S2 Ep1: Laughter, Tears, and Growth: On to Season Two!

What if you could sit in on a heartwarming reunion of friends, sharing laughter, personal insights, and reflections on life's most profound topics? Well, that's exactly what's in store for you as we kick off season two of our podcast. It’s been a rollercoaster ride since we last convened, with cherished moments like Jaret's celebration of his daughter's first birthday, and our family is growing, with both Mike and Garth sharing news of upcoming babies!

Now, remember when Mike stunned us all with a sudden moment of profound insight? Or how about when we grappled with discussions on mental health, faith, and the contrast between wrath and judgment? Those were some of our favorite moments from the last season, and we don’t shy away from discussing them in this episode. We even reminisce about Shrek’s unexpected cameo during the March Madness tournament, and reflect on our favorite episodes including "Happy or Holy", "Identity", and the tear-jerker, "Who Cut An Onion".

As we gear up for the second season, we can't help but anticipate the laughter, the tears, and above all, the shared journey that awaits us all. Expect more discussions on mental health, faith, and the moments that make us laugh, cry, and everything in between. Our prayer is for an even more extraordinary season than the last, and we're thrilled you're coming along for the ride. Tune in, laugh with us, cry with us, and most importantly, grow with us.

Transcript

Jaret White: 0:08

Welcome to the cast. Hey, welcome everybody. We are back for season two of the cast. I'm Jarrett, I'm Garth, I'm Mike and I'm Trey, and we are locked and loaded, ready to go. We had a great first season. I think we did about 20 episodes of the cast and now we are ready to jump back in. It took a couple of months off and this is season two, and so we've got a lot of content loaded up. We're fresh, we're ready to roll and, garth, you want to kick this season off with a word of prayer Sure.

Garth Landis: 0:51

Let us pray, father, thank you for this time and for allowing us to come back and to glorify you, Lord, and may the words of our mouth and the meditation of our hearts be pleasing in your sight, o Lord, our rock and our redeemer. We pray these things in Jesus' name, amen.

Jaret White: 1:07

All right. So as we kick off this episode for season two, if you guys are tuning into the very first time, we want to welcome you to the cast. We have several different episodes that you can go back and listen to a season one. We encourage you to do that. Today we're going to talk about a lot of those different moments and episodes that we shared the tears, the laughter, the blood and sweat that Mike had to pour out last minute preparing everything he did for those.

Garth Landis: 1:33

It was a labor of love, wasn't it?

Mike Niedermeier : 1:35

Mike, you know, I thought I was prepared.

Jaret White: 1:40

You would. But hey, we have missed doing this. We're happy to be back, kind of knocking these things out, looking forward to what this season has in store. But I'm going to kick it over to our producer, trey.

Garth Landis: 1:56

Subra. So for the first time you need to try for the first time Speechless.

Trey Ashworth: 2:03

So this episode is going to be caught. I'm just kidding. So what we're going to do today is we're going to go around and we are just going to talk about some of our favorite moments from season one, whether it be something serious, something funny. I have a feeling the serious moments we're going to reserve those for Mike and Garth. I'm sorry, Jared and Garth. The funny moments. I don't be Mike's, mike's uh, uh, uh shining moment. Yeah, I'm going first.

Mike Niedermeier : 2:32

Is that what you're?

Trey Ashworth: 2:34

saying no, I'm just saying most of our, most of our funny moments are going to feature you. I would yeah.

Garth Landis: 2:39

This. This podcast would be significantly lacking without the presence of one Michael.

Mike Niedermeier : 2:46

I don't know, I don't know about that, I think. I think is keep on chugging along.

Trey Ashworth: 2:50

Chugging. But before we get into all of that, I want to go around the table. Get let the guys give us an update about their lives over the last several months. What's going on? Anything new? Anything exciting? Jared Me first.

Jaret White: 3:03

Yeah, you're first Um man, it's been a busy, busy couple of months.

Trey Ashworth: 3:08

Things to say that.

Jaret White: 3:08

Things have been going well. Uh, sala, our, our little daughter, turned one, so we now have a one year old. That was kind of a big milestone. Uh, outside of that, you know, me and Mike have a little business together. That's going well and that's growing and doing some different things, but not a whole lot. And you know, thank you for letting me go first, cause then these other two guys are going to knock it out of the park, yeah. So you know what I have compared to them is fun times. Go ahead, mike.

Mike Niedermeier : 3:34

So, uh, you know it, it life's been great, like, um, you know it's, it's, it's been real interesting. Um, we started in December of 2022 here and uh, as far as podcasts goes, and then we ended, uh, it was June sometime. So between last episode was June 12th, june 12. So so, sometime between June 12th and um uh, uh, we're in September.

Jaret White: 4:00

Yeah, we are in.

Mike Niedermeier : 4:00

September.

Trey Ashworth: 4:01

August.

Mike Niedermeier : 4:02

Um. My wife is pregnant.

Jaret White: 4:03

Completely surprised Um how did that happen?

Mike Niedermeier : 4:08

Well, go back and listen to love, sex and lasting relationships. Uh, that was a podcast. I think it was like episode 16, three, three, I don't know. I made that up. I don't know what I was close to actually.

Jaret White: 4:19

yeah, it was episode three.

Mike Niedermeier : 4:21

It's pretty early, I didn't remember so, so, uh, yeah, it was a complete surprise. We, we have three kids and we were like, yeah, we're done. And then, uh, we found out she was pregnant and we're like what? So it, this is a, uh, it's a miracle baby. Um, so it's, I think she's. I don't know how far along she is actually. Um, yeah, I think she's 15 weeks, maybe 16.

Jaret White: 4:46

Yeah, awesome.

Mike Niedermeier : 4:48

You don't know this.

Jaret White: 4:48

You don't know the gender yet.

Mike Niedermeier : 4:50

No, I you know. Here's the funny thing about that. I I don't want to know she does. She's a planner, she doesn't really like surprises and she's like I think we need to plan.

Jaret White: 4:59

We all know you're not a planner. That story checks out.

Mike Niedermeier : 5:06

And then playing this one. So that's about what's going on here, man, that is that's exciting.

Garth Landis: 5:19

So it's been a crazy summer. You know VBS and the luau I'm surprised it didn't kill us all. It was a lot going on that first week of August. So you know I've got six kids and starting in January we, Whitney and I, my wife, we we did a tubal reversal. This was something I did not even know was possible, like right, like you get your tubes tied but you can get them untied. So we did that and Through a lot of prayer and fasting, you know we're trying for a seventh child and there was some six significant setbacks that happened along the way. But you know she's pregnant now and we were expecting our seventh child in March and through one of the early gender Tests, you know it came back. It was a boy. So oh congratulations.

Garth Landis: 6:17

I didn't know that part yeah so there's another test coming that will really further Confirm or not. I'm pretty certain it's a boy because she has good for you, man you were outnumbered and good to take the house back yeah yeah, one man at a time.

Mike Niedermeier : 6:33

So more brisket in the house. So some would say Garth and I are both pregnant.

Jaret White: 6:40

Jessica.

Trey Ashworth: 6:42

They're having a baby.

Garth Landis: 6:45

I've heard all the jokes oh man, you're most to the baseball team like yeah, seven is a number of completion, so yeah, and that's it and done.

Trey Ashworth: 6:52

Oh, I'll never say never, that's not me.

Mike Niedermeier : 6:55

The number of completion, you know it's funny about this is that, garth, I'm freaking out about four and you got seven kids.

Trey Ashworth: 7:01

Well, and also I don't know if you notice this or not Garth planned his. That's true, yeah.

Mike Niedermeier : 7:07

I asked my buddy. I asked my buddy, who's got four kids and he goes, he said. I said, hey, man. I said how do you do with four kids? He goes? Honestly, if you got three, one more is not really not that big of a deal Right and I said, seriously, he's like yeah, he said we just got to make sure we keep track of all of them.

Garth Landis: 7:20

You gotta do headcount man in and out?

Mike Niedermeier : 7:23

No, no.

Garth Landis: 7:24

Okay, let's go. But uh, let's see my oldest. She, uh, she's an lpn and she just Got her first job and she's working at a carillion pediatric and Caitlyn's on her way to driving and in the workforce and you know, give us the age breakdown of your group again.

Trey Ashworth: 7:45

He's gonna fail this test. Oh, I see you doubt in your eye, the first test of season two. He's got the birth order, just not.

Garth Landis: 7:52

Emma, she's uh 19, caitlyn 16, ava's 13. Harper is uh 12, ava is her. I already said, ava, savannah, savannah is 11.

Jaret White: 8:14

Well, so you have 11, 12, and 13 year old.

Garth Landis: 8:16

Right.

Jaret White: 8:17

Yeah, it's a busy three years.

Trey Ashworth: 8:20

There's a couple of deployments in there.

Garth Landis: 8:24

We had this morbid thing where every time I went overseas we had a kid in case I died, right, but Lord brought me back every time we just it was a hard habit to break. Here we go All right, and then Rhett, he's getting ready to turn six in October, and I think that's all of them at all their ages. I hope they're right, whitney, I apologize in advance, all right.

Jaret White: 8:55

Well, true, anything new with you, man.

Mike Niedermeier : 8:57

Yeah.

Trey Ashworth: 8:58

So it was a busy summer. I'm the children's pastor at our church, so we had a very successful camp season, very successful VBS. I had some health things that I got to take care of this summer, so I am doing much better. Lacey and I have our son Spencer. He started kindergarten this year, so that was a big milestone for us. He handled it much better than we did. I'm not surprised. Yeah, well, she probably handled it better than I did.

Jaret White: 9:29

Again not surprised.

Trey Ashworth: 9:31

But yeah, it was a good summer. I probably feel like it's a little bit my fault that we had to take time off, but I'm excited to be back with the cast.

Jaret White: 9:40

Well, as you can see, through VBS and camp season and everything, it was just kind of crazy around here. So that was one of the reasons we decided to take a pause, take a little bit of a break and kind of regroup, and part of that we'll get into some highlights. We'll close with highlights of season one, but part of what we've done in this meantime is talk about what we want season two to look like a little bit. So it will be structured a little bit differently. Not every episode will be like it was in season one, where we broke down the acronym of cast for calling accountability, scripture and transparency. We will have episodes that are that way, but we want to free ourselves up to kind of cover more and different topics and we felt that sometimes that our acronym layout kind of limited us to what topics we could cover.

Trey Ashworth: 10:23

And that it would be like we would be on C and we were talking about T, Right? So I mean it. Just it overlaps so much that it didn't even really make sense for us to continue doing it that way every single time.

Jaret White: 10:33

Yeah, so this season we just want to be able to cover a lot of different things and just be very organic with it and just really not have that structure that we're bound to and just be able to talk and let you guys hear our hearts and let you kind of hear where we're coming from. And our goal is still the same. Our goal is to still, you know, be a big listener through our conversation and through our topics and, you know, being able to. You know, whether you're young, middle-aged, elderly, male, female, doesn't matter. We want everyone to be able to tune into this and to walk away, you know, sharpened and encouraged and motivated to go out and be a better disciple for Christ. Yeah, one of our biggest fans was a 12-year-old, it's true, no 13 now.

Trey Ashworth: 11:11

I guess he is 13 now. Yeah, but when he started, swish Swisher.

Garth Landis: 11:15

Swisher good, One more blue.

Trey Ashworth: 11:18

He's going to love that. He got a shout out. This will be his favorite episode. Yeah, all right. So, hey guys, are y'all prepared with some of your favorite moments from last season. Yeah, you want to go first, mike, let's talk about.

Jaret White: 11:32

let's first like, let's go around and share what was our favorite episode oh, my goodness. The one episode, what's your favorite episode? And then let's talk about maybe what was a funniest moment you thought, or most serious moment or most impactful moment. We'll just kind of go around and hit different topics like that so favorite episode. If anyone's ready, they can go.

Garth Landis: 11:53

I need y'all to help me with this. Your memory might be sharper than mine and it's not per se an episode, but you know, when I reflect on the first season, the one thing I'm most proud of, you know, that we were able to do was to unpack some really crazy stuff. You know that the world would try to hold against us or trip us up or For whatever reason. You know we were able to talk about it in a way that I thought honored God, you know, and was biblically discussed, like mental health comes to mind. I remember, you know, trey and Mike, you guys were like on the razor's edge. You're like I don't know if we should do this. Like man, this is big and I'm being Jarrett like let's do it. Roll that bean footage.

Trey Ashworth: 12:41

Mike, and now we're on board. We just wanted to make it very clear that we are not meant to help professionals.

Garth Landis: 12:47

I remember it got tense and we were like man, we got to get this right. And then we've talked about like love and marriage and things that happen in marriage, right, Right, Mike?

Mike Niedermeier : 13:02

The episode was called Booyah.

Garth Landis: 13:04

Yeah, yeah, right right.

Jaret White: 13:05

Episode three yeah.

Garth Landis: 13:07

That was, and I thought we did that extremely well.

Trey Ashworth: 13:10

There's a couple parts of that episode got left on the ground.

Garth Landis: 13:13

There was some editing. There was some editing, yep.

Mike Niedermeier : 13:16

I kind of wish we didn't edit it.

Trey Ashworth: 13:19

No, we needed to edit it.

Garth Landis: 13:21

We have to come to church here and look these people in the eye and be like, yeah, but you know that one. The mental health. What was another controversial one? We talked about Bueller.

Trey Ashworth: 13:37

I know there was a big debate on the wrath episode.

Garth Landis: 13:41

Yeah, what was it? Oh, what was the exchange? We kept coming back to Like is it wrath or is it?

Trey Ashworth: 13:50

judgment. What is it?

Jaret White: 13:51

I don't remember.

Trey Ashworth: 13:52

What was?

Jaret White: 13:52

the one episode I had to yell at Mike.

Trey Ashworth: 13:53

I was going to bring up the time that. Oh, go ahead, trey. How many times, how many times did Mike interrupt Jared?

Jaret White: 14:02

last season. We should have a counter Every time he did that.

Mike Niedermeier : 14:09

So I sometimes I didn't realize I was doing it.

Trey Ashworth: 14:13

The little one. Jared's face should have been a giveaway.

Garth Landis: 14:19

I mean what?

Trey Ashworth: 14:21

At one point, though, and he's like let me finish.

Mike Niedermeier : 14:24

He pointed that.

Jaret White: 14:24

He pointed that I did, I had enough.

Trey Ashworth: 14:30

I have something good to say and you won't. Let me say it, get off me.

Jaret White: 14:34

It was like the seventh time he interrupted me in a matter of like five minutes.

Trey Ashworth: 14:37

What was that one. I couldn't take it. I don't remember. I don't remember either, I don't remember. I feel like. I think it was the one that I thought that went well. Oh, it was. Yeah, I didn't try to look at it, I was like I thought that went well, yeah, episode 11.

Jaret White: 14:52

Yeah, it was, oh man that was a great one.

Trey Ashworth: 14:55

That might have been one of those ones you needed to be in the room for to really appreciate. Yeah.

Jaret White: 15:00

It's a memory ingrained.

Garth Landis: 15:02

Some other reflections. You know we give Mike a really hard time, but there were some deservedly so there were some moments that were he preached and it was beautiful and I really enjoyed it. You know, it just came out of nowhere real fast. You know, like bam Mike's preaching, All right, here we go, and it was cool when it happened. I really enjoyed it.

Mike Niedermeier : 15:24

Well, this season I'll make sure. I just you know I wanted to rub Jared and I'll preach less.

Trey Ashworth: 15:29

I think that. I think that was the opposite.

Mike Niedermeier : 15:31

Yeah, I don't know, I'm Jared and preach more.

Trey Ashworth: 15:32

Yeah, yeah, flip flip, all right, what was your favorite?

Mike Niedermeier : 15:37

episode, mike, I can't. I, you know, I just, you know, I kind of like Garth, I really can't just narrow it down to one. I do know it was the mental health one that we did. I wouldn't say that was my favorite episode because it was uncomfortable for me. It was the anxiety and depression episode 12.

Mike Niedermeier : 15:57

I think for me there's a, for me there's a fine line and it's because I know we're not doctors and we're not therapists, we can point people to Jesus and I just want to make sure that when we got really close to that line it made me nervous, you know, and I don't want people to say, well, that's what they said, and and and and. Once we start talking and once we share, you know, I think we just got to allow God to, to move and just, and so that's the, that's the, that's kind of stuff you know, is when it just helps me make, I guess, think a little bit different or goes right to the edge. And I don't mind being edgy and I don't mind I, just there's certain things that I just I get really nervous about. So I think, even even doing that episode, think, help, break me out of my shell just a little bit, even though I'm not I'm really not in a shell. You're like an onion.

Garth Landis: 16:48

Mike, you got layers, I got layers like a cake.

Mike Niedermeier : 16:56

That's a Shrek reference, if anybody is listening. So and then you know where's your identity.

Jaret White: 17:02

Shrek that you thought would win the whole March madness tournament.

Trey Ashworth: 17:08

I was so frustrated Look.

Mike Niedermeier : 17:11

Shrek's a great character, guys. I don't understand you guys go back, watch that, listen to that episode. I think faithfulness was. Faithfulness was really good on, which was episode 17, and In episode 20 or one of our last one was head behind your tail, and so I just think I don't know. I kind of like I just I really, once we're in here, I want to record and I really like doing it.

Jaret White: 17:33

You know, I really like just getting you to the table.

Trey Ashworth: 17:35

It was like pulling tea, so I know how many times last season Did you almost not come back.

Jaret White: 17:41

I just I was so. So hold on time out. I'm interrupted. Mike, all of our listeners, when you see Mike, or if you have his number or friends with him on Facebook, just send him an encouraging message that you love him on the cast and to keep going. And just, you know, every once in a while, just hey, you know, the cast wouldn't be the same without you. So we got keep him motivated. It's very true.

Mike Niedermeier : 18:05

Yeah, and that is because I think it's.

Jaret White: 18:10

About pride. What episode?

Mike Niedermeier : 18:14

It's true that I really miss sometimes. No, no, no, no, no. No, I'm not talking about it would be the same. No, what I'm saying is is it sometimes it's, it's, it was, it was easier just to kind of give up and just say you know, I gosh is because it's a lot of work, even though I sometimes I come in last minute and I love how you use the word sometimes sometimes I just you know, we got a lot going on and it's just like, oh my gosh, we're gonna do this because it's a lot of it's a lot of work to come in and do this.

Trey Ashworth: 18:44

We get to do this, we get to do this.

Mike Niedermeier : 18:46

Yes, you don't have to do anything, but I really, but I am, I do enjoy it, I really what you're in here.

Trey Ashworth: 18:51

Yeah, yeah.

Mike Niedermeier : 18:52

Yeah, once I, once I get to sounds like me. Okay, yeah, so.

Trey Ashworth: 18:55

I think my favorite episode Was our discussion about happy or holy. I really enjoyed that one and also the the identity one. Yeah the identity was good. Yeah that was a good one, and there was a couple of episodes that we we talked about doing, but there was like I don't know, we want to do that one. You know we go back and forth and then we finally did it. They ended up being some of our best ones right.

Trey Ashworth: 19:19

So, yeah, it was a. I think we just need to be able to jump in, especially those like huh, should we? Yes, definitely right.

Jaret White: 19:27

Yeah, I liked, um, try to remember exactly what the whole context was, but the who cut an onion episode.

Mike Niedermeier : 19:35

I just remember it was very transparent, yeah that was when we were talking about our Interrupted, that's when we started talking about our families and we wanted to get healthy and we wanted to get. And Tray started off because he started crying. I got tears, he got, he got choked up not start crying.

Jaret White: 19:54

That's what, that's what we call, he couldn't.

Trey Ashworth: 19:56

I don't think it was me.

Mike Niedermeier : 19:57

It was you. You're the first one I remember.

Garth Landis: 19:59

Jared was talking about his daughter and about how he yeah, he was crying, I didn't cry.

Trey Ashworth: 20:05

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Mike Niedermeier : 20:05

Yeah okay, I cried, oh, I'm a man, I'll admit it. Yeah, but I got a motion.

Trey Ashworth: 20:10

Oh, I did, yeah, I did, but he was first yeah yeah, I think that's it.

Garth Landis: 20:15

I think that's like a waterfall man, yeah, yeah he triggered tray, yeah, and then we're all crying. I must have a good time.

Trey Ashworth: 20:22

If you cry, I'll cry with you. It's just.

Jaret White: 20:26

Have one in your corner that you will.

Trey Ashworth: 20:30

No, I just.

Jaret White: 20:32

I just remember that episode like was very, and when I look at you know, I thought all of our episodes had moments of greatness, like it was. You know you can take little little pieces out of most, all of them, but it was the moments where we were. You know, the the walls were down and it was raw and it was authentic and that's what we want to get more into with this season is, you know, not being as. That's why we said not a structured and things like that. You know we're really gonna try to, you know, hit those topics and different things that are real, because the reality is everybody that listens and we have listeners. You know we look at our analytics and stuff with listeners from all over the place, yeah, and it's crazy, so it's really cool. So, thank you guys for listening and sorry for the little bit of a gap, but we're we're back at it now and you know we're excited.

Jaret White: 21:15

Let's just real quick, go around like one favorite moment, just like one moment From the whole season. I think we should get the funniest moment. Okay, yeah, all right, I can. I start. Yeah, I need Gar's participation and help. I Think the funniest moment for me of the first season was. I think it was the first or second episode was his.

Jaret White: 21:40

It was a half-time show, yeah, it was a half-time show and it was like a you know the mind-blowing fact that the mind-blowing facts. Can you give us that sound effect again?

Trey Ashworth: 21:49

Well, first, what is it?

Garth Landis: 21:50

so for all you Jurassic Park buffs, the sound for the velociraptor was derived from the sound of mating tortoises.

Jaret White: 22:11

That moment will forever be ingrained.

Mike Niedermeier : 22:14

Yeah, we could stop laughing.

Jaret White: 22:15

No what's he talking about? And then he did it and we just couldn't stop laughing.

Garth Landis: 22:19

There was an example. Oh, that was my favorite moment.

Trey Ashworth: 22:26

It was a couple moments during the season when we would just Everything would go dead silent, as we couldn't stop laughing.

Jaret White: 22:31

Yeah, made editing really fun.

Mike Niedermeier : 22:36

I think some of my, some of my favorite moments are the ones that aren't, that haven't been produced, because it's you know, I guess it's something I may have said that you know, real edgy may have. Yeah, I think there's a comment I made. It was political and and trade was like. You can't say that. I was like why not you know, and so you know. Then, jerry cut it out, and so are you know.

Jaret White: 23:03

It's just those, those things make me make a shirt that says free Mike, yeah take the restrictor plate off.

Trey Ashworth: 23:10

The old red dragon yeah some of the best moments was story time with Mike. You never knew where they were going.

Jaret White: 23:17

Yeah, and that's like that's a thing now, that story, that story where he's.

Garth Landis: 23:24

It was a trivia the Huffy yeah we got his license.

Jaret White: 23:32

To true's in a lie.

Garth Landis: 23:34

Yeah, that was hilarious.

Trey Ashworth: 23:37

Yeah, no, I okay, so help me remember the exact details. But we were playing that game where you do lists, like you had a category and you had to say I can name this mini. So we already know what it is and I think what was it countries in Europe. Yeah.

Mike Niedermeier : 23:58

Yeah, I think like, like, because Europe used to own the behind.

Trey Ashworth: 24:01

Europe never tried to explain it, then Europe never owned the queen queen. She's not the queen of Europe.

Mike Niedermeier : 24:08

She's England, oh England the United Kingdom.

Jaret White: 24:10

So I'm doing, and then it was was in Africa. We just let him try one or two when he yeah, I don't even remember what he said, for like, three straight times. We played that three episodes.

Trey Ashworth: 24:22

You know, I think you said name a country in Africa, what Africa?

Mike Niedermeier : 24:26

You know it's funny, is that shortly after those episodes Um you read. Adam Adam airs gave me a book that says think just random things that you should know.

Trey Ashworth: 24:36

Adam airs is our middle school pass Sure.

Mike Niedermeier : 24:38

And it's sitting on my desk and that's also the reason why. Just so you guys know, I bought a new mousepad and it's it's of the globe, so it's like you know, if they ask me any questions when we do the podcast again, I'm just gonna be go like, oh yeah, it's right here.

Trey Ashworth: 24:53

Name five countries in Africa.

Jaret White: 24:55

We're not. He doesn't have the mousepad with us down stairs.

Mike Niedermeier : 24:59

I'm studying and our internet's down.

Trey Ashworth: 25:06

Yeah. When he said the Bahamas was in your yeah, I thought I lost.

Mike Niedermeier : 25:09

Yeah, that was a good moment, but we'll bring the queen owned, the queen used to own the Bahamas and gave it back. Haven't you guys seen that?

Trey Ashworth: 25:16

Yeah, she didn't give it back, they took it.

Mike Niedermeier : 25:18

Well, same difference, Hmm.

Garth Landis: 25:20

Garth. I Think my favorite was the continual antagonism by a tray on Mike. It's like it was like the most cold-blooded thing man every week is just like you knew what was gonna happen.

Trey Ashworth: 25:35

But see, here's the thing I get it from him off air and I get it from him probably more than anybody else off air. So I take, I take, I take my opportunities when I get the most of it. Yeah, whether it's recorded or not, I'm gonna take them.

Mike Niedermeier : 25:53

Yeah, yeah, I you know, although I was mean to you one time, I was mean to you one time on air and Jessica got mad. She's just like you can't be mean to pasture tray, yeah. Or she's like why are you guys so mean to trade? And she, she called me and she you need to be nice to them. I was like it's just, we're just goofing off.

Trey Ashworth: 26:12

Or there was, there was that one episode where we talked about the disagreement that we had in real life, Like oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what it was.

Jaret White: 26:17

And the peer mediator had to step in. Here we go.

Trey Ashworth: 26:20

Yeah, the middle school peer mediator solving all the world's conflict. Like keep coming back to him. Jessica was like Mike what did you do to trade yeah?

Mike Niedermeier : 26:30

So we were just joking around.

Jaret White: 26:31

Hey, jessica, take it easy on Mike this season. Please Let him. Let him keep doing this. You're making me look bad. Well, listen this was.

Jaret White: 26:41

this was just kind of the kickoff to season two. We are are super excited and we're looking forward to what all God has in store. We thank you so much for just being a part of this journey with us. You know we want to do life with you guys. It's not just something we do just because we want to. It's something that we have the opportunity to do and we truly believe that God can use this platform to help disciple and grow people's walk in the Lord, and so if you do, in the meantime, have any questions or at all any prayer requests or anything like that, we have a Facebook page. We're working on Instagram. I feel free to connect with us there. Reach out to us, message us if you need anything at all. If you have any ideas for an episode topics, send them into us. We want to connect with you guys. We want to make sure that you know. We know who, who all our fans are out there, and we want to turn from fans to friends. That's our goal this season.

Garth Landis: 27:32

I feel better now.

Jaret White: 27:33

Good.

Mike Niedermeier : 27:34

Good, I'm gonna sell you a catchy tagline. Yeah, it just happened on the spot.

Trey Ashworth: 27:39

We want to turn fans to friends.

Jaret White: 27:41

It's like everybody's already said, it's pretty catchy, all right, well, hey, listen. Thank you so much for tuning in. Our next episode we are going to dive in to the word, but this one was just. You know, if you haven't listened to all of our episodes of season one, we encourage you, when you have some free time, go back, check them out, check all the moments that we just talked about, some of the highlights that we enjoyed, but we can't wait to see what God has in store for season two. Mike, would you close this episode and set up this season with a word of prayer? Absolutely.

Mike Niedermeier : 28:09

Heavenly Father, we just thank you for this day. Lord, I pray that you just be with us and be with the listeners. Lord, I pray that season two will just be as extraordinary as season one. Lord, I pray that we will just use this as a vessel. In Jesus' name, we pray, Amen.