Welcome, this is the Men Church Stuff Podcast.
This is the show where brothers -in -law DJ Culp
and Brad Coleman talk about stuff from our perspective
as men. It's a show for anyone who wants to hear
how Christians interact with the world. And don't
worry, we're real. We've grown up in church,
and we want to share our experiences with you.
We'll talk life stuff, church stuff, man stuff,
and stuff stuff. Here we go. Greetings, podcast
land here and there and everywhere. This is the
Man Church Stuff Podcast. As always, I am DJ.
Oh, wait. No, I'm Brad. I'm Brad Coleman. Here
with a special episode of quotes. Dr. Culp quotes
part dose. Part dose. It's not a five. It's not
a five. And by the way, podcast land. I'm here
too. I was getting there. Oh, were you? Okay.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. With my beloved brother
-in -law, DJ Culp. DJ, how are you doing? You
get to ask me, yeah. Man, I'm great. I just gave
my last final exam. So I have a lot of grading
to do, but grading, that's fine. I just gave
my last final, so I'm beginning to inch my way
to cloud nine. I'm not going to be on cloud nine
officially until I'm on Kentucky Lake with you
and dad. That'll be cloud nine. Actually, I think
we have decided that we're going to name the
boat something like the Hillbilly Catfish Hunter.
So I'll be on the Hillbilly Catfish Hunter. Not
Cloud 9. Cloud 9 is a house in Garden City Beach.
Oh, is it? Yeah, I stayed there as a kid with
my family. Cloud 9, nice place. Anyway, your
students have very awesomely put together lots
of quotes from you, more quotes than we could
go through in an episode, even just with the
continuation. So I have picked out some of my
favorites and thrown in a couple of my favorite
quotes from you on a personal level. Which I
think is a really neat touch, Brad. And they're
just in there randomly. We'll see if you can
pick them out from the others. Which ones of
these quotes are from Brad? More than like, well,
I mean, you're relatively tech savvy. So if you
use the exact same format, then I won't know.
But if it's going to be like some black and white
Word document in, you know. Just in curry or
new, it'll stand out. Yeah. I just decided this
last night as I was throwing it all together.
So. Yeah. We shall see. So are you ready to just
get into it? Let's do it, man. Yeah. I want to
know. I want to know things that I've said. All
right. Dr. Kolb quotes. I think I can just click
this and go to the next one. Aha. I'm all for
self -depreciation. Deprecation. You know what?
I'm going to say, I'm going to read it that way
every time. I've read it that way every time
I've read it. I mean, it's practically the same
thing. I mean, I guess on a certain level, yeah,
I suppose so, yeah. I am all for self -deprecation.
You're being self -deprecated right now, not
me. Yeah, right. Leave me alone. I mean, I don't
know when I said that, but I'm sure that I've
said that to my students at least, I don't know,
two or three times. Yeah, I hold the motto that
if you can't laugh about it, it's probably not
worth talking about. And I'm like, you know,
if you can't laugh at DJ. Who can you laugh at?
Who can you laugh at? Yeah. Yeah. If DJ can't
actually replace the punchline of every joke,
then the joke's probably not funny. That's another
episode. We're going to use that as another episode.
DJ, the punchline of jokes. In that vein, next
quote. Yeah. Bad DJ slaps hand. All right. So,
I don't know really, Brad, when I figured this
out, but I learned at some point in my educational
career, or like career as an educator, that as
like a music director of some sort, if you are
not going to at all Sorry, I need to start this
over. As a music director, if you're going to
tell people that they have done things wrong,
you have to be willing to admit when you have
done something wrong. What I'll do is oftentimes
if I'm looking at some music, a musical score
or something like that, and I'm conducting, and
I conduct time signature wrong, I get lost in
the score, I miscue somebody, whatever the case
is, I'll cut everybody off. And right almost
even before they're completely done making sound,
I'll just smack my hand and say, bad DJ, and
I'll do this. Can I say that? Of course, I had
read these recently. And so last night as I was
doing a Bible study, I totally like. read the
wrong word, which totally changed the context,
had to come back and correct it. And I was like,
no, no, no, no, no. And so in this vein, mimicking
you, I slapped my hand and went, bad pastor Brad.
Yes. Yes. They say that mimicry is the greatest
form of flattery. So there you go. I'm flattered.
Thank you. I was like, yeah. I had DJ. I was
reading the alto part on accident and was wondering
what these notes were for tenors. And then I
realized and was like, oh, I'm an idiot. So,
Brad, one of the things that, and you know this
about me, but one of the things that I really
love to do is to lighten the mood. I really like
to enliven a situation. And, again, and relating
to the previous quote, bad DJ slaps hand, it
gives my students permission to make mistakes.
Yeah, because they're going to. They're absolutely
going to. And it's not like it's a mistake, don't
worry about it. But it's a mistake, and as long
as you are aware of what the mistake was, can
you correct it? And don't beat yourself up about
it because it's just a mistake. This is actually
kind of getting relatively deep here. But Brad,
one of my favorite quotes from Beethoven. The
dog? No, not the dog. The real Beethoven. The
actual Beethoven. He basically says that A missed
note isn't worth anything, but a missed musical
opportunity is worth everything. Meaning that,
like, everybody's going to miss notes, including
Beethoven, right? I mean, that's really the source
of so much of the wonderful music that a lot
of times that we listen to either comes from
Beethoven or has influence from him. But you're
saying. You're saying what we have of Beethoven
is kind of his Instagram. Yeah. Best of moments.
Like this guy never writes anything that's horrible.
Never, you know, like he's just so brilliant.
It's always perfect all the time. And that that's
just not reality. Not reality. Well, you know,
it's really interesting. I remember. There's
a really gorgeous – the instruments in marimba,
for our listeners in bread, maybe even you don't
know, but for our listeners that don't know,
marimba – I do know what a marimba is. Okay,
well, it's a – I've played a marimba. No way.
Oh, in Africa. Yeah. No, no, no, no, no, no.
I dated a girl in high school who was in the
band that she – No way, dude. And so she – in
pep band, she taught me how to play some songs.
So I actually played for some – some basketball
games, she would let me play some of the simpler
songs. Oh my gosh! This is wonderful information.
I had no idea. I had forgotten until you said
marimba. It was like it unlocked. Oh, that's
what that thing was. Well, for listeners who
don't know, a marimba, the way I like to explain
it, is just an oversized xylophone. Anyways,
coming back to... Makes it easier to hit. Easier
for Brad to not miss. I can play 6th grade, or
I could play 6th grade. Grade -level pep band
music. You're welcome. I felt very accomplished
at the time. Yes, I'm sure you did, Brad. Well,
there's a gorgeous marimba piece just simply
titled Wind. And the composer of it, this was
several years ago, but I found a video, a YouTube
video, of the composer playing his own composition.
And he was missing notes. It wasn't bad. He's
my favorite artist now. I can't even play his
own piece. But that's the point. It's coming
back to, oh, I'm an idiot. I understand that
I made the mistake. I understand that I want
you to know that I made the mistake. I understand
that I'm putting myself at the mercy, really,
of the court. But I'm getting there before the
court does, right? I'm calling out my own verdict.
I'm not giving you the opportunity to do that.
But in doing so, I'm hopefully modeling, again,
giving permission for my students to be okay
with taking ownership over the fact that they
make mistakes. So you're saying if... That you
think you're going to be perfect or play a piece
perfect all the time that you just can't do it.
That's impossible. There's another quote from
good old Dr. Culp. I always want to be like Dr.
DJ. That is me. Dr. Culp is just like, that's
my father. Dr. DJ. Dr. Culp is my father. I'm
Dr. DJ. I should go with that. You teach music
for crying out loud. It is the perfect name.
You were built for this. Dr. DJ. Did you have
Dr. DJ? Yeah, just get rid of the cult, man.
No offense. Get rid of the cult. So, I mean,
that's impossible. I guess I say that a lot.
It's not. You can do it. Oh, you meant the quote.
You were back at the quote. Oh, yes. Wrong. Okay.
I was like, no, wrong. It's wrong. Very, very
all caps, exclamation point in quotation marks.
Wrong. I love. So this is really funny. You have
a ruler to smack their desk. Wrong. I had a friend
in college. We all called him Steve -O, who basically.
He wanted to do a linguistics experiment, if
you will. And we were all hanging out together,
and he decided that he was going to attempt living
life. And it didn't last long, but he wanted
to attempt living life doing nothing but speaking
in one -word answers. That's it. So, like, he
got up without saying anything and was rummaging
around the kitchen. We were like, dude, Steve,
what are you doing? Drink. And we all hated the
fact that he was actually pretty successful at
it. Right. I mean, you follow a toddler around
for a while, you can figure it out. That's exactly
right. Do you want a cookie? Yeah. Milk. So the
quote here, wrong, is actually my favorite line.
And I mean, it really is. It's a line from the
movie WALL -E. And Brad, I'm sure that you've
seen Wally at least twice, right? Yeah. All right.
So there's a security bot who after Wally lets
– which is a hysterical scene where he inadvertently
releases all of the insane robots. Like it's
their psych ward when all of them just go nuts.
One of them can't control painting. And there's
just this yellow line that's completely haphazard.
And like the security bot sees that the yellow
line is not where it's supposed to be. And the
line is this. Wrong. My favorite line. What I
love to do is I love to call out students with
the exact same line. So, again, if we're in the
middle of a rehearsal and I'll cut them off,
I'll just go, wrong. Then he throws yellow paint
at them. Then I throw yellow paint at them. That's
right. I'm pretty relentless with that. Ruthless,
yeah. I don't know. Oops. I don't know. I'm just
eating a potato. I don't know. I don't know.
Do you think this was part of your self -defecation?
No, I have a suspicion. Like, to ask your question
again, I just... I don't know. My question is,
like, were you eating a... Do you usually carry
potatoes to... To your class? Do you eat them
raw? No. I don't know, man. I don't know. I know
I was. I mean, obviously, you said that in the
beginning of the quote. I know it's kind of like,
I don't know. I don't know. I'm just eating.
I'm guessing. I'm guessing that I was simply
making a point. That the person eating the potato
should not be at fault. I suppose. I don't know.
If I'm eating potatoes, then DJ will consider
me innocent. I'll just keep that in mind. Just
eating a potato. I want to know more. Maybe I'm
going to message your student back and be like,
hey, I need some more information on this quote
in particular. I need you to mesh it out a little
more. Stupid Gar. Gar. Oh, Brad, thank you. All
right, listeners. So here is the story behind
Stupid Gar. It is actually a catchphrase between
Brad, me, and my dad. Two years ago, we were
on a fishing trip, just like we will be next
week, Brad. Two years ago, we were on a fishing
trip, and Brad wasn't catching. anything caught
anything all nothing nothing all day hours and
hours nothing no bite no nothing and actually
it was it was pretty slim pickings for me and
dad as well but we were catching something so
i got i got a uh i got a bite i set the hook
and man there was some pull and i was excited
Until I found out that it was a gar. And I felt
like I had been wronged. I got this fish. And
for listeners who don't go fishing, first of
all, gar, they are one of the top predators of
freshwater fishing. And if you see gar, more
than likely, you just simply need to get out
of there because... The bane of a cat fisherman's
existence. Yes, they are. They are like if there
are gar, chances are extremely high that there
are not going to be other fish that are willing
to to bite bait because they're fearing for their
life. So here I am reeling in what I thought
was going to be a lunker and it was a gar. And
I just I just out of nowhere again, because like
I have I have had an injustice served on me.
And I just said, stupid Gar. And Brad was very
quick, very quick to remind me. What do you mean,
stupid Gar? You caught a fish. Yeah. Brad was
a little angry. Probably a little hangry. Will
not caught any fish. Probably need some protein.
Yep. And so that has actually become a catchphrase.
Stupid Gar. Thank you for that, Brad. That's
great. This is probably one of my favorites.
If you hate people, get a degree in theology.
This is probably one of my favorite quotes that
your students gave. The anti -motivational quote?
If you hate people, get a degree in theology.
I was, I was talking to you. If you want to hate
people more. Yeah, that's actually true. No,
we really do suck. That's right. Oh, that's good.
God's going. God's willing to do all of this.
Don't you see how dumb and stupid they are? Yeah.
Like we're gar. Stupid people. Stupid people.
All right. So I was having a conversation. This
didn't happen actually too long ago. So I do
remember the context for it. I was having a conversation
with some music ed students and I was trying
to explain to them or in that we were having
a conversation about like interacting with. with
students and parents being a teacher um you have
to love more than just your subject area because
so much of your job deals with like things outside
of that um and and so i don't know it was i said
it flippantly but i was like in the moment i
thought okay what's a degree where you basically
lock yourself in a library room for the rest
of your life and i'm like all right well if you
hate people just go get a degree in theology
you know Yeah. I mean, again, I love that quote.
This one's pretty good, too. I say this with
all the love of Jesus Christ. Don't make me kill
you. I don't remember why I said that. Oh, yeah.
I mean, probably not because, I mean, like, you
know, you're probably about blanked out right
there. That's a level where you're like, this
is the last warning. This is the last thing that
you get. That's right. Either you change or,
you know, or you get stabbed with my pencil.
There's a there's a there's a there's a meme
where there's this there's a guy sitting on a
on like what looks like a park bench in a gorgeous
garden. Right. Like real serene type of of of
scene here. But he's sitting with Jesus and the
guy says so. All I know is that the last thing
I thought was, oh, she mad mad. I'm just sitting
here thinking about how good this would go on
a shirt. Yeah, right. Yeah, I mean, it looks
nice. It's right. Yeah, very pretty. Yeah. Fair
warning. Yes, I used a semicolon correctly. You're
welcome. I love writing that as a joke after
I write emails to people. If there's a semicolon
that I get an opportunity to use, an opportunity
to use correctly, I'll type the body of the email.
I'll have, like, I think it's best, you know,
as my closing, and then my name, and then underneath
it I'll put, P .S., I used the semicolon correctly.
You're welcome. Do you know what Brad does not
ever use in an email? For writing. Semicolon.
Yeah, because I struggle enough to figure out
where to put the comma, much less like the comma
with extra point. And comma with an extra point,
yeah. What do you mean? Semicolon. I don't even
know what a colon is. Like, that doesn't sound
like something in writing. No, it doesn't. Sounds
like something you get checked with a doctor.
Anyway, I can go find a tree and tell it what
it's for. Okay, that's actually a misquote. Oh,
let's correct it. Yeah. Okay, one of the things
that I love telling my students. especially when
they're new to college, is there are going to
be a lot of things, like specifically throughout
their college career, that they're going to have
to do that they're not going to enjoy. I mean,
writing essays, doing research papers, taking
a class that they think is dumb. I mean, just
stuff like that. It's academic hoopla. Some of
it – and actually I would argue that the majority
of it has a lot of validity to it. Some of it
doesn't. But a lot of times what I'll tell them
is – so whenever you find yourself getting upset
for something like that, I mean – If you want,
you can just rant and rail about it. Matter of
fact, there's tons of trees around campus that
are totally willing to take what you give them.
So, I mean, go find a tree. Chew it out, you
know? And then what I'll say is give it what
for. Not tell it what it's for, but give it what
for. It is possible that this was an autocorrect.
Oh, it may have been, yeah. Right. So maybe they
wrote out the quote correctly. Yeah. The grammarly
or whatever was like, no, you can't say it that
way. Well, here's the thing. The beginning of
the quote is correct because, again, what I'll
tell students specifically because they know
that I say that is if there's something that
I don't like, I'll say, and I mean, I can hate
it. I can punch the air and just stomp and throw
a temper tantrum. I can go find a tree and give
it what for. But it ain't going to change anything.
Well, let me tell you what. I would prefer to
go find a rock in Telewap 4 because the trees
always leave. Don't you mean the trees always
get the heck out of here? Yeah. That's right.
This is probably one of my other favorites. Yeah,
right. The Holy Spirit said you have to give
me an A. Right. I love making fun, picking fun
of Christianisms. I am, like, Brad, you know
me and listeners, like, hopefully you'll believe
me when I say that, like, I am all about talking
about the influence of the Holy Spirit, the leading,
the guidance, the discernment, the part of the
Holy Spirit that I love the most that I would
love to just hear once. is the intercessory groanings
that we can't even say. But I also love picking
at the way that oftentimes Christianity is stereotyped.
You know, like the sort of like the mystical,
magical side of the Holy Spirit. When we're trying
to direct God the way we want to direct God instead
of listening to God. Is that what you're saying?
Yeah. So I'm not going to earn an A. The Holy
Spirit said to give me one. God told me. God
told me you're going to be my wife. I've told
my daughters about that. I was like, listen,
if any guy ever walks up to you and goes, God
told me you're going to be my wife, run. Run.
And call me. Run. Yeah, that's exactly right.
And have him call me too. Unless God is also
telling you that this is going to be your husband.
God's confirming it with both of you. Now we
can have a conversation. Now we can have a conversation
because we still want to make sure it's God.
That's right. But somebody just randomly, you
know, some guy's just like, yep, you're mine.
Like, well, you need to talk to my daddy about
that first. Yeah. No, no, you're not. So, yeah.
But getting back to the groanings. Yes. Maybe
sometimes, you know, like sometimes when you're
like your stomach and stuff groans. Maybe that's
it. Maybe the groanings, maybe the groanings
is a whole. groanings aren't like hey yeah maybe
the holy spirit that's like it's like gritting
your teeth and just maybe it's like the holy
spirit is trying to get us like this person like
dj is so ridiculously off track oh my gosh and
like there's nothing else that i can say brother
you know The Bible does often describe the voice
of God like it was heard like thunder. For listeners
that don't know, that's what thunder sounds like.
Yeah. So this one confused me a little bit, but
I had to put it in here. Okay. Because I do know
what homestarrunner .com is. As do I. Do you
know what homestarrunner .com, Chloe? The website
that sells plushies? I don't know. Did you say
the website that sells plushies or was that Chloe
coming back? That was the question that she had.
Okay. Okay. That's what I thought. Yeah. Because
that's what made it make sense. I don't remember.
Oh, no. I said it's over, which, you know, Strong
Bad oftentimes would end something. by going,
it's over. The early days of the internet were
awesome. Yes, no doubt, dude. Homestar Runner.
Listeners, if you don't know Homestar Runner,
go give them a look. HomestarRunner .com. Apparently,
you can buy plushies now. Actually, I think that's
all they sell. I think that's it. That's all
they do. I don't think the website's functional
anymore. Dude, I wasted... You have to go back
and find some YouTube videos or something. I
wasted hours and hours on homestarrunner .com.
Oh, my goodness. So funny. Good stuff. Oh, how'd
that get in there? Silly songs with Larry. So
as I'm putting this together last night, I just
felt like I just remembered like the song of
the Cebu. where he's doing the slideshow, and
then it gets interrupted by pictures from his
vacation. And I just couldn't help but throw
this in there. Larry's getting chased by the
bull. Yeah, for shame. Oh, for shame. I'm trying
to remember. There's an animated movie that...
I want to say that that that's where that's where
like I've I've heard it used because I know that
like for shame is almost kind of like a like
a Victorian literary literary term, like, you
know, back in the back in the whatever you say
it like that. For shame. For shame. For shame.
Yeah, I just know my brethren. That's right.
And quote some King James. Yes, thy didst. Again,
another favorite. Of course, you can see where
my favorites are playing, too. He ate with deacons
and pastors. He went to conferences. Jesus was
a Baptist. Hashtag things the Bible doesn't say.
That's exactly right. Do you approve of my sarcasm
here, Brad? Yes, very much. And again, all right.
Worry about the people that would read this.
Not as sarcasm. Not as sarcasm. Exactly right.
Amen, brother. If English was good enough for
Paul and Silas, it's good enough for me. Yeah,
well, that means you don't know any history.
You're following the wrong Paul and Silas' writings
there. That's right. Peter, Paul and Mary was
a group of singers. That's right. Not the same
Peter, Paul and Mary. That's right. That Mary,
in fact, did not kiss Bob Dylan. The Peter, Paul
and Mary from the band did. So. Listeners, if
if you are unfamiliar with Union, I want to do
a little a little plug here, Brad. I work at
Union University in Jackson, Tennessee. Union
University is affiliated with the Tennessee Baptist
Convention, so therefore it is by default a Southern
Baptist school. It is not a seminary. We are
a top 200 U .S. World and News Report institution,
so I mean high academic achieving university.
Did you score 200? Were you 200 out of 200? No,
we were. I'm just saying like most of the time
when people were like, we were top 200, that
means we were the 200th. If you scored like 99,
you don't go, we were the top 200. No, we were
in, I think two years ago, we were ranked 140,
I think. 140, 130, something like that. We were
ranked 140? Yeah, not one. No. But like that,
that number one is always is always like a battle
between Harvard, Yale, Brown, you know, those
those Ivy League institutions. Anyways. So we're
we are a like academically legit school. Yeah,
it's a Christian school. So we're private and
we can be academically legit. I know. I did not
know. I did not know that. Which is why I love
I love. teasing students with the background
that they are so familiar with, you know, oftentimes
and, and listeners, I, I, I don't know your stories.
Um, but Brad, one of the things that I love doing
is speaking in stereotypes because this is exactly
a stereotype, right? It's a stereo. It's a, it's
a characterization of, of like the, the, the
insane I guess traditionalism oftentimes viewed
of the church and oftentimes, unfortunately viewed
of church people of the church. Right. But I
love, I love speaking satirically where this
is clearly false and students know that, but
they actually understand that there's an element
of truth in it. And, and so, yeah, it's, it's
really fun to, to, to speak like, you know, ironically
like this with the students and watch them laugh
and get it and be like, oh, yeah, I guess it
is kind of dumb that people think that. And sometimes
I think it's great to just call it out so that
people see how stupid it is. Yes. When you've
said something like this and that helps them
realize some of the maybe lesser things, because
this is to the extreme. Yeah. Right. That we
take and we kind of almost make sacred. There's
got to be coffee somewhere on Sunday morning,
which I agree that should be something that we
do. I do too. But it's not as much as I want
it to be. It's not a sacred thing. If you don't
have coffee in your church, oh my goodness, what
are you doing? I mean, you're not going against
the Lord. Yeah, it's not a sacred tenet of the
church. It is a sacred tenet of Brad. That's
right, and of DJ. It should be coffee. Went to
a wedding just recently. This is like the second
or third wedding. We're at the reception. I was
like, hey, is there some coffee? And they said
no. And this place didn't even have a coffee
pot. Oh, my gosh. I'm like, what is wrong with
you people? I didn't say that. Why is the reception
here? I sent my token extrovert, my wife, Tabby,
to ask. But yeah, when she came back and told
me, I was like, this is what I would like to
say to those people. What kind of establishment
are you running here when you don't have coffee?
If you're going to have a wedding reception,
if you're going to do those things and you have
all these drinks, for the love of Brad and DJ,
have coffee. Have coffee. Doesn't even have to
be fancy coffee. Just have some coffee. It's
drinkable. Not if you're a wedding. No, no, no,
Brad. No. You know, we get the fancy and the
not fancy. All right, let's go on. Yep, move
on. I'm not here banging out C octaves on the
piano thinking about the fact that I walked down
to the convenience store getting a Snickers bar
and then forgetting to get gas. That's very specific.
It's highly specific. All right. So here's the
story behind that. I was conducting from the
piano, which I never do because I'm not a pianist
by any means, but I was conducting from the piano.
You probably shouldn't conduct from it if you're
not a pianist. But it was a piece, Brad, that
all I'll say is this. It was experimental. That's
it. Don't ask how. Don't ask why. I don't want
to know because you'll probably tell me. No,
I won't. I really won't. But music majors had
a hard time understanding or wrapping their minds
around kind of the purpose of the piece. But
my role was to simply bang out octave C's on
the piano the whole time. That's it. And right
now, you just simply need to accept that. I'm
accepting that even though I don't really even
know what that means. That's fair. I was trying
to get students to understand that for this piece
of music to actually work, we can't be mindless
about it. And that's when I threw in, I'm not
over here banging out C octaves on the piano
thinking about the fact that I walked down to
the convenience store getting a Snickers bar
and then, oh, yeah, realizing I forgot to get
gas. I'm not mindlessly over here, completely
separated what I'm doing from what you're doing.
Was that a personal experience? No. Or were you
picking on Shara? Did Shara do that? No. Shara
go down to the gas station and forget to get
gas because she went and got a Snickers? No,
but Brad, so when you asked that question, that
made me think of something that you need to know.
I'm sure that you've probably heard this. I can't
imagine that you haven't. Listeners, we're going
on a tangent here. That's why they listen to
our show. That's right, yeah. My wife and I,
we decided before we had kids that we wanted
two children. God said, yeah, that's what you
think. And we had a third. She is amazing. Oh,
she is, dude. Little Zoe is amazing. And we are
so close, dude. So close to being done with potty
training. Anyways. And anytime she needs a tookie.
Anytime she needs a tookie. It's adorable, isn't
it? Uncle B will give it to her after Aunt Babby
explains what she's asking for. That's right.
So, Brad, the last, the final, OB -GYN appointment
that Cher had. I guess it's an OB appointment.
But like all of the doctor visits that women
go to when they're pregnant. The last one, her
water broke because of that appointment. So immediately
her body went into labor. Wow. We're not used
to this. That wasn't supposed to happen here.
Get out. Hurry. We don't do that. The whatever
position, I'll say the nurse, I don't know what
the position was, that was with her. She went,
uh -oh, I didn't mean to do that. And she said
to Sharon, well, you're going to need to go to
the hospital. And Sharon knew exactly. I was
right. Hurry, get out of here. We don't deal
with this. We'll just get you up to that point.
Shara drove herself to the hospital. Now, why
am I saying all of this based upon this? When
you said, is this a, you know, is the walk down
to the convenience store to get a sticker bar
if you didn't get gas? On the way to the hospital,
Shara, because this is our third kid, she knows
how all of this works. She said, or she thought
to herself, well, I know I'm not going to get
anything to eat once I get there. So I probably
need to stop and get a snack while in labor.
Yes, I love it. In labor. And again, I know this
just solidifies to me so much. The Shara is my
people, right? Because dude, dude, she doesn't
just stop. Country Kentucky lady. She stops at
a gas station, but not just any gas station,
a ghetto gas station in labor. Listen, nobody's
going to mess. Walks in and gets one Milky Way.
That's it. One. She didn't she didn't stop. We
wanted to buy the whole box. I mean, I mean,
yeah, that might have made the story a little
more interesting. Listen, DJ, no matter how ghetto
you are, nobody gonna mess with a pregnant in
labor Kentucky country girl. That's right. In
the words of Mr. T, I pity the fool. Yeah, that's
right, dude. All right. And let me tell you how
boss level that Shira gets. My candy bar. That's
right, that Shira gets. I'm sorry, ma 'am. You
just go ahead. Just take it. She walks in. She
gets a Diet Coke. She gets a Diet Coke and a
Milky Way. She waits in line. She pays as if
nothing's wrong. And she's like, her body's starting
to have contractions. Her water's already broke.
It's not going to break again. So her body starts
to have contractions. She gets back in the car.
She drives herself to the hospital. She's having
contractions on and off on the way to the hospital.
When she gets there, she walks herself in and
actually has to stop, I think, twice to allow
her body to, like, have a contraction get over
it so like and then she just delivered the baby
on her own and showed it to the doctor when he
came in it's a girl yeah you did that already
but hey yeah seriously like boss level boss oh
yeah no way no respect for you shara i mean i
already have mad respect for you but i have like
even more mad respect for you now yeah all right
brad let's move on yeah i mean abscess thinking
I just love saying that. It's fun. Abs so stinking
lutely. It really is. Just have a good emphasis.
Yep. When the elitist needs someone to make them
feel good about their money, I am not your guy.
I couldn't care less about how much money you
have. It's one of the things I like about you,
DJ. I know. Doesn't matter how poor I am. You
don't care. Don't care. I don't care. I don't
care. You'll still have no sympathy for me when
we're fishing. No, I won't. All right. So, Brad,
I don't remember how it came up, but I was basically
explaining to my students that I would not make
a very good administrator. Because administrators
have to go ask people for their money knowing
that the people that they're asking are rich.
And then they have to schmooze on them. If you
come asking me for a big million -dollar donation,
man, I'd be glad to give that to you. You'd get
all excited. But I ain't got it. Yeah, I just
don't have it, man. Sorry. You're barking up
the wrong tree. Right. I just – I hate the idea
of – and I could be so wrong because, again,
I've never sat in this seat. But, like, I can
definitely – Brad, you can attest to this. My
face talks before I do. Your sister has that
same issue. Yeah. And so I can only imagine.
When you have a face like mine, you don't have
to worry as much about that. That's true. It
just looks the same. People can drop the big,
and do sometimes, like the hardest, biggest,
crazy things on me. And I'm like, oh, okay. Go
on. So I can only imagine, Brad, that if I'm
having a conversation with somebody who's filthy
rich and they know it and they want me to know
it, And it gets to the point in the conversation
where I'm about to ask them for money, but they
need some schmoozing. I can only imagine, like,
my facial expression beginning to show, wait
a minute. You want me to, like, brown nose you
right now? Yeah. This ain't happening, man. Like,
I'm not your guy. When you've got to go past
this expression, though, that I have, it doesn't
work. It's not a very good smooth face. It's
a very good dealing with people face when they're
dropping bad news or heavy stuff. Or if they're
trying to sell you something, I just be quiet.
And people start giving me little discounts and
stuff. I'm like, OK, well, I was going to say,
OK, deal. But if you want to just keep dropping
money off. But I am so not perceptive of the
way that my face is. I feel like the way that
I feel is written all over my face. No, dude.
If I'm nervous or if I'm anxious or if I'm happy
or whatever, I feel like it's all over my face.
No, dude. Most of the time, your stoicism is
like a brick wall. And I've told Tabby this,
too. I don't know if I just notice. I don't know
if it's a spiritual gift that God gave me. I
don't know. you can read to me you can read so
much through people's eyes like like to me it's
just it's almost like i can just read not their
mind but like so much of their emotions and what
they're feeling and all that through just their
eyes and and so like for me i automatically go
so so people want to see that people are going
to see that in me and uh yeah apparently it's
not the case Do you want to know whether I'm
happy or not? I absolutely wear it on my sleeve.
I wear it most of the time, actually. I wear
it on my sleeve. I look like this, but I'm pretty
happy. I'm also pretty anxious, usually. Usually
worried about something. Yeah. All right. We're
reading everything chromatic, baby. I don't want
you to explain this to me. I was sharing these
with your sister, and she started to explain
it to me, and I was like, no, no, no. stop i
i i don't want but i'm sure i was like i'm sure
it's something music people would understand
it is music people i all i can think of is i
maybe i said this in maybe i said this in in
a in like a music theory class and that became
that came up like i don't know i don't know you
never think chromatic baby yeah who knows I'm
sorry. I had to remember where I was because
I was eating turkey last week. I don't know.
I don't either, but I want to find a way to use
that. I guess after Thanksgiving is generally
probably when this was. I still know. I don't
know. I got nothing, man. Right after Thanksgiving
is my favorite time because I get to use one
of my favorite dad jokes of all time. Okay. It's
just, it's like, I like to tell people, just
be careful with your leftovers because, you know,
it's hard to quit cold turkey. And it's actually
true because, dude, cold turkey. is so good i
know it's it's one of like like i get so many
people to roll their eyes at me i use that usually
usually at some point with people during our
like community thanksgiving because they're carrying
out leftovers like hey be careful with those
it's hard to quit cold turkey and i mean it's
like like i feel so accomplished because i even
get old people to roll their eyes at me Like,
I get my teenagers in pre -teen to roll their
eyes at me, like, daily. But to get older senior
adults to roll their eyes, I mean, that's – I
feel accomplished. I feel like I've done something.
Subtext. Huh? Huh? Huh? I don't know. Maybe you
need to do it because I'm, like, not very good
at impressions. I'm guessing – I don't know.
But I'm guessing that I was just being silly.
And I think maybe something went like, I don't
know, somebody being stupid and then you get
to go subtext. Huh? I don't know. I really don't.
But I can definitely see myself saying that.
I appreciate your rebellion. Good job. I love
this quote. We should have had this for the Star
Wars episode. Right, yeah. Tell all the rebels
I appreciate your rebellion. I had a student
who was trying to finagle away. around at like
an assignment or a test or something. And they
were trying to, they were trying to create a
loophole to where I could not be, I could not
be, um, how do I say it? They were trying to
create a loophole to where I could not grade
them the way I wanted to. And they would be right.
And, and I just came right back at them with,
no, you can't do that. And I explained, then
I said, but I do appreciate your rebellion. Good
job. And I feel like you got to do that with
your kids sometimes. The answer is still no.
But I do appreciate your rebellion. And I probably
wouldn't use the word rebellion. But I have told
them, like, hey, I appreciate you thinking that
through. And I appreciate your argument and all
of that. I mean, the answer is still no. But
I do want you to know that it makes me proud.
Like you saw this through and you came and gave
a present. Because sometimes Carrie Beth will
just have a presentation. Like she'll do like
this. Are you serious? Whatever their version
of PowerPoint is. Google Slides. This is why
sometimes there's even song and dance. She doesn't
let us record them. She's like, you'll share
it. Yeah. Yes, we will. Brad, you need to secretly
record one and let me see it. Yeah. So, I mean,
but, but again, makes good arguments and, and
then sometimes, you know, we've said, you know,
yeah. Sometimes the answer is still no. Nope.
Thank you. Thanks for your, you know, your rebellion.
Good job. That's funny. So Brad, I know we're
getting close to. Oh yes. We've just got two
more slides. And here's one of my favorite quotes
from DJ, and I just pooped myself. I have the
audio file, but it wouldn't let me embed it in
here. No, but you can play it and play it into
your microphone. Let's see. And I just pooped
myself. And I just pooped myself. And I just
pooped myself. And I just pooped myself. It's
on a loop. So what game were we playing, Brad?
I forget what it's called. I was trying to see.
And I want you to know that because you immediately
said, I forget what it's called, you blew the
opportunity to deny that we were playing a game.
Yeah, I know. But yeah, we were playing a game.
We were playing a game and you pooped yourself.
I remember the pooped yourself part, DJ. I remember
that Brad had this as his submission. And I think
I want to say, like, I wouldn't read it. And
you were like, go ahead, read it, DJ. You have
to read it. You got to read it. And I saw out
of the corner of your eye that you pulled out
your phone. I was like, all right, well, this
is going to happen. So I'll go ahead and say
it. That'll give him the satisfaction. It's become
one of Brad's favorite. I forget about it. And
every once in a while, it'll rotate up into my,
you know, how your phone will give you like on
this day or, hey, here's some old stuff. Yeah,
right. And every time it does, it just makes
me so happy. Here's what people need to know
about me. If you're playing a game with me and
I get bored and I can't stop the game, I will
make the game more fun for myself. at the expense
of others if necessary. And so, you know, I'm
getting bored in this game. It's taking too long,
but I'm like, Hey, I get to write down something
and they got to read it off. Yep. And I was like,
this is true. This is absolutely perfect. So,
yeah. So last but not least, and I thought it's
appropriate. There's this thing called time.
And we're out of it. And we're out of it. There
were more. I encourage your students to continue
to share. You know, I picked out the ones that
I mean, like, seriously, the first time I think
there were like about 20. This time, I think
there was like 50. Yeah. I knew there were a
lot. And all over the gambit. So I encourage
them to keep doing that, keep submitting them.
We'd love to do another episode. I picked ones
that I thought, one, were my favorites, but also
ones that, you know, I threw in the Chromatics
baby, because I was like, I don't really know
what this means, but I'm sure. Looks like some
of the listeners. Dude, I actually have several,
several students who routinely listen to the
show. And I'd like to actually I'd like to take
an opportunity to give them a shout out. Shout
out to Macy and Avery and Josiah. Let's see.
Who else do I know that listens to the show?
Shout out to Maddie Grace. If she if she does
listen. And she, if I understand right, is the
one that put together the slides. She is, yes.
She's the one that sent them to me. So all of
these pretty pictures and things you do. And
I, unfortunately, with the program I used, some
of them were cropped quite a bit. But she put
that together. Very, very awesome. Took the time.
I didn't do any of it. So all this pretty cool,
nifty stuff that you saw, I just. I copied it
and pasted it into another document. Yeah. So
good job, Manny. Well, it's flattering to me.
I love teaching my students, Brad. I really do.
I've got great students at Union. They love the
Lord. They love each other. And I love getting
to see them start to fully understand. you know,
the career path that they're moving into. So,
yeah. Here's the good and the bad, DJ. The good
news is they're listening to you. And the bad
news is they're listening to you. They're listening
to me. Yeah. All right. Well, we got to wrap
this show up. And I guess since I started it,
I should get into it. Yeah, go ahead, man. So,
hey, everybody, you know, like us and subscribe
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I don't know. Somewhere. I mean, you should be
able to see it. There's like a like and subscribe
button or ring a bell or something. I don't know.
I'm not YouTube savvy. Ring a bell. Go ring a
bell. Say some good stuff about us. Ask ChatGTP
how awesome we are. Oh, yes. All that stuff.
But we want you to know that we love you. We're
glad you tuned into our show. And we will catch
you next time. Go be his church. There we go.