Grass Daddies Podcast - Grass Daddies Podcast Episode 47: Baby you're a Firework! [Feat. Maggie (Killham) Wolf]

Episode Date: July 3, 2024

In this episode of the Grass Daddies Podcast, Jake is joined by his big sister Maggie! Maggie talks about the hunting trip that her husband is currently on, in Argentina. Jake talks about almost drowning as a little kid at a water park. And with the 4th of July coming up, the siblings discuss nostalgic stories from the past, including when their dog tried to eat a lit firework! SHANKITGOLF.COM Code:grass Follow us on Social Media! Youtube: grassdaddiespodcast Instagram: @maggieraewolf @grassdaddiespodcast @kamdenwellmann @jakekillham Tik Tok: @kandenwellmann (yes that's how it's spelled) @jakekillham11

I think the thing with seafood is, especially like fish specifically, like a salmon or like trout or... As long as it doesn't taste like fish. You don't want it to be too fishy tasting. Yes, because that's a distinct taste. But I also think it's how you... Like the lake thing that I'm describing. Yes, but it's also how you prepare it too is so slapping it on dad's weber propane grill and just

him going uh i've never done that i don't know i don't think anybody's done i don't think anybody else complained about it probably isn't the best way too fishy that was the first time you had ever tried salmon also you had never your refined palate i tried it had never been exposed welcome to the prego my ego podcast um that's maggie i'm jake and i am a grass daddy and she is a mom mommy. We'll edit that out. Just kidding. Future grass mommy. Future grass mommy.

Put it next year. Got to be all up in there. You got to get up in there. Like how close? Like my lips don't have to be. Do you see how I am? Do my lips have, like do I have to be. Like if you purse your lips, it should damn near touch it's grazing

okay um cam is still recovering from his quadruple bypass surgery and also his liver replacement um and he told me that since he cannot drink he refuses to come on here um so say what now he had a liver replacement surgery no he didn't after his quadruple bypass um so he's still recovering that's why he can't come on but right as his substitute today who has pregnant brain obviously um my sister maggie welcome round of applause from the studio audience hello everyone thanks for being here glad to be here is it because you can't scoot all the way into the table is that why i'm just kidding you you do whatever's comfortable but i mean i could be i was wondering if you'd be able to talk into the microphone scoot up to the table i can hear you um but thank you for being here

and uh did you just fart no that was me just scooching on the chair adjusting myself you're on thin ice you'll know if gas passes because there is a good chance okay from you or the baby did we ever figure out we can blame the baby did we ever figure out if the baby can fart i don't know if the baby can pass gas i know the baby can hiccup i know that it's at the stage where it can hiccup i've been feeling it like not convulsions but it's like like when it's it's just uh more frequent movement and i can tell that's when he's hiccuping getting restless in the old in the in the oven is what they say bun in the oven is what they say. Bun in the oven is the expression. Dude, I had a coffee fart today.

You were walking down here and you were talking about how sensitive your smell is. I think if you smelled it, you actually would have just died. Probably. I mean, it smelled like, it kind of smelled like coffee. Well, I like coffee well i like coffee but but not in a good way it was like aggressive we are trying this again because we um are once again running into technical difficulties it is a a horcrux of sorts that we face on this podcast i don't know if I'm even using that. How?

I don't know. It's something that. Or cracks. I don't know. Anyway. My brain is kind of scrambled right now. Same here. I have an excuse though.

Yeah. You are carrying. There is life on board. There is life on another planet. The other planet being Maggie's body. Uterus. Yes. Thank you for being anatomically correct. There is life on another planet, the other planet being Maggie's body. Uterus. Yes, thank you for being anatomically correct. So we're down to one charger for our two computers, and we're hoping one of them doesn't die.

We tried to let it go, and so we're coming to you now post Crunchwrap Supreme Supper, which was pretty delicious. they were so good i you were actually who gave me the idea for it um yeah girl i follow on instagram she makes them but she'll do the other thing that want to clear your throat excuse me it's all that crunch wrap um residue in my throat she would make um she would do like a veggie version and she would do refried beans with it so that was pretty good we did it the first time with refried beans but i don't think we've done it since with the beans now is a crunch wrap supreme is that like taco bell's like coined name for what that is i feel like it's their claim to fame i don't i feel like they i think they invented the crunch wrap supreme i mean like is a crunch wrap supreme

like what that is or like like it's like the crunch wrap supreme that's like the common name for that style of taco slash cuisine i would i think that taco bell invented the crunch wrap spring okay yeah is my understanding and then because it's such a phenomenon people have tried to recreate it it's kind of this it's kind of along the same lines as like people say kleenex but that's the brand name for tissues but people refer to kleenexes interchangeably yeah i would yeah you could say that but i feel like that's the crunchwrap supreme is a specific kind of or like duct tape that's like a brand but crunchwrap supreme is a specific type of mexican or like velcro i don't know velcro is actually a brand name for, you know what the device is actually called?

Hook and loop strips. Do you know that? No, I didn't know that. Velcro is just a company who made hook and loop strips. No, I don't. Pretty dang exciting. So you're, but you're, I guess I'm a little confused on the, you're referring to all these different kinds of brands, but then you're talking specifically

about a crunch wrap supreme yeah yeah yeah like is crunch wrap supreme is that the like the velcro of is it actually like a oh that's actually just like a crunchy taco wrap like what is the name for it? We'll move on. We've got my I swear I'm I'm kind of flustered. I've been like relentlessly prepping for this beer Olympics like all weekend. Lena and I were just cleaning and shampooing the carpet down here because we've got naughty cats. And that's where your mind's been. And then I got home from work today and like power washed like the side of the house oh like i didn't realize that i moved all those logs down to the fence and like cleaned up all the leaves i saw that i wondered if they were from if you guys

had debris from the storm last night no no um which we didn't really it didn't really rain that much until like today like this morning like we were on a delay at work we didn't start working until like nine o'clock yeah that was about the time i got out of bed if i'm gonna be honest so so are you still working a normal schedule or are you so i i'm doing summer school oh yeah i i kind of it's all wonky there is a lot of stuff going on so i was i'm doing preschool summer school at a different school but then we have like just to get like hours yeah just to have like something to do in the summertime it's not it's only in the morning and it's just those two weeks I had between the end of the school year starting and then the beginning of summer school starting I was like starting to

get bored so I was glad that I had something to do because right what would I have done also I mean I would have found something to do but I'm glad that I had something so I'm doing preschool summer school last week I was subbing at Prescott for just regular summer school. That ended. No LPS schooling at all is in session this week per the 4th of July. So you're kind of lone wolfing it, so to speak. That's your last name. So what is Ben actually in argentina for

so my husband ben i'll i'll go through the whole thing so if we want to because it's kind of a funny story before you do that i'm a little parched from all those crunchwrap supremes i had so i would like to uh see and so the magic mini fridge is this right here do you not know the lore of the magic mini fridge i feel like last time like you first of all you kind of scared me with your hand there because i thought you're just gonna jerk it open well the magic mini is there a password it demands more respect than that i'll just say sorry so sorry um so i got this off the black market from guadalajara from a guy you got this from amazon no i didn't i got this on the black on the dark wet on the black market from guadalajara mexico it came from a family of um like migrants that were murdered and so like this fridge has seen some this so essentially long

story short once you plug it in every so often beverages will appear inside oh right this is the lore behind it the lore however the magic mini fridge is very tapped in to the ether so it typically gives us something that we would like to have every once in a while it'll surprise us and we'll have to oh fuck we have to drink that um but you know you sit down you make contact with the table and it just starts taking data so hopefully there's something in there for you your dislikes i don't know okay so well i like to knock first like a secret knock or just like i just like to knock just to let it know i'm coming in i want or what's the uh the average is a no the. The average? No.

You know, like, there's a special... That's the Mario theme. I'll just give it a one, too. Okay. See what's inside. Let's see. What do we got? Hey!

What do we got? Hey. We have some Michelob Ultra. It's lovely. Michelob Ultra? You know what they call that? What? They call that mom beer.

For. Which I'm guessing is for me. Yeah, because. But given that you're a mom, I think it kind of suits. It kind of fits. Mom to be. Well. And it has an M on it.

Oh. Good thing they're twist offs. Good thing. And then there's just this strawberry vanilla olipop which happens to be no alcohol in that no you're good you're good to drink that hey and magic mini fridge coming in clutch again my favorite flavor of olipop is it really i'm telling you who knew magic mini fridge is tapped in magic mini fridge um They're not free, though. They're not free, though.

It does shoot out a receipt every once in a while, and I have to pay. I have to, like, put my card number in and stuff. Otherwise, they'll come find me. The migrants? No, they're dead. Oh, they're murdered. They're ghosts. They call this, you know, they call Michelob Ultra Mom Beer.

Yeah, it's... So it kind of makes sense why it would be in there while you're on the bus. Right call this, you know, they call Michelob Ultra Mom beer. Yeah, it's. So it kind of makes sense why it would be in there while you're on. Right, right, right, right. It makes perfect sense. I can hear you. OK. Cheers. So your husband, my brother.

Ben Wolf. Is in. Now you're name dropping. Remember when you guys were giving me shit when I first started this he's been on this podcast he's i don't think that he's gonna be super um i might have to bleep it i don't think if he doesn't want i don't think he'll be offended by the usage of his name okay you never know so so he's in argentina he's in argentina i don't know how that might have been racist but no he's in argentina why i'll pick up a mini fridge there's probably many fridges there maybe not as lovely as this one i also love how it hums and the microphones can kind of pick it up and it kind of degrades

the quality of the podcast but it reminds me of like a white noise we learned to live with which i like i'm a white noise kind of gal anyway so ben my husband this was a few years back he is a member of ducks unlimited which is oh yeah yeah yeah yeah so ducks unlimited has that the same as like the robertson's thing that's duck commander i think duck commander is a company duck ducks unlimited is but it's also got a duck as the logo yeah um i think ducks unlimited is more of a local organization and um he has been going to ducks unlimited banquets for many years um but now that he's an established adult he decided to become a member of this organization and um they have banquets and on these banquets they have like a meal but then they also have a live auction so there's various um goods but also you can bid on guns, other weapons, not weapons, but I'm sure you know what I'm saying.

Hunt the likes of of hunting, like hunting, hunting. Yes. It's not just like nunchucks. No, no, no. I think they're specifically for hunting purposes. Bear trap. Anyway, a lot of the times on these Ducks Unlimited banquets, they have trips. OK. Hunting trips. um a lot of the times on these ducks unlimited banquets they have trips okay hunting trips um and so this like i said was a few years ago and side note ben was working this banquet

and he was working the cash register because he's an accountant so it seemed fitting and he took some money he didn't take any on his trip he didn't he didn't take any money he did have a leg i thought that's where you're going he did have a leg up working the cash register because he got to see everything that was going to be on the auction prior so side note he had he had sent me a picture of a purse because it was our anniversary coming up and he had asked if i would be interested in this three year no this was this was a while ago this was like two years ago maybe maybe either a birthday or anniversary was coming up soon so that was okay the reason why he was wanting to

get this purse and so i said excuse me i said yes if you can get it i would like it no pressure no pressure well i said if it's a good deal it's a it's a high end well made but you weren't like 200 is your limit i just said go above 200 i said if it's a good deal and you can get it go for it i like it i had my i didn't necessarily have my own nice bags but they're nice bags so anyway didn't hear from him the the banquet starts didn't hear from him throughout the evening i'm home then he comes home at the conclusion of this evening i greet him and i say did you get the bag and he says no and i said okay wait i think i know this story and so he's kind of in a mood and i'm just like okay i don't know i'll just i'll just leave him be like he seems like he's a little upset or distraught

about he was mad he didn't get the bag that's what my initial thought was and so we go to bed and he's like tossing and turning in the bed and you can tell he's just like restless and i just stirring i just said i just said really gently, I said, are you all right? Like, what's going on? He goes, I have to tell you something. And I said, what? I said, what? And he said, I did end up buying something at that auction.

I said, okay, what? What did your mind immediately go to? I didn't know. Like some kind of crazy weapon that he doesn't need? I didn't, I didn't, I don't know. Because there's all kinds of things at these auctions. There's paintings. Because he's setting it up. Yeah, but he was obviously worked up about something.

So, but if you know my husband, he's not a spender. He's not impulsive. He's not that type of guy. He's Amish. So, anyway, I asked. He said, I did end up buying something and I said what and he goes I bought a trip to Argentina wait but like all the all his guys are on it with him well at least I saw Bryce so the trip that he bought is a hunting trip to Argentina

it's a dove hunting trip that's what you hunt when you're down there I was gonna say I was picturing like water buffalo or something everyone that's probably not even legal everyone thinks like some kind of wild exotic game right but just because it's a different country it's South America I don't know I don't well I mean you're picturing oh I'm going abroad to do hunting people probably automatically picture like going to the serengeti to like kill a giraffe or something yeah but just dove hunting just stuff hunting okay so so he so he bought the auction but then the next thing he said was i really wanted that bag to soften the blow of the trip because i didn't talk to you oh so that was his real plan he was really wanting that

bag so he could be like here i bought this bag for you by the way i also bought a trip to argentina without talking to you about it or not that he needs my permission to do it it would just you know well but wait so he's on it now and he got it like two years ago yeah so holy shit so he how do i um say this nicely i he can procrastinate some sometimes as the best of us do it's not just him um but yeah with like family planning stuff going on and other stuff in his personal life that was happening at the time. He just, and he wanted to make sure that he- Was there multiple windows to go on it? Well, I think it was the timing of the trip. Like you wanted to go during a certain time of year to make it worth it. But then it was also finding people to go. So the trip came with four people you could have less you could have more but essentially he

needed three other people to fill the spots so he was able to do so and so he's down there with but the set time was this no he could use it i think he could do it whenever he could do it whenever he had well i think he had like maybe a two to three year limit of when he could do it whenever he had well i think he had like maybe a two to three year limit of when he could use i guess i was picturing like he was buying a ticket for a certain like date no so he the what the trip was was the lodging a guide and then um there was like i mean transportation i think to and from the lodge was included on the trip so like airfare wasn't included and then they did go down and spend like a day and a half in buenos aires and then um which i think it sounded really cool it looked really neat down there um and then

send me a video of a cornfield he's been sending me a couple it looks he's kind of turning into a dad with his snapchat have you noticed that or he'll just sending me a couple it looks kind of turning into a dad with his snapchat have you noticed that or he'll just send you a video with no caption and like not him saying anything it's just like a it's like a five like seven second video yeah something just stuff it was funny because when we were in kind of funny when we were in europe last year he was in dad mode too because he would just take selfies with all of the major landmarks. Well, that's, I mean, I get that. But that's not like him either.

And it's not like he's smiling big. And it's just such a. I feel like that might be a man thing. It's like a man, like how a male dog pees on things. I feel like the man wants like photo proof that I was at this location. Yeah. Not even for anyone else other than himself yeah i get it but it's it's you'll have he should compile a photo album because it's it's pretty sweet yeah but like he sent me a video of like him inside like the van

or whatever they were traveling in i did it kind of like zoomed out the window and then it just the video ended and i was like no caption when you the oh the videos i always feel obligated to respond because i don't want to just like leave them on open yeah being that he's my only brother when we were like when he was showing me pictures and like stuff of where they were going to be staying and what the environment was going to look like it looks just like nebraska which is i was gonna say i was like is that a i i responded i said is that a cornfield and he's like yeah just he's like cornfield just like nebraska except there's mountains in the background yeah weird that's weird so i think it was either three or four full days of hunting so they get up in the morning they eat breakfast that's provided

at the lodge get in a transportation vehicle go out and hunt for four hours they don't get to bring back any of the how many days do they get to hunt i think three or four yeah and i'm is there a limit per day or is there i'm sure there is a limit i'm sure there is a limit per person on bird like how many you can shoot just probably in that season i guess would be the but they tag out they tag out gotta tag out if you can um but then i don't think that they're planning on bringing any of the birds back so like are they gonna eat them yeah so they cook them and eat them there i was gonna say because i've heard that dove is actually pretty yummy i don't think i've ever tried dove before but i heard it is a delicacy i actually heard that according to the dynasty no it wasn't phil robertson i think it was jace that was like duh he's like dove is the filet mignon of the sky i've i have heard it's very tasty very very tender is what i've heard and very

flavorful tender and flavorful um i'm not opposed to eating or trying different kinds of yeah game yeah uh so just gonna open a word document quick well make some notes no no i i want to make a note of where i accidentally paused that oh this is because i might have i might have to cut it and then reline it up later this is so professional well it's basically just trying to make less work for myself later but so uh not too long ago lena and I were talking about, it was actually, I think it was on the episode we recorded. We were talking about my palate. You and Lena? We were talking about my palate.

Your taste buds. Yes. And we decided that my palate is so sophisticated. No. Bear with me. No. Listen. Coming from a man with me. No. Listen. Coming from a man.

Listen. Listen. You're not letting me finish. I feel like I have to just say the Crunchwrap Supreme that he just ingested was meat, cheese. Sour cream. And sour cream. And that was it. I'll defend it.

And I'm going to defend it right now. Ready? A very refined palate. Let me. Sophisticated. Sophisticated. sour cream and that was it defend it and i'm gonna defend it right now ready a very refined palette let me sophisticated and what i mean by that is i can taste everything you i the my reason for the crunch wrap is i don't want warm let it soggy that's fair i'm not gonna cook lettuce it's a hot it's like a hot dish i could i could have thrown some salsa in there i just didn't want to here's the deal the reason why i don't like certain things and lena does she can eat every vegetable in the world because she's an adult they don't really taste

like shit they don't really taste like anything versus me i can like taste the dirt that it was grown like i can taste every little fiber of this of that thing okay you keep laughing at me like when we did that soda taste test blindfolded with all my friends i like completely aced it like i could taste everything and that's why i have an aversion to certain things because they taste too aggressive for me so like my tongue is autistic i don't know because it's sensory overload on it. Maybe. Okay. So when you're eating fruits, do you taste dirt? No, I like fruit. But not vegetables.

Yeah, you might have just completely derailed my whole argument by saying that, but I don't know. If you were to eat a vegetable, which vegetable would you prefer eating? Like, what do you mean? If, I mean, really really you're well i like corn but corn isn't really corn is a starch so it's not really that healthy i like carrots raw cooked either either that's good i mean i can i can eat them i just don't like the way they taste they're just not like they it's not like i'm like gonna throw up if i eat them i understand vegetables just add a nutritional value to your diet so that's where and fruit is inherently going to be better because it's sweet most of

the time so it's going to taste better yeah vegetables are just better for you than they're better and bitter um but we're not gonna fucking talk about vegetables here i love a vegetable you didn't ask me what my favorite vegetable is well i don't care i like them all um i'll make it easy for you we were gonna except i'm not a fan of cooked carrots. Okay. Or cooked peas. We were talking about, she was wondering, like, has your palate, because you used to be picky. I used to be very picky.

Except. We both were pretty picky. Yes. Except you, like, didn't like hot dogs and mac and cheese. Still to this day. You still don't like either hot dogs and mac and cheese. Still, to this day. You still don't like either? I like mac and cheese. I don't think I could stomach a box of Kraft. You're like, it has to be homemade.

I don't like the Kraft mac and cheese. I don't think I could stomach a box of Kraft mac and cheese. I do think, um, knock first. No, you don't have to knock once you've already opened it. Oh, yeah, okay. Can you tell she's my sister so but um like any thank you box mac and cheese that i can do now is like annie ann's mac and cheese or bonza makes a good mac and cheese and then who you and ben um like if you're having a lazy cooking night but you also don't want to eat out exactly um and then

there's buffalo cauliflower that you do in the air fryer so then you have a little buffalo mac situation don't like cauliflower what about if it's breaded it's like a wing it's like a buffalo wing but vegetable and this leads me back to my point that i was trying to make a while ago because i don't remember i don't remember what we were saying but it reminded me of what lena and i were talking about and you're talking about how we were both picky eaters when we were young no no i was gonna say um it might have had something to do with um when we were talking about eating dove but um what you just said about the cauliflower being breaded reminds me of because i don't like seafood no i know i don't like i've tried cooking for him i don't like seafood yeah the salmon you made us for that one time when you won your march madness you

got to pick your meal you made salmon and asparagus no i did salmon and green beans on the grill salmon and green beans and it tasted like a fucking lake but i also tasted like the underside of a buoy yeah um which you don't like shrimp either tried feeding him shrimp before here's the deal guys i've said it in a couple episodes ago and i'm repeating it again but now i have a different guest this time to weigh in when it comes to seafood what's the number one thing everyone always says when seafood is good what do they say it doesn't even taste like fish. You know what I mean?

Oh, it tastes like chicken. Oh, it doesn't even taste like anything. Are you telling me that in order for a dish to be good, it has to not taste like what it is? I think the thing with seafood is, especially like fish specifically specifically like a salmon or like trout or as long as it doesn't taste like fish you don't want it to be too fishy tasting yes because that's a distinct taste but i also think it's how you like the lake thing that i'm describing yes but it's also how you prepare it too is so slapping it on dad's weber propane grill and just him going uh i've never done i don't know i don't think anybody's done i don't think anybody else

complained about it probably isn't the best way too fishy that was the first time you had ever tried salmon also you had never your refined palate but i tried it had never been exposed to it because i could taste how many members of it had in its family that's how refined my taste is i can taste everything that's why i don't like it so when you're eating say a taco with just meat you're just really going oh it tastes so good because you like meat you like but the the all the flavors together so the fourth of july is coming up and um it's true good for the july great segue for the july's this week and uh i i don't want this whole podcast to be like do you remember that one thing from our childhood but it's inevitably it's inevitably gonna get like that um with the

fourth of july coming up i just wanted to i always love nostalgic conversations and taking a trip down memory lane and so i figured um we should talk about like fourth of july's of our past specifically like going to the going to the farm god good times going to the farm um good times at the farm oh yeah i remember the best times i remember growing up we knew that we were going to the farm we got to see all of our cousins specifically on either christmas or the fourth of july doesn't getting old fucking suck it's not the best because like whenever a holiday came around we knew we're going to grand island yeah everyone's going to grand island and it's gonna be a rip-roaring good time i got a lot of pop drinking to do that's my that was my coin phrase i knew there was going to be lots of pop at the

farm and it was kind of a free-for-all stocked up it was kind of a free-for-all and so i walked in one time and one of my aunts or something was just like how you doing or something and i was like got a lot of pop drinking to do or something like that. But yeah, it kind of, it's not like that anymore. No. That's just growing pains though. Sucks. It's not, unfortunately, it can't be like that forever.

That's how everyone is though. It would be a little silly if we're. Yeah, it would be kind of weird if we all still got together for every holiday and did the same things we did which was like go to firework stands and go to island oasis and oh island oasis does sound pretty fun we should we that would actually be pretty fun if we got together as a big family and went there that would be really fun especially now that some of the kids are having kids and i think island oasis except don't do like what mom did with me and turn your back and then turn around and i'm face down in the wave pool oh shit

i didn't know that well keep in mind keep in mind this is a story from mom yeah so so this may or may not the details are probably a little fuzzy i'm. Yeah, so. So this may or may not. The details are probably a little fuzzy. I'm not going to say it didn't happen, but it may not have happened like this. Probably. So verbatim, this is what happened. She said, you were standing right at my feet on the edge of the wave pool. Right on the edge.

Well, just like at the where it starts. I know. I'm just trying to. Not like up where I would fall into five foot of water no i'm just trying to paint a violent white waters paint the scene paint a picture of the and she said she turned around like for two seconds and then turned back around and i was just face down in the water like i was skydiving the wave pool those waves got pretty oh yeah pretty big like if you went out into the deep end you were you i would be real nervous if i was one of those like working at island oasis well and then what mom said was there was a lifeguard standing right

next to her that wasn't doing anything oh yeah well so yeah if you weren't careful and you those those waves could knock you off your feet especially if you were like right at the part where it was crashing it was a lot of force and you could like fall down and scrape your knee oh yeah i remember jumping that i was one of my favorite things was jumping over the waves timing it so yeah you got to jump over when you're or dive into them so you feel like you're in an action movie. Oh, you're a surfer guy swimming in the ocean? Oh, pretend like it? Yeah, yeah.

Like ride the wave in? Mm-hmm. So, yeah, this is probably one of the things we would do on the 4th. In fact, I know it is. Yeah. God, I love this stuff. And then when we'd get done and that night we're gonna go light off fireworks at the farm so we go stop by a couple fireworks stands grandpa would always give us like

uh i want to say 50 but i feel like it was probably more like 20 it probably i i feel like it was it the amount increased over the year so it probably started out as like ten dollars he would give each probably and then as we would get older in our uh pyro our yeah our our need for our firework ambitions yes expanded yes especially the boys yeah i liked fireworks but i was more of a sparkler well i really liked the cool looking fireworks do you remember that frog one i had i was really a sucker for like the gimmicks yeah kind of if it looks cool on the outside i didn't really care what it looked like when it blew up into the sky but if it looked cool on the outside sitting on that table yeah and i don't know what it is but half if not more of the fun comes from like going to a stand and buying the fireworks well yeah because because

it's the like the build-up and the anticipation of lighting off that firework that you get more excited than when it goes off especially when you're an adult and you spent your own money on it and then it lasts five seconds and you're like wow i spent twenty dollars on that well yeah and you think of how expensive fireworks are these days like if you're trying to put on a big show you're dropping some some coin i feel like it would almost make more sense if you were to like get all your friends and family each to pool like 50 and you have one person go out and get them all and try to make a show i don't know that'd be cool i guess it kind of depends on how what your family thinks about the fourth of july i feel like our parents i feel like are kind of

indifferent towards it they're just not like big firework people some people get really into the fourth of july yeah and i feel like that's kind of more of a rich person thing anyways well yeah when you have just money to drop yeah when you can just like this and that get a thousand dollars worth of fireworks and it's just a drop in the bucket yeah do you remember i mean mom and dad like watching them i feel like yeah i think it was more so watching all of the kids have fun lighting them off and we would all take turns and everybody would now it's your turn

and then we would go okay and then we would cheer and then Uncle Jeff would get like a $90 finale well I was gonna say because he's an optometrist would provide the eye care i was talking about our other uncle this the safety the safety glasses i have a good picture

of dad and i and he's wearing some safety glasses and he looks pretty cool uh what were you gonna say do you remember oh i was gonna talk about when parker almost oh yeah a ground bloom oh yeah um um so what when did he die probably i was like he died my senior year of high school in 2012 he was the best dog you guys best dog ever he was a boxer collie mix we got him um parker buster kill him yep we got him. Parker Buster Killam. Yep. We got him when I was probably three years old. You're older than that. Four, five. I was in first grade, I remember. We could tell a story of how we got Parker.

That's a great story. Go for it. You probably remember it better than me because if you were in first grade, I probably was only like four. I begged for a dog i begged mom and dad for a dog i wanted a dog so so so so bad and they i think they wanted us to be older older so we had so we were responsible we could take care of the dog and then it wasn't like they were taking care of two young kids and a puppy on top of it. That's fair. So the story of getting Parker was we were going to grandpa and grandma's for Easter. I do remember that.

So we were in the car driving and the story was that mom told us that she wanted to stop and see one of her college friends on the way to the farm. So we're driving. We must have been pretty smart kids if we would have been able to pick up on we're not going the right way we so but well because it was longer it was you know the trip to grand islands an hour and a half like normally i can normally spy kids is almost over by the time we get to grand island so this is what is going on this is an extended trip and so mom mom said, oh yeah, we're going, we're going to go visit one of my college friends. I told, I told them that we were going to stop by and come. So we were driving and driving, you know, we're like,

where are we going? This is taking a little bit longer than I thought. Where are we going? And so then we pull up to a farm and there's all these puppies. It's a dog breeder you know where it was i do go ahead it's an albion i i okay because that's where lena's dad is from so does he oh we should ask ritchie about that yeah we should you know any box i think we have i think we have asked him before i don't remember what he said we'll have to ask him again but so albion albion so i think mom and dad saw an ad in the paper that they were selling these dogs in Albion or something along those lines. I guess I can't remember specifically what the connection was, but I think it was something like that where they saw an ad. So then we went and there's only

two puppies left that we got to choose from. So there was a brown and white one and then there was a black and white one. And we chose the brown and white one. The brown and white one and we chose the brown and white one brown and white one i don't really remember hardly any of that because again i was i think i was like three so you were older than three jake if you were in first grade you're probably seven okay so i was four so i was four all right it just seems like you would have been but it was three seems really little it was yeah i'm no i probably would have been anyways anyway so then we went to the farm and it was easter and we had a puppy and it was so great it was tremendous i have a picture of us and i'm in my club kicks shirt that was like the dance cheer club i was part of for clogging no different this was through school this was through freetrum oh but then i have him it was

a club yeah like it was like an after-school club you could participate in oh mom and dad signed me up i had pom-poms and everything um but i'm wearing a club kick shirt and i have parker sitting on my lap and he's so cute and so tiny he was really cute when he was when he was little but uh to come back to the fourth of july let's make our way back around so he was probably middle age yeah at this point not a puppy seven years old maybe i don't know yeah um he got pretty big he was a pretty big dog yeah there was one morning um god i remember the nostalgia is hitting me so hard you love the word nostalgia i i love what nostalgia is yes um and that's what the word for it is i i know that i just love your use of it

you just love making me look like an idiot um that's not true i remember when we're at the farm for the fourth we just either either before or after the big uh night of firing off may have been after um it was like like ben our cousin our cousin ben didn't i remember like people would still kind of be sleeping and like we'd be up like you want to go light off some more fireworks like in the morning like the morning time small fireworks oh yeah these leftovers we probably better do these that was fun yeah um and i think that's what it was because we were it was like i remember it was in the morning grandpa was sure yes grandpa was in his pickup well unless he did it multiple times grandpa was in his pickup kind of driving around the place and we lit off a ground

bloom flower which is I don't know, it spins around on the ground and goes like, and makes a flame. That was a good noise. And makes a flame. And then Parker, who was really good about the fireworks. He wasn't scared of them. When the big ones would go off,

he was such a good dog, you guys. He was the best. While we were lighting them all off, he would just lay down by dad's side, by the chair, and he would just chill. Yeah, he wasn't scared. He wasn't whimpering. He wasn't barking.

Yeah. He wasn't... Basically, just a perfect dog. It might have also contributed if it was towards the end of the trip. He was probably tired from chasing cats. Oh, yeah. He loved to go to that farm and he would just rip roar around like his paws would be so sore from running on the gravel yes um but yeah there was one morning where we lit off a ground boom flower and parker like went to like get it with his mouth like i remember

his mouth was right over it and grandpa like yelled and like he stopped he must have done it twice though because i remember him doing it at night like with everyone around doing it at night he might have his one flaw maybe the noise he maybe he thought it was like a mouse or i think he thought it was a toy or something like that and because it was on the ground maybe because it wasn't super loud it didn't kind of trip any alarm bells with him as much yeah i don't know i don't know that could have been bad though if he would have ended up well he didn't though so um but yeah like the the more and then the other thing about the morning after is when like grandpa and dad are taking all like the boxes and all the debris and then burning it in the burn barrel.

Oh, oh yeah. Man. We love the burn. Take me back. We love the burn barrel. Take me back. A common phrase around the farm. Just throw it in.

Just toss it in the burn barrel. Toss it in the burn barrel. But just like the morning after events. I was probably still sleeping you were still sleeping there was there was the there was the sleep inners that was definitely me you were one of them but like dad would be up with his coffee hanging out with grandpa and the pickup sitting and chatting while they're burning the burning the firework debris may or may not be uh epa friendly but but i remember every once in a while there'd be like a little powder or something left over and you like a little explosion i feel like i remember one time there was like a like not a huge one but like there was some like

light that shot out and I'm like oh there's still a little bit left in that one burn barrel she's alive but uh I don't know I mean I love I nostalgia this year might be the first year I haven't been as fired up for the fourth in my entire life granted i'm really focused on the beer olympics this weekend i was gonna say which is two days after the fourth i feel like that still counts as like a fourth of july s i mean kind of activity but but i love it's going along with fourth of July weekend, I would say. Right. But the whole process of buying fireworks, getting together and lighting them off, I haven't bought a single firework yet. That's because, again, I've been so focused on these Beer Olympics. We went to the Davey Fireworks store on Saturday.

I was walking around and I'm like, I don't know if I've lost my edge or if I'm just becoming an adult with bills where I'm just like able to see myself after lighting that off and going like, it probably would have been worth it just to hold on to that 40 bucks for that 10 seconds of light yeah noise i guess that's part of it fireworks are cool but you have to be one you have to have an like a place to go and light them off and a group of people to do it with and if you guys don't have that right then that's part of it i'm sure too but the thing is to get it's like i'd rather not buy any or buy a shit ton yeah i could see if you get kind of in the middle it's like i spent a decent amount of money for it to not really be worth it yeah um but i guess if i'm gonna go all out i might as well go all out and i don't think i'm gonna go all out this year in fact i know i'm not but this is why i think i've become such an advocate for the fountains like the the like the fun looking ones that you talk about yeah you like buying them for um the way they look which is fun yeah

but also i think i've decided that i really like fountains because they're a lot cheaper. And if you think about it, when it comes to buying fireworks, it's all of your money is going towards whatever powder that makes it a firework. I've never thought about it that way. Okay. So here's the thing. You know the artillery shells, the ones that shoot up in the air and explode? Yeah. Part of the powder that you're paying for is just to launch it ah so they're so expensive because all the power getting as much light and crackle if you think about it like that versus if you buy

a fountain they're a lot cheaper and all there's no powder that you're paying for to launch it it's all just right there yeah it doesn't shoot up in the sky and it's not super loud usually but you're getting more light you know yeah light color sparking action for your buck so to speak i get what you're saying it's not more bang for your buck it's more razzle dazzle razzle dazzle for your buck you know what the other so fountains you know the other firework i liked growing up the frog frog prince the frog i loved the frog and um the poops were funny the snakes or whatever i also really liked the smoke bombs

because i loved drawing i loved writing with them and that's the other thing too those are dirt cheap and i remember i had um a pair of converse and i oh yeah ruined them no i or did they come off i no i made like i decorated them with the smoke bomb oh like did you get a colored white converse no i think they were navy oh those ones i think so i kind of remember those yeah i was a big converse girl loved me some converse we talked about um we talked about the day after i smoked weed for the first time. And then you and me and Trace went to the mall and I got vans. Remember that? I remember that, but I didn't realize that was such a monumental day in your...

Well, I'm just... Since you were talking about Converse... I guess I just didn't realize that there was events prior to that day that had happened in the evening. Oh, yeah. With Trace. Yeah, we smoked some Blue's Clues. I'm glad that it happened with Trace oh yeah with trace yeah we smoked some blues clues i'm glad that it happened with trace um i got way too high and um did you throw up oh yeah oh yeah i was i was sitting on the living room couch and had the trash can and then i slept with the trash can next to me. Yeah. And the next morning, dad got up and was like, he was like mad about the trash can being there.

Because he knew why. Because he's like, if you're going to, I don't know. I remember this. And he like moved it back into the kitchen. And then I, at some point, got up to pee or something and still felt kind of sick and like moved it back. He's like, if you're going to get sick, do it in the bathroom. Like, he wanted me to, like, face my consequences of being stupid or something. I don't know.

You're not just going to lay on the couch and throw up in this trash can. You're going to get up and look over the toilet. Right. Something like that. Something like that. But, yeah, the next day, we went and got Vans. You got Vans? I got vans. I did, but you went with me because I guess I wanted you there for moral support to buy my vans. You probably wanted my opinion.

I did. My fashion opinion. I did, and I think you drove, but it's not like I wasn't able to drive. I don't know why. Okay. We went to South Point or we went to Westfield? Gateway. Gateway. I don't know. I don't know why. Okay. We went to South Point or we went to Westfield? Gateway. Gateway.

I don't know what Westfield is. That came out of... Gateway was Gateway. West Point? No. No. Gateway was Gateway for the longest time. Then they tried to change it to the Westfield Mall.

Really? And then they changed it back to Gateway. I have no idea where. But it's like in East Lincoln. I know, but I'm just saying I have no idea where but it's like in east lincoln i know but i i'm just saying i have no idea where i pulled westfield westfield out come on down to westfield get you a pair of vans it did used to be called that at one point for a short short period of time what kind of vans were they just black regular no they were they were gray they were gray vans with um like black laces i think but i remember my uh she humming i remember when i was working at lps

the guy i worked with gave me so much shit for wearing those vans no no he was like oh god you smoke weed once and then you go and buy vans because you think you're a stoner now. And I'm just like, no. But yes. I didn't want to be a stoner, but I had this plan to buy vans. It just happened to be the day after I smoked weed. That's funny. I thought you were going to talk about those vans that you got in Boston.

Those tenny vans. Fuck, in boston i love those those tenny vans i look i don't know where those are i looked ever i i scoured the internet for fans like that you got those at a tj maxx i remember guys when we were in boston we went to boston we went to boston for my dad's 60th birthday we got him tickets to the Red Sox he's a diehard Red Sox fan he's got it inked on his arm he's a he's a he's a true fan it's not just like he likes the Red Sox like no he had an old sweatshirt that had like holes in it so many holes that I think my mom hid at one point and then he like they were losing and he like went and dug it out like found it and like put it on and it might have been the year they won the world

series i think it was that holy sweatshirt that holy red socks sweatshirt i wonder if it's holy he's gotta have it somewhere there's no way he's stashed away somewhere he's kind of superstitious like that but so we went there for his 60th birthday. Got him tickets to see the Red Sox. We played against the Twins. Against Rodney. Rodney. And if you want to watch that video, shout out to Juicebox Jake, my other dead YouTube channel.

The views on that video are probably, half of them are probably from me. I think it's got like 80 something views. Speaking of nostalgia, I just love that video are probably half of them are probably you i think it's got like 80 something speaking of nostalgia i just love that video because of this you love that way the nostalgia should we see how many views it has that that trip was so fun that we took oh it was a blast it was so fun well and so okay so, I believe... Yeah, why didn't you have shoes? Why did you have to go to... Well, I think I wore, like, my slip-on Vans, and then I was like... These aren't going to work. I think I was like, these aren't really good walking shoes, and I think I wanted to buy

some better walking shoes. And so I went to, yeah, I guess it was TJ Maxx, and... Juicebox Jake? It's got 107 views. Hey. That's pretty good. I remember when you were... 107 views.

Super into the YouTube scene. Well, I was making vlogs with my ex-girlfriend, and it was pretty cringe, but I was dedicated. I'm in a couple of those. We went to the mall in one of those, too. Yeah, we did. I don't... I think I got pants. We went to the mall in one of those, too. Yeah, we did. I don't... I think I got pants when we went to the mall that time. I think I...

Yeah. I think either you did or Sarah did. But... Excuse me. That's the only thing about having a little Bev when you're doing this. Oh, yeah. The burping is real. You're kind of burping.

Sorry, everyone. The burping is real burping sorry sorry everyone the burping is real um but so yeah i got this pair of vans that were they were vans that i mean they were the vans brand but it didn't look like what you think vans look like no they were like all cloth like soft back i'm trying to think um it looks like a tennis shoe i'm trying to think what to compare it to. You know those like Nike, I think they were called like Nike Freeze. Maybe. That's what I would compare them to.

Yeah, where they were knit. Knit. They were knit shoes, but Vans brand. Oh, they were sick. They were. I remember you coming back to the hotel room with those shoes. And you were like, what? And I was like, where did you get those?

You're like, what are those? And then I got my Kyrie Irving jersey because it was when he was number 11 and played for the Celtics, who I used to be a fan of the Celtics. Oh. Not really anymore. Former fan. I'm not really anymore. And especially since they just won, I'm not going to be like, oh. But I liked him in like the Paul Pierce days.

And you don't know who those are. No, I don't. But I'm a huge Kyrie Irving fan. Not really anymore. He's a good player. Basically, when it comes to like pro teams, I don't really love. I love college sports so much more. But when it comes to pro sports, i kind of i kind of like attach it

onto a player where there's a player i like watching that is good so like i like marshall lynch who's now retired he's your um contact photo still yeah um and then like kairi irving and so then when he played for the celtics and he was number 11 I was like oh that's because my my favorite number is 11 so that was nice and I was like I gotta get a Kyrie Irving number 11 jersey which was barely fit me then and definitely doesn't fit me now probably not um but it's still cool you still have it maybe I a frame. Yeah, I think it's at Mom and Dad's, actually. In my old wire cage dresser in the basement or whatever you want to call it. Display case.

Oh, no. Did my phone stop recording? I think it did. All right. So, at this point, it's audio only. I don't know when my phone cut out. That's all right. We haven't been doing anything that exciting my phone my phone cut out a while ago but we we made it pretty far in for the visual uh for the visual aspect so uh maybe i'll just flash up a picture of marshall lynch and just put that as the you want to you should do no do you No, dude, the contact picture is so good. So, yeah, guys.

Oh, but for whatever reason, when you... So, this is the picture that shows up. Oh, yeah. But I think you changed that on your own. Okay. I did not realize that... I thought... I thought... So, you guys those those of you who are aware that have

an iphone there was an update that came out not too long ago and it was like hey change your change your like profile picture and it's like i was going through and changing everyone's profile pictures and it was like you can change your own and so i was like i thought it was my own personal icon for myself but then it went to everyone else's well or it's like you said it to show up on other people's so like my bosses i would call them and it's a picture of me taking a fireball shooter with my sunglasses on oh i thought that was a fat cigar in your no that's a fireball shooter with my sunglasses on oh i thought that was a fat cigar in your no that's a fireball shooter on on someone's party bus i thought that was like a double dog no like a little stogie like kind of down to the end but so it says latest photo

updated automatically custom photo ask before updating and it's that hell yeah that literally looks like a what who's he looking at if the picture if the camera's in front of him he's like looking up and off to the side he probably did that on purpose he's such a character yeah i don't know um he would literally eat skittles on the sidelines of the games he's a funny guy um gotta love him but um yeah I didn't realize that that was happening and my bosses were like yeah it's a picture of you taking a fireball shooter and I was like oh shit I was like I can change that and they're like no it's okay. They didn't really care. Yeah, at least they're cool about it. But I made your picture, you holding your shelf that I made you.

Yeah, we still need to put that up. Oh, you haven't put it up yet? I don't think. Didn't mean to put you on blast like that. I don't think I'm. I mean, I could probably figure out how to screw some. Screws. Screws? Screws or nails or something.

We figured out the place to put it. Screw screws and nail nails. We know where it's going to go. I'm... Where's it going to go? In the kitchen, like when you come up from the back door. Like when you come up from the steps, there's like the trash can over here. And then there's like that blank space kind of over by the window so if you're looking at the window

it's the wall to the north to the north no yeah if you're the wall to the north would be the front door of the house you're looking you're looking at the window towards the backyard. It's to your right. That little strip? Yeah. It'll fit there. Or no one can see it. Perfect.

No, you can see it. You can see it. Just kidding. Our kitchen is... But not really. In our house, I'm action. I'm like, we need to do this now. We need to get it hung up. We need to paint.

We need to... Paint? I'm just saying, I'm the one wants to like do the stuff at our house. Oh, in general. In general. House projects, furniture, like stuff that needs to be done. I'm action and I want it done now. I want it now.

My husband on the other hand is not that way. He's like, let's think about this. Yeah. And do it next week. And do it, like, in five years. That will get put up. Because I thought that gift was so thoughtful. Oh, yeah.

Made it with my bad hands. It was so cool. Well, that's cool. The wine holder. That's my contact picture. That's sweet. Yeah. I'll show you after.

Okay. It will get hung up, though. okay i believe you but i expect to see it up next time i come over okay guys thank you for tuning in um we actually made it through with all audio at least um we kind of missed out on video there at the end um that's okay if you guys would just uh you know sign up for the patreon then we could buy a new camera i'm just kidding we don't have a patreon but i don't even know what that is it's basically just like a thing where you can just like let your fans send you money but it's usually like if you if you do five5 a month, then you can get access to videos early. If you do $10 a month, you can get, like, merch and access to videos. Like, it's basically like a subscription kind of deal.

Your sponsors. Well, but it's just your fans. If your fans really love you, then they can pay money to get cooler shit from you. I understand. I don't know. Maybe someday, once we're getting more than nine views per video. But thank you guys for watching and listening and tuning in to yet another episode. Hit that like and subscribe.

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