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 to us and all that good jazz. And if you're watching us on YouTube, I'm sure it's better for something like this episode. I think DJ says it's like right here somewhere, but it could be over here. I don't know. Somewhere. I mean, you should be
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