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Red Bull For Breakfast, Encouragement For Lunch
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The most powerful encouragers often struggle to encourage themselves. This paradox forms the heart of our conversation as we explore how small, intentional acts of affirmation can transform someone's entire outlook.
When's the last time you sent that morning text to your spouse? Acknowledged someone's hard work with specific praise? Or simply told someone "I'm proud of you"? These seemingly minor gestures can become lifelines for the people around us. We share personal stories about how unexpected encouragement lifted us during moments of self-doubt – like the worship leader questioning their performance who receives a timely, specific compliment, or the weight-loss journeyer who needs that regular accountability and celebration of progress.
What makes encouragement truly effective isn't grand gestures but genuine attention to what matters to someone. Setting reminders for your friend's important day, noticing specific efforts rather than general outcomes, and being present when someone needs affirmation. We dive into the fascinating dynamic between outward confidence and inner self-consciousness – how many of us "portray confidence while feeling self-conscious" in our work, ministry, and relationships.
The conversation takes unexpected turns through American Idol critiques, martial arts training adventures, and summer movie recommendations (including an F1 racing film starring Brad Pitt that surprisingly has us all interested). But the message remains clear throughout: your encouragement matters more than you know, and someone in your life desperately needs to hear from you today. What small step could you take right now to lift someone else's spirits?
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Red Bull Breakfast Debate
Speaker 1but it's not coffee. You drink coffee for breakfast, but it's not coffee.
Speaker 2I didn't say it was coffee. I said I'm drinking this as a meal replacement.
Speaker 1Oh, you said this is my breakfast, because I drink coffee for breakfast.
Speaker 2It's Red Bull with flavoring. You didn't let me finish my comment.
Speaker 1Lord have mercy. What are you doing with yourself? I think my coffee's kicking in.
Speaker 2Apparently.
Speaker 3He's feeling extra, oosy, what's?
Speaker 1up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up everybody. Welcome back to a brand new episode. Get out of my ears with that, the Almost Brothers Podcast feeling extra oosy. What's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up everybody.
Speaker 2Welcome back to a brand new episode get out of my ears with that almost brothers podcast you sound like you sound like one of them pillow talk radio stations we're so glad you've stopped.
Speaker 1This isn't asmr. 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. Thank you for joining us yet again with me. As always, you're welcome, richie, rich, how's it going? What you and ty ty, so muted, just start off, it's right off the jump muted. Today we're going to be talking about encouraging one another. Boom, encouragement, exactly Encouragement, encouragement.
Encouraging Others: Small Gestures Matter
Speaker 1I find it hard to encourage myself. I'm a good encourager but hard at kind of encouraging myself. So I want to talk about both things of how you can encourage your friends, your family, your spouse, whoever, because, rich, you're on this weight loss journey, man, and and and you know you'll send us your weight and we try to encourage you as much as we can. And, tyler, saying with you on on writing music, we try to encourage oh man, that sounds so good, you know. And trying to encourage one another.
Speaker 1But sometimes it feels like the biggest encouragers are the ones that are struggling, just fighting, fighting, fighting. So how are some of the ways one will start with just encouraging others? How are some of the ways that that you find that people in your life are, are encouraged? You know things you say, things you do. You know, I'll try to tell Jamie, you know, just randomly, like babe, like I am so thankful and grateful for you, just randomly, like babe, like I am so thankful and grateful for you, you know, like just the small things that she does, that that means so much. I try to encourage her in that, that that they, they mean a lot, that they don't go unseen, you know when I used to.
Speaker 2For a little while I sent jennifer because I get up before dawn most of the time but I would send her a uh, just a little text message so that when she woke up it'd be the first thing she saw. You know, hey, have a great day, blah blah. Kind of got out of that. I just realized that.
Speaker 1Oh, just now, during this conversation, I'm talking about having an epiphany.
Speaker 2That's what I'm talking about but uh, but I didn't know that it meant anything to her. And then one day she's like I want you to know that those make my entire day. Yeah, and she just, she just never mentioned. I mean, she wouldn't even respond to the text.
Speaker 1Yeah, and then just go just nothing. Leave me on read, all right.
Speaker 2But you know, she told me that one day that that that just made her day that that I was thinking of her yeah so yeah, and it's, it's, it's about being intentional you know listening to what somebody's got going on and, um, I can't remember what it was. Somebody had something going on, so I set a reminder in my phone for that date. I don't know it was a court date or something, just to you know. Hey, just letting you know.
Speaker 2Thinking about your day yeah you know it's just being intentional and listening to what everybody's got going on that is good time what was the question? I don't muted.
Speaker 1So I know one thing for us on the podcast. I'm going to bring you back here in a second. Okay, I want you to sit and think about what you did. Okay, well, nathan, shout out to nathan. He, he came up to us, you know, and and just kind of told us a story about him being at work and and listening to the podcast and to where his boss, like came over and thought he was hurt because he was laughing, yeah, and and yes, okay, oh, yeah, okay, tyler hasn't heard the story, yeah. So he said you know, nope, he's, I will mute you again. He was down like in, like in this machine.
Speaker 2He made a whole facebook post.
When Encouragement Doesn't Land
Speaker 1Yes, oh, it's so funny. And he said he was down there listening and like laughing, like hysterically laughing, and said like his boss like came and said, hey, are you okay? He's like oh yeah sorry, I'm just in here laughing, you know, he said. Apparently it sounds like he was in a lot of pain, and just hearing that is encouraging that in itself is like man cool we're. You know we've got somebody that's enjoying the podcast. It's awesome getting that feedback and that happens.
Speaker 2I won't say often, but when it does happen it's just like somebody will randomly say hey, I heard such and such on the podcast.
Speaker 1It's like people really listen yeah, it's like oh man, that's awesome yeah yeah, oh god, oh god help us all.
Speaker 2What was the question? How?
Speaker 1how do you encourage others? What's some good ways that you encourage? Maybe your friends, the people on your worship team, people at your church, your wife um your foster child?
Speaker 3For me. I know one thing that I like, like for people to you know, encouraging me is kind of, we're not to that part. Well, I'm getting to.
Speaker 1We're not to that point yet. What I'm people to you know, encouraging me, it's kind of we're not to that part.
Speaker 3Well, what I'm getting to we're not to that point yet. What I'm getting to is that I try to reciprocate that and it's kind of pointing out the small things a little bit like, uh, like our, our drummers, have you? Know, an important role on the team, just them. It's really important. They know the songs and stuff. So I'll say like, hey, I appreciate you taking the time to, to know, know this and yeah, you know, because what you do is important.
Speaker 2Well, that's a really good point that you barely made. Thank, you. That it doesn't have to be a giant gesture right, it could be a little. Hey, love you thinking about you yeah it doesn't have to take a half an hour out of your day to just give somebody that little bit of encouragement man?
Speaker 1I hope not. Half an hour, that's man. That's a lot. I'm an encouraging human being. Sit down. Yeah, have a seat. You got some time to a seat.
Speaker 3You got some time to be encouraged.
Speaker 1Yeah, I got a few minutes. I'm going to encourage the crap out of you. Sit down. Sit down and take my encouragement. I got a few minutes.
Speaker 3No, I need at least half an hour. Now we're going to have to start scheduling these encouragements.
Speaker 1I take it serious, yeah, but man, when you have somebody that just does, that encourages you and kind of pours into you, it can, it can just lift your day you could already be having a good day or feeling oocy, I'm going to have to look that up.
Speaker 2I got to get an urban dictionary, like I'm so lost.
Speaker 1But it could just lift your spirits. It could just make you realize, man, it's not unseen, it's not unheard. And it could just lift your spirits. It could just make you realize, man, it's not unseen, it's not unheard, and it could even put away your doubt. That's what many times happens to me when I preach, when I'm doing something, and someone says, hey, that really really reached me or touched me. That encourages me, because a lot of times I'm doubting Like, oh man, was that good? Did they get anything out of it? Like out of it, I wanted to say this or that, and it really does. It kind of lifts me out of that, like okay, good.
Speaker 3I feel the same way as a worship leader oh man, that was good, are you sure? Were you listening to what I was doing?
Speaker 1did you have earphones in you ever been discouraged by somebody afterwards?
Speaker 3who does that?
Speaker 1it's like a nuclear bomb just going. I'm just like, oh, I thought I killed it no, I've never. That's terrible it's like yeah, you know, oh, yeah, I've had that happen. Where it's like, yeah, you know, I thought you were gonna kind of bring it around and really drive home that last point, but it never really happened.
Speaker 3It was good you didn't land the plane. You're still in the air.
Speaker 1I'm in the first part of a series. I'm not even done yet. I literally had that happen probably six months ago. It's like oh man. Good thing it's a series. Can you imagine watching episode one of a series and going well, there's a mystery going on. I don't know why they didn't tell us who it was.
Speaker 2That's how Jennifer watches TV.
Speaker 1It's the whole point of the series.
Speaker 2I watched an episode. I didn't care for it.
Speaker 1So we're done. It's like you watch Iron man and be like where's Thanos the heck.
Speaker 3I don't think I've ever had anyone come up to me.
Speaker 2Maybe it's just because I suck Encouraging?
Finding Confidence Despite Self-Doubt
Speaker 3I don't think that's it. But I will say, as a musician, one of the most discouraging things is when you're playing in front of people and you finish a song and it's just crickets.
Speaker 1Yeah, or during the song they're just looking at you.
Speaker 3Oh, that's terrible. It's pretty discouraging. So it's one thing if it's church yeah, I guess we're playing out.
Speaker 1It's the worst if it's church, church should be worshiping with you. Well, I mean, like in public. It's more of a.
Speaker 2It's more of a, a performance yeah, well, that's what he's saying in public. It's, it's general music yeah kind of in church, you kind of know what to expect yeah, I'm not looking for people to.
Speaker 3You know, clap for us. You know, if people still got their hands raised, keep them raised, don't bring them down and start clapping yeah, um, but like just I don't know. Yeah like kind of, kind of like when you say, can someone give me, give me an amen, and it's just nobody does amen, no, moving on.
Speaker 1Okay, yeah, and that's why I'll make a I'll try to make a joke out of, because sometimes jokes just don't land right. So I'll try to make a joke out of the joke not landing, you know, like you know, I'll say a joke and it's like I found that funnier than what y'all did.
Speaker 3Uh, moving on, so and then that usually gets them to laugh. You know, I'll say a joke and it's like I found that funnier than what y'all did Moving on, so and then that usually gets them to laugh.
Speaker 1You know, it's like OK, moving on. So it's like OK that one didn't land. Let's move past that and act like this didn't happen. It's an acquired taste in humor, it is, it is yeah.
Speaker 2Mike Simmons is an acquired taste.
Speaker 1I, I don't know docks me right here on the what docks. You don't know what that is either. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2All right, grandpa, oh she's gonna tell me what it means, or I'm putting all your personal information out anyways oh, that's dumb, but all right yeah, hey, watch, watch your language so moving on, moving on to how you yourself like to be encouraged.
Speaker 1So here's a big because some people, sorry, hold up mute, because some people they don't take encouragement well at all yeah, like you try to and they're like and there's such a you trying to suck up, it's like no, I'm just trying to or or they're debbie down, they're like no, I really right, no it's like oh man, you're awesome. No, I'm really not, I'm just, I'm not at all, I'm you know what you're right, you suck, oh gosh jennifer ashley randall oh snap, now you're doxing.
Speaker 3Jennifer yes, literally what's her?
Speaker 2social, too, hang on let me get it for you. You don't want to steal that identity. Trust me nobody. I don't even want my identity, but anyway, she is the worst. Hey, you're really pretty today, oh, thanks right, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1I mean, I just I think you are like yeah, no, you're not take that. It's just like man.
Speaker 2And I'm I am my own worst enemy. Like I've anything that I do, I just, I just think I do, terrible at it.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2And it's it's. It's always been a problem, I guess, but it's kind of a weird. I have a weird mix of confidence and self-conscious.
Speaker 1Yes.
Speaker 2Yes, Cause I, I'm, I'm. I portray confidence while feeling self-conscious.
Speaker 3Yeah, that's good. Sometimes you got to fake it until you make it. That's how I got my degree.
Speaker 1Yeah, killed it Did I? I don't think I did. I think I messed up like six times.
Speaker 2Are you sure I get this?
Speaker 3Because we have a couple of our youth that I'm starting to bring on to the worship team. I remember their first Sunday or not Sunday Wednesday, because I had them doing worship on Wednesdays and I'm now going to start bringing on Sundays their first Wednesday on stage in front of their peers and the rest of the youth got off and I was like so is it as nerve-wracking as you thought? And they're like it was a little more.
Speaker 3And then the next time I was like so is it as nerve wracking as you thought? And they're like it was a little more. And then the next time I was like y'all nervous? They're like, oh yeah. I was like, well, it's kind of like sleep. You kind of have to, you know if you're not like just dead tired, you kind of have to close your eyes and act like you're asleep before you actually fall asleep. Put it out there like you are confident and eventually you'll, you'll get there, you'll get into that confidence. It's kind of like a um, I can't remember what the pastor's name, um, but basically he was saying like and like worship. He'll make himself worship and we, when he doesn't feel like it, and his spiritual self will catch up to him physically.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, because, yeah, you have to do, you have to lift your hands when you don't feel like it, and then all of a sudden, you start feeling like it.
The Almost Brothers Encourage Each Other
Speaker 2Now you're like oh man, okay, let's go, that's good, yeah, yeah I still, I'm ridiculously nervous anytime I sing with the praise team or I preach or even which, and I'm getting better at it, like, not better at it, but better at preparing and and and being ready and and being able to put those nerves aside and and. I have found, the more prepared I am, the less nervous.
Speaker 2I am but I still and it's because it's such a big deal right. I mean, you're leading worship, You're bringing in the presence of God. It's kind of important. You're preaching. You're preaching the word of God, it's important. You're teaching. Whatever it is you're doing, it's important. So you don't want to ever take that for granted.
Speaker 3Yeah, there's freedom in preparation.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 3Because you're write that down, you're you're controlling the things that you can control which is yourself. Right, and that's, that's an understanding that is um will help build that you know confidence and self-assurance in yourself, knowing that, what, what it is, whatever it is that you are doing, you know what you're doing. However, if you're in front of people, or whatever they react, how they react, but you are in control of yourself, Control the controllables is what we say in coaching.
Speaker 1You can't control whether they're going to make the shot or not, but you can control the controllables, could try to play good d you can. You can strategize, do what you can to have people in the right place and then let everything fall.
Speaker 3Will, it will, and then it drives me crazy to hear ball teams that ref had it out for us if you didn't foul people, you wouldn't be called for a foul we were just talking about, uh, this the other day in our staff meeting, about you know, some parents or whatever, and I was like I've been at games where, because, like you know me and you michael for those who can't see um, I'm pointing to me and, michael, we, we, we know the, the rules of basketball and we know what an actual travel is, we know what an actual foul is. And then you hear, oh, that was a travel. No, he, they get two steps towards them it wasn't.
Speaker 1But okay, that's what always kills me. It's like a parent or yell like I'll be coaching or whatever, and a parent or yell well, get up there, go play defense. I had one, one parent, his son was on the team and it drove me crazy. One of our better players had four fouls five hours you foul out. Okay, had four fouls. So I tell him, give him some space. His dad yells from the state get up on him, get up on him. What are you doing? Go try to take the ball. Went fouled, fouled out. Dang. He's walking off the court. I turn around and look he goes. That's my bad coach. I was like yeah, yeah it is.
Speaker 3You're right, I never uh, like, shut up. There's a one of the staff members talking about there's a soccer game and there was one dad that was like yelling not yelling, but like you know, loudly trying to coach from from the sidelines. I think it was that his daughter. It was a soccer game, and not only him, but, like some other parents, like listen to your father's sweetheart, right.
Speaker 1And right it's like no, your father hasn't been at practice, your coach has.
Speaker 2My mother was the world's worst when I played little league. She was that mom dude she was. It was so bad don't even know the rules of the game, like swing it every pitch.
Speaker 1What are you doing?
Speaker 3I love being at your games and you get mad. Hey, sit down, coach, shut your mouth.
Speaker 1It's like dude I'm working here what's? The matter with you, man hey.
Speaker 3Coach Simmons, you mad. Hey, get you a sucker.
Speaker 1That's funny, I know like there's. There's ways where jamie will. It's like she knows again I bring her up a lot. But it's like she knows when I need it, you what? So it's like you like her a little bit. She knows the exact time when I need it, like we'll come home from church or whatever, and it's in between services and she's like babe, that was really good this morning and it's just like really, it's like she knew.
Speaker 3Yeah, she almost read my mind and how I was feeling, because I'm sitting there just yeah, I think it's so cool like you know, like in a marriage, you over time you know that person so well, just by like the tiniest little thing, yeah, that you notice about them. You know how to respond yeah like I know, just based on live's face or if she's bouncing her leg, there's something going on. Yeah, like, what are you thinking about?
Speaker 2you okay, yeah and that's the I mean generally. Our spouse is the one we want to impress the most, you know, so that that encouragement from them is it's, it means more than just a random person yeah.
Speaker 1So in saying all this, I just want to encourage y'all a bit today. No, you don't. Well, I just want to tell you, muted, I just want to tell you Richard.
Speaker 2I'm stuck in a mic.
Speaker 1I just want to tell you I'm so proud of you and your weight loss journey, man, you're doing a great, great job.
Speaker 2You're muted nobody.
Speaker 1Every time. Every time you send just a text Just like, hey, I'm down to this, I'm down to this, I'm down to this. It is so awesome because we joke with you on here a lot about it and we mess with you a lot. But, man, we are Negative reinforcement. Right, we really are proud of you, man. You're doing a great job and just stepping in to help teach and help do stuff here at the church. It's just, it's awesome, man, and I appreciate you and I'm just really proud of you to watch where you've come from and where you are now.
Speaker 3Thank you. I was telling Liv that she's like where did he start? I think he's like 324. She's like that's insane, it's awesome.
Speaker 2I'm at a point to where I'm kind of losing like four or five pounds a week, yeah, yeah, so it's pretty awesome, it's just awesome, tyler, what you Me.
Speaker 1I don't have to mute, you do I.
Speaker 2I'm good.
Speaker 1Okay, mute him, do it. You Muted, ha you. I think you get self-conscious when it comes to music. So bad, to the point of being in the middle of praise and worship, messing up and thinking everybody saw this so you have to say something and fix it. But you are so anointed and gifted Oil, you are so gifted and anointed in singing and, and, and I never want you to get to the point to where you, you know it, like you're walking in that, like I know I'm good. But I want you to get to that point, to where you have that confidence, knowing that not the music is good, but lives are being changed because of your music. That is so much more important than just the music is good, but lives are being changed because of your music. That is so much more important than just the music being good.
Speaker 1There's a lot of people that can put out good music. There's not a lot of people that's. Music can change lives and you are one of those. So keep it up, man. Hearing the new songs, hearing the lyrics and all this you kind of just started stepping your toes into songwriting and to hear some of your stuff is is really awesome and, man, I'm just proud of you, seeing where you've come from, from being the one going yeah I don't know if I'm ready to kind of step up and lead and I don't know, I don't know, I don't know to now somebody who is leading, who is affecting people and lives are being changed.
Speaker 1You're doing great, man, and I love you.
Speaker 2Thanks, all right, y'all are unmuted, well while we are encouraging, because why, why not let mike get encouraged also?
Speaker 2I'll see you in the show that's messed up man I know, I know, know you struggle with your own confidence. No, yeah, but the fact that you have built a culture, not only in this church, but in our old remnant family that follow you in these ministries not you, but God through you you is a testimony to your leadership ability. I swear, tyler, what'd you do? Not only is that an anointing of its own, but we talk about this also that talking to you away from church and then the person that the holy spirit brings out on stage, they're two totally different people. God doesn't use people unless he has a purpose for people, and you are anointed to do what you are currently doing well, thank you you're welcome it's a, it's a truth, truth, it is one whole fact.
Speaker 1It is one whole fact.
Speaker 3It's you care about people.
Speaker 2Yep.
Speaker 3And that's a very. I think that's, next to love of God, the most important quality in a pastor and someone leading the church For sure, because it's that the whole world has a negative view on Christians, and it's pastors like you that it's your responsibility to, and all Christians too, but in that position, to change those views and change those opinions.
Speaker 1Yeah that's awesome. I feel encouraged feeling Oosie.
Speaker 3I'm feeling my Oosie level it's just me, oos. He's like I'm sorry you'll get it, you'll get it.
Speaker 1You go home, do some research, and then you'll get it I don't care enough to do that research also, we want to encourage our listeners.
Speaker 1Every single one of you has a purpose, has a reason for being here. We don't know where you are on your journey with jesus. You can, you can. You may have been saved for 50 years. You may not know jesus, that's okay, you still have. You still have a reason for being here. So be encouraged today that you are making a difference in someone's life, that you have meaning, you have purpose. You are not here for no reason. You have value.
Speaker 2Absolutely, and we love you.
Speaker 1I don't care if I've never met you, you could be in. I mean, we've got listeners in different countries a thousand miles away away. We love you and you have purpose yes, we do and yes, you do and yes we got to do the that's what's up.
Speaker 2So yeah, that's also a whole fact that's a whole fact.
Speaker 1One, yeah, one whole fact and a half so now we're gonna move into a segment that we call that's what's up, that's what's Up. I told you not to do that. Oh, okay, Something that you've been listening to watching music, movie, TV show, whatever it may be that you are really enjoying this week.
Speaker 2I'm going to go first this week, okay, you usually go first.
That's What's Up: Entertainment Picks
Speaker 1We don't have a boo button, sorry.
Speaker 3I'll do it.
Speaker 2Now I'm less encouraged and all that just got wiped away. So I was excited about the american idol finale. Right, yeah, check that box. But I saw a spoiler oh, it ruined on the winner yeah, and it was the one person you didn't want that, I did not want to win dang, so now I'm hurt.
Speaker 1But I tried to tell you they would hurt you, richard they did, they hurt my feelings.
Speaker 2But I mean, he's an amazing singer. It's just his general attitude.
Speaker 1He's like one of those guys that just knows he's good and doesn't give a crap on it, and that's where it gets to the point. Where I don't like those shows is that, oh yeah, he's a really good singer. It's like they're all really good singers. Like what do they have that it factor? And it seems like a lot of them that come out of that don't have that. So it's like, oh, here's the winner. It's like why were they the winner over someone else when everybody was outstanding singers? Like what made them the one?
Speaker 3one thing I'm not liking about shows like American Idol anymore is how much of a factor social media comes into play. Because ain't no one that's on TikTok, that has 100 followers on any social media, is going to win that Guarantee? Before he even got on the show, he had hundreds of thousands.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, probably, and that's exactly the thing. It's kind of like every winner I've seen in the past few years is kind of a result of where the popular culture is at at that moment. So it's like, oh, so-and-so's a winner, and they have a distinct feature that goes along with where culture is at at that moment, as opposed to being, oh, this is somebody that's just got something different than the rest of them.
Speaker 2I mean, you know, you say all the time that nobody cares about American Idol or whatever. The finale got 26 million votes.
Speaker 1Yeah, don't care, that's a lot. How many of those are double votes?
Speaker 2Well, you get 10 per method or whatever, it doesn't matter 26 million is a lot of votes but that's not all I have. Oh sorry, okay, so just well.
Speaker 1No, I'm still talking about the brakes, okay but, like you know, when kelly clarkson won, she had, like you see, clearly, like she's different than the rest, like they're all good singers, but she's got something different. When carrie underwood won, she's got something different. Right, you know, even the ones that didn't go on to have a great career, what was it? Adam Lambert he had a good career, but, you see, he had something different.
Speaker 3I mean he's still, I mean he's headlined a queen tour. Right, I know he has. Yeah.
Speaker 1I know he's got a, but he's just not as big Most people wouldn't know that David Archuleta.
Speaker 3Right, yeah, right, yeah.
Speaker 1Yeah, he's like you look at him and you're like, yes, I've got it. They've got something. Daughtery, right one.
Speaker 3Yeah, chris, daughtery he was runner up, or I think he he made to one of the last couple rounds.
Speaker 1Yeah, but it's like now. It seems like the person wins and it's just a popularity contest.
Speaker 2That's 100% what it is well, the top three. It was pretty cool. So the top three you can see representing three totally different musical genres yeah, you had a country singer, a christian artist and an r&b artist and they all represent their genre really, really well. Like they're going, top 10 in american idol has a real shot at making something out of themselves yeah, yeah, well, what else?
Speaker 2so I said a couple weeks ago I was starting a new series fantasy book series, yeah called the alex rogers series. Well, I am on book four of that series and it is really good it's not a lot of reading well, it's audio books, but still a lot of listening it's a lot of listening, but the they still don't reach hell divers yeah, that's what I was gonna say.
Speaker 1Hell divers is the one I really want to, really want to get into. I remember you talking about that series and that's like what, like a dystopian yeah, like the world is is in chaos, post-apocalyptic kind of thing.
Speaker 2Yeah, I want to watch one of my favorite genres of books, but but this is a really good one too. But this is a fantasy series, um, you know, dragons, magic, that kind of thing, and it's it's a really good series. It's well written, well read very.
Speaker 1Have you ever? Oh, what is? I'll think of it later and I'm gonna ask you on a book, on a book series that it's almost like comic book like, but it is a book series, it's not. It doesn't have like drawings and stuff like that, but the storytelling is very comic book like yeah but I'll have to remember later on.
Speaker 2Cool, you know what it was, but yeah, there's like Helldivers has like 12 books and then now they, now he's, there's a prequel that he's coming out with.
Speaker 1Yeah, they kind of spin off and that's how that series was. It kind of like spins off.
Speaker 2It's not our fault. You can't read all right, I can read.
Speaker 3I just don't like reading.
Speaker 1Okay, tyler what do you have? I'll tell you what I got. Oh, we just started reaching. That would be the point of a podcast, to tell us what you've got.
Speaker 3Let me show you. We started reacher. Yeah, um, let's see what did you start suits?
Speaker 1la, no, we have not. Okay, I remember you saying something about it. I keep forgetting to start it.
Speaker 2It's on the list.
Speaker 3Yeah, we are actually going to start me and Inman are going to start taking jiu-jitsu classes.
Speaker 1Nice.
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Speaker 3I went to one last night. Yeah, I'm very sore. Yeah, where's? It at Dexter Nice. That's what's up.
Speaker 1I'm very sore, very humbled, that's right so I had some buddies that did that, which they mixed martial arts fought, so they had different styles that they did and I went and rolled around a little bit and, yeah, you get 110 pound dude. You're like, oh man, I've got this.
Speaker 3I, I didn't I didn't have it. I didn't have it, tyler why can't I breathe?
Speaker 1I didn't, I didn't. Why? Why am I seeing the bottom of my foot like I don't not supposed?
Speaker 3to be seeing that, yeah, yeah. So I went to say off they let you take, you know, one the first class, free to try it out. So I did that last night. We're taking inman to do because I have a kid's class for his age um next tuesday.
Speaker 2Yeah that's awesome. You want to hear the weird reason? I've never done anything like that is it because you're um never?
Speaker 3mind because I don't like feet. That's, that's fair.
Speaker 2I don't like feet either, but that's what I don't think about. That's all done barefoot. I don't want other people's feet in my face and junk in my face.
Speaker 3That's fair. That's just one of the things I don't think about Now you will Thank you.
Speaker 1Did I say we were going Cancel?
Speaker 3We wanted to put him in something that would boost his confidence, and I mean, if there's any form of martial arts that has real-life, like… Application Like complete real-life application is jiu-jitsu. Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 2And that's what I've always loved about MMA is the…. There's no other sport that has the level of sportsmanship that MMA does. Like they can….
Speaker 1For the most part, there are some outliers.
Speaker 2I mean they beat the tar out of each other for three or five rounds and then it's all respect afterwards. I mean it's an amazing thing.
Speaker 1That's awesome man. Good luck with that.
Speaker 3I'm sorry, I'm sorry and it is. It is so crazy to think of, like, because I, because I rolled with, uh, a blue belt and a brown belt and then I rolled with the instructor, you know, obviously taking it very easy on me, and I the whole time thinking, man, they're, they're just dangerous people, yeah, yeah well, it's people like bj penn.
Speaker 2You know that just this world class hoist gracie was a legend, is a legend, and they're usually like the most like chill people too.
Speaker 1You know you never see them in and it's yeah, you know they don't have to be Right.
Speaker 2Last resort, make you smell your own toenails, yeah.
Speaker 3That's oof. My bad, my bad, my bad. We don't like that. The one thing I liked about the class last night is he didn't. He didn't like teach and like okay. And this is, you know, in a like a competition type instruction, but he's like okay. So say you gotta, you're, you know you're out somewhere at a bar, whatever, and some guys you know trying to get in your face and like he's like he's teaching it with real life application.
Speaker 2I thought that was that was it is. Who is the?
Speaker 3Ray Carrillo. That's what I thought. That's awesome.
Speaker 2I used to work for him years ago at Holloway Distributing.
Speaker 3Oh yeah.
Speaker 2Awesome dude.
Speaker 3Yeah, he's real cool. Liv actually did Taekwondo with him.
Speaker 2Oh yeah.
Speaker 3When she was five, five.
Speaker 2He's been doing it for years, yeah been doing it for years.
Speaker 1Yeah, well, I am on. I'm on summertime movie kick now. Yeah, I'm in movie mode. So now every monday I plan on going to the theater watch a movie if you can find one, if I could find one to watch.
Speaker 1So now I, every time I go in. I've done this for years now. Anyway on, I love previews. I love watching the previews of upcoming movies, so I'll just write them down in my notes. There's a few ones. You're gonna be surprised at one of these, but you got superman coming out 28 years later. Tron, a movie called together I knew I know what you did last summer mission impossible comes out this, this upcoming week I've got to get caught up.
Speaker 1I've watched the first three oh, oh, my gosh, they're 20, 20 to go, so good and this is supposed to be the last one yeah, uh, what's the last one? Supposed to be the last one no, it was part one get off tom cruise all right um, lalo and stitch I know the kids are wanting to watch that and there is a movie. I am shocked. I was like watching. I'm like I really want to see this movie. It is starring brad pitt what it?
Speaker 2looks great, and let me guess it's because of a supporting cast.
Speaker 1Not because probably, but right, right it looks like it's kind of he's kind of the main, a little encouragement yeah he's going to get a little encouragement, he's getting my ticket money, so it's, it's f1, it about F1. It looks great. I guess he's like the aging F1 driver and he's got like the up-and-coming young stud kid and it looks fantastic. It really does. It was the first time I heard anything about it, saw the preview and was like oh yeah, I'm going to see that as soon as it comes out.
Speaker 2As a general rule, I'm not a big fan of like race track racing movies.
Speaker 1Like days of thunder was pretty good yeah but you had that movie driven with stallone yeah, it was okay, gran turismo cars, that's not, that's not it's not even in the same. It's not even in this conversation talladega night.
Speaker 2oh, that was not a racing movie, that was a comedy movie, racing movie isn't a genre of movies.
Speaker 1We realize that.
Speaker 3It's like a topic of movie.
Speaker 2Look, my point is movies based around racing.
Speaker 1That's what Talladega Nights is. It was. Talladega Nights has more racing in it than Tropic Thunder.
Speaker 3Or than not Tropic Thunder and Creeps. It was all about racing and crepes.
Speaker 2I no longer want to make my point.
Speaker 1You put a crack in my arm like a crack in the Liberty Bell. That's what he says. You break my arm, pepe Le Pew. He did it, he broke it.
Speaker 2Okay, let's calm down, sorry.
Speaker 1It's really really funny. You haven't even seen it. I have seen.
Speaker 2Oh, have you okay it's okay, I don't know, it's hilarious. I'm not a big will ferrell, fun fact one of my exes from college.
Speaker 3Her uncle was will smith stunt double in that movie.
Speaker 1Will smith wasn't in that movie but all right, not will smith will ferrell, there you go what did he need a stunt double for?
Speaker 2to climb out of the car in his underwear? He was on fire.
Speaker 1I'm on fire so I stopped the invisible fire from burning my friend. It's so funny.
Speaker 3Oh Bobby, it's embarrassing Come on, man Don't you stab yourself with that knife, Bobby.
Speaker 1I'm going to do it. You are not paralyzed. You cut it out. You have to cut around it. Give it. You are not paralyzed, you cut it out. You have to cut around it. Give it to me straight though.
Speaker 3How long is it going to be in the chair? Oh, he just found that in the hallway. He's fine Maybe it's better than I remember.
Speaker 1He's like out there playing basketball, like kicking people away.
Speaker 3You know what would be so funny? Did you ever watch the movie? Be Kind, rewind. Oh yeah, it's been a while yeah. That would be the funniest thing if someone just remade these movies so low budget.
Speaker 1Yes, oh man.
Speaker 2And just redid parts of it. That's so funny. That's how we could spend time together. Oh, absolutely. Oh gosh, Remaking home.
Speaker 1That would be the funnest. That'd be the best.
Speaker 3We'd have to dip into the podcast budget which is zero.
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Speaker 2Write that down you never told us what the name of the brad pitt movie was yeah, I did f1 f yeah you did, I just forgot yeah, yeah, good talk, yeah wow and then it went downhill from there it, it's okay.
Speaker 1I mean, we still love you Rich.
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