Ramblings of a Restless Mind

21 Ramblings of a Restless Mind
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DeJah: [00:00:00] StubHub can suck on my chocolate salty ball. That's, that is the moral of the story. It, it was a absolute. Miserable experience of being stolen from Yeah, it was, yeah. It was tough to swallow. And then, uh, then the next day, as I was gonna say, but

Jen: wait, there's more. It

What's up guys? It's Jen and

Joe: Lado. [00:01:00]

Jen: Shout

Joe: out. Sounds like a great morning show.

Jen: The day you guys could be listening to literally anything else right now, but you're here. It's a questionable choice, but we love you for

DeJah: it. We appreciate your questionable choices. Thank you for being you.

Jen: Oh, and shout out to my fam for specifically my brother. , For giving Deja the nickname, the de and, uh, we've all kind of started adopting it, so

DeJah: it is amazing. It does make me sound like a morning dj. Yeah, I like it. I like it a lot.

Jen: The de

Yeah. The top 40. No, we're gonna, Casey Cason. Nevermind. Joe's got that one on lock. Oh, shoot. Exactly, exactly. Oh, wow. What's up guys? It's October. Welcome to the. Most fantabulous month of the year. If I do say so myself, I may be biased because it's my birthday and I turn the big [00:02:00] season of your birth Big 4.0 this year in just few days.

Um, so that's exciting. I'm very excited. Um, deja, why don't you tell us what we're doing for my birthday? So we're gonna

DeJah: go for a long walk. Country road, I'm going to serenade you as random family members just pop out from the bushes to surprise you with gifts.

Jen: I Is that acceptable? Love this. Excellent.

Yes. Excellent. Yes. Excellent. Um, so I had to ask that because earlier this year, my February, actually, I think it was New Year. Yes. When we were glamping. Yeah. And my family was asking me, we were talking about what we wanna do for my milestone birthday this year and I was like, I don't know guys. I wanna celebrate, but I don't wanna plan it.

And Deja and my mom we're both like, be we Got you. So I literally know next to nothing about what's going down. I know where it is. Yes. Um, and I [00:03:00] know. That I will get there via Deja. Yes. Um, but that's pretty much all that I know. Yes. Uh, to the lengths of which my party planning committee Oh yes. Has gone to keep all of us a secret is fantastic.

To the point that last or earlier this week deja and I went to a tailor for a fitting for my outfit, which. TBD don't know what it is, what it looks like. I guess I could say that. I could tell it was a dress. It is a, in a

DeJah: fabric of a tube-like material.

Jen: Okay.

DeJah: Yes.

Jen: So she, I get a text from Deja that says, Hey, I need to get you to the tailor for your birthday fitting.

Words I never thought I'd hear. And and she was like, but I need you to wear leggings and a strapless bra and bring a blindfold. And I was like, well, it's just got kinky.

Joe: Oh, we, well, you learned. Yes. Uh, a couple days later she's like, [00:04:00] he, he never said he went and you just went somewhere else.

Jen: Oh. So yeah.

So she got in there. She texted me when I could come in. I get in there, change into. Heels and, uh, put on a blindfold and was led around the tailor store, shop, whatever, fitting store, uh, in heels, which, you know, and getting Dr Oh my gosh, the funniest part. So like we go, they go to put the outfit on me and it's just like, okay, now step forward.

Mind you, I can't see shit. I'm in one of those sleep look like the sleep mask, you know, that like covers everything so there's no light coming in. So I'm just like, fucking Helen Keller, like touching the walls, like trying to get my balance so I can pick up my foot and. Step then, you know, find my way out of the, or get led out of the dressing room and onto the little platform, you know, so that they can.

Mark, whatever they need to mark. But it's truly as funny as it is, um, I'm eternally grateful and I'm so excited to find, see, I know what it's like to plan an event, so I know all the hard work and details and everything that you guys are doing behind the scenes. So I can't [00:05:00] wait to see it all come together.

And I've, I've told you this before, but I've literally been overcome with emotion because I'm just so grateful that. I have such a wonderful team that is doing this for me.

DeJah: I,

Jen: I don't know. I mean, you

DeJah: might wanna check yourself, like, how many times did that Taylor say you have bad friends?

Jen: She did say that, and I was like, maybe, you know, there, there was a English barrier or language barrier there, so I didn't know.

She

DeJah: very proficient. Okay. Very proficient in English. Well, you know what, either way it's still thoughtful. Mm-hmm. Yep. Yep. Yeah. I just, I, I, I'm just a good friend and I don't want you to be, um, over excited.

Jen: Okay. Okay. Yep. Mm-hmm. Fair enough? Mm-hmm. Yep. Well, I'm gonna be in heels, so I've been told I are great.

You know what, we'll see you guys. We'll see if Deia and I still have a podcast after my birthday party.

Joe: When you said tubular fabric, I thought they're dressing up like one of those dancing wind machine things. Shut

Jen: up. You, your out shut the, you

Joe: just have to stand outside the used car dealership. Do you know how long it took

Jen: me to do?

Shut your mouth. Son of listen, if [00:06:00] that is the case, I will commit. I will have big arm feelings all night. I mean, the high heels

Joe: are just a distraction.

Jen: Yeah,

DeJah: well that's just so you know, the tube around her just stays in a bit of a rigid formation. Yeah. God, shut up, Joel. Geez, that's really it. I stepped in it.

Oh my God.

Jen: Please tell Mom, send thoughts and prayers because we know those work. But nonetheless, I'm excited because I get to hang out.

It's right around the fucking corner. Holy shit. I know. Yeah. I'm pretty stoked. Mm-hmm. So, man, how we doing? Other than that? I've. Expend a lot of oxygen. The start of this guys. So, uh, your turn, somebody else go. Yay.

DeJah: Yeah.

Jen: Yeah. I

DeJah: don't uh, welcome to fall everyone. Yeah. It's here. It's call y'all. Yeah. Yeah. I always love, um, Jimmy Kimmel, who back on the air bitches.

Yes. And the combination, the collaboration, but no, he always does like a montage of like, [00:07:00] you know, weathers and anchorman like always saying like, can you believe it's October? It's October. Believe it's October. Can't believe it's October. They all say the same thing. It always cracks me up. 'cause it's true.

We all go, holy shit, it's October. Can you believe it's October? I was literally like, it sneaks up on us every fucking year. It does. I was literally

Jen: at my chiropractor's office of, we came to the studio and I looked at the calendar and they have like, this month and next month. I was like, holy shit. We're looking at November already.

Yes. Yes, every year. Every year. I think it's just the older we get, the faster it goes. I know it's true. It is like.

DeJah: When we times time slides into a void at a rapid rate, so you accelerate towards death. Death.

Happy fall,

Jen: happy Halloween.

DeJah: Ah, yes. It is the season of Halloween. This is my, my favorite. I love Halloween is my favorite holiday. Mm-hmm. Love it. Love dressing

Jen: up. Yeah, absolutely. I'm pretty stoked. We, me and well, all of us [00:08:00] siblings. Uh, we are back in Memorial Day. Yeah. We are sitting outside on a screened in porch and it was an unusually cool memorial day, uh, with rain and wind and it was very chilly, but we were hellbent on watching anchorman.

Yep. Outside. Outside. And so we did it, but that's where we had the idea that the four of us were gonna dress up as. As anchorman this year for Halloween. So we still gotta go thrift shopping for some. We a hundred percent need to get on that. Need to get on that. Yeah. Oh, that's gonna be pretty great. Yeah.

Please tell everyone who, which one you're dressing up as Deja for the Anchorman fans out there. I love lamp.

Deja will be dressing up with the brick loud noises, bears. They could smell the menstruation.

Joe: I have no idea how anybody on that shoot didn't break the entire time.

Jen: Me either. There were so

Joe: many funny actors. Oh, that were the fight scenes. If you watch the bloopers.

Jen: Oh, yes, [00:09:00] yes, yes. And yeah, the

Joe: fight seems like, here's every celebrity you've ever heard of.

God

Jen: keep on

Joe: showing up. They just keep on bringing 'em and the most, and they just keep getting more and more ridiculous. It's just, it's a piece of classic art. It is. It really, it truly, truly is.

DeJah: Will Ferrell is a gift. You know what Will Ferrell is Scrum True Lesson? Okay. That's right. Upset it. Upset it.

Please, please define it. That's a will Ferrell word. He made it up. Oh, on an SNL skit. Uhhuh. I'm a huge Will Ferrell fan. I used to have the DVDs of the best of from SNL, will Ferrell.

Jen: He used to. What'd you do with them? Dude, you, I don't have my dvt, so I actually gave all of mine to, to Goodwill as well. I think I gave 'em away, but I didn't know if you'd keep those as a classic frame them maybe.

Oh, they might be. Yeah.

DeJah: Who knows, like, no, I'll keep these as a keepsake for my children in the future Generations of America that won't even know how to play him. Yes, that's right.

Joe: I like how he, uh, whenever Will Ferro goes on a talk show, he goes as a. [00:10:00] Fake person he made up. Absolutely. I dunno if you remember when Absolutely.

He and Conan were going back and forth about how he was gonna shave off his beard and keep it in his satchel. Mm-hmm. And he was just like so intense about it and he showed up with a straight razor and shaved his face.

DeJah: Absolutely. I also love when he was on Conan and he was, had a cockatoo on his shoulder.

And he was like, we're not gonna talk about that. Like just this whole bit about ignoring the live bird that was on his shoulder and then who was a character talking to him and informing him while he's having this interview. Fucking dude is genius. He

Jen: really is just ridiculous. Genius. Or like when, um.

Zach GCA had the Between the Two Ferns. Oh yes. That show. Oh my God. That show was also hilarious. That dude is very funny too. Yeah.

Joe: I don't, I don't know how anybody didn't laugh at that one either. The crazy stuff that he said to people. Oh my God. And they were just like straight face, straight.

Jen: Oh my God.

So good. So good. I know. So I will be Brian fan. Fontana Fontana. Yes. In the, in the lineup. So I'm pretty stoked to somehow acquire a [00:11:00] bottle of sex fan Panther. Panther sex. Absolutely. We have to be on the lookout for how we do that. Absolutely. It's gotta be on Amazon. Like it gotta be on, on the Z. Oh, gotta be, gotta be.

Oh yeah. And then my brother and sister-in-law will be, well, Jeremy, my brother's gonna be champ. Mm-hmm. And, uh, whammy and then will be, will we, bringing it home with Anger Man,

DeJah: the great Yes, yes. Ron Burgundy. I can't

Jen: wait to have

DeJah: on a Stash and all of her many leather bound books. Yes, yes. She's kind of a big deal.

Jen: Mm-hmm. What,

Joe: what did he always say when he was warming up? The, the human torch was denied A bank loan or

Jen: something like that. How now? Brown Cow. Cow sys sketchy scotch. I love scotch. I already just started screaming.

Now I wanna watch that again. Who was the, oh my God. Who was the

Joe: actor, actress next to him that had to keep a straight face? Christina Applegate. Applegate. Yeah. Yeah. Oh.

DeJah: Yeah,

Joe: I saw the bloopers. She messed up like 20 times when he was doing the screaming. Oh God. I

DeJah: bet [00:12:00] that whole scene where, where he's like, I will punch you right in the over freeze.

I bet she fell out that chair.

Joe: Like if 30 times, if you're listening and you're by YouTube, you should YouTube the scene from that movie with Steve Carell and Kristen Wig. And they can't get a line out to save their life. Oh. When they're trying to kind of, their two weird characters try to flirt you remember that scene?

Isn't that

DeJah: anchorman too? Yeah. That's an anchorman too. Yeah. Could, yeah. They're all, they all blur

Joe: together for me, but Absolutely. Kristen

DeJah: Wig is another phenomenal community actress. Yeah. They just get out.

Jen: Yeah. Yep. Love her. Love her so much. This is completely random, but your eyelashes look fabulous.

Thank you. You're welcome. They grow from my head. She, you guys, she has got, I know you can't see her. These

Joe: are all natural, organic. Yes, they are. I grow these myself. If

Jen: you look very closely at our podcast graphic. Don't be creepy. Yeah. You can see 'em, you can get a preview. Um, they are that fabulous and real IRL as the kids are saying these days.

Mm-hmm. [00:13:00] You know what else is mostly fabulous, uh, that we've gotta get caught up on for the listeners? 'cause I know they've just been waiting with bated breath is our trip to Colorado. Oh yeah. Last time we recorded, we were just about to head out on that adventure and, and adventurer crazy time and

DeJah: space.

Yeah. And that was. An adventure, ladies and gentlemen. If you've ever had a vacation that just turned into Murphy's Law of all events, just folly to be had at every turn, we feel you at some point.

Jen: You just, I mean, you just gotta laugh at it all. Yes. Um, yeah. We, we went to, you know, the whole catalyst of this trip was seeing Teddy swims, which we had talked about multiple times before when we had Chris Hendricks on here episodes and episodes ago.

Oh yeah. And had him in here singing. We were talking about it and our love for teddy swims and our obsession. And we still went. We got there. But it was a. Very big shit show in getting there. Um, [00:14:00] solely because of StubHub.

DeJah: Yep. A hundred percent. 'cause of StubHub. Yeah. I'd gotten the confirmation back in December of last year that I had my tickets

Jen: and she was charged.

The monies were exchanged. Yep.

DeJah: Yep. And we got good tickets. 'cause again, you guys, we were investing in this big trip, but, uh, yeah. So, uh, they, uh, refused to provide, said tickets, day of, and then we spent like 10 hours. On the phone with them trying to get the tickets. Well, mostly

Jen: chatting, live

DeJah: chatting. Oh yeah.

Because we couldn't get anybody on the phone. Yeah, either or. You were calling them too. But then I called them too. Yeah. It was all of the above. Every type of uh, yeah. Communication we tried, and then when it was already too late for us to get there. To be able to even get a seat. Get decent parking. Yeah.

Or even park and get into where there was a seat for general admission. 'cause it was oversold. They sent us this wonderful opportunity to replace our tickets for equal or greater value. And I was like, yeah man, we just want our fucking tickets. We gotta go. I hit click. General admission.

Jen: Yep. So we [00:15:00] thought in our brains as we are just like pumping with cortisol and stress at this point because we thought we had plenty of time and we were like, we'll get there when the the gates open so that we can get a decent spot towards the top where the venue is because we got there last minute because of all this bs.

Yeah. And so we were at the very bottom parking lot and listen. It was beautiful. I'm not gonna take anything away. And I would, yeah, the venue, I would do that again, exceptional. But it is a hike. It is a literal hike to get from the bottom parking lot to the actual venue. So anyway, we didn't get to tailgate at all.

We had all things lined up for this. We had a rental car, we were ready. Yep. That all got, we had to do away with that by the time, thankfully. We were less than 15. Our Airbnb was less than 15 minutes away from the venue. But, and the rain cleared, we were thought we were gonna get rained on all night too.

And we did not. So we're very thankful for that. Yep. But yeah, because of the, they kept on saying that the seller was confirming that they had sent them, but we are like sending them multiple screenshots that they are not in our account. Mm-hmm. And they're like, well, they have an hour until the show.

And we're like. We then [00:16:00] what? Yeah, we flew across the country to get to this. So anyway, like, like long story short, that's what happened. We accepted these tickets. They were general admissions. So then in our brains we were like, well, if, if these reserved seats were originally bought, that should mean if we don't have those tickets, that should mean that nobody's in those seats tonight.

Right. Because I was told back in December of

DeJah: 2024, they were mine. Yes. So I was like, no. I am gonna go sit there. Yep. And I'm gonna see if they double sold our tickets and made a double profit and frauded defrauded me. Yep.

Jen: And, uh. They did. Yep. Because when we looked closer, when we got there, it was like a set row 28 back.

Right. Uhhuh. But there was no actual seat number. Right. We looked more closely at Yep. And we were like, well, we've never been here before. Even though I had

DeJah: picked seat seats. Yes. When I

Jen: had bought the tickets.

DeJah: So I had had, I had a, a. Good, yeah. We knew where we were. Right. But when we then look back at our receipt information, that was suddenly gone.

Yeah. So, [00:17:00] um, yeah, so the long story short, uh, yeah. Venue is amazing. Yep. Teddy swims is an amazing human being. Absolutely. And artists like, holy shit. But it was, uh, there was no seats, so we had no seats. It was standing room only. And I, having had just had foot surgery with new. Joints put in my foot.

Couldn't stand at an angle facing down. Yeah. Ended up just sitting on the stairs and staring at the, uh, city skyline for an hour. Over an hour. Yeah.

Jen: Until about finally. And I just, I let her, I, I was like, I know that she just needs her. 'cause we both kind of just needed space at that point. So when she walked away and was like, I'm just gonna go sit down until the show's over.

And so I was like, I'm gonna, I'm gonna give my life away from the space. I know that's what she needs. And then maybe like. 15 minutes before the, the encore. Yeah. Uh, I got a text, she was like, Hey, I finally found somewhere to sit because I saw

DeJah: somebody move and I was

Jen: like, I'm

DeJah: gonna shuffle my ass over there and take that, because it was, you know, you're still sitting off on a, a landscaping pillar, right?

Yeah. Like, it's not a seat, but it was at least somewhere where I could see the stage and not be in pain. So, yeah,

Jen: I mean, and had we known

DeJah: that this was

Jen: [00:18:00] gonna be our, our alternative, we would've gotten there way earlier to get admission. If we had bought general admission

DeJah: tickets, we would've got there.

Half a day early. Right. And just sat out there and tail tailgate. Just camp. It's Colorado. Wheat is legal. Yeah, we would've been happiest. Clams just sitting there waiting for the gates to open. But uh, yeah, that was a horrible experience and we lost hundreds and hundreds of dollars. And that was really shitty.

And I want Teddy to yell at StubHub for us because our love for him, uh, is great, but our love for them is not. Correct. And my love for them is not, I mean, fuck off StubHub. Mm-hmm. You made me cry and I wanna slap you in the face. Yep. You can

Joe: join the Kaiser versus StubHub class action lawsuit where they are known to be selling fraudulent tickets to people on

DeJah: it.

Don't mind if I do. Thank you so much for that. Is that information that an active lawsuit?

Joe: I don't know if it's active. Uh, I'll

DeJah: find out. No. 'cause I was, I was absolutely, it was a vile experience. Yeah.

Jen: We, I mean we were, we got to the point 'cause we were doing everything that we could. Mm-hmm. And we were even like, did we do something [00:19:00] wrong?

We should have done before? But no. Like we were, we were pivoting left and right and it just,

DeJah: we were doing cartwheels. Cartwheels and, uh, all we did is again, just hemorrhage money for their stock profit.

Jen: Yeah. And, and then once we got to the venue like we did, we were so frustrated and just like numb.

Mm-hmm. With like anger. Mm-hmm. Excuse me, that we didn't like move, we didn't get water. We, you tried to get water and then the one you went was closed and fucking closed.

DeJah: I

Jen: walked

DeJah: up and they closed in front of me and I was like, someone has a voodoo doll that fucking hates me. And it's just like manipulating my life to be miserable right now.

Like every turn. And I just, I, my bucket of worms face must have was like, oh, okay. Yeah.

Jen: We didn't, we didn't, and I'm just like standing there like by myself. 'cause I could still, like, I could see it was leaning, but it was like, it was, it was like all the seats, which at Red Hat are like, or like all like the stone, like [00:20:00] bench, like a big bench seat.

And then there's the walkway on the outside. And then these landscape pillar structure things with. Trees and stuff in 'em that you can sit on the edge at. And um, so I'm at the corner of that, but it's right next to the walkway. So like, I'm constantly like a weeble wobble going back and forth trying to see the, the show itself.

But all that to say Teddy was phenomenal. Mm-hmm. He did not disappoint. He is extremely talented. He is. So I got, I got to cry with him. So that was a check. Yeah.

DeJah: I got to at least cry with Teddy because he is just a, just a gem of a human. Yep. And. Watching him run off stage, at least wants to go do a costume change.

Also lifts my soul

Jen: because he is not a tall person. No,

DeJah: he's so fucking cute. He is.

Jen: It's just like a, like, but he was so, I got those two things. I'm glad I got, he, he, um, I mean within like the first, 'cause you know, you've, you've heard, well I can't say listeners have, but like you've heard that like. An [00:21:00] artist playing there is such a full circle, like dream come true kind of moment.

And so he had two nights, he added the second show like. I don't know, a month maybe before we went. Mm-hmm. And, um, anyway. And so, uh, probably one song in like afterwards, like he's already just overcome with emotion, just looking out at this sold out crowd and this beautiful venue. It was just very, very cool.

There was a whole experience where he brought his like childhood friend who's in the band, that his dad was a singer. And he said, if you ever make it to not like a popular one, but you know, if you ever make it to play at Red Hat, then I'll come out and sing with you. And he honored that. Like the dad came out and they sang, uh.

Was it dead or alive? It was a bonjovi song. Yeah. I think it was dead or alive and crushed it. Like, and it was just, I was like, what a cool moment. Like it helped lift my spirits a little bit, but the, I, I will say, not involving Teddy, the whole experience did get tainted because of that's what she

DeJah: situation.

StubHub can suck on my chocolate salty ball. That's, that is the moral of the story. [00:22:00] It, it was a absolute. Miserable experience of being stolen from Yeah, it was, yeah. It was tough to swallow. And then, uh, then the next day, as I was gonna say, but

Jen: wait, there's more. It

DeJah: continues. Uh, yeah. So whoever again was manipulating the voodoo do was controlling the weather.

So we were, uh, we travel with our paddleboards 'cause we love to paddleboard, so we went up into the mountains. Who? Lake Dylan. And the weather was just, it was rainy. It was cold, it was not looking like we were gonna be able to make it happen, and we were just essentially just praying to Mother Nature in the car.

Yeah. Like sitting it out, like waiting for the, you know, boards to fill up and for the rain to move off. And it did, it did. The sky parted and we went out and got to get on the. And it was great. It was cold. It was fantastic, but it was fantastic. Mm-hmm. And what was

Jen: very cool too about that, is on the drive out.

So we went out to Lake Dillon it was about an hour from, from Golden and the, the main highway there was a road closure or something. So it, it diverted us a [00:23:00] different way, but I'm so glad that it did because it took us. Through the mountains. Mm-hmm. And so the, the view, like we were in all the tunnels under the mountains and like, and at that point the weather was like 70 degrees and sunny and we had some nineties hits going on.

Windows down. We were bopping. Hell yeah. And then we got about 20 minutes outside of Lake Dillon and there was a whole all kinds of clouds and altitude. And the temperature. And the temperature dropped. 20 degrees. It was like below 60. We were like, oh God. Yeah. Yeah. But we made it. Yep. Uh, and it was beautiful.

Yep. We were so glad that we did and we stuck it out and that was fantastic. And, and then we were like, oh

DeJah: my God, we, we gotta get off. Because we had made appointments to get tattoos together again, I. Set in May like. Yep. Yeah. We had all the, our plans were set. We were really mature, responsible adults, guys and, uh, lasso.

We get off the water, we run back to be able to go get our tattoos. And then, um, unfortunately, I. We stood outside the tattoo parlor and there was nobody inside of it.

Jen: And it started [00:24:00] raining again. And it started raining on us. Yes. Yeah.

DeJah: And so we're, I am, you know, emailing back and forth, like checking clearly email to make sure that I was right.

Like again, we're like, what did we do wrong? We didn't do anything wrong. And, um, nobody is responding to us. And Jen being tech savvy is reaching out on like. Every platform possible. Instagram,

Jen: email, phone call, everything that's available, right? Text message, phone

DeJah: call. We had reached out to 'em and it's crickets.

So we're like, well message them all again. We're like, we're gonna go sit in the car. And so we went and we're just sitting in the car and then all of a sudden we both start blowing up and they're like, oh yeah. Whoops. I doodle. We scheduled you for the next day. Yep, yep.

Jen: So, and she was mortified. You could tell she was, but we were just like, you

DeJah: can't fucking make this up, dude.

This is like. Series of unfortunate events

Jen: like, and the, and so you're thinking like, okay, next day, what's the big deal? Just come the next day. But they had us the next day at 4:00 PM and we had to get out of our Airbnb. 'cause we were going to Denver then for a few days and we had to have the rental car back.

Yes. [00:25:00] So anyway, thankfully they were able to, you don't be like,

DeJah: hurry up, there's a tattoo.

Jen: Yeah, exactly. So thankfully they got us, um, the next morning, as soon as we checked out with our Airbnb at 11, we got in there. Got everything done. It was a great experience. The tattoo shop was f fantastic. Very, very cool.

Fa faith tattoos. Yes. Face tattoos. Faith, yes. So

Joe: face tattoos, definitely.

DeJah: But, uh, yeah, it was, uh, it was lovely after we got it done, but again, just another. God damnit. Yes. Son of a fucking are. You shit me. Like, could not win for trying man. Like no matter what we did, stuff like

Joe: that frustrates me. 'cause you ever think about like the people that don't plan and how they just, they just kind wander in and it all just works out.

Ah,

DeJah: it's infuriating. Yes. Yes. My God. I

Joe: had a trip and I was trying to get tickets to go see Jimmy Kimmel live. Nice. Um, with my daughter when we went to. LA a couple months ago. And um, so I was stressing trying to get these tickets 'cause you gotta apply, you gotta like write an essay and all this crap. And I [00:26:00] finally got 'em, but it was like two days before we flew out and I was like, oh good, we're not wasting a trip out there.

We're gonna get to see some cool stuff. And uh, so then that day we land and we get to our Airbnb and we're just walking down the street and some guy's like, Hey, you wanna go see Jimmy Kimmel tonight? And he just hands me tickets. And I'm like, what the frick, because I bought, I bought like a. Tour thing that now I needed to go on some crappy tour and I could've win such.

I was planning ahead. Yeah,

Jen: yeah, yeah. I mean, you know, it, it's, it's, listen, we got a lot of laughs at it. We finally just got to a point, like literally when we were walking, that's not even where it ended though. I know when we were walking home. Or like back to the car after the Teddy Swims concert though, like we were both just hysterically laughing.

We were like, we can't ally just laughing

DeJah: as we're just walking along, like whatever.

Joe: Like, yeah. And because you're in Colorado, nobody asked what was going on. No,

DeJah: no. Perfectly fit right in. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 'cause then we got back to, we got the car back in time. We go No, we didn't. We were an hour late getting [00:27:00] the

Jen: car back.

Oh yeah, that's

DeJah: right. That's

Jen: right. Because of traffic. That's right. Oh my Lord. Because we get, we get to Denver and we, we were, we were walkable Yeah. In for most of downtown. And so we pulled in the little alley 'cause there's no street parking in front of our Airbnb. So we pull in a little alley. So Deja gets out to open the gate, which y'all, I was like, this is where it happens.

This is where I scratch the living shit out of this car. Mm-hmm. That we've gotta return because it was so, so narrow and there were all these trash bins around and we pulled was so it in fucking overgrown. Oh my God. Terrible. It as if

DeJah: nobody had been in that back area for like a decade. Yeah. Nature had reclaimed it.

Yep.

Jen: Absolutely, absolutely. Mind you, the pictures of the Airbnb are what sold it. 'cause we were like, we want a really cool, like chill outdoor spot. That's beautiful. And so that's why that one was selected. And then we get there and we're literally walking through the forest to get our, we had to

DeJah: rip up.

Honeysuckle and other plants out from the deck, so we could sit there. When I say [00:28:00] nature had taken over, it had eaten everything and was dominating the area. Yeah, it was it was, it it basically Imagine kudzu. Kudzu just coming and taking it

Jen: over an entire backyard. We got, I may or may not have been intoxicated, but we got back from one outing on one day and I was like, it's not that fucking hard.

I just start ripping shit. Like, and thankfully neither one of us are allergic to bees. Yeah. Because of all the beautiful honey sole. Those honey suckle and Morning glory. Yes. Bees were everywhere. Mm-hmm. 'cause they were just eating that shit up. But man, and that was, it was intense. Well they're just sitting there.

Monks, bees, yep. Just us

DeJah: and the bees. Yeah. Yep. And I, and I, you know, I literally like, I was like, well, I'm so glad that I took the apiary Arts in college and I'm real, real fucking calm around bees. Yeah. Because otherwise anyone else might die. Yeah. Like it's, if you, there should have been a warning for that place.

Like if you have a bee allergy, do not come here. Yeah. 'cause again, the picture of the backyard shows no plant. [00:29:00] Okay. That she or, or very manicured.

Jen: Very, very, very minimal. But it was, it was a lot of like landscaping.

DeJah: Yeah. But yeah, that was, that was something else. That was something else.

Jen: The inside was very cute.

Mm-hmm.

DeJah: Yeah. But, um, as, as

Jen: shown in the load of the flies, backyard was,

DeJah: yeah.

Jen: Yeah. Uhhuh. So yeah. Something else to behold. Then by our last day which was a Saturday mm-hmm. We went to Rocky's game. Yeah. And, uh, that we waited to buy tickets for. Yeah. And that was super easy and seamless except for that it was pouring rain when we first walked into the stadium.

we made it maybe, I think the first inning. We tried so hard just to get, we just so tired to the sunset we, yeah. 'cause the Rocky, Rocky Stadium is just beautiful because Yeah. They've got this, um. What's called the rooftop. And so there's a few bars up there and it's standing only, uh, but the, the tickets are cheaper.

Mm-hmm. And there's several bars up there anyway. You can just stand on the edge and so you can see the entire field, which is fantastic. And then it's got a beautiful view of like the scoreboard and then the Rocky Mountains in the background. Yeah, absolutely stunning. And, uh, and it [00:30:00] was. When? When the rain stopped.

Mm-hmm. But we were so worn, like it took every ounce of effort. We were at a bar beforehand, like killing dime, and I don't think we spoke like more than five

DeJah: words

Jen: for like true two hours, like an hour a half. Like I

DeJah: don't, I don't know if you've noticed listener, but we don't have a problem talking to each other.

Okay. So for us to sit in silence, you know, we are. Fucking exhausted. Yeah. Yes. We really,

Jen: really were. And so we got to the game and we're trying to rally, and I just look over at days and she's just like, buddy, I don't know if I, I was like, I thought I might just, I, you,

DeJah: I might just tip over. Yeah. I might just fall right up

Jen: so bad.

Oh, yep. Goodness. But you know, I gotta see a childhood friend. Yes, that's absolutely amazing. Shout out Frank. Um, me. That was really cool. He blessed me. Father Frank. Yeah, brother Frank. Brother Frank, that's right. Mm-hmm. Um, yeah. Great, great time. Colorado is fantastic. If you haven't been, go, um, just if you're gonna go see any events, don't you, StubHub that's the moral of story.

No,

DeJah: [00:31:00] no, absolutely. Please join me. Join me in absolutely advocating and boycotting StubHub join us. And what, who was the lawsuit? Who was

Jen: with the, in the lawsuit? K

DeJah: Keith

Jen: Ke Keith.

Joe: Uh, like Jeff Smith. I don't know. I'll find it again.

Jen: Riser, right? Something like that. Maybe. Yeah. I don't know. I Ill find it out.

I know.

DeJah: But yeah. Come on, tech man. Absolute. Absolutely horrible. Could not believe. And then it just so rudely. After getting those general admission tickets going, Hey, hey, hey, you didn't give us tickets of equal or greater value. Yeah, we're gonna

Jen: get our, the difference in money. Uh,

DeJah: a woman came, she's like, oh, can I call you?

And I was thinking, oh, maybe they will fucking finally help us. No, just to tell me no. You pressed the button, you accepted it. It's Go fuck yourself was basically what? So

Jen: Bob told us, yep, nope. If you accepted those tickets, you're not gonna get the price difference. Like, are you kidding me? What? What?

DeJah: Yeah.

Oh yeah, yeah, fan. It's just, um, it made us stronger as people

Jen: made us wiser in what ticket? Purchasers not to use. Yep, yep. Lessons

DeJah: were

Jen: [00:32:00] learned. Yep. Lessons were learned. Yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm. It

Joe: was a Kaiser

Jen: versus Kaiser. Kaiser. Kaiser. We were getting there. Riser. Kaiser? Mm-hmm. Keebler. Mm-hmm. Oh

DeJah: goodness. Oh, that just made me think I was watching in glorious Bastards the other night.

Oh, nice. Classic. I absolutely love that movie. StubHub makes you think of Think glorious

Jen: Killing makes her think of, no, I'm

DeJah: just kidding. Yes. I would love to Jew bear fucking StubHub. Better goddamn Believe it. Not the people of StubHub. No, no, no. StubHub

Jen: The entity. The entity.

DeJah: Just me. Against a brick building.

Jen: Yeah, that's what it's Oh man. [00:33:00] long time ago when you were talking about a long up the hill to the venue, you said that you felt like a weeble wobble, and I've been thinking about Weeble wobbles ever since you said it. Yeah. You remember those toys? You remember the theme song?

Yes. Yes.

Joe: Here's the commercial. 1970s. Everyone watch kids play with Weils. It's really something. Or if it's real nice, they go out to the Weeble Marina and go fishing.

Hey, hey, look at me and WebU, the weevils waddle. But [00:34:00] they don't fall down Rock. That's the only part I ever remember. Yeah, that's,

Jen: I didn't know there was a whole journey in the We wall,

DeJah: but only if it's nice guys. Do they go to the marina

Jen: just so you to go fishing.

DeJah: If you have the marina set, you looked it up.

It's

Joe: worth over a thousand dollars right now. Oh man. Holy shit. If you have

DeJah: the weebo

Joe: wobble,

DeJah: marina, why did I invest in real estate? It's if you got the

Joe: airport set now, hey, that's a whole different thing. You're really rolling in it.

DeJah: Oh

Joe: goodness.

DeJah: The wobbles. Yeah. So that was our C story. We were, and it like, yeah, and that's just picture us as we were wobbles, maniacally laughing.

On our way down

Joe: we wobbled, but they hope fall down. Just singing that song the whole way down.

Jen: Oh shit. Yep. Mm-hmm. That was us, man. You

Joe: guys have a voicemail.

Jen: We do.

Joe: Yes. Yes. And, uh, I I'm gonna read it dramatically. I won't be as good station. Wait, so it's a,

Jen: a voicemail or text? Yeah, sure. I was gonna say, if it's a voicemail, I feel like it should,

Joe: I mean, it's all technology.

Yeah, sure. It's [00:35:00] in an email that starts out with the Google Voice Archive. So I said voicemail because I can't read, honestly. Wait, well you read voice,

Jen: so yeah, I'll sound this

Joe: out. Real good for you guys. Here we go. Okay. Yay. Let's go. Alright. Okay. Non-football, girly here, but my BF is so sometimes I have to watch Auntie t Swift helps.

So excited for her new album. That's tomorrow at the time of this recording, by the way. Oh, um, anyways, is y'all mentioned you do not watch football, so can we talk about mascots? I recently, I I don't know if you guys said that you don't watch No, we Oh you do? Watch. I added knot 'cause I read. Good.

DeJah: Hey Anyway.

Hey Joe, do you wanna, do you wanna try again

Joe: or, um, anyway, y'all mentioned that you do watch football Uhhuh, so can we talk about mascots? I recently saw that Stanford's mascot is a tree, WTFA tree. I don't get it. Let's discuss.

DeJah: Trees are sturdy, they're strong, they're outlasting. The mighty Oak will live forever.

It's a good mascot in my mind.

Jen: Okay. You know, I'm [00:36:00] gonna be really honest. I feel like I've seen like the tree in passing, but I didn't, I didn't know it was with Stanford, but I, I was, I don't, it looks like

Joe: something you'd find in a, in a kid's meal from the eighties. This tree, it's, it's weird looking.

Jen: I have a computer with me today, so I am going to look this up.

DeJah: That is not the weirdest mascot to me. There are way weirder, way weirder.

Jen: It, it look, it looks like a craft I would have done for as a tree, like a Christmas tree. I

was So is it, is it,

DeJah: is it a conifer or a deciduous tree?

Jen: It is, it looks like a pine tree. It is a conifer. Okay. It is creepy is all I know.

Let's see.

DeJah: Oh, I'm so into it. I know. I'm

Jen: getting D in her stocking for Christmas.

DeJah: That that is, that is a perverse alteration of a tree. That's Stanford. I, I withdraw if this [00:37:00] was, I withdraw my previous statement. Now looking at the costume of Sun Mascot why? What's with the, the mouth? I don't, what are the trees eating?

Yes. Is my question.

Jen: Okay. But so, so it says oxygen, so sta according to Wikipedia's carbon, dioxide's carbon dioxide and nitrogen. We know that it's true 'cause it's on Wikipedia. Stanford's team name is Cardinal, referring to the vivid Stanford cardinal red color. It took a long time to think of that. Not the common songbird.

They don't have an official mascot. The tree, in various versions has been called one of America's most bizarre and controversial college mascots. The tree reg regularly appears at the top of the internet. Worst mascot list. I mean, so Fair listener. Um, you know, and I'm gonna be honest, this is pretty timely because are there any other mascots in the kingdom of

DeJah: Plana?

Like,

Jen: are, are there any other nine? What's the buckeye, what's, what's an Ohio Buckeye? I always think of a black eyed pea whenever I see the mascot for [00:38:00] Ohio. State.

Joe: I don't know what the bucket is. Is that also vegetation? There's um, there's a tiger, there's a blue devil. Well, that's

DeJah: all animals, right? Like we're gonna get, I'm looking for ones that are not animals.

More spiritual.

Joe: There's one

DeJah: called a hokey bird for Virginia Tech. Mm-hmm. Yeah. That's a Turkey. Yep. That's a good one. Nit lion, because turkeys are mean as fuck. Okay.

Jen: Nit lion. So I, so I knew that Penn State was where the Nittany lions. Yes. Have you guys seen this horrific looking mascot? No. I was recently watching the Oregon, Oregon Penn State game.

Mm-hmm. And, uh, oh. Ducks. Yeah. Fantastic. Mascot. Mascot. Absolute. The duck is a fan. Absolutely. He's so funny. He, she, they, yes. Brilliant. But they were playing, um, Penn State and that thing. It looks like taxidermied animal, like, I don't know, just the way that, it just looks like a cheap version that of sign back to

DeJah: life or what are we, uh,

Jen: let me, I don't know.

The thing is hideous and would give me nightmares. Um, um, is it,

DeJah: is it meant to scare the [00:39:00] opponent? Is that, is that the, um, I don't, or just small children? The tree or?

Jen: No, the weird, it just looked like they couldn't be bothered to. Penn States spend the money on a well done mascot costume. Hold on, I'm pulling it up for you.

It's

DeJah: possible. Oh yeah, I saw, I saw that at Spirit Halloween. Yes. Oh, yeah. I mean, yeah, I mean it, it looks like it is so lame. That is so bad. That's literally just a Teddy bear costume. From Spirit Halloween. Well, and that's slapped a

Jen: face

DeJah: on

Jen: Be, and that's for the long time. I was like, so bad. That's a really bad looking bear.

And then I was like, oh no wait, they're the niani lion than, and there is actually a niani lion and that's, that's an actual animal. Yeah. I was like, but it definitely looks more like a bear. Yeah. Looks like a knockoff bear than Lion. To me, it looks like, I mean, listen, goat Penn State, I don't really give a shit, but like,

DeJah: and they've got the money for it.

Come on now. Oh, for sure. Their tuition is [00:40:00] ridiculous. I

Jen: feel like at this point they're just, it's a thing for them now. Yeah. Like they've gotta know that their mascot is hideous. It's terrible.

DeJah: Yeah, they're not gonna fix it. They're gonna lead into it. I know. I'm sorry. But Stanford's tree is now a thing of nightmares to me.

I, I think I need to set a therapy appointment like I do. They update

Joe: Syracuse because Syracuse is Otto. The orange, which is just Yes, an orange.

DeJah: Love that, that makes perfect sense. And Western Kentucky is Big Red,

Joe: which is just a big red.

DeJah: Well, don't listen. Kentucky's education rate is really low. Guys, don't pick on them.

Okay. They're like, listen, they don't have, they don't have their state taxes for their funding for education. Yeah. It's not fair.

Jen: So did we ever figure out exactly what Brutus, apparently the Buckeye, like, what is, is it, what is a Buckeye for Ohio State like the

DeJah: Bean?

Jen: Well, that, that's what it looks like to me, but like,

DeJah: yeah, I thought it was just the, like the bean, like the legume.

Just one of my favorite words of all time. I love leg legumes.

Joe: Yeah. The fighting [00:41:00] legumes. Yes. Oh

Jen: my God, that would

Joe: be amazing. So it's a Brutus Buckeye, Ohio State's mascot is a personified nut.

DeJah: Yes.

Joe: Oh, specifically the Buckeye nut. Well, which comes from a Buckeye tree.

DeJah: Oh, so it's kind of, so is it the brown with white?

Yes. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.

Joe: So Brutus is essentially a walking nut with legs.

Jen: I love it. And every man in the world, I'm just kidding. Not you, Joe. Present company. Just one

DeJah: lonely

Jen: nut

DeJah: wandering around

Jen: trying to make people happy. That's right.

DeJah: Long to be in a pear. Yes.

Jen: Trying to bring people together. That's right.

That's right.

DeJah: Oh shit.

Jen: Yeah. Oh my

DeJah: God. Again, I'm back to what is with the mouth on that tree. It's so disturbing to me. It's like joker. Oh, it is. It is. But it. It's so terrible. It's great.

Joe: There's, there's some that have, uh, multiple pairs of, uh, of [00:42:00] mascots. So the Florida Gators have Albert and Alberta. Mm-hmm.

We have You have packed here. State. State, yeah. Mm-hmm. They're not alone. They're not alone. Like the poor nut.

DeJah: Yep. But at least they have cool costumes. Kansas, like state's costumes are fabulous.

Joe: Jayhawks have Big J and Baby J.

Jen: All right. Purdue. Oh, you know another one that I am so thankful that was not my mascot in college was here in North Carolina, the Wake Forest Deacons.

Oh, yeah. That old Scrooge looking man of a mascot. Kara was a deacon. Yeah. I mean, I would have nothing against Wake Forest. Mm-hmm. Just. Do better with your mascot? I don't know. Get 'em some plastic surgery, something, I don't know. Like

DeJah: what is Stop supporting the religious suppression.

Joe: Why do so many high schools name their teams after like s or like, uh, like so we got the carry s but there's so many like little demons, like that's their, that's their mascot and they're always really funny drawings that they're just the opposite of scary.

DeJah: Oh, well they're mischievous, right? Oh, okay. And [00:43:00] they're supposed to, yeah. Work against you in order to win, I guess.

Jen: What was your mascot? I was a writer.

DeJah: Oh. I was an appropriated Black hawk.

Jen: Excuse me. I I'm so confused. Wait, what?

DeJah: Um, in my purest white driven snow community that I came from, which was very fucking Norwegian and Dutch, we were the Black Hawks as in the Native American tribe.

Oh yeah, Uhhuh. Oh, nobody had fun with that.

Jen: Oh, what do you, you said Black Hawk? I, no, not at all. I literally thought like, like an animal, a black hawk animal. That's, I was like, why is appropriation, I'm a hawk

Joe: and all guys, you, you have a mature interpretation of That's not what I heard. I heard. Blackhawk, uh oh.

Oh, like as in a black rooster? Ah, yes. You know, like a Kakadu. Yes.

Jen: Speaking of like the, um, fucking, uh, coastal Carolina Santa Clare's. I'm like, [00:44:00] it's just, I'm sorry, a teed chicken. Is what, or Brewster, whatever.

Joe: I looked up, I, I asked Chad GPT to find me real school mascot, so I went to high school to find some dumb ones.

Mm-hmm. Here's one. Scottsdale Community College Fighting Artichokes.

Jen: Yes. Oh, North Carolina School of the Arch or the pickles. Here in North, in Winston-Salem, there's a high school. Brilliant.

Joe: There's a high school in Arizona, Yuma High School. They're, they're the Yuma High School criminals. Starting to crims

DeJah: No, that's, but, but imagine the merch guys, if you're an artichoke or a pickle.

Jen: Oh, oh. I wanted my friend to get, um, to get me a fighting pickle shirt. They didn't, they had a basketball team, I believe, but I would totally aware that I would absolutely support that.

Joe: All right. I bet you can guess this one. It's POCA is the name of the high school, Poka High School. And they're the.

DeJah: Polka dots.

That's right. The pol dot. No dots. No, the polka dot. The polka.

Joe: Polka

DeJah: dots Polka.

Joe: High school is the dots. Yes,

DeJah: the polka dots. I like this one.

Joe: Water meet in Michigan is known as the water meet nimrods. Oh, right. Oh, absolutely. [00:45:00] Just people take them speaking good things into existence there. Mm-hmm. People take them seriously.

Jen: You've got the Delta State fighting okra.

Joe: That's slimy. That's what it is. Oh no. Richard High School is known as the school bombers. Oh, oh, that doesn't age well. Redo that.

Jen: No, that is not evergreen. We gotta, we gotta change that. Hold up. Nope. Mm-hmm. Do the NFL doesn't really, I think mascots get lost after college.

I mean, I guess the Cowboys have, uh, rowdy.

Joe: They have 'em. Yeah, for sure. Mm-hmm. So Cardinals, Arizona. Cardinals are big. Red falcons are Freddie, the Falcon Ravens are Poe, which is like a,

Jen: okay, like Edgar Allen Poe does our pan. Does our Panther

DeJah: have a name here? Yes. Sper. Yep.

Jen: Sper Brilliant. And the Dan the Panther dancers are our cheerleading squad.

Whatever are the top cats. Oh

Joe: yes. The Chicago Bear is Staley the Bear.

Jen: Yes. I guess I just, they don't really ever show it much on

DeJah: when it's televised. Correct? Yeah. It's just entertaining the crowd on the side when the camera's off on commercial. Yeah. The

Joe: Giants don't have [00:46:00] one. Neither do the Jets. They're too cool for

Jen: it.

Well, nobody wants to be a mascot for them. No.

Joe: So the, the Buccaneers, their mascot is fear? Yes. That seems like a mistake. Ain't nothing

Jen: fearful about the books. Mm-hmm.

No, so, so what about the Packers? Do they have like a ch, I know they have the cheese heads that a lot of people wear 'cause in Wisconsin, but do they have a mascot? No. Official ma. Yeah, they're owners mascot. They're, yeah,

Joe: that's the

DeJah: mascot. No, it's true. It's their owners. Yeah, they are. Aren't they the only team where they own?

Yeah, they're privately owned by the citizens. So the Packers are the people. Oh yeah. They are their own mascot. The Cheeseheads are the people like, okay. Yeah. All right. Well, I kind of love

Jen: that. Mm-hmm.

DeJah: Jerry, take notes. But no, I'm, I always was very proud of the fact growing up there that Wisconsin owned their own team.

They were, that's very cool. They were not persuaded by money in the same way. And it just, I think it had a, like a higher local value. You didn't have people who were fans of other thing, other places, you know, and if you did, it was 'cause you moved there, right? Like, yeah. [00:47:00] Yeah.

Jen: That's, that's fun. Mm-hmm.

That's very cool actually. Yeah.

DeJah: Love it. Excellent. Now that I've been scarred by a tree. Okay, let's move on. Yeah. God, go. Please look this up. Don't sleep with me.

Jen: Yeah. Join me in my misery and insomnia. That's right, that's right. Oh, yeah. I don't know. What's your, do, I mean, we don't have to harp on this too much more, but do you have like a, what's your favorite mascot?

DeJah: What's my favorite mascot? Yeah. I, I think, what is it? Grimmy? The fucking crazy ass. Oh gosh. I don't even, I have, I have literally no technology. Like I gotta look up anything. But what, what is grimmy? Grimmy is not a real like thing, it's a hockey mascot,

Joe: like the grim reaper.

DeJah: No, no, no, no, no. Gosh darn it.

Everybody listening. I know your

Jen: brother's like

DeJah: it's capital.

Jen: Grimmy. Like gr. Do you know? You [00:48:00] don't know who it's for? Oh

DeJah: my gosh. Oh my gosh. Everyone out there, there. Stand by. Why? I figure out what I'm talking

Jen: about. Grimace. Why? Why doing this?

DeJah: Oh, gritty.

Jen: Gritty. That's it. Oh, I was like grimace, the gr, the McDonald's.

So sorry. No, I'm think gritty. GR is a seven foot

Joe: tall, orange fuzzy creature with googly eyes. Oh yes. Okay. And a quirky, chaotic personality. That sounds like what you got fitted for, for your birthday.

Jen: It sure does. Yes. The fabric

Joe: tube orange fuzzy. Mm-hmm. And it's got googly eyes. Mm-hmm. For

Jen: the Phil, the fuck?

Philly. But he's the mascot for the flyers. Yes. Yeah. Yes. I like him. Yeah, that's, I like Ellie, the elephant for the New York Liberty Women's Basketball Team. Oh,

DeJah: nice. Yeah. Well, I'm a huge Muppet

Jen: fan, so, you know. Fair enough. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I feel like the basketball mascots basketball, like professional mm-hmm.

Can dance their asses off, and I think that's why. Mm-hmm. There's the. There's another one that's Collegiate that is very well known. Like people want to be that mascot because they wanna dance [00:49:00] guy and listen, it doesn't matter 'cause I can't think of it. And I'm not gonna sit here and try to, but

DeJah: I, I remember going to Timberwolves games when I was a kid and their mascot was like really into it.

Really? Mm-hmm. Uh, you know, there always just super athletic and out there dancing and. Flying through the air, you know? Yeah. Doing back flips and, you know, putting in buckets, but yeah. Yeah. While wearing a giant hat you can't see through, it's astounding to me. They do amazing things.

Jen: Oh, I know. Or like stormy here with the canes.

Mm-hmm. Uh, you know, on ice skates out there and I'm like, oh, are, can you see things? Oh, it

DeJah: just, it just occurred to me, I dunno why I didn't say this first before gritty, my absolute all time favorite. Absolutely. I can't believe I didn't think of this. Is is mini muddy. Mini muddy out at the Mudcats games because I would love to eat a catfish sandwich.

I think muddy is no more. I know. Okay. I know. I was like, I don't know how to break this to you, but I used to, I, I used to love just sitting there eating catfish and thinking cannibalistic thoughts while that little fucker ran around out in the field. It, it brought me joy and just watching him like.

Tease. [00:50:00] They, they did a, they always did such an entertaining job of like teasing the opposing team with like a ball that was attached to a string and getting like an outfielder right. To like chase it down and stuff. Ah, just entertaining. Loved it. Loved it. That's awesome. I was, was just curious

Joe: and looking up some salaries.

They make good money these guys. The Denver Nugget's. Rocky? Mm-hmm. He makes $625,000 a year. Fuck

Jen: off. How does one become a mascot? Ooh.

DeJah: The reference. I dunno. That's amazing. Go for them. Good, good. Great.

Jen: Great. Great. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I guess you like never get weekends off the show. I think it depends

Joe: on which one you are.

'cause sometimes they like swing from the top of the NFL stadium. Yeah. And they do some crazy stuff. Mm-hmm. Yeah, they do. So I bet those guys are getting like hazard pay. Like who's like the best paid employee at Disney World is the, the woman that tinker Bells off of the

Jen: Oh Castle. Okay. Yeah. At the end of the day.

I bet. Good God. Yeah. Good luck in Godspeed every time you do that stunt. I know.

Joe: I would love to work 20 minutes a day.

Jen: Right. That [00:51:00] would be fantastic. Same days. Yeah. Oh goodness. Well, you know, I, I went to college with, uh, you know, Joseph the Mountaineer. He is evolved and, and grads, he's an industrious

DeJah: mascot.

Mm-hmm. He's, you know, yeah. Mm-hmm.

Jen: Little Paul bunion esque if he was about 30 years older. Um, and then, uh, pd, the pirate mm-hmm. For ECU for grad school. Mm-hmm. So.

Joe: Fun, but there's a thin line between like a creepy one. Yeah.

Jen: Oh, as we've seen with a tree and a nit me lion whoof. Yeah. And then when I there, I don't remember when it was that I was, that maybe I just started grad school at ECU and all of a sudden PDD came out and they had, I guess redone like the head of the costume and his.

Skin, like his face. He looked like he was just sunburnt, like they went too pink for the, the tone of the skin. And we were like, oh, PD forgot to put sunscreen on. Oh, S SPF 50, buddy. Yeah, reapply every two hours.

DeJah: Whoops. A

Jen: dole. Yeah. [00:52:00] Anyway, well.

Joe: So the internet seems to think that Tinkerbell makes $800 every time she flies.

So I'm gonna go into training right now. Tinkerbell, I

DeJah: one love zip lining. Yeah. Two. Love the idea of working 20 minutes a day. Three, I'm in, I mean, slap a wig. Creature three

Joe: love magic wands.

DeJah: Yes. Yes. Spreading joy amongst all the land. Yes. Or I

Joe: can flail like nobody's business, right?

DeJah: Yes.

Jen: Oh my God. Never grow up.

Yes. Oh, well good for you. Tinkerbell. I wonder

Joe: if they've ever had like a firework go off too close or something like,

Jen: oh, you know, they've had some absolutely. Pyrotechnic errors. Hell yeah. Joe,

DeJah: Google's

Jen: pyrotech. Mm-hmm.

DeJah: Errors,

Jen: catastrophes. Mm-hmm. Tinkerbell,

DeJah: I'm trying to remember somewhere. There was one where a pirate ship started on fire that wasn't Florida.

I don't know if it was at like a, some, I don't think it was Disney. I think it was some another. Yeah. Don't they have the pirate ship in [00:53:00] Vegas?

Jen: There is. Yeah, there is. That seems more plausible like catch on fire out there now. I remember it

Joe: being on like multiple TV shows like in the nineties. Like there was like super piratey thing.

I don't, can't remember what I feel it.

DeJah: Yes. Thank you. We're channeling some super piratey thing, Joe Super piratey stuff. I know. We're hive minding about this. I know it's happening. Yeah. Mm-hmm.

Joe: So her name, uh, is Gina Rock, this Tinkerbell lady. Mm-hmm. And she has recorded making many hard crash landings.

Oh, there is supposed to be somebody there holding a mattress to catch her, and that has not been there a couple times.

Jen: Aww, you had one job. Secure the mattress. Also, they haven't come up with a better way for her landing yet. Like, this is Disney eating. Did, did she like

DeJah: steal their lunch or something outta like the fridge?

In the employee room? Like what? And they're like,

Joe: well, so the one in, uh, California, she did get stuck. Midway. So she was dangling 60 feet in the air and the Anaheim Fire Department had to [00:54:00] come bring a ladder to get her down.

Jen: Ugh.

Joe: We all, how many kids are like

DeJah: mom, Tinkerbell? Yeah. I had

Joe: to stay and watch till

DeJah: PO Little Tank.

Tank. Oh man. Well, yeah. Entertainment. Yeah. Even Tinkerbells, not immune to catastrophe. We love

Jen: human folly. Yeah. Probably because she was in love with a boy that never wanted to go up. True. I mean, relatable. True.

Joe: That's why she's always jumping off a castle.

Jen: I tell you keeps on finding that edge, not stopping walking.

Nope. Nope. Oh, shit. All right. Well stay away from Cliffs. Guys. We're gonna wrap this one up, but, um, so listener, thank you for your text. I, you know, good for you for, I don't know if it's forced watching football with mm-hmm. Your bf, which I'm assuming stands for boyfriend. Um, but, uh, yeah, good for you and.

Good for Taylor for getting more people involved in football, I guess. Absolutely. Again, she didn't

Joe: get the halftime show at the Super Bowl, though. I was.

Jen: I don't think she'll ever do it. No, [00:55:00] she refused to. Why

Joe: would she, in my mind, if she was gonna do it this year. So they were gonna do love song and Kelsey was gonna walk out and they were gonna get married on stage.

DeJah: Well, that,

Jen: I see

DeJah: what your

Jen: dreams are. That's the only way is I dream about it.

Joe: Every night.

Jen: Every night. That's the only way that Travis is ever gonna be on a Super Bowl field again, because

Joe: Yes.

Jen: It's time to retire Buddy Oyy and the Chiefs aren't looking quite like the Chiefs a few years past. Wow. You know?

But everybody has their day. That's right. It's true's True. We did not have our day in Colorado, as you have heard, but thank you for going on that journey and bringing up that trauma with us. Mm-hmm. Well, we brought it up, but thanks for going on that,

DeJah: for supporting us for our trauma.

Jen: Thank you. Thank you very much.

Yep. Um, awesome. Well, I, listen, I'm gonna throw it over to you, buddy. You always close it out. So Good. Listen, if you're gonna tinker

DeJah: Bell. Tin your little arms off, just flail like a motherfucker on your way down. Good day and good night tin. Your And keep on rambling.

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