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Almost Brothers Podcast
The Slow Poof
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Somebody’s mad at you, they stop calling, they get weird around you, and you’re left replaying every conversation like it’s a crime scene. We’ve all been there, and it’s exhausting. We open with that exact problem: people being upset with you while refusing to say why, how relationships “slow poof” into silence, and why being cut off without a clear reason can mess with your head more than a direct argument ever would. If you care about family relationships, friendship repair, and real-world conflict resolution, this one hits close to home.
From there, we get honest about the ways we contribute to the problem too. Sarcasm is fun until it isn’t, especially with people who don’t know your heart yet. We talk about intent vs impact, why it’s healthier when someone can say “that didn’t sit right with me,” and what it looks like to talk things out without yelling, blaming, or trying to win. We also jump into marriage communication and the daily friction points that can blow up at the worst time, like messy expectations, timing, and yes, the laundry situation that can turn a normal day into a standoff.
Then the episode takes a turn into the lighter stuff that still reveals a lot about how we live together: sleep schedules, separate blankets, heated blankets, insomnia, socks vs no socks, and the weird rules our bodies have at night. We wrap with a chaotic but essential debate, ranking Girl Scout cookies and sparking a thin mints argument that might not recover, plus cookie butter hype, ice cream toppings, and a creepy travel story involving a clown and a hotel moment straight out of a horror movie. If you laugh, disagree, or feel called out, we want to hear it. Subscribe, share this with a friend who avoids hard talks, and leave a review with your hottest take: which cookie deserves a perfect score?
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Welcome And The Slow Poof
SPEAKER_00And that's that's that's yep, that's a thing. I thought so. I think so, maybe.
SPEAKER_03I struck a thought. You can go to jail if you struck a thought. 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. On today's episode, we got Zeke Pooh.
SPEAKER_02Don't say that.
SPEAKER_03How you doing? Good. Good.
SPEAKER_00He can't hear you through his hoodie.
SPEAKER_03Richie Rich and Ty Ty.
SPEAKER_02He does this every time.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_00You remember uh you remember Legion of Doom?
SPEAKER_03Yes, I do. Oh, what a right. Classic tag team right there. On today's episode, we're gonna be talking about people being mad at you and you just don't even know why.
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_03That's a deep sigh. Why? He breathed it in and you breathed it out. And it's just like you don't even know why. Like, why are you upset because they don't they they they don't communicate it to you and don't talk to you, and man, they just cut you out of your life, cut you out of their life, and then they're mad at you because they cut you out of their life, and you just don't even know why. You're just out in the uh boy, I have I don't know what happened.
SPEAKER_00I have two adult children that have done this to me. Yeah, they just disappeared out of my life, and there was there's no like falling out, there's no fight. There's I mean, it's just like they're gone, and it's like I don't understand.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, it's like what no poofing. What it just it was a slow poof.
SPEAKER_01You know, you know, those those slow Zeke said what I was thinking, poof.
SPEAKER_03Slow poof. So so your kids that you said that's happen happened to you kind of with some of your kids. Yep, yep.
SPEAKER_00Okay, and it's it's one of those which Hunter's not bad as that's bad about it, but my girls are when they need something. Yeah, then they remember my phone number.
SPEAKER_03Right, and then they call and yeah, hey. Yeah. And it's kind of small talk until Oh, there's no small talk. Oh, just straight into it. I go right into what they mean. Not even trying to butter you up.
SPEAKER_00Um I need man.
SPEAKER_03Matt Tyler, has this ever happened to you? Somebody just mad at you, you you you just didn't know, and maybe you you they came back to you later and like, hey, you know I was mad at you. Like, no, I had no idea. I didn't know what happened.
SPEAKER_04Not necessarily that, but I've had instances where I've said something that I don't even I wouldn't even say was taken out of context. Uh well, maybe a little bit, but like they're but they came to me like, hey, you said and not like they were like holding on to that for a while, but you know, they came to me after you know a few days like, hey, you said this, and yeah, it didn't set well with me. Yeah, which which I I think that's fine. I think it's okay if if someone says something for you to kind of one pause, yeah, take some time to not be mad over it and actually think is this something worth being mad or upset over.
SPEAKER_00And this this happens to me literally all the time because I am sarcastic by nature. That is my second language, my love language, whatever you want to call it. I felt like that was unnecessary. I was admitting my stuff. I don't need you to applaud. So anyway. Um I have had this happen to me, which and but I prefer it when people come to me and be like, hey, you said this, but what normally happens is they just dip. Yeah, they're like, I'm
Sarcasm And Unspoken Hurt
SPEAKER_00mad at him forever because he said something out of pocket that I didn't even tell him affected me.
SPEAKER_03When it's always some someone that doesn't know you very well, right? You know, it's uh it's always somebody that is just getting to know you because once you get to know you, it's like, no, he has such a big heart and he doesn't mean anything by it. He's just sarcastic and just comes off like, ooh, you're about as subtle as as a gun. But yeah. You what?
SPEAKER_02Nothing. I said, ha ha Zeke.
SPEAKER_03I love what he adds to the conversation. I have, I know, right? Uh because we're so close, obviously, father and son. But how many times have you been mad at me and you refuse to come and say or upset and you refuse to come and talk about it? Instead, you just went away upset.
SPEAKER_00You ever heard the story of Pandora's box?
SPEAKER_03It's an opening.
SPEAKER_02Um, I don't know. A bunch.
SPEAKER_00Dang, he's holding on to some stuff.
SPEAKER_03So why is it so hard to communicate that? Because um could it be that it was something stupid that you were mad at? No. Okay. That couldn't be it. Okay.
SPEAKER_02So normally when anybody tries to talk like to you, you always like try to be right and like you know, you can't admit that you're wrong. And you just like keep arguing that you are right.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Yeah. So do you have an example of that? No. I lost count.
SPEAKER_02Cause I don't remember the last I don't remember the last.
SPEAKER_03It's so many I can't remember not one. Okay.
SPEAKER_02The multitude. Cause like I remember I remember like the look I don't remember the last time. Sorry, hold on. I lost my like brain real quick, hold on.
SPEAKER_03Um Hey, you're in a safe space. It's okay. I remember um We will laugh at you though.
SPEAKER_00He's about to strike a thought.
Father Son Friction And Being Right
SPEAKER_02Um I don't remember the last time like you got me in trouble. Yeah. No.
SPEAKER_03You don't? Or you do? I don't.
SPEAKER_02Is that the only time you were upset at me, or or it doesn't necessarily get me and you can just leave for a little bit. I'm asking for an example. That's what I'm saying.
SPEAKER_04Do we need to call a licensed therapist? Man.
SPEAKER_02Because okay. So say Zale, you know, goes in my room, yeah, and I like I like yell at her a little bit to like get out of my room, uh-huh. And then you'd get me in trouble, and I'm like, okay, go back to my room, play 2K. Yeah. So yeah.
SPEAKER_04Okay, well, I'm I'm sorry about that. You're here's my question. What do you mean he gets you in trouble? Like he says stop being mean.
SPEAKER_02No, no.
SPEAKER_04So maybe maybe in that situation, it's don't yell and scream at your sister, more like tell her politely to get out your room.
SPEAKER_02If I do that, it's the same result every time. I swear, because she doesn't because if I tell her, if I tell her, I I can't say anything because I'm always right.
SPEAKER_00So I can't I can't I can't defend yourself.
SPEAKER_02If I'm if I politely tell her to go, she'll take it as a joke and like not leave. But if I have some bass in my voice, then she'll actually like think I'm being serious because I am being serious. You have a door on your room? Not this room. Are you not this room? My brain is fried in this podcast. Oh yeah, I have a door in my room. So shut it. I do. She she don't even knock, she just comes in.
SPEAKER_03And this does happen. This does happen a lot. She she likes to go in his room, she likes to be around her brother, you know. And sounds like y'all's parents need to and with the with the age difference, I I get it. So it's not all the time, but it it will literally be he's upstairs. If I can hear your words and exactly what you're saying to her, it's probably too loud. Can we agree on that? Yeah. If I can hear what's the age gap?
SPEAKER_04Because you're 13. Yeah. 13 and 9. Oh, yeah. I get yeah, that's the same age gap as me and my older brother. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02You know, a bunch of people say I sound 16. You kind of. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_02You know, so that means I could drive.
SPEAKER_03But uh That's not how that works. But I try to, I I try to I try to notice when they're upset. You know, you could kind of see a mood change in the kids. So uh I try to to be aware of that, but it's hard with their room so far apart and you're not constantly right there.
SPEAKER_00So I get to have a apologetic conversation with Emma on the way home because I took the joke too far today and it it upset her. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03So I'm gonna have to we've we we had that happen a lot too, yeah. Where the jokes get, you know, and you don't mean anything by it, but right, but you hurt their feelings.
SPEAKER_00It's like, okay, I think I'm sorry. And Emma's a she very quiet, very introverted. She doesn't like she don't like her business on the streets.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Not in the streets.
SPEAKER_03Not in the streets, man. Streaks. Have y'all ever been upset with me and I didn't know it.
SPEAKER_00Have you ever heard the story of Pandora's box? Well generally when I'm upset with you, you're the first one to know. So I don't really hold things in with you.
SPEAKER_03But that's good. We can I think that makes you stronger when you can kind of talk it out. Yeah. And it's be like, hey, this upset.
SPEAKER_00Well, and we had we had a situation not too long ago where we kind of got into it, you know, the not got into it, but we butted heads and we separated, you know. Did that hurt?
SPEAKER_02I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_00We separated, and then later on that day we came back and we had a very rational conversation about how we were both, you know, feeling about it.
SPEAKER_03So it was good, man.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, that's what has to happen, man, is is open those lines of communication without screaming, without hollering, without blaming and accusing.
SPEAKER_03Yep. And just meet in the middle because we were both like, oh yeah, I should have gone about that differently. I should have gone about that differently. It's like awesome. Right. You know, it's it's really, really good. Ty. What? And I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_04I've got so many things running through my head around.
SPEAKER_02Darn did he turn. He sounded like a white girl for some reason. What?
SPEAKER_03What? That's messed up. I said, has there been a time you've been upset with me and you just refused to say it? Oh, if I have, I don't remember. All right, well, that's good, I guess. That's good. I guess it wasn't that bad. Um name again that pet Pandora's box again. I'm telling you, we got to put that thing away. That's it. Name a time you've been upset at your wife and you didn't tell her.
SPEAKER_04Absolutely not. I don't think there has been, because I'm pretty sure I've told Liv every time.
SPEAKER_03That's how that's how I am. But sometimes as I I start to push, I get pushback. I'm like, eh, it's not worth a big argument. So I kind of, you know, sometimes I back up. I guess, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Well, and and really and truly, you know, as open as I am with you, with you guys, I I with Jennifer, I
Marriage Needs And Laundry Tension
SPEAKER_00I do tend to hold things in more. Yeah. And I I don't I don't because I don't want to start a fight as a general rule, but for some reason, which now I'm getting better at voicing what I need, yeah, which is so important in a relationship. You you have to tell the other person what you need. Yeah. You have to get that out there and be like, hey, look, we're in this together. I need you to fill in the blank.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Yeah. Creating that line of communication and clear expectations. Right. Okay, here's what I need. Well, before we left, so me and Zeke went to uh Mountain Home this weekend. And I I've I have pushed back on this a thousand times over. That's a lot of times. The the laundry. We have a bunch of clothes. And when I go in the laundry room and there's baskets full of clothes, there's five baskets, two of them are dirty, one of them's half dirty and half clean because we didn't know what was dirty and what wasn't, and then these two are dirty, and I'm like, please, please help me understand why they're all in bad if they're dirty, put them somewhere different than with the clean clothes. And we kind of started going back and forth, and it got to the point where I'm like, I'm about to leave. I don't want to fight right before I leave. So I just kind of backed it down. But it it's sometimes you have to kind of pick those. Is it worth it right now? Is it not? Is it something I want to open up or not?
SPEAKER_04Me and Liv are pretty good about how we communicate with each other in those times. Um especially when we know they have the potential to start an argument. Yeah. So like we will both literally say things like, whatever it is, can I tell you something without you getting mad, without it starting something? I'm not trying to start something. I don't want to make you mad, but this is just how I'm feeling. Yeah. This is that is like almost word for word what Liv will say. Yeah. And it's and then and then normally I'm like, Yeah, like here we go. Okay. What all right? And then there'll be times where we're driving and Liv is staring off uh in the opposite direction.
SPEAKER_03I'm like, what's wrong?
SPEAKER_04Silent. What's wrong?
SPEAKER_03Yeah. And that's a good thing about being with somebody for a a good amount of time. You kind of get those clues. Right. You know, and those hints from them.
SPEAKER_04And I picked up on those clues a month into us dating.
SPEAKER_03I'm like, all right, well, you wear it on your sleeve. Well, and that's usually how Zeke is, is is I can tell when he's upset usually. Uh because he wears his emotions on his sleeves. He's mad or upset or or whatever. I knew he was gonna say something.
SPEAKER_04Constipated.
unknownYep.
SPEAKER_04I see it. Don't you see it?
SPEAKER_00I don't want to be involved.
SPEAKER_02Oh, so what do you have a wife, so I can't. Um Yeah, but you can learn these things. Write it down. Bro can't even get a wife. Bro can't get six foot tall.
SPEAKER_00So anyway, I uh What do I need that for? I don't know where this is going. I have no idea what direction this is headed, but the the other night, me and Jennifer, we don't get to go to bed together a lot because I get up really early and she doesn't. But the other night she did, and I was laying there, couldn't sleep. You know, I had just a lot of stuff on my mind, and she said, What's wrong? All right, here we go. So I told her I told her a few things I was dealing with, and she's like, I'm not coming to bed with you anymore. So I've just a downer when you go to bed. That's like you asked.
SPEAKER_04I mean that's one uh like I've heard
Sleep Schedules And Blanket Rules
SPEAKER_04from uh a lot of different married couples. Like I don't want to say bedtime routine because that's weird, but it's like uh some couples will you know not go to bed at the same time. That's and I don't I don't know if that's a thing that's like for couples that have been married 10 plus years, 20 plus years, or whatever. Um the only time that we never that we didn't go to bed together was when Liv worked nights. That's the only time. Anytime that I worked a job where I had to get up, I had to go to bed at like seven in the evening and wake up at three. She was she didn't go to bed, but she was in the bedroom with me. Really? And yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I mean it's not a preference, obviously, but that it I think it is after so many years of marriage that you you kind of adapt.
SPEAKER_03Well, I was gonna ask y'all, and I'll and I'll come back to you. You don't you don't have a wife, but this question will be in a roundabout way for you as well. But how how do y'all, how is your sleeping arrangements like your schedule? Like, do you do because this this is this is literally something that just it's something I find so interesting on on married dynamics. So do you have two different covers? Do you share the same cover? Do you do you go the what?
SPEAKER_00I'm I'm ready. Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_03Do you do you do you fall asleep together? Does one of y'all have to go to bed before the other? Like how how how was that dynamic in your house?
SPEAKER_04Well, when it comes to the blanket, it depends on if um one of the babies peed or pooped on the blanket. So right now we have uh we both have individual ones because I can't remember I think I think Ezra peed or something on the blanket. And then we have, you know, the our king size blanket. Yeah. So right now we have two separate blankets because that one's getting washed. Um we go to bed at the same time.
SPEAKER_03Uh I always wake up earlier uh because of work. So you always go to bed same kind of same time. Like, all right, it's time, you know, we'll go.
SPEAKER_04Okay.
SPEAKER_03Interesting.
SPEAKER_04Like we like if we feel like staying up, we'll stay up together. Yeah. If we go to bed, like obviously we don't coordinate like let's fall asleep three, two, one. Yeah, but I think it's m I don't know, it kind of flip-flops who falls asleep first. Yeah. Uh but usually if we're like, you know, it's a Friday night. Stay in the living room till like 10, 11 at night. Kind of depending on the babies too now. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Uh, but normally it's around nine. And again, for cu for context, y'all been married five years.
SPEAKER_04Five years together, six years.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Okay. Okay. So Rich married for 12 years. 17. 17 years. Wow.
SPEAKER_00We're really close. I don't know why I said 12.
SPEAKER_03Oh, it's weird. Anyway.
SPEAKER_0417 years and uh we got your uh was it you got your you renewed your vows at 12 years?
SPEAKER_00We renewed them. I don't remember what year it was. Yeah, I don't know. Don't get me in trouble on the podcast. I know any dates. Come on.
SPEAKER_04I was trying to never mind. You know what? Pandora I helped. Now Jennifer's mad at you, and you don't know why. I see you on the side of the road with your thumb out, I'm driving by.
SPEAKER_00That's messed up. Oh hitch, I'll get killed. So uh we we try to go to bed at the same time, and we do some nights, but most of the time we go to bed separately just because of our schedules. Uh we absolutely sleep with two separate blankets. I actually have a heated blanket that I use because we have very different temperatures.
SPEAKER_03Well, I was gonna ask that too. Yeah, yeah. Summer? Yeah, do you do it's plugged up right now? That is diabolical.
SPEAKER_00You hate yourself or I hate being cold. And I get cold really easily, so I don't know why.
SPEAKER_03It's summer. When's it cold? And she when the air's running. And I was about to say, so she does the fan on, all of that. Okay.
SPEAKER_00So the fans on that, which I've I've over the years I've gotten her to point that away from the bed because if I have direct air on me, I will wake up just snotty as well.
SPEAKER_03So does she do it for sound or for both sound and airflow?
SPEAKER_00So she is a tosser and turner, not going to sleep right away. I am a hit the pillow, go to sleep.
SPEAKER_03Okay.
SPEAKER_00But I will wake up multiple times up through the night and she'll stay asleep. So it's a we have very different sleep patterns.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Okay. And that's how. So again, I'll call I'll come to Zeke in a second. That's so we are we are weird creatures. So one, I've got really bad insomnia. So most nights it's a flip of the coin when I'm gonna be able to go to bed or not. So we do two separate covers. Have to, have to. She's a cover hog. When she hears this, she's gonna be so mad. Um, and we're we're about the same temperament. We we like it cold, but um there's times where depending on how my back feel, I even sleep on the couch. Yeah, you know, just to not bother her because I'm tossing and turning all night and I don't want to keep her up. So uh our schedules are about the same. So we we go to bed close to the same time, but there's some nights where I'm just up.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_03Where I can't fall asleep, and I just end up sitting up turning the TV on. Um so Zeke. Yeah. Now we'll start with you and we'll go around. So you do socks or no while you're asleep?
SPEAKER_02Um, no.
SPEAKER_03No? No when does your wife go to bed?
SPEAKER_02Um about like all the time?
SPEAKER_03No matter what, no socks. I mean wintertime, summertime.
SPEAKER_02I mean, like sometimes if it's like freezing cold or I'm just like dead tired, then I like keep them on.
SPEAKER_03Okay.
SPEAKER_02But other than that, nah.
SPEAKER_03You become lazy. No socks. If you okay. Richard, socks or no?
SPEAKER_00I have no preference. Really? Yeah, it doesn't matter. You just don't carry the way?
SPEAKER_04No. Ty. Um no socks. Obviously, if it's like cold and say the
Socks Off And Burrito Sleepers
SPEAKER_04heat's out, yeah, obviously.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. No, no socks. I'm saying. No socks. Now I have to be, I mean, I have to be like dog tired, but it's no socks. No socks, and I gotta wrap, like I gotta wrap myself. I gotta tuck myself in like a little burrito.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm like a little burrito. I cannot sleep with a shirt on.
SPEAKER_03Well, that was something too. Like who like so? Like, does anybody do P no P so no shirt? Okay.
SPEAKER_04And so, no, and I've I've noticed this so many times. Like nights where I'm like up and I can't fall asleep. I've got a shirt on, take it off. In a few minutes, I'm out. Okay.
SPEAKER_00I've been nearly choked out too many times with a shirt.
SPEAKER_03Like you get up fighting for your life. What happened? Uh my shirt.
SPEAKER_04Somehow the shirt's in a knot around her.
SPEAKER_02Richard Death of shirt.
SPEAKER_00Jennifer. Probably tied in a new spot.
SPEAKER_03That's what really happened. Yeah. So Zeke, you you do. You don't do you have some PJs, but you don't always do PJs, do you?
SPEAKER_02Nah. I normally sleep with shorts on.
SPEAKER_03Okay. Now, can you now I could sleep in a hoodie. I could sleep hoodie, sweatpants. Oh. Full on.
SPEAKER_04No. Full on. It's gotta be, it's gotta be winter and the heat's out for me, too. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00He's asleep with his chucks on. He's asleep. He's got a beanie.
SPEAKER_02He got jeans on.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, so it's it's it's weird.
SPEAKER_04He's in like a suit while he's sleeping. I got a cardigan over the hood of the feet.
SPEAKER_03Now, I'll tell you one thing, Jamie hit me with the other day. The coldest set of feet. Dude, I had shorts on. My whole leg went numb. I have never felt anything this cold in my entire life.
SPEAKER_00She just Queen Elsa, you, huh?
SPEAKER_03Just it like I burnt my skin.
SPEAKER_00You're so dramatic.
SPEAKER_01Man, I couldn't walk the next day. I know teenage girls that aren't as dramatic as you. No, I'm not.
SPEAKER_04Speaking of feet, uh last night, don't jump the gun. No, uh, Ezra was laying with me.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_04And like, I'm pretty sure he was he he was definitely at least partially asleep. But they'll like kind of kick their legs, yeah, or whatever. I wake up at like four or five this morning and my back's turned to him, and he is just kicking both feet in my back. And I'll and I wake up moving like, what is going on? Why is this happening? Am I moving? Just like pushing, right? Pushing my back with his feet.
SPEAKER_01Babies don't have logic, they just do it.
SPEAKER_03And he was like, Dad, dad, dad, dad.
SPEAKER_01That's the exact equivalent.
SPEAKER_03Dad, dad, dad. That's so funny. So now we're we're gonna go to a segment where we we rank things. Okay, so we've been doing this, so we're gonna be ranking. And and today we're gonna rank still no chicken nuggets. Girl Scout cookies.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_03I'm not well versed in Girl Scout cookies. So I will show I will show you the picture along with which one it is. So now this is the some of them for me might just be based off looks and what they're called. Okay.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. Just depending on which ones.
SPEAKER_03And and some of these are kind of newer, kind of newer ones, so they're they're not like the the classics, but some of them are. So Adventurefuls.
SPEAKER_00I don't know what that is.
SPEAKER_03Oh, Adventure Fools.
SPEAKER_00I don't think I've had that.
SPEAKER_03So five good,
Ranking Girl Scout Cookies
SPEAKER_03right? Yes, five five's the best, one is the least on on where and you could rank all of them. You don't have it's not like you have one five, you could rank them all five and remember. I'm gonna say three and a half. So this one's brownie inspired cookie with caramel flavor. Yeah. That sounds amazing.
SPEAKER_04I'm gonna say three and a half. Okay. Because I remember having them. I remember them being good, but I don't remember if they were like super good.
SPEAKER_03So I'm gonna give three and a half. Three and a half. Okay. Adventureful. Adventureful. That's a that's a name. That is a name. It's a mouthful. Yeah. All right. So you went three and a half. 3.5, okay.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I got I have zero experience with these cookies.
SPEAKER_03So Okay.
SPEAKER_00I don't know. That sounds amazing.
SPEAKER_03Zeke? Four. Four?
SPEAKER_00I'm gonna give it a two because I want to try it.
SPEAKER_03It looks good. I'm gonna go three as well. Kind of middle of the road. They're good. They're good. You know, they're not not not terrible. Okay. Uh here's one everybody's had. Uh lemon lemonades. The lemon cookies. Nope. Never had them? Nope. Really? Just lemonade. Oh, the shortbread. Yeah. Oh yeah. Uh four. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Let me see. Go a half.
SPEAKER_03Bro. What a point five? Yeah. Oh my gosh. Really?
SPEAKER_00I don't like lemon.
SPEAKER_04So it's kind of a yeah. Well, to me, lemon's one of those, like, it doesn't sound like it's good, but in like a cookie or like the shortbread, like fire. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00But I love the flavored lemonades, but I don't like lemonade. Completely, yeah, it's completely different.
SPEAKER_04That's like well, that's like me with like cherry flavored. So I love cherry flavored candy, drinks, juices, whatever, like ice cream, uh, whatever kind of pastries. Really? Yeah. So, okay, so it's more like I like the artificial cherry flavor, not actual cherries.
SPEAKER_00Well, so you don't like any lemon cookies? Uh, not that I've ever had.
SPEAKER_03Oh, okay, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Try them all. Ty, would you give up? Four.
SPEAKER_03Four?
SPEAKER_00I mean, there may be a lemon cookie I haven't met. Zeke?
SPEAKER_02Um, four.
SPEAKER_03Four? I'll give it, I'll give it a four as well. Oh those are pretty good, man. Those lemonades are pretty good. Uh, okay. Peanut butter sandwich. Yeah. So the peanut butter sandwich, yeah.
SPEAKER_04I'm gonna I'm gonna give them a three and a half as well. Because I'm I'm not a huge fan of the consistency of the cooking. See, that that's a good thing. It's got it's got a like an oatmeal kind of texture to it.
SPEAKER_03Which I'm not sure I got you. Yeah. It's almost grainy type. Yes, yeah.
SPEAKER_00I'm I'm gonna go a four. Uh they're fantastic with milk.
SPEAKER_03So man, that's one thing too, is like milk takes them to another level. Oh, yeah. Yeah. You know, it takes some cookies too to hide.
SPEAKER_00Like, I don't like Oreos, yeah, but cookies and milk.
SPEAKER_03So you you don't like Oreo, really?
SPEAKER_00No. No, just to eat an Oreo, I don't you don't like your mom either, do you?
SPEAKER_01You kiss your mouth with that mom. You have I don't know what either one of y'all are saying right now.
SPEAKER_03So you kiss your mouth with that mom? That's messed up. So here's one that that I'm not a big fan of is the chewy um now. This isn't Girl Scout cookie, but the chewy um oh, what is the the biggest like cookie Tagalong? No.
SPEAKER_00The Caramel Delight things?
SPEAKER_03No, this is just regular cookies. They come in the pack, you peel the top, they have crunchy ones, but then they have the Chips Ahoy. Chips Ahoy. Oh. They're weird tasting.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, they got a weird texture to them. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Like they're not bad, they're just weird tasting.
SPEAKER_04Uh I'm not I'm not a fan unless they're the soft ones. Yeah. I'm not, I'm I'm not a crunchy cookie guy.
SPEAKER_03I I'm not either, except for Oreos. That's it. Like I'll eat I'll eat crunchy cookies, but I don't prefer them except for Orion.
SPEAKER_04And the uh what's the like the the Kebler like striped? Yep, yep, yep.
SPEAKER_03Those are good. Yeah, those are yeah.
SPEAKER_00Well, and I I generally don't eat cookies without milk, so the crunch is irrelevant.
SPEAKER_03That's how I am too, yeah. All right, see peanut butter, peanut butter sandwich. Three. Three. Mine is a three as well. And I have to uh those I have to have milk with. I have to. All right, those raspberry rally.
SPEAKER_00I haven't had that.
SPEAKER_03I'm probably gonna give a 0.5. Raspberry Rally. That's one of those, like is that a newer one? Kind of. Kind of. It's it has another one. It's like the crispy with with uh chocolate on the outside. It's usually just regular cookie in the middle. Uh but this one's like, I don't know, Gap. We we won't even add that one because that one's all right. Peanut butter patty. This is a classic. The peanut butter patties, yeah. Five chocolate covered, yeah. Yeah, with the chocolate, yeah.
SPEAKER_00I'm with Tyler. Five.
SPEAKER_03Really? Five's across the board. Five, five, Zeke.
SPEAKER_00I can eat a sleeve of those and get another sleeve. Five.
SPEAKER_02I was gonna like, I was gonna say 4.9 just to like just to mess it up? Yeah. Don't do it.
SPEAKER_05Don't do it.
SPEAKER_04He's gonna he's gonna he's gonna do it because he hates us. I'll go I'll uh yeah, just affirm that.
SPEAKER_03I'm gonna I'm gonna wait and come back on that one. Wait on the way. Okay, okay. I won't. Uh I'm gonna I'll I'll give it a five. They're pretty fantastic. I'll give it a five. This is the first time we've had a perfect score, I do believe. Yes. I'll get all right, uh, truffles. So just the plain, plain short bread. Yeah, just short bread. Uh give it a three.
SPEAKER_02The only like Girl Scout cookies I know the name of are thin mints.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. You bite your tongue. Bite your tongue. What'd you give it? Treffles? Three. All right.
SPEAKER_00I'll just a two. There's a basic cookie. They're just yeah, no, no. They're not bad. They're just not like, yeah, I want those.
SPEAKER_03And those are some that I could sit down, I'll eat a whole sleeve and not think about it. But again, I have to have milk with those because we need to make that a sound.
SPEAKER_02Just laying on the couch. That's you. You need water! Yeah, that's that's you in the movie theater with no drink.
SPEAKER_03Hey, hey, I got a drink today and I regretted it.
SPEAKER_01Because you had to go pee when Spider-Man was doing stuff.
SPEAKER_03It was really good. Okay, carry on. Saying nothing else. Really good. Saying nothing else. Go ahead, Zeke.
SPEAKER_022.5.
SPEAKER_032.5. I'm gonna go with I'm gonna go a, I'm gonna go with three. A three.
SPEAKER_04I think three is my neutral.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Solid middle-of-the-road cookies. Yeah, bro. Uh uh Caramel Delights. Didn't we already do this? Oh, those are like the Samoas or whatever, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Those are like they've got like the coconut and then the Girl Scout cookies are. Oh, y'all are gonna hate me. Don't do anything stupid. Zero.
SPEAKER_02You don't like cookies.
SPEAKER_03I hate cookies. Yeah, you do not. Is it the texture or the taste? Both. Really? Okay. Man, a zero.
SPEAKER_04Oh, that's a zero. I'll give it a half if we have to have something.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, we'll give it a point.
SPEAKER_04I'll give it a half because I have tried it.
SPEAKER_05Participation award.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. I'm going a five. I think that because I I'm the opposite. I adore coconut. Yeah. And caramel and cookies.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, and all the things that are in that one delicious little treat.
SPEAKER_00And that's one I can eat without milk.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_033.5. 3.5. Man, that's too pretty. I'm going to five as well. Those are y'all disgusting. They're darn good. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Y'all disgust.
SPEAKER_03But I like coconut. I'm the same way. I like coconut.
SPEAKER_00Somebody, Alan, said that eating coconut flakes, it's like he's eating toenail or fingernail clippings.
SPEAKER_03He almost ruined coconut for me. Oh man. There's another reason. Fingernail clippings has even just been throughout his off time.
SPEAKER_01That's the recipe. Well, it's Alan. You never know.
SPEAKER_04That's reason number 13 for me. That's a bad joke.
SPEAKER_03Like, all right. All right. We'll go with uh we'll go with two more. Caramel chocolate chip. So it's just a chocolate chip cookie, but it's got caramel chips.
SPEAKER_04Well, I'll give that a four because I love chocolate chip and I love caramel.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Can't go wrong there. I'll I'll I'll I'll follow suit with the four.
SPEAKER_04I'm assuming it's a soft cookie, right? I don't know.
SPEAKER_00I've never had it.
SPEAKER_04Um no.
SPEAKER_00No. No, these are yeah, these are give it a three. I'm sticking with a four just because I love caramel and chocolate and I like some games. Yeah. Um 3.5. That's where he's he's middle of the road. He is.
SPEAKER_03He's been, yeah. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna go a three also. Just because chuck chip cookies are the best. Right. They're just the best. So they're great. And last but not least, thin mint. No, it's the least. It's the least.
SPEAKER_04Um I will give it a zero. Listen, if I want mint on my cookie, I'll just I'll just put some toothpaste on my cookie.
SPEAKER_01That is a different flavor altogether.
SPEAKER_02Why are you so like discreet about it, too?
SPEAKER_04You're like, if I want to put some mint, no. No, because I'm trying to calm myself. See, I'm about pushed to the edge right now.
SPEAKER_00I will give the 10 mint a four. Almost went a five just for its classic nature. However, I'll stick with a four.
SPEAKER_03Man, y'all are breaking my heart, man.
Thin Mints Crumbl And Cookie Butter
SPEAKER_00Don't go breaking my heart.
SPEAKER_03Or headzik. Uh 10 minutes, man.
SPEAKER_00What are you on the 10-minute train? What's going on?
SPEAKER_03I was gonna do that.
SPEAKER_00Four.
SPEAKER_03Four. And I'm gonna give it a five. That is a perfect cookie. Don't why? Perfect cookie.
SPEAKER_04I actually. You know what? Let this be the one time that I'm mad at Michael and I'm not gonna tell him. Next episode, I'm at you. Perfect cookie.
SPEAKER_03We got whatever. And I I which which I'm a thin mint guy. Mint chocolate chips, my favorite kind of ice cream. Thin mint chip.
SPEAKER_00Have you had the thin mints from Dollar General?
SPEAKER_03No, wait, no.
SPEAKER_00They have an off-brand that tastes really real close to a thin mint.
SPEAKER_03Am I going on the way home?
SPEAKER_02Tyler is Tyler would just put toothpaste on anything, you know. Clean your teeth while eating.
SPEAKER_00I'll tell you. I just will. I'll tell you what a perfect cookie is. And it's not a Girl Scout cookie, but Miss Ann Trevillions no-bakes.
SPEAKER_03They're really good. And I'm I'm not big on no-bake cookies. Those are good. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04I like just soft cookie. My perfect cookie right now is that Walmart. Right now. I haven't had crumble cookie in a while, so yes. As of August 2026. At Walmart, you know the sugar cookies that had like the frosty on them. Oh my gosh. They have a big one at Walmart.
SPEAKER_03Oh, okay. That's literally about that big. Okay. Those are the best, and they're good price. Yes. They're really good.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Well, those are a dollar a cookie. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00I like the live chocolate macadamia nut from Walmart. From Sam's.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. I remember, I don't remember how up, but I remember the first time I had one. I was like, what is this?
SPEAKER_00It was good. And I was like, what is this? I tell you one thing, unpopular opinion, I don't like crumble cookie. I mean, I think it's too much.
SPEAKER_03I I am so I'm in the middle. Listen. So I do think it's too much. But I also like them. Listen.
SPEAKER_04There are there are some. They're they're out there. Yeah. They're out there.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_04I think Crumble can be a little bit liberal sometimes. But man, they had a well not just like cookies, but like little mini like cookie sized pies. Yeah. Yeah. They had a biscoff cookie butter pie. I don't know what that is. Oh, that sounds good. Okay. Have you had cookie butter? No. No? No. You need to go to Walmart. You need to go to Walmart. Okay. Go like the peanut butter section. Yeah. Red label, red lid. Biscoff. Cookie butter. It will change. I am not even joking. I found this when I was in college and it legit changed my life.
SPEAKER_00Do you make like PB and J with it? That's what I'm saying. Yeah, is it like that consistency?
SPEAKER_04You eat uh peanut butter consistency. Kind of like peanut butter, yeah. You eat it with a spoon.
SPEAKER_00You just dip. That sounds incredibly unhealthy. Not that I'm not sure.
SPEAKER_03Sure, but it sounds good though. So it I'm guessing it tastes like a cookie. It's have you had the the biskoff cookies? No.
SPEAKER_04No. It's hard to explain. I don't think. But I'm I'm so serious. I'm so serious. I'll check it out. Like even I put Liv on this and she's like, you're right. Okay, yes, yes, I've had the Biscoff cookies.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. You got a picture of them? Okay, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Because I don't know if I have or not. Have y'all ever tried insomnia cookies? Insomnia?
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Like Crumble. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03They got one of those in Paraguay. Those are but yeah, Crumble's a lot. But I do like the pies or the brownies or the yeah, those are really good.
SPEAKER_04We went to a Sam's Club yesterday. Uh because we were in cage. Did you see my uh my well he was looking. I think he was mad because I was like, Ezra, Ezra! He was like, What? You know. Um, but yeah, we were there dropping clothes off at One Spawn Child. We're like, we might as well go to Sam's Club because they're you know cheap food there. And they had a brownie Sunday. So it was uh vanilla ice cream with caramel and just chunks of brownie. It's just so good.
SPEAKER_00We don't need to start talking about ice cream because I will I man, I think I would ooh, I love ice cream. Yeah, I do too.
SPEAKER_04That that that that should be the next thing that we would raise. Yeah, we can do that. And here's here's my opinion when it comes to ice cream. Sometimes you just cannot be just plain rich vanilla ice cream.
SPEAKER_03I could not agree with you more. A hundred thousand million percent. Is I'll I'll just I want ice cream. It's a classic. I like I like this, you know, like turtle and and all that, but I sometimes I'm just vanilla. That's it. Or strawberry, just plain.
SPEAKER_00I'm never, ever, ever, ever in a mood for just vanilla ice cream.
SPEAKER_03Favorite ice cream topping?
unknownOh gosh.
SPEAKER_03One topping, that's it. What you going with? Uh I always go with crumbled up Oreos. Yes. Yeah, I'd see, yeah. Okay, crumbled up Oreo. Or would you rather have like whole Oreos? Crumbled up, okay. What he said. Richie Rich, what you got?
SPEAKER_00Any kind of nut.
SPEAKER_03Okay.
SPEAKER_00Like peanut, walnut, I mean, uh I like the crunch factor in a ice cream.
SPEAKER_03Mine's uh mine is a a a complete split tie, either MM's or Reese's. Not Reese's pieces, Reese's or M's. Either one of those, I you flip a coin, I'm gonna be happy either one of them.
SPEAKER_04I'm not a fan of like those or like chocolate, because I'm not I'm not a huge fan of the crunch. Yeah, like I like Oreos because you know it's almost like a like a powder almost. Yeah. They get crushed up so much.
SPEAKER_03But I don't like having to chew my ice cream. Yeah. Uh you ever been to the place where they do like all the topping you put like gummy bears? It's terri. That's a bad idea. They get hard. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Crunch in your teeth. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Do you like the froyo like simply swirl pieces of expensive because I load it up?
SPEAKER_03Well, I start panicking, obviously, when I get up there, like, all right, what do you want to put on?
SPEAKER_00Of course you do. Um, um, um, um.
SPEAKER_03Uh just uh caramel. Just say that's it. There's 48 things to put on that. Like, oh no, caramel's great. That's what I really want. It's just caramel. Please leave me alone and just take my money and give me my food. I love those mango bobas. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Dude.
SPEAKER_03Okay. I dig it.
SPEAKER_00I need some simply swirled now. Some what? I don't even think.
SPEAKER_04Now, legit, you need to go. I'm I'm serious. You need to go to Walmart tonight and get some cookie butter.
SPEAKER_02Dang. He said he's serious.
SPEAKER_04Tonight. Put that on the list. I'm legit. There's very few things I'm serious about. My face, a wife, my kids, cookie butter.
unknownThat's on there.
SPEAKER_02That is up there. Oh, for y'all that's listening, be careful when you feel like mountain home, same thing. It's you want to tell them about everything?
SPEAKER_03Yes. Dude.
SPEAKER_02Let me all right. We had a scary weekend. All right. So, right, we're going to Popeyes. Shout out Popeyes.
SPEAKER_03They didn't involve a shark?
SPEAKER_02Maybe.
SPEAKER_03Not this time, no.
SPEAKER_02Okay, so, um, so we're going down to Popeyes, and my dad dad, right, he's on the phone with Richard. And this was my fault. We're driving to Popeyes, and my dad says, Oh my
Creepy Mountain Home Weekend
SPEAKER_02gosh, Richard, it's a clown. And there was, I look up, and there is a clown in like on the side of the street, almost on the road, holding up a sign.
SPEAKER_03And just standing there like just blank, just holding up a sign.
SPEAKER_00That's messed up.
SPEAKER_03In the middle of the day, creepy.
SPEAKER_00I'm gonna come into service one of these Sundays dressed up. Stand in the back corner.
SPEAKER_02And then And then when we get to the hotel, right? When we get to the hotel. Hotel, it was um yeah, it was a hotel, I guess. It's like the Romata.
SPEAKER_03It's a hotel, I guess. But um I'll tell this story. Okay.
SPEAKER_00They let us sleep there, so I guess it's a hotel.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, so so me and Zeke, our room's like right up the stairs, second floor. So we go downstairs. I went to the vending machine that's in the lobby. You go across this like empty like dining hall where they do like dances and stuff. Like Christmas lights are wrapped everywhere. They're on. It's super creepy.
SPEAKER_02It looks like the back room.
SPEAKER_03It really does. And we're like, okay, so we walk through there, go get our drink out of the vending machine. Walking back, I got a it sent chills all down my body.
SPEAKER_00Was it a cat?
SPEAKER_03No, there's some some of the rooms. I almost would rather it have been a cat at this point. Some of the rooms, their doors face the inside where this dining hall was at. So as we're walking, there's a curtain, and all you see is an outline. There is a child that is standing there. All you see is his face. Oh no. Oh no. Out the window. Oh my god. See, and he turns and looks, and we like book it up to our room. No. No. I it gave me as soon as I was it gave because I mean he's just standing there.
SPEAKER_02And all you see is his head and it and like his, and I thought it was a mannequin until we like started like running. And it blinked. And then no, and then it like started following us. Like meaning.
SPEAKER_03Like no. It was what he was he was like this, like just looking forward. And then as we started like running, he just like turns and follows us. Blank expression, by the way. Like didn't move. You couldn't see it. I mean, just straight up just moved his head following us. Yes. We locked the door. We like locked the deadbolt. We locked the top of it. I was like, dude, I'm sleeping with my knife by me.
SPEAKER_02And then and then this monkey decides to scare me. Like, bro. Oh my gosh. Yes. Okay. I'm brushing my teeth. This man, like, he was laying down in bed. Like, there's like a wall behind us or behind me, right?
SPEAKER_03It separates the the bed from the where the sink is at. A little bit, a little bit of wall.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. And I get done brushing my teeth, you know. I'm like, all right, ready for bed. Oh my. He's laying in the floor, staring at me.
SPEAKER_03Like laying right around the corner.
SPEAKER_00This is after the child. Yes. Oh, yeah, that's not good.
SPEAKER_03He almost kicked me.
SPEAKER_00His foot reared back. He's like, man, I almost kicked you in the face.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, it was.
SPEAKER_00So don't go to the Romata. Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_03It was. But other than that, it was it was great, man. It was it was a blast. It was so good.
SPEAKER_02I got to see um Preston. Yeah. He's pretty cool. Yep. Awesome.
SPEAKER_04And when you're talking about uh that reminded me of a picture I took. So at church, uh Pastor Greg uh has a window in his office. And this is uh this is in the evening, and I get in my car and I look at the windows right in front of me, and I can really pee myself. Oh zoom in. He's got a freaking picture of Sam Davis Jr.
SPEAKER_03Oh my gosh, it's just like random Sammy Davis just right in the window. That's not a real person. Okay, okay, okay.
unknownOh man.
SPEAKER_02Until it turns and looks at you.
SPEAKER_03And then his eyes follow you. And then he disappears. Oh man. Good times. Yep, but you know, we made it back in one piece, just maybe lost a few years and being scared. Some extra gray hair.