Almost Brothers Podcast
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Almost Brothers Podcast
To Cry Or Celebrate? That is the question.
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Raw, unfiltered, and surprisingly emotional – this episode pulls back the curtain on what really happens in ministry marriages when husbands travel for church work and wives "hold down the fort." When one wife admits to sobbing before her husband's departure only to discover he was secretly crying too, the conversation transforms into an honest exploration of attachment, independence, and the delicate balancing act of ministry life.
The Almost Sisters share their unvarnished truths about supporting their husbands' calling while maintaining their own identities. "I wish we could have done more," one wife confesses about connecting with other ministry spouses during a recent separation – highlighting the often-overlooked challenge of isolation in ministry families. Their candid discussion reveals how ministry couples navigate the competing demands of church, family, and self-care without resentment consuming their relationships.
Laughter erupts throughout as the couples expose their quirks – from one husband's supernatural ability to "sniff out Chinese restaurants" in any location to pregnancy-induced emotional rollercoasters. These moments of levity showcase how humor becomes essential glue in long-term relationships, especially during stressful ministry seasons.
Most powerful is the group's collective wisdom about intentional connection. "I love doing little things like trips to Jonesboro, movie nights at home," one husband shares, revealing how simple touchpoints often matter more than elaborate gestures. The episode concludes with practical insights for maintaining relationship health while serving others – making it essential listening for any couple struggling to balance vocational calling with family priorities.
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Intro and Wrestling Talk
Speaker 2I know.
Speaker 1Your waddle is hilarious.
Speaker 2Listen, that's not what we're here to talk about today.
Speaker 1But we can.
Speaker 3Wibble, wobble, pregnant waddle.
Speaker 4I think there might be a death on this podcast. Well, hello there. How are you?
Speaker 3there's four of us. Please be specific. How are you doing? That's not a word don't think that's in the dictionary, oh yeah what about this?
Speaker 4what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up. Everybody, welcome back to a brand new episode of the almost brothers podcast. Brand new brand new episode whoa I thought this was a rerun on today's episode we are talking with. The wives are on Well, two of the wives, two of the three Yep.
Speaker 3Two of the almost sisters.
Speaker 5Yellow.
Speaker 4Green. How are y'all doing?
Speaker 5Good, good.
Speaker 4Very pregnant.
Speaker 5Yep Very not pregnant, very not pregnant.
Speaker 4Yeah, but as always we got Richie Rich.
Speaker 1Hey, what's going on?
Speaker 4How's it going?
Speaker 1It's going good man.
Speaker 4Yeah.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 4Ta-ta hey yo.
Speaker 3Hey yo what. My name is Reza Ramon.
Speaker 4Talk. Another one up for the bad guys. Yeah, so have you watched SummerSlam yet?
Speaker 3You seen anything about it? We watched the first what like almost hour of it of yesterday I wasn't paying and I didn't realize it's a two-day thing.
Speaker 2Yeah, and it's the first one yeah yeah did you say we watched it yesterday? No, I said, watched yesterday's oh, okay, that's, I didn't know that.
Speaker 3All right, I didn't realize it was a two-day event. It's a first two-day summer slam there you go yeah, but now we haven't watched, are you?
Speaker 4are you even interested at all in in it?
Speaker 1I didn't even know what was going on. Oh yeah, it, it.
Speaker 4I saw a bunch of bunch of results and it looks really good yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3I kind of know everything that happens but keep your mouth shut, I know I know like one thing I'm. Well, we watched the the first match, which was uh, rowan rains and jay uso versus who the crap? Was it braun breaker and whatever the other random smell rise.
Speaker 4Yeah, yeah, they're all one big family.
Speaker 3Wrestling has more than one royal family.
Speaker 1Acknowledge me.
Speaker 3Wrong guy.
Speaker 1Sorry, wrong guy, I don't care.
Speaker 4So on today's episode, I just kind of want to pick y'all's brain, is that okay?
Speaker 2Better than picking y'all's noses. I'm looking at both of y'all. I'm looking at both of y'all's brain. Is that okay, better than picking y'all's noses? I'm looking at both of y'all.
Dealing With Separation When Spouses Travel
Speaker 4I'm picking y'all's noses. I'm looking at both of y'all. I don't know if that's a good idea, so we're just gonna rattle off some topics and open up the floor to just kind of pick y'all's brains as wives, as sisters, as women, as mothers, as daughters, as all these different things.
Speaker 1I'm just going to bow out because I know I'm going to make somebody mad in this episode.
Speaker 3Nope, you got to do it too, yeah you have to speak for both you and your wife, right.
Speaker 1Absolutely not. Oh gosh, that's a dangerous thing.
Speaker 4No, yeah, dangerous thing. No, yeah, dangerous thing. So I know. First thing I wanted to ask y'all is is you know me and tyler was out of town for a couple days, and are you?
Speaker 3gonna ask how they, how they were over the weekend, how did y'all?
Speaker 4how did y'all do, not only over the weekend, but how do you do with any kind of separation like that over a period of time?
Speaker 2I just sit at home and cry.
Speaker 3She cried for half an hour before I left.
Speaker 2Yeah, it was really bad, Like I don't think I've ever cried that much in my entire life.
Speaker 3Oh, geez, which it was worse because she's pregnant you know, but it's not really them too.
Speaker 4Does she does because she's pregnant Emptied out the tear ducts. I was crying for them too. Does pregnancy stop her from talking? What do you mean? I?
Speaker 3asked Liv the question and you're answering for it. No, I'm just giving my experience.
Speaker 5I heard you cried too.
Speaker 4Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait a second, wait one second.
Speaker 3Why are you womping me?
Speaker 4see, we didn't get this side of the story no, you never will okay, let's talk about I have to bring that up interesting, you don't? So what? When was what happens?
Speaker 3in the bedroom stays mute.
Speaker 2He's been placed in the mute box.
Speaker 4So when wait? When did this happen?
Speaker 2It was when I was crying right before he left to come to y'all's house and stay the night, okay, yep.
Speaker 3I don't like it when she cries.
Speaker 5Leave me alone so why are you turning red?
Speaker 3you're not pregnant, so can't use that excuse all this uh, sympathy emotions, right, sympathy hormones is what I got it was.
Speaker 2It was kind of funny, like it's funny now. It wasn't funny then, but it's kind of funny because I was. I was sitting there and, uh, I was like my face was just like soaked, like I was red, like I was.
Speaker 1I was crying so hard you were like ugly crying, yes bad.
Speaker 2What he literally what. What broke me was? He said well, it's only for a couple days.
Speaker 4I went mm-mm, nope, that was the worst thing to say in that moment and.
Speaker 2I lost everything.
Speaker 3It was.
Speaker 2I just don't want you to go.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 2I was like, well, it doesn't matter. I kind of yelled at him like crying Right.
Speaker 3I was like it doesn't matter, like I kind of yelled at him like crying and I'm like, I'm laying there like on his chest bawling my eyes out and then I'm like my forehead feels wet, you're just like I know I'm not sweating and I know my tears don't go up, you were sweating.
Speaker 2It was raining, so I leaned up and I was like are you crying? He's like shut up.
Speaker 4And see, when he came to the house he was like oh yeah, liv's crying Made no mention of his own tears, I will mention it.
Speaker 2Yeah, correct?
Speaker 4Have you ever been like praying, like down praying, and they went up. You're bent over and they start going up your eyebrow.
Speaker 1Yeah, I've had that happen. I hate when tears drip on my glasses.
Speaker 4That's why I always take my glasses off.
Speaker 2I always forget until it's too late and I'm like well, that's going to smear everywhere. That's just fantastic, and they're like dried on there, like you can see them yeah, jamie, did you cry when mike left?
Speaker 3no, not at all they are two different people she's over. She couldn't get him I couldn't get to the house quicker for her. I pull up and she's laying in bed or something Dang it.
Speaker 1That's not what she was saying when I was going to leave what? I don't know how Jennifer feels when I leave.
Speaker 4That's what I was going to ask. How did it go when you got back?
Speaker 1It was fine. She was happy to see me that was good.
Speaker 3My wife had no reaction when I came home, because I was asleep.
Speaker 1She was out of tears from when you left. I was literally asleep. She was asleep I was in bed asleep.
Speaker 2At what time was it when you got home?
Speaker 311,. I think yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah, I'm passed out. I'm done for the day. I'm tired.
Speaker 4She was laying in bed, but the kids heard me come in, so like I heard them like upstairs, and then they took off running, you know. So that was pretty cool, and then finally she came like a zombie out of the bedroom oh, you're home like hey, no, it is because I mean, we try to do a pretty decent amount of travel.
Speaker 4I know a couple weeks before that me and richard were gone for a few days and and it never gets easier, you know to, to leave like that. It it could be for a good reason, a good purpose, only for a little bit of time, but it's still hard to to just be away from other like that.
Speaker 5It's hard for me to sleep.
Speaker 4It really is.
Speaker 5Well, yeah, you call me 20 times. So I'm like it's not like he left, like hey babe we're just eating.
Speaker 3Was it hard for you to sleep, though?
Speaker 4It was, but I slept like 12 hours he fell asleep.
Speaker 3It was about 7 o'clock he fell asleep. And what time did he wake up?
Speaker 4Probably 6?, yeah, probably 6 to get in the shower. How?
Speaker 1many alarms did he use to get up?
Speaker 3I don't know I was asleep. I only wake up to mine.
Speaker 4I don't know if he does it all the time, but I did figure out that Tyler will fall asleep.
Speaker 3I don't know if he fell asleep with his phone on or he falls asleep with his phone on, so I don't know if it was an accident, or like I do that when, like sad, don't there's like not really anything on, like for like a hotel, like yeah, they don't have no netflix or whatever. Yeah, I'll turn the tv off and I'll watch some videos or something on YouTube.
Speaker 4Yeah, because I woke up at 1230 with his phone blasting.
Ministry Travel and Supporting Each Other
Speaker 3It wasn't blasting.
Speaker 4I literally thought somebody was in our room. It was not blasting.
Speaker 2I thought somebody was talking. I believe you.
Speaker 1I thought our hotel was being invaded by anime characters.
Speaker 4Nah, you wasn't sleeping though.
Speaker 3You wasn't sleeping, though I't sleeping, though I had my thing turned down to where I could barely hear it, that's what my kids say.
Speaker 1That's not true. That's not true.
Speaker 4Those speakers, unless I fell asleep and just somehow you know, laid on the phone to where it turned the volume. I heard it to where I could hear distinct voices talking to each other and I thought somebody was like woke up.
Speaker 3Well, I was I was watching those uh second uh date update videos.
Speaker 1Yeah, and then tyler had visitors while you were sleeping.
Speaker 4I'm like what the and I'm like oh, and I figured he just fell asleep with it on or something, but yeah, he does that too. It was good though it was you ever been like in a hotel with somebody that's like just a horrible roommate or horrible person that doesn't care about anybody else's feelings?
Speaker 1as jennifer. Oh, geez dang this doesn't care that was a joke, matt right yeah, gosh, and and it was, it was.
Speaker 4It might have been the first time we we'd just been us two in a and like hanging out in a hotel you know we've hung out before, but we've never, like just both, been in there, and it was it was awesome right yeah, we're brothers give me a hug give me a high five but, it was, it was cool. Man, it was really it was. It was pretty cool. We're both both pretty chill, so well, that's's good. No body odor, nothing crazy like that. No, you know.
Speaker 3Well, he did rip one as soon as we got into the room.
Speaker 4Dude, because you're at the airport, you're like there's people everywhere, you're on the airplanes.
Speaker 1Just like it hurts.
Speaker 5We got to.
Speaker 1Springfield illinois and michael is very respectful of my vehicle. He does not break wind in my car. It's a rule and he respects that and I appreciate the heck out of that. But we got to springfield illinois and he gets once he gets out, it's fair game. He gets out of the car and I mean it just kaboom and I was like dude, you've been holding that in a while you probably, you probably didn't look over, but he's over there just wincing in pain, just having a having full-on conversation.
Speaker 4I'm just like, yeah and it dude because and everything you know, once my appendix, all that happened, my stomach it's just tore up. It's crazy from the floor I had jamie last night or it might have been, it was today like, oh, it'll be going crazy and I'll have her lay on my stomach and listen and it's so bad, just she's like it sounds like an alien in there and it you know.
Speaker 4So anyway, with my gallbladder out, same thing, yeah where it just hits and it's just like, oh Lord, have mercy, yeah. But it was good man, it was a good trip and I enjoyed both the trips with y'all because it was the same way. It was cool getting to hang with y'all and have deeper conversations. The whole time back we just talked, though Didn't even have the radio on, just talked the whole way back. It was a good time but we missed y'all. We talked most of the time on the way back we talked about y'all. Oh.
Speaker 2Lord.
Speaker 5Oh, what did y'all?
Speaker 4talk about.
Speaker 5That's what I want to know, Talk about life Planning your murders.
Speaker 3Yeah, life insurance policies. You know, those type of things.
Speaker 4Just logistics. Might want to here. Wait, those are my tires. Oh wait, but jennifer's not here to answer to it. But how do you deal with kind of those times being away, because you used to used to truck drive over the road?
Speaker 1you know, so you were somewhat used to it. Yeah, it's something that we've kind of got accustomed to over the years, which it's been many years since then. But you know she has a lot of distractions to keep her. She's got five kids that keep her hopping while I'm not there, so it's a little different, I guess.
Speaker 3Ah, gem Bunny, keep her hopping. Let's see what you did there, hopping down the bunny trail, hippity hop. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1That mute box is about to fall on your hand. Where is that button? That mute box is fixing to be your permanent home, and it was when I did drive over the road because I will be gone a week, mostly a week at a time. I come in on weekends most of the time, but that separation really does make you grow closer when you're together.
Speaker 4Yeah.
Speaker 1So maybe we need to separate some.
Speaker 4Just to miss each other, just to miss each other, yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 4And man it does. It's awesome. I love getting away. I love doing stuff, especially like ministry stuff in different places and you meet new people and you connect. It was awesome we got to meet Mark from a third Day and just kind of hang out and, of course, hang out with Johnny and man. It was a great time.
Speaker 3It was funny. I sent Liv a Snapchat. I was like I'm having lunch with Mark Lee from Third Day. She was like whatever, I always send a Snapchat. I was like this is literally him right in front of me.
Speaker 4Well, he sent the blurriest picture on the planet of him. Yeah, it was awesome. He just came and sat with us and then was just talking and opened up.
Speaker 1Did y'all recognize him?
Speaker 4Yes, I did See, I did before we started, yeah, which I kind of knew he was going to be there anyway. But so they walked in and he started kind of helping set up stuff.
Speaker 3So like uh, what was it? The 90s?
Speaker 4the 90s worship 90s worship, which is a like a pretty cool thing, yeah, and, and I was like hey, so he was like a, not a presenter, but like a, like a.
Speaker 1He's a speaker, he's a keynote speaker.
Speaker 4Yeah, yeah so he's one of one of the keynote speakers and it was. It was really cool to just get his insight into the industry and into, you know, being in it for 25, 30 years, you know I bet that was hugely beneficial for tyler.
Speaker 1That I mean, yeah, yeah, and man, what was?
Speaker 4what was really cool is is just how down to earth he was yeah, like super chill. Um got to exchange numbers with him and man it was, it was awesome. So, uh, we, we look, we look forward to he's ready to get on, so we yeah, I told him we'd set it up and get him on the podcast. So it was great man, it really was. It was really neat.
Speaker 3I thought it was funny how I started that conversation. I said Mark, are you big in the podcast? He goes, oh, yeah, I love podcasts. I said well, me and Michael over here we got podcasts. He goes, oh, what's it called? I had my Almost Brothers hat on backwards, I just flipped around.
Speaker 2Almost Brothers podcast Represent. Yeah, he wrote it, oh yeah, absolutely so.
Speaker 4It was awesome man, and, of course, Johnny is fantastic.
Speaker 1We've had him before.
Speaker 3Yeah, I can't wait to have him back on. He was funny. Yeah, he's goofy. He's good at those real subtle one-liners.
Speaker 4Yeah, he's goofy man, so he would. He's good at those real subtle one-liners.
Speaker 1He's a goofy man, he kind of tells stories, can't pronounce his last name Burke Halter, the church was just gorgeous.
Speaker 4I love seeing other churches because you get ideas and you get inspired.
Speaker 5It's like just looking oh man, that's cool.
Speaker 4We should do that. This is cool. It was really awesome. They were just a great group of people.
Speaker 3It was awesome it really was. I thought it was cool. They're, like their lobbies, the same size as their sanctuary yeah, yeah, it's, yeah.
Speaker 4So you, it's probably about 300 seats, so it's not a huge sanctuary, but you look at it, it's like this is awesome setup. You know, it's just it's it was, it was great man, it was we look forward to, I think, said they're going to try to do it again next year and they do multiple things that are free throughout the year, like that. So it is really cool, which I want to start bringing James to more of those things. She kind of misses out because of work and we have to strategically take her days that she gets off throughout the year and use them for certain stuff. Do you ever get bummed out when, when you're not able to go to this.
Speaker 5Yeah, this one I I was like you told me about it and I was like, oh, I want to go and you're like well, I was thinking, tyler. I was like I have ideas too, oh man yeah, that's it.
Speaker 3Look at me, look at me go being first string.
Speaker 5He was like well I was thinking about Tyler. I was like I have ideas too. I'm creative.
Speaker 3She can cultivate, right?
Speaker 5No, but I'm glad he did. I was like, yeah, he'll be great, he needs to go to that.
Speaker 4Well. And then I was like well, I was like I can get us all tickets, you know, I can get us all registered. And I was like but we have to leave on friday.
Speaker 4And then she's like I can't, I can't you know, because what do you have like like one or two days left and you try to save those for christmas because we're going to branson this week, yeah. So it's like trying to strategically go. Okay, we'll use these for this and I want to next year I'll kind of plan things out a little bit more so that, so that you can go. And one of the guys at the summit he said this.
Speaker 4I thought it was very, very insightful. He was like I say no to things, that my family can't be a part, that it doesn't further my family in some way, shape or form, and I thought that was really cool that he put it that way. Like either they come or it's something to where it frees me up for something else to spend with my family. I'm like man that is so good to spend with my family. I'm like man that is so good. Do you remember when he said I was just like that is so good, man, because you almost forget sometimes and you just, oh, yeah, I want to go to that, I want to go to this, and it's like I haven't spent any time with my family. So that's just as important. So I want to bring you and the kids with us. He's sorry.
Speaker 1Now you know, now you can do better, I see, where I rank.
Speaker 4Oh, dang the death. Stare, I don't know why you're looking at me. Look at him.
Speaker 3Listen, I'm the other woman. I had no idea about you.
Chinese Food Cravings and Airport Adventures
Speaker 4I don't know why you're getting mad at me. Man oh, oh, you knew, you knew, I didn't know that you picked me over her. I didn't know that much. Let's calm down, that's not quite how it's?
Speaker 5it's good because I mean, this is family, yeah, like you know, we hold down the fort at our houses and you know they're about to have twins, so I don't think they're about to get up and just go you know, do ministry, our houses and you know, they're about to have twins, so I don't think they're about to get up and just go. You know, do ministry stuff yeah and you know we have two and work and real life things going on.
Speaker 1So oh, that's what jennifer says, you know it's kind of how she supports me in ministry is to to do that, to hold down the fort with five kids at home.
Speaker 3Take care of the home front.
Speaker 1Yeah, but I want and we've talked about the same thing that going forward from now, we're going to make more of an effort to make her a part of our ministry, versus just staying at home and taking care of the kids. Their kids are getting a little older now, so we can find somebody put them in a cage with some food. I mean, what's wrong with that?
Speaker 4Oh gosh, they're fine. We do not condone this type of parenting.
Speaker 3For listener discretion. He was joking.
Speaker 1I'm going to write a book.
Speaker 4And it's especially stuff like that, where that's something that you could pretty easily have your family go to. Like the conference itself didn't cost anything, it's just getting there. It's a little bit of travel.
Speaker 1Well, in the Summit they even had child care, yeah.
Speaker 4Yeah, they had youth stuff. They had kid stuff, yeah, so you can make a way to do it. It's just planning it out ahead of time and kind and kind of going into both of those. We didn't really know what they look like getting there you know. We didn't know what they consisted of.
Speaker 1So but it's, it's nice to go to that stuff and be like I ain't gotta do nothing yeah oh yeah and just get poured into yeah yeah, it is so like and people don't get that, that, don't do it you know that don't put on events. It is so exhausting yeah to be the one constantly running around doing not even be the one, but but being like on the team right, yeah, is you know.
Speaker 3But just going to something, you're like, I literally walked in, I was, I almost had that because, you know, they had, just like you know, opened the doors and and johnny was just getting there and they're, um, I almost had like, what do I need to do? Yeah, yeah, I was like, no, I just need to sit and go eat breakfast. Well, and that's why later in you.
Speaker 4Yeah, well, and that's why I told johnny I was like what? We put our stuff down. So what do you need us to do? Yeah, like, give us something to do. So I need you to go get some coffee and chill out that's what I said.
Speaker 5That's what I said.
Speaker 4I'm like because they were like still putting up tables and stuff. And he came back around how's everything going? Oh, it's good, man, it's good. What do you need? Like to give us something to do, right? And he's like no man, y'all just chill.
Speaker 1Go get you some breakfast, man sometimes I mean if they have their teams that know what they're doing sometimes you'll get in the way right trying to help. Oh yeah, so it's better for you just to get out of the way, yeah yeah, but it was.
Speaker 4It was still as awesome as it was. I still just missed home.
Speaker 1Yeah, oh, at the summit this happened multiple times and it was so aggravating and I pointed it out to Mike. Of course he didn't see it because it's Mike, but like people would introduce him to somebody and ignore me completely. It happened multiple times. They'd be hey I'm sorry to hear that, robin this is pastor mike from rector and I'm standing right there. Just I'll go over here I completely come on batman represent he's batman.
Speaker 3I'm robin, I'm just here, yeah hey, meet my favorite superhero, robin, and just completely ignore batman no, I uh um.
Speaker 4No, well, it was people that I knew, so I mean it was I would have known them too, if they didn't, you know what's funny yeah, now you know how phil went.
Speaker 5He takes ty, tyler and I left at home.
Speaker 3You know what's funny we have them on. We haven't really heard them talking about 20 minutes.
Speaker 1What do y'all think about not talking for 20?
Speaker 5minutes. Yeah we're here, we matter.
Speaker 3They got real quiet after the whole me and Jamie debacle.
Speaker 5Shut up, tyler, I didn't do anything that's why, your lucky lips Mute, mute, mute. No, but we got to spend time together too.
Speaker 4And that's what I was going to get to.
Speaker 5Yeah, we went, and played Black Light Bingo at Liberty Hill, which was awesome Such a cool idea and the kids enjoyed it. Couldn't see where the crap but it was fun.
Speaker 4Don't put me in a dark room. So that that's what I want to segue into before tyler jumped on and and we're in the segue, but how?
Speaker 5no more trips for you right, that's what I told him.
Speaker 4I said you cannot leave again so I was gonna ask her how important is it to connect with each other during those, those times when we're doing ministry stuff? How important is it to for y'all, for the wives, to get together and support each other and connect with each other?
Speaker 5oh yeah, I wish we could have done more yeah you know, with just the kids and and other appointments. You know, on saturday we took zay to get her haircut, but I wish we could have done a whole weekend thing.
Speaker 4Yeah.
Speaker 5But it's super, we went and ate, we got to eat out. Yeah, had some crazy situations.
Speaker 2Oh my gosh.
Speaker 5I'm like how do we get ourselves into this mess?
Speaker 3They're putting on the movie we go away for the weekend and it's, oh gosh, a whole movie there.
Speaker 2All the wild and crazy antics y'all get into the montage yeah, people when we got to eat, just acting a fool. Yeah, like we're sitting across the table from each other like just a regular table at mexican. We can't hear each other we can't have a convert like conversation. We have to yell to hear each other it was so loud in there. Oh, it was just a table of obnoxious people oh, it's just being so loud. Yeah, it's annoying, michael's like I know somewhere else, like go home and do that people.
Speaker 5We were like that when we were in our 20s no, no bueno. Yeah.
Speaker 1Mexican restaurant. That's who I did there.
Speaker 5No, but it was fun. Yeah, I love, like I like, going to you know, like their church also, and connecting with them.
Speaker 4Yeah.
Speaker 5You know, because they don't know me as well as Liv, but it's awesome to just connect.
Speaker 4And you know they have events and yeah we want to be a part of that too yeah, you know, we go to their events, you know so anyway, moving on. Uh, yeah, and and well, that's cool y'all being able to have that relationship, to want to go and hang out with each other and not just kind of oh for sure, and that that is.
Speaker 1That is something I'm trying to encourage jennifer to do as well as is reaching out to other women and and doing which? Five kids. It's a little harder to just pick up and go to mexican, you know it's, it's, it's a it's a more difficult situation, but you.
Speaker 5That gets expensive.
Speaker 1Oh yeah.
Speaker 5That gets crazy.
Speaker 4Especially when Adriana's working right.
Speaker 5Yeah.
Speaker 4We would kind of have Lee and we'd kind of plan around it. We'd be like, hey, we watch the kids while we go and hang out. Yeah, it's a little more difficult, which you'll find out here very soon, but you kind of have to work.
Speaker 3We're having twins One watches the other.
Speaker 4If you add their ages together their one adult child.
Speaker 5What could they get into?
Speaker 4But yeah, and it's so important to have those relationships to where we I talked about this in a sermon where you have to have those relationships outside of just your marriage, your friends, that you get to hang out with your, your people, that you can get away from your husband, your wife, and go spend time with your friends, you know, and kind of clear your mind and have a good time and talk and and kind of throw things off of each other, you know, and say, hey, here's what I'm dealing with, here's what I'm going through.
Speaker 4You know, to be able to pour into one another is super important.
Speaker 5You know, when we were eight hours away, nine hours away, you know we couldn't just go down the street, or you know there's that street again go down the road apparently to live.
Speaker 4You could be 500 miles away and be down the road, I guess.
Speaker 2Tyler actually used that analogy the other day.
Speaker 3I didn't.
Speaker 2Yes, you did. When I think it was probably a couple weeks ago, but you did say it. We weren't actually right down the road like you think.
Speaker 5Oh busted.
Speaker 3Big time Jamie's going to do anything, that's all stuff at you, why? You've been X'd out, listen't listen he listen jamie, it's not personal. He chose me listen sorry, I'm better or something I don't.
Speaker 4I don't agree with this. I don't.
Speaker 3You're the one that made the decision.
Speaker 4Don't let his words Tyler muted. Don't let his. Don't let his words. Don't let him break up a happy home. Don't do it, I don't want to Remember that, remember that, remember that, dang Remember that.
Speaker 5Remember that, remember that.
Speaker 3Dang it, man Listen. I hope it was a fun trip you made the decision.
Speaker 4Speaking of Tyler on this trip oh Lord.
Speaker 2Oh gosh.
Speaker 4This man, what'd I do? Can sniff out a Chinese restaurant, oh yeah.
Speaker 5That was the last thing he said last night before he went to bed. He's like Tyler sniffed out a Chinese restaurant in the airport.
Speaker 4It was like in the far corner of the airport and Tyler's like, hey, let's go look around, for it was like he was being drawn to it.
Pregnancy Habits and Lifestyle Changes
Speaker 3In the one direction there was literally just a annie ann's and uh starbucks, so we went the opposite direction it's like that and around the corner, and down the hall yes it was the food court and he's just like there was multiple food courts, there was multiple food areas.
Speaker 4I smell rice and he literally would pass up. It's like tgi fridays and chilies and and this burger place. He's just like no, I feel like there's something better in our future, something else. Then I'm going with him because I'm a good friend.
Speaker 3I said you can get whatever you want.
Speaker 4Going with him because I'm a good friend. I'm like, okay, let's go, I'm here with my buddy, you're a good friend, I'm. I'm like, okay, let's go, because I'm, you know, I'm here with my buddy, your good friend, you know what I'm saying. And we get there and he goes. He looks around, goes up there to the thing, he goes yep, I'm sold. And then he looks at me and goes yeah, you can eat whatever you want. I guess if you don't want to eat here, that's fine. It's like no, we've done, walked the entire airport there, listen, listen.
Speaker 3I going to go ahead and eat here.
Speaker 4I'm already here with you.
Speaker 3But he's acting like that was the only place within 10 feet. There was four other places.
Speaker 4We were already in line at that point. I was in line.
Speaker 3You weren't, but was it good, it was fantastic.
Speaker 4It was Chinese food, it was rice, and chicken.
Speaker 3Michael, you bite your tongue, like I was about to say you bite your butt, you bite your butt you know, you know, it's funny.
Speaker 4Guess what we have for lunch today. Yeah, I'm sure yeah, but we did eat at a good wing place touchdown chicken or touchdown wings touchdown. I think touchdown wings yeah, and it like it was yeah.
Speaker 3no, it was good. You're like the cause. We both got the bonus swings. They know how, like at I don't know, can I drop corporate names on here? Buffalo wild wings, it's like 70% breading and 30% chicken, yeah. This is like 90% chicken Cause. It was like cause, like they Buffalo Wild Wings double bread it. I don't know if you guys know how to bread chicken, but they cooked there's single breading and it was nice and thin but really crispy. It was really good and they had shrimp fried rice. So guess what your boy got?
Speaker 1Shrimp fried rice.
Speaker 3And it was fantastic. You're telling me, shrimp fried this rice. It was good, it was really good, okay.
Speaker 4I think, Tyler's becoming a food pastor.
Speaker 5Chinese food pastor.
Speaker 3Chinese food pastor.
Speaker 4It was cool because we were just kind of looking, we didn't know what was around, we didn't have a car. We Ubered there so we didn't have a car. You know, we ubered there so we didn't have a car. So we're looking around at what's close and we can get delivered. So I found this place. I'm like man, it looks pretty good.
Speaker 4We look at the menu there was like 15 different flavors of sauce. Yeah then, like this the side, you could get fries. They had white rice. Shrimp fried rice, they had like newt, they had like yeah 20 different sides you could get with the chicken. So then you get it and it was like $12. It was like pretty normal price. And you get it and it was packed full.
Speaker 1Did they sauce it up? They sauced it up. Yes, it was sauced up.
Speaker 3It was like you know how in those Chinese restaurants they pack. That's how they did it. My side was the fried rice. It had to have been at least four servings.
Speaker 4Yeah, wow it was enough. It was enough for I got fries. It was enough fries to feed our whole family. Yeah, it was.
Speaker 3Oh yeah, it was a lot and it was enough rice. I had to take a break for a while before eating the rest of it. Yeah, it was.
Speaker 4It was a lot it was really good it was. It was good it wasn't like no cheap minute rice, it it was a lot, it was really good.
Speaker 3It was good. It wasn't cheap minute rice, it was good.
Speaker 4I have a confession. I also ordered a slice of red velvet cake.
Speaker 3He did not tell me he was going to share it with me until he ate it all that came with it.
Speaker 5You didn't share it.
Speaker 4Here's what happened.
Speaker 3What happened was they came with it. You didn't share it, so here's what happened. Look, here's what happened?
Speaker 5What happened?
Speaker 3was.
Speaker 4Let me explain why. And then I got it and it looked so good, I'll tell you. So it's the cake's fault. So you're not a good friend and I'm like I'm going to save Tyler some of this Because he didn't order himself a slice of red velvet cake. So I start eating it, and then I blacked out.
Speaker 3And then he came to and it was gone.
Speaker 4I don't know what happened from there? Right, but there wasn't any left. I said, ty, I was going to, I was going to save some for you, but I didn't. It's the thought that counts. What do you want to watch? And?
Speaker 3then he passed out like a half hour later and I watched all three Pitch Perfects Good movies.
Speaker 4You know, we live on the wild side.
Speaker 1We were in Springfield for three mornings and by the time we left we had a regular coffee shop.
Speaker 4Man, you ain't lying, they knew us by name. It was pretty good, though, lotus. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3Okay, food pastor, coffee pastor.
Speaker 4If you ever hear of a drink called a lotus, avoid at all costs. What's in it?
Speaker 3Okay, cocaine, apparently jet fuel Kerosene Is it more caffeine than like. It has to be.
Speaker 5It has to be it has to be.
Speaker 4It has to be, it has to be. I didn't drink the lotus. This man drank the lotus. We're driving okay, so we sat there at the coffee shop, did he start itching? So we're driving away, we're going down the road, he's like man, I don't know which way to go, if I go this way or this way, because it's like kind of on those side roads so I don't know. I think I'm gonna go this way. So he went this way and he's like yeah, yeah, this is. I think this is the right way.
Speaker 5No, I need to turn around I guess I could have just went out right there man, that's crazy.
Speaker 4Hey, there's a golden corral dude. This is awesome. Look at that. And I'm like Richard, what is happening? And he just looks over at me and goes Lotus. Like oh man, what the heck Lotus. He's just like Lotus.
Speaker 1Now that needs to be a button. Yes, that's funny and it wasn't even very good. What?
Speaker 4Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2After all that.
Speaker 4The next morning when we went, I he has cut off of none of those no lotus.
Speaker 3So then, the whole weekend he'd be saying something and he'd just throw in lotus and like the staff knows that he comes in, can I get a little? I was told not to serve you am I gonna google this?
Speaker 1yes, they have multiple flavors of this, of this drink oh they have it at mudslingers.
Speaker 4Is there anything that you avoid drinking now that you're pregnant? Whiskey. That's probably a good thing to avoid.
Speaker 2Man, that's a tough one right there Having withdrawals.
Speaker 4Because you're not a big coffee drinker anyway, right?
Speaker 2Not really no.
Speaker 4That's too many coffee cups. I know that. I know that's what Jamie had to avoid. It was hard for her.
Speaker 2You heard that too right. It sounded like a little mini DJ-ers.
Speaker 4It was hard for her. It was hard for her to avoid coffee.
Speaker 2Scratching or something and it was like making, like a weird.
Speaker 1Lotus.
Speaker 2Sorry, I was trying to figure it out too.
Speaker 4We all heard it. This always happens when Tyler and Liv is on Podcast. Etiquette goes out the window.
Speaker 3I think they hate us.
Speaker 4Wait, how does it go from I choose you over her to we hate you? There's no in between, oh yeah it goes from haha, jamie, I'm number one to I hate you oh man you're getting.
Speaker 3You're sending me mixed signals. I gotta keep you guessing man.
Speaker 2No, I was gonna answer your question. I forgot what it was.
Speaker 4Is there anything that you like avoid eating or drinking, since, since you've been pregnant, um for jamie it was coffee, you know, just not. Not the best for the babies like I still.
Speaker 3I still do caffeine, but I make sure it's in moderation like I I do like I'll only let myself have like one soda a day, like not a day like I don't, so you'll probably have like maybe just a few sodas in an entire week yeah, but I only.
Speaker 2I only limit it to one like for the day.
Speaker 3I'll do like sweet tea, but that's not any other kind of yeah, but like I'll go to sonic because I like getting sonic sodas and yeah, do you want anything now? I've got water yeah, yeah, but she's been. She's been on that for probably since what?
Speaker 2the beginning of the year yeah yeah, because, like I was like in general, but like before I got pregnant, I was like starting to like realize how much soda and like things like that, I was drinking that I was like I probably shouldn't do that and I would just like feel like crap.
Speaker 1So I'm like, okay, I need to like it makes me, it makes me absolutely insane to see pregnant women smoking oh yeah yeah, I mean it just, it just riles me yeah, smoking vaping, it's like why yeah you don't have to do that like right right, you know that it's affecting your baby, but what's crazy to me, too, is women that quit smoking their entire pregnancy and then pick it back up, you're done. You beat it.
Speaker 2My aunt, her and her husband used to smoke, and once they got pregnant, that was with Christian and he's 11 He'll be 11 this year and she didn't do it again, and then he eventually stopped as well.
Speaker 4Yeah, they're second that seems to happen a lot, like when one stops, the other you know very likely is going to stop with them. You know, it's kind of like if two people are dieting, they, or if one's dieting, usually the other, kind of tries to come to come along that does not happen in the random house no well, I quit smoking before jennifer and she'd blow smoke in my face, and now I'm dieting and she tries to hand me candy bars.
Speaker 3That that was well, that's kind of how it was when I was doing the competition. I was on my really strict diet and I was over there, you know, eating sloppy and and vegetables with no seasonings or any dressing or nothing, and I ain't eating, that she's just enjoying life I'll get my chinese takeout.
Speaker 4Thank you very much are you the kind of person that, like expects them to do that? No, are you really gonna eat that? Like? What does your diet have to do with me? Like wait a second? No, yeah, I am I'm gonna sit here in front of you enjoy it. This is gonna be great.
Speaker 1No, smell it no, at those times I just go internal yeah, there you go suffering silence I wish we could get him to do more things in silence he's got a button right there you go yeah take that, yeah.
Speaker 3Eat that food, pastor, yeah he's got a button right oh, that's messed up.
Speaker 4So what? What is? What is something that y'all plan in the immediate future? So I'm gonna talk to the wilkerson's, then me and jamie, and then the randall family, and the randall family he's like where are they hiding? In the lines hold on, I say the randall fat, we don't have that many microphones. Uh, in the immediate future, try to to spend some good quality time together, man, because October and November, december, busy time.
Speaker 3Well, we don't have anything planned. There's a because I mentioned to you the other day this leadership thing over at Generation Church over in Tennessee, that we're.
Speaker 4That's in October, right.
Speaker 3Yes, yeah, I think so. I can't remember, so in other, my I don't know, because I was you're gonna come with me because it's only, it's no ten nationals, four hour drive take your germamine. Go to sleep um that. That's how you travel, am I wrong?
Speaker 2well, yeah, but you don't have to say it like that. You make me sound like an addict or something Take your drugs, I will.
Speaker 3But, other than that. So our foster kids leaving this week to go live with my parents, so we'll have a lot of quality time before the babies get here.
Speaker 4Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3Just the two of us, just the two of us, just the two of us we can you know how some couples take baby moons we we, uh, we thought about that because live was saying, apparently.
Speaker 2That's why I'm like we thought about what never heard of that.
Speaker 3Well, you're saying that'd be nice, just have like a weekend getaway. I was like we could, like you know, go get an airbnb in cape or paducah just for a night.
Speaker 4Do y'all enjoy doing that, just like a hotel, just to get away and hang out with each other? I love that. It'd be nice to do that.
Speaker 2Because we don't hardly ever do that, because we just can't afford to do that very often at all. The last time we did that was we went to Springfield, wasn't it? It was like a couple years ago.
Speaker 3Oh yeah, but it was for a friend's wedding.
Speaker 4Yeah, and you can, and I'm going to do this, tyler, sorry, and I'm going to do this. You can just take his Chinese addiction, cut it in half, you got plenty of plenty to go out and hang out.
Speaker 2Yes.
Speaker 4You thought I unmuted you. All all right, what do you got?
Speaker 3don't think so no, I'm just kidding. Okay, she enables me because, I'll say you know what I'm thinking. She'll be like I don't care I asked her. I said because for lunch. I said what are you thinking? She's like I don't care I said well.
Speaker 2I said well, you know what I want hungry, I don't care what I eat I'm just hungry, yeah lord have mercy anyways.
Speaker 3but she, because I said you know what I want, and she kind of went along with it.
Speaker 1Well, of course, she knows what you want.
Speaker 3We all know what you want. Yeah, so it's not hard to shop for me.
Speaker 1Just Chinese gift certificates.
Speaker 2I just need to buy him like a year's supply of like Fried rice. Yeah.
Speaker 3Just buy it in bulk.
Speaker 2Sam's Club, just get him a bunch of yen. Get him a membership at the Chinese restaurant.
Speaker 4Well, I asked him, as they were up there making the food and stuff and they were talking. I'm like Tyler, I need you to translate, help me out here. That was funny.
Speaker 3In line. So we were going through the line to check in at the airport and they, like, right in between us did a little split and they cut off one lane and I had to go right and he went left. Well, I'm just chilling in line just waiting and it tapped on the shoulder and it's this Mexican dude and he was like do you speak Spanish? I said no, I'm Asian, but I only speak English.
Speaker 1Now you're real confused.
Speaker 4And then that was in TSA. And then we get through and afterwards he just we're walking and he looks at me. He goes hey, did you get random bag checked? I'm like no, no, what about you? He's like, nope, like man, we made it through, didn't we?
Speaker 3yeah I was gonna say I'd make a joke, but we're still in the airport I'll wait, man, and and it. It's so nerve-wracking dude going through like they're yelling at you, yeah, yeah, they're not happy like you have to take your shoes off and everything but it's like you get that anxiety like did I get everything illegal out of my backpack that wasn't there in the first?
Speaker 4place and and that's it's not illegal, it's just that you can't have it there. So it's like am I carrying my knife? Yeah, oh crap.
Speaker 1That's what I. I got worried about, like the, because you can only have several bigger sizes of stuff. Even just stuff you don't think about Toothpaste, mouthwash, stuff like that you can only have certain sizes. I'm like I don't know how to fly.
Speaker 4I'm going to jail for toothpaste. And then they need to all get together and have a meeting and figure out what they want you to do, because you'll go through, we through, from memphis to atlanta, memphis as you put this, this and this in the bin. Then you get to the atlanta one and they want this, this, this, this, this and this in the bin, and it's like, and that, well, no wonder everybody's confused. We don't know what to put in there because it's different wherever you go yeah so it was.
Speaker 4It was crazy. I'm excited for you to fly for your first time. How nervous are you?
Speaker 3Kind of Not really. It was the worst thing in the world.
Speaker 4Calm down, Tyler. I don't want to have to do it.
Speaker 2No, listen.
Speaker 5He wants to go on this trip.
Speaker 3We're trying to get you out Boston here I come.
Speaker 5I'll take you down.
Speaker 4That's not going to have the same, the same feel to it. I don't want that, I'm sorry man Love you.
Speaker 3Not that much.
Speaker 4I can't go on your anniversary trip, or no, it's a birthday, christmas it's my Christmas present Shows you how much you care about me. Christmas and birthday it's a one-way relationship.
Speaker 5Listen, I'm just a side chick that's right that's not weird at all.
Speaker 4You're the main meal. Oh, he's the mashed potatoes mashed potatoes?
Speaker 3I don't know why I took such disrespect to that this conversation has gone south. I don't know what, just happened I don't either.
Speaker 1I am not a sweet potato.
Speaker 3I feel insulted.
Speaker 4I'm not why am I mashed?
Speaker 1ain't nothing sweet about me.
Speaker 4Tyler would be more, more the baby carrots. My bad man, my bad, my bad. That was just my favorite little joke. I'm sorry, listen I'm trying.
Speaker 3I'm trying to refrain because I know our listeners don't know us like that, and I'm trying not to make a joke right now.
Speaker 4I'm trying. I look forward to that trip with you and that little bit of time and that's what I was going to say.
Speaker 1Besides the Boston trip, what do y'all have in the works for time together?
Speaker 4so we're going to Branson this week, just a little couple day. Besides the Boston trip. What do y'all have in the works for time together? So we're going to Branson this week, just a little couple-day trip with the kids and my mom and I'm really trying to take more weekends to just pour into the family. So I love doing little things like trip to Jonesboro, trip to Popper Bluff, movie night at the house, little things like that. So I love doing little things like, you know, trip to Jonesboro, trip to Popper Bluff, you know, movie night at the house, little things like that. So I love doing stuff like that. We play sorry at the house and little stuff like that. But also the time with our family, Like we've gotten into a busy season, our family, you know us, the Wilkerson's, the Randall's, the Fee's family.
Speaker 4So we haven't had a lot of family dinners, of getting to get together, so I want to do more of that as well. We used to do it once a month at least, and now it's kind of been once every three months, something like that. I want to kind of get back to that.
Speaker 1Some people had to move to Alabama. Sorry about that.
Speaker 5Some people need to take a weekend and get our house somewhat organized. Some paintings moved Some boxes moved.
Speaker 3I just work quick. So anyway, like we were saying, I would be mad if you still pressed my button.
Speaker 4We'd still mute you.
Speaker 1Maybe you can get your side chick to come help. No, no Come y'all.
Speaker 3I'm a good husband. I'm a side chick. For a reason I don't do that. I don't do the main chick stuff.
Speaker 5That's messed up, dang.
Speaker 4Oh my gosh. So what else do y'all?
Speaker 3have in your heart. We gotta get to the Randall family. Yeah, what do y'all have?
Speaker 4planned. Y'all got anything your heart. Well, we gotta get to the Randall family. Yeah, what do y'all got? Yeah, what do y'all have planned?
Speaker 1Y'all got anything? Yeah, we, the middle of this month, 15th, 16th that weekend the Sainted Feast family Are gonna be taking All five of our children For the whole weekend.
Speaker 5Darn Darn, diddy, darn darn.
Speaker 4Here. Hold up, I'm not done. You got more. All that's gonna be happening Over that couple days Not me saying that he gave you the three piece combo my bad here. Hold up, I'm gonna mute myself.
Speaker 1So anyway.
Speaker 3Don't you freaking, do it?
Speaker 1So they're watching our kids for that weekend. So I think we're going to Don't you freaking do it. So they're watching our kids for that weekend. So I think we're going to take a weekend trip, which Jennifer does not like staying at hotels, she doesn't like wasting the money. So I thought about, not Friday night, but just Saturday night, spending the night somewhere, because I told her you go to Cape, it's a two hour drive there, two hour drive back which is fine If you're the passenger.
Speaker 1fricking princess you don't have to hang out all day long and then do all the driving. So, I would like to get a room up there and just kind of chill and so we've already.
Speaker 5You don't like hotels at all.
Speaker 1She just doesn't like spending the money on them. Oh yeah, so you know, because we have such a plethora of extra money depending on where you stay. Yeah, well, and it's for a night. You're looking at a hundred dollars. Yeah, and I always try to find the ones that have the free breakfast, so you get a meal with that.
Speaker 4So yeah, well, like you said, it's easy to do when you don't do any driving whatsoever, right? Right, you know, and it's like, oh, let's go around and walk around and go shopping and go do this and go do this, and go do this and go do this, and then, okay, I'm gonna go and sit and goes off and sit on my phone the whole time yeah, well, on the way back when we were driving is mentally exhausting, it really is when we were in branson.
Speaker 1There were a few times during the day I just had to be like look babe, I've got to rest. I've got to go sit at the hotel for a little while. Just get off my feet. Not even necessarily sleep, just I've got to get off. My knees are terrible anyway, and heels and stuff.
Speaker 2I feel that you wear heels.
Speaker 1And I don't even waddle Listen.
Speaker 4It's coming at you, man.
Speaker 1Wh bottle.
Speaker 4Listen, dang, he's coming at you. Man, whore man whore that's a boston thing, that's right uh let's talk about that a minute what ladies do?
Speaker 3some of the driving, hey, oh my gosh, hey look. Did I say? Did I say? Anything I didn't say, I just said you're opening up a box that that was locked for a reason.
Speaker 5Come on, pandora, your side chick just drove you to Memphis and back you. Better watch it.
Speaker 1I drove him to Springfield and back.
Speaker 5Oh your other sweet potato drove you to Springfield and back.
Speaker 3I'm the side chick. I'm the side chick. He's the side dish. No.
Speaker 1We are not. That is not sticky, that is great.
Speaker 4You know you're going to be hearing that.
Speaker 2Lotus sweet potato.
Speaker 1Lotus sweet potato no no.
Speaker 5I mean, I'm fine being referred to as a side chick. Just to make Jamie mad, I offer, but you're always like well, I want to live to see tomorrow and that's a fact, and here's what I think it is.
Speaker 4She drives bad on purpose so that she knows that will be the response purpose.
Speaker 5Yeah, so that she knows that will be the response no, or she forgets her glasses.
Speaker 4Air quote forgets her glasses so that she's not asked to drive.
Speaker 5Yeah, I can see that I'll drive.
Speaker 2I always say I'll drive back I tell tyler that he's not driving in the city I do I tell him I'm like, why is he?
Speaker 4bad in the city. Thank you for letting letting me go to Memphis with him Appreciate that Was. I bad you didn't shoot me a warning. No, it wasn't bad at all, man.
Speaker 5He drove us to Alabama.
Speaker 3Was I bad? No, thank you.
Speaker 2I'm not talking about your driving being bad. I'm talking about your attitude and your road rage.
Speaker 4It gets on my last nerve.
Speaker 2I have heard you Shut up rage.
Speaker 4It gets on my last nerve. I have heard you because you won't shut up now. See, it may have been. It may be different with you, because it was no it wasn't nothing.
Speaker 2I don't make you want to throw punch. I mean, we really didn't drive through.
Speaker 4We got to the airport, that's true, that is very true very true man which we ubered everywhere, so that that helped yeah, so it was just to the airport.
Speaker 1How was that?
Speaker 4driving. It was good man it was good, it was yeah it was. So we had to do three different times, three different uber. So it was.
Speaker 2It was good man it was good that sketches me out.
Speaker 4Yeah, and it's it's not bad because they they literally have. Have the on the app. It'll show the car moving as you're going yeah so it'll show your destination, so you can see if they're getting off.
Speaker 2Which I've never actually done one, but I don't know.
Speaker 4It's great. It's so convenient. It's pretty cost effective, Like our first one. It was 30 minutes away from the airport and it was $60 $60? So I mean it's not terrible. That's terrible for a 30 minute drive. I mean you're putting in, you're putting in some gas and parking, I don't know. So it was, it was, uh, it wasn't too bad man, not too bad at all I'm glad you had fun it was fun man it was awesome it always feels awkward because, like, do we talk to them? Do we not talk to them do?
Speaker 4you say anything you ever seen the? Bone collector I have yeah, yeah. Well, that's why I'm looking at the app like, okay, we're going here and the car's going in the right direction so and then I'm over here like trying not to fall asleep. I'm tired I sure I'm I'm watching this. I'm okay they're going, okay, we're gonna be there in eight minutes and I look over and he's got his head on the head yeah out, yeah, I think I passed out with not passed out, but I dozed off with like 10 minutes left of the drive Bruh I was tired.
Speaker 1He's gonna be kidnapped when he saves.
Speaker 3You know darn well they won't keep me.
Speaker 4You know darn well, take him back.
Speaker 5All you have to be like is hey, I got a joke, hey kidnapper.
Speaker 4Hey, you wanna hear a joke. I was doing mypper. Hey, you want to hear?
Speaker 3a joke I was doing my Macho man Randy Savage impression for him.
Speaker 4He was doing that in the hotel room.
Speaker 3Oh no, I did it once All right go.
Speaker 4What Do it Do?
Speaker 3your impression I don't want you now.
Speaker 5He buckled.
Speaker 4He buckled. What else y'all got, almost sisters.
Speaker 3We gotta do the last segment.
Speaker 4Do y'all call each other and like Are you wearing a bun today, let's bun it?
Speaker 3up.
Speaker 5No, but when I get home I'm putting it in a bun. It's in a bun.
Speaker 3It's in a clip.
Speaker 4That was a different.
Speaker 5Richard.
Speaker 1Well, jennifer cut all her hair off. She don't have enough for a bun.
Speaker 3So did Richard.
Speaker 1I'm growing a beard. What do y'all think? I like it, I told you, you should do it. I'm going to see how it goes You're growing a beard. I don't know if you can grow a beard.
Speaker 3You've been growing a beard for beard, tyler yours looks like a chin strap that's what it is, it looks good, though it's not even.
Speaker 4Zeke text me. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3I saw it.
Speaker 4Zeke text me and he said I got chin hair. Exclamation point like.
Speaker 3ZXW311 1228 it was like, if you read it out loud, I have chin hair. Exclamation point like zxw3111228 it was. It was like, if you read that off, I have chin hair what does that say afterwards?
Speaker 4I don't know. It's a z and an x and an r, and out of the shower with just a talent mom.
Speaker 5I was like oh gosh, he done fell or something happened. He said, look, I got chin hair growing. I was like I about had a heart attack and then he told me you have chin hair.
Speaker 3Get that boy a razor.
Speaker 1Not by the hair of my chinny chin Exactly.
Speaker 2We'll buy one for Christmas.
Speaker 4Side tickle.
Speaker 1We'll buy it.
Speaker 4Sign it.
Speaker 2I feel like Jamie's starting to actually hate, me the death stare.
Speaker 4That's sign it. I feel like jamie's starting to actually hate me the death.
Speaker 5That's funny. That'd be a good gift, though.
Speaker 4Like his first, like razor that would not, no, that would not be a good gift why he's gonna eventually use it, not like right away we can use it to shape it up too that's like mine.
Speaker 4It always killed me when someone would buy a summer gift at christmas like, hey, here's a trampoline, cool. They're never not going to be able to use it. It's eight degrees outside we've gotten the kids trampolines, bikes it's like it here's a bike you're not going to get to ride for six months oh, bullcrap, they're out there in the middle of november. Well, and then, and then, right in the middle of November, after I do Christmas he'll say wait, wait, wait, that's not math.
Speaker 4And then Richard, come on, the kid's got to go to the doctor again. I wonder why? What?
Speaker 3Riding their bikes on ice.
Speaker 4I said and then you complain, oh, the kid's got to go to the doctor, I got to take I.
Speaker 1I don't think so I don't have a button you get like a pointer stick. Just slowly. I'll just get one with a real sharp point and just really silence you.
Speaker 3You need to keep scissors with you, so you can just reach over and cut his mic cord.
Speaker 1And now we're mute.
Speaker 4So ladies, so ladies, almost sisters. So let's really talk about these two. No, what else do y'all have in those hearts? Not them?
Speaker 3two. Why are you? Looking at me you both looked at me. I'm like what are you up to? I'm not doing nothing.
Speaker 2You always have something to say so real quick. We're going to go around the table and that's what's up what's going on. I'm like what are you up to? I'm not doing nothing. You always have something to say, so I was waiting for something.
Speaker 4So, real quick, we're going to go around the table and that's what's up. What's going on? Something you're listening to playing going on this week.
Speaker 1Had a gender reveal for Peaches. Yep, it's a little girl.
Speaker 4Congratulations, randall, another grandbaby.
Speaker 1Yep Name is Emmalyn.
Speaker 4Emm baby, yep, name is emily, emily, nicole. Okay, here we go. Okay, hot, take no one, so did, did nobody in this family put their brains together and go. Which family? Hey look your friend, the randall family okay, go specify.
Speaker 1Hey, we have an emily.
Speaker 4That we changed from emma because we have an Emily. That we changed from Emma because we have an Emma already. So we have an Emma, emily and now a.
Speaker 1Emmalyn Okay, number one. So let's go through this. So I have already said that we should have picked something besides Emily. Our thought process was it would be easier for her to change if it was something close to what she had, but in retrospect she should have gotten something way away from emma to make it easier to not get right we did not have anything to do with emma lynn. That was peaches. It's her baby. She can name it what she wants yeah, I know that she named it, or Emma.
Speaker 4I didn't.
Speaker 3Sorry, choked on something. You good. Yeah, I didn't say for you to name it Richard, I said did anybody.
Speaker 4Lotus, I knew that was coming.
Speaker 1That's so good Point taken. What else you got going on Moving on Nothing, nothing.
Speaker 4Cool James.
Speaker 5What was the question? Dad, come on.
Speaker 4You better be glad I love you. This is why I had to get a side chick for moments like this. Tyler, this is what you're here for Side chick, side dish.
Speaker 5No, nothing, sorry about it, I'm not watching or playing anything Does that count?
Speaker 4Sure.
Speaker 5I am reading a book, though.
Speaker 4That would be considered it's.
Speaker 1Joseph In the Bible no.
Speaker 5It's a book.
Speaker 3I was about to say I believe that's in Genesis.
Speaker 5It's about Joseph and just how he was positioned for purpose and what he went through, and it kind of describes, it breaks down the scripture and kind of what it has to do with where he ended up, why he was thrown in the pit, and it breaks it down really well.
Speaker 1I love the story of Joseph.
Speaker 3We're actually. We just started a new sermon series at church on Joseph.
Speaker 5Oh, really Awesome.
Speaker 1I bet you he's going to play Code of Many Colors.
Speaker 3Maybe next week? Yeah, next week.
Speaker 4So I seen one of my notebooks in there so I went into like, oh sorry, this was in your way. And she's like uh, excuse me. I'm like, oh, I'm not leaving your way. She's like I'm using, I'm taking notes, thank you, I'm reading this book.
Speaker 1I'm like she sound like that. Well, exactly when did she become a valley girl?
Speaker 5oh, my god, she's always at it in her notes, but I usually take them on my phone right, so yeah, and I was like so she took my notebook and my pen.
Speaker 4Yeah, and my pen. Yes, not the heavy one.
Speaker 1Yes, yeah, james, it's really nice, I know I've been eyeing it, I didn't get in maybe faster man oh man. Live what you got.
Speaker 2I yawned and I couldn't see anything.
Speaker 1She yawned and went blind. I don't know where it came from Is that part of pregnancy, oh God.
Speaker 4I can't see what happened. I yawned.
Speaker 2I'll never be tired again, I swear. No, I'm tired all the time.
Speaker 4She's over here fighting for her life. What are you doing? I've got to fight this yawn off. I will see.
Speaker 2I just hold my eyes open.
Speaker 4Right, what are you doing? I'm so tired.
Speaker 3Oh man, he went to pee his pants off. Oh gosh.
Speaker 4Now she's blind and she's peeing her pants. We know what's up with her.
Speaker 3Easy, now these are brand new seats. So that's Liz. We know what's up with her, easy. Now, these are brand new seats.
Speaker 4So, that slips us. What are you doing watching? I'm peeing myself this week. That's what.
Speaker 3I've done. What's new? The shorts I'm going to have to go buy, oh gosh.
Speaker 4Oh man, that's funny. Hey, gum, don't go into birth right now, like don't go into labor you're not helping the situation.
Speaker 1Michael, these are brand new seats they have to last they're leather. Sorry, we will not oh dadgum it hurts.
Speaker 3It hurts to laugh, so what's new?
Speaker 4everybody breathe, it's fine everybody calm down, oh shoot.
Speaker 3I got lightheaded lotus oh shoot, I got lightheaded Lotus.
Speaker 2Lotus oh my gosh so what's up?
Speaker 3oh man well are we watching anything new? I don't know no, not really.
Speaker 4We need to start a new show do you have any shows about to come out like?
Speaker 2well, I've been watching. Did you just sniff your armpit?
Speaker 3No, my arms are just up and I turned my head away to sniffle.
Speaker 2You saw that too right.
Speaker 5They smell great.
Speaker 1Is it just a check? They smell great though.
Speaker 4She said did you smell your armpit? He said no, they smell. Great though she said did you smell your armpit?
Speaker 3He said no, they smell great though. So you did, I turned my head, so I didn't sniff. No, I'm just going to sniff all over my front no he straight up was like so I was like okay, anyways. I don't know why this became about me.
Speaker 1She's not going to make it through this.
Speaker 3She's not the last half hour of the episode. Episode is gonna be her trying to get through this shut up, oh god we're waiting no, I've been on the microphone
Speaker 2shut up I've been watching um on the Summer I Turned Pretty. I feel pretty, they just recently came out with the third season, but they haven't released the entire season. They're doing it one or two a month, so I'm debating if I want to watch it now or just wait until it's all out.
Speaker 4Is it like a, like a reality show, or what?
Speaker 2No, it's um. It's like a teen drama type.
Speaker 1Okay, kind of like One Tree Hill.
Speaker 2Pretty much which.
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Speaker 5I love it. Yeah, don't talk about it. We're going to put that on the list yeah, we.
Speaker 3I feel like we've got a lot going on at you know, but not at the same time.
Speaker 2Yeah, if that makes sense, baby stuff, because we're a lot of it's just baby stuff, like getting this week we get in minute of doubt. We're gonna be putting the baby stuff in the nursery like painting and all that. That is a lot going on. I'm excited for it, and I actually found out yesterday that somebody bought the crib that was on our registry, so now we have two cribs for when we need them. But I was like yay, Y'all got a baby shower coming up. Yeah, september, september, yeah, so about a month or so.
Speaker 1Are we supposed to go there, the guys? Is that not? Yeah, no.
Speaker 3So we don't have to. If I'm there, you're there.
Speaker 1So we don't need to go then. That's not how that goes. If I'm there, you're there.
Speaker 2So we are doing a thing where if don't want to like stay for stuff like games yeah, it's all the kind of break you can just drop in and then like say, hi, whatever, do gifts if you want, and then leave like you don't have to stay, can we take tyler with us?
Speaker 1that's a good question. I like that question.
Speaker 4I like where your head's at no, yeah, I'm just saying, you know, we're trying to you know well, this didn't happen by myself so yeah, he said it did why are y'all trying to get me in trouble?
Speaker 2I have to go home with her you say that like it's a bad thing now you're getting yourself in trouble.
Speaker 1She hurts me help me disclaimer no, I don't. I'm blinking twice oh my gosh, she'll drive you home. What do you want? Who's going to drive you home?
Speaker 4I'm sorry. So, todd, does that go for you too? That's what's up for you, nothing different.
Speaker 3Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 5Have you been making any new music?
Speaker 3We are Me and Michael, my electric electric guitars for our worship team. We are recording a rough draft of the song I wrote for our worship team to get out to our team. I think we'll probably finish that up on monday and then the plan is, once we like finish and then do worship night record like a final product with the whole team at we had an idea, um to you know, get the whole church involved with it and like, not not just like you know all the team, like recording just vocals of everyone singing the team, like recording just vocals of everyone singing the chorus, but getting you know inviting everyone from the church, like hey, if you want to be a part of this, you know set up a big mic, everyone in the room and, and just you know, get the church involved with that when is the album releasing?
Speaker 3releasing. All right, so let me explain why no. So are you talking about like me, or are you talking about no, no, no, I was talking about mike's rap album no no I. My question was are you talking about like just me, me, or like worship team stuff?
Speaker 1your your album Tyler.
Speaker 3Okay so.
Speaker 5Wait, is there going to be two different ones?
Speaker 3Well, here's my answer. I am not going to put one out.
Speaker 1That was your challenge.
Speaker 3I know it was, but here's.
Speaker 1Mike's not doing his, because here's we're not talking about me right now.
Speaker 4Okay, and here's why?
Speaker 3Because I want my focus, when it comes to music, to be solely on leading worship and because I've wrestled with that for a while and I felt like me personally I was coming from a not really a selfish place, but I felt like I was doing it for me and not for god. Right, and you know, with all the things happening and coming to light in the christian music industry, it's all that's also kind of turned me off from wanting to do it right, and so I've kind of just been like I just I need, I just need to focus on what God's calling me to do, whatever opportunities come from that.
Speaker 4No, I'll walk through those open doors if God opens them. So you want to write more, more music for the church? Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3And that and that's, yeah, that's, that's kind of that's part of what I'm integrating, you know, with, you know like, my schedule being being, you know, full-time at the churches, being able to, you know, every once in a while, write a song for the church and, you know, just, you know, being able to honestly get the team involved with that stuff too and start, you know, putting stuff out as a team you know, I don't want to necessarily make it about me, but involving the team with stuff like that too, it's kind of like elevation hillsong, all those guys, that's.
Speaker 1That's what they started as. Right is yeah, church groups yeah, and they've said that.
Speaker 4They said we write songs for our local church that we then put out for local churches right right, you know.
Speaker 4So that that's literally they've said that. I can't remember if it was, it was one of those two is either hill song or elevation, and that's that's what they said. We don't, we don't make albums to put out, we make albums for our church and then we put them out. Gotcha, you know so, and that is that is a very different mindset of going into and I think, something that you know god will honor that. So you know, just saying hey, because even a lot of their stuff they write, their songs, are about something that their church is going through. Yeah, you know, and then they put it out and it just happens to be something that people you know enjoy.
Speaker 1So well, and I I'm I'm glad that your music will be heard still, because you're a really good songwriter and your lyrics are really strong, so I'm glad that you're integrating that and it's going to be a really good album. So it's still the same question when is that album releasing?
Speaker 3So my plan, what I want to do, is our worship night to record that live and mix it and master it and put that on Spotify and Apple, because the worship team in the past has recorded stuff and they're on Spotify already, so that stuff's already set up. So we just got to have worship night, record that, mix, master and send it out and then we're going to have a studio recording of the original song.
Speaker 5Cool, very cool, that's awesome.
Speaker 4Very cool. Donkey Kong recording of the original song cool, very cool. That's awesome, very cool, um uh donkey kong that is quite a transition.
Speaker 350 of our downtime is what he is. That's what he did over on the trip yeah new donkey kong just came out.
Speaker 4bonanza switch to it is great, yeah, great great.
Speaker 1I knew you were looking forward to it.
Speaker 4Yeah, it is much better than even I anticipated. I am having an absolute blast with it. Well, that's great, it's really fun. Really really fun. They released years ago. They released Mario Odyssey and it got a 10 out of 10, and a bunch of people praised it and it was considered one of the best Marios of all time. I think this game is better. Wow, it is. It's great.
Speaker 1It's great and I'm a the biggest mario fan in the world.
Speaker 4This is a great game. They killed this.
Speaker 1It's so, so fun uh so the last donkey kong I played was donkey kong country on 64. No, it was super nintendo yeah yeah, so that was the last, so what is it like?
Speaker 4man, it's, it's, it's so different, because that's, that's a 2d side scrolling you know game this one's a 3d. I mean it is destructible environment, you're, you're able to kind of dig tunnels and and it's it's more open world than it is linear, go from here to to here. Now there's, there's objectives that you do, but man, it it is. It is really, really good and it it is just fun yeah man, it's fun.
Speaker 4It's when you're playing a game and you could feel yourself actively smiling right like oh, this is just so fun, it just takes you back to being a kid again. Man, I was just sitting there, like tyler said, most of our time there downtime.
Speaker 3I was just I just wanted to play it. I'm like dude. This game is really as soon as. As soon as we sit down, the plane gets he. He popped out the, the switch and I'm always.
Speaker 1I'm always afraid. Like always, I've flown once I was afraid yeah, and if I did anything the plane would crash.
Speaker 4Just any kind of electronic. Did I put this on airplane mode? Oh gosh, yeah, and so I've been playing that we finished. The Perfect Couple Did not like the ending, loved the show all the way up to that. I'm working on trying to catch James up on Wednesday.
Speaker 1I still haven't watched that. It's really good yeah season two comes out soon.
Speaker 4Yeah yeah, so we're trying to catch her up on it.
Speaker 5Sissy really likes it, so I fell sleep on it, yeah yeah, well, yeah.
Speaker 4So we're trying to catch her up on that. Did the new?
Speaker 3season. That did we talk? Uh, that mentioned no watch happy gilmore, did we?
Speaker 4yeah, yeah, we talked about it last time.
Speaker 3Yeah, I couldn't remember yeah, that was a good one too.
Speaker 5It was good, babe, but do you smile when you're getting beat at mario kart?
Speaker 4the new version so that's gonna be all our time we have for today. I mean, even even I'm not a huge fan of it man I just out of all the mario karts. I think it is one of the worst of the Mario Karts. I don't think it's a bad game. I think it's the worst version of it.
Speaker 3I really do.
Speaker 5I got hurt, so I love it.
Speaker 3I like the knockout game. That's fun.
Speaker 1Again, I don't like Mario Kart in general, so I'm not a person to ask.
Speaker 4Yep, but that's about it. I haven't seen it. We plan on going to watch a movie Me and you is going to go watch.
Speaker 1Weapons.
Speaker 4Weapons. That's a new movie coming out, so we plan on watching.
Speaker 3Isn't that the school teacher? Yeah, yeah, it looks so good.
Speaker 1I know I do want to see that Disappear, yeah.
Speaker 2Hope it. I forgot we actually had a date night, was it last week?
Speaker 4Damn y'all both forgot, I think it was last week.
Speaker 3We play off each other on that stuff For our anniversary.
Speaker 4Was y'all's anniversary.
Speaker 1that's right so he stayed at my mom's house, four years Four years married, very cool.
Speaker 2Five years together. Four years married.
Speaker 4Very, very cool. That's about it, man. A couple new TV shows Kitchen Up on Wednesday waiting for that.
Speaker 1You need to watch the Old Guard. They've got the sequel out on Netflix now.
Speaker 4I think I got through half of it. That's Charlize Theron.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 4Is that right? Yeah, I think I got through half of it. That's Charlize Theron.
Speaker 3Yeah, is that right? Yeah, I think I got through half of the first one.
Speaker 2So good. We still haven't watched Preacher yet the new season of it, yeah, we got to keep up.
Speaker 3Yeah Well, it's hard to watch that with the kid in the house.
Speaker 1Yeah, I will say, though this season wasn't as good as the other two.
Speaker 3Really.
Speaker 1Yeah, it was still good, it just wasn't as good.
Speaker 4The new Stranger Things is coming out, so they released a few trailers for it with a bunch of little hidden Easter eggs. So I've been digging down a rabbit hole in that.
Speaker 1Aren't the people on that like 20 years old now?
Speaker 4I'm going to make a prediction.
Speaker 1You don't want to talk about it.
Speaker 4I don't want to talk about it Okay. It's been a long time you put. You invest some time in this I'm gonna make a prediction spoiler alert so I'm gonna give you a second if you haven't seen any of the other stranger things. Three, two, one. Eddie's gonna come back, that's what I was thinking yeah I have no idea, that's my prediction, so we'll see how that holds up. Cool, all right, I care about what you care about I appreciate you rich about. I appreciate you, Richard. I feel like you're lying.