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Brian (00:00):
What inspired you?
I want to ask you what inspiredyou first to start making these
videos.
Lance (00:05):
Okay, well, I have to be
honest with you.
There was no initialinspiration for making videos,
Brian.
My whole inspiration, I guess,in regards to my family, was
just to make them laugh, Like.
I've always loved to makeeverybody laugh if I could, and
sometimes to my detriment.
Brian (00:24):
Welcome to the New
Horizons Podcast.
I'm Brian Curee.
Shawna (00:28):
And I'm Shawna Curee,
also known as Mr and Mrs Killer
Bee, in virtual reality.
Brian (00:32):
So this podcast is
recorded live from the metaverse
at the Killer Bee Studios.
Shawna (00:37):
Where real life stories
and God experiences are shared
in a way only the metaverse canoffer.
Brian (00:42):
With that, let's go ahead
and dive into today's episode.
Hey everybody, welcome to theKiller Bee Studios.
So glad to look at thecameraman's right here.
Let's see if I can get thislined up right.
Shawna (00:54):
Okay, that is not nice.
Brian (00:56):
Hey, we're so excited
everybody's here tonight.
Thank you guys all for joiningus.
Mrs Killer Bee, it feels likeit's been forever.
Shawna (01:03):
It has been forever All
join us.
Brian (01:04):
Mrs Kilby, it feels like
it's been forever.
It has been forever.
All right, you guys, I've beenpsyched about our guest that's
joining us tonight.
He is the dad dork.
So how many of you are onInstagram, TikTok or Facebook?
Throw some confetti.
Probably every single one ofyou are, Well, the dad dork, his
real name is.
Am I allowed to say his realname?
Shawna (01:20):
I don't know.
Did you ask him?
Hey, am I allowed to?
Brian (01:22):
say your real name.
Well, of course.
He said well, of course.
Okay, his real name is LanceHowell, I believe that's how you
pronounce his last name.
So Lance is our guest, buthe'll be coming out here in a
minute, but on the social mediaplatforms he is known as the dad
dork.
Now I want to share with youguys I love his bio and we're
going to share a little bitabout how we came across the dad
(01:44):
dork.
But his bio this is what hesays in his bio.
He says I'm a believer, husband, dad dork I love that part I do
too and a goofball just tryingto spread laughter in a world
that needs it.
Now, how many of you wouldagree that we're in a world that
really needs laughter?
Throw some confetti there.
Yes, I agree too, and I I thinkthat I know you guys probably
(02:08):
get plenty of it here.
But yeah, I'm telling you thisguy, he's professional, he's a
different sort of laughter it'snot.
It's like laughing at me, notwith me okay, where was it the
other way around?
Well, we've been big fans ofthe dad dork for a long time now
, and tonight what we're goingto be talking about is we're
going to actually get intotalking about being a good
(02:31):
neighbor.
Now, does anyone here know thedad dork?
Has anybody here seen the daddork Throw some confetti?
Oh, okay, we do have somepeople out here that have seen
some of the dad dork videosAwesome.
They're not all complete newbies, but any of you newbies that
are out there, you're definitelygoing to make sure you look him
up on instagram and stuff thedad dork.
(02:52):
It's really simple.
It's almost spelled the sameway as my name, right?
The dad dork.
Yeah, but yes, and on tiktokright yeah, tiktok as well.
Uh, so all right.
So, mrs killer, killer Bee,yeah, I'm going to ask you a
question before we bring out thedad dork.
Okay, so do you call?
(03:12):
When we first stumbled acrossthe dad dork on Instagram, do
you remember that time?
Shawna (03:17):
Okay, what I
specifically remember is you
showing me this video and sayingwho is this, and I watched it
and I said, oh my gosh, that'sReagan, our friend Reagan.
And he said, nope, it's not.
And I was so shocked because itwas so funny, Like if you guys
(03:38):
have not watched these videos, Imean I laugh so hard, I cry
honestly.
And he looks so much like ourfriend Reagan and his mannerisms
are similar, His voice soundssimilar, but he has a style all
his own and every time a new onepops up.
Brian runs into me and we watchit together.
We love to watch the videos,like right before we're going to
(03:59):
sleep.
It's just a nice.
Like you know, we get a laughand you'll see like he's just so
funny and you're not going toget to see his funny uh dancing
and his mannerisms because ofcourse, in VR it's very
different.
Brian (04:13):
He's trying to coordinate
.
Shawna (04:14):
Yeah, watch the videos.
They are so heartwarming andfunny and we just love them Like
we share them with our friendsall the time.
Brian (04:23):
That means a lot to Lance
.
I know you're listening.
I'm just like I'm like lookingat nobody, like I'm talking to
God, but it's just Lance.
It's just Lance, the dad door.
Let you know we, we, we thinkof you before we go to bed.
That's kind of weird, isn't it?
Well, he's in here, no more.
Shawna (04:40):
Yeah he left.
Brian (04:43):
But enough with that.
Are you guys ready for us tobring out our guest?
Throw some confetti if you'reready.
Oh yeah, I see some peopledancing out there.
So what we want you guys to doit might take them a little
while to get out here, so we'regoing to play the guest music,
but I want you guys to reign himwith some confetti.
Let's show him a Hold on asecond.
(05:04):
Hear it, G1,.
Do you hear it?
Shawna (05:07):
I don't hear any music,
okay, well, come on out.
Brian (05:08):
Don't worry.
Okay, I can't hear it, but wehear it coming.
Lance (05:12):
All right, give me a
second, give me a little break.
Brian (05:16):
It's so hard for me to do
a big intro when I don't.
When the music stopped, mrs, itstopped, okay.
Shawna (05:20):
All right.
Lance (05:28):
This is insane guys.
Oh my gosh, how did I get tothis point?
Shawna (05:34):
Well, you uploaded a
video onto TikTok and here you
are and here you are.
Lance (05:39):
Here you are, from there
to here.
Brian (05:40):
Who says there's not a
God.
Who says there to hear, whosays there's not a god who says
there's not absolutely.
And you wouldn't believe howhard it was for us to make your
shirt.
We were trying to make it dorky, really, and like, because it's
ai, like there's a new thingthey added.
But the only way you can makeai spell a word right is by
spelling it wrong.
So I had to like spell dorkwith like d-o-r-i-i-i-i and it
finally came out d-o-r-k.
Lance (06:02):
Oh, wow, okay yeah.
Brian (06:03):
Isn't that?
Crazy yeah, that is insane,yeah, and I do love your shoes
too.
I love the, even though.
Lance (06:09):
I kind of dress true but
that's weird.
Brian (06:11):
That was on the app you
did a great job.
Lance (06:13):
I'm actually going to
look into getting some T-shirts
that replicate what you did,brian.
That is fantastic.
The dorkier the better, thedorkier the better.
Audience (06:23):
The dorkier the better
, that's awesome, yes, sir.
Brian (06:28):
Well, lance, we're so
glad that you joined us tonight.
For our audience here, wouldyou mind to take about 30
seconds to just kind ofintroduce?
Tell us a little bit about whois the dad dork.
Lance (06:35):
Well, the dad dork is
just a regular dad from Oklahoma
and you know I've got a regularjob, a real job, a full-time
sales job, and I absolutelylucked into whatever this is
that I'm doing on social media Imean it was just by mere
accident and by the grace of God.
And I'm having a blast beingable to make people laugh, give
(06:59):
them a little bit of joy, achuckle, especially nowadays
when it just everything is sodivisive and just so serious.
I'm just having an absoluteblast.
Shawna (07:08):
So it's awesome.
Brian (07:10):
Well, I tell you, we
actually have a blast watching
the videos.
Shawna (07:14):
And she misses on it.
Brian (07:15):
She's not, she's not like
she's not holding back at all,
like when there's one that comeson, I'm running there like hey,
we got a new one.
Lance (07:28):
We on.
I'm running there like, hey, wegot a new one, we got check it
out, and then she's like wealready seen this one, but let's
watch it again because, like,there's so many good ones in
there.
How many videos do you have?
Well, you know, I number thembecause I'm not smart enough or
creative enough to give themtitles, and so I number them and
I'm up to as far as thedoorbell jokes, I'm up to 145
and, uh, I do some drivewayjokes as well, and I'm up to 12
of those.
(07:48):
So you know roughly 150, 160.
You know post, yeah, yeah, overabout a two and a half year
span.
Shawna (07:55):
So so the camera that
you like climb up the ladder to
get to?
Is that like over a garage orsomething?
Lance (08:01):
it is.
Shawna (08:02):
It is okay, it's my
driveway, cam your driveway cam,
so that one is is numberedseparately from the doorbell cam
yeah, I, I titled that uh,driveway dad joke, and then I
put a number you know next to ityeah, just so I can
differentiate.
Lance (08:15):
But did I gotta meet this
reagan guy I want to talk about
?
Brian (08:18):
oh man, yeah, oh he, he
was like flipping out when he's
like the dad door's coming toyour show, I was like yeah.
Lance (08:24):
He was so excited.
He looks just like me.
Oh my gosh, that's fantastic.
Shawna (08:29):
Listen, we have to
introduce you guys.
Yeah, because when we startedshowing him your videos.
He lives like about four orfive hours away from us.
So when we went to visit thelast time we showed him your
videos and he kind of seemedlike wounded, like like who is
this?
Guy impersonating me.
Brian (08:51):
He really did.
He took a step back.
Lance (08:53):
You weren't offended Like
you think.
I look like this idiot.
Shawna (08:56):
No, he wasn't offended.
He was like what?
Brian (08:59):
is happening here.
Even your voice sounds the same, like that's very similar.
Lance (09:03):
Like a hick from Oklahoma
.
Okay, gotcha, he is a hick from.
Brian (09:06):
Northern Florida, that's
where he's from.
Shawna (09:08):
He's a hick from
Northern Florida, I mean most of
our family's from Kentucky, soyou sound very civilized
compared.
Lance (09:14):
We're all from the South.
Brian (09:15):
We're all from the South,
and just so you know, I tested
him earlier as I was getting, doyou know your left hand from
your right hand, and he did sothere you go.
Lance (09:24):
Yeah, I'm a functional
human, I didn't.
Brian (09:28):
I kept messing it up back
there.
I'm like oh wait, a minute,that's not my left, that's my
right, and so maybe you shouldjust host this.
You want to just host ittonight, lance?
Lance (09:35):
you can just go.
Let me get my bearings a littlebetter All right?
Brian (09:43):
Well, lance, would you
mind like?
How do you?
What inspired you?
I want to ask you what inspiredyou first to start making these
videos.
Lance (09:51):
Okay, well, I have to be
honest with you.
There was no initialinspiration for making videos,
brian.
My whole inspiration, I guess,in regards to my family, was
just to make them laugh, likeI've always loved to make
everybody laugh if I could, andsometimes to my detriment.
I mean, I've been told that,you know, by teachers, by
(10:13):
especially my mom, like okay,that's enough, we've had enough.
But anyway, I really, when Istarted a family and they got
older, my whole goal was just tobe able to make my boys I've
got two boys and my wife If Ican make them laugh then I was.
That was a successful day forme.
So basically, you know, longstory short is we installed the
(10:36):
security system just forsecurity purposes and it was day
number one.
And I'm doing the typical dadthing, I'm putting my hose up
and and right in front of thedoorbell camera and I hear this
camera recording and somethingtriggered in my mind like Ooh,
I've got an audience, you know.
And so I just walked up to itand I still have this video.
(10:58):
And I was like I go up to himlike camera, camera recording,
what are you recording?
And I'm just being an idiot,you know.
And so I show, like look atthis, this records me and the
audio is great.
And I'm showing my boys andthey're like, yeah, dad, yeah,
that's great you know, and mywife you know my wife bless her
heart.
She gave me the like uh-huh, butI was enthralled by like.
(11:24):
I have like something recordingme and you know it's.
It's high, high res and let'shave fun.
So I walked up to it and I dida dad joke, but it was just for
the purpose of my family.
There was no intentioninitially of like I'm going to
start this and I'm going to putit on social media because I
really was not a big socialmedia guy.
I mean, if you would have toldme back then, ooh, you're going
(11:46):
to be on Tik TOK, I would haveslapped myself.
I mean just because in mymindset it was Tik TOK was for
young kids and you know I'm 50.
I do appreciate you insinuatingI was in my thirties, brian,
but I'm 50 as of this year.
But anyway, thank you very much.
Thank you very much 50physically, 18 mentally.
Shawna (12:08):
But hey, we respect that
.
Lance (12:10):
But no, I started posting
my personal Instagram.
That's all that I had at thetime.
And so people are like, oh,that's funny.
But then over time I could tellthat my close friends and
family were like why don't youstart your own separate account?
And so we don't have to followlike we've seen you grow up, and
this is not nothing new to usso I started I started on
(12:35):
instagram and then tiktok.
And tiktok is really where it ittook off and just it baffled me
.
I didn't know what to do, likeI really was, so was so scared I
was going to cancel the account, like I didn't.
I didn't intend for it to toget as big as it did so fast.
But, um, yeah.
So that's again to answer yourquestion.
(12:55):
I was not, you know, strivingor set out to become some social
media, whatever you want tocall it.
I just was having fun and Ithink the Lord interjected and I
can talk about how I reallyfigured out that it was the Lord
using me as a conduit when itreally blew up and then the
response that I got from it.
Brian (13:15):
So yeah, yeah, I would
love for you to share that,
because I think that that's abeautiful thing, like I love
that you point out that we're ina world that is lacking
laughter and we need that, and Iwould love to hear more of that
.
So, yes, please share that withus.
Lance (13:31):
Well, I mean, I was
having fun with it and I have
that tagline that says see youat church.
Okay, and I think I told you onour initial interview that I
did not walk up to that porchthat day after church expecting
to say see you at church.
I mean, that is the God'shonest truth.
I just walked up there and Iheard a good joke and something,
just something just happenedand I said see you at church,
(13:54):
you know, and I was like that's,let's post that and see the
reaction.
I got such a positive responsefrom that, Like thank you for
saying that, See you at church.
Audience (14:03):
See it, I'm like
people are just, you know,
repeating it in the comments.
Lance (14:09):
I'm like people are
resonating with that.
You know they're not offended,they're not offended, and so, um
, that's when it really startedtaking off on all platforms
Facebook, instagram, tik TOK,and I'm on YouTube as well, and,
uh, I'm like, okay, okay, I getit dummy.
It took me a while to figure itout, but this is not about me,
you know, this is about otherpeople and the Lord has been,
(14:31):
you know, in play gave me theplatform, not for my own success
and and I don't plan on, youknow, ever I guess if you want
to call it monetizing or tryingto do it for profit, it really
is just for service, and that'show I view it and that's how I'm
going to continue to do ituntil people say all right,
we're done, we're tired of you,and I'll have no qualms about
(14:53):
moving on.
Shawna (14:55):
I have loved to see the
evolution of how you've gone
through the videos and you knowrecently how you started singing
.
Audience (15:02):
See you at church, oh
my gosh, I cry, I cry, it is so
funny and I wish I could do it.
Shawna (15:09):
I really want to say
that.
Brian (15:10):
You don't have to do it,
he's right here, Everybody.
You guys want to hear him singhis tune.
See you at church.
Shawna (15:14):
Who wants to hear this?
It's so good Okay.
Brian (15:22):
Yeah.
Lance (15:23):
Because, mrs, you guys,
you guys, you guys cover your
ears, but I'm going to attemptto sing, so uh, later Gator.
Shawna (15:33):
Was that singing, or it
was perfect.
It's like not only singing,it's like emoting, like this.
Yeah, I just love it, yeah.
Lance (15:44):
And that was all
happenstance too.
I did not.
I sometimes a lot, of, a lot ofmy antics and and just like
that it's all on the you know.
I should say off the cuff, andjust you know a lot of things.
She'll, Shelly, you know who ismy filter?
My wife, the wifers, if youwill, the wifers.
Shawna (16:01):
Sugar britches, sugar
britches, if you will, the sugar
britches.
Yes.
Lance (16:04):
Yeah, I'll show her.
And she's like why did you justdo that?
I said I have no idea.
Why did you just gyrate likethat?
I have no idea, I don't know,oh yeah.
Shawna (16:13):
That brings me to your
dancing Like have you always
just been like so free with yourmovements, like that.
Brian (16:23):
Well, freestyle, I
thought it was called
freestyling.
Shawna (16:26):
but you're saying it's
free movements like.
Well, freestyling is like Ithink of rapping when I think of
freestyling but like he's likeso great with this, like, like
it's dancing.
Lance (16:35):
I love it fluid and I
guess it it goes back to my, my
breakdancing days.
You know I grew up a product ofthe 80s and 90s, and you know I
was one of those typicalsuburban you know, suburban kids
.
I just was enthralled withbreakdancing Like it's the most
fantastic thing ever.
And so me and my buddies, youknow, would get their piece of
cardboard out there and we'd,you know, spray paint it, put
(16:57):
graffiti on there and play ourrap music and breakdance.
And thankfully I'm blessed thatI can still somewhat do it.
You know, for my age I canstill do the the worm that we
used to call it a centipede.
I can still do that.
But I've just always enjoyeddancing.
I mean, it's just it's.
Audience (17:14):
Yeah, you know that's
the way to have fun yourself and
uh yeah you know, until I breaksomething, I'm going to
continue to.
Brian (17:22):
You know, still try it I
don't really do the dancing
thing because my expression isvery bad.
I'll leave that to you, lance,that's for sure.
Shawna (17:30):
We'll leave it to you,
Lance.
Brian (17:31):
There's a big story that
we had when me and Mrs KillerB
got married.
She was huge into line dancing.
Her dad and him did all thesedancings.
Was it your mom and dad's?
Shawna (17:41):
It was their 25th
anniversary.
Your mom and dad's.
What was it?
Their 25th, uh anniversaryanniversary 25th anniversary.
Brian (17:46):
So for our wedding, her
and her dad did this really
fancy dance and he was twirlingaround.
Well, I was like, hey, teach methat dance for your 20, your
mom dad's 25th anniversary.
So when your dad comes to dancewith you, I'll be like I'll
dance with her, you dance withyour wife and it's gonna be like
a really cool you know it's amoment to yeah well, we got up
here to do the dance and he waslike really, I was like, yeah,
(18:07):
she taught me it.
Well, I think we spent likethree months teaching me it and
she taught me it backwardscompletely backwards.
So think about that.
He's like what are you doing?
That's all backwards.
And she's like I was like what?
She's like, just do it inreverse.
I'm like no, I'm done.
Sorry, that.
Lance (18:23):
Sorry, you started out in
reverse, not not intending to
be reversed.
Brian (18:28):
You just play it back and
rewind and it is perfect, right
.
Lance (18:32):
So you were just starting
your own, your own new craze,
brian.
That's all, that's right,that's right.
Shawna (18:37):
It was like the whole
thing.
You know, really, my dad wasleading me through that dance
the whole time and I didn'trealize it, so when I was trying
to teach him, I just got it allwrong.
Lance (18:46):
Yeah, so I can appreciate
that, Shawna, you and you and
the wifers would have a lot incommon, because our first dance
back in 90 I'm sorry, our firstdate back in 92 was at a country
dance club and I had to watchher and all these other people
line dance and I had no ideawhat they're like, how to do any
of it.
She was a big line dancer fromway back, oh my gosh, I'm going
(19:10):
to come out to Oklahoma.
Shawna (19:11):
We can go line dancing
together, me and the wipers.
Brian (19:15):
We'll do our free dancing
, whatever you call it.
Lance (19:19):
We'll break dance, Brian,
and they'll line dance the achy
breaky and all that.
There you go.
Brian (19:25):
There you go, there you
go.
That sounds good, all right.
So what I'm going to, what I'mgoing to do, is I've got I've
got a couple people lined up forquestions right now and we
haven't even got the topic yet.
This is going to be great guys.
So let's go ahead and bring upthe Q and a, mike Diener, and
we're let's bring up lostvirtually first loss virtually.
Come on down and thanks forjoining us at the killer bee
(19:45):
studios.
Just let you know you are muted.
Shawna (19:48):
so uh lost.
How are you doing?
Hey, hi, thanks for joining us.
Audience (19:53):
Yeah, I had a.
Uh, a comment or a question forthe um dad dork, yeah go for it
.
Uh, I'm trying to look at you.
Shawna (20:04):
Is Arcane anywhere?
Audience (20:05):
Oh, there you go, I
got it now.
Okay, I didn't know if I neededto do anything.
Lance (20:08):
How you doing, buddy.
Audience (20:10):
Good, I was looking at
your movies and they're pretty
funny, Thank you, which one had,which ones have a lot of views,
which ones have little views,and then kind of do kind of like
an analysis to see what contentreally people like.
(20:31):
Because that one I noticed thatyour biggest one you're wearing
those socks and those sandals.
Shawna (20:39):
Yes.
Audience (20:41):
That was pretty funny
on its own.
Well, thank you, and like ifyou could bring that back.
I think the socks and sandalsand dancing, yeah.
The socks and the sandals.
I mean, there's really nothingelse to do with socks and
sandals except cut the rug likeyou did.
Lance (20:58):
Absolutely, and nothing
else says dad more than socks
and sandals, right?
Audience (21:01):
Right, that's the way
to go, but anyway, I thought
that was funny.
Lance (21:07):
Well, sandals right.
Audience (21:07):
Yeah, that's the way
to go, but anyway, I thought
that was funny.
Lance (21:09):
Well, thank you very much
.
Thank you very much.
I I tried to, yeah, I tried tochange it up every now and then,
but I'm.
The socks and sandals aredefinitely one of my favorite,
for sure.
Brian (21:14):
So well, I'm gonna line
up the next guest and while
while she's coming up, I'm gonnaask you a question.
Yeah, uh, yvonne, if you wantto come on up and then.
So I'm gonna ask you do youhave a?
Do you have a favorite?
Do you have a favorite video?
Does he bring up the socks andsandals?
Is there one that's like?
That's just one of my favorites.
Lance (21:31):
Well, yes, there is one
of my favorites, and it's
actually the one that reallytook off and made me realize
that, ok, this is, this issomething that you can do some
really good things with Now.
It is toilet humor based, andShelly warned me she's like
don't do a bunch of toilet humorjokes, but you know, I'm a dad.
Shawna (21:52):
That's so funny, you
know.
Lance (21:53):
so the one, if you're
okay with a little bit of toilet
humor, just go for it.
The one that really took offand I guess, if I were to get
recognized, which doesn't everhappen is the one that I told
her.
I walked up.
It was after church and I saidjust came back from church I
heard a good one Uh, do treespoop?
(22:14):
Do they poop?
Well, of course they do.
How do we, how would we getnumber two pencils?
That one just really just tookoff and you know, because it was
so successful and it reached somany people.
I guess that would be myfavorite, but I have other
favorites, you know it's.
Brian (22:32):
What's your favorite?
Lance (22:32):
number two, my favorite
number two Did you hear the
movie Constipation?
Brian (22:40):
Don't worry about it.
It never came out.
It never came out, that's great.
Shawna (22:44):
Okay, wait, I'm sorry, I
mean I don't even like bathroom
humor.
I'm with Shelly but listen, theone that you did that was
German for constipation yes,that one the way you said it and
I went far from heaven and and.
Lance (23:06):
I had so many people say
that is a Swedish accent.
Brian (23:11):
I'm a dork.
What can I say?
What can I say?
What can I say?
I love it.
I love it.
Yvonne, thanks for joining us.
Audience (23:18):
Would you like?
To ask or share a thought orask a question.
Part one of my part one of myquestion was actually what you
just asked about.
Lance (23:26):
What was your favorite
video?
So part two of my question iswhat do you think made it
connect so well with youraudience?
I really just think thecombination of it was somewhat
unique in the fact that I wascoming up to a doorbell camera.
I think that kind of caughtpeople's attention and it's like
(23:48):
what is this dork doing, youknow.
But also, just I really prideany member of the family you
know can watch and not have toworry about, um, you know, being
(24:09):
offensive or dirty or there'stoo much of that already.
And I think I at least that'sthe feedback I get is is that
that really resonates withpeople, that you know anybody
and everybody can can enjoy thehumor if they do.
You know.
Awesome, so cool.
Brian (24:25):
Awesome Thanks.
Lance (24:25):
Yvonne.
Brian (24:28):
All right if they do.
You know awesome, so cool,awesome.
Thanks, yvonne, all right, soyou guys, we're going to
continue with the the discussionhere.
If you guys have any questionsor thoughts, just click the
kiosk and we'll bring you guysup a little bit later.
Um so, dean, are you going totake the mic down if you want?
And Mrs Killer Bee, as we getready going to the discussion
about being a good neighbor, Iwant to ask you what?
What is your favorite video?
Now?
I just want to point out, justlet you know, did you realize
that Lost virtually referred tohis videos as movies?
Audience (24:51):
So I don't know, you
might want to be thinking about
a movie deal because I thinkthat might have been like a hint
there.
Lance (24:57):
I'm no actor.
I'm no actor, I'm just a dork.
I don't know, I don't think youshould limit yourself like that
.
Shawna (25:05):
Okay, so I have two
favorites, and one is based on
the joke which is um.
Today I was washing the carwith the wifers and she said you
think we could use a sponge?
And I love that one Cause Itold Brian I was like been there
, I just love that.
(25:26):
I thought that was funny.
And the other one was morebased on style, like how you did
the video, which was and Imight get this a little wrong,
so correct me if I'm wrong butyou said um, people say grass
don't be wet, but it do peoplesay grass don't be wet in the
morning, but it do.
(25:49):
It's the way you say it.
I can't say it like that.
Say it one more time.
Lance (25:51):
It's my favorite people
say grass don't be wet in the
morning.
But it do and it's a play onwords d e, w.
Brian (25:59):
Yeah, exactly, I love it.
I love it and this is what Ilove about the videos because
the other thing is after a longday you need a good laugh, and
it brings in that joy.
After all the heaviness that aday can bring, I love it.
That's why.
Lance (26:11):
I do it, brian, and I
finally got to the point where,
you know, when we're younger, wekind of give a rip about what
people think and we care way toomuch about what everybody you
know, whether it be in the worldor online or your bosses, what
they care and what they thinkabout you.
And I just finally got to thepoint.
Maybe COVID was the final nailin the coffin, but I just I
don't give a rip anymore.
(26:32):
Just to be frank with you, andonce you have that freedom and
you don't have that pressure onyou, it's amazing what you'll
allow yourself to do.
Brian (26:43):
That is so true the older
we get.
We talk about that.
It kind of frees you and opensyou up right it does you don't
have that pressure and you don'thave the the stress.
Lance (26:50):
I mean, there's enough
stress in the world uh, let
alone worrying about like that.
You know somebody doesn't likeyou or not, you know.
So, yeah, I think it's.
Shawna (26:58):
It's really opened up
something beautiful in your case
, lance, because like you'veopened up like this portal of
joy and laughter and connection,like we talk about your videos
and we laugh about them, and youknow, we told you the story
show people all the time.
Like I told you before that,brian used them in a
presentation to a church.
Brian (27:18):
And we use the poop ones
at the church.
Lance (27:22):
So, and that's another
thing I want people to, I'm
sorry, I don't mean to interrupt, but I get really passionate,
really passionate, about this.
I want the stereotype of peoplethat attend church to to, you
know, to to lift, to go away,you know we are there may be
some very legalistic churchesout there that you know have
kind of contributed to thisnegative you know negative
(27:43):
stereotype of people who attendchurch.
But I want to break that.
I want church to be seen as aplace that is, that is accepting
, and you know, you know, comeas you are and and and I don't
want it to be scary I want themto look at me and be like, okay,
that dork is very strong in hisfaith and goes to church.
Maybe I should give it a tryand that's kind of what I
(28:05):
realized.
You know, this platform shouldbe about.
Brian (28:09):
So I love that.
I love every single part aboutthat Cause I think that you know
, I think for too long and Iknow exactly, I think a lot of
us will know that like, yes,there's churches that can be
very legalistic and I used to.
I used to attend a church,attend a church like that, and
it's like we want people to beable to.
People should be able to lookat us and say we are joyful
people, but that's not reallythe case a lot of times.
(28:29):
But I love that when that's oneof the things I love when you,
your signature sign off is theway I wrote down, like he's a
signature sign off of laterGator, see you at church.
I'm like I was like I'm curiouswith that statement.
Has that led into conversationsof people asking you?
Lance (28:46):
about church?
Yes, it has.
It has.
I will get DMs or comments andI do my very best to comment on
every single one, or at leastrespond to every single one.
But I do get DMs asking mewhere I attend church.
I do get direct messages ofpeople saying that I just need
to spend time to thank you, uh,because they were going through
(29:08):
something tough and I cameacross one of your videos and
you helped me.
I mean, I've even been accusedof curing somebody's depression
and I'm just like that.
I look at Shelly.
I'm like this is unbelievable.
I mean I I don't know how torespond to this or react to this
, but then you know she's likebabe, this is God, this is God
at work and he's using you.
And then you know, so I take itvery seriously, even as dumb as
(29:31):
I act.
But yeah, absolutely I'll getdirect messages all the time.
99% of them are positive.
But there are people who youknow I've had people in the past
that are legalistic tell methat you know they'll uh
scriptures saying that you knowwhat you're doing is mocking god
, and you know I don't want topay attention to that, but very,
(29:51):
very, very well, you knowwhat's a beautiful thing is like
.
Brian (29:55):
I wanted to ask you that
question because, uh, one of the
things that we look at here,even as you're seeing right now
in this virtual space you know,we, we work with churches in
virtual reality, we have smallgroups, we have this show as
like church is like the messagebehind god and jesus and what,
who the church is is the same,but the way we do church doesn't
have to be the same.
(30:16):
I was like what you're doing onyour social media is you're not
only are you, you're invitingpeople like hey, I see you at
church, but you're being thechurch in a way that people have
never experienced, absolutely.
Lance (30:27):
And the church, the
church is.
I mean, we are the church youknow, it's not about a structure
, it's about the people you knowthe believers, we are the
church in any, any walk of life.
Wherever we are, we are thechurch, and that's what I'm
trying to, you know, to getacross too, but also make people
feel comfortable enough toenter that structure where they
(30:49):
can find community and they canfind healing, and they can get
saved and baptized andeverything that comes along with
.
You know, Christianity.
Brian (30:56):
Yes, 100 percent.
I love that, I love that.
I'm so glad we get to thatquestion and I do.
Ok, so we're going to move onto our our, our main topic Cause
, but I haven't got to share myfavorite.
Shawna (31:07):
Oh yes, oh yeah, I
should definitely.
Brian (31:10):
Well, there's so many of
them, but the one I've I keep
thinking about all the time isthe.
You talk about number twos alot, but this one, if you don't
see, if you remember it, youcasing a toot whistle oh yeah
yeah, yeah and.
And the joke was hey, uh, whatmakes me you know, what really
(31:31):
makes me throw up?
I can't do it as good as you,but do you remember the joke?
Lance (31:37):
uh, yeah, dartboard on
the ceiling.
Brian (31:40):
Yeah, I was like laying
in bed and I was like I just
started cracking up and usuallyour son can know he'll know he's
like, oh, they're watching thedad door because he'll hear us
in our bedroom and it juststarts cracking up, laughing and
stuff like that.
Lance (31:55):
So yeah, so it was, it
was, it was.
Thank you.
And just a little added tidbit,because there are, like I love
dad jokes obviously, but Ireally lean into the ones that
are really, really bad, you guys, because I tried to kind of
work in some type of you knowaction and some you know
shenanigans to make like to makeit funny.
(32:18):
To make it funny.
My challenge is how can I makethis horrible joke funny?
By my antics, or I?
I love sitting down and tryingto create something in a
scenario wrapped around theawful, awful joke.
Shawna (32:32):
So, yeah, well, check
done, you've done it.
They're all hilarious.
We love them.
Brian (32:37):
I appreciate it.
We love all of them.
There's so many.
So you guys, we covered some ofthem, but trust me, there's
plenty out there.
Go check him out on socialmedia.
Just look up the dad door.
You're going to find his videoson Tik TOK Instagram, Facebook,
Uh, and they're just great.
So we thank you so much forsharing that.
Now, when I first, we love whatyou're doing on there.
(32:58):
And when we first got to meetout, well, mrs Killer B said you
have to.
She's like I think she houndedme for like six months.
She's like, babe, I'm going to,I'm just busy, I'm going to
reach out to him.
And she's like have you reachedout to the dad?
I was like not yet, but I'mgoing to reach out to him.
Shawna (33:12):
Wait a minute, let me
just set the record straight.
That is true.
Lance (33:16):
I did keep saying that.
Shawna (33:17):
But also he kept saying,
like man, wouldn't it just be
amazing if we could get the daddork?
I doubt we could ever get himon our show.
So, yes, everyone, we aregeeking out because this has
been a long time coming, we'vebeen talking about it forever,
and so when you were up for itand you were interested, we were
just so excited.
(33:38):
I mean just crazy excited.
Lance (33:40):
Well, the honor is mine.
I mean, I'm absolutely honored,and it's not like I get a ton
of like requests to be onpodcasts and so I'm really just
a normal guy.
This is fantastic.
So thank you guys.
Brian (33:51):
Yeah, absolutely.
I think I told Ms Kudryas likeI think I'm so excited because
he gets my humor probably so Ican be friends with this guy.
So let's talk about the friends, because when we met, so to
kind of give you guys a set uphere of what happened we met.
Usually when we have a guestthat has not ever been in
horizons we'll meet with them onzoom first, kind of paint the
(34:12):
picture of what we're doing inhere and see if it's a good fit
for what the studio is about.
And when we first met over zoom, I couldn't help but notice
first your heart for people andyou and your wife's heart for
people.
And I think probably everybodyhere can already hear this with
what you've already been sharing.
Thank you, you have a beautifulheart for people.
(34:32):
And then I also, when we weretalking, you mentioned being a
good neighbor and yourdefinition of a neighbor.
I know this might be a lotdifferent from how others see
neighbors these days, so can youshare a little bit about what
being a neighbor means to you?
Lance (34:47):
Well, I mean, it's been a
process of learning.
You know over time when you'reliving in a community, you know
when you're younger you don'treally.
When you're on the go hustle andbustle and you're raising kids,
you really maybe don'tappreciate who your actual
neighbors are, or you take themfor granted, but as we we grow
older and we mature, um, um,your neighbors are essentially
(35:13):
almost like your family whenyou're in your neighborhood,
when you're in your home, theycan become your, your family If
you just, like everybody, agrees, let's take the time, like it
used to be.
Um, you know, probably in ageneration before us, if you
will uh to and get to know ourneighbors, take time to stand on
the sidewalk and talk, talk,you know, face to face.
(35:35):
There's not enough.
You know, face-to-faceinteraction and just getting to
know one another, loving oneanother.
And you know our, our twobiggest commissions or
commandments is love God asyourself and love your neighbor.
And you know and it took me awhile, cause I told you I'm not
very sharp, but I thought when Ifirst heard that, oh well, just
just love your, your, you know,like one or two, three
(35:57):
neighbors, no, love everybody.
That's essentially what he'stelling us to do is love
everybody.
And if we can just take thetime to get to know, to watch
out, to love, to protect, and weall look out for one another, I
mean it can be a beautifulthing and where I live right now
it's a prime example.
I have some fantastic neighborsand it was a process.
(36:19):
But if I were to tell you thatum process, but if I were to
tell you that, um, in myindividual cul-de-sac we are, I
have like very, very closefriends that I hang out with on
a regular and I'm the only, uh,true Okie in this entire
cul-de-sac.
I mean, I've got a guy acrossthe street that grew up in Ohio.
(36:40):
The one to my right grew up ingreen Bay, Wisconsin.
Next to him grew up in India.
The one to my right grew up inGreen Bay, Wisconsin, Next to
him, grew up in India.
And then, down the street, aguy grew up in Puerto Rico and
we all meet.
We all meet in my neighbor Tim'sgarage on a regular and we
either just just hang out andtalk, or we'll watch football,
or we go to, you know, baseballgames, Oklahoma softball games.
(37:00):
I mean we just got to the pointwhere when we're in this
neighborhood, we're family,we're family, we all know when
the other one's going onvacation, so on and so forth.
Hey, I'm in the hospital, Canyou take care of my dogs?
That's, I think, how it wasinitially supposed to be and was
(37:20):
created, and we just need toget back to that and it can be
an awesome way to live.
Brian (37:27):
That's beautiful.
I know, mrs, you may havetalked about that before about
how, uh, if you say hi to astranger, it takes them like it
can really set people back Likewho are you Like people?
Lance (37:40):
just aren't used to it,
yeah.
Or better yet, if, if, yet, if,if you say how's it going and
you actually tell them how it'show it's going, you will get
some looks like what are you?
Doing I didn't really want totalk to you.
Brian (37:52):
Yeah, totally 100 yeah,
yeah, um, well, you know, I I
love to like about the videosbecause it really feels like
when you do the videos on thecameras, it feels like you're
talking to us, like it feelslike you're when you go to the
camera you're talking to theneighbor and it feels like we're
your neighbor.
Lance (38:11):
Well, that's the
intention, brian is.
You know?
Initially there was someconfusion as to like is this
really your neighbor's house?
Yeah, I wasn't trying to bedeceitful.
I didn't expect so many peopleto really take it like that.
It is, you know, someone'sneighbor going up to their house
because it's so over the top.
I mean, look at this guy, youknow.
But the whole intention when itstarted to develop was the
(38:36):
viewer is the neighbor and weare all neighbors, and that
that's what I want everybody toyou know to understand is that
we're all neighbors and I'm.
I am speaking to eachindividual, one of you, and you
don't have to think it's funny,but I'm still speaking to you.
Shawna (38:50):
Yeah, that's good,
that's beautiful.
Brian (38:53):
And Miss Cleary, did you
have a question about the camera
?
Shawna (38:57):
Well, I think you
basically already answered it.
I was curious about if you everdid go to your neighbor's
cameras and do funny things likethat, did you?
Lance (39:07):
I do, actually, and I
have my neighbor Wally and I've
got about six.
If you go back in the archivesand I don't expect you to, but
if you go back, there are somejokes at neighbor Wally's and he
has a similar system as I doand I'll just walk up and go hey
, neighbor Wally, how, he has asimilar system as I do.
And I'll just walk up and I'mlike hey, neighbor Wally, how
are you?
And it's his house, and you cantell it's a different porch.
(39:27):
And and he knows, as soon as Isend him a text like you know
done, he'll download it, send itto me and he'll he'll tell me
if it was funny or not, like, eh, kind of corny.
But here you go, you know, um.
And then my neighbor Tim, theone that that really is the best
neighbor out of all of us.
He has a different system andI'll do it on his porch as well,
(39:51):
but it's not the same system,so it's a different, you know,
set up.
But yeah, I absolutely do.
And I've dinged on, ditchedKenny across the street and I've
done pranks on you knowneighbors, that I've, that I've
you know, kind of showcased andmade a clip out of and we have
fun with one another.
Little, you know, even thoughwe're different ages mentally,
we're all just little boyshaving fun.
Shawna (40:13):
That was the other thing
I wondered a long time ago was
you know the whistle and thecamera recording?
We talked about that?
I was like, do you think thathe just added that for the sake
of the video, Because I didn'tknow any of the systems actually
did that, Like our ring systemdoesn't do that, you know.
But you already answered that.
Lance (40:34):
So I have no more
questions.
Yeah, the company Vivint.
They have lots of differentgreetings and that one was just
the default and that was the onethat got me.
Like I heard the whistle, I'mlike, oh, here we go.
And that one was just thedefault and that was the one
that got me.
Like I heard the whistle, I'mlike, oh, here we go.
I get to act like a fool.
Shawna (40:49):
I don't know how you
recreate that so well too, when
you did that a minute ago.
It's perfect, it's exactly.
Lance (40:54):
Camera recording, I think
Mrs.
Brian (40:59):
Killer Bee, you know
we're looking at moving in
February and we'll probably haveto get a new tone anyway, so
maybe we'll look at getting oneof those systems instead,
because that sounds so much morefun.
Shawna (41:08):
Well, lance, listen.
Just because you've heard it,that doesn't really excuse that
you can do that perfectly,because I've heard it a lot of
times too and I can't whistle,so I can't do that sound at all.
Brian (41:18):
Try it, mrs Dobie, let's
go ahead and try.
Try whistling.
That's a good job.
That's the best in 22 years.
Shawna (41:27):
That's very nice of you
guys.
Brian (41:30):
She shows up, well, you
know.
So, okay.
So one of the things I noticedyou said about one of your
neighbors is like if they, ifyou do the video, they'll send
it to you and say, yeah, it wasall right, it wasn't that good,
or you know so I guess, beinghonest.
So I guess that kind of leadsme to the next question is what,
to you, would define being agood neighbor?
I'm guessing first would be you.
Lance (41:50):
Probably one of them
would be honesty honesty and
loyalty and again, all the, allthe attributes and the
attributes and all the qualitiesyou would expect out of a
family member, somebody that youknow has your back, somebody
who's going to protect you,somebody that will, you know,
look out for you and love you.
I mean that's, you know, in myopinion, what a good neighbor is
(42:13):
and also you know kind oftaking the initiative to hey,
you know what?
We haven't gotten together in awhile.
We haven't had an HOA blockparty or whatever in a while.
We haven't had a, uh, an HOAblock party or whatever.
Let's just take the initiativeand plan something, because, I
mean, life is so stinking busyand it's just like you know that
that movie groundhog day youreally can get into a rut.
(42:35):
So let's do something and justtake a couple hours out of the
out of out of the week or out ofthe weekend and let's just all
sit together and, you know, havefellowship, or just go out to
eat.
We, you know, on a regular, atleast once a quarter we'll.
You know Tim my, my neighbor,who's kind of the ringleader as
far as you know.
He's the retired guy that hastime to do this, but he, he's a
(42:55):
ringleader as far as organizingall of our get togethers and
he's like hey, it's been a while, let's get together, let's go
out to eat, and you know thepeople who can go say we're in,
and sometimes we'll have four,sometimes we'll have 14.
It's awesome.
You know, we get to know oneanother and it just makes, like
I said, I hate to sound like abroken record, but it makes life
better when you can walk outand you know there's just like a
(43:19):
family, you know community, umatmosphere just surrounding you.
Brian (43:23):
So, yeah.
I love that.
I love that.
You know it's thank you.
You know I don't like.
We've recently in, uh, justlike in our circle of friends
and industry and stuff that wework in, there's been a lot of
people that have passed away.
So, just like last night,someone passed away and we're
like seriously.
And thank you.
And it's just like.
It's also a reminder, like lifeis so short.
It really is.
(43:44):
It is so short.
And I can think of many placesthat we've lived that we've
tried to get to know ourneighbors and some of them just
like, nope, we're not talking.
And there's been a lot ofplaces we live where we really
haven't got to know ourneighbors that much and you
can't force them on you.
If you try to force yourself onyour neighbors, you might get
like what do they?
Audience (44:01):
call that A
restraining order.
Shawna (44:03):
Maybe, shot.
Brian (44:04):
Yeah, you probably get
shot these days, but no Taste.
Yeah, taste Maester.
We could keep the list going.
That's what we should havetalked about tonight.
Is what happens next?
I think not.
The beautiful thing is is likethere are people around us.
Is is like there are peoplearound us and I love that.
When you're talking about yourneighbor, it's not just the
(44:27):
people that live next door, it'sthe people that's.
That's around you, like rightnow, even in here, in virtual
reality.
So many of you here, like howmany of you here would say you
guys have made some justincredible relationships in here
that you can connect with.
Yeah, see all the confetti andeach one of us, like we're all
neighbors and the people that weconnect with in here are
neighbors, we're in closeproximity, and if you're a
Christian, we should be excitedto let people see that joy in us
(44:52):
and let them see us as a goodneighbor.
So, taking these characteristicsand making sure we're passing
it on, these characteristics andmaking sure we're passing it on
, and we have to remember thateven in here, we're going to
come across people that aren'tlike we don't know what their
life is on the other side ofthese headsets, and some of them
are in really tough situationsand it might come as a shocker
(45:13):
when you're trying to showpeople that you care about them
and and be okay that you don'tunderstand where they're from
you can still be a good neighborand show them that, that love
and that support, and let themsee Jesus in you.
Uh, I think that's such a abeautiful opportunity that we
have in this virtual space aswell.
Um, I was going to ask you,lance do you think there's a
(45:37):
difference between being a goodneighbor on social media and in
real life?
Lance (45:43):
You know, I mean, I think
that's both.
They're both important, brian,I mean, because, in the whole
scheme of things, the bestability is your availability.
And so if, if, if you can onlybe available online because of
of your, you know, geographicaluh you know situation, then at
least still be available.
But nothing beats and I know Isound like an old fogey, but
(46:05):
nothing beats face-to-facecommunication.
You know I'm I'm in sales andI'm an outside sales and I see
this every day in business.
You know there's way too muchbusiness is turning more towards
texting and emails and justinterpersonal interactions.
But I make more of a differencein my business and also my
personal life If I can be infront of somebody and stand in
(46:26):
front of somebody, look in theireyes, see their facial
expressions, you know,understand if they're, if they
may, visually maybe goingthrough something you know from
their body language, and then wecan maybe explore that.
And that's the same thing withour neighbors.
You know you might think that,well, we're both taking the
trash out.
That's, that's what we're doing.
But a simple high can start aconversation and a relationship,
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and that's all that I'm tryingto.
You know, kind of lean into isis let's, let's not.
And, like you said, you know,life is short and each day is
not promised, and every day thatwe be able to, we're able to
stand up and have breath in ourlungs, that's an absolute
blessing.
Brian (47:03):
So let's make the most of
it I love that and I love what
you said there about the bestability.
You said it's your availability.
Lance (47:11):
Availability.
I love that, I love it.
Brian (47:13):
And I agree with you 100%
Me and Mrs Killer Bee and you
know she's Mrs Killer Bee mywife also works, you know under
me at the business.
No, I'm not just saying no,really she's like.
She's like the boss.
Lance (47:28):
We know who the boss is
brian yeah, she's like married
guys know who the boss is areyou playing that two whistle in
there again?
Brian (47:33):
aren't you supposed to be
on a zoom meeting?
And I was like, okay, no, theuh.
One of the things that we talkabout often is you mean we do
like that's what we do isdigital and we coach and stuff
on that.
And one of the things that wetalk about often is you mean we
do like that's what we do isdigital and we coach and stuff
on that.
And one of the things that wepoint out to all of our clients
is I was like look, guys, if youwant to stand out in the future
and what you're trying to do asa business, it's going to come
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down to human connection.
I'm telling you like it's justreally it comes down to that
because nobody's doing it, andit is a game changer when you
sit across the table fromsomebody, uh, and really get to
get to know them personally.
Lance (48:08):
So absolutely yeah, it'll
make you stand out and that's
sad, that simply just you know.
You know, adhering to thegolden rule as as as far as how
we treat people will make youstand out.
But uh, we're, we're in thatculture where you know that
that's how it is, unfortunately,you know we're, we're in that
culture where you know thatthat's how it is, unfortunately,
you know, we're just not aspersonal as we, as we used to be
.
Brian (48:27):
You know, I'd love, I'd
love to change that you know,
it's a beautiful thing too, like, if we look even back at the
stories of jesus, the peoplethat jesus connected with the
most was the people that he wentand he sat down with, you know,
and broke bread and broke breadand uh, so it's just a
beautiful thing.
We think it's it's taking astep back, but taking a step
back is actually a step forwardin the right direction.
(48:49):
I think it really is first, wealways like to have our guests
have an opportunity just toshare a closing thought lance.
So if there's, out ofeverything that we've talked
about today, uh, what is onething that you would hope?
I guess let me rephrase that.
If there was one thing that youwould hope, I guess let me
rephrase that, if there was onething that people would take
away from our conversation today, what would you hope that would
be?
Lance (49:09):
You know, I think we I
mean you said it actually like
beautifully, right then thechallenge to just reach out to
one, and you know I'm I'm goingto piggyback off of that, brian.
I mean because you would be,you would be shocked at just
simply reaching out to one, andyou know I'm going to refer back
to.
You know the story of you knowJesus sermon on the mountain.
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Ninety nine and one.
You know as far as his sheep,you know just that one that's
lost.
You just give it a shot and youmay feel weird, but that's
probably the Holy Spirit nudgingyou into just saying hello,
just saying hello.
And how are you?
You'll be shocked at the doorsthat are open in the
relationship.
So I'm going to piggyback off,not to steal your idea, but I'm
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going to piggyback off that andjust love one another.
Oh my gosh, I, like a lot ofpeople, are just ready for the
divisiveness and the conflict tothe conflict to be over.
You know we're not here thatlong.
Let's love each other and alsohave fun while we're here.
Amen.
Brian (50:10):
I love it.
I love it.
Thank you, I love it If youenjoyed this episode don't
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