The Van Es Couple Reveals the Secret That Keeps Them Solid

Phones crashed, callers vanished, and even a Disneyland giveaway went sideways— but Johnjay Van Es and his wife, Blake, turned chaos into laughs and real talk.

We dive into life at home, rescue dogs, LovePup Family Fest, and the little rituals that keep their marriage and family steady.

Listeners push them into honest stories about first impressions, teasing, chores, and the mantra that keeps them going: something wonderful is going to happen today.

If you love real couples, real laughs, and heartfelt family moments, hit play and share with a friend who needs a smile.

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:05

Okay, so welcome to our podcast. This is a little bit different today because this podcast is a spin-off of our radio show. No, so it's my turn to do the couples podcast. You know, we rotate it with everybody on the show. And what's cool about our couples podcast is that ours is on video too. And I have a bunch of questions people ask, but first, how was your day?

SPEAKER_00 0:37

My day was great.

SPEAKER_01 0:38

Tell me about your day.

SPEAKER_00 0:40

I spent time with our son. We walked dogs, we went to the vet. Came home. Zero res was cleaning up our house. And then um Love Put Plus meeting. And then I ran off to get my face done. And then here.

SPEAKER_01 0:59

Um when you say you got your face done, do you want to talk about that?

SPEAKER_00 1:03

I just go and get a der micro. I get I get a dermaplane and then they do like a little facial and cleanup.

SPEAKER_01 1:11

It looks fresh. I like your hair too.

SPEAKER_00 1:14

Stay at my age, I look young, hopefully.

SPEAKER_01 1:23

Um I went to the radio station today before the podcast because there are always people at our house. Yes. Right. And if I would have been home today at 12 45 till now, there would have been people at our house, right?

SPEAKER_00 1:40

Actually, I think they may have been wrapping it up about then.

SPEAKER_01 1:42

Right, but I would have been home.

SPEAKER_00 1:44

Because they were there early today because Zero Rez was coming.

SPEAKER_01 1:48

So you think they're gone. Hold on, I can look on the camera. You think they're gone right now at this time?

SPEAKER_00 1:52

I think they should be gone. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:54

Because that's one of the reasons I went to the radio station. What's funny is I went to the radio station to get shit done.

unknown 1:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:59

And I got interrupted at the radio station.

SPEAKER_00 2:02

Okay, that picture of you and Pretzel is the cutest thing in the whole world. Why is that dog not adopted?

SPEAKER_01 2:08

I don't know. He was doing great. He's so good she's a Doberman.

SPEAKER_00 2:14

She doesn't have her ears docked, they're floppy.

SPEAKER_01 2:16

She's real friendly. Everyone, I mean, there was a lot of people from the radio station came in because we were making a video for Love Pup Family Fest, and um, everyone was playing with her, and she was just great. She was great. We put her, we made a video of her in the um studio with headphones on and stuff. Hopefully that'll be pretty funny. But yeah, it's that's for Family Fest.

SPEAKER_00 2:33

She's so sweet. I mean, I know she doesn't like other dogs, so she needs to be an only dog, but that's okay.

SPEAKER_01 2:38

I wonder why she doesn't like other dogs. She seems so nice.

SPEAKER_00 2:40

Yeah, she's darling.

SPEAKER_01 2:43

Um, should I go over some of these questions from our audience? Blake Panett.

SPEAKER_00 2:47

You didn't tell me about your day. How was your show? How was your morning?

SPEAKER_01 2:50

You know, you know what's funny? Let me tell you something. So we had a couple of technical difficulties today. So we're giving away Disney tickets, and I'll give some I'll give some behind the scenes, but it's really not behind the scenes because it happened all on radio. We got this new studio built, right? And we're still ironing out things. Things work someday, some days they don't work. And today we're giving away this trip to Disneyland. At 7:20, we take collar 104. We come in the morning, we do the show. It's time to take collar 104, and we pick the winner up, and she can't hear us.

unknown 3:20

Oh boy.

SPEAKER_01 3:21

So she doesn't hear me say, John Jane Rich, can I help you? Uh-huh. And also you hear hello? Hello? I'm like, hey, can't hello, what's your name? Who's this? Hello? Hello? Hello? And we're live on the radio. And I'm like, uh, hello? And then she just hangs up. Like, oh my God, did she hang up? Was that a problem with us? We've had so many problems. I don't know if it's with us or with them. So then Nick's like, well, you gotta take the next caller, a car 105, right? It's gotta be the next one. So we can take call 105. Hi, John Jane Rich, who's this? Hello? Hello?

SPEAKER_00 3:52

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 3:53

Hello? And I go, I grab the phone and I pick it up manually. So now no matter what, you can't hear, I go, I pick up, I go, hello? I go, hey, oh, what's your name? And I go to hit a button and I disconnect her. So now it's my fault. And I'm like, oh no. And this is all live on the air. So I go to the next caller. And I'm like, you know, John J. Rich, hello. And so now I know our phones aren't working. They can't hear us. So I pick up the next caller and I talk to her. Her name's Luz. And she was the winner, and she was great. She had a great personality. And I just did the whole, hey, do you know three of the magic words? Only, only I could hear it. So you could hear me. And then we got into this necklace on the air. After she won the trip, then I started telling everybody this necklace because we were things weren't working. So I just kept improvising, telling the story, and telling the story of this necklace. You're with me when I got this necklace. And it it just didn't go the way I wanted it to go. We were all making fun of each other. And I went to go work out after the show, and I was driving to the back to the radio station, and I didn't want to go home because there's people at our house, and I wanted to get this thing done that I'm working on this app that I'll tell you about in a second. And I wanted to have peace so I could work on this app. And I'm listening to that break on the iHeart app. So I'm driving, going back to work, and I got so I enjoyed that break so much. It was so funny. I was laughing out loud at everybody on the show. Rich was hilarious, Kyle. They were just making fun of me. It was so funny. And I missed the exit. And all of a sudden I'm like, I don't know where I was. I was like, where am I? Oh my God, I'm way past the radio station. I had to turn around to get to the radio station. And I was like, wow, that's that's good radio, I think. You know, so I don't know if that's pulling back the curtain too much or if that's is was it good radio? Was it entertaining the other people? Which I think it was because there's some good talks, some good text messages about it. So so anyway, so then I go to the radio station and I'm working on this app, which I'll tell you about. And the app is I was showing you yesterday. So I want to be able to post a clip of War of the Roses and then say on Instagram, comment roses, and I'll send you the link direct, right? Yes. Right. But this app, there's an app, but you there's things you can do on the app, and there's things you can't do in the app you have to do on a computer. Like you have you have to pay the bill on the computer.

SPEAKER_00 6:06

Oh, you can't pay on the phone?

SPEAKER_01 6:08

No, you can't pay the phone. Like an app on the phone. So I went, no, so no. And it and then I go to the radio station to get on my computer, and I'm doing it. There it even says on there, only works on a on a personal computer.

SPEAKER_00 6:18

Is it through the app store?

SPEAKER_01 6:19

It's through the app store. You can buy the app, you can't pay for the service. It's really weird.

SPEAKER_00 6:24

That is weird.

App Frustrations And Social Media Workflow

SPEAKER_01 6:25

Yeah. So I'm at the radio station, and I'm like, oh, I'm a good thing I came to the radio station. I was just going there for peace. So I start working on the app, and then I had to take this phone call from sales, right? Rachel, one of the managers, she goes, Can I talk to you? I said, sure. She wants to talk to me about this new Love Pup promotion going on with Ahi Pokeball. So I'm in this conversation with her for 15 minutes. Now I know I got to be here at a certain time. And I'm like, I'm stressed about this app. So I'm trying to make the War of the Roses post and do it, and it's not working. And it's not working. It's not working. And I go to my computer and I hit a button and everything goes away. And I have to log in with a new password, and I don't know my password. I don't know my pin. I have to reset something. And then you know, it's like I have to leave. It's a 10-minute drive to the studio from the radio station, and I'm trying to do all this stuff. And then finally, at a red light, I think I've then sent me this very verification code. So now I think I'm okay. So as soon as we're done with this podcast, I'm gonna be able to post this video, I think. Anyway, so that's my day, hon.

SPEAKER_00 7:22

Nice. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 7:25

You look so pretty.

unknown 7:26

Oh, thanks.

SPEAKER_01 7:26

I love your hair like that.

SPEAKER_00 7:28

Thank you.

SPEAKER_01 7:28

What else is going on? Did you talk to our kids?

SPEAKER_00 7:31

Just to Jake. I mean, Jake and I did the vet round and stuff together. I haven't talked to Camper Duchy yet.

SPEAKER_01 7:36

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 7:37

But I will.

SPEAKER_01 7:38

So it looks like people have left our house. But I mean, I would have been there two hours ago. So there I know they were there two hours ago. I know they've never not been there. Um, okay, so I posted on Instagram that you and I were doing the couples podcast. Ouch. You and I were doing the couples podcast. And I said, if you have any questions, ask us questions, right? So let me go to the questions real quick. So this is interesting. What's harder? Training each other. What's harder? Training each other or trainings? What does that mean? What does that mean? Training?

SPEAKER_00 8:08

Training each other?

unknown 8:09

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 8:11

Okay. That's from Adele. And I don't know what that means. Are you talking about training like exercise? Are you talking about dog training? Either way, they're both very hard.

SPEAKER_00 8:22

Yes, I agree.

SPEAKER_01 8:23

What's something that you don't agree on but choose to laugh about instead of argue?

SPEAKER_00 8:30

That's a good question. I don't know. What do we not agree on? Agree on a lot of things. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 8:43

Okay, here's another one then.

SPEAKER_00 8:44

Do you know the answer to that?

SPEAKER_01 8:46

That we don't agree on? Well, you got a you know an answer? You got one? What?

SPEAKER_00 8:51

Tyler knows an answer for us. When you tease her about sex stuff.

SPEAKER_01 8:58

Well, something you don't always agree on. Yeah, you think I'm a little horn dog, don't you?

SPEAKER_00 9:02

Yes. Testosterone is very high in your world.

SPEAKER_01 9:08

Or can I just be attracted to my wife?

unknown 9:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:11

Can I just love intimacy?

SPEAKER_00 9:13

Sure.

SPEAKER_01 9:14

Is it a need? I mean, both my parents are dead, and I feel like I need to be hugged.

unknown 9:17

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 9:18

Or to equate it to that.

SPEAKER_01 9:20

I have no one to like. Sometimes it's not about sex, it's just about being held. Sometimes I want to be held.

SPEAKER_00 9:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:28

And, you know, caress your breasts.

SPEAKER_00 9:30

Oh my God. What's wrong with you? Thanks, Tyler. You're not invited anymore.

SPEAKER_01 9:38

What were Blake's first? Oh, oh my God. What were Blake's friends' first impressions of you?

SPEAKER_00 9:45

Well, do you want me to paint the whole picture?

SPEAKER_01 9:47

Yeah, yeah, paint the whole picture.

SPEAKER_00 9:50

You worked for a radio station in in San Diego called 91X, and you just came up from Mexico, Rosa Rita Beach, because you had a huge, was it a volleyball tournament?

SPEAKER_01 10:01

Actually, you already got I was I was at the I was at the jazz station. No. No, you were 91X. No, no, no, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_00 10:10

No, you were jamming D90? No, no, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_01 10:13

I was at the Sunny 103.7 station, and it was the trip with the huge advertising agency, and they took their favorite people on the trip.

SPEAKER_00 10:23

To Rosarito Beach to eat lobster.

SPEAKER_01 10:28

I didn't call on them. Okay. They were the huge Western.

SPEAKER_00 10:31

Oh, Western Chris.

SPEAKER_01 10:33

Yes. And they I didn't call on them, but they really liked me, so they invited me, and I was the youngest guy on the bus.

Shelter Dog Pretzel And Family Fest Video

SPEAKER_00 10:37

That's because you were so much fun. But, anyways, so you arrived back into San Diego in terrible shape, and you showed up at a Mexican food restaurant called Alfonso's, which I'm so sad isn't there anymore. The best nachos ever. And um, I was with all my girlfriends. I'm excited to introduce you, and you pulled in backwards, which you hate. You hate when people park backwards on the street. I did not pull in backwards. Yes, you did. And you had a you had a six-pack, and the little plastic round thing was over the top of the stick shift in your Jeep.

SPEAKER_01 11:10

My dad's Jeep.

SPEAKER_00 11:11

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_01 11:12

I didn't have a car.

SPEAKER_00 11:13

And you were hammered. And you came in and I introduced you, and they're like, okay, he's a real winner. This is good, Blake. Nice job.

SPEAKER_01 11:23

Um, I actually have a there's a picture I have of that that night.

SPEAKER_00 11:27

I think you have it, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 11:28

No, I have it. I have it on my phone. I know that.

SPEAKER_00 11:30

Even on your phone?

SPEAKER_01 11:31

Yeah. I whenever pictures come up. Whenever certain pictures come up, um, I'll save them on my favorites. And that's one of them I see it quite a bit. And every morning, every morning I go through my favorites and I look at a certain a picture of my mom and a picture of my dad, and then I say And then that picture? No, no, but it pops up when I look for it. When I it pops up when I look for the picture of my mom and dad.

SPEAKER_00 11:52

Oh. Um Yeah, so that was my friends meeting you. But then they liked you afterwards.

SPEAKER_01 11:57

Way, way afterwards. No, I remember I was I was like, There was no intervention when you asked me to marry you. There was what?

SPEAKER_00 12:04

There was no interventions when you asked me to marry you.

SPEAKER_01 12:07

Is that a common thing for interventions?

SPEAKER_00 12:09

I don't know. I would think so. On Selling Sunset, it is.

SPEAKER_01 12:12

What are you talking about? What happened on Selling Sunset?

SPEAKER_00 12:15

Oh, one of the girls had a had a boyfriend that she wanted to marry, Emma. And Chriselle was not happy about it, so she did like an intervention and made it clear that she didn't like her.

SPEAKER_01 12:26

I can't believe you watched that show.

SPEAKER_00 12:27

It's the only show that I don't understand why I'm so addicted to it, but it's my guilty pleasure.

SPEAKER_01 12:31

Did you see your friend G Flip performed?

SPEAKER_00 12:33

Yes, I love G-Flip. I hope to see her in Phoenix sometime.

SPEAKER_01 12:36

Oh, here it is. Here it is, right here. This is the picture.

SPEAKER_00 12:41

Oh my god, it is. That's terrible.

SPEAKER_01 12:47

Oh my god, no. This is the picture that night when I met her friends for the first time. I was out of my mind. Oh, you put it in the screen. That's good, that's good, that's even better. That's good.

SPEAKER_00 12:57

That is terrible.

SPEAKER_01 12:59

I mean, my shirt is undone.

SPEAKER_00 13:01

It's terrible.

SPEAKER_01 13:02

You're sitting in my lab, you're in love with me. Look at you. Red fingernail pod. Look how cute. Anyway. Oh, yeah, they even says L'Ollia on there.

SPEAKER_00 13:10

Look at the bangs.

SPEAKER_01 13:11

Um, yeah, more questions. Okay. Yeah, your friends didn't. I don't think they like me.

SPEAKER_00 13:16

They do now.

SPEAKER_01 13:17

Okay, so what's your real age? I've been listening to you guys forever, and there's no way you can be younger than me. Oh. Ooh, give five people you would get a hall pass for. Laminated.

SPEAKER_00 13:34

Five?

SPEAKER_01 13:35

Five people you get a hall pass for. Laminated. What does that mean? Laminated.

SPEAKER_00 13:39

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 13:40

Well, five people get a hall pass. Remember, your hall pass in the back of the day was John Michael Montgomery.

SPEAKER_00 13:46

And he kissed me.

SPEAKER_01 13:50

Um, can I purchase a few custom feed pictures of Blake? I'll donate$200 to the Love Pop Foundation.

SPEAKER_00 13:59

Hilarious.

SPEAKER_01 14:01

Well, what's your answer?

SPEAKER_00 14:02

Of course. If it's going to the foundation, helping dogs, of course.

SPEAKER_01 14:07

Allie says, What was your wedding song?

SPEAKER_00 14:12

Our wedding, our um you mean our first dance? I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 14:17

It says, What was your wedding song? I don't know what that means.

SPEAKER_00 14:19

It had to be you.

SPEAKER_01 14:21

No, it wasn't. It had to be you is what I proposed to you with. Wait. No, it was the way you look tonight. Oh, that's right. Frank Sinatra, the way you look tonight. It had to be you is what I played when I No, it had to be used in the video, the wedding video. Oh What is the current dog roster at your house?

SPEAKER_00 14:43

Six.

SPEAKER_01 14:45

Six. And they are?

SPEAKER_00 14:47

And they are Taco, who's 16, Lego, who's 15, um, Bella, who's 11, Charlie, who's seven, Maggie, who's five, and Pablo, who's almost two.

SPEAKER_01 15:02

What is the most off-the-wall health hack you both do?

SPEAKER_00 15:08

I think there's a couple of them. The sauna. Right?

SPEAKER_01 15:11

We both do sauna.

SPEAKER_00 15:13

We both try to get 10,000 steps every day. Um we both take a lot of vitamins.

SPEAKER_01 15:20

I to do the olive oil, apple cider vinegar.

SPEAKER_00 15:23

Yeah, no, I don't do that.

SPEAKER_01 15:25

Will Blake share her chocolate chip cookie recipe?

SPEAKER_00 15:28

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 15:30

You will.

SPEAKER_00 15:30

Yeah. It's on the back of the toll house milk chocolate chips. No, I'm not.

SPEAKER_01 15:36

Why is it why is yours so different? Why does everyone go nuts for yours?

SPEAKER_00 15:39

I don't know. Maybe it's our oven.

SPEAKER_01 15:43

Blake.

SPEAKER_00 15:44

I use a convection oven. Maybe that's it.

SPEAKER_01 15:46

What's that?

SPEAKER_00 15:47

It means it's a different way of cooking. It's for baking.

SPEAKER_01 15:51

Is that what an oven is?

SPEAKER_00 15:52

Yeah, but it does convection, so the timing is a little bit less.

SPEAKER_01 15:56

Convection?

SPEAKER_00 15:56

Convection, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:59

Never heard of it. Bless you, Tyler. Blake, how do you handle all of John Jay's quirky rituals, all ways of doing or not doing things?

SPEAKER_00 16:08

I'm used to it.

SPEAKER_01 16:10

How do you handle it? Um It was like, you know what's funny? Is my new ritual, which I went over with you yesterday, and then you text me the ritual today, and you got it wrong.

SPEAKER_00 16:20

I got it wrong. The wonderful. I thought that was cute that I remembered it, but why can't something wonderful happen to you and I just say it to you instead of me having to put a name to it?

SPEAKER_01 16:33

My new ritual is I say out loud, something wonderful is going to happen to me today. Something wonderful is gonna happen to me today. I feel if I say that over and over again, something wonderful is gonna happen to me today. What happened was a couple of weeks ago, when I first started it, maybe a couple months ago, I said something wonderful is gonna happen today. Something wonderful is gonna happen today. And I realized, oh, a lot of wonderful things happen today, but they didn't happen to me for me. So I made it specific. Something wonderful is gonna happen to me today. Now, at the same time, I'm I'm a I'm a what do you call it? Uh I'm a people pleaser. And I feel and I give.

SPEAKER_00 17:10

I don't think so.

First Impressions And Early Relationship Stories

SPEAKER_01 17:11

And I all I do is give and think about other people. And I thought, if I said something wonderful is gonna happen to me today and it happened to somebody in our family, that qualifies as me. That's under the umbrella of me. Because if something happens to Dutch, Kemp, Jake, or you, that makes me happy. That's wonderful, right? And so then I felt, but let's say I really need something specific to happen to somebody in our family. So what I do then is I say specifically, something wonderful is gonna happen to Jake today. I actually started the night before, and I say, something wonderful is gonna happen to Jake tomorrow, and I write it down. And I write it down three times, and then I say it three times, and in the morning I say it three times. So the night before, something wonderful is gonna happen to Jake tomorrow. And then that morning in the cold plunge, something wonderful is gonna happen to Jake today, something wonderful is gonna happen to Jake today. And I'll do that, I was doing that for everybody in the family. I felt I had to, I mean, it ended up being a really long-ass ritual because I gotta get everybody in, I gotta say it, and I figured three times works. But then what happens is I thought, if I add another family member, then am I diluting the power of the one thing that I need? Does that make sense? Like if I'm saying something wonderful is gonna happen to Jake today, something wonderful is gonna happen to the Dutch today, but I really need the Jake thing to happen. I feel like I'm diluting the power of the Jake thing because I also threw some Dutch's way. So that's the kind of stuff that goes on in my brain all day, if that makes sense to you. So this morning this morning you texted me. You said, Good morning, I love you, and then you said something wonderful is gonna happen today.

SPEAKER_00 18:34

And I No, I said something wonderful is gonna happen to you.

SPEAKER_01 18:37

I thought you didn't. That's why I corrected you.

SPEAKER_00 18:40

Oh whatever. Something wonderful is gonna happen today, and it is.

SPEAKER_01 18:45

You said there's still someone good morning, grateful for you. Love my John Jay time yesterday. My heart is happy. Hope your day's off to an amazing start. Something wonderful is gonna happen today. And I said, something wonderful is gonna happen to blank today. You need to be specific.

SPEAKER_00 19:00

You couldn't just heart it and be grateful that I wrote you a nice note. You had to correct me.

SPEAKER_01 19:04

I wanted to correct me, so you just don't start spreading goodwill to random people. I wanted you to be specific and targeted that family. Anyway, that's my most recent ritual. I'm still working it out.

SPEAKER_00 19:14

Yeah, clearly.

SPEAKER_01 19:16

When here's a uh Lacey says, when did each of you realize you were in love with each other?

SPEAKER_00 19:23

You go, Well, I mean, I liked you when you came over to my house in Del Mar and I touched your hair. That's when I liked you. I mean, I I mean Yeah, that's when I figured out that I really wanted to be with you. Right?

SPEAKER_01 19:42

That's when you touched my hair and I was like, whoa, whoa, what's up with her? We're watching TV and you were on the couch. Yeah. I was on the floor.

SPEAKER_00 19:48

And then we went and both broke up with our people.

SPEAKER_01 19:50

Mm-hmm. That was a thing. Started dating. You want to know when I knew I was in love with you? In love with you? And I I remember being.

SPEAKER_00 19:55

And I showed up in the cap Casper suit that was all in the bangs.

SPEAKER_01 20:00

No, God, no. No. It was when I remember I remember telling my mom something about you. And I know exactly what it is, and I'll tell you what it is. And my mom said, Oh my god, you're in love with her. And it was, we were I can tell you exactly the dinner. You were making fun of my hairline.

SPEAKER_00 20:19

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:21

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 20:21

At the Sam's Cafe.

SPEAKER_01 20:23

It was at the Billmore.

SPEAKER_00 20:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:24

At the Billmore. You're making fun of my hairline, but you were also eating jelly bellies.

SPEAKER_00 20:29

Yes. And I remember you because they gave them at the end.

SPEAKER_01 20:32

Yeah, and I remember I was just watching, you were eating the jelly bellies, and you were sampling them, and you were telling me the flavors. And you were like, you were like, like a little chipmunk. You go, This is lemon.

SPEAKER_00 20:43

And you're like, Do you remember that guy?

SPEAKER_01 20:46

No, I'm I'm talking about I'm not talking about the guy with the hairline. I'm talking I do remember that guy. I'm talking about the moment I knew that I was in love with you. And I was telling my mom the story of the jelly bellies. Oh. And my mom said, and I said, it was so cute the way she was eating these jelly bellies. And I was telling my mom, and then she goes, Oh my god, Mijito, you're in love with her. That's what she said to me. So I was like, Oh my god, maybe you're right. But yeah, I do remember the guy had a hairline which is now lower than mine now. And you laughed at the guy's hairline.

SPEAKER_00 21:13

No. That was so funny.

SPEAKER_01 21:16

I'm being a lot more emotional in this podcast than you are. What can John Jay do to make your life easier?

SPEAKER_00 21:23

Help around the house. I do help around the house. Clean dishes.

SPEAKER_01 21:26

I clean dishes when I can.

SPEAKER_00 21:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:28

I help a lot more than the house.

SPEAKER_00 21:30

You do feed the dogs, but now I found out that you feed the dogs way too much food, and there three of them have have weight issues. And you are the culprit of that.

SPEAKER_01 21:42

Why are you wearing a vest?

SPEAKER_00 21:45

Why are you oh the vest?

SPEAKER_01 21:47

I was wearing a vest yesterday.

SPEAKER_00 21:48

Oh, because you're doing the weight thing.

SPEAKER_01 21:51

What about your marriage makes you most proud and it can't be your children?

SPEAKER_00 21:57

That we've stayed together this uh this long. We've been through ups and downs and all arounds and still stay together.

SPEAKER_01 22:04

Yeah, I was actually thinking about that the other day. Like Jake, our oldest son, is home with us right now. Um, and we get a it it's great having him home. But at some point he's gonna get a job, he's gonna leave. And I realized the other day that I really enjoy spending time with you.

SPEAKER_00 22:17

Like it's not well that's what I said yesterday when we went and did that podcast, and then we went and got blood and got blood? You gave blood.

SPEAKER_01 22:27

How did you guys meet?

SPEAKER_00 22:30

Christy Pileman.

SPEAKER_01 22:31

Yeah, Christy.

SPEAKER_00 22:33

It's all her fault.

SPEAKER_01 22:34

Yeah. Christy is a girl I grew up with, and then um you guys became friends at some point in college, and then I I hurt I broke my foot, and she was taking me to a party at her house, and she picked me up, and we had to stop at your house to get jello shots. And that's how we met. You seem pretty mellow today. Why are you so mellow?

SPEAKER_00 22:57

And then we used to hang out at work together because we work for the same company, different radio stations, and then we would go have lunch together, and I would carry your crutches for you, and yeah, we'd go to Mrs. Rice and go have yogurt and yeah.

SPEAKER_01 23:12

Um what else? Is anything missing? Anything you want to get into, or no? You want to get into any of the personal stuff you got going on? You want to wait till later?

SPEAKER_00 23:19

What's that?

Home Life: Dogs, Health Hacks, And Routines

SPEAKER_01 23:20

Or are you going after this?

SPEAKER_00 23:22

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 23:23

That's a longer conversation, probably.

SPEAKER_00 23:25

That's probably a longer conversation. But yeah, I'm having my female parts removed.

SPEAKER_01 23:29

Oh, that's gonna be geez, Blake. Don't say it like that.

SPEAKER_00 23:32

Well, that's what I'm doing.

SPEAKER_01 23:33

I know, but I thought maybe you'd be like, I'm gonna go get my blood today for whatever, whatever, and then we'll get into that. I want to get a doctor, a doctor on, and maybe do a whole podcast on that. Because you're having that surgery in a week.

unknown 23:44

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 23:45

Yeah, okay. All right, what else? Anything else you want to say to the podcast?

unknown 23:50

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 23:52

No, are you happy? Do you have joy?

SPEAKER_00 23:55

I have joy. Do you have joy?

SPEAKER_01 23:57

I do.

SPEAKER_00 23:58

Is there anything I can help you with?

SPEAKER_01 24:00

No, look at this. My ratings just came out in Portland.

unknown 24:03

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 24:04

Another amazing ratings, and I'm starting to not be surprised. Uh, the show's crushing it. Keep crushing it. Wow, Portland. Number one. Number one. Wow. Holy smokes. Thank you, Portland. Wow. Wow, that's a good way to end the podcast. Number one in Portland. But yeah, we got to get those foot pictures. Um, for all the foot people that are watching this, my wife has spectacular feet. Just spectacular. Some moneymakers. Make some moneymakers out of those little piggies. You want to put them on camera?

SPEAKER_00 24:38

Yeah. Do you want to talk about um about our kit our foster kids and our homeless dogs on this one?

SPEAKER_01 24:47

Sure. Whatever you want to talk about. I was kind of wrapping it up on a note because you gotta be somewhere.

SPEAKER_00 24:50

When is it gonna run?

SPEAKER_01 24:52

This is probably gonna, well, this is gonna run on Sunday on our couples podcast.

SPEAKER_00 24:55

This Sunday?

SPEAKER_01 24:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:56

Okay, so we have this gigantic event which we're super excited about. Can I promote it?

SPEAKER_01 25:01

Yeah. Hon, I want to start calling you Han. Okay, go ahead. Promote it. I'm gonna film you.

SPEAKER_00 25:07

Um, on November 15th at Vertuccio Farms from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m., sponsored by McCarthy, Learner and Row, Valley Toyota Dealers, Discover. We're super excited to host the Gym Class Heroes, Fits in the Tantrums, The Rich Barra Band, and a couple of bands from School of Rock. And we're having a big adoption center with lots and lots of dogs. We have 25 rescues and sponsorship activations. It's free with a donation, a leash, a bag of dog food, potty pads, whatever you want to bring. And it'll be a great day. I'm so excited.

SPEAKER_01 25:49

Okay, we'll see you November 15th. That's our couples podcast. Okay, so welcome to our podcast. This is a little bit different today because this podcast is a spin-off of our radio show.