Almost Brothers Podcast
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Almost Brothers Podcast
If You're Too Big to Serve, You're Too Small to Lead
The wilderness seasons of our lives often feel like punishment, but what if they're actually preparation? In this thought-provoking episode, the Almost Brothers tackle the challenging concept of waiting in a world obsessed with immediate results and overnight success.
Mike shares how his 20 years of behind-the-scenes ministry work prepared him for his current platform, drawing a powerful parallel to photography: just as film must be developed in darkness before a beautiful image emerges, our character and purpose often develop best in those obscure, unseen seasons. "You have to be developed in the darkness before you can ever see what the picture looked like," he explains, offering a fresh perspective on those frustrating periods of waiting.
The guys coin a powerful phrase during their discussion: "If you're too big to serve, you're too small to lead." This encapsulates their exploration of how leadership requires humility and a willingness to do unglamorous work. They share personal examples of cleaning toilets and vacuuming churches—even as pastors—highlighting that no task should be beneath a true leader. This counter-cultural message challenges our instant-gratification mindset where platforms are desired without the foundational work of serving others.
Looking at biblical examples like David, who spent years as a shepherd before becoming king, they reveal how these waiting periods aren't wasted time but essential preparation. Whether you're waiting for a career breakthrough, ministry opportunity, or personal relationship development, this episode offers perspective, hope, and practical wisdom for navigating your wilderness seasons with purpose. As Tyler reflects on his 3.5-year wait before expecting twins, the message becomes clear: sometimes what feels like God saying "no" is actually His preparation for something even better He has planned.
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Speaker 3:Squidward. I thought he was doing the Rob Schneider thing from Maze it's amazing.
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Speaker 2:Yeah, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up. Everybody, welcome back to a brand new episode of the almost brothers podcast. On today's episode, we're gonna be talking about the waiting season. Don't do that here with me. As always, we got richie rich. How's it going?
Speaker 1:it's good man, I'm a little upset. I've lost my coffee.
Speaker 2:My coffee has ran off from me.
Speaker 3:I don't know where I put it. Ty.
Speaker 2:Ty, how are you doing?
Speaker 3:I'm ready to get this episode finished. You can go eat Chinese food. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:The boy is obsessed with some Chinese food.
Speaker 2:So really, today, what we want to talk about is this is an intervention. Everybody go ahead and come on in.
Speaker 3:We're going to talk to Tyler.
Speaker 2:Good talk. Talk to Tyler about his obsession with Chinese food.
Speaker 3:I can stop whenever I want. Right right, I'm just not going to.
Speaker 2:I could stop whenever I want, I'm just not going to.
Speaker 1:That's another episode. What's your?
Speaker 2:favorite thing of Chinese food, so like if you had only one thing Lo mein Okay, just noodles, just straight, yep. Okay, put some shrimp in there. No, you only have one. Lo mein Shrimp, lo mein is a thing, that's two things, though it's not.
Speaker 1:It's a dish.
Speaker 2:Well, that's like okay, you can only have the noodle.
Speaker 3:Okay, but that's basically saying you can only have the noodles, no sauce, no seasoning that they put on it, just the noodle.
Speaker 1:You're a noodle. I don't know Got it.
Speaker 3:Don't make me say something that's going to make me feel bad for saying it.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry for what I thought about saying it.
Speaker 2:So, Tyler, this was your idea of the theme for the episode. Why are you blaming?
Speaker 3:me.
Speaker 1:You can start us out if it crashes and burns. It's all you.
Speaker 3:This is bullcrap no, I got a, uh, a message this morning. So I started writing a song about the pattern of 40 in the bible. You know, 40 days it rained, uh, jesus in the wilderness. 40 days, 40 nights uh, was it 40? 40 years, the israelites were in the wilderness. For 40 days, 40 nights Was it 40 years? The Israelites were in the wilderness.
Speaker 3:So I started writing a song about God being the talking, about God being the God that pulls you through the 40 and brings you to 41. So I wrote a little bit and I posted it on TikTok and I had this guy message me. I was like hey, like kind of you know, really needed that reminder and started asking like, how do you deal with like rejection and disappointment and waiting in ministry? Because he's kind of in the same boat that I was for a little while last year. He's a worship leader and basically there's been opportunities that he's been passed up on. Basically he's just trying to figure out how to handle that and you know, basically questioning himself, questioning god's plan for him and kind of all that it's kind of that.
Speaker 2:You know the teacher is quietest during the test. You know, and it's hard that testing season, that that quiet season, like what is what is going on, like as has god forsaken me, like what is what is really happening, because it can, it can be daunting, that season of absolutely kind of nothing you know.
Speaker 2:So, uh, it's. It's such a good subject because we all go through this in our lives and and god allows us to go into this wilderness season on purpose. There's a reason for it. In a world of instant justification, in a world of the Instagram, the Facebook, everything is instant. You get news instantly. We used to have to wait on newspaper. You'd wait on the 9 o'clock news at night. Whatever, everything is instant now, we think that success is instant now, so we think, we think that success is instant.
Speaker 2:You know, we, we think that you know the, the brandon lakes of the world, that kind of blew up on the scene. You think, oh well, they just kind of just started and they blew up and it's like no years and years and years of preparation happened for this to happen. So yeah, let's first start off about some. You know you, you talked about a little bit about your. You know, last year, kind of you were in kind of that season, season of limbo Right Rich, what was the season where you were kind of in that in-between time and, like man, you just felt like you're literally in the desert, like just dry wasteland.
Speaker 1:You don't know which way is out, you don't know where to go well, and if you're speaking of just ministry which personally and just ministry it was. It was that period of time when me and jennifer had split up and we kind of moved away to try and reconnect with each other. But but in doing that I I kind of lost my way of what. What does god want for me now in ministry? Because my family felt like it was falling apart. My ministry I didn't really have a ministry at that time and everywhere I tried to connect, it didn't feel like that's where God wanted me. So it was literally a period of waiting for just direction, just God, what do you want for my family? What do you want for me? In ministry? And it was hard, I mean, because it feels like when you're in that that you're not getting answers, even when God. You know God is leading your steps as long as you're seeking him, but it still feels like forever yeah before you get an answer to, to what you're supposed to be doing.
Speaker 1:So and it's it is generally through other people that you get that answer. You know god working through somebody else who you know like what, what happened with you reaching out to me like, hey, this is what's going on.
Speaker 2:So it's it's so hard to really just stop and wait integrity gets built when you're not seen, when you're not heard, especially when you feel that God has called you to something and you're not seeing it yet. You have to lean on him. You know it's kind of a make or break. You can either give up hope or you lean on him, you know. So it's a test of of strengthening your integrity in the quiet moments, in the moments where you're not seen, you're not heard. You know, and you know me and my personal life like it.
Speaker 2:It took 20 years of ministry to get to where I'm at now, in absolute obscurity, you know, in in being behind the scenes and helping other pastors and and and doing things that weren't. I didn't get a pat on the back for, I didn't get a hey, thanks Mike for this. I didn't get a, a microphone on a stage. So I, my whole life in ministry has been built on that quiet season to then prepare me for the moment where God's like okay, now I'm going to give you a platform to speak to to, because he had to test and grow my integrity. He had to test and grow my faith in him outside of the shiny lights, outside of the spotlight. But nobody wants to do that anymore. They want it instant. They want it now. I don't. I don't want to spend the time of the spotlight, but nobody wants to do that anymore. They want it instant. They want it now. I don't want to spend the time in the darkness. You know, back before digital cameras, you take a picture. What happened when you took that picture?
Speaker 1:You had to have it developed.
Speaker 2:It was taken to a dark room. So even before, like you know, instant cameras or whatever, it had to be taken to a dark room and developed in the darkness before you could ever see what the picture looked like. Right, you know and that's how God works with us is is you will have a a a season in obscurity and not being seen in the darkness before you can develop into the thing that God has called you to be, into the person that God has called you to be, into the person that God has called you to be. We see a lot of people that kind of get that instant success. What happens in their life? They end up falling Right Because they didn't have to go through that.
Speaker 2:You have the guy that put one song up on SoundCloud and it blew up, and now all of a sudden he's this big name and then he gets in a bunch of trouble. All this stuff happens. Now he's he's bankrupt because you're unprepared, right, right, you haven't had to go through that, that season of development. So you know, instead of shying away from that season, we need to be leaning into that season yeah, and it's it, it really is.
Speaker 1:You know, the developing in the darkness is a really good analogy, because that's, that's what it feels like. Yeah, you feel like you're in the dark, you know. It's like what do I do physically and literally in the dark, like what is happening right now?
Speaker 2:you know, and and there's something beautiful about that about saying god, I'm gonna serve you even when nobody knows it right.
Speaker 2:You know I've helped. I've helped some of my pastors write sermons that they used my own ideas and language in their sermon and I got no credit for it whatsoever. And it's because God was showing me that you're going to work and not be seen, not be heard, not be noticed, and I'm going to develop you, I'm going to grow you in that season. So we should lean into that. It's okay. But nowadays people don't want to do that.
Speaker 1:They want it instant, they want it now and it's the growth, is the, is the, is the point. Yeah, right, yeah. And you won't get that growth without that challenge, without that test, without without god putting you through the fire and forging you into the man that you need, man or woman you need to be.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I kind of see it. I can use me and jujitsu right now as an analogy, for that. Last night was my fourth or fifth class. I'm not going to go into a tournament now, right, if I go into it in a public setting where I'm going up against you know, real life stuff, I'm not ready. Yeah, that's the whole point. Yeah, that's the whole point of you know being not seen and, like you said, it's building your integrity, uh, where no one's watching. It's that way. When you're in, when you're in that position of eyes are on you and you're on a platform or you're in the spotlight. You know what you're doing.
Speaker 1:Well, Tristan brought something up the other day. He said that he doesn't want to be good at something and get to a point to where he's prideful.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And I feel like that's part of the preparation process too is God is preparing your integrity, so that when you do get that, it's not about you, it's about God and bringing things to his glory, not your own.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I've talked about it before the broom closet that my youth group used to be in.
Speaker 2:It was just an absolute mess, but it was the only place we had had four youth, Two of them were pastor's kids. They didn't listen, they were falling asleep and not paying attention, but that God was developing me. I was preaching to those four kids Like I'm preaching to 400, you know, and God was was showing me something in that broom closet that if you can prepare, if you can give your all here, then you can give it what? What is given little, who does good with little is given much, you know. So it's like let's see what you'll do in this situation and then I'll propel you to this situation, Right?
Speaker 1:And what you said earlier about serving Nobody wants to do it. Nobody wants to do it because you don't get the recognition for that. You have to serve in order to be recognized at any point in your ministry.
Speaker 2:If you're too big to serve, you're too small to lead.
Speaker 1:That's right, that down. That's a good one.
Speaker 2:That's a good one. You know and, and, and nobody wants to do that. Nobody wants to spend the time it takes. Nobody wants to. You know certain jobs like you have to, um, what, what does it call? Where you go in and you kind of work for free and learn stuff.
Speaker 3:You kind of work for free and learn stuff Internship.
Speaker 1:Internship.
Speaker 2:Apprentice? Yeah, nobody wants to do that. Oh, I should be getting paid For what you know nothing at all. Like you're getting paid in the knowledge of the thing that you're learning how to do. Like that's why I can kind of step into certain things, because I spent years and years of knowledge getting poured into me and working for free for nothing. Like I'm giving up my time right, but I'm getting back so much more. You know and, and you know now we see these pastors every week. It seems like now, now we got michael tate, that that all this stuff has came out about him.
Speaker 1:Oh, the news boys. Yeah, yeah, and it's like you saw he yes, he admitted a lot of it.
Speaker 2:Yeah it, it's like. It's like these people get a platform and they forget about the obscurity, yeah, and they forget about who put them there.
Speaker 2:Yes, and and sometimes you know, pride comes before a fall and sometimes we really even in in the time where god has propelled you and given you a platform and giving you a voice. You still need to remember those small times. You still need to remember me and mike. You still need to remember Me and Mike was talking about it the other day where you get some people that's over something and don't want to clean. It's like now, if you're too good to clean, are you good enough to lead? Like me, I'll be on a Sunday morning. I'll see a.
Speaker 2:I go to clean it, you know, and it's like I'm the head of the church. I've got to go and clean it. I've got to be humble enough to do the small thing. I clean toilets. I was vacuuming on the day I got ordained as a pastor. I was vacuuming the church in a suit. That's the kind of mindset you have to have, and I'm not saying I always have that mindset. Of course I have my weak moments also, but we have to remember those moments, that darkness, that wilderness, and I think that god allowed me to go through such a lengthy wilderness to remind me of that. He really had to break me of any pride whatsoever how's that man?
Speaker 3:it's a little dry, man same same, old same old every day.
Speaker 3:But and that's and that leads to you know the the path of good leadership or bad leadership, because you know saying all that, you know good leadership if you're in leadership and there's something you wouldn't do or won't do, why are you, why would you expect people that kind of under you to do it right? It's kind of like you know with him and we always tell him, you know we're, you know tell him to do something or whatever, and he's like nervous about doing it. Or I was like we're not going to tell you to do something if we thought it was unsafe or that we wouldn't do it right yeah and that, and you set that bar, you set that example.
Speaker 2:So you've got to be able to go through all that stuff and do all that stuff to be able to show somebody else how to do it. You know, you've got to learn to be a follower before you can learn to lead somebody.
Speaker 1:Well, that's and that's true outside of ministry. You know the management jobs that I've had. I've always said that I would never ask somebody to do something I wouldn't do and you have to be able to do all the stuff that you're telling people to do in case somebody's not there to do it.
Speaker 2:You have to be able to step into that. They used to drive me crazy when a manager would come and try to tell you your job, but it's like you've never done this?
Speaker 3:Why are you trying to tell me how to do it, or they'd step in and like all right, let me show you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's wrong, Don't do it like this.
Speaker 3:That was when I worked at that, a housing company with andrew holtz hauser yeah, it was upper management that had no idea what we did. It was like we need to change this. Yeah, what is it that you think you're changing?
Speaker 2:yeah like I don't think you understand what you're talking about legit.
Speaker 3:It's like, oh, it's not working. It's been two days it's one thing, y'all.
Speaker 2:Y'all ever seen that show undercover boss oh yeah that's what I love about that where, like you know, the the owner of this huge company comes in and he's like why do we do it like that? And the worker's like that's just how they trained us.
Speaker 1:That's the company policy.
Speaker 2:He's like no, this ain't right. And you kind of see that light bulb go on of like, oh, I didn't realize this is what was going on. This is what they were doing.
Speaker 3:I've learned in the military regarding leadership that crap trickles downhill, yeah it, everything beyond it. It's going to be not great.
Speaker 2:Yep, it gets filtered down, you know it it.
Speaker 3:So it's. It's. It's your job as a future leader, as a potential leader, wherever you know be your job or ministry, or whatever it is. It's your job. You know, if, if you, if you feel that is, that is in your future, or you know that that is coming, it's your job now to allow God to mold you and prepare yourself for that, because at that point, when you're stepping in something like that, it's not for yourself anymore. Everything up to was kind of for yourself to get yourself ready, but once you're in that position, it's no longer about you.
Speaker 1:I know for a fact that Mike has been through this. It's no longer about you. Yeah, well, that's. I know for a fact that mike has been through this. I know you have that when you are under somebody that you that you see doing wrong things.
Speaker 3:Now you're making mental notes, okay I don't want to do it that way I want to find a better way to do something, and it's it's.
Speaker 1:It's another reason that's important to to to work under people and and to to learn, because not all learning is about what to do right some of it is about what not to do.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, that's a. That's a lot of what I learned in the in the military was bad leadership. Right, I'd say I'd say 75 to 8 percent of leadership that was under the military was not great yeah, and now we're going to get a letter from the pentagon and y'all know we ain't they're coming shoot.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's gonna be a letter like yeah, you right yeah, and and it is, it's, and god will put you there and leave you. That you know, a lot of times we we beg to get out of that season, like just come on, and sometimes it's. We need to learn the good, the bad, the ugly, what to what, not to do in that season. So, no matter where you're at in that darkness, in that dry season, in that desert season, there's something that you can learn from that. It could be kind of the worst time of your life, but there's stuff that you can learn if you just are willing to say, okay, this is a bad situation, what can I learn out of it?
Speaker 1:What can I get out of it? To say, okay, this is a bad situation. What can I learn out of it? Oh yeah, what can I get out of it? I, through through all my dark seasons I have. I have learned more about myself through that than I did when things were great you know, it's just because you, you come to a point, to where you have to look at yourself yeah so you have to look at what number one what did do to to be a part of the problem that I'm in, and what can I do to really not be here again?
Speaker 2:Right, oh, you know I'm talking about the Israelites. And in the desert, like they kept, instead of looking at their self, they'd start to blame God and they stayed in the desert, running in circles instead of learning and getting out of it. You know, it's like, well, you could. Just there's the promised land right there. It shouldn't take y'all that long to get there. But because they didn't, they weren't introspective and looking at their self and going how, how do we need to grow? What do we need to do there? God, why did you bring us here? You could have left us in egypt. What do you you know?
Speaker 1:because it's hard to look at yourself. Yeah, look at that mirror and be. What did you do wrong, especially?
Speaker 2:when it's a when it's a darkness season, that you continuously find yourself right, and it's like well then what are you doing, right you?
Speaker 3:know I was gonna say there's and there's always. Whether the situation is about you or not, there's always something that you can look at yourself and figure out what you can learn from it. Like the whole the worship leader before me at Liberty Hill you know it was, you know it was all eyes on him, but I also took that as what can I and what can we as a church learn from this? And and and be sure that we are approaching this situation correctly, biblically, lovingly, you know, because it's easy to point fingers and and say go away. Yeah, it's hard to be like this was probably the worst thing you can do. How can I help you?
Speaker 2:yeah, right, yeah, or what? What could we do to prevent this from happening again? What could we have done different to prevent that we could have done to prevent this from happening at all? Yeah, because there's always. There's always something that both sides could have done better, right, always, you know, you've got, you know, a couple that breaks up or gets divorced or whatever, and it's like, oh, that, well, this guy was a horrible guy. Okay, that may be true, but there's, there's things that you could have done differently. Also, it's not always just, yeah, oh, that person bad. We, we done everything right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, there's always something that and it may not always be something that would have made a difference, but again there's it's. It's always a lesson for the future, yep oh yeah, and that's.
Speaker 1:It's that old saying there's always two sides to every story, you know, just examining that, yeah, yeah, that's always.
Speaker 3:I always say, um, I don't say, I always say it's kind of something that I've I've been kind of reinforcing in my mind lately um, you can't really form an opinion until you have all the information yeah, yeah, that's very true and in a in a day of the internet, we just do you.
Speaker 2:You hear the story, you see the headline and that's it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh, I've been guilty of doing that, like I'll see a headline on facebook and because it's facebook, the headline is not even the story and I'm like hey did you hear that? So and so, blah, blah, blah. It's not even what happened. What am I?
Speaker 2:thinking you read it's like oh, that's not at all.
Speaker 3:That's all it is, just to catch your attention, right click.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what it's called clickbait yeah, and and we can do that in our lives. You know, a lot is is you hear a, you see something, and you automatically judge the whole situation on that, instead of because you do that in your own wilderness period. You look at it and you go, oh well, this is just punishment and you're not looking at the bigger picture of okay, this is terrible, this sucks. What can I learn from it? Maybe this is a growing season?
Speaker 3:And I told this guy. I said, and I feel like a lot of times when we ask God for things, it's not that God says no, but I think it's a no because he's already got something better planned. That goes against that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and he knows better than you do, you know, but like what Well?
Speaker 3:and we're so, so we're, we're in the picture. God's the artist. We are in the picture. It's hard for us to see the big picture when we're such a very minute minuscule thing like within that big picture.
Speaker 1:And that's the real problem is nobody wants to admit that we're minuscule right that our world is not the world.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yep, and, and if you just take a moment, you know, and, and it's a perfect analogy, just talking about the, the picture is so much bigger. But if you're right up on it, if you like, literally take a painting the mona lisa and you, you, you walk right up on it and you got your nose touching it. You're looking at, you're not seeing this beautiful picture, you're well, this is just terrible what is this?
Speaker 3:it's just a blob. This is a blob of nothingness.
Speaker 2:And then, as you back up and take a moment, as you're backing up, you start seeing more and more of it, and then you could see the whole thing. Oh, this, this is something beautiful. But us, in our human state, we can't. It's so hard for us to look past what is? Right in front of us.
Speaker 1:We was watching America's Got Talent one time and they had an artist that was painting as music was playing and stuff and it just did. I mean even getting closer to done. It's like what I have no idea. And then at the end he turned it upside down. He flips it. Yeah, it's awesome. Yeah, oh my gosh, I've seen that guy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like oh that is so cool and that is such a good visual of how we treat things Like.
Speaker 3:I don't understand Like this is stupid.
Speaker 2:Why am I?
Speaker 3:going through like man. It's crazy. And then also think about david.
Speaker 2:He was annoying to be king. What like probably 12, 13. And then when was?
Speaker 3:he king, probably in his 20s, yeah, and you know, the whole time he was working as a shepherd boy, yep, and then he was what saws like this yeah, he was the armor bearer. And then he, he had to serve and serve, and serve, and so I don't remember reading any part where he complained about it, right, right, just the part where he complained about it, right.
Speaker 2:Right, Just the part where he was running Cause Saul was literally trying to kill him and they're like he's trying to kill me, Like come on now.
Speaker 3:Saul was talking. I can't. I don't know if it was you, but some pastor was talking about it and they're like you imagine just being in the wilderness.
Speaker 2:He's fighting bears and lions and all that.
Speaker 3:He's preparing him for the giant, and then he's preparing him to serve saul, and he's preparing him for all these different things and I think, with the responsibilities that he had already had, gave him a sense of maturity to understand that, um, that is a huge thing. That's not going to come to a 13 year old boy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean it. It says when, when he was standing and talking about I'll go fight Goliath, he literally told them I fought off bears, I fought off lions. I could handle this, literally. God was setting him up in the fields to fight a giant.
Speaker 3:So imagine, didn't have that, and now he's there with the Israelite army. And you know, let's say, some of the things were flipped and they're like hey, we need you to fight this guy.
Speaker 2:And you're like I'm just a kid.
Speaker 3:I've tossed a 10-pound salmon.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Like that's all I can do. That's it, yeah, yeah, and it's just a beautiful picture of how God can turn something that seems so bad into something so beautiful Yep. He's really good at that. So in a long 26 minutes, tell the guy embrace this season, embrace the weight, embrace the weight, embrace the weight, because it matters, it absolutely matters it does.
Speaker 3:Well, that's and it kind of goes with. You know the whole pregnancy thing. You know we waited three and a half years and you know people ask like you know how do you feel? You know, because everyone when they find out you know they're pregnant, their wife's pregnant, whoever it's a moment of like shock and oh crap and yeah, and eventually you know you start settling into that. When live told me I felt like there's a weight.
Speaker 3:Yeah, like my shoulder, like it was literally like oh, thank god, all right, like I can breathe now and after the weight you know of all that time, now you've got two, so god double blessed you. That was when the oh crap moment you know.
Speaker 2:So it's like. It's like that period of wait, of leaning on God, of leaning on each other, of leaning on all your friends and family led you to this moment, to where now it's like okay, we've got this, we've been prepared for this, we've been waiting on this, We've been praying for this, we've got a family, we've got friends that are behind us, so it's prepared you. That whole wedding season prepared you for twinning, twinning.
Speaker 3:I don't think anything can prepare you for that.
Speaker 1:Hold up now.
Speaker 2:I've got twin sisters and Lord Jesus.
Speaker 1:It's a lot, and you got the gender reveal this Saturday, so next episode you can tell our listeners what they are Okay.
Speaker 3:so Liv got me a hat with the names on it.
Speaker 1:Let's make guesses. Oh, was that right? Uh, I'm gonna go with girls to both girls.
Speaker 2:Yep, okay, guess, tyler, I tried, I tried oh, man, you, I swear you and like 20 other people no.
Speaker 3:So live, she wasn't feeling great sunday and she's supposed to. She was playing piano and she wasn't feeling great Sunday and she was playing piano. She wasn't feeling great, so she sat in the green room during services. One of the our friends uh, patty's husband jason came up say hey, is live feeling all right? I was like, yeah, she's no pregnancy, she's kicking it, but she's not feeling great.
Speaker 3:He goes oh, the boys wrestling around there and then, well then, patty, we're out in the parking lot leaving, and, uh, she said the same thing, but she's like the girl's messing around there what's your guess?
Speaker 2:one of each, one of each okay, that's gonna be my guess. That's what I. One of each, one of each Okay, that's going to be my guess. That's what I'm going with. All right, one of each, because of your nonsensical you know, I'm just saying, I'm just saying so we'll see.
Speaker 1:He thinks that Tyler misspoke and I think that Tyler doesn't think that deeply.
Speaker 2:I did not think deeply about that.
Speaker 3:That's still my guess. We shall see. Well, here's my thing. I have a pregnant wife that'll kill me if I reveal the genders.
Speaker 1:So why?
Speaker 3:would.
Speaker 2:I leave any kind of clue for that.
Speaker 1:We'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 3:We were saying the other day that we kind of wish that we kept the twins thing a secret tale.
Speaker 1:Oh, that would have been crazy yeah.
Speaker 2:And like okay, here's what the baby is going to be oh my gosh, I knew it like okay, here's what the other one is going to be. Wait what?
Speaker 3:I've seen one where I can't remember exactly what it was, but balloons is what it was and they like a bunch of balloons, and it came out blue and pink and lost their minds.
Speaker 2:I like the Star Wars one that I've seen pink and, yeah, they lost their minds. I like the star wars one that I've seen oh yeah, it was.
Speaker 1:It was pink and blue lightsaber.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, and they, they were fighting. They did a whole fighting sequence and then the one that won was the gender of the baby.
Speaker 3:That's pretty cool. I, I, that was my idea. But with wrestling, yeah, live would not. Live would not go.
Speaker 2:We have wrestlers here at the church too that we know people.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that would have been fantastic.
Speaker 2:What a hater that's what I'm saying so we are now going to move into an episode called that's what's up. That's what's up, what's up? Things that we're watching, listening to new music, new movies, new video games, whatever it may be going on in our lives. Tata, what do you got?
Speaker 3:Oh shoot, he was not prepared. No, I was, cause I thought about this. Uh, cause I was. I can't remember if I was listening to someone. I was like, oh, this would be something I'd talk on the pot. I can't remember. Now Phil Wickham's got a new song out called homesick for heaven. I can't remember. I had something, but I cannot remember it was really good. I probably should have wrote it down.
Speaker 3:Yeah, well, it's something that I would say about during the week I was like, oh, I'll mention this. And now I'm like guess it never happened, just ain't happening.
Speaker 1:So we watched a really good movie on netflix, warning there is bad language in this movie, but it was. It was really good and fudgesicles I have forgotten the name of it already what I just told y'all about it uh straw straw. Thank you, and it was a really shut up save, just shut ty.
Speaker 2:Just shut up, tyler with the save.
Speaker 3:That's what I'm. I'm like Curry Game three, game four coming in clutch.
Speaker 1:But this is a rare occurrence in which Jennifer picked a good movie.
Speaker 2:Oh, there you go, okay.
Speaker 1:Because that is not her strong suit. What's it about?
Speaker 3:It's about a woman who basically loses everything, and just breaks, and it's not Tyler Perry in the dresses, that's right. Okay, it is a Tyler Perry movie, but he's not in it. He wrote it, produced it, directed it Like it's his baby, but it's a really good movie, didn't he? Wasn't the movie Manhood with Kevin Hart? Wasn't that one of his? I don't know. I don't know either.
Speaker 2:I'm not a Perry fan, so I don't know Fatherhood, fatherhood.
Speaker 3:Yeah, what did I say? Manhood?
Speaker 1:Yes, you did Okay, fatherhood? I don't know. I still don't know the answer but that's the movie.
Speaker 2:It's a good say I've got very, very big Kevin Hart fatigue. It's complete opposite. It's a whole.
Speaker 3:He's a single dad.
Speaker 1:That's what the movie is. He still has some.
Speaker 2:Kevin Hart isms yeah, it's same as everything he's in it's definitely not the you know, whatever I don't even.
Speaker 3:It's definitely not bad, but but was I close?
Speaker 1:you were pretty close I've also been playing dying light 2 on xbox.
Speaker 3:It is so intense yeah it's good oh, it's good, I don't know intense. That's a tent wow, see, right there we're not on video. I'm making a tent with with my, with my hands and arms with the in tent and I'm in tent I need new friends too, mike what you got.
Speaker 1:Switch two came out yeah, how's that going?
Speaker 2:it's pretty good, yeah, pretty good pretty good, not great that's not good pretty good, not great. Well, there's no. There's no launch game other than mario kart. It's, it's good, it's a mario kart, it's improvement on the last one. Fine, great, awesome, but that's kind of it. I'm playing my switch one games on the switch too, so it's, I'm not even getting to experience that sounds like a letdown is what it's kind of kind of.
Speaker 2:It's not a huge letdown because they improved a bunch of stuff over the last one, which is kind of what you want. But waiting we just that's right, it's in the waiting season yeah, so, uh, it's not bad, not bad, not bad at all, but was that two?
Speaker 1:two, two. That's the first one I've heard. I know I'm impressed.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've been waiting now that we talk about it.
Speaker 1:You know he's always got 10 for the rest of my gosh, but uh got that stand y'all um.
Speaker 2:I went and watched the new mission impossible yeah it was okay, was it possible?
Speaker 1:it was average. About seven out of ten got a lot of letdowns, yeah it was.
Speaker 2:It was good movie. It really was good. Four movies jammed into one because there was a lot going on. It just would jump around and it was just a lot, a lot going on. So seven, five out of ten all right, so not not super excited, especially for it supposed to be the last one.
Speaker 3:So gosh yeah so it's that probably, they'll probably, you know, say the same thing. But okay, we need to make another one yeah, to really cap it off so that's about it.
Speaker 2:Just been playing uh, playing the switch too and watching a few movies. I think I'm gonna go again this monday and and watch a movie. Got a few good summer blockbusters coming out cool. Yep, yep, yep. What is y'all's go-to? Fourth of july is right around the corner. What is y'all's go-to independence day movie? Independence that's right, that's right. That's what I'm talking about, right there. You like Independence?
Speaker 1:Day. If you tell me you have not seen this movie, I am going to stab you in your sleep? There's no way.
Speaker 2:You've seen this movie, right have you?
Speaker 3:not no I have not.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, we really do need you Muted, have you not.
Speaker 2:No, I have not. Oh my gosh, we really do need you Muted. You put your mic in the wrong one, then, my bad, sorry.
Speaker 1:Tyler, I didn't do it, he did.
Speaker 2:Muted Richard. I don't know, dude, what kind of a friend are you to let him go through and not watch independence day? Tell me, what kind of friend are you? No, muted Like. I don't understand how this could happen. Ladies and gentlemen, this is a moment in the almost brothers podcast history to where I'm going to put this out on the airwaves in your ears, in your, in your car, wherever you're listening to this. I need two new hosts. Okay, I cannot. I can no longer deal with this nonsense, this treachery that is happening on this podcast.
Speaker 1:I am over it I don't know what I had to do with this situation. I've seen the movie. You let him not watch it. You made him watch all of one tree hill and still haven't gotten him to watch independence day, or back to the future, or back to the future we're gonna do some episodes.
Speaker 2:He is 10 years old.
Speaker 1:So I mean that is somewhat of a dis that's we're gonna let him slide on some of this apparently it's inman, I'm 35 oh, wow yeah, he did say something about that. Yeah well, I can't.
Speaker 3:I can't remember what the conversation was, but he was like basically saying I'm old, or yeah, saying I'm old. I was like how old do you think we are? And well, he was like it was like 20, 22. I was like, okay, that's pretty close. How old do you think I am?
Speaker 1:like 35, oh wow, you're the old man man.
Speaker 2:Now you know how I feel, so we're gonna we're gonna start doing some episodes where we sit and watch and talk about a few of these movies that tyler hasn't watched, kind of like uh the uh drama queens podcast yes yes, exactly but anyway, back to the original question.
Speaker 1:Independence day is is the fourth july movie? Yeah, like there is no other will smith I've got three of them that right around there.
Speaker 2:I'll it. Will Smith, I've got three of them right around there. It's a tradition. I always watch Independence Day on 4th of July, but there's three movies I watch right around that day Always. I'll get with them. Tyler, what about you? Bruce Almighty, I don't know so stupid. So Independence Day, always Top Gun, I always Top Gun. I always watched Top Gun right around that time. Very American movie man, just good, good stuff.
Speaker 1:What do you prefer, the original Top Gun or Maverick? I know, Because I almost like Maverick better. I was about to say the original is a classic but Maverick is.
Speaker 2:They bring in better surrounding characters.
Speaker 1:So I like.
Speaker 2:Maverick a lot, but that's a tough one.
Speaker 1:RIP. Val Kilmer RIP.
Speaker 2:And then the third one is the Tomorrow War.
Speaker 1:That's kind of a newer one that I've been doing. Oh, that's so good.
Speaker 2:I forgot about that one. I'm sure you haven't seen that one either.
Speaker 1:That's a new movie.
Speaker 2:I'm not a movie buff or anything like that, Like I don't, I don't know.
Speaker 3:I'll tell you what, Like I'm, I'm I apologize I don't like it, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Tomorrow. That was one of those movies. That's just like such an amazing idea behind that movie.
Speaker 3:It's incredible. Richard, can you tell your co-host to stop staring at me? He can, but it's richard, can you tell your co-host to stop staring at me? I'm just, but he's not going to. He doesn't listen very well, I'm just I'm just so disappointed.
Speaker 1:I'm not mad caller, I'm just disappointed. You can be both and I wouldn't care. Hey, 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.
