Mission Men Podcast
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Mission Men Podcast
Mission Men: Super-Sized Super Bowl Special!
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Ever found yourself chuckling at a sports commentary that went hilariously Awry? That's precisely where we kick things off, stumbling over our tagline with the finesse of a toddler's first steps but recovering with the grace of a stand-up comedian. We're serving up a cocktail of jests and wisdom garnished with a slice of Brandon’s sports switcheroo, blending the zest of novice Super Bowl predictions with the tang of a geography pop quiz that'll make you wonder if we even passed fifth grade. Our banter is a love letter to our listeners; we treasure your ears and your hearts as we explore life's lighter side.
So, lace up your cleats—or, you know, just slip on some comfy socks—and join us for a "Full House"of hearty laugh as we celebrate the unexpected touchdowns in life, the kind that come with a heaping side of humility and a dash of self-discovery.
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Speaker 1Ladies and gentlemen , welcome back to the Mission Men Podcast brought to you by Mission Media . What are you saying ? Stop , Stop , what ? Just stop ? Mission Media Group , I'm sorry , mission Men C9 , the whole place . Mission Men Podcast . The podcast about literally nothing and everything and everything in between .
Speaker 3So , guys , you know what's really funny about this . Hold on , I gotta stop you for that . Yeah , go for it Cut the beat . So no , here we go . So it's so funny . On the first episode .
Speaker 1Mm-hmm .
Speaker 3You know our tagline .
Speaker 1Yeah .
Speaker 3Do you realize that we've said it wrong , like for three episodes in a row ? Huh , people show about nothing everything and anything in between . Yeah , yeah , yeah , Some people brought it up to me . A daughter brought it up to me . She said every time you say it , you say it different . Oh , that's funny . Episode two it's different . Episode three it's different . And an example we said a show about one time . He would say nothing , anything and everything , and then it would be nothing Right .
Speaker 1It would always change as long as I get those three words in there , we're good .
Speaker 3So we've been hitting , you've been batting a thousand yeah for today .
Speaker 2At least , guys , I can carry the team and always get our outro . The same exact way every time . So I'm glad I can at least do that for you guys . A lot of you can't really be on my wave , surf's up .
Speaker 1I was trying not to say anything , I was like I know , dude , we were on the same wave , let's just look at them .
Speaker 3We're going to look at them . You know what ?
Speaker 1Speaking of waves , we were just going to let John ride that out and just see how long he would have gone , but the surf's up got me , that got me .
Speaker 3That got me . That was a good one , I was laughing .
Speaker 1That was good hey that was better than the first one . The first one was like you know , oh , now you're doing it . Okay , got it . Reverse psychology .
Speaker 3This is our , this is our Super Bowl episode .
Speaker 1Yes , yeah , so we should say that we got off the track .
Speaker 3Goal Super Bowl is coming up this Sunday .
Speaker 1This Sunday it is coming up and we are excited for football team A to play football team .
Speaker 3B , team B . Look who you have as a rule . Who do you want ? Who do you want ?
Speaker 1Anybody but the Chiefs . Honestly , I don't care .
Speaker 3That's me too .
Speaker 1Yeah , how about you , john ?
Speaker 2Man , if we can pull the Rangers into the finals , oh gosh , that would be the finals , the finals .
Speaker 3Yeah , if we could get the Rangers there ?
Speaker 2I mean , it would sure be a sweep of the leg .
Speaker 3So here's the deal , even though this is probably have to drink a Hell , mary , okay . Well , you got that part . There you go . So , even though this is the Super Bowl episode and we're taping it now , the teams have already been decided who in the Super Bowl at the time this airs . Right , right , I'm going to go for the Ravens and the Lions . That's who I want to see in the Super Bowl .
Speaker 1Yeah , the .
Speaker 2Ravens and the Lions .
Speaker 1Yeah , that'd be good , that'd be great . Yep , I like that . Yeah , john , who do you think who'd win Ravens Lions ?
Speaker 2Well , considering that I'm on to you , these teams aren't in the even in the rankings . Oh , they are .
Speaker 1They actually , they didn't make them up .
Speaker 3You're not setting me up . They're actually not a setup . So the Lions are the Ravens . The Lions , that's who I want to Super Bowl , I mean right now , as we're filming , there's only four teams left .
Speaker 1Can you give me those ?
Speaker 3Yes , so the .
Speaker 1Chiefs , the Ra , the Chiefs and Ravens .
Speaker 3The Chiefs and the Chiefs play the Ravens Okay .
Speaker 1Yeah , and the Lions and the 49ers , yes , yeah .
Speaker 3Whoa . Those are the last four teams to play each other .
Speaker 1Okay , okay , cool , quit trivia . Which city are the 49ers from ?
Speaker 2Well , there's 52 states , so they have to be the 49th .
Speaker 1Yeah .
Speaker 3So these are the most . Most sports teams are from cities , not necessarily states .
Speaker 2Oh , so it's a city Pretty much .
Speaker 1Yeah , that's when I met , when I said city .
Speaker 3The 49ers are from what ?
Speaker 1I think I said city , city 49ers .
Speaker 2Here's your quiz 49ers , 49ers . Yes , I honestly have no clue . All right , so San Francisco ? I don't even want to guess .
Speaker 1All right . So San Francisco . So real quick . We kind of went off the track .
Speaker 2Do you know what's in San Francisco ? What Do you know what's in San Francisco ? The ?
Speaker 1Golden Gate Bridge . Okay Great , that was funny . Oh my gosh . Okay , yes , the look of approval for me was just priceless All right . So let's kind of back up here real quick Approval .
Speaker 2Are you making fun of me ? No , so , yeah , yeah , so yeah . Next episode upcoming .
Speaker 1So , guys , we just want to say thank you so much for checking out the mission empire podcast . We just love just hanging out with you and just being goofy , being silly , having fun , but also getting real and having some good conversations about the Lord and just , hopefully , encouraging you . So if you guys don't mind just dropping a like rating sharing , all those kinds of things . John , is there something you want to share with the class ?
Speaker 2or Paul brought lemonade out of nowhere , and now I'm jealous .
Speaker 3Home Depot Home .
Speaker 2Depot . Oh , when you went and got the tools . Yes , oh sorry .
Speaker 1So , anyways , so we just appreciate you guys . Thank you so much . Please leave comments emails . We want to pray with you , we want to hear what you want us to talk about , just all these kinds of things . So we want you to be a part of it .
Speaker 1So thank you so much for making us a part of your life . Okay , so today we got a great , great episode . I'm super excited about it . So one is , we're going to dive into John a little bit as far as he plays flag football , and we're going to kind of hear about that experience . So , as you have already learned , john doesn't have the most knowledge when it comes to sports . If you've kind of listened here a little bit , I would say I'm knowledgeable and in what way ?
Speaker 2Four .
Speaker 1So I already know that . Yeah , that's good . What's that from ? It's from Phil .
Speaker 2Mickelson .
Speaker 1Okay , so I was surprised to even know a golfer .
Speaker 3Yeah that was really cool .
Speaker 2Haters , get off me .
Speaker 1And then , guys , you definitely want to stick around for this . I tell Paul I'm honestly super excited . Paul is kind of a star .
Speaker 3No , no , don't even say that . And not just a star with six angles .
Speaker 2What ?
Speaker 1I don't know what that means .
Speaker 2A normal star has five , six , oh , okay .
Speaker 1See John you're on another level . We're just not on your level . No , astronomical .
Speaker 3I'm still dealing with the bills losing last week , so we're in a hard time with this .
Speaker 1Yes , so we'll dive into all that . So please stick around . We got an amazing , amazing story of Paul's past life a little bit , which I'm super excited to dive in , but all right . So , paul , let's talk about this . Nice , I could hear the hurt in your voice . How are you feeling ? What's going on ? Cause just , it wasn't just this past week , what .
Speaker 2Are you Darth Vader ?
Speaker 3Yeah , the bills lost and it was how they lost . You know , so you have to understand .
Speaker 1Paul's , a massive , massive Bill's fan .
Speaker 3So I was around . My first game was in 73 that I went to at the Bill Stadium to see OJ play OJ .
Speaker 2Simpson .
Speaker 3OJ Simpson back of the day .
Speaker 2Come on , I've told you I'm knowledgeable . There you go .
Speaker 3And then we went to forestry Super Bowls , which no other team has done for straight Super Bowl appearances , and we lost all four in a row , all four .
Speaker 2Dang y'all suck what . I'm just kidding , but here's the deal .
Speaker 1Here's the deal . So the first one we were winning , we were , we were we could have won .
Speaker 3So we were running down . Clock was almost ticking down Fourth quarter . All we had to do was basically kick a chip shot field goal to win the game .
Speaker 1Like do you know how far away it was the field goal ? 20 something yards . Okay , 20 something yards , so I mean chip shot extra points .
Speaker 3That's very short in football , yeah 27 yards , make max 30 . It was short Sure and we were .
Speaker 2У0 .
Speaker 3If we had kicked this there was no time left on the clock the bills would have won their first Super Bowl ever in history , and he missed the kick .
Speaker 1It went wide right . Yeah , that's like the famous call wide right , wide right , so just now remind yourself to last weekend .
Speaker 2Josh Allen gets us down in the fourth quarter .
Speaker 3He gets us all the way down . This was just this past weekend . Gets us all the way down . He does his job . The kicker comes out , misses it wide right . See , that's when you have to , that's when I'm like how could this happen to the bills ?
Speaker 2See as a coach myself . I would never allow that player to step back on any turf .
Speaker 1Well , it wasn't the same player . That was like a 40 , 50 year deal .
Speaker 3Scott Norwood was the first . That was 92 , I think it was .
Speaker 2See , that's the first problem that I was thinking about was why would you still keep the scout on the team ?
Speaker 3Tyler Bass , was this kicker ?
Speaker 2Tyler Holt , Lauren's boyfriend .
Speaker 1So , john , I want to just really quick , just a very quick set of rabbit shroud . You realize that a lot of people listening don't know who these people are , who's people are .
Speaker 3The people you're talking about .
Speaker 1Yeah , you just brought up somebody from church .
Speaker 2When .
Speaker 3Just now .
Speaker 2Did I ask Okay , anyways , hahaha .
Speaker 3My gosh .
Speaker 1Okay , anyways , what were you talking about ?
Speaker 2Football , football , we were going to talk about flag football , or we were giving the overview of the podcast .
Speaker 1So , paul , had to relive . Oh , that was agony .
Speaker 3Just a really agony . I don't even think I could actually talk to anyone the next day .
Speaker 2Really , is that serious for you ?
Speaker 3The bills are very serious to me In my entire family .
Speaker 2He's like Isaac .
Speaker 1So , paul , here's an interesting thing .
Speaker 2Or you .
Speaker 1Well , no , I agree , but I've actually implemented . It's called the two minute rule , yes what's the two minute rule ? Two minute rule . So obviously I mean I'm wearing a Ohio State hat . I'm a huge Ohio State Buckeyes fan .
Speaker 2We can't tell it's backwards , right .
Speaker 3Buckeyes nation .
Speaker 1Buckeyes nation .
Speaker 2it says yeah , Buckeyes nation . Sorry , sorry .
Speaker 1So , anyways , so the two minute rule . So what I do is I say , okay , I'm going to give myself two minutes right after games over and we lose , I can be mad , I can be upset for two minutes . And then , after that two minutes is over , I literally say this out loud to myself . I say , okay , these are 18 to 22 year old kids playing a game and this should have no direct effect on my life whatsoever . And so and then I try to calm myself down so I used to be two days , okay , so it used to be long . So I've worked my way down to two minutes .
Speaker 3So what you understand my first game was 50 years ago .
Speaker 1That's .
Speaker 3And I've been following the bills for 50 years , I get it they never won a Super Bowl .
Speaker 2No , not once they've won a Super Bowl for you . No in 50 years . In 50 years , are you kidding ?
Speaker 3Yeah , there's a lot of teams that haven't even gone to Super Bowl yet . What's still in the NFL ? Every team has not gone to Super Bowl yet , right , right . That's but the fact that we have gone four times , we couldn't get one of those .
Speaker 2I'm sorry .
Speaker 1So , anyways , we bring all that up now is because you know , obviously we're going through some football grief . I mean , I know I went through some this year with the Buckeyes .
Speaker 2Good grief .
Speaker 1But we're going to make this relatable for everybody , in case you're not a football fan . So our friend John here has taken up flag football and so a lot of your buddies .
Speaker 3First , we were shocked to hear that . Right , yeah , we were like we were shocked , you know .
Speaker 1I'm an athlete ? No , we , no . We know you were , but but Don't know why , what just ? Happened there , so okay , so all right . What made you want to play flag football ? Let's start there , isaac , your buddy , your best friend , isaac
Football Team Practice and Quarterback Success
Speaker 1, one of your best friend .
Speaker 2Isaac knows football really well , but I've played football for funsies with the homies a lot before and I'm a basketball player like by default , like you like play basketball and I know that sport and I'm better , I'm the best at basketball because that's the sport that I played the most . But I like football too . I like running , I like throwing and I I don't know . Yeah .
Speaker 1I'm better myself athletic , okay , so , so you play with your buddies , and so they're like , I think , my answers are too long whenever you ask me questions . Cause you are . Yeah , yeah , I tried to move it . No , thank you , I appreciate that . No , I'm just a mess . Good point , there you go . So yeah , no , we got the point , john .
Speaker 2So I'm telling you All right , brandon , yeah , oh , that's what it feels like , yeah , no .
Speaker 1So all right . So you're playing with your buddies , you know , having fun , just goof around , and then so are they like , hey , we got a team and we want you to be on it , or how did that work ?
Speaker 2out . So Isaac was like , dude , we should join a like football team . And I was like , oh , let's do it Okay .
Speaker 1So you had that . Then what happened , like at the first practice or whatever like what position . Were you playing and all that .
Speaker 2We had . We just had our practice two or three weeks ago .
Speaker 1Okay . Our first game hasn't even happened yet , oh , because of the snow , by the time this podcast drops , it will have happened . Okay .
Speaker 2Yes , because of this torrential snowpore , we had Snowpocalypse and Mount Julia , the snowpocalypse .
Speaker 1Snowbegetting . Look at that camera owner .
Speaker 2It's about to die . You see it's flickering .
Speaker 3It's kind of spooky . Anyways , the LED is going to die . Yeah Right , it's not the camera , right , no ?
Speaker 2no , not the camera . The camera's plugged in . Cool , sorry guys , you didn't even know that .
Speaker 3Anyway , we'll edit that out , keep going .
Speaker 2Maybe we might keep it raw . However , the we were discussing this plan to play flag football and we had our first . What was the question ? I don't even remember what we're , I'm just mumbling to my favorite part .
Speaker 1You're the meme of Michael Scott , where sometimes there's a start , a sentence , and I just don't know where it's going to go .
Speaker 2Sure and so you know who's Michael Scott . Yeah , Exactly .
Speaker 1So all right , so you're playing a practice Right and then , and so you're playing . And what position did they assign you on the team ? Quarterback , bro .
Speaker 2So they assigned you a quarterback . So so you Let me explain why Do you please explain why . Okay , so y'all may look . I I I will admit I don't know much about football . I barely know anything and I don't keep up with it . I don't watch games I don't care .
Speaker 1Right .
Speaker 2But when I play it I enjoy it . I thought I was fast at running , but I'm not as fast as I used to be . I'm actually I . I actually look so stupid when I run . Miles said I run like I got a stick up my butt and I just like straight , straight , run with my spine straight and just like , anyways , we might cut that out , but anyway . So I tried quarterbacking .
Speaker 1Okay , we had someone else playing Quarterbacking , yeah .
Speaker 2We had someone else quarterbacking for the first part of the practice and then we did after that . I was like , let me try . So I tried , I scored a touchdown dubs .
Speaker 1You scored a touchdown . Wait , wait , wait . So did you throw it or did you run it ?
Speaker 2I threw it Okay .
Speaker 1Like every you threw a touchdown , Every pass was complete within two downs , we scored .
Speaker 2I was the . I was the first game I did when I quarterbacked .
Speaker 1Okay .
Speaker 2I know I've had a good arm , but I just thought I'd probably be rusty . So , however , I shook that rust off and so we went to do the next possession . Yes , so okay . So I don't know how these stats would be said correctly , but I'd from that score . I then scored 10 more times , with only one time that I failed .
Speaker 3So you threw 10 more touchdowns . You threw 10 more touchdowns , I threw 10 more touchdowns , 10 out of 11 .
Speaker 210 out of 11 . Correct , I did that with only one pass interception from the other team .
Speaker 1No , that's when you did the score .
Speaker 2That's the one I didn't score , but every other time was first down .
Speaker 3All the passes were caught except the one .
Speaker 1That was intercepted by the other team . I literally threw dimes , so they're dots , I guess , as they're called nowadays . So what ? All right ? So , I mean all right , so there's some skill there for sure . I mean cause , I mean that's impressive , cause you're going up against another team right At this point , like you're not playing against air right , you're just .
Speaker 2We were self practicing .
Speaker 1So like spring games . Okay , so your friends were on defense while you guys were on offense it was like three or four on four . Okay and all right , that's fair , so , okay , so they made you With an all time QB , with an all time on both teams .
Speaker 2Oh , oh , oh , that's how we go back and forth .
Speaker 3Yeah , so you're playing for both teams , got it , and this is just for practice , whatever . Yeah , all right , so I did good oh that's really good . That's really good . 10 , yeah , 10 over 11 . That's pretty good . That's amazing . Yeah , so it's a great quarterback rating .
Speaker 1And you can't run right For touchdowns , you have to throw it , yeah .
Speaker 2Got it . I don't think I'm as good at running as I used to be Right .
Speaker 1You gotta stick up your butt you have .
Speaker 3Thank you , so in this , in this league of flag football , can they rush the quarterback ?
Speaker 2So I don't know .
Speaker 3I'm curious so defense can't rush the quarterback ?
Speaker 1Like after a certain time , I know it's like five seconds or something . They can come after you . Standard they can come after you , I don't .
Speaker 2I think the rule is they can't , you can't run unless the they come get you . You comes after you , gotcha .
Speaker 1And they probably have to wait a certain amount of time . It's my guess .
Speaker 2Which that happened one time and I ran past them and scored . Okay , so you did run for touchdown . Oh , you did run for touchdown .
Speaker 3Yeah , once Gotcha . Oh , wow , okay , so that's , that's pretty impressive , john .
Speaker 1Wow , I mean , it's just funny . We were just laughing because you know , quarterback is one of the like you have to be one of the most knowledgeable when it comes to football , to play that .
Speaker 2I mean , I don't know if you agree with that , paul , but it's like oh , you have to be knowledgeable , yeah .
Speaker 3I mean , I definitely think I'll be pulling all the lexies of this world . Who's calling ? Are you guys actually say it again ?
Speaker 2I think I'll definitely be pulling all the lexies of this world , but specifically the one I have and only her .
Speaker 1Thank you , that's good , follow your reaction .
Speaker 3So are you calling the plays ? Who's calling the plays ?
Speaker 2Because the quarterback . Nobody calls the plays . Well , I don't know the plays , I just kind of freestyle .
Speaker 1So , is it free for all .
Speaker 3So how are you not calling plays ? You're not calling plays .
Speaker 2My guys will call plays for me because I don't know plays , and then when I get it , and they're just telling me to throw the ball here .
Speaker 3No , they do the hand thing . They just say I'm going to go like this .
Speaker 2I never understand those .
Speaker 1I don't know , I don't pay attention .
Speaker 2So basically you just throw the ball .
Speaker 3Yeah , and pray , yeah .
Speaker 1Well , I mean , apparently your prayers are working , but your prayers are working yeah .
Speaker 3But you haven't had a full game yet against an opposing team .
Speaker 2No , that's the thing I'm scared of is we're thinking we're so good right now . By the way our team name is Space Monkey Mafia .
Speaker 1Nice .
Speaker 2It's just what we came up with , and if you guys would have seen all the suggestions that all the homies came up with , some of us might be in jail . Good for you , guys .
Speaker 1Yeah , the FBI might be on us .
Speaker 3Space Monkey FBI open up . Yeah , that's true . Oh , that's , I should have had that one . That's that I have this .
Speaker 2Yeah , that works that same thing .
Speaker 1But , john , that's actually pretty impressive . I'm impressed , thank you .
Speaker 2We have to watch you play now the first games on well spit , the first games on February 4th on a . Friday at like 6pm If you all want to come out , yeah there you go . Yeah , I might do it . That'd be fun .
Speaker 1I might get a little nervous because you guys are you know Well , yeah , we're big time there you go , Okay . So we've kind of talked football .
Speaker 2Now to the main event now to the actual , the main event .
Speaker 1Super Bowl of this episode , all right . So , ladies and gentlemen , paul is such an awesome guy and , yes , so handsome , no , so beautiful , all right .
Speaker 2So you got to stay on your shirt , made you look at eyes ? Oh wow , this is a podcast . This is great , so Paul is probably one of the most humble people I've ever seen .
Speaker 1I've seen him , I've seen him , I've seen him , I've seen him , I've seen him . When I said I've seen him , I've seen him .
Speaker 2I've seen him as much as you know . It's not like he got hurt . Leave is like I've seen him as a little bit Now .
Speaker 1let's get to our final part . Paul is you know and it's also one of the most humble people that I've ever met Not like me , as I was over here just gloating about my quarterback skills , yeah things and he's done a lot of really cool projects . And , paul , there is one specific Project that you are a part of that I'm excited to and I appreciate you being vulnerable and letting us talk about it , because I think that's really cool , but , john , let me ask you a question .
Speaker 1Yeah does this mean anything to you ? Everywhere you look , everywhere the Mars . I don't know the words can I go back to you ? Yeah , does that ? Does that mean anything to you whatsoever ?
Speaker 2No podcast , jokes aside , no , okay .
Speaker 1So that is the
From Football to Full House
Speaker 1theme song for a show called full house . I know full houses , you know floss , okay with the , with the Olsen twins when they're babies , and all that good stuff and okay anyways . So , it was the show . It was a massive , huge hit . I mean Paul , I mean it was like a world Phenomenon . Right , it was yeah . So it was what in the 90s ? Was it late ?
Speaker 380s , very late 80s , early 90s . Okay , gotcha .
Speaker 1So huge , huge hit . If anybody has not , they actually made a reboot of it on Netflix recently .
Speaker 2I know our house wasn't it terrible ? What for house the new one .
Speaker 3It didn't last long , but I think they stayed on . For what ? Three or four seasons .
Speaker 2Yeah , it was long enough . Yeah , okay .
Speaker 1So for anybody listening it was a very family friendly show about these Friends that live together and they had kids and they would just go through life and married ?
Speaker 2Huh , were they married ?
Speaker 1No , no , these are three , three guys all yeah , they're all just buddies that live together , or did they live together ?
Speaker 2They live together . Okay , yeah , and they all had kids Well the dad .
Speaker 3The dad did the dad did .
Speaker 1Yeah , just one , but the other two did not right now Jesse , and they did .
Speaker 3Jesse did later on in the right .
Speaker 2Oh , that's right , he had the twins , the twins was there any premarital eye contact or hand-holding in this show ?
Speaker 1Oh , yes , no , yeah , you can't do it . No , that goes against your religion . There's filters . So this show again , huge , huge hit . And Mr Paul , so we'll kind of tie in what that means . The second , but Paul is a very , very , very talented . Yeah musician and it's so funny , I could just see him . He's like . He's like cringy guy . No .
Speaker 2I know where he's like . I don't have a good thing say okay , great Thanks . Explain the doctor . Strange moment where he like outer bodies and goes into the thing and then I was like it's just gonna sound dumb .
Speaker 3Timing . That's good . Hey working on it so .
Speaker 2I'm talented .
Speaker 1Yes , so Paul is super talented when it comes to music and a lot of other things too . But so , paul , so talk us through .
Speaker 3So you actually agreed to this , I know Second guess .
Speaker 2We are in his home on his mics .
Speaker 1So . So Paul grew up . He was very accomplished , taught music Apparently . I just learned that which I didn't know , and so then you moved out to Los Angeles .
Speaker 3That's where I was teaching , that's where you're teaching , okay , so I when I graduated from college Mm-hmm I went to I originally went to California for my master's degree , mm-hmm , and then I ended up teaching while I was out there . Okay , gotcha , and then .
Speaker 1So being out there in the scene , los Angeles scene , how ? So again , I'm just letting the cat out of the bag . Paul Was on the show Full House and in the show one of the characters , uncle Jesse . He had a band called Jesse and the Rippers , right .
Speaker 3That's gonna rip her .
Speaker 1So Paul was actually a part of that band and actually traveled and Toured with John Samos was the actor and and they , so we're gonna dive into all that . I'm really excited . That's crazy questions on it . So alright , so Paul talk . Take us through how that whole thing even started , just like it . Was it just some connections that you had made , or how did that start ?
Speaker 3So when I came to California , when I went to California , I had a cousin that already lived out there , okay , and his name was Charles and he knew a lot of people . He was a , he was a director , he did a lot of things in Hollywood and stuff like that . That's what he , that's what he did . He , you know he's , he got his start on Broadway and then he moved to California , blah , blah , blah , blah . So when I first got to California , my dad was like told , call my cousin and said you , you , you got to show your cousin around . Now , don't forget , we've never really met , we never grew up together . So I'm pretty sure Charles was thinking , oh , he's a , he's a musician . And you know , I'm sure my cousin was thinking , oh , my gosh , he could be horrible , right , right . And I'm sure he did . I mean , because if my Charles didn't know me , really , right .
Speaker 3But my dad called him and forced him and , you know , threatened him to like get me like legit threatened . No , like you're gonna do this .
Speaker 1Yeah , and .
Speaker 3Charles , I'm sure , is thinking to himself If he's horrible , this is gonna go really bad right my very first gig , I Would lived in California for a week and this is how the whole this goes into , the full house thing .
Speaker 1Okay , got you .
Speaker 3Very first week I went to California . We were doing a benefit , a benefit concert at a church . I don't remember what church it was .
Speaker 2Mm-hmm and a part of full house no .
Speaker 3This is when I first got to Nash , I mean when I first got to Los .
Speaker 1Angeles apartment . We're not a house yet .
Speaker 3So it was a . It was a gig in Hollywood . It was a benefit gig that my cousin was orchestrating Mm-hmm and I was a piano player gonna be the piano player . We were doing all these like Motown hits and stuff like that I didn't know .
Speaker 2You play piano .
Speaker 3Okay , but here's the deal . So on drums was John Stamos .
Speaker 1No , that's when I met him .
Speaker 3So he was a drunk . Now forget , don't forget , full house hadn't started yet , right ?
Speaker 1He was , that is .
Speaker 3That is a lackey on General Hospital . Oh , interesting his name on General House was blackie . There's no racial jokes in that whole thing . This is . He was his nickname on general .
Speaker 2We're gonna leave it there , okay , okay , he's .
Speaker 3That's gonna swim in my mind tonight so I met John at At that first gig playing drums , and that's what we kind of like started talking like , hey , what are you ? And I Really kind of knew him and didn't know him . I was like , are you a true somebody ? Yeah , I think that I think after that gig , me and John , we went to Roscoe's chicken and waffles and hang out a little bit . That's fire , that was nothing .
Speaker 1I mean we . Yeah , was he a pretty cool guy like so cool , so cool .
Speaker 3I mean he was so , you know , I mean all the girls loved him .
Speaker 1Oh , of course had the hair , the whole time .
Speaker 3Yeah , so that you know ended and Shortly thereafter , I mean , we hadn't talked for a while . Yeah , so this is a poppy . A year or so has passed . He now gets the gig at full house . For house wasn't even it , you know . They didn't know how the show was going to do , and then the first came out .
Speaker 3So I didn't even know . So I had moved from where I was living to Woodland Hills and I didn't even know how he actually came to , came into play . I think I saw him around the neighborhood . I'm like , ok , wait a minute , john , where's going on ? And he lived around the corner from me .
Speaker 1OK , didn't even know he lived on .
Speaker 3Mulholland Drive .
Speaker 1And .
Speaker 3I lived right off of Mulholland Drive and he literally was walking distance from my house .
Speaker 2Oh , that's a problem .
Speaker 3So we were doing so we kind of reconnected hey , what are you doing ? I'm doing the show Go for a while . So yeah , that's the and I didn't really hinting the show , but it was like oh yeah , that's the show with the kids and it goes , yeah . So , that's how it all started .
Speaker 2And that's when .
Speaker 3I kind of reintroduced myself .
Speaker 1So OK , so you kind of you know , reestablish contact there , and then so walk me through kind of what happens , because you actually did appear on . Was it just one ?
Speaker 3episode . No , that was , that was four or five .
Speaker 1Four or five . Ok , gotcha , by the way , total side note . Do you still get royalties from that at ?
Speaker 3all None . Ok , gotcha no , none at all .
Speaker 2None at all . Do you still know , john Stemus ?
Speaker 3You know what ? We kind of we haven't talked in years , literally years .
Speaker 1Yeah , so yeah , yeah , yeah .
Speaker 3Gotcha Call him .
Speaker 1Yeah , on the podcast .
Speaker 3The podcast . There you go .
Speaker 2That would be a time that would be hilarious .
Speaker 3But no , no , no , so we had . He was doing the show and he comes to me and says oh , you know what they want to write this character , that Jesse , uncle Jesse , is going to start a band on the show .
Speaker 1And we're going to start doing music on the show .
Speaker 3Once you come on the show and do some music with you , part of my band .
Speaker 1Oh .
Speaker 3I was like no .
Speaker 1You see , I literally said no .
Speaker 3Really .
Speaker 2I said you know ?
Speaker 3no , no , that's not me . Did that mean you had to be like on camera ? On camera , he's in the episodes .
Speaker 2Oh really . You didn't just play oh yeah , you're on the show .
Speaker 3I was on the show . Yeah , visually , visually so that . So there was four or five .
Speaker 1He was handsome .
Speaker 2He looked really he still does .
Speaker 1What are you talking about ? Looking right at him , right now Whatever ?
Speaker 3There was four or five episodes that we did together on the show . It was a great band and this band you know some guys that I got to meet and got to know and they're really cool guys now . Yeah , but we did four or five episodes and , yeah , that's , that's .
Speaker 1You do the OK . So talk , talk to me about , like how , how was the process of ? Because I mean , like you know , we oh , yeah , yeah , oh yeah . You should put on the video portion of that , just just a little clip .
Speaker 3If you don't mind , paul , just a picture . I think you can find a clip or two Sure From a company episode , I don't know .
Speaker 1But OK , so you're . You're a musician , you know you're kind of doing this thing . How was that transition ? I'm like , ok , going to a trailer , probably getting makeup and doing all this stuff , like what was that like for you ? Like ?
Speaker 3there were no trailers . Ok , all of the dressing rooms were in the sound stages , so I would hang out in John's John's dressing room . Got you , that's where I hung out at and all the guys we'd hang out in the dressing room until we got a chance to get on stage . And it was really crazy too , because you know we would have to do the rehearsals , yeah , and it was in front of a live audience .
Speaker 1So when the oh really , when it filmed .
Speaker 3It was in front of a live audience .
Speaker 1Really so . Even the rehearsals , the rehearsals were no audience . Ok , gotcha .
Speaker 3We had to . So when we did an episode , it was an entire week Right . Right so how the episode would go was just the band .
Speaker 1Yeah .
Speaker 3I would actually physically play my parts in a studio . Gotcha we record all the parts , all of John's singing , if he was singing on an episode or whatever , right ?
Speaker 2John is handsome . I'm looking at him right now .
Speaker 3Yeah , he is , yeah , he's . He's here , he's got the hair he's here you got the hair . So we would , we would crawl the up , and then we would rehearse , we would read throughs you know , we do a read through and then any extras would not have to do the read , that we would come in later for the actual rehearsal because we didn't have part , we wouldn't have speaking words .
Speaker 1Right , right .
Speaker 3And then right after that , then on a Friday night , we'd tape the show .
Speaker 1Oh , OK , interesting , in front of a live audience , wow , so OK , so , so . So you're kind of now , how long had do you been in Los Angeles at this point ?
Speaker 3Probably two years , two and a half years at this point .
Speaker 1So did you ever have any thoughts like oh man , like this is , this is my opportunity , like , this is it Like .
Speaker 2this is my chance . I didn't want to do it .
Speaker 1I mean not to not to like be like a movie star or anything , don't be wrong . But like you know , oh man , I'm all the connections I'm going to make from this or whatever it's . It's just going to blossom into other things , like did you ever think that ?
Speaker 3wasn't even thinking about , it , wasn't even thinking about it . Because I didn't , I didn't really I mean it ? Was just I was . I was doing it because John asked me to do it .
Speaker 1Gotcha . So so he was a buddy . He was a buddy .
Speaker 3He was like come on , let's do this . That I did it . I mean I had other things that I was doing , doing outside of that . Anyway , I already kind of working on some stuff .
Speaker 1OK , but this was just something on the side , some car , something to do , gotcha , so OK , so the . So you do a couple episodes , the show just explodes .
Speaker 3I mean just we were doing these episodes , the show was had already taken .
Speaker 1OK , so it already taken off . It's already worldwide huge and everything . Yeah , so OK . So then you know , you start doing that and then does , does John or Jesse and the Rippers ? I guess in this point did they start putting out singles or anything like that .
Speaker 3No , we didn't do anything like that because it wasn't like it was today where you could do a digital single . Everything was still physical . So , you know , there was no record labels involved , but what we did do is we actually went on tour . Oh , people don't realize that Jesse and the Rippers actually went on a real tour . You did too , oh , I was with them yeah .
Speaker 2Wow .
Speaker 3So , and it was crazy we would do these tours and we would have to do them like during his hiatus in the show . So we would do 10 city pockets , 10 cities , another 10 cities , another you know 20 cities or whatever , and we would do the . And this is , this is how I knew the powerful . I didn't even know because I really didn't watch the show .
Speaker 1Right , right .
Speaker 3I didn't when all those episodes that I was on . I never watched the episodes Really . No , I didn't , I never . I would have watched them three times Never watched it . My mom taped him . I never watched it Really , but with the power of the show and I realized how big the show was , we would actually play stadiums . Now , if you can imagine the Rolling Stones plays stadiums , the Michael Jackson plays stadiums , when they said Jesse and the Rippers were coming , he filled the stadium .
Speaker 1So they were selling out .
Speaker 2Oh gosh , you would perform in a stadium . Yeah , that's so cool .
Speaker 3I mean , that's when I realized okay this full house thing is insane .
Speaker 1Yeah , it's like pandemonium . It was like it was crazy .
Speaker 3It was almost like the way I can related to . If you go back back back in the 60s , early 70s , the Partridge family was a musical TV show , Right , but David Cassidy was a real singer who would go on tour when the show was not on and he was doing stadiums , he was doing big arenas and that's the only way I could relate it to was like a David Cassidy . Were you nervous in front of all the people ? No , because I was just playing the piano .
Speaker 1Yeah , he didn't have to talk . He didn't have to talk . I think I sang a song .
Speaker 3That was it . I think each person in the band sang a solo .
Speaker 1Oh really , Do you remember what song you ?
Speaker 3had to sing .
Speaker 1I totally do , I'm not telling you oh come on .
Speaker 3I'm not telling you .
Speaker 2Oh , okay , I heard you rap .
Speaker 3My song was an Ohio player song called Fire .
Speaker 1Oh , interesting . Okay , that was my song Fire . No , that's not it , but I'm sorry , but is that the Rollercoaster ? That's the same band .
Speaker 3Same band , right ? This was a song called Fire , Okay gotcha .
Speaker 1So okay , so that is wild . So do you have a favorite memory or some kind of cool thing ?
Speaker 2that happened backstage or even on stage .
Speaker 1Maybe something cool happened . Any memories ?
Speaker 2from that Iconic moments . Yeah , iconic moments . I mean honestly just playing in a stadium in itself is iconic .
Speaker 3Well , iconic moments .
Speaker 2Anything specific .
Speaker 3You know it's crazy , not really specifically . I mean , I think the funnest times for me were going on tour , was going to different cities . And just kind of like you know , meeting people and stuff like that . I mean the most , the best part that I loved about it . I mean his mom was the sweetest person in the world . Oh really , and she would go on tour with us oh cool and I get to meet his mom and we talked all the time His mom passed away .
Speaker 3I guess , so you know , five , six , seven years ago now , but she was amazing .
Speaker 1She was so cool .
Speaker 3I mean , that was my fondest memory and , of course , the guys would always try to do stuff .
Speaker 2Isn't that interesting that his favorite memory of all of that was just having a real nice connection yeah . With a meaningful someone who listened .
Speaker 3I'm sure Her mom was absolutely amazing .
Speaker 2That's cool and you played in a stadium and that's his favorite memory . That's cool , yeah , yeah , no , that's cool . Hey , that mom made an impact on you .
Speaker 1She was just really nice , yeah , so that's what I'm saying Before doing the stadium tour well , first of all , did you guys ever travel internationally ? No , okay , so you used all the states .
Speaker 3It was all okay , you know we did state fairs , we did all that kind of stuff . Arkansas , we went everywhere . Yeah , we went everywhere .
Speaker 1Okay , so you're doing that . So , before doing that , what was like one of the bigger you know venues that you had played before jumping into a stadium tour ?
Speaker 3Yeah , had you done anything ? That was the first thing . That was the first big thing , the first big thing , and other things came out of that later on in life .
Speaker 2But that was the first big . Did anything later in life be bigger than that ?
Speaker 1There was some bigger thing . Yeah , maybe we can save that for another . We won't go there .
Speaker 3But that was a bigger thing no way .
Speaker 1There was some bigger things . No , man , that's so cool . Okay , so you do this . So how long was this whole duration of shooting to going on tour ? How long did all that last Like ? What was the time span of that ?
Speaker 3You figure the show was like a season or two off and on and then the tour things off and on . Maybe a total of two years total .
Speaker 1Okay , okay , gotcha . Two and a half years total , that's a pretty big commitment yeah yeah , and then , and so during all this time , you were still working on , like other projects and doing other things . Oh , yeah .
Speaker 3I mean this was so if I would have say things that came out of this , you know I did , you know I had other you know things going on and I don't know if it came directly out of this position , but I was in a position to meet a lot of people .
Speaker 1Yeah , of course .
Speaker 3And from that came other stuff . Gotcha , that's beautiful .
Speaker 1So how was the okay ? So you know , bringing some like cool redeeming value to this . So , even though I think it's super cool just to learn this , what a cool story and what a cool experience .
Speaker 3You taught me .
Speaker 1No , and I do have to say Paul was very , very reluctant to do this , just cause he's so humble and he's just , you know but , I , oh good .
Speaker 2You know it's crazy . I have , no , I have no hard time believing that that is not the coolest of things he's done .
Speaker 1Yeah , yeah , I know , I know , but no , it's so .
Speaker 1I appreciate you sharing it cause I think this is super cool . So you we were talking earlier and you were Christian , you know , you came to really know the Lord personally , more towards middle school , high school or whatever . So during this whole time you were , you know , saved , living out in LA and all that good stuff . So how , how was that ? You know ? Cause I think a lot of people jumped to the conclusion or the thought okay , well , it's LA . You know , it's probably a lot of compromising and all that kind of stuff . What was it like being a Christian , kind of walking through all this , or your experience in that ?
Speaker 3I mean , it was , I was just , I was just doing , I was just being me . I mean I didn't really get into any of that stuff . I mean I rather I was the guy that kind of stayed in the hotel room and kind of just chilled while the other guys were partying and doing their stuff .
Speaker 1And that was fine for them , but that wasn't for me .
Speaker 3That just wasn't for me , and they always tried to like I'm sure they did they tried to like set me up in a whole bunch of different ways , but it never worked .
Speaker 2That's crazy . It never worked . What a real dude . Never folding , that's , I know it literally .
Speaker 3I mean they were . They were always trying to like get some girl to knock on my door and stuff like that . That's wild and set them up and set me up and they just wanted to , just wanted to see me , you know , and Well , I think when we were talking about it , it's like they just wanted to get you right . They wanted to get me . It was like got your moment and I was like , yeah , no , Like see , yeah , you can fold , right yeah . Yeah , I was like no , this is not for me .
Speaker 1Well , but you know what that's interesting ? Because that right there , just by not compromising , is a huge testimony , right . I mean , like that , you showed them . It's like man , this dude really is serious about his commitment to the Lord . And you know , and while we're out doing this , and you know , it's one of those things where you know you may have not seen the fruit of that or whatever , but that's , that's noticed , right ? I mean that .
Speaker 3I mean , I mean , I was . There was no judgment on what they were doing or anything . No , no , no , I'm just giving you props .
Speaker 2I just think it's awesome .
Speaker 1Well , first that you did that , but then also second , you know , I think a lot of people focus on the not not saying you were persecuted in the sense , but the persecution as far as like , okay , well , hey , this person's not doing what we're doing , so we're going to give them a hard time , we're going to try to get them , but I probably had a lot to do with why they were doing it .
Speaker 3I think there's just a lot of just wanted to see what I was going to do . See my reaction . Yeah , but I had more probably resistance before I even left to go to California . Because like you know , and being in Buffalo just doing the things that I was doing there . You know , homer Rick James . So , you know , being in the studio with a lot of his people back in the day , a lot of things , you saw a lot of this And- .
Speaker 2Another podcast ? Maybe not , and that's a whole other thing .
Speaker 3And then when I was in high school , you know my mom . So I auditioned to be in this band and I made it . Okay , I made this band and I was in high school and I wasn't really supposed to go to audition because I was so young , but I wanted to go anyway . I was like I got auditioned for this band , audition for the band the band had had . They were , they had been around for a long , long time but they just got their first big hit , which I'll tell you in a second . You'll know what it is Okay . So they're like hold her . You tell them , hold her .
Speaker 3I was I think I was 16 when I made the band 17 , something like that , and so we're going to come to your house and talk to your mom .
Speaker 1And I'm like this is not going to work .
Speaker 3It's not going to go well .
Speaker 1Like I know all along .
Speaker 3So the band came over to the house . My mom could tell you the story better than I can , but she you know . The band came in , she talks to them and they're all there and the band is cool in the gang . No way .
Speaker 1Are you serious ?
Speaker 3I made cool in the gang . Okay , so the song that just came out with celebration .
Speaker 1Oh , my God .
Speaker 3It had just come out . Are you serious ? Just come out what ? And ?
Speaker 1where we celebrate good times . Come on , dude , oh yeah , yeah .
Speaker 2Song had just come out and they had several hits after celebration that I could have been a part of . I thought that was Earthland , and Fire .
Speaker 1That was cool in the gang . No , cool in the gang .
Speaker 3So we're at the house and they're like hey , well , you know , we're going to take your son make the band . We really want them in the band .
Speaker 2Those people were at your house .
Speaker 3They came to the house because they had to talk to my mom . I said you kid , I'm talking to my mom . I'm only 16 , 17 , 17 years old . Oh my God , you guys talk to my mom . My mom was like you're not going in this band .
Speaker 2You're not doing it .
Speaker 3I probably made the right call . High insight , she will say she made the right call , I she keeps going you would have been a drug addict , you would have been this , and I'm like I wouldn't have done any of that . I don't think you would have been a drug addict , I wouldn't have done any of this stuff . It's just , oh , you don't know that and I'm like , yeah , I do .
Speaker 3But I was trying to talk her into letting me do this . She ended up like you can travel with them . She was like no , I'm not doing it , you can't do it . You got to go to high school . You got to finish . You got to go to college . You got to get a degree and that's it .
Speaker 2Oh really , she made you go to college .
Speaker 3I wanted to go , but I wanted to go .
Speaker 1So I have a nine year old son and I'm just trying to put myself in her shoes of like , imagining my 16 year old son coming up to me and like one of the at that point , one of the most popular bands in the world . Like is in my living room saying hey , we want your son to come on tour with us . I'm just saying I could completely understand what she's saying .
Speaker 3She said a big , big no yeah .
Speaker 1Right , so just asking . Just ask like do you ever like oh man , that would've been really cool Like you know that would be .
Speaker 3Well , here's the deal . It would've been very , very cool , because the guy that took my place , he's not really a friend of mine , but I know him , we're friends on Facebook and stuff like that . He's also from Buffalo , okay , yeah , so to see his life . I can see his life through Facebook To see what he's doing . He still travels , the gang .
Speaker 1Really yeah .
Speaker 3To this very day . Okay , so , yeah , so he stuck with them , for he was the second runner up .
Speaker 1Wow , oh , my goodness that is why so I ? Didn't know that . I never knew that .
Speaker 3That's interesting . Yeah , he was the second runner up . All that to say . That's the kind of crazy stuff that you could actually . That's why my mom didn't want me to .
Speaker 1Man First . Again , paul , seriously Thank you for letting us talk about that Cause . I just think that's so interesting .
Speaker 2You're a well of .
Speaker 1A legend .
Speaker 2Saying legendary stories .
Speaker 3This podcast is very long , by the way . Oh yeah , well , I'm sure Listen .
Speaker 1Ah , we're long . Okay , but I will say this real quick before we go it was worth it . I think that was totally worth it , absolutely . I mean I know we appreciate you sharing and that is so interesting and so cool . So thank you .
Speaker 2I'm just insane to hear some of the insane things you've done .
Speaker 1I know that is super cool . Well , I didn't do it .
Speaker 3I didn't do it so cool , yeah , but they tried .
Speaker 2Yeah , they tried .
Speaker 1Hey , you turned down cool in the gang . I didn't turn it down .
Speaker 2No , that's what I heard . My mom turned it down .
Speaker 3You said I'm too cool for going to the gang I got my mom on the phone right now . She'll tell you the whole story .
Speaker 1Colored it up .
Speaker 3Well , she make me food too .
Speaker 2I'm super Chitlins . Can I have Chitlins ?
Speaker 3You don't want Chitlins . Okay , I don't want Chitlins . No , you don't want Chitlins .
Speaker 2By the way , that was not a racist joke . That was just because me and Paul had a conversation telling me what those were .
Speaker 3I was educating him on what Chitlins were .
Speaker 1He had no idea what they were there , we go .
Speaker 3And when I told him about it .
Speaker 2Yeah , he wants to try . No , I don't .
Speaker 3He doesn't want to try .
Speaker 2I googled pictures of them and they looked disgusting .
Speaker 1Yeah , you don't want to try that . Well , ladies and gentlemen , thank you for this . That was a very fun podcast . I really enjoyed that , John .
Speaker 2Well , man , you know , there's a lot of mysteries we still don't know about this handsome fellow , Paul Wright , and today there's a lot of things we did find out . Now I want you to do us a favor Share this with the world . If we can bring back Jesse and the Rippers , that would be no I'm just kidding .
Speaker 1Yes , he's the Rippers reunion .
Speaker 2Yeah right and on the podcast . Well , no , okay , no . Anyways , we love you and we hope you go out and have a great day and follow us and support us , and we love Jesus and you should too , because he's great . And yeah , have a good day , peace .
Speaker 1Woo .
