Wish I Would Have Known
Wish I Would Have Known
Dimetapp & Willie Nelson
Clint and Amber are pretty sure that Dimetapp and Willie Nelson will cure what ails ya.
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Welcome to the Wish I Would've Known podcast.
Speaker 2:I'm Clint and I'm Amber, and we've been married for almost 20 years.
Speaker 1:And in this 20 years we've gained a lot of wisdom and found ourselves in the middle of some pretty crazy stories.
Speaker 2:And now we want to share those things with you.
Speaker 1:So 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 2:What am I supposed to say? They can't see me, so like.
Speaker 1:Salutations.
Speaker 2:Jazz hands. You can't tell that I'm doing that.
Speaker 1:She is jazz handsing.
Speaker 2:I am jazz handsing. That's a verb. It is.
Speaker 1:That'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 2:Whirlwind.
Speaker 1:It was a whirlwind, it was amazing. We talked about how my phone fell off a cliff.
Speaker 2:We went horseback riding through the jungle.
Speaker 1:Yeah it was all great. Okay, so that just sounds wonderful it was. And then we came home.
Speaker 2:We got home.
Speaker 1:We 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 2:Yes, okay, exactly.
Speaker 1:Okay. 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 2:It felt like that. I don't know if anybody else really felt like on a weekly basis. I was.
Speaker 1:I was slugging some dime a tap Right.
Speaker 2:Hey like what's?
Speaker 1:what's wrong, what's wrong with you.
Speaker 2:You got a headache.
Speaker 1:Dime a tap.
Speaker 2:You got a stomach ache.
Speaker 1:Dime a tap.
Speaker 2:You got like a weird looking mole.
Speaker 1:Dime a tap. Hang on, you don't want to go to school today. Rummage to the club. Dime a tap.
Speaker 2:Dime a tap.
Speaker 1:We got you. We got you with the dime a tap.
Speaker 2:Do they still make dime a tap? I?
Speaker 1:don't even know Like.
Speaker 2:Or did it get pulled? I feel like somebody said it got pulled from the shelves.
Speaker 1:If 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 2:Those purple veins.
Speaker 1:The purple veins, my purple veins full of dime, a tap.
Speaker 2:You 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 1:You 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 2:This 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 1:I won't.
Speaker 2:She's like I didn't give my hot tea.
Speaker 1:I 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 2:It does.
Speaker 1:It 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 2:And I didn't even matter how I answered that question. You can say whatever.
Speaker 1:My freaking arm fell off. Dime a tap. Here's you some dime a tap. So now fast forward to me grown man.
Speaker 2:Hey, I'm waking up 5, 30 in the morning.
Speaker 1:I 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 2:Wait, 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 1:I don't know.
Speaker 2:But like.
Speaker 1:I 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 2:Oh yeah, we talked about these before.
Speaker 1:Ludens cough drops were like.
Speaker 2:That was like see boat do there's, do nothing well, not.
Speaker 1:No, it wasn't placebo that made you king of the playground in fifth grade. If you had some loot, I got no note.
Speaker 2:Hey bro.
Speaker 1:Hey 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 2:He's our neighbor, he's our neighbor.
Speaker 1:He'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 2:That's such a sad thought.
Speaker 1:Okay, he's like 91 years. You want to?
Speaker 2:be home when he dies, just so you can be like he was right there like what.
Speaker 1:I 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 2:It will be a big deal in Austin, for sure.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 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 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 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.
Speaker 1:Yes, 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 1:Now 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 1:Dandelid and a little dandelid and a little dandelid.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 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 2:I 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 1:Oh, 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 2:Cliffhanger.
Speaker 1:Cliffhanger. 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 2:Back where they live.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 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 2:All right, that's why we drive Odessa.
Speaker 1:That'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 2:Willie 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 1:This 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 1:Yeah, 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 2:Oh, they did they did.
Speaker 1:They paid the extra for it and they get up there handicap parking full.
Speaker 2:Oh no.
Speaker 1:Full. 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 1:So 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 1:So 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 2:I love it.
Speaker 1:So 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 2:Yeah, okay, but when Willie does die, that means Brantley quits.
Speaker 1:I 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 2:Will be touring till he's. I have a theory.
Speaker 1:I 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 1:Yeah and then Willie's like Don't let your babies grow up, god boys.
Speaker 2:That'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 1:Do 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 2:you want to live till 90? How does he night you?
Speaker 1:91, 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 2:Don'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 1:Popping 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 2:For whatever it holds Just never know campaign at this point Ready for life, I'm pumped right now.
Speaker 1:You 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 2:You 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 2:I 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 1:I 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 2:Yeah, and that's reality.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 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 2:Yeah, Romans 828.
Speaker 1:Romans 828. He's gonna use all these things cake.
Speaker 2:Yeah, anytime in my mind.
Speaker 1:When you say Romans 828, I say cake after and would you like to tell the rest of us why?
Speaker 2:nope, 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 1:You might, but you wouldn't like eat a handful of flour? Yeah, okay, gotcha.
Speaker 2:Right. 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 1:Put them together and put them through a little bit of heat.
Speaker 2:Oh, come on, that'll pre-.
Speaker 1:Watch it preach. There's the organ. Thank you for that.
Speaker 1:I 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 1:We'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 2:Briefly, 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 1:Right, you take a step back and you recognize that Willie Nelson is still alive.
Speaker 2:Praise him as of recording this podcast.
Speaker 1:No, I'm just saying no. You take a step back and you realize that, like this too shall pass. Yeah, this will pass.
Speaker 2:And he too will pass.
Speaker 1:Oh 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 2:He needs you. He needs you close by Clint. He probably thinks about you every day too.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:Wondering if you're in town or out of town.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 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 2:No, 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 1:It'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 2:That'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 1:Absolutely 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 2:You said he holds it in his hands. He got the whole.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think it can be like a Willie Nelson version. He's got the whole world oh in his hand.
Speaker 2:Oh, I love that.
Speaker 1:He's got the whole world.
Speaker 2:In his hands.
Speaker 1:In 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 2:Oh man.
Speaker 1:Anyway, 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 1:What 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 2:And then they realize that all they need to survive is Damatab.
Speaker 1:Oh 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 2:You're good to go.
Speaker 1:Attack 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 2:Bye everybody.
Speaker 1:Wish 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.
