Grass Daddies Podcast - Grass Daddies Podcast Episode 43: Picture This... [Feat. Trace Johnson]
Episode Date: June 3, 2024In this episode of the Grass Daddies Podcast, Jake is again joined by Trace "Johnny" Johnson! The guys talk about how they met and some of the shenanigans they used to get into back when they first st...arted hanging out ie. drinking too many energy drinks, playing Xbox, and setting off the smoke alarm at 1 am. Trace and Jake also talk about their trip to Vegas, how they brook the system gambling, and the interesting strangers they met there... SHANKITGOLF.COM Code:grass Follow us on Social Media! Youtube: grassdaddiespodcast Instagram: @grassdaddiespodcast @kamdenwellmann @jakekillham Tik Tok: @kandenwellmann (yes that's how it's spelled) @jakekillham11 (Trace doesn't have any social media but you can find him on Facebook haha)
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There was another lady that had such a gravelly voice that sounded like she literally ate cigarettes.
Didn't smoke cigarettes, ate them.
I just put her down as my least favorite from Vegas Strangers.
So you had a favorite and a least favorite so that we could talk about that girl too, just to find a way to talk about her.
Welcome to the Yabro podcast.
It's funny because it's a callback to the last time we were on.
That's true.
I'm Jake. And I'm Trace trace but you're not a grass daddy i was i was doing i was doing our intro
i'm jake i'm a grass daddy and today i am joined once again by i don't know why i sound like i
have a dick in my throat but i'm joined once again by uhace Johnson himself, the motherfucking man here alive in the flesh.
Oh, my God.
The studio audience is going crazy.
Guys, sit down.
Guys, we've got a long show.
You're going to need to keep that same energy this whole time.
Does that camera look a little crooked to you?
It does, doesn't it? A little bit right there i think it's perfect what other podcast
do you see where the host just hops up and adjusts the camera himself and then just
sits right back down and gets to it and doesn't edit it out either because i'm too lazy to um
good point you know what i just realized what? When getting ready to record an episode, I usually like to jot things down on my phone that I want to talk about.
Yeah.
But do you know what the really big issue with that is?
What?
My phone's recording.
Never thought about that.
So I'm just going to have to kind of think of things off the dome piece. So Trace John Johnson.
It's not an actual middle name.
Okay.
We got to address that now.
Yeah.
Actually, first of all, let's take this thing way back.
Okay.
Let's take this thing back to the day I first met you.
Sixth grade.
Sixth grade.
As anyone would do in sixth grade or elementary school or basically the first day of...
Of a new school.
A new school, a new era.
You go around and introduce yourself. That's the first thing of. Of a new school. A new school. A new era. Right. You go around and introduce yourself.
That's the first thing you do.
Yep.
And.
What I remember is that our teacher goes.
Say your name.
And.
An interesting fact about you.
Or something like that.
Yeah.
And.
I think we played like two truths and a lie.
Or something like that. Oh i think we played like two truths and a lie or something
like that oh really i if i remember correctly that would make this story a lot funnier but
from my memory from my memory it was just tell an interesting fact about yourself
trace goes my name is trace and his voice sounds exactly like it does now at least in my memory my name is trace and i like tacos
yeah yeah that is what i said um and you haven't changed a bit i still love tacos and you're still
trace and i'm still legally that's okay um which is awesome um but yeah i remember you going my name is trace and i like tacos um and
the rest is history and i was like i'm gonna be the best man at that guy's wedding that was
that was what i first thought uh no i think i was just like what a weird thing to say what a
that was the most interesting thing about you is Is that I like tacos? Now, if we were doing two truths and a lie.
Then I would have failed.
That's actually, you know what?
I'm going to double back on myself.
That's actually probably not a bad strategy.
Because saying I like tacos could 100% go either way.
Right, right.
But I wonder what else you would have said if we did two truths and a lie.
I feel like that's kind of a little complicated game for sixth graders.
Yeah, yeah.
But here we are.
This time I can physically see on the computers in front of me that we are in fact recording on these fucking
microphones because last time it was the three of us you me and ben and for whatever fucking reason
i didn't click on the mic on your computer so it's just recording to the so you see how it says
internal microphone and blue snowball yeah i guess i
accidentally selected internal microphone so we were using the computer's microphone
which doesn't really work when i listened back on the audio it sounded horrendous
like it was unusable yeah so we had to scrap it and um hopefully we will not have any technical difficulties on this
episode let me knock on wood here some fake wood paneling um so yeah let's uh
uh i know you're on a big sober kick right now but i figure i don't know i don't know when that started.
I say we break it on this episode.
What do you say?
You and me, you're on your big sober kick.
You might as well.
You hate beer.
I hate alcohol.
Are we touching beer? You're touching my bad toe.
Oh, really?
Oh, shit, my bad.
You got the cap on it?
No.
No, okay.
I know you're on a big sober kick right now,
but if it's all the same to
you um i'm kind of thirsty this thing's whining at us it wants to be open it is making a lot of
noise so um hold on oh okay okay everyone likes to jerk the door open you got to be polite okay
who is it who is it. What do we got?
What is the Magic Mini Pridge providing for us today?
Let's just break this open.
What's going on?
I can't see.
You're going to have to talk me through what's happening.
Oh, look at there.
Budweiser.
Also known as my favorite beer.
And I got to flame you again.
Yeah, yeah.
You knew this was coming, didn't you?
Yep.
For the longest time, Budweiser has been my beer of choice.
And how's it taste?
Tastes like shit perfect um for the longest time budweiser has been my beer of choice and um i don't know what got into you because you normally aren't like very
judgmental but you were giving me shit this one day because i was like drinking budweiser and something or other to the
effect of you going if you keep drinking that i don't want to have to be pushing you around in a
wheelchair when we get older like insinuating i'm just going to be morbidly obese right maybe have
a couple feet amputated um and uh i was like, shitting on me just cause I like to drink Budweiser, which
is a few more calories.
I don't know.
It's not even that much more.
Um, and probably about a half a year later, it's all that trace drinks now is Budweiser.
Um, you've kind of gotten off of it though.
Yeah, because I mean, it still is my favorite, but ever since I got COVID the second time,
it just hasn't tasted the same, and it honestly doesn't taste very good, but I still drink
it out of principle.
Oh, so when you just said it tastes like shit, you really mean it.
I really meant it.
I thought you were making a joke about how it's like a domestic beer, and they all just
kind of taste like water. No, it's actually kind of a sad story man
all right wait way to bring down the mood no we just got a big aww out of the studio audience
they're all shut the fuck up guys guys let the man you know let me share my opinions guys yeah
jesus um. The question is
am I going to go in and edit in sound now?
I don't know if I will or not.
I'll have to try to remember.
So,
thanks for coming on.
Cheers to you. Thanks for coming on.
I thought Cam was going to be recording
this week, but it
turns out it's actually next week.
What did he have going on
this week i don't know i i do this thing where people tell me something and uh i don't listen
yeah and so um happens a lot with my girlfriend which i feel like is happens to a lot of people
but uh yeah she'll have to remind me like the day of or day before, like, something's going to happen.
She'll be like, I told you.
I'll be like, no, you didn't.
She'll be like, yeah, I did.
And I'll be like, okay, you're probably right.
I just forgot.
I either forgot or I wasn't listening or I was half listening and then forgot.
So I, for some reason, thought Cam and I were recording this week um but him and bailey
are coming down next weekend and we'll be recording but in the meantime um we have a
very suitable guest standing in for cam um trace john johnson himself now back to what we were
talking about right i think this was probably like seventh or eighth grade
you know we've become friends at this point yeah probably eighth grade because we were like at each
other's house almost every weekend yeah we were hanging out a lot uh drinking uh venom energy
drinks and venom great venom and playing black ops one zombies that probably was not good for us um downing those venoms let's let's get there
but first um we were in the lunch line at school and i don't know maybe i thought we were getting
to this point in our relationship now where i needed to start learning middle names or something
but i was like what's your middle name and you were like john John and I was like your name is Trace John Johnson and you're
like yeah yeah and I was just like oh and I just believed you and it took an embarrassingly long
amount of time before you were just like because I would call you Trace John Johnson and Trace
Johnny Johnson and stuff like that and then one
day you were just like you know my middle name is not actually john right i was like what and i'm
and you were like yeah it's cole and i'm like you're like no no i it's funny how i thought
that was you fucking with me not not john john john johnson johnson and johnson um but yeah man
you it does not take me much to get nostalgic yeah that is one of my subjects that i love
talking about yes and lena and i were on a walk the other day and we were kind of talking about
this i may or may not have been a little bit buzzed while saying this stuff but And Lena and I were on a walk the other day and we were kind of talking about this.
I may or may not have been a little bit buzzed while saying this stuff, but I was like, I just love nostalgia so much.
Like I love dwelling on fond memories that I have.
Right.
There's just something about going back and thinking about a time where I was happy about whatever just dwelling on fond memories and um i think we should do that now about about some of our uh we've had plenty
we've had a lot of good memories um some good and some bad but even the bad ones now yeah
are fun stories they're pretty funny um i think we're still recording looks like it on my
end um so yeah like we said we would uh get together on the weekend uh trace lived about
10 minutes away yeah 15 minutes walking distance of russ's market and uh you were the first person to start drinking those Venoms.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Because they were like 99 cents.
And then I remembered you having a collection of them on your dresser.
Mm-hmm.
And whenever we started hanging out, I was like, I want to get in on this.
Like, whatever's going on.
What's ever going in?
What's ever going on over here?
I want in on this like whatever's going on what's ever going in what's ever going on over here i want in on it and uh back in like seventh and eighth grade call duty black ops one baby
it's like it wasn't the first call duty that had zombies but it was the first one that like
it was popped off yeah like it was a big boom and so man we'd walk over to russ's
and we'd get like a four pack of Venoms.
I remember one night I got a four pack of Venoms and I drank three of them.
Yep.
We probably went up all night that night.
Oh, yeah.
It was not uncommon for us to pull all-nighters.
Like, was it the episode with Ben where we were talking about all-nighters?
And I said the last time I did it was probably with you.
Yeah.
Episode 41.
Go watch it.
Sure.
Go watch episode 41 even though
the audio is but audio is poop um but yeah I remember yeah we'd stay up all night playing
keno or playing zombies oh yeah keno dude yeah I'm not playing I was like not playing. I was like, not playing Keto. That'd be crazy if your dad like had a TV set up in the house.
Just like a slice of Keto, guys.
I'll go run your bets into the Denton Daily Double.
So I remember drinking one night, drinking three of those fucking Venoms.
And I remember my side started tingling.
Yeah.
So, I mean mean i don't know
that i might have set a record for the youngest kid to have a stroke but uh i think i was rapping
on heaven's gates i mean it was bad yeah it was uh it was jitterville for sure yeah
yeah we got into a lot of shenanigans at house and um for whatever reason i had this uh
proclivity of breaking items i was just about to say should i bring up how many things you broke
go for it i've talked for the last 14 minutes and 33 seconds so you can tell some stories now if you
want about me the only two that i remember is the one where you thought my door was like partially open so
you're like let me just knee this door real quick to just scare trace or whatever your plan was
like i was gonna burst in the room yeah but no that door was shut and you definitely put your
knee through it uh honestly the door might have been slightly cracked but it didn't even matter because my
knee hit that door with such velocity that i just punched a hole in it essentially yeah
now is that a hole still there in that door no no really have they replaced the door even yeah
i'm guessing so because you can't drywall a door i don't know how you would patch a door. Not that I know of, yeah.
And then the other one was, I think it was my birthday party or something like that in high school.
And we had a bunch of guys over and we slept.
I think it was me and you slept in my bed and everyone else had to sleep on the floor or something like that.
Something along those lines. But then I wake up the morning to jake hopping on top of me and
he's like i'm gonna do push-ups on you and starts just banging his chest every time he'd come down
for the push-up and then eventually my bed just gave way it just said no we ain't taking this
uh and those are the only two i can remember well it's first of all that story story sounds so sus it sounds so gay but we were straight
we were straight and but um you know it's to be in middle school or early high school
and to be able to say i broke my bed but it was from my homie normally you'd think if you broke your bed it's like god damn like
you were getting it after it this week right no no it was just my asshole friend jumping on top
of me just doing push-ups i'm doing push-ups on me and then the plywood that like your mattress
was sitting on just like it just broke just like you said way. And you were asleep one minute, and then the next thing you knew, you were awake, but you were, like, laying backwards at an angle, sliding down into the corner of the room.
I still have that bed frame.
I actually sleep on it to this day.
My dad fixed it.
What ain't broke, just keep using. I'm surprised your parents ever let me back into their house after that.
Because, oh, I have another thing.
That you broke in my house?
I didn't break, but we.
Collectively broke?
We didn't break anything, but there was one time where so when we first started off our ventures
at the Johnson residence it was upstairs and in your room yeah but then at a
certain point things got rearranged and you were now living in the basement
iconic basement the iconic Johnson basement this is where we were sitting
where our school colleague got too high and was outside the door,
puking on the floor.
Go back and listen to that episode if you haven't heard it.
Yeah, a lot of magic happened in that basement,
which also sounds sus,
but there was a fireplace down in that basement.
Oh, okay.
I think I know what it is.
And so sometimes, like, in the winter,
it wouldn't be uncommon for, you know,
if we're sitting there playing Xbox
or watching Lord of the Rings
or watching a movie,
that we'd throw some logs in that fireplace
and have ourselves a little fire,
you know, a little crackling fire
while you're hanging out.
It's pretty fucking pretty nice experience.
Oh yeah.
But I think it was like the first time we were trying to do it and trace was
like,
I,
we got to open the chimney first and then you kind of were fiddling around
down there and then you're like,
I think it's open.
So I'm just like,
well,
let's start this fire.
Right.
So we started the fire.
And the whole basement starts filling up with smoke.
Oh, my God.
And this is at like.
Two in the morning, one in the morning.
I don't know if it was two in the morning.
Might have been like 12 in the morning.
It was probably around.
It was probably around midnight.
Right.
Because we were going to have that fire for like a couple hours.
Right.
It was probably, let's just say it was around midnight right because we were gonna have that fire for like a couple hours right um it was probably let's just say it was around midnight yeah basement starts filling up with smoke smoke alarm goes off yeah um and trace's dad comes downstairs and bursts in that
door in his boxers and just goes like what the hell are you guys doing we're like uh try to have a fire try
to have a fire no shit no yeah and he just kind of like went down there and like opened the chimney
up which you failed to do which i thought yeah i thought i did and uh then he turned around and
left and i'm just like i'm surprised he hasn't just, like, you should stop hanging out with this guy because every time he comes over, something bad happens.
Something happens, yeah.
And I'm trying to, I've been trying to work these stories in my mind and see how I could integrate them into my best man speech because I feel like it'd be funny.
Oh, yeah.
I've been trying to punch it up as if I'm doing, like, a stand-up comedy bit.
Yeah.
Trying to figure out how I could work it into like a funny funny speech um so there's that we have a long history um
and uh you've been one of my best friends for a long time and uh i feel like as any um duo of guys um i feel like
a lot of times when you're with your guy friend and you're kind of just like
shooting the shit you know you start to come up with ideas and i feel like i feel like any duo of friends thinks
they have the best ideas and great ideas but i don't know guys i feel like i feel like if if
trace and i really put our heads together we could we could come up with some shit like oh yeah i'm
not saying solve world hunger but nothing like that, we wouldn't want to waste our talents on something like that.
But we could definitely come up with some pretty crazy ideas.
Oh, yeah.
Like, we had an idea for a video game.
Okay?
We talk about video games on this podcast a little bit.
Fucking deal with it.
Right.
We're a couple of dudes who grew up in that generation.
We're going to inevitably talk about video games right so i think this was one of our better ideas honestly
we came up with an idea for a video game where it's like it incorporates all the different video
games remember you know what i'm talking about i know what you're talking about and it all started
with gta when we were playing that yeah so we were playing gta grand theft auto for those of you living under a
fucking rock um i don't know what we were doing maybe i was like driving a tractor in the game
and i was like what if i could just start farming right now or what was it we were on a mission
where we were in like crop dusters and we, like, crop dust these marijuana fields with acid or LSD.
And you were like, Loki, I wish they had cropdusters and farming simulators.
And then that just started this whole, like, idea.
So we went on this whole spiel about, and we would always say this.
Picture this.
Picture this.
That's, like, our thing we would always say.
Picture this.
That's what I should have started the pod with.
Welcome to the picture this podcast. can i get another beer no good point i'll ask the fridge good point
it does deem you worthy sweet so we had this idea for this video game where it's basically like a life simulator, except all the different go to farm, it's the entire engine is like the farming simulator engine where you can incorporate all of that.
Right.
If you wanted to be like a sports player or like an athlete.
Then it cut to any of one of those games.
Right.
Like MLB, college football, and then to Madden.
Yeah.
That would be crazy.
High school football.
Right.
Any sports game, it would like...
Keep in mind, this game would be like three terabytes.
Yeah, I was going to say hundreds of memory space.
This game would be like three terabytes of data.
It would be crazy.
But, and then if you're like, I want to be in the military, Call of Duty.
Call of Duty. It just pulls a call yeah
yeah battlefield imagine so like imagine you could set the time frame so if you wanted to be like in
world war ii yeah you could like go you could go into a setting and change what era you live in
or start your life in um what else what else could there incorporate
shit besides like the base game like if you just
wanted to run around and kill people then that'd be like gta it would just be gta right just like
that would be like kind of the base thing you got flight simulator flights if you wanted to be a
pilot a pilot fucking yacht simulator how many different simulators do they have now crazy amount they
have lawn mowing simulator cop or police simulator i play that i low-key need to get that dude it's
pretty fucking fun can you talk to the people yeah like you have dialogue with or so so is
there proximity chat is it online yeah you can play up to two people at a time with each other.
But you're not in a server.
No, it's like somebody has the loaded game,
and then if you wanted one other person to play with you, you could.
I suppose that makes sense because if you were wanting to play Police Simulator,
you'd probably want to be the police officer.
So it'd be probably kind of hard to find people on multiplayer
that are like, I want to drive around in speed
and have cops pull me over.
That wouldn't be very fun.
But in the game, theoretically,
if there were people selling drugs or something like that
and you wanted to be the cop,
you're now in charge of actually being a cop
where other people want to play it like GTA or something like that.
Is there drug activity in the game?
Is that a thing?
Oh, yeah.
Actually, one time I loaded in for a 30-minute shift.
A shift?
A shift.
You can actually do an eight-hour shift.
Can you eat donuts?
Nah, you can't eat or drink anything.
But anyway, this shift I get on and there's prompts of what's going on, what's most important during this shift.
And it was like drug deals.
So I went in and there's this park, not very big park.
I'd get someone for drug dealing, get them in my car.
And then another prompt would be like, catch more drug dealers.
And so literally there'd be another drug deal happening in the same park.
And I'm just like, where are all these people trying to sell their drug like why is it here
just it's like an ounce it's like a playground ounces of marijuana ounces of cocaine just like
whatever you could think of so being sold is there like a dispatch over the radio like saying like
we've got a such and such and such you're like 13th and bravo and you can either hit like
accept or decline see i've seen police simulators where like the guy will like talk through his mic
oh okay and it like does the prompts to the ai or probably like a response to the dispatch probably
yeah dude there's so many different like you... You could probably find or play anything on PC.
Yeah, it's crazy.
You know what Corbin was telling me?
What?
He was telling me that there is a software that you can just play GameCube games.
I believe it, yeah.
It was called Dolphin something.
But he's like, you can just get Smash Bros.
And then if you get an adapter or something, you can just plug in a GameCube controller and just play it.
I was like, god damn.
I need to get a PC.
Yeah, low key.
That'd be kind of sick.
So you work today.
I did.
Yeah.
And I was kind of thinking about this the other day while I was at work when I was getting
ready to when we're getting ready to record as I was filling up my sprayer because, you
know, I spray chemicals at work.
Right.
The water was kind of splashing on me and I was kind of getting wet and I was just like I am there's like I'm always getting wet at my job like if I'm working on irrigation
or hand watering or spraying like I'm or if I'm just like changing cups or doing something in
the morning and there's dew on the grass yeah like my feet are always wet like i always find
a way where i'm like wet and damp the whole day yeah it kind of sucks and i was like trace probably
can relate to this too every day because you work at jet splash yeah which is a car wash
and so you probably inevitably get wet every day yeah Every day I'm just be getting wet out there.
I be getting wet.
I just be getting so wet.
I stay wet.
So it got me thinking.
What are some other jobs out there where people inevitably get wet?
I just like stay wet.
And not to state the obvious one.
Car wash, yeah.
What?
I was setting you up for a porn joke.
Oh, my gosh.
That's actually a good point.
But then when you said porn, I was going to switch it and say firefighter.
Obviously.
You're trying to catch me.
Right, but you're too sweet and innocent um um or or like uh i was gonna say submarine but then i was like that
you definitely don't want to be wet because that means you're dead you're dead you're gonna die
if you're getting wet in a submarine you're dead yeah you shouldn't realistically be getting wet
as a submarine what about do they do like you know how astronauts do spacewalks
do like yeah submarine people do that probably not they probably have to have they are yeah
they probably have to have like special dive suits that can well and i pressure i don't think you can
just open it uh that's true too and just leave the submarine well i don't know there's probably
maybe there are submarines that you can do that like it would have to be like in space where there's like a pressurized like separate
right exit enter just like in moon on zombies yeah okay yeah we don't have to circle everything
back to me um but actually that's how they launch torpedoes. Oh, yeah, true. And I was watching, like, a video about it where, like, basically they put the torpedo in the tube and close, like, the hatch.
Right.
And then they have to flood that tube with pressurized water to match the pressure on the outside.
Okay.
So that they can open the outside and then launch the torpedo out.
Because if they just opened it, then all that water would spill on board and it would be unnecessary weight that could tip it.
Yeah.
So they already have to have water on board to fill it up with.
Are you thirsty?
I'm thirsty.
You're like, are you done talking about submarines?
I'm fucking thirsty.
You're making me more thirsty.
All this thought of seawater.
Speaking of zombies, I want to talk about our zombie apocalypse plan.
See if we can revise it at all.
See if you remember it like I remember it.
For some reason, I want to say we were planning on meeting up at your parents' house or something like that.
Okay, we're along the same lines a little bit so this could be a fun topic i haven't talked really about this at all on the
pod yet zombie apocalypse plans again a lot of our thoughts we're like still middle school boys
we're just like playing video games drinking energy drinks drawing pictures with stick figures drawing crazy pictures and talking about zombie apocalypses yeah
let me walk you through what i remember about what our plan was our plan was we would be at
my parents house and somehow we would remove the stairs to go to the upstairs. Yeah.
I don't know how that would physically be possible,
but we're like, we'll chop off the stairs.
Right.
And then we'll have a browning at the top of the stairs.
Just mount it up.
Mount it up so that zombies can come in and we can just shoot them from up there and they can't get to us.
Put like a little bell on the front door.
Sure.
Something like that.
And then we would have a tube because we knew the
first floor would be fucked there's no way you can keep zombies in or out of the first floor
right the ground level we would have a tube that would go from the upstairs to the basement so we
could access the basement and we would just have to go down a ladder and it would just be like
impenetrable from the middle floor because it would be going through the middle floor.
Right.
Now, I know what you guys are thinking.
How are you guys going to get your food?
Don't worry.
We thought about this.
We go out on the roof outside. climb out the window and then we just have um we we made it very convenient for ourselves
because we said we'll just have a snowplow come through and fling a pizza up to us right he would
have a pizza flinger and just a snowplow on the front of his truck we're just somehow hoping for
the fact that like pizza hut doesn't close right
pizza hut doesn't close and we can just order and they'll just deliver it to us with a snowplow
and then fling it up onto the roof and that's how we get our food right we'd just be living
off pizza pretty foolproof plan if you ask me right i mean i don't see any flaws with it
no no it's it's solid oh yeah and then we said we would just sit up on the roof with
snipers and just yeah snipe zombies like if the walking dead cast just somehow came across us
they'd be like how the fuck are these guys still alive living off pizza and pizza hut baby you
don't have one in your town pizza hut and sniping zombies from the roof of my parents house which i
hopefully all of our families
are with us i don't i hope in our fantasy it was like just us too yeah for whatever reason
except for the pizza guy
and this was also before we had girlfriends so obviously they weren't
included in our obviously these were the kind of thoughts and conversations we were having when our our brains weren't preoccupied by women women um that's all i'll say about that
um god what else did i want to talk about oh yeah um so we just got back from vegas
which was pretty sweet pretty pretty, pretty fun.
Um,
I'm not talking about that yet.
Cause I haven't told cam.
Oh,
and I want to save that to tell cam on the pod where he can hear it for the
first time and get his initial reaction.
But you know what?
I'm going to give you guys a little spoiler because I know cam's not going to
listen to this episode. So I'm going to give you give you guys something um to look forward to listening to and what i'll
say is that we went to a weed dispensary that's all i'm gonna say you can um and uh it may or may
not have something to do with uh the I told about Blue's Clues.
So you can have that to look forward to.
Those of you that are listening, that will be recorded next week
where I'll be telling the story to Cam and getting his raw reaction.
He has no idea.
You haven't told him anything about Vegas?
I said I have a crazy story to tell you about
vegas and that's it that's all you've mentioned about that's all yeah to him to him right um but
we can talk about everything else well right um do you want to say some stuff i feel like i've
been talking a lot oh let's see here oh you did you came prepared i actually wrote some stuff down
all right it's like i have to fight tooth and nail to get cam to write anything down he doesn't You came prepared. I actually wrote some stuff down. All right.
It's like I have to fight tooth and nail to get Cam to write anything down.
He doesn't write anything down.
I'm like, he'll sometimes have some stuff he wants to talk about, but usually he just goes by the seat of his pants.
So what do you got there?
I've got a few things.
So let's just start with, what was your favorite thing about Vegas?
Okay.
The favorite thing about Vegas. Because we did a lot.
We did do a lot.
Honestly, dude, that Bellagio fountain was fucking sick.
That was pretty cool.
Unfortunately, we saw it during the day.
It was still sweet.
It was still really cool.
It was still really cool.
And being that I'm a grass daddy and a golf course guy and a grass guy, I have a fixation for shooting water.
Do you guys have a fountain?
Well, no.
I just mean like sprinklers.
Oh, yeah.
Any form of jet streamed water.
It's just I'm in.
And it was massive.
It was massive.
It was hard to conceal my boner.
Just splooging water i mean i'm such a nerd that whenever we went back
to the hotel i looked up bellagio fountain right because i wanted to see if there's videos about
like talking about the logistics behind it and i did find one video where the guy was talking about
like the main water shooters and they shoot like 200 feet yeah i mean shit straight up in the air right
it was crazy and like they were blasting air out too so it was like like it sounded like a
cannon and it was 93 degrees out so that mist felt pretty fucking good i swear to you with the amount
of water that was shooting in the air absorbing absorbing the heat in the air, it dropped the temperature around us by 20 degrees.
It felt so good.
It was synced up to music.
What about you? What was your favorite part?
Topgolf.
That was really fun i know that's something you can do here in nebraska
but nothing will beat the view that we had of like the vegas strip around us we could see the top of
the sphere we could see like at least half of the sphere like we could see a large part of it yeah
that shit was dope and we did get a 50 gift card Topgolf as one of our gifts for the registry.
Oh, really?
So we're going to have to go do that soon here in Omaha.
Fuck yeah.
Yeah.
Definitely have to do that.
Yeah, that was a lot of fun.
It was kind of a bougie setup.
There was, like, pools.
Yeah, two pools, I think.
There was a pool up above us, too, I think.
Yeah, there was, was like a pool on our
level which we were like what on like third level third level yeah and then yeah there was another
pool above us with like cabanas that you could rent i was like god damn that shit was bougie
that shit was sick oh um the other video i saw when i was looking up the bellagio fountain was
there was like a youtube short and it was talking about like the best place you can stay in in Vegas.
And it was it was a room in the Cosmopolitan, which is so where we were standing.
The Cosmopolitan was to the left.
Yeah.
And it was like a room way up.
Okay.
So it looks down on the fountain so at night when
it's going off that would be pretty cool because it has um so what was what's so cool about that
hotel room or like all the hotel rooms was they when they built it they originally planned for
it to be um like apartments oh but then it didn't end up working.
So the hotel room is like an open style concept.
Oh, okay.
And it has a balcony.
That's pretty clutch.
And like no other hotels in Vegas have like balconies.
Because they were intending for it to be an apartment.
Yeah.
And they ended up making it hotel rooms.
So you can go out and sit on the balcony your own personal balcony and watch the fountain go off at
night okay that would be pretty dope i told lena i was like we need to go there someday yeah i think
it would be fun to do like a couple's retreat right but it was like 400 a night so i mean
alyssa and i looked at because we were just curious because we watched an episode of modern
family where i don't have you seen modern family yeah okay i'm aware of it
i don't really watch it but i'm aware of it okay well the character jay the father yeah yeah so he's
staying at i want to say it was either the bellagio or one of those more fancier hotels
and they were talking about packages and so like we probably just got standard rooms
whereas like there's packages and some of them were like luxurious hotel rooms for like a couple
grand a night a couple grand couple grand but so it's they're talking about in the show but like
how realistic is this to real life though we looked it up oh because we were like curious we were just like oh so what other kind of packages could we have gotten and there's like
suites like actual suites you could get and they're all like close closer to the top of the
hotel rooms so even Excalibur had like a deluxe package where you have like you have separate
bedrooms you have a big living room each room had its own tv in
it and you had a tv in the living room and like i don't know what your tv was when you stayed in
your room but ours was just like the generic yeah it wasn't even a smart tv yeah no it was like
probably just like a 32 inch just like yeah semi flat screen and then some of these rooms actually had their own little pool
that you could just yeah go out on the balcony and just go in the pool what on your floor yeah
that's fucking crazy but they were like a couple grand a night so are they just like high roller
yeah i'm guessing high roller like packages trips yeah people who are...
The thing about Vegas is
there's
so much to do.
There's so many shops,
stores
you can go into,
places to eat at,
fun things to do.
It's impossible to do it all.
And it's like
when you're there and you're seeing all these
different things we stayed busy pretty much the whole trip yeah there was only like maybe an hour
or two here and there where we had time to gamble right and we spent it gambling and we did like
the only times i was in my room was to sleep. To sleep, yeah. Or change clothes. Like, I went up to change clothes.
There was no downtime.
And it still felt like we were missing out on a whole bunch of things.
Oh, yeah.
But it's not really our fault.
No.
There's just so much to do.
And Alyssa had a really good itinerary planned out.
She did.
She did keep us on schedule.
She did.
And it was actually kind of nice because it was it helped us stay busy without
and it had ideas for us to do like we didn't it wasn't like a strict we have to be here at this
time right because neither of you or like neither of us had been to vegas so like we had no clue
what to do other than gamble and i didn't really know where anything was exactly yeah so the other thing
too is so expensive oh my god so expensive like i think the cheapest the absolute cheapest meal i
had was like chicken tenders oh i was thinking maybe johnny rocket when we had those burgers
well but even that was like 20 bucks for just a burger.
I was going to say, the cheapest meal I had was like $20.
Yeah.
And that was for like a chicken tender and fries.
Yeah.
And that was a damn good burger, though, at Johnny Rocket.
It was.
It was damn good.
Where we had those two workers hitting on us.
Oh, my God.
I don't know if they were fighting for tips or what they were doing.
They were definitely trying to riz us up
And we were just like
I will never see you again
Not that that was what was stopping us
I mean we're both in very committed relations
Right
I'm not trying to look at the logistics
Of the situation going well this is why it wouldn't work
And they weren't my type
They weren't my type so they weren't my type um what else he got on there top golf oh okay gambling
oh uh favorite vegas stranger i think we both have the same one um my favorite vegas stranger probably an uber probably one of the ubers
oh what were you okay you tell me yours i was thinking of that worker that we were like walking
by that space cow oh my god yes tell some dude win like $600. Tell them. Tell them about that.
We're watching this dude.
In Vegas, when you win money off a slot,
especially in a large amount,
it just keeps going on the screen.
It's not just immediate.
Like, oh, yep, you won $600.
Here you go.
You're watching it go up.
And so me and Jake are just behind this dude,
just watching him win $600.
And some lady comes up behind us and she goes, this is my favorite machine.
And Jake goes, is it really?
And she goes, yes, it is.
No, I go, I go, I go.
So which I was like, she was telling us about it.
And I go, so which, which machine is your favorite?
And she goes, that one one that one right there yep
southern accent and everything um she was african-american she was which made it better
yeah i mean she was real funny and she was very basically so she was a worker for at the hotel
and basically what she would do is like as people would walk by she would be like oh do you want like are you
guys going to see this show tonight like do you want a coupon or whatever and um basically she's
just kind of kind of like a concierge but not really she was kind of just like a helper just
like i guess i wouldn't even say a dorm a doorman or whatever. Just kind of hanging out, I guess, trying to get people to go to shows and stuff and spend money, I guess.
Have a good time and stuff, yeah.
So what she said was she'll camp out by that machine, which it's one giant slot machine with a huge screen above it.
But there's like four different slots. Well, they're the same brand, but yeah. It's one giant slot machine with a huge screen above it.
But there's four different slots. Well, they're the same brand.
Yeah, but four different spots you can play.
Four seats.
Seats, yep.
And she said she'll sit there.
She can't gamble while she's working.
But she said she'll see which machine's hitting that day.
And depending on how long she's there. She said she'll, like, see which machine's hitting that day. Mm-hmm.
And depending on how long she's there.
So the way, like, those machines typically work is they have, like, a minimum payout.
Right.
So, like, they have a minimum amount of time before they have to pay.
Yeah.
For how much money is being gambled.
So she can probably get some of the timing down, too.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah. So she probably knows that one hits like every hour or two hours
and she said she goes after work and like plays whatever machines hitting
and she's like i've won three thousand dollars on this machine i'm just like oh my god
she was awesome she was real funny she was cool and then later we did go back we went back and i
won like $40.
It might have been like $40 or $50.
But while my money was going up, she was kind of walking by,
and I was just like, this is my favorite machine now too.
And she's like, oh.
And she was so happy for me.
She was so excited and so happy for me. It was awesome.
If she wasn't my favorite favorite she ranks right up there that we had a couple we had some
funny uber drivers um drivers or lyft drivers whatever the fuck um there was let's see the
very first guy the very first guy um we got an got an Uber XL at the airport when we got there.
And we all walked up with our bags and he basically just said, yeah, I can't take you guys.
And just hopped in his car and dipped.
And we're just like, huh?
It was like a regular SUV.
Like, I do not know how this was marked as XL.
Seated five people.
And he basically was just like, yeah yeah i can't take you guys and just dipped it we left us stranded in the middle of the parking garage so we
had to like go back to the waiting area and order another one yeah and then a different one came that
was literally smaller yeah it was and at this point i was just like all of alyssa's cousins were just like, well, this isn't going to work.
And I'm just like, I was a little impatient.
And I was like, it's going to work.
Oh, yeah.
Trace and I will sit in the back.
We'll put our bags in our laps.
We'll be good.
And the guy was willing to take us.
Yeah.
So I was like, let's take advantage of this.
And we'll just cram in.
I mean, it's five minutes to the hotel.
And I don't know what he had in that back seat that I was supposed to be resting my head on,
but it was just digging into the back of my neck.
I don't know if you saw me readjust multiple times.
I was not comfy.
I was not comfy.
We basically looked like a human pretzel back there.
I mean, we were like spooning in the back seat damn near.
And that guy was like, his head was touching the ceiling.
We were like literally inside a clown car it looked like that i'm sure the valets thought this is a clown car um there
was another lady that had such a gravelly voice that sounded like she literally ate cigarettes
didn't smoke cigarettes ate them i just put her down as my least favorite vegas stranger so you
had a favorite and a least favorite so
that we could talk about that girl too just to find a way to talk about her
and jake's just like what's your favorite and what's your least yeah like she was terrible
i would never get in a car with her again why didn't why didn't you not like her
she just oh my gosh she just reminded me of like some
some chain smoker who just can't stop smoking cigarettes she's like i always have to have a
cigarette in my mouth that's so funny and she was vaping too she was vaping yeah and i was like how
are you vaping when it smelled like cigarettes she's trying to wean herself on she's like i
think i'll stop smoking she said i want to start smoking cigarettes again and i need
to work my way back on so she started she started low on the on the vape and is working her way
back so she can smoke some more cigarettes imagine bro just cutting yourself off so you can be like
i'm gonna start back up like she spikes her coffee with vape juice probably. Like her throat. Tobacco. Her coffee grounds are just tobacco.
That's what her coffee
is made out of.
She doesn't use
coffee grounds.
She just like
takes tobacco leaves
and just like
steeps it
like in a teabag.
Yeah.
That's what it
sounded like.
She was terrible.
She wasn't that bad.
She wasn't that bad. She wasn't that bad, but I hated her.
She wasn't that bad of a person, but she can get fucked.
R1, we had an Asian guy that didn't speak the entire time.
We had that guy that you were like, so what's the furthest you've ever driven and he
was like oh 15 minutes oh yeah that guy the guy had like six or seven different ubers oh yeah
oh yeah um the one lady at the very end our last uber where we were driving oh yeah
we were driving from our hotel back to the airport to fly home.
And she was turning left, and someone almost damn near cut her off.
And she honked at them and kept driving.
And I was like, do you want me to flip them off for you?
And she was like, no, no.
She was Hispanic.
And I'm just like, because I will, with both hands.
She thought that was so funny.
She was like, no, no, that's okay.
I was like, I'll put my coffee down and flip them off.
You were like, I'd be goddamned if someone disrespects my Lyft driver.
Or yeah, I was like, no one talks to my Lyft driver like that.
And then we were talking about, she was talking about how the Hard Rock, they're going to make the hotel into the shape of a guitar.
That's pretty cool. Which, first of all, of a guitar that's pretty cool which first of all
fuck yeah that's gonna be sick um second of all she was talking about how
um like vegas is implementing all these do like new and crazy things to like attract people or
whatever and you were a listener was like like the vegas sphere and she's like yeah no it's just like
that's a good point I had to I figured out a way to work the good point into the conversation right
just to try to make you laugh that was kind of what I was doing half the time whenever I was
in the front seat was I would just try to say something to make you laugh behind me right
because I'm like I wasn't like a mean to the ubers ever but I was like I to say something to make you laugh behind me. Right. Because I'm like, I wasn't, like, mean to the Ubers ever.
No.
But I was like, I would say something because I'm like,
I'm never going to see them again.
I could say something a little weird because they might think, like,
who is this guy, and it's not going to mean anything.
No, because they probably take hundreds of people in a day.
Right.
Maybe that's the business that you should get into if you go work in Vegas
is just be a Lyft driver.
I don't know.
Hundreds of people need to be picked up.
Right.
Yeah, it was kind of weird how, like, every hotel had, like, a dedicated ride sharing.
Like, there was literally signs that said, like, Uber with an arrow.
Yep.
Like, Uber slash Lyft or ride sharing or whatever and there
was like dedicated areas just for us to be picked up that you would wait at it was actually kind of
nice it was made it easy because you would order the uber and you would go and sit there and then
they would all pull up in the same spot and to me it felt like they had to have been just like
camped out somewhere nearby because every time we'd order a lift, it'd be like, oh, we'll be there in four minutes.
Well, I feel like everything in that area is kind of just like 10 minutes away.
Very.
Really, everything physically is like one minute away, but it takes like 10 or 15 minutes with all the traffic.
Right.
So it's just a matter of them getting to you because they're obviously very close.
Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
And like as someone who probably lives there, you definitely don't live on the strip.
No. So you're going somewhere when you're actually driving takes a long time.
But everything on the strip was close enough to be a short drive.
But walking to it was going to be the issue where it it would be like a 30-minute walk, 45-minute walk.
Luckily, a lot of the stuff we did was connected to our hotel.
Basically, our hotel was like Caddy Corner from the MGM Grand, across the street from New York, New York.
And there was these bridges that would go over
the intersections.
And the Luxor was connected.
So it was good.
It was like 10 lanes wide.
God, it was like 5 and 5.
We saw an accident probably every day.
Yeah, there was
constantly accidents happening.
Yeah.
And they were like doing construction on the roads and shit.
Like, I see what they mean by that.
It's a city that never sleeps.
Right.
Like, you go to bed.
I was a little bit jet lagged.
The first night.
Yeah.
I was lagging the first night.
I was lagging the first night. I was lagging the first night.
I'll say that much.
But yeah, it was, it's so weird that even when like you're going to bed at night, it
just sounds like normal daytime activities happening right outside your window.
But yeah.
And the one lady said like yeah nothing really happens until
after midnight and I'm just like
we didn't even really
10 o'clock my time is or 10 o'clock here
is midnight my time and
I'm fucking tired right
right because it's not like we weren't doing anything
I think the latest I stayed up
was the last night before we left
and we stayed up till about like 2 a.m.
and that's not even
4 a.m. Lincoln time yeah that's not even 4 a.m yeah that's
not even that late like there right to go to to go to bed at 2 a.m when people are saying everything
happens after yeah that's probably just like the peak everything's happening like at the clubs and
shit alissa actually tried to get me to go to a club the last night when she got done with thunder
from down under and you're just like nah it was like yeah it was like 11 30 and i was like i'm not trying to go to a club when i'm
i'm drunk as shit so like i mean they just brought us free alcohol left and right and i was like
yep should we talk about gambling now let's talk a little bit a little bit. A little bit. Trace and I, as anyone would probably say, we lost it all.
But we were like this.
We were up and down.
We were winning money and then we'd lose it.
We were winning money and we'd lose it.
Here's what I'll say about that.
If you were to just, or me personally, or whoever,
if I was to just,
let's say,
take $20,
and I put it in the machine,
and I get up $30,
so I'm at $50.
If I was to just stop,
then what are you going to do? I'm not going to go sit in my hotel room the rest of the day.
Exactly.
Yeah.
I'm here in Vegas.
I'm going to have fun.
You know,
this is like,
we have both kind of set aside money.
We are prepared to lose. We are ready to lose. It's not like we had both kind of set aside money we were prepared to lose we were ready
to lose it's not like we were digging into our savings account like just one more hundred just
one more hundred it was like we were kind of prepared for it and it was just like well if i'm
up 30 that's 30 more than i thought i was even gonna have yeah so and then eventually you'd
gamble it away but it was good it was a fun time. It was fun.
We played a lot of slot machines.
We didn't play any table games.
We didn't play any table games because a lot of the minimum bets were like $15.
Right.
Which you can lose real quick.
And like I said, we were there to use our time.
Right.
And try to maximize our money. So we would go for slot machines that you could gamble 15 cents per spin.
And it was a lot easier to slow down how fast you would lose or gain.
It's a lot like an arcade where it's like, I know I'm not going to get my money back, back but i'm gonna play some games for a while right and yeah if you were to go and lose 15 a pop that imagine okay imagine doing a slot
machine and doing 15 spins yeah and i accidentally did that once i did not realize that i was doing
and how fast did you lose it like six spins i was done that's 60 dollars in
four spins yeah i mean that's way too fast yeah it was ridiculous so so pay attention to those
minimum slots but we found some like blackjack like script like you could play against a computer
basically and i made that name for that bitch i don't remember what yeah what
did you call her was her name giselle or i was like well i can't remember what it was but i
named clarice clarice yeah i was like i pointed at this you were so drunk i was so drunk i just
like tapped jake on the shoulder i was like this bitch looked dumb as hell she's just a virtual
lady i had lost all my money at this point yeah i was not gambling
anymore it was like our last night we were just trying to find i was like it was it was one of
those where it's like an extra wide seat yeah we both sat down i was like let's play this together
yeah it's your money but i'll spin it for you but you bet what you want because it's technically
your money right um you're fucking drunk as shit and you're like this bitch Clarice we're about to take all her money she's dumb as hell and it was just some like AI like like
animated person on the screen yeah and we were getting up I mean we lost 50 because you had 100
and we got up to 100 we did um but um so yeah we did a little bit of blackjack and roulette on the screens
um so it's not like we only did just slots right but thirsty we discovered these machines
oh the quick hit oh the quick hit blitzes sure the quick hit blitzes i damn near thought we were broke the
system i thought so too because i was up uh 50 bucks from the 200 i'd put in like already
previously so i was like i'm up 50 from what i even came here with. And so I was like, we broke it. Like, we're winning.
Everyone, and it's funny because anyone who's even,
you could go up $5 in Vegas and probably think that you broke the system
and that you were robbing the casino, when really you're not.
But we were smart enough to know that,
so we were playing these machines that basically like there's five columns and you need to get the quick hit symbol
five of them or no three of them would give you your money back five of them would give you or oh
the the just the free spins or the blitz. The blitz, yep.
You needed to get three of the blitz symbols in the middle three columns,
and then it would take you to this little screen where you select these three,
where you select out of, like, I don't know, there's probably 25.
Yeah, 25, yeah.
Or maybe 30.
It was probably, like, 5x6 or whatever.
And whatever the first three matching are, you get.
And sometimes it was like...
Times three.
It was free games times three, free games times two.
But basically, we figured out that they pretty regularly give you these free games.
So we were like, we'll put our money in get the free games get our profit and then and then
go to another quick hit blitz because we know it'll consistently give us right so we're sitting
there and there is a row of like six of these quick hit blitz machines and so we would sit get
our bonuses and then jump two seats to the right. Jump two seats. Like, we were going down the line, and God, we thought we were breaking the bank.
We were kind of breaking the bank.
We were definitely up.
We were up there.
Yeah, we were up there.
But, so, I have something that I want to talk to you about.
Where I feel like we might have been shooting ourselves in the foot.
Probably were.
Now, I have no proof of this,
but I have kind of a conspiracy.
I have an inkling of what might have been happening to us.
So you can get these cards.
Oh, yeah.
MGM rewards cards, right?
Mm-hmm.
Because we were part of the, technically it was part of the MGM or whatever.
Yeah.
So you can go and sign up and these cards, every single slot machine has a little spot where you can stick your card and it'll be like, hello, Jacob.
Hello, Trace.
A membership card.
A membership card.
That was free.
It was free. A membership card. A membership card. That was free. It was free.
And it would give you, like, points for every so much that you spent.
It would give you, like, some points back.
And then you could, like, for every 100 points, it was supposed to be, like, one in-game dollar that you could, like, gamble for free or whatever.
Now, it all sounds fine and dandy but we live in a digital society and i can't help but think that when you stick your card in it's tracking what you're doing on those machines
and creating a database or a spreadsheet.
And so when we put our fucking cards in that machine, it goes, oh shit, they're up $100 on the quick hit blitz.
Like, let's fuck them over.
Let's make sure they don't get any more bonuses.
Yeah.
It may or may not be true, but by putting a card into each one of those machines, we may or may not have been giving them a way to
track us. Yeah that's true.
You know what I mean? Yeah I could see where you're going with that.
What's to stop them from having a
computer dedicated to
or a program or whatever dedicated
to tracking
tracking you know
you could stick it into a machine and it'll go
okay he's
up a hundred dollars today right
let's make sure he doesn't win any money on this machine he's whatever machine it is not even
quick it blitzes because like i was playing that one like mermaid game or whatever yeah i had so
i put i played that game for so long and it wasn't giving me any profit because usually what happens
is the money you put in is the money you get out.
Or the more you put in.
The more you're going to most likely win.
Right.
The more you gamble.
The more you're left.
So like I put like $150 in.
Because I had like a $150 ticket voucher.
And like.
I would get little kind of bonuses here and there.
But it wasn't like giving me –
Your money back.
I was sitting there for probably a half hour, 40 minutes,
going spin after spin after spin, and then like I'd kind of go up a little bit,
but I would like fall further and then up a little and then further back down.
So I don't know.
Maybe it was just – I don't know.
Maybe that –
Could have been that game in general. Well, I don't know. But, yeah, we don't know. Maybe it was just, I don't know. Could have been that game in general.
Well, I don't know.
But yeah, we don't know.
And that whole time you were on that one, Alyssa was on some machine where you had to like,
there's three separate jackpots that would set up your free play games.
Yeah.
And the whole time she was just trying to get one string of fireworks to go off.
And that was the name of
the game you just kept spinning and every time some of the times you get a rocket of a certain
color to go to that one well she had gotten the other two jackpots each time before even getting
the one that she had been there to try for so there's any number of factors that could lead the machine to not giving you the bonus, whether it's on a time thing or if it's a certain amount of how much money this machine has been giving out.
Everything is in favor of the casinos to make money.
Right. But the real bitch of it is
20 people could lose
100,000
and one person could make
2,000.
Yeah.
And the casino would still make money.
Right.
So one person could make a bunch.
A bunch of people could lose.
So your object is to be that one person and everyone
thinks they're going to be that one person especially when they get up like you said like
100 bucks we're like oh shit i might be the guy yeah but and we if we really wanted to we probably
could have walked away with money but then we would have had to go sit and do nothing. Either, yeah, go sit and do nothing,
or spend money to give back to the casino,
like go sit at a bar and drink and watch something.
We would have spent our money elsewhere, more than likely,
because there's no such thing as free entertainment.
No.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
So, did you have anything else on your list or what do you think i might have had one more thing but
i think that's so fucking funny that you went who was your favorite stranger and then sub bullet
who was your least favorite least favorite no the only other thing i had was the mgm grand swimming pool that was um that was the the day after yeah what happened
which i'm not divulging it um that was pretty nice it was pretty nice but you could tell those
lifeguards weren't gonna get in that water worth a damn they had shoes on that was fucking shorts the only thing they had on them was a red
shirt that just said lifeguard so like maggie was like oh you're gonna go to the mgm grand pool
that's gonna be like a party that's gonna be a club like with music going like and there was
good music i was kind of excited for that but like i was i thought it was gonna be a dj and i thought
it was gonna be like a packed pool i was like where's everyone at but then i remembered it's tuesday it's it's a tuesday it's a tuesday here in vegas yeah yeah just because
we're on vacation it's still a tuesday and that was kind of nice honestly like it was pretty nice
because alissa looked because she was like low-key what if we didn't leave today what if we just bought
plane tickets on for tomorrow and she
looked up the prices and the prices were jacked up like if we stayed one more day yeah we would
have stayed thursday whole day and then left on friday those tickets were bumped up because
honestly i wonder what kind of vibe it would have been if we did if we did friday saturday sunday
in vegas yeah i wonder what that would have been like.
Would it have been way more packed?
Well, they did have an event going on that weekend, too.
Oh, yeah.
What did she say it was?
It was some...
Some kind of crazy dance festival?
Yeah.
Like EDM, wasn't it?
Yeah, where they would have different DJs come every couple of hours.
Where they would just play a set, then switch,
then play a set, then switch.
That would have been wild.
Yeah.
Yeah, the pool was pretty cool.
The lazy river was nice.
Oh yeah.
So if you ever feel
useless
in life,
just know that you could be a lifeguard at the MGM Grand where the entire pool is three feet deep.
Yeah, three feet deep, yeah.
Where it's almost impossible to drown.
Right.
Yeah.
But honestly, maybe that is the job because you don't have to do anything.
Yeah, maybe you just be a lifeguard during the day and then lift during the night.
Yeah.
Is that the, that's the Vegas dream job collection?
Yeah.
Lifeguard in the day and lift driver at night.
Yeah.
I mean, shit, that sounds like you'd make quite a bit of money.
Just don't pick anyone up at any dispensaries. But yeah, so there was a lazy river, which we didn't even end up finding where you could buy the tubes at.
I was expecting there to be a shack somewhere.
I think you had to rent one of those cabanas because every time I'd look in one of the cabanas, there was tubes in there.
Maybe.
Maybe that's what it was.
But we ended up just walking it. I was crouched kind of and like floating along and we made one lap around and
there's this guy that just had this beer beer amid of miller light cans do you forget about that i
remember that he had like it was probably like four or five cans tall right next to the edge
of the pool and i'm like how is no asshole just like
came by and knocked i wanted you to do it i wanted to do it but then i was like if no one else has
done it yet maybe this guy's like some kind of like famous mob boss or if i do it like i'm gonna
get killed or something like that and then there's just like a bunch of cans in the lazy river just
going down exactly like this guy stacked a bunch of essentially trash yeah up next to the pool and
if i knocked it down i would probably get in trouble yeah you would have to clean it up right
so i was like yeah whatever but there was one lady oh yeah that was floating in front of us
she was fucking tossed off of i don't know probably margaritas probably at 2 p., I don't know, probably margaritas or something. Probably at 2 p.m.
I don't know what was in her cup.
On a Tuesday.
Did she have like a sun hat on?
I don't remember.
Yeah, she had a sun hat, sunglasses.
She had like a sun hat on and a one piece.
Basically picture a middle-aged mom who's fucking hammered from one too many margaritas.
And she's like floating by us on her tube.
And we're kind of like crouch walking through.
And she's just like, can you turn me around?
I don't even think she saw who she was even talking to.
Her eyes might have been closed.
Yeah, for all I know.
She was like, can you turn me around?
And I like turned her tube around for her.
She's like, thank you. Yeah, yeah i don't know she was fucking it she probably doesn't even remember that she probably doesn't yeah she
could watch this podcast but who is that if you if you're watching if you're that lady that we
saw in las vegas who asked me to turn them around in their inner tube at the mgm grand lazy river
i hope you made it home safe. You're welcome.
Yeah, and you're welcome for turning you around.
I spit in your drink, though, as you went by.
You didn't.
You might have.
I didn't see you.
But we had a lot of fun.
It was a good old time.
I'd go again.
It was a good old time. I mean, it was a lot of money, but we came away with a lot of good stories, good memories, good time.
And, yeah, I think on that note, I think we've shared our peace.
There's probably a couple other things I wanted to talk about, but my notes are on my phone, and't get to them right now so we're recording um but yeah i think we had a good talk had a few
brews yeah um hopefully budweiser starts tasting better for you again it does after a couple beers
yeah i mean yeah i say the same thing about four locos like those first like half the can
is brutal brutal but once you get through that halfway point it just it's just a drink yeah you don't even remember that what you're drinking yeah um but i think
that's gonna do it guys um thanks for watching and listening trace thank you for sitting in for
cam and uh helping me record this episode i hope you guys enjoyed it um hope you guys enjoyed
listening to us Talk about Vegas
And talk about all our
Reminiscing about our past
And all of our stupid stories
And ideas and things we've come up with
This
Wasn't the first time you were on
We recorded a couple episodes before
And hopefully this won't be the last time you're on
Correct
Because I had a blast
And
Yeah You in next week And hopefully this won't be the last time you're on. Correct. Because I had a blast. And yeah.
You in next week?
Yeah.
Do you like the Celtics or something?
Nah.
Were you wearing a Celtics shirt the last time?
No.
I don't remember.
I had to wear a sweatshirt because I was wearing my Jet Splash t-shirt underneath.
So I was like, I probably shouldn't.
So I just put a sweatshirt on even though it's sweating balls down here this episode was sponsored by jet splash if you go and use code
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Until next time
I hope you hit the jackpot
we didn't do our signature dab
here, ready?
there we go, bang
what?
wasn't that 8th grade we made that?
I don't know, at some point
the white guy dab
I had to explain it to Ben and Spencer
the last episode
we made kind of a white guy dab it's White guy dap. I had to explain it to Ben and Spencer the last episode. I'm like, we made, we made like kind of a white guy dap.
It's like a basic form of dap where it's just a slap and a punch.
You know?
Simple.
White. Bye.