This is the Brand and Sherry podcast. Hey, my name is Brandt, and no, I am not smooth, but I'm getting better at this. Sherry knows this. She's the show's producer. I know what, that you're not smooth? I'm not smooth. I've got social issues, but I'm getting better with loving my neighbors. You you know what a key for me has been?

What?

I mean, loving my literal neighbors, people that live around me. Okay. Normally I don't want to talk to anybody. To myself, I always feel dumb when I talk to people anyway. Why? It just didn't seem to me like it ever goes off well. Okay. Like other people, they could just slide into conversation. It's like, oh, yeah. I never, I never know how to get there.

Okay.

To the, oh, yeah.

And then you don't know how to get out either, right?

I, just slide into conversation. It's like, oh, yeah, I never, I never know how to get there. Okay. So, oh, yeah. And then you don't know how to get out either, right? I just decided that's the way it is and too bad. Like, what I mean by that is, so I'll look dumb. So what? Just make the effort. Yeah, so I walked by the other other day my next door neighbor wyatt is back from

afghanistan he's a pilot and i went and i actually said hey to him which was intentionally

it was in his garage i had to walk up to his garage his door was open and i was like hey and um

i'm sorry i'm not laughing.

And it went pretty well.

And I was able to say, you're back from Afghanistan.

That's great.

Thanks for your service and all that sort of stuff.

But it went really well.

Mm-hmm.

And then he invited himself over with his fiancé.

Mm-hmm.

And they stayed at our house for like four hours either

night just talking to us about stuff really marriage and stuff look at that yeah that is

good all because you stepped out of your comfort zone the key the key to me was like okay if I

looked dumb so before it's always been I'm gonna look dumb so I won't do it. Now I'm like, so I'll look dumb, so what? I either have to love people or not. Like, I'm okay with looking dumb if I can just love people for once. I've just gotten that frustrated with it. Like, time to grow up and love people. That's all. This happens so often where I even have gotten used to it.

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