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Change Is Inevitable: Will You Sink or Swim?
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After three years and three months of trying for a baby, Tyler and Liv finally have exciting news to share! The Almost Brothers crew gathers for an emotional announcement that sparks a profound conversation about life's biggest transitions and how we face them.
When Tyler called for an impromptu family meeting, everyone feared the worst—but what awaited them was a celebration years in the making. Through tears, laughter, and genuine vulnerability, the group explores what it truly means to navigate uncharted waters. As Liv reflects on seeing those positive pregnancy tests, she admits, "It's something you think you can prepare for, but it's not at all like that." Her candid confession resonates with anyone who's ever faced a significant life change.
The conversation naturally expands to everyone's experiences with major transitions—from Richard and Jennifer fostering numerous children over the years to Michael and Jamie's temporary move away from the family. What emerges is a beautiful testament to how family bonds help us weather storms and celebrate triumphs. As the group notes, even when we're unprepared for change, having people who show up makes all the difference.
Between heartfelt reflections and typical Almost Brothers banter (including an ongoing joke about manslaughter that takes on a life of its own), this episode reminds us that while change itself is inevitable, we get to choose who we navigate it with. Join this authentic conversation about family, fear, excitement, and everything in between—and perhaps reflect on your own support system along the way.
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Episode Introduction
Speaker 1Fresh water. That is not what I thought you were going to say what. Yeah, and they're on the rise, they're on the rise yes, what do you mean they're on the rise. That means their population is going up.
Speaker 5I think you made that up.
Speaker 4He's trying to make it funny and it's not funny.
Speaker 2What who me?
Speaker 6What do you mean?
Speaker 2Don't believe everything he says I literally asked what do you mean on the rise?
Speaker 4I thought you were saying like on their eyes, like you were trying to make it funny no, I wouldn't.
Speaker 2I wanted to know. I wanted to know what he meant by they're on the rise. Well, like plotting against us or something.
Speaker 1Haven't y'all ever seen sharknado?
Speaker 5It's a true, that's based on a true story, ian Ziering's greatest hits.
Speaker 1Writing it down.
Speaker 3No.
Speaker 5Like he can write. That's so funny.
Speaker 1Man, what's up, what's up, what's up'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 are going to be talking about uncharted waters. Change, everybody's favorite word sharks no sharks, don't? Well, I mean, we could talk about sharks and how I'm a shark attack survivor. You are not. Oh my gosh, I know my truth. I did. I punched him in the face and he took off.
Speaker 5Oh, gosh, you're in church. You should not lie.
Speaker 1Haters man, have you been attacked by a shark?
Speaker 2No, I don't know where sharks are. Not only is he in church, he's the pastor of the church we're in.
Speaker 5I don't go where sharks hang out. We're not buddies. I'm not going to do it.
Speaker 1This shark came to me. It did not.
Speaker 6No, it didn't. Yes, it did. No, it didn.
Speaker 1So anyway, as you can hear, we have Richard, as always. How's it going?
Speaker 5What's up? How are you doing? It's a good day, man.
Speaker 1It is a good day. You're right, Ty Ty. How are you doing today, Hi man? A few words. And also we have the Almost Sisters on with us today. Jen Bunny, how are you doing? I'm good, what's up, what's up.
Speaker 3She knows how much she's about to fall asleep.
Speaker 5She's a bear cat survivor. Oh, bear cat attack survivor. And that's just as true as your story. You see what?
Speaker 4he's trying to say that was a close one. All right, it was close.
Speaker 3It was between her and my spatula you had that spatula.
Speaker 5It had been all over. She didn't have that spatula.
Speaker 1It should be a goner yeah.
Speaker 4That funny. Oh and live. How are you doing good? Good, yeah, you've been attacked by any crazy animals.
Speaker 1I've been chased by a goose. How afraid, yeah, how afraid were you I was terrified for my life our stories are true too. Five yeah I was also five so ours are true, too okay that sounds scary not as geese are hey they're.
Speaker 4They are so aggressive? Yeah, they have little teeth. Did you know that? No, but that they have little teeth on there, oh, that's terrifying.
Speaker 1You know how scary ostriches are.
Speaker 5They are terrifying creatures.
Speaker 1I don't, yeah, yeah. They look dangerous and they are they just look, uh like man? Yeah, not good. Yeah, james, how are you doing?
Speaker 6hey, the the best co-host you mean my number one favorite co-host I can't believe.
Speaker 1She just said that to my face I've been waiting behind the scenes fight.
Speaker 5speaking of your truth, that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1You're my favorite. That's true.
Speaker 5That doesn't make you the favorite, but it makes you his favorite.
Speaker 6I am, I'm the favorite.
Speaker 1I wonder we need to do a poll.
Speaker 5Who's the favorite? Do it online. Comment on the show.
Speaker 1Comment and let us know who's your favorite. But yeah, we're going to be talking about change.
Speaker 5Change Comment and let us know who's your favorite, but yeah, we're going to be talking about change, change.
Speaker 1Yeah, because there's something that we're specifically wanting to talk about. This episode we're really, really excited about.
Speaker 2Surprise yes.
Speaker 1Surprise. Yes, it was a big surprise. I was a little scared I'm not going to lie when it all went down the way they did it. I was like either this is really good or really really bad. One or the other.
Speaker 6You need to name this episode Breaking News.
Speaker 3I don't know why I did it, that's why she's not the best co-host she takes over.
Speaker 1Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2The title changed right in the middle of the episode.
Speaker 6I just get these ideas and they just pop up and I have to say them.
Speaker 5We talked last episode about you not having the brain mouth filter. Apparently it's a simmons thing right.
Speaker 1What do you think I?
Speaker 6learned it from after 19 years golly man.
Speaker 1So what is going on in y'all's lives? We're gonna start with the randall family.
Speaker 5Oh, let's don't, can we not? Oh, okay I'll start on the dog we, uh, we did lose and find our dog last night oh, okay, that's just a day.
Speaker 6That was one day in the randall that's just a day, yeah no, she had a night out on the town.
Speaker 4She sure did.
Speaker 5She got a little bit no bella a little bit, a little bit she gets out and goes to the front door. That's as far as she's going yeah, she's like hey.
Speaker 1I'm out here, hey, I'm out here, hey guys, hey y'all.
Speaker 2I'm right here. Y'all must have forgotten about me, yeah.
Speaker 5But no, she got out last night and we were worried and then she found her this morning morning. There you go, nice, I know zane.
Speaker 1Zane killed it at the lego set.
Speaker 2He did really good oh my god I'm really excited you got me worried there for a second because you're like zane killed it.
Speaker 1Oh the dog, what he, what hold?
Speaker 2on, we got it back this morning. Zane killed it.
Speaker 3Yeah, man, that's messed up.
Speaker 2I'll be getting out again, off to the taxidermist.
Speaker 1Right. So shout out to the Randall family and doing Lego sets for me.
Speaker 5I appreciate that. Yeah, he's quite the little Lego genius. He's a prodigy.
Speaker 1He did it in like an hour and a half. Yeah, that's crazy. There it is, and that was like a thousand pieces, something like that.
Speaker 5And if you give him a Rubik's Cube, nah.
Speaker 1Not doing it.
Speaker 5Yeah, we were driving home from church and he got it at church and he kept saying I got this side done.
Speaker 1I was like that's not the point, you ain't even barely going.
Speaker 6I seen him messing with it. I said, can you figure that out?
Speaker 2He was just like I'm trying so fun fact, there's algorithms with Rubik's cubes, If you didn't know that. So you finish one side. There's certain patterns you have to follow to complete it.
Speaker 5It's not just oh, I'm guessing.
Speaker 2It's not going to work. You have to follow the certain patterns.
Speaker 5Another fun fact if you throw a Rubik's Cube, it flies really far. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1I heard hey, that's breaking news.
Speaker 6That is.
Speaker 3I like it. It's catching on, ain't it?
Speaker 2It's catching on Don't touch me. This is what she does like.
Speaker 5I have an idea at the house and she's like oh yeah, your idea, let's not do that, here's a better one, here's a better one. Let's take your idea, trash that, yes, and do what I want.
Speaker 1Oh babe, that is so good to not do. Let's do what I want to do.
Speaker 6That's going to happen.
Speaker 2She looks at you, bless your heart, you're actually trying to do things.
Speaker 5Yeah, it's okay, I still love you.
Speaker 3I know.
Speaker 1In our household, we've had our 19 year anniversary.
Speaker 5We went out to eat last night. Stop doing that.
Speaker 1Finger snaps there you go, that's Finger snaps there you go, that's better, there you go. There you go.
Speaker 5That was awesome.
Speaker 1Just kind of reminiscing we hung out last night.
Speaker 6What was it called Skinny J's.
Speaker 1Skinny J's.
Speaker 6Yeah.
Speaker 1It was really good. Good burgers.
Speaker 5Of course that's what you got.
Speaker 1That's what I got. What'd you get?
Speaker 6Chicken melt.
Speaker 5That's right, you know it's pretty amazing when you go to a restaurant, they serve other stuff besides burgers.
Speaker 1It's unbelievable, I don't believe that it's true I don't believe that that is insane no, I just got stick every, every time I go away from my usual. I'm mad I didn't go with my usual you know why?
Speaker 5because you can't order that's true too.
Speaker 2I'll start sitting down sweating a burger go to me, go to a new place, not let them have a menu, be like they don't have burgers yep, they have burgers, our last anniversary we went to that really fancy restaurant oh, I was so mad he said I've seen a picture of a burger on the reviews.
Speaker 1I don't got burgers like no, no, so we got a charcuterie board.
Speaker 6Yeah yeah, I guess that's of like random, like finger foods.
Speaker 1It was like 70 dollars for like cheese and grapes and like pieces of sausage and crackers.
Speaker 2That's appetizer, that's not a meal you paid 70 bucks for that just that, okay.
Speaker 1So then I'm like horrible investment. Yeah, it was bad and I'm like, well, clearly I can't just eat this, and they don't have any burgers, so I don't know what to do.
Speaker 4Chicken strips so I'm like you're freaking out at this point, so all I've seen was baked potato.
Speaker 1So I'm like, okay, I'll get a baked potato too. 30, and it was a baked sweet potato and it was 12 for just a baked sweet potato.
Speaker 2There's really not a huge difference between that's not true well, I'm talking like nutrition, oh okay, oh yeah, not a big difference between which I like sweet potatoes.
Speaker 1But I was just. I don't want to pay 13 for one.
Speaker 5Yeah for a so I left.
Baby Announcement Surprise
Speaker 1I left that place very unhappy you sound like you're still very, very unhappy did you give a google review no, no, I didn't but he did a yelp one.
Speaker 4It was a good there you go?
Speaker 5no, yahoo, it was terrible. We made Jennifer look stupid in Walmart.
Speaker 3Yes, I was just fixing to say that. Yep, okay, I was walking through Walmart yesterday and I was listening to the podcast.
Speaker 5Telling which episode.
Speaker 3About your check episode.
Speaker 5And I was laughing.
Speaker 3Walking around Walmart. So people were looking at me and I was laughing. Walking around Walmart buying my clothes.
Speaker 2So people were looking at me and they said he's nuts. That's why you got to stop and be like no, no, no, listen to this. That is so awesome, not a shameless plug.
Speaker 5just listen to how dumb this is yeah, it was good.
Speaker 1I knew I shouldn't have shared that you should have. We're glad you did.
Speaker 5Oh, that's in the greatest hits is where that is.
Speaker 1It was pretty bad.
Speaker 5That's what was going on in our household this week.
Speaker 1How about the Wilkerson's? What's going on in y'all's life, uh-oh.
Speaker 3Uh-oh.
Speaker 2You want me to say it.
Speaker 1I don't know why you're being quiet I'm always quiet, so do you want me to lead the way on how y'all got us to your house? Yeah, sure, so we all get a text and it's like, hey, we, we get, we need a family meeting tonight, we need everybody to meet at our house.
Speaker 3And it's like, oh, okay, and then everybody's like okay, yeah, it's like everybody's like okay, cool, yeah, we could be there, we could be there.
Speaker 1And it's like so now we all start calling each other, right, and we're all like okay, have you heard?
Speaker 2yeah, have you heard anything? Have you heard anything?
Speaker 1and I'm like it's either really good or really bad. I was like I don't know if they're trying to trick us or if it really is pretty bad, and they just need to meet with everybody. So you kind of go in and it's like man, I don't know, what do you think?
Speaker 4well, and there has been a lot of negative stuff happening yes, so it's like one thing after another like oh man, here we go. I was surprised nobody called me. I was like, okay, cool, that's fine well and yeah, as soon as, like he sent, I think it was taught. Yeah, tyler sent the text out. Mikey calls. He's like hey, what's?
Speaker 1up. Yeah, yep tyler's like act all sad I know, yes, mysterious, he was selling it. I'm like is everything okay? And he's like well, he's like we just need to talk to y'all. And I'm just like, okay, like so, it's like something serious that he can't even talk about before that.
Speaker 5So I'm like, hmm the FBI has bugged his phone. Yeah.
Speaker 3I told.
Speaker 5Liv.
Speaker 2I told Liv I was like you've got to lie your butt off if you talk to anyone and I'm terrible at lying. I was telling her because me and Richard had that work meeting before meeting with y'all.
Speaker 6I forgot about that too. I was in a bad mood. Yeah, that helped me sell it. I told Liv I was in a bad mood.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, yeah. That helped me sell it. I told them I was like, don't you, I wouldn't just say anything if they're sitting there waiting. I had to keep my mouth shut.
Speaker 1Yeah, and then she kept leaving.
Speaker 2Like she kept leaving the room.
Speaker 4She's like hold up, let me go. I got to go.
Speaker 1I was going to be like gotta run in here real quick and it's just like interesting. Yeah, it was cool, though everybody dropped what they were doing and showed up that's what you do for family that's right, we had, bunny, I think you were at work, right or something.
Speaker 1You had a meeting. So you faced, I mean it's just that's awesome that we all kind of like, okay, cool, let's figure this out. Yep, and it was. Uh, it was nerve-wracking, because then Tyler gets home and he's screaming about work, and then I wasn't screaming, I was hollering. There's a difference and then he came in and then y'all two were like standing there and we're all just like just like right now we're just still looking at him, still anticipation, just like what is happening right now? Tell us what is happening right now.
Speaker 5Tell us what is happening right now.
Speaker 6Yeah, tell the listeners.
Speaker 2Yeah, me too.
Speaker 4Breaking news. I'm looking at you. Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 2Okay. Well, me and Liv found out that we are pregnant. Woo With emotion, with emotion me and Liv found out that we are pregnant with emotion with emotion it would be so funny if you accidentally press the womp womp after how long have y'all actively been trying?
Speaker 1three and a half years that's a.
Speaker 4I have an exact number okay oh, of course sorry come on with the number three years and three months that is awesome after sorry three years and a quarter yeah right, not a half you're so off three and a half of a half matters. It matters.
Speaker 1Man and after all that Because that's what we all have talked about with each other is like praying for y'all and being there with y'all. It's like if anybody deserves to have a baby, it's y'all. It's like man. Such an amazing couple and you see people out that want to give their kids up and don't want anything to do with them. It's like man. We really hope that they could have that after trying for so long.
Speaker 3So that we can babysit.
Speaker 1That's also how far exactly are you right now.
Speaker 4I am nine weeks today.
Speaker 1Oh, that's so awesome Rock and roll.
Speaker 4They're the size of a mini pancake.
Speaker 2A little mini pancake.
Speaker 6A little pancake it tells you every week how big it gets.
Speaker 2Right now what was the? A little pancake. It tells you every week how big it gets. Okay, so right now, what was the one where you told me because it was like a dessert or a vegetable or something and you told me two things, and those are completely different sizes. What was it? It was like two weeks ago. He just made it up I tell you probably, yeah, was it like a? Um, I can't, I really can't. But she told me I was like live isn't one like a bean or something why are you asking?
Speaker 5why are you looking at me?
Speaker 1I don't know, you've got 14 kids.
Speaker 5That doesn't make me an ob-gyn doctor. I'm pretty close. Well, I mean I could deliver a pretty close.
Speaker 6I think at 17 I'm a midwife on the side card.
Speaker 2I've got the skills that's right I can't remember what it was, but she, she told me hey good story, tyler. Yeah, you're welcome and I was like that's that's how.
Speaker 1This is how tyler's stories go.
Speaker 4Yes, it is you were confused, so it was like hot chocolate packet marshmallow.
Speaker 1It was what. Say it again.
Speaker 4The hot chocolate packets.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, those mini little marshmallows in there, I was talking about those.
Speaker 4He thought I was talking about the big marshmallows. No, no, no, not the big.
Speaker 2No, she's like the tiny, tiny, tiny marshmallows. I was thinking of the small penny-sized one. And then so well, I've never used those packets, so I didn't know. And so I'm thinking and then what was the other one? It was a sesame seed. A sesame seed. I was like Liv, you can fit 200 sesame seeds in one of those marshmallows. What is happening? What kind of science is this?
Speaker 1It's just so exciting it is like, and when y'all finally told us we were all jumping around. It's like jamie pushed zaley on the ground. How are you gonna push our baby down? The fact of an announcement of another baby they didn't even know what was going on.
Speaker 2It's so funny because you could see Zaley's face just.
Speaker 5And she only had two stitches. She's fine. Yeah, that limp went away.
Speaker 1So when do y'all find out what boy or girl?
Speaker 4we can find out tuesday dang, that's quick.
Speaker 5Yeah, well, they can actually tell you through a blood test. That's crazy. So y'all are doing a gender reveal party, right?
Speaker 4we're gonna do something. I know that we're gonna find out together. Just us first yeah, yeah and then I think we're going to do the like the cake thing where you cut into it.
Speaker 1I was about to say I have an idea. Oh we don't want that. I have an idea.
Speaker 2I feel like Michael at this point. When Michael says I have an idea, it's the same reaction as when I say who wants to hear a joke?
Speaker 6Yeah, that's true, or is it that? Oh no, I'm just. I'm based on reactions. I have an idea. Do it? Are you good, stop looking at me like that, so I can change it.
Speaker 1She's already got another one. So I think, get a guitar and you put the like color on the inside and then you it.
Speaker 4That would actually be pretty cool. He's not going to break a guitar.
Speaker 1You could buy an older guitar or one from Walmart for like $30.
Speaker 4From the mission.
Speaker 2Sounds like a horrible idea.
Speaker 1See Liv's digging it.
Speaker 2Should we tell them about the picture? Announcements About the idea.
Speaker 4It's going to be out by then.
Speaker 5We already know Tyler.
Speaker 2What do you mean? You already know.
Speaker 5That you're having a baby.
Speaker 1I think he's talking about some announcement. I know what he's talking about.
Speaker 5Thank you, Mike.
Speaker 2So what we're going to do, we're going to he was a bit aggressive.
Speaker 6Yeah, tyler, tell your idea, so I can change it.
Speaker 2Never mind, I'm just kidding. We're going to go to our church and we're going to have us sitting on the stage. We're going to be sitting on the stage, I'm whichever yeah, I don't know. We're going to be sitting on stage, I'm going to have my guitar, Liv's going to have a microphone and then in between us I'm going to find like a little tiny, little baby size guitar and maybe get like a like a floor mic and put a microphone on it and break the guitar and no.
Speaker 5Oh sorry, no, oh sorry.
Speaker 2And then like, slide the ultrasound, like in between the strings, very cool.
Speaker 3That's cool To announce to the church.
Speaker 2Okay now Jamie, what's your idea? I still think.
Speaker 6You should break a guitar. It's very rock and roll.
Speaker 1See. We can do that.
Speaker 2We can do that For a gender reveal See.
Speaker 3That's what they're.
Speaker 1They're still talking about.
Speaker 2We're not talking about the reveal.
Speaker 5I was talking about our announcements oh no, that's what I was talking about. I thought we were honest. I was with you, tyler have you ever seen?
Speaker 1have you ever seen that video of the kid? That's like I, I, I because I, I, because this is I, I you shut your mouth that is tyler and you bite your tongue off. Wow, talk about aggressive. Then I couldn't be on the podcast.
Speaker 2Oh no, that's why I'm power-pricing you.
Speaker 5You can't have. There is no podcast.
Speaker 2Today Junior.
Speaker 1That's how we feel when you're telling the story. Please just get to the point.
Speaker 5Y'all know that place. I was at one time.
Speaker 1You remember? Yeah, so the other day I was at. Where was I at? You're telling us.
Speaker 2We don't know where you were at it takes me a minute to collect my thoughts we want to know where you were at they're everywhere, they're random and everywhere so what do you care if it's a boardorg?
Speaker 1Are you leaning one way more than the other Of what you would want?
Speaker 5After three and a half years or, excuse me, three and a quarter years. Don't get it right.
Speaker 2She's about to jump across this table, my bad.
Speaker 4I don't care. Either way, I think it's a girl. I don't know, I just feel like it's a girl.
Speaker 5Fill in your bones.
Speaker 4I know that he wants to have a girl. He just feel like it's a girl filling your bones and then I know that he wants to have a girl yeah he's always talked about being a girl dad yeah, it's fun.
Speaker 5It's a lot of fun and challenging and frustrating and heartbreaking. And all the, all, the, all the best and worst.
Speaker 4We started way up here and ended up way down here real quick. Oh yeah, no.
Speaker 2No, no, never mind.
Speaker 5Hey, but on the bright side. Being a boy dad is also heartbreaking.
Speaker 1And tough yeah.
Speaker 5No, I just stopped right there. Oh, just heartbreaking.
Speaker 3That's it Okay.
Speaker 1And what I'm most excited about is again our family you know, our extended family of a new member coming in. You know it's just so awesome. Yeah, bunny, I know you are. You just got a new grandkid, so now you've got another baby coming into the picture. How pumped are you? I am.
Speaker 3I got baby stuff like all the time the baby's got to get the tattoo.
Speaker 2That's initiation.
Speaker 6That's initiation money.
Speaker 5I think there are laws against that.
Speaker 1Man and I know it was awesome. The baby stuff just makes you want one no, it doesn't, it absolutely does not. Oh maybe it's just no maybe it's just us, I don't know. I'm just saying like when tyler, we were at uh memphis and we were at the gap, he was getting the little baby outfit. I'm just like there's so much cute baby stuff, I want another one. I get that. I was just like there's so much cute baby stuff, I want another one.
Speaker 2I get that.
Speaker 5I was like, oh, he's gonna call jamie I get that way when I see baby, like the babies that were here today. Yeah, that's, but that's enough for me.
Speaker 1I don't want to go. Yeah, no more, I want to go have a baby I just want to hold that baby this is fun here you go yep yep so how we'll start with y'all, because y'all have this huge change that's about to happen in your life. It's already is happening, but how scared were you when you found out that news. Like you, could be prepared, but scared and how did that. Like yay, a baby, like oh, and like oh, are we ready? Oh gosh, oh no we're not ready we got to prepare.
Speaker 3We got to prepare. Oh, he's collecting his thoughts.
Speaker 2No, I thought you were going to answer first. Do you want me to? I don't care.
Speaker 4Not too much. Okay, our daughter is going to get it from me.
Speaker 2It won't be me. I was like we got to face the reality there's going to be another me running around here.
Speaker 1Let that sink in. Let that sink in. That's terrifying.
Speaker 2Let that sink in. Knock on my door. Who's there A sink? Let that sink in? That's terrifying. Let that sink in. Knock on the door. Who's there A sink? Let that sink in. Can we turn his mic off for a minute? We can Shut up. It was funny.
Speaker 4No so interesting fact.
Speaker 2I don't know what she's about to say.
Speaker 4I said I don't know what you're about to say. I said I don't know what you're about to say. Okay, well, you can chill out. Um, so I actually found out on saint patrick's day, the 17th yeah um, not this month, obviously. Um, because it's april, but obviously yeah, at the time of recording.
Speaker 2Okay, okay.
Speaker 4so I found out on St Patrick's Day. Found out on St Patrick's Day, and so, like I found out, that morning, tyler had already gone to work and I had to wait until he got home that afternoon and I was in St Louis all day yeah, at like 5 o'clock longest day ever I thought I was was gonna lose my mind because I was like I really want to like, call, like on it and I I have like the whole thing recorded.
Speaker 4It's like 20 minutes long and I'm crying like 10 minutes of that oh wait, I think I heard.
Speaker 2No, that's just somebody going by, okay, well I'd imagine the dogs are going or driving you nuts, because they will. They think everyone is at the door pulling into the driveway.
Speaker 4Yeah, and it's a leaf, yeah yeah, it's like they pull up to the stop sign and then it's like, oh, our best friends are here. What? Yeah, yeah, what like I almost didn't record it yeah. Like I was. Like you know, I've recorded so many of these and like they've all come out negative, like there's you know, it's like I was just kind of tired of it at that point.
Speaker 4But um which, this time it was different cause I was on medication, so so I was like I might as well go ahead and do it, not expecting anything. Like when I watched the video. It's so funny because I'm like I just rolled out of bed, I don't have pants on, I have a sweatshirt on and I haven't brushed my hair.
Speaker 1I look homeless.
Speaker 3Okay, I do.
Speaker 4It's bad.
Speaker 5Homeless chic.
Speaker 4Oh my gosh, it was so funny, so um and.
Speaker 5I yawn like 5 000 times in the video like before I even take the test.
Speaker 1It wasn't 5 000.
Speaker 5Okay, let it go um. Go ahead. I was stopping him for doing that.
Speaker 1No, it's just exaggerations. Drive me crazy because I try to picture the story as it's happening, like how you're 5,000 times late. That's a lot.
Speaker 4You just lost him.
Speaker 5He's over there thinking how does anybody yawn 5,000? Was she counting the 5,000?
Speaker 1She ran out of iPhone memory on her phone. That would be a long video, those clicker things.
Speaker 2She had a dry erase board just tallying.
Speaker 1Yawn count.
Speaker 4Just tally on the mirror sorry, carry on and so um no so I look crazy anyways and I'm like clearly not expecting anything at all, like I'm not, like I'm not expecting a positive yeah at all you know and I always like pictured the day that I would take a pregnancy test to be positive that I would like know that it's gonna be.
Speaker 1You know what I mean right, I just instinctively know yeah it's just like oh, I know how I'm gonna react no um, no, it did not happen at all how I expected.
Speaker 4Um, I took, uh, two tests at first. I I took one of the little strip ones. I'd never taken one before. I was like I don't know how this works.
Speaker 5Pee on the stick.
Speaker 4I took one of the little strip ones, and then I also did one of those clear blue, not where it reads the word out to you.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 5We were having a conversation, okay.
Speaker 4Where it just has the lines or whatever on it, and so, like, not even 30 seconds after dipping the first one, it was like already showing a second line, but I was like you can see me like in the video like look at it and like make a face, like hold on yeah. And I'm like wait. Hasn't even been a minute and there's already a second line there, like, sorry, I'm like wait hasn't even been a minute and there's already a second line there, like, so I'm like okay super pregnant apparently got a cape on.
Speaker 5I'll give you that one.
Speaker 1That was pretty good now I see her running around the house with a cape on yawning 5,000 times.
Speaker 3Her superpower is yawning.
Speaker 5We're not on video, Tyler.
Speaker 6No, I wish we were.
Speaker 2Just imagine it like Michael is. That's funny.
Speaker 4No, it was. Yeah, I was like. I was like okay, let's calm down, let's not get too excited it's like you know. I didn't know, like if you had to wait a certain amount of time, if it had to get darker, like I have no idea. So I was like, okay, I'm supposed to wait five minutes.
Speaker 1The other one is flipped over so I can't read it yeah, yeah, it's the one that, like, actually says it, right, no, not okay I took that one last how many did you take?
Speaker 4I took like four, oh wow you wanted to make real sure? Yeah, all right I was like well, there are faulty pregnancy tests out there right, maybe I got all of them.
The Family's Reaction
Speaker 1You know every single one maybe the first three of those.
Speaker 4Like I just gotta make sure you know but um, no, so I like wait the five minutes or whatever. And then I flip it over and I like start freaking out, of course, like excited, and I'm crying and like of course I'm happy, and then I'm like like what am I gonna do? Yeah, like you know, like it's not. It's, it's something you think you can prepare for, but it's not at all like that like you're like um hold on this is like a reality yeah I don't know what to do you start feeling seriously inadequate.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's like oh no, am I ready for this?
Speaker 4it's like I know this is what we were, you know, working towards. Yeah, it's like, oh, no, am I ready for this? And it's like I know this is what we were working towards yeah. It's like this is for real.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 4So and then I was like, okay, well, I need to do this other one where it actually reads it. I was like I need to see it in writing, Just in case.
Speaker 2I have to see this in writing, in the fine print.
Speaker 5You got to show me writing in the fine print like I gotta be able to read it. Yeah and yep. Well, just so you know, nothing ever goes as prepared. Yeah, you'll never be ready for it and they all change.
Speaker 1So you have one kid and think you're prepared for a second and then it's completely different.
Speaker 6yeah and oh, and you'll get the realization when they actually get here and they like like, get them all cleaned up and will them in there to you and they're just like OK, bye. You're like help, Don't leave me. What do I do?
Speaker 4Go with me oh my gosh. It was so funny when I record. I recorded his reaction. I tried to record everybody. This is kind of hard to, but I recorded his reaction. I tried to record everybody. It was kind of hard to, but I recorded his and at the end of the video that's literally what he says. He's like wiping his eyes from like the tears and stuff. He goes. What do we do now? Which was you have a baby?
Speaker 1which was awesome, like some emotion coming out of a robot right cyborg, so my eyes are leaking what is? This human emotion. There are water coming out of my eyes. Now what do we do?
Speaker 5baby on the way wow, that was a lot of robot noise right there. That's what he's been waiting on so he could, just so he could do that have a robot voice.
Speaker 1We don't have a button for that I'm just gonna mute my microphone at this point and you spelled it wrong. It's d u oh, uh-oh uh You're the one that pronounces it wrong. Take the redneck out of your voice and then we'll be able to.
Speaker 6It's not an E-R.
Speaker 5I don't know that it matters. It's okay, Mike.
Speaker 6It does. It's in the Geneva Convention.
Speaker 5She knows her truth.
Speaker 6That's right Okay.
Speaker 1Haters.
Speaker 4Hello Tyler.
Speaker 1When it finally sank in. What about you, oh man?
Speaker 4Because it hasn't for me, honestly.
Speaker 1Because y'all have been married. What five years It'll be yeah.
Speaker 5Four years. What's the exact number? I just want to know.
Speaker 2It is April and it'll be four years in July. July, yeah.
Speaker 1Cool, okay, so you're almost at four years, right, okay so?
Speaker 5y'all started trying, like immediately trying to have a baby Six months after we got married. Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 1Because this is going to be a huge. You're adding a member to your two-member only family, Like that's going to be a big deal.
Speaker 2I was about to say six, right now.
Speaker 1I'm sorry, human family, your actual blood I birthed those dogs. That's a weird thought. I don't like that at all.
Speaker 5Now we definitely have to change that?
Speaker 1That was weird.
Speaker 3That made my knees feel weird.
Speaker 2I didn't like that at all.
Speaker 5He promised those dogs.
Speaker 1And this is what I'm excited for. No offense to the dog lovers in the room. Y'all three crazy people.
Speaker 3Three wait Three.
Speaker 5I've got proof.
Speaker 6I can show you she got the receipts oh for richard uh-oh, uh-oh yeah she ain't got nothing, oh, oh but it is, she knows her truth it is a.
Speaker 1I know that's a, that's a huge thing. Oh, my fur baby, my fur baby, awesome, great, fantastic, happy for you. Uh, it's a whole different world when you're gonna look in that baby's eyes and realize I love these dogs. But this is different. This is so much different. I am so excited for that because we see the love that y'all give our kids we've talked about this that the love that y'all give our kids, our kid, me and Jamie's kids, god's parents.
Speaker 5That was a big sentence.
Speaker 1That was a hard combination of words, our kids', god parents, there you go, it was like each word, had a period.
Speaker 5He was thinking it through. I'm really trying to get out of there.
Speaker 1And seeing the love that y'all give to them and knowing that it's going to be just amplified. Oh my gosh, it's going to be awesome it will be fantastic, and vice versa, that we get to show that same love that y'all show to our kids, to y'all's yeah, we get to spoil the child, oh, oh oh, I cannot wait, by the loudest toys oh, you want candy and McDonald's, oh here you go, absolutely Immediately. Send them back with us. It was like Zay's hopped up running around in circles. Tyler gave me chocolates His fault.
Speaker 5Liv said it was okay, throw you under the bus.
Speaker 6So I'm ready for that it is it just shows a whole other level of unconditional love? Like you would love. You will love that child, no matter if they committed manslaughter that went dark.
Speaker 1What in the world wow?
Speaker 2it's off of our unborn baby is a felon.
Speaker 6Oh my gosh, it's a TikTok. Oh my gosh, lord, have mercy.
Speaker 1Well, and speaking of just change, it's going to be awesome for post-birth to see how everything has changed. And you'll be like how was life before this? You won't. You'll be like how did we, how was life before this? Like it, you know, we had, we'd had aliyah, and then it was like, okay, well, we'll try for another one after after so many years. Then we had bubby. Then we're like, man, I can't imagine life different than right now, like this is perfect, this is awesome. And then we're like, well, try another one. And we had say and it's like, okay, this is perfect, this is all, and it just it changes everything to where you're like, how did we live without them?
Speaker 5like this is gonna be when you have your fourth kid. I'm just curious. Impossible, oh, baby, there's adoption. Do you have something?
Speaker 6you got to tell me unless the lord puts it on my heart that one time you came over.
Speaker 2I can't remember what you're going to tell us. Both y'all were there. Yeah, jamie was just as surprised. I can't remember what you guys were coming over to tell us. He was like Jamie's pregnant. We're like what, and Jamie's like what?
Speaker 1I'm just kidding. I think Nope.
Speaker 5Michael's like kidding? I think Nope. Oh, jennifer would have another one Today if I let her Cause she is a psychopath. They may have actually done Manslaughter, they're cute and I love them, but Not when.
Speaker 6I'm almost 40.
Speaker 2I don't want to go through that again yeah, I'll tell you that that was my biggest fear is being old and having graduation where you're being, when you're 60 years old, yeah, yeah, what's that gonna be like rich?
Speaker 1I'll let you know in about 11 years. That's what that's what?
Speaker 5that's what our concern. Well, my concern because I'm 47 luke is. He just turned seven, so in 11 years I'll be however much, 47 plus 11 is 58, thank you at his graduation. And I'm like man and that's why I'm so dead set on getting in shape now is because I do not want to be that guy that can't do these things with his kids. I don't want to. I don't want to leave my kids because I have heart disease or or whatever. You know, yeah, so yeah at one.
Speaker 1And for y'all, what's good is y'all do have grandkids coming into the picture. So now it's kind of the fun without having to deal with the diapers and the late nights and the being up and all that. So you know you kind of get to treat. What is his name again?
Speaker 5Hudson Hudson.
Speaker 1I thought it said Jackson.
Speaker 5It's pretty close yeah.
Speaker 1Son. It's pretty close, isn't it, hudson? You know, you kind of get to treat them like that, like, oh man, we get to spoil and do all this and we get to send them back.
Speaker 3Papaw.
Speaker 1Big Rich, that's a lot. Oh, no, no.
Speaker 5You have to send them back.
Speaker 6She's always trying to kidnap kids.
Speaker 1Oh my gosh, I seen the picture With the glasses on.
Speaker 5Oh yeah, what are they called pit vipers? So cute. And that's part of the fun too is the clothes is on. Oh, yeah, it's a cute. Oh yeah, yeah, the uh. What are they called pit vipers?
Speaker 1yeah, so cute, yeah yeah, and that's part of the fun too, is the clothes and the dress up and the oh my gosh that's one thing I'm not worried about, because of how many people we have around us yes, we're not gonna buy a thing.
Speaker 4Yes, right, yeah, but you say that, but we've already bought, we had that.
Speaker 2Well, that was out of like excitement, not holy crap, what? What is our baby going to wear? Also to answer your question, because I didn't get a chance to answer it. If you had asked me that a year, two years ago, I'd have been freaked out, yeah, but I feel ready. That's good.
Speaker 5That's what I'm talking about. That'll last until about eight months.
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah, probably that's good. That's what I'm talking about. That'll last till about eight months.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, probably, man, and it's, and you'll learn as you go. That's the biggest thing is you learn from doing it like and you do have help.
Speaker 5I mean, yeah, you, you are surrounded by people that have children that can help you with all this stuff.
Speaker 2So yeah, yeah, I'll babysit almost any day talking about, we've got, she's got three sets of grandparents, or, yeah, got three sets of grandparents and then, you know, got my mom, my stepmom, dad, I'm like we have some babysitting the kids five, six, seven days a week.
Speaker 1Right, we're never gonna see the baby and well, that's something too is is having that support around you. You know, we we with jamie's parents kind of not being in the picture, so we only have a certain amount of people in our direct family that's around us. Y'all have a ton of people that are there for y'all, you know, between y'all's parents and, and all that and your friends and family, you know, and so that having that support system helps a ton of people around you.
Speaker 6That can really does take a village, yeah yeah, and I mean we all say it.
Speaker 1You know, if you see my kid acting up, smack him in the back of the head. You know, because we all look out for each other and we all look out for each other's kids.
Speaker 5I don't know how many times I've seen Mike sighing real deep and I'm like what? And he's like freaking Luke, I get it.
Speaker 1Yeah, I know Same same he's been doing really good is what I've heard lately.
Speaker 5Outside of school. Now, I'm not at school?
Speaker 1I don't know school.
Speaker 5He's getting better at school.
Speaker 1He's getting school. Yeah, I'm hoping he's growing out of it. She's like he's perfect when he's with me I'm like either he's learning or you're a sucker and he's got you. Oh, I tell you, I don't know.
Speaker 5He gave mom a wink and that's all I was gonna say, I was gonna tell that your mom jules is that's it she, he could manslaughter her what is this? Goodness, change the name again.
Speaker 2Yep first 48 golly, today's episode is brought to you by the letter m for manslaughter I feel so bad for y'all's kid not having to be around these people oh, y'all want to babysit, oh we're going out of town call me.
Speaker 5I'm there with a show and an alibi.
Change and Family Bonds
Speaker 2I love that one, though she's right here, she's right there. She has to do it with with the recording. Oh my gosh, I thought you pressed the button, even the little gap in between.
Speaker 1That was pretty good, yeah. So what are some of the biggest things and we'll start with the randalls that you've had to do with in change in your life, like instant change? You know, I know y'all have moved a lot maybe different schools, different job but something that you've had to face head on, a huge life changing deal like having a child.
Speaker 3Well, when we started fostering, that was a big change, especially the kids in, and then they leave, and then we get new kids, and then they leave, and then and then we ended up adopting, you know just automatic family already. You know over again, yeah, as we kind of explain it like starting over, because we have our adult kids and then now we have smaller kids again.
Speaker 1So yeah, because it started pretty soon after y'all finished class, right like y'all were getting kids oh yeah, like the next week yeah yeah, and it's like, oh how many have y'all fostered like in total?
Speaker 5probably that's a good question yeah probably a dozen or so, probably right. I mean, and for whatever reason, we got a reputation with child services as being willing to take the big families like the big sibling groups, so we would get three and four at a time.
Speaker 1Yeah, so that's kind of, so I don't really know how many that is a good question we need to count that up one of these days, yeah we've had a bunch I don't.
Speaker 1I don't really know yeah, yeah two dang many well, like you said, you know that is, that's a huge change. And adding, adding people to your family, that they everybody gets to know them, then they're leaving, then a new group is coming in. You got to get yeah, so that's constant, constant change happening. Yeah, that's good, babe. What about you in our life, that some things that we've had to run into on on some change we've moved a couple times in the past year. That's been some big, big changing moments yeah, you just said it good talk.
Speaker 519 years.
Speaker 6That's the only change y'all had to deal with kind of being right, being raised and brought up in the same town for so long, like she broke up with you that one time, michael.
Speaker 2I found a note I found a note.
Speaker 3Oh, that was funny. Who wrote the note? That was pretty, I wrote the note I found
Speaker 1a note oh, that was funny who wrote the note. That was pretty funny. I wrote the note.
Speaker 6I found a note that I wrote my little sister. When we were in we shared a room and I guess we had broken up or something and I wrote her a note that said I and I made a line. It was a contract. We'll ask Michael Simmons if he misses Jamie and I will give you five dollars and and the contract stated you have to tell me the absolute truth. And I made her sign it, and then I signed it and I sent it to him this week. I was like do you remember this?
Speaker 1yeah, that's so funny. So she paid her sister to ask me if I missed her, because we were broke up and I just asked him did you miss me? She's like so, did you like yeah, was like yeah. She's like I don't think I ever gave Jennifer that $5.
Speaker 2He just like Venmo or PayPal or five bucks Like hey, I forgot about this.
Speaker 1I sent it to her.
Speaker 6I was like do you remember this? She was like oh my gosh.
Speaker 2That's so funny.
Speaker 6Because, like she was best friends with Denny and Annie and so we all had to deal with them.
Speaker 5What grade was this? When this happened?
Speaker 1Probably 10th grade. Probably Y'all are in high school.
Speaker 5With this kind of nonsense.
Speaker 2It sounds like 4th grade.
Speaker 5That's what I was thinking it might have been 7th oh, that's not much better.
Speaker 1Well, I don't remember what it was. First of all, you can't talk. Y'all met online on a dating app. Okay, we don't even want to hear it I didn't y'all didn't even had to meet face to face to open up a conversation. You get to swipe left swipe, right when she did me right, right, so you can sit this one out and, richard, don't come this way you're dating back when you were in high school was a tablet that you had to take a stone and mark out and send it.
Speaker 1You had to send a raven up in the air.
Speaker 5Do you know how long it took to ask somebody? Do you like me, yes or no?
Speaker 2It would take a whole day.
Speaker 1Three winters. Waiting on this raven to come back.
Speaker 5My tablet kept breaking.
Speaker 1It was Okay so don't judge us on our journey together.
Speaker 6There was probably so many more notes, yeah.
Speaker 1Notes and phone calls yeah.
Speaker 3I know that's definitely.
Speaker 1The biggest change for us in the most recent was being disconnected from our family. That was a that was a huge blow that we knew was going to be hard, but we didn't realize how hard it was and how much we lean on everybody, how much we enjoyed, we didn't care for it either yeah, I didn't realize, y'all left.
Speaker 6Go ahead and just mute his turn.
Speaker 1Dang ty, y'all moved out what I didn't even realize it.
Speaker 1That's messed up, you literally drove me halfway yeah that's true, I thought, it's just a road trip well, yeah, and you and we're just kind of sitting there and it's just like we really miss everybody, like we miss doing life with there, and it's just like we really miss everybody, like we miss doing life with everybody and it. You know, of course you, you have technology, but it's just not the same being disconnected from all your loved ones and I'd go to your house like three days a week and y'all I was like, what do I do?
Speaker 2I was like do I sit on my own couch and watch my own TV?
Speaker 1This sucks man, I don't want to do this and watch my own TV. This sucks man, I don't want to do this.
Speaker 6We were the same way.
Speaker 1We were like why are we just looking at each other? What do?
Speaker 6we do.
Speaker 1And you meet new people, but it's like there's nothing like our family that we've got.
Speaker 5It's just like doing dishes for fun. Now it's very, very unique what we have.
Speaker 1And then we got back and everybody helped move. And then we're kind of sitting there. Y'all were at the house and y'all were over there and and um, who else was there? Like mom and journey, and then, and after everybody left, it was the first night. And then we're just sitting there and we're like why did we ever leave this? Like we really missed this, like it's awesome just getting to hey, what are y'all doing this week? Let's get together, let's hang out, come over to the house, to the house and get to see each other and walk through life together. So that was our biggest, toughest change.
Speaker 6Just the little time that we were gone, I was like all right, I'll never take this for granted again, I learned my lesson.
Speaker 5Write that down.
Speaker 6Right, I couldn't imagine being gone longer. No, yeah, that was tough. I couldn't imagine being gone longer.
Speaker 1No, yeah, it was tough.
Speaker 5And we only moved for what? Two months, three months, yeah, and it was just like no, this just ain't right. Yeah, it just was no.
Speaker 2We were too broke to move. We ain't going to find a house like ours for the price we got it.
Speaker 5Just couldn't find a house. Take all them dogs.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Well, and even now, you know, none of us are three families None of us. And you had the Feast family. None of us in our family lives in the same town, Right, but we still are close enough and make time to. You know, you got Kennett, you got Malden, you got Dexter, you got Rector, you know. So it's awesome watching our family make time for each other. Even as the changes in life happen and things go on and people move from here to there or, you know, people move jobs and their schedule changes we all still make time to say, hey, let's get together and spend some time together. So that's.
Speaker 5Well, and you know you talk about family showing up. Jim and Tracy, everybody helped us move there, helped us move back. Three months later we moved y'all to Alabama. You hauled all the way down there all the way back. Yeah, I mean, it's just that's.
Speaker 6If any of y'all are going to move, keep it within a couple hours. I ain't driving eight and a half hours, no more. He said I quit. That's a lot.
Speaker 1I'm done, and that's a big part of it too. As the changes go in life, the constant is our family, our family here. Tyler needed help with the flooring. We were over there helping. It's cool to be able to call on each other Scraping glue off the back of Flooring.
Speaker 5Because he didn't want to spend a little more on regular flooring. Listen.
Speaker 2A dollar a square foot, that's pretty good Beat that.
Speaker 5I don't know what that means. You can't find a better deal. Why are you hollering?
Speaker 1He's really passionate about his flooring.
Speaker 2I'm passionate about money, we know About saving money.
Speaker 5We are so very aware. Toilet seat Liz engaged in a ring, oh yeah, saving money. We are so very aware. Toilet seat.
Speaker 3So anyway, I heard that podcast too when I was in walmart. Are you caught?
Speaker 1up now.
Speaker 3Yes, that is awesome that you're caught up with the podcast I went back and listened to all the ones that I did not listen that's what I have not listened to. I missed when I was off friday, so I listened to the podcast like all day.
Speaker 5That is awesome. Where are? You at You're way too far behind.
Speaker 2Where are you at?
Speaker 1That's a good question, that's a terrible answer. I have no idea. Exactly One Yep, so you got dumb and dumber over here. Thank you, Jennifer for being a faithful listener.
Speaker 6I'll get there eventually.
Speaker 3I'm just saying, if you have not listened to the check episode, you've got to.
Speaker 5I'm on the podcast and I laugh. That was how many episodes.
Speaker 2That was what Four, five episodes.
Speaker 5Yeah, it's been a while man.
Speaker 1Was it the tipping? Yes? Tipping episode man, that was rough.
Speaker 2Now, every time I tip, I think about that episode yeah, yeah, I want to write more checks just because of that that's why I opted out of the checkbook.
Speaker 1This time I blame it on the fact that you have to pay money, but I'm like no, I don't want to google how to ride a chick so have they? Have y'all got a date yet for the baby?
Speaker 4like for the for around for the birthday so, like by what y'all know for sure, on tuesday they'll like calculate it, however they do that um algebra but through my something, something like that Geometry Outside the real world. Right now it says November 22nd, cool.
Speaker 1And Christmas baby.
Speaker 5That's not a Christmas baby.
Speaker 3What are you thinking? It's a November baby, november the 6th.
Speaker 1Oh, November 6th okay.
Speaker 5Let's not gloss over the fact that you think Christmas is in November.
Speaker 1That's not what I said. I said it will still be a baby on Christmas, correct?
Speaker 3So you'll have a Christmas baby, correct or no? That's not what you meant.
Speaker 1That's exactly what I meant Having a baby near.
Speaker 3Christmas December 14th. So that's more Christmas baby. November is more Thanksgiving baby.
Speaker 2It'll literally be probably the week of Thanksgiving, if not on Thanksgiving, so we'll celebrate it's birthday around Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3Celebrate good times coming.
Speaker 6Celebrate with a turkey leg and some stuffing. And a birthday cake.
Speaker 4And a birthday cake.
Speaker 5That sounds amazing.
Speaker 2What do you do on your birthday parties? We cut a turkey.
Speaker 5We manslaughter a turkey.
Speaker 4This podcast needs to get censored. That's complete. They're going to put E for explicit on here just because.
Speaker 5I'm sorry that's going to go under crime.
Speaker 2That reminded me of the movie Sun Law, pauly Shore.
Speaker 3Oh yeah, the turkey, he just had a heart attack With the jean overalls.
Speaker 5For the record. Jamie started it. I wish.
Speaker 1I would have never thought of this podcast.
Speaker 5Regretting all of my life's decisions right now.
Speaker 2Welcome to the series finale.
Speaker 3This is it, so we're off air. This is it, so we're off air.
Speaker 2We have we canceled ourselves.
Speaker 1Oh my gosh, that's funny.
Speaker 5Anything else on y'all's heart. We didn't do that. That's what's up.
Speaker 1Ladies and gentlemen, we are now going to move into a segment that we call what's up.
Speaker 5So in this segment we talk about things that we're watching, listening to that's why I'm the best co-host that's gone down Things that we're watching, listening to Maybe, a new song, new movie, new show.
Speaker 1That's what's up. So Rich, what you got going on this week.
Speaker 5So American Idol Still watching that.
Speaker 6Wow, that still comes on.
Speaker 2Right, oh, whoa, whoa, whoa that still comes on. Carrie Underwood's a judge Leave it alone.
Speaker 6We know you're obsessed.
Speaker 2No, she's not.
Speaker 3Brandon Lake. He's going to be on there.
Speaker 5Okay, calm down.
Speaker 2Him and Jelly Roll.
Speaker 5Okay so. You alright, we need video.
Speaker 4Just tell me where to push.
Speaker 5I started watching a sitcom, which I'm not usually a big sitcom guy Cause I just aren't, I'm not, I just aren't.
Speaker 1Are not, not it's called Shifting Gears.
Speaker 5It's got Tim Allen on it.
Speaker 2It's on Hulu.
Speaker 5And it is flat out hilarious every episode, and I had some episodes that I cried on man, I love sitcom.
Speaker 1I did not like sitcom. Do you like Family Matters and Home Alone? I did as a teenager.
Speaker 5I'd watch like TGI Friday, right, you know all the Full House and all that stuff.
Speaker 2I love, saved by the Bell.
Speaker 5But as an adult and it's not that I don't like them I just don't watch them. I think it's because Jennifer don't like them.
Speaker 3So we don't watch them together. That's why I don't get to watch cops, yeah, you don't like cops he starts
Speaker 2sweating. He starts sweating.
Speaker 5I have PTSD. I love sweating.
Speaker 1I don't get I love sweating. Step brother, why are you sweating? First 48 is tough for me because there's no ending. It's like, oh, they're awaiting trial, that's what I say. It's like okay. So I just watched this whole episode. For what? For nothing.
Speaker 5I don't know. I'm glad I'm not alone.
Speaker 1It's the detective, but you don't know if it was them or not. So like they have a suspect in custody but we don't know if it's them or not. It's like okay, my thing is, why do?
Speaker 2a documentary if you ain't got all the documentary?
Speaker 1Yeah, okay, sorry my bad, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5What do you got on? That's what's up, babe.
Speaker 1Something you're watching.
Speaker 3That's what's up, that we're going to have to find new family friends.
Speaker 1Dang.
Speaker 3Y'all got canceled. Dang dang dang.
Speaker 4Don't change it. Don't change it. She said uh.
Speaker 5I thought we were changing things.
Speaker 2Oh crap, Crappity, crap, crap what?
Speaker 3We are watching. American Idol Extracted is over. We are watching.
Speaker 1American Idol Extracted is over.
Speaker 4We got to catch up on it.
Speaker 5We haven't watched the last one, yet we got one more episode and it will be done.
Speaker 3But it is really really good, so intense.
Speaker 1So we started, we watched the first two because that was all that was on there and we haven't started back. So we're going to try to you remember that show, because that one kid, I couldn't wait for him
Speaker 5to go home.
Speaker 1He was yelling at his parents.
Speaker 6It was good.
Speaker 5Jacobin or Jobin or whatever his name is. I was so mad.
Speaker 4The one at the very beginning that went home, one of the first ones that went home.
Speaker 1Yeah, I think he was the first one. Yeah, it was like 18-year-old kid I was like the kid, yeah he I don't know, because I never watched it.
Speaker 4You, have watched part of it Pay attention.
Speaker 2You have it on and I just happen to be sitting in the living room on my phone.
Speaker 4Yeah, and you've watched part of it.
Speaker 2Probably a total of five minutes in the last, however many weeks.
Speaker 3You should watch it, Tyler, because it's good.
Speaker 2Yeah, I don't know what's up.
Speaker 1I don't know what's up um you have an idea for the record name. Would you like to share that?
Speaker 2not really okay. I'm just trying to help you along man.
Speaker 3Brian Lake's got a new album coming out soon.
Speaker 2I'm excited about that. I played one of the songs on the album at my gig last night.
Speaker 5It was really good. I really liked that new Corey Asbury song. That is phenomenal.
Speaker 2Good for nothing.
Speaker 5Yeah, that is so good I'll tell them.
Speaker 2You said that.
Speaker 5Thank you, your friend Corey.
Speaker 4They're besties now.
Speaker 5You can have worse friends, I guess.
Speaker 2Where are y'all?
Speaker 1at with suits, the same place we were at at your house brother man I know, I know we have to.
Speaker 2I know, I know we need it and it was. Yeah, I, I were fell. I wanted to cry I wanted, I wanted really that good. It was one of those. I watched it got so invested and I was like what do I do with the rest of my life?
Speaker 5Have you started Suits LA yet? Not yet.
Speaker 2I keep forgetting to, because I keep thinking it's not out, but it's out now.
Speaker 6Yeah, we gotta finish that, yeah we do.
Speaker 2Well, you're on season 2, 3?.
Speaker 5Episode 1.
Speaker 1I think we're on two no, I don't even think we're through season one. I thought you said you got to season two I don't think eight more seasons is
Speaker 5there nine seasons that's my question yeah I've been trying to get jennifer to watch that. One and every time I suggested she's like which?
Speaker 4we got 10 shows for me. He was really into it.
Speaker 2Well, it was just the. The first episode was just. I don't know, it's such a clever episode yeah and that's that's. That's what kind of drew me in where you know the, you know mike ross and harvey specter they're just clever the way their characters are written. It drew me in.
Speaker 1Cool Liv. What about you?
Speaker 4Get off my headphones.
Speaker 2That might have been Jamie, I don't know, don't be yelling at people.
Speaker 4Get the facts first and then yell at somebody. Calm down.
Speaker 5It's yours Probably a lash?
Speaker 3I don't know what it was.
Speaker 5It was mine, it was a fake lash.
Speaker 2Speaking of hair, I've got to like unclog our sink every week.
Speaker 4Every week. You were so dramatic.
Speaker 2I did. I did it today.
Speaker 6Actually what's been, what's up?
Speaker 5did today as a couple days ago last week I think the week before about time is all I'm saying.
Speaker 1So do you have a that's what's up.
What's Up This Week
Speaker 4Anyways, in other news, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 5Breaking news.
Speaker 4I've gotten. My 911 show is back on.
Speaker 3Wait, what is it? Oh?
Speaker 1911. Okay.
Speaker 2Oh, you've got another. You've got another. What's up? Talk about your new job.
Speaker 4I'm not there, yet Calm down.
Speaker 2All right I'm out, no um see you at home, okay we rode together, I don't know doesn't mean we gotta ride back to you, so do you have a?
Speaker 1that's what's up going on five minutes.
Speaker 5Do we need to be here for this conversation?
Speaker 4No, I got back into my 911 show and it's really intense right now. I'm caught up to the most recent episode and I had to pause it before we left earlier, so I'm only halfway through it.
Speaker 5So you've been thinking about that since you've been here.
Speaker 4And it better not be freaking true.
Speaker 1So is that like Firefighter?
Speaker 5Okay.
Speaker 2Isn't it like Firefighter Police and like not EMS?
Speaker 4No, there's mainly, just like there's not a whole lot to do with police, but it's mainly Firefighter and like Dispatch and stuff.
Speaker 5Tina Turner, what's her name? The one that?
Speaker 4played.
Speaker 5it's mainly Firefighter, that's the one with uh dispatch and stuff. Oh, tina Turner chick. One that played uh, what's her name? One that played Tina Turner? Angela Bassett, that's the one she's in. Oh.
Speaker 4Angela Bassett. Okay, I can think of Angela, but I can't think of her last name.
Speaker 1Yeah, I'm not. I've seen just like picture of it, but I haven't seen anything about it it's really good how many seasons is there? This is two, three probably okay, so it's kind of newer, but it's it's one of those shows, dude.
Speaker 5I'm telling you, don't do it, because they'll do three episodes and then they'll just take like a hiatus for six months oh, that drives me nuts man the rookie, yeah which we're watching.
Speaker 2We're watching the rookie too. Yeah, it's like 9-1-1 has been off the air for quite a while. Yeah, it's like, oh, a new Nuts man.
Speaker 5The Rookie, yeah, which we're watching the Rookie 2. Yeah, 9-1-1 has been off the air for quite a while.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's like, oh, a new season coming, 2027. It's like what is happening? It's like Stranger Things. They take two and a half year gaps in between seasons.
Speaker 2SWAT got canceled, did it Yep?
Speaker 1See, that's what maybe I was thinking. Swat Is there like a lot of shows that are kind of that same premise Okay I was like maybe it was SWAT I was thinking about and not 911.
Speaker 2It was. It was sad because I watched a video of like it was like it's right after they had shot their last scene and all the actors were kind of giving a speech and it was yeah, that was sad because I really liked that show. Yeah, I don't have sex.
Speaker 4I really like that show, yeah, it was really good.
Speaker 5I've watched a couple of episodes, but I've never really gotten into it.
Speaker 4And I did start a new job.
Speaker 1What.
Speaker 4Or a second job, not a new job.
Speaker 2Right, I do tell.
Speaker 4Okay.
Speaker 2Give us the deets.
Speaker 4Okay.
Speaker 2Tell us already.
Speaker 4Tyler shut up. Oh my gosh Are you done. Yeah, you're done now. Okay, let me just unplug this. Right now I am doing lashes part-time.
Speaker 1How nerve-wracking is that.
Speaker 4At first I was really nervous to start.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 4Because I was like I'm going to poke somebody in the eye Right.
Speaker 5Because you literally could blind somebody, right? I mean, if you mess up.
Speaker 2And she could commit manslaughter.
Speaker 1I didn't do it, tyler it, I did not do it, and it's like it's got to be so different than doing your own and doing someone.
Speaker 4It's like backwards. It's a hundred percent different. So like which? Like the one which, obviously like the ones I have on. They're just like the little strip ones you get at walmart yeah, like you know, so you just stick them on with glue.
Speaker 3Whatever?
Speaker 4But with these they're also stuck on with glue, but it's like a UV based. I don't know how to.
Speaker 1UV activated.
Speaker 4Yeah, UV activated type of glue, so it, like cures ten times faster than the regular kind and you put them on like one at a time and you put them on like one at a time. No, you put them on like multiple at a time.
Speaker 5This is why Tyler does not do it. I make like little fans with.
Speaker 2That's the only reason I do it.
Speaker 4I make like little fans with them and then I put them on. So you have to have like sturdy hands.
Speaker 5Steady.
Speaker 6I mean like Are you drinking no coffee?
Speaker 4Shaky Well, like hands steady I mean like can't you drink enough coffee.
Speaker 1Well, like whenever I do it like I don't have a very like steady hand.
Speaker 4Yeah, but like it's enough okay yeah, it's enough to where, like I'm not gonna like you know, just right in the eye, you know.
Speaker 5But dr shepherd over here the important question is does lashes by live want to sponsor the podcast? That's really. Is that the name?
Speaker 1of it or did you just? Oh, that's her name, is that? Oh, okay, lashes. Okay, I was like that was pretty clever.
Speaker 2To think he's hating over here michael's like. Is that really the like what?
Speaker 1no, I didn't say it like that, no I heard, I'm a follower.
Speaker 5I heard it.
Speaker 1No, I heard I was shocked if richard thought of that on his own right now.
Speaker 6So that was actually a good name that I didn't think would come from.
Speaker 1He's shocked at your creativity.
Speaker 2So he's burning either Liv or Richard, no neither, because he didn't think of it.
Speaker 1I'm sorry I spoke.
Speaker 2I made her logo.
Speaker 5You don't help the podcast by listening, so if you want, we'll get there.
Speaker 2I can't afford that right now Lashes by listening. So if you want, We'll get there. Me and Liv will get there. I can't afford that right now. Lashes by Liv is sponsored by the Almost Brothers Podcast.
Speaker 1But you know what is free Listening?
Speaker 5That is free of charge, cha-ching.
Speaker 2I guess not cha-ching, because it's free.
Speaker 1Okay. Well, James, what about you? What do you got going on Charge?
Speaker 6it.
Speaker 5You told me some exciting news earlier.
Speaker 6Yeah, I did. I've been walking 10K steps every day.
Speaker 3Oh gosh, and I'm already down five pounds.
Speaker 6So, that's exciting Trying to get the healthiest I've ever been before I turned 40.
Speaker 1That was her words, very cool.
Speaker 5I like it, I like it, I am down with that plan.
Speaker 1She's got the watch and it alerts me, like in the middle of the day, like I'm at the desk, it's like ding, jamie has got her 10,000 step goal and I'm just like I'm a lazy piece of crap. I've only got 38, I'm not doing well.
Speaker 2I start looking at my rings.
Speaker 3I'm like.
Speaker 5I'm not even halfway done with mine yeah, you got like a treadmill at work? Yeah, a walking pad Like under your desk or whatever, yeah.
Speaker 3That helps, so I can walk.
Speaker 6Yeah, and work, which it's time consuming, because just getting 10K steps equals five miles, wow. So that is I get a 15 minute, two 15 minute breaks and then a 30 minute lunch.
Speaker 5So I try to space it out in between them so I'm not taking an hour and a half so you're not like doing it while you work, you, you do it like during breaks yeah, I try to, just so I'm not so focused on working yeah, yeah, your boss wouldn't want you to focus on work yeah I started thinking.
Speaker 2I started thinking I can do it at the same time, but I started thinking like no, she's like got on her desk and walking. I'm just imagining her sitting at her desk jamie has got 400 000 steps.
Speaker 1Something is off. Wait a second not even sweating cheating, cheating the system that's good we started One Tree Hill with mom have you ever seen One Tree Hill? I have heard it was pretty good, great show of all time. I'll die on that hill. I will die on that hill.
Speaker 5You're going to die on that hill. I'm going to manslaughter you on that hill.
Speaker 1So Jay has never seen it. So we started over with him. So we're on season one.
Speaker 6Which it's like he'll catch an episode and then they have to leave.
Speaker 1It's going to take a while he's not like let's binge it. Well, every time, every time we go to watch, it's something like we had a storm that popped up so they ended up having to leave. We had one where they had journey in haven so they had to leave and get them home. So stuff has popped up. But uh, we got that. We just uh, I told everybody you know we have a record player that we got for the house. We've been using that a lot.
Speaker 2We just got jimmy world on record on vinyl coming in, that's right so we exactly how it goes.
Speaker 1We've been we've been trying to, at least once a week, sit down just listen to some music and and just talk a little bit.
Speaker 5So I was looking at uh albums at walmart the other day, thinking about you. They had like Iron Maiden.
Speaker 1Yeah, I almost got.
Speaker 5They had your favorite band, ACDC.
Speaker 1Oh gosh, they had CCR that I was going to get I saw that I almost got it.
Speaker 5That'd be a good one to have, but they're not cheap, man. They're not, they're $40, $50.
Speaker 1Yeah, depending on where you get. Now about 30 is kind of the average out depending on and some of them you just can't find one yeah, next time.
Speaker 5Next time I'm at a flea market, I'll see if I can find you like some hank williams and some uh willie nelson
Speaker 1I don't know about that. I don't know about that. Um okay, update on the nintendo switch. I know y'all were super excited.
Speaker 2Yes, yes, where's the power button? Nope, back up.
Speaker 3I heard Steve's podcast the other day too.
Speaker 1Why do you say it like that? She was all caught up, boo.
Speaker 6We know there's a new Mario.
Speaker 1Kart coming out. So there is, and y'all are all going to be excited, we get to sit down and play it. Okay, excited, we get to sit down and play it, okay, first of all. Second of all, I am so excited they announced the pre-order date finally in the us, which is when 2032, upcoming thursday already this upcoming thursday pre-orders go up and june 5th they come out.
Speaker 1So I am excited to go get in line and get my pre-order in, so pumped, even though I'm so disappointed in Nintendo. That's a whole other episode, but I got that going on and also. I got my tickets ahead of time for Star Wars Episode 3 in theaters dude we are.
Speaker 2Can you feel our excitement? You know I can hear that, right?
Speaker 3I asked myself that Feel our excitement.
Speaker 1Why? You know, I can hear that right.
Speaker 5I ask myself that literally every time we talk about Star Wars, but I do have a very vivid understanding of why he was single most of his life.
Speaker 6He was with me most of his life. We understand those one or two times.
Speaker 2We understand that's messed up.
Speaker 6We'll not be going to the movies with him.
Speaker 1Hey, when they want to hate on you for loving the things you love, let them.
Speaker 6Let them, that's alright.
Speaker 1So I'm excited for those two things and they both happen on the same day, on Thursday, so I will be going to get my preorder in.
Speaker 5It'll be a good day, won't it?
Speaker 1Oh, it's going to be the best. Get my preorder in. Go watch episode three in theaters.
Speaker 3I'll be working.
Speaker 5Yeah, I'm preaching on May the 4th.
Speaker 1May the 4th, that's Star Wars.
Speaker 5I'm not going to talk about it.
Speaker 2I have a feeling he's going to throw it in there.
Speaker 5You have to.
Speaker 2You don't have to.
Speaker 5You got to.
Speaker 2It's not a law.
Speaker 3Or anything, it's in the Geneva.
Speaker 5Convention. It is One of these days we're going to have to read that Just to see what's actually in the Geneva Convention. We use that wrong all the time also there's a new.
Speaker 1There's a new fantastic four movie coming out. They just released a trailer and it looks terrible I looked up today chronological order for marvel movies. Yeah, there are 37 marvel movies total yeah, I was really surprised do you know what the movie was? The make or break point for Marvel? They would have stopped doing movies if this movie wasn't a success. Can you guess at what movie it was?
Speaker 3Avengers no, number one, she doesn't even Number one.
Speaker 1It's actually shocking.
Speaker 3Lay it on us.
Speaker 1Blade.
Speaker 5Really.
Speaker 1He's not even in that mc universe. He is.
Speaker 5Well, you just haven't seen the I mean as far as like the ones that are ranked on the avengers list or whatever he is yeah okay, the list I looked at today was deadpool on it yes, he was then he is in it.
Speaker 1He was literally in deadpool.
Speaker 5Spoiler alert I haven't seen that. It was number 34, yeah yeah, so he.
Speaker 1He did a surprise cameo. Is he recording? I don't know, the geneva convention, oh, gosh.
Speaker 2the geneva conventions extensively define the basic rights of wartime prisoners, civilians, civilians and military personnel, establish protections for the wounded and sick, and provide protections for the civilians in and around a war zone.
Speaker 5Yeah, we missed that all. We were way off.
Speaker 6I'm still saying it.
Speaker 1Well now you're all educated, you're welcome.
Speaker 5Hey listeners, we just want to thank you for your continued support for the almost brothers podcast. Do us a favor and go to your favorite platform and rate us and like us and share with everyone that you know. Thank you so much, love you.
