Still Figuring It Out: Who We Are & Why We Started

In our first episode of Still Figuring It Out, we introduce ourselves, share our backgrounds, and talk about why we decided to start this podcast. We’re two dads, husbands, and working professionals trying to balance life, family, and everything in between.

We talk about where we come from, what we do, and what listeners can expect from this podcast moving forward. This isn’t about having all the answers—it’s about having real conversations while we figure life out as we go.

New episodes drop every Sunday.

We appreciate y’all listening. If you got something out of this, share it with someone who’s still figuring it out too. We’ll catch y’all next time.

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:01

Alright, so here we are today on our first ever episode of uh Still Figuring It Out. Um we're new to this, so we don't really know what's going on or how we're doing it, but we're uh gonna try to figure it out, right? Absolutely. So um my name is Josh, um, and my co-host is Britt, and we are here to um talk about just daily stuff of men trying to figure out everyday life. Um what are you looking forward to about doing this podcast?

SPEAKER_01 0:37

Oh man. Um well I'm looking forward to uh first off just learning about uh doing a podcast. Uh I think it'll be fun. I think we have an opportunity to reach a lot of people. Um obviously I'm looking to learn something, especially from you. Uh you seem like a pretty smart guy from all the years I've known you. So uh Well, I don't know about that. Um but no, you know, just just talking about uh, like I said, you know, talking about dad stuff, family stuff, life. Uh I think it'll all be be very interesting and anxious to see what all we get into.

SPEAKER_02 1:16

No, yeah. I mean, you know, obviously we're not any experts. I ain't gonna lie to you. I'm kind of nervous just sitting here talking to you just because there's a microphone. I mean, we do it all the time, but it's a little different whenever you got a record button and uh a couple microphones in front of you.

SPEAKER_01 1:31

Yeah, yeah. It's always uh it's gonna be weird listening to ourselves afterwards.

SPEAKER_02 1:36

No, yeah, because I always think I sound funny anyway.

SPEAKER_01 1:38

Yeah, me too.

SPEAKER_02 1:39

But uh, you know, just some of the topics we'll be hitting on this podcast um, you know, throughout the weeks will just be um life, family, work, um, plenty of mistakes, um, some growth here and there, you know, some uh serious stuff, um, a lot of funny stuff, and just some random stuff, you know.

SPEAKER_01 1:59

Yeah, just hitting all of it.

SPEAKER_02 2:01

So um I'll I'll just start off by kind of telling you who I am and and you know what I do and just about my myself, you know. Um, like I said, my name is Josh. Um I'm married to um a wonderful lady named Infinity. Um we have five kids. We have three together. Um, you know, I have ranges from a 21-year-old who turns 22 next month, um, a 15-year-old who turns 16 next month, identical twin girls who turn five next month. And then uh, you know, we follow it up with a little boy that's three and he turns, you know, four in July. But um, you know, that's that's my family. Um we're gonna grow at some point more, I'm sure. You know, my wife's younger than me, so um, she talks about having kids often, and sure I am, you know, a little nervous about it, but you know, well, again, we'll figure it out, you know. But um, you know, I'm um I'm a client service coordinator at um Southern Tech and um here in you know it's in Ardmore and um I have the best job in the world. I literally get to go out and just um talk to people and tell them the great things that we've got going on at Southern Tech, and and that's a lot of fun, you know. Um that's what I do is I just get to talk to people. So I I feel like this podcast might be easier for me, or at least my mind says it should be easier for me because I do talk a lot anyway, you know. But um my personality is pretty outgoing. Um you know, and I've never met a stranger really. Um I love people, I love the Lord, you know. Um uh I'm a big sports guy. My favorite sport to actually watch is uh the NBA. You know, I'm a huge Spurs fan, as you know. I you see on Facebook how often I try to rile up Thunder fans and do a pretty good job of it. Stuff like that. But you know, it's funny because I I tell people my favorite sport to play was baseball. Um my favorite sport to coach was football, and my favorite sport to watch is basketball. I just I don't know. I I don't know if I just because you know basketball players are just such great athletes, and you know, it's impressive just watching those guys play. But yeah, um, yeah, that's that's kind of about me in a nutshell. Um, what about you?

SPEAKER_01 4:21

Uh yeah, so like I said, my name is Britt Moore. Um, I have a wife, Danetta, and we have one child, uh Gabriella, she's seven. Um and I don't know, you didn't you didn't name your kids.

SPEAKER_02 4:33

I didn't know if you well, I I can if you were in that Stephen Riley, Indy Ivy, and Jersey.

SPEAKER_01 4:38

Yeah, I mean however you want to do it. Um no, but I sell uh whole home generac and kohler generators, so you know power goes out, generator kicks on, you got power again. Um so nothing nothing too fancy. Uh do a lot of driving with it, but uh yeah, so just like Josh, um, you know, Christian as well. Um you know that uh that is an important part of I would say it is an important part of my life. Um may have uh sidetracked, got a little off track the last few years, but my wife's done a pretty good job of trying to keep us in line on that. And uh let's see, what else did you cover? Oh, sports teams, yeah. So sports teams, my favorite sports teams the Vegas Raiders. Um in terms of NBA, it'd be the Thunder. So direct opposite of you, as far as that goes. Um what else? Did I leave something out? Seems like I cut my end short pretty quick.

SPEAKER_02 5:44

Of course, I don't have five kids to go over all of I think a lot of mine was filling it in with just how I ramble a lot and how I like to talk. So that's you know, that's kind of really why mine was much longer. But, you know, like like you said, um you know, your wife kind of keeps you in line. Mine, mine stays being bumpers, like we're bowling, you know. I I have to use the bumpers or I'm gonna fall on the go. Oh, I'm in the same.

SPEAKER_01 6:10

We we we bump, but uh she'll still keep me in line in the end, you know.

SPEAKER_02 6:13

Uh and uh, you know, like I said, the mine mine stays on me pretty hard all the time. I'm I uh don't help as much as I should, or oh yeah, or I don't remember what she said, you know, so I still get trouble for that.

SPEAKER_01 6:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:28

Just like earlier today, she was like, How do you remember something from 10 years ago, but you don't remember what I said to you yesterday? And I'll honestly I had no no rhyme or reason why. I just I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 6:39

You're probably like me, you're probably looking at her and and hearing words come out, but thinking of something else.

SPEAKER_02 6:44

That's kind of like the the Charlie Brown the you know, so and that that's very true because we'll we will talk about something, or at least I'm not gonna sit here and admit that she's right. Oh no, but um we might have talked about something the day before and or the day of, and I don't remember. No, yeah, I'm sad. I don't remember, but uh you know it's it's funny because women, or at least my wife will tell me tell you I forget all the time, but I feel like every man that I know their wife says that. So it's it's nice knowing that I'm not alone in that situation, you know? Yeah, because uh I do, I forget, I forget a lot.

SPEAKER_01 7:28

Well, mine talk so much, it's like I ain't gonna remember all that either.

SPEAKER_02 7:32

No, I don't I I just uh I do talk a lot, but I sometimes I just don't think it's important to say half the stuff women think we need to we need to know.

SPEAKER_01 7:46

You know, just uh put it in the text and outline, you know, give me some sub.

SPEAKER_02 7:50

Well, and and I I know I mean you and I both will probably get beat when our wives hear this because they're like, oh, so you you do hear me speak, you just ain't listening, you know. So um, yeah, we'll we'll probably we'll probably hear about that. But you know, like like you said, um you're a Christian, I'm a Christian, you know. Um this isn't a Christian podcast by any means, but um faith is very important to me, and it it is you as well. Yeah, um you know there won't be um language, you know, where your kids can't listen to it or whatever. Um I don't know if you want your kids to hear about our problems anyway, so I don't know if they'll listen to it or not, but but um but yeah, you know, like I like I said, with faith, faith is a big deal to me. I mean, I do go to the Lord a lot um for wisdom and guidance and you know just everything I do.

SPEAKER_01 8:42

So and it's uh also with it's uh it is, you know, more of a dad podcast, but that doesn't mean that women can't listen to it either. I mean, I I think women could get just as much out of it as guys can, you know, just seeing things more from a a guy's point of view.

SPEAKER_02 8:57

Right, and and you know, I think um you know, women will listen to this podcast and and think, oh, my husband ain't the only idiot that don't listen to me because these idiots don't listen to their wives either. Yeah, you know, so I mean there's there's two more that'll back up their um husbands not listening, you know. So it's um it's it's nice there. But you know, um well as we talk about that, um how how Brett and I know each other, you know. We um we grew up together, you know, he's a couple years younger than me. Um but you know, we played baseball together.

SPEAKER_01 9:34

He was the Yeah, that's where I really remember you.

SPEAKER_02 9:36

I mean, I I knew you when when we were younger, but I think eighth grade going to ninth grade when you kind of get into you know going to baseball with the high school team is kind of where we well I I remember you being my freshman, you know, because we were both lefties. You know, so so um, you know, lefties kind of click, you know, so we we kind of you know stick together and it was easier because obviously if you forgot a glove or I forgot a glove, we had other gloves, you know, because not everybody was the only ones we could go to. I mean we I I'm pretty sure actually we were the only two lefties on the team. Yeah. You know, I don't think there was anybody else that was a was a lefty.

SPEAKER_01 10:14

I don't think there was. I think I was the only lefty hitting.

SPEAKER_02 10:17

Yeah, no, yeah, because I I didn't you were the weird uh throw left, back, right. Well, I just you know I got I got poked in the eye a long time ago. I mean, when I was a kid and ever since, my my death reception was weird looking out out of my right eye. You know, I just yeah, and then that that's the reason why I never I never batted uh left-handed, because when I was younger, I did bat left-handed, you know. Um, but like I said, it's really messed up. And that's why, you know, I've been wearing glasses here lately, is my death perception has really started to, you know, affect me. And and so that's why I always batted right-handed. And I mean, I kind of sucked at it either way, so it didn't really matter. I mean, I didn't really like hitting as much as I liked fielding anyway, yeah. So but um, but yeah, that's kind of how we know each other. And I mean, we've really just you know been friends since. I mean, going out of going out of school for 20 years in May, you know, and what are you sitting at? You'll be at 18. So it's crazy to think about that, you know, because whenever I was younger, man, I used to want school to finish so fast. Right. You know, like, and but it would drag. And, you know, the older I got, um, and while when I was a teacher, uh time went faster. And and now, I mean, the older I get now, the the you know, the faster time goes, and you're like, holy cow, we're already like like now, we're already halfway through April, you know. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 11:50

Yeah, it's like it's it's opposite of whatever you're wanting it to do, you know, at the time when you want it to go fast and really up until you're 21, that's probably what you want and be able to drink, and then after that, uh you don't really have another number to shoot for, boys, really does seem to fly by.

SPEAKER_02 12:05

No, yeah. I mean, well, you know, I do remember the next number was 25. Because car insurance got to go down, you know, and and uh I mean, I guess I was excited about that because I don't really remember my insurance being as much now, uh then as it is now. Like, I feel like I pay a lot of money for insurance. I don't remember paying this much money now as I did when I was that age, you know, and and they always said it was gonna go down, but and but you know, also then I didn't have you know three cars to insure, I didn't have a house to insure, I didn't have to have life insurance. So, so I understand, you know, when you when you break it down like that, like um obviously it is cheaper, but we we have to have a lot more because we are older and we get more things and stuff like that. So, but that was that was the a last official number to look forward to because I don't think anybody looks forward to their 30s. I don't think anybody looks forward to their 40s, you know.

SPEAKER_01 13:10

So unless you're gonna run for president at 35, I don't I don't uh I don't see much in there until you get to 65.

SPEAKER_03 13:17

Yeah, and I um I didn't ever want to run for a political office because I didn't want nobody digging up my bass, you know.

SPEAKER_02 13:23

Yeah, it wouldn't take me too long to get yeah they they would uh you know they would see how how fast I um how fast that I basically sucked it live. You know? I mean if we're being honest, like I mean I started off as making C's and D's in school. Like I ain't president material, so I didn't think I ever had to worry about that, you know. So, but you know, like like like we said, um this podcast, it's it's just gonna be fun, it's gonna be real, you know, it's just gonna be daily lives of just two guys that that are still figuring it out. You know, I mean, like I don't think at any point in my life have I've ever thought that I had it all figured out because every time I do, I have a reality check and I ain't got nothing figured out.

SPEAKER_01 14:16

Yeah. Well, I I haven't had anything figured out for what, 18, somewhere between 15 and 18 years, you know. At that time frame, I did know everything and no one could tell me anything. Uh seems like it's changed a little bit since then.

SPEAKER_02 14:32

Yeah, and I'm you know, you now that you say that, I'm pretty sure whenever I was 18 years old, I did have everything figured out.

SPEAKER_01 14:38

Yeah, see?

SPEAKER_02 14:38

And and then I woke up one morning and realized that uh all the stuff I had figured out, it just decided to leave me one night, you know? It just left. So uh, and now I've been trying to figure it out ever since.

SPEAKER_01 14:49

You know, so get back to that knowledge I used to have. I don't think I'll ever get back there, but yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:56

Um at least at least that knowledge that I thought I had. I mean, you know, because my wife still says she tells me things that and I to me, I I don't think she did.

SPEAKER_01 15:06

Well, I know my wife makes things up about what she told me sometimes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 15:11

Or you know but you know, my wife's so good at it that uh that sometimes we'll be arguing, and if I know I'm right, at the end of the argument, I'm pretty sure she's right. Like she convinces me that that she's right. Oh yeah. Yeah, and I'm I I leave the argument like, man, maybe she is right. But but before I was like, I know she didn't say that, you know. I know she didn't say it. But by the end of the argument, I'm convinced that she said it.

SPEAKER_01 15:38

See, what you gotta do there is you gotta find one little flaw in her story. Oh and when and even if she's just got got you down 99 to one, it's like, man, I'm just gonna stick to this one. And that's what I'm gonna end with, and I'm gonna walk away and not let you get another word in.

SPEAKER_02 15:53

Well, you know, it's it's funny because like my brother, he's you know, he's in a relationship, a new relationship, and he'll be picking at his you know, girlfriend or fiance or wife, whatever they are at this point. Um, you know, he'll be picking at her and messing with her, and you know, he'll hold her down and and like and she can't move, or or like my son, you know, with his with his uh girlfriend, like they'll be wrestling around and and he'll hold her down and she can't move. My wife's strong. You know, my wife's strong. Like, if if I'm gonna hold her down, I better be ready for a fight because you know, my wife's 5'9, 5'10, and she, I mean, she's strong. And and I mean, I better bring it all because that's that's the thing, man.

SPEAKER_01 16:41

I'm I'm the same way. My wife is strong too, and I can hold her down, uh, but eventually she's gonna have to get back up.

SPEAKER_02 16:47

Yeah, and I and I'm I'm so out of shape now, and I'm I'm getting older, you know. I'm I am eight years older than my wife, so so she has a lot more energy than me, and I get out of breath quick, you know. And so, so when I'm done, I'm I'm done, but she'll keep coming. Yeah, and it's that's the thing, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:04

It's hard. They got that kid energy still in them.

unknown 17:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 17:08

And and you know, my wife, uh, she's she hit the big 3-0 this year, but she she thinks she's still 23, 24, you know, she still thinks she can move like she she did then. Yeah. But um, but I ain't I ain't gonna tell her different because that might start a fight too, and I ain't you know, I ain't I ain't trying to I ain't trying to fight her. I'm choosing my battles wisely. Absolutely. No, but um, but yeah, like you know, and we'll we'll have people on on the podcast at times, you know, maybe once a month or you know, once every month, you know, until we kind of get comfortable with what we're doing. Cause like I said, we're still learning. You know, we got a a soundboard here with you know a bunch of buttons. I mean, I still don't know half the buttons. I know. And I hadn't pushed half the buttons, you know, a bunch of knobs, a bunch of buttons, a touch screen.

SPEAKER_01 18:00

Um Yeah, you probably gotta have a degree to figure out how to run it. We'll uh yeah, at least at least an associates.

SPEAKER_02 18:06

Yeah, because I mean this thing, I mean, it's fancy. It's so and I'm not a very tech person, you know. I'm not either at all. You know, I've I just learned how to use uh a TV that has apps on it to, you know, live streaming.

SPEAKER_01 18:22

Well, I'm a little bit ahead of you. I learned that maybe a year ago. Yeah, no, um, but no, uh, I mean, you know, having some more people on, I think that would they could bring some more perspectives and uh, you know, hopefully we'll get some some guys that are pretty smart and at least have one smart person in the room kind of leading the way or you know, giving us some some good ideas.

SPEAKER_02 18:42

You know, and we'll and and I mean we'll have people on that are just a different walk of life, you know, from you know, youth pastors to to business owners to, you know, car salesmen to convenience or I don't know, you know, but but there are so many different podcasts out there, like on a on a more serious note. There's so many different podcasts that that um have they talk about sports or they talk about religion or they uh talk about girls, you know, like women things. And uh there's not a lot of podcasts that are that are based towards just men, you know, just men, just everyday men that work or just live their life going to work, coming home to their family, you know, just juggling different hats and things, you know. I mean, and and this is gonna be kind of my therapy session, you know, because I don't go to a counselor. Sure. You know, and and I I feel like being able to relate to other people and other men, um, or people in general that that do these different things, that wear these different hats and and those kind of things that that really have different struggles, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:02

Mental issues, addictions, you know, things like that. Things we all whether you like to admit it or not, you know, everyone's got different struggles, and uh, you know, whether it's how you how you overcame it or how you're still still battling with it.

SPEAKER_02 20:16

Um Yeah, and and you know, that's and that's the thing, is what you struggle with, I might not struggle with, or vice versa, you know, and and I think that's that's the good thing about this, and that's the thing about us trying to figure things out, because I do think it's a constant battle with some things that we may not bring to light or something, but that's what this podcast is for, is just just for us to talk. I mean, anybody that listens will maybe relate to, you know, may and they might not have that same exact struggle, but I'm sure there's plenty out there. I've never met somebody that didn't have a problem.

SPEAKER_01 20:52

Sure.

SPEAKER_02 20:52

You know, we we we live our life so much on social media now, we see that perfect life and that and how everybody lives on social media, and it's it's all great, you know.

SPEAKER_01 21:03

Yeah, if that's how it really was. Yeah, life would be good. Right.

SPEAKER_02 21:06

I I mean, if if I lived how my social media looked, I would be going to a ton of Spurs games. Yeah, that's all that you post. And I would be living on a vacation because I post a lot of vacation stuff. I love to travel. That's something about me that I think everybody knows about. I'm I I I enjoy traveling. I love traveling. Um, it's a big part of my life. Um, my wife, she traveled before, but not nothing like I do now. And I kind of, you know, showed her that there's much more to traveling than going to New Orleans. Or, you know, like we go all over now. We've we've got trips planned to Asia this year, you know, last year we went to a few different countries in Europe. I mean, so that is a big part of my life. So if if people just only see me on social media, they Probably think I have a ton of money when in all honesty I'm broke. You know, I'm trying to stay afloat just because I gotta support my my um interest and my my travel, you know, because like I said, it is a huge part of my life and I I really enjoy it.

SPEAKER_01 22:16

Right. So yeah, absolutely. Um wish I got to travel more. I I do like traveling. I haven't been able to lately, but uh it's uh it's pretty fun. Where where all have you uh are you having favorite favorite places you might want to?

SPEAKER_02 22:35

I think, yeah, so I I've I do a a German uh trip every year. That's cool. Um I I do a baseball camp in Germany. Um and I I go it's on a it's a mission trip, you know. I go with a church out of Texas, out of McKinney. Um and I've and I've gotten really close with those people over there, you know. I mean, just their culture, um, just getting to know those people, getting to watch them grow up, you know. Last last summer I was able to um baptize a kid that I watched grow up through this baseball camp, you know, and I stayed at his house and and over the years watching him be able to grow and and stuff like that, and be able to see him go from a obnoxious boy that ran all over the place to a good Christian man, you know, and it was it was awesome whenever last year he was like, Hey, while you're here, I want you to baptize me. Like, I mean, that was huge, man. You know, so so you get to see that impact that you have on people's lives, and and you may not realize it at the time, but when you look back, I mean, they have just a big impact on your life as you did on theirs. You know, so that's that's that's a cool thing. But I think Germany is probably my favorite place. The food, I mean, I'm a big guy, I love food. Yeah, so that's what I was about to ask you about. The food is great, you know. Just even whenever we go to Disney World every year or every other year, we um we go to Epcot and we eat at the German restaurant there at Epcot because we love German food. Yeah, you know. Um, so being able to do that every year, but you know, last year on our anniversary slash her 30th birthday, um, I took her on a European cruise and we went to Italy, France, um, and Spain. You know, we get cool. We went to Ireland as well, and then also on the way back, we stopped in uh London and went to the UK. So um just being able to do that, I mean, I'm very fortunate that I have a great job that that I get plenty of days off and I, you know, and I can go on these trips and not have to worry about work and stress and stuff like that. Because I do believe that every married couple that has kids need need to have a time away. You know, they they need to have a time away with just them two where they can rekindle their marriage and and and grow closer to one another, because it's it's hard to do those things whenever you're constantly with kids and at work and just life, you know, because you do get wrapped up in life and it's it's hard to do those things.

SPEAKER_01 25:08

Well, when you said you baptized that kid, uh do you have to be a minister to do that?

SPEAKER_02 25:12

No, so so you don't have to be a minister. I mean Are you? You know, was no, I I'm not a minister. No, not at all. Not at all. Um, but you know, I mean, you just have to believe, you know. I mean, and that's something that our church talks about, you know. You believe, you belong, then you become. That's our, you know, that's that's almost our mission statement, you know, is is we want to, you know, you want to believe, and then you belong to that church, and then, you know, you do those things to become a better Christian. I mean, you know, Jesus sent us here. Um, we said this in the Christian podcast, but here we are, you know. I think it's been um a third of our first podcast. But, you know, like we were sitting here to be disciples for God, and and you know, like you said, you know, you sh you got away from it for a while, but and and that happens, you know. But that's that's the great thing about God is He's He's forever faithful, you know. And that's one thing that no matter how far away we think we get away from God, I mean, He's with us all the time. You know, it's just the fact that we've got to get back on that road, get back on that path that He had us going, you know, because we do we do veer off into the grass and sometimes the dirt and even further into the mud. Right, you know, but that's the good thing about God is um his love's forever faithful, and and I think the key word in that is love. You know, and I I think he just constantly pours love into us, and and sometimes it takes us a while to to see that and understand that, but you know, just these past few years I've I've I've really have been fortunate enough to and to to get closer to God, you know, and and so whenever he asked me to baptize him, like I I did. I I had to look it up and I had to see like, do I have to be a minister to baptize? You know, do I have to be able to do these certain things to baptize somebody? But you know, the the pastor there and and the one of the youth ministers there was like, no, like you are a Christian, you you know, you believe. You if you believe in this, you know, that's that's the thing. And I mean, we have to believe in that God sent his son down on this earth and died for our sins for us to be saved. And if you believe that, there's no nobody can take that away from you. You know, no matter how bad your life is or the situation you may be in at that time, I mean, it doesn't matter. Um at the end of the day, you're saved. And if you 100% know that you're saved, I mean you got a spot in heaven, and that's and that's the beauty of it, you know. And so, so um, yeah, like but like like you said, no, you don't have to be a minister. I mean, um have I ever thought about going into ministry and being like a missionary? Uh I have. I mean, I said I enjoy traveling, and but I don't think God, that's my plan right now, you know. I don't think that's my plan um at this time in my life. Maybe when I'm older, um God may call me into the mission field to go be a, you know, working missions and and do those things, but right now I think I'm right where God wants me, you know, and and uh I'm okay with that, you know. So it's it's good.

SPEAKER_01 28:40

I am actually a minister. Are you? Um I mean I took an online course to officiate weddings. Really? I officiated a wedding one time. Yeah, my uncle asked me to do it. How'd that go? Just kind of uh it went it went well actually, just because the bride was we don't want anyone here. It was just me and one witness, and it was like she wanted it quick. And and when I say quick, like I feel like she probably thought I took too long and and I may have spoken for two to three minutes.

SPEAKER_02 29:13

Now, let me let me ask you this. Was she getting deported?

SPEAKER_01 29:19

I mean, no, wow, wow, wow, like no, I mean they they'd been dating a while. I don't know what what the deal was, but she was just ready. She was just ready. And um, I mean, I I had a he's a Raiders fan as well. I had a couple of Howie Long quotes, and I could see her rolling her eyes over there, like, okay, let's get this going.

SPEAKER_03 29:36

Oh she rolled her eyes. That's great. That's funny. I I had no idea that you uh that you did that online and was able to marry somebody. Yeah, it was it was it was actually you are an ordained minister.

SPEAKER_01 29:49

I guess so, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 29:52

Oh, the things you learn in a podcast, right? I mean, this is only this is only um episode one, so it's it's just super funny to think about like you know, a really good friend that you thought you knew that you had no idea.

SPEAKER_02 30:06

Right, you know. So um that's good stuff. What is um what is something that you're looking forward to, you know, up in these upcoming weeks with this with this podcast? Like, what are you what are you thinking about, you know, that you want to talk about, like some topics or something like that?

SPEAKER_01 30:27

Well, you know, I've thought about it. Um well first thing I'm looking forward to is is doing a lot of recording and and you know, getting more comfortable, us getting more comfortable with this and being able to cover a lot of subjects, learn a lot from each other, about each other. Um, as far as topics, you know, uh for some of them I think I would like to get, you know, kind of in depth as a dad. And um, you know, maybe maybe that being able to blend that time between work and family, and then, you know, when you throw everything else in there, like you talked about faith, and obviously you got to sleep at some point, you know, being able to balance it all out to where I'm still I'm still making enough money, because obviously that's important too. Um, but I've got to spend X amount of time with my wife and kid, and then I've got to have some time just for my wife, sometime just for my kid, sometime just with God. Um, not just with God, but with God and um, you know, just all all the other things that fall in between. Um, and it's tough, you know.

SPEAKER_02 31:41

Because there's not enough hours in the day.

SPEAKER_01 31:43

There's just not.

SPEAKER_02 31:44

There's not, you know, it's there's not enough hours in the day. Like, man, I'll come home, you know, I get off work at four o'clock, and by the time we kind of get situated at the house, you know, it's it's six o'clock. And by the time we eat, it's seven o'clock, seven thirty. And now it's bath time and time to go to bed. Like, so you don't get a lot of time. And that's that's one thing that I did enjoy about being a teacher before I'm doing I did this current job was I got this, I was able to see my son all day. My oldest son, I seen him all day. You know, I coached him from from 6 30 when we had to be there for weights up until 5 30, 6 o'clock when we got done with football. Like I seen him all day. And then go home and and Yeah, you know, so so being able to see my kid that much was was a blessing all in itself. Because my little ones, I don't get to see that much. I leave, I leave work um about 7.05 to 7.15 every morning. Um, you know, and sometimes earlier than that. But but um I get home and you know, it's already time to go to soccer practice, so I don't get to spend time with them. Like we go straight to soccer practice, you know. Right. Because they have soccer practice at 5:30. So they go from soccer practice once they're done. Now it's time to go home to take a bath, to eat, to go to bed, you know. So it's it's it's hard to get enough time with everybody that you had to get time with, you know, and and I think that's something that we'll talk about more and learn about and yeah, and grow, you know. Um, this first podcast that we were doing, we was just gonna be in a little intro and we kind of waved through on some Christian things and live things already, you know. Um we obviously got way off track because that was not what we was gonna talk about at all, really. You know, we kind of was gonna hit a couple things and be done. Yeah. But um, you know, and that's okay, but that because that's what this is about, you know. It's it's just not sticking to a script or anything, you know, just and it's just gonna be raw, real, just a couple guys trying to figure it out, you know. So um I think we'll wrap up this episode. Um, it was it was a good start. I was pretty nervous at the first, but now I don't even realize I had this big old mic in front of my face, you know. So um I guess you know, neck we'll pick up next week and and we'll we'll just talk about um how faith shows up in real life every day and not just Sundays, you know. So Rid, I appreciate it. It was a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_01 34:31

Yeah, it was good, and uh hope to see you guys next week.

SPEAKER_02 34:33

Yeah, see you, man.