The Johnjay Van Es Podcast
From the mastermind behind one of the most popular morning shows in the country, Johnjay Van Es brings his signature blend of curiosity, humor, and fearless honesty to the podcast world. If you’ve ever had a question on your mind but were too afraid to ask, don’t worry—Johnjay’s got you covered.
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The Johnjay Van Es Podcast
The Van Es Family Birthday Special
Family takes the spotlight as JohnJay rings in his birthday with wife Blake and oldest son Jake in a crossover conversation that’s equal parts heartfelt, funny, and real.
From marriage communication (including why John admits he goes to bed angry) to health experiments like stem cell treatments in Mexico, the trio opens up with surprising honesty. They share insights on parenting, navigating the empty nest phase, and even the little rituals like weekend backgammon that keep their bond strong.
Whether you’re here for the parenting wisdom, relationship talk, or just love authentic family moments, this episode feels like pulling up a chair at the Van Es table.
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Okay, so welcome to our podcast. This is a little bit different today because this podcast is a spinoff of our radio show. Okay, so we have the john j vaness podcast, the highly successful john j vaness podcast, and on iheart media or on iheart radio or on kiss fm or on john jane rich. We have the couples podcast and we did a couple's podcast a couple months ago my beautiful wife blake and me, and it was tremendous lots of feedback. So we were asked to come back and do a different new couples podcast and instead of just being you and me I think we did, it was you, me and our middle son kemp yes today it is you and me and our oldest son, Jake.
Speaker 3:How we doing.
Speaker 1:I'm so happy that you're here right now. You don't even know, because I know that you don't like this kind of stuff. Right, it's all right? Is it all right Because you don't like it? When I film you or when I record you, I mean, yeah, how come I don't know?
Speaker 3:I can't really think of anything I mean yeah, how come. I don't know, I can't really think of anything. I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1:You just don't like the attention, right, I guess? So, yeah, well, you look great. I'm so happy you're here. It's my birthday today, happy birthday, and this is the greatest gift having you here right now with us on this podcast. But we are going to get to it. I don't want to sit here and just talk about why don't you like being on camera. We're just going to talk, so you, me and mom. So first let's say hi to mom. Mom, is there anything you want to bring up?
Speaker 2:Oh, happy birthday.
Speaker 1:Thank you.
Speaker 2:It's a big day.
Speaker 1:Yeah, is there anything? But is there anything I don't like getting into my birthday? I don't think. You know, jake, your mom. She's thrown a couple surprise parties for me and you know me pretty well.
Speaker 3:Do you think I like surprise parties? Not at all, not at all is right, jake, not at all.
Speaker 1:She first threw one for me when I turned 25. I hated every second of it. She threw one together for me when I turned 30. Do you remember that that was at a Rubio's right? Was it a Rubio's right? Was it a Rubio's yeah?
Speaker 2:but that was your family.
Speaker 1:That's hardly a surprise party. It was Aunt. Rosita and Uncle Javier and Sergio it was family, and then you did one when I turned 40.
Speaker 2:That was the greatest birthday party ever. It was a day in the life of John Jay. We got in a limo, we went and did hot yoga, we went to his favorite restaurant and the next day we took you kids to a cabana at a local hotel. It was great. It was all the things that you like.
Speaker 1:And now here I am, at 38 years old, anyway, okay, yeah, so it's my birthday. So, anyway, the couples podcast Before we get into whatever couples want to talk about, we've got a lot of questions. I posted on Instagram. I was like, hey, blake and I are doing a couple of podcasts, what questions do you have? And I have some questions and and I gave some to Jake to read, but let's talk about real quick. You and I just got back from Mexico, from Cancun. Um, we did stem cell treatments and I've on this podcast. I've had Dr Rafael Gonzalez on here talking about stem cells. I've had Dr Rafael Gonzalez on here talking about stem cells and regeneration of cells and all kinds of anti-aging. What did you have done and how do you feel right now, blake?
Speaker 2:So I had some injections into my hips and into my sciatica, um, with stem cells and, um, I can say that it it's been a little bit of painful, just to be perfectly honest, um the after effects of it, but I know that, at the end of the day, that these stem cells are working and I'm going to hopefully be pain-free here shortly.
Speaker 1:Pain what?
Speaker 2:Pain-free.
Speaker 1:I thought you said pain-fort here shortly. No pain-free here shortly. Pain what Pain-free. I thought you said pain-fort here shortly.
Speaker 2:No pain-free here, shortly. And then I also did IV injections, which I always feel great after those. It's almost like my body can feel the stem cells running through itself. I feel so great.
Speaker 1:And we went to ReHealth. They have a clinic in Cancun, mexico, and Cabo San Lucas, mexico, and highly, highly, highly recommend them, rehealth. I think they are the best clinic in the world. They truly do, truly do, and I've been invited by other clinics to go to places and I don't want to leave ReHealth. They're just amazing. On a side note, I have to tell you something I love your hair like that. So as we look as you watch this video later, blake and you look at your hair. This is how I love your hair. She always strains out her hair and stuff or whatever, Like I love it the way it is right now. I think you look fantastic.
Speaker 2:But wait, let me go back to ReHealth just for a second, because it's kind of funny. We funny we, you and I are often passionate about things right, and so when we're passionate about things, we want to share it with everybody, especially our friends and family and and like.
Speaker 2:A perfect example is when we um went to pine top all those summers. Every time somebody came up, you wanted to drive them around and show them how great Pinetop is and how amazing it is, and there's nothing in it for us, right? And so we have been sharing our experiences at ReHealth, which, by the way, is so first class, from the minute you get out of the airplane to the minute you go back to the airplane. They're so great, but there's nothing in it for us. What's in it for us is is health and longevity, and so I want people to know that we're not out promoting it and getting paid. We're out promoting it because we love what the effects are and we're we want to share it with everybody, like you know that's how we operate.
Speaker 1:I had somebody say something to me on Instagram, on a DM, and I responded with hold on a second. I was talking about Bikram yoga in 2007, nonstop for years, right, Nonstop and that was something that I was obsessed with. I was talking about cold plunges in 2008, nonstop, and now everyone's got a cold plunge. Before that, I was talking about Botox, and I remember when I was talking about Botox, people were saying something to me like why did you talk about Botox? It's so expensive. I was like, look, man, I'm getting it. I share my life on the radio, I go and I'm doing it. Now I haven't done Botox in a couple years.
Speaker 2:I'm sure this is my normal face on Botox.
Speaker 1:This is all stem cells and of course my friend Carly's salon and she does my face and my friend Jamie's Comstock. She does a bunch of laser stuff too. But anyway, is this shirt too tight on me? I feel like it's too tight. I've never really worn this shirt, the shirt yeah. Do you think it's too tight? No, it's perfect. You really don't think it's too tight? No, yours looks tight. I mean, you're good tight, Yours looks tight, dog.
Speaker 3:But anyway, thank you, hon.
Speaker 1:That was a very nice representation of our relationship with the ReHealth Clinic.
Speaker 2:Well, I think that's how it goes with everything that we do together and that we promote. I mean dog rescue. We're both passionate about it. Do we make money from it? No, we have not made one red cent. In fact, we donate money from it. No, we have not made one red cent.
Speaker 1:In fact, we donate money to it and we have worked at it for 11 years. But it's passion, right, let's go over some of the questions. Jake, I sent some of them to you. I didn't totally know. Do you have them?
Speaker 2:there I have a bunch of questions yeah, so I figure.
Speaker 1:these are from Instagram, so you just got to give one. We'll kind of go around the room answer them.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 1:My beautiful oldest son, Jake Van Ness.
Speaker 3:So the first question I have is who do you think me, kemp or Dutch would make you grandparents first?
Speaker 2:Accidentally or on purpose.
Speaker 3:On purpose On purpose.
Speaker 2:On purpose. I believe it's going to be Kemp.
Speaker 3:I'd say that too. I'd say, kemp, oh God, it's so.
Speaker 2:Accidentally Dutch, dutch, we all agree, I mean who knows, maybe you guys are grandparents already. Yes, oh God.
Speaker 3:Geez, what about you?
Speaker 2:Nope, nope, just living life he's going to do it the right way.
Speaker 1:Well, I think if Kemp was going to do it, he would do it the right way, but I hope he doesn't do it for a long, long time. Dutch, on the other hand, totally different ballgame man, that kid. Anyway. Okay, that's a great question, Jake. Thank you. What else, Of course?
Speaker 3:Let's see here. Okay, this is good one. Where in the world would you like to visit as a family in?
Speaker 1:the world like oh as a family as a family okay well, you know that's funny.
Speaker 2:We um, we traveled this summer to to london and amsterdam and it was the first time that we've taken you kids to to europe or on a trip really like that, because we've been strapped to basketball for all these years and we, we're always going to Pinetop, or going to San Diego?
Speaker 3:Yeah, going to San Diego, I would say, the Europe trip was probably one of my favorites.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I thought it was so great and we were talking about it, because some friends of ours every year go on a trip and a member of their family gets to pick where they're going to go that year, and so I would probably consider this trip that we did my trip, because I planned it and I did all the logistics of it. So I think it would be like a trip Daddy would pick.
Speaker 1:Right, but where would he like to go? The question for you. I'll tell you mine, but first, where would you like to go?
Speaker 2:Oh, I have a laundry list of things, but I'd love to do a safari trip oh.
Speaker 1:God.
Speaker 2:I want to go to Wimbledon, oh.
Speaker 1:God, we're already there. Why? Oh God, we're in London already done.
Speaker 2:I want to Could you handle a safari trip. Oh yeah, Do you think Mom can handle a?
Speaker 3:safari trip. You backpacked when you were a boy scout. Yeah, I just see all these crazy videos of just animals you know being animals in the wild. I would assume you'd be like stop that right now.
Speaker 1:Stop eating that animal a cheetah takes down some caribou wild animals aren't dogs, so right, it's gonna be a little difficult, right? You freak out of all of a sudden you start eating something and a cheetah takes down something well, you, you guys always make fun of me, Like what do you say?
Speaker 2:I can't remember, but you're like stay off.
Speaker 1:Charlie, no Heal, no Heal, oh God.
Speaker 2:So I'm going to tell the cheetah to heal or off.
Speaker 3:I mean anything can happen in a safari trip.
Speaker 1:What about you, jake, where?
Speaker 3:would you? I would say my first choice would be Japan. Oh yeah, I love Japan. I've seen so many videos of people going, just vlogs and stuff. I would say my second one would be Italy. I have a few friends that have been to Italy and they just say it's the most amazing experience they've ever had.
Speaker 2:Pizza and gelato. Here's the thing.
Speaker 1:With Italy. I have been there before, so has your mom? We're not together at different times. Your mom actually went with my mom, but I'm hesitant to say because I think the food is so good and this last trip we went on, we did a lot of walking and I think we do the opposite. We'd be doing a lot of eating in Italy and I'm kind of like I don't want to gain weight. So, although there's that Amalfi Coast, is that Italy want to gain weight? So, although there's that amalfi coast is that italy, I don't even know where amalfi is?
Speaker 1:is it italy? I don't know. Do you know where it is? I don't know. I've seen pictures and video. It looks great. So that looks kind of cool. But I don't want to get stuck. I've been to rome before and I remember we just sat there and ate. In florence we just ate now. There's a lot of good stuff that I mean. The food is amazing. But it's my turn to pick the next trip. I kind of know that you said Japan. That would be kind of dope, although I would like to go back to the Netherlands, because we only spent time in Amsterdam. I think there's a lot of these little. Wouldn't it be fun to go back there too?
Speaker 3:I think it'd be great, yeah, to go like outside of the city maybe. Yeah, that's what I mean.
Speaker 1:That's good, Okay. So what else? What's another question you have? Okay?
Speaker 3:This is a good question. I already know the answer to this one. But for you guys, Do the dogs miss Kemp and Dutch?
Speaker 2:Absolutely positively. Yeah, I mean Maggie. Our English bulldog is devastated. She's under Dutch's bed all the time. She doesn't eat right, she's a mess.
Speaker 3:Do you agree? Actually, yeah, when you guys were in getting the stem cells, it was a pain because I had to take care of all of our dogs, so I think it was like you were gone for like pretty much the whole week. Five days, five days, yeah. So taking care of the dogs was tough, especially when dutch moved away. I remember maggie would be just sitting under his bed waiting for him to come home every night and I have to like try to get her out without her biting me. It's is a pain, but I can definitely tell that there's a lot of impact. Did any dogs shit in the house? No questions.
Speaker 1:No, comment no questions no comment.
Speaker 3:Oh man, I don't know. It happened a lot.
Speaker 1:It happened a lot because you were playing video games.
Speaker 3:No, I mean, I cleaned it up.
Speaker 1:Still, you know what? You all opened the door, so they go out there. All right, you got another question. What has been the hardest lesson to learn when it comes to maintaining a healthy marriage?
Speaker 2:oh god, that's a good one the hardest lesson to learn, I think, communication, because you get so busy in your personal life and you have things that you're you're doing for your work or your kids or whatever, that you oftentimes forget that you need to communicate with your spouse and talk about things and download and all that.
Speaker 1:I agree with Mom. I think communication is extremely important, like when your mother and I are making love.
Speaker 2:Oh, my God.
Speaker 3:Okay, I don't need to hear this, but Good Lord, You're so wrong and you laugh.
Speaker 2:You think you're so funny.
Speaker 1:It's so uncomfortable.
Speaker 2:It is. It's so uncomfortable. Do you remember when your dad used to do this, just like your dad?
Speaker 1:By the way, side note, I've got to jump back to something. This is my birthday today, right? I don't think Jake knows this, but I am a little. I'm superstitious. You know, I'm not just stitious, I am superstitious. And when I first started in radio in 1997 in Cincinnati, I had a couple psychics on the show and they would predict the future and stuff. It was a psychic named Victor and a psychic named jill and I was like, hey, let me ask you this you know when, how, when do you think I'm gonna die? And they told me, this year, this is the year I'm gonna die, and I'm kind of freaked out about it that is right.
Speaker 1:So I'm hoping they're shitty psychics, but I'm hoping they didn't know about stem cells back then. But uh, I mean, wouldn't that be terrible if they were right? Right, and then you could take this clip and run this clip over and over again, like yes, that would be terrible. This is the year, so like a year from now, we got to come back here and go. I made it. I made it. The john j vaness podcast is still rocking and he's alive. He's alive. Weird science's alive, weird science.
Speaker 3:What I also won't. Let that happen you won't let that happen.
Speaker 2:My boy. No, you are in such great health and you are on top of everything. That's so wrong.
Speaker 1:That's an opinion from a very long time ago, I know but I actually want to call find her, track her down, Take it off.
Speaker 2:You're worryless Because I actually want to call, find her, track her down, take it off your worry list, because I am supposed to die this year, according to her.
Speaker 1:By the way, communication. I agree with you. I think it's very, very, very important. I had this thing. We had this. In fact, I was doing this podcast with some marriage coaches here and we were talking about a relationship, but, blake, I never even said this to you and I don't even know if you know. In fact, I'll do it here.
Speaker 1:Do you ever see the clip that was posted last week about where I was? Like we were talking about all this stuff, and I said, when I come home from work, like I want my wife to greet me, I want you to say hi to me. And they go yeah, that's really important, it's really important to me. And I go know, like my kids are going away to college and she's got a lot on her mind right now and she really hasn't done that lately. And then they posted it. And then the therapist made a comment Because I said in the clip I go oh God, I've got to talk to her about this before it drops. And then they dropped the podcast before I could talk to you about it. So that's a little thing for me in front of our kid. Would you mind saying hi to me when I come home.
Speaker 2:I do every day.
Speaker 1:No, sometimes you're on the phone or sometimes you're watching tennis, or sometimes you're in that and when you're on a Zoom or something I get it. But sometimes I've come home and you're like on the couch and I'm like, when I come home I want to like, Like when you guys come home.
Speaker 2:I that completely okay, because if I'm on a zoom, yeah, I get it. But you usually come over to me but I've never just laid on the couch and not said hello, a couple times, especially during tennis, you have no, I, I don't think so I'm telling you about, I mean my it's it's happened.
Speaker 1:I respectfully disagree with that but like uh, um, sometimes, how many times have I come home and you go oh, I didn't know you were home.
Speaker 2:That's true too, because I didn't know you were home. You didn't make your presence known. And I didn't hear the. Usually I hear the deet, deet, deet, but lately I haven't been hearing that, which, by the way, we should probably get that fixed.
Speaker 1:But anyway, so I'm communicating right now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I definitely try to do that, and the only reason that I don't is if I'm on a Zoom or something.
Speaker 1:Do you think, jake you as our oldest son is this the biggest fight mom and I have been into right now?
Speaker 3:Definitely not no.
Speaker 1:No, you've seen us fight about it.
Speaker 3:But I mean I would say tennis is very important to mom, right?
Speaker 2:Yes, I have a 4 o'clock match today that I need to see. Jeez, it's coming to an end on Sunday for the rest of the year.
Speaker 1:You look great on TV, thank you. You are so handsome, you can get your own podcast.
Speaker 3:Maybe, maybe someday. Any other questions there? All right, this one's for Mom. If you won the Powerball, what would you do? What would be the first thing you would do?
Speaker 2:Luxury-wise. Luxury wise, I would. Okay, I'm going to answer this in two ways. Luxury wise I'd love to have an airplane, and I don't want to own the airplane. I want to have like a set jets or net jets, or whatever a membership because that would be so convenient and I would love to have that as a luxury.
Speaker 1:Secondly, you're talking about $1.7 billion. So, that would be a drop in the bucket. That'd be nothing Exactly.
Speaker 2:But what I would do is I would spend a lot of that money helping rescue and getting rescue dogs adopted and helping shelters and, because I've been working so hard for 11 years on shelter prevention, I would put a lot of money towards shelter prevention.
Speaker 1:Wouldn't it be something like if we won $1.7 billion and you took $100 million to help dog rescue? It would change the world.
Speaker 2:It would absolutely People like.
Speaker 1:Elon Musk are worth $100 billion. Why not throw $100 million out there? I would agree with you, I would try to do something like that. I would also try. Are worth $100 billion. Why not throw $100 million out there? I would agree with you, I would try to do something like that. I would also try to help the homeless community. I would donate to so many things. I've already manifested it. In other words, it's going to happen, and mark my words when it does happen, you can play this clip back too and go wow, they did do that. They did buy a jet. They did buy a jet. No, no, no, but they did go. We did help, right? Yeah, I also think about like I want to give everybody that I work with like a million dollars. But then I was like, oh, but they give me a million dollars and they're going to quit, and then what right? So I thought I'd give them a million dollars, but they I'd give them a contract. At the end of the contract, I'll give them a million dollars anyway.
Speaker 2:These are the things I think about how would you if you won 1.7 billion? Is that where it's at right now? What? What would change your life? Would you still go to work every day? Every day yeah, I might like I can't imagine you not doing your job, because you love your job I would probably.
Speaker 1:If we had 1.7 billion, I would go to work every day but I would probably buy the building that the radio station is in and make it the perfect studio for us and I would hire sales team. I would hire management. I'd hire everything. I would hire everything and I pay. I have so much advertising I have like I would have john jay and rich billboards. Ever worse than learner in row more than you see I think about all the time on the bus on the buses.
Speaker 1:I would have it everywhere. Yeah, I would have it everywhere. Yeah, I would have it everywhere. Yeah, totally. Anyway, is there another question?
Speaker 3:There's so many, all right, no good, this one's for me. Am I still going to the military? That is a difficult question to answer because I'm kind of still deciding. I mean, I'm still doing school, so a few more semesters, but I would say that is still up there. But I'm also deciding other things too, like if I want to do stuff with McCarthy, go back, do another internship or just, you know, do something else. But yeah, military still is an interest of mine that I'd like to do if.
Speaker 3:I had to join a branch, I'd either pick probably the Army or the Marines, just those two.
Speaker 1:Well, I have to tell you, I think if you went into the military your parents would be so proud, proud to have a son in the military. You'd be scared because first, of all, I think the Marines are the first ones they send out right.
Speaker 3:Right, there's a war. First response Right, I know there's a war.
Speaker 1:First response Right, I know, that's scary.
Speaker 2:But also if he's an Eagle Scout, so he has a rank advancement and he will have a degree. So he has an opportunity.
Speaker 1:But you're also 22 years old, so you have everything ahead of you right now. You know what I mean. There's a million.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3:Let's say there's a million. Let's say you, what else? What? Let's say there's what would you want to do if you could do anything you want? What would you want to be? That is a tough question. Uh, probably. Um, I don't know something with entertainment. Like I want to do like stuff with movies. Maybe I want to do um, just like make content for anything.
Speaker 1:Really I think like working with mccarthy.
Speaker 3:it was fun doing some of the marketing stuff. I would say like making videos for them, like making it kind of my own thing, was really cool you got good feedback on that too oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I think soon they're going to be playing at one of their events, at one of my videos I've made before I left, so, yeah, that'd be pretty sick. That's awesome.
Speaker 1:That's very cool. What else, let's see. I got some questions too. Do you have any more? I have some too. Let's see.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I do.
Speaker 1:Can Blake give advice to wives with ADHD husbands?
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh it's funny because we're opposite in that way. I'm very more like strategic and more organized and that kind of stuff. I think patience and just learning how your spouse operates differently than you are and being accepting of it.
Speaker 1:Do you think I have ADHD?
Speaker 2:Oh for sure, 100% Like you're all over the place all the time, Do you think I have?
Speaker 1:ADHD. Do you think I have ADHD? Oh, for sure, 100%. Like you're all over the place all the time. Do you think I have ADHD? Do you think?
Speaker 3:I have HD ADHD.
Speaker 1:Do you have a high-definition D? Dd? I think a lot of people have that.
Speaker 3:I think so too.
Speaker 1:Very common, yeah, it is very common.
Speaker 3:I would say, though, coffee. If you have ADHD and you drink coffee, it helps so much. Yeah, Like I drink two cups of coffee a day every morning. Do?
Speaker 1:you think you have ADHD.
Speaker 3:I don't have I mean I'm pretty I don't know. I mean I'm pretty tired when I wake up.
Speaker 1:so you go to bed at two in the morning.
Speaker 3:That's true. Yeah, that's very true, do you think?
Speaker 2:you have ADHD, do you think? I just think, though, for you, like, your brain never stops, like even when you go to sleep at night, your whole body moves, remember when Jake used to sleep with us and he was like that. Yeah.
Speaker 1:I still do that. Oh, you moved all the time.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'd still move in my bed.
Speaker 1:Will you sleep with us tonight? I would like for you to sleep in the middle between me and Mom tonight.
Speaker 3:Here's a question. I'll probably be getting in bed while you begin going up to work Exactly.
Speaker 1:Blake, what are you reading right now? John Jay, what are you watching right now? That's from Michelle in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2:Oh, I'm reading Kissing Girls on Shabbat. It's a memoir of a gal who was in a I can't remember the name of the Jewish religion, but it's a very strict. Jewish religion, no, but it's a sector of it.
Speaker 2:A sitting Jew yes, a sitting Jew, yes and she ends up getting married and getting a divorce a divorce which is not really allowed and then getting remarried and then leaving um for a woman and she has kids, and so it's very, uh, it's very interesting to see and I only have like 20 pages left and I can't wait to read the end of it do you guys ever go to bed angry? I don't think so. I think that's one of the things we've always been pretty decent at.
Speaker 1:Well, you don't know it, but I go to bed angry all the time.
Speaker 2:Unless you don't tell me that you're mad.
Speaker 1:I don't tell you. No, I don't tell you.
Speaker 2:Why wouldn't wait? Hold on, You're going to just gloss over that. Why wouldn't you tell me if you're angry?
Speaker 1:Because I'm tired and then by the time I wake up I'm not angry anymore.
Speaker 2:But what?
Speaker 1:would you. When you do what I do for a living and you get up I got up at 2.30 this morning, right and as the day goes on you get so irrational your logic doesn't make sense, so you get mad about certain things. And then I realize I'm so mad right now. And then I get up in the morning and I talk to other people on the show the same way, where it's like. The next morning I wake up, I'm rested Boy. That was stupid. I'm glad I didn't say anything to her. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Okay, give me an example. I can't think of anything. Well, I'd like to know.
Speaker 1:Okay, it seems like it was Okay, let's go Yesterday. I got mad yesterday.
Speaker 2:I knew you were mad.
Speaker 1:What do you think I was mad about?
Speaker 2:I didn't know why.
Speaker 1:But you knew I was mad.
Speaker 2:I knew you were mad, but I was also tired.
Speaker 1:I've been up since 3. I got up at 3 in the morning yesterday. I went and I did a radio show meeting about stuff which you didn't ask me about hold on I'll tell you about. You didn't ask me about that and then you didn't say how was your? You text me during the show and you say how's the show going? But when I come home like you didn't ask me how my day was, but you were watching tennis when I came home, right? But you're also recovering. This has nothing to do with what I was saying earlier, does?
Speaker 3:tennis make you angry. I'm watching tennis.
Speaker 1:She took over the whole tv. Now I can't watch tv, but wait, so then that's the bottom line was when you went on the zooms and you made me wait, so I wanted to leave the house oh, I knew that I left, I it was like 2 15 and I had.
Speaker 1:No, yeah, I had a meeting. I was done off my meeting at one at 2 15. I was doing my meeting at 2 15 and I was up, right, because the thing when you get up as early as I do, when you slow down, when you stop, you crash. You get really tired and you don't want to re-motivate. So I was off the meeting. There was a lot of energy in the meeting and I'm like, okay, so you guys are closed. I gotta go buy my lotto tickets. I had my numbers ready, I had all this, I had a whole system ready and I walked downstairs and mom's on a zoom and I'm like, hey, uh, I'm gonna go get a lot of tickets, just wait wait, wait, wait, wait and I'm like because she's recovering, like laying in.
Speaker 1:So I was like does she want to go with me to get the lottery tickets, or does she want to wait me to wait to say she, she want to tell me something? So I sit down on the couch, tennis is on and she's on a zoom, so I can't change the channel and watch what I want to watch multitasking also.
Speaker 1:She's on mute she's on the zoom. So I'm like I'm waiting and I'm waiting, and I waited 45 minutes like she never once said I want to go with you. She didn't say, she didn't say wait. Uh, I just want to tell you this one thing. And she didn't say so. I was just waiting and waiting and finally I said do I go, do you want to come with me? And she goes yeah, I'd like, I'd like to. And I was like, oh okay, because my thought was I'm going to go get the lotto tickets, come home, and then we'd go pick up food to eat dinner because she was recovering. But it turns out that's not what she wanted to go get the lotto tickets. I mean, she wanted to go grocery shopping. So that's so stated. I was irritated at that when I woke up this morning morning. That was silly and it didn't matter. You see what I'm saying. Does that make sense?
Speaker 2:yeah, but I could tell you were mad last night, right, but I didn't want to say anything, because we get this huge fight and it's a stupid fight.
Speaker 1:So I am aware of the irritability that I have, I'm aware that I'm tired and I'm aware that if I bring this up, we're gonna get into a nine-hour fight for no reason. When I get some rest, I'll be fine in the morning. I woke up this morning and I was fine. Do you get what I'm saying? See, but also, you should have been like I mean, don't you feel bad making me wait for 45 minutes?
Speaker 2:I would wait for you for 10 hours, god, so no.
Speaker 1:You gotta find yourself a woman like your mom, right? Okay, wait other questions. How did you guys meet?
Speaker 2:How did we meet? Through our friend Christy Pileman. She introduced us.
Speaker 1:That's true. That's true. Christy and I grew up together in Chandler and Christy was picking me up. I broke my leg. I broke my ankle and Christy was picking me up to go to a party at her house. We stopped at your mom's house to pick up jello shots that your mom had made. Are you excited? What are you excited for in this next chapter of life, now that the boys are completely grown? Yeah, that one blake. Can you answer that one?
Speaker 2:I think we've talked about a lot recently and that is like we would love to travel and do some things. So for me it's, you know, spending more time at the beach and doing some fun traveling.
Speaker 1:What's your current favorite activity to do together?
Speaker 2:I think we have different answers.
Speaker 1:What's yours?
Speaker 2:My favorite thing that we do is play backgammon every weekend.
Speaker 1:Oh.
Speaker 2:So we wake up, we do our thing, I meditate, you do your stretches. So we go have. We wake up, we do our thing, I meditate, you do your stretches. And then we go have coffee somewhere and we play backgammon.
Speaker 1:That's good. What do you think mine is? I like when we film our lovemaking.
Speaker 2:What is wrong with you?
Speaker 1:Just kidding, you will never find that I don't know what our favorite thing is to do together.
Speaker 2:I do enjoy why wouldn't you have something that you like? Because I think I know, what it is.
Speaker 1:What do you think?
Speaker 3:it is, I think, all eating dinner together.
Speaker 1:I love eating dinner together. I write it down every, every. Every morning I write down my goals and stuff, and at night I write down three things that I loved about today and the last couple days have been the three of us eating dinner together. I love it. It's one of my favorite moments of the day, that's good one, jake in fact it says what's a change you're going through but weren't expecting. Now that the two boys have left, I don't know, because I not monitoring, dutch maybe no that's true.
Speaker 2:I mean the. The stress level of dutch is is lower. You know, I talked to him today a couple times.
Speaker 1:You know he told me I said so because now he's living in the dorms. It's been two weeks to college. I was like so like are you? He goes, I go, are you partying still? And he goes, everybody in this dorm room on this floor parties every single night. He goes the first four days he goes. The first four days I partied, he, he goes, but now I don't. But he plays 2K. He plays video games all day, 11 hours, 12 hours of video games.
Speaker 2:Best money we've ever spent is letting him transfer his own money into his account to buy that.
Speaker 1:Oh, I didn't know that Seriously?
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, that's exactly what we did.
Speaker 1:Let's see. Oh, I have a one and a half year old son and I'm 20 weeks pregnant with baby number two.
Speaker 2:Give me your best parenting advice? Oh, I think patience. I mean we had two close together and then the third one not far behind, and it's you know what I? I wish I would have enjoyed the stressful moments a little bit more.
Speaker 2:I agree completely with you Because now it's like now they're grown and there's different stresses with them, but when you're in the thick of it, you're like God, I'm so tired and I'm so frustrated and this is too much and how am I going to handle this? And instead of like going, this is the greatest gift ever these two are fighting. This is awesome. We've created these human beings Like. I tell that to people all the time. I know you and I, when we see each other, see other people, when we're out together and they have like three boys or whatever, we're always like, oh my gosh, enjoyed them so much. We sat next to these cute little girls the other Sunday when we were having coffee and playing backgammon and these three girls were the cutest little things. They had chocolate all over their faces and their dad was with them and they said that they have one more little baby girl at home and I was like, oh my gosh, even in the rough moments, just enjoy.
Speaker 1:I know I miss you as a little kid, but I love you as a man.
Speaker 1:I know I love your little, your little cheekies, and you're such a beautiful little kid and your smile, oh my gosh, I saw this post and I talked about it on the radio show today because this guy, this guy just had a baby, him and his wife and the baby. They just went home the hospital. He's asking for advice. Like that, just like this message, and it was like people would say you know, it goes so fast. Blink of an eye. And I saw this post. That was like it was about what mom just said and it was like that was the blink, like we were living in the blink. So now, 10 years from now, I'm going to look back and, like man, remember when Jake interviewed us. We sat and interviewed Jake. Like this time, right now, is the new blink. So I'm learning to accept and appreciate every moment that we have with you, jake.
Speaker 1:That's really good yeah.
Speaker 2:Are you excited to go on more dates? Yeah, I love date night.
Speaker 1:What was your first reaction when you found out that John Jay likes your?
Speaker 2:feet. Do you know about your? Dad's foot fetish for your mom? No comment. I mean, I don't know, that was so long ago. That was like when we were dating. You've always liked feet.
Speaker 1:Look at these beautiful feet, jake. Look at your mom's feet. Let me see. Look at these babies. Look at these babies. They're my favorite. They're the best, okay.
Speaker 2:Do you? They're my favorite, they're the best, okay, do you have any other questions over there, jake? Uh, I think I got most of them. I have a question for jake, okay, okay, you're 22. In the future you'll be married, you'll have children. What are one, or what are one or two things that you would take from your childhood that you would bring into your marriage or into your relationship or to your kids?
Speaker 3:that's tough. Um, I would say I'd probably get him. Uh, if they're, if they're guys, I'd probably get him into scouting, like boy scouts and stuff just because going through that made me kind of like more aware of everything. Also, you learn new things. Um, you learn how to be, you know uh, what do you call it just like by yourself and learn new things and it's just.
Speaker 1:I think it's a great way of you know, becoming more, like you know, interested in whatever it is you want to do yeah, that was one of the greatest things we ever did, man, was when you took your boy scouts and you fell in love with it.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, that's another thing like the camping trips, like you just learn it's. It's a great tool.
Speaker 3:You just learn, like so many things, there's a deal with all kinds of situations you don't, you don't realize that when you're in scouting, but then after you're like, oh, I, oh, I know how to do this, I know how to do that. There's just so many great tools with scouting. Plus, if you become an Eagle Scout, I mean, you're an Eagle Scout, you have a lot of, I think I don't know, I don't know the percentage, but not a lot of people make it as an Eagle Scout. Exactly right, it's a great thing.
Speaker 2:And we've heard along the way like people that didn't finish and they regretted not finishing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, if I were to answer my own question, there are two things that I brought from my family to you guys, and that was I love a round table because I think you can see each other and I love that when you're sitting at dinner or breakfast or lunch or whatever it is and you can see each other. And the other thing that I brought was on Christmas Eve we get to open all the family gifts. So we only open Santa gifts on Christmas Day and I love that tradition. I love that all the family comes over Christmas Eve, we do all the celebrating and then they and it's the Venice Five.
Speaker 1:That's my favorite part is when they leave.
Speaker 2:You're so rude. Did you bring anything that you remember from your family?
Speaker 1:We used to open them all at Christmas once we found out the secrets.
Speaker 2:But is there anything that you brought on purpose to our family from your childhood?
Speaker 1:I learned that dinner as a family. My dad always wanted us to have dinner together. We always had as much as we could. We always had dinner together, no matter what. I love that. We only went out when I was a kid. We didn't have a lot of money, so we would go out whenever something amazing happened, like maybe once every five years, my dad was able to treat us and we'd go to Black Angus or we'd go to, which was an old steakhouse it's not like a Steak 44. But like I don't know what you call it, but it was great. I still have great memories of that or a place called bobby mcgee's. There was something fancy and that was fancy to us. Um, I, you know that's a great question.
Speaker 1:Like what did I bring? I think I brought my dad's sense of humor. I think I brought, uh, I I look at some of the stuff you guys do young men and I go I joke about. I always say, oh, when someone says your kids are so nice, oh, they got that all from their mom and I do believe that. But I see some good qualities that you guys got from me and I think I got those from my dad, my mom, handsome son of a bitch, you. Uh, let's see what else we have. Oh, blake, out of all the times, john jay decides to go to a concert. He wants to take you to backstreet boys in vegas and you don't want to go. Why? You remember that yeah, I do.
Speaker 1:I was like let's go, let's go back because out of all the concerts in my life, we saw Backstreet Boys in Miami. Do you remember? Yes and they were phenomenal. And to see them at the sphere in Vegas, which is an hour flight, I was like there was an opportunity. It was the one weekend we had nothing going on. I was like let's shoot up Saturday and come home Sunday. But we were leaving, we were going, there was a lot going on.
Speaker 2:I think were we taking Dutch to school.
Speaker 1:No, no, it was Saturday.
Speaker 2:I forgot what was going on.
Speaker 1:We were getting ready to go. We just had a lot going on. We were going somewhere.
Speaker 2:It wasn't because I didn't want to do it, it was because we had commitments and no, we didn't have commitments?
Speaker 1:No, we didn't have commitments. It was just the one day we didn't have something going on, like we were going to take Dutch school that Tuesday, then we were going to go to Mexico for whatever. We just had a lot Austin.
Speaker 2:We were going on, it was one of those. It was one of those. We just had a lot going on, okay.
Speaker 1:Anyway, okay, I think. Is there anything else? Love pup, do you want to make the big announcement about Love Pub Family Fest? I do, it's going to be amazing. It's November 15th at Vertuccio Farms. November 15th. At Vertuccio Farms, it's totally free.
Speaker 1:It's from 4 pm till 8 pm 8 pm and the acts that nobody knows about they're going to be performing for free are gym class heroes and fits in the tantrums and, of course, the rich bear band, right, rich bear band opening up. I think fits goes on then gym class heroes goes on. It's gonna be freaking insane. You are invited absolutely free. It's it's love pup family fest. It's mccarthy sponsored it. It's kiss fm, it's mix 96.9. It's iheart radio. Who else are the sponsors?
Speaker 2:blake we have learner and row learner and row my god we have discover discover valley toyota dealers toyota dealers are all, it's just top love it.
Speaker 1:What a wonderful event. And we are inviting you, bring your family, bring your kids, bring your dogs. We're going to have dog rescues from all over the valley. They're going to be showcasing their dogs, all up for adoption. It's like our. How many of these have we done so far?
Speaker 2:This is eight.
Speaker 1:Wow, this is our eighth one. So it's Love Pup Family Fest. This is the first time we've talked about it anywhere, so, uh, it'll be huge, all right. So anyway, that's a good job. How do you? How do you think this went today for you?
Speaker 3:because I know you were really hesitant first time I would say pretty okay, I guess I think you did great. I feel like if I came back on I'd do a little bit better, really, yeah, okay, you want to?
Speaker 1:come back tomorrow, I'd love to have you back on part of the deal of you finishing school from our house so you have to do a podcast, you should come back to me for the zombie podcast.
Speaker 1:Of course, that would be sick, because I don't even understand that podcast right now. If you're listening to this, you're like zombie podcast. Yeah, we got a podcast with a zombie professor at ASU, right? Anyway, that's our couple's podcast. Don't dream it, be it, okay. So welcome to our podcast. This is a little bit different today, because this podcast is a spinoff of our radio show you.
