Wish I Would Have Known
Wish I Would Have Known
Dimetapp & Willie Nelson
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Welcome to the Wish I Would've Known podcast.
Speaker 2I'm Clint and I'm Amber, and we've been married for almost 20 years.
Speaker 1And in this 20 years we've gained a lot of wisdom and found ourselves in the middle of some pretty crazy stories.
Speaker 2And now we want to share those things with you.
Speaker 1So here's some stuff that we wish we would've known. Hey, friends, and welcome to another episode of Wish I Would've Known. I'm Clint. This is Amber. Hi that she's the one that said hi. You said hi.
Speaker 2What am I supposed to say? They can't see me, so like.
Speaker 1Salutations.
Speaker 2Jazz hands. You can't tell that I'm doing that.
Speaker 1She is jazz handsing.
Speaker 2I am jazz handsing. That's a verb. It is.
Speaker 1That's a good verb, that's a good verb. Jazz handsing. So, to kick off season three, amber and I talked about how we've been married for 19 years, how we went on this whirlwind vacation in Mexico.
Speaker 2Whirlwind.
Speaker 1It was a whirlwind, it was amazing. We talked about how my phone fell off a cliff.
Speaker 2We went horseback riding through the jungle.
Speaker 1Yeah it was all great. Okay, so that just sounds wonderful it was. And then we came home.
Speaker 2We got home.
Speaker 1We got home to like weeks straight of sick kids and broken down cars and all the different things and like you just felt like you had to fix everything. It seems we got back, which, which, by the way, when I was growing up and when you were sick as a kid, did you, did you have like a really specific medicine that your mom gave you like for everything? Do you remember it? Yeah, I've. I remember like I grew up in what I call the dime, a tap generation.
Speaker 2Yes, okay, exactly.
Speaker 1Okay. So for those of you guys that don't know, dime a tap is like this purple medicine. I think it's like cough syrup. I think it is like cough, but like but like I took dime, a tap for everything.
Speaker 2It felt like that. I don't know if anybody else really felt like on a weekly basis. I was.
Speaker 1I was slugging some dime a tap Right.
Speaker 2Hey like what's?
Speaker 1what's wrong, what's wrong with you.
Speaker 2You got a headache.
Speaker 1Dime a tap.
Speaker 2You got a stomach ache.
Speaker 1Dime a tap.
Speaker 2You got like a weird looking mole.
Speaker 1Dime a tap. Hang on, you don't want to go to school today. Rummage to the club. Dime a tap.
Speaker 2Dime a tap.
Speaker 1We got you. We got you with the dime a tap.
Speaker 2Do they still make dime a tap? I?
Speaker 1don't even know Like.
Speaker 2Or did it get pulled? I feel like somebody said it got pulled from the shelves.
Speaker 1If it got pulled, I'm like, at least I'm, I'm at least 8% dime a tap at this point in my life. It's, it's like running through my veins.
Speaker 2Those purple veins.
Speaker 1The purple veins, my purple veins full of dime, a tap.
Speaker 2You know what I just realized? I bet Okay. So if you know Clint and you've seen Clint especially around church you see him with a crane grape in his hand.
Speaker 1You know what? It's? Because dime a tap, because my just every like I just I long for it. I need the fix. I got to get my dime a tap fix.
Speaker 2This is an insider peek into our life. Right, it's Sunday morning, it's 5 30 am. We're trying to get ourselves up, get all the kids up and ready to get out the door, and if we do not have crane grape, we will go on an excursion to however many gas stations we have to, because you have to have one or you won't. It's like you will not sing, it's like a Mariah Carey thing.
Speaker 1I won't.
Speaker 2She's like I didn't give my hot tea.
Speaker 1I mean it's like it's totally I didn't give my crane grape. So okay, so it's totally a placebo, but now I'm trying to like find the genesis of it and, honest to God, it might be dime a tap. I swear like I can see. I can see 10 year old Clint like. Fall morning I get up I got my Dallas Cowboys sweatshirt on.
Speaker 2It does.
Speaker 1It does not have a pair of mom's underwear, static, clung to the inside. Harking back to season one, the underwear story. But I got my Dallas Cowboys sweatshirt. I'm like, mom, I don't feel good, I want to go to school. She's like what's the matter with you?
Speaker 2And I didn't even matter how I answered that question. You can say whatever.
Speaker 1My freaking arm fell off. Dime a tap. Here's you some dime a tap. So now fast forward to me grown man.
Speaker 2Hey, I'm waking up 5, 30 in the morning.
Speaker 1I got to go sing. I got to lead worship. What do you need? Dime a tap, don't have it Got pulled from the shelves. Here's some crane grape. Here's some oceans Great crane grape.
Speaker 2Wait, if they do still make dime a tap, would that be a like? Could I give that to you instead of having to go find crane grapes?
Speaker 1I don't know.
Speaker 2But like.
Speaker 1I mean, I'm not mad at it. I would take some dime a tap. Yo, it's crazy. For those of you guys that don't know what it is, you need to go Google it or something, because, like I don't know why this was like a thing. Also little tiny side tangent. Okay, ludens, cough drops.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, we talked about these before.
Speaker 1Ludens cough drops were like.
Speaker 2That was like see boat do there's, do nothing well, not.
Speaker 1No, it wasn't placebo that made you king of the playground in fifth grade. If you had some loot, I got no note.
Speaker 2Hey bro.
Speaker 1Hey bro, hit me with some new ludes. Yes, I'm cherries, okay. So, speaking of being sick, and we'll tag that with also like being old, okay, so here's an old, okay, sick and old. So here's the deal, this is the deal. So amaradon live, live out west of Austin in a place called spicewood, and spicewood is famous for Kind of one really specific thing it is the home of willa Nelson. Yeah, it sure is, so willy lives out in spicewood.
Speaker 2He's our neighbor, he's our neighbor.
Speaker 1He's like right up, right up the hill, willy's house. He's right there. Every time I travel, every time I travel, I am worried that willies going to die while while I'm gone.
Speaker 2That's such a sad thought.
Speaker 1Okay, he's like 91 years. You want to?
Speaker 2be home when he dies, just so you can be like he was right there like what.
Speaker 1I don't know, I don't know why, but I like it's in my, I think about it. It's like I don't want to. I don't, I don't. I want to be there Like that to celebrate his life. But I want to be there like celebrate his life and like his legacy and all the things that he's done.
Speaker 2It will be a big deal in Austin, for sure.
Speaker 1Yeah, we'll be listen I said that will be parades. I've said it before you can quote me on it. Willie Nelson is the Billy Graham of Austin, texas, 100%, and that's the most true statement in the weirdest way. It's just true, yeah it's so in so many ways.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Yeah, so, anyway. So I literally will be taken off From from the airport here in Austin think. I don't know why I, but I really think about that while we're in Mexico.
Hilltop Bar, T-Shirts, and Willie Nelson
Speaker 1Yes, no, I really did. I was like if he, if he dies while I'm gone, that's gonna be really sad. So like, okay, so I think about this, okay so. So my parents came to spend some time with us throughout the course of of the summer and it's awesome, it's always so much fun having them here. And there's this little hilltop bar right close to our house called Poodies. Poodies P oh, d, I E S.
Speaker 1Now Poodie was Willie's original bus driver. He was the bus driver for Willie for forever and if you know anything about Willie Nelson, he very like doesn't ever fly, he takes the bus everywhere he goes. So Poodie was like his guy. So Willie bought him this hilltop bar right close to his house. It's got live music every single night, every night. It is a hole in the wall of hole in the wall it sure is, but it's just a dive. So one night while my parents are here, they love country music and just love that whole experience and so I'm like, hey, I'm gonna take you guys to Poodies. So just my parents and I went to go hang out at Poodies and to go listen and a couple different bands it played. There was one guy that played and like I Don't. I'm trying to figure out what, what, how, to quantify what happened, but essentially, like he's saying Whatever song he wanted to, over the exact same chord progression, in the exact same tempo, tempo like a familiar song.
Speaker 1Dandelid and a little dandelid and a little dandelid.
Speaker 1Yeah, so he's playing Dandelid and a little dandelid and he's like on the road again. Just get on the road again and like he was it, and then he would change into something else in the another song, dandelid and a little, and like I Know, I'm like man, wow, that's like that's interesting. Yeah, kind of doing your thing there, dude. So we're hanging out at Poodies and Brantley, who's my stepdad Mm-hmm, wanted to Grab a Poodies t-shirt because one does as one does when you go to Poodies.
Speaker 2I think there's like, as everyone knows, this when you go to Poodies you get a t-shirt child and me still Snickers a little bit at the name.
Speaker 1Oh, everybody listen to this is snickering when you say please. So he sees his t-shirt and he's like man, I gotta get this, cuz it had this little catchy like pithy phrase on it. All right, so I'm gonna. I'm gonna tell you what said here in a bit.
Speaker 2Cliffhanger.
Speaker 1Cliffhanger. So it's a funny little t-shirt, specific from Willie's backyard. It's pretty cool and the reason they wanted to get it is because my mom and Brantley were going to see Willie Nelson live in concert in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
Speaker 2Back where they live.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah. So they stayed with us for the summer. They took off back to the Carolinas and as soon as they get to the Carolinas again so they're kind of having their Mexico experience they're out here with their grandkids, they're having a blast in Texas. As soon as they get back, Brantley throws his back out Like bad ban, yeah, Like spinal L5, L4, something I don't know. I'm not a surgeon. That's why I'm on a podcast.
Speaker 2All right, that's why we drive Odessa.
Speaker 1That's why we drive Odessa right. That's why we put the dime a tap on Odessa, limp her along, because I'm not a surgeon, anyway. So Brantley throws his back out, he gets there, he's frustrated, he's having this really hard time. Literally I'm talking like can't take 10, 12 steps, can't walk at all. But they have these a couple things planned that they don't want to miss out on, and one of them is Willie Nelson, and the reason that it's kind of like look, we can't miss this concert is because they think the same thing I do, willie might not make it. Okay, this is kind of it. This is probably the last time.
Speaker 2Willie Nelson's ever going to be in the KRLIs, so many people spending so much time thinking about when Willie's going to die.
Speaker 1This is what I think about Okay, all right, they just like. All right, brantley, you got to get better. We're going to take you to the doctor.
Speaker 1Yeah, that did everything they could, so they're like literally making doctor's appointments to try to do anything they can so that they can ensure that they can go and see Willie Nelson. So the concert comes around. Brantley goes to the doctor that morning. He's still feeling absolutely terrible, cannot walk, just terrible, terrible pain on all the meds and all the things. He and Willie both very medicated All right, that's what they have in different ways. So they go to the concert, they have this handicap parking pass. They're thinking like hey, we're going to.
Speaker 2Oh, they did they did.
Speaker 1They paid the extra for it and they get up there handicap parking full.
Speaker 2Oh no.
Speaker 1Full. So they're like all right, we'll drop you off as close as they'll allow us to be able to go, which was about a mile. So I'm talking 12 steps. He can barely take. So, brantley, 12 steps, pause, wince and pain 12 steps pause, wince and pain, All of this to go and see Willie Nelson.
Speaker 1So they finally make it up to the concert venue. They're there, they're watching the concert. He's having a hard time sitting, but he's still there and trying to enjoy it and be a part of it. Because it's Willie Nelson Like. Why would you not Like? What a cool it's like once in a lifetime opportunity. Right, they're there with some of their best friends who are just like an aunt and uncle to me, just wonderful people. So they had a great experience. It was awesome. But not only did he have to walk up the hill to get to the concert. After the concert was over, they had to walk back. So, look, they made it. I texted them during and I was like guys, I'm really excited, I'm so pumped that y'all got to go show, so stoked that he's still alive. And they texted back and they said you mean Willie or Brantley? And I was like both, both glad that they're both still alive. They're both amazing human beings. I'm glad that they're both still alive. So Brantley's got to walk back the mile and a half or so down to the car.
Speaker 1So all these people are driving by and they're seeing him take 12 steps and went over in pain and they're like, hey, you doing okay there, man, you need a ride. He's, I'm fine, I'm fine, I can make it. And he's just slowly making his way, all the while wearing a t-shirt from PooTies. That says I'll quit when Willie quits.
Speaker 2I love it.
Speaker 1So everybody's like yelling at, like yelling out the window, man, that's awesome shirt. Or like yeah. So I mean look, listen, he'll quit. He'll quit when Willie quits.
Speaker 2Yeah, okay, but when Willie does die, that means Brantley quits.
Speaker 1I don't know, I think I think the shirt's kind of like it, assuming that willies like he's just never gonna die he's not gonna.
Speaker 2Will be touring till he's. I have a theory.
Speaker 1I have a theory that Is an AI. Thing that will. Annelson is a I no that he doesn't actually exist and that's why, like he, I mean listen, think about look up a recent video, willie Nelson, and when he's singing he always has this thing where he kind of just sings like often explode. Is what he was like he talks, he, yeah, but now like even more so. So you got the band over the ding ding, ding, ding ding, like it's kind of like that.
Speaker 1Yeah and then Willie's like Don't let your babies grow up, god boys.
Speaker 2That's just because he's so old you, it's hard to sing when you're old. How do you know? I'm because you look at people like artists who are older and it gets harder and harder for them to sing.
Speaker 1Do you think? Do you think Willie Swigs a little bit of dime, a tap Before before he performs? Is that the secret is? Hang on, hang on. Now we're bringing it all back. It's all making sense Is is that? Is that the secret? The secret to to your longevity is Is dime a tap?
Speaker 2you want to live till 90? How does he night you?
Speaker 191, I think you want to sing mom's don't let your babies grow to be cowboys. Till you, 90 winners old down tap I.
Speaker 2Don't know. Look, that may be the biggest wish I would have known ever and you're welcome. You know you taking all these vitamins and supplements and working out and doing all the things when you really could be just taking a.
Speaker 1Popping some diamond, taking a little swig of diamond tab every morning. Just keep it by the bed. Alarm goes off. Oh, you are ready, you ready for the day for whatever it holds.
Speaker 2For whatever it holds Just never know campaign at this point Ready for life, I'm pumped right now.
Speaker 1You know what I'm proud of. I'm proud of the fact that this is the most Diamond tap has ever been talked about on a podcast. I'm positive. The diamond tap has their own podcast. Don't talk about it as much as we did on this episode. I feel really good about it.
Speaker 2You walk away with anything from today. There you go there it is you won't Okay, so bringing it back to when we came back from Mexico. And all these things are happening the kids are sick, they're passing around sickness and cars sick the car is sick and all that stuff.
Speaker 2I think there's just things that we've learned over our 19 years of marriage. Now that you know like it's gonna happen, that kind of stuff happens and you get through it. So I I don't know. I just think you and I have learned how to sort of weather those storms Well it's not just that like it's gonna happen and it needs to catch you off guard.
Speaker 1I think everybody listening either finds themselves in the midst of a difficult season. Mm-hmm, or they just got out of one or they're just about to walk into one.
Speaker 2Yeah, and that's reality.
Speaker 1Yeah, I mean from a biblical worldview perspective. It even says in James one that You're going to go through trials of many kinds. That's a guarantee gonna happen. Yeah gonna happen, yeah, and so if you know that that's gonna happen, what you can trust is that God is going to use all of those things together for good.
Speaker 2Yeah, Romans 828.
Speaker 1Romans 828. He's gonna use all these things cake.
Speaker 2Yeah, anytime in my mind.
Speaker 1When you say Romans 828, I say cake after and would you like to tell the rest of us why?
Speaker 2nope, that's. That's just what it. No cake like. There are ingredients in cake that on their own are not good. Like you, you're not just gonna, you know, chug a whole bunch of raw eggs. Maybe some people do.
Speaker 1You might, but you wouldn't like eat a handful of flour? Yeah, okay, gotcha.
Speaker 2Right. So things like that On their own they all seem like really crappy things, but when you put them all together, then they become cake, which is wonderful, and you love cake.
Speaker 1Put them together and put them through a little bit of heat.
Speaker 2Oh, come on, that'll pre-.
Speaker 1Watch it preach. There's the organ. Thank you for that.
Speaker 1I appreciate it. Now. I think I just want to take this opportunity to encourage everybody to listen. No matter what situation you find yourself in right now, god is still sovereign and he can handle it. He doesn't say oops, he doesn't say oh, my bad, I didn't see that coming, and all of the things that happen are useful to the Lord. And so here's kind of the fast forward. So, amron, I came back from Mexico. We had the best time in the world. We came back. We almost didn't see each other for like 10 days because of sick kids and everything else, and it was really difficult. It would have been really easy to just sink into the post-vacation midst, in the midst of chaos. Pity party, pity party, pity party.
Speaker 1We're just like I'm feeling bad for myself and look, that temptation is there for sure, and we did. To a certain extent.
Speaker 2Briefly, I think for a moment you're just like I can't believe we're having a deal all of a sudden. Oh my gosh, yeah, where's my fresh guacamole and salsa laid out for me. This is ridiculous.
Speaker 1Right, you take a step back and you recognize that Willie Nelson is still alive.
Speaker 2Praise him as of recording this podcast.
Speaker 1No, I'm just saying no. You take a step back and you realize that, like this too shall pass. Yeah, this will pass.
Speaker 2And he too will pass.
Speaker 1Oh no, he will, but I hope I'm here for it, though. I don't know why. I don't know why, but I just feel like I need to be.
Speaker 2He needs you. He needs you close by Clint. He probably thinks about you every day too.
Speaker 1No.
Speaker 2Wondering if you're in town or out of town.
Speaker 1Yeah, he's like hold on, he's flying to New York. Clint's flying to New York next week. Got to hold on, hold on.
Speaker 2No, but this too shall pass, You're right. I mean just situations like as crummy as it seems in the middle of it, especially sick kids, you know that like when they start getting sick and then passing it around. There's almost nothing worse than that. It's just so hard.
Speaker 1It's bad and I think I just want to encourage everybody that's listening to you Just having this worldview that recognizing that God's in control, it's man, it's just so comforting, versus this worldview where there's, like this karmatic, you know theology or idea of the good things happen because I put good in or bad things happen, because I put bad, I mean that's just so much responsibility and like worry and you're like it. Bad things, listen, bad things are going to happen.
Speaker 2That's all about control, absolutely. That's all about I'm in control, I control what happens to me, and so if I put good in or whatever, it's just control.
Speaker 1Absolutely Versus the fact that God's in control and he's sovereign and he holds all of it in his hand and there's nothing in God's economy that he doesn't use. Is that the whole world in his hands?
Speaker 2You said he holds it in his hands. He got the whole.
Speaker 1Yeah, I think it can be like a Willie Nelson version. He's got the whole world oh in his hand.
Speaker 2Oh, I love that.
Speaker 1He's got the whole world.
Speaker 2In his hands.
Speaker 1In his hands. It's like he fell asleep. He fell asleep in between, in between those phrases. He's asleep. Well, somebody like elbows him, like Benjamin.
Speaker 2Oh man.
Speaker 1Anyway, hey guys, thank you all so much for listening. Every single time that Amber and I get an opportunity to come sit in here in the studio, this is just such a blessing. Yep, it's fun for us to sit here with our Starbucks and talk to you guys while you're on your treadmill or driving or doing dishes or whatever you're doing, or taking care of sick kids.
Speaker 1What if somebody is listening to this? And they were like on a hike and they downloaded a couple of podcasts and they're like they're on a hike but they're stuck because there's a storm coming over the ridge and they got a hunker down and they have to choose between the flashlight on their phone or listening to this podcast. And they chose this podcast because they're like I just need to hear if Willie made it and then their phone dies.
Speaker 2And then they realize that all they need to survive is Damatab.
Speaker 1Oh man, I wonder if that's like a wilderness survival tool. Is it helpful? Is it helpful in a wilderness survival situation to have some Damatab on hand? You got your road flayers, you got your bandages. Get your Damatab.
Speaker 2You're good to go.
Speaker 1Attack by Bear Damatab. All right guys. Thanks so much for listening. We're so grateful that you guys did. We hope you have an awesome week and we will see you next time.
Speaker 2Bye everybody.
Speaker 1Wish I would have known is recorded in the beautiful hill country of Austin, texas, the live music capital of the world. Follow us on Instagram, at wishpodcast, and stop by to say hi. We like it when people say hi.
