January 8, 2024 • 34 mins
Ever reminisced about the first time you flew the nest and dived into the great unknown of adult life? Our latest episode is a rollercoaster ride through the thrills and spills of moving out, culinary experiments (ramen, anyone?), and the eternal quest for budgeting balance. Join us as we swap stories on embracing independence, while laughing off the initial mistakes that seem to be a rite of passage for any fledgling adult.
When it comes to single living, it's not all about the freedom to host dinner parties at 3 AM. We also get real about the nitty-gritty of budgeting for one—did someone say 'food expenses'?—and let you in on a credit score life hack that's nothing short of miraculous. Candid confessions about cohabitation capers, including how to share a bathroom without starting a civil war, will leave you chuckling and nodding in solidarity.
But it's not all finance and fridge arrangements; our bodies and souls need tending too. We chat about the fine art of bulking up without breaking the bank, proving meal prep isn't just a fad—it's financial genius. And in a shift from the material to the spiritual, we share an unexpected moment of connection that can occur even in the steamy confines of a gym sauna. Whether you're fine-tuning your faith or your finances, this episode is your invitation to find inspiration in the least expected places.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Mission Men
podcast brought to you byMission Media Group.
The Mission Men podcast, thepodcast about everything and
nothing and anything in between.
Gentlemen, how are we doingtoday, man?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I am feeling good, I'm feeling great Okay.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
A little over excited , aren't you?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I'm feeling great, all right.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I'm going to count on John to bring that energy.
Brandon gave me an outro.
That energy, altoy, thanks forthe outro.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Dude, those things, those slam, All right.
So let's see we're diving intosome new beginnings here today.
We got some.
Considering it's only oursecond podcast, that's true, but
we got some life changes andlife changes.
I'm becoming an adult.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Yes, you're becoming an adult.
We want to dive into that.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Okay, so yeah, take us through that, john.
What's that mean, becoming anadult?
What?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
do you mean by becoming?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
an adult.
I'm moving out, moving out.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
On this Friday.
So a week from today, less thana week from today.
What is it?
Five days from now?
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Math.
I don't know how to count.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
So because I was homeschooled.
So that's another story.
But yeah, let's not go there,yeah, but anyways, I'm moving
out in five days, me and myfriend Isaac and Nate going
together.
We're going to go.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
You're all going to, we're all going in together on
this.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yep, we're all going to be living together, jim Bros
and one house, so lots ofprotein, lots of carbs and lots
of working out.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Who's buying the groceries is what I want to know
.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Everybody have to defend for their own.
That's part of adulting, iswhat I hear.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
It is.
Have you budgeted?
Are you going to budget forthis?
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Well, now that you've showed me ramen noodles just a
couple minutes ago, I don't haveto budget, so let's talk about
your ramen noodle experience.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Yeah, literally, it was your first time that I was
shocked because we took a breakand I wanted something to eat
and I didn't want anything heavy.
We have ramen.
We always keep ramen noodles inthe house because they're
always a good un-nutriciousthing.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I've never had them in my life before.
So Paul told me how to makethem and I said okay, let's do
this.
I put them in the bowl, I atethem, and they were fire.
They were so good.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Well, you have to understand.
See, ramen noodles was my poorcollege meal, because you can
get a whole bag of them for likenothing.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Dude and then me and Paul had a conspiracy theory
that that's what they use forall Chinese restaurants for
their noodles.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I'm convinced that Chinese restaurants use ramen
noodles.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Think about the profit.
You pay 20 bucks.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
And they just add chicken and shrimp to something.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
And it's 25 cents for the noodles.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
And all of a sudden, yeah, I don't think you're wrong
.
I mean, I'm sure we could beabsolutely easily proven wrong,
but I don't think we're wrong.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I don't think I'm wrong.
I've never wronged.
I think there's a conspiracytheory, here I tell.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Lexi, I'm never wrong , all the time.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah, and Lexi's who who's Lexi?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
It's my girlfriend Lexi, yeah.
Lexi, we've been dating for twoand a half years.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Has it been that long .
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
She's still here.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
She's still here.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Somehow she stayed.
She's still somehow the effectbutton is this oh, this is bruh
Bruh, bruh, bruh Bruh.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
What's the red one do ?
I don't know.
Let's try it, let's see.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
And we're still together for two and a half
years, hey guys, and a laughtrack comes in, yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
All right, so with Lexi here for two years, moving
out on your own.
So what are some of the thingsthat maybe you think you're
looking forward to and kind ofexperiencing a new side of
freedom here, a little bit asyou grow?
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Well, I finally won't have a curfew of eight o'clock
at the house.
No, I'm just kidding.
No, I'm looking forward toliving with the dudes and being
able to work from home.
Obviously, I edit at home, I doall my stuff behind the
computer at home, but after thatit's going to be fun to just go
downstairs and go relax on wineand laugh with the bros, play
(03:55):
some games on the TV, watch amovie, I mean, have friends over
anytime.
You know, a house full of 20year old dudes won't have such
thing as rules or people thatneed to come over at a certain
time.
They say whatever, come on over.
What could go wrong?
Speaker 1 (04:08):
What could go wrong?
Absolutely.
Exactly, except what Anythingand everything, anything and
everything and anything inbetween and everything in
between.
So all right, so we're doingthat.
So what are some possible consthat you know could possibly you
know?
I mean there's the wholebudgeting thing.
Paul's bringing up some reallygood questions about that- yes,
(04:30):
cons equals cost.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
in my opinion, cost is the con.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
So have you budgeted?
Have you figured your budget?
Yet I have budgeted your singleman budget.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
And I'll be good.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
You'll be good.
I just need to make sure I keepworking.
So what did you budget for food?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I okay.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
well, you pull out the spreadsheet.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I all right, all right, let's um.
What did you budget for food?
Okay, so that's all year.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
I know how much people like you eat.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
You know you know, young guys, I'm not gonna lie.
I didn't budget for food, youdid not.
No, I just budgeted for howmuch it would cost to live.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
There you have a budget to live in the house.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Yeah, I'm good for that.
And bills, yep, you tell yourbills but you tell he's all that
Speaker 3 (05:10):
kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yes, what's your credit score?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Oh, okay, I actually don't have a credit card.
What's your credit score,though?
But I don't have credit.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Oh, you don't have a score, then yeah, so zero.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Well here's my all time low right now, yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Well, you have to build credit, that's true.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I do have to build credit.
You know you build creditwithin the next year.
No, tell me.
Yeah, you build credit.
Okay, I have no clue.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
So you can actually buy a car, buy a house, but you
don't want to do that, right?
But how you build credit fastand efficiently is you get two
or three credit cards.
Do not use them, correct?
You get two or three creditcards and you, if you go to like
your favorite place as a Bacchijunior or something I love, a
(05:54):
Bacchi junior.
So what you do is, instead ofusing your debit card that you
normally use, use the creditcard and just pay it off.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Or like gas.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Use it as if it were your debit card, okay, and you
pay it off, but don't pay ithere.
Here's the kit.
Here's a trick to this wholecredit thing.
If you pay it off every month,you'll still have no credit.
Now, that's the craziest thingin the world, you think?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
you know, you.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
The whole point about it is to be what that free and
you want to pay your credit cardoff your month.
Right, they want you to keep abalance.
So what I did is I keep fivedollar, ten dollar balance on my
credit card at all times, atall times.
So it makes you look likeyou're paying off a debt.
If you pay it off every month,it doesn't count.
(06:38):
I found that out the hardwaremy banker friend told me this
yep, and it got my score up.
You trust that bank you're fromit got my score up by 120 points
.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Is that high?
What's high?
Well, credit score eight.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Yeah something, yeah eight.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Dave Ramsey would be proud.
Dave, it could look you in theeyes with that credit score and
he'd be it'd be a good look.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
They would be very proud so there's been a lot of
life lessons, I feel like onthis podcast so far, we've
learned about credit score ramennoodles, you know.
So what?
What are some other?
What are some other things,john, that you know?
What are some unknowns?
I mean, okay, so talk aboutpros, talk about cons, right,
what are some things that we'relike not sure about?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Because it's a big deal.
I don't know I'm gonna share abathroom with Nate.
I don't know how that's gonnago.
That's not gonna go.
We have one sink and the ruleis to live in the house.
You have to shower to savewater at the same time.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Okay, that's no.
No, that's not a good rule, no,not a good rule.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Not a good rule, no, bad but it's just to think about
cost.
Going back to the budget, thatwas something we budgeted for.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
So you literally have on the line in your budget and
your ex-hull spreadsheet Showerwith Nate yes, to save water to
save water.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Okay, yeah, I'm not moving in.
No, no, no, no, no, I'm notmoving in that house.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Unknown.
Is it seriously the bathroomsharing it?
How that'll go how that'll guyBecause right now the bathroom
is at my house with my parentsis just me and a bathroom right
that's all that happens.
And there's, yeah, and sothere's just place I've got a
button.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Yes perfect button for that one, yeah, so.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Hibachi jr Plays a good part in my bathroom life,
but yeah, so That'll beinteresting to see how that goes
sharing a bathroom with someone.
My room is smaller but I do getmy own office, get my own
office space.
I don't have that in my houseright now.
That's cool, so I'll get to setup my desk, set up all that's
cool.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
So, separate from your bedroom, separate from my
bed, oh, you get an extra room.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I want extra room Wow .
Speaker 1 (08:51):
That's cool.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Yeah, so I'm excited for that.
Well, I think I'm gonna putlike a little mini fridge in
there have some vitamin waters.
Speaking about vitamin waters,this is a good segue to Brandon.
His two strange addictions arevitamin water and eggs.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
I've got back.
I've heard about the eggs thingwe got to get back to the egg
thing, because I think you eatlike an obscene amount of eggs.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Yeah, okay, we can dive in bloody like 20 eggs a
day.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
How many eggs are you today?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Okay.
So they've cut back, Okay,which is good.
Okay, you cut back to what I'mdown to seven.
I am down to seven eggs a day.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
That's cutting back.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yes, I was doing 14, 14.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Yeah, one, four, yes uh reason, reason being is what
do you mean that I for?
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Oh, what is this?
It's just a random song.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Paul Paul's been given, john for those listening
Control to the soundboard and Ithink John's been pressing
buttons.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
He's having fun, though I'm on button profile
right now.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
I think okay, so back to the eggs.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Yes, back to the eggs .
So I started Really seriouslyworking out.
About three years ago I weighedabout 160 pounds.
I now weigh 215, and in orderto do that, that should be a
sound effect right there.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Oh, we got talking about what that?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
then go ahead, okay, okay.
So I started really liftingheavy, seriously, and a lot of
people like, well, you know,because I in the past I always
worked out a ton but I justnever saw results, never got
anything.
Something like, okay, there'ssomething, what am I missing?
It was the eating portionportion.
And so I started working with anutritionist and they're like,
(10:37):
yeah, you know, you got to beeating like 3000 calories a day,
200 grams of protein a day.
I'm like how in the world am Igonna get that?
Speaker 2 (10:47):
much protein in a puke.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
I know.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
So Paul also likes Panera, so we should have like
special sponsors.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Like you know, I would definitely be sponsored by
water and just eggs minus icydrinks, and I see a bunch of
junior all the time.
For sure.
I just want to eat there sevendays a week.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
I don't care about sponsorship, if I just can have
their food.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
I just like the food.
So how many times a week do youeat there?
Not enough.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Oh seriously, how many times a week do you eat
there?
Speaker 2 (11:19):
No, I mean Navi as much as the joke is real.
I don't eat there a ton, maybethree or four times every month.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Oh, that's not a lot.
No, that's not a lot.
I'll let you eat more than that.
I mean every time I'm talkingto you there.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
No, I can't spend that much money on food going
back to your budget again, tothe budget right.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Oh, there you go, the biggest budget thing not eating
out, is it gonna help?
Girlfriends are expensive.
Friends are expensive, theydemand it actually.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
They demand it.
Okay, so you part of thecontract I signed to date, lexi
so kind of going full circle.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
We're going around the barn going full circle here,
back to back to this the howmuch food do you think it'll
cost you To eat at home for amonth?
A month worth?
Speaker 3 (12:03):
I know how much it costs in our groceries.
I'm dying to hear what yourbudget is 350 to 400.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
You, and how many calories and grams of protein
you trying to get a day, becauseJohn also lives too.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
He's a big workout guy and then I look like it
compared to Brandon right now,but whatever, it's all audio but
you budget it for 350 to $400 amonth.
I would say so get all the meatand all the breasted chicken
meal prep everything meal prepokay, so how many again?
Speaker 1 (12:33):
I'm just telling you.
Right now it's probably I wouldstart more thinking, a little
bit more.
Yeah, really well, especiallyif you're trying to get protein
and you're trying to get all themeat.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
He's like I'm moving out on Friday.
Yeah, I didn't budget that part.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Well, the good news is, I still have my parents
house to go to whenever I wantand also.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Paul lives five minutes away from me and he's
got a man, actually, I mean he'sgot Panera soup on.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Infinite amount of level.
Actually there's an.
Is there any in the fridgeright now?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
as I ate it already.
Sorry, I'm scared, I didn'thave, but I got ramen noodles.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
I budget for that now , but you're from ramen noodles
and you'll be fine.
Yeah, 25 cents a bag.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
No but this is real.
I do need to figure out how I'mgonna get enough food.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Did you just bought?
You just bought your bedroomset just recently?
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Yes, a part of that was my meal prepping set of what
are those called meal prepcontainers glass containers.
Yeah, yeah, I just bought a tonof those like tough where yes,
I can set it all up, put it inanyways, so nice.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Yeah, I'm excited, that's great.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
It'll be chicken and rice pretty much every day it's
what I plan on doing.
That's cheap to make, though,mm-hmm you just go to Kroger's,
get a ton of chicken, get a tonof rice.
I don't eat chickens.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
I don't know much chicken costs sauce.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
It's chicken, I mean it's, it's not to me.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
But we don't eat be.
We don't eat beater chickenhere.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Yeah, I mean with inflation, obviously
everything's gone.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Well, her chicken was really expensive now, yeah,
depends on where you get it fromto yeah if you get the organic
homegrown, blah, blah, blah,blah, blah, blah no you see,
that's what I get.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
That's really expensive.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
It's really expensive like $12 for two filets or
something.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
That's crazy.
It's a lot.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Well, yes.
But yeah, I want to go to TacoBell and just make some sort of
alleyway deal with one of theemployees and say, hey, give me
some of your chicken.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Well, would you know, it's not real chicken.
If you, would I give them anexchange yeah, foot massage yeah
.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
No, it's kind of scary how quickly you thought of
that with the mild sauce, withNot oil, but the mild sauce to
get give me the.
Did we say this?
Speaker 3 (14:38):
show is about everything and nothing and
anything between.
This is the nothing part.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
This is in everything in between and everything in
between it's, it's just, it'sperfect for you guys.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
I think see, I don't, I don't work out, and you guys
are both heavy workers.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Yeah, but you don't work out, but you've lost like
100 plus pounds dude.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
That's amazing.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Paul has lost so much weight it's.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
It's crazy.
You look like a new.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
I feel like a new person look like a picture of
you from a year ago or year.
I was, I was, I had anotherperson, I was carrying another.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Paul, you're literally half the man you were.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Literally, there you go, bro, used to be pregnant,
now you're good, bro.
Hey, there you go.
Just kidding, there you go.
No, it's okay, it's in the past.
Now, that's what you came fromright.
It's a laugh.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Thanks for saving that sound boy there you go.
Um, yeah, no, it's, uh, it's.
I mean that's a tough thing,it's, it's a whole discipline
thing, and there are so manydays when I do not feel like
doing it, but I just know it'llbe good long-term benefits.
But, but back to you, paul.
So what?
What did you do to go aboutlosing that?
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Well, it started off with my doctor, amazing doctor,
dr Chris dr Chris.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Oh wait, is this an audience?
That's a laugh.
That's a laugh, Never mind, andhigh you know high blood
pressure.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Yeah, some all that stuff and yeah right, I wasn't
pre-diabetic, but I was closepre, pre.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Yeah, pre-pre you're the sequel, um, and it was just
like you had to.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
You know, he told us about a book, amazing book, um
called how not to die.
It's a, it's a real book hownot to die.
I love that title and nice ifyou read it.
What's it about?
How not to die.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Chapter one don't walk in front of trains.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Dumb ways to die.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Yeah, chapter two, don't give foot massages to top
of bell workers.
Well, that, that is that too.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
But anyway, if the book goes through how not to die
and it talks about how not todie from Rest, you know, cardiac
stuff, or how not?
To die from hypertension, hownot to die from, and it's all
chaptered and it goes throughthe things you're not supposed
to eat and it talks about howbad things really are for you.
That's enough to scare you andthen to eating, right.
(16:52):
So then we started eating.
You know more vegan vegetarian.
We're kind of pescetary becausewe eat a lot of fish.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Uh, nothing wrong with salmon is what our as our
go to.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Salmon's fire.
I wish I liked fish honestly.
Just go all the health benefitsof it.
There's health benefits but youknow it's depends you can.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
You can actually eat too much.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Yeah, so you can't get this very salty.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
You know, because things come from the ocean kind
of right, so it's very salty, soyou have to be careful about
that part shrimp or bottomfeeders.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Right yeah, they feed off the bottom and people eat
them.
So about?
Speaker 3 (17:26):
bottom minus.
So that's how it all start, forfor me, is eating just changing
how we ate.
Yeah and it's been Almost twoyears.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Did you have to change, like, the frequency of
how much you ate, like you know,rather, because a lot of people
say like, yeah, so doing threebig meals, maybe split up into
six smaller meals, or did you doanything?
Speaker 3 (17:43):
No, I wasn't a big eater anyway.
Many times a day I didn't dothat anyway.
So I still keep to what I doand I may eat One meal a day,
because you just get locked intowork.
Meat is for me, it's work.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Yeah, that's a good.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Yeah, I'll forget to eat most of it.
Yeah, I'll work so hard thatI'll oh, I didn't eat today.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Yeah, the crazy thing for me that was a huge
eye-opener was Realizing Iactually needed to eat more food
to lose fat.
I mean for me, I mean that youknow.
So I think, with our societyand everything, that's just such
a Reverse way of thinking.
Because what would about acouple, maybe six months ago now
I'm sorry worker with atrishness and so they're like
(18:25):
hey, you need to actually likedouble your caloric intake
because I was only at double,but maybe Point five it or
whatever, because I was doingabout 2,000 calories.
So like no, you knew you need3,000 and then you need to like
up everything.
I'm like what it's?
That's insane.
But within five weeks I wentdown like that's crazy 3% body
fat.
It literally goes againsteverything that you think that's
(18:48):
weird.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Yeah, I can't do that .
Bro is hungry.
No, I mean, but that's becauseyou're in the gym a lot, right?
Yeah, yeah, I mean, I was, yeah, working out five times a week.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
You wouldn't do that if you weren't in the gym,
obviously, no, no.
Well, I mean I, I would have toeat less obviously if that were
the case.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
So Well, you should see this guy.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
He lifts 25 pounds like it's nothing you wouldn't
believe it, you would not movelike butter.
Wow, paul, I mean, I Mean, youshould, I mean the 10 pounds.
Paul, you wouldn't even.
I mean like it's, it's likelifting feathers didn't?
Speaker 2 (19:24):
you used to drink Pots of coffee every day back in
the day?
I?
Would do two or three pots ofcoffee before 10 o'clock in the
morning Crazy two or three potsbefore, not cups, not cups.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
This is before Starbucks.
Like fold your like, late 80s,early 90s, two to three pots of
coffee.
Caffeinated coffee before 10o'clock?
Okay, but again you have tounderstand that was a different
day.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
He was drinking that Folgers gasoline water, two pots
of that.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
There's a deal that was me being in the studio and I
would be in the studio that'sgonna be working on the records,
and I would literally not sleepfor five days in a row.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
What that?
Because that's kind of what myschedules were, you would not
sleep for five days and that waschapter six and how to die.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Yeah.
Don't stay up, get sick, yeah,but I would literally work on
projects and I would literallywork on things in the studio,
not sleeping.
It's not insane, I would eat,drink all this coffee and then
after the I finished the project, then I would pass out for like
two days and I'd be back at it.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
I can't you stop two days like in a row.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
I would not sleep two days in row, but I would pass,
I mean in my body, would give uphe must have woken up from that
and just been like feels sogood, like so rested.
No, I, you know, it wasn't likeI slept, slept.
It was like, when I call itsleeping back in the day, I
would sleep for two, three hourand I would be back up.
I think that's called insomnia.
I do that now.
I mean I, you know yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Paul's, the only person I can text at like 2 am
Is always up.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
I'm up, I'm out.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Paul's like that one unemployed friend on a Tuesday
night.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
They're one unemployed friend.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
You can always reach out to him and they're always
doing something.
They have no job.
They have no job, right, yeah,right.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Giving foot massages to talk about workers.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Don't try that, especially the one about Julia.
Not a good idea.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Thanks, you doxxed us .
Yeah, I speak from experience.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
But anyway, I mean seriously, you know thinking
about you guys in the gym thing.
You know we were talking aboutthis on our, on our last little
kind of video thing we did, andJohn had an interesting story
that I wanted to share, thisinteresting story about you
Leading somebody Christ at yourgym, wasn't it?
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Yeah, was it in gym?
Yeah, yeah, I was in the sauna.
So this gym I go to has a saunaand and it's going there at
this on.
So the song, supposed to bereally good for you after
workout.
It's just got a ton of benefitsit helps your sleep, helps
fight bacteria, it from thepores, it gets rid of the
bacteria in your skin and yourpores, hydrate your skin all
(22:05):
this stuff.
It helps with muscles andcramps and sores and this and
stuff like that.
So I go in the sauna afterevery workout.
It's like 204 degrees in thereif you get enough people, so
it's hot, but I'm, I sit inthere and normally I'll bring in
my ear buds and listen to musicif I don't have someone else in
there with me.
But if there's random people inthere, if I don't know them,
(22:26):
I'm just gonna start talking toyou like you're like talking to
strangers.
Yeah, I love talking tostrangers, so if they're sitting
there too bad, you're with mebecause we're gonna start
talking about something.
And I mean, what else you gotto do sitting there and hot, and
you got a past time.
The more you talk, the longerit goes.
So, anyways, I was in there andI met some guy Just randomly
(22:47):
and we started talking aboutlife.
I looked his bracelet.
He had a bracelet I was talkingabout said something on it said
faith.
And I looked his bracelet.
I was like that's a nicebracelet, bro, what's, what's
that mean to you?
And he said well, honestly,they were just had it at some
place.
I went and I just grabbed it.
I was out Okay, cool To me,it's a big deal because I'm a
(23:07):
Christian.
He was like oh, you'reChristian, that's cool.
It's like I went on a missionstrip when I was like 18 and it
Changed my life and I was like,oh nice, tell me about that.
So he told me about it.
He went on.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
That was the ice.
I was icebreaker.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
That's icebreakers always Some part of some
conversation that you have withsomebody that you can tie in to
the gospel in some Small way.
But that's cool about it isbecause all Jesus always leaves
some part of that conversationto be able to segue.
It's just up to you to feelthat in your spirit to To get
there know when to go in to getthere and to dive into that.
(23:43):
So, anyways, I asked to tell meabout your mission trip and it
was one of the mission tripswhere it's probably from a
school or something, because allthey they went to places and
painted them or stored placesand stuff, whereas, like the
mission trip that I typicallyhave been on, it's More talking
to people, lean them to Jesusand prayer and witnessing to
(24:03):
people and on the streets.
Paul's been, brandon and been,yet no, yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Changing experience.
Yeah, it's not a podcastaltogether.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Yeah another podcast, so he was telling me about that
.
I was like, oh, cool, cool, youknow, and I was seeing what
Jesus do in your life when youwere there and how that affects
you, and he's like, well, itaffected me for a little while
and then I kind of went back tomy Normal routine and anyways,
we got to talking and hebasically the four months ago
his apartment burnt down.
(24:33):
Back to the ground, to theground apartment burnt down in
hermitage and he lost the recentfire that they just had
recently.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
the one thing I don't know I think it's a different
one- but he lost all the stuff.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
And Same situation as me and Isaac.
He was in a room with all hisbuddies and stuff like that.
So he lost his house and heturned to drugs and weed and
alcohol and drugs and weedalcohol and drugs.
He turned all that to fix thedepression that he had from all
(25:12):
this I mean doing was depressed.
I was mine.
So he is talking to me and he'stelling me about this and I was
like well, let me tell youabout a story from my mission
trip.
I met this dude who is sellingweed, which, by the way, in
Jamaica, paul knows, everybodysells you weed, no matter who
you are, where you are.
Yeah, they walk up toshamelessly.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
He got a common everyday thing.
It's great weed.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
But I was telling him .
I was like well, speaking ofweed, I met this dude who is
selling weed in Jamaica.
I just he was like you, youwant to smoke?
And I was like what?
And he was like weed, I don'tlike.
No, you want Jesus.
And there's super cringy andcorny.
Don't ever approach somebodylike that unless you're in
Jamaican.
It makes sense.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
It's still to make sense, yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
But I talked to him about Jesus and I was like well,
you know, jesus is one thatmakes me feel peace that you
look for in the drugs, in the,in the weed and so I was talking
To him about all that and thenhe started crying and I was
praying for him and led to aLord right there in the sauna.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Wow pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
So God will use you in the most random.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Freakin places.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Well, and I think too a lot of it's very easy for
Christians to kind of getSide-tracked and lose focus of
the big picture meaning like youknow, even if, john, if you
weren't able at that moment To,if that person wasn't ready to
receive Jesus, at least you'resowing good seed.
And you know, and, andsometimes when we witness to
(26:36):
people, they may just completelyShut us down and reject us.
But you know, obviously that'snothing personal.
They're just rejecting.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Jesus, unfortunately, but you're still sowing a seed,
and I will.
One thing that your dad talksabout is you.
You're putting a pebble intheir shoe Right.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
So, even though you may never, they walk like
they're gonna feel it Exactly.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
I've had that happen so many times in the gym and
just in life in general, wherethe seed planning is almost as
much of a difference make isjust praying with them right
there and because you may not bethe person that leads them to a
Lord, but you may be the personthat set them up to open their
hearts enough to receive it whenthe time is.
(27:18):
Right right and so, andespecially with a lot of these
guys, at least for me in the gym, they're all big dudes,
complete opposite of me, I mean.
Blasts will mess, racist,sexism whatever I mean they.
They're ist and they're justwild Nothing everything,
anything, and they're all roidedout pimples all over this, all
(27:41):
this stuff, and they're justcrazy.
But I mean, I have nothing incommon with them.
But what I do have in common isSometimes these dudes are so
Confident in being worldly, ifthat makes sense.
Oh yeah but when I match theirconfidence in Christ to them,
that's rare for them toencounter and so for some reason
(28:04):
I have somewhat of a voice inthese people's lives.
I don't know how I don't.
It's Jesus through me, but,like right, somehow I have a
voice with them.
And I Don't share the gospelwith all of them, with a week or
a month or a couple months, butI do, incrementally just yeah.
If they say something out ofpocket, I'm like that was the
most blasphemous thing I've everheard in my life.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
I'll tell you one yes , yeah, okay, yeah, I was joking
.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
It's a family-friendly podcast.
Yes but sometimes people in theworld say crazy stuff.
I'm not gonna.
Say his cuss words, but I'llsay to a degree of what he said.
Okay, he was like man.
I think Jesus is Just some pimpin heaven who's up there having
sex with angels, and I purifiedthat sentence as much as I
(28:53):
could purify the course of thispodcast.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Thank you very much.
Hey, welcome, and I'm prettysure you can correct me if I'm
wrong with it.
I think that's factuallyincorrect.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
That is 110% factually.
I was like that is the most.
I just was like correct thingyou could possibly like that Is
the most blasphemous thing Ithink I've heard anyone say.
And then he was like what sinscould keep me from going to
heaven?
Well, and I was like, well,what you just said was pretty
close one.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
You're getting closer buddy.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
I was like now, the only thing that keeps you from
as hell is uh, or keep you fromheaven, is the rejection of
Jesus, and yeah, I was like but.
But you know if in your heart,when you said that jokingly,
that was your rejection, I meanthere you go.
Yeah, I mean so they're crazy,but I like talking to him
because I don't I more so ittalked to or enjoyed talking to
(29:44):
somebody like that.
Then I would sometimes talkingto Christians who just post
Christian.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Facebook memes.
You know what and that and that.
For me, like I think, thiscould be another whole podcast
but, for me, my first missionstrip.
Yeah, that was an experiencewas an experience because you
know, basically on what you justsaid, I couldn't do this in a
church and my circles are all inthe Christian marketplace.
(30:11):
And they're all believers, so Inever really get to experience
unbelievers.
It wasn't until I went toJamaica, to you actually could
go.
Oh, this is what this wholething is about and this is what
I'm supposed to be doing, and itjust totally changed my mindset
on everything.
It was a pretty amazing trip.
(30:33):
It was an eye-opening,life-changing experience that
I'll never forget.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Well, I wanna bring up something that you said that
I thought was really good, john,where just about how it may
take you a week or a month orwhatever, because you wanna
build some kind of relationshipfirst.
And for my upbringing it washey, let's knock on the door and
say, hey, you need Jesus.
And like it just doesn't work.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
I mean no, that may work in other countries, because
I've heard of that being more,but that direct approach in
Jamaica kind of works, I mean,and that's.
But it's a time and place foreverything and I learned that.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
And even in Jamaica.
Sometimes that doesn't workBecause you can't Everybody's
not ready for it like that.
If you think about Jesus andChristianity from an outsider's
view, that's so much to wrapyour mind around.
And if you just you can't evenwrap your mind around it in one
sentence without knowing thatperson.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Well, and how about this?
Let's just even take like Jesusout of the equation.
If somebody comes up to me whoI have no idea who they are, and
they start telling me how to dosomething that who are you Like
what?
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Well, that's a turn off.
Yeah right, that's a turn off.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Exactly so, I think, a good takeaway from this
obviously, obviously being boldand sharing Jesus, but, like
John was talking about justbeing led by the Holy Spirit
when that right time and sowingthose seeds and building those
relationships, strengtheningthose bonds, whatever they may
be, whatever that common groundis, and finding those times to
(32:09):
do it Right.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
So, yeah, I would say too, like with the Holy Spirit,
sends you little pricks inside,where you often feel and hear
those in a small way, and youtypically have the nature to
reject them and just ignore themand then later be like man.
I should have done that, butthat's.
(32:33):
I try and capitalize on thoseas often as they come up,
because I know that if I don'tcapitalize on it right then then
it's just a missed opportunityfrom the Lord and then, later I
think about it.
I'm like, yeah, I should have,could have done.
I'd rather do it now and it bego terrible or be awkward or
whatever.
Then live later with the Ishould have could have done this
(32:57):
differently, or set it for theLord.
So send it for Jesus when youfeel those little notifications.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Wow, just gonna send it.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Wow, well hey you know, what.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
This has been great.
That's probably a wrap.
Honestly, this is a wrap, goodplace, I feel like I should say
amen to myself.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Amen, amen, buddy.
I'm just kidding.
Amen, buddy.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Amen Chester, amen Buster.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Well, we are going to have to wrap this one up.
This has been a great podcast.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Oh yeah, look, I got a infamous outro now.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
You have an outro, all right, I'm gonna see you.
You have an outro, you rememberit.
You remember it yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Man, we talked about some valuable lessons today.
So fun, so great.
We love you.
We can't wait to see you nexttime and, as always, go out and
do a mission as men and women.
Oh, wow, freak, wow, I forgot.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Is there a crash and burn sound effect?
Speaker 3 (33:55):
You want to do it again.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Yeah, well, it was handy.
You want to do it again?
Yeah, start it over.
We're gonna listen to it again.
Yeah, start it over.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
We're ready.
Okay, you ready.
Take two, here we go.
Bam, thanks for listening totoday's podcast.
We hope you learned a great andvaluable lesson.
We can't wait to see you nextweek and, as always, we love you
and go out and be mission menand women.
We'll see you next time, isthat it?
Speaker 3 (34:22):
That was it.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
I'm like that, I'm here for you Put your radio
voice you put on was great Thankyou.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
I love that at the end.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
I appreciate that I like to get there.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
It wasn't as good as the first one.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Next episode.
It's time for all of us to sing.
No, no, see you, folks.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Mission Men
podcast brought to you byMission Media Group.
The Mission Men podcast, thepodcast about everything and
nothing and anything in between.
Gentlemen, how are we doingtoday, man?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I am feeling good, I'm feeling great Okay.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
A little over excited , aren't you?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I'm feeling great, all right.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I'm going to count on John to bring that energy.
Brandon gave me an outro.
That energy, altoy, thanks forthe outro.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Dude, those things, those slam, All right.
So let's see we're diving intosome new beginnings here today.
We got some.
Considering it's only oursecond podcast, that's true, but
we got some life changes andlife changes.
I'm becoming an adult.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Yes, you're becoming an adult.
We want to dive into that.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Okay, so yeah, take us through that, john.
What's that mean, becoming anadult?
What?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
do you mean by becoming?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
an adult.
I'm moving out, moving out.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
On this Friday.
So a week from today, less thana week from today.
What is it?
Five days from now?
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Math.
I don't know how to count.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
So because I was homeschooled.
So that's another story.
But yeah, let's not go there,yeah, but anyways, I'm moving
out in five days, me and myfriend Isaac and Nate going
together.
We're going to go.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
You're all going to, we're all going in together on
this.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yep, we're all going to be living together, jim Bros
and one house, so lots ofprotein, lots of carbs and lots
of working out.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Who's buying the groceries is what I want to know
.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Everybody have to defend for their own.
That's part of adulting, iswhat I hear.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
It is.
Have you budgeted?
Are you going to budget forthis?
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Well, now that you've showed me ramen noodles just a
couple minutes ago, I don't haveto budget, so let's talk about
your ramen noodle experience.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Yeah, literally, it was your first time that I was
shocked because we took a breakand I wanted something to eat
and I didn't want anything heavy.
We have ramen.
We always keep ramen noodles inthe house because they're
always a good un-nutriciousthing.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I've never had them in my life before.
So Paul told me how to makethem and I said okay, let's do
this.
I put them in the bowl, I atethem, and they were fire.
They were so good.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Well, you have to understand.
See, ramen noodles was my poorcollege meal, because you can
get a whole bag of them for likenothing.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Dude and then me and Paul had a conspiracy theory
that that's what they use forall Chinese restaurants for
their noodles.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I'm convinced that Chinese restaurants use ramen
noodles.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Think about the profit.
You pay 20 bucks.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
And they just add chicken and shrimp to something.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
And it's 25 cents for the noodles.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
And all of a sudden, yeah, I don't think you're wrong
.
I mean, I'm sure we could beabsolutely easily proven wrong,
but I don't think we're wrong.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I don't think I'm wrong.
I've never wronged.
I think there's a conspiracytheory, here I tell.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Lexi, I'm never wrong , all the time.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah, and Lexi's who who's Lexi?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
It's my girlfriend Lexi, yeah.
Lexi, we've been dating for twoand a half years.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Has it been that long .
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
She's still here.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
She's still here.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Somehow she stayed.
She's still somehow the effectbutton is this oh, this is bruh
Bruh, bruh, bruh Bruh.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
What's the red one do ?
I don't know.
Let's try it, let's see.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
And we're still together for two and a half
years, hey guys, and a laughtrack comes in, yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
All right, so with Lexi here for two years, moving
out on your own.
So what are some of the thingsthat maybe you think you're
looking forward to and kind ofexperiencing a new side of
freedom here, a little bit asyou grow?
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Well, I finally won't have a curfew of eight o'clock
at the house.
No, I'm just kidding.
No, I'm looking forward toliving with the dudes and being
able to work from home.
Obviously, I edit at home, I doall my stuff behind the
computer at home, but after thatit's going to be fun to just go
downstairs and go relax on wineand laugh with the bros, play
(03:55):
some games on the TV, watch amovie, I mean, have friends over
anytime.
You know, a house full of 20year old dudes won't have such
thing as rules or people thatneed to come over at a certain
time.
They say whatever, come on over.
What could go wrong?
Speaker 1 (04:08):
What could go wrong?
Absolutely.
Exactly, except what Anythingand everything, anything and
everything and anything inbetween and everything in
between.
So all right, so we're doingthat.
So what are some possible consthat you know could possibly you
know?
I mean there's the wholebudgeting thing.
Paul's bringing up some reallygood questions about that- yes,
(04:30):
cons equals cost.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
in my opinion, cost is the con.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
So have you budgeted?
Have you figured your budget?
Yet I have budgeted your singleman budget.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
And I'll be good.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
You'll be good.
I just need to make sure I keepworking.
So what did you budget for food?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I okay.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
well, you pull out the spreadsheet.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I all right, all right, let's um.
What did you budget for food?
Okay, so that's all year.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
I know how much people like you eat.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
You know you know, young guys, I'm not gonna lie.
I didn't budget for food, youdid not.
No, I just budgeted for howmuch it would cost to live.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
There you have a budget to live in the house.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Yeah, I'm good for that.
And bills, yep, you tell yourbills but you tell he's all that
Speaker 3 (05:10):
kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yes, what's your credit score?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Oh, okay, I actually don't have a credit card.
What's your credit score,though?
But I don't have credit.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Oh, you don't have a score, then yeah, so zero.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Well here's my all time low right now, yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Well, you have to build credit, that's true.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I do have to build credit.
You know you build creditwithin the next year.
No, tell me.
Yeah, you build credit.
Okay, I have no clue.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
So you can actually buy a car, buy a house, but you
don't want to do that, right?
But how you build credit fastand efficiently is you get two
or three credit cards.
Do not use them, correct?
You get two or three creditcards and you, if you go to like
your favorite place as a Bacchijunior or something I love, a
(05:54):
Bacchi junior.
So what you do is, instead ofusing your debit card that you
normally use, use the creditcard and just pay it off.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Or like gas.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Use it as if it were your debit card, okay, and you
pay it off, but don't pay ithere.
Here's the kit.
Here's a trick to this wholecredit thing.
If you pay it off every month,you'll still have no credit.
Now, that's the craziest thingin the world, you think?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
you know, you.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
The whole point about it is to be what that free and
you want to pay your credit cardoff your month.
Right, they want you to keep abalance.
So what I did is I keep fivedollar, ten dollar balance on my
credit card at all times, atall times.
So it makes you look likeyou're paying off a debt.
If you pay it off every month,it doesn't count.
(06:38):
I found that out the hardwaremy banker friend told me this
yep, and it got my score up.
You trust that bank you're fromit got my score up by 120 points
.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Is that high?
What's high?
Well, credit score eight.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Yeah something, yeah eight.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Dave Ramsey would be proud.
Dave, it could look you in theeyes with that credit score and
he'd be it'd be a good look.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
They would be very proud so there's been a lot of
life lessons, I feel like onthis podcast so far, we've
learned about credit score ramennoodles, you know.
So what?
What are some other?
What are some other things,john, that you know?
What are some unknowns?
I mean, okay, so talk aboutpros, talk about cons, right,
what are some things that we'relike not sure about?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Because it's a big deal.
I don't know I'm gonna share abathroom with Nate.
I don't know how that's gonnago.
That's not gonna go.
We have one sink and the ruleis to live in the house.
You have to shower to savewater at the same time.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Okay, that's no.
No, that's not a good rule, no,not a good rule.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Not a good rule, no, bad but it's just to think about
cost.
Going back to the budget, thatwas something we budgeted for.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
So you literally have on the line in your budget and
your ex-hull spreadsheet Showerwith Nate yes, to save water to
save water.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Okay, yeah, I'm not moving in.
No, no, no, no, no, I'm notmoving in that house.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Unknown.
Is it seriously the bathroomsharing it?
How that'll go how that'll guyBecause right now the bathroom
is at my house with my parentsis just me and a bathroom right
that's all that happens.
And there's, yeah, and sothere's just place I've got a
button.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Yes perfect button for that one, yeah, so.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Hibachi jr Plays a good part in my bathroom life,
but yeah, so That'll beinteresting to see how that goes
sharing a bathroom with someone.
My room is smaller but I do getmy own office, get my own
office space.
I don't have that in my houseright now.
That's cool, so I'll get to setup my desk, set up all that's
cool.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
So, separate from your bedroom, separate from my
bed, oh, you get an extra room.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I want extra room Wow .
Speaker 1 (08:51):
That's cool.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Yeah, so I'm excited for that.
Well, I think I'm gonna putlike a little mini fridge in
there have some vitamin waters.
Speaking about vitamin waters,this is a good segue to Brandon.
His two strange addictions arevitamin water and eggs.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
I've got back.
I've heard about the eggs thingwe got to get back to the egg
thing, because I think you eatlike an obscene amount of eggs.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Yeah, okay, we can dive in bloody like 20 eggs a
day.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
How many eggs are you today?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Okay.
So they've cut back, Okay,which is good.
Okay, you cut back to what I'mdown to seven.
I am down to seven eggs a day.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
That's cutting back.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yes, I was doing 14, 14.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Yeah, one, four, yes uh reason, reason being is what
do you mean that I for?
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Oh, what is this?
It's just a random song.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Paul Paul's been given, john for those listening
Control to the soundboard and Ithink John's been pressing
buttons.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
He's having fun, though I'm on button profile
right now.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
I think okay, so back to the eggs.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Yes, back to the eggs .
So I started Really seriouslyworking out.
About three years ago I weighedabout 160 pounds.
I now weigh 215, and in orderto do that, that should be a
sound effect right there.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Oh, we got talking about what that?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
then go ahead, okay, okay.
So I started really liftingheavy, seriously, and a lot of
people like, well, you know,because I in the past I always
worked out a ton but I justnever saw results, never got
anything.
Something like, okay, there'ssomething, what am I missing?
It was the eating portionportion.
And so I started working with anutritionist and they're like,
(10:37):
yeah, you know, you got to beeating like 3000 calories a day,
200 grams of protein a day.
I'm like how in the world am Igonna get that?
Speaker 2 (10:47):
much protein in a puke.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
I know.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
So Paul also likes Panera, so we should have like
special sponsors.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Like you know, I would definitely be sponsored by
water and just eggs minus icydrinks, and I see a bunch of
junior all the time.
For sure.
I just want to eat there sevendays a week.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
I don't care about sponsorship, if I just can have
their food.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
I just like the food.
So how many times a week do youeat there?
Not enough.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Oh seriously, how many times a week do you eat
there?
Speaker 2 (11:19):
No, I mean Navi as much as the joke is real.
I don't eat there a ton, maybethree or four times every month.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Oh, that's not a lot.
No, that's not a lot.
I'll let you eat more than that.
I mean every time I'm talkingto you there.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
No, I can't spend that much money on food going
back to your budget again, tothe budget right.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Oh, there you go, the biggest budget thing not eating
out, is it gonna help?
Girlfriends are expensive.
Friends are expensive, theydemand it actually.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
They demand it.
Okay, so you part of thecontract I signed to date, lexi
so kind of going full circle.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
We're going around the barn going full circle here,
back to back to this the howmuch food do you think it'll
cost you To eat at home for amonth?
A month worth?
Speaker 3 (12:03):
I know how much it costs in our groceries.
I'm dying to hear what yourbudget is 350 to 400.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
You, and how many calories and grams of protein
you trying to get a day, becauseJohn also lives too.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
He's a big workout guy and then I look like it
compared to Brandon right now,but whatever, it's all audio but
you budget it for 350 to $400 amonth.
I would say so get all the meatand all the breasted chicken
meal prep everything meal prepokay, so how many again?
Speaker 1 (12:33):
I'm just telling you.
Right now it's probably I wouldstart more thinking, a little
bit more.
Yeah, really well, especiallyif you're trying to get protein
and you're trying to get all themeat.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
He's like I'm moving out on Friday.
Yeah, I didn't budget that part.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Well, the good news is, I still have my parents
house to go to whenever I wantand also.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Paul lives five minutes away from me and he's
got a man, actually, I mean he'sgot Panera soup on.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Infinite amount of level.
Actually there's an.
Is there any in the fridgeright now?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
as I ate it already.
Sorry, I'm scared, I didn'thave, but I got ramen noodles.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
I budget for that now , but you're from ramen noodles
and you'll be fine.
Yeah, 25 cents a bag.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
No but this is real.
I do need to figure out how I'mgonna get enough food.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Did you just bought?
You just bought your bedroomset just recently?
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Yes, a part of that was my meal prepping set of what
are those called meal prepcontainers glass containers.
Yeah, yeah, I just bought a tonof those like tough where yes,
I can set it all up, put it inanyways, so nice.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Yeah, I'm excited, that's great.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
It'll be chicken and rice pretty much every day it's
what I plan on doing.
That's cheap to make, though,mm-hmm you just go to Kroger's,
get a ton of chicken, get a tonof rice.
I don't eat chickens.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
I don't know much chicken costs sauce.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
It's chicken, I mean it's, it's not to me.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
But we don't eat be.
We don't eat beater chickenhere.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Yeah, I mean with inflation, obviously
everything's gone.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Well, her chicken was really expensive now, yeah,
depends on where you get it fromto yeah if you get the organic
homegrown, blah, blah, blah,blah, blah, blah no you see,
that's what I get.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
That's really expensive.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
It's really expensive like $12 for two filets or
something.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
That's crazy.
It's a lot.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Well, yes.
But yeah, I want to go to TacoBell and just make some sort of
alleyway deal with one of theemployees and say, hey, give me
some of your chicken.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Well, would you know, it's not real chicken.
If you, would I give them anexchange yeah, foot massage yeah
.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
No, it's kind of scary how quickly you thought of
that with the mild sauce, withNot oil, but the mild sauce to
get give me the.
Did we say this?
Speaker 3 (14:38):
show is about everything and nothing and
anything between.
This is the nothing part.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
This is in everything in between and everything in
between it's, it's just, it'sperfect for you guys.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
I think see, I don't, I don't work out, and you guys
are both heavy workers.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Yeah, but you don't work out, but you've lost like
100 plus pounds dude.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
That's amazing.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Paul has lost so much weight it's.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
It's crazy.
You look like a new.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
I feel like a new person look like a picture of
you from a year ago or year.
I was, I was, I had anotherperson, I was carrying another.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Paul, you're literally half the man you were.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Literally, there you go, bro, used to be pregnant,
now you're good, bro.
Hey, there you go.
Just kidding, there you go.
No, it's okay, it's in the past.
Now, that's what you came fromright.
It's a laugh.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Thanks for saving that sound boy there you go.
Um, yeah, no, it's, uh, it's.
I mean that's a tough thing,it's, it's a whole discipline
thing, and there are so manydays when I do not feel like
doing it, but I just know it'llbe good long-term benefits.
But, but back to you, paul.
So what?
What did you do to go aboutlosing that?
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Well, it started off with my doctor, amazing doctor,
dr Chris dr Chris.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Oh wait, is this an audience?
That's a laugh.
That's a laugh, Never mind, andhigh you know high blood
pressure.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Yeah, some all that stuff and yeah right, I wasn't
pre-diabetic, but I was closepre, pre.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Yeah, pre-pre you're the sequel, um, and it was just
like you had to.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
You know, he told us about a book, amazing book, um
called how not to die.
It's a, it's a real book hownot to die.
I love that title and nice ifyou read it.
What's it about?
How not to die.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Chapter one don't walk in front of trains.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Dumb ways to die.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Yeah, chapter two, don't give foot massages to top
of bell workers.
Well, that, that is that too.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
But anyway, if the book goes through how not to die
and it talks about how not todie from Rest, you know, cardiac
stuff, or how not?
To die from hypertension, hownot to die from, and it's all
chaptered and it goes throughthe things you're not supposed
to eat and it talks about howbad things really are for you.
That's enough to scare you andthen to eating, right.
(16:52):
So then we started eating.
You know more vegan vegetarian.
We're kind of pescetary becausewe eat a lot of fish.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Uh, nothing wrong with salmon is what our as our
go to.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Salmon's fire.
I wish I liked fish honestly.
Just go all the health benefitsof it.
There's health benefits but youknow it's depends you can.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
You can actually eat too much.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Yeah, so you can't get this very salty.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
You know, because things come from the ocean kind
of right, so it's very salty, soyou have to be careful about
that part shrimp or bottomfeeders.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Right yeah, they feed off the bottom and people eat
them.
So about?
Speaker 3 (17:26):
bottom minus.
So that's how it all start, forfor me, is eating just changing
how we ate.
Yeah and it's been Almost twoyears.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Did you have to change, like, the frequency of
how much you ate, like you know,rather, because a lot of people
say like, yeah, so doing threebig meals, maybe split up into
six smaller meals, or did you doanything?
Speaker 3 (17:43):
No, I wasn't a big eater anyway.
Many times a day I didn't dothat anyway.
So I still keep to what I doand I may eat One meal a day,
because you just get locked intowork.
Meat is for me, it's work.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Yeah, that's a good.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Yeah, I'll forget to eat most of it.
Yeah, I'll work so hard thatI'll oh, I didn't eat today.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Yeah, the crazy thing for me that was a huge
eye-opener was Realizing Iactually needed to eat more food
to lose fat.
I mean for me, I mean that youknow.
So I think, with our societyand everything, that's just such
a Reverse way of thinking.
Because what would about acouple, maybe six months ago now
I'm sorry worker with atrishness and so they're like
(18:25):
hey, you need to actually likedouble your caloric intake
because I was only at double,but maybe Point five it or
whatever, because I was doingabout 2,000 calories.
So like no, you knew you need3,000 and then you need to like
up everything.
I'm like what it's?
That's insane.
But within five weeks I wentdown like that's crazy 3% body
fat.
It literally goes againsteverything that you think that's
(18:48):
weird.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Yeah, I can't do that .
Bro is hungry.
No, I mean, but that's becauseyou're in the gym a lot, right?
Yeah, yeah, I mean, I was, yeah, working out five times a week.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
You wouldn't do that if you weren't in the gym,
obviously, no, no.
Well, I mean I, I would have toeat less obviously if that were
the case.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
So Well, you should see this guy.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
He lifts 25 pounds like it's nothing you wouldn't
believe it, you would not movelike butter.
Wow, paul, I mean, I Mean, youshould, I mean the 10 pounds.
Paul, you wouldn't even.
I mean like it's, it's likelifting feathers didn't?
Speaker 2 (19:24):
you used to drink Pots of coffee every day back in
the day?
I?
Would do two or three pots ofcoffee before 10 o'clock in the
morning Crazy two or three potsbefore, not cups, not cups.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
This is before Starbucks.
Like fold your like, late 80s,early 90s, two to three pots of
coffee.
Caffeinated coffee before 10o'clock?
Okay, but again you have tounderstand that was a different
day.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
He was drinking that Folgers gasoline water, two pots
of that.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
There's a deal that was me being in the studio and I
would be in the studio that'sgonna be working on the records,
and I would literally not sleepfor five days in a row.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
What that?
Because that's kind of what myschedules were, you would not
sleep for five days and that waschapter six and how to die.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Yeah.
Don't stay up, get sick, yeah,but I would literally work on
projects and I would literallywork on things in the studio,
not sleeping.
It's not insane, I would eat,drink all this coffee and then
after the I finished the project, then I would pass out for like
two days and I'd be back at it.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
I can't you stop two days like in a row.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
I would not sleep two days in row, but I would pass,
I mean in my body, would give uphe must have woken up from that
and just been like feels sogood, like so rested.
No, I, you know, it wasn't likeI slept, slept.
It was like, when I call itsleeping back in the day, I
would sleep for two, three hourand I would be back up.
I think that's called insomnia.
I do that now.
I mean I, you know yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Paul's, the only person I can text at like 2 am
Is always up.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
I'm up, I'm out.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Paul's like that one unemployed friend on a Tuesday
night.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
They're one unemployed friend.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
You can always reach out to him and they're always
doing something.
They have no job.
They have no job, right, yeah,right.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Giving foot massages to talk about workers.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Don't try that, especially the one about Julia.
Not a good idea.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Thanks, you doxxed us .
Yeah, I speak from experience.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
But anyway, I mean seriously, you know thinking
about you guys in the gym thing.
You know we were talking aboutthis on our, on our last little
kind of video thing we did, andJohn had an interesting story
that I wanted to share, thisinteresting story about you
Leading somebody Christ at yourgym, wasn't it?
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Yeah, was it in gym?
Yeah, yeah, I was in the sauna.
So this gym I go to has a saunaand and it's going there at
this on.
So the song, supposed to bereally good for you after
workout.
It's just got a ton of benefitsit helps your sleep, helps
fight bacteria, it from thepores, it gets rid of the
bacteria in your skin and yourpores, hydrate your skin all
(22:05):
this stuff.
It helps with muscles andcramps and sores and this and
stuff like that.
So I go in the sauna afterevery workout.
It's like 204 degrees in thereif you get enough people, so
it's hot, but I'm, I sit inthere and normally I'll bring in
my ear buds and listen to musicif I don't have someone else in
there with me.
But if there's random people inthere, if I don't know them,
(22:26):
I'm just gonna start talking toyou like you're like talking to
strangers.
Yeah, I love talking tostrangers, so if they're sitting
there too bad, you're with mebecause we're gonna start
talking about something.
And I mean, what else you gotto do sitting there and hot, and
you got a past time.
The more you talk, the longerit goes.
So, anyways, I was in there andI met some guy Just randomly
(22:47):
and we started talking aboutlife.
I looked his bracelet.
He had a bracelet I was talkingabout said something on it said
faith.
And I looked his bracelet.
I was like that's a nicebracelet, bro, what's, what's
that mean to you?
And he said well, honestly,they were just had it at some
place.
I went and I just grabbed it.
I was out Okay, cool To me,it's a big deal because I'm a
(23:07):
Christian.
He was like oh, you'reChristian, that's cool.
It's like I went on a missionstrip when I was like 18 and it
Changed my life and I was like,oh nice, tell me about that.
So he told me about it.
He went on.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
That was the ice.
I was icebreaker.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
That's icebreakers always Some part of some
conversation that you have withsomebody that you can tie in to
the gospel in some Small way.
But that's cool about it isbecause all Jesus always leaves
some part of that conversationto be able to segue.
It's just up to you to feelthat in your spirit to To get
there know when to go in to getthere and to dive into that.
(23:43):
So, anyways, I asked to tell meabout your mission trip and it
was one of the mission tripswhere it's probably from a
school or something, because allthey they went to places and
painted them or stored placesand stuff, whereas, like the
mission trip that I typicallyhave been on, it's More talking
to people, lean them to Jesusand prayer and witnessing to
(24:03):
people and on the streets.
Paul's been, brandon and been,yet no, yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Changing experience.
Yeah, it's not a podcastaltogether.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Yeah another podcast, so he was telling me about that
.
I was like, oh, cool, cool, youknow, and I was seeing what
Jesus do in your life when youwere there and how that affects
you, and he's like, well, itaffected me for a little while
and then I kind of went back tomy Normal routine and anyways,
we got to talking and hebasically the four months ago
his apartment burnt down.
(24:33):
Back to the ground, to theground apartment burnt down in
hermitage and he lost the recentfire that they just had
recently.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
the one thing I don't know I think it's a different
one- but he lost all the stuff.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
And Same situation as me and Isaac.
He was in a room with all hisbuddies and stuff like that.
So he lost his house and heturned to drugs and weed and
alcohol and drugs and weedalcohol and drugs.
He turned all that to fix thedepression that he had from all
(25:12):
this I mean doing was depressed.
I was mine.
So he is talking to me and he'stelling me about this and I was
like well, let me tell youabout a story from my mission
trip.
I met this dude who is sellingweed, which, by the way, in
Jamaica, paul knows, everybodysells you weed, no matter who
you are, where you are.
Yeah, they walk up toshamelessly.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
He got a common everyday thing.
It's great weed.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
But I was telling him .
I was like well, speaking ofweed, I met this dude who is
selling weed in Jamaica.
I just he was like you, youwant to smoke?
And I was like what?
And he was like weed, I don'tlike.
No, you want Jesus.
And there's super cringy andcorny.
Don't ever approach somebodylike that unless you're in
Jamaican.
It makes sense.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
It's still to make sense, yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
But I talked to him about Jesus and I was like well,
you know, jesus is one thatmakes me feel peace that you
look for in the drugs, in the,in the weed and so I was talking
To him about all that and thenhe started crying and I was
praying for him and led to aLord right there in the sauna.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Wow pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
So God will use you in the most random.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Freakin places.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Well, and I think too a lot of it's very easy for
Christians to kind of getSide-tracked and lose focus of
the big picture meaning like youknow, even if, john, if you
weren't able at that moment To,if that person wasn't ready to
receive Jesus, at least you'resowing good seed.
And you know, and, andsometimes when we witness to
(26:36):
people, they may just completelyShut us down and reject us.
But you know, obviously that'snothing personal.
They're just rejecting.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Jesus, unfortunately, but you're still sowing a seed,
and I will.
One thing that your dad talksabout is you.
You're putting a pebble intheir shoe Right.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
So, even though you may never, they walk like
they're gonna feel it Exactly.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
I've had that happen so many times in the gym and
just in life in general, wherethe seed planning is almost as
much of a difference make isjust praying with them right
there and because you may not bethe person that leads them to a
Lord, but you may be the personthat set them up to open their
hearts enough to receive it whenthe time is.
(27:18):
Right right and so, andespecially with a lot of these
guys, at least for me in the gym, they're all big dudes,
complete opposite of me, I mean.
Blasts will mess, racist,sexism whatever I mean they.
They're ist and they're justwild Nothing everything,
anything, and they're all roidedout pimples all over this, all
(27:41):
this stuff, and they're justcrazy.
But I mean, I have nothing incommon with them.
But what I do have in common isSometimes these dudes are so
Confident in being worldly, ifthat makes sense.
Oh yeah but when I match theirconfidence in Christ to them,
that's rare for them toencounter and so for some reason
(28:04):
I have somewhat of a voice inthese people's lives.
I don't know how I don't.
It's Jesus through me, but,like right, somehow I have a
voice with them.
And I Don't share the gospelwith all of them, with a week or
a month or a couple months, butI do, incrementally just yeah.
If they say something out ofpocket, I'm like that was the
most blasphemous thing I've everheard in my life.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
I'll tell you one yes , yeah, okay, yeah, I was joking
.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
It's a family-friendly podcast.
Yes but sometimes people in theworld say crazy stuff.
I'm not gonna.
Say his cuss words, but I'llsay to a degree of what he said.
Okay, he was like man.
I think Jesus is Just some pimpin heaven who's up there having
sex with angels, and I purifiedthat sentence as much as I
(28:53):
could purify the course of thispodcast.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Thank you very much.
Hey, welcome, and I'm prettysure you can correct me if I'm
wrong with it.
I think that's factuallyincorrect.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
That is 110% factually.
I was like that is the most.
I just was like correct thingyou could possibly like that Is
the most blasphemous thing Ithink I've heard anyone say.
And then he was like what sinscould keep me from going to
heaven?
Well, and I was like, well,what you just said was pretty
close one.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
You're getting closer buddy.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
I was like now, the only thing that keeps you from
as hell is uh, or keep you fromheaven, is the rejection of
Jesus, and yeah, I was like but.
But you know if in your heart,when you said that jokingly,
that was your rejection, I meanthere you go.
Yeah, I mean so they're crazy,but I like talking to him
because I don't I more so ittalked to or enjoyed talking to
(29:44):
somebody like that.
Then I would sometimes talkingto Christians who just post
Christian.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Facebook memes.
You know what and that and that.
For me, like I think, thiscould be another whole podcast
but, for me, my first missionstrip.
Yeah, that was an experiencewas an experience because you
know, basically on what you justsaid, I couldn't do this in a
church and my circles are all inthe Christian marketplace.
(30:11):
And they're all believers, so Inever really get to experience
unbelievers.
It wasn't until I went toJamaica, to you actually could
go.
Oh, this is what this wholething is about and this is what
I'm supposed to be doing, and itjust totally changed my mindset
on everything.
It was a pretty amazing trip.
(30:33):
It was an eye-opening,life-changing experience that
I'll never forget.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Well, I wanna bring up something that you said that
I thought was really good, john,where just about how it may
take you a week or a month orwhatever, because you wanna
build some kind of relationshipfirst.
And for my upbringing it washey, let's knock on the door and
say, hey, you need Jesus.
And like it just doesn't work.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
I mean no, that may work in other countries, because
I've heard of that being more,but that direct approach in
Jamaica kind of works, I mean,and that's.
But it's a time and place foreverything and I learned that.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
And even in Jamaica.
Sometimes that doesn't workBecause you can't Everybody's
not ready for it like that.
If you think about Jesus andChristianity from an outsider's
view, that's so much to wrapyour mind around.
And if you just you can't evenwrap your mind around it in one
sentence without knowing thatperson.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Well, and how about this?
Let's just even take like Jesusout of the equation.
If somebody comes up to me whoI have no idea who they are, and
they start telling me how to dosomething that who are you Like
what?
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Well, that's a turn off.
Yeah right, that's a turn off.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Exactly so, I think, a good takeaway from this
obviously, obviously being boldand sharing Jesus, but, like
John was talking about justbeing led by the Holy Spirit
when that right time and sowingthose seeds and building those
relationships, strengtheningthose bonds, whatever they may
be, whatever that common groundis, and finding those times to
(32:09):
do it Right.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
So, yeah, I would say too, like with the Holy Spirit,
sends you little pricks inside,where you often feel and hear
those in a small way, and youtypically have the nature to
reject them and just ignore themand then later be like man.
I should have done that, butthat's.
(32:33):
I try and capitalize on thoseas often as they come up,
because I know that if I don'tcapitalize on it right then then
it's just a missed opportunityfrom the Lord and then, later I
think about it.
I'm like, yeah, I should have,could have done.
I'd rather do it now and it bego terrible or be awkward or
whatever.
Then live later with the Ishould have could have done this
(32:57):
differently, or set it for theLord.
So send it for Jesus when youfeel those little notifications.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Wow, just gonna send it.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Wow, well hey you know, what.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
This has been great.
That's probably a wrap.
Honestly, this is a wrap, goodplace, I feel like I should say
amen to myself.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Amen, amen, buddy.
I'm just kidding.
Amen, buddy.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Amen Chester, amen Buster.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Well, we are going to have to wrap this one up.
This has been a great podcast.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Oh yeah, look, I got a infamous outro now.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
You have an outro, all right, I'm gonna see you.
You have an outro, you rememberit.
You remember it yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Man, we talked about some valuable lessons today.
So fun, so great.
We love you.
We can't wait to see you nexttime and, as always, go out and
do a mission as men and women.
Oh, wow, freak, wow, I forgot.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Is there a crash and burn sound effect?
Speaker 3 (33:55):
You want to do it again.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Yeah, well, it was handy.
You want to do it again?
Yeah, start it over.
We're gonna listen to it again.
Yeah, start it over.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
We're ready.
Okay, you ready.
Take two, here we go.
Bam, thanks for listening totoday's podcast.
We hope you learned a great andvaluable lesson.
We can't wait to see you nextweek and, as always, we love you
and go out and be mission menand women.
We'll see you next time, isthat it?
Speaker 3 (34:22):
That was it.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
I'm like that, I'm here for you Put your radio
voice you put on was great Thankyou.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
I love that at the end.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
I appreciate that I like to get there.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
It wasn't as good as the first one.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Next episode.
It's time for all of us to sing.
No, no, see you, folks.
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