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Your pride can be louder than your common sense, and it shows up fastest when two words are required: “I’m sorry.” We dig into why admitting you’re wrong feels like losing, why some people refuse accountability even when it’s obvious, and how that stubbornness quietly poisons marriage, friendships, and family life.
We share a real near-wreck moment that turns into a bigger conversation about responsibility, conflict resolution, and the difference between a sincere apology and a fake peace offering. From there, we get into relationship communication habits like keeping score, shutting down instead of owning it, and the fear that your spouse will remember that one time you were wrong forever. We also talk parenting, especially the challenge of admitting mistakes to kids and teens while still holding boundaries and respect.
Then we take a hard left into pure fun: a full chip rating showdown. Doritos, Pringles, barbecue chips, SunChips, Funyuns, Takis, Bugles, Fritos and more. The debate spills into movie theater popcorn, butter levels, seasoning hacks, and a passionate stance on leaving Reese’s alone because the ratio matters.
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Chinese Food And Quick Catch-Up
SPEAKER_05You'll figure it out.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. He said it so calmly. Yeah. I don't I don't really know, but I'll I'll go with it. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03He wasn't paying attention.
SPEAKER_01I'm real I'm well, I he didn't say a whole lot of words. There's not a lot of context.
SPEAKER_05I don't have to.
SPEAKER_02He only hears words that are on a Chinese food menu.
SPEAKER_01You know what's funny, real quick. Cause I was I was in Cape today. I was in Cape today at another church day and I went and ate Chinese by myself for lunch.
SPEAKER_02Just by yourself? Just yeah. I respect it. What do you do you go to yummy?
SPEAKER_01We were just talking about that today. They're they're putting a yummy in Sexton.
SPEAKER_02Really?
SPEAKER_01Where at? It's over. So keeping the one that's there? Yeah, keeping the one that's in Cape. It's oh it's gosh. It's almost right in the middle of town. Sexton's building a lot of stuff. Yeah. Uh because I remember we took that exit by Walmart and we drove drove through Sexton because we were taking the kids to their um appointment, which is based on the other side. So it's it's about right in the middle.
SPEAKER_02Ooh.
SPEAKER_05I love that place.
SPEAKER_02It is really good. I've only been there the one time that y'all took me. Man, that was it.
SPEAKER_05It's really good.
Why Saying Sorry Feels Hard
SPEAKER_02What's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, everybody. Welcome back to a brand new episode of the Almost Brothers Podcast. We are back after a couple weeks off. Let's go. We are back after a couple weeks off. You know, we had Easter, we had a few things going on. Babies were sick, so we're back with you in your ears and in your face. As always, we got Richie Rich. How's it going? What's up, Rich? We got Ta.
SPEAKER_05Not even we don't even get words now, we just get sounds.
SPEAKER_02Ugh.
SPEAKER_05That's that's not a word either.
SPEAKER_02You say Ug like the shoe? That's what it's like. I don't know. And we got producer Zeke in the building.
SPEAKER_03So oh man.
SPEAKER_02Who said boo? Who said that? How are y'all doing this lovely lovely day?
SPEAKER_05Did that hurt you to like stop your what's up?
SPEAKER_02It did.
SPEAKER_01It was going and it was like a tick, it couldn't stop it.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. After a while it was going, it was good. I was feeling it, and then it was like, okay, I have to stop it eventually.
SPEAKER_03You reach flow stay until Tyler stopped you.
SPEAKER_02Right. Man. So on today's episode, we're gonna be talking about saying I'm wrong.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Saying, hey, I was mistaken. I am wrong. I am sorry. Why is it so hard?
SPEAKER_05I am sorry is the hardest words of the English language.
SPEAKER_02It really is. I am sorry. It's hard to say I'm wrong when I'm always right. Lord have mercy.
SPEAKER_05Why is Liv not on right now?
SPEAKER_02I'm surprised she's not running up the stairs right now. No. What? I'm sorry. What? Nothing dear. Yeah, and it well, you talk about in a relationship, in a marriage, but also I mean, just in general. Why is it so hard for us as humans to admit we're wrong? One word pride. Yes.
SPEAKER_05Yes. But I got a prime example of this. So Jennifer almost had a wreck. Right? So she gets out to check on our son because his head hit the steer uh the windshield. Yeah. Because apparently seat belts don't work on people his size. But she gets out and the guy that almost hit her just rolls his window down and says, I didn't even effing hit you, and drives off.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, that's crazy.
SPEAKER_05Like, how do you not take responsibility? Like, hey, that's I'm sorry, I didn't see you, I didn't anything, but just I didn't even hit you. Why are you overreacting?
SPEAKER_02And I I it makes me like stuff like that makes me want to get a dash cam so bad. Yeah. Just to be able to have that filmed, recorded, ready to go. Right. Because it's nobody takes accountability anymore. Exactly. It's so frustrating. Yeah. Especially when it's it's verifiably wrong. Right. Like you just, you're wrong. It's okay. It doesn't make you less of a person. Yeah. But just be able to admit, hey, I was I was wrong on that one. I missed that one. I was off.
SPEAKER_05It's difficult. And I I don't know why. I I I'd say pride is probably the number one answer.
SPEAKER_02Um but what do y'all I have to prepare myself when I when I have to admit that I'm wrong.
SPEAKER_05I've got he's grounded.
SPEAKER_02I'm sorry, what?
SPEAKER_03This ceiling looks real real nice. Yeah. I love what you've done with it.
SPEAKER_02I do have to I have to prepare myself because I'm so bad at it and I want to be better. I want to be that person that's quick to admit, hey, I was wrong on that.
SPEAKER_05See, I'm the exact opposite. That's it's not a pat on the back thing. It's I I genuinely feel that when I mess up, I'm very quick to say, I'm sorry, I messed up.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. I I would agree with that. Yeah. I would that's one that's one thing I I do admire about you. Yeah, I'd probably miss that one.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, and and that's I guess that's why it's so mind-blowing to me when when people can't. You know, it's it's just like it's it's not that serious. Just admit that you messed up.
SPEAKER_02Do you think maybe you go too far that way?
SPEAKER_05Oh yeah, without a doubt.
SPEAKER_02Okay. Yeah. Because it seems like that's kind of the two sides where you've you've got the person that can't admit they're wrong, and the person who no matter the situation, they're always take the blame. Like, oh no, I'm wrong, I'm wrong. No, no, that's fine, it's fine, it's fine.
SPEAKER_05Well, and I don't I don't always take the blame, but I will I will apologize in a situation just to move past said situation. Just like, okay, get it.
SPEAKER_01Be petty. I'm sorry you feel that way. I'm sorry that that made you feel that way about you.
SPEAKER_05I'm sorry that you are an idiot and can't see things my way. I apologize. Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_01I'm sorry you are the way that you are.
SPEAKER_02What is it? Little little giants where it's like, I knew you'd see it my way.
SPEAKER_05I but I haven't seen that movie in forever.
SPEAKER_02And it is, man, especially with those that we're closest to. That's where it's almost like we're afraid that they're gonna hold that grudge against us. Like, oh, you remember? Well, you remember when you were wrong.
SPEAKER_05That's a legitimate fear in a marriage.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah, that's true too. Yeah. Well, you're wrong that time. You remember that Wednesday, it was raining out. Oh man. We talked a little bit this morning about in relationships that, but also in in parenting, having to admit to your kids I was wrong. Dude. Especially teenagers, because they think that they're right about they know everything about everything. There's nothing you can teach them. Go off, keep going.
SPEAKER_01Keep going.
SPEAKER_02And it's keep going.
SPEAKER_01Listen up, buddy.
SPEAKER_02You don't know everything, and you don't have something to say about every single thing on planet Earth. You're all of five days old.
SPEAKER_01That's why you're trying to tell my kids.
SPEAKER_02Like you don't know what you're saying.
SPEAKER_01How about y'all stop blabbing and listen for once? Hey, look at me. Look at me. Get your hands out of your mouth. Like, pick up your room, take the trash out. What are you doing? All I get is you know, like come on.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, but I can I could say one of my children, Adriana, that's she is the world's worst about just absolutely not backing down on regardless of her stance on any situation.
SPEAKER_02That's my favorite. They're actively doing something the wrong way. Uh-huh. Hey, you're doing that wrong. You need to do this. Oh, I know.
SPEAKER_05Oh, oh, oh.
SPEAKER_02What?
SPEAKER_01So you oh, so you're just acting dumb.
SPEAKER_02So you're purposely doing it wrong? Like, uh help me understand.
SPEAKER_05I was testing you. You you passed. I get it.
The Near Wreck Accountability Test
SPEAKER_02It's like, man. Zeke's not so much sad as I'm a I was about to. Yeah. Yeah. Zeke, go take out the trash.
SPEAKER_01Oh, I was about to, as he's waking up.
SPEAKER_02Right. Ask him to clean this room 500 times. And when I finally go up there, like, hey, I told you to clean this room. Oh, yeah, I was about to.
SPEAKER_03I was on a streak in two can.
SPEAKER_02You're about to be a streak on the ground outside messing around.
SPEAKER_05Me and Zayn like to put a lot of stuff together. I say like to, I ask him to, and he does it.
SPEAKER_02But the quality time.
SPEAKER_05But he's so bad about the righty tidy lefty Lucy. So I catch him all the time, like, dude, you're going the wrong way. Yeah. And it'll change it. It's like learn this. Like I don't know.
SPEAKER_02Learn which way is Titan.
SPEAKER_01It doesn't change. It's so funny. You're doing this wrong. Yeah. Almost like, like, yeah, I know.
SPEAKER_02Leave me alone. That is awesome. Have y'all ever have you have you got to something where you had to like take some time away from it because it was it was so stressful? Like, okay, let's just walk away from this for a little bit. We'll come back to it later.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. Yeah, it was your wife's vanity. I had to take a minute. Take a breath. Like come in 4,000 parts. Oh gosh. Drawers had to be assembled in this vanity.
SPEAKER_01I'd say probably not the best project for a child.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, well, you know.
SPEAKER_02He sure did come to help too, didn't he?
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_02Oh, I can't. I I it it's to the point now where I would I will actively try to find somebody to put it together for me because it's so frustrating. But it's gotten so bad that anytime I order anything that comes in a box, Jamie's like, are you gonna call Richard to put that together? I'm like, listen here, woman. I don't say that because I don't want to die.
SPEAKER_05But it's like And then he calls me.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. What you got going on? No, but we do, we so me and Jamie like to argue about little stuff, you know, little petty stuff, but it it's hard.
SPEAKER_05It's hard to look at her and go, You were talking about that this morning, and I was like, I know that feeling because we have the same conversations. You you you are really bad about that. You will argue about anything.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Yeah. No, you won't.
SPEAKER_02Let's argue about it. Yeah, it it's a bad habit, and I as soon as I do it, I see myself doing it and want to not do it, you know. So it's like, man, I would I need to stop doing that.
SPEAKER_05And that is the most frustrating thing is seeing something in yourself you're well aware of. Yeah, it's a waste of time, man. Yeah, it my my eating habits, I know they're bad. I am aware. Changing that is hard, but I am a week with no monsters and no sugar.
SPEAKER_02I know, man. That's what I was gonna say. You keep trying, eventually you'll get it. Yeah, that was that was one thing. Just I'm I'm proud of you because you've stayed strong with that stuff this week, man. And especially like I thought you were gonna kind of ease your way off, but you just kind of dove head first.
SPEAKER_05It's the same way I quit smoking, it's the same way I quit drinking. It's it's just best to cut the limb off. Just cut that's biblical.
SPEAKER_02Cut it all off. So, Zeke, being uh a young man with a mustache, with a mustache. Um why is it so hard for your generation? I'm trying to say this is live.
SPEAKER_05Why is he gotta speak for the entire generation?
SPEAKER_02Why is it so hard? Okay, why is it so hard for you?
SPEAKER_01Now I'm by myself. At least the first time, first one he complained to me.
SPEAKER_02Take advice and say, yeah, maybe I don't know as much as I thought, I will take your advice. Why is that so hard for y'all?
SPEAKER_03Natural instinct. But it but it but it's not that's made that up just now.
SPEAKER_01I've got the natural instinct to not do something correctly.
SPEAKER_02I'm I mean, like literally showing you step for step how to do something. Go, hey, pay attention to what I'm doing, what I'm asking you to do, and it's like y'all just zone out, it's like just dead air. You're you don't listen, and then you just kind of do it the way you want to, anyway. I don't know.
SPEAKER_03That's the insight right there, folks. Because I normally do stuff right, so not to brag or nothing. You do what? Stuff right.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I'm sorry, say it again.
SPEAKER_03Stuff right.
SPEAKER_05Now we need an example of not doing it right.
SPEAKER_02Bruh. I will be like, Zeke, that black bucket, uh-huh. I need you to take that downstairs, fill it up with sand, bring it back to me.
SPEAKER_03We have sand downstairs.
SPEAKER_02Do you understand? Yeah, okay. He'll take the blue bucket downstairs, fill it with water, and take it outside.
SPEAKER_01Goes downstairs without the bucket and has a handful of sand. Right.
SPEAKER_02Like you're like, you didn't listen at all. Like, none of what I said to you did you get. That happens almost every other day.
unknownNah.
SPEAKER_02Just no, you heard it here first, ladies and gentlemen. You Michael, you don't know what you're gonna do. It has been a good good episode.
SPEAKER_05So I one of the, and I don't know how uh we're not on pet peeves, but while we're here, I'm gonna talk about it. Why my children think that they have to play trash can jingle. Trash can jingle go. Yeah. That's the most I just I I want to throat punch people.
SPEAKER_02Yes, that's yes. Keep I want. But they didn't see it overflowing into the floor.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. As long as you can put one more piece on it without it falling over, it's not a problem.
SPEAKER_03Whoever knocks it down first takes it out.
SPEAKER_05No, whoever pays the bills tells the people that don't to take it out. That's how that works.
SPEAKER_02Tyler, you have this to look forward to. Double.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Double for your trouble.
SPEAKER_05Ezra's gonna be today like, what, dad? Oh, what? Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_02What?
SPEAKER_01Uh okay, uh why the extra syllables I don't know. He is not gonna be Matt.
SPEAKER_02Oh man, that's messed up right there.
SPEAKER_05That is messed up.
SPEAKER_02Mama. Why, uh Lord. Yeah, it just be quick to say I'm sorry. Be quick to say I was wrong. Be quick, even when you're not, it's sometimes just to stop the argument, just to wipe the clait wipe wipe the clait slain. Wipe the slate clean. Jesus. Just be quick to say hey.
SPEAKER_05Well, and sorry, I didn't mean to cut you off.
SPEAKER_02No, it's okay, it's fine. Hey, I'm sorry for talking when you wanted to talk. He ain't sorry. He he he ain't sorry.
SPEAKER_05I am sorry. But anyway, argue with him.
SPEAKER_02Argue, get him. Go ahead, Rich.
Admitting Wrong With Your Kids
SPEAKER_05Y'all are horrible people. Something else you said this morning about, you know, when when Jamie does realize that you are right, that she won't then say I'm sorry after I mean won't admit it and be like, hey, dang it, I was wrong in this. That's Jennifer.
SPEAKER_01Whatever.
SPEAKER_05She no, she she'll just drop it all together.
SPEAKER_01Just don't even say nothing, just it never happened. No, no.
SPEAKER_05We'll we'll not talk for two days. And then she'll be like, I paid the light bill today.
SPEAKER_02Oh, we're just gonna ignore. That's over. Oh, but yeah, and it's and we do, we avoid it, man. Avoid it, avoid it. Because I'll I mean I'll do I'll do everything I can to not admit, and I'm like, I have to go, oh yeah, you're right. Yeah, I gotta be prideful for a little bit.
SPEAKER_01Right. Yeah, because like I'll like in my mind be like, she don't even know what she's freaking talking about. And I can just you know say things and then live. Or there's you know, like y'all had that let me let me win for just a minute before before I uh forfeit.
SPEAKER_02Y'all had that big conversation of like what is right down the road, yeah. You know, and it's like that's one of those things in the language.
SPEAKER_01My goodness. No, our our new thing now. Oh, there's Living, okay. Liv's got mom brain really bad. Yeah. And mom ears now, real bad. Oh, she can hear whatever she wants, and yeah, okay. Not not not like that. I guess it's a different set of ears. But she'll be so hyper focused on something. Not maybe not even hyper-focused, but I will say well.
SPEAKER_05Huh? The story's going really well.
SPEAKER_01Richard, I need you to shut up. My bad, I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_02I I didn't even have nothing to do with that. I just wanted to say I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_01She she'll be just so not even like focused, but just like just kind of in the zone with something. I'll say something, something, and she will not hear at all. Like, I'll be doing something with one of the babies if if I got 'em. And he'd be doing something cute or something. I'll be back. Liv, look. And I'll see her, just she's just either just watching the zone. She goes, What? Or uh there's another time she was in the bathroom and I was walking by and I I said it as like I'm like right in front of the door. The door's open. And I said something, and I went into the living room or the bedroom. And like two minutes later, I was like, Liv. She's like, What? I was like, what do you mean what? I just asked you to do this. I heard nothing.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Um now and now the mom brain part is it's been so Oh, it's been so often, so common she's done this. Um I'll be looking for one of their pacifiers. Live and you know, live home with the babies most days of the week. Come home. Liv, where's the pacifier? Oh, it's uh it should be in the car seat. I don't see it in the car seat. It's in the car seat. Liv, I don't see it's I'm looking at both car seats. It's not in the car seat. And I'll check in the bedroom. On the bed. It's on the bedroom. It's on the bedroom. It's in the bedroom, on the bed. Last time I saw it was in the car seat. And it and that's been that has been so common lately. Yeah. Like, Liv, uh, where's the baby wipes? Should be in the bag. Nothing in your bag. Should be in the bag. It's in the kitchen.
SPEAKER_02Right, right. Are you bad? Are you bad at that? Um this is this is me in the fridge looking for the ketchup. Babe, where's the ketchup? It's in the fridge. No, no, it is not. It is not in here. I'm looking at the fridge with the doors up. It's not in here. She walks in, goes right to it, like.
SPEAKER_05I didn't mean that ketchup.
SPEAKER_02Oh, that there it there it is. I'm at the ketchup that's still at the store. Every time, like, it's in the drawer. No, it's not. Yes, it is. No, it's not. She walks in there, finds it instantly. I'm like, uh, yeah, yeah, there it is.
SPEAKER_05Unless it's something that is yours specifically that she moved. And yeah, she's like, and then she don't mind where that's at. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Oh, I love that. That's my favorite. It's been, it's the the roles are reversed with us now.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. So she oh, so she's got the oh, we're making some progress though, at least.
SPEAKER_01Maybe backwards progress for her, but because there's been those examples too where she's like, I have no idea where it's at. And I like lift up one of the like she's looking for wipes. I don't know where the wipes are at. Lift up like a blanket. Live. Right here beside you.
SPEAKER_05You gotta move stuff.
SPEAKER_01Oh, there it is. One of one of her very famous sayings, you gotta move stuff. Now I say that. Yeah, that rolls.
SPEAKER_05Oh, I really love it when me and Jennifer are in an argument and I know I'm right, and then I call you and we talk about it. And then I'm not, and I gotta go back back.
SPEAKER_02Oh, dang. Here you're shoot. Here we go. All right, how do I go about this? Yeah, hey babe, got you some flowers today.
SPEAKER_05Jennifer doesn't like flowers.
SPEAKER_02No, I don't Jamie doesn't eat, she does, but doesn't because we well, I think we understand like it's a waste of money. Yeah, that's 100% waste. What are you gonna do?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I'm not gonna put it in the face with water.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah, they're gonna die, and they're really expensive now. Speaking of flowers, Zeke, how was your sixth grade dance?
SPEAKER_03Oh he came home and said it was fun. You just had to put me on the spot. My bad.
SPEAKER_05I saw the picture, and y'all definitely left room for Jesus, man.
SPEAKER_02Like two feet apart. I think your dad said, Man, act like y'all like each other. Gosh. You got. You got to meet him what last week or the week before? Oh, you met you. He said, Yeah, I got to meet it. He said, I ain't gonna lie, I was a little scared. You're gonna meet the parents. You're gonna meet the parents.
SPEAKER_01Hey, hey, I'm watching you. Watching you.
SPEAKER_03If he was Dominican, bro. What? Oh no, y'all just speaking in a Dominican accent.
SPEAKER_01Oh no, we're speaking in a De Niro accent. Hey, hey. I'm watching you. So how was it? Did you dance? He said he did the Dougie. Of course he did. I hit the Doug Dougie.
SPEAKER_03Nobody else knew how to hit the Dougie.
SPEAKER_01You didn't did you uh you didn't do the stanky leg? Your friends don't even probably don't even know what the Dougie is.
SPEAKER_03No, my friends do. My black ones do.
SPEAKER_01Gosh. There's black people at your school.
SPEAKER_03Well, there's mixed people, but close enough.
SPEAKER_02Alright. Cool, cool, cool. They had fun at the dance, I guess. I don't. Lord have mercy. Talk, man.
SPEAKER_01I remember middle school dances being so awkward.
SPEAKER_02Oh, dude. Oh my god. So bad.
SPEAKER_03What's the point, bro?
SPEAKER_02It's like, because you you want to be cool, but in trying to be cool, you actually are very awkward, so it's very uncool because you're just standing against the wall. So it's like, that's not fun or cool. Like you're you you look like you're scared to death.
SPEAKER_05I don't know what y'all are talking about. I was a stud in middle school.
SPEAKER_01He was homeschooled.
SPEAKER_05Can you man. You don't worry about my sister.
SPEAKER_02Oh, invited your cousin to the dance. You do what you gotta do. Uh uh. Sweet home Alabama. Oh my goodness. Lanham, nanoman. So moving on. Yeah. So we're gonna go into a segment. We're not gonna do that's what's up this week, but we are gonna move into a segment, okay? We are gonna be raiding chips. Oh Lord.
SPEAKER_03Richard's rating in a single week.
SPEAKER_02Rating chips. So you're gonna give it a score of one through five. Five being the best, one being the worst, okay? Now you could rate the you know two different chips the same. You're just giving it a number.
SPEAKER_01Oh, I thought it was like how they do the blind reacts.
SPEAKER_02No, no, no. So we're just gonna go down the line with a few different things and give your one through five rating of that chip. First off, normal, regular nachos, Doritos.
SPEAKER_01Oh, I thought you were gonna like have like I don't know why. I thought you had the chips with you and we're gonna do that. No, not actually with me.
SPEAKER_00In my in my in my he posted out of his beading.
SPEAKER_02Not my not my not my person.
SPEAKER_05Nacho cheese Doritos.
Marriage Arguments And Pride Spirals
SPEAKER_02Nacho cheese Doritos, just the regular kind, not the cool ranch.
SPEAKER_05I'm gonna go three. They're just mid.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_01I'm I'm gonna say three as well. Okay, three, mid, okay. Okay. Really? Three. They're not my favorite, but at like a picnic or something, you know, they're on the spread. I'm gonna get some. Dude, during the summertime, that's the one like a ham sandwich.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Man, okay. I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go three as well. Three's across the board for the regular, regular nachos drizzles. Okay, cool ranch. Oh, five. Whoa, whoa, instant.
SPEAKER_05I love cool ranch Doritos.
SPEAKER_02So five is good. Yeah, five is like the best. One would be the worst. Yeah. Uh get four. I'll go four. Man. Cool ranch coming in strong.
SPEAKER_03Either four or five. Uh, four and a half. Four and a half.
SPEAKER_02Nope.
SPEAKER_03Four point four. Four it is.
SPEAKER_02Four point two three. Uh man, I'm gonna go. Um I'm gonna go a three. What? Just for me, Doritos are good, but they're they're just a mid-chip. You're a crazy all the varieties. Yeah, they're middle of the road. Okay. They're they're decent, they're good, they're okay, but I don't know if I've just ate them so much that I'm burnt out on them.
SPEAKER_01I think I'm gonna change because I had I still have the mentality that we're doing a blind react kind of thing. Okay. I'm going, I'm going three.
SPEAKER_05I you want three?
SPEAKER_01I'm gonna go three. Okay, changing to three.
SPEAKER_05I'm gonna add, I'm sticking with five. I'm gonna add a variant though, if you dip them bad boys in that jalapeno cheddar dip.
SPEAKER_02So, and and that's one thing I was thinking about is so if you add something to them, they obviously go like regular nachos Doritos on sandwiches are just it takes it to a whole bunch of.
SPEAKER_05I don't like chips on sandwiches.
SPEAKER_01No, have y'all tried uh nacho cheese Doritos with cream cheese? Uh-uh. No, my my mom would would eat them like that. I will too. It's regular cream cheese. Oh yeah, it's not bad, though. Take a block of cream cheese, it's good, it's good. I will tomorrow.
SPEAKER_02Interesting. All right. Pringles.
SPEAKER_03Five.
SPEAKER_02Whoa. A five for Zeke. Straight out the guest. Yes, really.
SPEAKER_01Just regular Pringles. I'm gonna say two. Yeah, okay.
SPEAKER_05I'm a two, so and let me let me tell you why. Okay. They are the worst packaging in chips.
SPEAKER_01That's fair. That's it's the packaging is good. It's the kind of the execution of getting all of them out. Is it's the that it that's the design flaw. It needs to work like uh like chapstick.
SPEAKER_02Did you know that Pringles are chapstick? I like that idea. Yeah, yeah, where they just come okay.
SPEAKER_05I'm writing free dolets to tomorrow.
SPEAKER_02Did you know, and I believe this is right, don't directly quote, but I'm pretty sure that that Pringles is not made out of potatoes?
SPEAKER_05No, didn't know that. What are they doing?
SPEAKER_02So they're not considered chips.
SPEAKER_05Going off, then why are they on the list?
SPEAKER_02I'm just no, I'm just saying what are they? Like it it uh I don't know. Ingredients. Yeah, well, have to Google that later. Going off a too. Uh five, two, two. So who are we missing? Mine? Yeah. I'm gonna give it I'm gonna give it a two as well. For the same reason? No, I like the packaging. Um it it's I just they're just they're just okay.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, they're just eh. Just made Pringles are primarily made from a dehydrated potato flake dough, consisting of about 42% potato content mixed with corn flour, wheat starch, rice flour, and vegetable oils. Well, it's a good thing that's not in their ad campaign. Yeah, so it's not even potato adjacent. Yeah, potato is a cousin of a potato. All right. Barbecue Lays. Um Barbecue Lays. The baked ones or regular ones? Uh just regular, just regular barbecue lays. I'm gonna go four. Because though at a picnic, those are for sure going on my plate. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05I think I'm gonna stick middle of the road on that just because it's not my go-to. Yeah, you know, it's not like something I would seek out.
SPEAKER_02Okay. So three for Richard, Zeke. Four. Four, I'm going to four as well. These are these are up there for me. These are pretty good.
SPEAKER_01It's one of those chips, like, you know, like on spread. If I see that's one of those chips, like, oh snap. Yeah, give me some of that. I'm I'm grabbing those almost before the the main dish.
SPEAKER_02Most chips. Yeah. I'm like that.
SPEAKER_03Nice sunny day. Yeah, yeah. It's just some barbecue lace. Son.
SPEAKER_01You know you're grabbing those. Sun. The baked the baked barbecue lace are also fantastic.
SPEAKER_02All right. Ruffles. Ooh. Original. What uh what are they called? Uh crinkle or uh ruffles have ridges.
SPEAKER_05Uh ridges, yeah.
SPEAKER_01I'm going to regular just for the just the regular one. No dip. I'm going two. Okay.
SPEAKER_05I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna go with Tyler on that. Going to two, okay.
SPEAKER_02No dip, no nothing. Just straight up potato chip.
SPEAKER_05Three.
SPEAKER_02Three? I'm going to two also.
SPEAKER_01Those are those are if if it if it's the like the sour cream and onion or the cheddar and sour cream, I'll go. I'll probably I'll probably go to four with those. But sun chips. Oh, it depends on the kind.
SPEAKER_05It does not. Five.
SPEAKER_01Do they make do they make like what what's the like traditional regular default? Yeah, like the regular area.
SPEAKER_05I think the regular wheat chips, the orange bags, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Yeah. The orange bags cheddar, isn't it? Uh yeah. I think so. That I think so, yeah. I'll go. Gosh. I don't want to give it a three, but I don't want to give it a four. I may give it a three and a half. Three it is.
SPEAKER_05I I said five.
SPEAKER_02Five? Zeke gave it a five, two.
SPEAKER_05They have one of one of the varieties of sun chips is my favorite chip, period. Really? The uh garden salsa or garden. That is good, yeah.
SPEAKER_02That is good. Bro. Sun chips just that crunch that is just it's always on point. Always on point. I gave it, so we had a five, three, five, and I gave it a four. Uh those are those are up there. Those are up there. Okay. Now these. I'm not even gonna talk about it until last. Okay. I'm gonna let y'all give your say so in these, and then go from there. Funions.
SPEAKER_03Ten.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I'm gonna go ten. So five, five.
SPEAKER_05I like I like funyions, but I'm a four. I'm not.
SPEAKER_02Oh, Richard's gonna ruin it. I like that funny. It's a five across the board except for the four. I think funions are the best chip on the planet. No, they're just gonna be.
SPEAKER_05I think funions are stale so fast.
SPEAKER_02Our peak chip. I don't think anything can touch it. Chip perfection. Chip perfection. Perfection. I know this is one that's like real popular with the kids. Um, this isn't one that is kind of a a big like known like Is it Takis? Yes.
SPEAKER_05Negative one. Like I hate them for hot Cheeto girls.
SPEAKER_01I'm I'm I'm with I'm with you.
SPEAKER_02All right, so one for Richard. Yeah. One for Tyler. It's zero of an option. See?
SPEAKER_03Uh is it the like red con?
SPEAKER_02Regular. Yeah, what is the regular? The red. The red, right? And the blue is like the special.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, it's something like flaming hot or whatever. Yeah. Um, two. Two.
SPEAKER_05My kids, my kids love them.
SPEAKER_02I'm gonna go with two. I I would almost never eat them by their self. Yeah. Like I always, like um at baseball games or football games, they do nachos with Takis. That's really good with the cheese, but by itself, I'm not, I'm not purposely. They're so like they they feel like how hard they are. They feel stale. Well, they they feel stale. They they almost taste like you're just putting chemicals in your mouth. I mean, it is it's a lot. It's a lot going on with that chip.
Mom Brain And Missing Ketchup
SPEAKER_05And you gave it a two.
SPEAKER_02I gave it a that's generous. Yes, I gave it a two. That's a generous two. Yeah, it's I mean, it's gosh. I just I don't know, man.
SPEAKER_05The powder is nasty. It's just it's just not good.
SPEAKER_02Oh my gosh. Y'all remember these bugles?
SPEAKER_05Oh, I love bugles.
SPEAKER_02Oh, snap. Bugles.
SPEAKER_01I'm giving those a I'm giving those a five. Five? Yeah. Damn.
SPEAKER_05I'm gonna go four. I'm gonna calm down.
SPEAKER_01Dude, those those were some of my favorite shoes. Yeah, the be you ever put them on your fingers? Oh, yeah. Of course you had to. That's how you do it. You get the bag, you put your hand in there, you get them out, and then just one by one, yeah, you stick your hand back in. All right, Zeke.
SPEAKER_02I don't know, I don't know how many times you've had these. They're the ones shaped, and you put them over your fingers. Oh, I'm sorry. You see the little cones.
SPEAKER_03Four. Four.
SPEAKER_05You had to Google a bugle.
SPEAKER_02Dude, yeah. So that one got five, four, three, four.
SPEAKER_03Bugles on the bug.
SPEAKER_02That's pretty good. I gave it a three. I think they're, you know, it's okay. It's a chip. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. With like your family. It's so good.
SPEAKER_02That'll do it. That's it. I like it, man. I like it. All right. Fritos. The right, just the regular corn? Regular, yeah, regular just corn chip, Fritos, yeah. I forgot what I think. And then we'll go, we'll go another flavor. Because there's so many, there's so many Fritos. Like there really is. Yeah. So Tyler with a three. Okay. Yep.
SPEAKER_05Uh two. I don't. I mean, there are two.
SPEAKER_02Two, K, Zeke.
SPEAKER_05Two.
SPEAKER_02And I'm going to go a three. They're just middle of the road for me. Okay. Frito's chili.
SPEAKER_05Oh, that's a four. That's a good one.
SPEAKER_02I'm going to give it four. Yeah. I'm giving it a four as well. Now, here's here's my only thing with the Fritos Chili. They smell like body odor.
SPEAKER_05They got an odor to them, which the corn chips in general have an order. I have an odor to them.
SPEAKER_02It's pungent. It is pungent. Yeah. Alright, Bubba.
SPEAKER_03One.
SPEAKER_02Wow.
SPEAKER_03Easy, bud.
SPEAKER_02Wow. Brought that one down.
SPEAKER_03Because I've like, I've never heard of that, but I don't like chili. So chili Fritos?
SPEAKER_02They're chili cheese, is but yeah, they're good. Um, okay. Now, Cheetos.
SPEAKER_03Oh, which kind? Like the puffy ones? Yes, the puffy.
SPEAKER_01The like original puffs, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Four.
SPEAKER_01Like the four, okay. Not like the the skinny ones. No, like the fat, you know, look like thumbs. One.
SPEAKER_05Oh, one! Because apparently zero. I can promise you it's a texture thing with him.
SPEAKER_01It it mu yeah. I don't like how it gets so stuck in my teeth.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, like it starts off as airy and then sticky. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05That's and I have just recently, within the last month, eaten Cheetos and liked them. Yeah. Because when I was a kid, I hate them. So I'm gonna go with a one also.
SPEAKER_01One.
SPEAKER_05I love the crunchy Cheetos.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah. Those are fine. I'll give those a three. I do not like Cheetos. Those are if I we'll get like the box, like the small bags. And if those are the last ones left, I'll eat them. The puffs? No.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. I don't like the small, like the crunchy ones. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02The weird looking ones. They look like witches' fingers.
SPEAKER_05They look like the super meat boy. Do you know they have an actual name for the Cheetos dust? I don't know it.
SPEAKER_02Oh, do they?
SPEAKER_05Well, there's an actual name for Cheetos Dust. It's not Cheetos. It's not Cheet. Nope. And now I gotta look it up. Dust Cheeto.
SPEAKER_02Um oh gosh, let me look. Hold up. Um, I gotta remember the name of these, but they come. Oh my gosh. These give funions a run for their money, I think.
SPEAKER_04Cheetle.
SPEAKER_02Cheetle. Is the official brand. Cheetle? Don Cheetle.
SPEAKER_04Cheetle. C-H-E-E-T-L-A.
SPEAKER_02Huh. No, I didn't know that. I think these two, these next chips give I think they give Fritos a run, or uh not Fritos, but Funions a run for their money. The Fritos Honey Barbecue Twists.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, that's a five.
SPEAKER_02Um it's those that come in like the box, like the box of chips.
SPEAKER_05That's a five for me.
SPEAKER_01I'll give it, I'll give it a five just because it's it's up there. If I have to, if I have to choose between those and funions, I'm I feel like I'd mostly go with funyuns. Uh-oh.
SPEAKER_03That's either three or four. They're not better than funyans, 100%.
SPEAKER_01But it's also kind of one of those, like, if I remember which one of the two I ate last, like if I ate funyions, I'll probably go with those.
SPEAKER_00Equal opportunity.
SPEAKER_02I gotta share the love. All right, and and if you're listening, tell us if we missed any of your favorite chips. So the winner of the Almost Brothers chip challenge.
SPEAKER_05It's gotta be funyins.
SPEAKER_02Give me a drum roll. Joy to the world. Suddenly it's Christmas. You know that's off of it. Yeah, national lampoons. The winner barely. It barely won over. The Cheetos Twists is Funyuns. 5545. Cheetos Twists, 5534. Cheetos Twists.
SPEAKER_05Yep. Zeke messed it up. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Or Fritos Twists, whatever. Two different chips. Yeah, you're right.
SPEAKER_05I got one that you missed. Uh-oh. But I don't know that it's considered a chip. The combos.
SPEAKER_01What is that? Isn't it a pretzel?
SPEAKER_05Well, they have different kinds, but they have like it's basically a breadstick over like cheese.
SPEAKER_02Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_05Okay.
SPEAKER_02I don't know. I was gonna say the what um the ones you see at like um Renaissance fairs and and uh stuff like that where they make them out of potatoes and they fry them.
SPEAKER_03I thought you were talking about waffle fries for a second. I have no idea why.
Chip Ratings And Snack Debates
SPEAKER_02No, no, yeah, I don't know. But they're like chips, you know, they're kettle chips. Kettle chips. I do I do really like kettles.
SPEAKER_01I do like some good kettle chips. I to me they're they are the perfect amount of crunch. Really? Yeah. They're not not as crunchy as Takis, but they're not as soft as like.
SPEAKER_05Y'all ever eat y'all ever eat corn nuts?
SPEAKER_02Oh my gosh, yes.
SPEAKER_05Oh, it's like eating gravel.
SPEAKER_02Oh and my teeth are gone. So there's that. Like, my goodness. Why if you need to get your teeth pulled, just eat a handful of those.
SPEAKER_01What are you chewing on? Well, right now it's my teeth I'm chewing on. Like, what are you chewing on? A bag of toenails?
SPEAKER_02Like, terrible kid. My goodness, gracious.
SPEAKER_01Mm-mm. And I yeah. Um would you count Chex mix as chips since it's at kind of a variety of things? Kind of, but it's got the corn chip things in it, but it's got the pretzels.
SPEAKER_02That that's what I yeah. If you have to add other stuff to it, it's like, okay, you're kind of cheap.
SPEAKER_01My thing is if it was only the corn chip, I would be absolutely fine. Yeah. I honestly would probably prefer it like that. That's like the uh Diablo.
SPEAKER_02I would say, I would put those above funions. What is the uh I like stuff like that though, that's mixed with a bunch of different stuff.
SPEAKER_03So like the um like trails mix, stuff like that, with a you know, you have MMs and you got like Yeah, it's um what's that one thing where there's like little pieces of chocolate in there?
SPEAKER_02There's yeah, that's that like trails mix we get from Sam's Club. Yeah. There's like cranberries and chocolate and yeah.
SPEAKER_01I'm not I'm not a fan of like like cranberries and almonds and stuff like that. Um like I like like regular peanuts and cashews, but I don't like them in like candy or ice cream or anything like that.
SPEAKER_02Really? Okay, so no MM, like peanut MMs? No. Really?
SPEAKER_05That's the best kind.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. I gotta go. I think the best kind is the peanut butter MM. Is it just okay? So that's what I was gonna ask. So is it the peanuts or is it peanut flavor? So you like with the peanut flavor with it?
SPEAKER_01It's it's the crunch and whatever it is. Like like a candy, it's too much crunch for me in that sense, and too much crunch for an ice cream.
SPEAKER_02So like you like uh like like Reese's, but do you want like Reese's if it had chunks of peanuts in it? You don't like Reese's? I like Reese's. Oh, just not Oh Jesus.
SPEAKER_01He almost I uh I recently had my heart uh because you know sometimes Reese's will like combine with like another. Yes, it drives me crazy. They combined with uh take five bar. Yeah, it was and it's just uh caramel and pretzel. Uh it was really good.
SPEAKER_03I got a question. Yeah. When y'all go to the movie theaters and you get like a thing of popcorn, right? Do y'all get are y'all soft on the butter? Do you add extra butter or do you put like thing like MMs in the popcorn?
SPEAKER_05I've never heard of putting it on the sun.
SPEAKER_02Yes, I've seen yes, it's like the sweet and salty. I have seen that. Yep. I go, I want, I'm in between on the butt I don't like heavy butter. I don't like a whole bunch, just like some people like standing at the things. Too much butter just makes me feel weird. Yeah, it's like I don't like that. But I also don't want just straight popcorn. Yeah. So I I like I like a good amount of butter, not too much. I don't like salt on it.
SPEAKER_01Oh I don't need no salt, but I mean I'm good. I'm I'm light on the I'm light on the salt. Or not salt, light on the butter, average on the salt, heavy on the cheese. Oh, so you do cheese on it? Okay. Real quick, uh, a friend of mine uh put me on this uh back in college. The tahine seasoning. Yeah, yeah, I've heard of that, yeah. And so I did well I didn't have that at the time. I had chili powder, and then I put some garlic powder, some onion powder on there. Ooh.
SPEAKER_05Well they make they make actual popcorn seasoning ranch.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, and I am I I am, and again, I'm a different I'm a I'm a creature of habit. I just want my classic stuff, leave it alone. Don't add to it, don't change it. I hate when Reese's Does the white chocolate or they mix with another candy? No, leave it alone. It's perfect. Butter chocolate is perfect. Leave it alone. So my popcorn, I don't like sweet popcorn. I don't like flavoring on my popcorn. I want butter on my popcorn. That is it. Leave it on the popcorn. Kettlecorn. What is it? No, not at all. Nope. I love kettle corn. So, like, you know, people would gift you that for Christmas or whatever. I would eat just the buttered popcorn out of it and the rest of it would be wasted.
SPEAKER_05Well, to answer Zink's butter question, I want to drink a cup of butter with my popcorn.
SPEAKER_01He takes the popcorn and dips it in the butter. Does that make you feel weird?
SPEAKER_05Finally.
SPEAKER_02How's your ankles feel? Oh, that makes the back of my kneecap start to sweat. Oh, I don't like it.
SPEAKER_03He gets butter with a side of popcorn. Oh gosh. Well, I eat butter with the phone.
SPEAKER_05His large drink is the butter. He puts butter on his Pop Tarts. Yes, I do.
SPEAKER_01I can understand that. You know, people you know when they bake pastries, they know they put the butter on there. I can't see it.
SPEAKER_03Don't disrespect my Pop Tart name again, please.
SPEAKER_01Gosh.
SPEAKER_05Kellogg's or Great Value Pop Tarts.
SPEAKER_01Oh, great value. 100%. Great value. I'm not a Pop Tart guy.
SPEAKER_02That's a live question. She loves Pop Tarts. That's that's for So our next segment on our next uh podcast is gonna be hot takes. So that's a good hot take. Fair enough.
SPEAKER_01Pop-tarts are good, man. What uh what is y'all's favorite Reese's candy? Because they make quite a few. The cups. Don't mess with the Reese's. Don't mess with it. That's fair. Yeah.
Popcorn Butter And Candy Rules
SPEAKER_02I don't like the Reese's pieces. I don't really the cups. Yes. Don't like, don't I will eat them if there's like nothing else or or whatever. But no, Reese's peanut butter cups, that is it. Leave it be. I don't even like when they take the and they do like double stuffed peanut butter or whatever and make them giant or no, regular. Leave it alone. It's fine. Messing with the ratio. Let it be.
SPEAKER_05I like the white chocolate. No, man.
SPEAKER_01My favorite is the fast break bar.
SPEAKER_05I don't know if I've ever had one of those.
SPEAKER_01It's it's my favorite. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Let it be when um when I was so mad about this racist question.
SPEAKER_01When I was in the military, um, I'll you know, I was with the uh food service platoon, and we would get like stuff for like our two-week annual training, active duty training, and we would get stuff like to cook for the rest of the battalion. Well, in those uh packages were like her um I think Hershey's bars and Reese's pieces. We would we had a big old f basically a field refrigeration system, just a big old cooler, and we would keep all the candy in there. We wouldn't tell none of the rest of the battalion about it, but we would keep the candy in there, and it's you know, we're in the middle of July, middle of summer, it's a hundred and something degrees outside. We we would go in there and cool ourselves down by just chomping down Reese's pieces. That's the way to do it, man. That's a lot that's a life right there.
SPEAKER_05That's why he's wanted for treason. Man.
SPEAKER_02Well, I sure love y'all. But for the love of everything that is holy, leave the Reese alone.