James
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Hi, everyone, and welcome to the podcast. I was going to go for a really Robert Evans intro there, but I bottled it. I am a coward, and I couldn't do it. I hate all of you. It's Margaret Killjoy, everyone, here to spread the good news. I was trying to Robert Evans it. Oh, okay, yeah. And doesn't he only hate a certain percentage of them? Oh, right. Statistically speaking, he likes some of you.
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Because I know some nice people that Zinda Robert likes. Maybe it's you, maybe it's not. You'll never know. Today, we're not here to talk about who Robert Evans likes, but we are here to talk about what to do if your house is going to burn down or you have to leave because they think it might burn down.
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This is obviously a topic that is front of mind for people in Southern California currently, given the...
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massive wildfires that have engulfed whole neighborhoods of los angeles there are fires in ventura and oxford as well now the whole of east county san diego is under a red flag warning fire conditions continue because climate change continues and we have decided as a society not to do anything about that and so this shit is going to be the rest of our lives
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Yeah. The United Kingdom has wildfires now, a thing that did not exist.
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We have land owned by the monarch fires. We have parks and protected land. We have commons to a degree, but not public land like the US does. When I was a kid, we used to burn the stubble in straw fields. That's how few fucks we gave about fires. We'd just burn it and then plow it back in. And air quality, I guess. That is not a thing that people engage in anymore. That's probably for the best.
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Fire, it's coming for you. It's happening everywhere. Hooray. Hooray. Yeah. Lucky you. The cleansing fire. I feel like there's a John Betjeman poem I could go off with here, but I'll spare you. All right. So if you are in a place where you are very likely to have to evacuate your home soonish for a fire, here are some things that you may wish to consider doing.
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I've harvested these from mutual aid groups in LA and from the CAL FIRE website where they give you advice on what to do if you're evacuating. The first thing that you'll want to do is turn off your gas. For those of you who are not familiar, this is a flammable substance. And your gas pipe rupturing and then catching on fire would be bad, would be sad. It's pretty easy to do this.
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Normally, you should have a valve near the meter. Some places will have what's called an earthquake shutoff or an earthquake valve where you won't need a tool. I'm not sure that... In fact, I'm pretty certain those are not mandatory, even in California, because I've lived places that don't have them. Then again, there are things that are mandatory that landlords just aren't doing.
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Yeah, yeah. Given that people outside of California are listening and the earthquakes are fortunately not coming for us all just yet, I would just suggest that you try and find where your gas shutoff is now. It's often where the gas comes into the property, like if there's a gas meter. And normally you're going to need some kind of tool to turn that.
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What I've used normally is just like an adjustable spanner or wrench, for those of you in the United States.
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Yeah, yes, yeah. Hi, fellow Californians. You can turn that valve so it turns parallel with the pipe. And that's going to shut off the gas coming into your house. Do you mean perpendicular to the pipe? I'm curious. I think parallel is shut off.
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Yeah, let me have a look. I'm checking now. Yeah, sorry, it wants to be at 90 degrees to the pipe. So it should be in line with the pipe when you start at 90 degrees to the pipe when you turn it off.
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Yeah, that's much easier visually. If you imagine like the hole in the valve lining up with the handle thing on there. Do you want to turn that off? I've seen some suggestions that you want to turn water off. Generally, the advice is not to turn your water off and to hook up your outdoor hoses to your outdoor taps such that they can be used if they need to be used.
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I have seen some suggestions to turn water off because I guess people's pipes are bursting, which is decreasing water pressure.
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Right. Like in the case of California, you can go to CAL FIRE, right? There will be evacuation advice on the CAL FIRE website. There might even be on your city website. Some of it is useful. This is a useful thing. If you do need to turn off your water, again, water shutoffs could be in a variety of places. So it kind of depends, especially if you're on a well, you're probably rural.
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And if you're rural, you're probably going to be leaving it on.
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It can sometimes be at the side of your house. You might need to give this a little bit of WD-40. Sometimes there's a little plastic box as well, and the little plastic box has a little hole, and you kind of have to shove a screwdriver in that hole and pop it open.
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Yes, yeah, that's city water, yeah. If you have a water meter box and the shutoff's in there. Familiarize yourself with that stuff now so that you're not doing it in a panic later. And that's kind of where a lot of what we're talking about today is important. If you do it now, you don't have to dash about your house grabbing, thinking, is this important? Do I need this? Do I need that? Right.
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Because like I've evacuated for a while. I was living in California a few times. I like to think I have it pretty down now, but definitely the first time I was, you know, freshly minted European migrant. It was not familiar with this stuff and definitely just ran around grabbing things. It turned out to be the wrong things. It's like, cool, I've got three bicycles here.
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Yeah, so you couldn't use your standard socket set or what have you. So that's why you need these specialised keys. Yeah, and they're not very expensive. You can buy them online.
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But they're alright, as far as I can tell. Yeah, and you're hopefully not going to need to use them very much. Other things that you should turn on or off, turn off your air conditioning. No one's in the house anyway, don't need it. I would consider leaving your exterior lights on. This is just going to help firefighters see things and see your house in the event that your house is still there.
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You can close your windows and doors. It's amazing how much difference closed doors even internally make in fire spread. There are plenty of videos you can watch about this online, but it's amazing how much different it makes having those closed. But you don't want to lock your front door. Like, you're going to see a lot of stuff about looting.
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I will tell you right now that the people who are looting from wildfire survivors are the landlords who are charging 150% of the rent that they were a month ago for people to find a place to live.
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Have it. Yeah, yeah. Lucky you. I hope you don't get burned. Yeah. Compared to if a firefighter needs to enter that house to prevent it burning down, it takes a meaningful amount of time to break down a door. Yeah. And you can save that time by leaving it open. So yeah, that is something that I think you will get the wrong impression of if you're watching too much corporate news.
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If you can, close metal shutters on your windows, but remove curtains. Flammable things near windows, generally not a good idea, right? That makes sense. So if you've got fabric curtains, I know they look nice, but take them down. Or you could just live like me and never purchase curtains and just, I don't have the sun in your face. It's just what is happening to me right now.
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Where you hang your curtains. Yeah, James is effectively squatting in a house that he actually rents. You should also move flammable items into the middle of the room. again, right? That's where the fire is not. And then before you go, choose an outfit that covers your legs and arms, right? And you want to wear some sturdy shoes as well.
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Something that's comfortable, something you could potentially sleep in and wear for a few days and not be uncomfortable. Shoes that you could walk in, right? We saw a lot of people in L.A., weren't able to take their vehicles as far as they had expected to be able to.
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And so having a pair of shoes that you're comfortable in, your nice, comfy walking shoes, is definitely a useful thing to have and something to think about. I hope you're not listening to this dashing around your house. If you are, best of luck. Yeah, good luck to you. Yeah, but you can prepare all this stuff now.
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For the outside of your house, flammable stuff that might catch outside your house is best either bought inside, inside your shed, if you have a shed or a garage or something. Or in a particularly California piece of advice, Cal Fire suggests chucking your patio furniture in the pool. So... That is the thing that you can do. That makes some sense. It does.
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Have you seen the picture of this lady in the 90s who put all her fine china in her swimming pool before evacuating in a wildfire? Oh, that's amazing. Yeah. It's very like of the time. Like it was a time when people could afford swimming pools. And also people had china that they cared about, which is something that our generation generally does not. Yeah.
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Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Apparently it's a big issue with people like inheriting China and not wanting it and just dumping it on Goodwills. Yeah, I believe it. Yeah, I can see that. So, yeah, you can put stuff in your pool if you don't want it to burn, if it is possible for you to do that. You had something you mentioned, Margaret, about your fence, right? Living in a more rural setting.
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Yeah, it's metal. That's just the name of it. Oh, okay. It's what they put into concrete, I think. I use it to build chicken runs for similar reasons. Well, because raccoon hands can't get through it and raccoons, they're bastards as it turns out.
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Yeah. Amusingly, we used one of those when I was a kid. We had a horse that liked to get out. And one day she got out. We all went looking for her, of course. There were some wealthy people who like, well, they didn't live in the village that we lived in. They owned it because Britain has never moved on from the feudal era. And they had a pool and that was where our horse was.
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And so the fire brigade came and they used one of those things, just pumped out the water and just like hosed down the surrounding garden. And then we came with the tractor and we put some different straw bales of different sizes and made a set of stairs and got her out.
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yeah just like rural people living the dream uh yeah yeah she was a good horse misty yeah we we had a lot of horses that like we had access to land and not a great deal of finances so we inherited problematic horses i think for people who had like okay who had the means to purchase that is relatable to the americans yeah okay yeah yeah yeah any people find themselves in this situation i'm sure
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Yeah, it is. Yeah, yeah. It's the rich people who buy fancy horses and then like find that horse not to their liking and can afford to discard a living thing that they spent more than a car is worth on.
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Yes, they are. Vets cost a lot. Yeah. Anyway, so yeah, make sure, not quite in horse relation, but if you are more of a horseless carriage transport person, if you are, this is a very American thing, in possession of an electric garage door opener, it is a good idea to work out how to open your garage without that. Yeah.
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because you don't want to be in a situation where you can't use your vehicle because you can't open your garage. Or you don't want to be dashing around going, where's the bloody cord? Not the time. So work out how to do it. Now, also your front gate. Hopefully you don't live in a gated community. It's not the way to live. But if you do, for whatever reason, you know, know how to open the gates.
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Or if you have an electric front gate to your drive, I suppose, know how to open that. Margaret, now would be a good time for us to pause for ads. I wonder if we will get an advert for electric garage doors. Or electric horses.
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We'll find out in this advertising break. All right. We are back. And we're continuing on the theme of animals because they are our little friends. Yeah. So if you have animals inside your house, pets. We had farm animals inside my house growing up. So I guess it's not exclusive to pets. We used to bring the lambs in when it was cold. Little orphan lambs.
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Again, this is turning into like James story time. It's okay. It's cute stories. People are in possession of a range, like a big cooking. If you have a very old house in the UK, or again, if you're rich, you have these like coal burning or oil burning ovens. So they stay at a temperature and they have a number of doors.
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The coldest one, you can put a lamb in there in the wintertime and you can keep it warm that way. Like an alive one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, any of them. You can put a dead one in if you felt the need. But this isn't a way of cooking. I see what you're saying. Okay, yeah, yeah. Yeah, no. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you're looking to take care of the animal, you put him in there and keep him warm.
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So if you have pets in your house, things to do before you evacuate would be make sure they have a collar on, which has your name and your contact information.
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I'm a big fan of the breakaway collars, especially for dogs. We never had collars on our dogs growing up because our dogs were... always out in the fields, right, and going through hedges and stuff, and you don't want them to get caught up.
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And so I'm a big fan of those, especially in a situation where your pet's going to be scared, you know, God forbid that you lose, your pet goes running for a bit. You don't want them to get caught up by their neck.
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Yes, yeah. I was going to say, now is a good time, when you have the time, to chip your pets, to make sure you have a carrier, make sure you have their vaccination records, all that stuff.
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Yeah, yeah. Hopefully you and your pet will be fine. You'll come home in a few days. But keeping that stuff is important. If you have a cat, you can buy those little mobile litter boxes. If you're in danger of having to evacuate, just buy one and check it in your vehicle now. Of course, any medications that your pet has, right?
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You'll want to have a supply of those and those will want to be in your little go bag. It's also nice to have some familiar toys and things that smell like home. Yeah. So consider putting them in the carrier now and then they'll just be there and you won't have to look for them. They have advice if you have to leave your pet, which would be a pretty heartbreaking situation, to be honest. I...
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And I don't think I would leave them to burn, I think.
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Yeah, a few years ago, my friend and I were in a situation where a stables had more horses than it did vehicles. And we were able to go in a vehicle with a tow truck and just help. They would load them up and just be like, go to the evacuation point with these horses. And so having a plan for that is good. But yeah, I know I struggle because of leaving pets.
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I grew up with dogs and they were part of my family.
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Yeah, I heard about people in LA who were forced to leave relatives who were not mobile, which is just fucking heartbreaking. Just, you know, one of the worst things I could imagine happening.
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Yeah. If you have older people in your neighborhood, people who might not have their cell phone on or on them all the time, they might not get that like beep, beep, buzz, buzz.
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Yeah, yeah. A few years ago, I helped some older neighbors evacuate. You live in a community and you need to take responsibility and take care of one another. If you have livestock, again, like, you know, I grew up with livestock. I think
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You're taking responsibility for that animal's life, and that includes situations where you might have to help that animal escape in a way that is not necessarily lucrative for you. So that might just mean opening your fences, opening your gates, if you're not able to evacuate that animal, at least giving it a chance.
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You can, before, just to avoid having yourself in that situation, you need to make transport arrangements. You should be able to look where large animals' refuges are. In San Diego, in the big fires maybe 15 years ago, they had them on Fiesta Island for a while. It's a little island out in the bay. Or Del Mar Racecourse is often a place in San Diego where you can take them.
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You should be able to find that now. If you're in Los Angeles, you can find that now. Again, you're going to want to have your essential documentation. You are not going to want nylon halters for your livestock. I've seen a lot of people have nylon lead ropes for horses. We had like more hempy ones when I was younger, just because those are much less likely to melt, right?
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I'm not sure that's why we had them in the UK, but we had them because we'd had them for a long time. But plasticky things that can melt, you don't want to put them around your horse's head or near your horse.
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If you have chickens right now, you're going to run into the issue of avian flu, which is a further complication. So this is the scenario of a big chicken shelter where you take them. It's not a good one for avian flu reasons, also for chicken dynamics reasons. So that means you should make a plan now.
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You might have a friend who you're like, hey, I know that you're not normally a poultry person, but would it be cool in the event of us having to evacuate for me and my chickens to come and stay at your house? Making a plan now is going to avoid you being in a very difficult situation of either driving around with your birds in your truck, being like, where the fuck can I go?
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The last thing I have here, and then we're going to move on to packing your go bag, is insurance. My house flooded when I was a kid. It completely leveled the first floor of the house. Everything was gone.
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Yeah, it's true. It was actually the... I love to... It was the ground floor.
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Yeah, yeah. I love to go into a lift and be confused in this country. After 16 years of living here, go up and down, up and down, playing this stupid game until I Google what do Americans call their floors. But you can't do it because you're in the lift and your phone doesn't work. It's one of my favorite experiences.
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Yeah, yeah, it's true. Yeah, yeah. An elevator lift. Yeah, it's not an elevating experience for me. My favorite thing to pick on James Sabat.
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Yeah, it was never an issue when I worked in a building with a lift and would routinely miss my own floor, so much so that I just took a fire escape. So I remember it taking months. The time I was working in construction and what we were doing was for the most part pulling wet carpet out of people's homes that had flooded. Highly recommend not doing that as a way to make a living if you can.
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It's not... Not good for the body, not good for the soul. Not good for the lungs, probably. Cleaning out restaurants like a month later. The power had been off for a month just going into the walk-in. Oh my God. I've never seen so many people vomit like one after the other being like, no, I can do it. I'm a builder. Like, yeah, pretty horrific. So don't recommend.
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If you can, go around your house taking a video of your stuff. It will just make it easier. Like this happened to my family in like maybe the early 2000s. It wasn't possible. Well, I mean, I could have got the old like Sony Handycam out, but I didn't.
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So now, you know, you have a video camera in your pocket going around your house, taking a video, especially of, you know, the things that are expensive and hard to move. You're going to rely on insurance to replace. Yeah.
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Yeah, I think it... Don't put it on Facebook. Yeah, don't direct the insurance company to your Instagram where you post an interior video of your home every month. That's your thing, I guess. Join us next month for Behind the Podcasts. Yeah, podcast cribs. It's just me in my shed. It's me critiquing your interior design. That will be a weekly podcast for some time.
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LA things that I've heard people, things that you will need. If you have a nebulizer, if you're a person who uses a nebulizer to help them breathe, those are in very high demand. You're probably not going to be able to replace it. So bring that with you. If you have medications, ideally grab the meds in the little orange thing
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and take those with you that way you've got the rx number and you can easily go to a pharmacy and be like hey this is my prescription for me it has my name and the rx number can you issue me an emergency supply and that's something they should be able to do and also if you grab the whole bottle then you've got you know hopefully a decent supply hopefully your insurance isn't annoying and only lets you get three weeks at a time
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I will not name any companies because I think it is against my contract to do that. I will say that if you have your important documents, potentially your deed to your house, if you own one, your car, your passport, your birth certificate is a big one.
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Yeah, any green card, visa, that kind of thing, especially those in the after. Well, this will come out in the era of Trump 2.0. So those documents are going to be very important for some people, right? Your DACA registration. Put those in a file. and grab the whole thing, bring it with you. Do not rely on scanning copies of those, especially your immigration documents.
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If you're a person who has firearms, records of the serial numbers of those are going to be useful. And again, I would just snap a picture. It's not reasonable or sensible to be taking a lot of firearms with you in a situation like this. You're not going to need them. And there's going to be a lot of places that you won't want to bring them. Yes. I would suggest locking them up.
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And, like I say, documenting that you've done that. You may have to prove at some point that that firearm no longer exists, and that's probably the best way to do that. And being prepared to travel on foot, like I said. Another thing that people have been needing and not having is P100 masks. So that's a particle filter, generally in the 3M, and I think the Honeywell filters, they're pink.
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So I'm talking about like a screw-in filter here.
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Yeah, they're a little bit more sort of burdensome than those masks. But that is what you need if you're in those situations. So if you have one of those, I have ones like when I'm epoxying wood, I have a little half-face respirator that I wear for that. We will actually talk about masks, Margaret, after some of the products and services that support the show have talked about themselves.
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Yeah, that'd be pretty sick. Yep. All right, here we go. All right. We're back. Thank you, Honeywell. Yeah. For keeping us safe from tear gas.
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Yeah, they are good. The half-face respirator is great. Yeah, that's what I use, like I say, when I'm epoxying so I don't get high because that would be bad. Yeah.
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Not for the situation that we're talking about here.
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Yeah, and the firefighters come and they get it out in 15 minutes, but some stuff gets charred.
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Google the melting point of steel for this and many other interesting internet things that you can learn. Jet fuel can't melt fireproof safe. Yeah. Yeah. Which is why they build buildings out of them.
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Yeah. That's why you're putting it there and not on the internet.
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So really quickly, Margaret, uh, it's going to be a long one, I guess you and I talk about prepper stuff. It went long. Yeah. Shocking. Go bags. We've done our whole episode on go bags. If you're new to the show, hello, welcome. You can go back and listen to Margaret and James talking about go bags. We'll try and put a link in the description here for you.
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But what is the like super fast speed run version of what you want to put in your go bag?
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I've seen tons of requests for deodorant in the LA Mutual Aid chat almost every day.
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Yeah, yeah. You can get those tiny little Game Boys now, which have like, it looks like a Game Boy. Every game ever. Every game ever. Yeah, yeah.
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Okay, sick. Yeah, those would be a perfect item for one of those.
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Yeah, and look, that's fine, and it's probably going to be more important to you than half the shit you see people online putting in their go-backs. You don't need a gender-affirming hatchet. You will have a lot more fun with your tiny Game Boy. Things that you don't need, I see people hauling a lot of food. Everyone who's evacuated to L.A. is having a miserable time. They are eating...
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the best they ever have. So many people want to help, and food is a way that so many of us express affection and care for one another. So many people are getting fed right now, thanks to the efforts of mutual aid groups, really.
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Remarkably, it doesn't seem to be so much by... You'd think LA, a city on a major fault line, would have some kind of supplies for an earthquake that required feeding lots of people. Seems like it's more vibes-based for the city. But surprise, surprise, it's mutual aid groups who are feeding people, and they're doing that really well. So you don't need to haul a lot of food.
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I live in San Diego. I have no excuse. I just do it because I can't be bothered to leave my office and go to my kitchen sometimes. Yeah.
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Yeah, I kind of like to layer them in between things. I do this when I'm camping too. I'll get those little peanut butter packets and just throw a few in there. And then you're like, oh yeah, you know what? I am being cranky. Let me just snuff this and I'm going to be better. Yeah. I do highly recommend peanut butter. I take it when I travel a lot as well. It's like a comfort food for me.
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It's filling. It's compact. It's not that bad for you. Yeah.
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Yeah, yeah. It's a wonderful thing, peanut butter. So yeah, put some of that in there. There are things that like, you probably don't need shelter, right? But it might be nice to have a little compact blanket. Right. Especially if you're going to have to stay in one of those. One thing, a little comfort item that I always take, I've taken this all over the world, is an inflatable pillow.
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Like there are a lot of hardships that I will endure. I like to sleep on a pillow. And so I take a little inflatable pillow. So it's something that like, you know, you will have comfort items like that, that are things for you. I'll put those in there.
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I would avoid watching too much go bag content on YouTube because you're going to get anxious about the fact that you don't have like a folding short barrels rifle. And that's because you don't need it. Nor do you need like a, like I'm sitting next to my bulletproof vest that I've used before for work. I'm not taking it with me. It's staying here. Yeah.
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I did spend a lot of money on the plate, so I will be claiming those on insurance, but you don't need that stuff. People are taking care of one another. And so pack with the things that will help you be comfortable and consider that you might be spending a while in a hotel or a hostel or a refuge or staying with a friend or family members and think what would make that more comfortable for you.
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Yeah, that's where I'm at too. I like to go camping. So I have my camping stuff in my truck because then it takes me less time to go camping.
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I will say specifically, get a Soya Squeeze. They're tiny. The filtration is better than most other filters that are that size. Get it, put it in your backpack, leave it there. They're handy to have. And then, yeah, get a little... I like to have, again, this is a little comfort thing. I like to have a stainless steel Nalgene-sized bottle. It's not made by Nalgene. It's made by Clean Canteen.
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I like it because I can drink water out of it. I like it because it's not plastic, and I like it because I can use it to heat up water when it's really cold and have it like a little hot water bottle and snuggle with it. So that's a nice thing.
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One of those little Hydra charging cables, which, you know, breaks water.
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Yeah. Yeah, get one of those. Get a little wall wart and keep it in there so you can turn a wall socket into a USB socket if you need that to charge your stuff. Another thing that is surprisingly handy in lots of situations is I like to run a lot. And sometimes you're doing ultramarathon when you get to the aid station. They just have like big things of water, right?
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And you fill up your little water bottles you're carrying in your vest. And lots of people have these tiny collapsible cups that are made of like a thin rubber. They're made of the stuff that camelback bladders are made of. And then they can fill up that cup and they can drink from it and they just keep it attached to their vest, right? And then off they go running along.
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These are very useful, and I've started incorporating them in lots of my travel and emergency supplies, because if you're in a place where people don't have cups, but they have big things of water, now you have a vessel from which to drink. So those are surprisingly handy.
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Yeah, it's like the camping ones, but it's way lighter than those. Ah, okay.
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Yes, I know. Yeah, those are great for that too. And you can drink hot things out of them, which is nice.
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Yeah, yeah. If you have a child, keep a child toy. If you need to keep medicines cold, there's a product called Frio, F-R-I-O. They're not paying me. I've never got one for free, but you dip it in water and it uses evaporative cooling to keep your insulin cold. I have used them up. Oh, cool. They are very handy. They don't rely on electricity. It's very nice.
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So yeah, if that's something that you need, then that is hopefully something that will be useful to you. My last thing would be a little torch, a little pocket flashlight, or even better, a headlamp, like a head torch, because lots of places in LA lost power, right? And if you're having to go places at night, it's much easier if you can see where you are going. They're not expensive.
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They're great gifts. Bring a few. Give them to friends. Make new friends. Hopefully, this has prepared you. The last thing, of course, Margaret, is gold bullion with Ronald Reagan's face on it.
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Yeah, in which shiny metal replaces our natural instinct to help one another. Yeah, exactly. That's how it's been. That's humans. Famously, not a species.
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Yeah, yeah. Bring Atlas Shrugs, and then as you pass the fires, just start ripping that shit off, throwing it in there, let it burn.
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Yeah, yeah. Bring the Dawn of Everything by David Graeber. That'll occupy you through most natural disasters. It's a thick book. It is. It is indeed. If you can't reach something, very handy. Stand on that. He really thought. He did us one final solid. RIP David Graeber.
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Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Shout out to David Wengro, the other David, uh, the less venerated David who also wrote that book.
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Yeah. Sometimes I'll just say the Davids and then people will look at me and, uh, yeah, totally.
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Yeah. Yeah. When I'm speaking to Margaret, I can say the Davids. She knows which Davids I mean. That's why we're friends.
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Hi, everyone, and welcome to the podcast. It's me, James, today, and I'm joined by Dani. Dani's an engineer and photographer who lived in northeast Syria from 2018 until 2023 and a founding member of the RIC, which is the Rojava Information Center, if you're not familiar. And she worked for the Self-Administration and Civil Engineering while she was there. Welcome to the show, Dani.
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Yeah. Cheers. Thanks for coming. I know it's like a stressful time. So what I thought we would do is there's been a lot of reporting on Syria that people have probably seen if they're living in the US or the UK. Nearly all of it has either excluded or like footnoted what's happening in North and East Syria and specifically in the areas that are under the self-administration.
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So I was hoping today we could give people a little more introduction to what's happening there. There's been a lot of jubilation about what's happening in Syria, and things have been very far from universally positive. There's a massive displacement of civilians, ethnic cleansing of areas that have been captured by the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army.
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And genuine peril for the self-administration project, the like of which we haven't seen for a long time. So perhaps if listeners aren't familiar, would you give them the real basics of the self-administration of the AANES and what it means and what's going on there?
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Yeah, I think that's a very good summary. I think, like, it gets missed... maybe because of how relatively successful it's been compared to other democratization projects within Syria, it gets missed that when people are talking about what will happen in Syria now, bizarrely, and I don't quite understand how we get here, but people seem to go to Libya. I understand how we get here.
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It's through a process of orientalism and ignorance. But we have a functioning democracy, an example of... It's not just Kurdish people, right? It's lots of communities living together in North and East Syria. And because of democratic confederalism, they're able to coexist and still feel they have enough sovereignty to be safe. Is that fair?
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Yeah, it won't be any easier across the whole country than it was there. But like they have a system that works and it's kind of frustrating to see these discussions of what happens next that just ignore the fact that there's a functioning multi-ethnic democracy right there.
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If we do just look at women's liberation, you know, I've reported from lots of places around the world, lots of places in that part of the world. And the difference is profound in like everyday life. It's not just a kind of rhetorical commitment, right? Like, at least my impression as a man is that like, this is a revolution by women, not a revolution. It's about women. It's not...
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A revolution by men that like seeks to liberate women says it's going to liberate women. You know, with the US invaded Afghanistan saying it was going to liberate women and look what we got. And like the difference in just the way people are able to like every aspect of everyday life is completely different. But that's in danger right now.
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The narrative, I guess, that people will be familiar with from Syria is that the state has been defeated. The Assad regime has been defeated. and that therefore the revolution has succeeded. But the Assad regime is not the only state in play in Syria, right? So can you explain the Turkish antipathy to the project in North and East Syria and how that's manifesting itself currently?
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Yeah, I think we should probably mention that, I guess, if we talk about the electoral method or the electoral path, people in Turkish Kurdistan, in Northern Kurdistan, whatever you want to call it, in addition to the armed struggle, which has been there since 1984, they have also tried to vote and repeatedly seen their votes ignored or changed or their elected officials removed.
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This is within the last year. I'm not talking about back in the 80s and 90s. And like Turkey has been aggressively attacking any attempts at like self-determination within the country. And then, as you say, like militarily attacking the Kurdish freedom movement within North and East Syria.
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Do you want to talk about the Syrian National Army or the Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army, whatever you want to call them, and explain like... I think part of what we're dealing with is that Turkey has a very well-established state media project, and they seem to do very well at creating viral social media content.
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So people might not be fully familiar with who the SNA are and specifically Turkey's role in creating them. Do you want to explain that a bit to people?
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Right, and I think especially when some of the things the SNA have done, which we can maybe get into in Manbij, it gives them a deniability that wouldn't exist if that was regular soldiers doing that. Some stuff which is war crimes is, I guess, a nice way of saying it, like a more sanitized way of saying it, but horrific stuff, really terrible stuff.
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This has been happening since at least 2018, but Turkey doesn't have to be held accountable for that because, like you said, it's not the Turkish army. Do you want to explain how the situation in North Syria has changed since, when was it, like two weeks ago, a week ago?
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I guess that they moved south from Aleppo and the HTS largely with some support from SNA moved towards Damascus and then the SNA launched its own assault on the self-administration. Can you explain a little bit of what's happened there in terms of displacement and in terms of the terrain that the SNA have captured?
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Yeah, and stuff's coming out unofficially often that is just not true every five minutes and getting blasted by maybe people who just don't understand or who do understand but have a certain agenda to push on social media, especially, but on Telegram too. And it can be really confusing and it's really frustrating.
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Yeah, and you probably won't, and that's probably a good thing. One other thing is that, like, The SDF tends to have much better operational security discipline than the SNA does. So you won't see as much of media with an SDF spin or people directly streaming. I mean, one thing the SNA likes to do is a war crime and then post it on Telegram.
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And so it can be easy to only see that and be like, oh God, it's terrible. And it is terrible. Those things are horrific. But because you're not seeing when the SDF is making movements or making advances... until a bit later, until you get something from like an official press channel, it can give the impression that the SNA is just romping around, which is not the case.
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Yeah, and I think it's a super important time to be looking at trusted sources and be considering if you need to be on Telegram that much, something I have been considering this weekend. So let's talk about like right now, certainly the focus is on Kobani, right?
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But there's also, well, there's a lot of the self-administration that could potentially be under threat if Turkey decides to go as hard as it can against the self-administration, against the existence of Turkey. I guess, any form of democratic project in North and East Syria, attempts to kind of bring the whole thing under one government from Damascus.
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Can you explain what might happen, what people can do? And we should talk about what's at stake as well, especially with the prison at Al-Hol, which maybe we can come to after those two things, because I think that's a lot to ask you in one question. But maybe if people aren't familiar with Al-Hol, we'll leave that one.
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But can you explain at first what could potentially happen if Turkey decides to go as hard as it wants to here?
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Yeah, and I think what you were talking about, we're seeing it right now in Manbij, right? The SNA seems to largely be in control of the city, albeit with YPG fighters kind of more, I guess, in a guerrilla role. So it would seem still fighting there.
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But I believe we're on the second day of a general strike in Manbij, after less than a week of the SNA holding it because of looting and executions and other war crimes.
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Yeah, and I think everyone I spoke to there, there's a deeply held conviction that they're not going back. Some people who have seen first-hand the fascist violence of ISIS, and fascist is the right word, it's something maybe worse than fascism.
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Certainly speaking to women in Rojava about how they're not going back to the gendered violence that they experienced for decades, to include ISIS, but by no means only from ISIS. And
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I guess that kind of brings us on to, I wanted to talk a little bit about the situation in the parts of Syria that are controlled by HCS and in so much as they really are controlled, controlled is perhaps the wrong word, like they haven't fully established their state project yet, but they're certainly moving towards that.
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They've sort of captured the institutions of the state rather than destroyed them. You'd spoken about like, there's this very, I guess maybe I'll use an example. Sorry, I'm phrasing this question in a very meandering way. I saw this CNN clip where they're like, oh, we found a guy who's in this prison and he was stuck here. And the second part of this was not broadcast on CNN.
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This person turns out to be like an Air Force lieutenant who was in fact himself someone who tortured and killed civilians. Yeah. And like, there's this very liberatory, very excited messaging coming from media in the West, I guess, some of which is good, right? Like it's good that the Assad regime is good. Assad was fucking terrible and tortured and killed hundreds of thousands of his own people.
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But that doesn't mean that things are all perfect in Damascus. Do you want to talk a little bit about like some of the worrying stuff we've seen in the last few days from those areas?
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Yeah, it's... I don't know. Every day we get different information, right? But like, yeah, I don't know if concerned is the right word either. I don't quite know what the word is. But like, I'm worried, I guess. I'm worried that... I'm especially worried when like... rather than what we saw in the self-administration was not like a continuation of institutions, right?
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When the Assad regime left in 2011 and 2012 and areas that the regime or ISIS have left since then, like it wasn't like, okay, we'll take over these institutions, administer them differently. It was, we will build democracy from the bottom up. No, we'll just change the people in charge versus what it seems like we're now seeing for Damascus.
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It's like, hey, can the police from the Assad regime please stay at work, which is concerning. Talking of police, the last thing I wanted to address was the Al-Hol camp.
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I've spoken about it before on this show and people can look back on other episodes, but if you've not heard about it, can you explain briefly what Al-Hol is and then the massive risk that this Turkish-backed invasion poses to Al-Hol and other camps? I guess Al-Hol's not the only camp, just the biggest one.
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Yeah, it's shrunk, definitely. I'm not sure what it is exactly.
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No, those people probably have terrible experiences within that camp and they don't tend to be moderating and sort of pacifying experiences. And I'm sure that there'll be a lot of hate coming from there when those people come out. And I don't want to apportion blame too much, but we've had a long time to deal with this. The world's had a long time to deal with this.
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Yeah. And like, you've got Britain doing the opposite of what's helpful, which is fucking like removing people's passports, right? Like de-nationalizing them, leaving these people stateless and like saying it's not our problem, which is pathetic. And
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Yeah, and it's going to end up biting them in the ass because they've put this off and put this off and wouldn't spend the money to have justice, to go through a system and to have a chance to plead their cases, to have a tribunal, whatever it is. Instead, these people have just been essentially abandoned by most of the world.
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The self-administration has been forced to take care of the people who...
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did horrific things right there and yeah at some point this population will continue to grow if we don't keep removing people from it and that's going to be a problem for the whole world even if the whole world wants to pretend it's not happening right now and it is just endlessly frustrating to see it not even be covered let alone kind of addressed in in the west
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Yeah. And sadly, I don't see that changing given the incoming administration in the United States. It's deeply concerning. Deeply concerning is the wrong word. It's just fucked. I want to ask, people, I think, want to be in solidarity with the revolution. They want to help if they can. They want to support. I did a fundraiser last night. Thank you to everyone who gave their money and came.
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That was really nice. But What can people do to, you know, it's one thing to like be in solidarity or post or whatever, but like what concrete actions can they take to help?
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Yeah, I think like, I don't know, if I go back to when I moved to the US, which was 2008, George W. Bush was president. And like I had my little free Palestine badge when I got off the plane and my little keffiyeh and like was immediately sent to secondary inspection by the customs people because like that was not really...
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Of course, there were Palestinian people and people in solidarity with the people of Palestine in the US then, and there were for a long time before. But, like, I would never have imagined that I would see thousands of people in the streets for the Palestinian cause.
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And, like, the only thing that has materially held back the genocide of the Palestinian people has been the solidarity that they've experienced. And, like... That shows the power that people have, though obviously it's been able to do comparatively little, and Israel still seems to be killing little children every day.
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But it shows that we can build solidarity really quickly and really meaningfully. You don't have to go, but you can go. It's much harder to get to Palestine than it is to get to northern Syria. I went last year. And I think people who are already organizing can bring that into their organizing too. These things don't have to compete. There's a lot of solidarity to go around.
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But I would say a lot of the news we see, unfortunately, from Turkey, and that will unfortunately give you information that's extremely biased when it comes to Northeast Syria. So being conscious of your media consumption is very important.
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Yeah, I think that's really important too. And those are things maybe we'll cover in the future and there are plenty of good resources online. Are there any... resources you'd like to plug or like personal social medias, things you think people could follow to get good information on what's happening?
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Yeah, I think it's good to follow if you can. Thank you very much, Danny. What we're going to do now is I got some voice notes from some friends who are at the front with Atakosin Anasist, which means anarchist struggle in Kurdish. They're a group within the SDF that is an anarchist group that's there now.
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fighting, and in this case, actually doing frontline medical support on behalf of the self-administration, on behalf of the revolution. They sent me some notes this morning, it's Monday, today, from their positions on the frontline. So look, obviously, those notes will be a little bit, they'll be like 24 hours old by the time you hear them.
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But I still think it's very important to hear from people who are there when we can, not from like... someone who's supposedly an expert but hasn't set foot in Syria in 15 years and hasn't really talked to anyone who's Syrian either. So we'll drop those in after a little advertising break here. And with that, I will say thank you very much, Danny. Thanks for giving us your time.
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And we really appreciate all your insight today.
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Scooting forward in the pot. With like a giant penis fly trap costume on.
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Just thinking about a completely naked man in green potty paint. Like I'm trying to keep it together.
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Alright. Oh, Chet, Chet, I can't believe it's real, Chet. Oh my god, Chet. Wow, Chet, wow.
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Why'd you order me that? Turn to page eight. Got you. He's a sleeper agent, but we trained him wrong as a joke. Oh, that was a good bit.
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I gotta watch that movie again just to see if it's actually funny or if I was just really, really had terrible humor back then. I think it's funny.
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Kung Pao, Enter the Fist. Oh, I saw that one time ever. I mean, I don't think I've seen it that many times, but yeah.
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Pretty good, Ben. Hey, question, guys. Does it look like I'm wearing a jacket and no shirt?
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I know this one! Okay. Mark uttered first. I don't want to. He was so confident. Go ahead. All right, I'm going to say that because you started this off with some poop tangent, it's a fancy Scottish poop cutter.
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No, no, no. It's how they wipe. Oh, okay. When they're done, they just... Then they're clean. The blood will wipe it all away.
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yes was it still used for cutting anything oh it cut stuff okay cut stuff all right you could even say it shaved stuff but not in the way that i think wade is imagining that doesn't help yeah that doesn't help at all do you want to know the answer do you want to keep guessing we got a couple more guesses right mark yeah i got guesses yeah i got guesses all right it was meant for it was an early catalytic converter for cutting emissions
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I got it. I know what the answer is. So back in the early movie industry of the 1780s, they needed to cut footage, but it was, you know, film. So they had to have something that cut at 24 FPS. So they would crank it and it would chop, chop, chop, chop, chop, chop.
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noise which meant cut actually back in the 1780s uh well 1770s was a serious problem with cutting in line and there was no honor in it so they brought this out to cut whoever you were going to cut in line in half so it had to be a very it had to be urgent when people know that they got cut in half they're like oh well i guess he needed it and then they fall over and die
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But I just, I realized like I could technically just, I guess, show up in a jacket and no shirt and maybe no one would question it.
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Some guy saw that. Boy, that really ripped right through that lady.
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well those pesky child births after you've chainsawed chainsawed your way in there you gotta have something to catch it when it falls out so you just lay a bunch of bubble wrap on the ground and plop hopefully 200 years and 7 billion concussions later they were like ah this is what we need They just kept dropping it on the floor. They were like, it's good for him! It's good for him!
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It would be really funny if I secretly took it off. And then throughout the episode, I just started standing up on my toes.
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probably accidentally inventing something that's what that always makes no sense to me it's like what are you doing in your lab with like a hammer and plastic you're like tink tink tink ah shit a gun i mean i feel like
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Here's a conversation to have, because Wade, you don't like wallpaper? I actually am totally fine with wallpaper, because what I'm sick of is the hyper-modern, everything's a flat white wall. I mean, that's fair. There needs to be some texture. You can have wallpaper that's not like the super textured stuff. It could give like a subtle something to it.
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And right now, Amy's helping to fix up the new room, and it's like, she's going to put wallpaper on there.
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And it's a really nice texture. It's a really nice color. It's like, wow, you don't have to paint that. You just kind of slap it on, and it's even and done. You don't have to worry about perfectly evenly coating everything. It's like, that's kind of nice.
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Yeah, I know. I'm not talking about colors. I'm talking about texture.
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You're not- How often am I- I'm not touching my wall either! I don't know what you're doing, poop book guy! Maybe you see a good wall and you're like, I need to touch that! I'm gonna find this book, print out that page, get wallpaper made of it, and I'm gonna secretly go into your house and cover... I'm going to cover the outside with it.
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I think some people on the subreddit are going to back me up about this, but it's only going to be like two or three. They'll be like, no, I've seen this version of the book.
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There's a nice diagram that you can see about. It's mostly for set design, but it's for creating different space with just painted walls, where if you paint certain walls black and certain walls white or certain walls one color and then one complementary darker color, you can kind of shape the illusion of the space to have more depth or more height or shrink it down.
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It's just like it has a purpose Yeah. Why? Why? Why is it dumb and suck? That was for the watchers, not you. Don't look at me. You don't think I'm watching? Editors make my eyes really watchy.
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oh that's confident sometimes the baby's not ready to come out and you gotta find a way to plug them back up in there to make sure they're not coming out give them time to play in the womb Right? Yep, yep, yep, yep. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.
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That hurt my heart. I would have been like, oh, well, that's interesting, but I guess not.
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I'm thinking that it was probably a plumbing tool. In all honesty, it probably was something to help prevent leaks, insulate, kind of an early caulking, maybe.
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Perfect. That doesn't conflict at all. So this is when the theatrical version of The Simpsons first got on stage and they needed something to replicate Homer Simpson's skin tone and texture. So what they did was they made stuff for the play and Homer would then be able to say... No, no, that's stupid.
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With that guess, both of you are impressively close. Mark was close. Don't say about the childbirth. Don't.
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play-dohy looking gummies that reminded me of the soup drops that we talked about the soup losages those are not as bad as eating play-doh to me but yeah those are bad i you know there's so many different candy and snack manufacturers that can't get the collaboration thing right of like crossing into a different type of candy but for some reason it was totally unrelated but takis is really good at that and so takis is dead to me as we all know as we all sure sure for years yeah
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But they're so good at doing the collaboration. Like their popcorn was really good. They had some kind of crusted peanut thing that was really good, but can't eat them because, you know, Ethan has a exploding death disease. But how are they just going to? And how has no one working at Takis gotten me a bag of their fucking powder? How?
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I actually have no idea. These just look like coffee grinders, but that makes sense, I guess.
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But I guess that makes sense because for some reason I imagine it started as a powder, but I guess maybe it doesn't.
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All right, Wade, you and I both know what the answer is. We're not going to say it. We got to get our bullshit jokey answers out.
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Funny thing about a wart that I had a while ago, I had a wart during COVID, like it was on my thumb and it wasn't bothersome. Maybe I've had it longer. It's like a tiny little thing. With all of the hand sanitizer that I was using during COVID, especially on set. It just died. It died.
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It straight up just couldn't take it anymore because I had been drowning it in like high percentage alcohol multiple times a day. And I'm not saying this is a good therapy because it dries your hands out like crazy, but it didn't affect anything else, really. One day I looked down and I was like, oh, it's
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All right. Well, then babies need to get walking soon. So as soon as they're out of the womb, you know, after you've chainsawed and caught them on the bubble wrap, you just send them right on the treadmill and they get crawling or they get dying. You know, you want strong. Sparta, actually, this was invented in Sparta, right around the time they filmed the movie 300. Sure, sure.
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Got it. No, no, no, no. That's stupid. The real reason was when they made the Popemobile, the Pope got really mad because he couldn't move anywhere while he was moving. He was like, I'm moving, but I'm not moving. And so they gave him a treadmill so he could feel like he was walking so he didn't get confused as to why he was moving around and he wasn't moving.
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Alvin, Simon, and Theodore, whatever their names were. Yep, that was it. Scottish names, true and true. Alvin, Simon, and Theodore!
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No, it's for milling grain. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
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You know this one? I actually know this one. You know this one? I know this one. I really do. Wait, do you want to get any joke answers in before I...
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Anyway, what I think this is, I'm not remembering the details perfectly, but it was part of an advertisement campaign for some department store. They sent out in the mail coupon-like card things, and it was like, if you bring this into a store, this counts as a line of credit. It was an idea that wasn't really for a national system of
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Credit across the way, but it was something for specific one store did it for an advertising campaign and so many people brought it in and it was so incredibly popular that they were like, hey, wait a minute, maybe there's something to this.
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And then they started actually expanding the idea and then opening up real lines of credit because all it did was tied to like, this is your account and they would send it to someone and they individualized for that account. And then people were like, I've never heard of this concept before, but sure, I'll go and see if I can actually have free money. And it worked.
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Because if there's one thing drug dealers don't mind is people not paying immediately. They're cool with later.
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It clouds outside of a failover. Oh, I try so hard to be happy. I gotta keep up. I gotta keep moving. Kick open door.
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Obviously, I mean, it gets so personal with you, dude. You know, I just don't need anyone knowing that I poop. I just don't need people knowing that. I got a book I think you should read, Mark.
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There were a lot of opportunities. I just gotta remember him. I need someone to give me the wheel.
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Hi, merch. Coming soon. We have designs in the works. We have different blanks in. Actually, they're in. We're ready to rock for more merch coming at you real soon. Have a lovely time. Thank you for this victory.
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He's awesome. You know, at this point, after all this merch built up and we launch it and no one buys it, we'll just delete the podcast.
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Merch! You haven't heard the ticking of the clock this whole time? Merch!
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That book is fucking disgusting. That book is the grossest book I've ever seen in my goddamn life.
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That sounds worth it, probably. I have a question. Because I just looked up the book Everybody Poops, expecting to find the page that I saw in a store one day. Sure. And I'm not seeing it. What book did I see that was like a madman scrawling of a bunch of animals and then poop literally filling every single square inch of the page? Is that not that book?
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Fetish section? No, this was not that. It was awful. It was just like there was animals everywhere, and there was just...
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brown scrawled everywhere and i'm like this is a horrible book but everyone says it's saw this is a book my kids learned how to poop and i look at it i'm like this is a nightmare what in the world is this i think it was in barnes and nobles what book did i see i don't know but i would i would love for you to retrace those steps and try and find it
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okay let's see i'll i'll torture chat gpt with this question this is this is the kind of thing you should ask all right am i crazy stop there man the answer is obvious oh you guys carry out i'm gonna i'm gonna ask about this yeah bob get a wizenator that way you don't have to like it's it's probably less awkward that sounds like it will definitely not cause problems or confuse him or scar him for life yeah
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No, it's, okay, so there's one that you know of that's made by Taro Gomi with like four squares on the front. Is that the book you have? That sounds right. Four squares, like a horse and a kid and a duck and an apple, right? Sure, yeah, yeah, yeah. There's another book called Everybody Poops by Justine Avery with a bunch of people on the front. And all of them say, I do, I do, I do, I do.
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And I can't find an interior page of this book, but I bet. Have it delivered. I'm not going to buy it.
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There's a coloring book version of it. Comes with one color crayon.
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You wouldn't think that if you've heard like, yeah, this is a great book for kids to learn how to poop, and I'm like, is it? This looks weird. Flip it open. Ha! Slam it closed. What do you do in a bookstore?
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Look, if you saw this cover, you might also be like, that's kind of weird. Peek.
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It was. It was. But the thing is, I can't find anything on Google that shows any interior of that book. There is nothing.
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No, there's a bookstore out here. If he were in lovely Los Angeles in Glendale, which is not actually, I don't know if they're part of Los Angeles. I have no idea. Glendale has a Barnes and Noble in there. What's called the Americana.
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There's a very simple way to solve it. I just Googled it. No, that sounds stupid. This is how we got in the didn't mention jungle gyms problem because we didn't actually look up anything. It's a Barnes & Noble in Kenwood. That's like 40 minutes away from me. Actually, it moved. It was in the other building.
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because it's such a cluster it's that parking lot is such a nightmare you're underselling how annoying it is to go in and out of that place it's so awful it is terrible i mean it just doesn't make any sense because they have like parking structures with multiple levels if they just took another one of those big flat lots and just put a parking garage in there problem solved you mean room for expansion more shopping i think what i heard mark say was 15 more storefronts
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Books are somewhere there. Books. This guy. Someone on the server is being like, no, I've seen this book. It's a plant. Someone puts it in bookstores. Because what else would have been? It's so burned into my brain of being like, how would anyone give this to their child?
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I'm not going to subscribe to the idea that it's such an offbeat, weird thing to look at a book and pick it up. I'm not going to buy this. You're not going to make this a weird trait. This is a perfectly normal thing. You don't have to have some spiral hypnotizing cover to be like... I just love the idea that Mark is a sleeper agent and his trigger word is...
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If you see the M's and the yellow lines, they want you to drive down the road and know you're headed toward McDonald's breakfast.
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Do you want to tell us what you've been seeing? Huh? It's actually pronounced DRAC. Uh, the neighbors and I, one of the things we haven't noticed is that the paint prices have gone up dramatically since the roads have been painted in such a way. Wait, you said Pennsylvania, not Pennsylvania. Oh, man.
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When I said that name, did you guys have any idea what was coming?
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I sympathize with the police chief. Because sometimes when things are hard, shit gets real.
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You simply said forget about it. Can I get a couple words from you? No, forget about it. New Jersey, number one. You kind of sound like Brooklyn and Barney had a baby. That's us here in New Jersey. Thank you for your time. That's all I could get out of him. I'm sorry. Uh-huh.
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It's like the fucking Ghostbusters after the Marshmallow Man explosion.
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Uh, what's your name, sir? Mr. Potato Head. Mr. Head, can you tell us what's been going on? It's been terrible. My little spuds have seen things they shouldn't be seeing anywhere and everywhere. Their boobs out, balls out, all kinds of things. It's been incredibly painful, especially for me and my wife. We've had to keep our eyes peeled to see the things going on around here.
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Did you just say peeled because it was a pun? No. You heard it here first. They've had to keep their eyes peeled to make sure that their little spuds aren't seeing the terrible things going on in Idaho.
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You texted me. I was texting Jesse. Like, we had like this, we're getting older friend moment where we're all like, this wind is crazy.
IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
IMO Live at SXSW: Combatting Hopelessness with Dr. Laurie Santos
All right. I'm standing. All right, James. All right. Brave man. Hey, so excited to be here. My question is, I'm 28 and I live in L.A. The fires impacted people close to me, and it feels like that's only going to become more frequent. And everything that's been happening politically, domestically, and globally, it feels like a version of the world is ending.
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IMO Live at SXSW: Combatting Hopelessness with Dr. Laurie Santos
And when I talk to friends, they say this is the new normal, and my immediate instinct is to push back. You know, we can't accept this. But personally, living with the inevitability of it, it also forces me to rethink what I always assumed adulthood would look like. buying a house, starting a family.
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So my question is, do you have any advice on how to plan for a future that feels so different from the one we were promised without becoming apathetic or just resigning yourself to things getting worse? Thanks so much. Thank you, James.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 554 - Shane's Steak and Beanz
I can't do it. I can't do it with you, Shane. I thought he was drinking two beers a night and practicing.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 554 - Shane's Steak and Beanz
And he's like, I just can't. And I don't want to bring you down. I know you're going to have fun on the trip.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 554 - Shane's Steak and Beanz
Should it be the course layout that's a bit of a dog leg to the right?
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 554 - Shane's Steak and Beanz
I'm going to write eight short stories of just one guy.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 550 - Blazer Tag
There was a corner in the top, and if you try and shoot across the whole arena, it looks like you're shooting somebody, but then you don't actually get to tag them. And I asked the guy that who's asked Bubbles, and he said a lot of top professional players do notice that. It felt pretty good. A lot of professionals. He said there's two lasers.
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Ep 550 - Blazer Tag
There's an invisible laser that does the hitting, and it doesn't work at distance. So where you two were, if you're shooting people on the other side, you're not getting points for it. That's why you sent the laser in. I was wondering.
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Ep 550 - Blazer Tag
Yeah, I cheated. I did not cheat one time. You do have that dork scamper, though. You run around.
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Ep 550 - Blazer Tag
It's a beautiful movement. It pays off. Happy with a strong second. There's daylight between the two of us. And I didn't cheat. Second, third, whatever. I guess we'll see.
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Ep 550 - Blazer Tag
we had DeRosa in there it was a good squad everyone else was laughing and having a good time I was so sad James took it to heart I took it to heart and then I spoke to the director came up afterwards I said I was devastated and he was so happy really I said your comedy made me very upset and he was like oh yeah good he was really pleased he liked that it's a very it's like a very A24 drama yeah
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 550 - Blazer Tag
I might be oversensitive. I feel I have milder PTSD after doing the shooting. After being in that room with the light, there was so much killing. There was like seven minutes there where I was like... So I might just be experiencing everything in a sensitive way. No, you were sensitive yesterday.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 550 - Blazer Tag
Yeah. That's all right. And 11 is going to be really rough. It's going to be... Maybe we'll do it, though. Maybe it'll be ours. He's a downer.
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Ep 550 - Blazer Tag
I could say I saw James on the ground the whole time.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 550 - Blazer Tag
Dochi. Bit of a diva. Dochi's? Chaperone is diva number one currently for sure. What? Chaperone is dominating...
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Ep 550 - Blazer Tag
It's Chapel Rowan, no. You don't like it? Why does this do that to us?
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 550 - Blazer Tag
I think Chapel Rowan is a very sexually appealing... She is.
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Ep 550 - Blazer Tag
I think he, yeah. Yeah, he refuses to put the dress on unless someone pays him money. That's the thing. He'll go on late night talk shows and they'll go, where's the woman outfit? And he goes, pay me. If you want me to wear a dress, you've got to pay me.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 550 - Blazer Tag
What is it, John? You're in one what? In one of those beefs. Why? What happened? Yeah, so I did a joke during COVID. It was the first time I'd done it. It's like a fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, shame on you. And it just goes on. And people came and they said, this is a David Cross bit, which I didn't know. He has the same premise and then it goes in another direction.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 550 - Blazer Tag
And I felt bad about that. But what made me feel a lot better is there's a guy who I'd never heard of who's from LA, who's been doing comedy for 30 years. And he's like, in 1994, that was my joke. And he goes, this Australian and David Cross is stealing my act. It made me feel so much more relaxed about doing the same bit. It's crazy.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 550 - Blazer Tag
You need one more after that. I was fucking furious.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 550 - Blazer Tag
What was your, what was your strategy? Drag me down to your filthy level. You did not cheat. I did not. There was no cheating. There's no honor in that. So what's your strat?
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 550 - Blazer Tag
This is what I figured out. I didn't realize that this was happening, but I've got a very high kill rate as well as a very high death rate. So you get 25 points for killing somebody, but you only lose five when you are killed yourself. So if you get out there and you can take it, even sometimes you'll shoot each other at the same time when you're coming back from a charge. You get 25, yeah.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 550 - Blazer Tag
You still get the extra points. So I think you've got to live reckless out there. You've got to go wild. You've got to get into full blood. Don't be scared to get shot. Don't be scared. It's the opposite of real war. Yeah, let's change that. I want it inverted. That would be nice. That would be a better game play.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 550 - Blazer Tag
Oh boy. When you're out there about five minutes in, it's nice. I was screaming. If I hit somebody back, fuck you.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Ep 550 - Blazer Tag
I didn't know we were filming the laser tag today.
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Ep 550 - Blazer Tag
Thanks for coming, James. It's good to have you. I'm focused.
The Dr. John Delony Show
I’m Shocked by My Husband’s Confession
I'm so used to hearing your voice on the show, I'm going to have to remind myself to actually respond to you when you say something.
The Dr. John Delony Show
I’m Shocked by My Husband’s Confession
Well, I'll go ahead and start off by saying that I love my wife. She's usually a very kind, loving person. And to use your phrasing, and she is also a very critical person by nature.
The Dr. John Delony Show
I’m Shocked by My Husband’s Confession
And the way she critiques me sometimes makes me feel like they're personal attacks, which oftentimes makes me start questioning my own value and worth. So specifically, about a month ago, she went off on me for not immediately doing the dishes after putting our kids down for the night. As I started doing them, she reminded me that she shouldn't have to keep reminding me to do them.
The Dr. John Delony Show
I’m Shocked by My Husband’s Confession
Later that night, she got upset with me for throwing some dirty clothes into the washer when it already had clean clothes in it. I didn't realize that. I asked her for some understanding that I was just trying to do the right thing, but she told me I was only half-assing chores.
The Dr. John Delony Show
I’m Shocked by My Husband’s Confession
I apologized for not seeming to be able to do the chores right, but she got even more upset with me, saying she's tired of me not valuing myself. So my question is, how do I work to value myself more despite her constant critiquing?
The Dr. John Delony Show
I’m Shocked by My Husband’s Confession
About as long as we've been married, about eight years.
The Dr. John Delony Show
I’m Shocked by My Husband’s Confession
It's definitely a two-way road. Yes, I can be absent-minded. When I get home at the end of the day, I've got a pretty demanding job. Oftentimes, I'll get home and my mind is just somewhere else. Uh, yeah, sometimes she, she does have to kind of bring me back or, uh, as you've mentioned on the show before, uh, sometimes I just, I don't see the things that she sees.
The Dr. John Delony Show
I’m Shocked by My Husband’s Confession
See, I don't, I don't think that's the case. Uh, I mean, we most of the time have a really good relationship where we are friends and, It's just, it's kind of these cycles that just spin up every once in a while. And they're definitely, they definitely come up more when we're in a stressful time in life.
The Dr. John Delony Show
I’m Shocked by My Husband’s Confession
I've brought it up, and I try to... Take your advice and do it when it's not, you know, when we're not in the middle of it. And she'll, you know, she usually admits to it and says, you know, I'll try to be more understanding. And usually is for a period of time. And then after, you know, a few months or so, it'll spin back up again. Okay.
The Dr. John Delony Show
I’m Shocked by My Husband’s Confession
No, I mean, when she asked me to do something, I always do it.
The Dr. John Delony Show
I’m Shocked by My Husband’s Confession
You're getting a lot of silence from me because I'm just, I'm just kind of thinking through.
The Dr. John Delony Show
I’m Shocked by My Husband’s Confession
I think just that it won't make a difference. It won't end. And just kind of where my mind goes is, is this just the life I've chosen forever?
The Dr. John Delony Show
I’m Shocked by My Husband’s Confession
I think just curling up in the corner with a book. That's her favorite thing to do, and I know that with the kids, she doesn't usually get to do that.
The Dr. John Delony Show
I’m Shocked by My Husband’s Confession
Probably just traveling or going to someplace new and exploring.
The Dr. John Delony Show
I’m Shocked by My Husband’s Confession
Yeah, that's what I'm afraid of too.
The Dr. John Delony Show
I’m Shocked by My Husband’s Confession
Uh, we're certainly in a season right now with, uh, with young kids and particularly, uh, demanding jobs. So if I'm being honest, like at this moment, no, but it's not, I don't think it's a permanent state.
The Dr. John Delony Show
Dad Slept With My Wife’s Mom (It Ruined Everything)
Yeah, that's really true because one of the things I was going to mention is, you know, growing up, my dad was kind of my coach. You know, he would always coach me in basketball or whatever it was. And, you know, he would always tell me growing up, you know, hey, don't ever quit. You know, don't ever give up. And I actually confronted him on that when this was all going down.
The Dr. John Delony Show
Dad Slept With My Wife’s Mom (It Ruined Everything)
I said, hey, growing up, you kind of told me, hey, I'm not ever to quit. I guess that only applied to me. You know what I mean? And those are the hard things to your point. that I've had to deal with of kind of going back and kind of replaying things over and over. You know what I mean?
The Dr. John Delony Show
Dad Slept With My Wife’s Mom (It Ruined Everything)
Yep, yep. We're kind of that couple that, you know, we kind of have that nervous laughter going anytime something crazy happens, you know?
The Dr. John Delony Show
Dad Slept With My Wife’s Mom (It Ruined Everything)
Okay. So my wife and I have known each other for about seven years. You know, we started out as kind of casual acquaintances. We, we met at the church that I grew up at and, So we met through church and then about four years ago, we had a family member of mine pass away unexpectedly. And, you know, it was kind of a big shock. And so my wife at the time, of course, we were just friends.
The Dr. John Delony Show
Dad Slept With My Wife’s Mom (It Ruined Everything)
You know, she was at the funeral. And to me, that meant the world because it was, you know, she didn't actually know my family member. She just was there because she knew I was hurting, you know. So what that made me do is, you know, the wheel started kind of turning that
The Dr. John Delony Show
Dad Slept With My Wife’s Mom (It Ruined Everything)
you know, Hey, if she's there for me in my low moments and we're just friends, you know, how much more is she going to be there for me in the hard times if we're together? You know what I mean?
The Dr. John Delony Show
Dad Slept With My Wife’s Mom (It Ruined Everything)
Yeah. So, so, you know, and, and, uh, that proved to be a little bit of an understatement, um, as the next couple of years unfolded. But, um, um, So basically, you know, as we fast forward a few months, my dad was volunteering at that church that I grew up at, and her mom got a job there. So she, you know, became employed. And so, you know, the next few months went really well.
The Dr. John Delony Show
Dad Slept With My Wife’s Mom (It Ruined Everything)
You know, my wife and I had, you know, a really, really great relationship. You know, everything was, and we still have a really great relationship. But, you know, as time kind of went on, we started kind of noticing. Well, hold on. When did y'all get married? So we got married, uh, we got married about a year and a half ago. Okay. All right.
The Dr. John Delony Show
Dad Slept With My Wife’s Mom (It Ruined Everything)
So we dated for about a year and a half. We were dating for about a year and a half when all this kind of went down.
The Dr. John Delony Show
Dad Slept With My Wife’s Mom (It Ruined Everything)
Yeah. So we're, so about a year and a half into us dating, you know, they, they, their relationship, you know, they, meaning my dad, her mom kind of got real close. And so we all kind of started noticing something was off. Uh, and so they, at one point came to us and literally kind of told us point blank, you know, without even trying to conceal it, you know, Hey, here's what's going on.
The Dr. John Delony Show
Dad Slept With My Wife’s Mom (It Ruined Everything)
And at first it was just what in the world, you know, like this is totally just you know, it's kind of like a middle finger to us a little bit, you know, um, this one, this is the double bird.
The Dr. John Delony Show
Dad Slept With My Wife’s Mom (It Ruined Everything)
It was, it started out emotional. Uh, and it was more kind of presented to us as, Hey, here's the feelings that we have, you know? Uh, and then, uh, You know, that only lasted probably about two months or so. It eventually escalated into more than just the emotional.
The Dr. John Delony Show
Dad Slept With My Wife’s Mom (It Ruined Everything)
And then it came to a point where, you know, her mom was just overcome with, you know, guilt and regret for what, you know, they kind of put everyone through. And so her mom is the one that called it off and abruptly said, this is it not happening anymore.
The Dr. John Delony Show
Dad Slept With My Wife’s Mom (It Ruined Everything)
No, they both left. They were both let go.
The Dr. John Delony Show
Dad Slept With My Wife’s Mom (It Ruined Everything)
So they're not sticking around, no. So she left. This is all kind of within the last couple months, but my mom's on the out.
The Dr. John Delony Show
Dad Slept With My Wife’s Mom (It Ruined Everything)
Yep. Trust me, man. Like I said, we kind of laughed through the hard times, so we were kind of making jokes about how, you know, we were kind of like stepbrother and sister, you know? Yeah, dude. You got to, man. You got to laugh through it, I guess, you know?
The Dr. John Delony Show
Dad Slept With My Wife’s Mom (It Ruined Everything)
Yeah. So where we're at now is, you know, kind of when everything was kind of going on, that's when our relationship, of course, started coming under the microscope and people were starting to say, you know, I had family members kind of saying, Hey, you know, why are you bringing Lily around the house? It's disrespectful to mom.
The Dr. John Delony Show
Dad Slept With My Wife’s Mom (It Ruined Everything)
And, you know, I had one of my longtime friends texted me when, you know, when they found out that we were getting married and choosing to start our lives together, you know, the text that I got was that, James, you're being selfish and You know, you need to take some time to really think about what you're doing.
The Dr. John Delony Show
Dad Slept With My Wife’s Mom (It Ruined Everything)
How can we choose joy over resentment after my father's affair with my wife's mother has complicated our relationships? Wow. Is your dad married at the time?
The Dr. John Delony Show
Dad Slept With My Wife’s Mom (It Ruined Everything)
And, you know, I'm totally cool with it, man, because I will defend my wife to the end of the earth. You know, I will defend our relationship to the end of the earth. So I learned that kind of the hard way that, hey, I've never been more sure. We've never been more sure about anything in our lives than us starting our lives together and getting married.
The Dr. John Delony Show
Dad Slept With My Wife’s Mom (It Ruined Everything)
So kind of where that brings us to today and where we would like some assistance is getting We're kind of in that mid-20s age range where a lot of our friends are getting married. My sibling just got married a couple months ago, and seeing how the families kind of interact with each other and the mother-son dance and all of that.
The Dr. John Delony Show
Dad Slept With My Wife’s Mom (It Ruined Everything)
you know, we can't kind of help, but feel a little bit resentful, you know, toward, we kind of, you know, weren't able to have that and haven't had that yet, I should say. So just trying to figure out like, what are the actionable items that we can take to, you know, maybe conversations that we need to have or that sort of thing to try to, you know, build what we can, you know?
The Dr. John Delony Show
Dad Slept With My Wife’s Mom (It Ruined Everything)
Yeah. So that's part of it. So she, their relationship has really grown, let's say over the last year and a half since all this went down. Amazing. Which, you know, thank God for, for sure. You know, um, a lot of like kind of when all was going down, there were times where, you know, I, I would say things to my family, like, Hey,
The Dr. John Delony Show
Dad Slept With My Wife’s Mom (It Ruined Everything)
feel like you guys like her she doesn't feel accepted by you guys and kind of the answer that I got back was well I see why she'd feel that way you know what I mean and it was kind of well you know I would think it'd be more of a no why would she think that you know that sort of thing but they have grown a lot like let's say over the last few months well I'll give them credit they were like no no no we're actively excluding her of course she feels that way right so at least they didn't try to gaslight you make you feel crazy Lily is it weird being around his mom
The Dr. John Delony Show
Dad Slept With My Wife’s Mom (It Ruined Everything)
Go for it. What's up? So our question, I'll start with our question and then just kind of give you some backstory. So our question is, how can we choose joy over resentment after my father's affair with my wife's mother has complicated our relationships?
The Dr. John Delony Show
Dad Slept With My Wife’s Mom (It Ruined Everything)
Yeah. Well, that's part of the irony too, Dr. John, is when it was all kind of happening, my mom kind of shared with me that she kind of went to therapy and the person that she was talking with kind of told her, hey, well, the good news is you're not going to ever have to see her again. And I was kind of like... Listen, doctor, you're the doctor here.
The Dr. John Delony Show
Dad Slept With My Wife’s Mom (It Ruined Everything)
I'm not a psychology expert whatsoever, but I'm telling you right now, that was probably not the best advice.
The Dr. John Delony Show
How Do I Tell My Wife to Get off Her Phone?
Hey, John. What's up, dude? Thank you for taking... Nothing much. Thanks for taking my call. I'm stoked to talk to you.
The Dr. John Delony Show
How Do I Tell My Wife to Get off Her Phone?
That makes me happy. What's up? You know it. Hey, my question today is, how do I address hesitations about marriage due to my girlfriend's plans and some financial concerns?
The Dr. John Delony Show
How Do I Tell My Wife to Get off Her Phone?
Absolutely. And I want to preface this by saying we have a great relationship and I absolutely want to marry her. But I've also noticed that I've been internally wrestling with two hurdles that I can tell are keeping me from saying, all right, let's do this thing. So the hurdle one is she wants to move states away from my family.
The Dr. John Delony Show
How Do I Tell My Wife to Get off Her Phone?
And I also would rather live in a different state, but I haven't fully accepted the reality of raising my kids away from my parents. And I just want my parents to be involved in my childhood or my kids' childhood. And then hurdle two is, is her mother is going to need assistance. And my girlfriend wants to be a stay-at-home mom.
The Dr. John Delony Show
How Do I Tell My Wife to Get off Her Phone?
And I'm concerned with raising a family on a single income with the potential of also supporting my future mother-in-law. And I currently make a good salary, but I just feel like it's not enough. And like you said on ownership, I've I'm just wondering if I'm holding on to not stepping up and owning these things and just saying, babe, I love you.
The Dr. John Delony Show
How Do I Tell My Wife to Get off Her Phone?
I'm going to go through life with you and we're going to figure everything out along the way.
The Dr. John Delony Show
How Do I Tell My Wife to Get off Her Phone?
Yes. she, she does have, um, she's had a lot of hardships and still is having, um, health issues and currently has someone help her out throughout the week. But, um, I guess I'm concerned, like I'm a little stressed about being a single income home.
The Dr. John Delony Show
How Do I Tell My Wife to Get off Her Phone?
I know that she gets assistance through the government right now.
The Dr. John Delony Show
How Do I Tell My Wife to Get off Her Phone?
That's beautiful. And she's the type of girl that will do that. She'll do that with me and I'll do that with her.
The Dr. John Delony Show
How Do I Tell My Wife to Get off Her Phone?
Yeah. And I can feel that that's a pain point for me right now. But when I go back to that 30,000 foot view, like you said, like she's the one that I want to go through life with.
The Dr. John Delony Show
How Do I Tell My Wife to Get off Her Phone?
I think right now I see my sister with her kids and my parents. And I see that picture that I had in my mind. And it's just tough for me, you know, like when I grew up, we were at my grandparents all the time and running around in the cul-de-sac and it's tough to, I guess, remove that, you know, from my future kids.
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Make Your Offer So Good They Feel Dumb Saying No | Ep 884
Are you asking me that? That's an excellent question. So architects will typically in a plans, like if they make a set of plans, they'll specify what kind of tiles to use and what kind of windows to use, et cetera. So we've gotten plans in the past where it's like it's got the pictures from the website with the CAD drawings and everything on the plans.
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Make Your Offer So Good They Feel Dumb Saying No | Ep 884
And so it's like how to persuade them to do that kind of in absentia. And I should also note that we ship nationwide. So this is not like... Are you shipping?
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Make Your Offer So Good They Feel Dumb Saying No | Ep 884
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Make Your Offer So Good They Feel Dumb Saying No | Ep 884
No, we haven't done it. You just ship product.
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Make Your Offer So Good They Feel Dumb Saying No | Ep 884
Right. It's primarily homeowners. We've done some commercial work, you know, but it's primarily homeowners who are, you know, looking for something different. And so it's very, what I call intentional inbound search. It's like, they're looking for something, they're deliberately searching it out. They find it, you know, we have a lead magnet kind of, which is like 250. That's, you know, yeah. Yeah.
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Make Your Offer So Good They Feel Dumb Saying No | Ep 884
Like the final decision maker? It's going to be the homeowner, whoever's doing the project.
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Make Your Offer So Good They Feel Dumb Saying No | Ep 884
Hey, Alex. Thanks for everything that you've done. I'm James. I sell custom branch railings to homeowners. We did 420 or so last year. I've read 10X is greater than 2X. And so last night it was coming to me again, like, do I really just want to double or do I want to try to 10X?
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Make Your Offer So Good They Feel Dumb Saying No | Ep 884
The architects have the ability to specify it and to put it in front of the client. So like we also did another one, which was about 60,000 for a guy that was doing a development of Airbnbs in Virginia. He put up like six year kind of things. Yeah. And you know, so I had to be very.
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Make Your Offer So Good They Feel Dumb Saying No | Ep 884
The one was an architect and the other was a construction company.
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Make Your Offer So Good They Feel Dumb Saying No | Ep 884
You mean bringing a sales team in house?
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Make Your Offer So Good They Feel Dumb Saying No | Ep 884
Why does it have to be long term?
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Make Your Offer So Good They Feel Dumb Saying No | Ep 884
Like I don't think so. Like maybe some kind of contractors or architect discount?
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Make Your Offer So Good They Feel Dumb Saying No | Ep 884
And so what I want to try to do is to develop a network of product specifiers, architects, designers, contractors that can act kind of like a referral network. I want to shift away from the minnows. And to focus more on whales, we had one client last year, about $50,000 worth of handrails. And if I could get 10 of those in a year, then I would double revenue just with 10 clients.
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Make Your Offer So Good They Feel Dumb Saying No | Ep 884
I'm not entirely sure. Like people would order the entire project.
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Make Your Offer So Good They Feel Dumb Saying No | Ep 884
So should I then in turn raise prices for direct to consumer?
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Make Your Offer So Good They Feel Dumb Saying No | Ep 884
So kind of what are my best strategies to go about achieving that?
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Make Your Offer So Good They Feel Dumb Saying No | Ep 884
He found me. It's all inbound. It's all through search.
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Make Your Offer So Good They Feel Dumb Saying No | Ep 884
I just started Facebook ads about three or four weeks ago. They're going pretty good, qualified about half of the leads so far.
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Take The High Leverage Opportunities | Ep 833
I'm James. I sell custom branch railings to homeowners. We did 420 or so last year. I've read 10X is greater than 2X. And so last night it was coming to me again, like, do I really just want to double or do I want to try the 10X? And so what... I want to try to do is to develop a network of product specifiers, architects, designers, contractors that can act kind of like a referral network.
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Take The High Leverage Opportunities | Ep 833
I want to shift away from the minnows and to focus more on whales. We had one client last year, about $50,000 worth of handrails. And if I could get 10 of those in a year, then I would double revenue just with 10 clients. So kind of what are my best strategies to go about achieving that?
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Take The High Leverage Opportunities | Ep 833
He found me. It's all inbound. It's all through search.
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Take The High Leverage Opportunities | Ep 833
I just started Facebook ads about three or four weeks ago. They're going pretty good, qualified about half of the leads so far.
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Take The High Leverage Opportunities | Ep 833
you asking me that that's an excellent question okay so architects will typically in a plans like if they make a set of plans they'll specify what kind of tiles to use and what kind of windows to use etc so i've we've gotten plans in the past where it's like it's got the pictures from the website with the cat drawings and everything on the plans and so it's like how to persuade them to do that kind of in absentia and i should also note that we ship nationwide so this is not like
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Take The High Leverage Opportunities | Ep 833
you know, a hyper-local market.
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Take The High Leverage Opportunities | Ep 833
No, we haven't done an install.
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Take The High Leverage Opportunities | Ep 833
Right, it's primarily homeowners. We've done some commercial work, you know, but it's primarily homeowners who are, you know, looking for something different. And so it's very, what I call intentional inbound search. It's like they're looking for something. They are deliberately searching it out. They find it, you know, we have a lead magnet kind of, which is like 250,000 ideas.
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Take The High Leverage Opportunities | Ep 833
It's SEO and I, you know, yeah.
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Take The High Leverage Opportunities | Ep 833
Like the final decision maker is going to be, it's going to be the homeowner, whoever's doing the project.
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Take The High Leverage Opportunities | Ep 833
The architects have the ability to specify it and to put it in front of the client. So like we also did another one which was about $60,000 for a guy that was doing a development of Airbnbs in Virginia. He put up like six yurt kind of things. And, you know, so I had two very big... So both of them were architects that sent you these?
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Take The High Leverage Opportunities | Ep 833
The one was an architect and the other was a construction company.
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Take The High Leverage Opportunities | Ep 833
100%, like I don't think so. Like maybe some kind of contractors or architect discount?
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Take The High Leverage Opportunities | Ep 833
I'm not entirely sure. Like people would order the entire project. So it's not like you can just, like I can't just ship you a sample and be like, hey, look, here's a- Yeah, then you're going to have to do the commission-based structure, which is not my favorite.
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Take The High Leverage Opportunities | Ep 833
So should I then in turn raise prices for direct-to-consumer?
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Transitioning From Dying Business Models | Ep 853
And I should also note that we ship nationwide. So this is not like... You know, a hyper-local market. Are you shipping?
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Transitioning From Dying Business Models | Ep 853
You just actually... We just ship product.
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Transitioning From Dying Business Models | Ep 853
Right, it's primarily homeowners. We've done some commercial work, you know, but it's primarily homeowners who are, you know, looking for something different. And so it's very, what I call intentional inbound search. It's like they're looking for something. They are deliberately searching it out. They find it, you know, we have a lead magnet kind of, which is like 250,000 ideas.
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Transitioning From Dying Business Models | Ep 853
It's SEO, and I'm, you know, yeah.
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Transitioning From Dying Business Models | Ep 853
Like the final decision maker. It's going to be the homeowner, whoever's doing the project.
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Transitioning From Dying Business Models | Ep 853
The architects have the ability to specify it and to put it in front of the client. So like we also did another one, which was about sixty thousand for a guy that was doing a development of Airbnbs in Virginia. He put up like six year kind of things. Yeah. And, you know, so I had to be very.
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Transitioning From Dying Business Models | Ep 853
The one was an architect and the other was a construction company.
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Transitioning From Dying Business Models | Ep 853
100%, like I don't think so. Like maybe some kind of contractors or architect discount.
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Transitioning From Dying Business Models | Ep 853
I'm not entirely sure. People would order the entire project. So it's not like you can just, like I can't just ship you a sample and be like, hey, look, here's a- Yeah, then you're gonna have to do the commission-based structure, which is not my favorite.
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Transitioning From Dying Business Models | Ep 853
So should I then in turn raise prices for direct-to-consumer?
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Transitioning From Dying Business Models | Ep 853
Hey Alex, thanks for everything that you've done. I'm James, I sell custom branch railings to homeowners. We did 420 or so last year. I've read 10X is greater than 2X, and so last night it was coming to me again, like do I really just want to double or do I want to try the 10X?
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Transitioning From Dying Business Models | Ep 853
And so what I want to try to do is to develop a network of product specifiers, architects, designers, contractors, that can act kind of like a referral network. I want to shift away from the minnows and to focus more on whales. We had one client last year, about $50,000 worth of handrails, And if I could get 10 of those in a year, then I would double revenue just with 10 clients.
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Transitioning From Dying Business Models | Ep 853
So kind of what are my best strategies to go about achieving that?
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Transitioning From Dying Business Models | Ep 853
He found me. It's all inbound. It's all through search.
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Transitioning From Dying Business Models | Ep 853
SEO. I just started Facebook ads about three or four weeks ago. They're going pretty good, qualified about half of the leads so far.
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Transitioning From Dying Business Models | Ep 853
Are you asking me that? That's an excellent question.
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Transitioning From Dying Business Models | Ep 853
So architects will typically in a plans, like if they make a set of plans, they'll specify what kind of tiles to use and what kind of windows to use, et cetera. So we've gotten plans in the past where it's like it's got the pictures from the website with the CAD drawings and everything on the plans. And so it's like how to persuade them to do that kind of in absentia.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
39: The Reigate Summer Festival, Wrayfest, and remembering a well-known Redhill and Reigate shopkeeper... and more
I'm part of the Friends of Ray Common Committee, and what we did last year was we created this incredible event called the Rayfest. It was such a success that we are doing it again this summer, 6th July. We've got this massive playground here and the lovely field, and we're going to fill that with about 1,500 people. We've got a stage, a main stage. We have live bands. We've got live music.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
39: The Reigate Summer Festival, Wrayfest, and remembering a well-known Redhill and Reigate shopkeeper... and more
We get the school involved, which is a really big part of the Rayfest, is to get many of the children performing. We've got choirs. We've got dancers. We've got cheerleading. We've got, like I say, live music, bands. Local vendors from the area come down, selling loads of great food. We have pizzas last year. We've got curries. We've got Joe's Diner this year, which we're really excited about.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
39: The Reigate Summer Festival, Wrayfest, and remembering a well-known Redhill and Reigate shopkeeper... and more
Our makers market, so that's celebrating anybody who wants to sell anything, basically. Those kind of arts and crafts. Yeah, we've got, I think this year the Bats Hill Gin guys are coming down. Well, that's going to be a draw, isn't it? Exactly, yeah. And we've got jewellery makers, fashion, we've got all kinds of stuff going on there.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
39: The Reigate Summer Festival, Wrayfest, and remembering a well-known Redhill and Reigate shopkeeper... and more
Then we have our kind of like fun zone, which is where we raise loads of money. And the classic games of Splat the Rats and Huck the Duck, you know, all that stuff for the kids. And they love that. We've got inflatables. We've got chill out zone, which is going to be really exciting. We've got crafting going on over there. We've got tug of war. I can't. There's so much stuff going on.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
39: The Reigate Summer Festival, Wrayfest, and remembering a well-known Redhill and Reigate shopkeeper... and more
It's amazing. And you're going on and on and on, which is absolutely fantastic.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
39: The Reigate Summer Festival, Wrayfest, and remembering a well-known Redhill and Reigate shopkeeper... and more
You're really lucky as a school. Yeah, we're really lucky. The school's great. And not only just the people that come to the school, but the surrounding community is wonderful as well. So this is for everyone. It's not just for people that come to Raycommon, right? This is for everybody in the area. It's something for the community. that just happens to be on your land.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
39: The Reigate Summer Festival, Wrayfest, and remembering a well-known Redhill and Reigate shopkeeper... and more
Yeah, and I think that's what's really great. And obviously we're raising money for the school and it's part of the PTA. Our bonfire night's always been a big one. That's a success every year. And again, the local community gets involved. And we really wanted to make the summer event as big as that. So that's what we're trying to do and get as many people down as we can.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
39: The Reigate Summer Festival, Wrayfest, and remembering a well-known Redhill and Reigate shopkeeper... and more
What are you looking forward to as well for this particular event? The thing that I got really excited about last year was seeing some of the children perform on the stage I think it was like giving them an amazing place to sort of get involved I think making them a big part of it is really important for us and obviously and a big shout out to any parents we're looking for volunteers so
The Planet Reigate Podcast
39: The Reigate Summer Festival, Wrayfest, and remembering a well-known Redhill and Reigate shopkeeper... and more
Thanks to all the parents that did it last year, but again, we need volunteers again this year to help out on all of the stalls, which is a really big part of this as well. A great team last year, so I really hope that we get the same people this year as well. So James, give us the details. When's it all happening? Saturday, July 6th. It starts at 12 o'clock. And goes until four in the afternoon.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
39: The Reigate Summer Festival, Wrayfest, and remembering a well-known Redhill and Reigate shopkeeper... and more
And the prices? Everyone's £4. Nice and easy.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
39: The Reigate Summer Festival, Wrayfest, and remembering a well-known Redhill and Reigate shopkeeper... and more
Well, tickets are on sale now. The best way to find us is to follow us on Instagram. And our Instagram is Raycommon. So if you search Raycommon on Instagram, you will find us there.
The Ramsey Show
Your Overspending Will Eventually Catch Up With You
Hey guys, it's James Childs, producer of The Ramsey Show. This week, Dave and the personalities are living it up on the Ramsey Cruise, so we've put together a compilation of some of our favorite calls and segments from the last year. Regular shows are back next week. Hope you enjoy!
The Ramsey Show
Don’t Let Panic Influence Your Financial Decisions
Jeremy, what kind of guitar was it?
The Ramsey Show
Don’t Let Panic Influence Your Financial Decisions
That's brutal, man. Look at James. He can tell.
The Ramsey Show
Don’t Let Panic Influence Your Financial Decisions
I'm more of an electric player, but acoustic-wise, a Gibson J45 is what I would get.
The Ramsey Show
Don’t Let Panic Influence Your Financial Decisions
It's kind of a folk guitar. A lot of bluegrass players and stuff like that.
The Ramsey Show
Don’t Let Panic Influence Your Financial Decisions
Oh, I have no idea. The vintage guitar market, you can spend $20,000. I mean, they're crazy.
The Ramsey Show
Your Bank Balance Is a Reflection of Your Habits
Bumblebee, there's a lot more of those. They only made this one one year, and they only made 1,300 of them. And you said your wife would throw a fit. So that's her car? No, it's my car. She got it for me because she says I work too much.
The Ramsey Show
Your Bank Balance Is a Reflection of Your Habits
Just a credit card and a car and my house. That's it. We make together about $85,000, $90,000 a year. And I work – when I'm off work, I'm working. I'm trying to make every dollar I can because I would love to have this house paid. We've only had the house five years. I lost the other house. Didn't lose it for default. Lost it for another reason.
The Ramsey Show
Your Bank Balance Is a Reflection of Your Habits
Believe it or not, the state of Tennessee took it from me.
The Ramsey Show
Your Bank Balance Is a Reflection of Your Habits
I've been debt-free once before, years ago, and it was the best time of my life.
The Ramsey Show
Your Bank Balance Is a Reflection of Your Habits
Because I didn't worry about nothing. My wife has never been debt-free, so I keep pushing and pushing nicely, but I say, we've got to get there, and she doesn't understand the feeling she's going to get.
The Ramsey Show
Your Bank Balance Is a Reflection of Your Habits
Hi, how you doing? Good. I was wanting to ask a question. About two years ago, my wife and I decided we had had enough of the debt and what you call, I guess, the chase of trying to keep up with credit and all that. So we decided to start paying everything off. We have our house, of course. We're still paying on that. But we had a car on a loan, and we had credit card debt.
The Ramsey Show
Your Bank Balance Is a Reflection of Your Habits
The car and the loan together was somewhere around $45,000, something like that. We've got the car down to $5,000. Now, the credit cards was about $25,000 to $28,000. So just before we heard Dave Ramsey, and we went with a company called National Debt Relief, and we're trying to get out of that because...
The Ramsey Show
Your Bank Balance Is a Reflection of Your Habits
uh they pretty much lied to us they said that's going to charge us so much for what the settlements were and then we find out it's so much on the original cost so by the time it's said and done we're paying the same amount we had before maybe can i get out of that can't that's the question have you kind of done some due diligence to find out what it would take to get out i mean how much have you paid into it so far uh we've been paying for two years now uh
The Ramsey Show
Your Bank Balance Is a Reflection of Your Habits
what we have agreed we started with that 27 and we agreed it says that we've got everything settled but then not counting what we're paying the payments on yeah yeah but uh well but what's not settled is about 8 000 but if you go with the payments and everything we're still at about 15 000 yes i just cut it off because i paid a couple off but i said the rest to go so and uh it's costing us 400 and 460 a month for that and how much of that is actually going to it do you know
The Ramsey Show
Your Bank Balance Is a Reflection of Your Habits
They tell me, well, that'll be your choice, but the money you've already paid in, that'll be up to the creditors if they actually apply that to your debt or not. And if not, then I was like, well, where does the money go? Well, they get to keep it. And I was like, huh? They can't just keep the money if I've already paid so much. One in particular, which I've paid on them for 18 months now.
The Ramsey Show
Your Bank Balance Is a Reflection of Your Habits
In total, I'd say I paid about half. That actually went to the creditors. I paid off two cards completely. One was $3,500, one was $2,200, and we still have a couple cards that's not even been made a deal on yet, that's not even been touched yet.
The Ramsey Show
Your Bank Balance Is a Reflection of Your Habits
Well, I'm paying into a pool. I've paid off two cars. Those are done. And then I have two more they haven't even touched, and I have two that they're making payments on. One of them is a small one, but one was a big one. It was like $12,000, $13,000. And supposedly I've paid half of that off.
The Ramsey Show
Your Bank Balance Is a Reflection of Your Habits
And the reason I want to get out, one reason is I found out that I could have done this differently, but I also don't want to end up in court. What happens if they sue you? Because we had one that tried, but we got them paid off.
The Ramsey Show
Your Bank Balance Is a Reflection of Your Habits
Yeah, because we we didn't miss one payment until they told us to miss payment.
The Ramsey Show
Your Bank Balance Is a Reflection of Your Habits
What about the money I've already paid to the one? Because I paid 18 months worth, which is about half. It's still paid.
The Ramsey Show
Your Bank Balance Is a Reflection of Your Habits
Yeah, see, we've kind of done this wrong. We started on, like, baby step two. But we do have baby step one done, and we're in the middle of baby step two. My car will be paid off this year. Good. And that's the only car payment I have. Good. And it's worth a lot more than I owe. Oh, okay. I was thinking about selling it, but my wife's going to throw a fit if I do.
The Ramsey Show
Your Bank Balance Is a Reflection of Your Habits
Tell me more. Well, the car, okay, I told her that we owe about $150 on her house. The car is worth about $28 to $30. I owe $5 on it. Oh. It's a limited edition, but it's very rare. That's the big thing about it. What is it? It's a 2012 yellow jacket. It's a Challenger SRT8, but they only made 1,300 of them.
The Ramsey Show
Don’t Let Your Present Circumstances Define Your Future
Hi, Ramsey. This is a pleasure to be here. I really, really love what you do for people. Well, thank you. I'm super nervous right now.
The Ramsey Show
Don’t Let Your Present Circumstances Define Your Future
So this call isn't for me. I have a buddy that's very financially literate, and they've made some very poor financial decisions over the last few years. And I guess to start with, I guess where to begin is they have right now currently $37,837 of debt. Their minimum monthly payments for those debts is $1,743. Okay.
The Ramsey Show
Don’t Let Your Present Circumstances Define Your Future
Their gross monthly income approximately is around $100K a year, plus or minus a couple thousand. They have a mortgage. Right now they're behind one month on their mortgage, so they're currently at $1,500 a month. That's what they're behind normally. It's $1,250. With all their basic household bills, they're looking at around, I think, $4,000 a month or $4,500 a month.
The Ramsey Show
Don’t Let Your Present Circumstances Define Your Future
Um, so my thing for them is they have two kids they've recently had over the last two years and they find a struggle to be motivated to go to their job. Uh, well they go to work, but they allow overtime and he could work a little more than he is now. Um, but I guess the problem with them is they're just kind of stuck in this hole. They're about negative $700 a month.
The Ramsey Show
Don’t Let Your Present Circumstances Define Your Future
So do you have any advice for them? I know right now they're doing 8% on their 401ks cause the company matches eight. I'm just trying to help them out in any way I can. I figured you'd be the first person to call, but I recommend it.
The Ramsey Show
Don’t Let Your Present Circumstances Define Your Future
No, I agree. I know. I agree.
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Don’t Let Your Present Circumstances Define Your Future
I understand, and it's worth it for me to try.
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Don’t Let Your Present Circumstances Define Your Future
Yeah. Get up off your butt. It's 12 hour shift. So I kind of understand.
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Don’t Let Your Present Circumstances Define Your Future
Yeah, so they have two car loans. One is at $7,000, the other is at $15,000.
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Don’t Let Your Present Circumstances Define Your Future
Yeah, it's tough to hear because me and my wife are pretty – we're comfortable, and it's hard to hear. And they make, honestly, more than us. Yeah, I mean – And we live in San Diego.
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Don’t Let Your Present Circumstances Define Your Future
It's $360 a month for cigarettes. That's addiction for sure.
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How The Baby Steps Protect You From Financial Uncertainty
Hey guys, it's James Childs, producer of The Ramsey Show. Hey, this week Dave and the personalities are living it up on the Ramsey Cruise, so we've put together a compilation of some of our favorite calls and segments from the last year. Regular shows are back next week. Hope you enjoy.
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Cut Debt out of Your Life! (Literally)
Hey, good to talk to you guys. How's it going?
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Cut Debt out of Your Life! (Literally)
Good, good. So a little bit of background here. So I'm 27, and over the last few years, I've begun to come into an inheritance at the same time that my birth family has resurfaced. It's become a little bit tricky as a result there, just because, you know, I was...
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Cut Debt out of Your Life! (Literally)
I always knew I was dealt an amazing hand, but, uh, you know, kind of seeing, you know, what could have been has been pretty emotionally jarring. So I'm wondering, you know, number one, you know, what's the responsible way to handle this?
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Cut Debt out of Your Life! (Literally)
Because I don't think doing nothing is an option, but at the same time, um, want to make sure that I kind of do justice to my grandfather and my parents who have kind of changed my life and my family's life, putting me in this situation.
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Cut Debt out of Your Life! (Literally)
So, um, I was adopted at birth to a family. Um, so there's, I consider, you know, my family cause I grew up with them. Uh, so that side of the family is where the inheritance is coming from. Uh, birth family is, you know, found out I was the oldest of a sister who's 19 and pregnant and, uh, two other, uh, male siblings. And then my, my birth mom, of course.
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Cut Debt out of Your Life! (Literally)
So my grandpa was smart, so he stepped it in around metrics like graduation date and age and a couple things. So it's up to $750,000 now. It'll likely cross over a million in the next few years.
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Cut Debt out of Your Life! (Literally)
I think it's that old adage, right? To whom much is given, much is expected.
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Cut Debt out of Your Life! (Literally)
I guess... I mean, I think especially, you know, being the oldest sibling, you know, kind of seeing, I think my sister, you know, probably has the, you know, the drive to kind of get her life on track.
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Cut Debt out of Your Life! (Literally)
So it's, it's, you know, wanting to support, you know, I saw my, my parents and my grandfather do, you know, good, good things with kind of the situation that they, they created and put themselves in. So, you know, I'm kind of navigating that. you know, I know I could make a difference, you know, and, you know, it wouldn't necessarily change my day to day.
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Cut Debt out of Your Life! (Literally)
So it just hasn't seemed reasonable at this point to do, to do nothing. But then there's also been some stuff initially that, um, I tried to give that didn't necessarily go where I wanted it to in terms of my mom kind of repurposing some of that in a way that was less than ideal and it didn't actually get to my sister.
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Cut Debt out of Your Life! (Literally)
Yeah, I hadn't thought of it that way, but that does make a lot of sense.
The Ramsey Show
Cut Debt out of Your Life! (Literally)
So that's the thing. My mom, uh, when she was, when I, before I found out she was doing things I didn't want with it, um, she would make up excuses, but my sister has always pushed it away. Um, you know, she's on her own, she's got, you know, a newborn, obviously very young. And, and that's kind of where, you know, that almost makes you want to give more, right.
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Cut Debt out of Your Life! (Literally)
Because there, there, she, she has similar thing of like, you know, you don't owe me anything. I just want to have, you know, the relationship. Yeah.
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Cut Debt out of Your Life! (Literally)
The kid has special needs. So I know that that's like they're below poverty line. So it's such a stark contrast.
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Cut Debt out of Your Life! (Literally)
That's what I was thinking. A grocery gift card?
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Cut Debt out of Your Life! (Literally)
I think childcare would be the most impactful thing because it would free her up to kind of take the steps necessary to stabilize her life, whether that be education.
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Cut Debt out of Your Life! (Literally)
They live in a different state than I do currently.
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Cut Debt out of Your Life! (Literally)
How can we help? So my question is, let me give you a little background. Me and my wife just paid off about $550,000 in debt. Yeah, dude. Whoa. Congratulations. Thank you. It actually all worked out really great. I think God had his hands in there mixing some things up and opening some doors for us. So we're relocating.
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Cut Debt out of Your Life! (Literally)
The reason I went to sales, we're relocating to Austin, opened up a Chick-fil-A out there. We have about 80K left in debt other than our house. um, that we live in currently. And it's about two and a half hours away from Austin where we're relocating to.
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Cut Debt out of Your Life! (Literally)
Uh, my question is, do we sell the house to pay off the remaining, uh, mortgage and then the 80 K index, we have a little bit of equity or do we continue to rent it out? Because I feel like we don't have too much longer to go on that mortgage. Um, if we can just throw money at it, once we get there, what are your thoughts on that?
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Cut Debt out of Your Life! (Literally)
Yeah, that's where we were leaning towards. We just didn't know, you know, with it being so close, do we be long distance tenants or is that too much risk to hold? I don't know if it's too much risk.
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Cut Debt out of Your Life! (Literally)
About 200K. And that's with my wife and I included. Awesome. Are you going to be an owner-operator? Um, no, not currently. That is the goal. So two or three years from now, we will, we're going to try to pursue relocating back closer to family where we are now and buying a Chick-fil-A nearby. Awesome. I'm thinking that that. It's looking like we should be able to do that.
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Cut Debt out of Your Life! (Literally)
They say it's harder to get into a Chick-fil-A than it is to get into Harvard is what they say in the Chick-fil-A world.
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Cut Debt out of Your Life! (Literally)
Yes, that's what, that's our idea. We're going to go scope out the area, rent, um, Save up some cash so that we do have enough down payment when we decide if we're going to either stay there or relocate back. That's kind of up in the air, but renting is our main priority going down there.
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Cut Debt out of Your Life! (Literally)
We have another store opening up that'll turn us into a multi-restaurant. The operator will be a multi-restaurant operator, and so I'll be over both of those. Okay, great. And we're trying to, it will for sure be there two years. Three to five is when I will most likely try to apply, depending on how ready we feel.
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Cut Debt out of Your Life! (Literally)
So I'm calling to ask and get your opinion on how much you should be spending on engagement ring. I've saved up about $20,000 to $25,000. God almighty, that's too much. think so you must really love her are you loaded um I make around $200,000 a year I'm 29 years old I have no doubt wow way to go
The Ramsey Show
Cut Debt out of Your Life! (Literally)
Yeah, I mean, she's been loosely involved. I mean, the big question is also, do I get real or lab-grown cash? And, you know, the reason I'm calling this or doing this call is I'm not supposed to think what others think, but I'd definitely be going against the grain with people in my circle not getting a real diamond. That being said, you know, and I think she means it.
The Ramsey Show
Cut Debt out of Your Life! (Literally)
She said she's okay with the lab grown, and it doesn't take a fool to put, you know, $25,000 in a future value calculation and see that it would be a million dollars in 40 years when we're
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Cut Debt out of Your Life! (Literally)
I mean, it's something that I came up with. I have about $500,000 worth of assets. Like, it's something that I could do and still very comfortably have an emergency fund. What are your assets? About $50,000 in cash or cash equivalents. and then about $200,000 in 401k IRA-esque funds, and then the rest is brokerage accounts and mostly ETFs like Voo. Okay.
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Cut Debt out of Your Life! (Literally)
Yeah, absolutely. And that's obviously something that factors into this decision as well. It just seems like, why have this?
The Ramsey Show
Cut Debt out of Your Life! (Literally)
I mean, I've said like, we should seriously consider the lab run option. And she said, um,
The Ramsey Show
Cut Debt out of Your Life! (Literally)
she's you know basically hinted that that would be okay i just i think it's me internally i i obviously don't want to disappoint anyone yeah what is it a i mean i'm sorry for keep pressing this is just new territory for me okay um why do you feel like you're going to be a disappointment no no no that's not disappointment like i I love her very much.
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Cut Debt out of Your Life! (Literally)
I want to give her everything that she deserves, and I want her to be happy with it. I also worry about, like, diamond prices are going down significantly. Like, if I buy this thing, it's not that I'm ever going to sell it, but, like, I would hate to buy it, and 10 years from now, it's like everyone's buying lab-grown ones anyway.
The Ramsey Show
Cut Debt out of Your Life! (Literally)
I mean, I don't think she would, but Obviously I would. I'd be freaking out. Obviously the insurance is another.
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Normal Is Broke and in Debt. Do You Want To Be Normal?
I'm down, Ken. I'm down. Let's do it.
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Normal Is Broke and in Debt. Do You Want To Be Normal?
Ken's eaten food on the show several times, so I'm pretty sure I don't turn down Ken's ideas that much.
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Surviving the Money Storm Starts with Tough Choices
Hey guys, it's James Childs, producer of The Ramsey Show. Hey, this week Dave and the personalities are living it up on the Ramsey Cruise, so we've put together a compilation of some of our favorite calls and segments from the last year. Regular shows are back next week. Hope you enjoy.
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Debt Isn't The Problem - Your Mindset Is
Hey guys, it's James Childs, producer of The Ramsey Show. This week, Dave and the personalities are living it up on the Ramsey Cruise, so we've put together a compilation of some of our favorite calls and segments from the last year. Regular shows are back next week. Hope you enjoy!
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You Need To “Happen” to Your Life Instead if It Happening to You
What will it cost to fix it?
The Ramsey Show
You Need To “Happen” to Your Life Instead if It Happening to You
You want you some of that 922 Freon? I got it.
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You Can Make Progress Even When It Feels Impossible
Yeah, we have. We sat down with them a few weeks ago, and we discussed exactly what we wanted. And they were super indecisive because that's what we're really stuck on because they just didn't know what they wanted to do. And we're like, well, let us know. And then they said, oh, well, we'll think about it. And it's been kind of like that situation. And they've been very great to us.
The Ramsey Show
You Can Make Progress Even When It Feels Impossible
I don't want to seem like they haven't been. No, I get it.
The Ramsey Show
You Can Make Progress Even When It Feels Impossible
Hey, guys. How are you guys doing today?
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You Can Make Progress Even When It Feels Impossible
Well, about seven years ago, the wife and us, we decided that We had a baby on the way, and we decided that we needed to get a house. And at the time, her parents said, hey... We're in the process of moving and you guys need some childcare since it's very expensive where we live. Let's just get a house together and we will watch the kids for you guys.
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You Can Make Progress Even When It Feels Impossible
And you guys can work without worrying about babysitting. So we purchased the house together under both of our names. And now we're in a situation where we got more than just one child and we are ready to move out. And we're in the financial situation to go, but they're really not ready to go.
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You Can Make Progress Even When It Feels Impossible
So we're trying to figure out what's the best way to move out because we are either considering refinancing and just taking our names off and taking the portion of the profits that we would make from the house ourselves or just selling the house outright. Right.
The Ramsey Show
You Can Make Progress Even When It Feels Impossible
And they don't know what to do, and this market has everybody pretty concerned, so we're just trying to figure out what is the best thing to do.
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You Can Make Progress Even When It Feels Impossible
Well, when we first purchased the house, we put about $20,000, and in that $20,000, I believe we had about... like $12,000 to $13,000 and they had about $7,000 in it.
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You Can Make Progress Even When It Feels Impossible
So what's the house? The house is worth a lot more now. So we purchased the house pre-COVID and it was about $300,000 and now the house is worth about $550,000. What is owed on the house? somewhere around $220,000.
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You Can Make Progress Even When It Feels Impossible
No, because we were thinking about just taking whatever portion, whatever profit would be from an appraisal, we would split it in half and take that and go buy our own new house with it. Right, but how can you get that money? Exactly the situation we're kind of stuck in.
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Face Debt Head-On Before It Destroys Your Family
Hey guys, it's James Childs, producer of The Ramsey Show. This week, Dave and the personalities are living it up on the Ramsey Cruise, so we've put together a compilation of some of our favorite calls and segments from the last year. Regular shows are back next week. Hope you enjoy!
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Face Debt Head-On Before It Destroys Your Family
You know, one of the first things I discovered working in the financial world is how absolutely devastating it is when the breadwinner of a family dies. and there's too little life insurance or none at all. Grieving families are suddenly left behind scrambling to pay bills and trying to make ends meet.
The Ramsey Show
Face Debt Head-On Before It Destroys Your Family
I also discovered that there are a lot of rip-offs in the life insurance world, like that whole life crap posing as an investment opportunity. What you need is level term life insurance, usually 10 to 12 times your income, which is the smartest, most affordable way to protect your family.
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Face Debt Head-On Before It Destroys Your Family
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Face Debt Head-On Before It Destroys Your Family
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Face Debt Head-On Before It Destroys Your Family
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Face Debt Head-On Before It Destroys Your Family
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Face Debt Head-On Before It Destroys Your Family
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Face Debt Head-On Before It Destroys Your Family
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What if You Could Build a Life That Didn’t Exhaust You?
Hi, I have a quick question for you guys, and it might not be a short answer, but... Let it rip. Go for it. It never is, right? So my husband and I have about $3.2 million worth of debt total, and most of that is in our business, but some of that is personal. And I'm just wondering, is it better to focus on paying personal debts before your business debts?
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What if You Could Build a Life That Didn’t Exhaust You?
So it's a medical practice that my husband and I own.
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What if You Could Build a Life That Didn’t Exhaust You?
He is. I am more of an office manager.
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What if You Could Build a Life That Didn’t Exhaust You?
Like we got it 100% fully financed from the bank. So we do have a big loan from them, but we are able to make our payments every month, which is great.
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What if You Could Build a Life That Didn’t Exhaust You?
What's the number for debt on that?
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What if You Could Build a Life That Didn’t Exhaust You?
Um, so our profit at the end, like we only owned for about two to three years, but the profit every year that we've gotten is about 250 to 300. And that's after all, all the bills, all the loans, staff costs, everything is all paid.
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What if You Could Build a Life That Didn’t Exhaust You?
Well, that's not what we take home in our personal account. We pay ourselves as contractors, and so we only pay ourselves about $12,000 a month.
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What if You Could Build a Life That Didn’t Exhaust You?
So for our business, the reason I split it up is because they're in separate accounts and they're also taxed differently. But yes, it is all kind of one number, but for the business, it has $2.6 million worth of debt. And then the rest of our debt is all personal.
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What if You Could Build a Life That Didn’t Exhaust You?
So for the personal stuff, um, So my husband, because he's a physician, he graduated probably five, six years ago from school. He has 300K worth of student loans that he has to pay back still.
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What if You Could Build a Life That Didn’t Exhaust You?
And then we have 20K for our car, 215 for our house that we still owe, and then I have 4K from my schooling as well.
The Ramsey Show
What if You Could Build a Life That Didn’t Exhaust You?
Yeah, like where do I start? Is it more important to focus on paying personal stuff off or business stuff?
The Ramsey Show
What if You Could Build a Life That Didn’t Exhaust You?
Okay, so mortgage is always last then?
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What if You Could Build a Life That Didn’t Exhaust You?
As a family. So we do split income because I manage the medical practice and he physically works in the practice. So we just pay ourselves six grand each.
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What if You Could Build a Life That Didn’t Exhaust You?
I'm not really sure. That's a good question, though. I know that we can claim capital gains, but that only comes if we ever sell.
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What if You Could Build a Life That Didn’t Exhaust You?
I'm not really sure how that all works. I'll have to ask my husband about that.
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What if You Could Build a Life That Didn’t Exhaust You?
I think it's every five years, yeah.
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What if You Could Build a Life That Didn’t Exhaust You?
Not on all of them. That's only with the business one, which is the 2.6 mil.
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What if You Could Build a Life That Didn’t Exhaust You?
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we'd have to try to find another doctor to hire and work with us part-time or something like that.
The Ramsey Show
Stop Letting Other People's Problems Ruin Your Finances
Hey guys, it's James Childs, producer of The Ramsey Show. Hey, this week Dave and the personalities are living it up on the Ramsey Cruise, so we've put together a compilation of some of our favorite calls and segments from the last year. Regular shows are back next week. Hope you enjoy.
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Money Isn't the Problem—Your Behavior Is
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Money Isn't the Problem—Your Behavior Is
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Money Isn't the Problem—Your Behavior Is
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The Ramsey Show
Money Isn't the Problem—Your Behavior Is
So it's a tight spot. And she's okay. She's good. I mean, she's still working at, you know, 78 years old.
The Ramsey Show
Money Isn't the Problem—Your Behavior Is
Oh, I could get, you know, probably at least $320,000. And I only owe $120,000.
The Ramsey Show
Money Isn't the Problem—Your Behavior Is
Oh, my Lord. No. I hadn't. Holy cow. Wow. Instead of having a multifamily, just like a single unit, that would be like, whoa. Listen, I can retire. I'm done. Jade, I love you. It's been fun. I love you.
The Ramsey Show
Money Isn't the Problem—Your Behavior Is
A whole new world. Yeah. Jay did it better. Indescribable feeling. Indescribable feeling.
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Money Is About More Than Math, You Can’t Put Peace Into a Formula
Hello, how are you?
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Money Is About More Than Math, You Can’t Put Peace Into a Formula
Well, okay, so I'm doing my first formal budget, and I say formal because intuitively I had a good sense of what was going on from paycheck to paycheck, but this is the first time when... Got me into every dollar was something that you said when I first discovered you, like, last week, which was a budget enables you not to feel guilty about... putting money aside for certain things.
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Money Is About More Than Math, You Can’t Put Peace Into a Formula
And I thought that I liked that because I always felt guilty saying, no, we can't do this. No, we can't do that because it had an intuitive sense, which was roughly correct. So my net income from my own income coming home is 3,600 a month. And pretty much all of that goes to the mortgage groceries, et cetera. But then we have another 1,800 from our child benefit and,
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Money Is About More Than Math, You Can’t Put Peace Into a Formula
that we've been using to upgrade our house that we purchased in 2021 because it's an old house and so the windows needed doing so we did that and the the insulation needed doing we did that and it gets to minus 40 here so we needed to not freeze to death in the winter and now that those upgrades are done that child benefit of 1800
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Money Is About More Than Math, You Can’t Put Peace Into a Formula
is effectively spare now and it just never occurred to me what to do with it. I just never had budgeted. I pretended like my income alone was the only income I had and now this is actually tripping me up.
The Ramsey Show
Money Is About More Than Math, You Can’t Put Peace Into a Formula
No, just the mortgage, $94,000 right now.
The Ramsey Show
Money Is About More Than Math, You Can’t Put Peace Into a Formula
Yes, so we have about a $14,000 emergency fund. Great. And we have $20,000 just kind of sitting there waiting for something to do. Okay.
The Ramsey Show
Money Is About More Than Math, You Can’t Put Peace Into a Formula
They're five, three, and one.
The Ramsey Show
Money Is About More Than Math, You Can’t Put Peace Into a Formula
Have you guys... Yeah, we have little ones and another one on the way. Okay, great. So looking far into the future is part of how I want to arrange this. Yeah. And another factor, this question is about two-pronged, because the other prong of this question is... Does it make sense to pay off the mortgage early?
The Ramsey Show
Money Is About More Than Math, You Can’t Put Peace Into a Formula
And the reason I'm asking that is when we first moved here, I did what I thought was a neighborly thing, go up and down all the streets around me saying, hello, how are you? I'm the new neighbor. And it has not really gone anywhere in terms of us meeting neighbors or people or anything. But when I visited my hometown, we made friends right away because I thought it was me for a long time.
The Ramsey Show
Money Is About More Than Math, You Can’t Put Peace Into a Formula
I guess we're just horrible people. Nobody likes us. But no, part of this area just isn't working for us. So y'all may move somewhere else.
The Ramsey Show
Money Is About More Than Math, You Can’t Put Peace Into a Formula
And and how to prepare for that, because I'm not really sure what I'm getting into. And I don't want to make this mistake again because I thought this would be right for us. And it clearly isn't.
The Ramsey Show
Money Is About More Than Math, You Can’t Put Peace Into a Formula
$3,600 from my income and another $1,800 from the child benefit.
The Ramsey Show
Money Is About More Than Math, You Can’t Put Peace Into a Formula
Well, yeah, I mean, my budget had $50 for restaurants per month, and we basically never go out and buy all our food with 50% stickers. Yeah, so I would put some back to loosen that lifestyle.
The Ramsey Show
Money Is About More Than Math, You Can’t Put Peace Into a Formula
You won't die if you're bundled up well enough. So I'm from central Canada where it gets that cold, but it's drier. I'm used to drier. So you go outside, if you're bundled up well enough, you're okay. It's a dry cold. Okay. That's what Arizonans say, that it's a dry heat. It's humid and it pierces right through you. I dare not even walk out the door. And since our house...
The Ramsey Show
Money Is About More Than Math, You Can’t Put Peace Into a Formula
still leaks air even with all the upgrades we're all with jackets and blankets on the inside during the winter anyway so make of that what you will we have this thing in Tennessee I don't know if they have it there it's called fire and it just warms up everything
The Ramsey Show
Money Is About More Than Math, You Can’t Put Peace Into a Formula
We don't have a fireplace in here either.
The Ramsey Show
Money Is About More Than Math, You Can’t Put Peace Into a Formula
You're doing great, man.
True Crime with Rachel Shannon
Where Is Deanne Hastings?
There was a lot of people that are showing up and definitely more eyes are better than one. It makes me feel better knowing that that many more people care about her.
True Crime with Rachel Shannon
Where Is Deanne Hastings?
Not that I know of. I mean, no. She just kind of disappeared.
True Crime with Rachel Shannon
Where Is Deanne Hastings?
Searching and trying to know what's happened and where she's at. I just want her to call somebody and let them know she's okay. It would bring a lot of relief to a lot of people.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1042 | Jase Goes Wide-Eyed at Alternate Realities in the Bible & 2 Super Awkward Bible Misquotes
Yeah, come look at this. Oh, we took off running because I knew whatever it was was going to be exciting.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1042 | Jase Goes Wide-Eyed at Alternate Realities in the Bible & 2 Super Awkward Bible Misquotes
Well, that's right. It was like, hey, come look, come look, look at me.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1057 | Phil's Once-in-a-Lifetime Trip on Moo Force One & Behind the Scenes of ‘Duck Dynasty’ Travel
Yeah.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
I am unashamed. What about you?
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
Yeah, I shot in the air because my hat done this when I shot.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
They don't get it. Okay.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
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But here's the thing. Okay. That's why baptism is, Once you have heard the story about Jesus, you believe it, and you reenact his death, burial, and resurrection, when you come out of the water, and this is God talking, the creator, you have just been made a new creation.
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Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
I always enjoy it, and I always learn.
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Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
Well, hey, it was all there. But, hey, I've been told a story. This is get back at him. I'm going to throw him under the bus. Emma Stone went duck hunting, and some crows started flying, and they shot a box of shells trying to – Repeat what I had just done the day before.
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Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
Well, the uniqueness of the Bible. Over 40 authors. Okay. That's to give you, you got to think about that. Thousands of years. Thousands of years. Okay. 40 different authors. And these are men. Carried along by the Holy Spirit. They're guided by the Holy Spirit, but they're men. And that's why I like Mark, Luke, and Matthew, all that. This is a different point of view from a different man.
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Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
He had a different outlook on life. He had a different job, all this stuff. That's the uniqueness of the Bible.
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Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
It took them 25 to kill a crow.
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Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
Okay, and that's why I used the term, you need to connect the dots.
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Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
And you need to take everything in it, and it all fits like a glove, a tailor-made glove.
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Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
Yeah, what was he known for?
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Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
Jesus said what about, hey, they'll know you're my disciples by what?
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Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
I wouldn't have had to admit it.
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Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
No, no, because I always—
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Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
I've always looked at that and just, because there was a time that they were separated.
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Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
Yeah, and I've always looked at that, that it's, you know, good grief. That's where the love is. Okay, because, hey, here's the thing I always look at. The Father sent the Son. The Son fulfilled what the Father had sent him for. Okay, and then when the Son left and went back to heaven, and they're back to unity again, He said, hey, don't leave. I'm sending you somebody. He sent the Holy Spirit.
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Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
But I know why y'all missed. Y'all used to shoot and fly and, you know, fast fly and woody. Go slow.
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Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
And that goes with, okay, now you're protectors.
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Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
It was just yours. What did he taste like, sir? Huh? No, I didn't do it. I'm probably going to see that crow again with a plaque. Oh, they were going to mount it?
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Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
The owner kept it. So I'm probably going to see him again. They're going to mount it.
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Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
Because he told me, he said, you want them fully mounted or what? I said, hey.
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Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
Abraham, when he was gone, he reasoned in his mind that God could raise dead men.
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Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
A resurrection is looming large.
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Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
Hey, the truth of that, if you doubt that, Look at what just happened.
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Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
Look what just happened in your audience if you doubt that.
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Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
If you don't have Jesus, okay, and with Jesus is life and life. If you don't have him, guess what you got? Darkness and death.
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Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
Well, no, no, because I just killed a deer this year, okay?
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Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
Well, no, no, because I enjoyed it.
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Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
See, that's the thing about managing deer, okay? I hunted this deer for two years. This was toothpick, right? Yeah, toothpick. And I saw him like eight times. Okay, and I finally, I'm serious. I saw him eight times. I killed him on the eighth time.
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Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
I shot at him, what, twice.
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Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
Hey, look, the deer gods were protecting me because I shot at him, okay?
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Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
Hey, no, no. He's in the chum pile. It was right at legal. Yeah, right at legal. It's legal. Okay, but anyway, so we talk it over. Yeah, he said, that's him. It's the one you want to shoot. Go ahead and shoot him.
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Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
So Jay said something about a camera.
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Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
He was getting a camera. It was broadside.
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Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
Yeah, and he heard, he heard, bam! Yeah. Wow. Well, I thought I'd got it. Okay. So, you know, we sit there for about 30 minutes. It gets dark, you know. And Jay said, well, all right, let me go down there and check for blood.
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Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
No, no. We said, I said, well, I got a bullet in it. We may not find it, but I got a bullet in it. Okay. So he comes back, and I had noticed that he was shining his phone light, which ain't very much. Yeah. So he shoots. And then the next thing I know.
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Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
Yeah, I hear a shot. He comes walking back. Yeah, and I said, well, did you find blood or him? And he said, no. And he got this yearling by the ears.
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Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
Yeah, he says, hey, here's what you shot. I says, don't. Get out of here. I said, you shot that. And my deer was laying down there for me to go look at, put my hands on. He said, nope. So the deer got, you know, this is a downhill stand.
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Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
Well, hey, look.
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Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
Hey, we figured it out the next day.
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Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
It's equal opportunity.
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Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
Japan, they're committing.
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Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
At 235 yards, which is not an easy shot. It was 200 yards.
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Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
No, that's going to go in my podcast room. Oh, okay. I got another one back from Texas that I need to put up. He's a 12-point.
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Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
Me and Toothpick had a two-year... We dated for two years, for crying out loud. I stayed on stand at least 40 times. He was a worthy adversary.
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Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
Well, hey, it kind of shook me up.
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Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
Yeah, I'm serious. Because Martin said that when I walked up. He said, that's the first time I've seen you speechless. Yeah. He said, you walked up there when we drugged the deer. Him and a friend of his drug it out of the woods for me. Yeah. When I walked up there and looked at him, I just kind of said, well, now what do I do?
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Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
Well, that was, yeah. I've been on an adventure with this droskull.
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Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
But it was fun. It was fun chasing it.
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Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
Oh, no. We were already talking about that. His name is Big Red. Big Red.
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Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
What did you say about Ephesians, Al? Hold on.
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Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
Over 50?
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Ep 1021 | Uncle Si Gets Choked Up When His Two-Year Dream Finally Becomes Reality
No, my hat fell over my face. Oh, I didn't hear that. Oh, I told you.
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Ep 1017 | Jase Shuts Down Twisted Attempts to Weaponize the Bible Against God
Yeah.
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Ep 1017 | Jase Shuts Down Twisted Attempts to Weaponize the Bible Against God
Yeah.
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Ep 1017 | Jase Shuts Down Twisted Attempts to Weaponize the Bible Against God
What about you?
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Ep 1017 | Jase Shuts Down Twisted Attempts to Weaponize the Bible Against God
Yeah.
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Ep 1017 | Jase Shuts Down Twisted Attempts to Weaponize the Bible Against God
Mm-hmm.
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Ep 1017 | Jase Shuts Down Twisted Attempts to Weaponize the Bible Against God
Yeah.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
rusty crop-dusted an innocent man
I've been on back on my gym grind recently and I've been drinking accelerator every morning as pre-workout and I had one before my race. It's perfect.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
rusty crop-dusted an innocent man
little voice memos to like pop up in your friends in their ears at random points i would be like put the song back on no they just like quick little guy yeah what did you listen to what was i made a whole playlist it was like message from lauren
Will & Rusty's Playdate
rusty crop-dusted an innocent man
During the race, were you next to anyone the entire time or did people kind of disperse a lot?
Will & Rusty's Playdate
rusty crop-dusted an innocent man
Did you run a full 13 at all before the race ever?
Will & Rusty's Playdate
rusty crop-dusted an innocent man
Oh, yeah. I didn't even hear that because I wasn't here for that.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
rusty crop-dusted an innocent man
Yesterday, I was trying to be nice and let a Waymo in. There wasn't even anyone in there. And I stayed back where I was for probably like 10 seconds. I just wouldn't go. So I'm like, all right.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
rusty crop-dusted an innocent man
Yeah. We're getting dinner at 8 and then the world is our oyster.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
rusty crop-dusted an innocent man
He's trying to watch. They're turning NASCAR on.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
rusty crop-dusted an innocent man
TV Nightmare, NASCAR, you're on Luke's tracks.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
rusty crop-dusted an innocent man
Okay, but it was like I had one more word to finish, so I was like, let me just write the one word.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
rusty crop-dusted an innocent man
Okay, and who's on the other side? The Pacers. No, no, no.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
rusty crop-dusted an innocent man
You don't... Oh, my God. Just continue. You don't know what I'm doing.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
rusty crop-dusted an innocent man
No, it's just like if I have to look at something really quick, you don't... You guys will trick your phone for a second. It doesn't need to be that big of a deal. Just continue. It's...
Will & Rusty's Playdate
rusty crop-dusted an innocent man
I saw that shot. I actually did see that shot.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
rusty crop-dusted an innocent man
During the roadmap? No, he just had this nastiest thing I've ever heard.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
rusty crop-dusted an innocent man
I don't want chocolate in my teeth while I'm reading the pitches from the playmates. Okay.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
rusty crop-dusted an innocent man
Because I was so hungry I was going to turn into dust. All right. First pitch is from Ben.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
rusty crop-dusted an innocent man
Okay. First pitch is from Ben. That's the opposite of getting the penis off the screen. You made it bigger. Ew. The inside of that looks disgusting.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
rusty crop-dusted an innocent man
Ben says, missing a big play while getting food. As soon as you convince yourself it's a slow point in the game, you wait in line to grab $30 nachos and you hear the crowd pop. You look around frantically trying to see what happened to no avail. Introducing Stadium Striders, an app similar to Uber Eats, DoorDash, and But your food gets delivered straight to your seat.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
rusty crop-dusted an innocent man
No more anxiety-filled speed walks to the hot dog stand. Watch the whole game, stay full, and tip your strider. Pitch from Benny in Virginia. Love you guys and girl. P.S. Please bring back Am I the Asshole?
Will & Rusty's Playdate
rusty crop-dusted an innocent man
Brandon says, what's at Nina Pinta in the Santa Maria?
Will & Rusty's Playdate
rusty crop-dusted an innocent man
I want to be the Santa Maria. Pinta. Boy, do I have a pitch submission for you. It is a restaurant. I honestly might have read this. No, I haven't. It's a restaurant called Leftovers. Leftovers. They only serve leftovers like reheated pizza, cold pasta, and various soups.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
rusty crop-dusted an innocent man
The way this works is you can either order off the menu of items or you can bring in your own food and have the chefs prepare it for you in a professional way. My thought is this will be a great place to go the weekend after Thanksgiving for turkey sandwiches and that stuff. Love the pod. Keep up the great content.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
rusty crop-dusted an innocent man
Dude, it's chicken quesadilla with a... How do you not use their hot sauce?
Will & Rusty's Playdate
rusty crop-dusted an innocent man
You have to get through the weeds and the rumbles.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
rusty crop-dusted an innocent man
It's okay. It's okay. Ice cream sandwich pocket.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
rusty crop-dusted an innocent man
It gets all over your butt and stuff and people think it's something crazy.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
rusty crop-dusted an innocent man
Wait, dude. Wait, did you just say warm in the winter? I thought you said, or you can do a worm in the winter. But a worm in there in the winter. And I'm like, why would you only want a worm?
Will & Rusty's Playdate
rusty crop-dusted an innocent man
The other morning on my walk, I was moving worms off the sidewalk because they were shriveling up and I felt bad.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
rusty crop-dusted an innocent man
The Origins of Hello? Like 10 episodes ago.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
rusty crop-dusted an innocent man
Ew. Okay. Dude. Stop. Disgusting. Everyone's hating that. I loved it. Hating. Okay, what's your teach me?
Will & Rusty's Playdate
rusty crop-dusted an innocent man
Wait, why don't you do, like, summer's right around the corner, like something like, what are your favorite games?
Will & Rusty's Playdate
rusty crop-dusted an innocent man
No, I know you don't hate me. He does, though.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
rusty crop-dusted an innocent man
So do most priests, have most priests not, like do most of them just enter the priesthood before ever?
Will & Rusty's Playdate
rusty crop-dusted an innocent man
Oh, I didn't know you were going to the Bahamas. I didn't realize that's what that was.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
rusty crop-dusted an innocent man
We know he's... Well, what did you want me to Google? I don't know.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
rusty crop-dusted an innocent man
So what if every morning there was someone in your closet filming you, but you didn't know? You mean I didn't know? Would you allow for that if you were going to get $100,000? A day? Yeah. Are you joking? But you don't know who he is, what he looks like?
Will & Rusty's Playdate
rusty crop-dusted an innocent man
Who would you want it to be? Who would you want it to be?
Will & Rusty's Playdate
rusty crop-dusted an innocent man
If there was someone in there... Do they want to be there? Do they want to be there? You know what I mean?