Reed

Yeah.

Right.

The Wii.

This is, I think, chocolate. I think there was a nut.

Thanks for watching, guys. I will see you guys next week.

Are you Jewish like me?

You're so sweet.

I'll be right back. I dry swallowed. I didn't even have a drink. I chewed it. Are you serious? They're like, oh, my God, he's addicted to drugs. I'm like, too, he rails absurd tech. Oh, man. That's so funny, dude. I'm so sorry about that.

It's good.

I saw it. I saw it. I like it.

I was like, you know, Mr. Cube. Mr. Cube. I said, you know, I love that line in Friday.

Did it?

It was pretty good.

Separate kayaks. Wasn't my idea for the separate.

Little Caesar's Pizza. That's so funny. That's like, I need the Lord. Literally. That's so good.

Whenever you want to come back, I'll be right here. You'll get driven.

That's lovely, George. I love it for a real gift to be around. That was awesome. That's very good. I love you guys.

I've got to go get this. I'm going to believe in you more when I get this. I swear to God. I swear to you. And I'll go and he'll be like, I'll see you. The freeway will be here when you want to jump on. And time and time again, it's proven that way.

Wow.

You don't want to accuse someone.

But then it's like minority report and you're like, oh my God, this is bad. And so then Logan's like, I'm calling him. Right. And so like Logan and Jake are like calling this guy and he's like, I don't know what you guys are talking about.

You're the MVP of 24-hour fitness.

They're holding their shoes. I'm like, dude, stop. I'm not going to help you.

Putting electrolytes in the water. I'm like, you don't need that much salt, homie.

I was like, yo. People were like, dog. Like, is that Josh from Drinking Josh? I'm like, yeah.

Amen.

Hmm.

Yeah.

Wow.

It's delicious.

Hallelujah, bro.

Oh, sorry, please, please, go.

So beautiful.

I just passed your sister.

Wait, that is cool.

I'm sorry.

I love it.

Yeah.

Yes, I do.

So do you go through colleges to do that?

You do a Q&A before the show?

That's cheating. You can't use that.

Amazing.

That was awesome.

My kids are only three, and I say it all the time.

My son is now named David Silas.

Which, look, all cheese is processed to a degree. Well, that's true. And it's all oil. You can't get too fancy with the cheese because – Well, nobody likes a pretentious burger, for one thing. It's a hamburger. I agree to agree. I went to a place the other day. That could be a bumper sticker, right? Nobody likes a pretentious burger.

Candy Cane. Lane? Yeah, Candy Cane Lane.

Did that just happen? And that night before he went to bed, he came over and gave you a hug, too. He gave me a hug. It's happened.

No, these people putting goat cheese on a burger, you know, and peach preserves. Blue cheese. Nobody likes that crap. Right. But you just keep it simple. Colby Jack or American cheese if they got it, you know.

Was it difficult? Well, I probably have a different answer than you would expect. I mean... As an adult now, I'm an adult, I'm a parent, I'm a business owner. I think differently than I did, obviously, as a teenage, right? But, you know, I was, I mean, I never even, thinking about the kids, I never even really watched it.

I mean, I watched it, you know, but I mean, all the episodes and new, I mean, I didn't really, I was chasing girls and playing football and, you know, doing whatever. So looking back at it now, I mean, I never really even critically thought, I just woke up one day and said, man, this is cool. I mean, that really is the crux of it.

I mean, obviously I knew what was happening, but I mean, it surprised everybody for one thing. Nobody realized how huge it was going to be. I mean, I remember that first time, I remember the very first time we thought, oh, this is something. We were on the way to the beach and And we stopped at that restaurant. Oh yeah. We walked in there and ate. And from that moment on, that was it.

No more, no more eating in restaurants.

We were there for like four hours, you know, and it's like, it was just a bizarre phenomenon to us. We were like, this is insane.

Well, great. Keep it simple. I like Colby Jack the best because, you know, we just ate Colby.

Remember that, right? Yeah. I mean, it just got to the point where it's like, we're going to be here all night. But, you know, and all that stuff is great, you know, awesome. I mean, there's no telling the lives that have been impacted, the number of lives. I mean, I don't think you can quantify it, you know, by the show and this podcast. And, you know, so it's been an amazing thing.

And like I said, looking back at it, I wasn't even critically thinking about it whatsoever. I was like, yeah. And too, I mean, I was in high school. I mean, I had all my friends. I was playing football. I was doing whatever. I was trying to figure out my life too. So it was just kind of a, and we're in a small town.

And after the first few months in my groups, at least, it kind of just like, hey, that's pretty cool. And that was it. Just move on about your life.

And forward thinking in terms of business and what's the next three years going to look like and how am I, you know, I mean, all that stuff plays a factor into it. But I think it, From my perspective, it bleeds into what you were saying with riding on the coattails of your parents' faith. I mean, that was me for years. I mean, since I, look, I was baptized when I was 12.

And from that point, I thought, well, I got it. And I just rode on your coattails for as long as I could remember. And it was like, well, I'm going and I'm doing and I'm speaking and I'm singing and I'm doing all this stuff. And it was like, well, I've got that all figured out. That's a box I checked, and I'm good. But it's kind of the same thing with the show.

Well, I was just along for the ride with that too. So it kind of amplified that in a way because it forced me into a world that I was – no one's prepared for, you know, especially when it happens like it did, but I wasn't prepared, prepared for, and I, I didn't actively prepare for it. And I did, I was just like, what am I doing next?

You know, they're like, Oh yeah, you're going to go over here and you know, what are they going to pay me? You know, they're going to pay you a hundred dollars. You know, it's like, whoa, cool. You know, it's just, and I just show up.

No, I agree. I mean, I think that there's settings like that. If you're around godly people and I think the spirit moves and the presence of God blesses those things. Because it just, you sit down in a place like that and it's, you know, and there's, there is kind of a, a, um, a mission and an objective of like, Hey, you know, we, we would like you to share your story.

Well, it's like, okay, well here it is. But, but it just has this feeling of, you can just lay it all out there, you know, and it just happens. And, um, yeah, I mean, I, I love those guys over there.

I get more people come up to me and talk about, um, It used to be Duck Dynasty and I Am Second. You know, it was like neck and neck. I mean, they'd say, they'd come up and be like, hey, you know, I saw you. And I, you know, you just think on Duck Dynasty. And they say, I Am Second. You know, I loved it. Thank you so much for sharing. And now it's the podcast.

And they still, people say, people come up to me all the time and say, I've watched your I Am Second. You know, I mean, it's. Um, it's a really cool, really cool thing.

Well, we got out there. We jumped up a bunch of ducks, and we thought, okay, here we go.

Oh, wow.

Well, I've been to the Bible Museum. That must have been a late addition. Maybe so.

I wonder about that too. We call it family worship. Family worship. And we're passionate about it.

Yeah, it is. You can tell. And we do it every night. The kids, we do dinner, then they do the bath, and then we do...

something we don't let them watch you know a lot of tv or whatever but then they but they like to watch i mean when i said that i didn't really watch the show it's fun now because now i'm going back and we're watching it all because they love watching you and mom and and um and yo they'll see me on there too but they don't even recognize me yeah you're just a kid yeah yeah and um oh we've watched when i fell off that boat we have watched that a thousand times i mean she's like coming out of there coming out of her chair like getting ready

One. One. Jay missed him, which I gave him a hard time about. He clipped him.

It's funny.

We have always felt that way, just because... Both of our families live here. We're very close. Just with close families like that, you're always going to lean on your family, and that's great. But it forced Brighton and I. We got married young. I was 21. She had just turned 21. And, um, and we moved off and it was just me and her, you know, we didn't have any money.

We didn't have any, any, any, uh, life career goal. I mean, we, we were just like, we're moving to Nashville because Reed wants to be a singer. Well, we quickly figured out that that wasn't going to make any money when I got up there. So I'm looking around. There's a lot of talented people singing, right?

Looking around like, man, when you, when you got to pay your own bills, this stuff starts to add up pretty quick. Yeah. And and so but it was just us, you know, and we had to figure everything out on our own. And, you know, we we struggled through. And that's that's really part of, you know, what is my testimony is that during that time.

When we got on our own, well, now all of a sudden I didn't have, you know, White's Ferry Road and you, you know, giving me the come to Jesus meetings at night, you know, all that stuff. I didn't have any of that. It was up to me. And I was the leader of my household, but I wasn't being that, you know. I wasn't being the spiritual leader that I need to be. Brighton lost her dad.

You know, we were going through hard times, you know, and I wasn't there for her like I should have been on a spiritual level for sure.

Um, and so we, we actually stopped going to church, you know, saying, well, we can't find one that we like, you know, and then, and then it just turned into, well, it's been a year and we hadn't been, you know, it's like, well, we, we, we started saying, well, we can't find one we like, well, it's like, well, we hadn't even been to one in a year.

So it's kind of hard to find one, you know, looking. Um, so when we had, when we had Maris, um, was the first time in a long time that I realized I thought, okay, this, this is all of a sudden way bigger than just me.

And I started to realize like, okay, I'm, I'm doing whatever I want to do that makes me comfortable, you know, and, and, and I, I had started my business, you know, and I was just full fledged in that, just, just worrying about myself and, and Brighton was working as a nurse, you know, we were living kind of parallel lives and,

we had Maris and, and she decided I'm going to stay home and raise the kids. Well, we both decided that. And, um, and I, I just, I just took a hard look and thought, you know, I've relied completely on myself for the last few years here, you know, and it just, it, it, it convicted me.

We're standing in the decoys, picking up the decoys, and here comes seven teal. Fly right over our head. If I had a gun, we could have shot them.

I mean, I think the Lord convicted me and said, you know, you, you think you're going to be a leader of this household and you think you're going to, You know, this is a gift of a child that I've given you, you know, and that's really the core concept that we strive to produce in our lives every day is

our children are a gift from God and it's our job here on earth to steward their souls for the kingdom, you know? And, um, and so one of our main principles is to have them realize, almost force them to realize as they get older, their need for a savior, you know, it's not, I'm not just going to sit down and, um, and,

when they get in trouble and sit down and, you know, which is something we did a lot of, you know, we got in trouble and okay, it's time for a come to Jesus meeting. And it would be a five hour sermon. It'd be 1130 at night. I'm falling asleep on the couch. Like, and I'm actually praying, Lord, let this in. Yeah.

Hey, looking back, I'm thankful for him. Yeah, me too. But my main objective is to have my children grow up and realize their need for a Savior. And so one of the things, getting back to what we do every night, is we call it family worship. And we, we go through now they're, they're too young to, to really go through any, any real scripture, you know, and that kind of stuff.

But we try to make it fun. You know, we, um, you know, we've got like these little things where I'll say half the sentence and she finishes it, you know, and then I start, and then I'll say the first word and she's gotten to the point where she can say the whole thing, you know, and we.

And we've memorized, you know, a Psalm or something like that, you know, and it takes her, I mean, it'll take her a solid month and it's like 29 days of this child is never going to get this. And then I'll say, okay, Psalm. And she's like nine, one, you know, and just goes through the whole thing. It's amazing how they can pick it up.

It makes me so proud that my daughter's three years old, and I can ask her, what song do you want to sing tonight? And she'll say the song, and I'll start it, and she will sing the whole thing. I mean, holy, holy, holy, she will sing the entire song. Good. You know, and David's two years old. I mean, the kid knows, you know, 15 words.

You know, and we sing, you know, Jesus loves me. And, you know, he'll start, he'll go, Jesus, and then he'll love me. I know. You know, everybody's singing it. And then we go, for the... And he goes, Bible! You know, I mean, he's got it, you know? And it's just... It makes you so proud. Yeah. And, you know, so that is one aspect of it is, like, I'm like, man, I mean, it just...

It softens your heart like nothing I have ever experienced.

So let me interject for just a second. I remember this story when I was 15 years old. I vividly remember it was 75.

Processed. What kind? American cheese. So Reed does it too.