JK, If Only We Were Kidding

Ocelli

Jordan Cassoff & Kara Townsend

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JK is back!!!

SPEAKER_00

Hey guys, we're back. JK is in the house. And we thought, you know, unfortunately, we've been gone for a minute. Yeah, I think like six weeks. You know, the year of the horse has just started off so hot, and we thought, well, hot, like we'll well, we'll clarify that later. But year of the horse, speaking of, we went to this really fun Kentucky Derby style party.

SPEAKER_01

Yes, we did. And we had months' notice about it. Months. And it said dress to impress.

SPEAKER_00

And boy.

SPEAKER_01

And we figured, like, okay, we should. I mean, don't we dress to impress by just getting dressed?

SPEAKER_00

I mean, typically, if I do my hair, I'm like, that's it, I'm impressed. Yeah. But we did have ample time to get it together for this event.

SPEAKER_01

And we didn't realize the level of like outfits and how put together people would be there. We were ultimately the gothic, um if you think about it, we were I wore like this black dress, which I think I never want to wear again. Or dark green might as well have been like and like lime green flip-flops. Like just really poor choices.

SPEAKER_00

Oh my god, I wore my antique toy.

SPEAKER_01

She had an antique Tory Tory bag. We'll get to that. The main thing is we had our fascinators, so like our our our we didn't have full-on hats, but like the clips for that you're supposed to wear. Like we had that part going.

SPEAKER_00

Whatever that is, you know, the the the feather. The headpiece thingy. We had the feather in our hair. They were cute. The horses loved it. I just I I wish if I next year, when we hit the races again, I want to play in a brighter outfit.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, we're gonna we're gonna Yeah, we're gonna go big. We're going big. We're gonna go to the goodwill and find like the best outfit and maybe win even win best dressed.

SPEAKER_00

Yes.

SPEAKER_01

Because there were there was a best dress award. And you know But the the guy who won, he had he had a horse suit. His tucks had horses. Top to bottom. Honestly, it was theme perfect. Yeah. The food was great. It was from uh shout out to uh Taylor's uh Deli Antonio's in North Pond Beach, the best delicious.

SPEAKER_00

We hung out there all night.

SPEAKER_01

That that was my like if I wasn't sitting on the couch plate after plate, I don't even know how many plates I used.

SPEAKER_00

I was just sitting at the food and seriously, there were some great outfits.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, some great outfits. We met some nice people, Karen made some new girlfriends, she got some numbers. Everybody was so nice, and then uh the highlight was when we went to place our bets. So there was like, you know, you pick your horse and all that. And I chose Great White because of course for the Great White Oysters, that's what made me think of that. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah, and then what else? I chose a couple others.

SPEAKER_00

There was you did a few.

SPEAKER_01

Um and now I regret not choosing the one that did win because I didn't do my research. And if I had known that was the first like female trainer, a hundred percent we would have had our money on it. Yeah. So next year that's the other thing we're gonna do, is we're gonna research all the horses and like figure out their stats. Which actually, today before this episode, to get amped, we were watching a horse race on the TV.

SPEAKER_00

Well, you know, I want to give a little background about my bet. Because I went up there and um there was only one horse that had no bet. And then I said, What's the deal with this horse? Why does this horse not have one bet? And then I saw, what was it, Jordan? 75 to 1 or something? 75 to 1 odds. Which meant like his chances to win. I didn't understand.

SPEAKER_01

He had low odds to win anything.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, and then I said, I'm going with that guy. And we were calling him Ocelli. And turns out, what is it, O'Celly? O'Celly is how you say.

SPEAKER_01

But O'Celli to us sounds better. So it seems more, you know.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, O Celli. Anything. Anywho, guys. Keep in mind I don't know one thing about these horses. The race starts. Jordan shows me which one is my man Ocelli. Jordan, come on, you gotta admit.

SPEAKER_01

The the highlight of the whole, like the party was great, really was.

SPEAKER_00

It really was so much fun.

SPEAKER_01

The highlight was us sitting on this couch. And all of a sudden, Kara, like, yeah, like you would be like, you would think Kara might have owned this horse. I she really like maybe she invested every like last cent she had on it.

SPEAKER_00

I really don't typically get into things too.

SPEAKER_01

So all of a sudden, she was like up, jumping, and screaming. I'm crying, laughing, like tears are coming down my face. Like, oh Charlie, look at him!

SPEAKER_00

I told you.

SPEAKER_01

Um, so if anyone hasn't seen the Derby race, I I applaud, I I uh I implore you to put it on and just to watch the recap. It's not that long. Find it online.

SPEAKER_00

But like we gotta clarify that I was so into it because keep in mind this horse's odds were 75 to 1. Nobody had voted for the. And he placed third. He got in third place. Jordan, I just remember your face. You couldn't say anything because you were laughing so hard on the camera. I thought it was gonna be our moment to win something. Oh yeah. I really thought, oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_01

He's he's a really good horse. I think I think he's got a good shot next year. He's got a good shot next year.

SPEAKER_00

I really, it's gonna happen for Chelly. I'm voting for him again.

SPEAKER_01

So, yeah, so watch watch the race if you haven't. So that that was one little fun story. Um we had a good that was our night out. Um, and then the other, like, I mean, it's life update. Uh, I ran my second half marathon. Big life update. She did it again. It was brutal. You killed it though. It was so hot.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, I can't imagine.

SPEAKER_01

I will never run more than like a 5k in May.

SPEAKER_00

This heat is something I'm like.

SPEAKER_01

Race didn't start till 7. The sun's already up. It had to have been 90. I don't know if it was 90 plus. I think it may have been. I can't. And you know I'm slow. I bet like, and I was kind of like the horses, I was like great white. Like, I started out real strong and I peaked at four miles. But the heat a little bit. I felt good, I was like pacing good, and I like my goal was to beat, like, my goal was always to finish, but then it's like, okay, maybe I can beat my last time. Like, I think not that everyone's always going for a PR. I don't know. I'm still I'm new to the whole running thing, but you read all sorts of different things, people will tell you different whatever. And maybe I'm maybe in the end I was weak, but I'll tell you the heat got the best of me. I couldn't get my heart rate down, so it was like over 180. I and and I just felt at one point, like the last three miles, I was like, I don't know how I'm gonna do this. Like it was like really mentally to try to like my legs at that point were hurting. And I just wanted it to be over, and then like and then I got really mad. I was out there cursing because I knew like my goal to beat my time, like I was losing the the gap there was closing in. Like I could tell by how I was slowing down so much and how like I had to walk a lot to finish. But when I saw, like I remember seeing the sign for mile 12, so then you have 1.1 to go. Right, you're so close, and all I thought was like because I've recently like really want to one day want to run a marathon, and I thought, how the fuck would I make it? This would be 24 miles if it were like the opposite, like extra distance. Right. And anyway, I don't know even why I'm like psyching myself like that, but I ended up finishing my you did it, yeah. I did it, but it it was uh don't I don't recommend running long distance in May instead.

SPEAKER_00

But like you said, by seven o'clock, it's already yeah, and the time I finished it was practically ten, it was hot. Bro, though, just think about it. You've done two half marathons, right? Yeah. I mean that's a big deal, that's a huge deal.

SPEAKER_01

I know, it is. I know, and then that's what like someone was like, I I called one of my cousins and she was like, but you fit you did it.

SPEAKER_00

Like you did another one.

SPEAKER_01

But I think even when I called you, like I kind of was like, I didn't do it, the goal. Like it's like you didn't. I know someone's like, wait, he was like, some someone I work with was like telling his wife, Oh, she did. I was like, no, it wasn't three miles. I was like 13. He's like, What? I can't even make it to two. So, like, you hear stuff like that, it's silly, it makes you feel better, even if you're you're slow like me.

SPEAKER_00

But it's a big accomplishment.

SPEAKER_01

So we're coming back. I decided I'm gonna recruit people, and hopefully Kara might join in December. We're gonna do the West Palm one. That was my first one again. That was like a nice course, it's nice and cool. Like the with the time change, when you start at 7, it's still dark. It's pretty cool. How many miles is that one? 13.1.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, they love you so much, shorter.

SPEAKER_01

But they also have like maybe a 5k or 10k.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, I feel like 5k running is just never honestly. I think if I could get past the mental, like that, what's it called? Runner's high. I've never had it. Maybe if I got there, I could stick with it.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, you just gotta try to give it a shot.

SPEAKER_00

So we'll try to try a few more times.

SPEAKER_01

So if anyone wants to join me December, I think it's December 12th or 13th. I got I haven't signed up yet, but that's the plan. It's coming up. So I'm gonna do some weights and all sorts of. Then we are trying to get us into high rocks.

SPEAKER_00

Now that interests me.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, but we interest me. But I messed up the registration. I kind of had a shot, I think, at the Tampa one and I didn't know what to do, and I messed up the registration.

SPEAKER_00

I w You know what else I would love to do is one of the ones um, which I say that, but like I can't imagine the training that goes into that too. The an Iron Man? Oh, calm down.

SPEAKER_01

Is it what's the one where like you do a little bit of everything? Triathlon. Swimming, biking, and running. Yes. Yeah, I guess you should do it.

SPEAKER_00

How many miles do they run in those? I don't know, it depends. It's the running for me.

SPEAKER_01

But that would be like a fun challenge. I my thing, I don't think I could ever swim. I'm so scared, like I would something would get me.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, that would be scary. I just know like the mental, like your training. It's it's a lot like when I did that competition, like you really have to dedicate like a lot of time and it's a lot. But it's that's why it's such a huge accomplishment. Yeah, it's like that's what you get to do.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, it's the mental like challenge of it. That's what it that's what I liked about. That's what I like about it. That's why I'm like, I'm trying to get more people to do it. I'm like, try it.

SPEAKER_00

No, it's such an accomplishment.

SPEAKER_01

It gets you, it's it's because if you don't put in the time and dedicate, like it's gonna show at the race.

SPEAKER_00

The feeling I had after that show, like the feeling of endorphins when you complete stuff like that, is like no competition.

SPEAKER_01

Because you put in so much time and effort and energy to prep for it, and then it's awesome.

SPEAKER_00

So muzzled off on it.

SPEAKER_01

But that's those are the big life updates we got.

SPEAKER_00

We got big things happening all the years.

SPEAKER_01

We'll be we'll be back. We got summer coming, which means we'll have more frequent episodes. Yes. Um, we know our game. We know everyone has missed us on the air. Yeah, and we apologize for keep sharing. We need more followers. We're trying to go baker. Yeah. So we need to be able to do that. We're trying to quit our day job. We want this to be our full-time job.

SPEAKER_00

No, but for real, over summer we're gonna lock in. We'll have a little more. I say that I'll have maybe a little more time. You, you, we'll figure it out. You know, Schmuck. Schmeck. Schmeck. Well, listen, guys, we were glad to be back.

SPEAKER_01

Yep, we're coming, we're gonna keep the Ocelli energy going.

SPEAKER_00

O'Celli's coming in first place. Ocelli for life.

SPEAKER_01

And we're riding with him. Till next time.