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00:01:47.980 Today's guest is our young friend from Lanesboro, Minnesota.

00:01:52.820 He's Amish.

00:01:53.900 He's an Amish.

00:01:54.980 He's an Amish person.

00:01:56.900 And he's on Rum Springer right now.

00:01:59.080 And we're excited to learn about what it means to be Amish and what it's like and how things are going for him today.

00:02:05.860 Today's guest is Amish.

00:02:08.480 And his name is Timothy.

00:02:10.460 Shine on me

00:02:14.340 And I will find a song

00:02:18.580 I've been singing

00:02:19.760 I've been moving with you

00:02:26.460 And now I've been moving with you

00:02:28.520 All right, sitting here with an Amish dude, basically.

00:02:31.960 Yeah.

00:02:33.060 And you're 100% Amish.

00:02:34.840 100% Amish.

00:02:35.740 Born and raised.

00:02:36.760 I can speak Pennsylvania Dutch.

00:02:38.620 Still Amish.

00:02:39.980 And still living at home.

00:02:41.500 Pennsylvania Dutch, it's called?

00:02:42.900 Yeah.

00:02:43.280 So Pennsylvania Dutch is like a dialect of German.

00:02:46.680 It's quite a bit different from German.

00:02:49.020 It's quite a bit different from German, you said?

00:02:51.280 Yeah.

00:02:51.580 But it's a dialect from it.

00:02:54.200 And so if someone would be talking like German, you can kind of understand them.

00:02:59.500 But like most of the words, you can't.

00:03:02.880 Okay.

00:03:03.440 Yeah.

00:03:03.800 So do people do like, would your parents speak German and Pennsylvania Dutch?

00:03:06.920 No, just Pennsylvania Dutch and English.

00:03:09.700 And would your grandparents possibly speak German or your great grandparents?

00:03:12.540 Nope.

00:03:13.280 They were all Pennsylvania Dutch.

00:03:15.640 So...

00:03:15.880 Okay.

00:03:16.420 Yeah.

00:03:16.560 Understood.

00:03:17.100 But it's kind of a branch of, a lot of the people there have German lineage.

00:03:20.660 Yeah, they do.

00:03:21.640 Like, I think every Amish is like Swiss, German, because most of them came from that area.

00:03:27.980 And funny thing is, in school, like on Fridays, we learn like, so that's basically the day

00:03:34.720 where we read German, spell German.

00:03:38.060 And also every morning in school, we also sing like three hymns out of a, it'd be a little

00:03:44.860 book with like red pages where we sing German hymns out of.

00:03:48.740 Now, the funny thing is like, I can kind of read German and I can spell German, but I do

00:03:54.580 not understand like the German that I'm reading and spelling.

00:03:58.340 Well, I, some of it I can, but most of it I can't.

00:04:01.100 So you can comprehend a little bit, but you couldn't really then recite it.

00:04:05.580 Yeah.

00:04:06.160 Well, because sometimes for like Christmas and stuff, we had to like, there was, there's

00:04:10.860 also a green German book, which when you're lower grades, like fifth and under, you read

00:04:16.380 out of that, where there's like big, like bigger paragraphs in the back where it's all

00:04:20.660 German.

00:04:21.000 And sometimes for like, well, most, every time actually, for Christmas and stuff, we had

00:04:25.660 to learn, memorize all of those.

00:04:28.660 And I guess I was, I wasn't the greatest cause I, I kind of, I guess, lost interest for it

00:04:35.140 if I, if I didn't understand it, I guess.

00:04:36.900 Oh yeah.

00:04:37.520 Yeah.

00:04:38.080 Yeah.

00:04:38.400 That's probably ADD or whatever.

00:04:39.820 Do they have ADD in the Amish community?

00:04:42.120 So, uh, I don't even, what, do you know what, what is ADD?

00:04:45.220 I'm not even quite sure.

00:04:46.260 Oh wow.

00:04:47.320 ADD.

00:04:47.760 It's like, let me think.

00:04:49.560 Hmm.

00:04:49.920 You ever have that feeling like when somebody's tickling you or whatever, kind of?

00:04:54.780 Yeah.

00:04:55.580 And you're like, you're just can't even handle it.

00:04:57.800 Yeah.

00:04:58.060 It's like that feeling, but it's like in your brain, kind of when you're trying to pay attention.

00:05:01.780 Oh.

00:05:02.020 So it's like you're, you're paying attention doesn't work, you know?

00:05:05.700 Oh.

00:05:06.720 Ah, no, I don't think, I don't think anyone has ADD to do that enough.

00:05:10.920 I hope not.

00:05:11.840 Cause that, that wouldn't be too fun to have.

00:05:13.780 Yeah.

00:05:14.820 Oh yeah.

00:05:15.300 I think it's like, yeah, you get to change your mind without even doing it, you know?

00:05:18.380 So if you drive a car, if you have ADD, so can you focus on the road or you're like

00:05:22.320 looking over to the ditch and then this car and the guy in the pipe, like the passenger

00:05:26.980 seat?

00:05:27.420 I think it gets a little bit testy for some people.

00:05:29.440 Like it's too much, you know?

00:05:30.800 Yeah.

00:05:31.080 Pull that up.

00:05:31.720 Do the Amish have ADD?

00:05:33.100 Pull that up.

00:05:34.440 Let's get a gander at that.

00:05:35.860 That's a great question.

00:05:37.120 Yeah.

00:05:38.000 I've never heard of ADD before.

00:05:39.860 Then you must not have it, brother.

00:05:41.420 Yeah.

00:05:42.080 The Amish do experience ADD, but reported rates are noticeably lower than in the general population.

00:05:48.480 And diagnosis practices may differ significantly due to cultural and lifestyle factors.

00:05:53.800 Wow.

00:05:54.300 That's pretty fascinating.

00:05:56.320 When you're born in Amish country, are you born at a hospital?

00:05:59.860 Are you born at home?

00:06:00.700 What's it like?

00:06:01.100 So that varies a lot too.

00:06:03.220 Over the last probably 15, 10, 15 years, a lot more I've been born in a hospital.

00:06:09.600 I know there's some people in our community, all of them were born at home.

00:06:13.660 Half of them were born at home.

00:06:14.840 And then also some were born in a hospital.

00:06:17.340 Now me and all my brothers, we were all born in the hospital.

00:06:20.960 So it all varies from family to family most of the time.

00:06:24.920 Are you allowed to use like municipalities like a hospital and like a public park and those sorts of things?

00:06:31.680 Like where does the line differ between if you're Amish and you're just straight up supposed to be at the house, you know, like using chalk and just eating butter, you know, out of each other's hats.

00:06:40.480 Yeah.

00:06:40.920 And then the line where you're supposed to be able to like go to public parks and go to like non-Amish events and stuff.

00:06:46.820 Oh, so like me going to your concert, like that would not be like that, keep that on the down low.

00:06:54.300 But some Amish, I know some Amish, they go to like Def Leppard concerts and when they're like around my age, you know, like 80s rock.

00:07:02.480 Like Damish, like Damish, that like party and stuff, they like 80s rock.

00:07:06.920 They do?

00:07:07.760 And then I'm not sure how you call them music, but it really bumps when you turn it all the way up.

00:07:12.080 That 80s rock?

00:07:13.060 No, it's like some, I wonder if it's like when it's like boom, boom, boom, boom.

00:07:17.860 Is it kind of darker artists?

00:07:19.380 Do the artists?

00:07:21.200 You mean like the Suicide Boys?

00:07:23.860 Oh, Suicide Boys are great.

00:07:25.140 No, it's not the Suicide Boys.

00:07:26.340 It's more like David Guetta.

00:07:28.820 I think I said that.

00:07:29.880 Oh, David Guetta?

00:07:30.340 Guetta, yeah.

00:07:31.100 Oh, I see what you're saying.

00:07:31.800 Oh, like EDM, house, that sort of stuff.

00:07:34.660 I don't ever know what you call it, but yeah, if you turn that stuff all the way up, it really shakes something.

00:07:40.020 Like if you have like a big stereo system in like a building, that building starts shaking.

00:07:47.080 Yeah.

00:07:47.640 So that's pretty cool.

00:07:48.780 And the Amish, they really feel that.

00:07:50.100 You can really feel your barn raise when you hear that, huh?

00:07:52.520 Oh, yeah.

00:07:52.920 But like that stuff we only do on the weekends, that stuff is kind of like, nah.

00:07:57.980 That's secret.

00:07:58.780 Yeah.

00:07:59.620 Hell yeah.

00:08:00.220 Do the Amish listen to Morgan Wallen ever or no?

00:08:03.220 Yeah, dude.

00:08:03.900 I have a buddy, actually my coworker, Atlee.

00:08:06.000 He loves Morgan Wallen and he's in room springer too.

00:08:09.680 So he wants to go to his concert one time.

00:08:12.580 So that would be fun.

00:08:14.320 You know, I thought your concert was pretty cool too.

00:08:16.500 The music that they played in the beginning.

00:08:18.240 Yeah.

00:08:18.440 I've never really heard that music before, but I was like, it was like, I was jamming out

00:08:22.700 to it and it was really, really fun.

00:08:25.700 Thank you, dude.

00:08:26.500 Yeah.

00:08:26.800 We play a lot of times at our shows.

00:08:29.120 There I am right there with your hat you brought to me.

00:08:30.840 That was in Seattle.

00:08:31.460 In the beginning of the shows, we play a band.

00:08:35.140 It's called New Orleans Jazz Vipers.

00:08:36.920 Oh.

00:08:37.540 And it's just like some good kind of jazz New Orleanian music.

00:08:40.680 I think it puts people in a mode of like, they're going to, you know, some type of artistic

00:08:45.500 like brain space instead of just some like music you hear all the time, you know?

00:08:50.760 Yeah.

00:08:51.560 Yeah.

00:08:51.740 It's like, I was, I was kind of surprised, like, or not really surprised, but I never

00:08:56.240 really, I never really heard that music before.

00:08:58.380 Yeah.

00:08:58.780 It's great, man.

00:08:59.540 That's a great band.

00:09:00.480 I've, I've, uh, I happened upon them in New Orleans a while back and ever since then,

00:09:04.240 I've just enjoyed listening to them.

00:09:05.860 Yeah.

00:09:06.280 So that's their horns and stuff.

00:09:08.120 Yeah.

00:09:08.700 Wow.

00:09:09.300 And that's, that's what makes all the, like the great sounds.

00:09:12.100 Yeah.

00:09:12.380 They do a great job.

00:09:13.840 Do you guys have instruments, um, in, uh, in your Amish village?

00:09:18.600 Is it called a village?

00:09:20.440 So, um, it'd be considered a district, a district would be like different parts of church because

00:09:26.160 there can be one big community, but there can be like four to 12 different districts of

00:09:30.700 like the church where the rules are like a little bit different here and there, but like

00:09:35.700 mostly because we call a, uh, a community.

00:09:40.400 A community.

00:09:40.980 Yeah.

00:09:41.280 So the areas you live in kind of delineates where you go to church at?

00:09:44.620 Yeah.

00:09:44.940 Kind of.

00:09:45.520 Or yeah.

00:09:46.420 Can you go to any church or if you live in a certain area, you kind of go to a certain

00:09:49.260 church cause it's close.

00:09:50.420 So in the area, you always, if damage moves somewhere, it's usually for a certain church

00:09:55.140 in a certain area.

00:09:56.400 And we don't have church like houses and stuff.

00:09:59.560 Like not like some, I seen like, like really big churches.

00:10:03.560 They were like, they went almost like up to the sky and stuff.

00:10:06.740 Yeah.

00:10:06.940 They got some churches that are trying to do a lot.

00:10:09.700 They're like, do you need all that?

00:10:10.900 Yeah.

00:10:11.500 Like those things are really high.

00:10:13.160 So all of our church happens at, uh, uh, at our homes.

00:10:18.000 Like, Oh yeah.

00:10:19.600 So like, so we take turns taking church.

00:10:22.780 So, so different weekends, different families will take church.

00:10:26.560 Yeah.

00:10:27.000 And another thing that damage do is, uh, we have church every other weekend.

00:10:31.340 So, so how it works is church here.

00:10:35.300 And then that gives them enough time to, you know, move church to the next place.

00:10:40.520 And you have to pick up all the books, pick up all the benches and then move it over to

00:10:46.560 your place.

00:10:47.100 You also have to make all the food and then people, people come and help you.

00:10:50.720 I see.

00:10:51.000 So it's part of the culture is like, it's kind of exciting when you get to have church at

00:10:53.660 your place cause then everybody's coming there.

00:10:54.940 Yeah.

00:10:55.500 Well, it, it, it can be, but it also, it's a bit of like, Oh man, church is at our place.

00:11:02.080 We've got to get ready.

00:11:02.900 Oh, we've got to clean up.

00:11:03.940 Yeah.

00:11:04.240 We've got to clean up, get ready.

00:11:05.780 We've got our best behavior.

00:11:06.960 Yeah.

00:11:07.500 Trim the cat.

00:11:08.600 Trim the cat.

00:11:09.200 Well, our cats actually stay in the barn cause the Amish don't really have cats in the house.

00:11:13.980 Dude, our cats, they're like self-sufficient.

00:11:16.020 They're kind of Amish too.

00:11:17.040 But like we put dog food there.

00:11:18.620 I think they, they might, they might sneak a little bit of that.

00:11:21.080 I could see some of them sneaking a little.

00:11:22.500 But sometimes I see cats coming up the pasture.

00:11:25.320 They got like a chipmunk or a bird.

00:11:27.980 I don't think they're, I don't think they're big enough or fast enough to catch a squirrel.

00:11:32.020 I am alarmed at, uh, how many, not, how many regular people.

00:11:37.240 What do you call regular people?

00:11:38.440 Non-Amish or do you?

00:11:39.140 So if we're, if we're talking English, we call regular people, uh, English people.

00:11:43.720 Okay.

00:11:43.940 But if you're talking in Pennsylvania Dutch, if you want a literal transition, translation

00:11:47.920 of it is we call them hoheleat, which a literal translation is high people.

00:11:53.900 But what it means, hoheleat, what that means is like.

00:11:57.820 People that are allowed to get high.

00:11:59.040 That are non-Amish.

00:12:00.040 But we have like a neighbor, that guy's from like Australia.

00:12:03.040 Like I think it's called land down under stuff.

00:12:05.840 Like basically where all the kangaroos live.

00:12:08.520 Oh yeah.

00:12:08.780 There's kangaroos, sharks.

00:12:10.220 There's definitely, there's just people that'll drink beer.

00:12:13.640 There's a couple of Down syndrome guys down there who drink beer out of the oven.

00:12:17.180 That's crazy.

00:12:18.220 And I even saw some guys like they, they drink, they take off their shoe and they like pour

00:12:23.100 like, like some stuff in their shoe and drink it right out of.

00:12:26.720 Yeah.

00:12:27.320 It must have special feet or something.

00:12:28.860 Yeah.

00:12:29.460 I think they must have, uh, look at these guys right here and they're Australian.

00:12:34.960 Oh, well, what are they doing?

00:12:37.320 Look at this.

00:12:37.760 He pulls a hot beer right out of the oven.

00:12:39.580 Whoa.

00:12:40.240 That's pretty cool.

00:12:41.700 He starts chugging it at one point.

00:12:43.460 He doesn't care.

00:12:44.120 Oh, but these guys are Australian.

00:12:46.020 Oh, wow.

00:12:47.180 So they're, you know, they're a bit shorter too.

00:12:49.400 Yeah.

00:12:49.720 A lot of rugby head to head.

00:12:51.740 That'll keep your spine down.

00:12:53.100 Yeah.

00:12:53.760 Especially if you're like, I thought if you'd be upside down, like on the bottom side of the

00:12:58.120 world.

00:12:58.400 Your spine would like, go.

00:13:00.960 Not these guys.

00:13:02.580 Wow.

00:13:02.800 I think they missed a, uh, they missed a column, dude.

00:13:05.560 L5 S none, dude.

00:13:07.060 These guys missed something.

00:13:08.340 Yeah.

00:13:09.040 Something like that.

00:13:10.080 Um, so non-Amish people, you call them ho, ho, ho.

00:13:12.800 Ho he let.

00:13:13.600 Ho he let.

00:13:14.500 Ho he let.

00:13:15.740 Ho he let.

00:13:16.680 There you go.

00:13:17.460 You're almost Amish now.

00:13:18.580 Oh, welcome.

00:13:19.520 Yeah.

00:13:19.940 You're welcome.

00:13:20.920 It's not offensive though.

00:13:21.960 Ho he let.

00:13:22.320 No, no, no, not at all.

00:13:23.480 That's, that's, uh, it's a, it's not a, like Damish don't see it as offensive.

00:13:29.340 It's, it's just a term to describe something like our horses, you know, some are standard

00:13:34.040 bread, you know, and then some are brown, some are black.

00:13:37.580 Like we even have some like, like white horse with like black spots on them.

00:13:40.900 Oh yeah.

00:13:41.200 We're getting a lot of that outside of Atlanta.

00:13:43.140 We get a lot of that.

00:13:43.980 Yeah.

00:13:44.320 Where's the land?

00:13:45.720 Uh, Atlanta.

00:13:46.760 Have you heard of it?

00:13:47.560 Oh, Atlanta, like Georgia.

00:13:49.120 Yeah.

00:13:49.640 Okay.

00:13:50.000 Yeah.

00:13:50.200 I've heard of it.

00:13:50.940 I've never been there.

00:13:51.820 I, I heard they like, that's close to where like the Dukes of Hazzard were made, I think.

00:13:56.180 Yeah.

00:13:56.660 Yeah.

00:13:56.860 I think it is actually.

00:13:57.900 I love the Dukes of Hazzard.

00:13:59.040 I do too.

00:14:00.020 Yeah.

00:14:00.460 I used to have a, the DVD player.

00:14:02.320 I don't have it anymore.

00:14:03.260 I used to have a little DVD player.

00:14:04.760 Really?

00:14:05.080 And then, yeah, I watched a little bit of Dukes of Hazzard.

00:14:07.660 But the, the only bad part was the DVD player.

00:14:11.080 It was, it was before I had a battery and stuff to, I had to go charge it somewhere else.

00:14:15.100 And just before I had a bat, like all prepared, you know, that way I don't run out of power.

00:14:19.660 I used to watch, I watched them a lot because I was Amish.

00:14:23.380 We have the ones that are in Rumspringa.

00:14:25.600 We have like, uh, we have DVDs and stuff.

00:14:28.980 Dude, my coworker, Atlee, he's, he's pretty, he's pretty stacked when it comes to DVDs.

00:14:33.520 Cause he's got like, like a drawer full of like all kinds of movies.

00:14:36.860 Is he allowed to have it or not?

00:14:38.660 Not really.

00:14:39.400 But like his, like his parents, I think they kind of know, but they don't like, they don't bother.

00:14:45.020 Got it.

00:14:45.420 So.

00:14:45.780 But he had some different things.

00:14:47.080 He had Dukes of Hazzard?

00:14:48.140 Yeah.

00:14:48.500 Well, I don't know if he had Dukes of Hazzard, but he had like lots of different, other different

00:14:53.000 ones, like, like Smoking the Bandit, like Grumpy Old Man.

00:14:57.620 Oh yeah.

00:14:58.300 Well, those are, those are really funny.

00:15:00.600 I think he's like, he wants to get her like Fast and Furious too.

00:15:04.800 Ooh, he's trying to get wild, huh?

00:15:06.200 Yeah.

00:15:06.880 Like, he's pretty crazy.

00:15:08.960 It sounds like it.

00:15:09.780 If he's trying to do all that, that's a lot.

00:15:11.760 What about Little House on the Prairie?

00:15:13.060 You guys ever watch that?

00:15:13.960 I've seen a little bit on that.

00:15:15.480 Like.

00:15:15.600 Couple hotties on there.

00:15:16.480 Yeah, like the, the ones, they almost, you mean like the, like Laura?

00:15:22.380 I mean, that's a child, but I mean, yeah, I don't even know, the mom.

00:15:25.100 I'm talking about the mom.

00:15:26.100 Oh, the mom?

00:15:26.820 Yeah, Carolyn.

00:15:27.760 Oh yeah.

00:15:28.900 She's cute.

00:15:29.660 Yeah, kinda.

00:15:30.620 But isn't she like really old now?

00:15:32.560 She's getting older probably, but who knows what could happen.

00:15:35.580 You know, they're doing a lot of like, there's a lot of biohacking and stuff now, but I'm just

00:15:39.440 seeing a lot of beautiful ladies on here.

00:15:41.100 Yeah, definitely.

00:15:41.760 Like, and now with this, with this something in Amish culture, if you see these dames,

00:15:46.120 these young ladies, is that something you're attracted to growing up?

00:15:48.520 Cause this almost had, they almost have like an, a little bit of an Amish feel to them.

00:15:51.900 Yeah.

00:15:52.060 What do you mean?

00:15:52.720 Like a, like a settler.

00:15:55.020 Like, would this be a girl?

00:15:56.160 Like if you'd have seen this when you were 12 or something and you look at Mary Ingalls

00:16:00.040 right here, the older sister, you'd be like, oh, she's cute.

00:16:02.440 Yeah, I would.

00:16:03.440 And that's okay.

00:16:04.160 Yeah, that's okay.

00:16:04.880 Okay.

00:16:05.500 Yeah.

00:16:05.760 I'm just curious.

00:16:06.340 Cause we grew up watching this and it was great.

00:16:08.420 They're remaking this right now.

00:16:10.100 They're making a new season.

00:16:11.560 And that's pretty cool.

00:16:12.800 I know.

00:16:13.480 So dude, the one guy has white hair on his beard.

00:16:16.100 He must getting, be getting old.

00:16:17.820 Yeah.

00:16:18.140 That guy, he's actually, I think that guy's deceased, but, um, you mentioned being on

00:16:22.760 Rumspringer, right?

00:16:23.640 Yeah.

00:16:23.940 So you're on Rumspringer right now.

00:16:25.600 Right now.

00:16:26.060 Yep.

00:16:26.380 Okay.

00:16:27.200 How does Rumspringer start?

00:16:29.600 How long does it last?

00:16:31.460 Who gets to go on it?

00:16:32.940 Okay.

00:16:33.280 So pretty much everyone goes on it.

00:16:35.520 Now I've, I've heard of where like families like didn't let their kids go on it, but like

00:16:40.960 that has happened.

00:16:42.000 But like they, when that, sometimes when that happens, like the kid just leaves and like

00:16:47.720 he becomes, becomes English.

00:16:50.160 And.

00:16:50.840 Oh, cause they feel they can't, they're not allowed to, that the family's not following

00:16:54.260 the rules.

00:16:54.720 No, the, uh, everyone can go on Rumspringer, like Rumspringer.

00:16:57.820 Everyone does it.

00:16:58.600 Every single, now every single, like every single community that does Rumspringer, like,

00:17:04.640 like they usually go on.

00:17:06.800 Cause what happens is around 16, 16 and a half, you go, you join Rumspringer, which we, what

00:17:12.920 we call the Yunger.

00:17:14.460 The Yunger?

00:17:15.100 Yeah.

00:17:15.300 Which basically means the, what was it?

00:17:18.900 Like young, young people.

00:17:21.520 The youth?

00:17:22.120 The youth.

00:17:22.600 Yeah.

00:17:22.820 Youth.

00:17:23.160 There you go.

00:17:23.600 Okay.

00:17:23.980 That'd be a better word for it.

00:17:25.160 So you're picking up.

00:17:26.060 The Yunger.

00:17:26.680 Yep.

00:17:27.020 The Yunger.

00:17:27.120 Makes sense.

00:17:27.780 Yep.

00:17:28.020 So that's when you go to like sing-ins after church.

00:17:31.780 Now, I never, I never really, really went, went, went to one because when I went on Rumspringer,

00:17:39.820 the church was kind of already going down because our church kind of, it's kind of split

00:17:45.140 up now.

00:17:45.740 Actually, our bishop kind of, he kind of booked out, he kind of decked out.

00:17:49.480 So, yeah.

00:17:50.560 So right now there's, there's, we still have church, but it's like only like an hour, like

00:17:55.320 hour and a half.

00:17:56.300 And, and so there's a lot of Amish around us.

00:17:59.600 They're, they're still Amish and then, but they're not a member of the church anymore

00:18:02.940 anymore because when it opens in the Swartzen Trooper Amish.

00:18:06.160 Wait, wait, wait, when what opens?

00:18:08.000 Like, so when the, when the church doesn't come to agreement for like a, for a while and

00:18:13.620 then it's kind of, it's kind of like a rule that they have to open the doors and then whoever

00:18:18.820 wants to go can, you know, get out of the, no longer be a member of the church and doesn't

00:18:24.300 require to have to follow the rules.

00:18:26.280 Uh, that's only, that's only when you're like trying to church already.

00:18:30.660 Okay.

00:18:31.080 So members of the church, if the church is, if for some reason there's diff, there's

00:18:34.520 some problem within that church where they're not able to, uh, like maybe obviously there

00:18:39.980 was a problem with the bishop you're saying.

00:18:41.580 Well, the, like the, like the people in the community and the bishop and like the, like

00:18:46.620 there was, there's an argument.

00:18:48.240 Yeah.

00:18:48.460 They were not agreeing on the same things.

00:18:50.160 Okay.

00:18:50.360 Understood.

00:18:50.820 So there was a disagreement.

00:18:51.980 Yeah.

00:18:52.220 And so the bishop left.

00:18:53.160 Yeah.

00:18:53.780 Well, that's actually, this is a very rare thing to happen.

00:18:56.700 The bishop just like, it was months, it was probably over a year of like this stuff happening,

00:19:01.140 but it was usually like the, like the smallest things.

00:19:03.800 And I think it like annoyed some of the, uh, like the people in the congregation.

00:19:09.600 Yeah.

00:19:09.980 Like some of the, some of the members.

00:19:11.740 Cause I know, I know if a guy like they came to his house cause he's certain cause

00:19:16.360 his, the curtains on his window were like not the right shade of blue or, or even the

00:19:21.120 reflectors on the Buc-ee's cause some, our Buc-ee's don't have that many reflectors, not

00:19:25.500 compared to like Buc-ee's in Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania.

00:19:28.560 Cause they got like that big, uh.

00:19:30.920 Big reflector plate.

00:19:31.900 Yeah.

00:19:32.140 Like that triangle thing.

00:19:33.280 It's flashy, huh?

00:19:33.780 Yeah.

00:19:34.060 It is flashy.

00:19:34.760 And yeah, we don't have, we don't have that reflection.

00:19:37.320 Actually go, go to the left, that Buc-ee that's white horse.

00:19:41.940 One more right there.

00:19:43.080 Yeah.

00:19:43.200 Right there.

00:19:43.700 That's yours.

00:19:44.260 That's how our Buc-ee's look like.

00:19:45.740 And there were, there was, what was their reflector on the front or the back of a Buc-ee like

00:19:52.220 that?

00:19:52.620 And, uh, they didn't like that.

00:19:54.080 So the Bishop had too many reflectors on his Buc-ee?

00:19:55.940 No.

00:19:56.260 Like the members had too many reflectors on their Buc-ee and they got, they got after him

00:19:59.880 for that.

00:20:00.400 Oh, the Bishop got after him for it.

00:20:01.800 Yeah.

00:20:02.140 Like the Bishop, though, the Bishop doesn't even live in this community.

00:20:05.720 He lives down there because our Bishop before, he actually, actually died in a house fire.

00:20:11.160 So.

00:20:11.540 No.

00:20:12.060 Yeah.

00:20:12.360 Like the whole, the whole house burnt down and.

00:20:15.200 How?

00:20:15.660 What happened?

00:20:16.220 A candle?

00:20:17.040 I don't know.

00:20:17.760 I don't think it was a candle.

00:20:18.860 I think, I think it was something with a stove in the wash house and this was a hot

00:20:23.500 fire.

00:20:23.920 It was 20, it was 20 below and this hot fire, I was told it was hot.

00:20:29.920 And it was, and maybe it wasn't 20 below, but it was definitely 10 below or so.

00:20:35.300 And like.

00:20:36.260 The fire just kept burning.

00:20:37.440 The fire just kept burning.

00:20:38.640 And the, when the, when the people came out, the like, the people in the red, the people

00:20:42.900 like, what do you call it?

00:20:44.260 Like firemen?

00:20:45.080 Yeah.

00:20:45.500 That they had to like keep the water on us or the holes wouldn't freeze.

00:20:48.500 It was really cold.

00:20:49.860 And the, the, his wife actually survived.

00:20:52.060 And apparently when she came out, it was so hot.

00:20:54.540 She just laid on the snow and like, she was fine for a little bit, but she had like,

00:20:58.880 she had a little bit of burns and stuff like that.

00:21:00.940 Do they think she started it or no?

00:21:02.780 No, I don't think so.

00:21:03.900 I, cause we don't have insurance.

00:21:05.720 Like we don't have life insurance and stuff.

00:21:07.460 So I think it was, I think it was an accident, but that wouldn't be too funny if she like.

00:21:13.020 Thought she had life insurance.

00:21:14.280 Yeah.

00:21:14.840 That, that would be, wouldn't that be like illegal?

00:21:17.100 Between the hojile, that happens all the time.

00:21:19.120 Yeah.

00:21:19.460 The hojile are always killing their spouses for insurance money.

00:21:21.680 That's not very nice.

00:21:22.940 That's like that.

00:21:23.640 Isn't that murder?

00:21:24.860 Yup.

00:21:26.260 That sure is.

00:21:27.680 That's not very nice.

00:21:28.940 And dude, not only is it murder.

00:21:30.940 What?

00:21:31.820 But it's murdering for money.

00:21:33.580 But I guess if you don't have life insurance and you don't have to worry about it.

00:21:36.300 Yeah.

00:21:36.580 It's kind of nice.

00:21:37.340 Yeah.

00:21:37.700 And.

00:21:38.400 So go ahead, kill me.

00:21:39.220 You won't get anything.

00:21:40.100 Yeah.

00:21:40.520 That's kind of the idea of it.

00:21:42.180 Yeah.

00:21:42.540 So yeah.

00:21:43.160 Damage, like damage, like, like back in the wars, I think the government tried to force us

00:21:48.740 like to go to wars, but we're like pacifists and stuff.

00:21:51.560 Like, yeah, we'll, we'll like wrestle and stuff when we were younger and, and, and then

00:21:56.600 also sometimes maybe argue.

00:21:58.500 But other than that, like we don't like kill each other.

00:22:01.860 The Amis are pretty peaceful.

00:22:03.120 Yeah.

00:22:03.420 And then, yeah.

00:22:04.800 Cause back in like the wars and stuff, like we, we just did like all the cooking and the

00:22:09.120 cleaning and then like saving people too.

00:22:11.500 Is that true?

00:22:12.000 Let me read that right here.

00:22:13.100 World War one.

00:22:13.940 The Amis were subject to the military draft in us wars, but due to their religious beliefs

00:22:17.860 as pacifists, they were usually classified as conscientious objectors and assigned to non-combatant

00:22:24.400 or alternative service roles.

00:22:26.560 World War one and two, Amish men were drafted, but most received farm deferments or performed

00:22:31.300 non-combatant services.

00:22:32.800 Some were sent to army camps and suffered abuse when refusing military service entirely.

00:22:39.060 And in rare cases, some were in prison for refusing all forms of service.

00:22:42.860 Yeah.

00:22:43.700 Like the Amish, the, and where the Amish came from, like, like they went through a lot

00:22:48.900 of stuff.

00:22:49.340 It's like, there's a, there's a book actually where the Amish came from was like from the

00:22:53.940 Anabaptists.

00:22:55.020 Like those were all, like those were like the, like the OGs.

00:22:57.920 They came all the back, all the way from the Catholic church.

00:23:00.760 Really?

00:23:01.100 Like the OGs you're saying?

00:23:02.160 Yeah.

00:23:02.620 Did the Amish have to fight to establish themselves in America?

00:23:06.720 Uh, that I'm not actually very sure, but I know like when, when, uh, like when

00:23:12.700 back, I think it was back in the seventies, I think that they had to fight like court and

00:23:17.840 stuff.

00:23:18.380 I think they went through a lot of like court stuff, but like for that stuff, I think they

00:23:22.780 did, but also like the government also agreed cause this is like a free country and stuff.

00:23:28.180 And, um, while not armed struggles, the Amish sometimes faced legal and social battles, especially

00:23:33.380 regarding education and their right to practice their faith freely.

00:23:37.820 Notably in the 20th century, they opposed laws that would force their children into public

00:23:41.860 high schools, sometimes resulting in imprisonment or property laws for Amish parents.

00:23:46.880 Wow.

00:23:47.360 So they've had to fight to, to maintain their way of life.

00:23:50.320 Yeah.

00:23:50.720 So there must be a lot of pride.

00:23:51.940 Is there a lot of pride in being Amish?

00:23:53.920 It like, it varies from community to community, but yeah, like, uh, there, there is pride in

00:23:59.520 being Amish.

00:24:00.020 Like we don't believe in being prideful, but that's like something like you feel good

00:24:04.060 about.

00:24:04.480 Right.

00:24:04.960 So yeah, it's a little bit different than being like, being like, um, egotistical about

00:24:09.120 and just having some like confidence in your, in your, uh, group.

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00:25:38.380 Do you, do Amish people have to go to public school or do you go to your own school?

00:25:43.380 We go to our own school.

00:25:44.700 Do you have a schoolhouse?

00:25:45.760 Yeah, we have a schoolhouse.

00:25:46.940 I sent pictures of it at the schoolhouse to that white building.

00:25:50.840 So the building in the front there, that's where, uh, where all the horses kept.

00:25:54.780 Now, since I'm more kids, we had to build another, like a little shelter for the horses.

00:26:00.020 So they, that was down there.

00:26:01.840 Oh, for the horses?

00:26:02.780 Yeah, for the horses.

00:26:03.880 I thought you meant the cheerleaders or something.

00:26:05.520 No, we don't have cheerleaders because that'd be like, they're like, like they barely wear

00:26:10.200 clothes and stuff.

00:26:11.080 It looks like they're in their underwear.

00:26:12.740 What was it?

00:26:13.000 It's too much.

00:26:13.300 Yeah, I've never, I've never loved a basketball game so much that I got in my underwear for

00:26:17.420 it.

00:26:17.740 Yeah, that's right.

00:26:18.560 That's, that's a bit odd.

00:26:19.680 And like, even when they go to the beach and stuff, like they're just in their underwear.

00:26:25.120 Some of them get dressed up more for the beach even.

00:26:27.700 Yeah.

00:26:28.260 It's crazy.

00:26:29.040 Yeah.

00:26:29.260 Like they get more dressed down.

00:26:31.360 Yeah.

00:26:31.560 But, but, but so you go to school there, you put your horses in the front building?

00:26:35.540 Yep.

00:26:36.100 Okay.

00:26:36.620 And there's, does everybody have their own horse or sometimes people come in groups?

00:26:40.200 Yeah.

00:26:40.560 Like fam, one family usually has one horse and then like the, we have building, uh, like

00:26:46.140 a building and then like one through eighth grade is like, we all sit in there and then,

00:26:52.420 so that's all in one room.

00:26:54.120 And then there's usually one teacher.

00:26:55.460 So one year we actually had like 25 kids and like one building, that was like the most

00:27:00.160 we ever had.

00:27:00.800 And then, and it varied from year to year.

00:27:04.500 So like we started out with like 10 and then as it went up 14, 16, 20, and then 25.

00:27:11.680 And then it kind of slowed down, like came down from there.

00:27:14.640 But yeah, like first, that's where I went to school first through eighth grade and everyone's

00:27:18.540 sitting in the same room and then we have classes too.

00:27:21.180 Is it pretty cool?

00:27:22.680 Ah, it can be if you make it.

00:27:25.460 But it was, I didn't really like school when I went to school.

00:27:28.260 So what, and what, when does the school day start?

00:27:31.100 So that's usually, if I remember right, it was like, it was 830, I think 830 school starts.

00:27:37.980 And then we sing like three, four hymns and then that usually lasts 15, 20 minutes.

00:27:43.760 And then we start reading, reading classes.

00:27:46.020 And then it depends on the teacher.

00:27:48.280 Some like to go from eighth grade down and others like to go from first grade up.

00:27:51.940 So, and then after that, it's, it's, uh, it's recess, like 15 minutes.

00:27:58.580 And then usually arithmetic classes.

00:28:01.600 And then until we would do arithmetic until lunch, which is like all around 1130.

00:28:07.540 And school goes out like only, only for a little bit, for like an hour.

00:28:11.280 Do you go home for lunch or no?

00:28:12.360 Uh, no, no, we, we pack our lunch, we eat at school, we sit at our desk and eat.

00:28:17.400 And then usually that takes like around 20 minutes, 15, 20 minutes.

00:28:22.460 And then we go out and play different games and we play like, uh, what was it?

00:28:28.300 Oh yeah, we played, we played a game that we call rapid.

00:28:31.100 It's where like the, like the animal rapid.

00:28:34.100 Rabbit?

00:28:34.820 Yeah, like rapid.

00:28:36.060 And then, so what you do is there's a person in the middle as a ball.

00:28:40.280 Like Easter, like that little, like a Easter.

00:28:42.380 Yeah, like a, like a bunny.

00:28:43.680 Like, so yeah, we call it hawasa.

00:28:46.240 Hawasa?

00:28:46.900 Yep, hawasa.

00:28:47.820 Hawasa.

00:28:48.280 That's the Amish word for rapids.

00:28:50.960 Rapids.

00:28:51.400 So we used to throw the ball up and it was, if someone threw it.

00:28:55.580 So it's kind of like that.

00:28:57.040 I got to get better at explaining this, but it's kind of.

00:28:59.440 You're doing good.

00:29:00.080 So it's kind of like dodgeball.

00:29:01.180 You have two base or two base on each side.

00:29:03.380 And then there's a person in the middle.

00:29:04.880 He's got like a ball.

00:29:06.400 Sometimes we use a basketball.

00:29:07.760 Sometimes we use the tennis ball.

00:29:10.460 Tennis ball was like my favorite because you could throw it better and it wouldn't hurt as much if it hit you.

00:29:16.220 Okay.

00:29:16.460 Because, so you're, you're supposed to throw it up five times.

00:29:19.920 And if you throw it up five times and no one runs through to the other base, then you can go on one base and count to basically do a countdown.

00:29:28.040 And then if no one goes off of that base and goes through before you're done, you can just, even though they're on base, you can go touch them and, you know, get them out.

00:29:36.420 Oh, they can actually physically catch them?

00:29:37.820 Yeah.

00:29:38.080 We'll catch them and take them down.

00:29:40.220 But would this, would this be a game boys would play with boys?

00:29:43.420 Everyone, everyone would play.

00:29:44.820 The teacher would even help too.

00:29:46.240 So.

00:29:46.580 Really?

00:29:46.900 Yeah.

00:29:47.880 So, like, it depends on like, it depends how rough, like, the, the harder you try to get away, I guess you were, you accepted the roughness and you were basically, you run through and try not to get caught.

00:30:01.020 And then you, then someone takes you down on the ground, you crawl, you crawl for the base.

00:30:05.800 It's like, it's almost like Vietnam and stuff.

00:30:08.180 I've never been there, but.

00:30:09.260 No, but no, we've seen pictures.

00:30:10.760 We all understand exactly what it was like.

00:30:13.060 Yeah.

00:30:13.580 Um, that's unbelievable, dude.

00:30:16.060 So that, so that was a popular game.

00:30:17.540 Rappa?

00:30:18.140 Rapp it.

00:30:18.900 Rapp it.

00:30:19.400 Like the, like the Easter bunny.

00:30:21.340 Yeah.

00:30:21.660 And.

00:30:21.860 Rapp it.

00:30:22.440 Yeah.

00:30:22.820 And then what did girls do?

00:30:24.000 Did they play this game?

00:30:25.080 Or what did girls who were definitely girls, like some girls played this game, but what did like the real girls do?

00:30:31.180 The, the real girls always, like, we always were together.

00:30:33.620 Like we always, we always helped each other play.

00:30:35.860 Oh, everybody played the same stuff.

00:30:37.000 Yeah.

00:30:37.280 But it like, when it was like a rainy day or something, like sometimes we played board games and then not as much, but most times like we all played with each other because we didn't know stuff yet.

00:30:47.560 Oh, yeah.

00:30:48.180 Yeah.

00:30:48.540 Because we don't get taught that stuff in school or anything.

00:30:50.920 Like, what do you mean?

00:30:52.500 Like the, uh, about girls and we don't really know too much about each other, I guess.

00:30:58.260 Oh, so everybody's just kind of like just all the same.

00:31:00.220 Yeah.

00:31:00.320 We're all kids.

00:31:01.140 Oh, you're all kids.

00:31:01.780 Yeah.

00:31:02.200 Are you allowed to flirt at school?

00:31:04.140 Like at some point, do people feel some attraction?

00:31:06.160 Like, do you think like, uh, maybe, maybe, but so the school I went to, I, I couldn't really do that because, uh, pretty much everyone I went to school with was either the first or second cousin.

00:31:16.860 Oh, yeah.

00:31:17.620 I feel that, brother.

00:31:18.480 Yeah.

00:31:19.100 Cool.

00:31:19.860 So, yeah, it's like, it's a tough world.

00:31:22.300 It is, brother.

00:31:23.040 And, you know, that's why we got to do some of this redistricting and rezoning.

00:31:27.000 Yeah, we got to, like, read, like, rezone, like, move out, move in.

00:31:31.280 That's what, that's what a lot of Amish been doing around us and moving out to different communities.

00:31:35.120 I guess it's a good thing then you can, you know, you know, spread the family tree because sometimes the tree becomes a bush.

00:31:41.980 Yeah, for sure.

00:31:43.440 Like, intertwine with each other.

00:31:44.680 The Amish population experiences a strong founder effect, meaning that their gene pool originates from a small number of original settlers.

00:31:52.480 Most Amish people are distantly related because nearly all Amish in America descended from a small group of about 200 to 500 founders who immigrated from Germany and Switzerland in the 18th century.

00:32:03.180 Yeah.

00:32:03.280 The genetic closeness increases the likelihood of certain inherited conditions with some rare genetic disorders much more common among Amish than in the general U.S. population.

00:32:11.380 Do you guys have, um, oh, this says cousin marriage.

00:32:16.300 Marriages between cousins do occur.

00:32:18.400 Not first cousin, second cousin does.

00:32:20.300 Oh, yeah.

00:32:21.000 Yeah.

00:32:21.880 For sure, buddy.

00:32:22.860 But that, like, it's not really, it's not really, uh, like, uh, forward, like, hey, you can marry a second cousin.

00:32:30.220 But, but it does happen.

00:32:31.520 But if it happens, it happens.

00:32:32.500 Yeah, it happens, it happens.

00:32:33.460 You're already close.

00:32:35.080 You might as well be closer.

00:32:36.260 Yeah, that's right.

00:32:37.540 Now, I don't know how, because we don't have, like, any family tree and stuff.

00:32:41.700 You don't?

00:32:42.520 No.

00:32:43.020 But we do have, like, a big book that, that tells us, like, all Amish communities, like, in certain states, like, who, like, basically a dictionary for, for, like, Amish people and who's related to who and.

00:32:55.260 Oh, you have that?

00:32:56.080 Yeah.

00:32:56.780 It's basically, like, Google for the Amish when it comes to, like, finding, like, oh, yeah, this person's related to this or how old is this person.

00:33:04.680 And it's kind of, even got their, like, addresses and stuff.

00:33:07.520 Oh, nice.

00:33:08.220 Yeah.

00:33:08.620 It's like a book where you can go look and see who's who and how old.

00:33:11.120 Yeah, and how many kids they have and when the kids were born.

00:33:13.680 So, that's pretty cool.

00:33:14.860 Oh, yeah.

00:33:15.360 Right?

00:33:15.900 That's kind of how it is.

00:33:17.580 But it's a little bit different than that.

00:33:19.820 Okay.

00:33:20.500 Because they put, like, they, like, they put, like, two different, was it, two different names on the front, like, whoever, like, put it together and stuff.

00:33:27.300 Got it.

00:33:27.560 Because some Amish, like, like, they know, like, who's related to everyone.

00:33:33.040 It's, like, it's almost like they're, like, they're happy, I guess, I guess you could say.

00:33:37.260 And they, they, like.

00:33:38.080 Like they're happy?

00:33:38.860 No, they're happy.

00:33:39.860 Hoppy.

00:33:40.340 Like they're, it's their.

00:33:42.540 Oh, it's their hobby.

00:33:43.780 Like H-O-B-B-Y.

00:33:45.600 Like rap, like rap it.

00:33:47.180 No.

00:33:47.480 Hobby.

00:33:47.940 Yeah.

00:33:48.560 Like, like, like hoppy.

00:33:49.920 Like, it's something they like to do in their spare time.

00:33:52.280 Yeah.

00:33:52.860 Yeah.

00:33:53.120 That's what it is.

00:33:53.980 Genealogy.

00:33:54.380 Put it together.

00:33:55.100 Yeah.

00:33:55.280 Oh, yeah, you got to, somebody's got to know who's related or you got to be able to ask somebody.

00:33:59.740 So could there be people in your school that are your cousin, you don't even know it?

00:34:03.560 Ah, no, because everyone in the school, like, they drive there with a horse and bucky, so it's fairly close because we have, like, let me think.

00:34:11.360 I, I, I think it's like half, at least half a dozen schools in our, in our, like, community.

00:34:16.660 Okay.

00:34:17.280 Yep.

00:34:18.100 And how do you decide what school you go to?

00:34:20.480 Whichever you live closest to.

00:34:21.920 That's it?

00:34:22.520 Yep.

00:34:22.800 Do they have, like, learn, like, we're, they were talking about, like, obviously, when cousins get together, things can get crazy.

00:34:29.360 Yeah.

00:34:29.460 And you might get, get one of the Lord's remixes out there.

00:34:32.480 Yeah.

00:34:32.600 Or disabled, they call out here in America.

00:34:35.320 Yeah.

00:34:35.640 Mentally disabled.

00:34:36.780 Yeah.

00:34:37.200 Um, autism, Amish-tism, I'm sure you guys are seeing it.

00:34:40.640 Well.

00:34:41.020 Somebody will just raise a barn with their eyes, you know, just put a nail through a four by four with their, just, with their, with their, with the sheer, just, you know, with just a blink of an eye.

00:34:48.980 I don't know if we have autism, but, like, we have, like, some with Down syndrome.

00:34:53.200 Yeah.

00:34:53.460 Cause my great uncle, uh, he has Down syndrome and stuff.

00:34:56.540 He's like.

00:34:56.780 Fuck yeah.

00:34:57.160 Yeah.

00:34:57.380 He's like, he's like 57 years old.

00:34:59.500 And he's awesome, huh?

00:35:00.380 Yeah.

00:35:00.640 He's pretty awesome.

00:35:01.380 Cause me and him, uh, me and him, I don't, like, I, I just remembered that I carried, like, carried wood with him.

00:35:07.600 Like, me and him carried wood into the, like, wood box for a stove, and I don't know why, but apparently I used to tease him a little bit, too.

00:35:14.360 I kind of feel bad for him now.

00:35:16.020 I thought, like, I think I was like, like, six or seven years old.

00:35:19.780 I was really young.

00:35:20.620 Oh, it's okay.

00:35:21.220 You were just a kid, man.

00:35:22.140 Yeah.

00:35:22.700 You were just joking around.

00:35:23.880 Yeah.

00:35:24.380 Cause I, I thought I was having fun, but.

00:35:26.160 But he could carry a lot of wood?

00:35:27.600 Oh, yeah.

00:35:27.880 He could carry a lot of wood.

00:35:28.940 Yeah.

00:35:29.500 He was pretty cool.

00:35:31.600 And.

00:35:32.020 And he passed away?

00:35:33.140 No, he hasn't passed away yet, but I heard recently he's, like, he's not doing, doing too good anymore.

00:35:38.100 But, but he's still, he's still, like, surviving and stuff.

00:35:40.680 But isn't that, like, real, kind of old for a person with, like, Down syndrome and stuff?

00:35:44.440 That's a great question, actually, Timothy.

00:35:46.120 Let me look at that up.

00:35:47.120 How old do the, uh, how old do the Down syndrome get, if you don't mind pulling up there?

00:35:51.680 Yeah.

00:35:52.160 It might be, it might be, like, because he's Amish that he's, like.

00:35:56.740 That he's clocking more time.

00:35:58.540 Yeah.

00:35:58.900 Yeah.

00:35:59.160 Because it's probably harder, probably a Down syndrome being out under the bright lights

00:36:02.720 of regular life than it is out there just slurping in the moonlight.

00:36:06.740 Yeah.

00:36:07.260 The average life expectancy for individuals with Down syndrome is now about 60 years.

00:36:11.800 Wow.

00:36:11.980 With many living into their 60s and 70s, thanks to advances in medical care and social inclusion.

00:36:16.660 That's awesome, dude.

00:36:17.400 Wow.

00:36:17.600 McDonald's was not be getting to them anymore.

00:36:19.480 At McDonald's, huh?

00:36:20.400 Yeah.

00:36:21.040 It was really hampering them.

00:36:22.600 Well, there was a time when, like, um, McDonald's, a lot of their employees had Down syndrome.

00:36:28.080 Oh, really?

00:36:28.600 Bring that up.

00:36:29.880 And then, so, it caused a lot of people to take people there with Down syndrome.

00:36:34.560 Oh.

00:36:34.920 So then they were eating all this McDonald's and it was, like, not good for them.

00:36:38.480 No, it was, like, backing them up.

00:36:40.360 Yeah.

00:36:41.180 Um, but McDonald's was hiring a hella down.

00:36:44.420 Wow.

00:36:46.120 They had the whole.

00:36:48.440 I never knew, like, places like that hired.

00:36:51.540 Oh, yeah.

00:36:52.480 Especially now.

00:36:53.520 Now there's coffee shops in America and everybody that works there has Down syndrome.

00:36:57.100 Wow.

00:36:57.260 Shane Gillis owns one.

00:36:58.220 He's a comedian.

00:36:59.160 Wow.

00:36:59.580 So, yeah.

00:37:00.420 I heard Shane Gillis was around the Amish, too, when he was, when he was younger.

00:37:04.220 Yep.

00:37:04.580 He grew up around the Amish.

00:37:05.500 He's famous.

00:37:06.100 Some people said he has Down syndrome.

00:37:07.240 Some people said he doesn't.

00:37:08.240 Yeah.

00:37:08.400 I don't know.

00:37:09.260 We had a guy on who completed the Ironman, which was one of the biggest physical challenges

00:37:13.200 in the world, and he has Down syndrome.

00:37:15.300 Chris Nickich.

00:37:16.200 Oh.

00:37:16.680 Bring him up.

00:37:17.740 What's an Ironman?

00:37:19.740 It's, like, the toughest competition ever.

00:37:22.820 Oh.

00:37:23.200 There he is right there.

00:37:25.740 Wow.

00:37:26.420 What are the conditions of an Ironman, just so we're clear on it?

00:37:29.380 Is one of a series of long-distance triathlon races organized by the World Triathlon Corporation,

00:37:37.680 consisting of a 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bicycle ride, and 26-mile run.

00:37:46.060 Completed in that order.

00:37:47.660 Wow.

00:37:48.100 Think you could do it?

00:37:49.160 No.

00:37:49.680 I'd have to, like, build three barns in a day and, like, run up and down to the house

00:37:55.800 a couple times.

00:37:56.640 Yeah.

00:37:57.060 Oh, you'd have to jack and gel a million gallons of water, dude.

00:38:00.180 Yeah.

00:38:00.400 Yeah.

00:38:00.480 Even if I had Down syndrome, I don't think I could do it.

00:38:02.520 No.

00:38:03.400 It'd be really hard to do.

00:38:05.040 Like, even though, like, I think it'd even be hard for the Amish people, because first

00:38:08.560 we need to learn how to bike.

00:38:10.300 Yeah.

00:38:10.660 Yeah, because we can swim, because, like, the rivers and stuff.

00:38:13.260 Are you allowed to have bikes or no?

00:38:15.020 Like, we can sneak them.

00:38:16.460 Oh, you sneak them, huh?

00:38:17.280 Yeah.

00:38:17.540 But, like, the Amish over in, like, Indiana and Ohio and even Pennsylvania, they got, like,

00:38:22.300 scooters and stuff.

00:38:23.300 Uh-uh.

00:38:23.920 Yeah, they do it.

00:38:24.760 But they got, like, the lowriders, like, the ones that are, like, really close to the

00:38:27.600 ground.

00:38:27.980 Oh, yeah.

00:38:28.280 The Amish.

00:38:29.060 Yeah, the Amish.

00:38:30.140 Yeah, that you, like, stand on and stuff.

00:38:32.100 Yeah.

00:38:32.340 Not the ones that you, like, sit on.

00:38:34.400 Oh, I see what you're saying.

00:38:35.680 Yeah, like those.

00:38:35.900 So, not the motorized ones.

00:38:37.360 No, not the motorized or the ones with, like, pedals and stuff.

00:38:42.080 Yeah, they had one Amish dude, Aura Farm.

00:38:44.740 On one of these, I think.

00:38:45.800 Oh.

00:38:46.300 Like, was he doing it on the horse or, like, the scooter?

00:38:49.660 I think the scooter.

00:38:50.680 Oh.

00:38:52.140 And they have a lot of Mexican Amish, too.

00:38:54.120 Now, the Amish, they call them.

00:38:55.800 Yeah, I saw, like, there were a couple, like, Mexican Amish.

00:38:58.340 I was, like, because I, really, like, a couple years ago, there was this Mexican Amish guy.

00:39:02.660 He popped up.

00:39:03.480 Like, he was, he looked fully Mexican.

00:39:05.300 He looked like he came from Mexico.

00:39:06.980 Yeah.

00:39:07.340 And I think someone must have adopted him.

00:39:08.900 It sounded like that.

00:39:09.820 And, like, he could speak, like, like, he could speak, like, the Mexican language.

00:39:13.940 Mm-hmm.

00:39:14.580 And then, like, he could also speak, like, Pennsylvania Dutch, too.

00:39:18.260 Hell, yeah.

00:39:19.020 Yeah.

00:39:19.760 I love that, man.

00:39:21.180 Yeah, dude.

00:39:21.840 And that must be the craziest if you're Mexican, because then you're like, holy shit, I still

00:39:25.680 have to do all this construction myself, you know?

00:39:27.980 Like, if you're an Amish Mexican, people expect you to build stuff faster than anybody.

00:39:33.580 Yeah, because Mexicans and Amish, we go back and forth.

00:39:36.300 Like, we look who can build the fastest.

00:39:38.340 If you have both.

00:39:39.360 Yeah.

00:39:39.900 Now, when it comes to sheetrocking, I have to say Mexicans are definitely faster, because

00:39:43.740 they got them long, like, like those metal things that, I think they're called stilts.

00:39:47.980 Oh, really?

00:39:48.620 So they're good at sheetrocking.

00:39:49.680 Yeah, they, I saw a video of them.

00:39:52.100 They, like, held their tape measure, and then walked over, and the one guy, real tall-looking

00:39:58.180 guy, if he had, like, long legs, he was on stilts and stuff.

00:40:01.280 He had almost touched the ceiling.

00:40:02.840 What, um, tell me about this.

00:40:04.320 When you go to Rumspringer, how do you go?

00:40:06.660 Is there a day that you go?

00:40:08.580 What happens?

00:40:09.360 You hit what age, and how does it start?

00:40:11.560 Uh, it's kind of just, it's kind of spontaneous when it happens.

00:40:15.340 You're, like, roughly, roughly 16 and a half when it happens, and your parents are, like,

00:40:19.280 like, like, you can go, and then you kind of just go, like, one night.

00:40:23.760 So do they sit you down at dinner and tell you to?

00:40:25.760 Is it, like, an announcement at school?

00:40:27.600 Is it at church?

00:40:28.440 How does it happen that they say, we're going to allow you to go to Rumspringer?

00:40:31.380 Uh, it's not, it's not really an announcement.

00:40:33.100 It's just kind of, like, hey, you can, you can go there, and then you probably have a couple

00:40:37.340 rules, you know, don't do this, don't do that, but you're probably going to do it anyway.

00:40:41.620 Really?

00:40:42.260 Yeah.

00:40:42.700 And so, is there a moment, an actual day that you leave?

00:40:45.200 Like, do you say goodbye?

00:40:46.320 Oh, no, no.

00:40:46.860 So, when Rumspringer happens and you go to the Yoha, like, you still live at home and

00:40:51.440 stuff, you're still Amish, and then you just do stuff on the weekends that you're not supposed

00:40:56.740 to.

00:40:57.360 When do you go back to your Amish country, though?

00:40:59.960 Like, when do you go back to your district, to your home?

00:41:03.120 So, when you're in Rumspringer, you're always at home, so don't, like, the, like, so what

00:41:09.400 happens if you're in Rumspringer for, like, it's usually around four to five years.

00:41:14.100 It always depends, and then, though, when you get baptized, it's usually when you have

00:41:19.120 a girlfriend, and then you want to get married.

00:41:21.280 So, that's the reason you get baptized, is to get married, and then, at the same time,

00:41:24.900 you're also becoming a member of the church.

00:41:26.680 Okay, so, before, so, you hit about 16 or something, and your parents say that you can

00:41:31.180 go now.

00:41:31.820 Yep.

00:41:32.180 And that means on the weekends, you can go do what you want?

00:41:34.840 Yeah, kind of.

00:41:35.980 And if they don't hear too much about it, you're fine.

00:41:38.920 Then you're doing fine.

00:41:39.720 Yeah, because sometimes you can be like, hey, you can't go this time.

00:41:42.500 Okay.

00:41:43.060 Yeah.

00:41:43.460 And now, do some people choose to stay out in Rumspringer and not come back to the church?

00:41:48.040 Do you have that option, or that's not an option?

00:41:49.540 Yeah, where, like, people, like, leave and become ex-Amish, yeah.

00:41:52.740 And that can happen.

00:41:53.760 Yeah.

00:41:54.200 And then when, like, Rumspringer ends, it's roughly around 20 to 21.

00:41:58.820 That's usually when people get married.

00:42:00.240 Or sometimes, you know, like, all of a sudden, they realize they have a kid.

00:42:03.820 And then, so, that's not really a good idea, like, to have a kid before you're married.

00:42:08.740 So, like, they either get quickly married, or, like, my cousin, like, his, my cousin, Frank,

00:42:16.820 like, he, he was, he was Amish?

00:42:20.700 No, like, he, like, his parents, like, they realized they had him when they were still,

00:42:26.580 like, on Rumspringer and Amish, so they just left.

00:42:28.880 Wow.

00:42:29.440 Yeah.

00:42:29.960 So, so your cousin, his, his parents were both on Rumspringer.

00:42:34.100 Yep.

00:42:34.520 Both Amish.

00:42:35.380 Yep.

00:42:35.980 They, one of them got pregnant, the woman.

00:42:38.380 The woman, yeah.

00:42:39.200 And then they realized at that point that they had to leave.

00:42:42.740 Would they have been welcomed back into the church or no?

00:42:45.020 Uh, like, so what happens if that happens, either you leave, or you, like, almost become

00:42:50.720 married right away.

00:42:51.360 Because that has happened a couple times.

00:42:53.140 That actually happened for my parents.

00:42:54.740 So, I had to quickly get married.

00:42:55.820 Right.

00:42:56.040 Okay, so you have to make that quick choice.

00:42:57.660 Yeah.

00:42:58.120 Now, if you decide to leave, are you shunned?

00:43:00.740 Are you allowed to come back?

00:43:02.080 What is it like?

00:43:02.680 Like, once you allow, once you decide to leave.

00:43:05.280 So, if you leave and you're already a member of the church, you'll get, you'll get shunned

00:43:09.680 from it.

00:43:10.500 And then if you're not a member, like, on Rumspring, if you leave, it, it varies on the

00:43:14.680 parents a lot.

00:43:15.300 Like, on my dad's side, like, they, they wouldn't really, for the longest time, they wouldn't

00:43:20.300 really be happy or wouldn't really talk to their kids when they came, came and

00:43:25.200 visit, they once that are ex-Amish.

00:43:26.800 On my mom's side, they were like that for a little bit too, like, in the first.

00:43:30.360 But on my mom's side now, when the, when the ex-Amish kids come back, they're, they're

00:43:36.000 like now 40 and stuff, 30, 40, and maybe even older.

00:43:39.620 Like, they come back, they're welcome, like, all that stuff.

00:43:42.100 But my, on my dad's side, they're, they're still a little bit, a little bit iffy, but

00:43:46.140 they're way better than they were.

00:43:47.620 I see.

00:43:48.180 So they're coming around a little bit more than they used to.

00:43:50.160 Yeah.

00:43:50.260 But probably in your grandfather's generation, if somebody was shunned, they might not talk

00:43:53.800 to them?

00:43:54.220 Yep.

00:43:54.520 That's how it is.

00:43:55.140 When you get, when you get shunned, uh, you're not supposed to, well, you can talk to them,

00:43:59.600 but you're not supposed to like help them out in any way.

00:44:02.240 Like, you can't accept money from them and you can't, you can't, you're not supposed to

00:44:06.680 get a ride from them too.

00:44:08.200 A ride.

00:44:08.880 Like, uh, like, let's say they were driving, the ones that left, they were driving and stuff,

00:44:12.500 you're not supposed to like, like ride with them.

00:44:16.000 Oh yeah.

00:44:16.340 If they can't even stay on the path to heaven, how are they going to keep you on a path when

00:44:19.320 they're trying to take you somewhere?

00:44:20.500 Yeah.

00:44:21.080 They're going to like take you off the road or something.

00:44:23.300 They sure are.

00:44:23.820 Yeah.

00:44:24.060 They're literally, yeah, literally do.

00:44:25.420 They're literally going to take you off the road.

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00:45:32.100 first, actually, you know what?

00:45:33.940 I'm going to tap a little, I'm going to have a little sip of Celsius cause I need to pick

00:45:36.280 me up.

00:45:36.920 Yeah.

00:45:36.980 Have you ever had this before?

00:45:38.400 No, not this.

00:45:39.160 No.

00:45:39.540 Is it, is it good?

00:45:41.400 Yeah.

00:45:42.080 Yeah.

00:45:42.640 It's great.

00:45:43.280 I thought it's, it's grape.

00:45:44.740 So it's like really good.

00:45:45.820 I'm going to have to try this stuff.

00:45:47.080 Can you have a little bit?

00:45:48.180 Yeah.

00:45:48.580 No alcohol.

00:45:49.620 No alcohol.

00:45:50.040 Okay.

00:45:50.800 So what does it have?

00:45:51.740 It's like water.

00:45:53.740 Hmm.

00:45:54.520 Ooh, mine's cherry cola flavored.

00:45:56.040 It's like spicy stuff.

00:45:58.820 It's like a little bit of ADD kind of.

00:46:00.740 Oh, dude, this stuff actually tastes like, like the grapes that you squeeze out of the,

00:46:06.380 like, not the grapes that you eat from the store, but like the Amish grapes that you can

00:46:09.820 buy.

00:46:10.320 Like the ones that you squeeze out of the, what do you call that?

00:46:14.240 The skin.

00:46:15.120 Have you ever had those grapes where you just squeeze them out and you swallow them?

00:46:17.680 Uh-uh.

00:46:18.060 Yeah.

00:46:18.320 It tastes just like this.

00:46:19.760 Really?

00:46:20.380 Yeah.

00:46:20.740 Let's get a look at those Amish purple grapes.

00:46:24.020 Yeah.

00:46:24.480 They're, they're, uh, they're, yeah, that's how they look.

00:46:27.600 And those, you know how the stores, like they have no seats in them.

00:46:30.520 Like these have like a seat in them.

00:46:31.820 You just squeeze them out and then you swallow them because if you try to eat them, like chew

00:46:36.260 on them, like, um, like you just bite into the seat and stuff.

00:46:40.180 Oh, you just squeeze them out and swallow them out.

00:46:42.060 This actually tastes exactly like that.

00:46:43.960 So it must be very natural.

00:46:45.740 Yes, sir.

00:46:46.880 It's the best, man.

00:46:48.340 That'll definitely.

00:46:48.940 It's very good.

00:46:49.160 Oh, that'll get you home, brother.

00:46:51.720 That'll get you home.

00:46:52.700 Yeah.

00:46:53.100 So if this, I saw that this does have caffeine in it.

00:46:56.540 Yeah.

00:46:56.700 It has a little bit of caffeine.

00:46:57.620 So I'll be like moving around.

00:46:59.380 Yeah.

00:46:59.800 You'll be feeling something.

00:47:01.100 Yeah.

00:47:01.380 Um, what is your Rumspringer experience been like?

00:47:04.880 Uh, it's, it's been crazy.

00:47:06.460 I've done like the first like year and a half where I didn't do too much cause I wasn't

00:47:11.240 18 yet, but like this summer I've done so many crazy things.

00:47:16.320 Actually last summer I got to drive like a Corvette.

00:47:19.360 That was crazy.

00:47:20.420 Like these two girls, like they let me drive their Corvette.

00:47:23.480 It was a lot of fun.

00:47:24.700 I, I, I, I,

00:47:25.880 Where'd you meet them?

00:47:27.100 Uh, through my, my uncle, my ex-Amish uncle Simon.

00:47:30.640 And I, I met them through them and dude, I actually was at their wedding though.

00:47:35.460 Like, uh, the one with the black hair, I was at their, like her and her husband's wedding.

00:47:40.440 It was pretty cool.

00:47:41.600 Yeah.

00:47:41.900 And yeah.

00:47:42.860 So I got to drive a Corvette.

00:47:45.460 That thing was really fast too.

00:47:47.200 Like you stamp on the pedal a little bit.

00:47:48.780 It was like a horse with like, like some special oats or something.

00:47:52.740 Oh yeah.

00:47:53.160 Like put, like put some Celsius in their water.

00:47:55.040 Oh yeah.

00:47:55.760 That thing has been eating, uh, diesel dipped carrots right there.

00:47:59.540 Homie, that horse has got it.

00:48:00.800 Oh, that's dope.

00:48:01.300 Yeah.

00:48:01.340 And they were like, they were like, well, I think it was overcrowded cause there's only

00:48:05.160 like two seats and then, and then the, she's like sitting in the middle and stuff.

00:48:09.600 Hey, that's fine though, dude.

00:48:10.840 You got to have at least one chick hanging out of a Corvette, dude.

00:48:14.440 Yeah.

00:48:14.760 That's Rumspringer.

00:48:15.680 Yeah, that is Rumspringer.

00:48:17.200 And then we, we, we, uh, they wanted to get a couple videos cause they thought that was

00:48:22.940 pretty cool.

00:48:23.420 Oh, it's amazing, bro.

00:48:24.700 It's great to see you out there just trying some different things.

00:48:26.920 Yeah.

00:48:27.120 What other things did you try that you found that you liked and didn't like out there?

00:48:30.600 Uh, uh, what was it?

00:48:33.080 Oh yeah.

00:48:33.600 I also got the other, the other, uh, weekend I got to, we went to like, it was Eau Claire,

00:48:38.800 Wisconsin.

00:48:39.460 There was like a, like an air show where they had like the Blue Angel airplanes, had all kinds

00:48:43.800 of airplanes.

00:48:45.160 Nice.

00:48:45.640 And then they also like, you had to pay a little bit.

00:48:48.040 Well, it was actually quite a bit.

00:48:49.540 It was like $200 for like one helicopter ride.

00:48:52.740 And I was like, you know, this might be like a week or two of wait, just like of, of me

00:48:58.380 working, but like, I want to go in a helicopter, right?

00:49:01.260 So I was kind of scared to like hold my phone out cause, uh, cause like the helicopters open

00:49:07.260 and stuff, like what happens if you drop it and stuff, but it was really smooth too.

00:49:10.620 And when we took off and like, we took off and stuff, it was like, it was really crazy.

00:49:15.640 It felt like we were like, I felt like I was on a, like on a piece of plywood and I just

00:49:21.080 started going up.

00:49:22.340 It was like, it was crazy and it felt really crazy.

00:49:27.520 That's actually Atlee right there.

00:49:29.040 Oh, nice brother.

00:49:30.160 He's still, he's still Amish at home.

00:49:31.760 He, he bust his, like bust his, like cut his hair and stuff.

00:49:35.340 So.

00:49:36.060 Wow.

00:49:36.260 That's exceptional, bro.

00:49:37.380 You got out there.

00:49:38.480 You just felt like a bird.

00:49:39.680 I did feel like a bird.

00:49:40.900 And this guy, I think he, I think he gave a little bit of a longer ride cause we're Amish

00:49:45.760 and stuff.

00:49:46.300 And he, we like, we went sideways on the, we went sideways on the, like on the, above

00:49:53.360 the lake and stuff.

00:49:54.300 Cause like if you hit water really far off, it's like, it's pretty much like concrete.

00:49:58.100 I think that we went sideways and almost felt like I was falling off, but I had my trusty

00:50:01.940 seatbelt on and stuff.

00:50:03.000 So we were, we were pretty good.

00:50:04.900 So that was, that was a crazy ride, but it was actually kind of smooth.

00:50:09.160 You know, uh, I was actually more scared when I was like a couple of weeks later, I was

00:50:14.120 like, I'm probably like a month later.

00:50:16.280 It was right after I went to your concert, your concert was like really crazy.

00:50:20.940 Oh, did you have fun?

00:50:21.620 Could you understand a lot of the material?

00:50:23.340 I did.

00:50:23.940 Yeah.

00:50:24.360 Like some of it I didn't understand.

00:50:25.720 Like the ball guy was there, the guy that his parents are like from the middle East was

00:50:29.720 there.

00:50:30.280 They were pretty cool.

00:50:31.120 And then you came out and then I thought it was really funny.

00:50:34.680 This was actually, you know, before the show, I was jamming out.

00:50:37.840 I was with my cousin Frank and he was like, we were, I was just jamming out to the music.

00:50:42.720 Like, yeah, cause people don't understand this is where we met.

00:50:45.160 We met after a show.

00:50:46.600 Yeah.

00:50:47.000 And I was like, dude, we've been trying to have an Amish person on and then here God

00:50:51.120 just put us right together.

00:50:52.420 Yeah.

00:50:52.800 God is great.

00:50:53.580 He works, he works in mysterious ways.

00:50:55.460 It seems like he's the magician, man.

00:50:57.160 Yeah.

00:50:57.480 And I said, you know, seal mine would probably, I wanted to give you like wear an Amish hat.

00:51:02.820 Like, Oh yeah.

00:51:03.900 Yeah.

00:51:04.380 Did you give me that hat or not?

00:51:06.220 No, I, that was, it was my hat.

00:51:07.960 It didn't really fit.

00:51:08.580 Actually, actually, I have a little bit of surprise for you.

00:51:12.160 Hey, Frank, you want to bring that over?

00:51:15.860 Dude, I got, so what I did over last week, me and your, uh, the, uh, me and your, some

00:51:23.020 of your strong connections were talking and, uh, I, I, they, they didn't quite know what

00:51:28.900 size your hat was.

00:51:30.000 So it's, it's a bit of an odd thing to like know and stuff, but yeah, it's just an odd

00:51:33.940 thing to ask a man.

00:51:34.760 Yeah, it is.

00:51:35.620 But I wanted, uh, we got an estimate size and I wanted to give you this hat.

00:51:40.820 So now you can be like, you can be like part of the Amish mafia.

00:51:43.980 Oh, that's cool, dude.

00:51:45.200 Yeah.

00:51:45.760 Thank you so much.

00:51:46.560 And a hat size, that's just like the waist for your head, you know?

00:51:49.180 Yeah, it is.

00:51:49.600 You don't want to admit your little fat above the ears, you know?

00:51:52.240 Yeah, right.

00:51:52.800 This has a band in it.

00:51:53.980 Was this the front or the back?

00:51:54.940 That's the front.

00:51:55.720 Yeah.

00:51:55.940 All right.

00:51:56.460 So that way you always wear the hat, right?

00:51:58.060 Does it fit?

00:51:59.120 Oh, it's a bit loose.

00:52:00.140 Is it a bit loose or?

00:52:01.140 Perfect.

00:52:01.740 Dude, perfect.

00:52:02.360 Like, I'm glad I got you the right size.

00:52:04.180 Danke.

00:52:05.220 You're welcome.

00:52:06.180 That means, uh, you're welcome.

00:52:07.780 Does danke mean thank you?

00:52:08.700 No, dengue.

00:52:09.780 Dengue.

00:52:10.240 Yeah, it's the same thing in German.

00:52:11.660 Like, thank you in, uh, German and Pennsylvania Dutch is the same thing.

00:52:14.780 Dengue.

00:52:15.400 Yeah.

00:52:16.220 Heck yeah, dude.

00:52:17.700 Yeah, now you're, now you're part of Amish.

00:52:19.360 You just need the rest of the clothes.

00:52:21.020 I feel great, man.

00:52:22.140 Do you think I would make a good Amish person or not?

00:52:24.460 And be honest with me.

00:52:25.320 Ah.

00:52:26.300 Well, do you, do you like break a lot of rules and stuff?

00:52:29.580 I don't know, really.

00:52:31.300 I don't think so.

00:52:33.460 Like, uh, like, if you don't really break any of the rules, you make a pretty good Amish.

00:52:37.940 I could get my mom to get you some, some Amish clothes for you.

00:52:41.360 Maybe for Christmas, I'll exchange something with you and I could send you something that

00:52:43.980 would be, uh, that your community would accept as well.

00:52:46.680 Yeah.

00:52:47.020 Are you allowed to accept gifts from people that are not Amish?

00:52:49.500 Yeah.

00:52:50.120 I accept gifts from people that are not Amish.

00:52:52.320 Do your parents allow you to?

00:52:53.360 Is that okay?

00:52:53.940 Yep.

00:52:54.180 They, cause they sometimes, like, we all, we had sometimes a guy from, uh, around Christmas

00:52:58.740 time, sometimes a guy, like, brings some stuff and then we, like, he's done it for a couple

00:53:04.420 years and he, like, gives all the younger kids some presents and stuff.

00:53:07.920 Oh, that's nice.

00:53:08.540 Yeah.

00:53:08.840 It's very nice.

00:53:09.700 Oh.

00:53:10.000 Now, I know you had mentioned before that your parents said there's some stuff not to

00:53:12.880 do during Rome Spring, like, what was some of that?

00:53:14.900 Uh, they didn't, they didn't really say too much, but they, they tell me, like, when,

00:53:20.020 uh, when I do something that, uh, that they think, didn't think was, uh, how do I say this?

00:53:25.320 Like, like, probably not the best thing to do.

00:53:28.760 Like appropriate?

00:53:29.740 Yeah.

00:53:30.160 Like, not the, probably, like, cause sometimes I do wild stuff, you know, like, go on the

00:53:35.140 Walmart, riding a scooter.

00:53:37.660 Yeah.

00:53:37.860 Cause that came around and, but I mean, did they have advice against, like, sex, drugs,

00:53:42.640 things like that?

00:53:43.300 Uh, no, not like any, any, like any sex stuff that, that doesn't get talked about.

00:53:47.880 You just kinda, you kinda have to do, like, door to explore.

00:53:50.780 You just kinda have to, you know, go out on the jungle and see, see what bites.

00:53:54.920 Damn.

00:53:56.260 So, yeah.

00:53:56.980 We went to Walmart.

00:53:58.820 Oh, something will bite at Walmart, dude.

00:54:00.760 Yeah.

00:54:01.560 I was looking at the TVs.

00:54:03.040 They're like a thousand dollars.

00:54:04.560 Like.

00:54:05.040 Crazy.

00:54:05.580 That's like a third of a bucky.

00:54:07.780 Yeah.

00:54:07.880 And a TV doesn't even go anywhere.

00:54:09.600 It just, like, sits somewhere.

00:54:10.880 I'd rather just play charades with my buddy, like you guys probably do a lot.

00:54:13.520 Y'all play charades a lot?

00:54:14.520 I'm not even quite sure what that is.

00:54:16.220 Oh, it's where someone, like, you write down some movies or TV.

00:54:19.260 Oh, shoot.

00:54:19.720 You don't know a lot of movies and TV shows.

00:54:22.300 Mmm.

00:54:23.880 Charades is like somebody acts something out and you have to guess what they're acting out.

00:54:27.560 Like, they impersonate something.

00:54:28.780 Oh, you, like, pretend.

00:54:31.640 So, like, let's say I was pretending to be the bishop.

00:54:35.380 I'd be like, like, like, my, like, go down here.

00:54:39.040 Yeah.

00:54:39.620 Big angry look.

00:54:40.800 Maybe scratching your beard.

00:54:41.940 Maybe going like this or something.

00:54:43.320 Yeah, like this.

00:54:43.760 Yeah.

00:54:44.120 Yeah.

00:54:44.520 Yeah.

00:54:44.780 Like, something like that.

00:54:45.580 No, I've never, I've never played that.

00:54:47.240 But I kind of know what you mean.

00:54:48.960 Yeah.

00:54:49.580 Yeah.

00:54:50.580 But you guys don't talk about sex within the Amish community much?

00:54:53.280 Like, at school and stuff, there's not a class that teaches you about it?

00:54:55.420 Not in school, no.

00:54:56.620 So, like.

00:54:57.760 Will a dad kind of take his son and have, like, a birds and the bees talk?

00:55:00.660 Like, in, in, ho, hola, hola.

00:55:03.660 Hojeler.

00:55:04.280 Hojeler.

00:55:05.520 It's kind of the birds and the bees.

00:55:07.040 Yeah.

00:55:07.140 Like, the dad will take you and talk to you about how things work, you know?

00:55:09.840 Yeah.

00:55:10.180 No, no.

00:55:11.460 Like, all of that stuff, you, you actually have to, like, figure out and stuff.

00:55:14.820 Okay.

00:55:15.060 But, like, since you got phones and stuff, you can kind of, you know, you can figure it out.

00:55:22.240 Like.

00:55:23.380 But there's some stuff you, I mean, but you're not allowed to look at pornography on your phone and stuff.

00:55:27.680 No, you're not supposed to, no.

00:55:29.020 Yeah.

00:55:29.740 No, I stay away from that stuff.

00:55:31.200 Yeah, it's bad.

00:55:31.820 It is very bad.

00:55:32.840 Yeah.

00:55:33.420 Yeah.

00:55:34.500 Since you got into Rumsbury, can you get a girlfriend and stuff like that?

00:55:37.460 Or, like, what are you allowed to do?

00:55:38.520 Yeah, I can get, like, a girlfriend, like, all that stuff.

00:55:41.920 But does she need to be Amish?

00:55:43.980 Preferably, yeah.

00:55:44.540 But, like, if I were to get a, like, a girlfriend that was not Amish, she would either have to become Amish or I would have to, like, leave, like, the Amish.

00:55:53.480 Do you think that there are a lot of women out there who are willing to become Amish?

00:55:56.860 Does that happen a lot?

00:55:57.880 I know of one case where that is happening.

00:56:02.160 And, you know, I don't know how often it happens.

00:56:05.260 But it's rare where, like, it actually goes through.

00:56:08.440 I know a lot of people want to become Amish, but they're not ready to make, like, the final step towards it.

00:56:16.260 So, but, yeah.

00:56:17.980 What's the thing that keeps them away from that, makes people afraid to take that final step, do you think?

00:56:22.940 I think it's, like, it's, I think it's a loss of, like, like, your phone, the lights on the ceiling, the fans on the ceiling, like, the vents and holes in the ceiling.

00:56:32.980 Like, all of that stuff, I think.

00:56:34.200 And then, like, the couch, the TV, and then whatever else, you know, like, whatever else Hojila used.

00:56:42.260 If you have an Amish wife, does a wife have to provide, like, food and sexuals and stuff for the husband?

00:56:47.740 Or is it just, is it always negotiable?

00:56:50.100 Or does the wife have, like, a responsibility for, kind of, food and sexuals and stuff?

00:56:54.520 Yeah, so, the way, like, it's, everyone kind of accepts, like, their, like, it's just, how do I say this?

00:57:01.660 It's, like, normal, and you, like, it's where, it's kind of, like, it's where, it's, everyone has a mutual understanding of, like, what they have to do, right?

00:57:11.120 Because, like, the woman, you know, cooks, cleans, you know, takes care of things around the house.

00:57:16.440 And then, like, if she needs help, she'll ask, like, the husband for, like, help.

00:57:22.020 And then, usually, the husband's, you know, gone most of the day working, like, either building houses, plowing the fields, or cutting, like, lumber, or making cabinets, or even polishing cabinets, stuff like that.

00:57:34.000 But, like, they help each other when they're, when they're, like, at, like, at home, like, if it needs.

00:57:40.420 But, yeah, like, the, like, the wife does cooking, cleaning, taking care of the kids.

00:57:45.120 Got it.

00:57:45.680 And then, stuffing the garden, too.

00:57:47.420 Right here, it says, Amish women mainly focus on housekeeping, child-rearing, gardening, and food preparation.

00:57:53.380 Many manage home finances, have their names on property deeds, and control the family checkbook.

00:57:59.560 Women nurture the spiritual life of the children and are active in maintaining Amish cultural practices.

00:58:05.220 Yeah.

00:58:05.940 So, women have a pretty strong voice in the Amish community.

00:58:08.600 Yeah.

00:58:09.200 Well, I'd say so, yeah.

00:58:11.380 Yeah.

00:58:11.480 Um, are Amish women good cooks?

00:58:14.400 Like, do they make some cool stuff, or what are some good Amish meals?

00:58:17.120 Oh, yeah.

00:58:17.560 Like, the Amish, the Amish make, I'd say make some of the best food, like, especially grandma.

00:58:22.360 She had a lot of experience in the, like, in the field, stuff.

00:58:25.160 Or, it's how you mean, like, she has a lot of experience in, like, the field of cooking and stuff.

00:58:29.580 Like, her breadsticks, they're, like, out of this world.

00:58:33.180 Are they?

00:58:33.720 They're really good.

00:58:35.180 And then, my mom's-

00:58:35.920 What do you put on them?

00:58:36.960 Ah, I'm not even quite sure.

00:58:38.880 Can you put butter on them or not?

00:58:40.020 Yeah, butter.

00:58:41.020 Oh, yeah.

00:58:41.660 Yeah, it looks exactly like that.

00:58:43.240 And can you put a little bit of salt on them?

00:58:44.640 Do you have salt?

00:58:45.220 Ah, no, we don't put salt on them.

00:58:46.580 They're, like, they're garlic breadsticks.

00:58:48.400 Oh, so they already have garlic on them.

00:58:49.620 Yeah, they, and they're, and they're just, they're really good.

00:58:53.000 And my favorite meal, like, let's say we're doing a lot of stuff, like, building something,

00:58:58.020 or, like, a frolic, where, like, the whole community comes together and-

00:59:01.180 A frolic, it's called?

00:59:02.060 Yeah, that's, like, when, uh, the whole community comes together and builds something, like, a barn.

00:59:06.040 Oh, yeah.

00:59:06.780 Yeah, and then, like, they'll make, they'll make some, either some chicken,

00:59:10.640 or some burgers with mashed potatoes, corn, and, like, I think you would call, like,

00:59:16.980 like, uh, it's, like, like, uh, mac and cheese.

00:59:21.360 Oh, yeah.

00:59:21.920 And then you put some, so what we do, if our food's, like, hot, we put some applesauce on it, mix it up.

00:59:26.980 Really?

00:59:27.560 Yeah.

00:59:28.060 And then it's nice and cool, and then pork and beans, too.

00:59:31.120 Oh, if the food's hot, you'll put applesauce on it?

00:59:32.480 Yeah, to, like, cool it down and stuff.

00:59:34.700 So, like, the, that's, like, one of my favorite meals.

00:59:36.940 And then, even better, like, if you have steak and stuff, like, if you have steak, that's really good.

00:59:42.500 Yeah.

00:59:43.420 And do you have dessert, too?

00:59:44.940 Oh, we have, we have pretty good dessert, too, like, like, pies.

00:59:48.880 Oh, I bet Amish pie's good.

00:59:50.620 Yeah, they are.

00:59:51.020 Do you have sugar, or don't you?

00:59:52.300 Yeah, they, they put sugar in them.

00:59:53.840 I'm not sure what they all put in them, because I know how to make scrambled eggs, and that's about it.

00:59:57.780 Same.

00:59:58.480 Yeah.

00:59:59.380 And, like, yeah, they put, what is it, like, uh.

01:00:04.140 What's a popular pie that you have, or a popular dessert?

01:00:07.060 A popular pie is, uh, shoofly pie is one of them.

01:00:10.620 Okay.

01:00:10.840 And then peanut butter pie.

01:00:12.220 Shoofly pie, what is it?

01:00:14.220 That, I, I've not had it.

01:00:16.360 I've not really, I mean, we don't have it very often, but another pie that's really good is mince pie, like, uh, pumpkin pie, that's really good.

01:00:23.840 Like, apple pie, that's really good.

01:00:26.580 God, that's a good one.

01:00:27.860 Like.

01:00:28.440 I want that.

01:00:29.260 Like, that stuff is pretty good.

01:00:31.260 Yeah, that's my cousin right there.

01:00:33.160 Oh, really?

01:00:33.700 I've seen this woman before.

01:00:35.200 She's Amish.

01:00:36.000 Yeah.

01:00:36.320 No, she's ex-Amish.

01:00:37.260 Oh, she's ex-Amish.

01:00:38.420 She used to be Amish, yeah.

01:00:39.500 Yeah, so she's my, she's my cousin, actually.

01:00:41.840 Oh, wow.

01:00:42.500 Yeah.

01:00:42.960 So I got, I guess, famous cousins, too.

01:00:47.060 Um, what are the fears of having a girlfriend that's not Amish, just that they won't understand the religion and the culture?

01:00:52.960 Like, like, the biggest fear would be that, like, the church or, like, the parents would find out.

01:00:58.520 That's definitely the biggest fear.

01:00:59.720 But is it okay if she decides to join the church, it's okay?

01:01:02.700 Yeah, it is okay.

01:01:03.820 But, like, for that, that rarely ever happens.

01:01:06.640 It's like, it's almost as rare as, like, the bishop leaving the community.

01:01:09.520 Got it.

01:01:09.900 Would she be welcome if that happened?

01:01:11.620 Yeah.

01:01:12.000 If she was, if she was fully Amish, yeah, she would be welcome.

01:01:15.100 Now, she might get a little bit of looks in the beginning, but, yeah, as long as she's fully Amish, that would be good.

01:01:20.940 Dude, she deserves the looks, probably.

01:01:22.740 Yeah.

01:01:23.120 You know what I'm saying?

01:01:23.540 Yeah.

01:01:23.660 You can, you can handle a little bit of looks out of the gate.

01:01:26.060 Can Amish people tickle each other or not?

01:01:28.100 Is that, is that allowed or not?

01:01:29.400 Is that?

01:01:29.540 Uh, yeah, like, like, like, uh, like, when we were little kids, we used to tickle each other.

01:01:34.360 Yeah.

01:01:34.740 Yeah, but, like, I don't really tickle anyone.

01:01:37.780 Yeah.

01:01:38.480 Yeah.

01:01:38.940 Yeah, I don't think people should keep doing it, but I'm just making sure it's allowed when you're kids.

01:01:43.300 Yeah.

01:01:43.800 And do they play hide-and-go-seek?

01:01:45.260 Like, what kind of stuff do people do to pass the time?

01:01:47.640 Like, either ride horses, the ponies, like, pony cars, and then also hide-and-seek, that's pretty fun.

01:01:56.240 And then, oh, yeah, we play board games or just play with cars, play with blocks.

01:02:03.440 I, I used to play, like, underneath the porch or in the garden.

01:02:07.040 I used to, we used to have a lot of, a lot of, like, cars and stuff.

01:02:09.960 Mm-hmm.

01:02:10.240 And I used to, like, pretend there was, like, a whole world there in the, in the garden.

01:02:14.720 So, mom didn't really like, when I played in the garden, when it was, like, all, all the corn was up, the potatoes.

01:02:20.880 Like, I actually liked playing when it was corn, corn was up, and then, uh, the potatoes, because it was, like, it was way more possibilities for imagination.

01:02:30.100 You could have a place here.

01:02:31.840 Oh, yeah.

01:02:32.140 A place there.

01:02:33.220 Yeah, just more creativity going on.

01:02:34.920 Yeah, and, but if the, it was, the garden didn't work out, or either that or just play under the porch.

01:02:40.660 Like, the porch was, like.

01:02:41.960 Oh, yeah.

01:02:42.520 Like, three feet high, so, the older I got, the more, the more I hit my head on, up on the, up on the porch.

01:02:48.820 That's when it's time to get out.

01:02:50.020 Yeah.

01:02:50.520 That's when I decided, you know, if I do play in, like, when I do play with cars and stuff, and out in the dirt, like, the, the garden's the place to be.

01:02:58.600 Yeah, for sure.

01:02:59.480 Yeah.

01:02:59.700 And do people start dating within the Amish culture at a certain age, or is it kind of taboo, or how does it work?

01:03:05.240 Like, is there a dance, like, at school where you can invite a girl to a dance?

01:03:08.600 Like, how does dating and that sort of, like, adolescent attraction kind of stuff like that, where you trying to get, you know, you trying to, uh, you know, meet a girl, or if you have a first kiss?

01:03:19.780 What's that, how's that whole universe in the Amish culture?

01:03:22.140 So, like, our school only goes until 8th grade, so we're out of school in, like, 13 or 14, so.

01:03:26.940 You're done with school completely?

01:03:27.880 Yeah, completely done, and then you go to work.

01:03:30.680 Dang.

01:03:31.420 Yeah, so, we didn't, I don't even know what high school is, or public school, or, like, I've never been there.

01:03:37.500 Never, ever.

01:03:38.220 Mm-hmm.

01:03:38.720 I want to go one day, like.

01:03:40.080 High school's just doing drugs and trying not to die of, uh, driving while intoxicated and stuff.

01:03:45.260 Yeah, like, like, if, if that happened, never happens for us, like, our horse will just take us home.

01:03:50.840 Right.

01:03:51.320 Yeah.

01:03:51.660 That's a Tesla.

01:03:52.340 You basically have an original, you kind of have, like, one of the self-driving cars.

01:03:55.020 Yeah, because if you fall asleep on your horse, you know, it might not be the safest way, you know, because you might, you know, go a little bit over on the road, but as long as the people with, like, steering wheels and stuff, they'll be, as long as they're, like, okay and stuff, the horse will, like, go home.

01:04:08.760 And, like, so, the way it works for, like, dating, if you're, like, what is it?

01:04:13.580 Like, so, like, 16 and a half, like, some, it depends on the parents.

01:04:16.880 Like, my mom and dad, like, they weren't really allowed to, like, become, like, date, like, official boyfriend, girlfriend, uh, until, like, until they were 18.

01:04:28.080 Yeah.

01:04:28.300 Yeah.

01:04:28.340 But, like, in our community, like, right now, like, like, it basically happens whenever now, like, as soon as you join, like, the, like, room springer, like, you can.

01:04:38.740 And usually the way you meet and hang out is through sing-ins, like, after church or at, like, weekend parties.

01:04:44.920 That's usually how it is.

01:04:45.960 So, weekend parties, are those, do those happen in your district or those happen off of property?

01:04:50.900 That, it, it all, it varies where the Amish party is.

01:04:54.020 Sometimes it happens when the, like, sometimes when the parents aren't home, we go to, like, uh, we go to, like, their place and party there.

01:05:02.300 So, at Amish parties, will people just, like, are people drinking and stuff like that?

01:05:06.000 It's a little bit more, like, freewheeling?

01:05:07.600 Yeah, yeah, like, drinking and then, like, even, like, the vapes things popped up, too, like.

01:05:13.780 Do Amish like to vape or not?

01:05:15.280 Some do, yeah.

01:05:16.140 Yeah, I knew it.

01:05:17.220 Yeah, some do.

01:05:18.860 I knew it, too.

01:05:19.400 But also, like, cigarettes and then, then sometimes we go, like, oh.

01:05:24.620 A pipe, too.

01:05:25.560 A lot of Amish look like they would smoke a pipe.

01:05:27.500 Older, the older ones, too, but they, like, the ones that are, the younger ones usually don't.

01:05:31.420 They usually stick to cigarettes and stuff like that.

01:05:34.260 But sometimes, like, we'll, we'll go to, like, an ex-Amish person's house and party up there.

01:05:38.800 And it's, it's a lot of fun.

01:05:40.860 It is.

01:05:41.220 And when do you, if you, if you're doing rump spring, when do you have to be back at home?

01:05:43.720 Like, do you leave on Friday?

01:05:44.820 Do you have to be back on Sunday night?

01:05:45.880 Or what is the rules, kind of?

01:05:46.980 No, it depends.

01:05:48.000 It varies from family to family.

01:05:49.540 Let's say you have church tomorrow.

01:05:50.400 You probably want to be home, like, you know, before the morning so you get a little bit of sleep.

01:05:55.240 Or there's not, not church, you can come home, or you can't, just, it just, like, depends.

01:06:02.680 But usually, like, when I, when I do it, I usually don't come home until, like, later Sunday.

01:06:07.320 Okay.

01:06:07.940 Yeah.

01:06:08.280 And do they drug test you or whatever, if you're Amish?

01:06:10.300 Do you have to get drug tested?

01:06:11.140 No, no, we don't have to do any, like, drug tests.

01:06:13.620 Really?

01:06:14.220 Yeah, like, no tests and stuff.

01:06:15.940 Damn.

01:06:16.620 Because y'all got y'all's own year-long Halloween going on out there in the fields.

01:06:19.700 I'm like, yeah, like, sometimes, like, sometimes in the woods, the fields, like, just depends where the spot is.

01:06:25.180 Yeah.

01:06:25.640 Yeah, but now, like, all Amish that, like, party and stuff, like, our number one way of, like, talking to each other is through, like, Snapchat.

01:06:33.840 They've really taken over Snapchat?

01:06:35.560 Yeah, like, if you, uh, if they've been Amish, like, a young Amish person that is roughly my age, if they have a phone, like, a smartphone, they have Snapchat.

01:06:44.860 Dang.

01:06:45.440 Yeah, so.

01:06:46.440 When was the first time you saw a phone or a screen, do you remember?

01:06:49.860 Uh, I think it was one time, it was not the first time, but I remember this one time when one of my ex-Amish uncles was at our place with this girlfriend, and, and she let me look, like, look on her phone, and I was, like, sitting right beside her, and she, she grabbed out her phone, and she, like, started texting someone, and she was, she was flying through, like, the keyboard and stuff.

01:07:11.380 If you were, like, swiping, little lines, and all of a sudden, words popped up, like, it was, like, it was, like, bop, bop, bop, bop, the words, like, almost as fast as you can, like, talk, and stuff.

01:07:19.800 Yeah.

01:07:20.120 I was, like, really surprised, so that's, like, that's, like, the, like, I'd say, like, the first, some of the first memories.

01:07:26.800 Mm.

01:07:26.940 I've seen a phone.

01:07:28.860 Um, what things are forbidden in you guys' culture, kind of?

01:07:31.500 Uh, a lot of things are, like, electricity, um, like, having a smartphone, we're allowed to have, like, phones for, like, our businesses, like, phone shacks and stuff, and then TVs, what else, like, pretty much anything that, like, doesn't have, like, that, that requires, like, electricity and stuff, and also, like, certain, certain color of, like, shirts, dresses, if it's too bright, it can also be, like, like,

01:08:01.500 like, you can, the bishop or deacon will talk to you about it.

01:08:04.980 Oh, yeah.

01:08:05.600 About it, like, being the wrong color.

01:08:07.240 Too flashy.

01:08:08.060 Too flashy, yeah.

01:08:08.980 Yeah.

01:08:09.460 And also, if your haircut's, like, way short, so my, my haircut's, like, like, okay, because my mom gives me a haircut every time.

01:08:16.320 Oh, yeah.

01:08:16.860 Yeah, so, I've never actually had a different kind of haircut.

01:08:20.280 Oh, yeah, beautiful.

01:08:21.500 Yeah, so, I almost have a mullet.

01:08:23.560 You, you could have probably have an Amish haircut, too.

01:08:25.660 Oh, yeah, I think I have a little bit.

01:08:27.660 Yeah.

01:08:28.020 Yeah, you just let the, just let the hair in front of the ear grow, you know.

01:08:32.860 I could have been Amish.

01:08:33.740 Block a little bit of the sound, like, to the ear and stuff.

01:08:36.960 Yeah.

01:08:37.540 I would have enjoyed being Amish, I think, man.

01:08:40.300 Yeah.

01:08:40.600 How are regular people and Amish people different from each other, have you gathered?

01:08:44.320 How, how do they seem different from each other?

01:08:46.120 So, like, the main thing I've noticed is, like, like, a lot of Amish are, when they're in public,

01:08:54.120 it seems like they're, like, a bit, like, a bit more respectful, I guess.

01:08:58.320 Another thing that's big, I guess, like, so, if we, like, if we did something that was

01:09:03.400 big and wrong, like, some, one time, my little brother, he stumped lots of corn down in our

01:09:07.900 cornfield, and, and he got a spanking from that.

01:09:11.180 Like, that's, I guess that's the difference, because I see a lot of kids don't, like, I

01:09:16.720 guess they don't get spankings anymore.

01:09:18.220 Yeah, they don't do it anymore.

01:09:19.380 Yeah.

01:09:19.720 They should.

01:09:20.640 I mean, I don't think kids should get abused, but sometimes a spanking is okay, I think.

01:09:23.860 Yeah, because this is, like, like, getting beat up, and, and, because, like, because

01:09:29.680 we never got, like, beat up or anything, but, like, if we did something bad, we got, like,

01:09:33.580 like, three cracks, it was, like, a, like, a belt or something, that, but we never got

01:09:39.020 abused and stuff, so, like, just, I guess, discipline.

01:09:43.100 Oh, so discipline is something that seems stronger in the Amish community?

01:09:45.980 Yeah, yeah.

01:09:46.480 What are some crimes that they have?

01:09:48.080 Are there any crimes that are popular in Amish land?

01:09:50.460 I'm not quite sure, maybe, maybe, like, taxes sometimes, because I don't, some people

01:09:55.780 don't, like, file taxes and stuff, like, because the only tax that we get, like, that are we

01:10:00.100 free from, that Amish don't get taxed, it's, like, social security tax, so, when we get

01:10:04.920 old, the government doesn't, like, pay us and stuff.

01:10:07.240 Oh, they don't, so you don't have to pay into that?

01:10:08.960 No.

01:10:09.520 Wow, I wonder why not.

01:10:10.680 When you join the church, you get, like, the bishop and the government, I guess, work

01:10:15.720 together, to where you're, like, exempt from the social security tax, but that's, like,

01:10:21.560 the only tax that I know of that you're, like, exempt from.

01:10:24.020 Other than that, like, if, but if you don't file taxes, because I know some don't, but other

01:10:28.960 than that, we have to pay all the other taxes.

01:10:31.480 The Amish are exempt from social security and Medicare taxes, FICA, if they formally

01:10:36.460 reject benefits and file for exemption due to their belief in mutual community support.

01:10:41.180 Wow, so you guys feel like you don't need that, you support each other, huh?

01:10:43.900 Yeah, a lot of Amish don't have insurance for stuff, too, and, uh, so, when, like,

01:10:49.840 Well, hell no, I don't think you could insure them, you know?

01:10:52.520 But for business, I don't, I think for businesses, they somehow do what I think.

01:10:56.320 But for, like, let's say you, like, let's say you fall off a roof or something, you hurt

01:10:59.960 yourself, and then, let's say you go to a hospital, because I know the hospital, like,

01:11:04.040 they, they charge quite a bit.

01:11:05.780 Oh, yeah.

01:11:06.260 They, they, I don't know where they come up with the crazy numbers, but.

01:11:09.140 They'll take you through the rumspringa, you know?

01:11:10.840 They will, they'll drag, they'll, like, drag you through it.

01:11:12.940 They'll drag you, dude.

01:11:13.960 Yeah, it's, like, dragging behind the buggy.

01:11:15.940 Yeah.

01:11:16.620 Or, like, a horse runs away, and you're trying to hang on, and you're, like, scraping across

01:11:20.060 the gravel and stuff, but, yeah, but, like, like, all the community helps pay for

01:11:24.500 that, like, if that would help.

01:11:26.120 I got it.

01:11:26.760 So, there's a lot of community support.

01:11:28.500 That's a lot of community support.

01:11:28.980 At any point in somebody's life.

01:11:30.320 So, you guys might have a day where you're, like, Mr. So-and-so needs help, or Ms. So-and-so

01:11:34.940 needs help, let's go help them.

01:11:36.300 Yep, that's how it works.

01:11:37.420 That's a big part of your life.

01:11:38.480 Yeah.

01:11:38.880 Like, for example, what are things you would go help a neighbor do?

01:11:41.740 Ah, like, really with anything, putting away hay, we've done that lots of times, or,

01:11:47.260 like, building a barn, like, we've done that, too.

01:11:50.740 Or, like, even a house, too.

01:11:52.080 Like, if they need help, like, a day or so, we'll come together and help each other.

01:11:56.500 But, and I know back in the day, we used to help each other, like, someone does hay, and

01:12:03.720 then everyone helps this person do hay, then that person also, like, it's just a group effort.

01:12:09.000 This person, this person, this person, like, all around the community.

01:12:11.800 But that doesn't really happen anymore.

01:12:13.800 Like, you know, like, most, most, what is it?

01:12:17.820 Oh, yeah, most Amish, they don't, they still farm a little bit, but most of them do, like,

01:12:21.780 construction or, like, building cabinets.

01:12:24.260 Oh, it's changed.

01:12:25.700 Yeah.

01:12:26.220 So the Amish are farming less than they used to?

01:12:28.560 Yeah, because, like, it's, it's not as sustainable anymore.

01:12:31.400 Right.

01:12:31.740 Because when my dad was growing up, all they do is farm and milk cows.

01:12:35.800 Hmm.

01:12:36.320 Like, they milk a lot of cows.

01:12:37.820 So, what are some popular products, like you said, like, cabinets and stuff?

01:12:41.420 You see a lot of those, you see cabinets, you see furnaces sometimes?

01:12:44.760 Yeah.

01:12:44.980 I don't know if that's a real thing, or that's just something that is made up, and they claim

01:12:48.160 that Amish do it?

01:12:49.080 Like, like, you mean, like, well up furnaces?

01:12:52.440 Now, I, I'm not sure quite where those come from.

01:12:56.120 Like, like, the furnaces, because there's welling to it.

01:12:58.880 Now, they might, they might get it from, like, a, from, like, a person that's not Amish.

01:13:03.940 Got it.

01:13:04.140 They might get them from there.

01:13:04.780 The biggest shift in Amish economic life in the last century has been from agriculture

01:13:08.180 to non-farm businesses.

01:13:10.280 Hmm.

01:13:10.640 Mm-hmm.

01:13:11.180 In the early 1900s, nearly all Amish families depended on farming for their livelihood.

01:13:14.960 Today, only about 10% do, with the majority now involved in various trades, crafts, retail.

01:13:20.400 And then for, yeah, what are some of those?

01:13:24.000 Construction and woodworking, carpentry, cabinet making, and now famous Amish furniture shops.

01:13:29.740 That is a big thing now, huh?

01:13:31.140 Yeah.

01:13:31.480 Yeah.

01:13:31.720 Quilt making, sewing-related trades.

01:13:34.920 Yeah, like, selling Amish food, too, and quilts, and a lot of stuff like that.

01:13:39.740 It's a big part of the culture up there.

01:13:41.020 Yeah, it is.

01:13:41.700 And how, will you guys have, like, places on your property where people come and buy them,

01:13:45.820 or do you take them off property and people buy them there?

01:13:47.740 Usually, like, if you have a greenhouse or, like, a place where, like, the, like, where you

01:13:57.240 can buy, like, food and stuff, that's usually, like, a little building on the property, so.

01:14:02.100 Like a market?

01:14:03.220 Yep.

01:14:03.520 Like, kind of like a market.

01:14:04.460 Or, like, there's a farmer's market where Amish go to, like, a town for a day, and they bring

01:14:09.540 all the baked goods and, you know, stuff like that.

01:14:12.040 And there's also a lot of Amish places, like, a lot of places where Amish are, where it's,

01:14:16.820 like, tours.

01:14:17.460 They offer tours, and then they bring them around, and then it's kind of like the Amish

01:14:21.540 mall, but it's, like, like, the stores are, like, really far apart from each other, like,

01:14:25.560 a couple miles.

01:14:26.620 But, yeah, they bring them around, and they get to see an Amish, you know, Amish farm.

01:14:30.480 I think they're called, like, Amish tours and, like, tours, stuff like that.

01:14:33.800 Okay.

01:14:34.460 And then, and then you can, like, stop at the Amish place and, like, buy something from,

01:14:39.060 like, the store and stuff.

01:14:40.360 Got it.

01:14:40.980 Yeah.

01:14:41.440 Yeah, we've been up there before and stopped at some places that I think we're having cheese

01:14:44.560 and ice cream, maybe even.

01:14:46.060 Yeah.

01:14:46.620 I'm not sure.

01:14:47.540 But, like, usually we only, like, make ice cream through the winter, because you just

01:14:50.880 grab the snow out of the ground and put it in a bucket and...

01:14:54.940 Could you make ice cream if you needed to?

01:14:56.700 Yeah.

01:14:57.060 Like, if it was, if we had ice or something cold that you put around the, around the thing where

01:15:02.360 you make ice cream, because you got to crank the ice cream.

01:15:05.020 Got to, like, you crank, and then the thing in the middle spins around the ice, and...

01:15:08.820 Oh, yeah.

01:15:09.560 Yeah.

01:15:09.940 So, like, Amish ice cream's pretty good.

01:15:12.560 What music do you guys listen to?

01:15:14.640 I know you said in the beginning there's some different synopsis, people sneak in some

01:15:17.440 Def Leppard.

01:15:18.260 Yeah.

01:15:18.360 But if not, do you guys just sing a lot?

01:15:19.880 Is there a lot of Amish songs and dancing as well, or no?

01:15:22.040 No.

01:15:23.060 In our community, there's not really any dancing.

01:15:25.480 There's, like, the only, like, the only music, songs that are really louder would be, like,

01:15:30.820 like, like, German hymns, but then, like, on the, uh, then sometimes we, like, sneak

01:15:35.580 out on the weekends and stuff, and, and, uh...

01:15:38.620 Listen to some Soulja Boy or something?

01:15:40.040 Yeah.

01:15:40.660 Like, like, uh, like, what is it, like, Def Leppard, Bon Chovy, you know, a lot of Amish,

01:15:48.600 like, rock and roll, and then, I guess, house EDM music, and then also, like, a lot of country,

01:15:54.300 like, Garth Brooks, Mark and Wallen, people like that.

01:15:57.580 But I also listen to, like, a little bit of rap stuff, like, Amish Paradise is, that's

01:16:02.460 a pretty good song.

01:16:03.440 Amish Paradise?

01:16:04.080 Yeah.

01:16:04.500 Keeps, man.

01:16:05.300 Who sang that?

01:16:06.320 Uh, Weird Al Yankovic, I did.

01:16:07.820 Oh, did he?

01:16:08.680 Yeah.

01:16:08.860 That makes perfect sense.

01:16:09.800 That's groovy.

01:16:10.400 Yeah.

01:16:10.760 Amish Paradise, that's a pretty, I love that song.

01:16:13.280 That's a banger, huh?

01:16:14.220 It is a banger, yeah.

01:16:15.600 He looks a little bit mad there, but it was a pretty good song.

01:16:19.220 He probably pissed his horse ran off or whatever.

01:16:21.440 Yeah, something like that, because, like, his horse was pretty good at backing all the

01:16:25.360 way at the end.

01:16:26.180 Yeah.

01:16:26.500 Yeah, and then, also, like, I like to listen to a little bit of, like, rap stuff, too.

01:16:31.940 Oh, yeah?

01:16:32.400 Yeah, like, Ghana, a little bit of, uh, Ghana.

01:16:34.960 Oh, you listen to some Ghana?

01:16:36.060 Yeah, like, uh, like, I don't really listen to what he says, I looked at the lyrics, like,

01:16:40.620 a couple times, and, like, there are, there's, the lyrics aren't the best, but, like, I like

01:16:45.620 the way it sounds, like, like the, like the, like the, sounds like, like wind chimes, and

01:16:52.040 then, it just, it sounds very melodic.

01:16:54.980 He's a vibe, yeah.

01:16:56.000 He's got it.

01:16:57.140 Yeah.

01:16:57.340 Um, what else was I thinking about?

01:17:00.080 Where else can we go from here?

01:17:01.000 We're almost done.

01:17:01.760 Let me think about what else we can talk about.

01:17:03.460 You know what I'm gonna do, Timmy?

01:17:04.960 I'm gonna take that down and keep this up here.

01:17:07.600 That's pretty cool.

01:17:09.020 I'm just gonna make sure that you're always here in spirit, dude.

01:17:11.680 I appreciate that.

01:17:12.640 You bet, man.

01:17:13.500 What, I wanna ask you something, um, with the risk of people leaving the community and stuff,

01:17:17.860 are families still very close, or do they only get closer after people join the church?

01:17:23.320 Does that make any sense to you?

01:17:24.880 I think, I think it does.

01:17:26.300 So, like, most of the time, like, the family's very close, unless, like, when the, when the

01:17:31.420 kids and the parents, like, like, they don't agree on stuff, and then they leave, that's

01:17:35.720 like the, like, the time when, like, they don't, they're not as close anymore.

01:17:40.360 It, it depends on the person, I guess, and the parents, too.

01:17:43.840 Is it pretty heartbreaking when that happens in the community?

01:17:45.840 Yeah, it's, it's like, when I was younger, I was like, when someone left, it's almost

01:17:49.900 like, it's almost like someone died.

01:17:52.460 Not quite, but it almost felt like that, but since I got older, I understand it a bit

01:17:56.360 more, and it's, uh, it's not as bad as, like, it used to be, so.

01:18:00.320 Yeah.

01:18:01.360 Wow, that's you right there?

01:18:02.540 Yeah, I was, I was, like, really skinny when I was, when I was younger.

01:18:05.920 I'm still kind of skinny, you know?

01:18:07.180 You look like that guy in Kingpin a little.

01:18:09.740 What's that?

01:18:09.860 You seen Kingpin?

01:18:10.660 No idea what that is.

01:18:11.640 It's like an Amish movie, it's like a historical Amish film or whatever.

01:18:14.340 Oh, I almost look like that dude.

01:18:16.780 Yeah.

01:18:17.280 When he's younger.

01:18:18.260 Yeah.

01:18:18.820 Not now.

01:18:19.800 Oh.

01:18:20.520 When he's younger, but he's classy guy, he's a great guy.

01:18:22.820 Yeah, he looks like a great guy, too.

01:18:24.360 Oh, yeah, Randy Quaid.

01:18:25.500 He's got, like, a big beard now.

01:18:27.260 Yeah, yeah, he's doing okay.

01:18:28.680 Yeah.

01:18:29.440 I'm a fan of his.

01:18:31.460 What have you decided about Rumspringer and what you're going to do with your family and

01:18:34.840 the church and stuff?

01:18:35.580 Have you made any decisions yet?

01:18:36.760 Uh, like, like, not yet.

01:18:40.240 Like, I, the final, the final decision will probably be in, like, probably within, like,

01:18:45.100 two years or so.

01:18:46.040 Okay.

01:18:46.580 And then, I, it depends if I leave or, you know, join the church and, well, right now

01:18:51.140 you actually can't really join the church because, like, there's no bishop.

01:18:54.320 You can't, you can join other churches that are, like, a little bit of ways in a different

01:18:57.640 district.

01:18:58.020 But, like, yeah, it'll probably be, like, two years until I, you know, like, make my

01:19:02.400 final decision because it's kind of a big decision.

01:19:05.100 Yeah.

01:19:05.520 Yeah.

01:19:06.000 Uh, what would be the thing you think that would draw you out of the faith, that would

01:19:09.820 draw you out of the church and out of the district?

01:19:12.920 Uh, I would think, like, like, if I wanted to do something, like, something that would,

01:19:19.240 like, something I'm doing right now, like this podcast, like, something worldly, and, like,

01:19:24.900 they'd probably come down on me for, like, doing something like that, I guess, would

01:19:28.940 drive me away a little bit because, I don't know, it feels a little bit, like, a little

01:19:33.680 bit restrictive, but, like, I guess that's the only thing I would think.

01:19:39.860 But you don't feel like doing this podcast will mess up your opportunity to go back or

01:19:43.660 come or leave, huh?

01:19:44.840 No, I don't think it, I don't think it will.

01:19:46.860 Okay, good.

01:19:47.340 I don't want that to happen, man.

01:19:48.640 No.

01:19:48.760 I want you to be able to make the best choice for yourself no matter what.

01:19:51.040 It sounds like a really beautiful community, is it?

01:19:52.960 Yeah.

01:19:53.220 Yeah, it's, it's very beautiful, I'd say.

01:19:56.040 It sounds like you have a lot of, like, community, a lot of sense of togetherness, you know?

01:20:00.700 Yeah.

01:20:01.000 A lot of, like, you feel, do you feel a strong sense of purpose being Amish?

01:20:07.920 Ah, yeah, like, you, like, kind of uphold the honor, you know, work hard, you know, the

01:20:16.360 harder you work, the better, because you get, you stay in shape, and then the more you can

01:20:22.760 help out is always better, because I love helping out people and making people stay.

01:20:26.200 That's, like, one of my favorite things to do.

01:20:27.720 So, I like doing that.

01:20:31.320 So, it's a lot of fun.

01:20:33.500 Yeah, I think it's important, you know?

01:20:34.760 I think that's one way we really fill ourselves up, is, like, doing something for somebody else,

01:20:37.900 you know?

01:20:38.080 Yeah.

01:20:38.200 It feels good.

01:20:39.120 Yeah, it's like...

01:20:39.860 And it seems like you get to do a lot of that in your community, so there's probably a

01:20:43.040 strong sense of feeling of, like, doing good.

01:20:45.380 Yeah, there is.

01:20:46.120 If you guys are helping each other out a lot.

01:20:47.560 Yeah.

01:20:47.800 Are siblings really close in your community, or is that kind of not...

01:20:51.840 You mean the siblings?

01:20:53.140 Yeah.

01:20:53.540 Yeah, usually, like, the siblings are usually close, you know?

01:20:56.720 Not, like, we're close, you know?

01:20:58.140 Just, like, brother and brother.

01:20:59.560 Yeah, legally close or whatever.

01:21:00.660 Yeah.

01:21:00.960 Yeah, like, legally close.

01:21:02.820 So, usually the brothers and the sisters, they're usually keep, like, the sisters are closer

01:21:09.660 to themselves, and the brothers are, like, closer to themselves.

01:21:12.180 For sure.

01:21:12.740 Yeah.

01:21:13.800 For sure.

01:21:14.640 And then, here's my little brother.

01:21:16.460 Oh, that's him right there, eh?

01:21:17.880 Yeah.

01:21:18.440 I, like, he, like, he doesn't, like, he doesn't really, like, he probably wouldn't care if

01:21:25.520 I put his, like, face up on, like, social media and stuff, but, yeah, I blurt it out.

01:21:29.740 I put, like, a thing over his eyes.

01:21:30.820 Oh, yeah, out of respect.

01:21:31.760 Yeah.

01:21:32.180 That's fun, though, you guys.

01:21:33.440 Yeah.

01:21:33.600 So, a lot of times when you're Amish, you're just driving around, hanging out, telling stories

01:21:36.700 and stuff?

01:21:37.180 Yeah.

01:21:37.640 Making each other laugh a lot?

01:21:38.960 Yeah.

01:21:39.120 Are you allowed to laugh?

01:21:40.220 Yeah, you're allowed to laugh.

01:21:41.320 Oh, that's great.

01:21:41.660 Like, we, like, drink coffee and laugh, and, like, at work.

01:21:45.760 Like, at work, we're laughing a lot of the time.

01:21:47.860 We talk, and, and, because, like, when you're, like, I don't know if, like, if, like, non-Amish

01:21:54.360 people, I don't know what they do, like, when, when they, like, work.

01:21:57.480 They, do they, like, talk to each other and laugh and stuff?

01:21:59.980 Yeah, they do, I think, a decent amount at a lot of jobs.

01:22:02.380 Yeah.

01:22:02.520 Probably jobs that are more, like, if you're doing construction, things like that, contracting,

01:22:07.040 things where you're building stuff, working together, where there's team opportunity,

01:22:10.560 there's a lot of laughter, dude.

01:22:12.720 And if you're just sitting at a desk by yourself, you're probably just losing your mind.

01:22:16.180 Yeah, that would be, that would be kind of sad, like, being inside all day and, you know,

01:22:20.400 under the, under the lights and stuff.

01:22:22.560 Oh, yeah.

01:22:23.060 I think there's something that's kind of, like, it doesn't feel very human about it.

01:22:26.280 No.

01:22:26.780 Are there a lot of people on antidepressants and stuff that are Amish or no?

01:22:30.360 Ah, not that I know of.

01:22:32.220 There might be, like, like, maybe everyone, like, here, here, and maybe way over there,

01:22:38.900 but not that I know of, no.

01:22:40.480 Do people seem depressed a lot or not really?

01:22:42.820 Ah, most of them don't.

01:22:44.580 Most of them don't.

01:22:45.120 But then you have, then you also have sometimes, like, people that are, like, what do you call

01:22:49.980 those people that are, like, super depressed?

01:22:51.660 Like, sometimes they're, like, super depressed.

01:22:53.560 Oh, um.

01:22:54.660 They're, they're almost like, they're almost like the water when it gets rough.

01:22:57.840 They're, like, up and down a lot.

01:22:59.240 Oh, bipolar kind of?

01:23:00.160 Yeah, bipolar.

01:23:01.420 Like, we sometimes, like, I don't have a person that has that, and, like, it's kind of crazy.

01:23:08.420 Some studies have found Amish depression rates to be one-fifth to one-tenth of mainstream

01:23:12.500 society with strong family ties and community support cited as protective factors.

01:23:16.440 That's unbelievable.

01:23:18.280 Yeah.

01:23:18.620 One-fifth to one-tenth is insane, brother.

01:23:21.220 That's a, I mean, that's a huge difference.

01:23:23.420 Yeah.

01:23:23.540 Strong family ties, robust social networks, work ethic, and especially religious faith

01:23:27.540 are seen as major mental health protective factors.

01:23:30.840 Will you guys pray together a lot just with friends?

01:23:33.260 Like, if you see them somewhere, is that a common practice?

01:23:36.700 No, like, like, we only do, like, at the table.

01:23:39.720 Got it.

01:23:40.520 But, like, I know some families do, like, pray more than we do.

01:23:45.800 We should probably do it more.

01:23:47.380 Yeah.

01:23:47.940 I think that's how we all feel.

01:23:49.140 Yeah.

01:23:49.480 Do you have Valentine's Day?

01:23:50.620 Oh, yeah.

01:23:51.240 We have Valentine's Day at school.

01:23:52.680 So, what happens in Valentine's Day is, uh, at school.

01:23:56.340 So, when that happens, it would basically, we put, like, things on a paper and we put

01:24:01.880 it into a hat and then we mix it all up and someone walks around with, like, and then

01:24:05.960 you reach in and you pick out a name.

01:24:08.160 And if you got that name, then that's your valentine.

01:24:10.500 Like, your valentine.

01:24:11.220 You got to, like, switch lunch pails and then you also have to, like, send a valentine

01:24:16.360 in with them.

01:24:18.060 And can it be a boy or a girl?

01:24:19.620 Yeah.

01:24:19.840 It can be, like, like, either way.

01:24:21.720 Got it.

01:24:22.280 Yeah.

01:24:22.540 So, it's, like, nothing, uh, uh, it's, like, it's probably way different from, like, like,

01:24:29.880 uh, from non-Amitian public schools.

01:24:31.900 Because I'm guessing, like, like, non-Amitian public schools, it would have to be, like,

01:24:35.120 uh, like a boy and a girl, right?

01:24:38.040 Yeah.

01:24:38.240 But in y'all's culture, it's just whatever.

01:24:40.060 Yeah.

01:24:40.760 Yeah.

01:24:41.260 It's crazy.

01:24:42.680 And the way we do it is, like, just the main, the reason we do it is mainly your friends.

01:24:48.320 You give your friends a valentine and then, uh, then you also switch, like, lunch pails

01:24:53.020 and then the moms will usually put something special in there, like, NX or candy bar or.

01:24:58.460 Yeah.

01:24:58.900 And my mom used to buy, like, those things from Walmart, those, like, big red hearts and

01:25:02.560 then send that with to them.

01:25:03.960 Oh, yeah.

01:25:04.340 That's nice.

01:25:04.980 Yeah.

01:25:05.120 Moms do that.

01:25:05.860 Yeah.

01:25:06.060 That's a nice thing.

01:25:07.340 Yeah.

01:25:07.540 Um, what other holidays?

01:25:10.040 Do you have Halloween?

01:25:11.460 Uh, no, we, we, uh, we don't have Halloween, but I've had, uh, before I went to Room Spring,

01:25:17.020 uh, the neighbors, uh, our non-Amish neighbors, they picked me up and then, then, uh, they put

01:25:23.160 me, like, in a prison, prison costume thing, like, I'll add black and white stripes all over

01:25:28.240 me and, like, we went out and gathering candy.

01:25:30.660 Like, you just walk up to these people's houses and they have candy for you.

01:25:34.060 I know.

01:25:34.500 Yeah, it's, it's crazy.

01:25:35.700 Halloween's, like, really crazy.

01:25:36.960 But a lot of them, a lot of, a lot of Amish, like, don't, don't celebrate because, like,

01:25:42.040 apparently that's, like, uh, the occasion of, like, Halloween is, like, something to do

01:25:47.740 with, like, the devil.

01:25:48.440 I'm not quite sure.

01:25:49.400 Yeah.

01:25:49.700 I know what you're talking about.

01:25:50.340 It's a pagan holiday.

01:25:51.140 Yeah.

01:25:51.580 Um, because they have, some people, like, real scary stuff in the yard.

01:25:55.000 They got, like, snakes and then these, these dead people with, like, skulls and stuff.

01:25:59.140 Yeah, stuff hanging from trees.

01:26:00.660 Yeah.

01:26:01.300 Deceased adults and children.

01:26:03.080 Yeah.

01:26:03.460 They're, like, bones stuff.

01:26:04.380 I don't know where they get the bones.

01:26:05.740 So, like, dick them up or something.

01:26:07.060 It's probably something.

01:26:08.300 Yeah.

01:26:08.460 They probably had insider trading with some dog or something.

01:26:10.860 Yeah.

01:26:11.280 What is something that you want people to know about Amish people that are, are a view

01:26:14.980 of them or you think that's something that's incorrect before we get out of here?

01:26:18.080 Like a, like a misconception.

01:26:19.100 Yeah.

01:26:19.580 Yeah.

01:26:19.900 So, like, the, one of the biggest misconceptions I see all the time with, like, me being online

01:26:25.560 and stuff.

01:26:25.980 It's, like, crazy.

01:26:27.060 Like, all, all the stuff.

01:26:28.620 Like, people, people say I'm not Amish.

01:26:30.680 I don't do, I don't do this way.

01:26:32.920 Uh, there's, there are actually two misconceptions I can say.

01:26:35.580 Like, number one is, like, a lot of Amish kids my age have, like, phones.

01:26:39.800 Like, they hide it from their parents and stuff.

01:26:42.140 And, where it's, like, they have, like, they have, like, they have some electronics and

01:26:47.580 stuff where they, but they have to, like, keep it on the low and stuff.

01:26:50.360 And what will they do?

01:26:51.260 Bury it in a field somewhere?

01:26:52.360 Will they hide it behind a hog or something?

01:26:54.080 Like, how do you guys even?

01:26:54.800 Yeah, like, hide it in the barn, like, the back of the bucky, sometimes in a culvert and

01:26:58.060 hope it doesn't rain.

01:26:59.120 Oof.

01:26:59.620 Yeah.

01:27:00.080 So, that's one thing, like, a lot of Amish have phones and every, pretty much every Amish

01:27:04.780 that has a phone that's, like, my age, that's not for business and stuff, is, like,

01:27:09.240 they have Snapchat, like, that's how we, like, communicate.

01:27:13.060 That's, like, our new, like, messenger pitch.

01:27:15.960 It's your Underground Railroad kind of thing.

01:27:17.220 Yeah, it's Underground Railroad.

01:27:18.560 I was thinking about, you know, starting Underground Bucky Races, but I first got to dig the tunnel

01:27:22.140 and stuff.

01:27:22.920 Yeah.

01:27:23.100 But, like, another misconception, you know, about Amish is, like, what was it?

01:27:29.680 Oh, yeah.

01:27:30.100 About me not being Amish, because I have a, I have a phone, that's, because, like, another

01:27:36.000 thing that's, like, huge, like, really big, because, like, there's Amish in movies and

01:27:41.320 they're always, they always turn on the butter.

01:27:43.620 Yeah.

01:27:43.960 And, basically, they're living without electricity.

01:27:46.960 Now, there's so many, there's so many different, like, Amish, because, like, what you hear from

01:27:51.580 me, like, from where I came from, is, will not be the same from an Amish in Indiana, Ohio,

01:27:58.220 or, like, Pennsylvania.

01:28:00.360 It's, it's, there's so many different ones, like, little different ways.

01:28:03.300 Different branches of it.

01:28:04.300 Yeah, lots of different branches.

01:28:05.860 And I, I would, I would say, like, there's not a single community that's, like, exactly

01:28:10.220 the same.

01:28:10.700 There's always a little bit of rules, and there's so many different branches of it, where they

01:28:14.580 wear a bit different clothes, a bit different hats, do things a bit differently, because

01:28:19.600 I've had people say, like, this is not Amish, and then, uh, they, like, write a detailed

01:28:23.940 description, but, I guess, they, they probably don't know better that there's, like, lots

01:28:28.740 of different ones, because there's, there's, like, lots, there's Beachy, Swartzen Trooper,

01:28:33.040 New Order, Old Order, there's, there's so many different branches.

01:28:36.000 Oh my gosh, it sounds like a bunch of people on the Warped Tour.

01:28:38.300 Yeah.

01:28:39.240 Yeah, it's like, so, so, when Anabaptist became a thing, they basically, like, they were, like,

01:28:44.440 a minority for a little bit.

01:28:45.740 Have you ever seen Back to the Future?

01:28:47.540 No.

01:28:47.840 Dang, boy.

01:28:49.980 What?

01:28:50.960 Is that, what, what's that?

01:28:52.180 I think you would like it, and I think it's a, I think it's something that is Amish appropriate.

01:28:55.980 I don't think it's too crazy.

01:28:57.600 Okay.

01:28:58.440 I think you could handle it.

01:28:59.400 So, have you ever seen Family Man with Nicolas Cage?

01:29:02.600 No.

01:29:03.200 Do you know who Nicolas Cage is?

01:29:05.600 Ah, I'm not even quite sure.

01:29:08.940 Wow.

01:29:09.660 Wow.

01:29:10.080 So, there's, these are, like, movies and stuff?

01:29:12.520 Yeah.

01:29:13.220 Oh, wow.

01:29:13.900 Family Man's one of my favorites, dude.

01:29:15.440 So, what, what's that about?

01:29:16.560 It's about this guy, and he's very, like, rich and fancy and stuff.

01:29:20.660 Yeah.

01:29:20.960 And then one day, he kind of, something happens where he goes back into his life, like, 20

01:29:27.860 years earlier.

01:29:28.700 Yeah.

01:29:28.900 And he makes a different decision to stay with a girl that he was in love with instead of

01:29:32.220 leaving.

01:29:32.800 He goes, like, back in time?

01:29:34.560 Yeah, he goes back in time.

01:29:35.520 Like, he doesn't realize that he falls asleep.

01:29:37.060 It's on Christmas.

01:29:37.680 He falls asleep on Christmas Eve.

01:29:39.660 And he wakes up, and he's back in a different life he would have had if he had made a different

01:29:44.160 choice to stay in love instead of to go for, like, the big job in the fancy apartment.

01:29:51.060 Oh, he went for the money over people.

01:29:52.720 He went for the money over people, and he had a choice.

01:29:55.180 And he goes back in time, and now suddenly he wakes up, and he's in a house with this

01:29:58.520 lady that he was in love with, but now they have, like, two kids, and they, like, they

01:30:02.140 don't live in, like, he was living in, like, this fancy downtown place with, like, a butler

01:30:07.080 and somebody that would, like, chew your gum for you and just tell you what it would

01:30:10.100 taste like.

01:30:10.640 You don't even have to chew it.

01:30:11.520 Wow.

01:30:11.920 That rich.

01:30:12.840 That, that's, like, super rich.

01:30:14.620 It's too much.

01:30:15.480 Yeah.

01:30:15.800 I'll chew my own gum, you know what I'm saying?

01:30:17.820 Yeah.

01:30:17.860 I'll, I'll chew my own gum, you know, drink my own water.

01:30:20.620 Yeah.

01:30:20.940 Yeah, stuff like that.

01:30:21.840 Yeah, for sure.

01:30:22.440 I want to at least do that.

01:30:23.560 Let me do at least the low, low-hanging fruit.

01:30:26.140 Yeah.

01:30:26.620 But anyway, um, so then he gets that experience, and then one day he wakes back up, and he's

01:30:31.120 back in his original life.

01:30:32.600 Yeah.

01:30:32.840 And he hates it.

01:30:34.560 And so he, he drives off from his original life to go find the girl and see what's going

01:30:39.460 on, and, um, and then you figure out what happens from there.

01:30:43.360 Wow, that's, that's crazy.

01:30:44.760 He almost sounds like that almost, when he went back in time and stuff, like, or, like,

01:30:48.900 twizzle, like, what ha, what would have happened if he would have, like, stayed with that girl.

01:30:52.200 That's almost like, uh, that's almost like me, like, deciding if I want to, you know,

01:30:56.280 stay Amish or, you know, leave the Amish.

01:30:58.280 It's, um.

01:30:58.740 Yeah, it's like a rumspringer.

01:30:59.740 Yeah, it's like a really hard decision.

01:31:01.640 Yeah.

01:31:02.620 What factors do you think will go into you choosing?

01:31:04.460 What do you think are good factors to help you decide, or do you think about that?

01:31:07.880 Uh, I think it's, uh, what, what I'll, what I'll, what I will all see from, like,

01:31:12.340 the outside world, and, like, I'll probably compare the two and see, you know, which one

01:31:16.840 I like, you know, I, I, I like the Amish lifestyle, the food, and all that stuff is

01:31:21.880 good, like, the only things right now that I don't like too much are the rules a little

01:31:25.900 bit.

01:31:26.320 Oh, yeah?

01:31:26.920 Yeah, but that's what rumspring is for you, to break them.

01:31:29.660 Yeah, get out there and break them, bud.

01:31:30.840 Yeah.

01:31:31.040 Do you have any plans to go to any special events coming up on your own rumspringer, any

01:31:34.080 football games, anything like that?

01:31:35.740 Uh, the only special event I've coming up is actually this weekend.

01:31:39.260 I'm gonna go, go on a plane for the first time.

01:31:43.040 Wow.

01:31:43.540 Yeah, and jump out of it.

01:31:45.460 No, really?

01:31:46.480 Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna, like, cause, like, let's say something goes wrong when you're landing,

01:31:50.980 so I wanna, like, be off the plane, you know, when it's up in the air.

01:31:53.920 Yeah, for sure.

01:31:55.000 And go skydiving.

01:31:55.940 Dude, that's gonna be sick.

01:31:57.140 Are you geeked?

01:31:57.420 Yeah.

01:31:57.980 I, I'm, like, really excited, so this week is, I think this is a week I'll never forget.

01:32:03.040 Wow.

01:32:03.680 It's really, really crazy.

01:32:05.260 So, yeah, no one, no one knows this, I haven't told anyone, and, so.

01:32:09.940 I won't say anything, yeah.

01:32:11.180 It's, it's crazy, you know, let's go skydiving.

01:32:13.440 It's cool.

01:32:13.800 For the first time.

01:32:14.900 But I think, don't they, like, put, like, they, like, strap a person on the back of you.

01:32:18.100 They put a guy on you, yeah.

01:32:19.160 I just tell them you're not interested before you guys jump.

01:32:21.440 Yeah.

01:32:22.040 Just say, look.

01:32:22.820 I'm not interested, yeah.

01:32:23.960 Yeah, I'm here for the jump.

01:32:24.860 I'm here for the jump only, yeah.

01:32:26.320 Just as, I don't want him getting any ideas.

01:32:28.560 Yeah, no ideas at all.

01:32:29.480 Yeah.

01:32:29.760 Like, when we land, it's over.

01:32:31.460 Yeah, right.

01:32:32.540 That's what, that's what the plan is, and, because I was thinking, I was talking to my

01:32:36.240 coworker, I was thinking, you know, that would be a really crazy story.

01:32:40.780 You know, the first airplane ride you ever go into, you just decided, you know, I don't

01:32:46.380 want to, I'm just going to chump out, you know.

01:32:48.340 I'm out of here.

01:32:48.860 I'm out of here, yeah.

01:32:49.680 So, it'll be the first plane you've ever been in, and then you're out of it.

01:32:52.640 I'm out of it, yeah.

01:32:53.720 Wow.

01:32:54.420 And then, like, same way with a podcast, I decided, you know, the first podcast I

01:32:59.520 ever be on would be Theo Vons, because you're a pretty cool dude.

01:33:03.180 Well, thank you, dude.

01:33:04.280 I think you are too, man.

01:33:05.440 I'm really intrigued by you guys' lifestyle.

01:33:07.620 I think I learned a decent amount about it today.

01:33:09.800 Yeah.

01:33:10.340 You know, there probably could have been some other avenues about it that I could have

01:33:12.920 asked about.

01:33:13.700 Yeah.

01:33:14.580 But I appreciate you coming, bro.

01:33:16.360 I really do.

01:33:16.980 I appreciate you inviting me.

01:33:18.400 And I admire you guys having a unique culture.

01:33:20.260 I think there's a lot of people in the world that are trying to get back to the roots

01:33:24.960 of their culture and things that matter and mean something.

01:33:27.300 So, I almost feel like you guys are already there in some ways.

01:33:30.620 Yeah.

01:33:30.740 In some ways, yeah.

01:33:31.840 And, like, some people, it feels like it's, like, not grounded anymore to family and stuff.

01:33:40.140 You know, like, they're just doing, like, really crazy stuff.

01:33:44.700 But, like, if you're, like, if you touch grass every day, you know, like, like, you're outside

01:33:49.960 every day.

01:33:50.600 And, like, I'm outside all the time.

01:33:52.560 That's why I'm, like, so dark.

01:33:54.020 Almost look Mexican, but I'm not.

01:33:56.300 But, yeah.

01:33:57.420 Like, and it's really crazy.

01:34:01.480 Well.

01:34:02.100 I appreciate it a lot for you inviting me.

01:34:04.140 This is a really crazy experience coming out here to town.

01:34:07.400 And then me sleeping 10 stories up, up 10 stories.

01:34:12.020 I know.

01:34:12.280 That's, like, the first time I've ever slept that high.

01:34:13.480 Oh, you're in a hotel that's really high?

01:34:15.100 Yeah.

01:34:15.900 You've never done that?

01:34:16.760 No, I haven't.

01:34:17.740 Wow.

01:34:18.060 So, and it's, like, my first time ever, like, staying in a big city like this.

01:34:21.920 So, it's, it's, it's, like, I'll never forget it.

01:34:25.620 That's awesome.

01:34:26.480 Yeah.

01:34:26.920 Well, good, man.

01:34:27.700 Timothy, I appreciate it, man.

01:34:28.840 Thank you so much, dude, for your time.

01:34:30.200 Thanks for coming out to my show.

01:34:31.720 And, yeah, thanks for being here with us and helping us learn, brother.

01:34:34.460 I appreciate it, dude.

01:34:35.460 All right, man.

01:34:35.980 I appreciate it all.

01:34:36.640 I appreciate it, too, dude.

01:34:37.500 Dude, I, that's the least I could do.

01:34:39.420 It was nice.

01:34:39.900 And when I get close to it, I'm coming by for some coffee soup, all right?

01:34:42.320 Yes, sir.

01:34:42.840 With me.

01:34:43.480 Yes.

01:34:43.980 You got it.

01:34:44.660 All right.

01:34:44.940 Now, I'm just floating on the breeze, and I feel I'm falling like these leaves.

01:34:50.640 I must be cornerstone.

01:34:55.780 Oh, but when I reach that ground, I'll share this peace of mind I found.

01:35:01.380 I can feel it in my bones.

01:35:04.760 But it's gonna take...

This Past Weekend with Theo Von - September 03, 2025

#607 - Young Amish Male

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