Mission Men Podcast
A show about Nothing, Everything and Anything in between!
Mission Men Podcast
Mission Men: Roadtrips and Rebellion
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Ever found yourself nodding off during a marathon drive, or maybe just need a good chuckle while remembering the awkwardness of high school? Buckle up for this ride with the Mission Men, where we swap stories from the trenches of homeschooling and public education, to the trials of syncing schedules in today's hectic world. We kick things off with a heartfelt shoutout to our Instagram live audience, setting the stage for unscripted laughs and lessons learned the hard way.
As we unpack the secrets to staying alert on those yawning stretches of highway, you'll get the inside scoop on the most potent gas station energy potions and playlists that could start a one-car rave. Learn how a buddy can be your best defense against the sandman, and join the debate on the perfect background noise for a restful night's sleep. We're eager to hear your long-haul stories and nighttime soundtracks, so hit us up with your go-to's!
Then, we take a detour down memory lane with some adventures in academia. John brings the humor home with tales of basketball and his mom's patience during his homeschooling days. It's an episode filled with the kind of authenticity that'll make you feel like you're right there with us, sharing stories and a whole lot of gratitude. So tune in, get comfy, and let's journey together through life's missions.
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Hosts: Brandon Matias, Paul Wright III and John Frease
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Mission Men podcast brought to you by Mission Media Group, the Mission Men podcast. The podcast about literally nothing at all and everything, and with John involved, about everything, anything in between. Thank you, there we go, you're welcome. So what's up? Everybody, we are I'm holding a phone here, we're actually live on instagram right now. We put it out to you guys saying, hey, join us, come, hang out. Uh, we're gonna do a comments, questions, anything that you may have for the mission men. Uh, we'll also be doing a segment where, literally, you tell john to do anything and he will do that thing.
Speaker 2No, not true.
Speaker 1And also, too, I don't consent to that okay, fair enough, uh, but he will, so it'll be a great show. We're really excited about it. Um, yeah, and and right now we've got somebody here, which is great, really excited that you're here thank you, it's.
Speaker 3I think it's you right. No, there's someone, oh, there's somebody else there's actually you can here. Thank you, it's. I think it's you right. No, there's somebody else.
Speaker 2There's actually you can see if you want, or you can join the live and always watch it on your phone I'm gonna join the live.
Speaker 1Okay, join the live. Paul's joining the live everybody.
Speaker 2Yeah, wow, all right, here we go I know how to spell the word live excellent.
Speaker 1so there's also this is riveting content right now, by the way, and anyways.
Speaker 2R-I-V-O-T. Nope, you're wrong, i-n.
Speaker 1Nope, that's actually an E.
Speaker 2I think G.
Speaker 1So, anyways, guys, thank you so much for watching and listening to the Mishman Podcast. We just appreciate you guys so much. Thank you for taking. I know I messed up that word. Don Don't laugh at me so so, but we just wanted to take a second say thank you. We appreciate all the love and support. Um, if you guys ever have prayer requests or comments or suggestions for show ideas, or if you feel so inclined for whatever possible reason, to give us five stars, we'd really, really appreciate that on a rating on the on spotify, apple store, all the things.
Speaker 2So yeah, and if you really feel, really, really, really inclined, we also would take five dollars, uh, three dollars really 30? I'm just kidding. We don't need money. Well, that's not entirely true. I need money.
Speaker 3Okay, let's keep this rolling.
Speaker 1I just wanted to leave John on an island and I was actually waiting for the.
Speaker 3Oh yeah, I forgot.
Speaker 2You leave me on an island, I'll come back ten coconuts richer. I guarantee you that With Brandon Lake, which is a call-out to a previous episode.
Speaker 1The Couples Game Show Great episode. I really had fun with that. Okay, guys. So today we got a little couple fun things we want to talk about today. John just recently learned about airlines. Oh nice, oh good, good, good yeah, Tell me more, Tell me more oh yeah, no, yeah, we're gonna tell you more, we're gonna tell you all about it and then after that, guys uh stay tuned because, john, uh, you know a lot of the times, john, I'm going through puberty oh nice dude I remember when that almost spit out my coffee.
Speaker 2yeah, I know, right on the Right on the black magic, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1I'm a late bloomer, nice, yeah. So we, you know the whole thing with John. You know a lot of the times he says the comment you know, sorry, I was homeschooled, right Right. So you know, we kind of wanted dive into that a little bit. Sure, I would say Michael Phelps yeah, absolutely, because he's a swimmer. That's really good, good connection.
Speaker 1I was the fastest At what, Anything Okay there we go that works too, yeah, so we're going to dive into that, which will be a lot of fun. So, but before, uh, we get into that, john, you know there's a a situation, uh, so, obviously, everybody here listening and watching we are part of a, um, awesome company called the mission media group and so pizza company in town we serve excellent pizza, and so with that, now we do media yeah, it's true, um hence media, and so, uh, with that, now we do media.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's true, hence media, and so with that, we had a big event coming up. Paul, we did. We had a really big event coming up, and so we were super excited about when we got the news. Yeah, and then what was one of the first things that we heard Paul from John? What did he say as soon as we heard the date?
Speaker 3I'm not going to be there. I'm not going to be there.
Speaker 1I'm not going to be there, right, and because he had already planned, fair enough.
Speaker 3Fair enough.
Speaker 1He had a vacation plan with his family and everything like that, of course, yes. So from that we were like, okay, well, john, maybe there's some possibility of flights. We said that day one, day one, yes. Right are you sure, day one, day one, are you?
Speaker 3sure positive and then.
Speaker 1So time went and several weeks. Yes, several weeks and we've been.
Speaker 2It came up several times and then finally we're like okay well I don't remember that you don't okay well, you don't remember a whole lot exactly, he said it, I didn't have to say it okay, so apparently I missed some information.
Speaker 1They told me to get a flight, whatever not important I don't know I was, I don't know I wasn't listening.
Speaker 2Yeah it doesn't matter, who cares. That's irrelevant. Let's get to the story.
Speaker 1So we're all sitting at a table, we're at the event, we're like, okay, we really really need you here, john, and obviously we want to be super respectful of previous plans. But is there any possible way that we can get you to this event? And, by the way, there's some people joining here. Hello, if we're doing live Mission man podcast right now, so if you have any questions or comments, please leave them and John's going to do anything that you say.
Speaker 2So please feel free, it's going to be a lot of fun.
Speaker 3It's going to be great. It's going to be great, anyways. No, we have four now.
Speaker 1So, anyways, we're like John, pull out your phone, Please check flights. And John looked up flights and he's like man guys, I'm really sorry, I'm just not seeing any times right.
Speaker 2I mean, you saw on your phone yeah, no times, nothing. Well, no, no, no.
Speaker 3He looked up southwest.
Speaker 1Correct, correct. Yes, yes, he looked up southwest and he didn't see anything, right? Yes, yes.
Speaker 1Okay, so did not see any flights. Uh, according to him, yes, right, right. So, um, time goes by. We're like man, okay, workarounds, we're trying to figure out, okay, what's the best way that we can do this without john. Finally just comes to a point where, like john, we really, really, really, we need you there, we really is there any possible way? I mean like, and he's gonna be like eight hours away, so like, even like man, I know it's a crazy drive and I know that'd be for just one day, but can you do it, you know, whatever. And then so, um, and so I think, how did? How did this come up, paul? We were on a zoom, we were on a zoom call, we're on a zoom call. And then finally did was it you or me? Somebody said, well, john, did you know? Did you really check?
Speaker 3really good, all the yeah, that was, that was me. I was like so you realize you can fly fly different airlines right southwest is not the only airline.
Speaker 1So well and then, but that's, but that's the thing, that's the thing. So it turned out that when john initially looked up the airlines, he only looked up Southwest.
Speaker 3That's the only airline in his mind.
Speaker 1That is the only airline that exists. That is not true, and so we're like. Well, John, you realize there's Delta.
Speaker 3There's, american there's.
Speaker 1Spirit, but don't fly Spirit. Well, yeah, Sponsor, no, just kidding.
Speaker 2Sponsor no.
Speaker 1I wish we had a sponsor. That'd be cool.
Speaker 2Today's sponsor is Mr Beast.
Speaker 1Chocolate Feastables. John, have you watched our show?
Speaker 2No sponsor. Would anybody sponsor this show? Can any of you guys sponsor? Yeah, that'd be cool, justin. Thanks, yeah, thanks, justin, thanks Justin.
Speaker 1But anyway. So, John, you realize that you can. There's other airlines right, yeah, I know well, no you didn't I know, yeah, okay okay and it's so fair enough, brother. And so we looked up and we're like john, there's so many options and and, and then I I was thank you, john, for your loving foot on my foot. I really appreciate you doing that sorry.
Speaker 2when you said the flight spirit, what did it do, john? Nothing.
Speaker 1Okay, continue, all right. So John just recently discovered that there are other airlines. Now let me ask you did you really not know that there was any other airline besides Southwest Bro? Please tell me have.
Speaker 2We have to know please tell me that you did not think southwest was the only airline. So I mean, I think you know I think I, I, what? Uh, I didn't do enough research. I should have done more research. I only looked at southwest and just in my mind I was like well, that's not happening. No flights available.
Speaker 3Sorry guys can't go that was the end of it for you, right, that was the end of it.
Speaker 2And then when you guys told me like there's other flights that go out of there, I was like no, I already looked.
Speaker 3And you're like what'd you check just southwest well, like I said, southwest is not the hub and you're like you realize there's more flights in southwest and I was like yeah, like yeah, you know what that's, that's a given.
Speaker 2So we looked and, surely enough, we found flights we found flights, we made it happen.
Speaker 1So, or we will make it happen, happy ending to the story. We figured out and also, you grew smarter and you figured yeah, I grew, smarter I grew and wiser I grew wiser, I yeah yeah, let's continue.
Speaker 3Okay, so justin just asked us yeah, justin, yeah, justin.
Speaker 1So hey, what's up, justin. So justin said what is the key to passing time on a flight or long drive? Good question, paul. What do you think? What's your?
Speaker 3I don't, I don't do anything past four hours he doesn't leave his studio. I have to fly If it's more than four hours.
Speaker 2I'm not doing it. You should ask him what he has to do while he's waiting to join the Zoom call. Wait, wait, more, so Sorry.
Speaker 1So you don't, you will not go international.
Speaker 3International would be different, because there's no other way to get there. I will not drive in a car for more than four hours. I'll fly for 12 hours. Okay, so it's just driving. But do not put me in a car for four hours, okay Over four hours, fair enough.
Speaker 1Atlanta's like my. Oh, that's like a nightmare, that's it.
Speaker 3No, that's my distance.
Speaker 1Oh, that's as far as you'll drive.
Speaker 3Yes, and then after that I've caught flights to Atlanta before me just as long when I checked my bags and went to TSA and I could have driven there in the same time that I waited in the airport.
Speaker 2But who wants to?
Speaker 3do that.
Speaker 1So do you hate driving in general, or is it? Just like for long trips. I hate driving period.
Long-Distance Travel
Speaker 3I don't like to drive, I don't like to be the passenger, I don't like to be the driver. Past four hours, I'm done.
Speaker 1So if you have to drive the four hours, what would you do like podcast or something definitely not this one.
Speaker 3But uh, if I have to drive, I'll turn on netflix or hulu and I'm listening to a tv show that is not safe.
Speaker 2I'll listen to the tv show, paul, not watch the tv show paul.
Speaker 3I will listen to the tv. Does the?
Speaker 2same thing. He watches ohio state football or basketball, while he while he drives what do you?
Speaker 1what do you do to pass the time on a flight or long drive?
Speaker 2A flight, I'll fall asleep. And drive I'll fall asleep If you're the driver.
Speaker 3what do you do? Fall asleep. Okay, you're getting ready to drive. Not good on my insurance. You're getting ready to drive eight hours, yeah, yeah. So what are you going to do to pass the time away?
Speaker 2Okay, first we're going to the gas station. We're popping the most high caffeine grade energy drink I can find. Pop that John. Then we get in the car. Wait, pop what, what. Pop that John, what's that? Oh, y'all don't know my lingo Okay, okay, hold on, let me teach you, wait wait, wait. Is that actually a thing, or did you just come up?
Speaker 3with that. No, no uh cam was here.
Speaker 2John, it's a pot that, john. No, no, I don't believe it. So it's, it's john. Okay, I might be wrong. John is short for joint. Not what? Not marijuana joint, but joint like an object, like that's that joint, like I pulled up to the joint, but instead of saying joint, like I put it, at the john hey, justin is confirming never do that again hey, justin is confirming live that that is a real term.
Speaker 3So thank you, justin. See, justin, we have a faithful listener here. That's what I'm talking about. No, so that, john.
Speaker 2So I find justin find the highest caffeine, john, and I pull that in the car, chug that real quick and then probably at that. So am I by myself or with someone?
Speaker 3pretend like you're by yourself okay, by myself.
Speaker 2Oh, this is even harder. So I really need to find the most caffeine. Maybe get two of them, and then I'll throw on some hard style music like so, like what, like what you want me to pull?
Speaker 1oh no, don't pull it up, just just box it hard. Hard styles like heart sounds like like that kind of like are you actually like? Four in the four, like yeah, it's like super, super fast like bass heavy.
Speaker 2It's what I listen to to work out. So I do that to stay up for a little bit. Then I'll kind of move on to a little bit.
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah, then.
Speaker 2I'll kind of move on to a chiller song chiller music, maybe some rap, christian rap. Pull that up, pull that, john up. Listen to that for a little while and then I'll kind of be tired of that music and then I'll move on to some worship music.
Speaker 3So that'll last you eight hours. You'll do that for eight. No, no that's.
Speaker 2That's like an hour or two. What about the other seven?
Speaker 3the other seven.
Speaker 2I get really tired, not gonna lie and how do you stay awake? How do you stay awake? That's why I have to be driving with someone. If I'm going that far now, I've driven one time with miles. I drove, drove I drove I drove seven and a half hours straight without getting tired okay I was very proud of myself, I'll.
Speaker 2But something about me that day was just like menace mode, like I was like straight locked to the road, gliding down the highway, locked in precision movements, precision lane switching, just I mean, I was dialed, so that's when I did, that's when I did, that's when you did drugs, but anyways hopefully that answers your question.
Speaker 1That'll pass the time really well. What would you do? Well, drugs.
Speaker 2Because I don't remember any of it. He's just kidding.
Speaker 3We're all kidding folks.
Speaker 1For me. I'm like such a nerd.
Speaker 2Hey, what's up Faith, what's up Faith. So for me, I'm such a nerd what's up Faith.
Speaker 1What's up Faith? Um so, for yeah, for me, I'm such a nerd I'll put on like stock market, like analysis stuff.
Speaker 3What Trading? Oh yeah, just like complete nerds. How does that keep you?
Speaker 1awake Because it's so boring I have to pay attention to like focus on it. You know, because it's so boring.
Speaker 2I have to pay attention to, like focus on it, you know. So I'm like, but I'm actually interested in that stuff.
Speaker 3No, no, I can't do that.
Speaker 1No, no, but that I mean. But I'll listen to music, of course, don't get me wrong.
Speaker 3That's the reason why I listen to TV shows, because you know TV shows if eight hours.
Speaker 1Yeah, but also some like, either like mixing podcasts or like some kind of podcast audio.
Speaker 2Oh, that works, that works. Yeah, maybe like eight hours of a goat crying to bed on repeat. Yes, yes, all day Actually though, if I am in the car and I'm in the passenger seat and you put on white noise, that is some of the best sleep I can get.
Speaker 3Do you sleep with noise?
Speaker 2Yeah, I sleep with white noise every night.
Speaker 3We sleep with oscillating fan noise.
Speaker 1Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3Every night oscillating fan.
Speaker 1I do the ocean, I'm an ocean guy.
Speaker 3So we all sleep with noise, oh yeah, oh, that's interesting. We never talked about that.
Speaker 1We can all sleep perfectly. Yeah, okay, there we go for anybody joining us live feel free to ask questions or give comments.
Speaker 3We're actually taping right now, believe it or not, and we're actually having a good time. So let's see cameras up here. Yes, uh, cameras are there, if you can take the ah, there you go, kind of quick william's calling in.
Speaker 2should we answer megan's on?
Speaker 1Oh, they're watching. Oh, so they can join this.
Speaker 2No, he's just calling my phone phone.
Speaker 1Oh, okay, for what? I don't know.
Speaker 2Megan is William watching Does he want to chime in. Yes, is his phone call intentional?
Speaker 1It's his phone call intentional. All right, so anyways, back on, here we go.
Speaker 2That's my nice little transition back to it.
Speaker 1Amanda, amanda, pietercola. Alright, guys, that's kind of what we would do, I guess, if we were there to pass on. Good question, justin, justin said something else too. Best food combo that sounds gross but is good. And how did you first try this?
Speaker 3Interesting question.
Speaker 2Why are you so good at podcast? Questions is a great podcast question.
Speaker 3Oh, she said that's right. Oh, he's calling you back okay, um, all right.
Speaker 2So yeah, best food combo never mind.
Speaker 1All right, best food combo. All right, john focus john focus, focus, hey sorry, hey, hey, hey, you chill, okay, I'll chill william, I'll call you back. I love you so much best food combo that sounds gross but is good, and how did you first try this? That's a really good question. Best food combo that? What best food combo that sounds gross but that's good? Like for me, I think it would be eggs and ketchup jimmy really yeah, you've never tried ketchup. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3I'm trying to think of what that would be for me. I don't know what that would be.
Speaker 1Justin, what's your answer? I'm just curious, John, what's your answer? Best food combo Best food combo it sounds gross.
Speaker 2It sounds gross, but is good One time I.
Speaker 1I got a joke. I'm about to be stupid.
Speaker 2Honestly, best food combo. I got a joke, I'm about to be stupid.
Speaker 3Okay, let me think I knew it. Honestly, best food?
Speaker 2Honestly yes, Honestly, Chick-fil-A sauce and steak and rice Really.
Speaker 3Yeah, chick-fil-a sauce, and your steak and rice. Yeah, I don't know if that sounds gross.
Speaker 1It's really good. Well, how did you discover that?
Speaker 2I left over Chick-fil-A sauce. You're like, why not?
Speaker 3Right, why not?
Speaker 2I just threw that, john there and I was like whip that up Ratatouille.
Speaker 1Boom, ratatouille. You ratatouille-ed that mug, didn't you? You, john, that John, didn't you?
Speaker 3Dwayne Megan is saying something. I guess he's calling you back, bro. I called William earlier. I got you. Thanks, megan.
Speaker 1Love you, megan. Fun live portion. Okay, cool, that's a good question. Alright, well, we should probably dive into the meat.
Speaker 2Let's do this. What is the meat? And potatoes?
Speaker 1Homeschool See, I don't know any of these Categories or topics.
Speaker 2We're going to be talking about the meat and potatoes.
Speaker 1What is the meat and potatoes?
Speaker 2Homeschool. Who is it Homeschool? See, I don't know any of these categories or topics. We're going to be talking about Brandon makes these all before we hop on the show.
Speaker 3Me and Paul don't know what we're talking about. Most of the time it's pretty impromptu and we don't know what's going to happen. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1I've had so many people ask They've how do you plan the shows? It's pretty much just like a general topic. I mean, you could definitely tell by this episode.
Speaker 2It is a shot in the dark.
Speaker 1Yeah, right, and I think that's when John shines his best. I think you do too. Where it's just like okay, hey, you know what, here's what we're talking about today, and just go.
Speaker 2It's just authentic Paul's, just funny. I love Paul. Who doesn't love Paul?
Speaker 3I love you too, jason. I love him too. Love you too, brandon. I love you, brandon. It's a love fest going on.
Speaker 2Here we go, let's each go around the table and say one thing no, I'm just kidding, no, I'm good, no, we're good. This isn't Thanksgiving. I wish I'm hungry as poop.
Speaker 1So you too, megan, uh, okay. So, paul, you grew up in public school, right, public school, yes, public school, okay. And I grew up in christian school, except for like one year, and, john, you were homeschooled, yeah, okay, like all your years all my years all my life.
Speaker 2I was homeschooled there you go, okay, okay so, um.
Speaker 1So I'm sorry, just expecting the button. Um, john, what? Expect that okay, so you started at a very young age. What? What was your general experience like being homeschooled? Like what did a normal?
Speaker 2day look like to you a normal day yeah, take us from the morning to when you woke up and how the day went okay, so before high school, I think I remember it being pretty I tried to block out most of it in my mind um, but I remember most of it before high school I think we were up and starting school by 9 or 10 am every day. Mom would thank. Thank you, mom, really, if you're watching this.
Speaker 1Thank you oh my gosh putting up with me. How did? How did she not give up?
Speaker 2dude I I drove her crazy so I would make her walk out sometimes and make her just leave and she'd be so frustrated with me sometimes. So I was really into basketball big time whenever I was homeschooled like throughout kid to like before high school, whatever that's called almost like there'd be like a middle school kind of name.
Speaker 3I'm just playing, I know.
Speaker 2Was it, Anyways? So around that time I was really into basketball and what I would do to pass time as mom would ask me questions during our classes and stuff, I would have a ball in the hand and I would just dribble and throw it off the wall, dribble, throw it off the wall for hours and we would always do schooling at church and so we would be back. Then we had a couple empty offices because we didn't have as many staff pastors as we do now, but we'd take over one of the empty ones, do school in there from nine, 10 to like two in the afternoon, and the whole time dribble, dribble, throw it off the wall, throw it off the wall, and I would do it right on Pastor Ryan's wall. So every day Pastor Ryan would go into work and hear over and over and over again the whole day.
Speaker 2And on top of that, my mom would, and my mom would be like John, stop using the ball, put the ball down, focus. She wouldn't yell like that, but she would be pretty angry. I don't hear your mom doing that no, but you would see a different side of her because of how bad I made her work for that.
Speaker 1And let's be extremely fair to your mom. She's probably one of the most gracious women.
Speaker 2Patient, patient women on patient women. Yes, on earth, on the face of the planet. Yeah, I found the most creative how did you do off?
Speaker 3how do you do that?
Speaker 2your mom is not like that I don't well, I just hated school so much that whenever she would put so much time and work into trying to make me learn things, I just would not want to and would not learn them comprehension. Remember when I remember when we had the shoot and danelle was trying to help me with the slate and he was like say, and I was like my what? And it took like five times to actually spit it out.
Speaker 3You did well. That's why I was.
Speaker 2I was terrible at that because I hated that like reading comprehension whenever they read the the story and they'd have you comprehend it back I mean who wants to read something and actually know what it says?
Speaker 1what?
Speaker 3I don't comprehend that fair enough, that's the point, yeah, so proven.
Speaker 2Yes, yes. So that that was awful. I think I made her upset about that because I would just be like just saying, saying dumb answers rhetorically, because I knew I was going to get them wrong and I just didn't show that.
Speaker 3I cared, so that's what you did literally every day.
Speaker 2Maybe not every day but most days. Yeah, Then I would just not do my homework much. I honestly just don't remember a lot of my homeschool life other than when I made Mom Triggered and how boring it was. And then around high school I feel like we kind of gave up on the dream a little bit, because I remember sleeping up at like. I remember like sleeping until noon every day you gave up on the dream.
Speaker 2No, yeah well mom did. And what was that dream? To be smart, I don't know. You're she's like there's no way.
Speaker 1This is gonna happen. This is not well. I just remember, what was that dream. To be smart, I don't know. She's like there's no way this is going to happen, there's no hope this is not going to happen.
Speaker 2Well, I just remember it being so regimented for a while, and then whenever I got into high school I guess to be fair, though, mom stopped teaching me at sixth or seventh grade, I think sixth- grade.
Speaker 1She stopped teaching me then.
Speaker 2And is that? Because at that point you start learning on your own.
Speaker 3Is that how that works? Yeah, that, and the material becomes too advanced. Unless she was a teacher. Y'all hear some static. Yeah, it's his phone. It's too close to the microphone. Oh sorry, here I'll move that.
Speaker 2Sorry.
Speaker 1Sorry, no, no, no, that was good. Thanks for bringing that up. I just comprehended that real fast.
Speaker 2But anyways. So yeah, around sixth grade she stopped teaching me. She was like that's it I'm done on your own.
Speaker 3I'm done like yeah let's buy him a camera.
Speaker 2I was like I knew that one time that you fell on your head like, but anyways yeah, um, so makes sense around high school middle school that's when I started doing a co-op every tuesday okay and stop me whenever you get bored, because I'm just talking about this.
Speaker 1No, no, keep going, because we got questions as it goes okay so tell me what it was like, because you were doing, obviously, school by yourself at that point, up until that point, right. And then what? How is that going from doing school by yourself to doing school with other kids? What was that transition like?
Speaker 2it's terrible, because those other kids were like, like like you, anything like you. No, no, no, no, no not like that, like kids who, like, grew up on a farm, churned butter, made their own sweaters, did not know how to talk to people, never talked to people in their life, and I'm the guy who talks everyone well and to be.
Speaker 1You know, because you you obviously were raised around a lot of people being involved as a pastor's kid at church.
Speaker 2That's where I got all the, so that's yeah, so you got to interact and be very social in that way.
Speaker 1Yes, right, but you were around other kids that had like zero of that.
Speaker 3Social skills yeah, zero, zero bro. Social skills yeah, zero, zero bro. Okay, so what was so bad so?
Speaker 1tell me like, explain me, like maybe, what some of those interactions may have been like no names, please.
Awkward High School Memories
Speaker 2No, yeah, I don't keep up with any of them to this day and no one would watch this okay they thought I probably have failed life by now. Um, so, to be fair though, these kids are super, super smart, yeah, but social skills lacked. So I guess I I guess the first couple times I would go, I'd try to mingle with people, and the co-op I was that was pretty small, so there wasn't a lot of options.
Speaker 2Basically, uh, lauren was there, lauren's cool, lauren wasn't a part of this group yeah, I only really knew lauren, and then there was like other random people, and so when all else failed, like I had lauren at least to chat with hang out with, laugh with whatever I've known, lauren my whole life, um shout out lauren the other kids.
Speaker 1She's not watching, good yes, whatever.
Speaker 2Uh, that one episode I said, tyler, that's funny anyway. So, um, that's funny anyway.
Speaker 1So there's the callbacks that nobody cares or knows about.
Speaker 2Yeah so, anyways, I think I'd talk to these kids and I'd try to you know, mingle, chat, laugh, whatever, and I just remember, like it never them never understanding or like knowing how to talk back, like you would approach them and they'd be like uh, uh, yeah, like short answer, simple stuff, whatever and no, no connections at all.
Speaker 1It was terrible my guess is that oh I had travis, I'm sorry oh yeah, sure okay I had travis.
Speaker 2That was my best friend. Do you want do?
Speaker 1you want to do an inside joke about travis that nobody will get that, or call out to him or something. Uh, off-white hottie. Okay, there you go off-white. So I won't ask um, yeah, fair enough, fair enough, um, okay, so what?
Speaker 2I have some funny stories from all.
Speaker 1Yeah, go ahead, okay yeah, no, we'll get to this in a second Is one of the biggest things that probably bothered you. This is my guess, paul, is that you tried to be funny a lot during school and these kids probably just like did not think you were funny.
Speaker 2Yeah, that was not really a problem for me, because once I understood that they weren't going to laugh, that I was going to laugh.
Speaker 3And so I would, just so that, cursed you more. As long as you laughed, it was all right.
Speaker 2Yeah, so I realized that these kids were going to have no expression or emotion or feelings. And so, as I did my funny stuff, I would enjoy to see the reaction, to see if I could get them to react more shocked or shook, right?
Speaker 1Yeah right. But however, like I said, Travis being there, so me and him being there together made it really fun because we both understood each other's jokes you were almost like living out, like a real life episode of the office. Pretty much. It's like where you were doing all these outrageous things and everybody's just staring there just like what is this dude doing?
Speaker 2yeah, yeah, yeah kind of yeah, so that's fun. I could see why that would be appealing and fun, and you know, the teachers and stuff were pretty, pretty chill, so most times you could get away with a lot of stuff, you know.
Speaker 3Wow.
Speaker 2And then after like a year or two probably just after a year of kind of joking and stuff then I got really bored and I started using my phone all the time.
Speaker 1Besides your mom, was there any other teacher that hated you? Yeah, oh yeah, way more than my mom really way more than your mom I had I had. And obviously no names, no names no, no, no.
Speaker 2I had two people that really seriously would actually say you're not going anywhere after high school if we asked them today, that's what they would have said well they probably. I don't know if they'd own up to that now, but I have people who would say that's what they would have said. Well, they probably. I don't know if they'd own up to that now, but I have people who would say, yeah, that's what they used to say.
Speaker 1Well, I think they would watch this podcast and be like I was right.
Confrontation With School Authority
Speaker 2Yeah, yep Called it. Yep, no, no, I had, yeah, they. I had a couple who would straight up like get so annoyed with me and they'd be like you realize, like if you keep doing this, you're not going anywhere in life.
Speaker 1Yeah what. What would you say to that?
Speaker 2probably I don't know some smart alec thing back. I never. Yeah, I didn't care.
Speaker 1Wow, right, right well, so like what would happen if you got sent to the principal's office, was there a principal's office? Yeah, so there was a principal's office yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2So we know the principal. I won't say her name oh sure, sure, sure um, but we know the principal and I would go to the principal office a couple times. Honestly. Honestly, I don't think I really went to the principal's office much, but I remember this one time I was in literature class or some class and there was only like six students in it. So it was very chill.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2And as the teacher was like going to the whiteboard to write stuff on there, there was this like box of crayons and markers and pens and me and Travis were just laughing the whole time but didn't care about the material at all, me being the jokester, I am thought it would be hilarious if I just open this box and just dump it on my head, and so I that was actually something you thought about, yeah no, I did it.
Speaker 2So I opened it up comedy goal. I opened it up, poured them all over my head and my teacher just looked back like, are you go to the principal's office? And I'd be like, okay, whatever. So I took the card, whatever, and I just went to the bathroom. I never went to the principal's office I just came back rebel then the principal later was like you were supposed to come see me and I was like, yeah, I just went to the bathroom yep, wow, yeah, you're, it's, it's.
Speaker 1It's amazing because for me I don't know about you, paul, but for me, like, when it came to like authority and stuff, I'd be like yes, sir, yes, ma'am, that's me too.
Speaker 3I was scared. Yeah, right, right, john didn't care, obviously no john's already schmorty. What, yeah, john's not about that life put that on a t-shirt authority schmorty, schmorty, that's gold.
Speaker 2Yeah, no, I yeah, I didn't care. It was a problem at sometimes, but other times it was just good fun, I think.
Speaker 3But here's a here's a question for you now that you've experienced that one day, when you have kids, would you homeschool them. I'm going to reap what I sow. Would you homeschool them?
Speaker 2Oh, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 3You would homeschool your kids whenever that day comes. Yeah, I was thankful for homeschooling once I got a car. Why was that?
Speaker 2Because when I got a car, I had flexibility in my schedule and I was the only dude who could really do whatever they wanted to do, because I didn't have as much work as other people.
Speaker 1So, knowing how you turned out, why would you do that? Wow, why would you?
Speaker 3homeschool your kid. That's what I want to know. Why would you, if you have the opportunity to homeschool why would? You homeschool your kid. What's the reason, besides having the flexibility?
Speaker 2So public school is crazy. I just don't. I don't think public school is something I want to have my kids in at this point. Why is that the world's nuts man?
Speaker 3It's anywhere.
Speaker 2Yeah, but it's nuts dude. I would rather my kids be homeschooled and learn about the world through me, instead of my kids go to school and learn it the wrong way and then experience it through the world.
Speaker 3Are you saying public school is the wrong way?
Speaker 2Yeah, I want to know what that means, though, what's the wrong way. So a kid goes to public school.
Speaker 3Yeah, I went to public school by the way.
Speaker 1Yeah, Paul's feeling personally attacked right now. No, I'm not. No well, you got to understand.
Speaker 2I mean, public school is a totally different thing.
Speaker 3Okay, but go ahead.
Speaker 2Finish okay. Public school no. So yeah. The reason being is like, let's say, I took my kid to public school and they found out from billy bob joe what sex was. What's funny, I'm reading these comments.
Speaker 3It's a great time for you to comment wait, wait, hold on, we didn't.
Speaker 1You just said the word sex, what it what?
Speaker 3yeah, I need to focus because there megan, we're gonna get to you in a second. I have to bring that up. Yeah, we will definitely ask that, but william said this is should be a sitcom. Okay, there you go. Thank you, william thanks, william. Appreciate that william's awesome, okay, that guy. But johnson, I'm gonna get to you megan in a second, but keep, but, keep going yeah, so back to sex, back what?
Speaker 2no, no that's what he says I said if I had a kid, yeah, put them in public school. Right, they went to school, met bobby joe brown, whatever his name is, and he was the one who told my kid about sex and, let's say, the way he described it was either too much wrong or, which is probably both probably, both, probably, both right I get it.
Speaker 2The world we live in is crazy and it's always going to be like that. You could also go out on the sidewalk and experience the same thing with some random person. That would be even weirder. However, that could happen. So, in my opinion, I think, instead of having my kid go and learn about that through bobby joe brown, I'd rather, for at least a while maybe high school then go to public school, but for a while I want to keep my kid homeschooled so that they can learn things that matter and then also learn about sex and things like that in the right context and in the right biblical definition, instead of through the world's eyes and just Because now, dude kids are learning about stuff they shouldn't learn about at like 7.
Speaker 3And when.
Speaker 2I tell you, kids are exposed to things that they should be exposed to.
Speaker 3I get it, you know. You know what I'm talking about. I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2So my question is this but what about?
Speaker 3okay, what do you think about Christian school?
Speaker 2Same thing, it's even worse. It's not worse, but it's the same.
Speaker 3It's pretty worse Because I went to a Christian school it's pretty bad.
Speaker 1I went to a public and a Christian school At one point. They're very similar.
Speaker 3It's pretty wild, though, too, when you think about that One has a Bible class.
Speaker 1That's the only difference. That's the difference One has chapel and Bible class.
Speaker 3Yeah, interesting, interesting.
Speaker 1Interesting. Yeah, no, so that's actually an interesting conversation because, obviously my kids are right at that age Right, and I see both sides of the coin right Sure. Because you definitely also want to have your kids learning and experiencing real-world situations that you might not get at a homeschool. That you might not get at a homeschool, but in coaching them through and you're right there's a lot of influences and kids are super impressionable at that age too, yeah, they are.
Speaker 3I think the biggest plus to public school is they're socially connected. Yeah, and that's where you get your weird friends that were not socially connected. I think you have to be around people.
Speaker 1And here's another I would say plus for public school is that you have to learn how to take a stand for Jesus at a much earlier age, and you have to learn who you are in Christ from a much earlier age and be willing to stand up for what you believe in and for something that you may not experience until later, maybe.
Speaker 2So I can see both sides for sure. Yeah, I get that too.
Speaker 3That's very interesting. I think Megan said something.
Speaker 2I lost it though.
Speaker 3I think she says she seconds it as a school teacher.
Speaker 2Yes, St William's comment. That's funny.
Speaker 1Let's see. Somebody said William, our boy. He said we had Bible class at Christian school. One of them taught instruments were a sin. Guitar equals straight to hell.
Speaker 3Are you?
Speaker 1serious, I'm a guitarist, so I'm a goner. Yeah, you are so okay To hell with the devil.
Speaker 2You're going to have to edit that. I know I peaked. No, that's staying in so.
Speaker 1Megan wants to know, John, why are you scared of dogs?
Speaker 2And then we'll kind of wrap up here after you go into this. So this, actually this is perfect, because you guys need to tell them what happened before we started the show. Paul is losing it.
Speaker 1Paul is losing it for those listening.
Speaker 3It's the visual, the visual of watching him. Literally he jackie channed himself across the room, so here here's the situation.
Speaker 1John is standing behind the camera. He's getting stuff ready. First of all is losing it. I I've never seen one this hard.
Speaker 3That was the funniest thing ever go ahead.
Speaker 1I can't even talk, so, john is setting up the camera and he is very invested. He's focused, unlike homeschool. And then Paul's dog. Yeah, paul's dog, tucker that was Tanner.
Speaker 2Tanner humanized he has the most. Look at me camera. He has the most human pupiled eyes I've ever seen.
Speaker 3Even from a human. I'll give you a picture to add on the video Perfect.
Speaker 2Okay, don't look at the picture. There's something weird about it.
Speaker 1Okay, Go ahead. So so this dog comes in and he's running, I would say, or at least moving.
Speaker 2Oh he's barreling, yeah he's moving. No, dude, it was Paul, it was Tokyo Drift in that corner, bro.
Speaker 1So I see all I hear is Paul go hey, and I thought he was like talking to John or something. I look up and then he is just booking it around the corner. John has this slow I mean like slow motion, like Bruce Lee reaction where he just like goes wah, I don't even know, you didn't obviously go wah, no, I did a.
Speaker 2You can check with William on this, because this is going to be like real deep jujitsu, martial arts, krav Maga term, so you guys probably won't understand, it's okay.
Speaker 3No, I don't, but I pulled a number, figure six, and that is something that one of the great uh martial artists, um kim jong, started okay, no no, okay, it's just a no, it's just a no okay okay, nevermind confucius um okay but it was hilarious to watch you literally and I was freaked out dude. I didn't know what it was, but you have a thing with dogs, okay, so why? Let's talk about the dogs in your life?
Speaker 2how long is this episode?
Speaker 3it's pretty long, but we're gonna. We're gonna get into it. Yeah, where are we at how long? Sorry everyone. Oh yeah, we're well, we're not bad. We're 41 minutes right now.
Speaker 1We're 41 minutes. I will wrap it up. So uh, john where, okay. So just real quick, just walk the people through your experience. Yeah, why dogs? What's up?
Speaker 2So I've been bitten five times by dogs.
Speaker 3What kind of dogs were I bitten by? That's not true. No, it's true what we had a conversation about it Dogs bite him, dogs be biting bro Because he's allergic to hyperallergy.
Speaker 2Yeah, I'm allergic to dogs and scared of them some of them. Well, I, yeah, I'm allergic to dogs and scared of them some of them. Well, I guess today kind of proved all of them, because paul's dog's rather small, uh, but yeah. So ever since I was a kid never got along with dogs. Dogs always chased me, scared me, bit me, the whole shebang.
Speaker 1So dogs not my friend yeah, I mean like you literally told me a story I, I think a couple weeks ago, where you were just loading something up in the car and a neighbor's dog just came after you. Charged at you. What kind of dog was that? Was that a big dog?
Speaker 2I don't know, it was a big dog. Yeah, a big dog.
Speaker 1Yeah, big dog.
Speaker 3He was about this tall? No, no, this is a big dog.
Speaker 1Big dog, big dog.
Speaker 2And I was carrying all my camera stuff so I got to be careful with it. But when I tell you, I was standing up my trunk trying to get into my driver's seat and that dog was you know the feet when they run fast I was like frick, no. So I literally transported from my trunk and just fade transition right into the front seat of my car.
Speaker 1And.
Speaker 2I don't remember how I got into it, but I literally just remember acrobating underneath the steering wheel. Sit there, close the door.
Speaker 1Dude, like that. It's honestly like a horror movie, honestly like. It's like a horror movie like I've never heard for you.
Speaker 3It's a horrible. Five times I've, yeah, bitten by a dog I don't understand.
Speaker 1I've never heard. I've never been bitten by a dog before.
Speaker 2I've never heard this happen to anybody no one okay comment, if you want to see us make a mock horror movie of me being chased by dogs and we got to use tanner.
Speaker 1We have to use, I mean, tanner's, what this tall off the table paul, I mean not that tall, yeah yeah but his eyes, though, it's really the oh, that's a horror movie.
Speaker 3Clicking those, I mean you have been bit by more dogs. It's almost like that's a lottery chance.
Speaker 2I mean you figure it's like one in a million that you can you should probably play the lottery, because the lottery, the lottery tickets, my friend cost pain. Five dogs, five, five different dogs, five, four different dogs okay, that's still two same one, but still four different dogs found you attacked by a cat when I was a kid too. What is it with you, and?
Speaker 3animals, dude, we don't mix. Yeah, obviously All right.
Speaker 2And I had two pet frogs and one of them ate the other one.
Speaker 1Dude, you need to stay away from animals. Yeah, let's leave animals out of this. Yeah.
Speaker 2So, yeah, I quit Mission Media. I'm going to go work at a zoo All right.
Speaker 1well, guys, we just want to say thank you so much for joining us today. We had a lot of fun, All the everybody joining us on Instagram.
Speaker 3There's still questions, but we'll answer them later. Oh, are they? There's questions?
Speaker 2Yes, well, we can answer the seed oils real quick.
Speaker 1All right, yeah, we've got time. I want to make it very fast.
Speaker 2Okay, make it very fast Go ahead. Megan said Wrap up the show Are you ready to wrap it up?
Speaker 3We answered it you ready to wrap? That's my answer.
Speaker 2Here we go, john, my name is Dogs. Oh, I was reading William's comment. My name is Dogs. I bark a lot Woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof. Thank you guys for tuning in to Mission Media Podcast. We love you guys. We hope that you can go out and be mission men and women. Have a great rest of your day. We hope to see you on the next one. And uh, yeah, that's about all folks, the end. I was hoping it would end right on the end. The end, the end. Thank you.
