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
Why Giving Thanks Today Changes How We Remember Tomorrow
A prank call about a “turlet” set the tone, but the conversation bent toward something deeper: how gratitude anchors us when life is loud. We opened with the laughter that lives rent-free in our heads and ended by naming what actually holds us together—family homecomings, shared tables, and the tiny mercies we usually scroll past.
We talk about the rare joy of getting everyone under one roof and why that ordinary miracle is easy to miss until it’s gone. There’s a story about blessing a daughter with a car that only later felt like a blessing, and a moment of wonder after serving almost 400 plates of food in a week. We sit with sleepless nights and newborn twins, trading honest notes on white noise, safe “cry it out” pauses, and the reframing that calms a tired heart: your baby isn’t giving you a hard time; your baby is having a hard time. Healthy babies need healthy parents, and that means permission to breathe.
Nostalgia pulls us through video stores, late fees, arcades, and those Friday rituals that stitched families together. We explore why those slow, shared decisions felt so rich—and how to reclaim that sense of togetherness now. Comfort shows, Stranger Things binges, audiobook tips, and content boundaries become more than entertainment; they’re excuses to sit shoulder to shoulder and build a common language. Faith weaves through it all, not as a slogan but as an invitation to notice the good: warm homes in winter, meals that stretch further than expected, and friends who both tease and tell the truth.
If you’ve been tempted to fast-forward through a hard season, come slow down with us. Hit play, sit with the gratitude that’s right in front of you, and then tell us one small blessing you noticed today. Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs a lift, and leave a review to help more people find the show.
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I have some of those like his sound bites stuck into my brain. I know, rent-free. Yeah. I'll just be at home. Like, I'll make a plate of food and I'm like, do it. Yeah.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:It's like I just ain't tired to pop like pop out of the sink, just do it.
SPEAKER_02:Well what Jamie or the kids ain't want. I'm gonna go do this. Do it.
SPEAKER_03:Just Tyler popping up, just do it, and then go away. Do it.
SPEAKER_05:You were talking tonight during your little devotion or whatever about the toilets and the turtles times. And that's what I heard. Turbo's turtles.
SPEAKER_01:Richard's face when we said that was just amazing. For those of y'all that don't know, we prank called Richard and it was glorious.
SPEAKER_05:If I had been asleep, that'd have been a whole different reaction.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. And what was it? The challenge was call somebody or FaceTime them and try to use the word turl turlet.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. Toilet, button the annunciation turlet three times.
SPEAKER_01:So Tyler was like, hey, does your toilet make these noises? And Richard's like, You mean toilet? Yeah, toilet. Like, yeah, yeah. So my toilet is uh is so funny.
SPEAKER_04:Y'all are so dumb.
SPEAKER_02:Matt was Matt tried to say it earlier.
SPEAKER_01:Man, that was fun. And me and Jamie talked after we got home. We need to do more board games like that, man. That is so fun. So fun. Yeah, get away from Jackbox for a minute. I was looking at um, it's a blockbuster board game. Oh, yeah, I've seen that. Yeah, it looks really fun. You know, so it's like an older one? I don't know. I don't know. But the one I saw.
SPEAKER_02:Oh no, no, no. I'm thinking of uh what's that one?
SPEAKER_01:Is it called like seen it or something? Oh yeah, that's what I'm thinking about. That's an old one, yeah. So it's like you have a timer and then you it says like movies with basketball, and you go back and forth naming them. Yeah, Titanic. And you have it.
SPEAKER_05:Do it. How Stella got her grip back.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, yeah. 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, everybody. Welcome back to a brand new episode of the Almost Brothers podcast. As always, Richie Rich.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah. Do it. I don't know. Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_01:And Ta Ty. Turlet. Exactly, exactly. Man, how y'all doing?
SPEAKER_05:Fantastic.
SPEAKER_01:Do it. Exactly. That means good. And translate. Oh, yeah. You know how they talk about how Shaq needs the bouncing ball. We need to just Tyler, he'll just say something and then put translation. I'm doing fantastic. But he really said, yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. On today's episode, we're gonna be talking about giving thanks. It's what we're thankful for. I know Rich, you said you said tonight just had this feeling of just gratitude and just being thankful. I think we forget that sometimes.
SPEAKER_05:And it's it's easy to forget, man, with all the crap that we go through on a daily basis. But yeah, tonight Tyler was singing and and just surrounded by people that I love, and my family's doing really well right now, and just God's just overwhelmed. Acknowledge that and thank him for that.
SPEAKER_01:Yep. And I'm as we're looking forward to Aaliyah being home on the 19th, it's the same way. It's like, man, we get to have our family together. Because it's it's since she went off to college, it's been few and far between. We haven't had a lot of those moments. So it's like, man, I really I'm looking forward to having her home, having this feeling of normalcy.
SPEAKER_05:Right.
SPEAKER_01:You know, where my family's together, we're getting to hang out, we're gonna have food and hang out with, you know, all the friends and family, and everybody gets to see her. And also Jacob will be home. So having them both home at the same time is gonna be something that we haven't had in such a long time. It's been one week since you looked at me. But yeah, so it's and and and again, I wanna I want to tell y'all two how how thankful I am for y'all because y'all are two of the closest men I have in my life. And I'm just thankful for y'all's friendship for times where we can just call and talk about life and and just you know, some of the laughs and things like that, man. It it it's hard to think about life without y'all two. Yeah. So I just want to tell you how much I love you and and I appreciate you. And just being the being able to walk through not just us three, but our families be able to walk together. I think there's really about that.
SPEAKER_05:What's the dude's he drink tonight? I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. Crap.
SPEAKER_02:It's not Seal, right? No. Isn't Seal a black dude? Yes. Yeah, that's a white dude. Oh, okay. It's like a McDonald's. No, it's um crap.
unknown:I don't know.
SPEAKER_02:I I can see his face. I kind of can too. I see his face. It's because it's on one of those uh you remember the infomercials at 3 a.m.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Best romantic songs of the 90s. Yeah. Romantic Getaway 2001.
SPEAKER_05:I remember the Monsters of Rock.
SPEAKER_01:Uh Monsters of Rock. Isn't it something Bolton? Michael Bolton? Michael Bolton, that's who it is. Yep. Yeah. Man, okay, let's pause for a second. How many of those commercials you woke up to and just like it's it's just burnt into your brain? Yeah. It's like like the uh That and then waking up to George Lopez. Right. What what was the insurance commercial with the guys that would sing? F-R-E-E, that's the free creditreport.com, baby.
SPEAKER_02:Saw their ad on my TV, and I was gonna remember the rest of the world.
SPEAKER_01:I was gonna look it up, but I was too busy, maybe. Yeah. Now I'm riding down the street looking whack and something, something in my Ford Compact F R E. Something like that, yeah.
SPEAKER_05:Who do you call if you need a lump sum on your settlement? Uh-oh, JG. What were eight episodes of cash now?
SPEAKER_02:What's that?
SPEAKER_01:What was the college one? Uh oh my gosh. We used to say that chick looked just like Jamie. Like, I swear. So we would send her that clip. Yeah, it was uh education connection. I went on the internet and found education connection.
SPEAKER_05:Can y'all believe the internet was in our lifetime? Education connection be still on the thing.
SPEAKER_01:Well, I re I remember I remember the first cell phone that I got. Yeah, it was like 17 pounds and it came with like a briefcase. Like it was huge. You were Zach Morrison it up. Yeah, and you couldn't save, you couldn't save your contacts in there. You know, I'm thankful for cell phones where you could save your contacts. Come on, can I get can I get somebody? Something I take for granted because I hardly ever save contacts.
SPEAKER_02:Right. How many numbers do you know by heart? I've gotten zero. I barely remember my own. I know my own. That's the only thing. I barely remember Liv's. Yeah. I know mine and Jennifer. I know mine and Liv's is one of those, like, hey, is it this?
SPEAKER_01:Right? And me, me and Jameis is easy to remember because it's one number different from each other. You know, so that that's somewhat easier. I can't remember my kids. I get them. I'm gonna call me something different from each other. That's a that's a scientific fact. You're right.
SPEAKER_00:Yep.
SPEAKER_01:Good good input. Don't call me scientific fat. And Tyler's been muted, ladies and gentlemen. So um, but yeah, I remember that. I remember my first computer. I remember when the school first got computers. This is this is a conversation not for you, Ty Ty. Because you're five years old. I'm checked out. But yeah, I remember that. Yeah, remember number crunchers and took a typing class on a typewriter. I I'm I'm not that far back. I'm not that far back. So did you have to buy your own chisels? No, I said typewriter. Instead of pencil, instead of number two pencils. All right, does everybody have their number two chisel?
SPEAKER_02:I never understood that. What was the difference between number one and number two? Nothing. Nothing. Well apparently you're disqualified from any kind of testing if you use a number 78.
SPEAKER_01:And it was it was like I I think what it was is there was like two kinds out of the 15 that didn't read. So they just told you number two, that way you nuke because you use a number one, it works fine.
SPEAKER_05:It's but I I never I've never seen a different pencil besides a number two. I haven't either.
SPEAKER_01:Really? I haven't, yeah. Yeah, yeah, like the darker ones, the lighter ones. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:It's dumb.
SPEAKER_01:It's like it's like Batman.
SPEAKER_05:What?
SPEAKER_02:You've never seen him and Bruce Wayne in the same room.
SPEAKER_01:He knows how to take the air out of a room, doesn't it?
SPEAKER_05:And the intelligence.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, this is what happens, so I'm really tired. Apparently. I do get really weird.
SPEAKER_05:Goofy. Really weird. Weird err.
SPEAKER_02:It starts to get weird.
SPEAKER_05:What does this have to do with gratitude? Let's go back to what we're doing.
SPEAKER_01:Because we're thankful that things have progressed away from number two pencils. Amen. Um mechanical pencils. Yeah, I hate them. Apple pencils. But you really begin to look at your life and go, man, there's a lot to be thankful. I mean, we talking about a computer, I remember my first computer, because we couldn't afford one.
SPEAKER_05:Oh, I yeah.
SPEAKER_01:You know, so just being thankful for the fact that I can now get these things, you know.
SPEAKER_05:So I never had a computer as a kid. Like throughout my entire childhood.
SPEAKER_01:Mine was my senior year as well. You're 38.
SPEAKER_05:So I never had a computer when I was a mute him again.
SPEAKER_01:It's like a TV. Do you ever have a TV in your room?
SPEAKER_05:No, no, I never had one.
SPEAKER_01:I didn't.
SPEAKER_05:I we got I always got in trouble at night because mom would, you know, put us to bed. Well, our bedroom, the living room's right here, and my bedroom's right here. So I would be like leaned over, watching TV. Being the floor just watching whatever she was watching.
SPEAKER_02:I was I was in the era that was phasing out of like the big back TVs. Oh, yeah. Big old butt. What's that coming out of the TV?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. I so my room was upstairs, and it was probably, I was probably 12 or 13 when I got my first TV. And it was one of those. It was a small one too. It was like a 12-inch, you know, little bitty one, and it was the big butt TVs. And I remember you you had a creak in the in one of the steps. So I was supposed to, I was supposed to have it off, and I would have my door closed over, not closed, but closed over, and a towel so she couldn't see the light. And every now and then she tried to sneak up there, and it was one of those just literally on or off. And I thought I was slick, not thinking she could hear the sound of the coop going off. So she's like, You got that TV on? No. I just heard you turn it off. Like, you have the T Yep. So I remember that. And then you only had certain channels you could get and all that.
SPEAKER_05:When they first came out with the big screens, you know, the ones like the giant 4,000 pounds of well. I was working at Rent One at the time. Man, those things were heavy.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. My Uncle Johnny just got rid of his like a few years ago. Serious? Yeah. I mean, 20 years old. He kept it. Yeah, he kept it until the wheels fell off.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:That's some cool entertainment centers for him, though. The three pieces.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, that just goes right around it. Yep.
SPEAKER_02:I've seen all that. I'm I have a lot of uh like kind of home DIY like videos that always come up on like my Facebook feed. I've seen one where they'll put a uh they'll have a flat screen and it's one of those like real flap against the wall, and they'll put a picture frame on it.
SPEAKER_01:That's so cool. I want to do that. Uh somebody was selling one on Facebook that was close around here. I think it was in like Papa Bluff for Cape, but it looked like a switch.
SPEAKER_02:Oh.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, so it was shaped like a switch and it was a TV stand. Yeah. And the where the Joy-Cons would be, it's shelves. I was like, man, that is pretty neat. And it fit like a 55-inch TV. So it's like, man, that's pretty cool. Yep. But uh um, you know, just you know, talking about Aaliyah, like uh just being thankful for the fact that that we were able to, like, we blessed her with a car. So I gave her, you know, my car. So it's like you do these things in your life and you don't even think about it being a blessing. You just think, oh, cool, we have this, like, we're able to do it. But when you really look back and take a second, it's like, man, God has really blessed us to be able to do some of these things. You know, um, we were able to hand out, I think when we calculated, it was almost 200 plates of food.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Um, well, no, no, it was almost 400 plates of food because we did Sunday when we had dinner here. So just all together in the past week, we've we've got to feed over 400 people. All from two, two, wait, was it two loaves and five fish or five? Five loaves and two fish. Yeah. Yeah. Multiplying it, man. It was spaghetti though, but he kept multiplying. No, but uh we only had 10 meatballs. Oh man. But it's crazy, just the blessing of being able to do it. Just the blessing of being able to sit down here with two of my best friends and do a podcast. Well, like it's awesome.
SPEAKER_05:So this is always a hard financial time of the year for us because we got a lot of kids, blah, blah, blah. Yeah. So I was telling the kids, you know, hey, for the next couple weeks, it's just, you know, what we have for meals is what we're gonna have. Yeah, you can choose to not eat, that's your choice. Right, right. What we got is what we got. And then and then thinking about there are there are people now in this season that don't have meals, period. Right.
SPEAKER_02:You know, oh, especially with the whole snap benefits stuff going on, too. I don't know if that's any of that's been resolved or I think so. I think so, yeah.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, but yeah, it's just it's it's we are so spoiled as as a nation, and and we just need to be grateful for what we have.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, mm-hmm. You know, me and Jamie have been talking because this time of the year, like I like it. It could be 40 degrees in my house, I'm fine with it.
SPEAKER_05:I know you're crazy.
SPEAKER_01:But you know, Jamie's turned the heat, and it's like, you know, I some people don't have that. You they're sitting in a house with no electricity, free, like it's cold, you know. So I mean, even something that small is just like, man, I'm so thankful for these things. And and you know, what God has allowed us to build and to grow as a family is is pretty awesome.
SPEAKER_05:Pretty wild.
SPEAKER_02:Lately, I've been thinking about the uh like you know, going on one or two hours of sleep every every few nights, every couple nights. And I was uh I was saying the other day, I was like reading something like, oh, don't blink because they'll no, they grow up so fast. I was like, I was like, well, can we just get through the not sleeping space real quick?
SPEAKER_01:I know not to speed it up, but just a little bit. Like can we would you you know, click the movie click? Would you fast forward through the baby time and go to the as only if I could go back. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:I'm I may I may fast forward just a little bit, yeah. And then while I'm when I'm you know when I'm feeling froggy, yeah, I'll leap back. Yeah. Now I was thinking about um because I saw a post and kind of uh kind of realigned my head a little bit. It was like talking about, you know, complaining about you know, sleepless nights and all and the endless dirty diapers and the babies crying and screaming, but it's like there wasn't that a month ago. Right. Right. Two months ago. Right, a year ago.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. And there won't be that in 20 years, you know. It's I I've seen that too. I've seen two different ones that just hit me. It it was one that was saying, yeah, you're complaining about like a dirty house and all the toys and all the craziness and the sports and the cheerleading and all these things. And one day you're not gonna have that and you're gonna wish you could go back to that.
SPEAKER_02:There's a there's a uh trend going on on TikTok uh that I love where these parents are they're doing with their kids and they're like it's probably the exact one, the other one that yeah, where it's like there's they're talking about like there's always the last time, but you never realize it's the last time. So this is gonna be the last time, you know, you 15-year-old child, I'm going to pick you up and hold you.
SPEAKER_01:Yep, and take this moment. That's exactly the the other one that and I think I'm gonna which I mess with Zeke a lot, but I think I'm gonna do that to where because it is, it's one day without you knowing, you pick them up for the last time, picking them up like as a child.
SPEAKER_02:There's a quote from The Office that uh it's it's a it's a really good quote. It was from uh uh Andrew Bernard said his name. Yeah, Ed Helms character. He's like, I wish he said, I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before they end. Yeah, or something like that. That is good.
SPEAKER_01:That's good, yeah. Yeah, because it you you you're in a time and you always wish for another time. Yeah, so you you almost never take a moment in the place you're at and go, man, this is great. You're thinking, growing, getting better, you know, advancing as a family, as a person, as a human. So you never really take the time you're in for what it is. You're looking down the road. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:I was like, you do like when you're younger. Do you remember the last time you you went down the street to go ride bikes with your friends or play or something? Yeah, you know. And one day it just stopped. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's one day there's one less kid, one less kid, and and then everyone grew up.
SPEAKER_05:Trace Atkins has an old country song. It's uh you're gonna miss this.
SPEAKER_03:You're gonna miss it. You're gonna Is that how it goes?
SPEAKER_00:Something like that. Oh, okay. You're gonna miss it.
SPEAKER_05:That's what the song is about is you know the the things that you don't realize you're gonna miss that are happening right now.
SPEAKER_01:And the conversations that me and me and Bubby and me and Sissy have reminds me to be grateful for the things that are going on right now because Bubby will very often ask, like, when you were a kid, what did you do? Or how was the 90s or what was it like, or like we'll watch a movie from when I was a kid and oh man, that was awesome. I'd love to live back then. And it's like, yeah, I kind of just took it for granted and didn't really think about it, you know, because he doesn't have the same type of things. Like they they have some great things that we didn't have, but also we had true, genuine friendships where we spent time together, where we did go and ride bikes together, and we hung out and we got dirty and we made tree houses and we'd done a lot of these things. It's like we kind of took them for granted, weren't thankful for in the moment. You know, it was, oh, I can't wait to get older, I can't wait to get out of school, I can't wait to go and do my own thing. And then it's like, oh no.
SPEAKER_05:Now I gotta go do my own thing.
SPEAKER_01:What is it? The Billy Madison, where the kids like, I can't wait till I go to high school. And he's like, No, don't ever say that. Stay, stay as long as you can.
SPEAKER_03:For the love of God.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, and it's like it's so true. I was like, no, I'm thankful for like, you know, like technology and like Snapchat, you know, they have memories. It's like because like, you know, when my kids are, you know, 10, 12, 15, 16, I can go back to my Snapchat memories. But oh hey, here's when you were two days old. Maybe if it's still a thing, you better hope it.
SPEAKER_01:I mean, um and and and that was one thing. Uh last week or the week before, we were at my mom's and she has pi picture albums, I mean, everywhere. So we're just going through them and looking at pictures, it's like, man, I'm so glad you've got these that we can go and look back on. And and I hate taking pictures anyway, but it really made me go, yeah, we need to do this more often, so we have those memories to to look back on, you know, because you know me and Jamie, we we we have never been married without kids. Right. So that's gonna be a whole new thing. It's gonna be great getting to to hang out with each other and our relationship is gonna get better, but man, it's gonna be so difficult when the kids are out and gone. Because that's all we've known in our marriage.
SPEAKER_05:And that's you know, we've still got Luke who's seven, but for the most part, we're out of the baby stage, right? So being around Tyler and Liz babies, it's it's because I'm coming into the grandparent stage now where I'm I'm starting to have grandkids now, so I'll be able to still hold babies and and things like that. But it's but again not taking for granted today. Yeah. Not not looking so far forward that you forget what you're what you're what you have right now.
SPEAKER_01:How many times do you have that moment with your grandkids? And it's almost a flashback to when you were holding your kids like that.
SPEAKER_05:Well, I haven't gotten Hudson a lot, but yeah. But yeah, I I I I just love I just love I love babies. We we love kids. Uh obviously we've adopted I've adopted eight children. So obviously I like kids, but that that feeling of innocence and and just you Where's it end? It doesn't. Like kids babies are just like new and they don't have evil in them, and you know, they don't they don't they love you because you're there and it reminds you that even in a a evil world there's so much good.
SPEAKER_01:That's right. And it's kind of personified in a in something that you can hold, something you can see, to where it's like all the good in the world is kind of in this child. It's like, man, all the chaos, all the wars, all the famine, all these things going on in the world, but man, it's something so innocent, yeah, that is just so beautiful, and the whole world is at their fingertips. There you there's no telling where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. And it's like the world is still good. There's still good in the world.
SPEAKER_05:And that's something I've always enjoyed about my children, is just I wonder what you will be. Yeah, I wonder what you will grow into. Yeah. And just having a having a hand in that molding and and and helping that process is pretty amazing.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, yeah. I was having that conversation with my kids the other day.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. I talked to them even though they can't talk to me. Yeah, because hey, you may not remember this, but I will. Yeah. Do you talk in baby talk? No. With her, well, with her, I kind of do.
SPEAKER_02:With him, yeah, no. He's a grown man. He's a grown man. Look, bro, all right, this got to stop. You need to give some sleep. Like, dude, come on. Like, Dad Gum. I gotta work. You're gonna have to go to work too. Right. Why are you so mad at me right now? Come on, man. It's funny. I saw one thing that's kind of uh helped ease my mind a little bit with when it comes to like you know, the the constant the crying, the you know, not sleeping, the fussing, and all that. Um it's it was it was a saying, it's like the your baby's not giving you a hard time, the baby is having a hard time. Right. I was like, Yeah, it's like I won't get mad.
SPEAKER_01:Man, it get it does. There was there was one time with Aliyah because we were fresh parents and we didn't, you know, she was maybe two or three months old. Fresh out the womb. And or for some of y'all, uh, you know, 48 months or however many. Did you say two or three months old and say 48 months? I mean 48 days. That's like a month, not even a month and a half. I'm saying so anyway, the I'm not giving an exact one-to-one. It's um for example, you're not even close. You know what? It's been a good episode. Thank y'all for listening. No, um, I don't know what I was gonna say because now you done threw me off track. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Okay. You said, yeah, uh fresh parents straight out the wound.
SPEAKER_01:Yes, fresh, yeah. I there was a time where I had to sit her down, put her in her like swing thing, and just walk away and just like take a second to breathe. I'm like, I don't know what to do. You're not hungry, you're not, you don't need change. Like, I don't know what's wrong. I've tried to burp you, I don't know what to do. So sometimes there is that moment where you have to just step back and just, oh my gosh, I need to breathe.
SPEAKER_02:I and I I think about um you know, not not just me as a parent, but you know, me as an adult and you know what I'm doing now. I've had a lot of people in my life that have really instilled those little nuggets of wisdom. And so like recently, uh something like that happened when I was getting overwhelmed, and I had that little nugget of windstone in my mind. I was like, okay, put put him down. He can cry for a few minutes. Go go just do some dishes for a minute. Just do something.
SPEAKER_05:It's it's a very well-known scientific fact. You can Google it. Googs. Yeah, because Google knows everything. Yeah, no, but kids learn that when they cry, you pick them up. Yeah. So if that's your response every time, that's what they're gonna do, if that's what they want. So it it does not hurt a child to cry a little bit to really I can't remember what it's called.
SPEAKER_01:It's like something method where you let them cry it out a little bit because and it it it's hard.
SPEAKER_05:If they're good, yeah, right. They don't need to be changed, they don't need to be fed, they're just crying to be crying, let them cry.
SPEAKER_01:Well, and it's and it's good for you too. Like, because in order for babies to be healthy, mommy and daddy need to be healthy too. Oh, 100%. You know, so it's like take a second. Jamie would feel so guilty when like we'd go out to eat or something and then leave the baby with mom. Right. And she's like, I just feel so bad. It's like, babe, we need a reset too. Yeah, you know, that's like that's kind of live uh with that.
SPEAKER_02:I'm bad in a way. So like, you know, when Liv was pregnant and you know, and then she was in the hospital for quite a while. I've I've been in a in a mindset of I've gotta do everything for us, everything for Liv. Yeah. So I'm still in that mindset of I've gotta do everything. Yeah. Even though Liv is perfectly healthy and perfectly capable of doing it on her like the other day, like um she it was what time was it? It was probably six in the morning. I was up all night and I was like, hey, you wanna just you know come down, just let me sleep for a little bit. Well, she was getting a little overwhelmed because I think they were both crying. Yeah. And uh I asked her if you know if she was good, and she was like, Yeah, and and but kind of had it look like she's still over and I was like, No, I'm staying I'm I'm I'm not sleeping, I'm staying down here. Yeah, so I didn't I didn't go to sleep.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, and that's something that's cool with this Thanksgiving and this Christmas season, is y'all have two brand new things to be thankful for. You know, it's like, I mean, man, you know, the the long process that it took and and the you know the ups and the downs of all these years of y'all trying to to get to this point is is really cool to say, oh man, we are we are grateful that not only did we get pregnant, we got two. Double, double trouble. So it's just man, it's awesome. And emphasis on the trouble. Oh, I feel your pain, man. I got sisters and they're twins, and Lord Jesus help us all. I'm just thankful. I'm the baby of the family, didn't have to deal with the baby twins. That's true, yeah. Yep. All right, well, we're gonna move into that's what's up. What's up? That's up. Up, what's that? What? What? So, Richie Rich, what you got? Something you're watching, listening to, new song, new music.
SPEAKER_05:I finally broke down. Me and Jennifer. He's getting the applause button rang.
SPEAKER_01:Uh uh.
SPEAKER_05:Started watching Stranger Things.
SPEAKER_03:Yes, the Lord is moving. I feel like that's a that's a show the Lord wouldn't be moving.
SPEAKER_05:That's blasphemous.
SPEAKER_01:No, uh you've said that so many times over the past couple of like, man. So we started not that serious. It was a joke, everybody. Here, hold up. There you go. Okay.
SPEAKER_05:Feel better, yeah. So yeah, we started watching Stranger Things, and me and Jennifer were hooked. Man, we finished season one yesterday. Yep. And we started season two. Um, and then when I get home, we'll watch a couple more.
SPEAKER_01:And it was for the longest time, y'all like, well, we we tried it and we just didn't like it. And I'm like, well, how much did you want? Oh, like an episode and a half. Like, dude, I'm telling you. We didn't give enough time, but I knew it was up your alley. Yeah, yeah. You know, uh, so it was it was kind of a flip of the coin whether Jennifer would like it, but I knew you would like it.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, I'm really surprised how into it Jennifer got. She was mad at me last night because I went to bed instead of continuing to watch it was like texting you right now, like, come on. Yeah. Uh but yeah, that's a really good show we're watching. Um, and then all of our regular shows that uh that we're watching, um, waiting on my next cyber dream series book. I gotta get another credit.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, that that reminds me. I I downloaded the app. Oh, did you? Yeah, so so I can't remember if you send me the link or whatever it was. Yeah. Uh, but I'm I'm gonna start kind of listening to that. Good. You know, good, yeah.
SPEAKER_05:That's some and Helldivers is where you need to start. That's that's the book, but yeah. But yeah, they're they're really good. And uh so yeah, that's pretty much uh pretty much all we got.
SPEAKER_01:And I'm hoping what what we're hoping is that you'll catch up to the second part of the fifth season to where we can watch it together.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, it's gonna be uh it's a haul.
SPEAKER_01:It's a little bit of a haul, but you got a month, and a little time, yeah.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, so we just have to dedicate two stranger things.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, man. So that's so good.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, watch the second half together, be cool.
SPEAKER_01:Ta towel, what you got?
SPEAKER_02:I don't think I have anything really. I opened my Spotify. I was like, am I listening to any new music? And the newest things are white noise and vacuum sounds. I've been listening to this really good track, y'all. Man, it goes like noise. It goes like this. Let me sing it. Yeah. Parenting by Spotify. That's right. When uh either one of them, when like when they're sleeping and they're kind of like moving around, starting to wake up, I'll I'll play it and like blast it, and I'll I feel like I'm almost attacking them with the sound. Like take this one. Because they're like, does it do? Yeah, I was about to say, does it do? It does, it does work. It does work a little bit. Yeah. It's the funniest thing uh with them. They uh when we put them in their car seats, obviously, you know, because we're moving around and and stretching them and pulling them and yoinking them. Um I think you're supposed to yoink them. All right. Um so they hate getting put in the car seat, and then you know, once they're buckled in, they still hate it as soon as I pick it up.
SPEAKER_00:They're out oh yeah, silence. Yeah, ready to road trip.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:That's what's up. That's what's up.
SPEAKER_02:I don't think there's a there's a I kind of have a new comfort show. It used to be just practical impractical jokers. Yeah. It's a show called Tanked. It's just it's just it's just this company they make fish tanks.
SPEAKER_01:Yes, okay, okay, okay. I was like, I think I've heard of this. Yeah, yeah. Like luxury fish tanks and all that. Yeah, they're really cool. Yeah, just kind of something to have on in the background.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, that's pretty cool. It's well, it's cool. Uh the different uh, you know, companies and and like celebrities I'll make like Dwayne Wade and Shaquille O'Neal. Yeah, uh who else who's on there? Um Neil Patrick Harris, John Knoxville. Yeah, that's that's cool.
SPEAKER_05:People with lots of money.
SPEAKER_01:Which that's what that's why I told Jamie with you know, we watched that first half of Stranger Things. Man, it's so good.
SPEAKER_05:You mentioned that.
SPEAKER_01:But I'm like, I I think I really miss where where we had a show where we invested in and we were just going with it and just watching it together. So I think that's that's part of why I re-watch a lot of these shows. It's just the time that me and her spend together investing in these shows. It's like, man, I really miss that because we haven't had a show like because Stranger Things, there's so much so many gaps in between seasons. You're doing it about the best way you can. Now you get to, yeah, uh, you know, uh other than spoilers that you have to kind of dodge like the Matrix. But it's like, man, I'm I I'm so into it. One because it's a great show, but two, because of the time we get to spend together watching it.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, you know, so um and Jennifer is not that way once she's seen something, don't want to see it again.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, it's like because when I when I watch a show, a show especially, movies are a little bit different because they kind of start and end unless it's a long series, but um, with a show, I get lost in the world. Yeah, like I'm I'm into it, you know. I'm I'm really, really into it, especially something that's good and it's lengthy. I I I'm lost in the show, so I really enjoy it. So even when I re-watch it, I get lost in it again. Yeah, like it really does. I change my ringtone when these shows come out to the I am not joking. Y'all think I'm kidding. No, I we don't.
SPEAKER_02:Okay, is the sad part, right?
SPEAKER_01:But I've we know you are completely honest right now. Being just transparent, you know. Um we see right through there. Yeah, so we've been been watching that. I've got a couple games ordered. Game site was doing a big buy two, get one free uh on all use games. So I've got uh a couple games and I'm waiting, waiting to come in. Right now I'm kind of gearing up for Christmas. I got a lot of stuff I gotta I gotta put together. And by I gotta put together, I mean I've gotta have Richard put together for me. So uh just kind of focused on that.
SPEAKER_05:I will be showing you on the directions where it says X amount of parts are extra. I'm gonna show you this so that you believe me, because I'm pretty sure you think I'm making it up.
SPEAKER_01:I don't yeah.
SPEAKER_02:I mean, when there's 55 extra parts, I'm like I hate when there's like say you're I don't know, screwing something into a wall, you need two screws to do it, and there's only one extra. Like I think there should be at least one extra for each for each one you need, right? Like I was installing um we have uh a gate in our house now to kind of keep the dogs out of the living room for a little bit, and I was screwing it into the wall and it broke. The screw just broke. That's it. I was like, okay. And then yeah, you were out. And now just yeah, now I've gotta go one less screw on one of these parts. Yeah. Actually, two man, another one broke on another part, but they're like, man, they're weak screws. Still, like there should be plenty of extra at least at least one per part.
SPEAKER_01:One per what you have to put into it. Yeah. Yeah. So we've been doing that. I haven't really been listening to anything, just new podcasts, which I'm gonna start, you know, listening to some audiobooks, but um, I know we're talking about we're gonna go see the new Mario movie.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, when it comes out, it's gonna be really good. So I'm excited for that. Ready for Christmas, Christmas night. Uh, the second half of Stranger Things is gonna be. It's just gonna they broke a record. They the first half of the last season um crashed Netflix twice.
SPEAKER_05:Dang.
SPEAKER_01:Wow it's the only thing to ever crash it multiple times.
SPEAKER_05:Except for the Tyson.
SPEAKER_01:I was gonna say no, no, it didn't, it only crashed it once. Even that didn't crash it the way that Stranger Things did. That's crazy. Or it was the phenomenon. It's something like it. Oh, yeah. It's it's great, man. It really is.
SPEAKER_05:I got another thing on my That's What's Up. Yeah. And this is a show that we watched several years ago, but we just rediscovered and it's still new seasons, like season 28. Oh gosh. The amazing race.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, okay. So it's not like an ongoing okay, yeah.
SPEAKER_05:And it's it's a it's a reality, you know. It's uh it's uh exactly what it sounds like. It's a race around the world. Is that amazing? It's pretty amazing.
SPEAKER_01:Fumble to say.
SPEAKER_05:And I so I like travel. Yeah. Um, so just seeing all the cool foods and the and the cool just cultures and just things that you know around the world that people who was it?
SPEAKER_01:Because I think it was one of y'all that that we started watching the 100.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Who was it that had us start that? What was it? Okay. So I don't know what made me want to or why it even popped up, but it popped up on my YouTube where it was it explained all of the seasons. Oh, really? So I was like, I'm probably never gonna watch it. So I'm like, uh, let's check it out. And it just went through each season on what like recap. It was pretty cool, like the recap, but it was it was a lot. It was a lot going on.
SPEAKER_05:We only watched one season of it. Oh, okay. That was back when uh in my immaturity of Christianity that I thought that you couldn't watch certain things. Oh gosh, okay. Yeah, yeah. Because I was stupid and immature in my in my walk. Yeah. But it it had some stuff on there that I was uh trying to avoid at the time.
SPEAKER_01:So and that that's something that's hard too, is is some of these really good shows, they've got it's not an overwhelming amount of bad in it, but there's just enough to be uncomfortable.
SPEAKER_05:Well, that's what everybody says about uh Stranger Things, the new season. Yeah. Is there's just an overwhelming amount of bad language, just for no reason.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. And it's like, and it's each person, let you know, work out your own salvation with trembling. Like you, you it may change from person to person. Because if you're somebody who has never really been affected by cursing, it's probably okay. If you're somebody who struggles with that, it's probably something that you're like, oh man, it's you know, so it's there's a lot of those really good shows that like me and Jamie would just fast forward to. Yeah. Because it's like, okay, we don't need this. We skit through this part and get on. Because it the language doesn't really get us so much. We don't listen to it with the kids around, but it doesn't, it almost like I don't even hear it. It just whatever.
SPEAKER_05:Because that's not something I ever dealt with, even when you know and hearing Dustin cuss is hilarious with no T.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, because he's just yeah. So it's like, and it's really not terrible. Like I like I let my kids watch Stranger Things. So it's like not, and you you kind of explain to them like this isn't the way you talk, right? Like this is a show, this is just they put it in for dramatic emphasis, yeah, you know, but like uh like we'd watch Game of Thrones, and we would just fast forward through all the all the badges, all the baby making through the whole season. Right. Well, and it and it calmed down as it went on because we that's not why we watched it. We watched it because we enjoyed the story, right? You know, so so there's definitely stuff where it's like, man, I really like this, but I don't want to watch it. So just fast forward through that part.
SPEAKER_05:And that's what I do, like with a lot of the 80s action movies. I really love those movies. Yep, but inevitably there's a sex scene in every one of them. So you just fast forward that part, it has nothing to do with the story. That's what I was about to say.
SPEAKER_01:A lot of times you're not missing anything, right? You know, you just oh, okay, next scene. Right. Just move on, you know, and that's one good thing about now DVDs instead of talking about what you're thankful for. I'm thankful for being able to hit a next scene button instead of having to fast forward. Um, you know, so being able to just do that is really awesome. Yeah. So yeah.
SPEAKER_05:Boy, back in the day with the VCRs over. Oh my gosh, dude.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, I hate it when you were excited about a movie and then you popped it in. Yeah, and it's at the end like, no, be kind rewind. Yes, right. So you have to stop. I really miss. I love that movie. Yeah. Yeah. I've never seen it. Which there's one in Campbell. I don't know if it's still open, but it's like a small movie rental place.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, I don't know if they're still open. I don't either.
SPEAKER_01:There, the open sign is is on. Yeah, it used to be a it's a they just forgot to unplug it all those years ago. It's some other business and a movie rental place. Yeah, so I I want to stop in there and see if it is, because man, I miss it.
SPEAKER_05:I that's uh something that I noticed about Stranger Things is the soundtrack. Yeah, some of the old songs, and then I saw a family video in there, you know, because it's set in the 80s.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, and they that's what the Duffer brothers are really big on nostalgia. So every season that there's like so oh yeah, oh, I remember that. Like, you know, oh that's back to the future, or that's and they they play heavy on that because it it was such a huge part.
SPEAKER_05:It's so funny. This is not a spoiler, but season two starts off with these boys are just running around just desperately looking for quarters. Yeah, yeah. Jennifer's like, what is this about? And then the next scene they're like coming up to arcade, that's what it's about. Yep, that's what it was all about.
SPEAKER_01:That's exactly what that time was. Now all you gotta do is swipe a card. That's exactly not, dude. It's really not. Putting your quarters on there, I got next. But oh I never got next because they would just swipe my quarters away.
SPEAKER_02:But that's besides the point. Now, with like vending machines, the most annoying thing is when you put a quarter in and it comes right out the city. Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, like I know this is a real quarter, like don't do me like that.
SPEAKER_02:Or or you put it, put a bill in and spits it right out. Yep. It's not counter, I don't think it's counterfeit.
SPEAKER_01:I don't know how to tell, but it's not. Or or when you put a quarter in and you hear it take it and it doesn't register. It's like, are you kidding me? You just I brought 75 cents. That's all I had.
SPEAKER_05:I remember when they first came out with debit cards on vending machines.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:Like that was amazing. I love that.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. I remember uh when I was in the military, we had a vending machine, and I would constantly be swiping my card. The friggin' bank froze my card because they're like, oh, these are fraudulent.
SPEAKER_01:Like who's taking 78 cents from my card?
SPEAKER_02:Well, they're uh they're telling me this uh that when people try to do these, they start with these small charges and see how much is on there. Yeah, they start with the small charges because no one's gonna notice, oh, 75 cents. And yeah, I had that happen before. Uh that's why I don't use Cash App anymore because I had I had my account hacked somehow through Cash App, through my card, yeah, drain like$500. Oh no. Not cool.
SPEAKER_05:And Cash App will not give it back.
SPEAKER_01:There's nothing we could do. Yeah. Um, you know, talking about like it just brings me back like every Friday, Saturday night, we had a movie rental place right across the train tracks where we lived. So mom would let us walk over there and go. So we would scrounge together, scrounge, three dollars, scrounge together, three dollars worth of change. Because it was three dollars, you could rent a movie or you can rent a video game. So we would just, I mean, we'd be digging in the couch, we'd be trying to work for whatever we can to get money together so we could walk over there and go rent a game or movie. I miss it so much.
SPEAKER_05:I remember we had a we had a it's called Bendy's probably's video. Yeah, but it was in Campbell, they had two locations. So I would I would go in there and they had a pool table in the laundromat. Yep. And I don't know if this was just like one of those hidden secrets, but it's like my friend group was the only ones that were ever there to play pool. So we just played nonstop, just played pool and hung out, played the jukebox, they had a jukebox in there.
SPEAKER_01:Yep. See, we had a bendy's and it was a laundromat movie place, and then they had Pac-Man and Galaga.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:And then we had 2020 video and movie spot. So we had three different places. Y'all were uptown. Yeah, that's right. So, I mean, we would we would gather up money, we'd walk to MovieSpot, and then, you know, they had four copies of you know the newest movie that just came out, you know. So we go in there, oh, they're all rented out. So everybody's got all right, well, let's walk across to 2020. So we walk down, you know, three miles down the road to 20. Hey, do y'all have any cop? No, we just rented out the last one. Okay, let's go to Bendy's, walk across town, go to Bendy's, and then man, it was just it was just great. It really was.
SPEAKER_05:There was a lady that worked at Bendy's and Campbell. Her name was Billy, this old lady that smoked 14 packs of cigarettes a day. How are you doing? How's it going, kids? She always let me rent movies I wasn't supposed to rent. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Remember late fees?
SPEAKER_05:Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Like, oh man, I forgot I had a can I put a dollar on my eight dollar late fee and rent something tonight?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. Oh yeah. Late fees at the library. Like, what's the point in I don't yeah. What's the point in owing a nickel? Right, right. Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:It gets to some point where you just buy the book. Right. Yeah. Right. So late that I'll just buy the book.
SPEAKER_01:And I I remember when when movie rental places were kind of going out and then libraries took over, you know, they'd have a DVD section.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, still do. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:So that was pretty. That's pretty neat. I mean, I miss that. Because, you know, we would go as a family. This is when Aaliyah was a kid. A little bit of when Bubby was, but they kind of went out by then. But um we'd our whole family, I mean, we'd get candy and popcorn, and it was it was a night, you know, it was a it was a whole thing, man. I'm I'm just gonna be able to do that.
SPEAKER_05:So back in back in 2001, 2002, somewhere around in there, I was driving over the road and I was just discovering audiobooks. Yeah. So they had them on CDs at the library. So I'd go in, you know, I'd be gone for a week at a time. So I'd go in and check out two, three, four, whatever, however many they'd allow me to do, audiobooks. So I'd have audiobooks for the week and I'd I mean, I'd tear up some CDs just burning through them.
SPEAKER_02:Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_05:But yeah, that's it's good stuff, man.
SPEAKER_02:I miss renting video games. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:That's where the late feast got me.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, yeah. I really need to finish this. And I remember, you know, like on like PS1, so you had to have a memory card to save your game. Well, we didn't have money for a memory memory card, so we would leave it on, like nobody touch it, just leave it on. So we'd pause it and leave it on, and all weekend we'd try to beat the game. That fan on just that thing's getting hot. Like my sisters would come in and go to touch, leave it, dog, don't touch it.
SPEAKER_02:I don't have anything to save it, leave it alone. See, our problem was we had too many memory cards and we couldn't remember which ones had the save file on stuff. Yeah, yeah. Man, it was so fun. That was back in the day, man. Back in the day. Yep. I don't even remember the last time I actually played, like had my own like video game or rent. It was it was long, long before you could like download video games. Yep. I want to say the last time I actually I think the last video game I remember renting was uh the start the what was it the Force Unleashed or something like that? Oh yeah, so okay. Yeah. I I really like I think that was the last one I've I've rented. Okay.
SPEAKER_05:I rented a Super Nintendo.
SPEAKER_01:Oh yeah, the console. Yeah, I remember you could do VCRs, consoles, yep. I remember that.
SPEAKER_05:Came with a gun and everything. Yeah. Play some duck hunting.
SPEAKER_01:Yep. I remember dad, so so he was in the military and he was overseas. Well, they would get consoles and games and like movies earlier. Yeah. So when he would come home, he would have stuff that isn't out yet in the States. You know, especially when it came to Nintendo, like a lot of it was overseas. So I remember he had the virtual boy. Y'all remember that Nintendo Virtual Boy had the big old time. Yeah, had the big old man. So he had one like a month before they came out in the States. Yeah. So man, I remember just sitting on the floor.
SPEAKER_05:You were the man. Yeah. If you had one of those. If you if you well, you specifically you had that ahead of everybody else.
SPEAKER_01:Yes. Oh, absolutely. Not that I had any friends to show, but that's besides the point.
SPEAKER_05:Could have got friends with that person.
SPEAKER_01:Thanks for bringing that up.
SPEAKER_05:You're welcome. You had ho-hos and twinkies.
SPEAKER_01:Man. Oh, I remember he hoes and snow honey. I remember he would bring his ho hoes and twinkies. He'd bring like CDs home and he'd be like, playing. He's like, yo, this is hot, y'all. So he'd play it, and like, I'm like, this song is not good. This is terrible. And then it would be on like number one on TRL like a month later. I'm like, Dad was right. He knew. He knew ahead of time. He knew ball. Right. Man, like, okay, all right. I'll start listening to you a little bit more. Like, I remember when when 50 Cent came out, he he was big on them before he got big in the States. Yeah. Because like his music just released, like, you know, a few weeks earlier there. And he's like, no, you need to listen to this 50 Cent. And I'm like, huh? Yeah. That's never gonna like that's never gonna catch on. It caught on.
SPEAKER_02:Like, oh man. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_05:Unfortunately, it sure did.
SPEAKER_02:You know, I feel like he was like the first mumble rapper. Yeah, kind of. He was like 50 cents. Well, he got shot, man. It's hard for him. I'm not saying it's his fault. I'm just saying. Hey, Fiddy, give us a shot.
SPEAKER_03:What else y'all have on your on your amazing hearts? Goat shoddy. It's your birthday. We're gonna party. It's your birthday.
SPEAKER_05:I swear. He needs some sleep. He needs some milk.
SPEAKER_01:Thankful for y'all. Love you so much. Even I'm never using that mic again. Even Ty Ty. We love you.
