[Music] welcome to ear biscuits I’m Rhett and I’m link this week at the round table of dim lighting our guest is Shay Carl the most famous family vlogger on the internet an interesting thing about Shay is that he has lived quite a life before he ever became a youtuber and we get into that on this week’s episode including his career as a bus driver also the time when his parents kicked him out of the house get the dirt on that and his beliefs as a Mormon plus the life and death side of being a Mormon missionary it’s good stuff you’re gonna want to stick around but I do want to tell you that I made a seriously boneheaded mistake this week that I’m still reeling from and I am all ears you know I I think it’s good for you to confess any stupidity that you may have and you know this is a forum for you to be real for you to be honest and if the real you was if the real you is boneheaded then that’s what that’s what we need to get well shouldn’t be embarrassed by that as my wife told me after I did this she said where everyone is stupid everyone makes mistakes right because I was really hard on myself what she just wanted you to feel better okay here’s what I did I have become friends with Jay you know Jay you’ve gotten to know Jay a little bit and Jay has season tickets to the Lakers and the Clippers he’s a Lakers fan but he has season tickets to the Clippers now is that why he became friends with him that’s one of the many reasons no no I became friends with him because he’s a nice guy and I like him we have a lot of common interests and but the fact that he has season tickets to both NBA teams here Jonas doesn’t hurt and so we went to he gave us tickets to a Lakers game Locke and I went and then I went with him to a Clippers game and then he said hey you know there’s a Saturday game I can’t make it to the Saturday game but this is a Clippers game which he has even better seats with the Clippers game think it’s a Lakers game he says you know I’ll give you both of the tickets for 80 bucks so not a gift because his Clippers tickets are really an investment he buys the tickets and goes to a couple of games but he’s not really a fan so he sells him okay that’s fair for him to sell and so it was like yeah sure you know and I was like yeah this would be fun father-son thing to do it’s the first thing I do is when he tells me earlier in the week I say okay well let me check and see when the game is during the day and I just search you know the date and then Clippers versus whoever they were playing and the the game time comes up on the internet on Google it just says like the game time comes up and it says 3:30 p.m. Saturday I’m like okay alright I’m gonna go to this game and I called USA I’m like hey I got plans for Saturday lock and I are gonna go to a Clippers game together she’s this great you know father-son bonding that’s great so Saturday rolls around lock has a dive meet in the morning and then we had to do a couple of other things and I’m like okay I’m trying to like budget my time lock wants to go to game stop first and so I’m like okay I’m gonna be the perfect dad today I’m gonna take in the game stop we’re gonna get a game get back some of his old games and then we’re gonna time it so that we get to the Staples Center and then we get something to eat we sit down watch the game but I check in on ESPN on a football game and they put the scores up there two other games that are going on in different sports and I look and I see hmm there’s an update to the Clippers game score well that must be the game before the game because you weren’t there and then sometimes the Clippers play a game before they play the game and I had played I had planned to leave it like 2:00 to 2:30 to get to the 3:30 game and it’s like 1:30 or 1 o’clock and it’s like in the second quarter my oh my goodness the game has already happened and then I look at the tickets that I had not looked at I’d only looked at the Internet of course the tickets say 12:30 p.m. game time because when I googled it I got Eastern Time now I’ve ski east and I was devastated I really beat myself but I didn’t actually hit myself but I was very shy and lot was upset not too upset but it’s not too late to hit yourself I was mostly upset at myself but then the question came I was like you know I know Jay is going to text me later because any time we go to a game or he said he you why don’t you just go late I mean you could have still seen the last clue no you go all the way down for there he’s getting potentially pay for parking get into the thing just to potentially see the fourth quarter I don’t any think I could have made it at that point you would have felt even worse showing up and it was totally yeah yeah yeah so so I say well what am I gonna do when he texts me because I know he’s gonna text me and sure enough that night he texts me he says hey heard it was a great game today so glad you were able to go and so then I’m like what do I do now because well you’re like I didn’t go because I’m a bonehead no but here’s the thing is that I knew that he was if I told him that I didn’t go to the game and I hadn’t paid him for the ticket he’s such a nice guy you’d be like listen you don’t have to pay me you didn’t up going I’m not gonna let that happen I’m like I’m gonna wait until I see him and I pay him and then that’s when I’m gonna tell him so but I got I got a texting back so I texted back and I’m just like thanks again man oh you you basically lied well I didn’t say like yeah it was a great game I heard I was just like thanks again man nothing else and and and I’m like okay so when I see him I’ll tell him that I didn’t go it wasn’t dishonest it was just I don’t want to break the guy’s spirit you know he did something he he sold these tickets to me I mean I don’t think he made some money and everything but this has nothing to do with you looking like an idiot in front of your friend you’re going to tell I’m going yeah I’m gonna tell him he may have some way to look and see whether or not the tickets have been redeemed because they’re his season tickets and it’s done electronically he could have been testing me because I haven’t talked to him yet he could have just been testing me he could be like I’m gonna yeah he didn’t even go to the game I’m gonna text him and say so glad you got to go like he’s texting in a sarcastic fashion hoping I’m gonna be like uh you know I didn’t go well if that’s the case then you’ve blown it no more tickets for you pain or no man oh no I’m gonna be like you gotta let me go next time to you man and this time I’ll go you’re like hey go up and this is not the first time you’ve you’ve you’ve done this even on your honeymoon way back in the day you ended up going to the airport a day late you were like you missed it by a whole day didn’t go the airport I was on the phone with the airline as my plane was flying off I was in my bathing suit at the resort and the plane was leaving the ground so I missed it by a day and we had a Christmas party one time you showed up a week early that’s not true but no no my wife and I went to a Christmas party back in North Carolina a couple years ago it is she showed up a woman early one hour late but one week early so we were we got there at like 7 p.m. when we supposed to get there at 6 we’ve made this dinner we got all that and then we go to the person’s house they’re like what you guys doing here we’re like we’re here for the Christmas party sorry we’re late that’s next week we my family we make scheduling errors and usually me I make scheduling errors and I am I have such a fear of making scheduling errors that I never do it like I’ll be showing up at somebody’s door and I’m okay before I knock on the door is this the right day like because I feel like I’m very prone to it and I’m over correct so yeah I guess I’m just not as boneheaded as you in this this particular area you know the funny thing is if you would have blogged and videotaped this whole thing you could put it on a channel with like you and your son and it could be a whole family vlog thing just like shaycarl yeah you could you know you but I’m not gonna compete with um a few hundred thousand views I mean this guy has over 700 million views on these daily family vlogs that he’s been doing for almost five years over a 1.7 million people subscribed to it he’s also got another channel a lot another little channel called shaycarl with over a million subs doing well so let’s get the complete backstory on the person of shaycarl now [Music] thanks thanks for coming in man just had a baby my dad number five by that point you’re just like okay the next day you’re just back to normal well no that’s the thing I thought it would be like that and we’re like what’s another one you know let’s have another baby and then all sudden there’s another baby there and you forget how much work they are and then you have four other kids that have gymnastics and swimming and parent-teacher conference and it’s like we have to drag this helpless bag of bones around what else everybody ragging I don’t think I know I’ve learned that after kid five now how does the job of being a dad compared to being a DJ coz that’s what you used to do best today when we first knew of you you were a radio DJ didn’t you look like a DJ right now I mean with these headphones there’s amazing microphone I loved it man it was I I remember the days when I was a DJ and a youtuber and people had asked me what I did for a living and I was kind of embarrassed to say that I did YouTube so I’d say I’m a radio DJ and because just because it was easier to explain and like there’s something cool about being a radio DJ it’s like oh you’re a radio DJ that’s awesome and you would livestream oh yeah from I would do a blog TV show as I was doing my night show on z103 and Idaho yeah there’s like 2007 as yeah as I was I would record a YouTube video announcing that I was gonna do a live show as I did my live radio show so it’s a little bit lower like a little bit lower so yeah yeah the Boise 103 I chose number one hit music channel coming up next got some Justin Bieber Justin Timberlake in the next hour I don’t know I guess you do I think I talked lower when I was fat too I think it like was choking my guilt my vocal cord much is that more vibrate yeah there was like I don’t know but yeah people have said my voice has changed since I’ve lost weight no no hmm you said the number one station in Idaho is that really saying much every radio station says that you got hit you got any you know any city in the country like k-96 Kansas is number one hit music Chad okay now every radio station says that were you trained to have a DJ voice or no no in fact they my program director told me not to he’s like just talk normal but one thing my probe one thing my program director did teach me is that your voice is like a muscle that you can like it can get stronger the more you use it and stuff so he you know he there was never like you would think like as you go in to be a DJ they’re gonna teach you how to sound like a radio DJ but he just says no just talk you know like you normally do and then I think it just kind of comes because you’re always speaking quickly and you’re always like announcing things so it’s like you feel like you have to have this authoritative voice I guess but I think the best DJs are just DJs that you know that just sound like you’re talking to them you know right but if they’re not good the general manager does come in he’s like you need to talk a little bit lower or something maybe just a pretty good detail into it welcome to Kate 999 foxy 99 that’s the station that I always wanted to be a DJ for yeah foxy 9999 and you’re number one station I actually just sounded like an old crotchety man North Carolina Raleigh Raleigh’s number one hit choice for country music we got Clint Black Travis Tritt you guys are country boys I sounded like that yeah exactly oh just like that pretty much oh man she well speaking of Idaho isn’t that where you were born yeah no I was born in Utah Logan Utah oh really all the way back to Utah yeah I mean I mean where I was born is only like an hour from Pocatello Idaho which is southeastern Idaho like we’re like right across the border but yeah my mom’s families from tremor ttan tree Mountain Utah my dad’s my grandpa lived in Provo so yeah majority of them are in the Utah area and we moved to Idaho – when my dad graduated from DeVry Institute of higher learning and got a job at a semiconductor plant in Idaho DeVry is like that’s like the farmland universe where you go and you have two kids and you’re poor and you’re living in Phoenix Arizona and that’s when my dad finished college was when you know me and my brother were born and it was like he was working two jobs and going to school I remember like going to bed like kissing dad good night and he had these little like electronic boards because he got this electronic engineering degree or whatever and like going to bed he would be like doing his homework like building these little electronic whatever they are and then he would come and get us in the morning when he like delivered ice so I just it’s like you know those early days when they’re just like working their fingers to the bone trying to go to college and delivering ice yeah he was delivering ice and then he worked at Sears at like the call center cuz I remember we’d go pick up my dad outside of the Sears and we would wait for him to get off because I think my parents only had one car and so there was this like little bar this is like a weird memory but there’s this little bar that like stop the door from like opening and like hitting the wall and me and my brother would just play on that bar for like thirty minutes while we waited my it for my dad to come out of work and then would like go home and then he would do his homework and then he’d get up the next morning and go deliver ice again and then I I have very like vivid memories being six years old and like my parents would think it was hilarious they would wake us up and we’d be like in our little whitey tidy underwear and he would put us in the back of the ice-truck and shut the door and we’d like they would laugh this would not be a form of punishment but yeah I mean my it was just like you know weird things it was fun when we were growing up because it was like me and my brother against my mom and dad and like we would always like you know do things too like we was more of like a friends relationship than a parent kids relationship sometimes we’d like getting these crazy fights and I remember one time my mom and dad were like 16 and 17 yeah they got married when they were nine I remember one time that I want this is where I don’t think I wasn’t we talking about this one time they tied me and my brother up together and left us out on the front porch while it was raining and it was like a fun thing it wasn’t like we’re being abused it was like oh you think you’re funny cuz like me and my brother would always do things to antagonize them well and so they thought okay we’re gonna teach you and they tied us up together and like put us out in the rain on the front step and we were laughing the whole time but it was like no now we’re like fighting against him but we were tied up I think like the neighbors probably thought they were crazy or then after a while you had to be like okay yeah I mean after a while it’s like I think we got untied you know like we untied ourselves not funny anymore yeah let me have the ice-truck let me back in the house you know five minutes into this podcast and child services are investigating my mom and dad didn’t torture twice as a child check and check is funny I mean what if YouTube was then it’s like they’d have a great daily vlog yeah it’s like wow you know it’s all about timing right but it seems like you might be channeling some of that some of that now yeah area was this I mean I just say Phoenix actually when my dad was going to DeVry we lived in Phoenix Arizona so I from when I was like kindergarten to third grade grew up in Phoenix Arizona and so we lived in a pretty big city where while he was going to DeVry and work delivering ice and work at Sears and then my mom do my mom she worked at American Express for a while and then I think she was like a stay-at-home mom but she were I think they both had jobs cuz I know me and my brother used to go to this daycare place called Mary moppets in Phoenix Arizona and there was a lady there in a Miss corner and she was mean and she was notorious for putting kids in the corner and I always thought it was like is that really her name was that like a nickname that like the kids from like you know in the past of giving up mrs. corner and I remember one time we had these cots like where we would take naps and I had these little cars and I was playing with this little car and she was like Shay you need to like go to sleep like take a nap and I wouldn’t I just kept playing with these cars and she came over and grabbed me and like started shaking me whoa and as she was shaking me he could like she was so mad she started drooling oh but she was like bending over cuz I was like laying on this cot she’s like June 8th I told you you need to go to sleep and she like started drooling out of her mouth like she’s drooling on me like I don’t even care that she was yelling at me but I like mrs. coroners drooling on me now I have to point out that a pattern is emerging you may be the problem in your childhood is torture and I got tied up what a nice drug to drooled on and none of it was my fault but her name was really miss Korn yeah I mean I don’t know where that goes is that you know there’s probably her last name and then she’s taking care of kids she’s like well I know what my like gotta live up to it all right so my dad graduated from DeVry and then we he got a job offer in Pocatello Idaho which was close to where my mom and dad’s family was from in utas was like oh well let’s take that job because then we’ll be close to family so we moved from Phoenix to Pocatello Idaho and my dad got a job I think at the time was called gold semiconductor or and then it became a mi semi semi conductor and now it’s on semiconductor and he’s worked there for maybe 26 years oh he’s still working there yeah I mean whatever what what’s 33 – nine quick 24 24 he’s worked there oh my god probably 25 years now so he graduated DeVry got his degree got a job offered Pocatello Idaho and has worked there ever since I’ve had more jobs in my dad house I’m 33 and you know it’s crazy a crazy statistic about myself I literally have had at least a crazy job I’m gonna give you a crazy statistic I’m a 33 old man that’s had more than ten jobs and being a full-time youtuber is the longest job I’ve ever had and that crazy probably for you guys – what’s the second best job you’ve ever had bastard longest site’s DJ Isis Drive school bus and I loved that that was cool I used public school yeah I drove I drove third like in the mornings I would go pick up like elementary school kids kindergarten to sixth grade and then in the afternoon I would take the junior high kids home 7th to 9th grade and when I would take the junior high kids home like during the winter this is one cool thing I did because as a kid I always wanted to throw snowballs at the bus I guess the bus was leaving it’s like I hit that school bus so bad it’s lazy I could tag that thing so easy from like 50 yards away up and I could throw a football up mountain so I thought to myself it would be cool if I let these kids hit the bus with snowballs so one day I got I loved and this was like before I was a radio DJ this is how I knew I’d love me in a radio DJ I would always get on the microphone of the bus and just like tell jokes and and kids at that age they don’t necessarily get sarcasm as especially when it comes from a like an adult figure from a bus driver right because they would always look at me like is he being serious right now is this a trap yeah right I was like you guys I have an announcement to make all your parents called me and said they want me to drop you off at the swimming pool today just like weird things and they’d be like really like kind of excited but I’m like now I’m just kidding you guys are going home you have to do your homework just like silly things like that and they would just stare at me so you’re like everybody file out I want you to pump the bus so as snow and there’s like a huge snow a snowstorm one day and I said I got on the I got on the microphone I said hey if any of you guys want to make snowballs and hit the bus when we want to drop you off that’s cool with me if you guys want to and there’s like three or four guys you know they were like really can we really I’m like yeah do it so they got off and they’re like giant kind of test and I think they thought like I was trying to like Batum or something like they’re gonna get in trouble trattman so they they tagged the bus a few times and I honked and waved so then the next day it was like it was on they these kids who normally sat at the very back of the bus they sat at the very front of the bus today because in their minds you could see they had worked it out where they’re gonna get off the bus first and they built this pile of snowballs because it takes you know a couple minutes for all the kids to like fly off the button Arsenal yeah so these these three or four kids they jump off the bus and they just start building snowballs and I’m like oh the eyes I see what they’re gonna do and so they probably had between the four of them like 50 snowballs like all rolled and ready to go by the time the last kiddo got off the bus and I started pulling away and it was like to pay for that I’m like peeling out and so the next time like you guys you can’t throw bus snowballs at the bus anymore cause if they broke the windows you would have to pay for it well you would hate to have to throw them under the bus yeah and tie him up and put him in a you know no nice container that’s a euphemism for turning the man Shea it was a torch I should have gone right I wouldn’t hate to have to throw them on but you knew that okay so in like lower grades growing up you moved to Utah which is where your family’s from now when you’re in that area you’re either like a mountaineer or a Mormon or both Fran and I know you’ve got at least one of those covered so yeah how was it what was the environment like growing up was this like super Worman yeah super mountaineer not necessarily Mountaineer I mean we love the mountains like my brother he spends months at a time in the mountains like my dad is a big hunter I I’m not I never like caught that fire cuz I’m just too impatient I get bored like whenever I go hunting with my dad or my brothers it’s just to like hang out with them cuz I like an hour into it I’m like I want to just shoot the gun we’re just like my brother gets mad at me he’s like looks at me he’s like Shh why I’m like oh this is so boring we shoot something or like throw a rock at something but I love skiing you know so growing up we skied a lot but yeah we live in a very Mormon area you know the settlers the Mormon settlers came across the plains and the 1800s and Brigham Young said this is the place and they settled in Salt Lake and so like you know that’s like the epicenter of Mormonism in Salt Lake City and then it’s just expanded out there so you know anywhere within a 300 rate mile radius is like 90% Mormons you know so living in southeastern Idaho and Pocatello it wasn’t as saturated because it was a college town I don’t st. University is there go bangles but you know so there is definitely some you know people that weren’t Mormon and it’s almost like anti Mormons because the people who grew up in this area where everybody’s Mormon it’s like oh like they’re surrounded by Mormons so it’s like you know the culture in that thick of a Mormon area is sometimes I got to choose my words wisely or you know it’s it’s sometimes like the worst of what religious people can be you know or it’s like I grew up kind of feeling like because I wanna I served you know a two-year mission for my church and I remember going to the West Indies and being you know meeting people that like really believed in their faith and were really good people and I was like whoa you can be a different religion and be a good person you know that was like a revelation to me yeah kind of and I’m like that’s horrible that I thought that that it was like wow this person really cares about God and really is a good person who was genuine and they’re not Mormon and that sucked that that I feel like that was like the culture kind of that I grew up I’m like if you’re not Mormon then you’re right in a sense you know because I remember I dated that girl who wasn’t Mormon and we would just like any any I was hoping we’d getting these religious debates and I think about him now like I was such an idiot man this was like how old I mean that I did this girl that I dated pretty seriously till I like left on my mission my Mormon mission when I was 19 years old so like you know we almost we’re gonna get married me and this girl and was this like a scandalous thing oh yeah I got kicked out of my house for it yeah we’re better not get too much of that we’re gonna come back to this this girlfriend and get out of the house and then the the mission and everything mm-hmm so let’s take a step back and then step back through this knowing that we’re gonna feel like I’m on Oprah Oprah of YouTube am I gonna cry or jump on a table at any point so we’re still waiting for the first guest of crime well Shane Dawson wrote here thanks for letting me talk about my problems and my dead grandma yeah as we laughed a lot about us being tortured by so it sounds like by virtue of geography to being one was there you grow up in a Mormon household your your parents assume we’re Mormons new right so it sounds like it was very insulated for those factors what what is a what is life like growing up Mormon in that sense my I would say because my parents they’re not like super strict Mormons you know like my mom and my mom and dad would swear you know like my parents were the cool parents like like my friends would like they like to come over to my house cuz it wasn’t like you can’t do this you can’t say that like we could talk about you know Derek kissing three girls that weekend and my mom not freak out and she’d be like Derek you you’re a womanizer you know like just tease him about it well like some of the whether or not I struck yeah get to the ice-truck but you know some of the other parents is like we wouldn’t dare talk about like girls we kissed or you know stuff like that or you know dare swear or something but my mom you know like she’s a cowgirl she grew up you know she was a rodeo queen so she kind of grew up in for environment and her dad was he was Mormon but he definitely wasn’t like I think he went to church like three times in his whole life you know so it wasn’t you know like super strict Mormonism but you know just growing up in the church you have a lot of leaders and you know every we went to church every week you know and it it’s weird because I think a lot of people think of Mormonism is really like weird like strange but to me it’s I mean obviously it’s not strange because it’s my life that’s what I’ve lived but you know I think it taught a lot of good values I attribute a majority of the success I have today and that you know the happiness I have today because of my religious beliefs and people like that on the Internet you know they don’t want to hear about that when but people you know they’ll say about our family like what there’s something different about you guys you just seem happy like what what’s the secret it’s like well it’s what I believe it’s it’s that I believe that my wife and I are married for eternity that our relationship will perpetuate past mortality that once death does not do us part that our relationship will continue on past these physical bodies and you know that belief which has been a decision like I guess we can digress even further like since moving to LA I’ve like evolved a ton as far as like you know because when I first moved to Venice Beach four years ago it wasn’t what church you belong to these my moved events Beach was like oh you believe in God you know stupid and I had to go that was a huge culture shock for me because you know one I grew up in this very straw you know thick Mormon culture and then I serve a mission in the West Indies which is very religious you know I was in Barbados Trinidad in Guyana and it was there was no atheist it was you’re either Anglican Catholic Baptist and then when I was in Trinidad in Guyana it was easier ear there Hindu or Muslim so everybody had a religion it was just like what religion did you follow and then when I moved to Venice Beach it was like the majority of people were not religious didn’t believe in God at all so that was weird I was like oh what you don’t even believe in God and people are like you’re cute that’s cute do you believe in Santa Touche you know that all that kind of stuff so I was like and then you know just being on the internet all that stuff has happened to so that’s where I’ve had to kind of like ask myself those questions you know like over time going on my mission being a dull living in different in places and living in LA for last year it’s like wait a minute do I believe in this like I can’t prove there’s a god I’ve never seen him I’ve just I have this you know these teachings from my parents and I have a few experiences where I feel like it was God that made me feel these way or or have these experiences so honestly it’s come to a choice because I don’t know I mean if if we live I don’t think anybody knows you know if we actually live past this you know mortality but I like the outcome of it better if we do so it’s like I’ve made the decision to believe in God and to be faithful to him and his commandments and that how do you deal with the I mean the perception that Mormonism is an odd religion I mean yeah there’s the okay you’re married for eternity thing but then people talk about yeah there’s also they wear holey underwear and they’re gonna populate their own planet that’s kind of the point you’re gonna take your wife and populate another planet right I mean people are me Google and Mormonism after this no I mean the doctrine uh it can be like like when I started to like look into it and like really research it was like this is a pretty crazy story you know like Joseph Smith claims that he saw God in Jesus Christ and that they were two separate people that looked like us that were like you know a father and a son that they’re literally two separate people and he said that he saw them and that he needed to start this new religion it’s like oh well you know how convenient you know that God and Jesus comes to you Joseph Smith and tells you to start this new religion but you know with all of like the anti-mormon literature and you know all that kind of stuff to me and it says in the Bible by their fruits you shall know them and the fruits of the gospel that I follow have brought me more happiness than anything I’ve ever you know tried you know because I haven’t been faithful to the my church my whole life you know I’ve experimented and done other things you know that are anti or not anti but you know counter what my religion teaches but I have found that by obeying the things CI my paradigm has shifted as far as how I defined Commandments I think before Commandments were like don’t do this and don’t do this these are fences and if you cross these fences boy you were in trouble like to me I think before that’s what Commandments were like don’t do this don’t do this don’t do this rigor to me in trouble my parent I must shifted in the fact that to me Commandments are just like instead of fences they’re more of like steps that lead me to a higher ground that bring me to happiness that protect me honestly because by obeying these Commandments and doing the things I hate to even call them Commandments because it’s just like I hate calling them oh I hate saying obey the commandments cuz it just sounds so imposing you know to me these quote-unquote Commandments are just God saying hey if you want to be safe and healthy and happy these are the guidelines you should follow and if you follow those things you’ll be a you’ll have you’ll fill peace you’ll feel you know settlement you know like just for instance you know Joseph Smith revealed a word of health that Mormons are well known for called the word of wisdom which is and he revealed this in in the early 1800s which at the time was no alcohol no tobacco and you know didn’t have drugs weren’t as prevalent back then but that was crazy talk I mean he also it ghost the word of wisdom goes as far as say eat meat sparingly and eat fruits and vegetables and whole grains kind of like a vegan lifestyle which is now in LA like very popular and known as like a very healthy way to live in Mormons there’s been multiple studies that show Mormons live on average ten percent longer than normal population because they abide by these health code you know no caffeine anything I’m not drinking a cola right now retinol II do not refill that’s caffeine caffeine oh thank you we didn’t push it on you caffeine I’m away from the house my wife won’t know but you know so I like that it’s like you know how would Joseph Smith know in the early 1800s you know there’s little like nuggets or it’s like okay like that sounds like a hoax like he saw God in Jesus Christ but then there’s things that’s like wait a minute why would that would be very unpopular if you’re if you come to these people say hey God in Christ came to me and he wants you guys to stop drinking alcohol because if you do research in the early eighteen hundreds in America everybody was an alcoholic like everybody drink that’s how you like people got through the hard times as a lot of people drank alcohol and for him to come to them and say no more drinking people were like what are you stupid or no coffee like things like that that were so like why can’t we have coffee that seemed like a very like in my mind I think why would he if he made up the religion why would he why would that be a part of it cuz that’s just more wives right right right uh which is see that’s been another question like what’s up with the polygamy thing in my mind and I don’t know what the the truth is I believe that this is can really get into this I believe God needed a sturdy people and he needed to perpetuate that the process of making more you know sturdy people to live in those times and polygamy was a way to do it you know if you know and also polygamy it wasn’t because you know every time you hear about polygamy it’s like oh these bunch of horny dudes just wanted have sex with a lot of women you know to me at the time you know a lot of these men there were a lot of there’s a lot of women without husbands you know so it was also like kind of like a patriarchal thing where it’s like they provided for these women and these children and then I think you know and this is all just you know I don’t know I’ll you know the exactly wise but you know these are questions that I’ve had to ask myself but I think at the end of the day I really like what the gospel teaches you know as far as families as far as you know abstaining from things like that and I don’t know it’s it’s just it’s brought me happiness and I think that’s at the end of the day that’s what I want I want to be happy that’s I always say to my kids make you guys why do we go to church so we can be happy like that’s the answer I want from them not so that God’s not mad at us like I really believe that there’s a lot of good things even if you’re not religious just have being part of a community being part of an organization of people who help and you know we teach our kids for instance to pay their tithing to pay 10% of our income we have what’s called fast offerings once a month we go without two meals like it’s on fast and testimonies Sunday we don’t eat for two meals and the money that we would have used to buy the food for those two meals we give to as a fast offering so little things like that I think teach the kids really good principles and you know ultimately I think the most important thing is to follow Jesus Christ his attributes you know kindness charity love patience I’ve just been listening to a tape of my truck and it talked about how Christ was friends with you know sinners all these people that today a religious persons like I wouldn’t be caught dead with that person those are the kind of people that Christ hung out with and that’s I feel like is the ultimate goal is to just try to follow and be like him and I think because I mentioned the holy underwear now everyone just want but yeah well honestly I just want to know is shame for me yeah I wear it’s a commitment okay so there’s temples you guys you see the temples those are like so we believe that there’s a lot of there’s a lot about the temples so we believe in baptisms for the dead where Christ said you have to be baptized in or in order to get into heaven so you know cuz juanzi kalonzo or I don’t know some guy that lived in Africa who never even heard of Christ how would that be fair if Christ said everybody has to be baptized in order to get to heaven how would that be fair if this guy who had never seen Western civilization or heard of Jesus Christ how could he not get into heaven so we believe that we can be baptized for and in behalf of these people in proxy so that’s one thing that we do in the temples as we’re baptized for them and then we make commitments and the garments are kind of like a reminder of the commitment that we made to obey God you know follow the commandments and to you know basically give I think it’s more about loyalty you know like because we’ve been given so much we believe that all that we have is because of our Heavenly Father so it’s a it’s a commitment to him and the garments are just like a reminder of that commitment they animate I was like it’s a private commitment because yeah it’s a very personal you know its underwear let’s see it right now and you guys want to see it cuz I see my later just like it they’re not weird or anything they’re just let’s like an undershirt lace milk cuz I do like a lot of different I want to show it yeah I want to see it you can there’s like different like they can get cotton my dad was in the army and he because you I do want to see it I’m not gonna show you right now okay well it sounds like and then we get married my wife and I got married in the temple and that’s you know there’s a you know we we didn’t stand we knelt across an altar together and we looked at each other in the eye and we were married in the Idaho Falls temple which I actually had a very embarrassed to location yeah there’s no worsening moment when I when I got married the the guy who married us he after the the ceremony was over and we were married he said why don’t you go ahead and reach over and give sister Butler a kiss and growing up sister Butler was my mom right and so my mom and dad and all of our family are in the room and I was an Eagle Scout so like every Court of Honor when I got you know like a merit badge or another gold star or whatever it’s like kay go give sister Butler a hug like cuz II know moms are helping the kids so we get married and he goes why don’t you reach over and give sister Butler a kiss and that was like that was like the moment where it’s like you may now kiss the bride kind of moment yeah exactly so he says this and I’m like okay so in my mind I’m like oh it’s another achievement in my life you know I just got married so this room is full of like 30 people like my close friends and family so I get up from the altar where I’m kneeling across from my new right and I look at my mom and start walking over towards her and she looks at me she was not me not me I like put both her hands up I’m like who’s sister Butler then and she’s like your wife like all right because she’s married to me now and I’m brother Butler oh yeah got it okay so I meet let me kneel back down and kiss you honey it was maybe an Eagle Scout but you’re not a rocket no I’m not I’m not but that was an embarrassing moment in the temple so that was you know we all laughed it was fun no I’m sure okay anybody who grows up in a what you would consider a subculture of some kind of mean we’re no different you have your your stories of it crazy things that happen to you and in this community and you and you obviously you go you go on this mission but we will we should back up though because before you go on the mission you’re you get into a relationship with a girl who’s not a Mormon that tight at that time in your life were you thinking okay well this is your opportunity to get out I’m not all that and so I need to I need to get a what do you is there like a specific name for a non Mormon girl like the Amish column English version now I don’t think so not I mean it was just no no I don’t think there’s like a term apostate girlfriend my mom might have called her that bitch I don’t know but we’re actually friends with them now um no it was see growing up like uh my grandpa like I just always member my grandpa like going on a mission was a big deal you know like I remember my grandpa he’s a colonel in the Air Force colonel Eugene Haynes Butler he was at you know a very big influence on me in my life and he like I said he was a colonel in the Air Force he had this giant house in Provo Utah it was like Grandpa Butler like he was just like this strong stalwart man who was you know ahead colonel in the Air Force and like you didn’t mess with him every time we pulled it to his house he had this giant American flag flying and I always remember as a kid he would like say che only 11 years tell your mission and like all throughout my life is like only six years tell your mission you know so it was like kind of like in my mind was like I’m gonna go on this mission you know I’m gonna serve two years for my church and so then it was like you know I was very well behaved until like my senior year in high school and then it was like I worked at this restaurant where everybody drank and it was like everybody partied and they I was the Mormon guy you know so and they would always be like come on do don’t you want to drink I’m like no no I don’t drink and they’re like don’t you want to say that you’ve tried it at least I’m like no I would prefer that if I could say no I have never tried it because all of you losers do it and there was like it was so funny to me out hear these stories of like oh man we got so wasted last night I remember what happened I’m like that doesn’t sound fun like you don’t even know what you did but then I I remember the first beer I drink it was like my senior year and this kid named Jake Jones finally talked me into it it was this weird thing like who he’s always trying to get me to drink and it was like his mission is like come on dude just try it just try and I’d always say no always say no always say no and you know I started hanging out with him like okay I’ll just come I’ll come to the party but I’m not gonna drink he wore you down yeah serious so that’s why you got a kids out there you got to be careful who you hang out with because it’s true what do they say that you’re the most like like the the most for people that you hang out with you know all the time so you become like those people so did you meet that girlfriend at the bottom of the beer oh I saw her from across the smoky room I want to make some bad decisions no I just I just knew her at school I mean she’s a great girl it wasn’t like she was a bad person or anything but you started to at that point in your life you started to open up say okay I’m gonna repel a little bit I don’t think it was like I wanted to rebel and like I was doing these things because I’m like oh I’m gonna get back at my mom and dad it was more like oh this is like this is kind of fun you know this is like interesting you know I wasn’t I was a seventeen year old guy and it was like chicks are hot and drinking beers fun and you know is it was more of like that and I in my mind as I was doing these things I always was gonna go on my mission like I always in my mind I was like okay I’m doing this right now I know I shouldn’t be and I don’t want my parents to know about this because I don’t want to disappoint them and I’m still gonna go on a mission because I’ve always wanted to be a missionary that was something that I always wanted to do it wasn’t like I was being forced in to her being brainwashed do it by my grandpa even though some people might say that I did I wanted to be a missionary I remember you know in church missionaries would come home like just guys from the ward who I liked you know went to Scouts with and they would go on their mission and they would come home and I could just tell they were totally different people like they seemed like mature and smart and you know if you go out as a 19 year old into the world into a different country for two years you know a lot of them learn new languages and like you are on your own as a 19 year old was like I want that like that seems like a freaking awesome experience and like a an adventure you know like so I always was gonna do that but it was just like I’m just I just wanna you know do these things just to like experiment with him now but like I’m gonna go on a mission and that’s when like I we go okay so me and this girl one time were kissing very dramatically and her parents came home and kind of like walked in on us were you in their bed no ooh we’re on the couch downstairs and her mom walked in and it was like it was you know was I mean Warren having sex or anything but it was like it was getting to an intimate moment and her mom walked in and it was like oh crap like you know like yeah your girlfriend’s mom just walks in and it was like and she’s like yeah I don’t know how much of these details I want to give anyways I her dad came downstairs you want me to answer that yeah go ahead just all of them what I needed this podcast so I don’t want to like say too much well you don’t want to say anything that Jesus is the second most popular podcast on iTunes why wouldn’t she listen is that mean at that point you want to jump through a window oh yeah cuz her dad came down and grabbed me by the shirt and like ripped my shirt and like I thought he was gonna beat me up it was like dramatic yeah happen my girlfriend’s mom like yelling at their dad to like stop cuz it was like they had like seen the fire in his eyes and I I didn’t I don’t blame him I were to do the same thing I doubt it beat the crap out of me yeah what we don’t have any same so I was just like like nothing like what do I say I just wanted to get out of there as fast as possible you’re trying to get out of the shirt no he like grabbed my shirt and I’m just like it was like you know how those moments happen or like everything’s in slow motion and then later on you’re like what just happened you know it was like intense like there’s her mom Oh put your shirt no no he’s like grabbing by the shirt and I’m like oh so I’m there she’s like get out of here and I what I remember going upstairs and like I had to go to work that day and upstairs oh yeah I ran upstairs I got my car just peeled out of there and left and so then I’m at work I was confused if you’re like you were in the basement yeah in the base okay yeah yeah that’s release that’s where you basement tonight I gotta make out in the basement yeah right upstairs got my car drove to work clocked in to work and I was like oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh and the first thing I think of is her mom’s gonna call my mom and knowing my mom if she hears it from her mom all being way more trouble than if she hears it from me mm-hmm so I was like I gotta call my mom and tell her and I was like so they so even though these girls this girl’s parents were not Mormon they were obviously conservative I mean this was a yeah they were a Christian and it was funny because they were one of the people that weren’t Mormon and didn’t like Mormons I think at one point she even like yelled abuse like you Mormon hypocrite like yelled something like that to me like you know like I I’m preaching all these things like you can’t do you can’t have sex before you’re married and then she catches me like making out with her daughter in this hot and heavy situation and so then anyways I was when you call your mom yeah did your mom know you were you were dating I mean she yeah definitely okay she knew that we were dating and and they didn’t want me to date her because they’re like you need to get ready for mission this girl you know it’s like that’s not what you need to be thinking about right now you know this girl wanted to get married and like it was a very serious thing so I was like I called my mom like hey mom I was like so nervous you know I was like so what happened is me and so-and-so we’re making out and their mom and her mom walked in and and this happened and blah blah blah and she’s like okay well I’m really glad you know it’s always better to go to your parents and like humility and like hey I’m really sorry what happened she she appreciated that I was honest with her because and I just was afraid that if her mom called her I would be in way bigger trouble yeah just like so-and-so’s mom just called me and I’m like what no I don’t what you’re talking about you know the first thing your mom said was I’m glad you told me but what’s the second thing she told you we’re gonna talk when you get home you know I was like I hope tonight’s a long shift at work you know Wow and then so then it was like okay we’re glad you told us we don’t want you dating her anymore like you’re not allowed to date her anymore you know you were in you were in love yeah I mean as far as I knew as far as the 17 year old knows that they’re in love I’m thinking about marriage yeah I mean it was getting to the point where it’s like maybe I shouldn’t just and then it was like I wanted to go on a mission but then I was like well maybe I should just stay home marry her you know almost like I don’t know it’s kind of hard to you know like recall these feelings and so anyways I was like kind of forbidden to like date her you know it was a meeting that night it’s like hey you’re not dating her anymore that’s fine you get ready for mission blah blah blah so like okay okay but then it was like you know I was like in love like I said as a seven you know so like we would still hang out now it was forbidden love right exactly so then we got caught again like me dating her and then it’s like her dad rip your show it wasn’t that it was just like were you hanging out with so-and-so it’s like yeah and it’s like busted and it’s like turned into this big fight or like they’re yelling and it was like fine why don’t you just move out then and my mom you know how like parents will say things but I don’t really mean him so she’s like you know start throwing boxes at me in my room like as we’re in this fight like once you just move out then here I’ll get some boxes you can move out I’m like fine I will like call her Bluff you know so I start packing stuff in the boxes and then I think when they saw that I was really moving out they’re like oh well no we don’t really don’t you move out I’m like I’m leavin so I pack everything in my little car that I had and I left and I’m like I’m out of here so it was like I got kicked out but I also kind of left but like at the same time they’re like we don’t have to leave like they didn’t want me to leave but I’m like no you said it I’m calling your bluff I’m leaving I’m out of here so I moved into my friend’s house at the time who is I don’t think we’re gonna get into all this this is some some past memories leaving out a lot of details to come tell me you’re leaving out details Rhett I’m not taking my Brit link what I can’t anyway so yeah so I moved to my friend’s house and then there was these books so I sleep it on their couch basically it was a weird situation it was like my it was my friend’s house but his parents were gone on a mission like older couples can go on missions too okay and they like his dad was an orthodontist and the head retired and all their kids like their youngest kid was my friend who was 18 we were just graduating so they left to go on a mission so my other friend’s parents who were like in between jobs moved into their house with the agreement that they would kind of watch this other kid until he went on his mission there’s like the six-month interim so I didn’t have anywhere to go so I’m like hey I’ll just sleep on the couch with my two buddies that are there and my one buddy whose parents moved in there in this six-month interim he was in a different state so it was just this kid one kid’s mom and she was like hardly ever there so it was almost like we had this little bachelor pad where I would meet my girlfriend like she would come over there and stuff but at this point I was like okay I’m on my own now like I just left I have my own job I have my own money then it was kind of like this moment of like well what am I gonna do like I can do whatever I want now like mom and dad can’t tell me what to do cuz I left you know and I have money because I was working and I have a car as like I could do whatever I want and that was the first moment where it was like I’m free like I can do whatever I want to do and so I started thinking about it’s like what am I gonna do like am I gonna stay here am I gonna marry her like what am I gonna do with my life you know it’s like I’ve always wanted to go on a mission but you know now this has happened and it’s like I was finally free in a sense where it’s like whoa this whole decision is on me now you know it wasn’t like mom and dad and grandpa were there saying you’re gonna go on a mission it was like I could do whatever I wanted so I started you know I was just sleeping on the couch my buddy’s house trying to decide was gonna do and my buddy’s mom had all these like Mormon books on this bookshelf right next to this couch so one night I’m laying there like thinking about my life I’m like what should i what should I do so I just grabbed one of these books off the shelf and I started reading it and I was like I like this like I like the way that it made me feel you know I wanted to be a missionary and I wanted to do that and I’m like I’m gonna go on a mission and so I went in and I talked to my bishop and you know that’s like part of the process to fill out all your papers and everything I did all that on my own and that felt good cuz I’m like my mom you know because before that when I got my Eagle Scout it was like my mom was there the whole time like okay you need to do this there’s three requirements to get this badge and then you can do this and then this and she was signing everything and filling everything out and it’s as a kid you’re like okay mom yeah that’s cool let’s do it but now it’s like this is all me 100% me and it felt good because it’s like this is my choice like I can do whatever I want i kidded your girlfriend wasn’t filling out the forms oh no she wanted me to stay like she don’t want me to go at all so and then I won on my mission to the movies so you you dumped her and as part of this process yeah I mean it wasn’t it wasn’t I was like hey I can’t see you anymore you know I was like I’m gonna go on a mission and I didn’t dump her because you know we still hung out and we’re still friends it wasn’t and I wasn’t dating anybody else cuz it wasn’t like I wanted to date anybody else but I told her I was like you know it’s not like I’m breaking up with you but I’m gonna go on a mission you know and I go for two years yeah yeah so you know whatever happens I’m not gonna like make a commitment to you because I’m gonna be gone for two years and you know you’ll probably marry somebody or I’ll pride you know change and that’s because I was who I am now like the crazy like that’s been my personality my whole life I’ve always been like you know outspoken in like the class clown and I got voted most daring in junior high and so I’ve always been like this crazy like wild kind of guy and that was like she was like well you’re gonna change like you’re gonna go on this Mormon mission you’re gonna come home and gonna be all serious and boring and I was like no I’ll never change I’ll never change you know and but that was that was the deal is like okay I mean we can hang out and we can go on dates and stuff but like no mores making out you know I’m your dad ripped my shirt off anymore and I guess got serious about it and I just you know I started you know reading my scriptures and saying my prayers and doing all those things and and I got ready and I went on my mission and I loved it was you know now they assigned where you’re gonna go yeah you sent out like you fill out all the paperwork you know you know you sent in this big packet it’s like you fill out all this information you send it to Salt Lake City and then they call you what the Lord needs you and so you have no idea where you’re gonna go so I got the mission call back and as this comes in this big white envelope and it’s like what every 19 year-old Mormon boy waits for his for this mission call to come in the in the you know the mailbox and did you have a like I want to be in the u.s. I want to be international I wanted to be international I did not want to like have to take a Greyhound bus to my mission I wanted to go somewhere like cuz it’s an adventure yeah exactly Thank You Linc I wanted to go on an adventure and I always cuz like when I talked about earlier about these missionaries coming back and giving their mission you know reports they would always bear their testimony in the language that they learned on their mission and a majority of more Spanish so I was like I want to learn Spanish like that I thought that’s what it meant like I’m gonna go somewhere in South America I’m gonna learn Spanish and so when I got my mission call it was to the West Indies and I had no idea where that was that the first thing I thought was India like I remember my dad getting out the Encyclopaedia and it’s like we had to look up where the West Indies was and so the I googled Tara we had those like little blue encyclopedia Britannica’s you know we had to find the W and pull up the West and what year is this this is 98 99 and so then I mean the irony about that is that I wanted to speak Spanish really bad but the West Indies the part that I got called to was an English speaking mission but with an accent right there’s a thick accent the funny thing is as part of my mission was in Guyana which is in South America it’s in between Suriname and French Guiana and it’s the only english-speaking country in South America so here I am in Guyana in South America where I thought I would go to learn Spanish but I wasn’t learning Spanish did you know I no hablo espanol so now every time I see a pair of Mormon missionaries it’s a pair so yeah yeah they’re young uns yeah you got paired with somebody then you did not no no no absolutely not I didn’t know any I had probably 13 different companions over though over the two years and it’s funny so you’re not just with one guy the whole time oh yeah you rotate there’s what’s called transfers like you transfer to different areas within the mission I I guess I was in three different countries over the two years I was in Barbados Trinidad and Guyana and you get with new you know companions and talk about you know because they pair you with like dude you would never be friends with back in school you know what I mean like when you’re growing up like a majority of my companions are never guys that I would like have chose to hang out with growing up and it teaches you how to like get a with different kinds of people you know it was like probably the best preparation for marriage ever like learning how to like live with somebody who has really weird traits you know like why do you do the toothpaste like that like all those things that most people experience the first time when they get married or when they live with somebody I had that for two years you know I I was companions with you know people from Antigua and st. Kitts I had all different kinds of companions just crazy stories I have a million stories about but you end up is weird weirdo story weird words um let me think just like it was always different living with companions that were from the West Indies like missionaries that weren’t from the states that were you know they would cook weird like I had a companion who thought that if I first thing what I would do is I’d wake up in the morning I’d get a cold glass of water right out of the fridge and he would get mad at me for that he’s like you’re gonna get a cold what are you talking about and he’s like at the butler you always call me at the butler because you go by Elder when you’re a missionary the butler you gonna catch cold nutboy and I’m like what cuz they thought like if you drank cold water right when you woke up you would catch a cold like you would get sick yeah that’s true just little things like that or just little arguments you know what I mean that you would get in just because you’re with them all the day I mean your your wit your with your companion that’s one of the rules is you can’t be separated from your companion did you ever get in a fistfight with a companion uh no cuz I’ve always just been the kind of person that can get along with anybody but you know there’s definitely fights where it’s like you know I remember like I was told my little brother cuz my little brothers about to leave on a mission in three weeks he’s going to Buenos Aires Argentina to learn Spanish sure and so I’ve been like talking to him about all this stuff you know but I remember my second companion his name was elder Greenwood and he came into the area and I was the junior companion cuz there’s always a junior and a senior companion like one who’s kind of like in charge and it was my area cuz that my senior companion left and went home and he came into this area and didn’t know the area didn’t know the neighborhood didn’t know the people that we were working with but he was the senior companion and so I remember one night I was riding my bike kind of showing him the area I went one way he’s like we’re not going that way what do you think you’re doing and we got in this like big fight I’m like dude I’m just like showing you around the areas like why do you think you’re in charge I’m like I don’t think I’m in charge I’ve gotten this big fight I’m like do I don’t why are you freaking out and then later on he’s like hey I want to apologize that’s just how my last companion treated me so I thought that’s how I had to treat you I’m like okay whatever dude people are like looking through the windows of these two like waiting well you know I got a gun pulled on me I got a knife pulled on me on my mission because you’re going you’re talking the door to do it yeah i mean we’re knocking on doors and people will show up at their door with their guns you know what happened with the gun the gun when I wear knocking on doors and you know it’s a little later I think is why it maybe like scared the guy and in the West Indies you don’t knock on doors you yell inside you say inside inside if you knock on the doors that means you’re the police and a lot of American missionaries didn’t know that because only the police knock on doors everybody out important part of the organ right she should have told you that right it’s a culture they go and so yeah you yell you like go to the gate and you yell inside but we knocked on the door and this guy came to the window he opens the window and points a gun right out it’s like what do you want and a lot of people in the West Indies they thought we were like FBI because it’s like two white dudes in shirts and ties we look like we’re like CIA or please really throw it off nice but I got some nice farmer tans going on and then another time I was walking through an area twice I got pulled the knife on that where a guy’s like hated Mormons and he just like came at us with a knife and I was like we just can’t put our heads down and kept walking and he was walking behind us for probably like a half a mile just yelling obscenities with a knife and my companion who was the senior come and he’s like just keep walking just keep walking and I was like we should run we should rise like don’t run he’s like just ki it’s like a bear you know like don’t run just like pretend you can’t see him and then another time we were walking through the area other record that’s not what you do with a bear everybody listening attacked by a bear it depends on the type of bear right I will say that black bear will you shot with the gun no I never was shot with a gun Oh or stabbed with a knife nope but I was held up at knife point this is a crazy story the guy pulled out my wallet took my wallet and took my companion’s wallet and I was like like the first thing I thought if it’s like my driver’s license is in there my Social Security card is in there all those things that just suck to have to like go and get again so I yell at the guy I said hey I said bring my wallet back and I’ll give you the money in it my hand to the Bible this guy comes back opens my wallet we’re standing around the circle he opens my wallet grabs all the cash and like the cards that are in there I’m like wait no no I need those cards he gives me the cards back I put in my wallet he takes the cash and leaves and for the record for everyone listening you should not do that right but in my mind I’m like oh it’s gonna suck to have to get all those things I just yelled it and like afterwards after they left and the whole experience was over I was like holy crap I can’t believe that just happened he came back gives me my driver’s license I mean he was a very polite robber he he’d not you know I’d hate to stand in the DMV line again that’s murder I wouldn’t wish that on anybody – but not your driver’s license yeah that’s that’s nice that’s a good compromise it goes good guy well so two years of that moving around I mean any other crazy stories come to mind any other oh yeah door to door what is the what is is that the main task is going door to door to win people over – right I mean well we not I mean it’s not that I guess that’s kind of what it seems like but you know we believe that you know the name of our church is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints we believe that it is actually Jesus Christ’s Church it is the restored Church on the earth that he initially established when he was on the earth and he had Twelve Apostles and he created this church and then we believe in what’s called the apostasy where because of the murder of these Twelve Apostles that Christ you know Peter James and John these men because they were killed the power or the priesthood Authority was taken off the earth because all of these men who Christ gave this power and authority to they were killed and so that was all lost so we believe in the Dark Ages and that the power of God wasn’t on the earth and that through Joseph Smith it was restored so we believe that we literally this is the kingdom of God on earth and so it’s not like you got to get your numbers up elder it’s about bringing souls to Christ it’s about bringing people happiness through this relationship with Jesus Christ and about you know how he’s atoned for our sins and about you know that’s what it is it’s about bringing people to the Savior not to get the Mormon numbers up get the Mormon population up I I feel like the biggest thing that religious people don’t get are people who get bad name for being religious is that God loves all of his children regardless whether you’re Mormon black white gay lesbian whatever our Heavenly Father these were all of his children and so you okay so you have this formative experience in the two years on your mission then you get back and this is now you you’ve started to get married what you’re gonna do with us here yeah including getting married so I come home from a mission I loved it like there’s a saying in our church that’s like it’s the best two years of my life which isn’t true but I think it was the best two years for my life like serving that mission you know just taught me responsibility and I grew up a lot but I you know I still kept my fun personality and stuff anyways I came home for my mission and this is where I’ve like told to all these stories a million times because I’ve made a video every single day for five years but I went to this play my buddy Derek who kissed the two girls and we see how you met stores how am i want my wife story yeah you’ve told you’ve told this particular story Elaine you have you know it’s like yeah because people want to know they always want to help me and Colette met you know so it’s like so you got to give us the seedy underbelly well with Colette there’s never any seedy underbelly she’s like the most righteous perfect person you’ll ever meet my wife is I don’t think people believe that but she is she is seriously a saint which it bothers me sometimes actually because she’s so good but yeah I came home my buddy’s brother was in a play called anything goes it’s a it’s like a musical or whatever and she played the role of Reno Sweeney sounds ironic for a Mormon group to be sing yeah yeah exactly and I saw her on stage and I was like immediately in love like it was you know I don’t know if I believed in love at first sight but it was like oh my gosh like the second she came on the stage I was in love with this girl one because I’m really attracted to girls who can sing and she could sing amazingly and she was just hot so beautiful and I kept trying to pick her apart the entire play I’m like what’s wrong with her cuz like to me with a second she walked I was like she’s perfect so I’m like I think her butts big does she have a big butt you know like no cuz then there’s like a costume change I’m like oh it was just those pants I just kind of made her but like baggy it was like she have a big nose maybe she’s a big nose like no but it was a prosthetic nose it was just the the Pinocchio scene but you know so then after the play you know how after plays usually the players will come out and then everything the audience will go by and shake the hands I’m out on a date right well I was cuz I had just come home from a two-year mission I was afraid to even talk to her so I stood like thirty yards away and just stared and stared at her and I was so like nervous and anyways my friend ended up calling her and asking her to come out wakeboarding with us and that was our first date and like it was like I kept trying to talk myself out of this girl like no this won’t work for this reason or whatever anyways so we started dating and like after we know on the first date I’m like there’s no use in trying to the first day was the wakeboarding yeah we won’t wakeboarding and I brought my little brother with me and I was so embarrassed cuz I don’t have to bring my brother but my mom’s like you need to take your brother and she ended up thinking that was so cute that I had brought my little brother so it actually worked from my advantage and we went to subway and I remember like because I was pretty religious and you know just came home for my mission and we went Nate at Subway and we got our food and we sat down I was about to eat and she’s like do you mind if we say a prayer I was like whoa this chick wants to say a prayer like right in the middle of a subway and I kind of liked it but at the same time I was like this is a little weird but we said a prayer there in subway on our very first date and thanks the Lord for the food and for our many blessings in the name of Jesus Christ amen and from that moment as like I’m gonna marry this girl oh I’ve said this in the vlogs before but I leaned over on the night of the play when I when I saw her for the first time I leaned over to my friend and said see that girl up there at the brown hair he’s like yeah yeah I said I’m gonna marry her hey just because you say it in your vlogs that’s really what happened you can ask my buddy Derrick let’s call him right now it’s convenient get on the line Derrick create your own non-aryan called Derrick hey guys we’re cutting the conversation short right now not because it was short but because it was so long and so good that we actually continued talking to Shay about a whole host of other things beyond his backstory right and so that’s gonna come out next week as part two basically we you know we didn’t want a short circuit hearing what you just heard from Shay kind of learning everything that led up to his YouTube career but there’s a whole lot more that we ended up talking about once we started getting into the dynamics of being becoming a youtuber and also bringing his family into the mix and shifting from just having his shaycarl channel to having this family vlog that he’s approaching five years of pretty much releasing a video every single day what Anatole does that take on you as a person we asked him what kind of toll does that take on your family what are all the dynamics associated with that it’s a great conversation where we really shift gears and go into the shaycarl shaytards world of youtube so we didn’t want a short circuit or sell any of that short so instead that is part two in next week’s episode yeah so you got something to look forward to a little two-parter here yeah we can promise it’s not gonna be a three parter though this is not gonna just become your biscuits with the shaycarl you know I mean he’s a great guy we had a great conversation had a very long conversation that’s a two-parter but well he’s got other things to do yeah he probably wouldn’t even agree to it you know right I don’t think we’re the limiting factor I think he’s kind of got to move on with his life right yeah you can’t just pin hours and hours with us I mean if Lionel Richie for instance decided that he wanted to be here every week I think we’d probably let that happen oh my goodness you know what maybe let’s make that a goal not to have him here every week but let’s just start with having him here once for one episode of ear biscuits we won’t lie or Richie owning your biscuits that’s gonna let’s make that our goal you know else you’d be on your biscuits he’ll be so nervous dude Merle Haggard should we set that lofty of a goal to have both of them oh my gosh I mean I’m willing to set Lionel Richie as a goal but it’s setting Merle Haggard as a goal to come in here I think I just think I would die if he came here I don’t want to it’s just like might I do it what he might actually he’s kind of old but I feel like that I might die I just couldn’t even I couldn’t even converse with the man it’s he’s not a deity of you know I think we all know that he’s not a D but I feel like that I would just be bumfuzzled well there we have I can’t even talk about it now yeah I’m noticing that but I tell you right now we’ve just got Lionel Richie let’s go let’s set that off either both and either or Lionel Richie and or Merle Haggard need to be guests on your biscuits before this thing is shut down we could have them both here together yeah that would be stupid yeah that would be if that’s not that we do have we do have that many microphones though okay so there you have it if you have any connections to line or Richie or Merle Haggard those are our lifelong dreams hmm thanks for listening to this ear biscuit see you next week [Music] [Music]