Bussin' With The Boys - We Have Fan Mail + Best Sports Tournaments | Inside The Bus

Episode Date: March 13, 2026

Welcome back to another episode of Inside The Bus. This week the boys have some fan mail to open up, shoutout Mr. White Chocolate. We are going to find out our PO box address so that more of you guys can send in stuff that we can open live on the pod and give y'all a shoutout. After opening the fan mail, the boys debate what are the worst minor convenience/things in life. We know we missed some bangers so let us know what we didn't thinking of. The boys then finish off the pod talking about what is the best sports tournament out there. Whether it's the Stanley Cup, World Cup, MLB/NHL/NFL/NBA Playoffs or whatever it may be. Give us your favorite slept on tournaments in the comments. Come enjoy the Friday hang and much love.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I'm Jack McPherson. With me is J.P. Hovey, Cooper Comstock, Mitchell Carsley, and the one, the only, the sub-in. Derek Whitton, give a round of applause, people. Thank you for being here. We'll address it soon. but our podcast studio is on the second floor of our building. Derek has sustained an injury recently that we'll dive into later,

but just real respect for you to climb up those stairs on crutches. So that goes a long way with this community. So before we get going, we're going to address possibly the elephant in the room to some of our real hardos who listen to this show. And we are missing a host, Garrett Hargis. He is no longer with, busing with the boys. He is now on to bigger and better things, taking a chance, a new opportunity.

And we will sadly miss him on all fronts of our business, including inside the bus. He was a staple member of this podcast. We obviously have him on the carpet behind us and we'll never take him off, obviously. I mean, how crazy it would be if we just got a new carpet. Jack Beebe. Shut on Jack. Jack Beebe, no. But hopefully Garrett Hargis will join us. back here in the podcast studio in the future, but not as a host, but as a guest that we can check in on what he's up to and the cool things that are ahead of him. But yeah, guys, what's up? How are we? Doing good. I'm fired up to see what Garrett does next because obviously none of this would have happened. He wouldn't have part of ways. He wouldn't have done his own thing if it

wasn't best for him. So you know G's going to cook up something. He's going to crush whatever. he does. Yeah. That dude has a mind of his own. I know. And some people, like a few people have reached out to me like, hey, what were Garrett's like skills? What does he really succeed in? Kind of in y'all's company. And it's so funny whenever you go back and talk through it, it's like, well, you know, in the beginning, he was making a bunch of clips. He did all the graphics. Then he started doing all of the merch. Then he started making the vlogs. Then he started doing all the operations and logistics. So everybody I tell, I'm like, man, you kind of pick your, pick your spot, for him.

Pick your poison. He knows how to do it. Show Hey Otani. Show Hey Otani of podcasting industries, Garrett Hargis. And outside of how versatile he is, just from the production standpoint, when I think of Garrett Hargis, I think, man, that dude's cool. Right. He just oozes that, like, just really casual confidence, good style, a good hang.

Just, yeah, he'll be missed, sadly here. But hopefully in the future, we're going to have him back. 100%. If he'll have us, really, you know, if he's willing to. He might outgrow us, so we'll see. But yeah, do we want to dive in some of the gifts we got? Before you said, you bringing up the carpet

and shout out Jack G. Jack B.B. Did you all see his Instagram? Dude, he did it. He did it. He got the golf simulator in his apartment, which is so sick. What I'm about to say,

this is no disrespect to you, Jack, at all. So I don't want it to come across this way. But when he says I'm going to build a golf simulator, my first thought is like an apartment complex golf simulator that's like spent like thousands of dollars they've got the turf and like I love it that it's just literally this gritty net with a backdrop and like literally just in the middle of his living room and he's just got like a little TV monitor that shows where he is it's everything you need is a man like that is he said he was going to do it he followed through with it and it's like fuck it it's like one of those things like jack you tweeted a lot like guys are going to see this and just think hell yeah hell yeah hell yeah Yeah. Yeah. This is a good reminder to anyone that you possess free will and you truly can do whatever you want with your life. So don't let the system or your parents or negative people in your life tell you that you can't build a golf simulator in your room. Because you have space. He literally just finished graduating school and like now he has access to grown up money. Right. And it's like now I'm going to. Now he has access to golf courses. Just has grown up money now. He's like this is what I'm going to spend my grown up money on.

I know. Yes, dude. All I can think of too, because, I mean, Jack, we've had him on the show. He's one of the nicest people ever. But I'm worried. I'm like, Jack, please do not be playing too late because I'm seeing the video and I'm hearing the sound and all I'm thinking about is if I'm the neighbor next to him. What is this mother effort doing in here?

Half the day he's drilling, he's creating carpets. The other half the day, he's hitting golf balls. And I got no piece of quiet. Might be the loudest neighbor of all time. Might be the loudest neighbor of all time, but I know Jack's very respectful. Might as just invest in some soundproofing material. Some of those squares on the wall. Just throw up a blanket.

We need to do it inside the bus vlog to his apartment. Yeah. Honestly. Jack, I haven't texted you yet, but you are on our next flag team. So he will be around much more often. Big announcement. Recruiting never stops. Nope.

Recruiting never stops. But yeah, speaking of spending big boy money, we had a loyal listener. I believe Derek, he goes by the name of Mr. White Chalky. Mr. White Chocolate. Do you want to give a description? Because you were familiar with Mr. White Chocolate. And I think he's kind of online. So just give us a description.

No, he was just a guy that when I had first started, I had seen in the comments of For the Dads. And he had a call in. And so we were just kind of DM in here and there. And he had DM just asking him to send us a Christmas card and a couple gifts a while ago. So I gave him, like there's two addresses you can give out. And it's the address or the PO box.

And so I gave the PO box. And then it took a while to get it here because Brett goes and check. it and stuff. So the other day he sent us a video to me and Sherman was like, hey, what's all this stuff? And I was like, I don't know, but it's sick. And then turns out it's from a loyal listener Mr. White Chocolate. Yeah. So we actually, before we really explain all the things he said, he sent us a letter. Also, we said before that we wanted to do like these unboxings and stuff. I didn't even know the P.O. box address. So we should like, I don't know if we can post something about it. Yeah. And I'd love to know that address as well. Yeah. I'm like, oh, Derek knows it. Like I don't even know. We did it for the reason

I got it was for for the dads. We wanted people to send us their Christmas cards. And so I was like, let's just pepper them there. Yeah. That way they're in one spot and we got a bundle of them. Yeah. So we'll, we will be putting out our PO box address somewhere so that if you all want more stuff to get featured on the pod and a thank you, you can send us your stuff. And it'll, whether it's here or somehow we'll figure out how to get all of it hung up. So it's like just like a fan wall of something. But what you got there? Uh, so this is from Mr. White Chocolate himself. I don't know if you can kind of zoom in

or you can see this, but so this handwriting is very neat, but it's slanted sideways, so I'm going to do my best to read this. I think I got it. Mr. White Chocolate. Boys, so sorry for the late Christmas card and package. This month has been a roller coaster ride for sure. I lost my grandmother on December

28th. I'm sorry to hear that. Rest in peace. Mr. White Chocolate to Mrs. Senior White Chocolate. It was a tough moment for sure. Since the, she helped me, my daughter took it in the worst way, unfortunately. Since they had a great relationship, I've just been consoling her and reminding her that me ma is now in a better place. Also, I'm in the middle of a move as well and officiating flag football tournaments and attending

college football camps to hopefully get hired by a college conference. Here's some autographed items you guys can have and maybe hang up in your offices or the back of the bus podcast set. Make sure you tell, and it's on the other side, very well, like, we love getting this. stuff. So maybe we can do like a little call in or mail in set in malware. Um, but, sorry,

got lost again. Make sure you tell my guy, Jack, that I'm still waiting for my signed girl dad hat, signed by Taylor and Will that I won while doing or winning during a red dead redemption live stream. And if you remember watching those, Taylor did that for about two weeks straight.

And I think he owes a lot of people. A lot of them. So we will get you that. Doesn't you even somebody like a cast iron skillet? Yes. Yeah, it might be another guy that we'll talk about it. Like almost two years ago. He goes, I bet his boo Veronica, her prize.

Ah, I remember Veronica. Deep cuts. But for God about me. L.O.L. hope you all have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and can't wait to see what's in store for 2026. And if any of you guys come to Dallas, please let me know. I love to meet you all and hang with the boys. Here's my real address just in case you don't have my hat. L.O.L. We'll leave that out.

But keep being great gents dash Mr. White Chocolate. I'm actually going to Dallas in two weeks. So I think it's only right. I might have to. That might be fate. Pull up for a little drink or something. That would be beer. You know what would actually be sick is if you met up with him and did a sandwich review.

That'd be awesome too because we got it. We need more inside the subs. Are you going to see him? Are you going for another reason? Well, I mean, unfortunately now I'm going for another reason. But it feels like this is, this is. this is fate um so again thank you mr white chocolate for the the nice note we're sorry about your grandmother but uh we love you and let's we appreciate you cooper why don't you why don't you unveil this

one and somebody remind me to ask a question after we do the unboxing because this letter made me think of something what we have here i don't know how well we can see it's pretty big like i feel you can see pretty good is a chase edmund's cardinals legend autographed photo one thing about chase Edmonds is he was just all right but but he reminds me stay with me stay with me you know the cardinals i'm in a bad head's been a rough week two weeks but he reminds me of the good old days a few years ago when there was hope and i was telling people you know who chase edmunds is no i don't know oh he's really underrated yeah i thought he was and then you know i mean just said he was all right he well you know he was i was wrong what's this photo explain this photo this photo this photo appears to

be chase edmunds scoring a touchdown against the new york football giants i actually remember this game josh dobbs tennessee legend yes vfl josh dobbs started this game and the cardinals roared out to a huge like three touchdown lead and then just completely pooped themselves and blew it but this was this was part of the I did not know that when I asked you to explain this. I'm thinking this is pick six game winner Chase Edmonds. He's a running back. He's a running back.

Then he left and then took greener pastures and then. Sorry, I thought it was Patrick Peterson. Oh, no, no. Just kidding. Dominic Rogers Carmody. Don't even go down the- That was Rogers Camardi. Legend.

Anyways, thank you for that. This is sick. This will be going on the wall somewhere. Appreciate you. Thank you for that. I'll go next. I have two things, but I want to save the one for last because I think it is legendary, but this is, is it?

Yancy. No, it's Yancey Figpin. Yancey Figpin. Is he related to Tyler? I have no idea. Actually signed on the back. Jeez. That actually is crazy.

I have no idea who this player is. He gave this up. He was an old guy. He played for the Oilers and the Titans. This is like an old type feeling. He's a pro bowler. This, I mean, it wasn't, was Delaney? number 82?

Yeah. Dang, he walked so Delaney can run. Yes, he did. Delany owes him everything. Which, Steelers legend, by the way. We got to break that down because I think Delaney was in one of the photos. Taylor's most recent post.

Crop God, Blur God, Derek, I don't know if you've seen his most recent post. I don't think I have either. Oh, I don't think anybody has truly seen it. For a guy that's transitioned from professional sports into media, you'd think

that he would at least just be able to post a clear photo now, but it's almost like maybe he's on the ultimate bit. There's something endearing about it. It really is. It's like a kid showing you a drawing. That's so good. Look at this post I made. Look at this post I made, Jack. And that's you.

And that's Delaney. Oh my gosh. Good job. What you do to him on Twitter of like the searching and Googling thing is like I've had multiple people be like did Taylor actually do that or is Jack just messing around? That's become my favorite bit on Twitter because it's it's to the sentiment of what we're talking about Taylor being like a little kid

that one I'm like crushing him as an adult and what's funny is people take Twitter Twitter's so negative compared to like Instagram and you can post one thing on Instagram and get the most positive things in the world and you get a Twitter and people are like you're gay as fuck but I don't know if Taylor's gay but I do think that we got to just continue doing that

for the rest of time Yeah. His kids are going to think he played in the 70s. The way he posts the photos. Which more power to him. Yeah, I mean. You played against plumbers. Three-time pro bowler?

They had the pro-bowl then? Do you have more stuff or? Did you not have? Oh, yeah, we do have this. I want to save that one for last. This one? No, mine. Oh, gotcha, yeah.

I'll hold him. Yeah. Oh, yeah, here, I'll hold it up. You didn't talk about it. It's just, I'm not even sure who this is, to be honest. Oh, you know, it's a Hall of Famer. Robert, uh, who is it, Mitch? Robert something.

Ronde Barber. Let's look it up. Robert Buckus. He's a Hall of Famer. Hall of Famer Class of 18. I'm about to get crucified, but, you know, we got to keep doing honest. Robert B. Robert Bigelow.

Hall of Fame, Class of 18. He's no Chase Edmins. I think goes. He looks like Dick Buccas. This is sick, though Let's see You know we got dirty in the trenches Look at him

Yeah Shit wasn't a hobby for him This is poor podcasting But we apologize Yeah terrible Need more Need everything at this point While we're waiting

This Briggs brought you by Chad GPT Dude I am Really not even getting Known as Dr. Doom Yeah Robert Brazil I'm going to get killed in the comments, man. I'm going to get killed right now.

I know, man. I'm literally wearing the Oilers jacket. But, dude, I'm about to get rid of... That was his nickname was Dr. Doom. Yeah, he actually was a legend. And now I'm starting to get a little quiet inside. Anyways, thank you, Mr. White chocolate. Hey, last week, I sat there and said Kurt Warner was the only good quarterback.

The Cardl's ever had, and I had so many ads about Carson Palmer. Twitter never. Which, by the way, I do know Carson Palmer. Heat of the moment stuff. You were emotional, dude. You were dealing with the loss of Kyler. I'm getting better on the mic, but I'm still not that good, man. I just forgot.

The last thing we have, I think, is maybe one of my favorite things we've ever received. But Jessica Simpson, custom? O.J. Simpson, U.J. Simpson, USC Jersey. Massive, dude. Dude, how did you get your hands on that? That's a question only Mr. White Chocolate can answer. I'll have to ask him for sure. Because it was a legit jersey and like

stitched and everything. Hang it in the locker room in his locker. Players of the century, let it sit there and see. 2004 limited edition. Shout out Mr. White Chocolate. I'm curious if he's like a memorabilia collector or if he's, again, spending his big boy money

to just send us some cool stuff. Either way it's awesome. Some of the stuff is kind of random, like the Yancey Thigpin one, the Chase Edmonds one. That's what leads me to believe that he has like a plug. He's deep in the memorabilia game. And so his TikTok and his YouTube channel

just have jerseys and signatures and him and his wife, I would assume his wife, going to games and things. So he's deep. Why don't you to give him another shout out, shout out his socials because he sent us all of this cool stuff. Absolutely. He does have, which I don't know if the link's not working,

but it's literally Mr. White Chocolate, at 88 on TikTok. He does have a YouTube channel where he'll makes a ton of content, things like that. For some reason, I can't see the link on here, but dude is a stud. Big memorabilia guy, big sideline guy, commanders fan, it would appear.

Shot on Mr. White Chocolate. Yeah, one of the best things about sports to me is the pieces of memorabilia like the Chase Edmund's photo because I don't know. I don't know why it just hits so hard with me. Like, it's just a random guy. I know.

That you know that Cardinals fans out there. There's some kid out there that Chase Edmonds was his favorite player for whatever reason. And to have that come across the, come across the scene, the screen is beautiful. And I think how much sports memorabilia is out there. Right. Like, it's kind of the same for every, like, a hobby or sports, so to speak,

if you want to count sports as a hobby. It ain't a hobby, bro. Shit ain't a hobby. That's your line. Shit ain't a hobby. The question I had after reading this letter. Oh, man. Oh, never mind.

This isn't cursive. I thought this was cursive. And I'm thinking, like, there's a there I feel like there's a year that a person was born and that's the cut off of people that use cursive because my dad writes in cursive my mom writes in cursive my oldest brother does not write in cursive do you all know cursive I do know cursive like I went to a private school I got my cursive license in third grade the most basic I learned in I learned it for license to write.

I learned it in fourth grade and my signature still looks like a fourth grader, like, wrote it. That's how bad my cursive is. But my dad went to Catholic school growing up and, like, they had to write in cursive every single day. So, like, his writing is still in cursive. His mom's writing was still in cursive. But, like, my mom writes normal.

So it's, like, kind of weird. I don't know. For the next bus scenes, I'm going to come up with a sentence and I'm going to have the shop write it in cursive. You got to throw a Z in there. Got to throw the Z in there. Z is crazy. Capital J is not easy either.

My favorite was the D. What's a capital J look like? Damn it. Pause. What's the capital J look like? Because I'm signing JP. A capital J is just a big... Just this.

Yeah. It's literally just a big loop down and over there. It's actually like one of the easiest ones. Yeah, I don't know what the lowercase is. My license probably expired. I think it's like a loop and then like... Isn't it like a... Like, you go up.

Yeah, I guess it's two loops, right? It's a loop and then a loop back. That's the uppercase one. The lowercase one is like it starts as a U and then you bring the J down and then come back up. And then start up. Yes, it looks like a U and a J combined. Kind of like a Y. Almost.

Yeah, yeah. The my two tails on the end. The hardest one for me to rate are R's and S's. For me. Oh, I like the S is like. Yeah. How are you? I remember the S?

I have. I remember. I go like R and then S for my last name and it's like it just I'm getting to the point where my signature I do a capital S I think it's just normal S. Okay. S is easy when I'm doing that S to T combo and Comstock. Easy. But this begs the question, is cursive writing a dying breed?

Yes. And I need to stay dead. I think it's like digital media and everyone being on their phone so much like Calligraphy's dead. Unless you're like signing something or. or if you keep a journal, I feel like most adults, at least in my profession, my personal law, I don't write unless I'm writing in a journal or signing something.

We're typing. Yeah, it's all, typing. I'll write, like, to-do lists and I'll write, Brooke gets on my ass all for it all of the time, but I'll, like, for my grocery list, I'll put on a sticky note and, like, just something about, like, crossing it off.

I'll do that, like, that's, I'll handwrite that, but, like, cursive is, it's just my name. And I feel like that is how, like majority of people in our generation, the only thing they'd know how to write in cursive is their signature. Cursive died when we had to learn ASDF, JKL, semicolon. That was the end of it. I don't even know what that is.

You don't know what that is? AS. You know what that is? It's not like typing? You know, yeah, you know. Yeah, yeah. What are they called? Do you don't know what they call?

Is that where you're supposed to rest your hand? That's home base, baby. Home base, baby. Yeah. I remember the A. I remember the keyboard class. I remember you had a pass. I just know QWERdy.

The QWERTY keyboard. Cordy Uiop. Dude, what was the robot's name? That would help you with math. The robot and the guy. Do you remember them? Tim and Moby? Is it Tim and Moby?

You're talking about Brain Pop? Yeah, it's on Brain Pop. Tim and Moby were the robot on the guy. The copper looking bronze robot? No, I don't think I'm thinking of a bronze robot. That sounds. I think I know what you're talking about. I'm pulling up Tim Moby.

There's no way of all in that. I don't even know where talk. All I can think of is Clippy. That little dude on. You know what clipy is? I don't think I do. The, what's it? The paper club?

Yeah, that's them. That's them. That's Tim and Moby. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He is copper. Brain Pop. Oh my God. I just put a.

You don't, yeah, I mean, it's like. You know who Clippy is, though. It was the Microsoft help. I didn't even sound like that. What do he say? I said, no, I don't know that is. And Kip goes, yeah, yeah, yeah. I go, you don't, yeah.

Y'all, I got to see Klippy. You all know Mr. Bill? Oh, I remember Clippy. Let me see. He was a beast. Oh, yeah. It's the Microsoft, like the original AI almost, to where it could just help you find things on your desktop.

They've got a whole brain pop universe now. What? D.E.I's. Pro, Clippy. Clippy really was AI before AI, and he does not get enough respect. No, definitely. I see all these threads about Claude. I need to see a thread about Clippy.

Do you see the episode of the office where Daryl's making his resume? And he's on helpline. And he goes, yeah, there was a paper clip that used to come up and help me make my resume. and I want to know where it went. Got it. It just hangs up. All right. What else we got?

Thank you again, Mr. White Chocolate. We didn't already reiterate that. Those are awesome gifts. We'll get them hung up. I wonder if we were in the... I didn't mean to overlook on your phone, but you just received a book. I'm sorry.

Hey, y'all want to know what it is? It's about my lease renewal. Shout out of court. Let's go. Remember. I think you've already said it on your court court one are you going to resign?

Yeah I do I can't move again I mean you gotta start dropping lease like resigns like how guys commit I gotta resign there man it's coming it's coming back up for your boy

oh no wait really six months I just moved you did six months how many times have you moved in the last calendar year from today twice

or is it over that? No, just once. Okay. I lived at the house this time last year and then I moved into the apartment. So if I'd asked you this in January, though, it would have been too. No, because we moved into the house

of September of 23. So have you been there for a while? No, it's September of 24. Mitch is a nomad. I've lived in like five different places and four years of being, or three years of being here. Five and three, yeah, that is.

Clippy. Do the math on. Yeah. Hey, it's us, the Jonas Brothers, and guess what? We have some big news. What's the news, new? Huge news. We created our own podcast called, Hey Jonas.

We invented a podcast? Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to our... We're the first people to do podcasts. Pretty, yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts throughout there. But this one's extra special. So how do we actually come up with a name, Hey Jonas, guys? I honestly don't remember.

I think it was on a call about what we should call it. And... Oh, we were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band before Jonas Brothers was... This is how you guys remember it going down? Yes.

I have a very different memory of this. We were talking about a thing, a bit for the podcast where people could call in and say, Hey Jonas. And then I wrote down on my little notepad, Hey Jonas, and offered it up as a potential title

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Presented by Capital One, founding partner of IHeart Women's Sports. I mean, Brooke and I are trying to figure out what we're going to do. She wants to, I personally, and I've talked to JP about it, I want to live in Australia for a year. And it's like getting to the age of like we want to get, we want to have kids or whatever. like that's like a thought and also with brook being in the medical field i don't know how the medical field is like different in australia like pas aren't really a thing over there which is like scary so it's like what we're going to do she wants to also live back out and cut like she had like a mental breakdown like i don't know what i would do if we do not live back in

california for a year and i'm like so i that's something that we have to do it's but it's like i i'm going to be moving it's on the way to australia kind i know i'm going to be moving a lot and i think that's, yes, it's become a bit that I move a lot, but I also think it's a real thing. But I enjoy moving other than the actual thing. I enjoy living in different places. You don't enjoy the process of moving,

but you enjoy a new scene. Correct. I get it. It's like two days of hell and then you're good for a while. Yeah. You know. Like that it is fucking hell. Yeah, I would argue that

moving is probably like one of the top three worst things that you can do in your personal life. I would argue it for a one. almost. It's not fun. I can't think of anything worse. Are you talking about just like the process? The process. Thinking that you're done and then you aren't, you're halfway done. And then like the little things that collect and the amount of trips you got to take from A to B and B. Once you move in, you got to organize. Yeah. Oh yeah. That's half the back. That's like a, that's like weeks. And then like you get your Wi-Fi set up, things like that, little things you don't know about the property. It's always something. Comcast is the final boss.

These mounted. Cancel it. Leaning against a wall. Cancelling your electric and water and like having to read. Transferring it to a new address. Oh, God. Shannon is about to move and we just toured an apartment yesterday for her. We're doing one today.

And the one yesterday, I won't say it to dog them. But it's a new one going up in Wedgewood, Houston. And from the outside looking in, it looks very nice. But dude, they have a like $175. Amidity fee. And all they have is a pool that they call a plunge pool. So it's tiny. a small weight room and that's it.

$175. We got a pet center at ours. And then it's like $125 to park. So it's $300 just like without rent at all involved. And they also split utilities. I don't know if you've ever heard of this because I'm not an apartment guy, but they split the electric bill in the common rooms. Yep.

Brooke's building had to do that. Like so Brooke, Brooke in her roommate were paying. We're paying for lobby lights to be on to. We're paying for like the gym lights and everything. It's like all the reality. extra five to six bucks but still it's like that's kind of fucked up

which y'all get all you all voted for trump all the fees are such bullshit I pay for parking and I got my car broken into explain that logic dang yeah we're in the garage we don't have cameras I don't have a window you gotta pay for cameras

yeah I don't know what our amenity fee is like we're we pay for like uh uh not pest yeah pest control and like that shit doesn't work Dude, for the one we toured yesterday, instead of physical keys, they have an application that you get on your phone. You can scan in. So, like, on the surface level, I see it, I'm like, all right, that'd be pretty cool.

First door we go in, then we tour, key works perfectly. The next, like, six doors, it took like 10 seconds each time. And she's like, oh, this doesn't do you happen. We go down, she's explaining it. You have to pay to buy the app, too. And now I'm pissed. So does she sign? No, we're going to tour a better one today.

And that one actually has real amenities. In Wedgwood? Yeah, it's the fineries we're touring today. I won't say the one that I don't like, but they got a great pool and good stuff. They have a half basketball court inside there. Yeah. That's epic. We get free coffee.

I mean, obviously it's in some of the things. We get free. Yeah, but it's like a coffee shop. Yeah, that's sick. Free coffee shop. Not like a cure egg machine. No, no. There's like a barista there.

And it's like including whatever. Then there's also a pet center where people that work, they board their dog for the day. The worker will go take them out. on like two walks. If you leave town, you can bring it there, and it's so much cheaper than normally boarding your dog.

And I'm thinking how in the world has every apartment complex? That would sell me in an apartment so fast. Yeah. They, uh, like, I've seen, like,

a bunch of the apartments that I, like, we've toured, um, and have been in, they have, like a dog washing area, like a pet washing. Yeah.

Or they'll have like, my apartment has, like a green way kind of, like just turf area for like, like a little dog park. Like a dog run. Yeah. And they can just go out there and,

like, pee and poop and you just pick up it well you have a bag and you can throw it away but like a watcher is sick like that's awesome so what uh if moving is number one what are some other things that are just for you like my mind is so just all

over the moving trail and how much it takes from you there's got to be maybe I say like each year because it's consistent having to file your taxes is definitely up there it's not the hardest thing in the world but it's just something that it's always annoying to me yeah one of the one of the things in life that

will always remain. I feel like, and I don't know if it's because my dad normally handles it most of the time, but like when you're buying a car and like haggling them and trying to go back and forth and then all of the paperwork

that you have to go through and then just to find out that you... I think I'm about to buy a car. I mean, I've told you guys that I'm overdue, but I've figured out this week what car I want. I want to buy a Toyota Land Cruiser. Oh. I feel like I'm going to have to buck up

and buy like a newer one and they're very expensive. But I've never gone through that process because I've always bought used cars and never bought from a dealership. So I don't know if that's the route. But if anyone out there works for a Toyota dealership and you want to point me in the right direction, we're looking for land cruisers, baby. We're ready to spend.

I always feel so awkward of like the haggling and like negotiating like, come on, I get it's down. And then they're like, this is, I ask my manager. And they have like, they have like scripts. Oh, yeah. This is the lowest, the absolute low. okay well we're gonna walk out he's like well let me go talk to him one more time it's like what are we doing here it's like we're gonna we're gonna play yeah it's like it is how about we just

meet in the middle let's just like i'll pay it's truly a performance it's it's truly is it's like it's like it's like a song of that too i just get so uncomfortable doing yeah i get so uncomfortable and like that's where my dad normally does it and he just like we're not doing that give us that okay sold that's why tesla is so intriguing to me because i'm like hey let me just purchase this online and they'll just deliver it to me. I don't got to deal with anybody. The price is what the price is. And I think more car companies should take that approach

for those listening. And that segment was presented by Elon Musk. What else? I have a selfish it's going to make me sound super selfish. Love it. I'm actually scared to say it, but I will. And this might be because I'm getting older. We're talking about just super annoying, inconvenient things, right?

Christmas shopping. No, I understand. I think, I understand where you're going. It's, it's not, it's not about, like, I don't want to give people get, like, that's not it at all. It is, like, the stress of, all of a sudden, like, the last few years I found out how many people I had, like, need to get a gift for. And then finding them and then worrying about them getting, I had a couple, like, stolen from my apartment, which I do love, but I just so many problems out of that. I talk about it out loud. Like, all of that, like, getting them in and then, like, I live out of state.

So I got to, like, find a way to get them home. Yeah. That's good. That's fair. The whole like half of November, December up until Christmas was so stressful just figuring all that out. Like just the logistics. Again, it's not about all the people I love. I love getting, I'm excited to give them gifts.

It's about finding out what to give, paying for it all. The logistics of getting it to them. And then like the timing. It's all of it combined. It's because you like giving them so gifts. Again, it's because of Jesus Christ. I know what you're saying. I don't know what you're saying.

Because you enjoy giving them gifts that makes. gifts that makes it stressful because you want the gift to like be good. Yeah, but it's just like, literally feels like a sprint from November to December of like this has to happen in this window. And like obviously you can start a little earlier, which for some like little things I would like if I see something. That's a good three. Moving, taxes, logistics of Christmas shopping. Yeah. I'll hang my hat on that.

Yeah. If you have other ones. Buying a cars for. Oh yeah. True, true. buying a car. Once I go through that process, I'll reevaluate. That's not something you do all that often, so I understand that, like, taxes moving and... Mitch is about to start buying cars like he moves apartments. I can't afford that, dude. Definitely drop in the comments. One of the most

annoying things in life. I feel like there's fat ones that we're missing. Oh, 100%. Yeah, well, that's why we need comments. We'll revisit this. We always need an event session. Always need one. We were talking about it briefly this morning that we want to do a social video about it. And I think, I don't know if I saw JP tweet about it, but like the best sports tournaments. Oh, yeah, like do a bracket for the best. Yeah. Off the top, like, what is, like, everybody's top three? Number one is the World Cup.

There's no better atmosphere because there's no better buying from fans. All you got to do is just look up the first goal of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa when, how you say his name? Shabalalalal. Hits the goal. They hit the dance in the corner. Look up that one. and then also look up Argentina's parade

from the last World Cup. And it's like Americans think we go hard. Philadelphia thinks they go hard for a Super Bowl parade. They do not touch. The Argentineans celebrating. Yeah. That's what I said, Philly.

So I got World Cup number one for me. I don't, man. Tournament sounds like that includes like small like playoffs too, right? Yeah. Not just like all like, We're talking March Madness, college football playoffs, NFL playoffs.

One that gets a lot of views, to me it's sneaky because I'm not in it is Wimbledon. And it's one of like the highest viewed on TV. Comes at the perfect time of the year right around 4th of July. Everyone is typically off of work. It also happens in the morning.

So it's like the first thing you can do and you still have the whole rest of your day. We've been blessed with great tennis players over the last 25 years. in the transition from Federer to Al-Karaz. So you'll probably see the greatest tennis player to ever play tennis in the next 20 finals of Wimbledon plus Jokovic.

I mean, as a big tennis fan, I could probably put Wimbledon at two. And three is so tough for me because I love college football. And I'm sure if South Carolina has won one of them, I would put college football, but we have it. As a kid, I used to love the NBA finals. Oh, three is so hard.

NBA and NHL, and I, like, I don't like the NBA as much anymore, but when the Mavericks used to be good in there playing the playoffs, the thing I love about, and it's kind of true for baseball, too. I feel like baseball's a little shorter. NHL and NBA playoffs are, like, such a marathon. Yeah. It is truly, like, a postseason. It is, like, almost three months of high, like, playoff sports.

And I just feel like, obviously love the NFL. That feels very quick to me always. Yeah, right. It's weekend, weekend, weekend. and bam super cool those are like you got a game every two days there's like five to seven of them in each series there's a ton of series and i mean i don't even know they start in like may and end in mid-june or something yeah it starts like late april and goes until it's just like june generally like it just a completely new season right rather than just uh all right here's the teams and they're going to

play a few games and decide a champion it's like no you got to that's why lebron has so many like extra seasons under his belt because he's played so many post seasons like i don't know what year it is in the NBA for him but it's he's probably played like eight more right cumulative seasons but i do enjoy that about nchl and NBA like those are up there for me just because of the like longevity of them i think i would like i just watched like the other day the uh like the preds and their run to the stanley cup and i'm like and especially with the way the olympics just went like the hockey culture i'm like really starting to buy into i think I think Stanley Cup's definitely in the top three.

I'll put NFL playoffs at number one, just being a football guy, probably Stanley Cup at two. And I like the World Cup is like obvious to me. But just like I think of like fan pop moments and like I feel like baseball has that. I was going to say I hyped up NHL and NBA. My number one goes without saying is baseball. Like the crowd pops from a postseason home run are just. Dude, I watched the Dominican Republic and Venezuela World. baseball classic highlights.

It was a party. Pool play. The entire time. It was insane. And that's like the world baseball classic goes crazy obviously because it's countries and like, you know, but the like world series and the just play like the the atmosphere in October baseball is just like insane. Like it's fall like fall classic for a reason.

The ball flies a little further. Every, every pitch matters a little more like it's, I love baseball. I'm biased for that. I still think baseball needs to shorten their season. Yes, every year comes down to like the playoffs. It comes down to a singular game. But I feel like that would happen no matter how long your season is.

Yeah. The only problem with that is baseball is just so old. They've been doing it for that way for so long. And it's just like the players won't let that happen because it'll change their money. And also I feel the same way about the NFL adding games, like all the history books and the records. Yeah. All these great players that are about to.

like come to pass in the future that we don't even know about yet right like what are their career stats and records like all going to look like compared to a dude like erin judge or dude like alex rodriguez what does this mean for lebron's legacy what does this mean for lebron's legacy but i i like i see short in the season but i i really don't it more so just sounds like hell as a baseball player because i think bryce said like 162 games and like 190 days it is it's a lot like 18 days off in six months. And they got like the shortest off season. It feels like to 400 mil.

I'm in. I'm just like going to work every day. We do that. I'm going NFL playoffs at number one. It's the only playoff or sporting event that I've got to experience my team, the Titans, make a run at two away games back to back, which will forever be one of my favorite memories as a sports fan, even though we lost the AFC championship to the Chiefs.

And there's something about it now that working with Bussin, the fact that we get a week off right after Super Bowl that psychologically does something to me where I'm like, man, I love this time of year. My second will be March Madness because, I mean, the first weekend of March Madness is unbeatable. I'm actually going to be in Vegas next weekend

for a buddy's bachelor party for that with like 20 dudes, might go to the Eagles, we're going to watch out or hang out, watch ball. It's going to be fun. So March Madness 2. And number three, that our shock hasn't even made a list is the Masters. The Masters weekend is,

Even if you've never watched golf for more than five minutes in the year, you're tuned in at some point to the Masters. Something about it makes you want to get back on the course. It's coming up here soon. When you see the promo start going with Georgia, Georgia. I mean, you just start getting chills. So something about that. One of those that I want to make a trip down for really bad, like probably for a practice around, experience the concession food that's legendary, the cheap prices. Just put your phone up for the day, not even worry about it.

Or around it is. Use one of the phones they have there. They have like those like pay phones. Just like not being able to use your phone. Beer and is like, did you? I went two years ago. Like it's what like a beer is like five bucks. The sandwiches are super cheap.

I can't remember. The beers might be normal priced. But all of the concession like pimento cheese sandwich, two dollars. Yeah. All the, you know, the merch is so expensive. But dude, walking around at the Masters is one of those experiences. It's almost like going. to the Grand Canyon and seeing the Grand Canyon for the first time, you're just speechless,

it doesn't feel real. The Masters doesn't feel real. It's so well kept and it's so big. You're like cutting across whole number one and with the whole crowd and you just look to the left and look to the right. You do feel like you're not even in a, you definitely don't feel like you're in Augusta, Georgia because for those that have not been to Augusta, Georgia, it's almost a nothing city. Yeah. And to have all of just that golf away. Oasis right in the middle of it is too pure. Hopefully it can go again, but it's definitely worth the... Yeah, I would love to go.

I've had, like, you've gone to a practice round. I've had a couple buddies. Yeah, I went to Saturday, which was fun. Put some respect on his name, dude. Now, but I will say, I think practice rounds might be better because everything is way more relaxed. I've never been to them, but... The golfers are, like, interacting more.

Yeah. I've heard the tension's not as big. Also, an honorable mention before we kind of close this one out. I got to hear Derek's too. Yeah, we'll hear Derek. And I feel like we would all agree with this. He's either a summer or winter Olympics. I don't know if that fits in this mold.

And I'd love to know if we're summer or Olympic people, but I want to hear from Derek, his top three. Yeah, it'd be World Cup one. I think, to your point, JP, the moments that come out of it are it is universal language. Like there's one, too, with Mario Goetzzee, when they're subbing him in like the 11th minute and double overtime. And he says, go win this for your country. And he's subbed on and won. And it's just cool. Two would be NFL playoffs.

I've been blessed with some runs 19 years ago that were really good, and so we're happy about that. Another one that's interesting is Champions League. Like, Champions League is the World Cup, but equivalent of soccer clubs. And so it turns out there. But three, did Jack's point is Masters? Because it's like, I don't watch golf a ton, but watching the same course and the same shots. Oh, he hit it there. Phil did that 13 years ago.

You know the aiming corner is just going to kill some people. Beautiful. I used my entire family plans data. one time just watching the Masters in a two-day span because I just had it all. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah.

Now to close it out, we can choose our summer, Winter Olympics. Yeah. I'll start since I proposed it. And it is very tough because I love snowboarding so much. And especially this past Winter Olympics, it felt like bigger than it ever has on just like such as big scale.

And everyone was super tuned in. But I'm going to have to go summer because there's nothing like watching the swimming and the running. and something about it just feels more pure to me. And like winners, like, all right, we're going to throw this in so we can give you guys a two-year break and like so we don't have to wait a whole like election cycle to see the next races. But that's where I'm out.

I'm a summer Olympics guy. I will also go summer. And I can just chop it up right to the, or chalk it up to the track events. I love everything else. But track, I feel like it's the first thing as human beings that we ever compete in. Just in our everyday life.

It's a race. The first thing you ever competed in was a race against somebody. And there's just something about that feeling being the fastest. Yeah. And to get to watch that. We all were the fastest. I bet we all were the fastest at our schools. Well, I'm just talking about from the jump, you know.

We were the fastest. True. From conception. We won the first race. Yeah. See, I was thinking like racing at recess. So, Gary. JP very clearly is talking about sperm.

And you're like, yeah, dude, at recess, yeah. They're both valid. They are. They are. So I'm going to go Summer Olympics. Mine is not even close. And mine is, like, more tied into the memory of, like, all the legends from the Summer Olympics.

And, like, don't get me wrong, Winter Olympics, growing up watching Sean White and Apollo Anton Ono, like, that was obviously iconic. The Summer Olympics just waiting to see Usain Bolt run or, like, or Michael Phelps swim. It's just like, and just like as a kid, I just love summer more. So it's summer break and like the Summer Olympics and all these legends. So it's summer for me by far. Yeah, I feel like it kind of, I don't know if it's going to be a clean tweet with Derek,

but summer, it truly is like the swimming and the track and field. And then it's like the soccer. Flag football. But now the flags in there are going to be tapped in. I'm going to be trying to make a team, but I don't think I have any shot. But. You're going to be pretty old. then.

Isn't it next Olympics? Yeah, but I mean, you gotta be, you gotta get on it then. I'll be 29. Almost 30. Prime. The way,

the way my athleticism is going, would I, with my age, I feel like that might be my peak. Yeah. I agree. I'm just trying to motivate you. That's all I'm saying.

There's people that's been preparing for that team for years now, so you got to. Yeah, I don't know how do you get even get in those crowds. So I, it is what it is. Derek.

All right. I'm summer as well, but for the reason that like every summer event is what I like to do for fun. And so to watch like basketball or swimming or even running in track and be like, oh, that's why I can't do it. Winter, I can't snow. I can't skiboard. I can, I can ice skate, but I can play hockey. So summer being obtainable and then being like, oh, it's not obtainable at all. Made it my favorite.

Yeah. When I was working at IMG, this is a summer Olympic story. There was this guy that was training. And obviously he was a track dude. I started talking it up with him a little bit I'm asking him oh where you from I'm from Trinidad and Tobago you know what events do you do

I do you know the 100 meter and the 200 meter I was like oh snap have you ever been to the Olympics he's like yeah three times I was like oh dang and this was so this was in 2019 so I was like which Olympics 2008 2012 2016

did you have a favorite which one was your favorite Well, probably the, I think it was a 2012 one. And he was like, I was like, oh, you know, how did you do? You ever get a medal? He's like, yeah, I got silver. And I was like, in the 100 meter, it's like, so you race you St. Bolt. He was like, yeah, I did.

And you see how you don't know my name? I'm thinking, wow, he was like a lot of people say, he's like, you know, or I like to say I was the fastest man from Earth in 2002. because Usain Bolt, there's no way he's from this planet. And I'm like, dude, and that is just the testament to track of it being, like, you're either Usain Bolt or you're my guy, Richard Thompson, who was the second fastest man in the world, would have won gold in any other Olympics, but because he's going against Usain Bolt in his peak, we barely know who he is.

And he actually coaches and teaches at IMG now. Amazing guy. Couldn't have a better attitude, but I was just thinking, wow, man. like this is the margins and track is you saying bolt like the perfect name for like his sport yes I think of like any sport ever like baseball he knew on that first run in recess he was gonna be the fastest kid too with that name you grow up recess mentioned yeah like I mean with the name of like bolt like you have to be fast and just like you saying like I call him insane bolt but you because she's insane it is there it is there I know I'm really cooking up here

all right nothing like ends some episode on some laughs yeah what's the time ad d 57 48 boom perfect yeah this is uh from last week thank you for sticking with us last week

last week was a little bit of a lull we're getting back on we're yeah my mind's on i didn't want to look at the comments i'm not going to look at them again this week as the oiler fandom they're going to kill me but luckily there weren't any bad ones last week now that we're saying it they're going to go back and be like yeah that was actually kind of shit but That was completely on me. It's on us, man. It's on you, same bolt.

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