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Wing Stop Mishaps and Toilet Seat Debates: Our Adult Journey
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Remember when you thought your parents had it all figured out? That magical moment when you became an adult yourself and realized... no one actually knows what they're doing? That's the conversation we're diving into today.
We're peeling back the curtain on the universal feeling of adult inadequacy through our own embarrassing stories - from Tyler accidentally ordering $40 worth of wings to an empty Airbnb in Nashville to admissions about pretending to know how to do basic home repairs. These moments reveal a truth we all experience but rarely discuss: everyone is stumbling through adulthood, even when they look competent from the outside.
Our conversation takes a deeper turn as we explore how different generations face unique challenges. Many of us weren't taught essential life skills like managing credit, investing money, or even basic home maintenance. Not because our parents were negligent, but because they couldn't teach what they themselves didn't know. Now as adults, we're trying to break these generational patterns while navigating a world that's dramatically different from the one our parents knew.
Perhaps most meaningful is our reflection on parental sacrifice. As children, we rarely see the full extent of what our parents gave up to provide for us. Only now, as adults and parents ourselves, can we truly appreciate their struggles and the heroic efforts they made while feeling just as unprepared as we do today. This realization brings both comfort and a new perspective on our own journey.
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Episode Introduction & Life Revelations
Speaker 1deep sigh was tyler's last time I wanted to have my side it almost sounded like the beginning of of what was it ?
Speaker 2back in the day we had like talk radios like the smooth , like welcome to no no it's good every , because every cowboy sings a sad , sad song just like every night has its dawn . I feel like that was the worst thing you could say before the music .
Speaker 1Oh my bad and we've heard you say some terrible things before the music .
Speaker 2Yeah , you know , yeah , that's , that's usually kind of the point , you know . It's definitely top five Y'all's faces told me everything I needed to know . What , I don't know what that means what's up , what's up , what's up , what's up , what's up , what's up , what's up , what's up , what's up , what's up . Everybody , Welcome back to a brand new episode of the Almost Brothers Podcast . On today's episode , we're going to be talking about figuring things out . We're going to be talking about figuring things out .
Speaker 1Or not .
Speaker 3We'll figure it out .
Speaker 2We're walking down this road together , going on this ride together .
Speaker 1Let's see where we end up . I'm going to tell on myself Because last night I blew my kids' minds . Are you ready for this ?
Speaker 2Oh , yes , absolutely .
Speaker 1So we was watching American Idol . Don't judge me . You watch Project Runway . You don't have a right to say anything .
Speaker 3I've been wanting to watch American Idol , but Liv doesn't want to watch it on .
Speaker 1Jamie's show I don't , and I say it every season , but this season , I mean , there is some serious talent on this season of American Idol .
Speaker 3Yeah , Carrie Underwood is one of the judges .
Speaker 1Yeah , she's awesome . Uh-oh , she's not original .
Speaker 3I think that's why Liv doesn't want to watch it . That's exactly why , because I never wanted to watch it until now she's had some work done .
Speaker 2Yeah , I have seen that you just magically now want to watch it .
Speaker 1So anyway , we can get him in trouble . Why are you trying to break up a happy ?
Speaker 2home Easy now .
Speaker 1So we're watching American Idol and Lionel Richie's on there , and I told my kids that he's the original Rizzler .
Speaker 2Oh God , no , oh , no , oh no .
Speaker 1It went downhill from there . What did they ? They all was like what did you just say ? I said's the original risler . And it's true .
Speaker 3Come on now , lino , richie you didn't have to say it like that all right .
Speaker 1Well , how was I supposed to say it ? No , is there ?
Speaker 3a way to say any any other way that you could think of .
Speaker 1That's not that I'd say why is it ? Because then I gotta kill . You're not gen z , you can't . Why can I not use words ?
Speaker 2well I mean it I don't think you could use words , just fine . Why can I not use words no speaking in my house ?
Speaker 1why is it ? Why is it that way that , whatever generation you're a part of , that's the word you're allowed to use ?
Speaker 2well , and it and it's always been like that , you know , when we were kids and our parents tried to bond with us and be cool , it's like don't say rad , yeah , don't don't do that , mom don't . That's , that's not y'all , you're all that in a bag of chips , mom , mom , no , no , don do that .
Speaker 1There's chips in the fridge . Why are there chips in the fridge ?
Speaker 2And we all kind of Parents were speaking in vowel and R Right and we all kind of become those parents when we know it's going to bug them , so we do it just to bug them .
Speaker 1Yeah , the ruby , oh yeah , but that was great . My kids all came in there and just-uh , that's far out . I'm about to buzz down .
Speaker 2I'm about to buzz down on these , yeah .
Speaker 1I'm an adult , I'm just going to eat . That's what I'm going to do Right .
Speaker 2I'm going to enjoy this delicious food .
Speaker 1I'm going to enjoy the fruits of my labor . And some of them , I refuse , I refuse to even say as a joke .
Speaker 3You know the , the . What is it now ?
Speaker 2the skibbity which even even that , yeah , even even that . Like bubby , he's in the sixth grade . Even with that he's , he's like no , that's for little kids . No , we don't do that ?
Speaker 1yeah , we was . I was on the phone with mike on the speakerphone and tristan was there and he said something . I was like I don't know what that means and mike's like I got it , don't worry about it okay , cool message received .
Speaker 3Well , you know what that's called , right like what , what that quote-unquote language is called . What what you got , it's called brain rot yeah , a lot of yeah .
Speaker 2That's , yeah , it's literally an actual term for literally what it's called .
Speaker 3It's called brain rot .
Speaker 1Well , it's because they don't want to use actual words , so they just make up words exactly , and it's happened , and it's because they don't want to use actual words , so they just make up words Exactly , and it's happened , for it's always been that way . I blame Beyonce . She started it with bootylicious .
Speaker 2Oh gosh .
Speaker 3It all started 20 years ago . No , no , don't think you're ready for this jelly .
Speaker 1Anyway , that's not what we're talking about today . I just wanted to say that yeah .
Speaker 2Appreciate that story . Well , we have another story that happened while we're at the uh grizzlies game what did you do what ? Are you oh ?
Speaker 3you know what you did you know what you did not at the grizzlies game , no before before I was like what happened at the game he tried to do a dunk contest listen no , let's , let me preface this by saying liv's story is still worse . She even agreed to it ?
Speaker 3yeah , she agreed to it , I think so I was ordering us food before the game at the hotel and our the car was valet and we didn't feel like messing with that , so we decided door dash . I had a door dash app and I ordered wing stop . Well , uh , it got , it got delivered . It got delivered , uh , and they sent like a picture of like of the bag where it's sitting at , and I was like that's not at the hotel , he's like that doesn't come to realize . So two years ago so far back two years ago , me and live took a trip to nashville and we door dashed one night your , your wings were in nashville .
Speaker 3Oh no , his wings , my wings and zig's wings were at a random 40 , 40 dollars worth of wings , sitting at an airbnb and I'm over here thinking , okay , you know , let these people be blessed with free food . And then think again it's an airbnb on a monday yeah , there's probably no one there and they're probably sitting there right now .
Speaker 2Yeah , well , and even if someone was that , would you eat a bag of wings ?
Speaker 1randomly , you know , so it's funny .
Speaker 3Yeah , you gotta check that address , yeah well , I'm already thinking oh , it's just gonna send it right where I'm , because I figured you know all phones and all apps they track your location . So I was like okay , not a problem . So we waited another 20 , 30 minutes and they finally got to us yeah , 80 something dollars later he was just like .
Speaker 2He's like , oh no , and like he put his head down .
Speaker 3I'm like what he goes the wings have been delivered and I'm like , okay , and he just flips his phone around and shows a picture and it's like a porch and I'm like , yeah , that's not the hotel that's not good , it's not and I'll , and I'll save myself some face by showing or by telling liz story which she ordered us chinese from in town in malton I remember the story yeah , and , and , and . In her defense , the the name of the restaurant was great river and the website was identical and that's about it .
Speaker 2That's as far as that's .
Speaker 3That's the only and but that's it . And we were . I drove to , uh , the restaurant to get the food , like we don't have nothing called , and I called live and uh , because that's when order there came back and uh , she got a call . It was from california , yeah , asking her your food's ready . And we're like what what food and well , and the funniest part , it made me mad at the time . The funniest part was they expected us because we told them we're in missouri , this was an honest mistake , sorry .
Speaker 3They expected us to come get the food and come pay for it just ship it to us . That's right , yeah I
Adult Children & Generational Expectations
Speaker 3would have said all right , here's my address , have it delivered .
Speaker 1Yeah right he was mad because his fried rice was in there .
Speaker 3That's exactly what you're mad about .
Speaker 2No , I get lo mein when I go to so maybe eventually this family will figure out to double and triple check and make sure you're getting it from the right place , sent to the right place I ordered no , I ordered jennifer a present on amazon when I was working at ozark gas yeah so I put that address in and they sent it there .
Speaker 1Well , the algorithms , because they're awesome . Amazon remembers this stuff forever , you know . So you're , you're off , you're always having to check yeah , which address ?
Speaker 2where it's being shipped well , you know , you can , you , you , you can click .
Speaker 1Don't save this address just throwing that out there just throwing that out there .
Speaker 2So anyway , like we said , today's episode we're going to be talking about what ?
Speaker 1are we going to be talking about it's ?
Speaker 2not about not having it figured out , yeah , or having it figured out one of the other so we were talking about how you know , as a kid you think your parents have it .
Speaker 2you know they kind of when you need something , somehow it happens , somehow you get it somehow . Of when you need something , somehow it happens , somehow you get it , somehow they make a way to do it . And you just , you just thought growing up , man , they've got it together . And then you yourself become an adult and you feel like I don't have anything together at all , you know . So you put yourself in those shoes .
Speaker 1You ever feel like that . Well , and as an adult and as a a parent , what I failed to realize as a child is how much sacrifice goes into making those things happen . You know , there are times that you know , in harder times , where I , I wouldn't eat supper . Well , I still don't do it . I still will not eat supper until everybody else is eight , and it's because we didn't have enough . You know , I can fend for myself , I can , you know . So there is a , there is an amount of sacrifice that comes with being a parent that that people don't realize when they're kids .
Speaker 2So oh , I thought I thought it was gonna keep sorry , sorry , no , that's good .
Speaker 1Yeah .
Speaker 2Well , and once you yourself are in that , then you start to realize you know that's what they say Like especially like teenage girls and their mom . They usually butt heads a lot until they become older and then they're like best friends and I think that has a lot to do with it . I think that has a lot to do with it when you look at them and you start to realize , as an adult man , you gave up a lot for me and you start to see , man , you made sure I had everything that I needed , or at least , yeah , the stuff I needed Maybe not all the things I wanted , but the stuff I needed . And you had to sacrifice a lot .
Speaker 2That was my deal with my dad not being around because he was in the military and I'd be so mad because he would miss all this stuff . And then you get older and I realized not only was we having to say he was sacrificing for us , not like , do you think he didn't want to be with his family ? You know , of course not . He wanted to be there for those things you know . So just the sacrifices that he had to make and not being able to spend time with us to make sure that we had the things that we needed .
Speaker 1Well , and I was . I was raised by a single mom , and my dad chose not to be in our lives . So that's a whole nother side of the coin , you know . But my mom was amazing , you know . She , she did it all . I mean she was . She was quite a hero , so love you was quite a hero , so love you mom .
Speaker 3Yeah , like tyler's always got a just deep emotional thing to put out there . No like after recent events , uh , you know , uh , some big recent events , it I started thinking more , just in general , yeah right , yeah , oh yeah , and thinking about , uh , because I kind of , you know , had that moment of am I ready ? I ain't got nothing figured out . We're trying to figure out these things , and it kind of brought me to I wonder what my parents were thinking in the same moment .
Speaker 2Do you want to talk about the recent event or do you want to wait ? I think we should probably wait .
Speaker 2Okay , I think so too sounds good , okay , um , but yeah , yeah and , and you're never , you know we we're .
Speaker 2We were talking about buying a house and kind of getting everything lined up for , and that you talk about really realizing you don't have it together when they're asking you all these questions about your bank account and where this is going , what , and I'm like I was not ready for this , like I really didn't have any idea what went into this . So I really felt like not a failure , but I wish I had more together , right , you know so , and I think , and I think everybody thinks that way when they're in the middle of it . But what we have to realize is none of us are nobody , nobody , you know . I'm not saying nobody , but just kind of a general sense . Most people don't know every single moment of every single thing and is ready for you know , ready for that moment . So I think we get in the middle of that and we think , man , I am really struggling . As an adult , I should be doing better when we don't realize we kind of all are .
Speaker 1Well , and do you ever put that on your adult child ? Yes , because I do , horribly . I'm so bad about it . My adult kids , they're scattered in the wind , but it's just like why are you not doing better ? Why ?
Speaker 2are you ?
Speaker 1not doing more , and I think back to when I was their age and I was worthless , at 22 years old . I was an alcoholic at that time , so , but I forget about that . It's just amazing what you can forget about your own life yeah , and I'm .
Speaker 2I was like that with Lee also , but I was like that out of the sense of when I was her age , you know , when she's 19 , 20 years old . When I was her age , I already had a full-time job , I already had a kid I already had , was married , I was already , you know , when she's 19 , 20 years old . When I was her age , I already had a full-time job , I already had a kid , I already was married , I was already , you know , renting a house , doing all these things .
Speaker 2So adulting right , I was actually adulting , so I put all those pressures on her right to be at that same level , but she didn't go through the same situation . So you can't expect the same outcome out of a teenager going into adulthood that I did , because I had to grow up quickly and we come from a complete different generation absolutely , you know than even tyler comes from right right .
Speaker 2So it's like it's a whole nother world , like because you could be smart in your financial
Financial Lessons & Generational Knowledge Gaps
Speaker 2decisions and like live with your parents until you're 25 , just not out of laziness , just out of trying to be smart and get your money together and save up and go out and buy your own place , and that's just smart . Yeah , we weren't raised to think that way . We were raised that you get out of high school , you either go to college or go to work . You get out on your own . Now it's time to be an adult , right ? You know and know . And we weren't told hey , it's okay for you to stay here and save money , it's okay for you to not rush out and go and get out of the house , you know . So expecting those same things doesn't mean they don't have it together , right . It just means they're doing it differently .
Speaker 1And I will say that Tyler is one of the most mature 20-somethings I've ever met . Yeah , what are you ?
Speaker 226 ? 27 .
Speaker 1Yeah it's just , he's an old soul .
Speaker 2He's older than us when it comes to an old soul .
Speaker 1Yeah , he actually has a savings account . Hey , tyler man , let's go hang out .
Speaker 2He's like it's 10 o'clock , I've got to get to bed .
Speaker 1I'm like no man , let's hang out and watch movies .
Speaker 3He's like no man watch movies he's like no , I gotta work tomorrow , I gotta make rice and go to bed . That comes from , uh . So I'm the , I'm the youngest of my siblings , I'm the baby , um , and that really comes from a sense of always being , uh , always feeling at like the stupid , immature little brother that no one wants to , the older siblings don't want to hang around with . Yeah , with a sense of now I'm trying to prove myself as an adult , right , yeah , trying to overcompensate . Yes , yeah , a hundred percent . Why ? Went to college , graduated from college , went into the military , did four years in the military , have a career , have a wife , have a house , other things , yeah , and yeah , feeling the need to , to , yeah , prove myself .
Speaker 2Yeah and I think that's the same . I could definitely see that how the youngest kid and I could see that out of the oldest as well . You know having to set the bar , yeah , and say , well , I'm the oldest , I have to have it together because everybody else is looking at me . I have to try , you know to , to have it together and and again with alia . I think that she kind of feels that pressure , you know , because she has a little brother and a little sister that both look at her and look up to her and she's out on her own and and she does a really good job . She's still , by by my standard as a parent , a little not immature . She's so mature for her age in so many areas . But kind of like , this is kind of how I was . I'm so I was really mature in a lot of areas but I didn't know a lot of life stuff Right , because I never really had to do it . You know , there's times now where I still to this day have questions for mom or for my friends .
Speaker 2Like hey , how do you change a tire ? No , come on now .
Speaker 3What's a miter saw ? Okay , now we're getting .
Speaker 2I'm like what's that one look like I kind of know . But yeah , where I have like questions to other people on , hey , this big life choice , how do I go about this ?
Speaker 1because I just never have done it well , and there's wisdom in a multitude count , multitude of counsel . You know it's it's it's never a bad idea to get multiple inputs on on a especially a big decision . It's like hey , I got this going on . What do you think ?
Speaker 2Yeah .
Speaker 1You know and you're going to . You take your own path , of course , but having that input of different people and not taking input from people that you shouldn't you know , if you see . If you see people that have a horrible marriage , don't go to them for marriage advice . If you see people that are almost homeless , don't go to them for marriage advice . Right , if you see people that are almost homeless .
Speaker 2Don't go to them for financial advice , yeah , common sense one . And understanding , not being so hard on yourself , and understanding there are certain things you just weren't taught as a kid that you're just not gonna know . That's not necessarily your fault , right , it's it . Now it's your responsibility to learn those things . You know , like , I'm starting to invest , starting to put my money in investments , and I'm just now doing that , on the brink of 40 years old , and I feel like , man , I've should have done this a long time ago , but I was never taught that . I was never taught , hey , your credit score matters . I was never taught you need to save . I was never taught how to run a bank account . I was never taught you need to invest your money to try to get a return on that . I was never taught those things . What I was taught was get what you need . That was kind of it , you know , because and it's nobody's fault , because , like my mom , she wasn't taught that either- Right .
Speaker 2You know . So I'm now trying to turn the tide and learn for myself so that now I could teach my younger kids hey , here's some things that you're going to need to know how to do to better set yourself up when you're on the brink of 40 . Oh , I hate that . I hate saying that . I don't like that at all A bad taste in your mouth Mm-mm .
Speaker 1Darn , I don't like it . Darn diddy , darn darn . Well , we were , you know we were raised poor . You were too , you know it's . It's just a whole nother reality from people that are raised with money . I mean , it's just it is .
Speaker 1I mean it's just not and it's it's kind of a stay in your lane situation . You know , when you're talking about earlier , when you're talking about buying a house , you know it's a whole nother level of knowing stuff . Oh my gosh , yeah , but I don't . I , you're a pastor , lead pastor of a church . Not everybody knows how to do that . You know , with me and jennifer , if I send her to the hardware store to get whatever I need for a project , she's gonna look at me like I have four heads yeah she sends me with the kids to the doctor .
Speaker 1Same thing . I have a cheat sheet in my wallet with all my kids , birthdays and and stuff . You know , information , it's just . It's . That's why we need help mates .
Speaker 2That's why we help each other through life yeah , and when you grow up with with the money , you don't learn a lot of those things because you just don't have the money to do those things . You know didn't learn what a credit score was because we had to hold on for dear life just to get the bills paid .
Speaker 2You know so now that I'm out and we've been blessed and and we're able to get to that point , it's like okay , now I have to learn all these things on how to do it and and hopefully I could learn well enough to teach the kids and set them on a good path . Because alia is the same way . We weren't able to teach her these things because we didn't know these things .
Speaker 2Sure you know so but it's breaking that generation , right , right and it's like also , don't beat yourself up over it , because you know you may just not have been taught how to do that yeah , I feel like the pressure for me is , you know , I had parents that raised me , that knew those things and taught me those things .
Speaker 3And now I'm in the thick of it and you get to those moments where like where you hang your head and you're like should have saw that coming .
Speaker 1Should have known how to do this Should have done that . But they I'm willing to bet that they didn't have it all figured out . You know , everybody makes mistakes . And allowing yourself to do that and then be like , okay , don't do that again , you know , instead of cause , some people will let that stuff just derail them completely .
Speaker 2Well , and that's what I was about to ask Cause I would guess correct me if I'm wrong Tyler , ty , ty , tyler Dwayne , tyler , duane , what ? Richardson ? Um , I would guess that because you were raised like that and because you're the youngest kid and because your military background , you beat yourself up a lot when you don't feel like you're living up to the adult that you should be live has really helped with that .
Speaker 3Yeah , because I like when we first got together and got married , I was as stingy and cheap as could be .
Speaker 1Yeah , toilet seat .
Speaker 3The toilet seat it's not completely falling off , so it's fine well then on by a thread well , and in that specific case , uh , my friend andrew had a conversation with me and what he said kind of , kind of put in perspective a little bit , because he was like he's like , listen , it's a toilet seat , how much does that cost ?
Speaker 3right , 15 20 bucks . Is 15 20 bucks worth making your wife happy , right ? I was like , yeah , I'll talk to you later . I'm gonna run to the store , I'm on my way now and and so so me and liver kind of are kind of opposite . People live doesn't know how to budget . I'm great with budgeting , so we kind of we , we balance each other . So when I get too stingy , she's like we've got the money . Look , we're not , it's not gonna hurt , we've got the money . You know what to do with the money . It's okay if we have this extra and and use it . I'm like where's that bullet ?
Speaker 2you're right , you're right yeah , yeah and it and it's just learning and growing every day . You know , like , okay , how could I be a better parent today ? Probably learning some of these things and these balances of life , like that would help , that would help my family out . How can I be a better husband today , learning when to give and when to take and when to to say , look , I'm really really tight with money . You
Home Repairs & DIY Confidence
Speaker 2want this thing that we really don't have to have , but look , I can meet you in the . Okay , cool , you know , let's do that . So that is where we realize that we're doing better than we have been or we've been in the past . You know where we're growing and learning and getting better at . Fill in the blank , right , you know , for me lately , especially moving into the , to the house , to the new house , is handyman stuff . Right , that I've never .
Speaker 2Not that I don't , because I can do more than a lot than I kind of put on right you know , but taking the initiative to do that and not just say , hey , well , do you come over and help me do this ? And like getting stuff done throughout the house , because that helps me be a better husband . When jamie needs something done , when the house needs something , I can just go and do it myself and I've always thought it was odd some of the stuff that you've asked me to come over and do it's just like you really needed me to do this yeah
Speaker 2like and I get it , it's easier to have somebody do it yeah well and and for me it's not even the ease of it , it's making sure it's done correctly . I'm always I'm always terrified of doing it wrong and something getting ruined , something , especially when it comes to a house that's not mine , right , like I'm scared to do something and damage the house that I could have had somebody come and do as easily and do it the correct way I get that away when I'm using , when I'm working with wiring yeah , electricity like I don't touch that well , no I didn't used to , but like putting up ceiling fans , new plugs , that's , I can do that .
Speaker 1It's real easy . But when I first started messing with it was like yeah I don't know , but jennifer's really bad about thinking I'm bob via right and be like hey , can you just put a new ? No , I can't you're right .
Speaker 2No , I'm not chip gains like come on well , yeah , bob via was a little way back . Yeah , yeah , but she , she thinks and I I guess it's good that she thinks I'm capable more than I am , but calm down , woman and I do that purposely , because that also kind of keeps her expectations it lowers the bar , you know ?
Speaker 3it's just like now it's out hey , under promise , over deliver .
Speaker 2That's exactly right yeah , but I really do . There's many times where I do . There's been times I don't know why I share this stuff with y'all . There has been times with an s . Multiple times I have done something in the house and the kids have came to me and I didn't know richard came over and I'm like what do you mean ? And they're like well , the shelf is up . And I'm like , yeah , I did that . And they're like is he here right now ? And I'm like are you just watch ?
Speaker 2back there , richard I'm like my own kids that's funny so I discipline them there , right there on the spot you're grounded , you know what ?
Speaker 3I'm gonna show you how I did .
Speaker 2First I grabbed the , the screwy thing like , and every time like I got zeke helping me do something you know , we put up a shelf the other day and he's like , yeah , you want me to get the toy toolbox . And I'm like you , little brat .
Speaker 3You need me to call Richard , I'm like my goodness .
Speaker 2Oh , that's so funny .
Speaker 1I know Jamie's said that before .
Speaker 2Yeah , call me .
Speaker 3Yeah , that's so funny .
Speaker 2Yeah , because it is . But it all stems back to I was just never .
Speaker 1That's not something I ever did well and it , you know , single mom , I didn't , you know , nobody taught me that stuff . It was stuff that I've learned from my cousin ken . I learned a lot from him and just just people I've been around , you know , I don't because I didn't just have them do it . I , I worked with them and learned this stuff instead of just watching , you know , from the sidelines or whatever . And there's nothing wrong with having somebody do the work you can't do . I mean , there's nothing wrong with that . Stay in your lane .
Speaker 1I'm not going to try to reprogram my computer thingy , the screen Case in point that thing , the keyboard thingy , Exactly . But that's just that . You . You learn stuff over . I'm 47 years old . I should have learned something by now , yeah well , and again , you know computer .
Speaker 2You didn't have that in school , right ? You know my ?
Speaker 1I took stones on a typewriter oh , wow with whiteout and everything , and then when I did it in the monitor on the monitor , they got mad whiteout on the monitor .
Speaker 3He had to buy his own chisels to write on stones you try to move the screen and just push it off .
Speaker 1Sorry force of habit , but I did in seventh seventh grade I took typing on a typewriter and yeah , because I knew it was .
Speaker 2it was sixth grade when we got our first that I can remember . Now we may have got it a little bit before this , but what I can remember , sixth grade was the first time we got an in-class computer , so an actual thing . So I mean it wasn't a long .
Speaker 1Now I'm going to date myself again . Freshman year of high school , I took a computer class , which I'll never , ever do again , but the first program that we worked with was called logo yeah and I don't know if you're familiar with . It's like a little turtle that you could like code to make it do .
Speaker 2I don't know it was yeah , a lot of years before . But it .
Speaker 1It just wasn't something that that was , and and we're losing that knowledge in our schools . Now to where we've come full circle , to where now we don't do checkbooks , we don't do anything in school for life skills , which a lot of that See yeah . How do you write a check there , Mike ?
Speaker 2Well , because a lot shut up , call Richard , because a lot . Google is your friend .
Speaker 1Not at the register though .
Speaker 2We just got to get better at seeing what is down the road .
Speaker 1Right .
Speaker 2And adjusting accordingly , Because growing up we were having to learn all these different ways of doing math . Because , you're not going to have a calculator in your pocket . But then oh we do , you know . So we wasted so much time learning , you know all these different things that we're not going to use now . So I think that the checkbook stuff like that falls into that category that in 10 years , right , that's not going to be a thing because it's all right there in .
Speaker 2Front of you don't need to balance it
Life Skills Schools Don't Teach
Speaker 2because it's just on the app , you know . But we need to . We need to figure out how to see that down the future and go okay , we need to adjust right now when these kids are in high school , to prepare them for that , you know .
Speaker 2But things like changing a tire , that's probably going to be around for a long time yeah , you know things like that you know , because we're not at all touching on any of the life skills that people are going to need to know when they get out of high school how to fill out a fast foot for yourself yeah , we're going through that right now with tristan , yeah we're blocked like I don't even know what we're supposed to do so then you got to call somebody and they're trying to explain it to you and you're you don't know what's going on , because the schools didn't teach you that .
Speaker 1Right .
Speaker 2You know , we're , we're . We're , in our case , learning how to write cursive , which nobody uses .
Speaker 1Yeah , I don't know the last time I wrote cursive .
Speaker 2I remember we spent a year , an entire school year , learning how to write cursive . Yeah , for what ? For nothing .
Speaker 1So that your kids can't read what you write . It's crazy .
Speaker 2It's crazy . So I think that would help prepare us better for when we do become an adult , and now we're more prepared for life to come at you .
Speaker 3I feel like I was in that sweet spot of learning kind of the older things and getting in to learn .
Speaker 2Like I know write a check , I know how to balance a checkbook , I know how to . I feel like y'all are attacking me . I don't like what's ?
Speaker 3uh ? No , there's something else . What else ? Um , I know how to write a letter .
Speaker 1I know how mail letter yeah , like I bought stamps today wow , yeah yeah we get a letter from the aarp too .
Speaker 3Oh , sorry , that was . I'm sorry that was me . Oh , that I . I saw , I saw an opportunity . I saw an opportunity and I took it . And you know what I ?
Speaker 1I apologize , I gotta tell you I wish I could take that for adriana's great graduation announcements yeah but it's first time I bought stamps and yeah like I had no idea how much they cost yeah , I couldn't I was like I don't know that's something else I'd have to google too .
Speaker 2Just like do I put main name goes here and my name goes here yeah , okay , yeah , yeah , yeah it's . It's weird stuff , man and that , and I mean even that is something that you don't really have to know right you could go to the post office go . Hey , I need to mail this letter okay , cool , do it for you and .
Speaker 2I mean even that is something that you don't really have to know , right , you could go to the post office and go hey , I need to mail this letter . Okay , cool , I'll do it for you . Yeah , what's ?
Speaker 1your address . Where's it going ? Okay , there you go . Yeah , if you want to mail it from your house , it's right , yeah .
Speaker 3It's just one of those things I don't want to go to the to . You know the very rare probably never will happen chance that I'm writing a letter to someone and mailing it to them . I don't want to go to the post office and be like so where is my name ? Is my name gone here and see ?
Speaker 2I would rather do that , and here's why Because our mail system . If you are a mail carrier , we appreciate your work , but good lord , have mercy , our mail system is so broken it's bad . I'd rather go to the post office and get it sent off like and pay a little bit to make sure I have a tracking number , I know where it's at , I know when it's getting there , I know where it's going , as opposed to put it in my mailbox and hope for the best and it's out there out today .
Speaker 1You know we moved up to another town for a few months and then we moved back . Well , I found out today that we did two change of address forms .
Speaker 2Yeah .
Speaker 1We moved and not a single thing has been forwarded from that post office . Yep , it all got sent back to sender . Yep , why ?
Speaker 2Because some postmaster didn't want to do their job . That's why and it drives me insane yep , it really does .
Speaker 3Yep , you could say they don't have it figured out .
Speaker 2Oh god um you couldn't say that , don't you have ?
Speaker 3don't you have that's mario world .
Speaker 1One , two , that's enough moving on transitioning .
Speaker 2Wow , that's that's . I don't even know what , just I feel like there's no effort put into that there was that was what that was that was when some old lady pulls out in front of you and you gotta downshift and hit the brakes .
Speaker 3I thought that was the sound that your car makes when you need to change your brakes .
Speaker 1Watch out , watch out , watch out this is what happens when your car education comes from Fast and the Furious .
Speaker 2That's right family .
Speaker 1Have you seen all the Tesla ? I'm telling you it's got a nasty hole man .
Speaker 2That's why you're unloading in third .
Speaker 1What it's Fast and Furious . He is crazy .
Speaker 2Let's race for pinks , are you done ? Sorry , family , sorry last little bit . What were you saying ?
Speaker 1have you seen all the tesla attacks ?
Speaker 2yes , I do , and it's nonsense it is . I agree , I mean that's yeah , makes me want one even more just so you can see ah , look what I got yeah , I drove by a tesla dealership last week yeah , did you throw a firebomb , or just you ? Didn't come back with one for me , so I'm not trying to hear it .
Speaker 3And I was like you are failing as an adult . That's fine . I'm just talking , richard , now oh like 20 cyber trucks them .
Speaker 1Things are so ugly I don't care , it's a status symbol and they're ugly and sorry you are really upset .
Speaker 3We were just talking about that yesterday , about porsches yep , like what about porsches ?
Speaker 1that people buy them super expensive . But what's so special about them ?
Speaker 3yeah , there's nothing that they're an italian sports car that you can fit two people in .
Speaker 1That's it I really do like the new corvettes though . Yeah , the stingrays yeah those are nice I would drive one mike , so go ahead and talk about something .
Speaker 3Talk about that's what's up ?
Speaker 2what is going on in your life ? You've been listening to watching a show , movie , songs , new musician new musician .
Speaker 1Well , I told you about american idol , so yeah , yeah , watching american idol . You was jumping ahead I like it and we , so we finished reacher season three oh good , I haven't started yet .
Speaker 3Oh dude . We have like three other shows . We're in the middle of .
Speaker 1Well , and I told you on the last podcast that I had nine shows , so we finished Reacher and we put another one in rotation .
Speaker 2What's the new one ?
Speaker 1It's called Alert . I don't know how I feel about it yet it's an ABC show maybe I don't know . I don't know how I feel about it . Yet it's an ABC show . Maybe I don't know , but it's I don't know . I'm still the jury's still out on it . It's got a lot of because I told Jennifer
TV Shows & Entertainment Updates
Speaker 1it's you know , we talk about this in movies all the time that you could suspend reality for a little bit . You know it's okay , this one is .
Speaker 2Yeah , really out there .
Speaker 3It's . This one is yeah , really out there . It's just making up stuff . Yeah , oh , we started actually watching what's it called I don't know great american family , good america , I think it's great american family on hulu . It's about this family and these parents adopt this little like seven-year-old girl , coming to find out seven-year-old girl has like a extremely rare form of dwarfism and it's like 20 something years old oh gosh , okay it's . It is uncomfortably unsettling watching it really I'm hooked like I get , like I feel my skin crawling when I watch it .
Speaker 2Is it like a thriller ?
Speaker 3Yes .
Speaker 1Is it a documentary ?
Speaker 3They have a documentary and then they made it into a TV series it's got the woman that plays Meredith Grey on Grey's Anatomy on it .
Speaker 1I know who that is . It's been a pretty big story recently because I guess the dna came back on this , on this lady . She's like yeah , she's like 23 , 24 or something now . Yeah , it's yeah what's that on .
Speaker 3It's on hulu , the documentary and the series . I have to check that out you won't it . It's crazy yeah .
Speaker 1What do you got going on , Mike ?
Speaker 2Man , we watched last night , so the other day we watched the Final Destination .
Speaker 1Oh , classic .
Speaker 2So then we watched the second one and I realized , after the first one and about halfway through the second one I do not like these movies as much as I thought .
Speaker 1Oh really , I haven't seen them in a long time .
Speaker 2Well , it's just , you go through the whole movie and they're and the premise is amazing and they're trying to figure out how to , how to fix this and blah , blah , blah , and then by the end it happens anyway . So it's like what's the point in the movie at all ? Yeah , and it's so frustrating I got , I was just so mad .
Speaker 2I'm like you know , babe , I realize I really don't like this because it's kind of just a way the whole it's just a waste , because at the end it's like , oh , everything that we were trying to do during the movie didn't work , here , somebody . And then the end it's like , all right , so they thought they had it figured out . Yeah , not very happy with it , it's all about figuring things out today so that was it got our record player for the house oh yeah , I'm excited about that you going on any fun trips lately .
Speaker 2Yes , we did . We went and seen the boston celtics , your 2024 champions about to be back to back 2024 , 2025 nba champions . Boston celtics saw them play in memphis against the memphis grizzlies . Wow , and it was beautiful absolutely beautiful . It was cool getting to take tyler and zeke . It was awesome .
Speaker 2Yeah , it was his birthday present , but it was really a present for me yeah , really had nothing to do with it , so it was really it was great to to get to spend that time and and just watch him light up and take pictures and videos and man , it was so awesome , me and jimmy and jennifer went to branson last week yeah for our vacation and it was so amazing to have that time alone with jennifer .
Speaker 1It was we . We laughed more than we've laughed in a long time together , so what y'all do , what do they not ?
Speaker 2do is the easier question .
Speaker 1Yeah the coolest thing there was .
Speaker 3Uh , david , oh yeah , yeah , I do want to see that man I'm talking about .
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Speaker 1Yeah , right , right , come on man only thing I didn't like about it was the seating like they're timed , they're small seats .
Speaker 3they are small seats . They are small seats . I remember that You're very crowded .
Speaker 1Yeah .
Speaker 2Mm-hmm , very nice . Yeah , that's about it . Oh , switch 2 was announced today . Gosh Not announced . It was announced a while back , but today they had the Direct . And oh my goodness .
Speaker 3It's the first thing he's talked about when I showed up at his house .
Speaker 2Yes , I am so excited I was . Yes , I am so excited I was up this morning 7 am with a coffee in my hand just waiting on it to start . Man , it is gonna be amazing . Comes out june 5th . Holler at your boy . I will be pre-ordering that bad boy .
Speaker 1Ah , holler at your boy , yeah , new mario kart I'm so . They can't see your thumbs up that wasn't a thumbs .
Speaker 2I was counting on my finger , but it was just one , and that was it , gotcha I thought he's like no , can you ?
Speaker 3can you hear my thumbs up ?
Speaker 2and you hear the thumb tonight so I'm I don't know , I am so excited . Sorry , my brain got foggy .
Speaker 1How many coffees have you had today ? Just ?
Speaker 2one , just the one , at seven o'clock this morning , while I was watching the new nintendo switch and the one that presentation , the one at nine and the one at 10 and he's about to have the one I am about to have one at 11 , that's for sure that's
Final Thoughts & Episode Closing
Speaker 2gonna happen . Well , good for you , yeah , but I am really , really excited for a lot of uh upgrades to a lot of necessary things and it's gonna be great man I'm super excited for you .
Speaker 1Thank , you .
Speaker 2I appreciate it , you're welcome , appreciate it .
Speaker 3I feel the same , same as these . I'm indifferent .
Speaker 2What else y'all got on your heart Heart ?
Speaker 1mind life . That's about it , man , all right cool .
Speaker 3Richard got me air guitar strings yeah .
Speaker 1It's a bag of nothing .
Speaker 3Yeah , that's pretty awesome it's like the the bag from the spongebob , the first spongebob movie , the bag of air .
Speaker 2Oh , my gosh wasn't uh keanu keanu reeves the tumbleweed oh , he might have been . Yeah , it's bigger boot so funny , alright , well , I love y'all love you too and if anybody would like to donate to the new Nintendo Switch , for me .
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