Fighting Through The Fatigue

Fatigue has a way of turning the volume up on everything. When we’re tired, the little stuff hits harder, our patience shrinks, and even good opportunities can start costing more than we realize. We talk honestly about what that feels like in real life, especially when the calendar is packed and you’re trying to show up as a parent, spouse, and friend while still handling responsibilities that don’t fit neatly into a normal week.

We dig into the difference between quick fixes and real recovery: why “just push through” and “just drink more coffee” usually backfire, how scheduling matters as much as sleep, and why learning to say no can be an act of wisdom, not laziness. We also get candid about dad guilt, tight budgets, and how hard it can be to create meaningful family time when even the cheap options add up. Along the way, we share what’s helping us reset, like protecting time with our wives, slowing down enough to talk, and using reading as genuine mental rest.

Then we lighten it up with a top-three superheroes draft (Captain America vs Spider-Man, plus some love for Batman, Wolverine, and more), followed by a nostalgic run through boy bands, 90s country, and the weird way music videos vanished. We even end up debating morning routines and the snooze button like it’s a real sport.

Hit play, subscribe, and share this with someone who’s exhausted. And seriously, drop your best rest strategy in the comments or a message. What actually helps you fight through the fatigue?

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:01

No.

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I've never seen you stop so fast.

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No, we're not gonna be putting my singing on the air there.

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Yeah, we want people to listen.

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That's hard, that's hurtful.

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What's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, everybody. Welcome back to a brand new episode of the Almost Brothers Podcast. On today's episode, we're gonna be talking about fighting through the fatigue.

Cold Open And Quick Banter

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Oof.

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Because I'm tired.

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Yeah, yeah, it's uh it's gonna be a busy month.

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I can't remember who it was somebody this morning. I'm like, hey, how you doing? They say, I'm tired. I said, not tired, you're tired.

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I'm tired, boss.

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T-U-R-D, tired.

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That's that's a whole nother thing.

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I don't know that that resonates. Yeah, just man, just how when you're tired or fatigued or wore out, kind of all

Why Fatigue Makes Everything Harder

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means the same thing, but how everything seems to get to you.

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Yeah, everything is bigger, right?

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And it's like your hunger is more hungry. It's all of the you know, you're frustrated is you know, just everything seems to be heightened.

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It does, and it's because you're just on edge already and just waiting for something to make you mad.

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But as always, we got Richie Rich.

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I am here.

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Ty Ty.

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No.

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It's about as much as he says usually. You're yeah, he's not here today, but he'll be here later. Yeah. So but yeah, it's just man. I try to catch myself like yesterday. I I started the day pretty good, and then I could catch myself getting annoyed by dumb stuff, like stuff that it, you know.

SPEAKER_01 1:57

And that's really what it comes down to is recognizing that as you're going through it. And and even you know, the people closest to you like, hey, look, I'm I'm struggling today, just you know, be patient with me, you know, give me some grace. And if they love you like they're supposed to, then they they will in fact give you that grace. But it is important to recognize that in yourself so that you can kind of throw up the red flag.

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How do you try to not even just recognize it because that's good, but but just like f fight against it? How do you find rest?

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Right.

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Well it seems so hard now.

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And this is something that we've talked about before that you desperately struggle with is learning how to say no when it's necessary to say no. You know, you'll you'll push yourself to that point when there's really you don't have to do that. You and I get it, you get opportunities to spread the gospel and you get opportunities to preach and you get opportunities to do this stuff, and it's all good things until it's detrimental to you.

SPEAKER_02 3:01

Yeah. All right, well, that was a good episode, man. Just off here. Yeah, and it and it man. And it really is just being

Saying No And Reworking Your Schedule

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able to move your schedule around to where you can find that because if you have a busy, you know, front end of the week, try to offset with a with a more free end of the week. But I I am just really bad at filling any moment that I have with something.

SPEAKER_01 3:31

Right. And that's you know, it it's so funny that you preach today about how important it is to take rest, and you are the worst about not taking rest so bad. It's you know, and and I don't I'm not putting you on blast on this entire episode. No, yeah, it's fine. Go ahead. Uh-huh. But you know, it's you say that you can't stand somebody from the pulpit, an overweight pastor preaching about taking, you know, sinning and not everybody's not taking care of the temple, when you are not getting the rest that you're supposed to be getting. Yeah. So it's really the same thing, just different extremes of a different thing.

SPEAKER_02 4:10

Yeah. Yeah, it's it's uh it's it's hard.

SPEAKER_01 4:14

It is. And especially and and like what you I teared up when you was talking about, you know, you feel like you're not a good dad some days because you can't get the time with them that you want, you can't do what you want. And even and our problem is we've got so many kids that even when we get a little time, we don't have the money to really do anything with them. Like it's summertime right now, you know, all of their friends are taking trips and going on vacations, and it's like, well, we could go to the Cheryl Crow pool and Kenneth. I don't know. Is it really the Cheryl? Is that what it is, really? The Cheryl Crow walk out. She lived, she was smoking.

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Oh, whatever.

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Yeah, well, nobody's how much is this?

Dad Guilt And Family Budget Reality

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I mean, even that, you know, starts adding up.

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Well, it's even yeah, because it's like five bucks a kid. Yeah, so that's so it's expensive to even do that.

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$85 for your family, you know.

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It's not that's just the raw kind of match. He's got he's got 40 kids. Like, wait a minute. Yeah, and we ordered pizza the other night. $120.

SPEAKER_02 5:11

And that's what Domino's, yeah. So that's cheaper. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:14

Just and we could and the dumb thing, it's not dumb. You know, it's good to treat yourself every once in a while, but we could have taken that $120 and bought two or three meals. Right. But we wanted to treat the kids, you know, and we really didn't feel like cooking. But it's just so important to be able to prioritize your time to where you can make the effort to spend time with your family and and with your friends. And we haven't even had a time like we've been talking forever about having just hanging out. Yeah. And we still I mean, it's been months, and we still haven't been able to find time to do it.

SPEAKER_02 5:52

Yeah, and it and it I think we fight, I think again, yeah, the title of the episode. I think we fight fatigue the wrong ways sometimes. You know, where instead of fixing the schedule, we just try to nap it out. Or for me it's coffee. Like, oh well, I'm really tired today, I'll just drink. Instead of instead of going, hey, I really need to be intentional with my schedule and what I've got going on, when I've got it going on. Right. Sometimes it's just it's not too much stuff, it's just too much stuff done in in a short period of time. Right. You know, it's like, can we stretch these things out over a couple weeks instead of making it all one week? You know, and it it just gets so difficult because and regardless,

Coffee, Naps, And The Wrong Fixes

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even after this conversation, I'm I'm not unless it's a it's an absolute detriment to my family, am I going to say no to an opportunity to spread the gospel? You know, I I will I will figure out a way because again, I can kind of be flexible with my schedule later on. You know, this week I'm gonna take a couple days off this week. That's just gonna happen. But but just for this week, it just all happened all in six days. Right. And it was just it's well a lot.

SPEAKER_01 7:11

And I don't know why this is, but in ministry it seems like summers are busy, especially when you when you help with the youth and the kids and stuff. You know, we've got a lot of stuff coming up, BBS and the and the kids' trip, and it's just a it's a whole lot of stuff all at once. So making the time matter when you're not at that stuff is even more important when you have a busy schedule. Yep. But I think it's a societal standard that says, you know, push through, you gotta you gotta get the grind and and all this crap, and it's at some point you gotta take care of yourself. Yeah, it just it has to be a priority.

SPEAKER_02 7:46

Yep, and and I am gonna try to take so Jamie gets like two weeks off, I think, in a year, something like that. So I am gonna try to take more of the of the time together. Right. Because even when we take days off, we're we're doing something. So you're still running around or driving here or doing all this stuff, so it still is a busy day. Yeah. So I just want to take a couple days where just me and her get to hang out.

SPEAKER_01 8:10

Yeah. Yeah. Me and Jennifer have not had a date night in a long time.

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Our Paducah trip was awesome because we we didn't have to rush. We went down on Thursday night and we just hung out. Yeah. We went and sat and had coffee, and we were just sitting there like, this is nice that we could just

Marriage, Ministry, And Making Time

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sit here for an hour and have coffee and talk and not have to go to the next thing, go to the next thing, go to the next thing. So I really do. I I talk about it and I've talked about it before, but I really want to focus on doing that better. Yeah. I really do. I just it's tough. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:40

And it's it's like you said, you know, you get the opportunities, you don't want to say no. It's just, it's so hard to put everything in the schedule, you know. There's only so many hours in a day.

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So Yep, and I stretch them as far as I can, but uh I'm stretched out. You look exhausted, dude. I am stretched.

SPEAKER_01 9:00

Not good at all.

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And you gotta leave from here in a couple hours, and I got another and then get back and do something, and yeah, yeah. And we still got we we've got this week to finish moving out, so sometime this week we'll have to, you know, get the rest of our stuff. Then you have to look at unboxing it all. Yeah. And it was just, man, it was this was the busiest week I've had in a while.

SPEAKER_01 9:21

Yeah, moving sucks. Yeah. Regardless of when it is, how it is, how it's arranged, man, moving sucks.

SPEAKER_02 9:28

Yep. And it we try to keep each other accountable. Me and Jamie just like, hey, we haven't spent time together. Hey, let's make sure we, you know, hang out, watch a movie or whatever. But sometimes we just look at each other just like, I don't know, we can't can't do it this week, you know, can't hang out this week.

SPEAKER_01 9:45

That's something that me and Jennifer have struggled have struggled with because she doesn't she doesn't really understand the ministry side of things, you know, the the the desire to to serve. Not that she doesn't serve, she you know, she does things in the kids and stuff, but those extra days, she doesn't get it. Yeah. It's like I don't know how to describe it, but it's it's it's something that we have struggled with in our marriage, is is her understanding that as a pastor there are things that I have to do. And responsibilities that are outside of a normal service. You know, it'd be great to just come on Sunday morning and do service and leave, but that's just not that's not how we're built, you know. We're not that's not how God called us.

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And what was I gonna say, man? I don't know. I'm trying to remember here. My brain's not braining. Come on, brain, think of things. Come on, brain, be so smart. That's what Jamie says all the time.

SPEAKER_01 10:48

I bet it was good too.

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I've been back to reading more. So that definitely helps to kind of not not so much rest like my body, but it definitely rests my mind. Right. You know, it's something I can enjoy and not be thinking about all the other things that I need to do. And it's man, it it's really been helping, and I've been wanting to do more of that. So I know that's something I'm trying to implement. More reading, especially during my days, during the week. Yeah. Stop, take a couple hours and just read and enjoy. Find something you enjoy to read.

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And we've talked about it before. I listen to audiobooks constantly, but it's not it's at work, you know. I'm not I'm not really taking time to do that. And then when you get home, you veg out in front of a TV because you just you're wore out, you don't want to do anything. It's it's so frustrating. The older I get, the harder it is to do stuff. Like, which if I did stuff, I'd feel more like doing stuff. It's kind of a vicious cycle. It's a vicious cycle, man. It's just it's a circle.

SPEAKER_02 11:49

It's a circle. Yeah, it's it's it's crazy, man. So if you're listening, let us know what are some good ways that you find rest that you can fight, you know, the fatigue that you that you deal with. And I know as you get older it it's more and more prevalent in your life, but at least you know you may have some things that you can you can do to help fight that.

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We'll take any advice you got.

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Any advice you got, throw it our way, man. We need it this week. Uh so I wanted to do we'll wait on all three of us to be on here to do um that's what's up.

SPEAKER_01 12:22

Okay.

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But I want to do a segment because I know me, you and Dylan had a conversation.

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Oh my gosh, are you kidding me?

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So I want to do top three

Share Your Best Rest Tips

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superheroes and why.

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Top three superheroes.

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Yes. So, you know, we've been doing um, you know, rating, but we'll just do top three superheroes. Start at three and then go down to one. So one being the your favorite favorite, and then three. So it doesn't even necessarily have to be like what you think is the most powerful, just yeah, what's your favorite?

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And and why is it and why is the most important thing?

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Yeah.

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Uh let's go number three with I haven't written this down or anything, so I haven't even thought about this.

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That's just not.

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Yeah, I didn't know about it until like literally just now.

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Yeah.

Top Three Superheroes Breakdown

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Um I think number three would be Hulk. Hulk, dun dun.

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That's not so for those of y'all that don't know, okay. We were on the bus the other day and Richard looked at one of his kids and said, Hey, what's the Spider-Man theme song? And she said, Dun-da-da-da. Like what?

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Extremely wrong.

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Yeah.

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And I like I like Hulk because is of his backstory and the the the story of trying to control the monster inside you. Yeah. I think that's a pretty cool, uh, cool thing.

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Okay, okay. I like it. Yeah. I'm gonna go. My number three would be Cyclops. Or not Cyclops, what in the world am I talking about? Uh I don't know. Uh Gambit. Sorry. I don't know why I said Cyclops.

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Gambit, okay.

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Yeah.

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And the why.

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He was just so cool. Like it was something, you know, it was it was during the 90s when when the cartoon was out, and I just thought he was the coolest thing in the world.

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And my number two, same same concept, Wolverine. Just cool, just the coolest character. Uh I mean, he was just awesome, and he, you know, the power that he had, and it's just he's just so good.

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Yeah. It really makes me want to watch it again.

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Yeah. The 90s cartoon was good. It was really, really good.

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Man, he was just so like how cool does that he's just the coolest, man. Gambit. Yeah.

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Yeah. He was good with the cards and all yeah.

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Yeah, and I just thought the trench coat, he was just really neat.

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I like I like the accent too. The Noorlands. Yeah, the Noala.

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So you got so yours at Wolverine and then man, okay. Hulk and Wolverine. So so did you like the the comics where them two were together?

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I don't read comics.

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Oh, well.

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That's and that's that's the debate I always get into with people. I never read comic books. Never have. I only think I know about comics is what they turned into movies. So there you go.

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That's it.

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What do you mean that's it?

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I mean that's it. Just like well, I take that back.

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I did read one comic book. It was The Death of Superman.

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Yeah. Man, Hulken Wolverine, man, going at it.

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Yeah. Did you ever read The Death of Superman?

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Maybe. I don't know. It's been a while.

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It's been a while since it came out, but it was a good one.

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So my number two is Batman.

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Batman.

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Where is she?

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Have you ever seen the parodies of Batman? Yes, oh my gosh, yes.

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There's something about the heroes that like Iron Man, Batman, um, that don't really have superpowers.

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Right.

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But they they use what they have for the good. There's something about and Batman is the original, and he is just the man.

SPEAKER_01 16:04

Yeah. And it's, I mean.

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And he's a he's a it's a c it's a one and one A. I mean, it's a close one and two. So it's even hard for me to say Batman at two. It's kind of a one A.

SPEAKER_01 16:16

Okay. That's not a thing. We're doing one, two, three. We're not doing something.

SPEAKER_02 16:20

Okay, so I just don't want Bruce Wayne to come in here and beat me up.

SPEAKER_01 16:26

I'm one. It's gonna be Dylan coming in.

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He's so wrong on his whole.

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Uh so my number one, you already know, Captain America.

SPEAKER_02 16:37

It's just the it's just the words. No, I accidentally hit that. This is the one I meant to hit.

SPEAKER_01 16:49

Oh that's wrong. Now Chris Evans is gonna come in and get you. No. So anyway, so the reason I like Captain America is his his honor. Yeah, his his level of honor and respect that he has for everybody that he works with and around. And of course, he's powerful. And I just think he embodies everything a superhero should be.

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Yeah. America. America. Chris Evans did a good job at portraying him. He was really good. Yeah. I I and again, it's your own, it's your own thing. Your favorites. It is my favorites, yes. So I already know your number one. You absolutely do. It's a number one superhero. Hands down. Spider-Man. I don't know where she got it from. Yeah. The Spidey Man. He's he's and I think his big thing, he's got the cool factor. He's got, you know, with great power comes great responsibility, all the things, but I think his biggest thing is he reminds me the most of me. So it's like he was the one superhero. I'm like, oh, he could do that, I could do that. Right. He wasn't big buff guy. He wasn't, you know, this um guy that was born with superpowers or, you know, the Superman, the Captain America, the guys that had the the those type of abilities. But he was just a kid.

SPEAKER_01 18:19

Right. That's the coolest thing about Spider-Man for me is that he took on that mantle as a teenager. Yeah.

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You know, it was like just because I can't, I can't imagine I mean you're you're fighting off the bad these bad guys. Yeah. And you're just like you're a teenager. Like you're worried about getting your your paper turned in and third period.

SPEAKER_01 18:40

Can't use the excuse. Well, Spider-Man, give me a break.

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And yeah, her fighting Green Goblin. Like it's like that's so I always found that cool. And and it was the one I could relate to the most.

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Yeah.

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You know, Batman, you look at like, oh, one day I'd like to be like that guy. Spider-Man, you look at like that could be me. Like that.

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All I gotta do is find a radioactive spider.

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Yeah, I I tried when I was a kid. Oh, absolutely. Absolutely.

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That might be a thing.

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We need to okay. Interesting.

SPEAKER_01 19:06

Go visit Chernobyl, see what we figure out. I have a feeling you just die. Yeah, just yeah, just death.

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Yeah. Okay. And then last we won't do top three, but I I've I've been having this epiphany. Oh, big word. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 19:22

It's a five dollar word.

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So best boy band.

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Oh, there is no. Okay, let me put this to bed right next.

SPEAKER_02 19:31

Man, okay. This is gonna be interesting. The backstreet boys. Okay, okay, same. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Everybody calm down. So early when I was growing up, so eight, nine, ten, it I was a big blockhead. Yeah. So I was new kids on the block all day.

SPEAKER_01 19:51

Uh yeah, I was with you. Then I wasn't nine ten, but

Boy Bands, Music Taste, And Nostalgia

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we'll go with it.

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Then I which I liked Backstreet Boys, but InSync was my was was the guy. Never got into InSync. Yeah. And then as I matured, I realized that nobody can touch the Backstreet Boys.

SPEAKER_01 20:08

And it's that, I mean, their harmonies, their their attitudes, their I mean, they were they put out some fantastic music.

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Who is your favorite?

SPEAKER_01 20:18

My favorite Backstreet Boy? AJ.

SPEAKER_02 20:21

AJ, really? Your AJ guy. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 20:23

I kind of like the edgy kind of Nick.

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It's my guy. Yeah. It's my guy. Yeah. I even watched um the show with him and his brother. Yeah, I don't know. I can't remember the name. Meet the Carters, maybe. I think that was something like that. I used to watch that show just because Nick was like, I was like, that's my guy, man. I like 98 Degrees. I like Nick Lachey.

SPEAKER_01 20:44

I liked him and uh as I again as I matured, I I really got into Boys to Men.

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Okay, yeah, there you go.

SPEAKER_01 20:50

I really love like their harmonies are I mean they're top-notch. I mean it even I would say their harmonies alone was above the Backstreet Boys. However, as an overall group, I think Backstreet Boys didn't.

SPEAKER_02 21:03

Do you like any of the girl like girl bands? Are they girl bands? What are they called?

SPEAKER_01 21:06

I don't know what they're so fun fact about me, I don't like as a general rule, I don't like female singers.

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Really? Okay.

SPEAKER_01 21:14

And I'm I mean country music, and I think it's got to do with me singing along. Yeah.

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Except for Reba.

SPEAKER_01 21:24

You take a breath. Reba's awesome. But uh yeah, I've just never been a female singer fan.

SPEAKER_02 21:32

Yeah. I mean exceptions. That's a good reason too. Like it's hard to sing along with them. That is true. Yeah. And I liked When it came to like female singers, I like the kind of I would say edgier ones. None of them are really edgy, but like I like uh Gwen Stefani and and uh Everett Levine, like them to uh Amy Lee and stuff like that. But Amy Lee, uh Evan Essence.

SPEAKER_01 21:56

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02 21:58

I like them, but Same way. Just like so I know there was TLC, Destiny's Child.

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No scrubs.

SPEAKER_02 22:07

Man, I uh well salt and pepper, I guess that that would be considered, yeah.

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I thought they were just a gimmick. Salt and pepper? Yeah, they just Yeah. They don't do music.

SPEAKER_02 22:18

It's like mil remember Millie Vanilli and they got caught lip singing. And now it's normal.

SPEAKER_01 22:22

Now it's just you know, I was talking to Jennifer about that. She had no idea.

SPEAKER_02 22:25

Oh really?

SPEAKER_01 22:26

She had no idea who Millie Vanilli is.

SPEAKER_02 22:27

I remember the interview where they're like, sing, sing now then. If you could do it, and they're like, no, and then they finally they they did like a little a little bit.

SPEAKER_01 22:36

And the crazy thing is they can sing.

SPEAKER_02 22:37

Yeah. Well it was so stupid. They can sing, and now it's absolutely normal. It's right you expect that at a concert. You know, so it's nonsense. Yeah, it's crazy.

SPEAKER_01 22:46

Yeah, I mean, they had actual other people singing at a concert. It's the recordings of them singing, but yeah, it's but she had no idea. And I was like, that's we don't, we're not that far apart. Right. Like it's six years.

SPEAKER_02 22:57

That's not Yeah, because that was that had to be in the nineties.

SPEAKER_01 23:01

It was in the nineties, maybe late eight. Uh probably early.

SPEAKER_02 23:05

I'm pretty sure it was the nineties because I think they came out. It came out.

SPEAKER_01 23:08

I really liked them, but and I I didn't care about the conspiracy.

SPEAKER_02 23:13

Girl, you know it's true.

SPEAKER_01 23:15

Blame it on the rain.

SPEAKER_02 23:18

Oh man.

SPEAKER_01 23:19

I love music. I've always loved music, movies. I think.

SPEAKER_02 23:21

What's your favorite genre of music?

SPEAKER_01 23:23

Uh so I'm I have to my favorite genre of music is also I have to put a time on it. Yeah. So it's 90s country. Yeah. I think that country peaked in the 90s and never recovered.

SPEAKER_02 23:36

And it just never came back.

SPEAKER_01 23:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:37

Man, there's some there's some good artists now that I like.

SPEAKER_01 23:40

And I like a few songs now. Yeah. Luke Bryan's got one uh talking to my kids about Jesus. Yeah. It's a really good song, but as a general rule, I don't like country music now. Which nowadays I listen to mostly Christian, you know, obviously, but I mean I like classic rock. I love hairbands.

SPEAKER_02 23:59

Yeah, that was that was a good genre. I like 90s country, and it's just mom, I mean, mom wore it out all the time. So that was a big part of it. It's just she just wore it out.

SPEAKER_01 24:11

George Strait, Alan Jackson, Garth Brooks, all them guys. Travis Tritt. Travis Trit.

SPEAKER_02 24:15

I like Travis Tritt.

SPEAKER_01 24:17

Anymore. Yeah. He was great. Yeah, and they and they also took advantage of the music video crazy. Right, right.

SPEAKER_02 24:24

That's something too that's crazy. Like MTV shutdown. Yeah. You know, there it I remember that was the only place to get which now it's all over the internet, you know, but that was crazy just watching the the music video die.

SPEAKER_01 24:36

Yeah. Yeah, it was it was and it was it was such a cool aspect of music because it really brought songs to life for people.

SPEAKER_02 24:45

Well, dude, we'd run out. We'd I I'd I would rush home to watch the end of TRL.

SPEAKER_01 24:49

Yeah. I never watched TRL in my life.

SPEAKER_02 24:52

Oh man.

SPEAKER_01 24:53

And I don't I don't know, like, I don't think I've ever been a fan of a music when it was popular. Yeah, oh yeah, just like after like I always missed the boat on popular music.

SPEAKER_02 25:05

Well the one thing I didn't like about TR, it never showed the whole video. It was always like two minutes of the video. Yeah. I mean, it would get a little bit longer the closer you get to number one, but it came on at at three is when it came on. So by the time we got home, I I could catch the very end of it.

SPEAKER_01 25:23

I just had to get home before Maury Povich at four.

SPEAKER_02 25:25

Yeah, yeah. So it was always Save by the Bell in the morning and TRL right after school.

SPEAKER_01 25:31

I never watched TV in the morning because I was at I was at last minute, barely make it to the bus kids.

SPEAKER_02 25:36

Okay, okay. So this brings up an interesting question.

SPEAKER_01 25:38

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 25:39

So are you one that can get up and out within a few minutes from wake up to out the door?

SPEAKER_01 25:46

I can do it either way.

SPEAKER_02 25:47

Really? Yeah, I can do it.

SPEAKER_01 25:49

And it really depends on just what I have going on the night before. Yeah. If I feel like I need 30 more minutes of sleep, you know, I've I generally get to work at 4 30 and I get up at 4. So which I live right there in town. Yeah. So I'll get up, throw clothes on, and I'm out.

SPEAKER_02 26:02

Yeah. No.

SPEAKER_01 26:04

Yeah, you're a lay around. Dude. You don't even get out of bed. And you set your alarm. I swear to you. We s we've shared a hotel room and that alarm, I wanted to throw your phone

Snooze Button Debate And Morning Routines

SPEAKER_01 26:19

window. Like 10 alarms. Like, dude, get up. Yeah. Set the alarm, get out of bed.

SPEAKER_02 26:23

And I have to I snooze myself awake.

SPEAKER_01 26:26

Stop it. That's not what's not what grown-ups do. It's bad.

SPEAKER_02 26:32

Which now they've changed it to where you can't you can't accidentally turn it off.

SPEAKER_01 26:38

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 26:38

So the snooze is hit and then the off is you have to slide it. Right, right. You know, so that not not that that stopped me. I still hit snooze, so I still snooze the crap out of it. But it's man, it I don't know what it is. Even when I get up, I have to sit for a little bit and just kind of and some people are like that, man.

SPEAKER_01 26:57

They gotta they gotta have some time. Jennifer's like that. She gets up really early. Yeah. So she has time to sit, get ready, and you know, kind of kind of I guess gear up for work.

SPEAKER_02 27:06

I had a friend that five minutes from sleep to out the door.

SPEAKER_01 27:11

I don't I'm not that good.

SPEAKER_02 27:13

Like up, dressed, teeth brushed, out the door. I need about 30. Like, woo. It was no. I was up for two hours. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 27:26

I don't get it. It's like my two hours. I can have a lot of stuff done.

SPEAKER_02 27:29

It's like my brain is a diesel engine.

SPEAKER_01 27:32

Gotta prime that thing, though.

SPEAKER_02 27:35

Yeah, so you know, just get some rest.

SPEAKER_00 27:40

Nap. Oh boy. Just get a nap.

SPEAKER_02 27:45

Oh. I love you, man.

unknown 27:47

Love you.