[ Music ] >> Hey guys, welcome back to the Bros. We're in the back room of the sanctuary where the conversation happens. We're your host Jose, Bill, and John, and we are in the room today. >> You're absolutely 100% correct. I love this format, and I'm going to say that every time you say so. >> Absolutely. >> Not every time. >> Obviously. >> Yeah. >> We talked about this, didn't we, at the beginning of the podcast? We're like, it's going to take time. We'll get into a rhythm and find our intro. >> Exactly. >> We have 100% half. >> It's individualized to each individual piece of podcast or show or whatever. You're going to find that what picks up. Remember before a long time, we were talking about, hey, you should try that one where somebody did that in their own show. It was like, good morning, good afternoon, good evening. >> Yeah. >> Well, I was like, well, that's more of a their thing, you know? >> Yeah, I'm sorry. >> That's their thing. >> Hello, everybody. My name is Markiplier, and welcome back. [ Laughter ] >> We've made our own brand so-called, so, you know, it's our own thing. >> Yeah. >> And I appreciate it. I really do appreciate it, because every time my kids hear that intro sound, the intro music, and, hey, guys, welcome back to the bros. They know instantly, you know, they listen to the bros. They listen to us talking. They give us a conversation. It's amazing. >> We were talking about this because I was working on music the other day, and I happened to pull up. I was like, these are all my risers and stuff that I have randomly. And I was like, yo, this is the exact thing when I used on our podcast. And it's just like the things that you randomly throw together that become a creative endeavor with that, where you're like, whoa, this is crazy, that I didn't know it was going to be this big. I wasn't writing it like, I'm going to use this forever. I just was kind of like, let me throw some together. >> Well, we made a trademark, and that's the bros, you know? So every time you see that, a trademark, the bros logo over our profile picture. >> What a logo. >> It's so good. >> It is so good, but it's, you know, it's simple, but it's good. >> Yeah. >> It's iconic to me, anyway. >> Yeah, for sure. >> It might not be iconic to everybody else, but it's, you know, when I see that, I just think about the podcast and how I feel about it. It's really amazing. Man, I can't believe it. We're almost to a full year of the podcast. This is a 50, what, 51st? >> 51st. >> 51st episode? No, 52nd episode. >> 51st? >> No, you're right, 52nd episode. >> 52nd episode. >> This is a year. >> Yeah, so, yeah. >> My labels are off. >> Yeah. >> Yeah, yeah. >> Yeah, yeah. >> This will be our 50th. >> I'm gonna have, I'm gonna have three episodes with 51 on it. So, and one of them will actually be 51. >> Is that your which one though? >> This is the 52nd episode. So, this is the last week of the year. Next week will be the first week of the year, which will be our anniversary of the podcast, which I'm excited for. But yeah, I just wanted to give a couple of shout outs to people who are listening, who are watching, who gave, who take time to comment and share all their, all the stuff that we do. >> Sure. >> You know, first and foremost, we have 173 followers. >> Wow. >> On Facebook alone. I don't know about the other platforms. I don't know the numbers on that right now. But since we've moved to Facebook, I can, I can personally monitor what we're doing on Facebook as far as numbers. And it is astonishing to me that it is that we're doing so well. I remember for a long while we were sitting at 60, 67 followers, and we were stuck there for a very long time. And I just felt like we were never going to move up. Well, 173 followers seems a long way from 167 followers, you know? And it's all because of people like you who are listening to the podcast or taking time and sharing it onto your Facebook page. And if you're sharing it through text, that's also a way you're sharing it, and I really appreciate it. I'm going to give you a few people here. I'm going to list a few people here that have followed the page. And if you haven't heard your name on this list, don't be worried. It's just the ones that I can see. Some people have their pages on private, and I can't see who they are. And also, if you have a common friend of mine on your Facebook page, I probably will see you. But if we don't have anything in common, I probably won't see you. But check the status of the page. If you are following or you haven't followed yet, or if you've been invited to follow the pros, just check on that. It will help boost the numbers up, it will push the podcast all out to different people that would see this, and if they like it, if it's entertaining to them, they'll enjoy it as well. And it's also a ministry that we have taken up to give out the gospel in ways in our conversation that we have. You can say we talk, we have lots of funny moments, and we tell the Bible stories from our perspectives, different things that go on. So it's something that everybody would like to have. So first, I'm going to mention Seth Morales, who is a longtime listener of the podcast, or since Paul, your beginning, actually, you didn't, you have a funny story about that, where he came to you and said, "Hey, I don't have any Skittles for lunch if you want to do it." Yeah, right, yeah. It was good, dude. It was unbeknownst to Bill that he was listening to, and then he came up to him and told him, because he listened to the podcast at one point, and we were munching on Skittles. It was so wow. It was so... But I'm sure there was that even on. That was on? It was somewhere in a single digit. A single digit? Yeah. It wasn't an epsilon. It was one of those ones that we just... It was an epsilon. It was an epsilon. I should hold up. Keep talking. I don't think it really was that far back. Oh, it was far back. I don't think it was single digits, though. It was single digits. It had to have been, because it was early early in our ministry, as far as recording our episodes. And a bill even...because double digits got into the point where we were just like, "When did we start recording videos?" That's the question. Yeah. We started recording videos early, too. It was like 20s, 30s? I think so, yeah. Because we moved into the new building. Episode 20 was Get Out of Sodom. We did not have video. No. We did Brandon. We didn't. Oh, no. Randy, we didn't. No. Brother Steve. I think we did. I think that was the second episode that we had video. No. No? Second episode? No. It might have been... Let me see. Oh, my... Second episode? What? Of our podcast that had video is what it means. Oh, yeah. Second episode. Oh, yeah. That might have been the second one. Yeah. Seeking in self-consciousness. Oh, yeah. It was episode 23. Okay. It might have been that one. Okay. Well, anyway... Brother Steve. So I'm going to read the description real quick because I wrote this out and it's very funny. Today, the brothers have a pleasant conversation about being self-conscious and how it affects your mindset and confidence. Yeah. Jose and Bill discuss experiences in their lives where they felt self-conscious and John Hardley agrees, which is a reference to him only saying absolutely, but so that was very funny. But yeah, if you want to see the video of two great men in Jose, check out our Facebook page for the full video and then it has a link to our Facebook page. Yeah. And then remember when we had our link, so we put a link where you can get a free month of FOD being unlimited. Yeah. And then we never... We never happened. Oh, man. We still have that link. We have that link. We still have it. We still have it. We still have it. Yeah. We do open in the description. I didn't get it. Hopefully we'll see what happens. It's funny. But yeah. This is one of them, and I'm going to go through these names here. I got Stacey Mann, who follows the page, Marilyn Santos, who follows the page, J.C. Santos, who was an on the episode of the podcast, episode five, I think. I might not be right. Yeah. Was it episode five? Yeah. So five. And hope I'm trying to get him back. I'm trying to get him back on the podcast. Just pray for me. Down in the Turner's Brooklyn Creek. I forget it's just, oh man, I messed up here. Hold on. I lose your play. I did. I lost my place. But I will quickly remember, okay, here it is, it is Judy Benifield, Riley Cluis, Trevor Miththini, by the way, on the podcast, and amazing guests, it was an awesome episode. Abigail Baggett, Jesse Matthews, Beth Desta Church, who, if you don't know, Curtis was on the podcast here, and he is part of the Beth Desta Church. Yup. And so the night team was his first appearance. Yup. And then what was... And then the more recent was... 30. 32. I think. 40. In the 40s, yeah. In the 40s. Yeah, in the 40s. But yeah. So Beth Desta Church is... 40 more. A follower. Sorry. Yeah. Chandler Trujillo, Thomas Spradlin, Teddy Gamier, Danielle Deal, Frederick Baker. Sorry, I heard you say Frederick Baker. Linda Greer, Hannah Harper, Bobby Martinez, Robin Garring, Anna, Annie Dean Williams, Kenny Hale, Claire Litzler, Tony Tack, Rebecca Baggett, Viola Malady. Sorry. Wait, wait, wait, wait, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I might have butched a name, watched a name. No, I don't know, but I don't think I've ever left the heart of the podcast. I don't know what happened. It was just funny to me when you said that. I laughed at him. Whoa. What did I say? Sorry if I bought your name, if you're listening to this. What is this? M-A-L-A-D-Y. Viola Malady. Malady? I would say Malady. Malady safe. Tiffany Foster, Alfred Morales, Elizabeth Woods, Lucas Sherman, Kelby Jones, Crystal Cooper, Alan Leonard, Martha Fly O'Leary, Carolyn Finley, Darryl Robison, David Michael Clinton, Charles Denise Paulman, Jose Vasquez, Linda Harding, Margaret Chappell, Jayden Wilson, Carolyn Hayes, Chris and Kristi Bissell, Leah Stanley, Kevin Stone, Ashley Newberry, Deborah Roberts, Martella Graves, Carolyn Carroll Wilson, Bonnie Tussay, Michael Wall, and Robert Albert. These are people that have followed the Facebook page. Kaylee Dees, these are people who have followed the Facebook page and we are very appreciative of every single one of you. Thank you for following. It means a lot to me. Lots of us. Yeah. Sorry if I botched any of your names, I wouldn't be able to forgive myself. You did most of them, they're pretty young. Hopefully. I wouldn't be able to forgive myself of all the names. I'm only human. If he messed up your name, comment in the... Unfollowing. No, please don't unfollow. Unfollowing refollows and then he gets another chance. Oh man. I got a couple of things here that I had pulled up with our statistics. Yeah. And this is not through Facebook, this is just through Podbean and the audio listening sources there that goes through all time downloads. So every time anybody has ever listened to this podcast is 3,425 since we started a year ago. Which is insane. I mean, we had no hopes when it came to how many people we would have. Yeah. And so to reach that is crazy, the last 30 days we've had 176, again, that's a low number but it's a low number because of all the things we're doing on like Facebook where people are following us. Right. Because I'm gonna be honest, I'd rather watch the video than listen if I have that chance. So some people are listening but it's slowed down a lot. That being said, I was looking through and you have a where your audience comes from and they have all the list, of course VPNs and stuff will mess that up but it kind of shows you where people are. We've had seven downloads from Russia, two downloads from Germany, two from the United Kingdom, six from Canada, but most of them come from the United States of 3,364. So that's most our audience is US based. So I was like, I wonder where in the US? So I looked it up, 76% of our audience comes from Florida, no surprise there, but it actually is a lower number than I would have thought. I would have thought it's all Florida. Second, state in line is Georgia with 144 downloads, 4.28%. And I went through the list here and as listed on this map here, we actually have had listeners from 33 out of 50 states. So over half of the states have had at least one listen and in fact, there's only three states with one play. Most of them are two and up. And so it's been amazing for me to see that because you know, we think, oh, we just reach out to Florida and everybody we know from all over. California has 50 downloads. Wow. You'd never expect that? I never did. 143 from New York, 143 from Virginia, 16, Pennsylvania, all over the place there's people listening to this podcast, 39 from Texas, Colorado, there's five. I don't know a single person from Colorado, but there's people listening to our podcast, somebody from Washington. It's like, it's just crazy things like that. Washington State or DC? Washington State. Washington State. Maryland has two. So I don't know how to be one from DC, I guess. But it's an unbelievable honor that we've had to have this amount spread out so far to not just be from us, but you know, and this is not Facebook where you're just scrolling it's finding our podcast, finding it on different platforms, looking for it, searching for it, not just getting recommended, whatever, you know. And so we really appreciate all of that because it takes a lot for us to keep doing this and to see the level of support we've had as far as people listening and enjoying our podcast. We really haven't had a harsh word other than, you know, people who aren't a fan of the format or don't like as far as like it's not their preference of what we do. You know? Honestly, and I haven't even heard that. Right. I haven't heard that much. Few and far between. Yeah. It's very, very minimal at all. It is. It's a great honor to know that we were able to reach so many and to hopefully help and just give a good thing to listen to, a good godly thing that people can listen to it. Yeah. It really helps me at least to know that there are so many abroad, if you will, that listened because I kind of thought it was just like our little central Florida area. No. Listen, but you know, Washington State and California. California. New York? State? Yeah. New York State had 143. Look at that. I'm sure that people are finding out about us maybe Laney and Ed College, you know, people listening there. Yeah. I do some family in New York. So maybe they listen. I'm sure. Yeah. Virginia has a lot. That one is surprising to me. And even out of out of the States. Yeah. Yeah. The different, different little, you know, seven downloads in Russia, none from Ukraine. That's what we call it, New Russia. Anyway. I mean, you know, yeah, none from Vietnam. Myanmar. That was a country. Yeah. Well, I'm excited. We get our listeners in the year. We use Becca Stan, please. We need more listeners and use Becca Stan. We need some more there. Yeah. Just really, we have enjoyed it and we've had fun with all of this. It's been for us and then for the audience. Well, for the end of the year, it's just, this is a, like I said before, a circle-back moment where, you know, we can see ourselves from the beginning and to, we can see ourselves to where we are now. What a big difference, what a big change. And I'm excited about it. I'm excited for the new change coming up soon, coming up later. Yeah. We are going into a new year. Yeah. August 21st, will be our new episode dropped. Wait for that. Look for that episode. We just, we did an episode for you guys. So hopefully y'all get to see that and enjoy that. But I don't want to, I don't want to go too far forward without making mention of a special person in my life whose birthday it is today. Yeah. Yeah. It is someone's birthday today. It is Amani Rose Bonilla. What? It's your birthday today. Yes. It's unbelievable. And hold on a second. If I'm not mistaken, hold on, I'm mistaken. She was, I'm 33 years old. That's all right. Right now. Stop it, John. I'm 33 years old right now. And I'm getting older. I'm getting much older. So am I to be friend? Yeah. I'm getting much older. My daughter. You think you're just one. She has to be, she's not getting old that fast though, right? She can't be getting that much older. I don't know. I look at her sometimes and I'm thinking like she must be like three or four years old, you know? And I'm going to be honest, I don't know how old she is. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You don't know. How is that a nose for sure? I know for sure. I'm just, I'm just playing games here. But yeah, I don't want, I have that, you know, a parent never wants to hurt their children to grow older, you know, and for me, it's like a bittersweet, it's they're getting older. I'm raising them and, you know, they're becoming wiser. You could choose six years old today. Happy birthday, Amani. I will be playing for you this and you will be hearing this. So don't look to me when I'm, when you're listening to this, because I am going to be right in the front seat of the car. So happy birthday from the bros to happy birthday, Amani. And we are, thank you. Thank you for enjoying listening to us. My brother's birthday is actually on the 10th. So this episode will be dropping four days after his, after his birthday. Happy birthday to my brother, JC Santos, who was recently, not recently, but previously on the podcast, hopefully getting him back on the podcast. And yeah, my, my cousin Jasmine birthday on the 8th, which is what comes birthdays. Well, yeah, all kind of birthday and luggage. August is one of those birthday filled days, birthday filled months. It's full birthdays. Most of my people's birthdays. The fact check to your correct about what she is six. You have to fact check me? Absolutely. For reference. Yes, we have. We always have to. I know. I know. I know. I know. I feel like I don't know. No, you do. It's because it's your, it's your old age. I know, right? It's my old age. So she was, she was four in 2022, which is the last time I've done. That explains it. The last time that I posted about a birthday. So we call out to Netta there. Yeah. Netta, I love you. Don't kill me. I'm sorry. Oh, shout out to Netta too, cause she, she's. Puts up with Jose. Yeah, she puts up with me. And you know, all, all playing aside, I mean, this is, this takes up time. This really does. And she understands just the ministry. She lets me or allows me to do this to help people out. I'll listen to this and you know, it's, it's not easy. And I appreciate it. I really do. I appreciate a lot of it and she's there on my side and she encourages me. And a day where I don't do the podcast, much like one of those, they mean, I, we haven't missed a week yet of the podcast, but we have missed recording an episode. And those days, my wife would come to me and say, Hey, aren't you doing the podcast tonight? What's going on? And you know, she's, she's concerned and she knows that the ministry means a lot to me. And I really appreciate her and her love and her compassion about it. And thank you so much for allowing this to happen. Appreciate it. Yeah. And if you, Bill, you spoke too much. I'm sorry. I was just, I was just going to say that if, if you guys are interested in hearing from Amani and Nehemiah and Netta, then you can see episode 26, loving God with the Benilla family. Yes. And, and they, uh, we were, what happened? I had COVID, right? Yeah. And that was one of the times where we weren't able to record because it, unexpectedly, you know, I was sick. I was known as a church. You were, you were separated and sick. I think we were both. Yeah. All sorts of stuff. I thought it was without a car. It may have been when I read my car. You were without a car and you were sick. Cause this was, um, I don't see the date right here, but either way, it was one of the things where I was sick and, and we didn't know what we were going to do really much. I was like, should I just record by myself or whatever? Yeah. And, and it was also for, um, I believe it was Valentine's day, right? It wasn't Valentine's episode. Yep. Yeah. So then who better, you know, for you to have for the Valentine's day than your life in the family? Yeah. Yeah. And the episode was terrific. I mean, and everybody had a, you know, had something to say, even Nehemiah, even Amani, I think Silla even said something and then you can hear me. Oh, yeah. You're going at the end. That's so good. I like that. I told you after, I was like, that was one of the best outros to a podcast we could ever have where you just heard of someone in the mic. It was so good. Yeah. Uh, to this day still, I think that's part, that one right there was like a very cool outro hearing her snoring as we, as we ruled out of the camera. That's awesome. But yeah, John, do you have any shout outs you want to give? Um, I do want to give a quick shout out to, uh, whether Caleb Robertson from my church. Mm hmm. He just started listening yesterday. Yeah. So. New listener. Yeah. It shows that we're growing and that we're still, we're still reaching new people. Yes. Which is good. I'm giving out cards, man. I'm giving out a lot of cards. There were some cards passing around. I gave out two and I saw 30 different people with them. I don't know what you're giving. You should just keep those. I hit it by last one out. Yeah. We help. Help us Lord. We need more cards. Yeah. I gave up to date cards. Yeah. Right. Even. Don't try to get on YouTube. Yeah. A several, several people have asked me about the YouTube and I'm like, no YouTube doesn't like us. Yeah. YouTube. Yeah. Unfortunately, I gave a, I gave a small stack of cards to, uh, for the Trevor as well. Oh, nice. Yeah. Mm hmm. Yeah. The Lord is blessed with a lot of things. Yeah. As far as outreach is concerned and it gives us hope to talk about even, you know, and now we, we talk about things and we're like, Oh, say that, you know, like we need to, we need to discuss different things and we think on things a lot more and we, we're way more comfortable with each other. Yeah. To go from John saying, man, I really don't like Jose because he only knew him at youth camp. Oh my God. You know what I mean? Like you did. Absolutely. That is true. I was a counselor at youth camp, but I was, I was not a trouble, but I was usually near trouble. True. Trouble, trouble, no problem finding you. Yeah. Never missed. Yeah. Uh, the, the thing was at youth camp, they were just campers and I was the counselor there. It was one of my last years. And yeah, one of the last years that you were there and, um, there was a couple of kids there that weren't so, you know, uh, well behaved, well behaved without trying to make things worse. Sure. Uh, they weren't so well behaved and you know, you, you know, when the ones who aren't well behaved are around people, they start making some trouble. Well, I went and I found out in the, in the boys, uh, shower house, I heard some banging and shouting and I'm just like, well, as I'm walking by, I don't suspect anything going on. I go in there and I see two people, John being one of them, uh, they look like they're about to have a little fight. And I said, well, you guys are going with me to the field because I usually might, yeah, my form of punishment was attacking me. Yeah. My form of punishment that I was giving them was, uh, our suicides. And you know, if, whoa, for people who don't know what suicide was, she was like, you know, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Yeah. Suicide. I don't think it's one year. Okay. Yeah. So suicides are when you walk, when you run from point A to point B back to point A, then from point A to point C back to point B point C back to point A. And you do that all the way down the court. Yeah. Yeah. And it's designed, it's designed to make you tired. It's designed so that you are, you know, you lose all your energy. Right. And so, yeah, I had John doing that and he was exhausted and it didn't help. I had cracked my ribs the day before. Yeah. And so that form of punishment made John so hateful toward me that he did not want anything to do with me ever until afterwards when we started, I think what, when we started doing the podcast, it was when he started coming back to church. Yeah. Because he was back to church. Like I was a backslider. No, no, no, no, but ours, our church and it was one of the things like, oh, you want to come to our church? Because he has church on Tuesday. So I went to his. He went to mine. And, you know, man, I'm really not comfortable on his like, you don't know Jose. Yeah. You really don't know. Let me, let me, let me preface that by saying that now John will go to somebody else and say, Oh, you got the, you got the youth can't pose a way to, I'm like, wait, you got, you have to wait till after. That's not. He's so strange. He's so like, you got to go to after youth can't pose a way. Yeah. The reason it made me so irritated is I didn't do anything. It was bills. No. Well, we were both. We were, we were, we were picking on him about some stupid thing. It was the tiniest kid that started the news. It was. Little dude. No names. No names. I'll tell his body type of somebody who wasn't upset by suicides and that's what made me mad. Yeah. Yeah. She's got two big guys. Just. He's just like, he's like, on your left, like he's like, it's like, it's like, it's I could have breathed that would have reached out and punched him, but I was so funny because that's one of the like, that was way worse for us as a punishment and we didn't weigh less compared to what he didn't even do anything. I don't know. I'm going to try to kick me. I have no questions. I was just like, yeah, he, he gets it. You know? That's the only time I had met it. It was a different guy. Bill, Bill knows me away from youth camps a lot. There's no reason why he wouldn't be able to do that. I was just like, yeah, he just had to do that and it was fine. Yeah. And I think this, this year at youth camp, one of my, one of my, one of my other juniors coming to me and he's like, yeah, I don't like asking Jose for stuff because he's so mean. I'm like, that's not her saying. I'm just, you're not going to believe me, but after youth camp Jose is this different. It's great. Yeah. It's great. I have, you have to have that persona about you when you're a, when you're a leader of a group of people. Yeah. Especially people who want to try to pull away from you and try to find them. If you, if you don't, if you don't have that, a persona about you, you're, you're just asking to be pushed around and I do not want to be pushed around by anybody. But yeah. So, yeah, but John, that was his story for not liking me. But since I had a, I had a reason. But when we, but when we started doing the podcast, his whole demeanor changed about it. Because it was the first time we had been around each other since youth camp, we built a friendship about it. It was like almost like all three best friends here. And we've been everywhere. I mean, as far as like, we, you know, we're recording in, in brother Timmy's office with brother again. It's like, you know, like Placid and we're going to be there again. We move around and it's the same group. It's not like, you know, we change when we go to a different space. We're just like, Oh, let's do it. We love talking and because our podcast is built, I've listened to a lot of podcasts where they have a specific format and they're like, okay, we're going to this section, this thing, boom, boom. Yeah. Here's the intro for this thing. And then we go do this and then we go do this and this and it's heavily edited and cut. You can't really tell, but it's just one of the things that you can just go into different sections. Right. That works for some people. For us. Just we love having conversations and I'm going to try to be funny, you know, and, and I'm going to try to be funny and fail, but like, we have not failed. Yes, I do, but we all have our things that we do and, and it works so well together. Because it's just us. It's on us to do. So we have to push up when we record. We can't just, you know, sit back in that the world fly by and if we do, we make fun of you for months. For a year. You know, we've been making fun of this guy, but honestly, some of these guest episodes, some of the best discussions come from something he said. Yeah. Sometimes you have to be the stepping stone that others can build off of and you have to start it out. And everyone's like, Oh, that's a little thought that I do. If that's my role, if my role is to, you know, throw some change on the table and that's what it builds upon. I tell you, I tell you on a time, John, that, you know, some, you always think that you don't have the best input in the podcast, but a lot of times when you do say something, it's impactful, it brings something to the table and we can build off of it. It's true. You know, unless you just say something and expect us to build with it, it would just let you sit there and kick out of that role. It was amazing. What a reference. That was a lead. Every episode we had to do that, I did not laugh. No, it didn't. What did you pass the step out, Rome? I was built the day, which on a little tangent, I've started discussing it. I was discovering somewhat that means recently, you know, Rome wasn't built in the day. It's not. Whoa! Brother! It actually took many years. You know, like, it's through the rules of John trial. Here we go again trial and error. There's times when you think it's going to work and it's not, but you have to keep going. You have to keep progressing. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. That's a nice call back. If you guys want to go back and listen to that, you'll understand why I'm talking about it being made fun of. You know, you know that the roads that we drive on today versus the roads that are in Rome, the Roman roads over there are, even now, still in place, are still in great shape compared to the roads that we are on here. Granite, we run like 20,000, we run 20,000-pound machinery every day over those roads where they have real cars and carriages. Carriages. Carriages. But today they have like, you know, chariots, but wagons, and still those roads are maintained up to a point where it's amazing, you know. It's crazy. I want to ride one of those. A Vespa. Yeah, that sounds pretty cool. Yeah. And they don't make one for our size, but I'm sorry. See, you talked about it. Yeah. You talked about it. I was just, I was just workshopping what rides on those roads. A Vespa. Chariots. I was like, Vespa. Well, now if you're riding a Vespa, well, I'm just gonna show you how to be here. Don't know. I don't know. It has like four horsepower, so I'm not going up any house. I think the four horsepower is going to use it just to get you on the bike. It's like the opposite of the parent's story. I was like, I had to go downhill everywhere. I had to keep my feet on the ground, so it didn't drag. Little Tikes carring it up. Yeah, that's great. This is what we love. This is what we do. Yes, because we just randomly Vespa's, and it just strikes it up. And we made it 100 rabbit trails, but if that leads to just more content, we're things to listen to. I don't care if we're squealing our tires in one spot, you know, we just have fun. We're making doing burnouts and never get anywhere. Yeah. It's great. We're allowed to do that sometimes because, yes, it is most definitely a ministry. But laughter is the best medicine. And if you can't laugh at yourself, then, you know, you're doing it wrong. You're doing it wrong. Thank you. Dude, if we got upset and like hurt by each other, if we get offended by every time this moron made fun of me, episode 10, we're done. We're done. We're done. We're done. The first episode. We paid for a whole year. Yeah. Yeah. We paid for a whole year. And 10 is going to be it. We're going to do another episode at the end of the year. It's just a callback to the first three episodes. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, man. That's amazing. We just keep playing the first three episodes every week. Well, it would be the first four because the first three was the second episode was written. Two-part. Yeah. Yeah. I think the only one, no, we had another episode. We had one other one that was. And now we just like, I don't care. I don't know. This product. It makes it easier because like the reason, part of the reason we cut it is we were editing every little thing. And now that we are doing this videos and we kind of let it flow and we're better at letting it flow as well, then it doesn't really matter. We're not letting it... In the verbal sense, right? Yeah. We're not letting it. I don't know. Just a couple episodes. I'm like, oh, no. You know. I'll tell you what. That's what... No, it's fine. Sorry. I was just laughing to you. Apologies. I come laughing. Sorry. I'm fine with this product. I said laughing in the mic. It's fine. You yell at me regularly for laughing in the mic. Yeah, with you. You're out of the mic, thank you. You just yell all the time. I've been a way of communication. I've been really appreciating the funny, the laughter, and I've been really appreciating the serious episode as well. And those serious episodes are my favorite, honestly. I like... I love the serious episode because we get to dive into the word and we dive into perspective. We dive into things that you don't normally dive into. Remember that day I said it in church. I said sometimes people say that, you know, we say that the devil fights you harder when you're saved. But I said I could flip that. Wasn't that yesterday? It was Wednesday night, but the way the podcasting works is not, you know, but yeah. So... I've got to forget about this. I can flip that around to where it's not exactly that, where when we're not saved, the devil will fight us, but we don't see it as a fight because we don't resist. We just go in and allow ourselves to be used by Satan and not even know it. But when we do get saved, that's when we notice the fight and that's when it becomes a harder to us because we resist it then. And once we start resisting it, it becomes harder. It's like a rubber band wants to stretch right back to where it's beginning spot. But when you resist, you're putting a lot of tension on that resistance to go back to normal, back to its normal state. That's what that resistance is. It's tough. It's a fight that's always there. The rubber band will always want to go back to normal no matter what you do do it. So that resistance is always there no matter what you do. But that's what life is like as a Christian. You realize the fight is there, it's just not noticed until you're saved and you realize it. It's like what we were talking about with going uphill and downhill. It's like when you're going with the devil, you're all going down and falling. It's easy to fall. It's way harder to crawl and climb and clutch at the rocks trying to pull your way up to heaven. You have to fight against gravity that's trying to pull you right back down. And the devil's going to be pulling on you. He's going to have a pack on your back and all the birds make it fun. But it's like you still have to keep going up and it's a lot. It may seem like, oh, just get a sled and just slide right down. But it takes a lot more. So people see that and they say, you know, it's a lot harder to stay in this game. You talk about it, people who have been preaching for 40 years, it's a lot harder to stay in this game for 40 years than it is to, you know, slide down, slide down. And it's harder to gain spiritual progress if you're always sliding down because you slide down a lot further than you climb back up. At youth camp in Dothan, Brother Shannon, I think it was Brother Shannon did just a little bit of an example of what it's like, he said, sliding down the hill and he had a, it was like a cooler, a jug or something, I can't remember exactly what it was. And that was his weight, that was his sin. And he was walking in front of the altars and he'd walk a little ways and he'd lay it down and then he'd walk forward. But then he'd turn around and he'd walk and he'd pick it up. But every time he went and picked it back up, he went just a little bit further back. Yeah. Yeah. And then he'd put it down and he'd turn and he'd walk back, you know, up the hill and then he'd turn around and pick it up and he picked it up a little bit further back. Every time. Yeah. He never went further, you know, up. He always went further back down. Yeah. And it's, it's a good example to what we face because it's, you know, we're always going to, if we, if we are always finding ourselves at youth camp or whatever, it's going to take more prayer to get back where you were. Yeah. And then you have to go forward. Yeah. Backsliding is going to be a big, you know, like you'll notice it more after you've been saying the backsliding effect because once you give in to sin, we're born into sin. That's the reason why gravity is so, it's so natural because we're born into sin where bodies want to sin. That's right. We want to go against the sin. So we want to go against gravity, you know, and that's the point is once you let go of going against gravity, the plane has to fall is going to crash. It's going to be fast and it's going to be crazy. But getting back up is going to be the, is going to be the challenge. For sure. And that's the, that's the life that we have to live as a Christian. If we, if we want to stay in, if you want to stay a, a, a with the Lord and you want to stay safe and you want to not have to worry about falling down to the ground or falling down that hill, we have to stay in prayer. We have to stay in the Bible, we have to stay, you know, worship the Lord and root it in the Word, get to stay rooted. Thank you. And that's what's going to keep us up in there. I really appreciate that. I really appreciate that. We're going to get into a serious spiritual point after all that. Hey, that's good. Hey, that's good. Yeah. Best spot. The Lord is going to help us. Hey, that's really good. That's going to go downhill. Yeah. It's going to be really fast because the speedometer is going to stay 30 miles an hour. It's going to be so good. But as soon as you get up that uphill, you're going to get 30, 29, 27, 30, I mean, 13, 10, 5. Got to get off now and walk up the way, you know, walking and walking up the way. Both of us might have more horsepower than a sports car, but it can still go uphill a lot better than, you know, it's like, it doesn't mean it's faster, but, but in the uphill slope, it does a lot more work because it's carrying a lot more. There's a lot more weight to it. Oh, yeah. You got to drop a gear and disappear. Yeah. It's the car noises for these morons. That's so perfect. Oh, man. And that really shows. All right. We're going to change the format. We're now a car noise podcast. That's all we're going to be doing. Hey, it's my best one. The new intro. Don't make fun of me. I'm sorry. We won't. He's stalled out. Oh, man. We're going to change the format. We're now a car noise podcast. That's all we're going to be doing. Hey, get my best one. The new intro. Don't make fun of me. He's stalled out in a second. Oh, man. That's great. I can only do that because I know what it feels like to stall out. My mom drives a standard. I was like, "Mom, why don't you let me drive?" I didn't do terribly. I only stalled twice. But I stalled two more times than she did. You know why it's called standard and not manual back in those days? Because that's what the normal was? The normal was the standard version. The normal version of a car was a stick shift car. And that's what it came with. Automatic was a luxury you had to pay extra for. Yeah. Now, it's opposite. Automatic is the standard. Yeah. And manual, you have to pay extra for. Especially in that car that my mother drives because when my uncle had it ordered, he had that car doesn't come manual. So he had a transmission from a Cobol SS put in it. Which is just a random thing. But he had it custom made. Yeah. I was joking about this being a car podcast. Hey, listen. I was just going with-- I thought you were going serious. We're going to go into the card podcast. No, no, no. Sue beat. Right. Is that a Supra? Hey, someone's going to hear that sound effect and they're going to look out the car. Oh, dude. It's like they have songs with the police siren in it. Kill yourself. Like, I don't-- I'm driving-- That's what it sounds like. No. Dude, I'm just saying I'm driving and I drive a lot and listen to music. And if I hear another police siren while I'm driving, I'm-- You become numb. You become like me. You become numb to hearing police siren. I hope it's just going to be a real one. Yeah. One day you're going to get pulled over and not realize it and pull the OJ Simpson. And pull the car. And pull the car. And pull the car. I've done the freeway. Everybody. I'm trying to afford to be fair, so. But yeah. Same year, isn't it? Same '98. Two hours, four miles. Oh, no. They look the same. Same headlights. [LAUGHTER] Well, I think that does it for this episode. Wow. That was pretty good. Yeah. The Supra really shows how quickly we can-- we've let the car proceed. You know, it's blowing any of that. But that was the idea. I'm kind of getting hungry, guys. Yeah. Nah. Let's get fried chicken. Hey. Here we go. Episode one. Oh, all the back of the stars. Oh, yeah. Just call back everything. Scandal time. [LAUGHTER] Well, thank you guys for watching. Thank you guys for listening. Please hit that share. Hit that like button. And we'll see you next week. Have a good one. Sounds good. Thank you, guys. Have a wonderful evening. [MUSIC PLAYING] [BLANK_AUDIO]
