Almost Brothers Podcast
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Almost Brothers Podcast
God Moves When We Move Together
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What happens when the body of Christ attacks itself? In this eye-opening conversation, pastors from different backgrounds tackle the alarming phenomenon of church division and its devastating impact on our collective witness.
During a powerful reflection on the "Together Conference 2025," our guests share raw, unfiltered truths about the walls we've constructed between denominations. One pastor brilliantly compares church division to an autoimmune disorder—when the body fails to recognize its own parts and attacks itself. This profound metaphor frames a discussion that challenges every believer to reconsider how we interact with churches outside our immediate circles.
You'll hear firsthand accounts of what happens when churches unite instead of compete. From youth services bringing together hundreds of teenagers across denominational lines, to miraculous moments of synchronicity when worship leaders and pastors find themselves expressing identical thoughts without planning—these stories illustrate the supernatural connection that emerges when we prioritize Kingdom over institution.
The conversation takes a deeply personal turn when Bobby shares his journey with sarcoidosis, a chronic health condition that closed the door to his family business but opened unexpected pathways into ministry. His testimony powerfully demonstrates how God often redirects our paths through circumstances we'd never choose, equipping the called rather than calling the equipped.
This episode doesn't just identify problems—it offers a vision for what church could be when we embrace authentic unity. You'll walk away with practical insights on breaking patterns of complacency, building genuine connections across church lines, and cultivating a community that makes outsiders want to belong.
Ready to reimagine what it means to be the body of Christ? Listen now, then share your thoughts with us. Together, we can build bridges where others have built fences.
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Speaker 3That is a good one. Yeah, that's a movie.
Speaker 2It's got Hayden Panettiere in it. Oh yeah, that's the chick from Heroes, right.
Speaker 4Yes, correct, yeah, correct.
Speaker 5Wasn't she in like a horse movie.
Speaker 3A horse movie.
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Speaker 5Like a movie about a horse.
Speaker 3I don't know, I'm not like a Hayden Panettiere connoisseur. I'm a panetary connoisseur.
Speaker 5I ain't either. I know she was in Bring it On. She was in Bring it On, oh gosh. She was in a cheerleader, oh yeah.
Speaker 1Was it the?
Speaker 5first one, bring it On In it To Win it, in it To Win it. No, the first one was Kirsten Dunst.
Speaker 3Yes, it was the first one is an absolute classic, richard. I'll fight you over what, what, what are you?
Speaker 2pointing at thursday night. It's friday night. Oh, I meant friday night. Dang, who wrote that? You was here when I wrote it and it looks like a seven it does it's true
Speaker 3I don't need you to, I don't need you to chime in at all chime ding wong? I don't know yeah, you would know we have to celebrate our differences that's so funny. What's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up. Everybody, welcome back to a brand new episode of the almost Brothers podcast.
Speaker 5As always, we you what I said. I think that was six, six, yeah, or five, five or six.
Speaker 2How many throat clears are we going to have tonight?
Speaker 5I'm going to say over under how many?
Speaker 3Go, I'm going to go five.
Speaker 5Go five, I'm just going to. There's a guy I saw on TikTok that he challenged himself he was smoking marijuana. He's like I'm going to try to go the whole video not choking and he's just red in the face. He's crying.
Speaker 3He's just we're going to be talking. What do you think, Tyler? He's crying. He's just we're going to be talking. What do you think, Tyler?
Speaker 4He's like I'm going to go three.
Speaker 2All right, we'll go three. All right, we'll see what happens.
Speaker 5I'm suffering already.
Speaker 3Already his throat's starting to get a little tickle going.
Speaker 5I was singing a lot.
Speaker 3That's what I was. I was up there.
Speaker 2I'm like man, I feel like, because I was singing too during I'm like I think I'm gonna lose my voice in the next couple days. Emily went to church camp for three days and she is no voice. Oh yeah, that's yeah uh uh.
Speaker 5Tuesday, when we were at church being press on the same because they went to like a couple different camps this week and his son, parker, had no voice whatsoever after the first camp they had a whole nother one to go to.
Speaker 3Yeah, and it's, it's fun. And in the middle of it you're like this is awesome. And then you're like next day, the next day is that was awesome. I had such a great time here with me, as always.
Speaker 2Richard Randall, how are you Ta-ta?
Speaker 3That doesn't count as one. That doesn't count as one. No, I'm going to power through it. We have some special guests today. We got Mr Bob Cooper Hello Hanging with Mr Cooper. That was a good show.
Speaker 2It was, it was yeah.
Speaker 3I'm not familiar. Who was the?
Speaker 2guy. Who was that? Mark Mr Cooper, that was a good show, it was. It was, yeah, I'm not familiar. Who was that?
Speaker 3Mark Wahlberg what?
Speaker 5Zuckerberg.
Speaker 3No, you're getting farther away. Yeah, I can't remember his name Mark Curry. Damon. No, it's Matt Damon. Sorry, pastor Jared Morphew.
Speaker 6What's up.
Speaker 3How are you doing?
Speaker 6I'm good. Y'all were talking about losing your voices. Yeah, I'm there.
Speaker 3Yeah, killer word tonight, man, it was so good, so good.
Speaker 5You remember losing your voice all throughout boot camp.
Speaker 6Yes, about three different times.
Speaker 5I remember it was we were oh, we were oh yeah, we don't go camping with boots.
Speaker 5That's just, that's just what we do, um. But I remember it was like like week nine or week 10, it was right before we did final drill and our drill instructors let us call our parents home. I remember I called, I called my mom and she played the phone. Hello, I was like, hey mom, hey mom, she's like who is this? Because we had no like at zero, like zero voice and we're expected to scream the entire time she hit you with the new phone.
Speaker 3Who this?
Together Conference 2025 Reflections
Speaker 5yeah, well, I was literally like hey mom, like frog voice and I do remember those.
Speaker 3Yeah, that is good times well, man, we are here at together conference 2025. What y'all think?
Speaker 2it was really really good so good, the word was amazing, the worship was amazing. It was just, it was great, it was awesome so good ty how you feel feel good about it you ever get off stage just like yeah, I crushed it.
Speaker 5I try not to have that mindset because, it's super like, like for real.
Speaker 5It's super easy to have that, have that mindset and to think it's about you and feel like it's about you. Yeah, and it's really not. But it's so hard because I mean, there's I never. Anytime I'm doing this, I never call it a performance. Yeah, there's always an aspect of quote unquote performing because you're in front of people, you're playing music, but that's kind of a it's almost like a back of my mind thing. What needs to be at the front is leading worship. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2Well, and that's like the last song we did the gratitude. You know, when God just shows up and everybody's got their hands raised and everybody's singing.
Speaker 4Yeah, it's, that's one I know I couldn't hold it anymore.
Speaker 2Couldn't hold it in, that's one, but when, when Couldn't hold it anymore, couldn't hold it in, that's one. But when all that's going on, yeah, you got to really stay humble in that and be like it's not me.
Speaker 3Jerry, do you ever get off and like I, absolutely sucked up there, Like that was terrible 1,000%?
Speaker 6I've been there I've even God forgive me. I just felt like I just want to curl up and never stand up again. And then I realized and the two questions I was talking to Bobby about this on the way up here, I always ask myself two questions and if I can answer them both honestly, then I know I've done what God's told me to do. Number one are you doing what God is telling you to do? Are you doing this because you want to do this?
Speaker 6So, if it's something that God has told me to do and I truly believe and I've prayed about it, I've done everything I can do to search the will of God and I know he wants me to be in Rector Arkansas preaching this message. The second thing is have you done everything possible to prepare for the sermon? Have you done your part? Have you put in the work? Have you prayed? Have you sought out God and really dug into what you're supposed to be preaching about that night?
Speaker 6yeah so when I can answer those two things honestly and fully, it takes away 90 of the nerves and it helps me to settle in. And when I'm done I sometimes I do I'm like that wasn't nearly as good as what I thought it was going to be, but then people were like that was great, that was an awesome word and I think that's putting too much on me.
Speaker 2Like priming myself.
Speaker 6That's prideful to say that right so I've learned to not downplay anything that god's doing.
Speaker 5Yeah, even if it's through me, I try not to downplay it. Yeah, yeah, that's good, yeah, that, and you can apply that to really any leadership position you probably as worship leader, youth leader, someone in on the hospitality team or prayer team, whatever you know, that's good. I know at our church at liberty hill, the last meeting we had, we really kind of dove into kind of the culture of the church and the culture of worship and what we're really trying to aim for. And our lead pastor preston is talking about. You know, three, three. Yeah, I slipped one by you while you're talking, but he was kind of had a moment of, like you know of, are my messages, like you know, affecting people? Are?
Speaker 5they really hitting and I, you know, and he's always worried about going over time and I try to reassure him, like you know. Yeah, time is one thing, you know, you know there's a lot of logistics, but if god's putting something you know in in your heart, on your mind, in your sermon, for you to, to preach to people, yeah, that's important and it needs to stay. Yeah, and you need to say it man.
Speaker 3It took me, it took me a long time to learn that that delicate balance between those two things. Because I was, I was very much on the side of hey, let it go. As long as it needs to go doesn't matter, just preach. Yeah, because that's kind of the culture I grew up in as a kid in certain churches is, god didn't move unless it was a four hour service. And I really had to learn that that that's not correct. You know it's not. It's not okay to cut God off, but it's also not okay to just be willy nilly with everyone's time.
Speaker 3Yeah, you know, and I had to be taught by another pastor that I that I pastored under like you, got to understand there's kids leaders that are that have kids in their rooms that are now you're going over 20 minutes. They've got to to figure out something with the kids and you've got the cause. I mean I would get mad Like parents would come in and interrupt service and like come and get their youth. And I'm like, look like we're, we're having a service here and it's like, well, try to do better at try to do better at balancing your service to where you're not going that long because people have to get home. They, they've got to take their kids, they've got to get home.
Speaker 5And I really had to learn that balance of be, be gracious of people's time, but also let god move. Yeah, it's almost like, almost like praying. You know, I think it was, you know, jesus talking about to the pharisees and basically talking about how the pharisees are preaching these long eloquent prayers, and really he's basically like you can pray and get to the point right because he gets to that when he starts talking about, uh, the lord's prayer.
The Power of Worship and God's Timing
Speaker 4Yeah, when he said, yeah, talking about it, yeah, like don't, it's this big, grander, extravagant thing to hey, look at me.
Speaker 1You need to just do the simple. This is, this is what I'm after, this is what god's telling me real quick to get to, and that way, next thing you know, god's moving through you yeah and and jared yes, I mean tonight 1000. That was definitely a god thing yeah, yeah like it was not jared morphew, it was not tyler up there with the praise team it was definitely 100 god right there, from the moment we started with the songs yeah and I even told jared I was like I don't know this first song, yeah, and I was like man.
Speaker 1I was like, okay, I don't know it, I'm listening to it. I'm like man, I like it. We get to the second one and and you know, it's the honey on the rock and I was like again, jared's like, oh, I know this one. I'm like again, I still don't know this yeah, um but I stood there and I was like I'm reading the word yeah and you know, I don't know how, know I'm not a good singer to begin with.
Speaker 1Me neither my family will tell you that, so I'll sit there and I'll just you know, normally I sing to myself, or you know, just a little bit above, so people don't around me are like man, you need to be quiet. But I'm sitting there and I'm reading the words and I was like, oh man, like everything.
Speaker 4Yeah.
Speaker 1Every part of that word. I was like man. That is to the point of everything. And I felt right then, as I was reading the lyrics, like God was straight up preparing my heart of like this is where we're going tonight.
Speaker 2And so everything tonight was that way? Oh yeah, and it was. You know, jared was worried when he got off stage that he had gone too long. They pointed out that he'd been over an hour.
Speaker 4I didn't know, it.
Speaker 2It did not even like I didn't know it right, it did not even I did like it didn't even look at the. The only regret that I had is I didn't bring my notebook to take notes tonight.
Speaker 3I sure did I went and sat down and I was like I don't have my phone or my notebook my phone.
Speaker 2We use it for camera and I was like oh man, I wish so good because I'm not gonna remember it. I know I think he live streamed it.
Speaker 3Yeah, okay, good and I know I was like andrew. Pastor Andrew was in front of me and I just keep hitting him and I saw you hitting him.
Speaker 6I'm up there preaching. I thought I'm taking from their sermon.
Speaker 3I'm like dude, we just talked about that. I was on the way back from Jonesboro today and we were on the phone. I'm like we just talked about that today.
Speaker 2I'm like we just talked about that today.
Speaker 3I'm like he's right on what we're talking about.
Speaker 6I seen you slapping him and I thought they're going to have to redo their sermons tonight when they get home.
Speaker 3You hit on one of his scriptures too, of like a sermon that, oh, the sermon that he's working on for Monday, and he's like he better not be in mine either. He needs to send this dude back to the together. The whole theme of it is when you come in and you're hitting on exactly what we're all kind of thinking and feeling. That means you're all together in that You're all prayed up, you're all on the same page, like Tyler's really good at it. He'll send me. He'll be like, hey, what are you preaching on? You know, when he's playing or whatever, he'll be like what are you preaching on? And I like to not tell him because usually God puts on his heart the songs that go with the message anyway. So I'll be like, oh, I don't really know yet, and then he'll pick the songs. I'm like you're right on, you know, because God has kind of connected us all in that way.
Speaker 6So if it's not, you say Tyler, you been praying this week.
Speaker 3Just try to bust him out. I'll tell you, if it happens, how's your walk with God this week? I don't know if it's ever happened that way where it's like, oh yeah, I don't like any of them going with what we're doing. It's just always kind of been on. It's like, oh, that's perfect, man, that sounds good. You know, because any time I have them come or they've been in ministry with me, it's like, hey, I like, hey, I know your heart, you picked it. I'm not here to pick the songs for you picked, like every now. And then I'll be like, hey, can you play this, like I'm really feeling this song for this week or whatever. And I see you put in. I don't know when it is, but I've seen you put in here again. You did that for me, don't love that song I break every time that song plays.
Speaker 6It's so good. Yeah and uh, what did you just say?
Speaker 3I break every time it it, yes it comes and and I was like I think he throws that. He knows I love that song and every now and I'm like man, we all play this like I really yeah yeah he has in the past I said so will I.
Speaker 6I wasn't saying so will I, I'll do too.
Speaker 3I'm talking about the song so so will I, oh, okay that's good stuff, yeah yeah, I'm trying this one um, oh, brandon lake's uh noose.
Speaker 4I'm sorry, brand like plug you know, but his new song king of hearts yeah, I know you were telling us about it.
Speaker 5It is, it is yeah, it is good I'm gonna find. I'm gonna find like a quick little passage from it, because you're gonna get us.
Speaker 2Yeah, I was just about to say it'd be all right, hey, you can you can hey he.
Speaker 3All the credit to him it's like the all the credit to him, well, and it's like the free use is, if you're, if you're commenting, that's why you can have like youtubers that play a video and they comment on it and they don't get copyright because it's the free use is where, if you're, if you're commenting and creating new content, reacting to that content, it's okay it's, yeah, it's like on youtube, like if you're looking at another video and having like reaction yeah whatever you're doing, you can only play up to a certain time.
Speaker 3Yep, you have a certain amount where you have to be saying something yes that's why they're always pausing it and like hey, you know, this is why I think, and then they just go on you can't run straight through, yeah yeah, you have like a certain amount yeah yeah, let me read this.
Speaker 5You gave your life. I gave you nothing, sorry, you poured me grace. That's six, six. You poured me. You poured me grace. That blood keeps on running. I love so great. You took my place. After all that I've done, I've been forgiven. Those scars made a way to enter your kingdom on golden streets beside a king. That's so good.
Speaker 6Yeah, that's good man.
Speaker 3Man and I've been reading about just heaven and I've got a message that I'm going to be doing talking about it. It's gnarly, the little details when it talks about heaven and like I don't want to give it away. I don't want to give it away, but I'm going to kind of give it away, okay, spoiler way. I don't want to give it away, but I'm gonna kind of give it away, okay. So if anybody listens, they're gonna get a little peek, ding, ding, spoiler alert. It talks about the, you know the, the roads paved with gold, and it talks about how their see-through, even the golden roads, have to get out of the way of god's glory. Even they don't block the view of god's glory. I thought that was very interesting, that I've seen their gold, you know.
Speaker 5But their see-through. Yeah, I've seen, uh, someone else kind of talking about the streets of gold and they're talking about how one of the most valuable and precious, like metals and things on earth- is gold, but even heaven. That treasure is used at something to walk on.
Speaker 6yeah, it's like cobblestone. Yeah, yeah, it's just man. It's beautiful, but man.
Church Division vs Kingdom Community
Speaker 3but just getting back to to together, man, it's so beautiful watching everyone from different walks of life, from different churches and different backgrounds come together and worship like that man. There's something so beautiful about it. What is y'all's favorite? We and worship like that man. There's something so beautiful about it. What is y'all's favorite? We're going to talk about kind of favorite things about coming together and your things that drive you crazy on when people don't come together. So what are some of your favorite things about people coming together? I know one for me is just like watching my kids interact with other kids from other families of people we don't always kind of get to hang out with, so I love seeing people come together and all the kids kind of playing and it's, it's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1It is a beautiful thing. Yeah, that's it all right. Cool good, I would say for me on that one. We get very complacent yeah of when we show up to church. That's my seat. Yeah right, that's my pew. Don't make me move somewhere. Oh man, I can't believe somebody's sitting in my seat, right now, yep, I'm about to have a different experience.
Speaker 6Yeah, oh.
Speaker 1I'm sitting over here. I don't like this angle, I don't like, I can't see.
Speaker 4I don't like it.
Speaker 1Yeah. We get very complacent about that.
Speaker 6We I've thought about that.
Speaker 3And that's what I'm going to do here in a few. I'm working on that too, man Andrew was talking about this A week beforehand. I'm going to tell everybody next week, sit in a different seat that you don't usually sit in, because it's going to go with the message. What if they do this?
Speaker 5You can't abuse me if I'm in a different seat.
Speaker 3I was going to, I had to look for you. I'm like, all right, everybody stand up, move seats. But then you got families, you got people with kids. That's a lot of moving. So I'm going to do it a week before and I'm going to preach on why I have you do that.
Speaker 2I'm going to sit on the stage.
Speaker 3Just sit behind.
Speaker 1Facebook reminder One of the main reasons why I like that about the togetherness yeah you were talking about seeing your kids go and interact with other people yeah I like that for us, like it forces us to get out of our comfort zone and out of our way yeah of I'm used to doing this and this is what I'm expecting yeah it now forces me to get up to move and next thing, you know, I'm sitting next to somebody else that I've never sat next to.
Speaker 4Yeah.
Speaker 1And I'm going to get a different experience because God's telling me you need to be next to this person, whether you need to say something to them or they're going to say something to you, right, like something's going to happen and you need to be there for a reason, and God's going to tell us why we're there.
Speaker 4Yeah.
Speaker 1And that's what I love about the togetherness is you get. Then you realize afterwards, especially on the ride home, you're talking to your family, you're like man, that's kind of weird that, but it was really cool like I didn't know this about this person. Or like well, we see him all the time, but I never talked to him.
Speaker 3Well, that's what drives me crazy people that have went to church together for years and they don't know each other. It's like, well, I know that's john. He sits over there in the front row and I sit over here, and that's as far as it goes. And it's like we're so far away from what the church was made for. We were made for connection, we're made with being together. We're made to break bread, and we were talking about this today, like yesterday maybe, where churches began eating together, like there was no church buildings. There was no, you was no big elaborate thing. They were at each other's house eating breaking bread talking Went to their local IHOP.
Speaker 5Yeah, that was.
Speaker 2That was how Baptist Church started.
Speaker 5Yeah, eating, they went to their local IHOP.
Speaker 6I was going to say there it is.
Speaker 5Oh, I was trying to get you to watch it.
Speaker 6You know, bobby, I think you hit on something. Man, you said one word that stuck out to me. I'll listen to everything by the way.
Speaker 1Oh, absolutely, but one word really stuck out.
Speaker 5The one thing that stuck out.
Speaker 6Oh, absolutely, it's that word expectation yeah. When he said that, I thought that's it. Yeah, I expect to sit here, I expect to. There's a lot of different things we expect to happen and that's a preconceived notion before you even walk in. I want to walk in and just be like when we got in here worship today I'm gonna tell you've already heard the story twice, just to be the third time whenever we opened up worship, I was nervous. You know, I'm about to get up to preach, my heart's racing and sometimes I get nervous, sometimes I don't, and and this time I just was. Man, I was like, wow, I'm really nervous and I don't know why. And I just started praying and part of the prayer towards the end, letting you guys in on my prayer life. As Tyler was singing and the band was playing, I was thinking God, you are good, you are worthy, and just give me boldness. I don't want to be timid, I don't want to be scared.
Speaker 6And I started thinking about Joshua. And there's no reason to fear, because God is with you. I'm not kidding. Within 10 seconds, all of 10 seconds, tyler said from the stage, in one of those parts of the song where he said something, and what he said was this he said God, you are good, god, you are worthy. Don't give us timidity, but give us boldness. And I thought I just said that. I didn't say it out loud.
Speaker 2If.
Speaker 6I did. It was so loud you couldn't have heard me. So, I knew, I thought that's it, and my hair stood up and I thought this is it. That's not coincidence? And if no coincidence, no way, no how. And again.
Speaker 3That's when you're connected without even having to talk to each other and it's just like, oh my gosh, we're like everything is lined up where you're in it together, and it's like. It's like god revealing himself in moments like that. Like I'm with you, I'm with. Let me show you I'm with you. I'm gonna give somebody to say what is on your heart and it's just like oh gosh, like okay, I'm on the right.
Speaker 5There we're, we're before they even know it, we're connected. It's like, yeah, it's so weird not expecting that it's so weird how things work like that. I remember there's one day I was having such a horrible day and our lead pastor, preston, texted me, said hey, I appreciate you and I'm praying for you right now. For some reason, I was like I kind of needed that that's right on time, yep that's exactly what I needed.
Speaker 3thanks, man, yeah, yeah, no, that's crazy, it's so, yep, that's exactly what I needed.
Speaker 5Yep, yeah, no, that's crazy.
Speaker 3It's so good. Well, it's like you know all, all of are you married? I don't know if you're married. Okay, so us with our spouses, like sometimes we're just on that same page together and sometimes you're not.
Speaker 4And they'll say page.
Speaker 5We're in a different book. Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
Speaker 3No, Jamie will say something and it'll be exactly what I need to hear at the exact right time. I love you, thank you, I really needed that. Sometimes it's even like, hey, come on, you're in a funk today, let's get out of that. It's like you know what You're right. I kind of needed that kind of thump in the back of the head and it's it's a beautiful thing of how god will move in those moments and like just kind of bring you out of it or reassure you, just kind of that. You know that old, that dad putting his hand on your shoulder, like hey, it's gonna be okay, it's gonna be all right, you know. So it's, it's a beautiful thing. What are some of the things that drive y'all crazy about? When people just want to argue and not be together, like not like get together on anything oh, tyler took a deep breath.
Speaker 5Oh man well, first let me, let me go let me, let me get yeah well, let's go back to the first one, because I have something I like about oh, okay okay, I like making connections. Yeah it's, and it's very cool where those connections can lead to. Yeah, we went to, so lighthouse did a night of worship and they did it with the assembly and I grabbed some our worship team and we went and they're like dude, like uh, the, I guess their worship director, whatever, they called their, reached out to me and they're like dude, it was so cool looking up and seeing another church here and they're like we want to do this again and we want you guys to be involved.
Speaker 2That's cool oh yeah, is Jeff Price still over?
Speaker 4there.
Speaker 6No, you said you had something that really bothered you. Oh, another deep breath.
Speaker 5I'm telling you, man, it's wow, because I've experienced it personally. Uh, it gang versus gang, yes, yeah, mentalities, yep is especially in churches, church versus church mentality. Yeah, we me and my wife did that or kind of went through that when we left our first church and that was a. It was a very, very hard conversation, um, which left kind of both of us a little how do I put it?
Speaker 3Bitter. Yeah, you kind of see those people in a different light after that.
Speaker 4Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3Yeah, and I still try not to cause.
Speaker 5I tried to get over it. Bitter, yeah, you kind of see those people in a different light after that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and I still I try not to because I try to get over it. It's, we're moved past it, it's in the past. I try not to be bitter of it, but sometimes I think about it I'm still a little bitter about it because, it it creates division. Yep, and I hate math. Yep, you know that's pretty good, is that? In the bible it's in numbers. Thank you, I'll be here for another 20 minutes.
Speaker 3That was one of the best jokes that man has ever said that was pretty good he was on top of it. Ever said that was pretty good he was on top of it. It was touche that was pretty good.
Speaker 5He set me up with the oop. Appreciate, hey, I appreciate doing that was.
Speaker 3That was pretty good, but yeah, and, and, and. It's what I've been in ministry for so long.
Speaker 2God, I'm getting old you are, you really are 26 years I've been dang and I literally how old are you again?
Speaker 3yeah, 30. I took over preaching in our youth group at 13 and been in in some form of ministry ever since, throughout my whole life, and that is one of the things that I've that I noticed the quickest is just the lines in the sand. This is y'all's thing, this is our thing. We're not going to come together. Because we even had what is called ministerial alliance where churches were supposed to come together. Yes, they meet, you know they come together. But still there was. There was that hardcore division of no y'all are that church, there's the Pentecostals, there's the Baptist, there's that church, there's the Pentecostals, there's the Baptist, there's this church. And nobody done anything to get. And I thought, you know, that's in the nineties and I thought, oh no, things must've gotten better by now. We must've learned our lesson. And coming together and being one and saying, hey, let's, let, let's let all the small things go by, as long as we believe the main core essentials, oh no, it's just as bad as ever that's the frustrating part, because everything that divides is man-made.
Speaker 3It's yes every single thing, and it's crazy, man, and it it gets so frustrating because you spoke on it tonight. If we can't even agree to to come together and be together, how in the world do we do we expect anybody on the outside to say I want to come and be a part of that?
Speaker 6yeah, yeah, yeah it's crazy yeah, this is what I've come to notice You're talking about. You know, we grew up 80s, 90s, whatever. And you're saying did it get better? It's gotten worse. But I think our generation has seen it. We've witnessed it firsthand, growing up as kids, living in it, as adolescents, as young adults. And now we're the kind of the guys you know growing up.
The Perils of Ministry Competition
Speaker 6We, and now we're the kind of the guys you know growing up we're the starting to be the elders, or if not an elder, and we see it and I think a lot of people see it and it's just time I mean we can, I don't care.
Speaker 6In our own hometown, in Dequin, we have a thing called light the city and they just became a board member. We have a first assembly uh, us first Baptist church, another Baptist church, a Methodist church, and we get together. Our town is a little over 7,000 people and our teenagers, so we got one of the bigger youth groups. It's 40 to 50. And the other youth groups they're 10, 15, 20, here and there. But the night we decided life to see is going to be a thing and they made it a corporation and all this stuff. So we go from church to church and got three pretty good sized churches in d queen and we said tonight we're gonna have it at your church, yeah, and then about three months we'll have it your church, and we get together and the first night there was 330 youth yeah, there then when they had it, d queen.
Speaker 6When they came to our church it was 320 something. But there was a makeup game in horatio and another makeup game somewhere else and they said it would have been been more than the last one if they didn't have those makeup games that.
Speaker 4Wednesday night.
Speaker 6And I could see it and it's awesome, that was the youth. But I started noticing the parents, the adults that brought them came and were all there. It was amazing, I thought, all these different denominations speaking one name, one truth.
Speaker 3And I'm sitting there watching the teenagers, the young ones, ones just sit there and they can see each other and they're worshiping together, their arms are in the air and they're not divided. It's not like this church. This church because they all know each other. Yeah, it's like right. Yeah, yeah, they all go to school together and yeah the sad part is they are all friends.
Speaker 1Yeah, they all worship together yeah but because of us as adults, we cause. Cause the division oh yeah. Hey, we do this. Nope, you can't do that, we do this. So when we start bickering, it trickles down to the kids. And even though they want to still like hey, I want to go to their Wednesday night because they actually are doing something and we're not really doing anything over here, so I'm going to go over here.
Speaker 3Well, mom and dad's going be like no, like we go to church over here, yeah, like I can't go over there. I've literally, as a youth pastor, got a call from my pastor because he got in trouble because we went to camp the other. There's another church that didn't go to camp, so some of their youth wanted to go with us and their pastor got mad. Why is my youth going with y'all to camp?
Speaker 4uh, because y'all weren't of competitive right.
Speaker 3It's like, because y'all ain't going like, what in the world are we doing here? Like I'm not, like we're not trying to take your youth, I promise you yeah that god will send us the right ones to be here. Like who do we think we are you?
Speaker 6know when we had that meeting to light the city that's yeah we're talking about. We I'm not going to say the dude's name we all got together and one of the terms they used, like you're talking about, they called it poaching. So at the end, when there's this thing, at the end, how are we going to do this at the altar call and stuff, Because I don't want to look like someone's poaching or we? Don't want other people poaching out of our. And yeah, that's how they look at it.
Speaker 3That was the furthest thing from my mind. That is how ministry-minded people are, and not kingdom-minded people. They're so worried about their ministry they're worried about I've got to protect our house. I've got to protect this house.
Speaker 2How about God's people? How about that?
Speaker 3How about if so-and-so didn't like it at your church? How about you bless them going to another church? Hey, make sure you're going to a church that speaks to the Lord. If you don't like it here, I want you to be somewhere you like. How about that?
Speaker 6How about?
Speaker 3going hey, what can I do better? If so-and-so left here because they didn't like it, what can I do better? How about looking at yourself and going what can I do to steal our people? No, maybe you just suck, sorry like I mean I'm sorry. Maybe you're just not doing a good job and the people are going to somewhere else like nobody owes you anything. Stop it, grow up yes like you think your people owe you to. Well, you just got to go here, no matter what I do.
Speaker 2Yeah, okay we did something similar in malden. It was called impact. Yeah, remember, and it was I mean every time we did something similar in malden it was called impact. Yeah, remember, and it was. I mean, every time we did it it was growing and growing, growing and then hit and it just imploded it was it was. It was really sad to see that that be stopped by that. But going back to the original question, so I have one that's linked for both answers. Okay, and it's you, oh gosh wow, let me explain.
Speaker 5This is interesting nice right, this is unique don't hit any buttons.
Speaker 2so we've been, we've been linked in ministry for many years now, and the thing that I love about that is the lives that we have changed in that, you know, and the connections that we've made in our families and our church families and and and the different churches that we've been a part of. But the thing that drives me crazy is I've been accused of riding your coattails. I've been accused of just following you from church to church, like I don't have enough willpower to decide, and it's it's just they don't look at the good that comes from it.
Speaker 2It's all about the name calling.
Speaker 4Yeah.
Speaker 2You know it's, you got to label it something. It's, it's just, it's just dumb.
Speaker 6Like it's just so dumb when I see that. I know that I've noticed where michael's going. You're, I've never thought that in a negative light. No, no, I'm being serious and I and I the story that you told about tyler when you're talking about him and how your relationship formed I've seen all this and that's special, that's not something I would ever think was funny right or make fun of it. It's not riding coattails, it's bonding together and going through stuff together.
Speaker 6It is Because you guys aren't really there for me, so this is where it's at Right.
Speaker 3Right, and that's what I've told him. When they were kind of figuring out where they're going to land on a church, when we went to Alabama and we came back and all that, and I'm like number one we want what's best for you, right? Regardless of where that's at. If that's with us, awesome. That's what we're praying for. If not, we're going to support you wherever you're at. I'm going to be until I'm done in ministry, until I'm retiring. I'm sitting on a beach somewhere.
Speaker 6No, you're going to die. That's what we do. We die first. We don't stop. We don't stop.
Speaker 3Hopefully. Oh, I plan on retiring. Okay, I'm going to be in the mountains, somewhere by the ocean. I don't want to be by the ocean. I don't want that. I get attacked by sharks. I can't do that. They come on the land to come after me.
Speaker 5They'll find you in the mountains.
Speaker 3Mountain sharks and I've told all the mountain sharks you and get you in whenever I can. Wherever you're at in some capacity, I'm always going to try to. I told Tyler, when we get a praise and worship leader, I'm going to be leaning on him to pour into whoever that is because I want to remain. I'm always going to try to not get a hand up, but help anybody I can. Hey, I want to connect you. I want to see what I can do for you. I want you to be a part of this.
Speaker 3If I got something going on, I'll call people that don't go to my church, but I've been connected with forever Pastor Andrew. We've never, we have never went to the same church, ever, ever. We've always been in different church, but I've always connected with him and him with me, to where, if I'm doing something, he's one of the first calls hey man, I need a pastor to come and preach. Are you, are you good this day? Because I want to be that connection. I want to bring the people with me, whether they go or not. So it's just another form of that with rich. It's like I don't. You want good people with you. So then why wouldn't you ask to you?
Speaker 1You trust them Right. You're building your community. Right, you know we were talking about this tonight, right, I mean, it's a community. So, everything unity, togetherness. Yeah, I got my community.
Speaker 3Like, why would I not lean on my community when I'm going out and doing the Lord's work, and it's usually people that don't have that, that speak like this Because they see it and they want that.
Speaker 1And because they don't have it, they attack it. That's it, you know. You know, since he retired from the army, I mean the air force.
Speaker 5Sorry, it's all right. Oh man, he worked. We had, we had every branch besides the coast guard and and space force in the whole space force don't count yeah, I was trying not to say we had marines here well, my guitarist elijah is in the army. He's a recruiter. Jacobs in the navy, yeah, yeah, air force. So I was just missing, uncle san. Um, I'm not going, never mind, it's inappropriate the coast guard I feel like he knew where I was going with it.
Speaker 6Well, I was getting that like okay, so he just retired out of the air force. Awesome, thank you for your service yeah, um so he's gotten out and it's awesome because he's got all this time I mean he retired, he's doing his own thing. He's our age, I mean 40s, 40.
Speaker 3I'm 28. That's your age. I'm still in the 30s okay, I'm not there yet.
Speaker 6I got one month.
Speaker 5I'm 28. End of.
Speaker 6July. Yeah, are, are you?
Speaker 3really 20?
Speaker 4Okay.
Speaker 3So we've got 20s, 30s, almost 40s and Richard 80, 90.
Speaker 2And we got Richard and Richard. I'm almost 50.
Speaker 6So 40s, here we go 40s. Yeah, so 20s, 30s, 40s. You ain't 50?, I'm 70.
Speaker 2I feel 70. You're only as old as you, yeah.
Speaker 3So 30s, 40s, You're not even 50. I feel 70. You're only as old as you feel. Well, I'm 78. That's what I said about my bad back how you feel or how you act, yeah. Oh gosh. Well then I'm 14.
Speaker 2You're barely a youth. I'm 72.
Speaker 6I read at a 15- Okay so going back to that about a year ago, maybe a little less, maybe eight months or so, I told Bobby this I've been praying because our youth has been growing quite a bit quite a bit.
Speaker 6I mean, you guys know this. It's been growing and I said, God, if this is going to get any bigger, I'm good with it staying this size I am. If this is what you want from me, I love that. I'll do that and I'll be faithful with with it the best I know how. If it's going to get any bigger, please send me some help. Yeah, and this is before I knew he was going to retire or anything.
Speaker 5It's a good problem to have it really is.
Speaker 6So I'm praying about that and then, I don't know, eight months later he retires. He comes in. I didn't ask him to help, nothing like that. All of a sudden he's just there wednesday nights hey, you might have gone, and then it's just very faithful, very with it so then we go to new orleans.
Speaker 6He's there, he's leading one of the teams that's going in New Orleans in one of the worst neighborhoods, evangelizing with our teenagers out there and parts that I mean. Some people might get mad Like you're taking teenagers. Well, we took the older ones out there to begin with. And the younger ones went and did VBSs at other churches, but he was there. And then Michael wants me to come down here and ask if I would preach on unity up here and I'll tell you know bobby about it and he's ready like when we're going.
Speaker 6yeah, yeah, like that's awesome and I thought, man, that's it, that is it. That's an answered prayer, and the more we're together, the more we get to know one another. But there's that common bond while talking about the star of the service this morning or this morning, this evening and I don't know. You're talking about y'all's relationships and things. I think that's happening everywhere, yeah it's happening right here with me.
Speaker 3Well, that's how you, that's how you build ministries there. It's so much more like I couldn't. I could, because God would send somebody else, but I couldn't do it without him. I couldn't do it without him, like that's why I'm connected with them, is because they lift me up. As I lift them up, I'm here for for them. You know, tyler will call me and, hey, I'm dealing with this problem. What do you think about dealing with it? Because we do that with each other. I'm getting ideas from Richard. He's getting ideas from me. It's not a oh, richard's there serving Mike, richard's there following Mike. No, no, no, I need him. Yeah, right, need him, richard.
Speaker 5Actually writes the sermons Build the ghost rider, you betcha, I just think it's crazy. I was reading something where it basically kind of fell along the lines of you know, when God speaks to you to do something and you kind of ignore it Kind of along the same lines of trying to get together with people and you're kind of ignoring, You're basically avoiding some kind of divine intervention yeah with bonding with god's people.
Bobby's Journey with Sarcoidosis
Speaker 5Yes, I was. I was thinking about it because we were talking about, you know, the church versus church thing and you know this church for that church and all that stuff. I started thinking because I like the medical science stuff, because I was into that we're the body of Christ and that's seven, eight, I can't remember at this point All right, seven. And there's a condition for that. It's an autoimmune disease. It's where the body, the body's immune system, I can't talk. There's something in the body that doesn't recognize and it fights against it and tries to kill it.
Speaker 4Yeah, yes, yeah.
Speaker 3And that's the problem with a lot of that is really good. Write that down.
Speaker 5The body of Christ has an autoimmune disorder.
Speaker 3Yeah, that is good In the body of Christ. That is so good man that's really good.
Speaker 6Yeah, good man that's that's really good.
Speaker 3Yeah, because it's exactly that it's. It's you, don't you? Yeah, that's so, that's really good thanks.
Speaker 6Can I tell you guys something?
Speaker 3what is he on tonight? Like we need to keep him up. He's like a gremlin. We need to keep him up. You fed me after eight o'clock that's good man I was okay, so I was diagnosed with sarcoidosis back in 2000 well, I heard you hint at something yeah earlier and I was like I want to know what this is. Okay.
Speaker 6Now you're getting the behind the scenes.
Speaker 3HIPAA.
Speaker 4Hey HIPAA.
Speaker 3It's okay, I signed off. He's freely giving it. He didn't sign the waiver.
Speaker 6Okay, I give you my verbal permission. Consent.
Speaker 2Consent, there we go.
Speaker 6that's what I'm looking for um, so I was, uh, my stomach was hurting up here a little bit, uh, and this was back in 2021 and I was going to the gym quite a bit and I thought, well, maybe I had a hernia or something, because it was really bad right there, yeah. And so they looked and they found out and that might be tmi, but I was backed up yeah, it was just like I'll take this.
Speaker 6It'll clean you out and you won't have any more problems. So a week goes by and I get a call back from the doctor's office. They say can you come in for another x-ray?
Speaker 6and I thought I wonder what they seen in my stomach yeah so I go in there and they do the x-ray when they get to the x-ray room and I'll I'll preface this with my grandmother on my mom's side when I was six years old died of lung cancer. So when I get in the x-ray room they turn me around and I'm thinking my stomach. Get back on the table yeah they say get over there up on the wall and lift your arm up. And they put the screen up by my chest. I said what's going on? My stomach's the issue. I'm trying to argue with them.
Speaker 3No, no, no, you're wrong.
Speaker 6This is my stomach and I went cold. And they said oh, we found something in your lungs, we just want to get another look at it. And it was down and low enough in my lung, anyways, so body just goes cold. I was like oh no, no, I was just scared, well, that comes back.
Speaker 6And they said I had a nod, a nodule, or something like that yeah, nodule yes and so they had seen that they just want to look at it and they want to get a better image of it, so they sent me to nashville, arkansas, not tennessee, nashville, arkansas I existed they have a.
Speaker 6Yeah, they have a hospital called howard memorial hospital. I go in there, they do the imaging. And then they said okay, we're not worried about the nodule, it's not that big a deal. People have them all the time, they don't even know it and they'll die with it, they'll just live with it right, okay, sweet. And then they said but your lymph nodes are very swollen in your lungs, extremely swollen it's. It's where it's actually worries us, and that, of course, doesn't help me at all right, oh no, no good, I thought this was going to be a good talk.
Speaker 5Never, never mind.
Speaker 6And so they said we want to take you, send you to a lung specialist, a pulmonary specialist, in Hot Springs. So, long story short, I go down there and I said just hit me with it straight. What does it look like? He said, well, you're young, mid thirties. It's either one of three things it's either fungal, it's a lymphoma, and he said, or it's something that's very rare that you probably don't have sarcoidosis.
Speaker 6I've never heard of that in my life and yeah I couldn't have told you what he said after that because I'd never heard of it. So I said what would you do if you were me to find it?
Speaker 6because he was going to start treating me and seeing which one it was yeah, and I said if it was you right now in my chair, he said I would do a biopsy. I would want to know, and I can tell you 100, what you have. Yeah, I said let's do it. So two weeks later I come in. They do a biopsy. I wait two weeks later and I'm thinking I've looked, you know, googling's not oh yeah yeah, rabbit holes I'm
Speaker 3looking man, I'm googling and it's I'm growing a squirrel on my lung like I don't know what is happening, right right, it is, it's not.
Speaker 6I'm telling you, take it from me. Do not google any symptoms you have it's a terrible idea. So I I'm good, I'm thinking. I probably have lymphoma more more than likely. One of my guys in the Marine Corps that I served with actually had lymphoma the year prior to this happening, so I thought, whatever we were around, that gave me lymphoma.
Speaker 6So I had this in my mind. The doctor calls. I remember I was at my mom's house and I seen the doctor's office. I'm just man I hadn't prayed that much my entire life and I answer the phone and the first thing the lady says is it's not cancerous, it's not malignant, you're not going to die anytime soon, at least from that is there something else you got to tell me? And she said that it's sarcoidosis and I said, okay, cool, that's sweet, that's awesome, what is that?
Speaker 5that's the best reaction. Oh, that's so cool sarcoidosis everybody yes you get a sarcoidosis ma'am, what is that?
Speaker 4what is that yeah?
Speaker 6and so she starts explaining to me. She said it's going to affect you your whole life. You can't get rid of it. You can't. We can treat it, but it's, you're going to have it you're the rest of your life. And I said so what is it? She said what it is any dust like when you're mowing, and dust is coming up air irritants anything that you're breathing in. You're talking about autoimmune uh disease, or what were you yeah?
Speaker 5autoimmune disorder disorder.
Speaker 6So what this is? When I breathe that stuff in my, in my lungs, my body takes it as a foreign invader and it attacks itself and my lymph nodes get really big, not just here, but everywhere.
Speaker 6My lymphatic system actually starts getting swollen and it takes it and it irritates it and gets it going. And here's the thing I thought, okay, well, I'll just keep my lymph. If it does flare up I'll take some medicine. My lymph nodes go back down and here's the. Here's the thing. They said it caused the thing called granulomas and I was like, okay, I kind of know what that is. And they said it's like a pea, like you would eat a pea-sized and they said sometimes they're small, sometimes they get big and they form in your organs.
Speaker 6so we're going to have to put you a specialist for your heart, for your brain, for your eyes. Oh gosh and they said, if it gets big enough or in the wrong place it could kill you, cause damage, permanent damage yeah so I went to all these specialists and they found one in my right eye already and it's, and I've seen, I've always been able to see this weird thing off over here in the last couple years and they said, and when they looked and they did the imaging, they said that's what it is, that's what's causing what.
Speaker 6So I'm thinking, oh my gosh, I, it could kill me yeah so I can't be around. Dust, I can't be around. My wife has to mow the yard now. I can't go ride an ATV spoilers, razors, stuff like that, unless it rains. And then I think, okay, well, at least I'm not dying. Well, that was four years ago Now I'm like I hate this thing because I can't do my outdoor stuff. And then it starts hitting you more and more. I got it forever. I got this forever.
Speaker 5You can't go back to 29 Palms now.
Speaker 6Well, this is where god came in. Yeah, I was not good. I I've always had a family business that I could go back to a lumber business a sawmill business and I've always had that safety wall to hit. Yeah, I don't want to do this anymore. Family business yeah, I hate this family business and I make good money, it's okay right family sawmills.
Speaker 6I don't know if you've been around one before dust all this is dust it's a massive storm, either sawdust or dust, and I can't be in that environment. And I just sit there and I've always had this feeling, this call to be in ministry, always my whole life. And I finally hit the floor and I said God, what do you want from me? I want to know, I need to know. And I knew in that moment what the answer was and it's terrified me beyond anything else and I said I can't do that. I can't get in front of people and preach. Not everything I've done, not everything I've seen. There's just no way. That's me Maybe be a good Christian man and father. Yes, I'll do anything you want.
Speaker 6And it just did not go away. Week after week, I'm going through the treatments, I'm getting this stuff under control, taking this crazy medicine and powerful steroids that make my I don't know. I just was very emotional from the medicines I was taking and now I finally got weaned off of it and I said, okay, I'm in, I'm done fighting it If this is what you want me to do, because this is what I feel God calling me to. And I said, and if it is, if it is you, god, I want to see some kind of evidence, fruit from it and there was a thing October 6th 2021.
Speaker 6I preached to the. There was 26 of them and six of them came up and got saved. And some of the adults talked to me and they asked me you should think about being the youth pastor. Have you ever thought about that? That's what they said, because there was a spot open and that's kind of where the ball got rolling and I said, okay, god, that's one step. Then I got hired. That's another step. Then Josh asked me to preach on a Sunday morning, cause I'm also the associate pastor.
Speaker 4Yeah.
Speaker 6Another big step. I'm taking these steps, steps, steps. Now I'm here with you guys four years later and I look back on all the things, the doors being closed. You can't go back to these jobs anymore and there's been times in ministry where I'm thinking I don't know, this is hard man, this is scary. This would be so much easier to do a nine to five and do my own thing yeah instead of the weight and the stress that sometimes can come with it.
Speaker 6Now I love it, don't get me wrong yeah but I don't have that backstop, that safety of my these, what I, what I could always go back to yeah and god said no, you ain't right, that's not from me, right, I took it from here's.
Speaker 1The best thing about it for you is you look forward. You know you're talking four years forward now. You just done your second trip to africa that's right. So like you have now gone from I'm only talking to about 20 youth to now oh man, I gotta preach in front of the church yeah on sunday. Oh man like this, whoo, this is gonna be rough. You know you're up there and you're like you're preaching now. You've done it a few times and you look natural up there doing it and you're like hey, I'm going to africa, yeah yeah, a couple of
Speaker 3times and yeah, it's great to see it. It's been a great ride. Yeah, because he will, god will, god will begin to nudge you in ways and kind of, and he, he'll never just take you out of a situation, he'll close doors to let you go in the doors yeah, to let you go.
Speaker 3Oh, okay, so I need to go this way, yeah, and then you go that way. So he's not gonna like pick you up and go. Okay, here you go. It's like, okay, that door closed, so now you have to go, okay I've never had him make it impossible.
Speaker 5Yeah, he doesn't, he doesn't he doesn't call the equipped, he equips the car.
Speaker 6Right, I heard that about four years ago, when I first started. I love that yeah man.
Speaker 4I love it because I thought that well.
Speaker 5I think about the people in the Bible and especially the church world. People are so worried about image and being perfect. I'm thinking when did God, besides Jesus, when did God use a perfect person for anything? There's your math, that's in numbers. It was never just imperfect people.
Speaker 3it was like seriously messed up people yeah them, tax collectors. Like man, I think about that adulterers. This dude, matthew, joined this group of 12 guys he was like literally their enemy, oh yeah they're looking at him like we know this guy. This is terrible. No, I know we're all a bunch of dirty nasty fishermen, but not this guy, jesus.
Speaker 5Anything but him.
Speaker 1No, this is one of them. You want him to be with us every day. Yeah, every day. We're a part of every day, do you?
Speaker 3know what he's done. He's stealing from us, he's lying. He's like the worst of the worst. It's like, yeah, not only is he going to be a part of us, he's going to write down a lot of this stuff that is going on right, you know it's like, wow, it's. Yeah, he misses, he uses the messes man he'll bless the mess.
Speaker 5Yeah too, messed to bless, I don't, or I don't know what was it too too blessed to be stressed I don't want to talk about that it was a tough day we got you to laugh and smile, though yeah, I kind of just sulking these things sometimes.
Speaker 3Though, yeah, it happened, I'm a sulker so now we're gonna move into a part of the podcast that we call that's what's up, what's up? Hit that music. Hey, listen, listen, listen. We in the that's what's Up segment, here we go. Richard, what you got, let's hear it.
Speaker 6No, I was really amped up, thinking this is going to be good, like, oh, this is going to be cool, jared and I were over here like, okay, what are you?
Speaker 3doing they're over there vibing, just so, and oh, I thought it was kicking to us. I was like, oh man, we're in trouble.
Speaker 5And freestyle. They're just looking at each other.
Speaker 1I told y'all I don't have, I can't sing, I can't. You know, hold a beat.
Speaker 5Yeah, we don't want you to sing, we want you to rap.
Speaker 4Yes.
Speaker 5It's completely different. Just open a dictionary app on your phone and just start reading Chat GBT Give me a rap right now Spiritual holy rap.
Speaker 3So we do a segment on things that you're watching maybe a new TV show, a new movie, something you're listening to, something, maybe that you're playing a video game, something that you got going on that you'd like to share with our listeners, pastor Rich, what you got. So Squid Games 3 comes out today. Oh, it came out today. Yes, okay, last season. Does it? Does it drop like all at once, or is it just like it's all at once?
Speaker 2it's all at once, yeah okay, yeah, uh, it again disclaimer a lot of bad language and violence in this show, so not everybody's going to want to watch it, but it's a really cool, just different idea for a show. So I really like it and I finished my first hell divers book spinoff.
Speaker 3Yeah, you were telling me about that.
Speaker 2It's called Rhino and it man. I swear this. Nicholas Sandsbury Smith is the writer of these books and he is a phenomenal storyteller, like it is just I mean, he's amazing.
Speaker 3So that was really really good I still gotta check and see if I can use the one that you sent to me.
Speaker 2Yeah, the prequel, prequel, the prequel comes out in september, which is, uh, it's a two book, uh deal that he's doing with that and it's it goes back to when they uh like when the war happened.
Speaker 3So yeah, how it started, or whatever. Yep, it's going to be good. Very nice, tata. What about you?
Speaker 5Not really anything new in that sense, are you?
Speaker 3excited for Wednesday, where we're going to go the almost brothers are going to go. Uh, for Wednesday, where we're going to go, the Almost.
Speaker 2Brothers are going to go to the movies.
Speaker 5Almost Brothers at the movies.
Speaker 3We're not recording there, we're not going to record there Did we decide what we're going to watch. Well, that's what I was going to ask y'all. Do y'all want to watch F1 with Brad Pitt, or do you want to watch 28 Years Later?
Speaker 5I'd be good with F1.
Speaker 3What do you think F1? Because I'd be good with F1. What do you think F1? Because I need to know, because I'm going to go by myself Monday and I'm going to watch whichever one we're not going to watch.
Speaker 2I need to watch the preview for F1 to see first. I don't know if I even want to watch it.
Speaker 3It looks pretty good. I think you would I like it. I think so. Yeah, I'm down.
Speaker 4I do like Brad Pitt.
Speaker 2I saw that there's a World War Z 2 coming out next year.
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6I would watch that.
Speaker 2Yeah, which they?
Speaker 3kind of set it up for that. They kind of left it open for them.
Speaker 5Yeah, not a whole lot.
Speaker 4Brandon Lane's got a new song.
Speaker 5Brandon Lane, he already got his album out. Nice, my church, liberty Hill, we have a worship night. We just set a date, we haven't really started playing. August 24th. It's a Sunday 6 pm.
Speaker 2We should load up.
Speaker 3What day of the week is that on?
Speaker 2It's a Sunday, sunday evening.
Speaker 3Sunday night. Sunday evening.
Speaker 5We're going to start playing for that. Haven't posted on social media yet, but soon nice so this is a exclusive it is world premiere, very cool yeah, something plan on
Speaker 2being there, cool, we got something else going on.
Speaker 3Very cool that it nothing working on any new music um, I'm actually so, so I'll get.
Speaker 5I can give you inside of my head about the whole thing oh gosh, everybody buckle in.
Speaker 3I know, here we go um, which I don't.
Speaker 5I don't know if this is what it will be, because I'm trying to yeah, it's dark, uh because I'm trying to get the team involved with the planning. In the past it was just the worship leader and he kind of and by kind of like the whole team to have their input and get into the playing with that. But the one thing that has been stuck in my mind for a little bit, especially since kind of thinking about ideas for it, I was kind of talking to you, michael, and you, jared, about you know, worship. You know really coming back to really, uh, what worship is and what worship means. You know, coming back to the heart of worship oh, my song would tear me apart too.
Speaker 5That was so good, I keep yeah, it brings me back to this phrase to worship a king. Yeah, and that's kind of because I kind of wanted our worship night to kind of have a theme, an idea behind it, and that's kind of that's kind of cause. I kind of wanted our worship nights to kind of have a theme and idea behind it and that's kind of. That's kind of what I've been stuck on and while kind of proposed to the team when we start planning it, but just the idea of we are just worshiping a mighty King and that's it.
Speaker 4Yeah.
Speaker 5And so that got me I've, I've.
Speaker 3I'm in the middle of writing a song called to worship a king. Nice, have you seen? I just saw it like a couple days ago. This praise and worship leader gets up there and he gets his whole spiel and he's like yeah, so I wrote this song, this is about being humble, so I hope y'all really like it. It it's about being humble. And then he goes to start playing and, like pyro, goes off in the back.
Speaker 5Lasers are going off and it's just like the worst timing in the world, I love watching the worst, like fail videos Like there's one. There's one. Corey Asbury was on there and he was doing one of his songs. He kept messing with the words. He's like I promise folks, I wrote this song.
Speaker 3I've seen what it was another big band, I think it was maybe casting crowns, where he gets up there and he's ready and he's like. I forgot the words. I'm sorry y'all start again. I'm sorry he's like even after all this time this happens like I'm sorry, oh man I love watching those things.
Speaker 5It's so funny.
Speaker 4Happens to the best of them.
Speaker 5Happens to the best. I always talk because I don't talk. I'm not a good talker or speaker. I'm bad at reading.
Speaker 6I'm not bad at reading You're not bad at any of these things.
Speaker 5It's just well. So we have a confidence monitor at our church and the way it's set up is like three quarters of the top of the screen is the main slide that's on the the projectors, and then it has a smaller slide below it and that's what's coming up next. I will jump and look ahead and as soon as I'm looking ahead, they'll skip to the next slide and I'm reading the wrong words. Yeah, yeah, it's like as soon as your eyes go down, it goes up and it's like yeah, no, that's what they have on pro presenter where you can see yeah, it's like soon as your eyes go down it goes up and it's like, yeah, no, that's what they have on pro presenter where you can see yeah, what's coming up?
Speaker 3something for that? Yeah, I hate that.
Speaker 3Yeah, because I do that I'll skip ahead while I'm looking which is it's really good if you're if you're teaching, if you're if you're teaching or preaching, because you could see where you're headed next yeah, so that is really good like when you, when you get okay, I know where I'm at and you're headed next when you're going next, yeah, so that is really good, like when you get okay, I know where I'm at and you're talking, and you're talking, and you can kind of just glance at where you're going next and what's coming up.
Speaker 6I use that in Keynote on a Mac. I use that in my meetings. I do use the next feature.
Speaker 5But I can see how singing that would really and raise your hallelujah wait, it's like whoa, okay, here we go wait? People like did the cd just skip?
Speaker 6the other kids go. What's the cd?
Speaker 1I mean, that's like when we're coming up here tonight we're, we took turns picking us, yeah, we're djing on the way up here, yeah I'm like what we really wanted to hear.
Speaker 1You know, it's a 20 minute drive from the, from the airbnb down here, and so we're like, all right, uh, my niece picked a song that she wanted to hear. Uh, I picked a song that I wanted to hear, uh, and then, you know, jared picks a song that he wanted to hear, and then the next one. We're getting ready to type in something else. Well, the, the system, automatically put on the notes and we're like, oh no, we're gonna leave it right here yeah, there and then our music leader back at home.
Speaker 1When the song comes on, he always kind of starts with like the, the chorus, and then we'll go into the first verse yeah, and then go through.
Speaker 3Y'all did that tonight, didn't you, with a song where you kind of started it that's.
Speaker 5That's how it's originally recorded. But yeah, honey, in the rock, okay, yeah, yeah and so my niece is.
Speaker 1she used to sing on the worship team and she does the youth band stuff, and so she's sitting there and that's how our music leader always does it. So she immediately started with that and we're like, oh don't worry, it's getting there.
Speaker 3It's getting there real, it's funny.
Speaker 1My bad.
Speaker 3Now is it the same worship leader, leader I met. Let me think, let me think are you talking about eric. Yes, yes, yes, it is, it's eric yeah yeah it's awesome cool so what do y'all have on?
Speaker 1that's what's up, something you've been listening to, maybe watching, maybe playing video games uh, so you know, like jared being retired now I kind of have started trying to figure out getting a little more into my maintenance work on my vehicle. I have 20 acres of land, so I'm constantly mowing, constantly working.
Speaker 6You mow 20 acres.
Speaker 1I do.
Speaker 5How long does that take?
Speaker 6With a bush hog or a lawnmower.
Speaker 1I have a zero turn, well, well, so I have a wooded area 92 inch deck plate push mower. He's got one of the real mowers so I have a 64 inch deck plate but I do have a lot of trees and a lot of it is wooded. So I mean I probably, am probably, mowing about 10 ish acres of it of the 20. But we also, you know, there's a lot of maintenance work that has to happen with all the four mowers and the weed eaters and all that stuff, and so I like to.
Speaker 1I've been trying to get into trying to get the maintenance stuff and making sure that I can learn how to do a little bit of maintenance work and work on lawnmowers and stuff. So that's kind of watching youtube videos on that. That's kind of what I've been guilty pleasure getting into learning that.
Speaker 3Okay, there you go you know youtube I can help you with a lot of that he knows a lot about motor stuff yeah you actually do, or is it what's a carburetor? They're in. It's a. It's a. It's a part. It's a. It's a berater of a car right. It's the berater that he's serious too, he has no idea yeah, it's in there, it's in the engine. Is it where the engine? Is it where?
Speaker 6the engine's at. There's a lot of things in the engine.
Speaker 2So, since you're new to the air, so I want to tell you a story about Mike Simmons Wait wait, wait, wait.
Speaker 5Is it the?
Speaker 2Yes, what, that was quick.
Speaker 1You don't have to ask, you already know what he's doing.
Speaker 6Why are you not looking around right now?
Speaker 5You will hear why Do we got to hit the button and you will understand Mute, mute, mute.
Speaker 3So I just appreciate everyone listening. I love everyone.
Speaker 2So the guys at the church that we were going to at the time and this is before I even started going there, but all the guys got together. They want to build a fence, right.
Speaker 5Wait, no, I think I was thinking of a different story then.
Speaker 3Oh, well, we'll get to it, Were you thinking of the check. Is that what you were thinking of?
Speaker 2I was oh yeah, that's a good one also.
Speaker 5I'm going to stop sharing this stuff with y'all. You can go ahead and just mute yourself for a little bit.
Speaker 2So they're building a fence. So they tell Mike hey, run in and grab the toolbox, bring it back out so we can keep going. He goes in and he legitimately grabs a Little Tikes toolbox. You weren't playing, were you? No, he was 100% serious toolbox. You weren't playing, were you? No, he was a hundred percent serious. Brings it out to the guys and then tries to play it off like he knew that.
Speaker 3So I so I grab it and I go back out there and I give it to him and like, because I was kind of the go-getter, like I can't help with that. I don't know what I'm doing. Do you want a fence to stay up?
Speaker 6can I say something about you really quick? It's good because if you, if you're messing up, that means you're trying yeah well, I just don't try, I'm just
Speaker 3not gonna try because I'm gonna mess it up. So they're like hey, run in and get the toolbox. I'm like, okay, cool, so I run in, come back out, hand them a toolbox. I go back to stand and drink a coffee and making jokes, because that's all I'm good for in that situation. They need me there for the comic relief. So they're all like laughing and I'm just like, and I caught on that they're laughing at something. I don't know what they're laughing at. I'm like what is so funny? And they're like first of all, are you serious? And I'm like I'm completely lost. I don't know. Am I serious about what? And they're like are you for real? And I'm like I'm really confused right now am I for real about what?
Speaker 3and they're like. You know, this is a toy toolbox and I'm like yeah, yeah, yeah, totally. I just wanted to make y'all laugh, you know. And they're like did you really think it was? I was like it looked it was a toolbox and I didn't know. It didn't click to me that it was in the kids' room. When I got it, I just opened the room and I seen a toolbox. They didn't tell me where the toolbox was at.
Speaker 5Was this toolbox plastic? There's your answer.
Speaker 3Real quick, tell the Czech story, because that's my favorite. Okay, first, aren't all toolboxes plastic?
Speaker 5no not, not all the they're really cheap ones. So dumb, like I am real dumb. They're really. They're like really really really cheap ones are they can?
Speaker 6be, okay but like that makes me look the legit ones are were they really disproportionate the way everything was like the Was the hammer the size of your water bottle?
Speaker 3I didn't open it.
Speaker 2Shut up, that's good. In his defense, the little tox was rubbed off.
Speaker 3I thought that was maybe a brand. Oh my gosh, it's funny, but the hammer squeaked too, and so everybody makes fun of me now because I shared a story they got cute tools right a few episodes back about. I didn not. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 5That was a great question.
Speaker 4I've been known to ask really good questions.
Speaker 6I'm so sorry. We're talking about unity, oh this is unity.
Speaker 5Hey, I feel bonded right now. We bond over.
Speaker 3Mike's embarrassment, I don't know why I share these. So I'm at Walmart and I'm in line and I realize I didn't have my wallet on me, but I had my checkbook in my back pocket like I was doing something with checks. Did you get nervous? Oh, bro, sweat.
Speaker 1Bro like so bad real quick okay, so how do?
Speaker 3I do, oh, just wait. So I get up there and I'm like, oh no, so I, I'm a sweater anyway. So I, instantly I got the the mustache sweat going on. I can feel it down my back dribbling down to check sweat right. And and I'm like, oh, I gotta, I'll write a check. And the guy said, oh yeah, that's no problem, we take checks. Okay, cool. So then I look down at the check and I look at the guy and I look down at the check and I look at the guy and I'm like I I realize I don't know how to write a check never wrote a check in my life no idea, no idea.
Speaker 3So I'm like. So I'm like oh, hold up, just give me a second. I got my phone phone's ringing. I got a phone call, so like I go to get like, act like I'm on my phone yeah googling. How do I write a check so that I can like look at it and then write the check? And I'm just the entire time.
Speaker 3The dude is just staring dead at me in the face and I'm like oh, hold up, I just gotta answer this real quick, I just gotta send this text. And I'm like, oh god, oh god, oh god, oh god, oh god, god, help me. I got no service, please. I'm standing here, I'm not taking this food back, right? So I'm like waiting on it to load. It's like the longest load screen ever and I'm just like, don't look up at him, don't look up at him, don't look at him, he knows, he knows, he knows. So then, finally, it comes to and I'm like, all right, right, cool, write this, wrote the check. Well, I start writing it and the guy goes hey, you don't have to write that, we could just put it through the machine.
Speaker 5That's great, and I'm like that's great, bro sits here watching me go through like I want to die right now he probably thought you're trying to answer a text yeah, really, and that was a really bad text that's hilarious. What I find, what I've, what I also find funny about that is you said that was like the first check you wrote in your life yeah I probably wrote more checks than you before I was 18.
Speaker 3Yes, correct, that's correct. But then I did find out Ten years ago. You could just hand them the check and then they'd write through the thing.
Speaker 5Yeah.
Speaker 3I'm still writing checks.
Speaker 2That's not the machine noise.
Speaker 5It won't stop either.
Speaker 3I don't like it. It's very, very slow.
Speaker 2I couldn't tell you the last time I wrote a check. I don't have checks because I don't want checks.
Speaker 5I just ordered a new checkbook.
Speaker 2I'm not going to do that.
Speaker 3Oh, and also also didn't realize this until I got it out to give to him, because I'm not an idiot enough standing here not knowing how to write the check. But I get my checkbook out and my wife, because she loves me so much and I love you, babe, so so much she got me these checks, she ordered the checks Okay.
Speaker 5Not me, but I'm glad she did, Because it's just what you needed.
Speaker 3Yes, because I'm a child, she ordered me checks, and they were Avengers checks.
Speaker 6That's great.
Speaker 3So I'm sitting here trying to write on a check with Spider-Man on it and I hand it to the guy who probably thought I was eight years old.
Speaker 5He was probably thinking this dude's bed sheets is Spider-Man 2.
Speaker 1He's like I swear he's got a race car bed.
Speaker 3That's exactly what he was thinking Daggum, he's trying to make me laugh.
Speaker 5It's a TIE fighter bed, because he likes Star Wars 2.
Speaker 6Oh, okay, I can respect that a little bit. He's got a Spock doll too, oh, okay.
Speaker 5Okay, I can respect that a little bit yeah I'll never go to that walmart again you are. You are way to end that like you know how, like places you work, people have like nickname. They know, they know these certain people that come in they've got nicknames. Yeah, but you've got a nickname.
Speaker 3That's the check guy man, that's worse than that the check avenger over here coming through getting this cantaloupe riding.
Speaker 5A check for who does that?
The Infamous Toolbox and Check Stories
Speaker 3I don't know. I didn't want to put it back so I had to check swan me because was that it was. It just cantaloupe no, but it was. Oh, I was gonna say, brother, man, it was a few, just go home real quick it was a few things things.
Speaker 6You have a debit card right.
Speaker 3I didn't have my wallet.
Speaker 6I just had my check, my checks were just in my pocket. You're on your phone.
Speaker 3I didn't have my debit card on my phone. Walmart doesn't take Apple Pay.
Speaker 6Oh, they don't.
Speaker 5Probably not the ones around here.
Speaker 4I've never been to one.
Speaker 6You have to go to the bigger cities. I'm so glad you guys told me those stories we like to share.
Speaker 5Feel free to use them in your sermons. I'm not going to forget them especially now that they'll be immortalized on Spotify and everywhere else you listen to podcasts.
Speaker 2I also want to point out that our guests are both wearing Almost Brothers merch in our heads.
Speaker 5That's right, and the hosts are not. I didn't notice that.
Speaker 3What a bunch of losers imagine. So what do y'all have something, a movie, oh, you didn't forget about me. A check writer, you know.
Speaker 4What do y'all got?
Speaker 3going on. What's new?
Speaker 6Yeah.
Speaker 4A.
Speaker 6Minecraft movie me a check writer, you know, yeah, what y'all got going on. What's new? Yeah, uh, minecraft movie. Watched it with my, with my son yeah I did with bella any good um, yes, I, I mean jack black. You kind of got to watch out.
Speaker 5But I know he drives me nuts man I'm the older he gets, the more unhinged he is, and he's already unhinged, as is I know he's not and I'm not.
Speaker 6I can't say I don't know this for a fact 99 sure he's not a christian, okay that's pretty good. That's what I'm gonna say, yeah but I I love that style of comedy. I don't know why I just do. It appeals to me. So and I did. My kids been playing minecraft forever and after that movie I started playing minecraft. I got on ps4 and me and my son started playing it together yeah and he left the room three hours later.
Speaker 6I'm in there by myself and I'm on survival mode and I think this is great. And then, what are the creepers that blow you up? Yeah and I was like all these things could get into my house. So now that, then I heard my son in the background just put lights up and I was like, how do I make a light? So anyways, I think I'm about it you went down a whole rabbit hole. Man, oh man, two weeks later I have the most awesome setup.
Speaker 3They can't hold me up. That's awesome, and my son.
Speaker 6He looks at my world or whatever, and he goes that is awesome, that's cool. And I just leaped and bounded over him. Then I start bragging to Bella, my 17-year-old daughter, Like I'm awesome, there's no way you're beating this. I got all kinds of strategies and I look at hers. She's so awesome at that. That's wild. She told me she was good and I seen it and I thought can you do that?
Speaker 5How do you do that in there? What's the cheat code Up down square right? What's?
Speaker 6new with me you were talking about earlier. This is way left field. Whichever way you want to go. Whichever hole you want to go down.
Speaker 6Yeah, whichever one you were talking about, like a, like find a broken down place and doing worship yeah I don't know if you even want me to say that or not, but I got to thinking while you're talking, I kind of went to myself and I was thinking about things. And you're talking about worship. Like I said, this is way off what we're talking about and I thought of, like you can go to the bar, like what are you talking about? Broken and redeemed, like that. That I thought I've always thought of that.
Speaker 3Oh, that's cool.
Speaker 6Yeah, it's like what are you talking about man? You go to the bar to worship? Yeah, it's broken and redeemed. That's what we go to. You don't have to use that. But I thought about that. It's just broken people who have been redeemed. We're no different than anybody else, Right, right?
Speaker 3Hold something. Maybe you're watching. Listen to playing.
Speaker 2He's looking at you I know he talked about his mowers.
Speaker 1I did.
Speaker 2I was talking about mowing, oh yeah.
Speaker 1Because we went on the tangent.
Speaker 5Where you explained what a carburetor was.
Speaker 6Yeah. And then we got on the toolbox High stick toolbox yeah, that was a great segue, by the way.
Speaker 5Oh, absolutely, it was.
Speaker 1I just teed it up for you. You know, and I've also been playing a lot of golf. That's the nice thing about being retired. I'm so bad, never played the only bad thing about it is D-Queen doesn't have a golf course anymore. You have to drive a minimum of an hour anywhere around to go to a golf course.
Speaker 6I just bought new clubs two years before they closed it down. I just haven't been since.
Speaker 3I'm really bad, really really bad, and everybody's always like, oh yeah, me too it's not that bad. No, you don't understand.
Speaker 1Jared, I do, it is so.
Speaker 2You did beat that tree.
Speaker 3Yeah, I broke my like seven iron on a tree.
Speaker 2You beat it Like. Beat it to death.
Speaker 6Yeah, like I broke my club on the street.
Speaker 3I'm not sat in the golf cart the rest of the time.
Speaker 5So really it sounds like the tree won. Yeah, it did. You say you're bad at golf.
Speaker 6I can drive, but I don't really know which way it's going to go. It's like whoo, that's great, and then it might hook right it might go straight After that.
Speaker 5No good, you said drive. I'm thinking drive or drive the golf cart.
Speaker 3I could drive to the hole.
Speaker 5It's funny. My father-in-law plays golf and whenever we go to their house, normally it's golf that's on. I'll sit and live and her mom will be doing something, so I'll sit in the living room with him watching. I'll be like he hit it far and it's funny because he knows, I don't know anything about golf scotty's winning again yeah, oh, yeah, yeah he's playing really great, I see there's a. There's a guy on tiktok I like to watch he. He does a lot of like, uh, filmmaking stuff, um, but he plays golf.
Speaker 5He's autistic he uh, he's always starts his golf videos with hi, my name's Landon and my autistic superpowers. I'm really good at golf, but he made one that was like but I'm not always good, like, I'm always editing my clips and stuff, just and so right now I'm like this is raw edit, I'm just going to whack this thing uncontrollably and it's going to go soft, right. So he does it. He spins around and he hits it. It's going far off, right, and it's and that's pretty off-right. So he does it. He spins around and he hits it. It's going far off-right and that's pretty dead on. That's actually really good, oh crap.
Speaker 5And he does like two more times. The last time it's like ass is going way off-right, it's not going near. Why is it rolling? Stop Perfect.
Speaker 3Yeah, so I on my. That's what's Up. I watched Ballerina.
Speaker 2What is that? What a weird name for that.
Speaker 3It really is.
Speaker 5It is a John.
Speaker 3Wick spinoff. What it's a John Wick spinoff. Is it a female?
Speaker 1Yes, Interesting Never heard of it, You've seen John Wick. Oh yeah, all three.
Speaker 3It is fantastic. Yes, I've heard that it gives John Wick a run for its money. Is it about a female character? It is that good. Is the main character female?
Speaker 6Yes, who is the female?
Speaker 4I'm not saying attraction-wise or anything.
Speaker 6I'm just curious if it's good or not.
Speaker 3It's a big actress. I don't remember her name, she's the Spanish.
Speaker 6She's not Scarlett.
Speaker 3Johansson. No her name she's the spanish, it's not scarlet spanish, no, okay, no, it's like della. I don't know how to remember.
Speaker 1And then johnny reeves, is you know they have, yeah, he, yeah he's in like the last quarter of the.
Speaker 3It is fantastic, like I went in kind of just watching it, just like, okay, this is gonna be an action movie, it'll be whatever it was. It was great it was great.
Speaker 6You have to pay to watch.
Speaker 3It was already out yeah, no, it was in the, it's in theaters right now it is great, great, great great there's another movie yes and not, you know, because I go into, I'm like okay, strong female lead, she's gonna go beating up you know 300 pound dudes and flipping them around and they're hitting her and she's not, you know, even budging and she's just going around beating. No, no, no, she has her flaws. She has to fight more with her mind, like with her head, like how am I going to overpower this dude? That's clearly going to overpower. It is great dude.
Speaker 2It's great, and I've seen Anna de Armas. I don't know who that is.
Speaker 5She's a big actor. I think she's newer. It reminds me of another movie, dang it. I think it's called Peppermint with Jennifer Garner. Yeah, yeah, I don't know, I haven't seen that Basically, I think it's almost like a I can't remember what the setting was, but I think it's something like her family gets killed by this group of people and basically she goes all vigilante on them, I'm pretty sure it's
Speaker 5called Peppermint. It's got Jennifer. It's super like Karma Electra type. I thought that's kind of what it was going to be, but it was a little different. I thought it was pretty good.
Speaker 3Man, I was in the middle of it and I text Richard and I text Jamie and was just like this movie is great and I've seen all I've loved John Wick. Keanu Reeves is one of the best actors on the planet. He's just awesome, everything he's in is great. He's awesome it gives it a run for it's money. I am not joking. I was shocked. I was like I cannot believe how good this movie is.
Speaker 6You hyped it up to the point where it's not that good.
Speaker 3I know he's never going to come down to another conference, and especially if you go into it and know like I'm going to an action movie, like there's gonna be some stuff. It's like, oh my gosh, come on, but it it's fantastic. Man, great plot, great story, great acting, that's good. Oh, it's awesome. Counter, like the mix of him coming into it, like the way they did it, awesome. Great bad guy was good. Good bad guy.
Speaker 6I mean, it was just really yeah, bad guys can make or break a movie. Oh yeah, 100% yeah.
Speaker 3It was just really good. They set it up for the next one. They said it's doing pretty decent in theaters, but I was shocked at how good it was. It's my it's between that and oh my gosh.
Speaker 2Until Dawn.
Speaker 3Until Dawn are my two movies of the year so far, but that right now is my movie of the year that I've seen so far this year, that's your Oscar. It's 9 out of 10 is what I'm giving it. You're going to do a little award ceremony at the end of the year. Yeah, give my game of the year I gave my last year.
Speaker 5Leading actor, leading actress, best supporting actor actress.
Speaker 3Exactly Best film score my game, my, my movie of the year movie of the year game of the year movie of the year last year was wild robot okay, yeah that's a great. Have y'all seen that yep?
Speaker 2yeah, so good, so good. It was good, but it wasn't like movie of the year. Good, I don't. Don't you meet me, I don't listen, listen I'm I'm not a crier yeah, I didn't cry yeah, I was on the verge, right I.
Speaker 5There's only one movie that's ever made me cry and that was a dog's purpose, because I love dogs too much and I and I cried it drives me nuts yes, yeah it drives me nuts.
Speaker 3Tyler watch a movie and like it's the saddest thing in the world and he's just like a robot. This not make me mad.
Speaker 6I'm not sad. Watch Marley and Me.
Speaker 3And then no, marley and Me. That was the worst dog ever. I don't care the end, it's the worst dog. He should have been dead a long time ago. It's hilarious.
Speaker 6I don't know if we can be friends right now, marley and me.
Speaker 3This dog would have been kicked out into the curb.
Speaker 5Where the red fern grows got me closer to crime than Marley and me. That's like Jamie.
Speaker 3We were just watching this movie. I swear there's like a war happening and all this stuff going on and man love story. This person died. It's so sad and I'm just like man. This is really tugging at the heartstrings. Jamie's just brick wall, just good to go. At the end of the movie this dog dies. The credits start rolling and I'm like she's laying in the floor facing the tv and I hear and I'm like I know you are. I know you are not crying over this animal after everything we just watched.
Speaker 5Drives me crazy. You have a different relationship with dogs than I do.
Speaker 3Obviously, everybody on the planet has a different relationship with dogs than you do.
Speaker 5That's fact. Well, here's my justification.
Speaker 3Richard, I'm going to just get a new puppy Shut up.
Speaker 5Here's my justification. I'm going to talk get a new puppy Shut up. Oh, here's my justification, because I'm going to talk about your heartstrings. We, we did not have children. We've been trying to get pregnant for almost four years. Yeah, our dogs are the closest thing.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 5At least until now. Okay, pause for a second Pause. Okay, cause, I see what you did there, I take for a second pause.
Speaker 3okay, because I see what you did there, I take pause I take offense to that.
Speaker 5They are not the closest thing. You're my godchildren, thank you okay. Credit where credit's due before your god, my godchildren, there you go he's our.
Speaker 3He's our, our youngest two's godparents yeah them.
Speaker 2And live?
Speaker 3yep, but yeah, man, that what else I do? Persona five is that a game? Shut up, richard.
Speaker 6Yes, it's a game, okay I got a question for you, game guy yeah, game guy, game guy, that's me no, me too so souls games souls likes yeah what do you think?
Speaker 3they're hard. You have to have a lot of time to put into them. I think they're really good if you've got the time, like for me. I don't have time to sit and just grind away and grind away, and grind away. Like I want to get through the story, like I love souls, like stories. But it just takes too long I don't have time to get to bloodborne yeah, yeah on
Closing Thoughts and Final Laughs
Speaker 6playstation yes I'm the guy who's beat it three, four times now back in the day and I unlocked all the endings and all that because I beat all the bosses yeah and the pvp so you get in that mode. I'm the guy. When they see them walking up you, they'll really take off. They won't even unless they're got the same stuff I have on, like this is about to be good and that's a good game.
Speaker 3That's a. That's a game that I can never fully finish yeah, because it's just too much I've got to put into it.
Speaker 6I love it I'm almost okay, almost. I am addicted to those kind of games yeah I love a steep difficulty spike yeah, and also like creative games where you chill out. But my favorite is when you're almost there and you've been. You fought this guy 20 times and he's got this much life left and he's done it three times before where he beat you in that moment, yeah, and somehow you parry it just right and he dies yeah, like it's just everything in you is just um, it's amazing.
Speaker 3And then you're just addicted, you're hooked yeah see, I need a game where I can go. I could sit down, I could play for 30 minutes, put it away. Come back, play for 30 minutes, put it, that's it away. That's it. You can't pause those games, right, and I get to where I'm at the same boss. So many times I'm like this is just dumb. I don't want to do this anymore.
Speaker 6You're a quitter. Yeah, because that's the big thing with Bloodborne I know it's one of the greatest games ever made it is.
Speaker 3But literally all these Blood play this game like, oh, you gotta get good. That's the whole thing behind it's. Good, dude, you do have to get good and it's or you quit. It's like no, I don't like it, I don't want to do that.
Speaker 6Okay, they need to make different difficulty levels for those of us that want to play the game and enjoy it okay, you want your whammy.
Speaker 3Dad gum man so funny.
Speaker 5Funny story for those uh that can't see us the three of us that weren't talking were actually leaving. Just left the room and came back while these two were I got one thing to say about animals and games.
Speaker 2Okay, Rest in peace. Mac and cheese why?
Speaker 3do you have to bring that up?
Speaker 5That's a whole nother story.
Speaker 6All they do is berate me. Do I have time to go get a water before the story's done? Oh gosh, I think.
Speaker 5I think this is an off camera, off microphone conversation because uh my baby mama has texted me that she's tired and wants to go home.
Speaker 3R I P Mac and cheese Remember forever hey listeners.
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