?
Speaker 4:I've heard a lot.
Speaker 1:Do your drivers usually tell you some of the stories?
Speaker 4:Sometimes I tell them. There's just such a wide variety of stories I hear I tell them.
Speaker 1:They need to write a book.
Speaker 4:They really could write a book.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like memoirs of a DCT driver.
Speaker 2:Memoirs of a people hauler.
Speaker 1:Yeah, which y'all do a lot of booking over the phone too, right, so you might even have a few of those just kind of sharing their life and what's going on with them, and it's cool. Y'all are helping too just in providing transportation. That's a big deal too, especially around the smaller towns, because you don't have the Ubers, the taxis, you know things like that. So I know like DoorDash has really picked up so little things like that around small towns have picked up a lot, because there's not a lot, you know that offer even delivery.
Speaker 2:Well, you know, one of the cool things that we do is what it's called our local routes. We like, for example, kennett. You know we'll run in kennett all day long. You pay one price and you ride all day it doesn't matter where you go, what stops you make you want to go to the grocery store you. I mean it doesn't matter, but it's one price for the whole day.
Speaker 1:Tyler, have you ever opened up to somebody that you're driving around Not hauling, but driving around?
Speaker 2:No, tyler doesn't open up to anybody that's why?
Speaker 1:That's exactly what I'm saying you don't open up to us, so you better not be opening up to some stranger man. Come through this phone.
Speaker 3:No, I mean, I ask a lot of questions, like about my personal life, and I don't get. I don't get too many details. But, like you know, I'll talk.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:That's a. That's a. That's kind of a nice part too, because there's some people that just don't want to talk, and I'm perfectly okay with that, because I'm not a talker.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, that's what I was going to say. It's probably hard for you to start talking with someone because it's hard for you to even talk to us. It takes you 45 days to get out your sentence.
Speaker 2:at what you're trying to say that's a very true statement.
Speaker 1:Leave me alone.
Speaker 2:Well, I leave that up to the writer. I don't force conversation Because a lot of times especially if you're going on a long trip, st Louis or whatever they just want to sleep, they just want to rest, be on their phones, prepare for whatever it is that they're going to do or whatever.
Speaker 1:So the rider, not the holly.
Speaker 4:You're not going to live that one, Dad. I see that. I see that.
Speaker 1:You haul like bay hey bay.
Speaker 2:Haul hey to the bay Exactly.
Speaker 1:What was I going to ask you, man? I was going to ask you a question, tyler Tata Hi. I'll think about it here, in a minute Maybe, wow.
Speaker 4:I'll dare you.
Speaker 1:Yeah Well, and being a pastor, you kind of get that a lot too. When people find out you're a pastor, they kind of unload all their needs and just kind of begin to hey well, can I talk to you about something or can I ask you something? That's what a lot with the guy yesterday. Tyler just hung up. There was a lot yesterday with the guy. He was just like man, can I ask you a question? And they just started asking questions about the church and you know how we're growing and they're struggling at their church and like all these different things. So a lot of times that will open up. You know, if you've been depending on your profession, you know people open up to you and that comes up on the ride also.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, kind of the things we stay away from are politics and religion, for obvious reasons. But if they bring it up, I'm not going to shy away from that conversation. So when they find out that I'm a pastor, they tend to even unload more. So now I'm a stranger and a pastor.
Speaker 4:What do we have like? Three or four?
Speaker 2:Oh, we got more than that, I don't even know. We got several, oh, pastor.
Speaker 1:Well, I remember you told me about the one guy. He even know we got several, oh, pastor, yeah, well, I remember you told me about the one, the one guy.
Speaker 2:Um, he's an older. Yeah, harold, the guy that wrote the poem.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, that's cool, man, that's cool. So, three or four of them, man.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what I'm talking about one and it's part of the hiring ad.
Speaker 1:Right, right, yeah yeah, are you a pastor, yes or no? What kind of help? You know it kind of helps to be, because you're kind of trained in dealing with people anyway, so it's kind of a perfect place for y'all to be. I remember I was watching this TV show and this guy was a therapist or something like that. So these guys were working on his porch, building a porch for him, and one at a time. They would go into his house like to get water or something, and like they stop in his office, like hey, can I ask you a question, and like hours went by of all these guys like going in with their problems and he was like well, I need to say this. You, you need to call and set up an appointment so that I can get paid. Like I'm not here just doing this for nothing. I thought it was cool because you know, I know you talk about you'll do this at the doctor. You'll turn one doctor's trip into I have questions about five different things, like hold up.
Speaker 4:While I'm here.
Speaker 2:I don't want to go to the doctor very often, so let's go head to toe.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like I know I'm in here for an X-ray on my finger, but also I've got this breathing thing going on, like let's talk about this, let's just get it all knocked out. Have you ever had somebody where you started talking to and it's like you knew that's exactly what they needed? And they just like, oh, and just start unloading on you and it's just like, oh, man, you really needed this, and start just unloading on you and it's just like, oh man, you really needed this.
Speaker 4:It's sad, really, to just see the number of people that don't have anybody to talk to?
Speaker 1:Yeah?
Speaker 4:I mean, we can tell that sometimes over the phone talking to them. I couldn't imagine.
Speaker 1:Yeah, especially the ones that need help getting in and out. And you get there and it's like's like, oh man, you have nobody to help you like. This is brutal.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, and I couldn't, and it's really bad when you hear like because they'll tell you you know, I've got these kids and they don't ever come around.
Speaker 1:It's just, it's so heartbreaking to listen to some of these people's stories yeah, and that's like it literally feels like we're all they've got right, yeah, do y'all have a lot of like repeat oh like repeat customers, and well, we do a lot of dialysis.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so that's three times a week, and so when you haul somebody that many times, they're they are your friends, right right they become yeah, become part of your.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, I knew, tyler, I knew you talked about like you had somebody that would like specifically request certain people yeah, yeah, all right, cool, good, I mean, yeah, that's it. Yep, that happens, that's, that's, that's, yeah. Well, I think that's pretty cool too, is is being even being able to do that because you get comfortable with certain people you know, and, and you get comfortable with certain people you know and you get comfortable in talking to certain people.
Speaker 2:Well, I wouldn't even be comfortable riding with somebody else you know, Because I'm a control freak who likes my driving. Finally, finally, man.
Speaker 1:You heard it here first.
Speaker 2:So anyway, it would be hard for me 16 minutes 28 seconds. Are you done?
Speaker 1:I'm just writing this down in my brain.
Speaker 2:It's hard for me to give up that control to somebody else driving me. I don't even like riding with Jennifer, but that's a whole nother issue. That's an episode on NASCAR. I don't like doing that and Tracy Feast is possibly the worst driver I've ever met.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's not happening. I'm not.
Speaker 3:I've had people that had that same issue and they were riding with me and they're like, at the end, like I dropped them off. They're like normally I'm nervous when it's driving me around, but I was relaxing that whole time.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, I got an Uber out of St Louis once when I went to meet you. You picked me up halfway out of St Louis and I was scared for my life. The entire time she was like talking, like not paying attention. I'm just like, oh God, oh no.
Speaker 2:I did that with one time I took a cab in Memphis, yeah.
Speaker 1:That's crazy.
Speaker 2:I've never prayed so hard I'm telling you, man, I had a guy in the in the van the other day and I made a turn and there was a little girl standing there and I was slowing down and kind of getting over and he's like it's so good to see you being so cautious, and who have you been riding with where kids?
Speaker 3:in the road, don't slow them down must have been tyler's driving dang I listen, I believe I'm a better driver than both of y'all oh come on okay, okay, number one.
Speaker 1:Why did you drag me into this?
Speaker 3:I didn't say that like what, listen like why are you coming at me like you had no part of this? Don't act like you had no part of the conversation.
Speaker 1:I didn't richard brought it up. What the heck man? Anyway, it's messed up. It's messed up, it'll be okay. Is there any way of proving that, tyler?
Speaker 3:exactly like you can't like race, because that is not the opposite of proving that let me ask you a question.
Speaker 1:Do they even drive on the right side of the road in your country?
Speaker 3:wow, I don't even know if they like actually drive exactly.
Speaker 1:So don't even know if they actually drive Exactly.
Speaker 3:I've never been there. Why are?
Speaker 2:you lumping me in? I've never even been there. How long did it take you to get used to driving on the right side of the road?
Speaker 3:I've never even been there Listen.
Speaker 1:Hey, tyler, hold up, Hold up, muted, you can't even reach the pedals, tyler, you have to drive in a clown car.
Speaker 2:He's not here so we can, oh man.
Speaker 3:Okay, you're back, listen, listen. I've had people, tali you're asking if people request. I've had people like ask at the end, uh, like they're like uh, so can we like uh like call like request drivers, so like yeah, they never said they would request me, so are they requesting me or are they requesting anybody else?
Speaker 1:right, just like I don't want to ride with this guy again there are.
Speaker 2:There are other companies that do what we do, but but they don't do it as good and that's a fact.
Speaker 4:I mean, that is just just I hear that so many times we have so many people that request they'll cancel their appointments if they don't yeah, and and?
Speaker 1:is there a lot around the same area more than you would think? Yeah, yeah, because I mean appointments. If they don't, yeah, and and is there a lot around the same area more than you would think? Yeah, yeah, because I mean I just I don't know if I just didn't pay attention or what you know, I know, I mean I could make a five right off the top of my head.
Speaker 2:Really I was gonna say same dang yeah, and we are a cut above.
Speaker 1:So what does that? What does that even mean?
Speaker 2:I don't know, I didn't make okay. Okay, I've heard it like it's not like I haven't heard it.
Speaker 4:But okay, so did you start driving no, I started out as um a secretary to the director at the time oh cool, okay, heck yeah, and y'all have just the mall in office or you have.
Speaker 1:Okay, I know y'all stretch out pretty good, because I see every there's not a single day, not a single day, that I don't see one of y'all's out. Pretty good, because I see every. There's not a single day, not a single day, that I don't see one of y'all's vehicles somewhere yeah, we have grown yeah yeah, and like every time I look and I try to look and see if it's you or tyler driving, and it's never y'all too, it's always someone else well, there's 25 drivers okay, don't yell at me, dude dang, I'm just michael we can't be everywhere.
Speaker 1:Oh, that should be your slogan but we can dct we can't be everywhere the bigger we get I'm about to say. It seems like y'all are?
Speaker 2:I see your vehicles every like. We got more vehicles coming and y'all stretch from.
Speaker 1:From how far do you kind of stretch? Oh gosh, because I've seen jonesborough, perigold, and then I've seen sykeston, st louis. Yeah, oh, really, you go that far.
Speaker 3:Okay, we'll go anywhere, yeah michael, you know that I don't know, what that means you know we go to st louis. I thought about going to st louis all the time oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, oh yeah, that's. I didn't think about that.
Speaker 4:If somebody has a need, we will do whatever we can to try to make it happen.
Speaker 1:And then you did like a wedding right, so like even stuff like that.
Speaker 2:That was a special deal, that we don't do anymore oh okay. That was kind of the last hurrah for that particular service. Yeah, thank the good Lord.
Speaker 1:I think we're still cleaning up.
Speaker 2:There was a lady that had like a boa, like one of them, feather boas.
Speaker 1:Like a boa constrictor.
Speaker 2:How many snakes do you know made out of feathers?
Speaker 1:Not a lot, hey, you never know how many snakes have you ever?
Speaker 2:seen Too many is feather boa and I swear, we cleaned up feathers for a month after that way she was rocking the hulk, hogan rip yeah, yeah. So anyway, we don't do that anymore yeah, that's what I wish we did. It was actually pretty fun that's what's up.
Speaker 1:That's what's up. Speaking. I wish we did. It was actually pretty fun. That's what's up.
Speaker 2:That's what's up Speaking of.
Speaker 1:we're going to go into a segment called that's what's Up. So this is a segment where we talk about things that we're watching a movie, a TV show, new music?
Speaker 2:You would know that if you listened to the podcast.
Speaker 1:Oh, he's just going to call you out. He is that's you're gonna get demoted, you're gonna get a right. She's like oh, no more weddings. Huh, well, guess what. But yeah, so something you're listening to, maybe a new song, whatever this week. So we'll start with richard tyler and then we'll we'll throw it over to you. So you got a little bit of time to think about it she's like I don't want to do this.
Speaker 4:I don't have time to do any of that so richie, rich what you
Speaker 2:got so currently I'm I'm re-listening to the hell divers, and the reason being is because I figured out on my audible how to create an album with my series in it. So now I'm getting the books back so that I can put those in, so that I can have them forever because I didn't know how to do that, and so when I got done listening, I just deleted them, even though they cost me credits but that makes sense, yeah.
Speaker 2:So in September the prequel comes out, so I'm pretty excited about that. But, uh, we're not really watching anything right now because it's summer break and none of the none of the none of our shows are out. But it's going to hit full force in September.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:Not looking forward to that Cause. That's not going to be good. Go back to 10 show.
Speaker 1:Yeah, can't get anything else done, right, yeah, tata what you got.
Speaker 3:Um, I don't really have anything new.
Speaker 1:Uh, I, um, I don't really have anything new?
Speaker 3:uh, I started listening, you know, uh, bode the yeah, the christian artist singer. Yeah, started getting into him a little more. He did a uh, a cover of the song. What a god, oh, it's so good oh so good it is real good he's got.
Speaker 1:That's the weirdest name too. I always thought that bode.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, that was a character on uh, point break that's where he got named from oh yeah, well, look at that yep, uh, so I was listening to his testimony.
Speaker 1:I can't remember who he was talking to, but I listened to his testimony and that's who he got named after. Yeah, because I think his family was from like california or something like that.
Speaker 2:So he was named after a narcissistic bank robber, sure Sure.
Speaker 1:Terrible character. Is that all?
Speaker 3:Also.
Speaker 1:Okay, there we go.
Speaker 3:Also Liv got me. I can't remember if I mentioned it last week. Liv got me put on this new, this new song by this guy, youngblood. It's pretty popular. I'm not a big fan of really any of his music but this one song I'm like ooh, that is good. Okay, called Zombie, called what Called Zombie.
Speaker 2:Zombie, okay, not by the Cranberries Okay.
Speaker 3:I legit thought not by the cranberries I legit thought it was going to be another cover of that song well, that's been done too many times. But hey, bad Wolves did a great job of it cool okay.
Speaker 2:I have my grandbaby gender reveal this Saturday yeah, peaches, yeah, what you got Saturday.
Speaker 1:Yeah, peaches, that's what's up.
Speaker 2:What do you got you?
Speaker 1:should leave me out of this part.
Speaker 4:I honestly don't watch or listen to art much at all. I need to start listening to the podcast.
Speaker 2:Right, yeah, the next time you're on you'll be like my. That's what's up, is I'm listening?
Speaker 1:to the podcast. There you go. What's your favorite movie of all time?
Speaker 4:Well, I did watch. I'm sorry. I watched Happy Gilmore 2 on Netflix. Yeah, did you like it?
Speaker 1:I did so, Tyler, did you watch the first one? What is it? Happy Gil Morning.
Speaker 3:I did so. I watched it Friday. Right now it's not Friday, Today's Wednesday. I watched it on Monday.
Speaker 1:What day is today?
Speaker 3:Yeah, my day, listen, since starting work is at the church. My days are like starting to run together a little bit. Yeah, because it's like Sunday's a work day but it's not. But it is yeah. So I watched. I watched the first one on Monday and I watched the new one last night which it was. It was funny, because Liv got mad at me because, well, I didn't know, she wanted to watch it and she, oh man, yeah she was, she was come, she was doing something either way, she wasn't there, yeah she wasn't there.
Speaker 3:and she gets home and I'm watching it and she's like you're watching it without me. I'm like I didn't know you wanted me to watch it. I'm like a half hour in and she's like so, I'm like okay. So I was like, do you want me to start it over? She's like, yeah, whatever. So I start it over. This girl's on her phone most of the time and then, with an hour left, she falls asleep.
Speaker 1:Wow, just wow.
Speaker 3:Which, to be fair, she's pregnant. However, she wanted me to start it over.
Speaker 2:Is that her excuse for everything?
Speaker 3:Right, you're in trouble now, you know it's funny. Yeah, you're in trouble now. Yeah, oh, I'm in trouble constantly.
Speaker 1:Always right.
Speaker 3:I live on the dangerous side, but what was, oh? She farted the other day and I was like Liv. Oh my gosh, she's like it's your kids.
Speaker 1:I was like Liv, you were doing that before you were pregnant.
Speaker 4:Come on, yeah. So what did you think? Did you like it? I thought it was really good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I loved how they mixed. So what did you think? Did you like it? I thought it was really good.
Speaker 2:I loved how they mixed the old and the new. It was phenomenal.
Speaker 1:Spoiler alert for anybody who hasn't seen it. I'm not giving a spoiler, but I'm just talking about some of the people in it. I thought it was really cool.
Speaker 2:Both his daughters were in it.
Speaker 1:I thought that was really neat. It's the first time that I can remember Both his daughters were in it. Yeah, oh, that was really neat. Yeah, you know, it's the first time that I can remember that that they were both in it. And then there was a little Easter egg, the I can't remember his name the kid from Grown Ups that passed away Like the actor, died in real life. He was like 20 years old. Yeah, there was a scene where they had a picture of him on the like, a little homage to him. Yeah, I missed that. Yeah, so that was, that was, I thought, really cool. Yeah, and, like adam said, like it was really clean for a you know for, because I'm in the first happy gilmore wasn't terrible either, but I thought it was really. I think it's really cool him leaning into the more family friendly.
Speaker 2:They bleep out all the bad stuff.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah yeah, so I thought that was really cool sometimes you don't know what you're going to get Right Right With him.
Speaker 1:And man, I just I really liked it. It was a good time. I think a lot of Hollywood is starting to find their groove in the remakes or the sequels that feel like direct sequels. So 20 years have passed and they do a sequel, but it feels like the last one, right? Um, I know what you did last summer. I just watched that in theaters and it felt very much like this was made two years after the last one, you know, so it was it was really good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I didn't get to see that yeah, yep, yep there was something else, I can't remember what it was. Oh, after we watched happy gilmore 2 there was a preview for Hustle kind of like in the things also you might like or whatever, and Jennifer surprisingly wants to see that movie yeah, is that with the basketball scout, the basketball scout Adam Sandler, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, okay, yeah, that's the one Tyler really likes. He likes that one a lot.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was a good one. It was different. It was different from your regular, typical Adam Sandler movie.
Speaker 2:Yeah, different from Shabba-Doo, shabba-doo, shabba-doo.
Speaker 3:Timothy shadow me.
Speaker 1:So we are watching a show called the Perfect Couple on Netflix, so Jamie started it and it's really good so far. Now we'll see who. It's like a murder mystery TV show, so we'll see.
Speaker 2:I bet the butler did it.
Speaker 1:We'll see Maybe.
Speaker 2:She's awful quiet.
Speaker 1:She's awful quiet. It's one that you're going to guess everybody at one point. But then it changes. It's like, okay're going to guess everybody at one point, yeah. But then it changes. It's like okay, no, I don't think it was them, I think it was. So I made my final guess last night, so we'll see. I'm on the last episode of the first season, so we'll finish it and see where we're at Very cool, that's about it man.
Speaker 2:I've been listening to them this week are you doing like individual albums or like greatest hits?
Speaker 1:I usually do individual albums, you know, because I'll put it on and I like to go beginning to end. Let it go all the way through and then that's how you find those, those less popular. Yeah, great songs, yeah is or even, like I like, finding the bands that aren't full. You know, hugely known. You know like one of my favorite bands is Augustana. They're not a big known band, but man, they're good. Yeah, they're so good.
Speaker 2:Of course Tyler's heard of them. All he ever does is listen to music, listen.
Speaker 3:I don't always listen to music.
Speaker 2:No, sometimes you're listening to your wife's farts, oh.
Speaker 3:Yeah, oh. Which can sometimes sound like music that's also on my top 10 playlist, Right right, yeah, your your Spotify recap, your recap, yeah. That's fine. My wife's butt was, my top was my number two artist Right.
Speaker 1:Um, I went and I haven't got to play it yet, but me and Bobby went to Bluff yesterday no, the day before yesterday and I picked up the new Donkey. Kong but I haven't got to play it yet.
Speaker 2:That sucks to pick up a game and not be able to play it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and we hung out and went to headquarters and kind of hung out there for a little bit and then went and picked it up, got home I loaded it on the switch and then watched that, that tv show with james, so that was about it cool. Yeah, that's it for now, man. I haven't played any any persona 5 this week. Oh me, tyler live and jamie and the kids played, uh, mario kart.
Speaker 2:I hate that game we played a little sorry in trouble last night.
Speaker 1:We played sorry the other night, so Sissy's on a two-game winning streak right now.
Speaker 2:Oh, look at her go.
Speaker 1:So mad man.
Speaker 2:I know you are, because you're the most competitive person on the planet.
Speaker 1:Little brat.
Speaker 3:I locked her in the bathroom after that. I'm definitely not as big a fan of the new Mario Kart, because it's, how many is there? Yeah, 24 racers, yeah, and and like legit, like every race is like that stupid, like baby race map thing, whatever it's chaos man you could be. You can legit be and first get hit with just a simple red shell and be in 18th place, right and it's just it's.
Speaker 1:There's very little skill involved, it's all luck. It's luck of the draw, and it's just it's like yeah, it's, it's I like the knockout game better. Yeah.
Speaker 2:I have long felt that that was a very overrated game.
Speaker 1:Well, and and it's, it's one of those games you could play with a group of friends. That's the big draw yeah because that's what jamie's like. Well, if you hate this, because I was like I really don't like this, this version of mario kart, I don't like it she's like well, why are you wanting to play it? And I'm like because it's hanging out with y'all. That's why you know it's fun. The fun part is not the game per se, it's hanging out with everyone.
Speaker 2:That's what's so fun about Jackbox they're pretty simple games. Just have a blast doing it.
Speaker 1:It's a good time, man.
Speaker 2:Christy, you got anything else that you would like to say? Anyone can ride, that's what I was saying.
Speaker 4:Anyone can ride.
Speaker 1:I always get a kick out of that. The way you say it On the promo, it's like anyone can ride, ride, ride Saturday.
Speaker 2:Saturday, saturday, I don't think I said that. That's what it sounds like. Oh yeah, sorry to hear that.
Speaker 1:He's really aggressive.
Speaker 3:You need to redo the ad to make it one of those like, do you need a ride? Ride ride Anyone can ride, ride, ride. Anyone can ride a ride?
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're probably not.
Speaker 1:Grave digger.
Speaker 2:We're not promoting monster truck.
Speaker 3:We're going to put some lift kits?
Speaker 2:Yeah, that costs extra.
Speaker 1:Maybe one day the county transit huge monster truck.
Speaker 3:You said, anyone can ride.
Speaker 1:No, I'm just saying.
Speaker 3:One time I had a dream that I was scheduled to work.
Speaker 1:Tyler, they call your dreams. Short films.
Speaker 3:Ha, funny, I'll come up with a comeback in a minute Before I lose my train of thought. When my dream was no, I had a dream that I was, uh, working out, scheduled to go to St Louis I remember I was taking I can't remember who it was, it was someone I know and, like I remember, I came into the office and like, oh wait, we're out of our regular vehicles and I was like what do you mean?
Speaker 1:your regular vehicles? You'll just have to take the Ferrari.
Speaker 2:Oh no, Does that have a wheelchair lift on it?
Speaker 1:Right, you only got room for one more of the person Like man they're not going to have a bag or nothing. I've got the one on the outside, where, where it's kind of like a bike rack, yeah that's funny. That's when you know you love your job, when you have dreams about it.
Speaker 2:That's exactly right.
Speaker 1:Or you hate it and you have nightmares about it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I've had that. Basically, what I'm saying is maybe looking to get in a Ferrari or a Lambo Just throwing that out there.
Speaker 1:Let's see if I can put that in our budget.
Speaker 2:Just throwing that out there I don't think they could sponsor the podcast if they bought a Lambo.
Speaker 1:Yeah, every dime needs to go towards that. That's going to cut into that budget.
Speaker 3:That's funny, I'm hoping you be playing it. Oh that's funny.
Speaker 1:Well, rich Tyler, y'all got anything else on your minds or hearts?
Speaker 2:I never have anything on my mind.
Speaker 3:I'm getting hungry.
Speaker 2:And that's all he ever has on his mind. How is he not fat? It really upsets me. That's all he talks about.
Speaker 3:We ate Chinese food last night.
Speaker 1:Of course you did.
Speaker 3:It's all about you know he's from the Philippines, so American food doesn't hit him the same as the rest of us. That might be it. Listen, I don't know the science behind it but that might be it. I'm not a scientist, but you might be on to something.
Speaker 2:Tyler, when did you have your first mcdonald's?
Speaker 1:how long you?
Speaker 3:been here, man, that's beyond me.
Speaker 2:I don't know at this point that is never gonna not be funny right ever.
Speaker 1:That's funny, that's when I had when I got my first mcdonald's well, I'll tell y'all, I'll tell you a story to make you feel a little bit better about me. That'll help you feel better about you.
Speaker 2:Oh, I hope this is the story I'm thinking of. No more tackling fuel Oil change.
Speaker 3:Oh my gosh, the check no this is?
Speaker 2:Oh, I'll tell it. So Mike went and got his oil changed, right? Well, while he was living in Alabama six months ago eight months ago ago he had a pair of pliers that he was using to tighten up his battery cable. So he went to get an oil change and they found a pair of pliers on his engine block that had just been chilling there for eight months wow, the guy goes hey, here's, here's some pliers.
Speaker 1:And I'm like oh crap, that was there. Uh, last thanksgiving I was like um, thank you appreciate that, oh, that could have been so bad yeah, yeah no, my, my highly, I highly recommend.
Speaker 3:Uh, christy, if you haven't heard the story about the check, you ask them about it. You have to go back and listen to it.
Speaker 4:Yeah, you have to get caught up, you have to make me listen to the podcast to hear it yes.
Speaker 1:So what story was I going to tell?
Speaker 2:I don't know, but mine was better.
Speaker 1:He done messed me up talking about that man. Oh yeah, so this was about 10 years ago. Me and a buddy went to mexican restaurant. We're sitting waiting, you know, says please wait to be seated, or whatever. And we're sitting there and we're just waiting and and we'd we'd been like at a softball tournament or something all week, so I get about three shades darker being in the sun for a long time. Well, anyway, we're sitting there and they come up and they say, hey, are y'all two here for the interview?
Speaker 2:did you try to speak spanish at?
Speaker 1:that point. No, then I had another time where the waiter comes up and he starts speaking spanish to me just assuming.
Speaker 2:Yeah, did you speak spanish? Yeah, I'm just looking at him.
Speaker 1:He said no, yeah, and he's like no Espanol.
Speaker 2:I'm like nope, nope sorry, can I get a quesadilla?
Speaker 1:I'm American. Okay, because this is America, all right.
Speaker 4:These colors don't rhyme.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but you know there's that, so don't feel bad, Tyler, you know we're just glad you don't accidentally get deported. Listen, I am legal. You keep telling yourself that.
