September 25, 2023 • 22 mins
Clint and Amber are pretty sure that Dimetapp and Willie Nelson will cure what ails ya.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Welcome to the Wish I Would've Known podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I'm Clint and I'm Amber, and we've been married
for almost 20 years.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
And in this 20 years we've gained a lot of wisdom and
found ourselves in the middleof some pretty crazy stories.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
And now we want to share those things with you.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
So here's some stuff that we wish we would've known.
Hey, friends, and welcome toanother episode of Wish I
Would've Known.
I'm Clint.
This is Amber.
Hi that she's the one that saidhi.
You said hi.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
What am I supposed to say?
They can't see me, so like.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Salutations.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Jazz hands.
You can't tell that I'm doingthat.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
She is jazz handsing.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I am jazz handsing.
That's a verb.
It is.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
That's a good verb, that's a good verb.
Jazz handsing.
So, to kick off season three,amber and I talked about how
we've been married for 19 years,how we went on this whirlwind
vacation in Mexico.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Whirlwind.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
It was a whirlwind, it was amazing.
We talked about how my phonefell off a cliff.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
We went horseback riding through the jungle.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Yeah it was all great .
Okay, so that just soundswonderful it was.
And then we came home.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
We got home.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
We got home to like weeks straight of sick kids and
broken down cars and all thedifferent things and like you
just felt like you had to fixeverything.
It seems we got back, which,which, by the way, when I was
growing up and when you weresick as a kid, did you, did you
(01:39):
have like a really specificmedicine that your mom gave you
like for everything?
Do you remember it?
Yeah, I've.
I remember like I grew up inwhat I call the dime, a tap
generation.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yes, okay, exactly.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Okay.
So for those of you guys thatdon't know, dime a tap is like
this purple medicine.
I think it's like cough syrup.
I think it is like cough, butlike but like I took dime, a tap
for everything.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
It felt like that.
I don't know if anybody elsereally felt like on a weekly
basis.
I was.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I was slugging some dime a tap Right.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Hey like what's?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
what's wrong, what's wrong with you.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
You got a headache.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Dime a tap.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
You got a stomach ache.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Dime a tap.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
You got like a weird looking mole.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Dime a tap.
Hang on, you don't want to goto school today.
Rummage to the club.
Dime a tap.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Dime a tap.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
We got you.
We got you with the dime a tap.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Do they still make dime a tap?
I?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
don't even know Like.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Or did it get pulled?
I feel like somebody said itgot pulled from the shelves.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
If it got pulled, I'm like, at least I'm, I'm at
least 8% dime a tap at thispoint in my life.
It's, it's like running throughmy veins.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Those purple veins.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
The purple veins, my purple veins full of dime, a tap
.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
You know what I just realized?
I bet Okay.
So if you know Clint and you'veseen Clint especially around
church you see him with a cranegrape in his hand.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
You know what?
It's?
Because dime a tap, because myjust every like I just I long
for it.
I need the fix.
I got to get my dime a tap fix.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
This is an insider peek into our life.
Right, it's Sunday morning,it's 5 30 am.
We're trying to get ourselvesup, get all the kids up and
ready to get out the door, andif we do not have crane grape,
we will go on an excursion tohowever many gas stations we
have to, because you have tohave one or you won't.
It's like you will not sing,it's like a Mariah Carey thing.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I won't.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
She's like I didn't give my hot tea.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I mean it's like it's totally I didn't give my crane
grape.
So okay, so it's totally aplacebo, but now I'm trying to
like find the genesis of it and,honest to God, it might be dime
a tap.
I swear like I can see.
I can see 10 year old Clintlike.
Fall morning I get up I got myDallas Cowboys sweatshirt on.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
It does.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
It does not have a pair of mom's underwear, static,
clung to the inside.
Harking back to season one, theunderwear story.
But I got my Dallas Cowboyssweatshirt.
I'm like, mom, I don't feelgood, I want to go to school.
She's like what's the matterwith you?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
And I didn't even matter how I answered that
question.
You can say whatever.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
My freaking arm fell off.
Dime a tap.
Here's you some dime a tap.
So now fast forward to me grownman.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Hey, I'm waking up 5, 30 in the morning.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I got to go sing.
I got to lead worship.
What do you need?
Dime a tap, don't have it Gotpulled from the shelves.
Here's some crane grape.
Here's some oceans Great cranegrape.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Wait, if they do still make dime a tap, would
that be a like?
Could I give that to youinstead of having to go find
crane grapes?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
But like.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I mean, I'm not mad at it.
I would take some dime a tap.
Yo, it's crazy.
For those of you guys thatdon't know what it is, you need
to go Google it or something,because, like I don't know why
this was like a thing.
Also little tiny side tangent.
Okay, ludens, cough drops.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Oh yeah, we talked about these before.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Ludens cough drops were like.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
That was like see boat do there's, do nothing well
, not.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
No, it wasn't placebo that made you king of the
playground in fifth grade.
If you had some loot, I got nonote.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Hey bro.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Hey bro, hit me with some new ludes.
Yes, I'm cherries, okay.
So, speaking of being sick, andwe'll tag that with also like
being old, okay, so here's anold, okay, sick and old.
So here's the deal, this is thedeal.
So amaradon live, live out westof Austin in a place called
spicewood, and spicewood isfamous for Kind of one really
(05:31):
specific thing it is the home ofwilla Nelson.
Yeah, it sure is, so willylives out in spicewood.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
He's our neighbor, he's our neighbor.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
He's like right up, right up the hill, willy's house
.
He's right there.
Every time I travel, every timeI travel, I am worried that
willies going to die while whileI'm gone.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
That's such a sad thought.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Okay, he's like 91 years.
You want to?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
be home when he dies, just so you can be like he was
right there like what.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
I don't know, I don't know why, but I like it's in my
, I think about it.
It's like I don't want to.
I don't, I don't.
I want to be there Like that tocelebrate his life.
But I want to be there likecelebrate his life and like his
legacy and all the things thathe's done.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
It will be a big deal in Austin, for sure.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Yeah, we'll be listen I said that will be parades.
I've said it before you canquote me on it.
Willie Nelson is the BillyGraham of Austin, texas, 100%,
and that's the most truestatement in the weirdest way.
It's just true, yeah it's so inso many ways.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Yeah, so, anyway.
So I literally will be takenoff From from the airport here
in Austin think.
I don't know why I, but Ireally think about that while
we're in Mexico.
Yes, no, I really did.
I was like if he, if he dieswhile I'm gone, that's gonna be
really sad.
So like, okay, so I think aboutthis, okay so.
(06:48):
So my parents came to spendsome time with us throughout the
course of of the summer andit's awesome, it's always so
much fun having them here.
And there's this little hilltopbar right close to our house
called Poodies.
Poodies P oh, d, I E S.
Now Poodie was Willie's originalbus driver.
(07:09):
He was the bus driver forWillie for forever and if you
know anything about WillieNelson, he very like doesn't
ever fly, he takes the buseverywhere he goes.
So Poodie was like his guy.
So Willie bought him thishilltop bar right close to his
house.
It's got live music everysingle night, every night.
It is a hole in the wall ofhole in the wall it sure is, but
it's just a dive.
(07:30):
So one night while my parentsare here, they love country
music and just love that wholeexperience and so I'm like, hey,
I'm gonna take you guys toPoodies.
So just my parents and I wentto go hang out at Poodies and to
go listen and a coupledifferent bands it played.
There was one guy that playedand like I Don't.
I'm trying to figure out what,what, how, to quantify what
(07:50):
happened, but essentially, likehe's saying Whatever song he
wanted to, over the exact samechord progression, in the exact
same tempo, tempo like afamiliar song.
Dandelid and a little dandelidand a little dandelid.
Yeah, so he's playing Dandelidand a little dandelid and he's
like on the road again.
(08:11):
Just get on the road again andlike he was it, and then he
would change into something elsein the another song, dandelid
and a little, and like I Know,I'm like man, wow, that's like
that's interesting.
Yeah, kind of doing your thingthere, dude.
So we're hanging out at Poodiesand Brantley, who's my stepdad
Mm-hmm, wanted to Grab a Poodiest-shirt because one does as one
(08:35):
does when you go to Poodies.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
I think there's like, as everyone knows, this when
you go to Poodies you get at-shirt child and me still
Snickers a little bit at thename.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Oh, everybody listen to this is snickering when you
say please.
So he sees his t-shirt and he'slike man, I gotta get this, cuz
it had this little catchy likepithy phrase on it.
All right, so I'm gonna.
I'm gonna tell you what saidhere in a bit.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Cliffhanger.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Cliffhanger.
So it's a funny little t-shirt,specific from Willie's backyard
.
It's pretty cool and the reasonthey wanted to get it is
because my mom and Brantley weregoing to see Willie Nelson live
in concert in Spartanburg,South Carolina.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Back where they live.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Yeah, yeah.
So they stayed with us for thesummer.
They took off back to theCarolinas and as soon as they
get to the Carolinas again sothey're kind of having their
Mexico experience they're outhere with their grandkids,
they're having a blast in Texas.
As soon as they get back,Brantley throws his back out
Like bad ban, yeah, Like spinalL5, L4, something I don't know.
I'm not a surgeon.
(09:32):
That's why I'm on a podcast.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
All right, that's why we drive Odessa.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
That's why we drive Odessa right.
That's why we put the dime atap on Odessa, limp her along,
because I'm not a surgeon,anyway.
So Brantley throws his back out, he gets there, he's frustrated
, he's having this really hardtime.
Literally I'm talking likecan't take 10, 12 steps, can't
walk at all.
But they have these a couplethings planned that they don't
want to miss out on, and one ofthem is Willie Nelson, and the
(10:01):
reason that it's kind of likelook, we can't miss this concert
is because they think the samething I do, willie might not
make it.
Okay, this is kind of it.
This is probably the last time.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Willie Nelson's ever going to be in the KRLIs, so
many people spending so muchtime thinking about when
Willie's going to die.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
This is what I think about Okay, all right, they just
like.
All right, brantley, you got toget better.
We're going to take you to thedoctor.
Yeah, that did everything theycould, so they're like literally
making doctor's appointments totry to do anything they can so
that they can ensure that theycan go and see Willie Nelson.
So the concert comes around.
Brantley goes to the doctorthat morning.
He's still feeling absolutelyterrible, cannot walk, just
(10:42):
terrible, terrible pain on allthe meds and all the things.
He and Willie both verymedicated All right, that's what
they have in different ways.
So they go to the concert, theyhave this handicap parking pass
.
They're thinking like hey,we're going to.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Oh, they did they did .
Speaker 1 (11:00):
They paid the extra for it and they get up there
handicap parking full.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Oh no.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Full.
So they're like all right,we'll drop you off as close as
they'll allow us to be able togo, which was about a mile.
So I'm talking 12 steps.
He can barely take.
So, brantley, 12 steps, pause,wince and pain 12 steps pause,
wince and pain, All of this togo and see Willie Nelson.
So they finally make it up tothe concert venue.
(11:25):
They're there, they're watchingthe concert.
He's having a hard time sitting, but he's still there and
trying to enjoy it and be a partof it.
Because it's Willie Nelson Like.
Why would you not Like?
What a cool it's like once in alifetime opportunity.
Right, they're there with someof their best friends who are
just like an aunt and uncle tome, just wonderful people.
So they had a great experience.
It was awesome.
But not only did he have towalk up the hill to get to the
(11:49):
concert.
After the concert was over,they had to walk back.
So, look, they made it.
I texted them during and I waslike guys, I'm really excited,
I'm so pumped that y'all got togo show, so stoked that he's
still alive.
And they texted back and theysaid you mean Willie or Brantley
?
And I was like both, both gladthat they're both still alive.
(12:11):
They're both amazing humanbeings.
I'm glad that they're bothstill alive.
So Brantley's got to walk backthe mile and a half or so down
to the car.
So all these people are drivingby and they're seeing him take
12 steps and went over in painand they're like, hey, you doing
okay there, man, you need aride.
He's, I'm fine, I'm fine, I canmake it.
And he's just slowly making hisway, all the while wearing a
(12:34):
t-shirt from PooTies.
That says I'll quit when Williequits.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
So everybody's like yelling at, like yelling out the
window, man, that's awesomeshirt.
Or like yeah.
So I mean look, listen, he'llquit.
He'll quit when Willie quits.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yeah, okay, but when Willie does die, that means
Brantley quits.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I don't know, I think I think the shirt's kind of
like it, assuming that willieslike he's just never gonna die
he's not gonna.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Will be touring till he's.
I have a theory.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
I have a theory that Is an AI.
Thing that will.
Annelson is a I no that hedoesn't actually exist and
that's why, like he, I meanlisten, think about look up a
recent video, willie Nelson, andwhen he's singing he always has
this thing where he kind ofjust sings like often explode.
Is what he was like he talks,he, yeah, but now like even more
so.
So you got the band over theding ding, ding, ding ding, like
(13:30):
it's kind of like that.
Yeah and then Willie's likeDon't let your babies grow up,
god boys.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
That's just because he's so old you, it's hard to
sing when you're old.
How do you know?
I'm because you look at peoplelike artists who are older and
it gets harder and harder forthem to sing.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Do you think?
Do you think Willie Swigs alittle bit of dime, a tap Before
before he performs?
Is that the secret is?
Hang on, hang on.
Now we're bringing it all back.
It's all making sense Is isthat?
(14:13):
Is that the secret?
The secret to to your longevityis Is dime a tap?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
you want to live till 90?
How does he night you?
Speaker 1 (14:22):
91, I think you want to sing mom's don't let your
babies grow to be cowboys.
Till you, 90 winners old downtap I.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Don't know.
Look, that may be the biggestwish I would have known ever and
you're welcome.
You know you taking all thesevitamins and supplements and
working out and doing all thethings when you really could be
just taking a.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Popping some diamond, taking a little swig of diamond
tab every morning.
Just keep it by the bed.
Alarm goes off.
Oh, you are ready, you readyfor the day for whatever it
holds.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
For whatever it holds Just never know campaign at
this point Ready for life, I'mpumped right now.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
You know what I'm proud of.
I'm proud of the fact that thisis the most Diamond tap has
ever been talked about on apodcast.
I'm positive.
The diamond tap has their ownpodcast.
Don't talk about it as much aswe did on this episode.
I feel really good about it.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
You walk away with anything from today.
There you go there it is youwon't Okay, so bringing it back
to when we came back from Mexico.
And all these things arehappening the kids are sick,
they're passing around sicknessand cars sick the car is sick
and all that stuff.
I think there's just things thatwe've learned over our 19 years
(15:49):
of marriage.
Now that you know like it'sgonna happen, that kind of stuff
happens and you get through it.
So I I don't know.
I just think you and I havelearned how to sort of weather
those storms Well it's not justthat like it's gonna happen and
it needs to catch you off guard.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
I think everybody listening either finds
themselves in the midst of adifficult season.
Mm-hmm, or they just got out ofone or they're just about to
walk into one.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Yeah, and that's reality.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yeah, I mean from a biblical worldview perspective.
It even says in James one thatYou're going to go through
trials of many kinds.
That's a guarantee gonna happen.
Yeah gonna happen, yeah, and soif you know that that's gonna
happen, what you can trust isthat God is going to use all of
those things together for good.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Yeah, Romans 828.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Romans 828.
He's gonna use all these thingscake.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Yeah, anytime in my mind.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
When you say Romans 828, I say cake after and would
you like to tell the rest of uswhy?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
nope, that's.
That's just what it.
No cake like.
There are ingredients in cakethat on their own are not good.
Like you, you're not just gonna, you know, chug a whole bunch
of raw eggs.
Maybe some people do.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
You might, but you wouldn't like eat a handful of
flour?
Yeah, okay, gotcha.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Right.
So things like that On theirown they all seem like really
crappy things, but when you putthem all together, then they
become cake, which is wonderful,and you love cake.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Put them together and put them through a little bit
of heat.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Oh, come on, that'll pre-.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Watch it preach.
There's the organ.
Thank you for that.
I appreciate it.
Now.
I think I just want to takethis opportunity to encourage
everybody to listen.
No matter what situation youfind yourself in right now, god
is still sovereign and he canhandle it.
He doesn't say oops, he doesn'tsay oh, my bad, I didn't see
that coming, and all of thethings that happen are useful to
the Lord.
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And so here's kind of the fastforward.
So, amron, I came back fromMexico.
We had the best time in theworld.
We came back.
We almost didn't see each otherfor like 10 days because of
sick kids and everything else,and it was really difficult.
It would have been really easyto just sink into the
post-vacation midst, in themidst of chaos.
(17:55):
Pity party, pity party, pityparty.
We're just like I'm feeling badfor myself and look, that
temptation is there for sure,and we did.
To a certain extent.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Briefly, I think for a moment you're just like I
can't believe we're having adeal all of a sudden.
Oh my gosh, yeah, where's myfresh guacamole and salsa laid
out for me.
This is ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Right, you take a step back and you recognize that
Willie Nelson is still alive.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Praise him as of recording this podcast.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
No, I'm just saying no.
You take a step back and yourealize that, like this too
shall pass.
Yeah, this will pass.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
And he too will pass.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Oh no, he will, but I hope I'm here for it, though.
I don't know why.
I don't know why, but I justfeel like I need to be.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
He needs you.
He needs you close by Clint.
He probably thinks about youevery day too.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
No.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Wondering if you're in town or out of town.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Yeah, he's like hold on, he's flying to New York.
Clint's flying to New York nextweek.
Got to hold on, hold on.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
No, but this too shall pass, You're right.
I mean just situations like ascrummy as it seems in the middle
of it, especially sick kids,you know that like when they
start getting sick and thenpassing it around.
There's almost nothing worsethan that.
It's just so hard.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
It's bad and I think I just want to encourage
everybody that's listening toyou Just having this worldview
that recognizing that God's incontrol, it's man, it's just so
comforting, versus thisworldview where there's, like
this karmatic, you know theologyor idea of the good things
happen because I put good in orbad things happen, because I put
(19:37):
bad, I mean that's just so muchresponsibility and like worry
and you're like it.
Bad things, listen, bad thingsare going to happen.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
That's all about control, absolutely.
That's all about I'm in control, I control what happens to me,
and so if I put good in orwhatever, it's just control.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Absolutely Versus the fact that God's in control and
he's sovereign and he holds allof it in his hand and there's
nothing in God's economy that hedoesn't use.
Is that the whole world in hishands?
Speaker 2 (20:02):
You said he holds it in his hands.
He got the whole.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Yeah, I think it can be like a Willie Nelson version.
He's got the whole world oh inhis hand.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Oh, I love that.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
He's got the whole world.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
In his hands.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
In his hands.
It's like he fell asleep.
He fell asleep in between, inbetween those phrases.
He's asleep.
Well, somebody like elbows him,like Benjamin.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Oh man.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Anyway, hey guys, thank you all so much for
listening.
Every single time that Amberand I get an opportunity to come
sit in here in the studio, thisis just such a blessing.
Yep, it's fun for us to sithere with our Starbucks and talk
to you guys while you're onyour treadmill or driving or
doing dishes or whatever you'redoing, or taking care of sick
kids.
What if somebody is listening tothis?
And they were like on a hikeand they downloaded a couple of
(20:56):
podcasts and they're likethey're on a hike but they're
stuck because there's a stormcoming over the ridge and they
got a hunker down and they haveto choose between the flashlight
on their phone or listening tothis podcast.
And they chose this podcastbecause they're like I just need
to hear if Willie made it andthen their phone dies.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
And then they realize that all they need to survive
is Damatab.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Oh man, I wonder if that's like a wilderness
survival tool.
Is it helpful?
Is it helpful in a wildernesssurvival situation to have some
Damatab on hand?
You got your road flayers, yougot your bandages.
Get your Damatab.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
You're good to go.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Attack by Bear Damatab.
All right guys.
Thanks so much for listening.
We're so grateful that you guysdid.
We hope you have an awesomeweek and we will see you next
time.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Bye everybody.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
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Welcome to the Wish I Would've Known podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I'm Clint and I'm Amber, and we've been married
for almost 20 years.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
And in this 20 years we've gained a lot of wisdom and
found ourselves in the middleof some pretty crazy stories.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
And now we want to share those things with you.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
So here's some stuff that we wish we would've known.
Hey, friends, and welcome toanother episode of Wish I
Would've Known.
I'm Clint.
This is Amber.
Hi that she's the one that saidhi.
You said hi.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
What am I supposed to say?
They can't see me, so like.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Salutations.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Jazz hands.
You can't tell that I'm doingthat.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
She is jazz handsing.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I am jazz handsing.
That's a verb.
It is.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
That's a good verb, that's a good verb.
Jazz handsing.
So, to kick off season three,amber and I talked about how
we've been married for 19 years,how we went on this whirlwind
vacation in Mexico.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Whirlwind.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
It was a whirlwind, it was amazing.
We talked about how my phonefell off a cliff.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
We went horseback riding through the jungle.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Yeah it was all great .
Okay, so that just soundswonderful it was.
And then we came home.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
We got home.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
We got home to like weeks straight of sick kids and
broken down cars and all thedifferent things and like you
just felt like you had to fixeverything.
It seems we got back, which,which, by the way, when I was
growing up and when you weresick as a kid, did you, did you
(01:39):
have like a really specificmedicine that your mom gave you
like for everything?
Do you remember it?
Yeah, I've.
I remember like I grew up inwhat I call the dime, a tap
generation.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yes, okay, exactly.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Okay.
So for those of you guys thatdon't know, dime a tap is like
this purple medicine.
I think it's like cough syrup.
I think it is like cough, butlike but like I took dime, a tap
for everything.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
It felt like that.
I don't know if anybody elsereally felt like on a weekly
basis.
I was.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I was slugging some dime a tap Right.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Hey like what's?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
what's wrong, what's wrong with you.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
You got a headache.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Dime a tap.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
You got a stomach ache.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Dime a tap.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
You got like a weird looking mole.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Dime a tap.
Hang on, you don't want to goto school today.
Rummage to the club.
Dime a tap.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Dime a tap.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
We got you.
We got you with the dime a tap.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Do they still make dime a tap?
I?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
don't even know Like.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Or did it get pulled?
I feel like somebody said itgot pulled from the shelves.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
If it got pulled, I'm like, at least I'm, I'm at
least 8% dime a tap at thispoint in my life.
It's, it's like running throughmy veins.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Those purple veins.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
The purple veins, my purple veins full of dime, a tap
.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
You know what I just realized?
I bet Okay.
So if you know Clint and you'veseen Clint especially around
church you see him with a cranegrape in his hand.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
You know what?
It's?
Because dime a tap, because myjust every like I just I long
for it.
I need the fix.
I got to get my dime a tap fix.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
This is an insider peek into our life.
Right, it's Sunday morning,it's 5 30 am.
We're trying to get ourselvesup, get all the kids up and
ready to get out the door, andif we do not have crane grape,
we will go on an excursion tohowever many gas stations we
have to, because you have tohave one or you won't.
It's like you will not sing,it's like a Mariah Carey thing.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I won't.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
She's like I didn't give my hot tea.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I mean it's like it's totally I didn't give my crane
grape.
So okay, so it's totally aplacebo, but now I'm trying to
like find the genesis of it and,honest to God, it might be dime
a tap.
I swear like I can see.
I can see 10 year old Clintlike.
Fall morning I get up I got myDallas Cowboys sweatshirt on.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
It does.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
It does not have a pair of mom's underwear, static,
clung to the inside.
Harking back to season one, theunderwear story.
But I got my Dallas Cowboyssweatshirt.
I'm like, mom, I don't feelgood, I want to go to school.
She's like what's the matterwith you?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
And I didn't even matter how I answered that
question.
You can say whatever.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
My freaking arm fell off.
Dime a tap.
Here's you some dime a tap.
So now fast forward to me grownman.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Hey, I'm waking up 5, 30 in the morning.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I got to go sing.
I got to lead worship.
What do you need?
Dime a tap, don't have it Gotpulled from the shelves.
Here's some crane grape.
Here's some oceans Great cranegrape.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Wait, if they do still make dime a tap, would
that be a like?
Could I give that to youinstead of having to go find
crane grapes?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
But like.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I mean, I'm not mad at it.
I would take some dime a tap.
Yo, it's crazy.
For those of you guys thatdon't know what it is, you need
to go Google it or something,because, like I don't know why
this was like a thing.
Also little tiny side tangent.
Okay, ludens, cough drops.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Oh yeah, we talked about these before.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Ludens cough drops were like.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
That was like see boat do there's, do nothing well
, not.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
No, it wasn't placebo that made you king of the
playground in fifth grade.
If you had some loot, I got nonote.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Hey bro.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Hey bro, hit me with some new ludes.
Yes, I'm cherries, okay.
So, speaking of being sick, andwe'll tag that with also like
being old, okay, so here's anold, okay, sick and old.
So here's the deal, this is thedeal.
So amaradon live, live out westof Austin in a place called
spicewood, and spicewood isfamous for Kind of one really
(05:31):
specific thing it is the home ofwilla Nelson.
Yeah, it sure is, so willylives out in spicewood.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
He's our neighbor, he's our neighbor.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
He's like right up, right up the hill, willy's house
.
He's right there.
Every time I travel, every timeI travel, I am worried that
willies going to die while whileI'm gone.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
That's such a sad thought.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Okay, he's like 91 years.
You want to?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
be home when he dies, just so you can be like he was
right there like what.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
I don't know, I don't know why, but I like it's in my
, I think about it.
It's like I don't want to.
I don't, I don't.
I want to be there Like that tocelebrate his life.
But I want to be there likecelebrate his life and like his
legacy and all the things thathe's done.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
It will be a big deal in Austin, for sure.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Yeah, we'll be listen I said that will be parades.
I've said it before you canquote me on it.
Willie Nelson is the BillyGraham of Austin, texas, 100%,
and that's the most truestatement in the weirdest way.
It's just true, yeah it's so inso many ways.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Yeah, so, anyway.
So I literally will be takenoff From from the airport here
in Austin think.
I don't know why I, but Ireally think about that while
we're in Mexico.
Yes, no, I really did.
I was like if he, if he dieswhile I'm gone, that's gonna be
really sad.
So like, okay, so I think aboutthis, okay so.
(06:48):
So my parents came to spendsome time with us throughout the
course of of the summer andit's awesome, it's always so
much fun having them here.
And there's this little hilltopbar right close to our house
called Poodies.
Poodies P oh, d, I E S.
Now Poodie was Willie's originalbus driver.
(07:09):
He was the bus driver forWillie for forever and if you
know anything about WillieNelson, he very like doesn't
ever fly, he takes the buseverywhere he goes.
So Poodie was like his guy.
So Willie bought him thishilltop bar right close to his
house.
It's got live music everysingle night, every night.
It is a hole in the wall ofhole in the wall it sure is, but
it's just a dive.
(07:30):
So one night while my parentsare here, they love country
music and just love that wholeexperience and so I'm like, hey,
I'm gonna take you guys toPoodies.
So just my parents and I wentto go hang out at Poodies and to
go listen and a coupledifferent bands it played.
There was one guy that playedand like I Don't.
I'm trying to figure out what,what, how, to quantify what
(07:50):
happened, but essentially, likehe's saying Whatever song he
wanted to, over the exact samechord progression, in the exact
same tempo, tempo like afamiliar song.
Dandelid and a little dandelidand a little dandelid.
Yeah, so he's playing Dandelidand a little dandelid and he's
like on the road again.
(08:11):
Just get on the road again andlike he was it, and then he
would change into something elsein the another song, dandelid
and a little, and like I Know,I'm like man, wow, that's like
that's interesting.
Yeah, kind of doing your thingthere, dude.
So we're hanging out at Poodiesand Brantley, who's my stepdad
Mm-hmm, wanted to Grab a Poodiest-shirt because one does as one
(08:35):
does when you go to Poodies.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
I think there's like, as everyone knows, this when
you go to Poodies you get at-shirt child and me still
Snickers a little bit at thename.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Oh, everybody listen to this is snickering when you
say please.
So he sees his t-shirt and he'slike man, I gotta get this, cuz
it had this little catchy likepithy phrase on it.
All right, so I'm gonna.
I'm gonna tell you what saidhere in a bit.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Cliffhanger.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Cliffhanger.
So it's a funny little t-shirt,specific from Willie's backyard
.
It's pretty cool and the reasonthey wanted to get it is
because my mom and Brantley weregoing to see Willie Nelson live
in concert in Spartanburg,South Carolina.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Back where they live.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Yeah, yeah.
So they stayed with us for thesummer.
They took off back to theCarolinas and as soon as they
get to the Carolinas again sothey're kind of having their
Mexico experience they're outhere with their grandkids,
they're having a blast in Texas.
As soon as they get back,Brantley throws his back out
Like bad ban, yeah, Like spinalL5, L4, something I don't know.
I'm not a surgeon.
(09:32):
That's why I'm on a podcast.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
All right, that's why we drive Odessa.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
That's why we drive Odessa right.
That's why we put the dime atap on Odessa, limp her along,
because I'm not a surgeon,anyway.
So Brantley throws his back out, he gets there, he's frustrated
, he's having this really hardtime.
Literally I'm talking likecan't take 10, 12 steps, can't
walk at all.
But they have these a couplethings planned that they don't
want to miss out on, and one ofthem is Willie Nelson, and the
(10:01):
reason that it's kind of likelook, we can't miss this concert
is because they think the samething I do, willie might not
make it.
Okay, this is kind of it.
This is probably the last time.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Willie Nelson's ever going to be in the KRLIs, so
many people spending so muchtime thinking about when
Willie's going to die.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
This is what I think about Okay, all right, they just
like.
All right, brantley, you got toget better.
We're going to take you to thedoctor.
Yeah, that did everything theycould, so they're like literally
making doctor's appointments totry to do anything they can so
that they can ensure that theycan go and see Willie Nelson.
So the concert comes around.
Brantley goes to the doctorthat morning.
He's still feeling absolutelyterrible, cannot walk, just
(10:42):
terrible, terrible pain on allthe meds and all the things.
He and Willie both verymedicated All right, that's what
they have in different ways.
So they go to the concert, theyhave this handicap parking pass
.
They're thinking like hey,we're going to.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Oh, they did they did .
Speaker 1 (11:00):
They paid the extra for it and they get up there
handicap parking full.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Oh no.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Full.
So they're like all right,we'll drop you off as close as
they'll allow us to be able togo, which was about a mile.
So I'm talking 12 steps.
He can barely take.
So, brantley, 12 steps, pause,wince and pain 12 steps pause,
wince and pain, All of this togo and see Willie Nelson.
So they finally make it up tothe concert venue.
(11:25):
They're there, they're watchingthe concert.
He's having a hard time sitting, but he's still there and
trying to enjoy it and be a partof it.
Because it's Willie Nelson Like.
Why would you not Like?
What a cool it's like once in alifetime opportunity.
Right, they're there with someof their best friends who are
just like an aunt and uncle tome, just wonderful people.
So they had a great experience.
It was awesome.
But not only did he have towalk up the hill to get to the
(11:49):
concert.
After the concert was over,they had to walk back.
So, look, they made it.
I texted them during and I waslike guys, I'm really excited,
I'm so pumped that y'all got togo show, so stoked that he's
still alive.
And they texted back and theysaid you mean Willie or Brantley
?
And I was like both, both gladthat they're both still alive.
(12:11):
They're both amazing humanbeings.
I'm glad that they're bothstill alive.
So Brantley's got to walk backthe mile and a half or so down
to the car.
So all these people are drivingby and they're seeing him take
12 steps and went over in painand they're like, hey, you doing
okay there, man, you need aride.
He's, I'm fine, I'm fine, I canmake it.
And he's just slowly making hisway, all the while wearing a
(12:34):
t-shirt from PooTies.
That says I'll quit when Williequits.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
So everybody's like yelling at, like yelling out the
window, man, that's awesomeshirt.
Or like yeah.
So I mean look, listen, he'llquit.
He'll quit when Willie quits.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yeah, okay, but when Willie does die, that means
Brantley quits.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I don't know, I think I think the shirt's kind of
like it, assuming that willieslike he's just never gonna die
he's not gonna.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Will be touring till he's.
I have a theory.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
I have a theory that Is an AI.
Thing that will.
Annelson is a I no that hedoesn't actually exist and
that's why, like he, I meanlisten, think about look up a
recent video, willie Nelson, andwhen he's singing he always has
this thing where he kind ofjust sings like often explode.
Is what he was like he talks,he, yeah, but now like even more
so.
So you got the band over theding ding, ding, ding ding, like
(13:30):
it's kind of like that.
Yeah and then Willie's likeDon't let your babies grow up,
god boys.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
That's just because he's so old you, it's hard to
sing when you're old.
How do you know?
I'm because you look at peoplelike artists who are older and
it gets harder and harder forthem to sing.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Do you think?
Do you think Willie Swigs alittle bit of dime, a tap Before
before he performs?
Is that the secret is?
Hang on, hang on.
Now we're bringing it all back.
It's all making sense Is isthat?
(14:13):
Is that the secret?
The secret to to your longevityis Is dime a tap?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
you want to live till 90?
How does he night you?
Speaker 1 (14:22):
91, I think you want to sing mom's don't let your
babies grow to be cowboys.
Till you, 90 winners old downtap I.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Don't know.
Look, that may be the biggestwish I would have known ever and
you're welcome.
You know you taking all thesevitamins and supplements and
working out and doing all thethings when you really could be
just taking a.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Popping some diamond, taking a little swig of diamond
tab every morning.
Just keep it by the bed.
Alarm goes off.
Oh, you are ready, you readyfor the day for whatever it
holds.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
For whatever it holds Just never know campaign at
this point Ready for life, I'mpumped right now.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
You know what I'm proud of.
I'm proud of the fact that thisis the most Diamond tap has
ever been talked about on apodcast.
I'm positive.
The diamond tap has their ownpodcast.
Don't talk about it as much aswe did on this episode.
I feel really good about it.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
You walk away with anything from today.
There you go there it is youwon't Okay, so bringing it back
to when we came back from Mexico.
And all these things arehappening the kids are sick,
they're passing around sicknessand cars sick the car is sick
and all that stuff.
I think there's just things thatwe've learned over our 19 years
(15:49):
of marriage.
Now that you know like it'sgonna happen, that kind of stuff
happens and you get through it.
So I I don't know.
I just think you and I havelearned how to sort of weather
those storms Well it's not justthat like it's gonna happen and
it needs to catch you off guard.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
I think everybody listening either finds
themselves in the midst of adifficult season.
Mm-hmm, or they just got out ofone or they're just about to
walk into one.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Yeah, and that's reality.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yeah, I mean from a biblical worldview perspective.
It even says in James one thatYou're going to go through
trials of many kinds.
That's a guarantee gonna happen.
Yeah gonna happen, yeah, and soif you know that that's gonna
happen, what you can trust isthat God is going to use all of
those things together for good.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Yeah, Romans 828.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Romans 828.
He's gonna use all these thingscake.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Yeah, anytime in my mind.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
When you say Romans 828, I say cake after and would
you like to tell the rest of uswhy?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
nope, that's.
That's just what it.
No cake like.
There are ingredients in cakethat on their own are not good.
Like you, you're not just gonna, you know, chug a whole bunch
of raw eggs.
Maybe some people do.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
You might, but you wouldn't like eat a handful of
flour?
Yeah, okay, gotcha.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Right.
So things like that On theirown they all seem like really
crappy things, but when you putthem all together, then they
become cake, which is wonderful,and you love cake.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Put them together and put them through a little bit
of heat.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Oh, come on, that'll pre-.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Watch it preach.
There's the organ.
Thank you for that.
I appreciate it.
Now.
I think I just want to takethis opportunity to encourage
everybody to listen.
No matter what situation youfind yourself in right now, god
is still sovereign and he canhandle it.
He doesn't say oops, he doesn'tsay oh, my bad, I didn't see
that coming, and all of thethings that happen are useful to
the Lord.
(17:34):
And so here's kind of the fastforward.
So, amron, I came back fromMexico.
We had the best time in theworld.
We came back.
We almost didn't see each otherfor like 10 days because of
sick kids and everything else,and it was really difficult.
It would have been really easyto just sink into the
post-vacation midst, in themidst of chaos.
(17:55):
Pity party, pity party, pityparty.
We're just like I'm feeling badfor myself and look, that
temptation is there for sure,and we did.
To a certain extent.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Briefly, I think for a moment you're just like I
can't believe we're having adeal all of a sudden.
Oh my gosh, yeah, where's myfresh guacamole and salsa laid
out for me.
This is ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Right, you take a step back and you recognize that
Willie Nelson is still alive.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Praise him as of recording this podcast.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
No, I'm just saying no.
You take a step back and yourealize that, like this too
shall pass.
Yeah, this will pass.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
And he too will pass.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Oh no, he will, but I hope I'm here for it, though.
I don't know why.
I don't know why, but I justfeel like I need to be.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
He needs you.
He needs you close by Clint.
He probably thinks about youevery day too.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
No.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Wondering if you're in town or out of town.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Yeah, he's like hold on, he's flying to New York.
Clint's flying to New York nextweek.
Got to hold on, hold on.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
No, but this too shall pass, You're right.
I mean just situations like ascrummy as it seems in the middle
of it, especially sick kids,you know that like when they
start getting sick and thenpassing it around.
There's almost nothing worsethan that.
It's just so hard.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
It's bad and I think I just want to encourage
everybody that's listening toyou Just having this worldview
that recognizing that God's incontrol, it's man, it's just so
comforting, versus thisworldview where there's, like
this karmatic, you know theologyor idea of the good things
happen because I put good in orbad things happen, because I put
(19:37):
bad, I mean that's just so muchresponsibility and like worry
and you're like it.
Bad things, listen, bad thingsare going to happen.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
That's all about control, absolutely.
That's all about I'm in control, I control what happens to me,
and so if I put good in orwhatever, it's just control.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Absolutely Versus the fact that God's in control and
he's sovereign and he holds allof it in his hand and there's
nothing in God's economy that hedoesn't use.
Is that the whole world in hishands?
Speaker 2 (20:02):
You said he holds it in his hands.
He got the whole.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Yeah, I think it can be like a Willie Nelson version.
He's got the whole world oh inhis hand.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Oh, I love that.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
He's got the whole world.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
In his hands.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
In his hands.
It's like he fell asleep.
He fell asleep in between, inbetween those phrases.
He's asleep.
Well, somebody like elbows him,like Benjamin.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Oh man.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Anyway, hey guys, thank you all so much for
listening.
Every single time that Amberand I get an opportunity to come
sit in here in the studio, thisis just such a blessing.
Yep, it's fun for us to sithere with our Starbucks and talk
to you guys while you're onyour treadmill or driving or
doing dishes or whatever you'redoing, or taking care of sick
kids.
What if somebody is listening tothis?
And they were like on a hikeand they downloaded a couple of
(20:56):
podcasts and they're likethey're on a hike but they're
stuck because there's a stormcoming over the ridge and they
got a hunker down and they haveto choose between the flashlight
on their phone or listening tothis podcast.
And they chose this podcastbecause they're like I just need
to hear if Willie made it andthen their phone dies.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
And then they realize that all they need to survive
is Damatab.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Oh man, I wonder if that's like a wilderness
survival tool.
Is it helpful?
Is it helpful in a wildernesssurvival situation to have some
Damatab on hand?
You got your road flayers, yougot your bandages.
Get your Damatab.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
You're good to go.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Attack by Bear Damatab.
All right guys.
Thanks so much for listening.
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