Funny Stories and Family Dynamics Explored

Remember those carefree days spent on a Game Boy or PSP? We certainly do, and it sets the perfect backdrop for a hilarious chat about driving quirks that everyone can relate to. Ever turned down the air conditioning instead of the radio when a cop car rolls by? We have too, and it gets us laughing every time. These light-hearted stories lead us to a more serious topic—irritability and family dynamics. Are our partners ready for this conversation? Well, let's just say some of us were caught off guard!

Richie Rich, Ty Ty, and my wife James join the lively duo of Zekester and Zaylee to unpack how irritability impacts family life. From Bubba's bold strategy when he's done something wrong to the youngest child dubbed the "queen," we dive into the heart of family dynamics. Balancing discipline and affection is no easy feat, but it's a discussion filled with humor and candid insights. Ever felt like a "softy" for letting the little ones sleep in your bed? We've been there too, and it's something we explore with a smile.

As our conversation winds down, we shift to the minor annoyances and joys of daily life. From shedding hair to competitive gaming sessions, these little things often test our patience but also bring us closer together. Whether sweating it out in VR or battling it out in Mario Kart, we find laughter amid the chaos. We wrap up with a heartwarming reminder of the importance of family love and longing, eagerly anticipating the joy of reconnecting with loved ones and cherishing those sweet moments that make life richer.

Transcript

Speaker 1 0:02

I don't get shy now.

Speaker 2 0:04

Don't run now.

Speaker 3 0:08

You stop so fast Hit the button. Everybody be quiet, right man.

Speaker 1 0:14

Why people? That's awesome. That reminds me of like growing up, when you're on your game boy and your mom walks in. It's like playing. It's like do, do, do, do, do, do do do, do Just like get it underneath your pillow.

Speaker 5 0:47

That's me with a PSP.

Speaker 1 0:48

Yeah, yeah, oh, thanks for showing the age difference there.

Speaker 5 0:52

I appreciate it, hey. The PSP, though, was way before its time.

Speaker 1 0:55

Yeah, yes, yes, it was really good. Jamie bought me one for Christmas and it got stolen. Yeah, I remember you telling me.

Speaker 5 1:01

I was so mad, big bummer so mad we uh big bummer.

Speaker 3 1:04

Yeah, yeah, we have cameras, we have cameras in our truck that record us when we are on our phones and stuff and they my boss said the other day that they had a driver that was on his phone and as soon as the camera, because it'll tell you when it's like flagging you or whatever. Yeah, he just dropped his phone oh my gosh like it's all you already caught. We can see you, man.

Speaker 5 1:25

I'll do that if I'm like like I don't really, I text and drive a little bit, but like quick text, I like type out a book. But if I'm like have my phone in my hand and I'm like changing music or looking for a song and I'm see I'm past my cop phone and just like what's going on my?

Speaker 3 1:43

business I do that so many times. He also drives with his knees at 75 I don't, that's not good.

Speaker 5 1:51

I don't, that sounds terrible.

Speaker 3 1:52

I don't know what he's literally did it yesterday or friday oh, I did that.

Speaker 5 1:57

That uh pilot was driving, playing with his knees, so I, oh god, who's driving?

Speaker 1 2:03

this bus. So even I I drive like driving, miss daisy. Okay, jamie has made this perfectly clear, but don't shake your head yet. Don't, don't do that. But I will. I will be hyper focused when a cop drive I'm I'm perfectly legal, I'm going speed limit, got my seat belt on, I'm fine. But I act like I'm really hyper focused when a cop goes by. I'm 10 and 2, I'm perfectly legal, I'm going speed limit, got my seat belt on, I'm fine.

Speaker 5 2:24

But I act like I'm really hyper focused when a cop goes by I'm 10 and 2, I'm squinting my eyes I'm focused, I'm chewing gum I don't know why?

Speaker 1 2:34

and so that they know I'm focused on safety, just you ever turn the radio down trying to find an?

Speaker 5 2:39

address oh 100 helps me focus Dude the other day, the other day is such a whoops. Liv got a. It was me and Liv and the girls in the car and someone called Liv and I went to turn the volume down and I went for the air conditioning, the fan. And I reached for it. I was like wait, nope.

Speaker 1 3:01

That ain't the right thing.

Speaker 5 3:02

Somebody's calling and I'm told she talked on the phone, got off and just started laughing at me.

Speaker 1 3:06

Well, and it's like yeah, it's like I need to turn this down because I need to see better yeah, what that makes no sense nothing to do with it, but it really does.

Speaker 3 3:15

It's a focus thing. Yes, it's like, yeah, yeah, that's what I do in the truck. I'll pause my book or whatever I'm listening to.

Speaker 1 3:21

Yeah, to find the address man, I'm telling you really matter. So on this.

Speaker 5 3:26

Oh wait, pause, 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.

Speaker 1 3:35

Thank you for joining us again today. I've got with me richie rich, nope, no, no, you don't okay, and ty ty hey how y'all doing how are y'all? I'll be fine if you can get my name right same richie, richie, richie, ricardo it's richie, ricardo robert ricardo, michael robert okay, so on today's episode, we're going to be talking about irritability you're making me irritable exactly that's the whole point we getting there.

Speaker 1 4:05

So we thought how much better for this episode than to have, you know, my kids and and and wife on, because they're usually the ones I'm getting most irritable with you know you irritate them and then what we're gonna do here in a few is we're gonna call tyler's wife and we're gonna call richard's wife I don't think that's a good idea. I wasn't told about this, were you no?

Family Dynamics and Sassiness

Speaker 3 4:30

Now I'm really irritated, so that's the plan.

Speaker 1 4:33

So we also have on here the Zeekster.

Speaker 7 4:36

Hello.

Speaker 1 4:37

What up boy Hi.

Speaker 5 4:41

Man of many words. We have Zaley Hi. How are you doing?

Speaker 1 4:43

We have Zaley. Hi how are you doing? Zabe Good, good Is his name, richie Rich.

Speaker 3 4:50

Don't do it, zay, it's Richie Rich, yeah, richie Rich.

Speaker 1 4:53

It's Richie.

Speaker 3 4:53

Ricardo.

Speaker 1 4:57

And my beautiful wife James.

Speaker 4 4:58

Hello, hello.

Speaker 1 4:59

Hello, what just happened?

Speaker 3 5:03

I don't know, she's something else who let Hermione Granger in? It's not you.

Speaker 1 5:11

You open the door that's Hermione oh, that's funny. I have to explain to people. When I say James, blah, blah, blah, I'm like it's my wife, just in case y'all don't, lebron.

Speaker 5 5:24

James.

Speaker 1 5:24

LeBron James you.

Speaker 7 5:26

LeBron.

Speaker 5 5:26

James.

Speaker 7 5:26

You what?

Speaker 1 5:28

Bubba, who's the GOAT?

Speaker 7 5:30

Michael Jordan.

Speaker 1 5:31

You see what I'm saying Raise your kids up in the way they should go. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 5:38

Nobody knows what you're saying.

Speaker 5 5:39

He pronounced Steph Curry wrong.

Speaker 3 5:43

Made me choke.

Speaker 1 5:45

Steph Curry, stop it. So yeah, so on today's episode, I want to talk to y'all three, and also these two you know, my beautiful co-hosts here, richie Rich and Ty Ty just about irritability, because I know I struggle in this area, when I get flustered and upset, that I'm very easily irritable. Yeah, you know, and I take it out a lot on those three.

Speaker 3 6:12

Yeah.

Speaker 1 6:12

You know. So, bubba, what are some times, or how does it make you feel when I get so angry at you for something? I know you talked about it before like when you get scared, like you break something and you're scared to come tell me I know you talked about it before like when you get scared, like you break something and you're scared to come tell me oh yeah, when I break something, like I normally just like try to fix it.

Speaker 7 6:30

But if I can't fix it, I'm like I'm going like if you're in, like the living room, I'm going to go in the living room with confidence. Ok, I'm going to go in there like I have a smile on face Because I know that smile is about to fade away Like 10 seconds into the conversation.

Speaker 1 6:52

So you start with confidence.

Speaker 7 6:53

Yeah, and then I just go straight. I'm like I'll tell a story before I get to it. So I tell my story.

Speaker 5 7:04

You'll never believe this. You gotta get him interested, get him hooked. And then ends like and I broke it. He's like what that's.

Speaker 7 7:13

That's like yeah, that's like how it goes. Like I go like straight forward, like when I'm like deep into my story and then like sometimes you let yell at me, sometimes you don't, so it's like it's kind of like a 90 and 10 percent change he's playing the odds.

Speaker 5 7:35

Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't.

Speaker 7 7:36

Buzz usually nine percent times okay, but like uh, when you do yell at me, my like kind of hurt after because you yell so loud.

Speaker 1 7:49

A what?

Speaker 7 7:50

It's like Mario Kart, when you like, when you get hit by like a blue shell.

Speaker 5 7:54

That's a sore subject.

Speaker 7 7:55

You yell.

Speaker 5 7:56

That's a sore subject.

Speaker 3 7:58

They are putting all your business out there.

Speaker 1 8:01

I don't yell that loud I just have a loud voice.

Speaker 5 8:03

You do yell that loud. You do have a natural teacher voice, yeah.

Speaker 1 8:08

I can hear you through a door you what you can hear me through a door. You can hear me through the door. You can hear him talking normally through a door Do you get scared when you hear me getting upset at Bubby. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 7 8:22

Why don't you put a hand on me? Yeah?

Speaker 1 8:27

yeah, so what do you do? You hide out in your room and you're scared to to come out, kind of I don't know, yeah, kind of I don't know kind of I don't know. Yeah, so give it back to so. So, bubby, I know with you especially, you always talk about how I never get on to sissy.

Speaker 7 8:48

It's the favorite child.

Speaker 5 8:50

What.

Speaker 7 8:52

She's the youngest right.

Speaker 1 8:54

Yeah.

Speaker 7 8:54

She gets in her way, she's the princess. Exactly what I mean.

Speaker 1 8:59

The queen, oh the queen, she got a promotion. When did this happen?

Speaker 7 9:08

oh the queen, oh, she got a promotion. She's like when did this happen? Like, like, when, like something breaks because of her, she would, oh because, oh, okay, she would tell, like, like what happened and somehow it would go bad on me, like it would just like take a turn, like somehow I love.

Speaker 1 9:25

I love when something happens and it's both of their faults and they try to kind of push the blame to the other one a little bit more. Are you the? Are you the favorite child?

Speaker 3 9:34

yeah that was no hesitation, she knows no, you just never do anything, right?

Speaker 1 9:42

yeah, she doesn't. Yeah, that's funny. I know jamie calls me a pushover when it comes to her hey, no doubt big old softy like she'll come in there. Like danny, can I stay in y'all's bed? I'll be like I mean, I guess.

Speaker 3 9:58

And then jamie will be like you, sucker, and then he turns around and blames it on jamie, because I've heard him say it jamie won't put her in her own bed.

Speaker 7 10:09

Lets us let her sleep with us all the time I remember when I was like, when I was like six, five, something like that 65 no, like six or five oh I would like go into y'all's room sorry and then like I would ask, or like I'd go into y'all's room like tell y'all good night and stuff, and then dad would like, dad would like do like the shushing, like yeah, yeah and and say like you can sleep in our bed tonight and then you say something like don't tell your mother, so like I hide in the blankets oh my gosh, yeah.

Speaker 1 10:54

And then like, like, so I'll be like, hey, come here. I was like you want to sleep in here with us? He's like, yeah, I'm like, okay, just don't say anything like climb in here. So he'd climb in and jamie would walk in and she'd be like michael robert, is he in here? He's supposed to be in his room. Where's he at? I'm like I told him to go back to his room. I don't know, I don't know where he's at that's how.

Speaker 5 11:16

That's how I am with bucky, our smallest dog like legitimately, like live will tell them get off the bed. And then bucky will up to the foot of the bed and kind of stand up on it and just looking at me. I'm like. I'm like, I kind of like no, it's like go on. And then he'll jump off there and Liv will be like no, get down. And I'll be like, but Liv, he's my little man. Oh my gosh or he'll. They don't listen to live as much they listen to me, yeah.

Speaker 1 11:45

Yeah man the house.

Speaker 5 11:46

Yeah, so he'll he'll get up, lay on me and live. We'll be like get down, and he'll just look at me and just kind of just lay there and I'm my hands are up Like I'll be him like Bucky, get down.

Speaker 3 12:06

Your mom hates you, yeah, right.

Speaker 1 12:10

Put all the blame on her. So for Sissy, like what she'll do is she'll just come in there and like wedge herself in the middle of us and be like I'm sleeping in here tonight and it's like okay, miss Thing, well, she is the queen.

Speaker 7 12:24

Zaylee's the sassiest one in the family In the Thackers family, and all of them. She's the sassiest. Are you the sassiest? Yes, mom is yes, no, no, no no, no, no no, no, mom is not sassy. She's like 50% of Zaylee's sassiness.

Speaker 5 12:47

Your mom's a controlled sassy. It's kind of like you know how snakes like baby snakes. They can't control the amount of venom they, you know, put out when they bite something or someone that's Zaylee.

Speaker 1 12:58

She can't control the sassiness. It's not her fault. Yeah, it's not my fault, oh, wow, oh especially like at the football game the other night she was full on like boss girl mode. Girls got to get ready.

Speaker 5 13:11

A girl can change her mind, that's always true. You remember saying that.

Speaker 1 13:18

Yeah, you what? Yeah, I did you remember what you said on your way home from school the other day? You were brushing your hair.

Speaker 7 13:25

A girl's got to look pretty, that's right.

Speaker 1 13:28

Girl's got to look pretty. So, babe, I wanted to ask you also, and we're going to get ready to make a couple of these calls oh gosh, you kind of get that blunt. You know, it's been a long day at work, I'm stressed and kind of I'm irritable, and you can spot it from 100 miles away.

Speaker 4 13:48

It's that discernment. Yes, the Lord has blessed me.

Speaker 1 13:51

Like she'll know, even on days where I don't admit it, like she knows there's something wrong. So she'll be like what's the matter? You seem there's sometimes where she don't, where she gets off, and then it makes me irritable. No, when she just keeps poking, like what's the?

Speaker 2 14:11

matter what's wrong, nothing, what's not, what's wrong? You keep asking me what's wrong.

Speaker 1 14:13

That's what's wrong? Like you're, you're, you're nothing. But a lot of times more way, more often than not, she's spot on that's a lot of years of experience. That's a lot of years of experience. What is something that makes you irritable?

Speaker 1 14:29

people that chew with their mouth open I mean with me, I mean me just in general, I mean with me. So what? What's one way that you can that you catch yourself feeling that, feeling that irritable? And that way that you can that you catch yourself feeling that feeling that irritable and that anger that you can say I need to stop and breathe a little bit and reset before I take it out on people that don't deserve it um, well, one.

Speaker 4 14:59

I know. One thing that kind of makes me irritable about you is when you do not pick up after yourself.

Speaker 5 15:10

I told you, man, how did I see that coming?

Speaker 4 15:12

I know, it's been a problem since birth, because even his mom still says Don't bring her into this.

Speaker 1 15:19

She'll agree with me.

Speaker 4 15:21

You have a problem picking up after yourself, like he'll get undressed and leave it there. He'll pack a bag luggage, bring it home, leave it there, like there's probably bags that still need to be unpacked right now.

Speaker 1 15:33

Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 4 15:34

Yes, my luggage for my trip is still like he'll shave, he'll shave and it'll all just be there, like for me me.

Speaker 1 15:41

No, now you're.

Speaker 4 15:45

Give her the microphone. No, so what happens?

Speaker 1 15:50

is I put like a towel down or something Right, and then I shave and throw it away. But there's some that sometimes it's hard to manage it. It goes everywhere.

Speaker 3 16:00

Right, no, no, no.

Speaker 4 16:03

Right, everyone knows you're full of it. You're full of crap.

Speaker 3 16:07

All you got to do is look at the sink and be like, hey look, there's hair still there.

Speaker 1 16:11

Yeah, and I wipe it down.

Speaker 7 16:14

No, you don't.

Speaker 1 16:15

I see, okay, okay, pause for a second Time out. Uh-oh, he's getting irritable.

Speaker 4 16:25

Uh-oh, he's starting to sweat, uh-oh.

Speaker 1 16:29

So here's my question for all of the ladies that complain about this, with men, everyone on the planet how come please explain to me right now, jamie Danielle Simmons, how come it is okay for a woman to leave her hair all over the shower, but when a man shaves a little bit of hair on the sink, it's just. I can't believe it. Preach.

Speaker 7 16:53

No, no, no.

Speaker 1 16:56

Why is one acceptable and the other not? I clean it. That is a full-blown lie.

Speaker 2 17:01

That is not true.

Speaker 7 17:04

I went to her bathroom a couple of minutes ago and I saw hair on the floor, Uh-oh.

Speaker 5 17:09

Help us out, Dr Phil.

Speaker 4 17:10

I shed easily.

Speaker 1 17:15

Somehow it's okay.

Speaker 3 17:16

That wasn't the question. Not at all, Kamala. What was?

Speaker 5 17:20

Oh no.

Speaker 4 17:23

What was the question? Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 5 17:25

What was the question? Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 17:27

How come it's such a problem when my hair I don't?

Speaker 4 17:31

see it as much as I don't, jamie, what?

Speaker 1 17:37

You don't see your hair. I will go and swipe my hand on the shower wall right now and have half of a wig. No, it ain't that bad.

Speaker 3 17:50

Calm down'll be right back he's gonna go check this out he's fact checking. Come here, hey z, how's it going good michael, you changed a little bit.

Speaker 5 18:08

What are you going to rap for us, or something?

Speaker 7 18:10

No, I wasn't planning on that what is he doing?

Speaker 2 18:15

Is he vacuuming or something?

Speaker 7 18:16

But that said the most truest thing though, that is yours. You got that from a hairbrush.

Speaker 2 18:26

Just a little bit.

Speaker 7 18:26

Oh oh, dad, there was hair right beside the trash can, if you checked.

Speaker 1 18:31

How do you know? It was mine, it wasn't you. That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 7 18:35

Second of all, why is there hair beside the trash? Can I know I was the only one cleaning this house.

Speaker 1 18:46

Have we still not got to the answer of the question? Who?

Speaker 4 18:48

cleaned this house. I'm just making sure who cleaned my hair when I clean it up.

Speaker 1 18:53

You can.

Speaker 3 18:57

Her answer was she's the one that cleans the house, so therefore it is okay for her to leave it there.

Speaker 1 19:03

Okay, so it's not okay, but it is okay sometimes. Yes, it there. Okay so it's not okay. But it is okay, sometimes yes.

Speaker 7 19:07

Yeah.

Speaker 1 19:08

Okay, got it, got it, got it. So if I'm the one that does most of the watching of the TV, that means I control, no, everything about the tv no no, didn't we have an episode talking about. The shows that we watch are usually shows that she likes you did say I thought so project runway.

Speaker 7 19:28

I thought we did yeah yeah, correct, that's what both of them are. So, anyway, getting back to the uh.

Speaker 3 19:35

The topic at hand.

Speaker 4 19:36

Yes, irritability man yeah, we just seen mich, so what about y'all's?

Speaker 1 19:41

I was asking a simple question that you still haven't answered.

Speaker 4 19:44

He's still sweating to death.

Speaker 1 19:47

I sweat to death in the middle of fall and winter, so it doesn't matter.

Speaker 7 19:50

That's why you always wear hoodies. That's right, you sweat.

Speaker 1 19:54

That's right.

Speaker 7 19:56

I get irritable in games like 1 million percent of the games.

Speaker 1 20:00

You know what we get irritable in games like 1 million percent of the games. You know what we get irritable by you screaming in your room at the games Dang.

Speaker 7 20:08

Yeah, that's a part of irritability.

Speaker 3 20:10

It's a part of that.

Speaker 7 20:11

I get sweaty when I play my games.

Speaker 1 20:14

Yes, you do, you really, really do.

Speaker 7 20:16

Especially on the VR. If I'm playing gym class VR guerrilla tag, I get drenched in sweat.

Speaker 1 20:27

You come back into the front room, dude, he looks like he ran a marathon. My goodness.

Speaker 7 20:34

I kind of did, to be honest, all right yeah.

Speaker 1 20:39

Yep, yep, yep. Well, y'all three. I love you so much, my queen princess.

Speaker 7 20:49

I'm the queen, no, your mommy's the queen so speaking of about video games, though I'm the best one in Mario Kart?

Speaker 1 20:59

oh my gosh. No, you are not. Yes, I am the best one that Mario Kart oh my gosh. No, you are not. Yes, I am the best one that lives in this house. We'll do our, not even that. We'll do our segment with y'all right now. So what is something that you're watching? Or like a movie or a video game that you're playing that you really are enjoying right now, right now? Or like your favorite worship song?

Speaker 7 21:16

My favorite worship song Probably my favorite worship song probably Dry Bones.

Speaker 1 21:21

Oh, okay, yeah, Okay, rattle, yeah, nice. All right, zay. What about you Like video game or something you're watching like your favorite show, anything?

Speaker 7 21:38

I like Mario Tennis.

Speaker 1 21:40

Yeah, mario Tennis, okay, they make a Mario Tennis. Yeah, mario Tennis, okay, babe, what about you?

Speaker 4 21:45

Nothing at the moment. Movie show.

Speaker 1 21:51

Well, here's something that we, here's something that gets Jamie irritable Really, really quickly.

Speaker 3 21:56

Dr Mario.

Speaker 1 21:59

I heard we're playing later we play Dr Mario. And yes, I heard we're playing later we play Dr Mario and she gets so mad.

Speaker 3 22:06

And you give her all the handicap in the world. No, we're on the same level. Oh look at you go.

Speaker 1 22:13

Yes, but we have yeah.

Speaker 4 22:14

We're on the same level now she gets so mad it's got cheat codes?

Speaker 7 22:19

No, that is not true. She just wanted to disagree with you.

Family Dynamics and Daily Annoyances

Speaker 1 22:28

That's something she gets irritable about for sure. Well, I love you three so much we're going to make a couple calls. Hope they're ready. We'll see. We'll start with Richard. Call Gin Bunny. All right, let's see gin bunny. Here we go breathing hard for hello. What up, bunny? Hey what are you doing? Uh back to cook supper welcome to the almost brothers podcast oh, thank you are you caught up on episodes? Yes or no?

Speaker 3 23:10

absolutely nope nope, not even close nope, I'm not nope, nope, I'm not so.

Speaker 1 23:17

We want to ask can you hear everybody? Yeah okay, so we wanted to ask you a couple questions. Okay, so today's episode we're talking about irritability. So first question what is something that irritates you to your core about richard randall?

Speaker 3 23:36

I don't know. If we have that kind of time, give it to us straight oh, lord him biting his nails. I don't do that anymore.

Speaker 1 23:46

I don't do that anymore he's looking at his nails right now like there's some there, yeah and I don't know a lot of different little things it's just all the little things what is it about him biting his nails? It drives you crazy the noise oh yeah, that's how I am the sound.

Speaker 2 24:09

I cannot I. It just bugs me to hear people like smacking and eating their food.

Speaker 3 24:14

It just drives me crazy I can't eat popcorn around her, like there's no way to eat popcorn quietly.

Speaker 1 24:22

She just looks at me like I'm intentionally making noise with the popcorn. It's like I'm sorry, it's like that's okay. Yeah, Cause it, Jennifer, isn't? Isn't like people making noise while eating that? Something that drives you crazy.

Speaker 2 24:35

Yeah, yeah, I can't stand that.

Speaker 1 24:37

Okay.

Speaker 5 24:38

Yeah, lives the same way, and I get so self-conscious when I'm eating certain stuff, cause she'll kind of give me a look. I'm like I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 24:46

I can't help it. I'm going to cry. Yeah, when you're married long enough, you just throw stuff at her when she looks at you.

Speaker 2 24:53

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 24:54

Or like, uh, like bone bones, wings. It's hard to not make noise while you're eating it, yeah. So what is, what is something that you think that drives richard crazy and makes him irritable around you?

Speaker 3 25:10

um the way I bug him about him making noises when he eats you make me yeah, yeah the way she watches TV, because she'll watch TV with her phone in front of her face. I'm like you cannot be getting anything out of this show. This is how I watch everything, even my shows.

Speaker 1 25:31

It is. Here's my question with that, do you do that and then ask a thousand questions about the movie that you're watching?

Speaker 2 25:38

No.

Speaker 3 25:39

No, oh okay, that's what drives me crazy she just gets.

Speaker 2 25:46

I know what's going on.

Speaker 1 25:48

No, I have to ask questions so what, what, what is it like for you when he gets like that with the kids, when he gets irritable with the kids?

Speaker 2 25:58

sometimes it's all right. But sometimes he takes it too far and I have to. It just makes me mad. But yeah we had to talk about it and get over it and go from there just to lay the smack down yeah, I know that we talked to uh zeke and say I know that for me that's one, that's one thing.

Speaker 1 26:19

You know, I, I get very irritable with the kids and I very often have to go back and just kind of like, look what I said, I meant, but the way I said I could have came across a little differently, you know? Um, yeah, so I'm the same way. So how, how often, how often do they contribute to your irritability? Is, you know, with cause? Y'all, I mean y'all have got quite a few more than we do at home right now.

Speaker 2 26:45

You know so yeah, not a whole lot now, because they're mostly they're always in their rooms, but that is one good thing, once they kind of get to that age of where they're kind of playing in the room, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So not a whole lot anymore. It's mostly when they first come home from school where everybody, all of them at once, is I need this, I need that, and this has happened, that happened. So that's that, yeah, that's probably right after school.

Speaker 3 27:12

That's something that really irritates her when I call her from work, when the kids just get home, because she's trying to deal with six backpacks.

Speaker 5 27:22

I can't talk to you right now. Kids just got home. Last thing I want to do is talk to you.

Speaker 2 27:25

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 27:29

Any kids around that want to jump on?

Speaker 2 27:32

They're all upstairs. I can get one down and say, hey, yeah, tell them to come say hi.

Speaker 3 27:37

Oh boy, you have invited the chaos into the podcast. I'm walking upstairs. Okay, y'all want to take a?

Speaker 1 27:45

while it's almost broadcast.

Speaker 2 27:48

Yeah, say, hello Hello.

Speaker 1 27:51

What up kiddos?

Speaker 3 27:52

Hey guys, hi, hi, Love y'all, hi Mikey.

Speaker 1 27:59

What's up, what's up, what's up.

Speaker 3 28:02

I say I love you and they say bye.

Speaker 1 28:07

Are you irritable right now, richard?

Speaker 2 28:09

I want to show her on FaceTime right now, so I can show you something that's all over my wrist.

Speaker 1 28:14

Uh oh.

Speaker 2 28:17

I need a hundred Bracelets. They're making rubber band bracelets.

Speaker 1 28:22

Oh very nice Okay.

Speaker 3 28:26

They have this idea that they're going to sell said bracelets around the neighborhood. Oh yeah, that's cool.

Speaker 5 28:31

That's like with Kay Long.

Speaker 2 28:33

She wants to sell everything.

Speaker 5 28:35

She makes little paper crafts. I'm going to sell it for five bucks.

Speaker 1 28:39

That's more than paper. Well tell them all that we love them so much, and and richard sure misses them, I do, indeed. I will love you all. Right, love y'all so much. Bunny, take care of yourself. I love you. I'll see you in a couple weeks.

Speaker 2 28:53

All right, I love y'all.

Speaker 1 28:54

Bye all right, love you, love you. That's awesome. That looks loud. You're ready to get home, ain't you? Yes, very much. I miss my babbies, my babbies.

Speaker 3 29:00

That's awesome. That looks loud. You're ready to get home, ain't you? Yes, very much, I miss my babbies my babbies. That's awesome man now let's see what live so so speaking of live.

Speaker 5 29:10

She just texted me and said I'm pretty sure I just killed like five birds.

Speaker 1 29:15

Just that's it, no context she's on her way to theces right now we'll ask her about that cool, cool, cool, um so rich with you, do you find? Do you find it I know the answer to this, but for our listeners, do you find it that you're more irritable with certain kids than others?

Speaker 3 29:32

oh yeah, without a doubt, then it's because certain kids push harder than other kids. Like Lord, help me with this child. He just looks for reasons to get in trouble, like he is not happy. If he's not in trouble, yeah, and he's just. He does, yeah, constantly does the same thing over and over again, knowing he's going to get in trouble for it. And he knows he's going to get in trouble for it Cause as soon as I say his name, yeah, he.

Speaker 1 30:05

And like I said with Bubby, I kind of come down rougher on him because he's the boy Right, you know than the other two. But I expect more out of Aaliyah, but I come down harder on Bubby.

Speaker 2 30:16

Right.

Speaker 3 30:16

You know.

Speaker 1 30:17

But and I knew, I kind of knew that I know. And same with your boys, you know you kind of you're rougher on them because it's you teach them to. Kind of you got to be a man and you got responsibility.

Speaker 3 30:27

And adriana, she's 17 and I don't remember what I said the other day, but jennifer's like oh yeah, daddy's little girl can't do anything wrong. I was like what oh?

Speaker 2 30:37

gosh it's true, but it's like yeah, I'm glad we recognize right fact well, let's, let's talk to the uh, just the bird-berking mercenary.

Speaker 1 30:54

See what Liv has to say. Just yeeting birds off the road.

Speaker 5 31:03

Watch her, not pick up Right.

Speaker 6 31:05

Hello.

Speaker 1 31:06

What up Liv Hello.

Speaker 6 31:09

Hi Welcome to the almost brothers podcast it's so weird hearing all of you like right here in my ear.

Speaker 1 31:19

It's like so the first question that we got what? What's up with all these birds?

Speaker 6 31:28

listen. Okay, no, I first of all. It was an accident. Okay, partially possibly suicide for them. I don't know um no, no, I was driving to dexter to go and see, uh, jim and tracy and get matt pied in the face and uh, and yeah, I was like speeding up and they didn't move, so so they were trying to fly away, but they weren't moving fast enough they were in your airspace so I guess, yeah, they were like're fine.

Speaker 1 32:07

Now they're really flying away. I'll fly away, oh no.

Speaker 5 32:14

They met their maker.

Speaker 6 32:15

today I'm going to have to check whenever I get to Tracy's to see if I got some birds stuck to my fender up here.

Speaker 1 32:25

Feathers on the grill. You ever had that A full-on bird stuck in there?

Speaker 5 32:30

I've had an old car of mine had a raccoon fur stuck on the grill.

Speaker 3 32:37

One less raccoon in the world.

Speaker 5 32:38

I thought it was a large dog and I felt really bad and I drove.

Speaker 1 32:41

Until you found out it was a raccoon and you felt better.

Speaker 5 32:45

It was a fat raccoon.

Speaker 1 32:47

PETA's coming after us for this episode, liv, taking out a whole family of birds you got you and a raccoon.

Speaker 3 32:55

I had a family of raccoons as roommates in malden.

Speaker 5 32:58

Yeah, that yeah man, you might as well foster them too, that's right all right, so live.

Speaker 1 33:07

Uh, what is something that that Tyler does that makes you super?

Speaker 3 33:14

irritable. You don't get to help Easy now.

Speaker 4 33:17

Ooh no.

Speaker 6 33:21

Where do I start?

Speaker 5 33:24

It's hard to start with a list of nothingness you know.

Speaker 6 33:28

He said there's not going to be anything because he's perfect.

Speaker 1 33:30

That's um he said. He said there's not gonna be anything because he's perfect.

Speaker 6 33:32

That's what he said before this direct quote well, he didn't call his mom, so I'm not gonna lie to you. Oh man um she's struggling I'm honestly having to think about it she's struggling she's struggling to pick one honestly, having to think about it, she's struggling. She's struggling to pick one, you're such a good wife Thank you. You know we might have to come back to that Cause. I know, I know there's one.

Speaker 5 33:59

I'm winning.

Speaker 6 34:00

Um no, Okay.

Speaker 1 34:02

I've also been married less than the rest of us.

Speaker 5 34:05

Yeah, yep, oh there's gotta be something.

Speaker 6 34:09

I know there's something what do you think it is?

Speaker 5 34:14

I don't know, I'm just saying I'm sure there is something.

Speaker 6 34:17

Well there is something. I just can't think of what it is right now, because you're not doing it for me and Liv knows this, it's her time management oh my gosh that irritates me about Liv we're all in the same boat about that.

Speaker 5 34:30

Oh my gosh Crimea River. That irritates me about. Liv, we're all in the same boat about that hey, I've gotten better.

Speaker 6 34:38

Y'all will be proud of me. This morning we were so early to church that first service wasn't even out yet.

Speaker 3 34:44

Wow so get some of that. Well, I hate to break it to you, but that still shows poor time management.

Speaker 6 34:53

Hey, it's better, though it's better.

Speaker 5 34:57

It's funny because it's like her mom. I remember her mom was like yeah, that's my fault, she gets that from me.

Speaker 6 35:04

It's not genetic. Yeah, she'll openly be like yeah, that's my fault, that's my fault.

Speaker 1 35:12

Oh, y'all kill me that's funny, I know what. What is something when you do feel, feel like you're you're getting irritated. What's something live that you do that helps you kind of calm down and kind of get some perspective and like, okay, just chill out, like you feel yourself getting to that point with something that you do so first I did think of something oh, okay, good, yes, here we go and it's the worst thing ever.

Speaker 6 35:39

It makes me so mad like, wow, I don't know I'm gonna punch a bear or something it makes me so bad like probably when the animal kingdom is not fair right no, so, oh my gosh, she's so bad about this. Whenever I take a nap on a sunday afternoon or something, or really whenever, and he's like gone doing something and he comes home, he is the loudest person on the freaking planet and like I.

Speaker 6 36:13

it's like I'm not even there. It's like, oh no, we're going to go, you know, play some guitar for a little bit as loud as we can, and we're going to rile the dogs up and we're going to take them outside and we're going to oh my gosh, going to do all the things I'm like, okay.

Speaker 5 36:30

well, I guess I don't get rest. To be fair, she's not in the bedroom upstairs when I'm coming home there in these moments.

Speaker 6 36:34

There is no rebuttal to this no, you, you get to sleep on the couch peacefully and I'm like okay, girls, we gotta be quiet I told you it's the same thing. I'm I know no.

Speaker 5 36:48

Yes, no, yes. I don't know why you're lying. Why?

Speaker 6 36:51

are you?

Speaker 2 36:52

lying.

Speaker 3 36:54

You know what's funny about this? He just told a story yesterday about how the girls will be very loud in the morning and not respect his ability to sleep. His beauty sleep and now here it comes up that he's the same way.

Speaker 5 37:11

Oh.

Speaker 6 37:12

How's the same way. How's the?

Speaker 5 37:15

turntables.

Speaker 2 37:18

Where's the hang-up button? Excuse me.

Speaker 6 37:21

Just because you're gone for the weekend does not mean.

Speaker 5 37:25

So can you push the flight?

Speaker 1 37:30

Delayed, delayed, delayed.

Speaker 6 37:33

No, but something that I usually have to do is like I have to just like remove myself from the situation of what's going on, like physically remove myself from it, just like OK, I need to step away, because if I don't, I'm going to be mean and I'm going to be hateful and I'm going to say things that I don't mean and cause that's happened before and so we've learned over the years what works and what does not.

Speaker 6 37:58

Um, and so if it's something pretty major, I'm just like okay, I just need to go away for a minute and, like you know, I'll be mad at it by myself for a couple hours, probably honestly, and then I'll be like okay, and then I'll start looking at the thing, thinking about the things that he said from his side, and just like okay, well, maybe I was a little dramatic here or maybe I shouldn't have said this and should have said this instead, or something like that. It or something like that, you know understanding where he's coming from, or even, if it's somebody else, you know, trying to just remove myself physically from that person to kind of deal with it myself and like my thoughts and kind of gather myself and then go back to the conversation later, when everybody's like chilled out and like, okay, we can actually talk about this and not be so in the moment and upset or mad about it.

Family Love and Longing

Speaker 1 38:51

That's good. Yeah, Well, I find that that's me A lot of times. It's somebody else that's made me upset and I take it out not on them, but on my family. Right, you know so I have to do that too. It's kind of remove yourself and take a breath and take a beat and be like, okay, don't take this out on Jamie.

Speaker 1 39:10

This has nothing to do with her, like like let it go, leave it at the door and and come in and and you know it's yeah, and it's very difficult for me, knowing you, to even picture you angry.

Speaker 3 39:21

I don't think I've ever seen you mad like ever that's true, it's happened I'm sure I mean.

Speaker 2 39:27

I'm not saying that you're never mad I'm just.

Speaker 3 39:30

You are probably the most compassionate and even-tempered person that I've ever met. Like you are just nice all the time.

Speaker 1 39:40

Most of the time.

Speaker 3 39:41

Yeah.

Speaker 6 39:42

Hey.

Speaker 1 39:42

That's true.

Speaker 6 39:43

That's where you're supposed to insert the applause button.

Speaker 1 39:46

Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry, Okay okay.

Speaker 6 39:52

He's kind of behind it. Okay, here we go.

Speaker 1 39:53

Applause if you lose the labels again applause oops can't tend to find it just hit all the buttons, no, but y'all are pretty awesome and you know we were talking kind of earlier just glad that we're together and we're all family and it's been amazing and awesome and I can't wait for the kids to get to see you oh yeah, I miss them so much.

Speaker 6 40:29

I miss you guys.

Speaker 5 40:33

We'll be down in a couple weeks. You're gonna make her cry and you know it doesn't take much. We could put zayling on the mic right now.

Speaker 6 40:39

She'll start crying yeah, yep, 100 guaranteed, don't do it, hurry, come here.

Speaker 1 40:48

Yeah, we had them on uh earlier in the episode, her and zeke. Uh, let's see, richard, we give her your headphones for a second and that way she can hear. There you go. Okay, you can talk hi, hi, hi I love you miss I miss you.

Speaker 6 41:08

I miss you too, sissy, oh my gosh.

Speaker 1 41:11

We're at church this morning. She's like where's tyler? I want to go say hi to him. I love you, miss Ruth. I miss you, I miss you too, sissy. Oh my gosh we were at church this morning. She's like where's Tyler? I want to go say hi to him. He was like in the room with the praise and worship team, so I took her in there to go say hi and she gave me the longest hug.

Speaker 1 41:27

Michael got jealous for a second I was like all right, let's go Tell her about your cheerleading. Tell her about your cheerleading Talking to the mic. Did you have fun at cheerleading? Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 41:48

What have you learned in cheerleading?

Speaker 7 41:52

I knew how to do a toe touch.

Speaker 5 41:56

What else?

Speaker 6 41:58

I danced, you danced.

Speaker 1 42:02

Tell Liv what you want your theme of your birthday party to be.

Speaker 7 42:06

She followed me.

Speaker 1 42:08

Tell her I don't.

Speaker 6 42:16

I'm still deciding. Yeah, I was still deciding.

Speaker 1 42:17

Yeah, she said she wants to in the works. Right, what was it that you wanted the other day? Was it peachy? No, it wasn't peaches, was it? Okay? We'll let her get off of here because now she doesn't want to talk.

Speaker 2 42:31

She's getting shy again. What we, what we should have done?

Speaker 1 42:34

is brought bubby out here and gave him the mic, and then she'd want to talk. Yeah, that's how that goes yep don't you?

Speaker 5 42:42

yeah, that's funny.

Speaker 1 42:44

Well, we sure do love you and drive safe until the feast family. We said hi and we love them I will, will.

Speaker 6 42:49

I love you guys.

Speaker 1 42:51

Stay away from the birds.

Speaker 6 42:54

You know they better stay out of my way. That's all I'm saying.

Speaker 4 42:57

Dern Dern, diddy, dern dern.

Speaker 3 43:02

We haven't heard that button in a while, man.

Speaker 1 43:06

We love you. We'll see you in a couple weeks.

Speaker 6 43:07

Alrighty, love you guys.

Speaker 1 43:09

Love you, bye, all right, we love you. We'll see you in a couple weeks. All righty, love you guys. Bye, bye. That's awesome, that's my wife, wifey. So last question how do you, how do you find yourself getting irritable with your friend?

Speaker 3 43:22

so let's, let's keep it to this circle. Yeah, what does it? What does it take to do that?

Speaker 1 43:27

yeah, what? What is? What is something that one of us, or both of us do that drive you crazy.

Speaker 2 43:34

Honestly for me, I don't think there's anything that's like dadgum freaking.

Speaker 1 43:38

Michael or Richard.

Speaker 2 43:41

There's not a lot.

Speaker 3 43:43

No, we're pretty.

Speaker 1 43:45

Richard's obsession with time.

Speaker 3 43:47

I was just literally about to say that I am a very punctual person and I appreciate that from everybody in my circle.

Speaker 5 43:54

If you're not punctual, he's going to punch you.

Speaker 1 44:01

No, and that's always Marvel, and that's great, isn't it bad, that the thing that we complain about is a good thing?

Speaker 3 44:07

It's a good thing, and I always Marvel it because there's a good thing Right it just, you know, and I always marvel at at because there's a huge difference in age.

Speaker 1 44:13

Yeah.

Speaker 3 44:13

Like Tyler's, 27,. You're 37, 38, and I'm 40, almost 47. So there's a huge gap in age between us, but we don't. We don't have any problems finding something to talk about or anything, you know, we just I'm kind of an old soul.

Speaker 5 44:30

So Right.

Speaker 1 44:31

Yeah, that's, very true.

Speaker 3 44:33

Yeah, you got a maturity about you, so that helps.

Speaker 1 44:36

I know Sometimes Something that used to not make me irritable but something that used to kind of, you know, like a little pinch that would just like after a while, that Tyler was very you couldn't read him. Yeah, you didn't know if he was happy, mad, sad, upset, like he was very kind of monotone monotone at at all times.

Speaker 1 45:00

So it's like it's hard to read him. It's like he I don't think he meant that bad. It sounded bad but I don't think he meant it bad, because he just talks like that all the time. And then one as you got to know him, and two he's grown a lot like since then of opening up five, seven and a half you don't know I'm off guard with that one.

Speaker 3 45:22

I've grown too. I'm 300 pounds as I've, as I've got to know him more.

Speaker 1 45:25

It's like this dude's pretty awesome, yeah you know, and and same with richard. Richard, he'll joke, he'll tell a joke, and it like land wrong, it's like it seems like he's a jerk. And then, as you got to, know him as you got as you got to know him, you know he's a jerk.

Speaker 1 45:43

It's like he is, but it's funny. At first I didn't like him and then I got to know them. Now I really don't like them no no, you, you, you kind of see the difference when you get to know and it's like, oh, that's not a bad thing.

Speaker 3 45:59

It's like oh okay, I know, I'm now.

Speaker 1 46:01

You know, sarcasm is my second language, so yeah, so it's like anything that maybe used to irritate me in our, in our relationships when when they were new, is stuff that I was wrong on. I saw it the wrong way, you know. It's like as I learned y'all.

Speaker 3 46:16

It's like, oh, that's not that at all well, and that with you it used to annoy the crap out of me used to, because you want to be right yes, about everything yeah and it you'll correct people on stuff that don't matter. Yeah, and that used to just drive me up a wall, but now it's just like it's mike yeah, whatever.

Speaker 1 46:36

Yeah, and I I've got that a lot and and tried to work on it, but I just want I I try to learn, I try to learn it all at all, so I want to know the correct information. You know so, but a lot of times I do it when it's yeah, like you said. When it's like, what's the point in correcting?

Speaker 5 46:52

that, like, that's not going to change a single thing, you know.

Speaker 3 46:55

So nobody likes that person either, so I'm just like I've had to stop myself, like with grammar yeah I used to correct people all the time with their grammar and it still bugs me when people use the wrong words and stuff yeah leave the grandmas alone jamie says something, what does she say especially? Yeah, especially, oh gosh it goes all through me yeah but I've stopped correcting people on that because, number one it doesn't matter and number two, that's my issue, not theirs.

Speaker 5 47:26

Right, I had a friend would say west constant oh, yeah, that's bad.

Speaker 1 47:31

Yeah, that's not good one that drives me crazy is axe.

Speaker 5 47:35

Oh, let me ask you a question no, just how about we just put a little effort into into?

Speaker 3 47:41

physically speaking. Yeah, yeah, hunter can't say specific, it's pacific oh, what's another one?

Speaker 1 47:47

that's really hard for people. Aluminum.

Speaker 3 47:49

Yeah.

Speaker 1 47:49

Aluminum yeah, like aluminum, I'm like aluminum.

Speaker 3 47:56

Worcestershire sauce.

Speaker 1 47:57

Yeah, we were talking about Chinese earlier. What was it that Jamie cooked?

Speaker 3 48:04

General Tso's. Yeah, general To's. General To's General.

Speaker 1 48:08

To's chicken? She's not listening.

Speaker 5 48:11

The General's Toes.

Speaker 3 48:13

What that's nasty. How many generals had to be sacrificed For my lunch?

Speaker 1 48:19

No General's Toes were sacrificed In the making of this episode.

Speaker 5 48:24

That's so funny that's good.

Speaker 1 48:26

I sure do love y'all, man. Love you Anything else on your hearts? No, anything else on your farts.

Speaker 5 48:35

No, chinese food is working on it.

Speaker 3 48:38

Man, that was yep those general toes.

Speaker 5 48:43

Those general toes are working through my colon right now.

Speaker 1 48:48

Oh, that's chewy. I was feeling fine. Now my stomach hurts. You got to do the that's chewy now.

Speaker 5 48:51

I was feeling fine, now my stomach hurts, you gotta do the, the segment, the the thing, the what's new thing, whatever that's what's up.

Speaker 1 48:58

That's what's up. You got something else on your. That's what's up. Not really something that irritates me about time. You know what now I remember? Yeah, that that's good. Thank you for that time.

Speaker 3 49:17

Fantastic, thank you for that I bring the laughs so that's what I'm good for, that belly laugh, so I love y'all, hey, any of our listeners.

Speaker 1 49:25

We just want to tell you it's been awesome. Uh, we're now pushing 170 episodes, something like that 160, 170 episodes. So we thank you all for listening, thank you all for subscribing and sharing, and you know, I know we have a part that says, please share with your friends, but please do that. It really helps us out a lot. It helps us spread this podcast out to people that may not have found us or listened to us, but also it helps send in views so that the algorithms on Apple and Spotify can help suggest this show to people. So, if you can just make sure you share, put it on your Instagram, link it, you know, put it on your, on your, your Snapchat or whatever it is, and really help us get the word out, because we love you so much. Y'all are a part of it and I love y'all, my co-hosts.

Speaker 1 50:11

Y'all are awesome love you back you're and, uh, you know, every now and then my guest co-host, my wife she's. She's pretty awesome. She's my favorite of the of the co-hosts.

Speaker 5 50:21

Okay so bye. I remember you're talking about uh, you know, sharing this stuff, there's a uh guy named vick blends. I think he's a barber. Yeah, one of my favorite things I ever heard him say was support doesn't always come in the form of money, right?

Speaker 1 50:35

and it doesn't cost anything.

Speaker 5 50:37

Yeah, it really does five seconds. Yeah, hit that share button, yep absolutely.

Speaker 1 50:41

Yep, well, we love y'all everybody. Have a great day, remember when you get irritable take a bath rock and roll thank you, yes hey, listeners, we just want to thank you for your continued support for the almost brothers podcast.

Speaker 3 51:02

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