Justin: 0:00

Get a two scoop ice cream. You put chocolate and then on the top mint chocolate.

Rhett: 0:03

It was somebody's way of eating dessert and wanting their breath to smell good.

Justin: 0:07

Well, you know.

Rhett: 0:08

I guess so Mint was meant for chewing gum, for peppermints and for toothpaste.

Justin: 0:14

I'll go with that too. Yeah, and I love my mint ice cream, so does that mean when you're brushing your teeth.

Rhett: 0:18

Does that mean you're getting a like you're?

Justin: 0:28

like man, I wish some chocolate was on this?

Rhett: 0:38

No, it's separate. I mean right, separate category to me. Why would you like? Why, why? Why mix the two? What is going on? Armchair Authentic Friends? It's great to have you back for another episode of the podcast with your friends, rhett and Justin. Here we are trying to steward our stories and our conversations in a way that serve you, by having real conversations about real life with real people.

Rhett: 0:59

Now, today, justin and I cannot wait to get into our conversation, but before we do, I want to take a moment and say welcome to all of you who may be joining us for the first time. It's so great to have you here. In fact, if you have not already followed us on social media, can we encourage you to go to Facebook or Instagram and follow us at Armchair Authentic. That's at Armchair Authentic. Follow us at Armchair Authentic. That's at Armchair Authentic. Or you can go over to X. You can find us there at Armchair Off Pod. That's Armchair Off A-U-T-H-P-O-D.

Rhett: 1:37

Now, it goes without saying, but I'm going to say it, and that is thank you so much to every single one of you who've not only rated and reviewed the podcast, but also have taken the time to copy the link from your podcast platform and when you've sent that to a friend man that has meant so much to us. Thank you for doing that. Okay, friends, we're diving into our conversation and it starts right now. Here we go. Well, justin, here we are. Another episode, let's go. And what's cool about today is that it actually marks a full year. It does Since we started this thing. Episode 53. I mean as far as, like the actual episode one, it actually dropped a year ago on this.

Justin: 2:21

I don't know the exact date, but on this week, well, I think we started with Fridays to be our day and we realized that's not a great drop day.

Rhett: 2:29

Yeah, you talk about learning things as you go through it. We're like, hey, people will listen to it over the weekend.

Justin: 2:36

It's the weekend we thought we were outsmarting the market.

Rhett: 2:39

We're like, we'll be different. We'll be the church that plants on Sunday evening, like Patrick.

Justin: 2:45

Lee talked about.

Rhett: 2:46

We're doing Saturday night church. Let's go Like Fridays In the South. Here we go. Yeah, we quickly learned.

Justin: 2:54

We shifted to Monday not long after. Yeah, but this is it. Yeah, this time last year we got up and running, so it's been officially one year. So congrats, rhett.

Rhett: 3:03

Hey, congrats to you, man. Come on air fist bump across the room. Oh, my right arm is hurting. Speaking of your right arm hurting like bring our friends in on what you were telling me earlier off air.

Justin: 3:15

Well, you know that after Christmas you're ready to put up all your stuff and we're kind of in the middle of this project where we want everything out of our garage. It's just boxes. That really is Thanksgiving Christmas and a bunch of crap that you need to throw away. I love that.

Rhett: 3:31

The emphasis and a bunch of crap that you've got to throw away. You've got to throw it away. I love it.

Justin: 3:37

Me and Summer actually had someone come over who would have fresh eyes and not be so attached to keeping everything, and so we just had her helping us just start clearing it out of our garage. If it looks good, keep it. If it looks like trash let's trash it.

Rhett: 3:51

So that was your clarification was if it looks like trash, throw it away.

Justin: 3:57

And we monitored it though, but at least if it's over in that we can look and say oh yeah. Like, for instance, we've had these bear bryant coca-cola glasses forever. I bet that was hard to get rid of. It was hard because it goes way back to my granddad who probably gave us this yeah, and it was just like these aren't going to be worth anything surely some listener right now is going.

Rhett: 4:19

Oh my god it is tell me, you didn't throw those away. Yeah well, we did I chunked them.

Justin: 4:24

I'm like it's just time to say goodbye and it's so hard to say goodbye to yesterday. I wish we could go.

Rhett: 4:34

Cue the Boyz II Men soundtrack of the 90s. This is awesome, oh my gosh.

Justin: 4:40

I love me some Boyz II Men, by the way, I'd love to play that we can't for copyright reasons. Get me on that tangent. I'll go there with you all the time, yeah.

Rhett: 4:46

I'm thinking Ron Jennings and Micah Solomon right now are going oh come on. Let's see they're dialing it up right now let's do it.

Justin: 4:52

Come on, guys, let's have them come see us and we'll sing it together.

Rhett: 5:07

Yeah, that's it. Yeah, as you can't see us, but I'm swaying back and forth in my little double snap, my little leather armchair that's laid back. Oh, that's fun OK.

Justin: 5:13

So oh yeah, that was some good stuff. It even makes me think about this, you know. I was joking with you and Micah when we were talking about the school song. I'll jump back on what I was saying in a minute, OK yeah, yeah. How you never knew. We had a school song at Parkway.

Rhett: 5:28

Yeah, that was like an eye-opening, really mind-blowing moment.

Justin: 5:32

Yeah, we didn't do a good job letting the student body know that it existed, but we. There's probably a good reason for that, I remember watching the movie. I was like okay. It's not very cool. It's especially if you've seen the movie.

Rhett: 5:48

Lean on me with morgan freeman back in the late 80s was morgan freeman in that movie he was. All I remember is joe clark. Was it cory? Wasn't he joe wasn't?

Justin: 5:57

no, yeah, that was morgan freeman, he was joe clark. No, you're thinking of you're thinking of stand by me.

Rhett: 6:02

Yeah, yeah, I'm like, I'm thinking was it Corey Amey, corey Feldman and the guy that ended up going to Star Trek, or?

Justin: 6:09

whatever, and some are dead now too, yeah.

Rhett: 6:13

Oh man With overdoses. That's literally the movie I thought you were talking about. No, you're talking about Lean On Me, it was Morgan Freeman.

Justin: 6:18

Yeah, he was the principal Joe Clark yeah.

Rhett: 6:20

Principal Joe. Yeah, I know what you're talking about. Yeah, got all the students on the stage Based on real life.

Justin: 6:24

Y'all have now been expelled, and then they're all taken off the stage and he's cleaning the school up. Yeah.

Rhett: 6:32

He's bringing law and order to the school.

Justin: 6:33

He's bringing law and order and everybody's singing the school song. I mean kind of sounds familiar. What's going?

Rhett: 6:38

on in the government right now. We'll see if we go there At the time of this recording. President Donald J Trump has been elected and he is in the office for a full week and it's just unbelievable the stuff he's getting done. He is signing some things and showing it. He's like check it out. There's a big one I just signed right here, oh wow.

Justin: 6:59

So with Morgan Freeman they cleaned out the school. They're making sure that everybody gets the patriotism of learning the school song.

Rhett: 7:07

Oh, that's right, and he had the guys start singing it. Y'all gonna learn the school song and it's like Fair East Side. Oh, yeah, yeah.

Justin: 7:14

And there's the scene in the bathroom when those guys are singing.

Rhett: 7:17

Yeah, like what we used to do. Yeah, and he completely calls them out. He was so good.

Justin: 7:20

Like, like you think they're about to be in trouble. And it's like, if you haven't learned the school song, you're going to be suspended. And he goes to the one guy sing the song and he's like. And then the guy elbows him like that's not it, come on bro. And then he kicks in with like, and then they kick into that harmony. It was beautiful, it was beautiful man.

Justin: 7:46

And so I remember me, you and Mic micah, thinking we need to write a school song after oh, but I think that's why I never told you about the the parkway school song because it just wouldn't fit, because you got that smooth boys, the men sound and we're not doing that. But you could do something with that, we could. It's like we are the pioneers.

Rhett: 8:12

I'm not even gonna try. We love our Lord country yeah.

Justin: 8:22

That would have been the school song deal. But I was telling a story about cleaning an attic and I can't remember what.

Rhett: 8:32

We were talking about your arm and how you can't lift your right arm up.

Justin: 8:36

I don't understand how that got us on the school song.

Rhett: 8:39

I mean like yeah, let's rewind the track back. Where did it go? All right, I don't know what we're talking about the arm.

Justin: 8:46

Yeah, my arm is really in pain. Oh, you were cleaning things out. It's not been this painful, it was the Coca-Cola bottle. That's right, paul.

Rhett: 8:53

Bryant Coca-Cola bottle. Coca-cola, the Coca-Cola, you know. Speaking of Coca-Cola, I will never forget going to my grandma's house and going to my grandma's house, and this was in huntsville. My mama and papa, that's what I called them, man, every time I'd go over they'd like ray, you want an ice cold coke of coed? Hold on, she, she says red.

Justin: 9:15

Do you want a ice cold coca-cola classic like the whore man?

Rhett: 9:17

oh, yeah, like it was like oh, you need some, you need an ice cold coca-cola classic.

Justin: 9:21

I was like yes, was it in the glass bottle?

Rhett: 9:23

oh, glass bottle and everything man cold like you get that bottle opener, you know, oh, it's great and I'm I'm thinking, man, what a generation what I mean oh yeah, like talk about buying into branding coca-cola classic. And now it's straight up, man, just coke.

Justin: 9:39

I know, yeah, now it's coke and evidently I saw something the other day. It's like, if you turn it the other way, coca-cola yeah, the way it's spelled, it actually looks like the shape of the devil, like someone would conspiracy and I'm like they just trying to create some things. I mean, it's got a little horns, it's like upside down there's the tail that. See, it looks fancy but it's a devil tail.

Rhett: 9:59

Yeah, I'm like just stop it yeah, please, okay, so you got rid of the Coke we threw away the Coca-Cola bottles.

Justin: 10:06

Bear Bryant.

Rhett: 10:06

So you didn't even look on eBay, you didn't even see how much they cost.

Justin: 10:09

Yeah, it was like you could get $10 to $300 for each one.

Rhett: 10:13

Okay, and I'm like surely $10 to $200 or $300?.

Justin: 10:16

Yeah, I'm like, surely not mine, so I just didn't want to. I ain't got time for this. I had like eight of them.

Rhett: 10:23

I ain't got time for this yeah that might be $2,400 at the highest.

Justin: 10:27

Ah, let's throw it away, because what I'm going to do is say let's hold on to it and I'll check it out later.

Rhett: 10:33

And then, 10 years from now, you're still holding on to it like golly.

Justin: 10:35

Yeah, and they ain't going to sell. No, I'm not about it because I don't mean to. You know, everybody, we're like almost 500 cities across the country who listen to this, so not everybody can think about Alabama Crimson.

Rhett: 10:55

Who is Paul Bear Bryant but?

Justin: 10:58

to say that is we claim a lot of national championships and I'm a believer that we have it. Did you notice the word claim?

Rhett: 11:04

I had to use claim because the bottle— this was before the national championships even existed. This bottle is so— Ah, we're the national champions.

Justin: 11:11

This bottle is so old that it showed all of our national championships up to 1979. Ooh. And it only listed like eight of them.

Rhett: 11:19

So if you do the math.

Justin: 11:20

It's like even they just admitted we only got like 15. Right, it's like even they just admitted we only got like 15. Somewhere along the line we added more, and so that bottle almost disproves it.

Rhett: 11:30

To clarify, Paul Bear Bryant was one of the greatest coaches of all time. He coached for the Alabama Crimson Tide. Much like Nick Saban, he was just that dynamic of a coach and leader. They dedicated a Coca-Cola bottle after him with his picture on it and everything and it was legend.

Justin: 11:46

Growing up as a kid, you were used to seeing that in your grandparents' house.

Rhett: 11:49

Yeah, they had all of it.

Justin: 11:50

It was just Alabama pictures and Coca-Cola bottles.

Rhett: 11:53

My dad had them. We all collected them and I was like I'm thirsty, Can I open one of those? Don't touch it. It's probably nasty if you think about it.

Justin: 12:01

it's not like wine, it gets better.

Rhett: 12:03

No, this is like Coca-Cola. This is syrup by now.

Justin: 12:07

This might as well be poured on a pancake. This is Coca-Cola. Where did you get this?

Rhett: 12:12

maple syrup man, it's Paul Bear Bryant.

Justin: 12:14

Alabama Crimson Tide Maple syrup from 1977. I did think about opening one just to taste and I was like I can't Number one it would ruin my streak. That's another thing we'll talk about again later. Oh dude, I haven't had a.

Rhett: 12:25

Coca-Cola or Diet Coke or anything since July of last year. That's really good. Well, let me rephrase that I haven't had a full one. Like every once in a while I'll be like, let me just like. If Linda, like we're leaving a restaurant and the glass is kind of full on her end, the glass is kind of full on her end. Yeah, like, let me just, let me see if I even still like it and I'll drink just a sip and I promise you, man, I feel like it's straight up syrup. I'm like, oh really, I don't miss this at all. God, I can't imagine and so anyway. So I can't technically say I still haven't had it, but every once in a while I'll try a little sip of my son's Sprite or a Coke just to see where I'm at, because I've gone for so long.

Justin: 13:05

Yeah.

Rhett: 13:06

And man, I'm, I'm like I'm loving the water train dude yeah.

Justin: 13:09

Water train's good man. Yeah, water and coffee man. I do not miss it A lot of water coffee yes, you don't drink any sugar.

Rhett: 13:14

I'm like, yeah, I drink sugar.

Justin: 13:16

I'll drink a lemonade from time to time at Chick you're going to leave here after our recording and enjoy our frequenting we try to do it every now and again of Milo's, yeah, and I'm going to get me an Arnold Palmer.

Rhett: 13:32

There you go, sweet tea Talking about my coffee addiction the local Starbucks here in Moody. Come on, shout out Moody, we got a Starbucks baby.

Justin: 13:39

We're moving up. I love it, like I'll pull in the drive-thru and like rhett.

Rhett: 13:42

What's up, man, you getting your normal like, yeah, jc, here we go. There's a guy there by the name of jc, he's so cool he's like yeah, I'm like dude, how do you know I'm pulling up? I don't know if you know this, but they've got cameras. They actually can see you.

Justin: 13:54

Oh, they stare right at you when you're ordering. Yeah, and I'm like, don't make that dumb face if you think they can't see you. He's like hey, dude what's up, Rhett?

Rhett: 14:01

I'm like, bro, how did you know it was me? Oh, we got a camera, oh yeah.

Justin: 14:04

Yeah.

Rhett: 14:05

And then so I pulled up to the window and I was talking to him and I was like dude, I didn't realize you guys could see us. I mean, I thought it was just microphones, like oh no, man, we can see everything. Oh yeah.

Justin: 14:18

All these years. You're running back Every time I'm ordering a drink. I learned something.

Rhett: 14:22

He said next time you come through, man, I'll put my face up on the screen. I'm like. I'm sorry, no way, he said all I have to do is hit a button and you can see me. No way.

Justin: 14:31

I was like are you kidding me? I've never seen that. No, I hadn't either.

Rhett: 14:38

I've never seen him do that, and the that's exactly right.

Justin: 14:44

That's amazing.

Rhett: 14:45

I don't know, I don't know how they do it, but he just said man, next time I hit the button and then we can, you can, you can see me. I was like, oh my God, dude, yeah, I want to see this.

Justin: 14:52

It's amazing. Like does his face show up on the governmental team and they're talking about incoming hurricanes and they hired some of the sign language people but they never vetted them.

Rhett: 15:12

They don't know whether or not they're signing. What are they?

Justin: 15:14

signing. They had a professional person who knew sign language and they said they're not even making words with their hands and they're just going after it and it's like a national broadcast. They're getting paid and it's like a national broadcast.

Rhett: 15:24

They're getting paid and he's getting paid they're faking it and they're just making up stuff. Oh my gosh. It's like and this is a horrendous hurricane.

Justin: 15:32

They're like throwing their arms up like it's horrendous I start doing the.

Rhett: 15:38

Uh, you know what's the guy like the happy hands. Spirit sprinkles no you know the air blow up things that on the side of road it's like this long tube and it's got these hands and it goes up and then it like comes down. I mean, this wind is like crazy, that person somehow convinced the people that.

Justin: 15:58

I know sign language. At one point they had to think okay, this is going too far.

Rhett: 16:03

Was this the Weather Channel? Yeah, it was National Weather Channel.

Justin: 16:06

Yes, it was like a briefing where the governmental, you know, like let's say it's coming into Florida and it's the governor talking, but they have to have someone with sign language for the people who you know they can't hear.

Rhett: 16:18

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Justin: 16:18

And so they're watching TV, and the deaf community is looking at that, saying what's? This person doing because they're not speaking.

Rhett: 16:28

It's kind of like the actor who puts on the resume that they know how to ride horses and then they show up on the day that they're supposed to ride horses. You said you could ride a horse. Yeah, I rode a horse when I was like six, seven years old. I mean, does the horse at the carousel count at the Galleria Mall? I mean you didn't say specifically what kind of horse I rode.

Justin: 16:52

I mean it's like hey, the actors do that all the time.

Rhett: 16:58

It reminds me of Joey on Friends. Yes, yes.

Justin: 17:04

Blah, blah, blah.

Rhett: 17:05

This has to be performed by a gentile, he said he's never been circumcised oh man, well, like was it the episode where he's like he said he spoke french and he's oh, I was thinking.

Justin: 17:18

Oh, I was thinking. When he was talking about french, I took it in another direction joey.

Rhett: 17:27

No, what part is your my pill? You know it's like.

Justin: 17:32

Anyway, I was thinking the moment he got the part but he had to be like uncircumcised see, I don't remember that one he really wanted the part. So he tried to do all he could to show that and something happens. Obviously it wouldn't show the camera, but it he could to show that he had to. Oh my gosh, and something happens. Obviously it wouldn't show the camera, but it'll lose to show that they realized quickly. Okay, yeah.

Rhett: 17:51

That is hilarious, don't lie because it's going to catch up to you. You're going to be on a national platform.

Justin: 17:57

It's going to happen and you're thinking.

Rhett: 17:59

I am a fraud.

Justin: 18:01

At some point someone's going to bust me. It all fresh at some point. At some point someone's gonna bust me. I mean it all comes out at some point back to the story. So we clean the garage, we're gonna get found we're gonna get to the reason your arm that's right so I found everything that we're keeping, so now we wanted to transfer it from the garage to the attic.

Rhett: 18:17

Okay, and so I have old school attic where it's like you bring down the ladder okay, so you you're not putting the stuff that you have in the garage in the attic, only the stuff that we're keeping.

Justin: 18:26

No, no no, I want our garage cleaned out. So over years we've been just getting rid of a bunch of previous family stuff that we kind of inherited. We're getting rid of everything, so we've simplified majorly, and so what we wanted to do on this is we have a ping pong table. We want in our garage Just active stuff going on, it's going to be a lot of fun.

Justin: 18:47

So we're getting rid of these boxes, but I want it to be where Christmas, thanksgiving, I'll go up to the attic and bring it down. Yeah, just more of that style. And so I had this First of all picturing you going into an attic. I bet that was. Oh, I get all up in there going into an attic. I bet that was that trauma trigger for you, man it's like you know, spiders. You hate spiders.

Justin: 19:12

The idea of anything moving around in the dark. It doesn't hit me, Does it not? I can imagine you would be like.

Rhett: 19:16

I'm not going up here. Hey boys, why don't you go back in that corner and pull me that box over there?

Justin: 19:22

I got my flashlights, I get up there. It doesn't there. I got my flashlights, I get up there, it doesn't. It doesn't trigger. I just turn on the lights. I'm good to go. But it still is the trauma that hits me. As a kid we used to have one in our old house and I completely fell out, went right down those wooden stairs, nailed the ground. So, there's no telling what happened. I might be crazy in the head right now. Are you talking like the?

Justin: 19:42

Chevy Chase National Lampoon's Christmas vacation where he's up, and he got locked up there and he's sitting there watching that old movie.

Rhett: 19:49

A tear comes down his cheek and all of a sudden, his wife pulls the string because they got back home and he just kind of got lost in a moment.

Justin: 20:00

That's what I'm in, man, if you were to picture that that's what I'm up in, and there's not a lot of space in ours though, so I'm reaching down. This lady's helping me kind of pull it up, because Summer had to roll. So I'm just kind of in this moment. It's like well, we got this person, let's go ahead and get the rest of their hour here that we're already paying them for, and I grabbed this box several of them and now it's just me having to pull it up. And I have to pull it up awkward, because the way the springs are on the ladder I have to go to the other edge.

Rhett: 20:30

So you're in the attic. She's at the bottom of the stairs. I'm balancing and half of you is coming out of the attic trying to grab with your right hand. Oh yeah, like accident waiting to happen.

Justin: 20:38

Oh my God, my arm's reaching down. I grab it, so I'm okay, I pull it off, but I didn't realize how much I was working. Just the weird positioning of my shoulder. Yeah, for hours. Yeah, so picture that Now fast forward, adrenaline's kicked in. Let's say that's Friday, nothing's happened. Saturday, nothing's happened. We have which I'll tell you later. We had a very delayed Christmas with the family literally a month to the date, the end of January.

Rhett: 21:08

Christmas with the family and we're celebrating. I texted you. I was like what'd you do? Oh, we're celebrating Christmas, I'm like what. You know, that was last month, man, we did. We're in 2025. It was so wild.

Justin: 21:21

And I'll get back to that. But Monday morning I woke and then you know, like another day it's just excruciating pain and I thought that I've, I didn't even equate it to that. I've been wondering like man what's, what's, what's going on?

Rhett: 21:39

Yeah.

Justin: 21:39

And I woke up at like five something this morning, wanted to knock out some stuff and I'm and it's like it occurred to me I I completely tore or pulled a muscle you had to have, and so I think we're going to be better soon. But what's funny, the reason we brought it up is I was trying to reach out to something.

Rhett: 21:54

Oh yeah, you're trying to give me a fist bump, yeah.

Justin: 21:59

And it's like God, what an effort, what a major task to be doing right now. But you know the stuff we take for granted.

Rhett: 22:07

The stuff we take for granted.

Justin: 22:07

But no, Christmas was great. We had a delayed at the end of January, had all the family over. We had the Christmas Because everybody was sick.

Rhett: 22:14

Yeah, we were all sick at Christmas. I love the fact that you guys just didn't cancel it. You were like, look, we'll get together, we'll do our meal. Oh yeah, y'all like went all out with your like Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner we did. You were like, well, my ham's about to ham in the oven.

Justin: 22:31

We got the smoked turkey summer's jalapeno corn we talked about. I mean, we went all in. We had the well, the trees down, but we had the Christmas bench. We had the bench there that we put all the gifts on the Christmas bench. Oh, christmas bench.

Rhett: 22:48

I mean, that was our deal.

Justin: 22:49

So you walk in and you see the bench.

Rhett: 22:51

How lovely is your wooden splinters.

Justin: 22:54

I don't know. Is it wood? Does it get cushions on it? It is no cushions, just wood.

Rhett: 22:59

So this is a tradition, the Christmas bench or did y'all just start something we just made?

Justin: 23:03

it up. We were trying to work with something. We kept the reeds on the door it's.

Rhett: 23:06

Christmas, yeah, but everything's down Like we're trying to move on with the year. But we had to have this one more moment. Fire's bright late at night next to the.

Justin: 23:19

Christmas bench. I don't know, sorry, it's such a word you got to say it very, very careful. Yeah, but we had our annual. We usually do basketball games with the family on Thanksgiving and Christmas, so we had our delayed Christmas match.

Rhett: 23:30

I mean, I was playing hard, it was me, and all these, like it was probably like five, six younger people. Did you make room for the pool? Did you make room for the ping pong table? I don't know what's wrong with me. I can't talk. I was like what, where does that? Did you make room?

Justin: 23:47

What word did he just say?

Rhett: 23:48

The poom, the poom, the Poom, the Poom, pickle Poom.

Justin: 23:53

Table. We try to always make room for the Poom. Oh man, I mean a family that Pooms together, stays together, stays together. Yeah, prayer and Poom, there we go, definitely make room for the Poom.

Rhett: 24:09

Well, the broom ball. Remember broom ball, okay, broom. See you remember broom ball. Remember broom ball, okay, broom.

Justin: 24:13

Love broom ball. Ice skating, broom ball. Ice skating, broom ball man, I love broom ball.

Rhett: 24:19

That's the 90s youth group thing to go do in the South. Man, you got the ice skating rink that shuts down and you're out there with brooms.

Justin: 24:26

I love broom ball and a ball on ice.

Rhett: 24:28

I loved ice skating. It's amazing.

Justin: 24:31

That On ice. I loved ice skating. It's amazing. That was our deal, but did you make room for the?

Rhett: 24:33

ping pong table. You never answered.

Justin: 24:35

Well, we put the boxes down there.

Rhett: 24:38

No, I did not say that. We're coming close to that.

Justin: 24:39

Yeah, yeah I told Britt I was like man, it was a gift for him at Christmas. Now here I am a month later.

Rhett: 24:47

I was sick, all this stuff, so I'm like table man, when we would play broomball at the ice skating rink like it was like I mean thinking of it through the lens of a parent. It's like you almost need a waiver side. You need to, because how many?

Justin: 24:59

heads are dangerous.

Rhett: 25:00

Talk about your feet coming out from underneath you and, I know, hitting your head on solid ice, oh my gosh.

Justin: 25:05

Or slicing somebody, like that happened. Ice skate?

Rhett: 25:08

well, yeah, I mean we never played I broomball with ice skates on it was you with your shoes it was like in a gymnasium.

Justin: 25:14

Oh, but yes, but I've done the broomball in the ice skating rink. Okay, gotcha.

Rhett: 25:19

I was thinking that literally broomball in an ice skating rink was without ice skates. You're on your feet with a broom. Oh see, I don't remember that. You don't remember that I could have swore there was no way they would have licensed us with ice skates in soccer at the same time in the middle of the ice rink. I do not remember that I could have swore man, I don't know, you never forget anything.

Justin: 25:42

We ice skated all the time though. Well, we did, but not everybody did.

Rhett: 25:45

But bring a ball on an ice skating rink was unbelievable.

Justin: 25:48

See, I feel like yeah, I just don't remember doing that in shoes.

Rhett: 25:51

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Justin: 26:29

Yeah, we might be mixing it up in our head. We're projecting. Let us know, am I making this crap up?

Rhett: 26:34

I think it was real.

Justin: 26:37

It's real in my mind. That would be awful. Oh, I remember seeing people bust their heads. That would be terrible. You're in your shoes In the gym, it's good, but on the ice. That's what I mean. That's what made it even harder.

Rhett: 26:45

Everybody's laughing and you're. You're like the Flintstones with your feet coming out from underneath you.

Justin: 26:50

Well, most people in our side of the country. They don't know how to ice skate. No, it's just not a big thing. Nor drive on ice, but you and I love. Yeah, I'm sure, but you and I loved going to ice skate, did you see?

Rhett: 27:02

that meme I sent you the other day with that guy in Atlanta, yeah, he kept trying to make it up.

Justin: 27:17

It was like ice versus car versus gate and like it had these point system and there was this guy or girl in atlanta trying to get out of their apartment at like 7 am.

Rhett: 27:20

It's hard to get a gated community. It was a slight hill and that car kept trying to get it and they couldn't. So the gate would open. They would try. The car kept sliding back and then they added these effects like a punk punk. Yeah, like the gate looked like it kept hitting the car back that guy got desperate. He turned the car around backwards trying to back out. The gate was shut. He tried to pull forward, let the gate open and then tried a running start. It was just. I thought it was hilarious.

Justin: 27:41

I was laughing but I couldn't laugh at him because literally, when we had ice storms or the snow a couple of weeks ago or a few weeks ago, I was that guy. I could not get my car that's right.

Rhett: 27:53

That's what's so funny, and that's why I was laughing.

Justin: 27:55

I'm like I did that very same thing.

Rhett: 27:57

That's what I'm saying.

Justin: 27:58

I reversed up it, I went down and then, finally, the last time, I just started shifting on my steering wheel left to right, to left to right, to left to right, and then I nailed the gas there you go and it worked.

Rhett: 28:09

It was like you got a right up, you got a real rear wheel driven vehicle, yeah, right, so that should be a little bit better, yeah yeah, well, and not to have four-wheel drive, that would have been awesome yeah I didn't have that on our highlander, on your highlander?

Justin: 28:24

yeah, nope, my dad. He has the same car. We have it's four-wheel drive, not ours so.

Rhett: 28:30

So you did christmas in january that was the first in january the whole thing, and it was almost so nice yeah, it's four-wheel drive, not ours. So you did Christmas in January. That was the first Christmas in January, so you did the whole thing.

Justin: 28:35

And it was almost so nice that we even said how cool would this be? Of course Is this a new tradition it might be, because what a difference. I like Christmas morning and not being in a hurry, but we are the house and I'm grateful for it, that everybody comes to On the day of oh yeah.

Rhett: 28:54

Okay, so everybody does their own Christmases, and then they come to your house.

Justin: 28:57

We like to have our own time in the morning and then we tell everybody you know, around four you can start coming over. Okay, but that's the whole deal. And then the house is a mess because you've got paper everywhere, paper everywhere. You've been wrapping, you know, all the stuff, or unwrapping all the stuff, putting together a bunch of toys or whatever it is. And so this christmas, because no one came over, we literally got to just stay kind of in our christmas.

Justin: 29:23

We did the family thing, where summer will find us a cool set of like pajamas oh, yeah, like flannel type pants and the shirt oh, y'all all look the same, oh yeah that and the boys went along with it oh yeah, and even Lito, our dog, we put a little boat.

Rhett: 29:36

Summer made a bad like a matching bow tie, seriously, oh yeah, he's so cute man, oh gosh.

Justin: 29:43

Yeah, we haven't even ever talked about Lito, but that's been another adventure this year. We're a dog family now, but yeah, he's a white golden retriever.

Rhett: 29:51

Yeah.

Justin: 29:52

Like two years old now, so he's awesome. But yeah, so we literally watched Christmas movies on Christmas. It felt like the ideal, but we've never gotten to do that before.

Rhett: 30:02

You almost got snow too on it. We did.

Justin: 30:05

I know you wait a little longer, but it was so fun just having people come on like the weekend of the end of January. It was not nearly the work that it usually would have been, so it was great.

Rhett: 30:18

Well, that's cool. I'll be interested to see if you postpone it again. We're not feeling good. You know how well it worked in January last year. Let's do it again. We'll do our Christmas in 2026. You'll get a better price on all your gifts.

Justin: 30:33

You will. And we had already bought all the gifts. But yeah, but the food, it was easier to find ham, oh, I bet it was, it was easier to find everything. The racks were full of it.

Rhett: 30:40

Yeah.

Justin: 30:41

And since we are as we said in our old episode, the declared fast of a lot of churches is ended.

Rhett: 30:54

So I is is ended, so I wasn't holding back. Man. Speaking of food, I mean, bro, I crammed so last night we grilled chicken at the house and so I marinated it, had it all ready to go and we've got a propane. Propane how I can I not on today? We've got a grill.

Justin: 31:02

It's fired up by a propane it's like we're gonna go with anything, anything, anything. And he finally just says we're going to go with anything, anything, anything, and then he finally just says we're going to go to that place.

Rhett: 31:15

He goes for the easier word, no, but like ping pong starts with a P, and now I'm trying to do propane and I'm having a problem with my P's today.

Justin: 31:23

Anyway, so it's a propane tank. You need more poo. Okay, we're not going to define what that is.

Rhett: 31:34

But anyways, we don't know what. That is okay, so I go out to like in. The last time I used the grill was this week. I was cooking those cheddar dogs. They're so much fun, I'm telling you. If you haven't had a cheddar dog, rents mention the cheddar dogs. Oh man, johnsonville cheddar jalapeno cheese, all right anyway loves this, so I think by the end of the time I'm making it, I'm thinking I think I might be out of propane. I don't know.

Justin: 31:56

Like I just saw, the temperature not being up.

Rhett: 31:59

But I was like I've got two tanks and I knew one tank I should have already had replaced what do they call it Exchange. But I didn't, it's in my garage, so I was using this one. So I was like I think I'm good. So anyway, before I grilled the chicken last night, I'm like I think I need to go do an exchange. So I go to two different places to see about an exchange. One place was like $28. I get in there and the guy's like we have no exchange. I was like we have no propane. I'm like, dude, you got a whole rack of propane. But I was like okay. Like okay, all right, so, but no, he was legitimately out, there was. They were all empty. I went to another gas station. Yeah, uh, they're like yeah we've got it.

Rhett: 32:36

I was like, great, they charged my card 28 bucks and I was like, all right, cool. And then the manager came out why are you charging for propane? Do you see the sign? We have no propane? He's not talking to me, he's talking to the employee and I'm like, oh, okay, it's like, give me back my money no, he's like I.

Rhett: 32:51

I'm sorry, sir, he reimbursed me. I'm like no big deal. So I go home and I'm thinking, all right, surely I got enough to get through the grilled chicken, all that work I do, and I'll go light up the grill and immediately I'm like I'm out. There's no gas coming out of this thing. I'm like great.

Rhett: 33:06

So, I've already sautéed the chicken or whatever you call it, like all that stuff, Right, and I told my wife. It's like well, I try to get propane. It seems like everybody's out. Let me pull up the phone really quick and call a couple of places. So I call this fresh value and Moody and the managers on the phone and I was like hey, do you have propane? Yeah, I was like, are you? Like you really have it? Like yeah, we've got plenty. I was like, OK, cool, I'll be there, Go down there, I pay. And like I'm like I have to do a double check because the other two places were like 28 bucks and this was $18. I was like, hello, my new propane.

Justin: 33:41

That's what.

Rhett: 33:41

I told Linda I was like, and it was a great experience, got the propane, brought it back home. There's a point to this story and I'm trying to remember what it was.

Justin: 33:51

The story is good, but I get back. I didn't know there was a point. I just thought you were sharing your grilling chicken experience and so I get back. We grill the chicken.

Rhett: 33:58

That's enough for me man Grill the chicken. It was great, it was amazing. Yeah, I guess that was the point of the story. There is a reason I was going there with the chicken and the propane, but anyway, anyway, yeah, so maybe it was just the fact that I ran out of propane.

Justin: 34:10

You're a storyteller, yeah, and you wanted to tell a story about grilling chicken.

Rhett: 34:14

I just wanted to bring everybody into the fact that I couldn't find propane, but no, the point of the story was it's amazing, when I was looking for places that I would normally pay like $28, I found a place where I could get it at $18.

Justin: 34:28

I'm like, golly, I've been paying like $10 more.

Rhett: 34:30

Well, now.

Justin: 34:31

I know if I got to refill the propane.

Rhett: 34:33

Don't go to a gas station, man. No, no, I'm going to wait.

Justin: 34:35

I usually go to like Publix or somewhere and it's like $25. But I'm going to. Before I get to your house, I'm going to exchange some propane.

Rhett: 34:42

Seriously At $18. And so now I have one full tank and I need to go exchange the other one. The two tanks and here, here, like I'm a planner, I was like, babe, we need to, because that way I'm never going to run out. Well, that, that right In that word. I only filled up one or swap one.

Justin: 34:59

Yeah, that kind of money I don't know.

Rhett: 35:02

Save me 10 bucks on one, I'm like, hey, might as well get two, let. But it works. When you actually like fill one, and then you know what I mean, they're both filled and one's empty, then you get that exchange. Set that one aside, but like when you run them both dry, it's like well, well, okay. It's like having a car with two gas tanks, but both gas tanks which they do exist Trucks. Yeah, let's talk about the deal.

Justin: 35:26

Kai, my 14 year old, was telling me this story last night when we were having family dinner, tom, and he said he was like, so there was this guy who went in and you got to know Kai, he is just he's like into it. He loves telling stories Like he's just a thinker, he's got a great mind. But he was saying here's a guy who comes in and he wants one watermelon for $3. Is what they're being sold for? Okay? And the other guy said well, that doesn't make sense, because I could just buy one each for $3. So he said, but or three for 10.? And the guy said no, I'm just going to buy one each to show that he knew more than the manager. So he buys three watermelons separately for $9. And he leaves like he got the better deal. And then the manager really was smiling because the manager said well, the guy only came in to buy one watermelon.

Rhett: 36:22

Yeah, so he got him.

Justin: 36:23

He made him feel like he got a good deal, exactly, and he, to win the deal, he bought three watermelons. So the manager's like.

Rhett: 36:32

I don't care. Yeah, that was his whole man.

Justin: 36:34

Like that was his plan, make them feel like they got a good deal by doing one-on-one, because they were coming in to get one and they left with three. So when we were in Idaho.

Rhett: 36:41

this story reminds me of something that the wonderful Girl Scouts of America come on, man, it's that time of year, the Girl Scout cookies should be coming pretty soon, and that just negates all the stuff that we've been working so hard on with our spirit, soul and body right. I mean so we're walking out of a way. Lift me up.

Justin: 37:01

That should be the theme song for the Girl Scout cookies which we'll get to the youth.

Rhett: 37:08

I was thinking jars of clay, oh, okay.

Justin: 37:11

Lift me up when I'm falling.

Rhett: 37:13

I was thinking of the moment in the youth video you and I made with Jason Hall. Yes, would you like to buy some Girl Scout cookies? Would?

Justin: 37:20

you like to buy some Girl Scout cookies? Would you like to buy some Girl Scout cookies?

Rhett: 37:29

The stuff we could show at youth ministry.

Justin: 37:31

That should not have been. It was not very Christ-like.

Rhett: 37:35

Let me finish this thing with Linda and the Girl Scout cookies, because this was Linda and it's so funny. She probably does a better job at telling this. But we walk out of the Walmart in Nampa, idaho, and they're selling Girl Scout cookies and this little girl comes up to Linda and is like would you like to buy some Girl Scout cookies? They're only $5 a box or you can get four for $20. And Linda's like oh, you know what, I'll take the deal, I'll do the four for 20. He's like thank you. And she goes over to Mama and rings us out. We get in the car and she's like I can't believe it. I went what that little girl? She totally got me. I was like what do you mean? She's like well, well, she said that they were only there was five dollars a box, or you can get four for only 20 bucks. She said I literally thought I was getting a deal by buying more that is, she was like honey, that's that that mom is teaching that girl how to sell.

Justin: 38:30

Man, I was like you just got had by a little girl of all people, like she can like read an entire book in a day. Well, the mama, the mama she got.

Rhett: 38:39

Would you like to buy some girls out cookies?

Justin: 38:42

You know kind of moment.

Rhett: 38:43

It's only five, it's five, it's five dollars a box, but it's only, you know, twenty dollars for four you know, it is like, of course I'll take the four.

Justin: 38:55

It's your watermelon story, you only wanted one.

Rhett: 38:58

But, man, when I wrapped it up in a package which, made it sound like it was a deal it sounded like it, but you were emotionally connected to the moment with this little girl and like, of course, it's like, hey, I'm going to get some Lucky Charms, I'm going to get five pounds per box.

Justin: 39:11

Lucky Charms for almost $5, or you can get two for the same price. I cannot open a box of girl scout cookies and eat just two or three.

Rhett: 39:24

No, it's a sleeve. Oh, the whole thing is like you're gonna down the sleeve. It's one box. Yeah, if I'm eating a box, it's the box yeah and I like the ones that have the chocolate and the peanut butter in it, like that's. I don't know what those are called. Those are called the samoa wait no, those are the ones.

Justin: 39:37

Yeah, the samoans have. They got chocolate on them.

Rhett: 39:42

There's something I don't know. You like the peanut butter somethings.

Justin: 39:45

Yeah, like a peanut butter patty type deal. And then there's the mint ones. You don't like those.

Rhett: 39:50

Mint belongs on toothpaste, on a toothbrush, not in my chocolate.

Justin: 39:58

Are you not a mint chocolate chip guy? Oh gosh, it's like my favorite. Are you not a mint chocolate chip guy? No, oh gosh, it's like my favorite. I know it's a lot of people's favorite. Get a two scoop ice cream, you put chocolate and then, on the top, mint chocolate.

Rhett: 40:06

It was somebody's way of eating dessert and wanting their breath to smell good.

Justin: 40:10

I'm like you know.

Rhett: 40:11

I guess. So Mint was meant for chewing gum, for peppermints and for toothpaste. I'll go with that too. Yeah, but I love my men. So does that mean when you're doing, when you know, when you're brushing your teeth, does that mean you're getting a like? You're like, man?

Justin: 40:25

I wish some chocolate was on this no, it's I mean right, separate category, like why, why?

Rhett: 40:30

why mix the two? It's I don't know peanut butter and chocolate. Yeah, chocolate and ice cream with fudge and caramel. Great yeah, get me mint out of there.

Justin: 40:39

Sorry, Some people are like.

Rhett: 40:41

Rhett, I've lost the.

Justin: 40:43

You're no longer my friend, it's like Chick-fil-A during holiday season. Has those mint shakes.

Rhett: 40:49

Peppermint shakes. Max loves it. Amazing, I'm like why.

Justin: 40:53

It's a thing it works. Look man, If it's the last thing that's out there, I'll eat it. But dude no.

Rhett: 41:01

It's not what you choose that and the Cadbury egg. Oh.

Justin: 41:04

Rhett, the Cadbury egg is one of the greatest creations by the Cadbury company.

Rhett: 41:08

Disgusting.

Justin: 41:09

I loved it, no, as a kid.

Rhett: 41:12

Reese's all day.

Justin: 41:12

You see that little bunny rabbit making the bop bop noises. Nobody likes that hard Sitting on that chocolate egg and it hops off and they open it up. It's that gooey inside as a kid it made me want it so bad. Anytime I hear chickens bop, I want a.

Rhett: 41:28

Cadbury egg. Daddy, I want a chocolate egg. That came out this bunny's butt. It looks delicious. I mean really, I love it.

Justin: 41:35

The packaging is just like crazy, blue and red and some kind of yellow packaging. What are you?

Rhett: 41:41

eating. What's the goo Like? What is that?

Justin: 41:43

I don't know, it's good. It's like the middle of an egg that's not cooked, yeah, but it's more like the middle, the middle, the middle. It's just good. You either hate it or you love it. Yeah, I don't like the things that look like a bunny.

Rhett: 42:05

They're not hard chocolate and it's just hard chocolate I hate that.

Justin: 42:07

It's thick, it's too much, it's like god, it's like cardboard. Yeah, it's like I've had enough.

Rhett: 42:09

Can we, can we chocolate cover a cardboard and and like make this like it's not usually great.

Justin: 42:15

No, no, it's better to, if you're gonna do it, have it hollow at least. Yeah, because my goodness, you bite into that bunny ear. I mean, it's like it's crunch. Yeah, it's like working it because it's been sitting in a warehouse somewhere. Exactly, but like the Russell.

Rhett: 42:30

Stover company. You got to put some peanut butter on that man.

Justin: 42:33

Yeah, I agree.

Rhett: 42:34

And even the. Yeah, I like one of the things Milk chocolate.

Justin: 42:38

I like a Hershey bar. I'll take a Hershey bar Like we'll get them to make s'mores at the house, but I find they never make it to the s'more line and we have to go buy more because it's up in the cabinet and we make it our own dessert. But I'll take a whole Hershey bar and I set it on a paper plate, I put it in the microwave for about 30 seconds. You pull it out it still looks just like it. But then I get a spoon and all it is is melted chocolate.

Rhett: 43:04

Okay, you don't use the fire to melt it.

Justin: 43:10

Well I'm saying we get it to be no, we get it for s'mores, but way before the fire has ever started like weeks before, before you even get to the event. We're like Costco purchasing Okay, I got you, we go ahead and do the Costco purchase so we can get the big bulk candy, but then we'll be out of candy before we ever make s'mores. It's like if it's there you eat it, but I love microwaving Hershey's and I love microwaving M&M's.

Rhett: 43:33

Really.

Justin: 43:34

Oh, yeah, okay everybody try this Just try this. Go buy some plain M&Ms, put it on a paper plate, spread them out. I don't know, maybe a pack, just do a pack, spread them out. We buy the huge pack, so I can just you know.

Rhett: 43:49

You got four kids Spoonfuls yeah.

Justin: 43:51

Put it on there and put it in the microwave 30 seconds. Depending the power of your microwave, you might want to fill it yeah get it out. You might want to put it in an extra tin. If you have the wattage we have, okay, we pull it out and you will take that m&m.

Rhett: 44:04

It's still not melted on the outside yeah, it's a little warm mouth, not in your hand you bite on that bad boy.

Justin: 44:10

Oh, inside it's just melted chocolate so it's a hard exterior thing. You bite down and it's like that was amazing.

Rhett: 44:17

That's how I eat my m&ms at the house and that's how Justin Bradshaw eats his M&Ms, and the point of this conversation is it's just having a good time, y'all. This is what this is.

Justin: 44:29

Oh yeah, there's no theme.

Rhett: 44:30

This is authentic conversations. Someone's like where's my leadership principle on this? It's like there is none. Man Just go eat a lot of chocolate and don't get suckered by the Girl Scouts.

Justin: 44:41

Don't indulge, yeah.

Rhett: 44:42

And have enough protein. So when we were laughing earlier about the Girl Scout thing, it kind of brought up in my memory this moment. So youth group in the 90s, everything we were trying to do, we were trying to be cutting edge, and this was the day of the VCR right. And so your cameras weren't on your phone, they were actually like a big, massive thing you'd have on your shoulder. My dad had one.

Justin: 45:06

Not everybody had a camera.

Rhett: 45:06

No, not everybody had one, and so we were like high rolling thinking. You know we have this big one on your shoulder. Very simple. But you put your VHS tape in the side, you shut it and you just kind of hit record. You just kind of hit record and it starts recording whatever you're videoing on the tape, and so I don't know what we were doing.

Justin: 45:26

Were we trying to sell Girl Scout cookies in the youth group?

Rhett: 45:27

No, we had an idea of what would it be like? We were making SNL skits for our youth group is basically what we were doing.

Justin: 45:32

We had all these TVs that Pastor Scott had up there, just big TVs, not flat screen.

Rhett: 45:38

TVs, glass tube TVs that were like heavy yeah, 200 pounds, and we had those TVs and he was.

Justin: 45:44

I mean, it really was cutting edge then for not having a budget. You know he would stack them and you'd plug them in and you could put a VCR in and play To all the TVs in the room.

Rhett: 45:53

And you would have the TVs playing.

Justin: 45:54

So we just the creatives we were before people were doing commercials. We thought what if we could advertise upcoming beach trips and just different things?

Rhett: 46:03

But why were we advertising Girl Scout? Because it wasn't.

Justin: 46:06

We just wanted to have some kind of a silly video, so we were putting our own SNL stuff together basically and we weren't, this was just.

Rhett: 46:14

this is what happens when you leave two creatives in charge and you don't tell the youth pastor and you just make something.

Justin: 46:19

You put it up there and you had a camera, so we did.

Rhett: 46:21

We went over to Jason Hall's house.

Justin: 46:22

That's right, because he had a nice house.

Rhett: 46:24

We lived in an apartment so we didn't feel like we could pull it off as well.

Justin: 46:27

I dress up or I'm on my knees outside of a door, but you got shoes on your knees so, conway, we used to watch back in the day, yeah, yeah, and if you ever do this, guys, if you want a little, I know that's not politically correct, but that's what it was called. It was called if you if you get on your knees and put your shoes on your kneecap and you can hide your back legs.

Rhett: 46:48

That's what I did. Y'all it's pretty awesome. It's what I did.

Justin: 46:51

It's quite the uh. I mean it's, it's awesome and I put like a mop or something on my head with I don't know to make it look like I had long hair and I was pretending, so you look like a little girl yeah, yeah, I was the the worst looking little girl you've ever seen those bent glasses, the frames that have been bent from playing basketball and getting busted in the face and crinkled all around my face those little gold rimmed glasses back in the day.

Rhett: 47:17

yeah and uh, my crunk teeth, you know, like we did. I need braces so bad we used to have jacked up teeth, oh man, I know and so I don't know if Jason and Jason's a short guy and you know if you knew Jason Hall back in the day, like he's with Jesus now. I love that guy, but I think he opened the door. Or did you open the door?

Justin: 47:38

I can't remember. No, I think I was holding the camera on this one.

Rhett: 47:41

Yeah, okay, and so I ring the doorbell so you can't see me on the other side of the door. So POV of being in the house. Jason opens the door. Huh. You know, and I'm screaming at the top of my lungs Like would you like to buy some girls?

Justin: 47:59

I know that I just saw you might have to turn the volume down.

Rhett: 48:01

I'll pull the mic so far away and it was stupid. Like you're, listening to this right now, thinking this why is this funny? This is not funny, but if you go back to when we were like 16, 17 years old and we're playing this and we're just making little stupid skits.

Justin: 48:16

Well, I think there was a lot of things with Girl Scout cookies too, and I threw Girl Scout cookies in the air or something.

Rhett: 48:20

There was a lot of jokes, yeah.

Justin: 48:23

It was just not bad I mean it was good. It was just heavy on advertisement, so that made people laugh then.

Rhett: 48:29

And I threw the cookies in the air and I was very desperate, leaning forward, if you will, without falling over.

Justin: 48:35

They slammed the door on me and he slammed the door on my face and there was something that was funny about that because of, in our time then, something that would have been out about selling Girl Scout cookies, that would have been funny. It was funny, then it makes no sense now Zero sense.

Justin: 48:49

Anyway, I'm just sharing some of our conversation, but you know my favorite was Jason's dad, who actually recently just passed as well, and I actually went to get to help be a part of this funeral it was really sweet, but we always called him bernie because he, I mean guys if you've ever gone to see the movie weekend at bernie. It was on tv the late 80s movie.

Rhett: 49:12

It's a classic.

Justin: 49:13

I don't know bernie, bernie is I mean actually a guy who dies in the movie and they basically try to keep preserving him because he's a rich dude, he's a business owner. They're trying to preserve him to, because they don't want to get accused of killing him because they didn't, they just showed up at his house, but yet the people who really kill him.

Justin: 49:27

Keep seeing the guys walk around. They tied their shoestrings along with him, yeah, and he looked like he was walking. So the real killers out there from afar would see that he's still alive.

Rhett: 49:36

They couldn't believe so the whole movie they keep killing him, but he won't die because the other two guys anyway yeah we bernie, so jimmy hall, he looked just like you put the sunglasses in the hat, holy cow, and so me, and rep acted like the two guys on the movie weekend at bernie's.

Justin: 49:51

Yeah, and literally jimmy would just kind of be dead.

Rhett: 49:54

He wouldn't even try to exert just deadpan on us.

Justin: 49:57

They would be like like boom.

Rhett: 49:58

And we'd hold them up Dead weight. Yeah.

Justin: 50:00

And we would tie our shoes and we'd walk down Because, jimmy, was you ever have one of those youth leaders? If you're listening, there was always the one who didn't play by the full rules. They were like the ones that the students loved, yeah, and there was always like this inside joke that you know that we go out deep sea fishing in the middle of the night?

Justin: 50:19

Obviously, we didn't, but it was like the secret, did we really? Yeah, it's between us, and so we would grab his mouth like he's talking and it would really be him talking, but it was a spitting image, yeah.

Rhett: 50:32

And it played to the time of the day because everybody knew what Weekend at Bernie's was.

Justin: 50:36

I mean, it was hilarious and we're making announcements about the upcoming beach trip.

Rhett: 50:40

And Bernie's going to be there.

Justin: 50:42

Hey, Bernie says and registration and we'd be moving his mouth. They'd be like welcome to the beach trip.

Rhett: 50:48

We're going to go deep sea fishing. And that was so big to our youth group. Yeah and so yeah.

Justin: 50:54

So, bernie which, ironically, I went to go sing at his funeral, and then they wanted me to say a few things and you would think it would feel weird being at his funeral, but what was beautiful about it is everybody in the room. His family loved that Meaning you did that, yeah, and so to be able to tell that story, that's awesome. You would think that it would be weird because we're at his funeral, but it was like it was so filled with laughter.

Justin: 51:20

It was like it was so filled with laughter. Jamie was there is just his family. It was such a sweet, sweet moment.

Rhett: 51:26

See, those are the things that I miss. Being so far away, I wasn't unable to be at those things. I know I would have loved to have been there.

Justin: 51:33

Yeah, that would have been, that would have been really cool if you could have been there. But it's just those memories that take us back, man, and so the creative side so we do is is this is like our, this is our one year. Yeah, I feel like we were celebrating the road to 48 and then it was like episode 50, but now to actually be the one, one year? Yeah, I think today's episode really represents what this podcast has been about.

Justin: 51:58

It's just some fun random stories that, if anything, this week didn't really have any leadership lesson for you guys. Maybe we could stretch and get in there somewhere.

Justin: 52:08

There's some leadership in here, but you know what I do hope that it brought some laughs and just allowing you guys. Really, what the theme of this podcast is is find that person in your life that you can just laugh with, and find more than one. Find as many as you can that are just great friends. Yeah, and it really will make your life better when you can reminisce and you can also build new memories. You can reminisce on yesterday but not live in yesterday, and you can move on and see what actually awaits, the great plans, the great mission that God has for you. We're not going to be able to accomplish anything we want to if we didn't have the friendships in our life like we do. So we hope that you guys have enjoyed this episode, as we just kind of get to run wild with some stories, but it's really an honor for us to get to have you guys join us on this journey.

Rhett: 52:56

Thank you, friends. I think it is cool. Laughter and nostalgia was actually our very first like trailer right. And yeah, not on purpose, but it's kind of cool, that one year mark kind of marked some laughter. So, hey, man, I hope you guys have a great week. We'll see you really soon. Bye friends.

Justin: 53:17

Coming up on the next episode of Armchair authentic. What makes you say you the thing you had to.

Rhett: 53:23

Let me know now I'm not right, no, no exactly, I mean it's clear, yeah we're talking to our audience same thing but you just had to clear that up with me, yeah.

Justin: 53:32

But then, as I was clearing up what you said, I then had to jump in and say now I know, you know this, I just I cleared up.

Rhett: 53:38

The clear up, well, clear up. I think maybe, maybe that's a great question. It's because you and I are in the room and we know people are listening, but I feel like it's our conversation. So when I'm saying you, it could come across as if I'm saying you know, justin, when you communicate and I don't mean it that way, you're almost being protective of my feelings.

Justin: 53:57

Yeah, because inside there might be something you're going through that would Way to turn this on me.

Rhett: 54:01

I love this. Bring it on. Let's talk about this.

Justin: 54:03

Let's go deep with this.

Rhett: 54:04

Yes, See Exactly.

Justin: 54:07

I just asked if you know what I mean, because I needed to know that you're picking up on what I'm saying.

Rhett: 54:11

I get what you're throwing down.

Justin: 54:13

Because I care I understand it with each other.

Justin: 54:21

You're communicating it well. I got you. We're really looking forward to that episode. You know, a highlight for us is when we get to engage with you. That's why our socials are there. Reach out to us on Facebook and Instagram, at Armchair Authentic, or on X at Armchair Auth Pod. That's Armchair Auth A-U-T-H-P-O D. We're really looking forward to bringing you these episodes. Each week, we have some great guests in store and, of course, me and Rhett are going to be bringing you some authentic conversations. If you're enjoying these episodes, would you do us a favor, would you copy the link and text it to a friend? We'd love to have them join us on this journey. Hey, we look forward to talking to you again next week on Armchair Authentic, but until then, we'll see you soon.