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
To Cry Or Celebrate? That is the question.
Raw, unfiltered, and surprisingly emotional – this episode pulls back the curtain on what really happens in ministry marriages when husbands travel for church work and wives "hold down the fort." When one wife admits to sobbing before her husband's departure only to discover he was secretly crying too, the conversation transforms into an honest exploration of attachment, independence, and the delicate balancing act of ministry life.
The Almost Sisters share their unvarnished truths about supporting their husbands' calling while maintaining their own identities. "I wish we could have done more," one wife confesses about connecting with other ministry spouses during a recent separation – highlighting the often-overlooked challenge of isolation in ministry families. Their candid discussion reveals how ministry couples navigate the competing demands of church, family, and self-care without resentment consuming their relationships.
Laughter erupts throughout as the couples expose their quirks – from one husband's supernatural ability to "sniff out Chinese restaurants" in any location to pregnancy-induced emotional rollercoasters. These moments of levity showcase how humor becomes essential glue in long-term relationships, especially during stressful ministry seasons.
Most powerful is the group's collective wisdom about intentional connection. "I love doing little things like trips to Jonesboro, movie nights at home," one husband shares, revealing how simple touchpoints often matter more than elaborate gestures. The episode concludes with practical insights for maintaining relationship health while serving others – making it essential listening for any couple struggling to balance vocational calling with family priorities.
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Speaker 1:Your waddle is hilarious.
Speaker 2:Listen, that's not what we're here to talk about today.
Speaker 1:But we can.
Speaker 3:Wibble, wobble, pregnant waddle.
Speaker 4:I think there might be a death on this podcast. Well, hello there. How are you?
Speaker 3:there's four of us. Please be specific. How are you doing? That's not a word don't think that's in the dictionary, oh yeah what about this?
Speaker 4:what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up. Everybody, welcome back to a brand new episode of the almost brothers podcast. Brand new brand new episode whoa I thought this was a rerun on today's episode we are talking with. The wives are on Well, two of the wives, two of the three Yep.
Speaker 3:Two of the almost sisters.
Speaker 5:Yellow.
Speaker 4:Green. How are y'all doing?
Speaker 5:Good, good.
Speaker 4:Very pregnant.
Speaker 5:Yep Very not pregnant, very not pregnant.
Speaker 4:Yeah, but as always we got Richie Rich.
Speaker 1:Hey, what's going on?
Speaker 4:How's it going?
Speaker 1:It's going good man.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Ta-ta hey yo.
Speaker 3:Hey yo what. My name is Reza Ramon.
Speaker 4:Talk. Another one up for the bad guys. Yeah, so have you watched SummerSlam yet?
Speaker 3:You seen anything about it? We watched the first what like almost hour of it of yesterday I wasn't paying and I didn't realize it's a two-day thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it's the first one yeah yeah did you say we watched it yesterday? No, I said, watched yesterday's oh, okay, that's, I didn't know that.
Speaker 3:All right, I didn't realize it was a two-day event. It's a first two-day summer slam there you go yeah, but now we haven't watched, are you?
Speaker 4:are you even interested at all in in it?
Speaker 1:I didn't even know what was going on. Oh yeah, it, it.
Speaker 4:I saw a bunch of bunch of results and it looks really good yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3:I kind of know everything that happens but keep your mouth shut, I know I know like one thing I'm. Well, we watched the the first match, which was uh, rowan rains and jay uso versus who the crap? Was it braun breaker and whatever the other random smell rise.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, they're all one big family.
Speaker 3:Wrestling has more than one royal family.
Speaker 1:Acknowledge me.
Speaker 3:Wrong guy.
Speaker 1:Sorry, wrong guy, I don't care.
Speaker 4:So on today's episode, I just kind of want to pick y'all's brain, is that okay?
Speaker 2:Better than picking y'all's noses. I'm looking at both of y'all. I'm looking at both of y'all's brain. Is that okay, better than picking y'all's noses? I'm looking at both of y'all.
Speaker 4:I'm picking y'all's noses. I'm looking at both of y'all. I don't know if that's a good idea, so we're just gonna rattle off some topics and open up the floor to just kind of pick y'all's brains as wives, as sisters, as women, as mothers, as daughters, as all these different things.
Speaker 1:I'm just going to bow out because I know I'm going to make somebody mad in this episode.
Speaker 3:Nope, you got to do it too, yeah you have to speak for both you and your wife, right.
Speaker 1:Absolutely not. Oh gosh, that's a dangerous thing.
Speaker 4:No, yeah, dangerous thing. No, yeah, dangerous thing. So I know. First thing I wanted to ask y'all is is you know me and tyler was out of town for a couple days, and are you?
Speaker 3:gonna ask how they, how they were over the weekend, how did y'all?
Speaker 4:how did y'all do, not only over the weekend, but how do you do with any kind of separation like that over a period of time?
Speaker 2:I just sit at home and cry.
Speaker 3:She cried for half an hour before I left.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was really bad, Like I don't think I've ever cried that much in my entire life.
Speaker 3:Oh, geez, which it was worse because she's pregnant you know, but it's not really them too.
Speaker 4:Does she does because she's pregnant Emptied out the tear ducts. I was crying for them too. Does pregnancy stop her from talking? What do you mean? I?
Speaker 3:asked Liv the question and you're answering for it. No, I'm just giving my experience.
Speaker 5:I heard you cried too.
Speaker 4:Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait a second, wait one second.
Speaker 3:Why are you womping me?
Speaker 4:see, we didn't get this side of the story no, you never will okay, let's talk about I have to bring that up interesting, you don't? So what? When was what happens?
Speaker 3:in the bedroom stays mute.
Speaker 2:He's been placed in the mute box.
Speaker 4:So when wait? When did this happen?
Speaker 2:It was when I was crying right before he left to come to y'all's house and stay the night, okay, yep.
Speaker 3:I don't like it when she cries.
Speaker 5:Leave me alone so why are you turning red?
Speaker 3:you're not pregnant, so can't use that excuse all this uh, sympathy emotions, right, sympathy hormones is what I got it was.
Speaker 2:It was kind of funny, like it's funny now. It wasn't funny then, but it's kind of funny because I was. I was sitting there and, uh, I was like my face was just like soaked, like I was red, like I was.
Speaker 1:I was crying so hard you were like ugly crying, yes bad.
Speaker 2:What he literally what. What broke me was? He said well, it's only for a couple days.
Speaker 4:I went mm-mm, nope, that was the worst thing to say in that moment and.
Speaker 2:I lost everything.
Speaker 3:It was.
Speaker 2:I just don't want you to go.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I was like, well, it doesn't matter. I kind of yelled at him like crying Right.
Speaker 3:I was like it doesn't matter, like I kind of yelled at him like crying and I'm like, I'm laying there like on his chest bawling my eyes out and then I'm like my forehead feels wet, you're just like I know I'm not sweating and I know my tears don't go up, you were sweating.
Speaker 2:It was raining, so I leaned up and I was like are you crying? He's like shut up.
Speaker 4:And see, when he came to the house he was like oh yeah, liv's crying Made no mention of his own tears, I will mention it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, correct?
Speaker 4:Have you ever been like praying, like down praying, and they went up. You're bent over and they start going up your eyebrow.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I've had that happen. I hate when tears drip on my glasses.
Speaker 4:That's why I always take my glasses off.
Speaker 2:I always forget until it's too late and I'm like well, that's going to smear everywhere. That's just fantastic, and they're like dried on there, like you can see them yeah, jamie, did you cry when mike left?
Speaker 3:no, not at all they are two different people she's over. She couldn't get him I couldn't get to the house quicker for her. I pull up and she's laying in bed or something Dang it.
Speaker 1:That's not what she was saying when I was going to leave what? I don't know how Jennifer feels when I leave.
Speaker 4:That's what I was going to ask. How did it go when you got back?
Speaker 1:It was fine. She was happy to see me that was good.
Speaker 3:My wife had no reaction when I came home, because I was asleep.
Speaker 1:She was out of tears from when you left. I was literally asleep. She was asleep I was in bed asleep.
Speaker 2:At what time was it when you got home?
Speaker 3:11,. I think yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm passed out. I'm done for the day. I'm tired.
Speaker 4:She was laying in bed, but the kids heard me come in, so like I heard them like upstairs, and then they took off running, you know. So that was pretty cool, and then finally she came like a zombie out of the bedroom oh, you're home like hey, no, it is because I mean, we try to do a pretty decent amount of travel.
Speaker 4:I know a couple weeks before that me and richard were gone for a few days and and it never gets easier, you know to, to leave like that. It it could be for a good reason, a good purpose, only for a little bit of time, but it's still hard to to just be away from other like that.
Speaker 5:It's hard for me to sleep.
Speaker 4:It really is.
Speaker 5:Well, yeah, you call me 20 times. So I'm like it's not like he left, like hey babe we're just eating.
Speaker 3:Was it hard for you to sleep, though?
Speaker 4:It was, but I slept like 12 hours he fell asleep.
Speaker 3:It was about 7 o'clock he fell asleep. And what time did he wake up?
Speaker 4:Probably 6?, yeah, probably 6 to get in the shower. How?
Speaker 1:many alarms did he use to get up?
Speaker 3:I don't know I was asleep. I only wake up to mine.
Speaker 4:I don't know if he does it all the time, but I did figure out that Tyler will fall asleep.
Speaker 3:I don't know if he fell asleep with his phone on or he falls asleep with his phone on, so I don't know if it was an accident, or like I do that when, like sad, don't there's like not really anything on, like for like a hotel, like yeah, they don't have no netflix or whatever. Yeah, I'll turn the tv off and I'll watch some videos or something on YouTube.
Speaker 4:Yeah, because I woke up at 1230 with his phone blasting.
Speaker 3:It wasn't blasting.
Speaker 4:I literally thought somebody was in our room. It was not blasting.
Speaker 2:I thought somebody was talking. I believe you.
Speaker 1:I thought our hotel was being invaded by anime characters.
Speaker 4:Nah, you wasn't sleeping though.
Speaker 3:You wasn't sleeping, though I't sleeping, though I had my thing turned down to where I could barely hear it, that's what my kids say.
Speaker 1:That's not true. That's not true.
Speaker 4:Those speakers, unless I fell asleep and just somehow you know, laid on the phone to where it turned the volume. I heard it to where I could hear distinct voices talking to each other and I thought somebody was like woke up.
Speaker 3:Well, I was I was watching those uh second uh date update videos.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then tyler had visitors while you were sleeping.
Speaker 4:I'm like what the and I'm like oh, and I figured he just fell asleep with it on or something, but yeah, he does that too. It was good though it was you ever been like in a hotel with somebody that's like just a horrible roommate or horrible person that doesn't care about anybody else's feelings?
Speaker 1:as jennifer. Oh, geez dang this doesn't care that was a joke, matt right yeah, gosh, and and it was, it was.
Speaker 4:It might have been the first time we we'd just been us two in a and like hanging out in a hotel you know we've hung out before, but we've never, like just both, been in there, and it was it was awesome right yeah, we're brothers give me a hug give me a high five but, it was, it was cool. Man, it was really it was. It was pretty cool. We're both both pretty chill, so well, that's's good. No body odor, nothing crazy like that. No, you know.
Speaker 3:Well, he did rip one as soon as we got into the room.
Speaker 4:Dude, because you're at the airport, you're like there's people everywhere, you're on the airplanes.
Speaker 1:Just like it hurts.
Speaker 5:We got to.
Speaker 1:Springfield illinois and michael is very respectful of my vehicle. He does not break wind in my car. It's a rule and he respects that and I appreciate the heck out of that. But we got to springfield illinois and he gets once he gets out, it's fair game. He gets out of the car and I mean it just kaboom and I was like dude, you've been holding that in a while you probably, you probably didn't look over, but he's over there just wincing in pain, just having a having full-on conversation.
Speaker 4:I'm just like, yeah and it dude because and everything you know, once my appendix, all that happened, my stomach it's just tore up. It's crazy from the floor I had jamie last night or it might have been, it was today like, oh, it'll be going crazy and I'll have her lay on my stomach and listen and it's so bad, just she's like it sounds like an alien in there and it you know.
Speaker 4:So anyway, with my gallbladder out, same thing, yeah where it just hits and it's just like, oh Lord, have mercy, yeah. But it was good man, it was a good trip and I enjoyed both the trips with y'all because it was the same way. It was cool getting to hang with y'all and have deeper conversations. The whole time back we just talked, though Didn't even have the radio on, just talked the whole way back. It was a good time but we missed y'all. We talked most of the time on the way back we talked about y'all. Oh.
Speaker 2:Lord.
Speaker 5:Oh, what did y'all?
Speaker 4:talk about.
Speaker 5:That's what I want to know, Talk about life Planning your murders.
Speaker 3:Yeah, life insurance policies. You know, those type of things.
Speaker 4:Just logistics. Might want to here. Wait, those are my tires. Oh wait, but jennifer's not here to answer to it. But how do you deal with kind of those times being away, because you used to used to truck drive over the road?
Speaker 1:you know, so you were somewhat used to it. Yeah, it's something that we've kind of got accustomed to over the years, which it's been many years since then. But you know she has a lot of distractions to keep her. She's got five kids that keep her hopping while I'm not there, so it's a little different, I guess.
Speaker 3:Ah, gem Bunny, keep her hopping. Let's see what you did there, hopping down the bunny trail, hippity hop. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1:That mute box is about to fall on your hand. Where is that button? That mute box is fixing to be your permanent home, and it was when I did drive over the road because I will be gone a week, mostly a week at a time. I come in on weekends most of the time, but that separation really does make you grow closer when you're together.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So maybe we need to separate some.
Speaker 4:Just to miss each other, just to miss each other, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 4:And man it does. It's awesome. I love getting away. I love doing stuff, especially like ministry stuff in different places and you meet new people and you connect. It was awesome we got to meet Mark from a third Day and just kind of hang out and, of course, hang out with Johnny and man. It was a great time.
Speaker 3:It was funny. I sent Liv a Snapchat. I was like I'm having lunch with Mark Lee from Third Day. She was like whatever, I always send a Snapchat. I was like this is literally him right in front of me.
Speaker 4:Well, he sent the blurriest picture on the planet of him. Yeah, it was awesome. He just came and sat with us and then was just talking and opened up.
Speaker 1:Did y'all recognize him?
Speaker 4:Yes, I did See, I did before we started, yeah, which I kind of knew he was going to be there anyway. But so they walked in and he started kind of helping set up stuff.
Speaker 3:So like uh, what was it? The 90s?
Speaker 4:the 90s worship 90s worship, which is a like a pretty cool thing, yeah, and, and I was like hey, so he was like a, not a presenter, but like a, like a.
Speaker 1:He's a speaker, he's a keynote speaker.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah so he's one of one of the keynote speakers and it was. It was really cool to just get his insight into the industry and into, you know, being in it for 25, 30 years, you know I bet that was hugely beneficial for tyler.
Speaker 1:That I mean, yeah, yeah, and man, what was?
Speaker 4:what was really cool is is just how down to earth he was yeah, like super chill. Um got to exchange numbers with him and man it was, it was awesome. So, uh, we, we look, we look forward to he's ready to get on, so we yeah, I told him we'd set it up and get him on the podcast. So it was great man, it really was. It was really neat.
Speaker 3:I thought it was funny how I started that conversation. I said Mark, are you big in the podcast? He goes, oh, yeah, I love podcasts. I said well, me and Michael over here we got podcasts. He goes, oh, what's it called? I had my Almost Brothers hat on backwards, I just flipped around.
Speaker 2:Almost Brothers podcast Represent. Yeah, he wrote it, oh yeah, absolutely so.
Speaker 4:It was awesome man, and, of course, Johnny is fantastic.
Speaker 1:We've had him before.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I can't wait to have him back on. He was funny. Yeah, he's goofy. He's good at those real subtle one-liners.
Speaker 4:Yeah, he's goofy man, so he would. He's good at those real subtle one-liners.
Speaker 1:He's a goofy man, he kind of tells stories, can't pronounce his last name Burke Halter, the church was just gorgeous.
Speaker 4:I love seeing other churches because you get ideas and you get inspired.
Speaker 5:It's like just looking oh man, that's cool.
Speaker 4:We should do that. This is cool. It was really awesome. They were just a great group of people.
Speaker 3:It was awesome it really was. I thought it was cool. They're, like their lobbies, the same size as their sanctuary yeah, yeah, it's, yeah.
Speaker 4:So you, it's probably about 300 seats, so it's not a huge sanctuary, but you look at it, it's like this is awesome setup. You know, it's just it's it was, it was great man, it was we look forward to, I think, said they're going to try to do it again next year and they do multiple things that are free throughout the year, like that. So it is really cool, which I want to start bringing James to more of those things. She kind of misses out because of work and we have to strategically take her days that she gets off throughout the year and use them for certain stuff. Do you ever get bummed out when, when you're not able to go to this.
Speaker 5:Yeah, this one I I was like you told me about it and I was like, oh, I want to go and you're like well, I was thinking, tyler. I was like I have ideas too, oh man yeah, that's it.
Speaker 3:Look at me, look at me go being first string.
Speaker 5:He was like well I was thinking about Tyler. I was like I have ideas too. I'm creative.
Speaker 3:She can cultivate, right?
Speaker 5:No, but I'm glad he did. I was like, yeah, he'll be great, he needs to go to that.
Speaker 4:Well. And then I was like well, I was like I can get us all tickets, you know, I can get us all registered. And I was like but we have to leave on friday.
Speaker 4:And then she's like I can't, I can't you know, because what do you have like like one or two days left and you try to save those for christmas because we're going to branson this week, yeah. So it's like trying to strategically go. Okay, we'll use these for this and I want to next year I'll kind of plan things out a little bit more so that, so that you can go. And one of the guys at the summit he said this.
Speaker 4:I thought it was very, very insightful. He was like I say no to things, that my family can't be a part, that it doesn't further my family in some way, shape or form, and I thought that was really cool that he put it that way. Like either they come or it's something to where it frees me up for something else to spend with my family. I'm like man that is so good to spend with my family. I'm like man that is so good. Do you remember when he said I was just like that is so good, man, because you almost forget sometimes and you just, oh, yeah, I want to go to that, I want to go to this, and it's like I haven't spent any time with my family. So that's just as important. So I want to bring you and the kids with us. He's sorry.
Speaker 1:Now you know, now you can do better, I see, where I rank.
Speaker 4:Oh, dang the death. Stare, I don't know why you're looking at me. Look at him.
Speaker 3:Listen, I'm the other woman. I had no idea about you.
Speaker 4:I don't know why you're getting mad at me. Man oh, oh, you knew, you knew, I didn't know that you picked me over her. I didn't know that much. Let's calm down, that's not quite how it's?
Speaker 5:it's good because I mean, this is family, yeah, like you know, we hold down the fort at our houses and you know they're about to have twins, so I don't think they're about to get up and just go you know, do ministry, our houses and you know, they're about to have twins, so I don't think they're about to get up and just go. You know, do ministry stuff yeah and you know we have two and work and real life things going on.
Speaker 1:So oh, that's what jennifer says, you know it's kind of how she supports me in ministry is to to do that, to hold down the fort with five kids at home.
Speaker 3:Take care of the home front.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but I want and we've talked about the same thing that going forward from now, we're going to make more of an effort to make her a part of our ministry, versus just staying at home and taking care of the kids. Their kids are getting a little older now, so we can find somebody put them in a cage with some food. I mean, what's wrong with that?
Speaker 4:Oh gosh, they're fine. We do not condone this type of parenting.
Speaker 3:For listener discretion. He was joking.
Speaker 1:I'm going to write a book.
Speaker 4:And it's especially stuff like that, where that's something that you could pretty easily have your family go to. Like the conference itself didn't cost anything, it's just getting there. It's a little bit of travel.
Speaker 1:Well, in the Summit they even had child care, yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah, they had youth stuff. They had kid stuff, yeah, so you can make a way to do it. It's just planning it out ahead of time and kind and kind of going into both of those. We didn't really know what they look like getting there you know. We didn't know what they consisted of.
Speaker 1:So but it's, it's nice to go to that stuff and be like I ain't gotta do nothing yeah oh yeah and just get poured into yeah yeah, it is so like and people don't get that, that, don't do it you know that don't put on events. It is so exhausting yeah to be the one constantly running around doing not even be the one, but but being like on the team right, yeah, is you know.
Speaker 3:But just going to something, you're like, I literally walked in, I was, I almost had that because, you know, they had, just like you know, opened the doors and and johnny was just getting there and they're, um, I almost had like, what do I need to do? Yeah, yeah, I was like, no, I just need to sit and go eat breakfast. Well, and that's why later in you.
Speaker 4:Yeah, well, and that's why I told johnny I was like what? We put our stuff down. So what do you need us to do? Yeah, like, give us something to do. So I need you to go get some coffee and chill out that's what I said.
Speaker 5:That's what I said.
Speaker 4:I'm like because they were like still putting up tables and stuff. And he came back around how's everything going? Oh, it's good, man, it's good. What do you need? Like to give us something to do, right? And he's like no man, y'all just chill.
Speaker 1:Go get you some breakfast, man sometimes I mean if they have their teams that know what they're doing sometimes you'll get in the way right trying to help. Oh yeah, so it's better for you just to get out of the way, yeah yeah, but it was.
Speaker 4:It was still as awesome as it was. I still just missed home.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh, at the summit this happened multiple times and it was so aggravating and I pointed it out to Mike. Of course he didn't see it because it's Mike, but like people would introduce him to somebody and ignore me completely. It happened multiple times. They'd be hey I'm sorry to hear that, robin this is pastor mike from rector and I'm standing right there. Just I'll go over here I completely come on batman represent he's batman.
Speaker 3:I'm robin, I'm just here, yeah hey, meet my favorite superhero, robin, and just completely ignore batman no, I uh um.
Speaker 4:No, well, it was people that I knew, so I mean it was I would have known them too, if they didn't, you know what's funny yeah, now you know how phil went.
Speaker 5:He takes ty, tyler and I left at home.
Speaker 3:You know what's funny we have them on. We haven't really heard them talking about 20 minutes.
Speaker 1:What do y'all think about not talking for 20?
Speaker 5:minutes. Yeah we're here, we matter.
Speaker 3:They got real quiet after the whole me and Jamie debacle.
Speaker 5:Shut up, tyler, I didn't do anything that's why, your lucky lips Mute, mute, mute. No, but we got to spend time together too.
Speaker 4:And that's what I was going to get to.
Speaker 5:Yeah, we went, and played Black Light Bingo at Liberty Hill, which was awesome Such a cool idea and the kids enjoyed it. Couldn't see where the crap but it was fun.
Speaker 4:Don't put me in a dark room. So that that's what I want to segue into before tyler jumped on and and we're in the segue, but how?
Speaker 5:no more trips for you right, that's what I told him.
Speaker 4:I said you cannot leave again so I was gonna ask her how important is it to connect with each other during those, those times when we're doing ministry stuff? How important is it to for y'all, for the wives, to get together and support each other and connect with each other?
Speaker 5:oh yeah, I wish we could have done more yeah you know, with just the kids and and other appointments. You know, on saturday we took zay to get her haircut, but I wish we could have done a whole weekend thing.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 5:But it's super, we went and ate, we got to eat out. Yeah, had some crazy situations.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 5:I'm like how do we get ourselves into this mess?
Speaker 3:They're putting on the movie we go away for the weekend and it's, oh gosh, a whole movie there.
Speaker 2:All the wild and crazy antics y'all get into the montage yeah, people when we got to eat, just acting a fool. Yeah, like we're sitting across the table from each other like just a regular table at mexican. We can't hear each other we can't have a convert like conversation. We have to yell to hear each other it was so loud in there. Oh, it was just a table of obnoxious people oh, it's just being so loud. Yeah, it's annoying, michael's like I know somewhere else, like go home and do that people.
Speaker 5:We were like that when we were in our 20s no, no bueno. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Mexican restaurant. That's who I did there.
Speaker 5:No, but it was fun. Yeah, I love, like I like, going to you know, like their church also, and connecting with them.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 5:You know, because they don't know me as well as Liv, but it's awesome to just connect.
Speaker 4:And you know they have events and yeah we want to be a part of that too yeah, you know, we go to their events, you know so anyway, moving on. Uh, yeah, and and well, that's cool y'all being able to have that relationship, to want to go and hang out with each other and not just kind of oh for sure, and that that is.
Speaker 1:That is something I'm trying to encourage jennifer to do as well as is reaching out to other women and and doing which? Five kids. It's a little harder to just pick up and go to mexican, you know it's, it's, it's a it's a more difficult situation, but you.
Speaker 5:That gets expensive.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 5:That gets crazy.
Speaker 4:Especially when Adriana's working right.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 4:We would kind of have Lee and we'd kind of plan around it. We'd be like, hey, we watch the kids while we go and hang out. Yeah, it's a little more difficult, which you'll find out here very soon, but you kind of have to work.
Speaker 3:We're having twins One watches the other.
Speaker 4:If you add their ages together their one adult child.
Speaker 5:What could they get into?
Speaker 4:But yeah, and it's so important to have those relationships to where we I talked about this in a sermon where you have to have those relationships outside of just your marriage, your friends, that you get to hang out with your, your people, that you can get away from your husband, your wife, and go spend time with your friends, you know, and kind of clear your mind and have a good time and talk and and kind of throw things off of each other, you know, and say, hey, here's what I'm dealing with, here's what I'm going through.
Speaker 4:You know, to be able to pour into one another is super important.
Speaker 5:You know, when we were eight hours away, nine hours away, you know we couldn't just go down the street, or you know there's that street again go down the road apparently to live.
Speaker 4:You could be 500 miles away and be down the road, I guess.
Speaker 2:Tyler actually used that analogy the other day.
Speaker 3:I didn't.
Speaker 2:Yes, you did. When I think it was probably a couple weeks ago, but you did say it. We weren't actually right down the road like you think.
Speaker 5:Oh busted.
Speaker 3:Big time Jamie's going to do anything, that's all stuff at you, why? You've been X'd out, listen't listen he listen jamie, it's not personal. He chose me listen sorry, I'm better or something I don't.
Speaker 4:I don't agree with this. I don't.
Speaker 3:You're the one that made the decision.
Speaker 4:Don't let his words Tyler muted. Don't let his. Don't let his words. Don't let him break up a happy home. Don't do it, I don't want to Remember that, remember that, remember that, dang Remember that.
Speaker 5:Remember that, remember that.
Speaker 3:Dang it, man Listen. I hope it was a fun trip you made the decision.
Speaker 4:Speaking of Tyler on this trip oh Lord.
Speaker 2:Oh gosh.
Speaker 4:This man, what'd I do? Can sniff out a Chinese restaurant, oh yeah.
Speaker 5:That was the last thing he said last night before he went to bed. He's like Tyler sniffed out a Chinese restaurant in the airport.
Speaker 4:It was like in the far corner of the airport and Tyler's like, hey, let's go look around, for it was like he was being drawn to it.
Speaker 3:In the one direction there was literally just a annie ann's and uh starbucks, so we went the opposite direction it's like that and around the corner, and down the hall yes it was the food court and he's just like there was multiple food courts, there was multiple food areas.
Speaker 4:I smell rice and he literally would pass up. It's like tgi fridays and chilies and and this burger place. He's just like no, I feel like there's something better in our future, something else. Then I'm going with him because I'm a good friend.
Speaker 3:I said you can get whatever you want.
Speaker 4:Going with him because I'm a good friend. I'm like, okay, let's go, I'm here with my buddy, you're a good friend, I'm. I'm like, okay, let's go, because I'm, you know, I'm here with my buddy, your good friend, you know what I'm saying. And we get there and he goes. He looks around, goes up there to the thing, he goes yep, I'm sold. And then he looks at me and goes yeah, you can eat whatever you want. I guess if you don't want to eat here, that's fine. It's like no, we've done, walked the entire airport there, listen, listen.
Speaker 3:I going to go ahead and eat here.
Speaker 4:I'm already here with you.
Speaker 3:But he's acting like that was the only place within 10 feet. There was four other places.
Speaker 4:We were already in line at that point. I was in line.
Speaker 3:You weren't, but was it good, it was fantastic.
Speaker 4:It was Chinese food, it was rice, and chicken.
Speaker 3:Michael, you bite your tongue, like I was about to say you bite your butt, you bite your butt you know, you know, it's funny.
Speaker 4:Guess what we have for lunch today. Yeah, I'm sure yeah, but we did eat at a good wing place touchdown chicken or touchdown wings touchdown. I think touchdown wings yeah, and it like it was yeah.
Speaker 3:no, it was good. You're like the cause. We both got the bonus swings. They know how, like at I don't know, can I drop corporate names on here? Buffalo wild wings, it's like 70% breading and 30% chicken, yeah. This is like 90% chicken Cause. It was like cause, like they Buffalo Wild Wings double bread it. I don't know if you guys know how to bread chicken, but they cooked there's single breading and it was nice and thin but really crispy. It was really good and they had shrimp fried rice. So guess what your boy got?
Speaker 1:Shrimp fried rice.
Speaker 3:And it was fantastic. You're telling me, shrimp fried this rice. It was good, it was really good, okay.
Speaker 4:I think, Tyler's becoming a food pastor.
Speaker 5:Chinese food pastor.
Speaker 3:Chinese food pastor.
Speaker 4:It was cool because we were just kind of looking, we didn't know what was around, we didn't have a car. We Ubered there so we didn't have a car. You know, we ubered there so we didn't have a car. So we're looking around at what's close and we can get delivered. So I found this place. I'm like man, it looks pretty good.
Speaker 4:We look at the menu there was like 15 different flavors of sauce. Yeah then, like this the side, you could get fries. They had white rice. Shrimp fried rice, they had like newt, they had like yeah 20 different sides you could get with the chicken. So then you get it and it was like $12. It was like pretty normal price. And you get it and it was packed full.
Speaker 1:Did they sauce it up? They sauced it up. Yes, it was sauced up.
Speaker 3:It was like you know how in those Chinese restaurants they pack. That's how they did it. My side was the fried rice. It had to have been at least four servings.
Speaker 4:Yeah, wow it was enough. It was enough for I got fries. It was enough fries to feed our whole family. Yeah, it was.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, it was a lot and it was enough rice. I had to take a break for a while before eating the rest of it. Yeah, it was.
Speaker 4:It was a lot it was really good it was. It was good it wasn't like no cheap minute rice, it it was a lot, it was really good.
Speaker 3:It was good. It wasn't cheap minute rice, it was good.
Speaker 4:I have a confession. I also ordered a slice of red velvet cake.
Speaker 3:He did not tell me he was going to share it with me until he ate it all that came with it.
Speaker 5:You didn't share it.
Speaker 4:Here's what happened.
Speaker 3:What happened was they came with it. You didn't share it, so here's what happened. Look, here's what happened?
Speaker 5:What happened?
Speaker 3:was.
Speaker 4:Let me explain why. And then I got it and it looked so good, I'll tell you. So it's the cake's fault. So you're not a good friend and I'm like I'm going to save Tyler some of this Because he didn't order himself a slice of red velvet cake. So I start eating it, and then I blacked out.
Speaker 3:And then he came to and it was gone.
Speaker 4:I don't know what happened from there? Right, but there wasn't any left. I said, ty, I was going to, I was going to save some for you, but I didn't. It's the thought that counts. What do you want to watch? And?
Speaker 3:then he passed out like a half hour later and I watched all three Pitch Perfects Good movies.
Speaker 4:You know, we live on the wild side.
Speaker 1:We were in Springfield for three mornings and by the time we left we had a regular coffee shop.
Speaker 4:Man, you ain't lying, they knew us by name. It was pretty good, though, lotus. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3:Okay, food pastor, coffee pastor.
Speaker 4:If you ever hear of a drink called a lotus, avoid at all costs. What's in it?
Speaker 3:Okay, cocaine, apparently jet fuel Kerosene Is it more caffeine than like. It has to be.
Speaker 5:It has to be it has to be.
Speaker 4:It has to be, it has to be. I didn't drink the lotus. This man drank the lotus. We're driving okay, so we sat there at the coffee shop, did he start itching? So we're driving away, we're going down the road, he's like man, I don't know which way to go, if I go this way or this way, because it's like kind of on those side roads so I don't know. I think I'm gonna go this way. So he went this way and he's like yeah, yeah, this is. I think this is the right way.
Speaker 5:No, I need to turn around I guess I could have just went out right there man, that's crazy.
Speaker 4:Hey, there's a golden corral dude. This is awesome. Look at that. And I'm like Richard, what is happening? And he just looks over at me and goes Lotus. Like oh man, what the heck Lotus. He's just like Lotus.
Speaker 1:Now that needs to be a button. Yes, that's funny and it wasn't even very good. What?
Speaker 4:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:After all that.
Speaker 4:The next morning when we went, I he has cut off of none of those no lotus.
Speaker 3:So then, the whole weekend he'd be saying something and he'd just throw in lotus and like the staff knows that he comes in, can I get a little? I was told not to serve you am I gonna google this?
Speaker 1:yes, they have multiple flavors of this, of this drink oh they have it at mudslingers.
Speaker 4:Is there anything that you avoid drinking now that you're pregnant? Whiskey. That's probably a good thing to avoid.
Speaker 2:Man, that's a tough one right there Having withdrawals.
Speaker 4:Because you're not a big coffee drinker anyway, right?
Speaker 2:Not really no.
Speaker 4:That's too many coffee cups. I know that. I know that's what Jamie had to avoid. It was hard for her.
Speaker 2:You heard that too right. It sounded like a little mini DJ-ers.
Speaker 4:It was hard for her. It was hard for her to avoid coffee.
Speaker 2:Scratching or something and it was like making, like a weird.
Speaker 1:Lotus.
Speaker 2:Sorry, I was trying to figure it out too.
Speaker 4:We all heard it. This always happens when Tyler and Liv is on Podcast. Etiquette goes out the window.
Speaker 3:I think they hate us.
Speaker 4:Wait, how does it go from I choose you over her to we hate you? There's no in between, oh yeah it goes from haha, jamie, I'm number one to I hate you oh man you're getting.
Speaker 3:You're sending me mixed signals. I gotta keep you guessing man.
Speaker 2:No, I was gonna answer your question. I forgot what it was.
Speaker 4:Is there anything that you like avoid eating or drinking, since, since you've been pregnant, um for jamie it was coffee, you know, just not. Not the best for the babies like I still.
Speaker 3:I still do caffeine, but I make sure it's in moderation like I I do like I'll only let myself have like one soda a day, like not a day like I don't, so you'll probably have like maybe just a few sodas in an entire week yeah, but I only.
Speaker 2:I only limit it to one like for the day.
Speaker 3:I'll do like sweet tea, but that's not any other kind of yeah, but like I'll go to sonic because I like getting sonic sodas and yeah, do you want anything now? I've got water yeah, yeah, but she's been. She's been on that for probably since what?
Speaker 2:the beginning of the year yeah yeah, because, like I was like in general, but like before I got pregnant, I was like starting to like realize how much soda and like things like that, I was drinking that I was like I probably shouldn't do that and I would just like feel like crap.
Speaker 1:So I'm like, okay, I need to like it makes me, it makes me absolutely insane to see pregnant women smoking oh yeah yeah, I mean it just, it just riles me yeah, smoking vaping, it's like why yeah you don't have to do that like right right, you know that it's affecting your baby, but what's crazy to me, too, is women that quit smoking their entire pregnancy and then pick it back up, you're done. You beat it.
Speaker 2:My aunt, her and her husband used to smoke, and once they got pregnant, that was with Christian and he's 11 He'll be 11 this year and she didn't do it again, and then he eventually stopped as well.
Speaker 4:Yeah, they're second that seems to happen a lot, like when one stops, the other you know very likely is going to stop with them. You know, it's kind of like if two people are dieting, they, or if one's dieting, usually the other, kind of tries to come to come along that does not happen in the random house no well, I quit smoking before jennifer and she'd blow smoke in my face, and now I'm dieting and she tries to hand me candy bars.
Speaker 3:That that was well, that's kind of how it was when I was doing the competition. I was on my really strict diet and I was over there, you know, eating sloppy and and vegetables with no seasonings or any dressing or nothing, and I ain't eating, that she's just enjoying life I'll get my chinese takeout.
Speaker 4:Thank you very much are you the kind of person that, like expects them to do that? No, are you really gonna eat that? Like? What does your diet have to do with me? Like wait a second? No, yeah, I am I'm gonna sit here in front of you enjoy it. This is gonna be great.
Speaker 1:No, smell it no, at those times I just go internal yeah, there you go suffering silence I wish we could get him to do more things in silence he's got a button right there you go yeah take that, yeah.
Speaker 3:Eat that food, pastor, yeah he's got a button right oh, that's messed up.
Speaker 4:So what? What is? What is something that y'all plan in the immediate future? So I'm gonna talk to the wilkerson's, then me and jamie, and then the randall family, and the randall family he's like where are they hiding? In the lines hold on, I say the randall fat, we don't have that many microphones. Uh, in the immediate future, try to to spend some good quality time together, man, because October and November, december, busy time.
Speaker 3:Well, we don't have anything planned. There's a because I mentioned to you the other day this leadership thing over at Generation Church over in Tennessee, that we're.
Speaker 4:That's in October, right.
Speaker 3:Yes, yeah, I think so. I can't remember, so in other, my I don't know, because I was you're gonna come with me because it's only, it's no ten nationals, four hour drive take your germamine. Go to sleep um that. That's how you travel, am I wrong?
Speaker 2:well, yeah, but you don't have to say it like that. You make me sound like an addict or something Take your drugs, I will.
Speaker 3:But, other than that. So our foster kids leaving this week to go live with my parents, so we'll have a lot of quality time before the babies get here.
Speaker 4:Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3:Just the two of us, just the two of us, just the two of us we can you know how some couples take baby moons we we, uh, we thought about that because live was saying, apparently.
Speaker 2:That's why I'm like we thought about what never heard of that.
Speaker 3:Well, you're saying that'd be nice, just have like a weekend getaway. I was like we could, like you know, go get an airbnb in cape or paducah just for a night.
Speaker 4:Do y'all enjoy doing that, just like a hotel, just to get away and hang out with each other? I love that. It'd be nice to do that.
Speaker 2:Because we don't hardly ever do that, because we just can't afford to do that very often at all. The last time we did that was we went to Springfield, wasn't it? It was like a couple years ago.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, but it was for a friend's wedding.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and you can, and I'm going to do this, tyler, sorry, and I'm going to do this. You can just take his Chinese addiction, cut it in half, you got plenty of plenty to go out and hang out.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 4:You thought I unmuted you. All all right, what do you got?
Speaker 3:don't think so no, I'm just kidding. Okay, she enables me because, I'll say you know what I'm thinking. She'll be like I don't care I asked her. I said because for lunch. I said what are you thinking? She's like I don't care I said well.
Speaker 2:I said well, you know what I want hungry, I don't care what I eat I'm just hungry, yeah lord have mercy anyways.
Speaker 3:but she, because I said you know what I want, and she kind of went along with it.
Speaker 1:Well, of course, she knows what you want.
Speaker 3:We all know what you want. Yeah, so it's not hard to shop for me.
Speaker 1:Just Chinese gift certificates.
Speaker 2:I just need to buy him like a year's supply of like Fried rice. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Just buy it in bulk.
Speaker 2:Sam's Club, just get him a bunch of yen. Get him a membership at the Chinese restaurant.
Speaker 4:Well, I asked him, as they were up there making the food and stuff and they were talking. I'm like Tyler, I need you to translate, help me out here. That was funny.
Speaker 3:In line. So we were going through the line to check in at the airport and they, like, right in between us did a little split and they cut off one lane and I had to go right and he went left. Well, I'm just chilling in line just waiting and it tapped on the shoulder and it's this Mexican dude and he was like do you speak Spanish? I said no, I'm Asian, but I only speak English.
Speaker 1:Now you're real confused.
Speaker 4:And then that was in TSA. And then we get through and afterwards he just we're walking and he looks at me. He goes hey, did you get random bag checked? I'm like no, no, what about you? He's like, nope, like man, we made it through, didn't we?
Speaker 3:yeah I was gonna say I'd make a joke, but we're still in the airport I'll wait, man, and and it. It's so nerve-wracking dude going through like they're yelling at you, yeah, yeah, they're not happy like you have to take your shoes off and everything but it's like you get that anxiety like did I get everything illegal out of my backpack that wasn't there in the first?
Speaker 4:place and and that's it's not illegal, it's just that you can't have it there. So it's like am I carrying my knife? Yeah, oh crap.
Speaker 1:That's what I. I got worried about, like the, because you can only have several bigger sizes of stuff. Even just stuff you don't think about Toothpaste, mouthwash, stuff like that you can only have certain sizes. I'm like I don't know how to fly.
Speaker 4:I'm going to jail for toothpaste. And then they need to all get together and have a meeting and figure out what they want you to do, because you'll go through, we through, from memphis to atlanta, memphis as you put this, this and this in the bin. Then you get to the atlanta one and they want this, this, this, this, this and this in the bin, and it's like, and that, well, no wonder everybody's confused. We don't know what to put in there because it's different wherever you go yeah so it was.
Speaker 4:It was crazy. I'm excited for you to fly for your first time. How nervous are you?
Speaker 3:Kind of Not really. It was the worst thing in the world.
Speaker 4:Calm down, Tyler. I don't want to have to do it.
Speaker 2:No, listen.
Speaker 5:He wants to go on this trip.
Speaker 3:We're trying to get you out Boston here I come.
Speaker 5:I'll take you down.
Speaker 4:That's not going to have the same, the same feel to it. I don't want that, I'm sorry man Love you.
Speaker 3:Not that much.
Speaker 4:I can't go on your anniversary trip, or no, it's a birthday, christmas it's my Christmas present Shows you how much you care about me. Christmas and birthday it's a one-way relationship.
Speaker 5:Listen, I'm just a side chick that's right that's not weird at all.
Speaker 4:You're the main meal. Oh, he's the mashed potatoes mashed potatoes?
Speaker 3:I don't know why I took such disrespect to that this conversation has gone south. I don't know what, just happened I don't either.
Speaker 1:I am not a sweet potato.
Speaker 3:I feel insulted.
Speaker 4:I'm not why am I mashed?
Speaker 1:ain't nothing sweet about me.
Speaker 4:Tyler would be more, more the baby carrots. My bad man, my bad, my bad. That was just my favorite little joke. I'm sorry, listen I'm trying.
Speaker 3:I'm trying to refrain because I know our listeners don't know us like that, and I'm trying not to make a joke right now.
Speaker 4:I'm trying. I look forward to that trip with you and that little bit of time and that's what I was going to say.
Speaker 1:Besides the Boston trip, what do y'all have in the works for time together?
Speaker 4:so we're going to Branson this week, just a little couple day. Besides the Boston trip. What do y'all have in the works for time together? So we're going to Branson this week, just a little couple-day trip with the kids and my mom and I'm really trying to take more weekends to just pour into the family. So I love doing little things like trip to Jonesboro, trip to Popper Bluff, movie night at the house, little things like that. So I love doing little things like, you know, trip to Jonesboro, trip to Popper Bluff, you know, movie night at the house, little things like that. So I love doing stuff like that. We play sorry at the house and little stuff like that. But also the time with our family, Like we've gotten into a busy season, our family, you know us, the Wilkerson's, the Randall's, the Fee's family.
Speaker 4:So we haven't had a lot of family dinners, of getting to get together, so I want to do more of that as well. We used to do it once a month at least, and now it's kind of been once every three months, something like that. I want to kind of get back to that.
Speaker 1:Some people had to move to Alabama. Sorry about that.
Speaker 5:Some people need to take a weekend and get our house somewhat organized. Some paintings moved Some boxes moved.
Speaker 3:I just work quick. So anyway, like we were saying, I would be mad if you still pressed my button.
Speaker 4:We'd still mute you.
Speaker 1:Maybe you can get your side chick to come help. No, no Come y'all.
Speaker 3:I'm a good husband. I'm a side chick. For a reason I don't do that. I don't do the main chick stuff.
Speaker 5:That's messed up, dang.
Speaker 4:Oh my gosh. So what else do y'all?
Speaker 3:have in your heart. We gotta get to the Randall family. Yeah, what do y'all have?
Speaker 4:planned. Y'all got anything your heart. Well, we gotta get to the Randall family. Yeah, what do y'all got? Yeah, what do y'all have planned?
Speaker 1:Y'all got anything? Yeah, we, the middle of this month, 15th, 16th that weekend the Sainted Feast family Are gonna be taking All five of our children For the whole weekend.
Speaker 5:Darn Darn, diddy, darn darn.
Speaker 4:Here. Hold up, I'm not done. You got more. All that's gonna be happening Over that couple days Not me saying that he gave you the three piece combo my bad here. Hold up, I'm gonna mute myself.
Speaker 1:So anyway.
Speaker 3:Don't you freaking, do it?
Speaker 1:So they're watching our kids for that weekend. So I think we're going to Don't you freaking do it. So they're watching our kids for that weekend. So I think we're going to take a weekend trip, which Jennifer does not like staying at hotels, she doesn't like wasting the money. So I thought about, not Friday night, but just Saturday night, spending the night somewhere, because I told her you go to Cape, it's a two hour drive there, two hour drive back which is fine If you're the passenger.
Speaker 1:fricking princess you don't have to hang out all day long and then do all the driving. So, I would like to get a room up there and just kind of chill and so we've already.
Speaker 5:You don't like hotels at all.
Speaker 1:She just doesn't like spending the money on them. Oh yeah, so you know, because we have such a plethora of extra money depending on where you stay. Yeah, well, and it's for a night. You're looking at a hundred dollars. Yeah, and I always try to find the ones that have the free breakfast, so you get a meal with that.
Speaker 4:So yeah, well, like you said, it's easy to do when you don't do any driving whatsoever, right? Right, you know, and it's like, oh, let's go around and walk around and go shopping and go do this and go do this, and go do this and go do this, and then, okay, I'm gonna go and sit and goes off and sit on my phone the whole time yeah, well, on the way back when we were driving is mentally exhausting, it really is when we were in branson.
Speaker 1:There were a few times during the day I just had to be like look babe, I've got to rest. I've got to go sit at the hotel for a little while. Just get off my feet. Not even necessarily sleep, just I've got to get off. My knees are terrible anyway, and heels and stuff.
Speaker 2:I feel that you wear heels.
Speaker 1:And I don't even waddle Listen.
Speaker 4:It's coming at you, man.
Speaker 1:Wh bottle.
Speaker 4:Listen, dang, he's coming at you. Man, whore man whore that's a boston thing, that's right uh let's talk about that a minute what ladies do?
Speaker 3:some of the driving, hey, oh my gosh, hey look. Did I say? Did I say? Anything I didn't say, I just said you're opening up a box that that was locked for a reason.
Speaker 5:Come on, pandora, your side chick just drove you to Memphis and back you. Better watch it.
Speaker 1:I drove him to Springfield and back.
Speaker 5:Oh your other sweet potato drove you to Springfield and back.
Speaker 3:I'm the side chick. I'm the side chick. He's the side dish. No.
Speaker 1:We are not. That is not sticky, that is great.
Speaker 4:You know you're going to be hearing that.
Speaker 2:Lotus sweet potato.
Speaker 1:Lotus sweet potato no no.
Speaker 5:I mean, I'm fine being referred to as a side chick. Just to make Jamie mad, I offer, but you're always like well, I want to live to see tomorrow and that's a fact, and here's what I think it is.
Speaker 4:She drives bad on purpose so that she knows that will be the response purpose.
Speaker 5:Yeah, so that she knows that will be the response no, or she forgets her glasses.
Speaker 4:Air quote forgets her glasses so that she's not asked to drive.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I can see that I'll drive.
Speaker 2:I always say I'll drive back I tell tyler that he's not driving in the city I do I tell him I'm like, why is he?
Speaker 4:bad in the city. Thank you for letting letting me go to Memphis with him Appreciate that Was. I bad you didn't shoot me a warning. No, it wasn't bad at all, man.
Speaker 5:He drove us to Alabama.
Speaker 3:Was I bad? No, thank you.
Speaker 2:I'm not talking about your driving being bad. I'm talking about your attitude and your road rage.
Speaker 4:It gets on my last nerve.
Speaker 2:I have heard you Shut up rage.
Speaker 4:It gets on my last nerve. I have heard you because you won't shut up now. See, it may have been. It may be different with you, because it was no it wasn't nothing.
Speaker 2:I don't make you want to throw punch. I mean, we really didn't drive through.
Speaker 4:We got to the airport, that's true, that is very true very true man which we ubered everywhere, so that that helped yeah, so it was just to the airport.
Speaker 1:How was that?
Speaker 4:driving. It was good man it was good, it was yeah it was. So we had to do three different times, three different uber. So it was.
Speaker 2:It was good man it was good that sketches me out.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and it's it's not bad because they they literally have. Have the on the app. It'll show the car moving as you're going yeah so it'll show your destination, so you can see if they're getting off.
Speaker 2:Which I've never actually done one, but I don't know.
Speaker 4:It's great. It's so convenient. It's pretty cost effective, Like our first one. It was 30 minutes away from the airport and it was $60 $60? So I mean it's not terrible. That's terrible for a 30 minute drive. I mean you're putting in, you're putting in some gas and parking, I don't know. So it was, it was, uh, it wasn't too bad man, not too bad at all I'm glad you had fun it was fun man it was awesome it always feels awkward because, like, do we talk to them? Do we not talk to them do?
Speaker 4:you say anything you ever seen the? Bone collector I have yeah, yeah. Well, that's why I'm looking at the app like, okay, we're going here and the car's going in the right direction so and then I'm over here like trying not to fall asleep. I'm tired I sure I'm I'm watching this. I'm okay they're going, okay, we're gonna be there in eight minutes and I look over and he's got his head on the head yeah out, yeah, I think I passed out with not passed out, but I dozed off with like 10 minutes left of the drive Bruh I was tired.
Speaker 1:He's gonna be kidnapped when he saves.
Speaker 3:You know darn well they won't keep me.
Speaker 4:You know darn well, take him back.
Speaker 5:All you have to be like is hey, I got a joke, hey kidnapper.
Speaker 4:Hey, you wanna hear a joke. I was doing mypper. Hey, you want to hear?
Speaker 3:a joke I was doing my Macho man Randy Savage impression for him.
Speaker 4:He was doing that in the hotel room.
Speaker 3:Oh no, I did it once All right go.
Speaker 4:What Do it Do?
Speaker 3:your impression I don't want you now.
Speaker 5:He buckled.
Speaker 4:He buckled. What else y'all got, almost sisters.
Speaker 3:We gotta do the last segment.
Speaker 4:Do y'all call each other and like Are you wearing a bun today, let's bun it?
Speaker 3:up.
Speaker 5:No, but when I get home I'm putting it in a bun. It's in a bun.
Speaker 3:It's in a clip.
Speaker 4:That was a different.
Speaker 5:Richard.
Speaker 1:Well, jennifer cut all her hair off. She don't have enough for a bun.
Speaker 3:So did Richard.
Speaker 1:I'm growing a beard. What do y'all think? I like it, I told you, you should do it. I'm going to see how it goes You're growing a beard. I don't know if you can grow a beard.
Speaker 3:You've been growing a beard for beard, tyler yours looks like a chin strap that's what it is, it looks good, though it's not even.
Speaker 4:Zeke text me. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3:I saw it.
Speaker 4:Zeke text me and he said I got chin hair. Exclamation point like.
Speaker 3:ZXW311 1228 it was like, if you read it out loud, I have chin hair. Exclamation point like zxw3111228 it was. It was like, if you read that off, I have chin hair what does that say afterwards?
Speaker 4:I don't know. It's a z and an x and an r, and out of the shower with just a talent mom.
Speaker 5:I was like oh gosh, he done fell or something happened. He said, look, I got chin hair growing. I was like I about had a heart attack and then he told me you have chin hair.
Speaker 3:Get that boy a razor.
Speaker 1:Not by the hair of my chinny chin Exactly.
Speaker 2:We'll buy one for Christmas.
Speaker 4:Side tickle.
Speaker 1:We'll buy it.
Speaker 4:Sign it.
Speaker 2:I feel like Jamie's starting to actually hate, me the death stare.
Speaker 4:That's sign it. I feel like jamie's starting to actually hate me the death.
Speaker 5:That's funny. That'd be a good gift, though.
Speaker 4:Like his first, like razor that would not, no, that would not be a good gift why he's gonna eventually use it, not like right away we can use it to shape it up too that's like mine.
Speaker 4:It always killed me when someone would buy a summer gift at christmas like, hey, here's a trampoline, cool. They're never not going to be able to use it. It's eight degrees outside we've gotten the kids trampolines, bikes it's like it here's a bike you're not going to get to ride for six months oh, bullcrap, they're out there in the middle of november. Well, and then, and then, right in the middle of November, after I do Christmas he'll say wait, wait, wait, that's not math.
Speaker 4:And then Richard, come on, the kid's got to go to the doctor again. I wonder why? What?
Speaker 3:Riding their bikes on ice.
Speaker 4:I said and then you complain, oh, the kid's got to go to the doctor, I got to take I.
Speaker 1:I don't think so I don't have a button you get like a pointer stick. Just slowly. I'll just get one with a real sharp point and just really silence you.
Speaker 3:You need to keep scissors with you, so you can just reach over and cut his mic cord.
Speaker 1:And now we're mute.
Speaker 4:So ladies, so ladies, almost sisters. So let's really talk about these two. No, what else do y'all have in those hearts? Not them?
Speaker 3:two. Why are you? Looking at me you both looked at me. I'm like what are you up to? I'm not doing nothing.
Speaker 2:You always have something to say so real quick. We're going to go around the table and that's what's up what's going on. I'm like what are you up to? I'm not doing nothing. You always have something to say, so I was waiting for something.
Speaker 4:So, real quick, we're going to go around the table and that's what's up. What's going on? Something you're listening to playing going on this week.
Speaker 1:Had a gender reveal for Peaches. Yep, it's a little girl.
Speaker 4:Congratulations, randall, another grandbaby.
Speaker 1:Yep Name is Emmalyn.
Speaker 4:Emm baby, yep, name is emily, emily, nicole. Okay, here we go. Okay, hot, take no one, so did, did nobody in this family put their brains together and go. Which family? Hey look your friend, the randall family okay, go specify.
Speaker 1:Hey, we have an emily.
Speaker 4:That we changed from emma because we have an Emily. That we changed from Emma because we have an Emma already. So we have an Emma, emily and now a.
Speaker 1:Emmalyn Okay, number one. So let's go through this. So I have already said that we should have picked something besides Emily. Our thought process was it would be easier for her to change if it was something close to what she had, but in retrospect she should have gotten something way away from emma to make it easier to not get right we did not have anything to do with emma lynn. That was peaches. It's her baby. She can name it what she wants yeah, I know that she named it, or Emma.
Speaker 4:I didn't.
Speaker 3:Sorry, choked on something. You good. Yeah, I didn't say for you to name it Richard, I said did anybody.
Speaker 4:Lotus, I knew that was coming.
Speaker 1:That's so good Point taken. What else you got going on Moving on Nothing, nothing.
Speaker 4:Cool James.
Speaker 5:What was the question? Dad, come on.
Speaker 4:You better be glad I love you. This is why I had to get a side chick for moments like this. Tyler, this is what you're here for Side chick, side dish.
Speaker 5:No, nothing, sorry about it, I'm not watching or playing anything Does that count?
Speaker 4:Sure.
Speaker 5:I am reading a book, though.
Speaker 4:That would be considered it's.
Speaker 1:Joseph In the Bible no.
Speaker 5:It's a book.
Speaker 3:I was about to say I believe that's in Genesis.
Speaker 5:It's about Joseph and just how he was positioned for purpose and what he went through, and it kind of describes, it breaks down the scripture and kind of what it has to do with where he ended up, why he was thrown in the pit, and it breaks it down really well.
Speaker 1:I love the story of Joseph.
Speaker 3:We're actually. We just started a new sermon series at church on Joseph.
Speaker 5:Oh, really Awesome.
Speaker 1:I bet you he's going to play Code of Many Colors.
Speaker 3:Maybe next week? Yeah, next week.
Speaker 4:So I seen one of my notebooks in there so I went into like, oh sorry, this was in your way. And she's like uh, excuse me. I'm like, oh, I'm not leaving your way. She's like I'm using, I'm taking notes, thank you, I'm reading this book.
Speaker 1:I'm like she sound like that. Well, exactly when did she become a valley girl?
Speaker 5:oh, my god, she's always at it in her notes, but I usually take them on my phone right, so yeah, and I was like so she took my notebook and my pen.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and my pen. Yes, not the heavy one.
Speaker 1:Yes, yeah, james, it's really nice, I know I've been eyeing it, I didn't get in maybe faster man oh man. Live what you got.
Speaker 2:I yawned and I couldn't see anything.
Speaker 1:She yawned and went blind. I don't know where it came from Is that part of pregnancy, oh God.
Speaker 4:I can't see what happened. I yawned.
Speaker 2:I'll never be tired again, I swear. No, I'm tired all the time.
Speaker 4:She's over here fighting for her life. What are you doing? I've got to fight this yawn off. I will see.
Speaker 2:I just hold my eyes open.
Speaker 4:Right, what are you doing? I'm so tired.
Speaker 3:Oh man, he went to pee his pants off. Oh gosh.
Speaker 4:Now she's blind and she's peeing her pants. We know what's up with her.
Speaker 3:Easy, now these are brand new seats. So that's Liz. We know what's up with her, easy. Now, these are brand new seats.
Speaker 4:So, that slips us. What are you doing watching? I'm peeing myself this week. That's what.
Speaker 3:I've done. What's new? The shorts I'm going to have to go buy, oh gosh.
Speaker 4:Oh man, that's funny. Hey, gum, don't go into birth right now, like don't go into labor you're not helping the situation.
Speaker 1:Michael, these are brand new seats they have to last they're leather. Sorry, we will not oh dadgum it hurts.
Speaker 3:It hurts to laugh, so what's new?
Speaker 4:everybody breathe, it's fine everybody calm down, oh shoot.
Speaker 3:I got lightheaded lotus oh shoot, I got lightheaded Lotus.
Speaker 2:Lotus oh my gosh so what's up?
Speaker 3:oh man well are we watching anything new? I don't know no, not really.
Speaker 4:We need to start a new show do you have any shows about to come out like?
Speaker 2:well, I've been watching. Did you just sniff your armpit?
Speaker 3:No, my arms are just up and I turned my head away to sniffle.
Speaker 2:You saw that too right.
Speaker 5:They smell great.
Speaker 1:Is it just a check? They smell great though.
Speaker 4:She said did you smell your armpit? He said no, they smell. Great though she said did you smell your armpit?
Speaker 3:He said no, they smell great though. So you did, I turned my head, so I didn't sniff. No, I'm just going to sniff all over my front no he straight up was like so I was like okay, anyways. I don't know why this became about me.
Speaker 1:She's not going to make it through this.
Speaker 3:She's not the last half hour of the episode. Episode is gonna be her trying to get through this shut up, oh god we're waiting no, I've been on the microphone
Speaker 2:shut up I've been watching um on the Summer I Turned Pretty. I feel pretty, they just recently came out with the third season, but they haven't released the entire season. They're doing it one or two a month, so I'm debating if I want to watch it now or just wait until it's all out.
Speaker 4:Is it like a, like a reality show, or what?
Speaker 2:No, it's um. It's like a teen drama type.
Speaker 1:Okay, kind of like One Tree Hill.
Speaker 2:Pretty much which.
Speaker 5:I love it. Yeah, don't talk about it. We're going to put that on the list yeah, we.
Speaker 3:I feel like we've got a lot going on at you know, but not at the same time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, if that makes sense, baby stuff, because we're a lot of it's just baby stuff, like getting this week we get in minute of doubt. We're gonna be putting the baby stuff in the nursery like painting and all that. That is a lot going on. I'm excited for it, and I actually found out yesterday that somebody bought the crib that was on our registry, so now we have two cribs for when we need them. But I was like yay, Y'all got a baby shower coming up. Yeah, september, september, yeah, so about a month or so.
Speaker 1:Are we supposed to go there, the guys? Is that not? Yeah, no.
Speaker 3:So we don't have to. If I'm there, you're there.
Speaker 1:So we don't need to go then. That's not how that goes. If I'm there, you're there.
Speaker 2:So we are doing a thing where if don't want to like stay for stuff like games yeah, it's all the kind of break you can just drop in and then like say, hi, whatever, do gifts if you want, and then leave like you don't have to stay, can we take tyler with us?
Speaker 1:that's a good question. I like that question.
Speaker 4:I like where your head's at no, yeah, I'm just saying, you know, we're trying to you know well, this didn't happen by myself so yeah, he said it did why are y'all trying to get me in trouble?
Speaker 2:I have to go home with her you say that like it's a bad thing now you're getting yourself in trouble.
Speaker 1:She hurts me help me disclaimer no, I don't. I'm blinking twice oh my gosh, she'll drive you home. What do you want? Who's going to drive you home?
Speaker 4:I'm sorry. So, todd, does that go for you too? That's what's up for you, nothing different.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 5:Have you been making any new music?
Speaker 3:We are Me and Michael, my electric electric guitars for our worship team. We are recording a rough draft of the song I wrote for our worship team to get out to our team. I think we'll probably finish that up on monday and then the plan is, once we like finish and then do worship night record like a final product with the whole team at we had an idea, um to you know, get the whole church involved with it and like, not not just like you know all the team, like recording just vocals of everyone singing the team, like recording just vocals of everyone singing the chorus, but getting you know inviting everyone from the church, like hey, if you want to be a part of this, you know set up a big mic, everyone in the room and, and just you know, get the church involved with that when is the album releasing?
Speaker 3:releasing. All right, so let me explain why no. So are you talking about like me, or are you talking about no, no, no, I was talking about mike's rap album no no I. My question was are you talking about like just me, me, or like worship team stuff?
Speaker 1:your your album Tyler.
Speaker 3:Okay so.
Speaker 5:Wait, is there going to be two different ones?
Speaker 3:Well, here's my answer. I am not going to put one out.
Speaker 1:That was your challenge.
Speaker 3:I know it was, but here's.
Speaker 1:Mike's not doing his, because here's we're not talking about me right now.
Speaker 4:Okay, and here's why?
Speaker 3:Because I want my focus, when it comes to music, to be solely on leading worship and because I've wrestled with that for a while and I felt like me personally I was coming from a not really a selfish place, but I felt like I was doing it for me and not for god. Right, and you know, with all the things happening and coming to light in the christian music industry, it's all that's also kind of turned me off from wanting to do it right, and so I've kind of just been like I just I need, I just need to focus on what God's calling me to do, whatever opportunities come from that.
Speaker 4:No, I'll walk through those open doors if God opens them. So you want to write more, more music for the church? Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:And that and that's, yeah, that's, that's kind of that's part of what I'm integrating, you know, with, you know like, my schedule being being, you know, full-time at the churches, being able to, you know, every once in a while, write a song for the church and, you know, just, you know, being able to honestly get the team involved with that stuff too and start, you know, putting stuff out as a team you know, I don't want to necessarily make it about me, but involving the team with stuff like that too, it's kind of like elevation hillsong, all those guys, that's.
Speaker 1:That's what they started as. Right is yeah, church groups yeah, and they've said that.
Speaker 4:They said we write songs for our local church that we then put out for local churches right right, you know.
Speaker 4:So that that's literally they've said that. I can't remember if it was, it was one of those two is either hill song or elevation, and that's that's what they said. We don't, we don't make albums to put out, we make albums for our church and then we put them out. Gotcha, you know so, and that is that is a very different mindset of going into and I think, something that you know god will honor that. So you know, just saying hey, because even a lot of their stuff they write, their songs, are about something that their church is going through. Yeah, you know, and then they put it out and it just happens to be something that people you know enjoy.
Speaker 1:So well, and I I'm I'm glad that your music will be heard still, because you're a really good songwriter and your lyrics are really strong, so I'm glad that you're integrating that and it's going to be a really good album. So it's still the same question when is that album releasing?
Speaker 3:So my plan, what I want to do, is our worship night to record that live and mix it and master it and put that on Spotify and Apple, because the worship team in the past has recorded stuff and they're on Spotify already, so that stuff's already set up. So we just got to have worship night, record that, mix, master and send it out and then we're going to have a studio recording of the original song.
Speaker 5:Cool, very cool, that's awesome.
Speaker 4:Very cool. Donkey Kong recording of the original song cool, very cool. That's awesome, very cool, um uh donkey kong that is quite a transition.
Speaker 3:50 of our downtime is what he is. That's what he did over on the trip yeah new donkey kong just came out.
Speaker 4:bonanza switch to it is great, yeah, great great.
Speaker 1:I knew you were looking forward to it.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it is much better than even I anticipated. I am having an absolute blast with it. Well, that's great, it's really fun. Really really fun. They released years ago. They released Mario Odyssey and it got a 10 out of 10, and a bunch of people praised it and it was considered one of the best Marios of all time. I think this game is better. Wow, it is. It's great.
Speaker 1:It's great and I'm a the biggest mario fan in the world.
Speaker 4:This is a great game. They killed this.
Speaker 1:It's so, so fun uh so the last donkey kong I played was donkey kong country on 64. No, it was super nintendo yeah yeah, so that was the last, so what is it like?
Speaker 4:man, it's, it's, it's so different, because that's, that's a 2d side scrolling you know game this one's a 3d. I mean it is destructible environment, you're, you're able to kind of dig tunnels and and it's it's more open world than it is linear, go from here to to here. Now there's, there's objectives that you do, but man, it it is. It is really, really good and it it is just fun yeah man, it's fun.
Speaker 4:It's when you're playing a game and you could feel yourself actively smiling right like oh, this is just so fun, it just takes you back to being a kid again. Man, I was just sitting there, like tyler said, most of our time there downtime.
Speaker 3:I was just I just wanted to play it. I'm like dude. This game is really as soon as. As soon as we sit down, the plane gets he. He popped out the, the switch and I'm always.
Speaker 1:I'm always afraid. Like always, I've flown once I was afraid yeah, and if I did anything the plane would crash.
Speaker 4:Just any kind of electronic. Did I put this on airplane mode? Oh gosh, yeah, and so I've been playing that we finished. The Perfect Couple Did not like the ending, loved the show all the way up to that. I'm working on trying to catch James up on Wednesday.
Speaker 1:I still haven't watched that. It's really good yeah season two comes out soon.
Speaker 4:Yeah yeah, so we're trying to catch her up on it.
Speaker 5:Sissy really likes it, so I fell sleep on it, yeah yeah, well, yeah.
Speaker 4:So we're trying to catch her up on that. Did the new?
Speaker 3:season. That did we talk? Uh, that mentioned no watch happy gilmore, did we?
Speaker 4:yeah, yeah, we talked about it last time.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I couldn't remember yeah, that was a good one too.
Speaker 5:It was good, babe, but do you smile when you're getting beat at mario kart?
Speaker 4:the new version so that's gonna be all our time we have for today. I mean, even even I'm not a huge fan of it man I just out of all the mario karts. I think it is one of the worst of the Mario Karts. I don't think it's a bad game. I think it's the worst version of it.
Speaker 3:I really do.
Speaker 5:I got hurt, so I love it.
Speaker 3:I like the knockout game. That's fun.
Speaker 1:Again, I don't like Mario Kart in general, so I'm not a person to ask.
Speaker 4:Yep, but that's about it. I haven't seen it. We plan on going to watch a movie Me and you is going to go watch.
Speaker 1:Weapons.
Speaker 4:Weapons. That's a new movie coming out, so we plan on watching.
Speaker 3:Isn't that the school teacher? Yeah, yeah, it looks so good.
Speaker 1:I know I do want to see that Disappear, yeah.
Speaker 2:Hope it. I forgot we actually had a date night, was it last week?
Speaker 4:Damn y'all both forgot, I think it was last week.
Speaker 3:We play off each other on that stuff For our anniversary.
Speaker 4:Was y'all's anniversary.
Speaker 1:that's right so he stayed at my mom's house, four years Four years married, very cool.
Speaker 2:Five years together. Four years married.
Speaker 4:Very, very cool. That's about it, man. A couple new TV shows Kitchen Up on Wednesday waiting for that.
Speaker 1:You need to watch the Old Guard. They've got the sequel out on Netflix now.
Speaker 4:I think I got through half of it. That's Charlize Theron.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Is that right? Yeah, I think I got through half of it. That's Charlize Theron.
Speaker 3:Yeah, is that right? Yeah, I think I got through half of the first one.
Speaker 2:So good. We still haven't watched Preacher yet the new season of it, yeah, we got to keep up.
Speaker 3:Yeah Well, it's hard to watch that with the kid in the house.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I will say, though this season wasn't as good as the other two.
Speaker 3:Really.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was still good, it just wasn't as good.
Speaker 4:The new Stranger Things is coming out, so they released a few trailers for it with a bunch of little hidden Easter eggs. So I've been digging down a rabbit hole in that.
Speaker 1:Aren't the people on that like 20 years old now?
Speaker 4:I'm going to make a prediction.
Speaker 1:You don't want to talk about it.
Speaker 4:I don't want to talk about it Okay. It's been a long time you put. You invest some time in this I'm gonna make a prediction spoiler alert so I'm gonna give you a second if you haven't seen any of the other stranger things. Three, two, one. Eddie's gonna come back, that's what I was thinking yeah I have no idea, that's my prediction, so we'll see how that holds up. Cool, all right, I care about what you care about I appreciate you rich about. I appreciate you, Richard. I feel like you're lying.
