Almost Brothers Podcast
Whats up whats up whats up.. welcome to your new favorite podcast. Join your hosts Michael, Richard, and Tyler as we discuss God, church, life, and the journey through this crazy world. Get away from the stresses of life with this podcast. We will be hitting on various topics from sports, to life with Christ.
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Almost Brothers Podcast
“No, really, take the coffee—your pride can’t drink it”
Ever notice how fast we swat away a compliment or a small gift? We dig into that reflex and trace it back to shaky self-worth, learned defensiveness, and the myth that rejecting kindness is somehow “humble.” From awkward coffee line refusals to the classic “you don’t have to do that,” we unpack why receiving well is a quiet discipline—and a powerful way to multiply generosity.
With Rich in the chair, we swap stories about paying it forward at drive-thrus and grocery lines, and share a line that changed our perspective: “Don’t block my blessing.” When someone chooses to bless you, saying yes honors both the giver and the gift. We break down simple, practical scripts for accepting praise, and talk about how a clean thank you can rewire the inner critic over time. For parents, we lean into specific praise—calling out helpful actions and character, not just saying “good job”—and how those early-morning words shape a kid’s posture for the whole day.
We also lift up the often-unseen work in church and community life, from social media volunteers to pastors who keep showing up. A short text or quick shoutout can be the difference between fatigue and fresh wind. And because life is more than heavy talk, we wind through fall comfort watches—thrillers over gore, twisty mysteries, and the annual debate over seasonal staples—plus a few travel dreams, budget hacks, and why fast passes might save your sanity.
Listen for an honest, warm conversation that blends faith, family, and everyday kindness into a practical invitation: receive the good that comes your way, then send it onward. If this resonates, share it with a friend, subscribe for more thoughtful episodes, and leave a quick review—what compliment are you choosing to accept this week?
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SPEAKER_00:Roll on Highway.
SPEAKER_02:Roll on Roll On Highway. Is that a song? What is that?
SPEAKER_00:I'm so convinced. It's an Alabama song.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_00:Roll on 18 Wheeler. It doesn't matter.
SPEAKER_02:Never heard that one.
SPEAKER_00:Really?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:That's a good song.
SPEAKER_02:Which I haven't I I don't think I've heard a lot of Alabama songs.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. They're really good.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:If you're an Alabama fan, I guess. I'll have to play that one for you today. I am not.
SPEAKER_02:What up? That's not right. That's the new one. No, it's not at all. It's not at all. What's up? What's up? What's up? What's up? What's up? What's up, everybody? Welcome back to a brand new episode of the Almost Brothers Podcast. On today's episode, we got Richie Rich. What's up? No Tyler. Third chair is empty today.
SPEAKER_00:It's very heartbreaking.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. So for those of you listening, Tyler and Liver in the hospital. They're kind of preparing for the babies to be here. So babies. Yep. So they're they're taking every precaution. So uh they're up at Cape right now. So he's gonna be busy over the next few weeks.
SPEAKER_00:So he's on he's on paternity leave.
SPEAKER_02:Yep, he's on paternity leave from the from the podcast. So uh we'll have a few few different guests on, a few different people filling in for him, and we'll probably call him a couple times.
SPEAKER_00:But yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Uh for now it's just me and Richie Rich. Rich, how are you doing, man?
SPEAKER_00:I'm good, man. I've I've I've I had my first colonoscopy this week.
SPEAKER_01:Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_00:And for those of you who have never had one, buckle up.
SPEAKER_02:But we're just starting the podcast with colonoscopy. Yeah, like just right off the jump.
SPEAKER_00:Okay, cool. Well, that's what's going on with me. So you asked.
SPEAKER_02:I don't know. I wish I wish I could take the back.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. No, it it's it's it's something that's necessary for, you know, you get a certain age, it's it's a precautionary thing that that that we do. So it wasn't fun.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I wouldn't gu I wouldn't, yeah, I would say say so. I would guess.
SPEAKER_00:I wouldn't know, but when I talked to the guys about this, not specifically a colonoscopy, but we was talking about it at the meeting last night that you know people that do a certain job, it becomes normal to them regardless of how weird that job is. Right. And it it it was weird with the nurses and everything, just they just didn't care if they saw my brother.
SPEAKER_02:I mean, they just went with it. Yeah. Yeah, man. Yeah, I don't know. I I would never want that to be normal for me. But what's going on with you? Just colonoscopy. Not that. Uh so on today's episode, we're gonna be talking about why is it so difficult to take compliments or blessings from others?
SPEAKER_00:It's a good question.
SPEAKER_02:All right, so thank you for joining us, and uh, we're gonna get out of here. No, it really is. I mean, you you know, you see and you see it all the time. Like you try to bless somebody and you pay for their coffee or whatever it is, and it's no, no, no, no, don't do that. Yeah, I want to, you know, got put on my heart or whatever, I want to bless you. And no, no, no.
SPEAKER_00:And it's like just take the blessing.
SPEAKER_02:Come on.
SPEAKER_00:The classic thing. You don't have to do that.
SPEAKER_02:I know.
SPEAKER_00:I know that you're not making me do it. It's not like I have to do this, but this is what I want to do for you. Just allow it. And Jennifer's terrible about it. Babe, you're beautiful today. No, I'm not.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. Or what do you want?
SPEAKER_00:Right. Like, just accept the compliment.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. Do you think a lot of it has, or do you think some of it has to do with we don't think we deserve it?
SPEAKER_00:Oh, a hundred percent. Yeah, yeah. And I th and especially with compliments in particular, that because a lot of people struggle with self-confidence. Yeah. So when you when you compliment something about them, it's just and it I get the same way when you talk about, you know, whatever I do here at the church or whatever, it's like thanks. Yeah. It's it's just weird.
SPEAKER_02:Right. Well, and me, you know, growing up, I I struggle with that a lot as self-confidence. So even now, when someone tells me something, you'll notice, and you're definitely gonna notice now after I tell you, um, I'll like think and like look, I will look down because I feel like, you know, I'm I I start blushing and I'm I'm just not I'm not that person to go, oh yeah, I think you know, I try I try to put that forward and try to because if you say it, you start to kind of feel it a little bit. So I try to put forth confidence and like man, I'm but a lot of times it's like thank you. I don't feel like I deserve that, but thank you so much.
SPEAKER_00:Confidence is hard, man. It really is. Even even for people that portray confidence, because everybody deals with something, right? So well, I say that some people are just confident. Just overly confident, just confident for no reason. Like, I'm the best. No, you're not.
SPEAKER_02:It's like you're not really, you know, you're pretty average here.
SPEAKER_00:Right. But yeah, it it's it's it's something that everybody has something they struggle with, and it's but it's it's good to just be encouraged sometimes and just accept that and let that be.
SPEAKER_02:I mean, I had so I call i i if I have a really good friend and and we we hang out a lot. I call their parents mom. So my other mom, so one of my other moms, I've got a few of them. Um I remember she told me once and it really stuck with me. She she was doing something for me. And I'm like, no, no, no. And she's like, Don't block my blessing.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:She's like, I want to, I'm blessed to bless you, you know. So that was something that really stuck with me. And it's like, oh yeah, that's why we are blessed, so we can bless others, you know. So you not accepting that, you're blocking someone else's blessing. Right. You know, that they're trying to give to you.
SPEAKER_00:And you're right. It it you don't think of it that way, you know. It's I would almost be, if somebody legitimately said, You're not doing that for me, I would I would be taken aback. I'd be like, all right. Right. Right.
SPEAKER_02:Like, okay, are you sure? You know, one one cool thing. So Ben, um, he took$100 and he broke it into tens, and we all split it, and then he's like, okay, just throughout the week, if you see somebody, bless them. Yeah. So um I got to do that yesterday. So I pulled through the drive-thru at um at the cow, got my coffee, and I seen a car pulled behind me. So I told the cashier, I was like, hey, pay, just put this ten dollars towards whatever they're about to get, you know, pay for their coffee. And then just drove off. And it's like, man, I know that they felt good getting up there, like, right. Awesome. Thank you. Thank you, whoever you were, like, you know, and I'm gonna do that at the at the gas station, you know. It's like, hey, put this on to whoever's the next person that comes up to get.
SPEAKER_00:And it's an amazing thing to be able to bless somebody just out of the blue. And I I want to do that more often, you know, just drive through whatever, you know, paying it forward. Yep. But I rarely have extra money to do that.
SPEAKER_02:I had somebody do that for me at at the grocery store once, and it was and and you know it it had to go back a few times because once they did that to me, I'm like, well, what I was gonna spend, here, put it on the next person. And and and it's like, man, I wonder how long that's been going on that day. Right. Like how many people that's gone through. You know, and and of course it's gonna get it'll get to the person to where you you come in and you get a thing of deodorant and you're looking behind you, and the person's got two full carts, and it's like um, I'm not gonna be able to pay for theirs, but you know, but it's really cool to to have those moments where you can bless somebody or even compliment somebody. Right. I watched a video where I think it was a sister, an older sister and a younger sister, and she was filming her younger sister, and you could hear her talking, and she's like, Look at my little sister. And the sister's just like looking, like waiting on what she's about to say, and she's just like, Man, you are just so beautiful and and just awesome. And and you see this little girl just begin to light up right as soon as she says that. And it's like that that really is what happens when you're when you're complimenting somebody, and it could be something so small, man. You look good today. Yeah, that's all it takes. It really is.
SPEAKER_00:It I mean, it's it's the smallest thing that that and you don't know what that means to somebody, you know. It they may have struggled that morning with how they looked and and and were concerned about it, and you're saying that's like, all right, cool. And they'll I mean they'll walk taller and right, make their whole day. Yeah, yeah, it's really cool. I wish I did that more with my children. Yeah, because they aggravate me so much, and I'm it it's hard to to draw that line between dad mode and friend mode. Yeah. So I I wish I could more often which I do, I tell them, you know, how awesome they are, but just more specific stuff. Yeah. You know, like you do this well, you're you know, just something more specific, not just I love you, you know.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. Because what you know, what what you celebrate they they they do again.
SPEAKER_00:Right.
SPEAKER_02:You know, so saying, you know, oh man, you know, you you it really means a lot when you help with the dishes.
SPEAKER_00:Right.
SPEAKER_02:That that gets in their head to go, oh, they appreciate that. I'm gonna do that more. Right. You know, so I try to with with the kids, because I know this is how I struggle when I was their age. I tried to, oh, you're beautiful, you're smart, you have things to say, people love you. So I'll say that as I'm dropping them off for school. Yeah. Which okay, I gotta be honest. Doesn't happen a lot. Because Jamie does the drop-off, I do the pickup. But I try to do that so it sends them into school feeling that way. Oh man, I'm beautiful, I'm handsome, you know, I've got things to say, I'm funny, people like me, so you you have that confidence going in. I couldn't imagine going to school just getting torn apart in the morning.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Like, oh great. Now I've been put down at school at home and now I gotta go into the school.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, and it's I saw a post or something, it said like the first ten minutes of a kid's day is the most important to them because it's it kind of sets up their whole day, you know, it just depends on it kind of sets the pace for how they're how their day, you know, st starts.
SPEAKER_02:So Yeah, and it and it's little things that we don't we don't think about a lot because we are bad at at getting it. So if you're bad at getting it, you're bad at giving it. Right. You know, so it's like I think we need to be more aware of doing that with people in our lives. And again, just to text.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:You know, I I appreciate you. And I told Jamie the other day I'm I'm wanting to do that more. I try to do a job uh do that, a good job at that here at the church is just pick somebody out this month and then make sure that sometime during this month tell them how much I appreciate them. Right. How much you know you you mean and and stuff like that, because it really does. It it goes a long way.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:You know, just uh oh man, I get to have you seen the sign today out front. It's so funny. Yeah, I love that. So I I talked to Sandy yesterday. Shout out, Sandy.
SPEAKER_00:Sandy Pence?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, and I was I was talking to her as she was getting it ready, and she's like, You think this is corny? She's like, I think it's funny. I was like, I think it's just so funny. Yes. And I'm like, I just think you do just the best job. Like you do so good. 100%. Like with everything that she does with our social media, and then uh, you know, and I'm like, man, you just you do such a good job. And you see her just like thank you. Yeah like just kind of that, oh man, that made me feel good.
SPEAKER_00:I told her that one day too, that my feed on Facebook, yeah, it's just like rector church, rector church, rector church. Yeah, it's very cool, very cool.
SPEAKER_02:It's awesome, man. And and because those things can become taxing on you.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:When you don't realize that and you don't do it so that people can thank you and people can congratulate you and pat you on the back.
SPEAKER_00:Right.
SPEAKER_02:But every now and then it feels nice to know that it what I'm doing is seen, what I'm saying is heard. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:You know, so well, and you you know, the other day on Pastor Appreciation Day, you sent me that text that night, like, hey, just letting you know I appreciate everything you do, you know, and it's just like awesome, you know. And I and like you said, you don't do it for that, but it's still nice to hear it. Yeah, you know. Yeah. And it's it it it's so hard to to do something for the right reason, yeah, but then feel like you want to be appreciated. Yeah, it's it's it's kind of that weird. You feel guilty about it. Right. So it it's it's good to it's good to be aware of the of what people do in your life.
SPEAKER_02:Are you good at doing that with uh with Jennifer?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Yeah, I send her, which I didn't even know it meant a lot to her, but I'll send her just random text messages, you know, a couple times a week or whatever. Yeah. And uh she told me one day that that's like the best part of her day is to get that text.
SPEAKER_02:So I've got something planned for Jamie, which this episode will go up on Thursday morning, but Thursday night we have a date night. She probably won't listen to it Thursday morning, so she probably won't go ahead and she will, but she she usually does three or four in a row. So but I've got a little bit's best co-host. Oh my gosh, she'll be on here in the next few episodes. I've got a letter that I'm writing her right now in my phone that I'm gonna give to her Thursday night for our date night. Cool. It was just a moment. I I'm not gonna say it all because just in case she does listen to it, but it was just a moment in the in uh in our day the other day that just stuck with me. So I just kind of started writing this, writing my feelings down.
SPEAKER_00:Your feelings. Yeah, you are you are one man that is in touch with your feelings. There's no doubt about it.
SPEAKER_02:I'd like to let go of it every you know, every now and then.
SPEAKER_00:There's nothing wrong with that. Like you said, at uh to an extent, yeah, it gets sometimes it can get it gets pretty intense.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Which I mean, I've I mean I've told multiple people that you and Jamie are relationship goals. Oh gosh. I mean, that's the the level of respect and commitment and love that you want in a marriage. So thank you, man. It's encouragement.
SPEAKER_02:Boom. Boom. So I I I did want to, and this may be a controversial topic. I don't know. I don't really ever. Um, so I want to go to a segment that we're gonna do over the next couple weeks. Um and we're not gonna we're not gonna say we we recommend, we're not gonna say anything like that, but what are some of your favorite movies going into the Halloween season to watch? And again, we are not recommending these. Some of these I'd say watch, some of them I'd say probably don't watch, but what are some of your favorite favorites kind of going into well?
SPEAKER_00:You know I'm not a horror movie guy. However, I like I like psychological thrillers. So anything Alex Cross, uh any of those type movies, um uh Along Came a Spider with Morgan Front.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, that's a good one. Yeah, where you're trying to figure out like who who did it and all that. Yeah, yeah, that's a good one.
SPEAKER_00:Uh the Saw franchise was pretty good for the most part, but it's the twist, like I hate it.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I I did not like the gore in it, but I like the twists and like who it is.
SPEAKER_00:And that's the thing. It was a really good story with way more gore than was necessary to tell the story, which that I mean, that's Hollywood in a nutshell. They they do everything extra. Um, when we get to this segment with Christmas movies, I'll be able to contribute to it.
SPEAKER_02:And we'll do and and we're gonna do Thanksgiving and Christmas movies as well, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Um I've got one you're a huge horror fan.
SPEAKER_02:Oh yeah, I'm and I've got one I want to watch with you, and that's what it is. It's psychological thing. There's no horror in it whatsoever. It's just a a it's got horror elements to where it's got scary parts, but it's not like a scary movie. It's very, very much a thriller, and it is one of the best twists at the end. What is it called? It is so good. It's called I See You.
SPEAKER_00:Never heard of it.
SPEAKER_02:Really good. Yeah. Um uh for me, like um, I love anything Tim Burton, like I love anything Tim Burton. Yeah. Um what?
SPEAKER_00:Nothing. I just I'm not a Tim Burton fan.
SPEAKER_02:So I mean, so but you haven't seen very many. That's the thing. You're right.
SPEAKER_00:I which Silver, my daughter Silver, she was a huge uh Tim Burton fan. She loves uh which Jennifer loves Edward Scissorhands. Yeah. I think it's stupid. Yeah. Uh my daughter Silver loves the uh the corpse bride thing. Yeah, what is it?
SPEAKER_02:The animated corpse bride.
SPEAKER_00:No, the Nightmare Before Christmas.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, that yeah, that's two different movies. Yeah, yeah, whatever. Yeah, Nightmare Before Christmas.
SPEAKER_00:Would you consider that a Christmas movie or a Halloween movie? I don't know. I've never seen it, so I couldn't tell you what it's even about. I just know it's got a skeleton. It's really good.
SPEAKER_02:It's really good. Now, see, Edward Sitzhand is a very niche movie that you there's not too many people that are like, oh, it was okay. It's either you love it or you don't like it. So that's a hard one to judge. But it's a weird movie. Pretty great. That's uh that's a Halloween Christmas staple around our house.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. I've never actually seen it. I need to watch it just so I can.
SPEAKER_02:It was one that was really, really good. If you've got kids that that kind of like those these scary, scary movies, it's based off of a book that we read in school. It's called uh Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.
SPEAKER_00:I've vaguely heard of that, but I don't know.
SPEAKER_02:It's a book, it's a it's an anthology of stories, and it it was a book, and now it's been a it's been turned into a movie. And it's a very fan family friendly uh movie, and it's really, really good.
SPEAKER_00:That one movie you uh had me watch that trick or treat. That was that was pretty cool. Yeah, that's an anthology.
SPEAKER_02:I love that where it's one, it's a a bunch of stories that is one storyline tied together. Yeah, it's really really good. You don't see it till the end. Right.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, it's pretty pretty wild.
SPEAKER_02:Yep. So that's kind of where we're at on um on movies this year. Scream the Scream franchise is great. Um It's hard because Jamie's the same way. Jamie doesn't like scary movies, but she likes the thrillers and and stuff like that. So yeah, it's it's one of my favorite times.
SPEAKER_00:I think Scream was good. I just don't think it was the great movie franchise that you think.
SPEAKER_02:Well, and you would think you would love it because it's very much the who did it.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Well, so I don't know. Yeah. But I also like fall movies, not even just scary movies. So, like during the fall is when I watch, you know, the Harry Potters or the Underworld or um By the way, you ruined Harry Potter for me.
SPEAKER_00:I'm just gonna tell you right now. Oh gosh, I'm sorry. You ruined Harry Potter for me. Okay. Because of your statement that Harry Potter was the worst character in the whole franchise. You see it now. And now I see it, and I can't unsee it, and I hate you for that.
SPEAKER_02:I'm sorry. If you're a Harry Potter fan and you think Harry Potter was a good character, I don't know what I don't know what you're watching.
SPEAKER_00:He didn't do anything.
SPEAKER_02:He didn't do anything. Everything was handed to him. Yeah. I get it, he had a bad life. I get it. Blah, blah, blah. So did a lot of them.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. So anyway, that's that's neither here nor there. But I do love Lord of the Rings.
SPEAKER_02:Lord of the Rings is a good fall movie. Yeah. Yep. I like watching all those. Um, me and DJ were talking. There's a I can't remember if it was a new movie or a new video game that was coming out based on the Lord of the Rings lore. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:That's cool.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Always a good idea.
SPEAKER_02:There was something else. It was a show. Oh, um, um, Stranger Things. New season of Stranger Things is about to drop, so I'm excited for that. Yeah. Yep. So that's it, man. Yeah. Cool.
SPEAKER_00:Cool.
SPEAKER_02:Yep. I love candy. I love the candy that that comes out this time of year, but yeah, I eat way too much, man. I can't eat that stuff.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. And I've since I've been on this weight loss journey, yeah. Now when I eat a lot of sweets, I feel terrible. Like just letharg.
SPEAKER_02:That's where that's a good word. That's where I start feeling like the next day. It's like, man, I just don't feel good. You know, if we have like a lot of desserts and stuff, like because that there'll be nights where I don't eat dinner and I just eat dessert.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, that's not a good thing. It's not good at all. Yeah, but we have a dinner at the church and you've got like a rounded over dessert plate.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. Yeah. I I mean, I'll literally eat half a plate of food and then the rest of it's dessert.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, that's why you were a fat kid. I'm just saying right now.
SPEAKER_02:You're not wrong. You're not wrong.
SPEAKER_00:You've been messing around, you're gonna be a fat preacher. That ain't gonna happen.
SPEAKER_02:I'll stop that right now. Yeah. Well, yeah, man. Well, move right into that's what's up. What you got, what you got going on? Anything you listened to, watched? Oh, you were waiting on this. Oh man.
SPEAKER_00:So I just finished the first prequel. Yeah, Helldivers.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, you were saying something about it, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Bro.
SPEAKER_02:Good. Better than the the move the the actual Helldivers books?
SPEAKER_00:Not better than, but as prequels are supposed to, yeah. It answers a lot of questions that came with the the series, the original Helldivers series, and it's just an ama uh Nicholas Sansbury Smith, dude. I wish we could have him on here. If you're pretty awesome. But the dude is just a master storyteller. I mean, it's just really just so intricate in the character building, and and this is the same way. It's but it but here's what amazes me with this book is the timing of it coming out. So the the gist of the book is AI. And you know, AI is kind of a hot topic right now, is how how much control do we allow AI to have? And that's what this is about, is is basically AI destroys the world. Yeah. And it's just such a good book. Okay, but now I gotta wait till September of 2026 for the second part of this pre- that's one thing.
SPEAKER_02:I and I get it, it it takes time to get this stuff out and going, but the gaps just kill me, man.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, it's tough. But uh our shows are starting to come back on. I'm trying to get caught back up on NCIS. Yeah, I've always loved that show, and I just stopped watching it for some reason. So I've watched like the last five seasons over the last couple months, and uh, so I'm trying to get caught back up because I got a new season coming out this month, and then all of our other shows are starting.
SPEAKER_02:Starting back up. Yeah, man. Yeah, I just found out, which I think I told you this, that uh they're filming a season of The Walking Dead in Brockton.
SPEAKER_00:You did say that, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:In the the city in Boston that my family didn't.
SPEAKER_00:Is that the original Walking Dead?
SPEAKER_02:Is that what I could remember right? I I'm pretty sure it's the the Negan Maggie series.
SPEAKER_00:So I haven't watched any of the spinoffs.
SPEAKER_02:They're oh my gosh, they're so good. Which I don't have AMCs, so I I just with the announcement that Rick Grimes may be coming back, I just re-downloaded uh AMC Plus to try to get caught up because I'm I'm behind on like Daryl, I'm behind on that. I'm behind on one season of of um Maggie and Negan.
SPEAKER_00:And I've got the Ricky Michonne, I've I've watched all that and it's and we did watch me and you watched the first season of the um the Maggie and Negan series. Yeah. And I just did that first season just wasn't it wasn't good.
SPEAKER_02:Which is kind of like everything, I guess, is it takes a little bit to pick up, yeah. So it got going and pretty decent.
SPEAKER_00:Are you ready for this? Uh oh. When the new season of Stranger Things hits, I'm gonna watch them all.
SPEAKER_02:Dude.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I'm gonna watch them.
SPEAKER_02:I'm telling you, I mean, you're gonna get three quarters through the first season and go, why have I not been watching this?
SPEAKER_00:Well, I'll tell you why, because it takes eight years to be.
SPEAKER_02:That's so true. So true. And I will still, and I've said it, and I will it's still, I will stick with season four is the best one season of TV. Yeah. I'm not saying Stranger Things is the best show ever. I'm saying that one season by is the best season of TV I've ever seen, and it is not close.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I just hope they with this last season they they do it just as well.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, button it up good. That's what I'm afraid of. Right. But I mean it it is great. Yeah, great, great. And it's the that mystery of like, what is and they they they'll hint at something in one season that three seasons later you go, Oh. That that wasn't just a throwaway thing.
SPEAKER_00:When does the last season come out?
SPEAKER_02:So the it starts, they're doing it in two parts, so there's six episodes and six episodes, but it's like it's like November the 26th and then January the first, I think. So something crazy. Boom, boom, yeah. Yep.
SPEAKER_00:So I may wait till like my Christmas break from my series. And then do that.
SPEAKER_02:I mean and and they're they're shorter. Yeah, you know, most of the seasons I think are eight episodes, something like that. So it's not crazy. Yeah, it's not like a 25 season. Yeah, no.
SPEAKER_00:And that's what's the problem with NCIS. Every season is like 23 episodes. So it's like 35 minutes each.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. But no, it and it every season feels like a movie. So it it it runs, it flows really, really good together. So um, and and they do, they button up, they don't leave things just out there.
SPEAKER_00:Right.
SPEAKER_02:They they answer pretty much any question you've got. It's like, oh, there's a one time where they they had something, I'm like, that went nowhere. But it may button it up later. Right. Because they they've had that where it's a couple seasons, it's like, oh, oh, that's from oh, okay.
SPEAKER_00:See, I'm not like you. I can't I wouldn't be able to remember that. Like, what's going on there?
SPEAKER_02:This seems like an important moment. Just don't know why.
SPEAKER_00:I'm not the rain man that you are.
SPEAKER_02:I mean, it it was really good. It's really good. So I'm yeah, I'm excited for that. Um man, I thought there was another show that we had coming out, a new season. I don't know.
SPEAKER_00:Did you ever watch the House of Dragons show?
SPEAKER_02:No, but I want to because I heard it was really good. Yeah, it's a prequel. Yeah, prequel. It's the lead up to Game of Thrones. Right to when Game of Thrones starts. So yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Cool, cool.
SPEAKER_02:I heard it was good. So we'll see.
SPEAKER_00:I stopped watching Game of Thrones for obvious reasons.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, yeah, it's it gets pretty rough, yeah, for sure. Yep, that's about it, man. I haven't really been listening to too much new music. We've done a little bit of of traveling and driving, so we you know, usually when me and Jamie, we listen to music, so but it's usually this like our you know early 2000s playlist.
SPEAKER_00:I can't go wrong with that.
SPEAKER_02:Which I just found out this weekend just by driving, you know, four hours this weekend listening to Sissy. I'm like, she knows every word to all these songs. So it's like that is proper parasites. Yeah, it's like Fallout Boy, and she's just singing in the backseat, and I'm like, all right. Something, right? All right, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:So the uh awakenings tour is happening.
SPEAKER_02:Uh mom seen that yesterday and she's really wanting to go. Yeah. Well, I want to go to two of them. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:There's the one in Cape that's Crowder and Zach Williams. Yeah. And then Jonesboro's got Skillet and Jeremy Camp. Jeremy Camp.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:I want to go to both of those, but I probably won't be able to go to either one of them. And then Emily wants to go see Skillet.
SPEAKER_02:What is it in Jan in like January or the end of December? Um Winter Jam. Winter Jam. Yeah. Yeah, Winter Jam's coming up too. Yeah, man.
SPEAKER_00:Winter Jam probably be a little big of an event for my psyche to handle.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:I have a problem with uh crowds. Yeah. So it's weird.
SPEAKER_02:We're trying to figure out like next year. We're trying to schedule ahead. So we're trying to figure out what we're going to do for vacation. We want to take the kids. So I thought I don't know. I think we're going to try um Disney World. Oh, wow. Is what Jamie is talking about. But because tickets aren't bad. They're as much as Civil Dara City.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, but then you're driving and fly.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. Yeah, that's what we're talking about.
SPEAKER_00:What you need to do is contact Disney and get a package.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, and that's what Jamie said is we can do what did we look at? We looked at tickets and flight all together, but then you have to do the hotel separate, or you could do the hotel and tickets together and do the flight separate. Something like that. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:I would have thought they'd have one that you could do everything in one package.
SPEAKER_02:Well, and what they do is they there's only a couple airlines that I'll fly. I won't fly with other ones. So I think it's only with certain airlines that they work with, or something like that. It was something weird.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:But it's not as expensive as what we thought. For a family of four. For a family of four, right?
SPEAKER_00:And we're but a family of eight or two. Right, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Double it. But we're we're gonna try to do that. We're gonna try to get Aaliyah to fly down and meet us. Cool, cool. So that's the plan. And then uh me and Jamie talked about going and seeing a Celtics game next year. So cool. Yep.
SPEAKER_00:Tristan, uh Tristan got me a Harry Potter wand. Yeah, it's actually Hermione's wand. Hermione Granger, the actual best wizard in Harry Potter. Yeah. But he got me that from Universal Studios.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. Is that in Orlando, I guess?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, it's always it's all part of Epcot and Universal Studio. It's all Universal Studio. That's the only thing I wouldn't want to go to actual Disney World. I'd want to go to Universal Studios.
SPEAKER_02:I just don't like spending the money, spending the time to stand in line 90% of the time. I don't like that.
SPEAKER_00:Spend the extra money for the fast pass.
SPEAKER_02:And that's what we talked about too. If we're going to do it, we might as well do it. Yep. Yeah, and do that. So we're still talking about. I'm still I'm still trying to convince her to let's take the kids to Boston. Yeah. And do and do that.
SPEAKER_00:I mean, you're still even just family four, you're still looking at dropping five grand on that vacation.
SPEAKER_02:No, it wasn't even. So we we we kind of which again, it the closer you get to it, the more it's gonna be. But we we counted it out and we were 2,500. Yeah, that's tickets, hotel. That's not like Ubering, but that's round trip tickets, hotel, and then tickets for and then you got food, right? So you probably be so I was like, man, it's not that's not terrible. I was like, Well, that's not too bad. Especially almost a year we can save up and so I don't know. We'll see. Yeah. See how it goes, man. What else you got on your heart mind?
SPEAKER_00:I rarely have anything on my mind.
SPEAKER_02:Heart's mind. I just know like this week has been a good week, man. God is really moving just in in in a lot of aspects of our life. And and the enemy is attacking, you know, some some people, and we're dealing with sickness throughout the church and you know, stuff like that, but it's amazing to watch people grow in the Lord and and just yeah, it's it's amazing. We got people like just putting this like posts up on their Facebook about just what God is doing in their life, and it's like, man, let's go. Yeah, so cool.
SPEAKER_00:It's cool to be a part of.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. Had a guy give his heart to the Lord this week. And that's always a good thing. So awesome, man. Well, yeah, man. Well, I love you. Hey, thank you, buddy. I appreciate you, and you are awesome. Likewise. Yeah, you really are. Don't look away. Don't look away. I love you. And any listener, just know you are loved. You are awesome, you're beautiful, handsome, smart, all those things, even if you're not, we think you are. Love ya.
