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I mean I already I've just felt like, oh man, we we focus too much on pets and people are so obsessed with their pets. What's below that? This do we dug deeper? No, we're down another layer. Really good this time.

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There'll be more than 50. I mean, you'd like to get some money for that. Sorry, we're going to have to put them down.

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This is serious. Hey, I'm Chad Davis, and we have an awesome show for you today. So much fun. Before we get into it, I want to introduce my lovely wife, Amber Davis. She's a writer, comedian, producer, all the great things. She is a wonderful woman. She's very selfless. She does so many things for so many people and for myself. She told me not to go on and on, but I can't help it because she's so amazing. Amazing. And then we have my best pal, Jared Chamless. He's here joining us today. He's the actor, comedian, writer himself, Father Galore, FG is what we call him because he's got a lot of kiddos. He is amazing. I love him so much. He's just so funny, makes me laugh. And speaking of making me laugh, speaking of just having a great time, one of our one of our most favorite, favorite cast members here today, Jeff Lusik. Yay. Dude is so funny. Now, before we go on, I start asking you questions. My first uh memory of Jeff, we did a short film called I Quip. And we're putting it on the channel. It's on the channel. I put out feelers and things to see who would want to be a part of it. And uh our buddy Ashley, who was on here, you saw her, she's amazing. Uh, she's like, oh, I'll forward it to um some uh people that she knew in a theater group, and Jeff was part of that group, and he sent us his um his audition and he filmed it, he edited it. It was awesome. It was great. It was so much fun. I still have it saved. I should rest. I should have showed it today. Yeah. Second second rest. We can show it right now. We can. We can. Maybe. Maybe. I'll show it right now.

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We're done here.

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All right. Hey, how about that? That was fun.

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Whoa! Experience that in real time. All right. So uh how you doing? I'm doing great. Yeah. Uh great to be back. See everybody, almost everybody. Most people.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, well, we talk about all the time on our show. We say uh we love all of our cast members except for two. That's fair. Yeah, and you know the show.

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I mean no, I don't know what to cast.

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Yeah, I mean, so like the people who are on the show, we love and the people that don't show up. Wow. I mean, you know, I knew it was gonna be Jeff. I just knew it. Yeah. So it could be me and Jared. I'm afraid that's what it may be. It could very well be.

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SPEAKER_04

And and with like we allude to alluded to a while ago, we're the creators of National Nonsense, the uh family-friendly sketch comedy show you know you never needed. And uh Jeff is a big part of that. And uh so Jeff, um speaking of that, what what has been your favorite experience or favorite thing you've been in?

SPEAKER_08

Uh the ones with Jared, with the uh the two brothers, the Goober brothers, especially the um the election one. That's why I'm at the where we just were permitted to say the most absurd political related things for I mean we just sort of went on and on.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, you're HOA, you're running for HOA. Yeah, yeah. It was sort of like you would you wanted no no noise, or no, you could you wanted to be able to like uh lawn lawn gnomes, maybe you wanted to be able to get a lot of money. Yeah, well you kept attacking me for the lawn gnomes. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_08

You had too many at all. Um and I I think I attacked you for uh probably something absurd.

SPEAKER_05

Cutting grass, maybe usually.

SPEAKER_08

But you were being too noisy with a leaf blower. You took off a lot of your clothes by the end of it.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, that actually had nothing to do with the skit at all. It wasn't written in, it was just something I decided that needed to be done to gain viewers. Right.

SPEAKER_15

And that was such a great that was such a great uh sketch because we we a lot of times we'll shoot just in one location, but we shot in multiple locations. One at a church gymnasium that we shot the election at, which was so fun. Like the not the election, the debate.

SPEAKER_04

Debate, yeah.

SPEAKER_15

So y'all had the debate and we had the panel. It was so funny. And then the other my favorite part outside was signs.

SPEAKER_05

The commercials were. Yeah, your your promos.

SPEAKER_15

The promos were my favorites. Yeah. When you're all like hanging out by those trees.

SPEAKER_04

Because it just so escalated so much that it ended up where you ended up in his commercial and you were trying to like oh no, you ended up hitting his. You were fighting like you were trying to vote a bomb and ruin his promo.

SPEAKER_15

And that was season two of Nashville Nonsense called the election. It's uh the theme, they're all themed. Um, it was a sketch comedy variety show. The way that we did season one and season two was more like a variety show. So that whole show is about election, and it was during the election, but we made it fun and uh yeah, it was a good time.

SPEAKER_04

So one of my uh favorite things, many favorite things about Jeff, uh he's just a pleasant dude, uh, is that he comes prepared. I mean, if there's lines, if there's cues or whatever, other people's lines, other people's lines, uh the director's cue, or the cameras been wrong. Yeah, yeah. No, he doesn't, but he does it in a nice way. He doesn't like like correct and and like you know uh belittle anybody, but he's he just comes prepared. He knows what to do.

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But he does theater, man. He's a professional.

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He is, he is a pro.

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Right.

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Yes.

SPEAKER_08

Thank you. You're you're welcome. Thank you for saying nice things about me. Yeah I'd come more often if I knew it was gonna happen that regularly.

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I don't know if we'd have that many things to say. Yeah, yeah. That was it. That was it. Okay, no, no. That's amazing. He's also amazing.

SPEAKER_15

We are glad that you're on the podcast and you got to play some pinball earlier.

SPEAKER_08

Yes, well, uh I did I hit buttons on a very loud, bright machine.

SPEAKER_15

Yes, you did well. You did good. So everybody that comes on the show gets to play pinball, and then we record it in our little high high roller pinball book, whatever that log book back there is. So um the bits. And so we're glad that you're on the podcast, and we always jump in to our first segment called Is It News? And this is it news. This is where I pinball through the internet to find uh the most uh unworthy news stories. Obscure, obscure, you could say. And I changed the headlines to protect the guilty, and uh y'all decide if it's news. So you get to be a part of that today, so it's gonna be fun. Okay, so the first, of course, since you're here, so I thought, okay, we gotta have some live uh theater fails, a video on live theater fails.

SPEAKER_05

Oh, Jeff's not gonna know anything about that.

SPEAKER_15

So no, he he doesn't fail. He's not failure.

SPEAKER_04

Anything live, it can go wrong fast sideways, yeah.

SPEAKER_15

So we do video, so we can cut and edit and all the things, but this is you do a lot of live theater. So we'll watch this video, and then I want to get so excited. Uh I want to get your take on it.

SPEAKER_05

It'd be funny if it's like you of something you kind of should never say, wait a minute, this looks real familiar. How deep did you dig? How deep did you dig? The death of a salesman. I was in this.

SPEAKER_13

Well, I apologize, dude.

SPEAKER_05

We killed the salesman.

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Okay, so here we go.

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Toto just went off the oh, the legs gave out.

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Oh wow.

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Okay, first shot.

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So the actor actually passed out.

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Unless you're what happened at the inn.

SPEAKER_15

So some of those, and you could probably speak to this, Jeff, but there's a famous play, like it's a the play that goes wrong.

SPEAKER_08

Yes, the play that goes wrong. Uh mischief theater. Yeah, it's very famous. A lot of those aren't actual mistakes, that is just how the play works. The whole premise is they don't know what they're doing, and it's every little thing that can people forgetting lines. Uh, and it's an amazing piece of physical comedy because the set's constantly breaking and injuring the players. Yeah. Um, so some of those I'm like, that's actually going quite right. That is that's how that's supposed to be.

SPEAKER_05

What's the name of that show?

SPEAKER_08

The play that goes wrong.

SPEAKER_05

That's what that's an actual play that many people have done, then I guess? Or is it that's really, really famous. Yeah, it's done all the time.

SPEAKER_15

So the the clip where the guys are up like uh up up on the stage, and then the guy knocks down and the stage like falls.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_15

That's actually from that. And then the other one is where the lady gets hit in the face.

SPEAKER_08

Oh, okay. That was from the the bunk beds? That's from Peter Pan Goes Wrong. Okay.

SPEAKER_15

Oh.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, about say because that dude on the bottom is dead.

SPEAKER_15

But that was like a real play. I mean, they planned.

SPEAKER_08

Oh, wow, that's amazing. Really, really complicated sets to make it happen.

SPEAKER_15

That's impressive.

SPEAKER_08

There are times when you hear them interviewed when something does actually go wrong. Oh. And then it's kind of hard to fix it because it's the name of the play. It's wrong. Uh they said one day they one of the jokes in one of the shows is they come up um in after act one and during intermission, and they're still the this uh crew is still changing everything. Okay. And they encourage them, do funny things. And one of the crew members had a bunch of blueberries, and then he tripped, and they thought it was funny. Oh, he's eating blueberries, but he tripped and left them all over the stage. So for Act Two, they're all rolling on the ground, rolling through blueberries. There's just blueberries all over their costumes for the plenty of that row. Uh which everyone thought, oh, what a brilliant piece of comedy. Right. How did they come up with this? How are they executing this? Yeah.

SPEAKER_15

But then the costume designer's like pulling her hair out.

SPEAKER_08

Oh, yeah, the costumer was very upset. I understand blueberries is not the easiest thing to get.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, that and blood.

SPEAKER_15

I'm sure there was a little mixed in.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, well, probably afterwards. Done right. Hairdresser. Oh, I've fled on many costumes. Yeah, it's not the best.

SPEAKER_15

So I wanted to see if not to put you on the spot, but it is there any story where you know you were doing live theater. I've done live theater, but you've done so much more than I have. Um, is there any time where something went wrong with you? Like you like, you experienced or you were on stage and something went wrong and you like had a Oh well I cut my hand open once.

SPEAKER_08

Oh backstage, but right before I went on, I was moving a set piece and just didn't notice. I felt like a prick and I thought, oh, what was that? Uh and then I went and did the scene, and I'm just such a good actor that um I didn't really notice until the scene ended, and it was a long love scene. So I had been with my romantic partner, like we were holding each other, and I get off stage and look at my hand, and it's just a gash across it. Oh, and I look up at who is playing my opposite. It's like maybe she doesn't need to know. And then I see underdress is just like blood, blood, blood, blood, blood, blood, blood, blood. Oh, they can't play that roll sing or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I kept grabbing, we had to, we were holding each other and everything. Oh no. Um, and I had to go back on stage in about five minutes, not probably less. Luckily, someone was able to come, wipe my hand off, get me a little bandaged up, and with her, I was like, Well, the next scene, you're in an insane asylum, so it works pretty good. Don't but just don't when the costume her asks, let's not, we don't need to get details.

SPEAKER_15

That's wild. So then, like, did she, I mean, did she was she a pro? Was she like just kind of went along? Did she notice?

SPEAKER_08

She didn't notice while we were doing the scene. Oh, okay. And then I pointed it out afterwards. It was like, hey, um, by the way, as we're backstage, my blood is on you at the moment. Yeah.

SPEAKER_15

Right.

SPEAKER_08

Um, but I think yeah, uh, she wasn't on stage much for the rest of the show.

SPEAKER_15

Comedy or drama?

SPEAKER_08

It was drama. It was Sweeney Todd.

SPEAKER_15

Right.

SPEAKER_09

So much blood.

SPEAKER_05

You did it on purpose.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, I was just really disappointed with the quality of the fake blood in that show. And I wanted to finally take it to the next level.

SPEAKER_05

If they won't give me real blood, I'll make my own. Yeah, it worked really well. Oh, positive, baby.

SPEAKER_15

Have you ever had anybody like fall or trip? Because in plays like in high school and college, that happened a lot where somebody would trip and fall, and like we and it would be like a loud something in the back, and then we would have to like ad lib something about this noise. Oh, it was always backstage, somebody falling or something.

SPEAKER_08

Um, I I mean, probably me. Uh, I just tend to be very physical in when I'm on stage, and there's a lot of times when I just full-on bite it, maybe hurt myself, and everyone just is, oh, that was really great, Jeff. That was so fantastic. Right. We were really impressed with that. And then most shows that I've done, uh, the next the day after the show finishes is me taking account of all the bruises and the pain.

SPEAKER_14

Right.

SPEAKER_08

Because I've never fully learned how to fall correctly. I'll just throw myself. And I'll be like, I'll deal with that later. Or adrenaline.

SPEAKER_15

It's like adrenaline.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, at the time, but you feel it on Monday.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah. Right. It's amazing, like uh like the Dick Van Dyke's uh like Dick Van Dyke, he fell all the time, and when he was you know elder you know, elderly, he could still get around.

SPEAKER_08

Sometimes. Yeah, but then sometimes he trips on the carpet. That's right.

SPEAKER_15

That's true, yeah. That's true. Yeah, so I thought that was kind of interesting that you felt that's news.

SPEAKER_04

I like it.

SPEAKER_15

So it's kind of news, not news, but it's it was interesting. But all right, here is a news clip. Open season on chickens. Of course, I changed the headline, but open season on chickens.

SPEAKER_04

What do you think that is?

SPEAKER_15

Open season on chickens. Um I think it's in the title.

SPEAKER_08

I mean is it just like a town, small town, bunch of chickens get loose, and the town's solution is have at.

SPEAKER_15

Right. It sound it sounds like a like a cartoon.

SPEAKER_05

I think it's a Popeyes promotion.

SPEAKER_04

Ah, okay.

SPEAKER_15

That's great.

SPEAKER_04

I love that chicken at Popeyes.

SPEAKER_15

So Hawaii residents are sick of early crowing and aggressive pecking, could be allowed to kill wild chickens.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, I wouldn't get permission to do that, I'd just do it anyway.

SPEAKER_15

Here's a quick little video.

SPEAKER_05

And I would also do it so well that like they wouldn't even notice that the chickens were gone. Right. Like people be like full block parties. But like what happened? Like, did you remember all those chickens we had? Like, yeah, you remember the block party we had last week? Yeah. Hello? That's right.

SPEAKER_08

The idea of wild chickens is kind of weird.

SPEAKER_15

It is a little weird to have wild chickens, so here we go.

SPEAKER_05

I don't even know if I want a wild chicken. I want a chicken that's been named a pet chicken or something.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, walk in my I am not going in my garage. I can't stand it.

SPEAKER_04

He's high energy, that guy.

SPEAKER_13

I know.

SPEAKER_15

When I watched that, I was just like, You can tell he really hates it.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, it's just it's broken him. He's broken.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08

You just saw a man who is brought to that.

SPEAKER_13

That's it, yeah.

SPEAKER_08

It is right. It's tragic. It's it's a tragedy what we just witnessed.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, broken physically, mentally, spiritually.

SPEAKER_13

Yeah, and emotionally.

SPEAKER_04

So that came from overseas for here for this.

SPEAKER_05

For the chickens.

SPEAKER_15

For the chickens.

SPEAKER_08

I mean, roosters are the worst. I can't stand them because uh I've spent time on farms at points, and the roosters crow at dawn, which is true, but they that's just because they they do it all day. Right. They never shut up. Right.

SPEAKER_15

That's the thing, is that that apparently but um 3 a.m. the roosters are crowing in this community. And we went to Gatlinburg Airbnb this last fall, and there was like inside our cabin was quiet, but you would walk outside of the cabin, and there was like some kind of cockfighting farm like just up the road, and it was like like you said, it was all day.

SPEAKER_04

All day, and they had like 30 or 50. How much do you want? Well, Michael Vick cleaned up. He got out of dog stuff and went right back. Yeah, so I mean little Jerry signed up.

SPEAKER_05

That's what I was just thinking. You can have your check if little Jerry throws it in the third round.

SPEAKER_15

Yes. Yeah, so I don't know. I mean, roosters, but I mean, in Hawaii, they're thinking about like having open season.

SPEAKER_08

Pervasive foul. That is a wonderful term. Yeah. Communities across the state have been dealing with pervasive foul.

SPEAKER_15

Pervasive foul. Party foul. Feral birds at the park is what it says. Yeah. It's a big problem, apparently. And they're multiplying, they say. They're like rabbits. They're multiplying these.

SPEAKER_05

Why is it always like rabbits? Like no other animal reproduces. Chickens, they lay multiple eggs.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_15

Right. Yeah. I mean, they could clean up. They could just have well, they're roosters, they're not laying eggs.

SPEAKER_04

No, I mean, clean up by having a lot of like block parties and rotisserie stuff.

SPEAKER_15

You don't want to eat a rooster.

SPEAKER_04

Do you not?

SPEAKER_15

Like, yeah, I don't, they're not as they taste different than uh they're not they don't have as much fat on them.

SPEAKER_05

Oh, okay. So they have to do that. Maybe it's the gluten-free of the I never heard that.

SPEAKER_15

I don't think the roosters would be. I mean, I grew up on a farm and we know.

SPEAKER_05

So essentially you're saying I only eat female chickens. Basically, I think, yeah.

SPEAKER_15

Well, chickens are female.

SPEAKER_05

Right, right. I'm saying like so you the hens, yeah. Yeah, you don't eat roosters, isn't uh not something you can't buy rooster meat. I don't I guess so. I guess not.

SPEAKER_15

I mean Kenny Roosters, Kenny Rogers.

SPEAKER_05

They only make kellogs. Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_08

They're made for mistress, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

It's like uh dry um what do you call it?

SPEAKER_14

Uh I don't know what you're saying.

SPEAKER_04

Like b how you make beef jerky.

SPEAKER_14

Oh, like like freeze dried.

SPEAKER_04

Not freeze dried, like uh what's it called when they dehydrated rooster. Dehydrated roost.

SPEAKER_05

Or dehydrated reducers. We are recording.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_15

Okay, here's another one. Hobby dogging video.

SPEAKER_08

Oh. Hobby dogging.

SPEAKER_15

Have you heard of this hobby dogging?

SPEAKER_08

No, I don't I don't think I'm old enough for this video. I think we're gonna need to call my mom for her.

SPEAKER_15

So watch this video and I want to get y'all's take on this. This is a real thing. This is hobby dogging.

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You should have heard of hobby horsing. Now get ready for hobby dogging. The agility training relies on imaginary dogs with leashes stabilized with wire. Traders complete parkour with pretend pets.

SPEAKER_15

Yeah. So what we're watching, if you are listening, what we are watching is um invisible dogs on leashes at parks, at dog parks that are designated for it invisible dogs.

SPEAKER_08

Remember when the Germans once, twice almost conquered the world? That's that's yeah.

SPEAKER_14

This is what they've come to.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, wow, this is one of the most tragic things I've ever seen.

SPEAKER_14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09

This is scally.

SPEAKER_05

Have you ever seen one of those leashes before? At the fair. Yeah. Yeah. I remember I remember the first time I saw one. I was like five years old. We were in Disney World in Florida, and I saw somebody with one, and of course, I thought they had an invisible dog. And we're walking around. You know how they got those little places where you can buy stuff, and then I saw somebody selling them, and I was like, that person's dog wasn't invisible at all. That leash just doesn't bend.

SPEAKER_04

It's a sham.

SPEAKER_05

Your phonies.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_15

Disclaimer, my dad used to sell them at flea markets.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah. Your dad sold a bunch of stuff at flea markets. I'm not surprised. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_15

Good old lyrics. And really, my dad was a big thing.

SPEAKER_05

He probably got them by like trading up something wild. He was like, well, not 150 of these leashes that I traded for a 67 Corvette.

SPEAKER_15

And when I was like five, I was selling them for my dad.

SPEAKER_04

So this there's like so many people in Pretend World. This is crazy. It's just crazy.

SPEAKER_14

Yeah. I don't know. Oh.

SPEAKER_15

That's an invisible phone.

SPEAKER_05

It's invisible phone, yeah.

SPEAKER_15

So yeah, these leashes, like, I mean, this is a real thing. People have like these parks and they're doing this, and this is what they're doing.

SPEAKER_05

Like let them let them off the leash and then like they ran off. Come on.

SPEAKER_15

What are people doing here? What is happening to stuff?

SPEAKER_08

I mean, I already I've just felt like, oh man, we we focus too much on pets and people are so obsessed with their pets. What's below that? This? Do we dug deeper? No, we found another layer.

SPEAKER_05

What would be below this is the veterinarian that sees those pets.

SPEAKER_03

I mean, you're like you get some money for that. Sorry, we're going to have to put him down.

SPEAKER_13

And then all of a sudden it's just like And they go, Can I take him with me?

SPEAKER_05

And you go, they go, No, he has to stay here. Just you grab nothing and run off. And then they chase you.

SPEAKER_08

A lawsuit because you got bit by one of their dogs. You said it wouldn't buy me. I leaned down and it just mauled my hand off. Yes. See, that's good stuff.

SPEAKER_15

And then the the vet could charge you for you know cremation, charge you for like burial.

SPEAKER_08

It sounds like they're on board with this.

SPEAKER_15

Yeah. I mean, they would be smart to get on board with it.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_15

It's pretty pretty wild stuff.

SPEAKER_08

Only in Europe. They said hobby horsing. I don't know what that is either.

SPEAKER_14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08

Which also sounds depressing.

SPEAKER_05

Maybe the stick with the horse. Hobby dogging.

SPEAKER_14

Hobby dogging.

SPEAKER_08

Well they said at the beginning, oh, you've heard of hobby horsing. I was like, I have no idea. Oh, okay. So that's something else.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah. I know what that is, but that's what literally ride around like the act. They ride a hor a stick, like a horse. They have a stick with a horse head on it and they run around with their two feet and they jump over hurdles. That's completely normal.

SPEAKER_15

Yes. Oh. That makes sense.

SPEAKER_05

Well, now, comparatively. Yeah, I mean. Relatively. Because that's real.

SPEAKER_15

Because there's a head on that horse.

SPEAKER_05

Because that that because that stick has a head. The leash doesn't have it.

SPEAKER_15

It's impossible.

SPEAKER_08

This sounds like something you do for a child in in lieu of saying the dog went to the farm. Right.

SPEAKER_15

I'm thinking that the you know how they have different generations, like the greatest generation. No. When they see stuff like this, they're just shaking their head.

SPEAKER_04

Like, well, it looks like there's some old people from the greatest generation that are these people.

SPEAKER_15

I think they're plants. They're plants and they're playing with the one and the only ones that are left.

SPEAKER_08

Heavily medicated. They went through a pretty heavy collar.

SPEAKER_03

This is the age of orange kicking in. Heavily medicated. That's a good point.

SPEAKER_08

Several decades of them sending their best and brightest.

SPEAKER_04

We call that D-Day.

SPEAKER_08

Like you look at her and you go, like, I see why you were left behind.

SPEAKER_15

Okay, here is a something that's it's not necessarily news, but it's just a viral thing that's happening right now. And so on Instagram, on um social media, especially Instagram and TikTok, people, you know, will these trends will come out and they'll try to do certain things and everybody kind of does these same trends. Well the trend right now is the trend right now is sleep paralysis demons. Have you heard of this? Okay. So I looked up what a sleep paralysis demon is, first of all, before we show you these, I show you these reels. But a sleep paralysis demon refer to the vivid, often terrifying hallucinations that some people experience during episodes of sleep paralysis. A state where the body is temporarily unable to move while falling asleep or waking up. During this state, individuals may feel a heavy pressure on their chest, uh, sense a threatening presence in the room, or even see shadowy figures. And that's where the shadowy figures look out like demons. So if you if you wake up and you see like a shadowy figure in the middle of the night, it's definitely not Jared.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah. Don't even worry about it.

SPEAKER_04

It's only Jerry if you see that s uh slow, small glow of the cigarette.

SPEAKER_15

That's weird. Okay, so roughly 20% of people apparently deal with this where they have and 75% of those people have hallucinations when they're like they wake up from dreaming.

SPEAKER_08

So this how do you oh yeah, never mind. Okay. So this is like uh I forgot there was a trend, and I thought you were asking, how do you have your disability? What? How do you do that?

SPEAKER_15

So there's this guy that I I went in um Instagram and and looked at all the and there's like hundreds of these where people are like making jokes about what your sleep paralyzed demon is. And so, or paralysis demon. And but there's one guy, and you know, we're clean comedy, so the this guy, I wanted to promote him. His name's Frank Drago, and he's out of New York or New Jersey area, Long Island, and um he has an example of like like a joke of what a sleep uh paralysis demon would be.

SPEAKER_11

Get your shoes on. We're going home. I need your help, but your boots on. I need your help for five minutes. I got eight yards of coming. I need your help. We're gonna rip apart the whole deck in the backyard. Don't forget to lock the back door. I need your help. My phone's not working again. You can ask some of your friends if they could help rip apart the deck. Did you lock your back door? Do your buddies know how to carry lumber? What's your fat friend Ryan? Fat heavy set kid. He looks like he can carry lumber. Can he carry lumber? Come out. Don't take portion road as a bad action. You're not gonna believe it. John from Home Depot got shot. He's dead.

SPEAKER_15

So his sleep paralysis demon is a New York dad. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

Can he carry lumber? Yeah. Such a fat friend.

SPEAKER_15

So it's pretty funny. So I I wanted to see if y'all had heard of this. Like sleep paralysis type.

SPEAKER_08

I actually had been speaking. Maybe this is why uh some other friends have been talking about sleep paralysis. I maybe just a coincidence, because also night terrors and things like that. Those are so um so maybe, but uh yeah, I wish I had more to say about that. Just um, you know, I love our society that we find out, you know, there's this really terrible thing that some people suffer from. Interesting. What if we mixed it with TikTok? Yeah, that's right.

SPEAKER_15

And it's all over. Like people are doing like President Trump as a receipt sleep paralysis demon, or they're doing like um what is that Randy Savage? Is that yeah, is that his name? Like Russian wrestler, yeah, him, and all these different people. Anyways, they're pretty funny, but I thought Frank Drago did a good job on his New York dad.

SPEAKER_04

That's awesome.

SPEAKER_15

So I was trying to think if you had a a funny sleep paralysis, what would be a funny bit for a sleep paralysis demon?

SPEAKER_08

Sleep paralysis demon? Oh, um I I feel like it would be every person I have ever cut off in traffic. But like knowingly, or like missed a stop sign. Like, I know I wronged them. I know I'm it's not me even saying, Oh, well, you misinterpreted. Like, no, I know I ruined your day.

SPEAKER_05

My day was more important.

SPEAKER_08

You've been in that neighborhood a million times and you just ran that stop sign. Yeah. Like you saw you didn't check your mirrors and you cut me off in traffic as you were trying to get to that exit.

SPEAKER_04

Run the left lane screen.

SPEAKER_15

It sounds like you've really experienced this. This could be a long line, like you're telling you.

SPEAKER_08

I have I have a deep um guilt trip every time I know I do something wrong in traffic. And I just I really, really want the people to know that I know. But there's no way to do that. That's why it took them so long to get here. Yeah. Right. I was apologizing to a lot of people. Everybody's wrong. Yeah. Just whenever you you know you run a stop sign and someone slams on their brakes, and you really want them to know, like, I know that was a stop sign. I know. Right. And I know that I missed it. Right. And I'm sorry, but the only thing horns can communicate is aggression. Very loud board, like the beep, beep, beep. That's it. Which in that situation, if you cut someone off and then respond with meep, beep, that's worse. Sure, that is. I need to. I acknowledge my guilt. Yeah. Right. I acknowledge that I was wrong here. And I would like other people to have that too, because sometimes I wonder, do they know?

SPEAKER_15

Maybe that should be like a horn that somebody admits, it's like, I acknowledge what I just did to you right now.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, the guilt is mia culpa, mia culpa. Like that's all. And if I if I could hear that too, to know, oh, that personally, never mind. You're not gonna bother me for the rest of the day.

SPEAKER_15

Or if there's somebody that like is not moving enough, it's like, seize the day, seize the day. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_15

So that would be carbideum.

SPEAKER_07

All of them will be in Latin. Right. The horns will all be in Latin.

SPEAKER_15

The horns will be in Latin.

SPEAKER_05

That's awesome.

SPEAKER_13

That's good. Everybody else have an idea of the channel. That's your sleep demon.

SPEAKER_05

Sleep paralysis demon.

SPEAKER_13

I don't know.

SPEAKER_05

That would be wrong. Remember Will Farrell had a skit with Garth Brooks where he played like the devil and he comes in with the guitar? That would probably be mine. Oh, okay. You've not seen that? I don't think I've got it. I know what you're talking about. I've seen that. Yeah, it's like Garth Brooks is trying to write a song and the devil comes to help him, but he doesn't help him at all. No. Okay. He's like, what kind of guitar is that? He's like, it's made from the fornicators of sinners and their bones. And he was like, really? He's like, no, it's offender.

SPEAKER_15

I've not seen that. I thought the devil went down to Georgia.

SPEAKER_05

No, that's a different guy. Then he went back to Willie. It was just really scary. Let's see if Wolf Farrell dressed up. He chokes on the smoke that like they make when the singer. Oh, that's pretty funny, too.

SPEAKER_14

Yeah. I don't know. You have a sleep paralysis demon?

SPEAKER_04

Oh, 100%. Oh, what would it be? The Lee Singer from Counting Crows. Um He would never shut up in front of everything.

SPEAKER_13

No, that's about you need to go to therapy for your County Crows obsession.

SPEAKER_04

Well, I mean, no, it's just like a surreal thing.

SPEAKER_15

So interesting. Well, I thought that was funny. Sleep paralysis demons. I didn't know about them.

SPEAKER_08

I think mine could also be uh just Midwesterners engaging me in small talk.

SPEAKER_04

Oh. Or to to to piggyback on them because I uh the long goodbye.

SPEAKER_08

Oh yeah. The Minnesota goodbye.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah. I had that with my family. I love my family. Uh but when we see them, it's it is a long goodbye. And it's all the way to the car as we're pulling out the driveway. They're talking to us as we're pulling up.

SPEAKER_15

That is a depressing sleep paralysis demon. It's gets your family saying goodbye.

SPEAKER_04

Irish goodbyes as well. No, it's not it's not that. It's just a it's not them, it's just a long goodbye. Just being like, I'm done. Hey, yeah, love you.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, I know. So good to see you too. So good. We need to do this again. Oh my goodness. Yes, yes, yes. What about next week? Well, I can't decide now. Well, I'll see you later though. Yeah, I'll see you. Ho ho. And then like something comes up as your way, like, oh, I really like this door. Oh, and we stop, like, I actually got this door a couple years ago. Yeah.

SPEAKER_15

It's such a endless um It goes all the way out to the car with his family. Like it goes like to the porch, and then we go to the car. And then when we're in the car, we roll down the windows, and then there's more houses.

SPEAKER_05

Just call me on Bluetooth, we'll link it up. We'll do that.

SPEAKER_15

Yeah, and then we call, and then she's like, I want to buy you a gas, which she's so awesome. And then she drives us to a gas station. Then there's another goodbye at the gas station.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_15

So which is super special. I love your mom. We love her. She's awesome.

SPEAKER_04

Thank you for the long goodbyes.

SPEAKER_15

I don't think she's a sleep paralysis demon.

SPEAKER_05

No, no, no, no, no, no, no. She's amazing. Not Chad's. No.

SPEAKER_15

So that's it for news. So we'll jump into our always awesome segment, which is What's the Punchline?

SPEAKER_04

All right. So this is your favorite segment. I know. Uh no, though. This isn't news, is probably it. But this is a close second. So what's a punchline is where I go through and uh I get um uh go to Instagram or YouTube, whatever, and pull out these little reels or shorts, and what I think is funny, I'll download it and then I'll edit it to be like a little dabbo do you, a little uh snippet, a little nugget, and then what I'll do is I'll show you all, and then you'll see it, and you have to guess what's gonna make it funny. Kind of like name that tune uh or where you think it's gonna be funny.

SPEAKER_13

So welcome to our world here with the punchline.

SPEAKER_04

So the first one we have here is called Guess What? Guess what? And the titles can or cannot be misleading.

SPEAKER_08

Okay. So they're titles. Yeah. Yeah. That's how titles work.

SPEAKER_15

Yeah, so it can be.

SPEAKER_05

I never judge a book by its title.

SPEAKER_01

Okay.

SPEAKER_04

Okay. He's from Georgia, or he's a Georgia fan.

SPEAKER_15

Okay. He's driving around in some kind of what are those called?

SPEAKER_04

Golf cart. Golf cart.

SPEAKER_15

Okay.

SPEAKER_04

Some of a garpath, I think. I think. I don't know. It could be. He's wearing one of those. What are those things called? A hat.

unknown

Right.

SPEAKER_05

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_15

And then he drank like some kind of energy drink look like.

SPEAKER_05

I don't think that was an energy drink. I would say that was probably not. Because the one is an adult beverage. You don't crush energy drinks or Coca-Cola cans when you finish them. I don't know why you only crush beer cans. I don't drink beer, so I don't crush cans, but I've noticed that's whatever they finish it. You don't you don't ever see regular beer cans that are empty uncrushed, do you? They've always been smushed. It's true.

SPEAKER_15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

All the ones I've seen. Sure.

SPEAKER_15

So energy drinks, you can't crush them.

SPEAKER_05

No, I'm saying you can break that down. You can, but it's just not generally done.

SPEAKER_15

Okay, so this guy is drinking an adult beverage and he's driving a golf cart and he's legal to somebody, and he's like, Guess what?

SPEAKER_05

He says, guess what? What's gonna make it funny?

SPEAKER_08

Is this gonna be a random violence one? Like just a completely unprepared amount of extreme violence. I mean, I hope that's probably the thing.

SPEAKER_04

My algorithm is probably just like a speed bump. I wish it were. My algorithm is built one video at a time, one brick at a time. So you're welcome.

SPEAKER_15

All right.

SPEAKER_05

I hope it is, but it can be healed. It's a speed bump or something.

SPEAKER_15

Okay, let's see what happens.

SPEAKER_08

Probably not gonna be a reference to Greek philosophy.

SPEAKER_05

That might be that might have been energy drink, Amber.

SPEAKER_14

I think it was. I think it was a monster or something.

SPEAKER_05

Maybe.

SPEAKER_01

Guess what? What?

SPEAKER_06

Oh, I was kind of right. Yeah. Yes.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, it's random violence. Yeah. Yeah, that wasn't an energy drink. Never mind. That's not what that'll do that to you.

SPEAKER_09

Red Bull gets away. Give you wings, nobody.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah. That's that guy. He had had his last adult beverage and just gave up, and he goes, hey, guess what? And then jumped out of the car. I'm done driving this way.

SPEAKER_08

If you get an eagle, you can get a birdie next time. Just make up for it. Come on.

SPEAKER_15

So then that guy, you know, he's writing. He had to take over the will.

SPEAKER_08

Like, what?

SPEAKER_05

I mean, he didn't have to. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08

Either him or Jesus.

unknown

I don't know.

SPEAKER_05

I think Jesus was anywhere in that car.

SPEAKER_15

I don't think so. I think he's near there. Yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_05

Guess what? And then turn around and jumps out. Yeah.

SPEAKER_14

What? Who does that?

SPEAKER_04

At least he dove in the grass, I guess. Yeah, the next one's called Magic Trick. And that last guy did one. Yeah. Magic trick. Now here we go.

SPEAKER_10

Okay. Hi, it's Michel.

SPEAKER_04

Alright, so uh brothers there are gonna do a magic trick. The ultimate trick, it says.

SPEAKER_15

The ultimate magic trick.

SPEAKER_04

Ultimate magic trick.

SPEAKER_08

Should we give himself a normal name other than Sven?

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_15

Who is it was Michelle?

SPEAKER_05

He's named after an animal from Frozen.

SPEAKER_15

Yeah, they're like have a cool accent. I wonder if it has something to do with that painting in the background that looks like a swan or a duck or you're all about the backgrounds, aren't you? I am all about the backgrounds. And look at that wallpaper. It's pretty awesome.

SPEAKER_04

It might be stone. Maybe not.

SPEAKER_15

Okay, so what happened? What happens next? Yeah, what do you think is gonna be?

SPEAKER_08

Interesting. Um ruin their parents' day.

SPEAKER_15

Uh somebody's gonna kids are great. I don't know.

SPEAKER_08

We're pro-kid here. Yeah.

SPEAKER_15

Somebody's gonna disappear, maybe?

SPEAKER_08

Or up here.

SPEAKER_15

Or up here, yeah.

SPEAKER_08

Oh, is this gonna be like the Statue of Liberty one? Oh, yeah. That's the most likely thing for two scandinavian children to pull off.

SPEAKER_15

They're gonna get rid of that portrait back there of the duck or the goose or the we should consider how it how it ties into Scandinavia, I believe.

SPEAKER_03

Okay.

SPEAKER_08

They're gonna try to trick us. It's just gonna be one of those times of year where it's day all day.

SPEAKER_05

That's very tricky. These two Slavic boys are about to get into it. Here we go. Okay, here we go.

SPEAKER_04

Magic trick. Spin and.

SPEAKER_10

Hi, it's been Smiker.

SPEAKER_05

Right. Oh, they're not speaking English. Yeah, they were.

SPEAKER_08

Just made his brother disappear. Wow. So more violence.

SPEAKER_15

Okay, first of all, their parents aren't home. And they're doing this, and they are right now plotting to how they're gonna explain this.

SPEAKER_05

That's the that is the ultimate training. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_15

Do you think the other one was he underneath this? Yeah, we're sitting.

SPEAKER_08

His brother ditched him so fast.

SPEAKER_15

Okay, I gotta. Can I rewind?

SPEAKER_08

He's like, well, one of us is gonna stay behind and uh tell the story.

SPEAKER_04

This is villain origin story, right here. You gotta keep watching, you're gonna miss it again.

SPEAKER_14

Does the little blonde kid get back?

SPEAKER_05

Oh.

SPEAKER_14

Oh kid.

SPEAKER_05

It looked like he hit him below the belt, and the kid like went and then on purpose.

SPEAKER_14

Oh no.

SPEAKER_05

Oh, you think so? I don't know, maybe. One more time, Amber. Guess it again.

SPEAKER_15

Cain and Abel? What is happening? Okay, we'll watch it again. Hi, it's me here.

SPEAKER_04

Maybe that was Esau trying to get his birthright back.

SPEAKER_15

What is happening? I like the people saying that. To the kid's point, he did nail the trick.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah. Nothing came off that table. He did two tricks. He got the tablecloth and made his brother disappear. That is the only one pool. Yeah. He just abandoned himself. I mean, I say bravo. Yeah, he's on to Vegas. That's what I say. Nice.

SPEAKER_13

Well, we definitely know who's the older sibling in this.

SPEAKER_04

Now keep in mind, we want to know like what is your favorite, you know, punchline after you know, after we get finished here. We got one more, so keep in mind what would be your favorite one. So we're on to uh the uh hibachi.

SPEAKER_15

Hibachi.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, nice.

SPEAKER_08

Is that the grill stuff?

SPEAKER_15

Hey.

SPEAKER_05

Nice. Cute kid.

SPEAKER_08

It's just it's someone's going to be on fire by getting this.

SPEAKER_14

Does that kid die?

SPEAKER_05

Come on, Amber. He wouldn't show anything that cool.

SPEAKER_14

I think he's gonna just dropped a bookcase on another child in these kids.

SPEAKER_05

He wasn't old enough to matter. I think they're gonna take a uh what is that a little shrimp? They're gonna catch it on fire and bling it into somebody's mouth while it's burning.

SPEAKER_08

That would be awesome. I just I think there's just going to be a wildfire. Let's see. This is going to be a microcosm of LA.

SPEAKER_13

Oh my goodness. Let's see. This is how the Palisades fire started.

SPEAKER_05

Oh goodness.

SPEAKER_15

Oh man.

SPEAKER_05

Don't blame a flame.

SPEAKER_15

Oh my goodness. Okay, here we go.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, right reaction, child. Very well done.

SPEAKER_15

Right. That baby's there. I can't even look at that baby anymore.

SPEAKER_05

Open flame. Traumatized. Yeah. From Hibachi. It's the prettiest baby I've seen.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_04

So out of all three, what would be your favorite?

SPEAKER_15

Oh man. Let's say. I feel bad for the kid and the magic trick, but that was pretty crazy.

SPEAKER_08

I kind of suspect that magic trick thing was staged. Yeah. Judging from the fact I don't know anybody who has a very large, well-made cabinet in their house that will just tip over if someone bumps it. The physics were a little suspect. I don't I don't know if physics works in the Nordic countries.

SPEAKER_15

Well, early in our marriage, Chad built me a bookshelf that Well, I wasn't a carpenter.

SPEAKER_04

I was just trying to woo somebody, and it looked like Dr. Seuss built, I think.

SPEAKER_08

All Norwegians are cocked.

SPEAKER_04

The shelf is right behind you.

SPEAKER_08

That's what's holding up our thing.

SPEAKER_13

It's not attached to the wall, so be careful.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, don't pull any tablecloths in your face. My favorite was the little kid getting crushed by the uh Okay. Yeah. That was awesome. You guys are monsters.

SPEAKER_08

Monsters. Mine was the screeching child.

SPEAKER_05

Oh well played. You'd like him younger to be hurt. You want him to be hurt by the really young kids.

SPEAKER_08

Traumatized.

SPEAKER_05

There you go.

SPEAKER_08

That's just physical trauma. That can be fixed easily. That baby is traumatized for life. Yes. There's gonna be some deep-seated fear of Japanese people. I think that that baby was at Pearl Harbor.

SPEAKER_17

Or sushi.

SPEAKER_08

And fire.

SPEAKER_17

Japanese people in fire. Oh, the Japanese are always at fire.

SPEAKER_15

Wow. All right, so we have uh got to see lots of videos and lots of fun things, but you have brought something to show and tell.

SPEAKER_05

Show and tell time. Oh what is show and tell time, Chad?

SPEAKER_15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

Oh, yeah. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_15

Yeah, this is where Jeff, or go ahead.

SPEAKER_05

Well, this is where we explain what show and tell is.

SPEAKER_15

This is why I say Chad and tell Amber to tell you what it is.

SPEAKER_04

Chad brought show and tell. Yeah. Can you tell us about show and tell? So show and tell is where uh you know we bring something cool and we show and tell about it, just like in preschool or kindergarten. Usually Jerry and I have done this for a number of shows, but when we have awesome guests, we ask them to bring something to show and tell us. And so, Jeff, what do you got? What's what's cool, man? What's up?

SPEAKER_08

So I've got this little figurine. And this is my something special.

SPEAKER_15

Is that you?

SPEAKER_08

No.

SPEAKER_15

What?

SPEAKER_08

No.

SPEAKER_15

I thought maybe it was like a statue of you.

SPEAKER_04

No, it's not it's my something special. Because he got it from Bubba Fett, he like frozen. Did you earn this?

SPEAKER_08

I mean, in a way, I suppose.

SPEAKER_04

Okay, is it someone playing baseball? I can't really see it.

SPEAKER_08

He's playing baseball. It's a little boy playing baseball with a very interesting stance. Uh there's no bat. Yeah, there's no bat. No, there's the bottom of the bat, there's no top of the bat. Sometimes I put a pen in there if I'm if I'm feeling rather, you know, whimsical.

SPEAKER_09

Okay.

SPEAKER_08

Um, so this, like I said, it is something special. Everyone in my family has something special. Um, and it's something like this.

SPEAKER_14

Okay.

SPEAKER_08

This began many years ago where some of my family was going to TJ Maxx, and my brother Peter said he wanted something and it got muffled, and my sister on the way back, on the way out, turns back and says, What do you want? And he was just frustrated and yelled, get me something special. So they found just an absurd trinket at TJ Maxx, something you would never buy, something no you look at and think, why would anybody ever want this in their home? Right. And it it was some sort of multicolored hamster. And they got that for Peter, and then it became all of us need something special. So we all have something, some sort of absurd figure decoration that we keep at our house, and then at every wedding, um, we would get the bride and the groom for the rehearsal dinner would get something special as a way to like welcome.

SPEAKER_15

That's awesome.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, he really is. Yeah.

SPEAKER_15

So when did you get this? Did you get this for Christmas, a birthday, or just randomly one day?

SPEAKER_08

And we're like, Jeffishes or something special. That's awesome. Here you go. I love it.

SPEAKER_15

So, how old were y'all when this started?

SPEAKER_08

Oh, well, how old do you think we were? Like, what what age do you think this was going on? Middle school.

SPEAKER_04

No, no. Uh-uh. This is full-on uh adulthood.

SPEAKER_08

I would have been in college. I got this when I was in college. He said a long time ago. Yeah, my and so most of my siblings would have been out of college, full-on adults. Do you still have a few?

SPEAKER_04

Oh.

SPEAKER_08

It was mine. That was my brother Pete. Does he still have it? One it presumes.

SPEAKER_04

Are you the youngest, or what's the order?

SPEAKER_08

I'm in, I'm fourth. I'm fourth of six.

SPEAKER_14

Oh, six. Wow.

SPEAKER_05

What? Yeah. How many kids do you have, Jared? I have less than that. Oh. Me too. Not the same way though.

SPEAKER_08

But we would, every rehearsal dinner, we would uh like in the middle, we'd bring out some absurd thing. The only the only uh time it went awry was when for my sister-in-law Trish, and we brought it out, whatever it was. It was stupid and absurd, and she saw it, was like, oh my gosh, I love it.

SPEAKER_13

That's not how that's not how this is supposed to work.

SPEAKER_08

But last time I was at their home, saw it in the closet, and I was like, Trish, no, how dare you? How dare you put it out hide this away.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, you call your parents immediately, like, hey, Trish got it in the closet.

SPEAKER_08

We yelled, yeah, it was during Christmas.

SPEAKER_05

Did it originally have the bat and just something happened? This is how you receive it.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, this is it.

SPEAKER_05

This is why it's special. He's got the hat on backwards too.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, the helmet even. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, his helmet is on backwards, which is how you always actually buy seeing this at a TJ Maxx and thinking. Oh, finally.

SPEAKER_04

It's like the catcher got up and grabbed the bat and was gonna like except he left the bottom of it. Right, yeah.

SPEAKER_15

And that's a weird stance for somebody to hit a ball.

SPEAKER_08

This is somebody's paralysis, Demon.

SPEAKER_15

Yes.

SPEAKER_08

Very much so. True. Well, I keep this at my house, and uh I refuse. No, no, I refuse to explain it most of the time. Okay. Because people will see this and be like, what is this? It's like, well, that that's my something special. Gotcha. What? And it's like, yeah, it's just my something special.

SPEAKER_05

You don't have anything special in your life?

SPEAKER_08

Yes. Yeah, I don't I don't remember what we got everybody over the years.

SPEAKER_05

So you said you have multiple something special things. No, okay.

SPEAKER_08

Uh some people might, because if I ever were to get married, I presume my family would get me one at the rehearsal dinner along with my bride to group. So every member of the family has a something special.

SPEAKER_15

Yeah, at least one. Did y'all get one for your parents?

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, my parents have one too. I know my mom, we got her um like a lawn ornament thing that's an owl. You know, those metal ones and they'll have really long legs. Yeah. It's an owl, and it had. I wasn't there for the buying of it. I don't know if it came with this, but it has a hello, my name is sticker on it. His name is like Carl or something.

SPEAKER_15

That would be a good name for an owl.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah. Yeah. So I think that was an addition. We that was one something special we upgraded. That's awesome. That is a good idea. Everyone has my family, everyone in my family has something special.

SPEAKER_15

I love that tradition. That's a great tradition.

SPEAKER_04

Really cool. I love it.

SPEAKER_15

Okay, so beyond this show and tell, if you have anything, um, I know that you are a huge asset to us for doing national nonsense and I quit. Super creative. There's anything that you have going on that you want to share or promote or anything?

SPEAKER_08

Uh not presently. Um, I can't share details, like it's important. I have auditioned for something, but I haven't heard back. Okay. Which means I can't say anything. Gotcha. Uh, because if I don't get it, I don't want to promote them.

SPEAKER_15

Well, that means we'll have to have you come back.

SPEAKER_04

Right. Well, could could you say if is it like it would be a theater performance? Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_08

And so if they don't cast me, I'm not promoting them.

SPEAKER_05

It's like you got your channel. Yeah, Chad gets it sometimes, like, because I got stuff I can't say because what the lawyer says. Yeah, right. Yeah, yeah, we got it.

SPEAKER_06

The lawyer. Yeah.

SPEAKER_15

The lawyer. Well, what we can promote is the awesome Nashville nonsense stuff that's coming up that you are gonna be a part of, and it's gonna be so awesome. So uh tune in and stay tuned for more stuff from uh Jeff that he's gonna be in for Nashville Nonsense stuff. It's gonna be great.

SPEAKER_05

We hope you get that role too, man. Yeah, man. We hope we get to promote them. Yeah, so we can come see you. And if we don't, then you know, forget them. We don't we know we're we weren't gonna. Yeah, that's exactly how I feel.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, yeah. Right. They need to cast you because they'll get ticket sales from us. That's true.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, see, I'll pitch that at the end.

SPEAKER_04

How does it how does that work? Do you get like a call back you have to edition again, or how does that work?

SPEAKER_08

For live theater, you usually do um a a regular edition, and you'll just come in, you'll sing. If it's it's different from type of theater to theater, if it's a play, they either want a monologue or they'll just give you parts of the play and have you read. If it's a musical, you sing for all of about 20 seconds. They're like, thanks, bye. Uh I've been at musical rehears auditions where they type you out, they just line you up and go, You don't look like the part, you don't look like the part, you don't look like the part, go home. Uh or they just go down and say, Sing your highest note. That's not high enough, get out. Oh, that's the musicals are really quick. Opera will be, I think Operas were my favorite to audition for because you get to sing your whole song.

SPEAKER_05

Do you sing? Can you sing opera?

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, I was a trained, uh, really, it's the first time it's coming up. I'm a trained opera side. Saying that. Yeah, that's what my degree is in. Can you hear something real quick?

SPEAKER_05

I'm gonna pull the microwave. Yeah, dude. Come on, Katie. Come on, put him on the spot. Something doesn't matter. Okay. Um something from Bugs Bunny.

SPEAKER_08

Oh, yeah. What? You know, he's got that opera guy. Oh, yeah, no, that was Wagner. I don't sing Wagner. Okay, um, let me just think of something really quick. I'll take your time.

SPEAKER_13

Yeah. All right. No pressure.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, no, I I asked him on the spot, my bad. I was so impressed though. I've never I've never sat next to an opera singer. Yeah, that's right.

SPEAKER_12

Well, I guess everywhere. Yeah, I guess every time. So many times.

SPEAKER_05

He's homeless with this opera singer.

SPEAKER_08

Uh let me get the tune in my head.

SPEAKER_05

No, no, no. Do we need those little things? Yeah, I got it.

SPEAKER_12

Hold on.

SPEAKER_05

You go like.

SPEAKER_12

Thank you so much. Uh Dine Camariare Shitadine, Von Contese Beronese Marcazani, Principese, Evan Donido Nigradodoni Farma Donieta, Donni Pharma, Donni Pharma Donieta. I thought we were all aware.

SPEAKER_15

Do we have to bleep some of that out?

SPEAKER_05

No.

SPEAKER_15

I thought I heard the N-word.

SPEAKER_05

If I explain the plot of the opera, yes, you just have to. Was that Italian? Is that what you were saying? Italian, yeah.

SPEAKER_15

That was awesome, Jeff. Seriously. That's really good.

SPEAKER_08

Every time we say, I'm like, man, just so cool. You knew that. Yeah. No.

SPEAKER_15

He's also a race car driver.

SPEAKER_08

No, he's not. No.

SPEAKER_04

And then he's gonna apologize for a buddy.

SPEAKER_05

You're gonna deal with that demon at night. Yes. I don't want you haunting me to. That's awesome. Bro, that was really good. And on the spot, dude. You build it.

SPEAKER_07

Thanks.

SPEAKER_14

So great. There you have it. And we made him like eat poop like a champion. I mean, not today.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, that was not a good day.

SPEAKER_14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

Sorry, I don't know if we're supposed to be promoting that. We should have tried that cat food. You'd think that was bad.

SPEAKER_04

Fair enough.

SPEAKER_13

Oh, yeah, check out IQ.

SPEAKER_04

Good short film. That was so amazing. That was amazing. Jeff, you're a cool dude. Appreciate being here. This is serious.