When Reality Hits with Jax and Brittany - Murder, True Crime & Baking

Episode Date: December 1, 2023

Jax shares about his night out with Schwartz and Sandoval PLUS Why yard work is Jax's yoga - Jax & Brittany's latest TV obsessions - Is it really Thanksgiving without leftovers? Do you NEED to have all your partners passwords? Jax & Brittany give their quarterly Disneyland review AND MORE! Check out our holiday deals!!! MeUndies: Get 25% off your first order, plus free shipping, at MeUndies.com/realityhits  When Reality Hits is sponsored by BetterHelp! Visit BetterHelp.com/realityhits to get 10% off your first month! LightBox: Love jewelry? Shop now at LightBoxJewelry.com and use code REALITY for 10% off sitewide! Jenni Kayne: Get 15% off your forever pieces with code [reality] at jennikayne.com  Peloton: This holiday season, make sure to check out the endless variety of exercise options from Peloton!

Wind Reality Hits is brought to you by Peloton. Ride, sweat, and sing on your own terms. Right from the comfort of home. This holiday season makes sure to check out the endless variety of exercise options from Peloton. I am ready. Let's do this. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Here we go. Uh-huh. Hello, everybody, and welcome back to win reality hits. I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Yes, yes. I hope everybody had a great Thanksgiving.

Sorry, my mind is so crazy today. We just have had a really, really long day. It's getting towards the holidays. I'm like brain farting nonstop. Cruises tutors downstairs. We've been kind of just going crazy. We're making meals. We're just shopping. We got cruises school. We just got so much going on. So I just have a little bit of a brain fart. So I've got home from a toddler and made class because he's starting preschool. So we do a little toddler and made class every week at his preschool. It's so cute. It's the cutest little thing ever. That's where we where whenever you walk into these preschool classes, they're like so whimsical and it's just adorable there. And I wanna go there.

I know, it's such a cute little school. I don't remember. I don't wanna play there. I don't remember it. My preschool is being like that, but then again, I don't really remember preschool, but then I can, I just really don't really remember schools just being that cute.

Oh no, it's adorable. Like the little cubbies are so cute. The little short little sinks, like the toys everywhere, the bubbles. Oh, I just,ises up as a ladybug. So you guys asking and then he graduates to Grasshoppers and then it kind of goes on from there. So it is a really, really cute school. Yeah. Getting ready for his little ladybug class so that he feels good whenever we actually like start going to school and he's there without us, which is going to be so sad for Mama, but it's gonna be so good for him.

Yeah, it's been great. And his swim class is doing amazing in that. He's like, our swim teachers think he's gonna be a professional swimmer. And she's like, he's so strong. He's got such great, like, backward strokes and everything. He loves to swim on his back. He loves to swim on his back.

He loves to swim on his back. He loves to swim on his back. Maybe he's just gonna wanna chill with a beer on the boat one day. I know. He's just a chill kid. And he's he's killing it in swim class. But now we're thinking Olympic gold medalist. Oh my gosh.

So yeah, so it's been a crazy. So I'm sorry if I'm a little scatterbrain. Yeah, that's so much going on. Plus, I'm, well, you guys will be hearing this tomorrow, but I'm actually leaving quite early in the morning. I got to actually be up at 4 a.m. What you guys are going to be hearing is now, but I'm actually leaving quite early in the morning. I got to actually be up at 4 a.m Well, you guys are going to be hearing this now, but I'm on my way to Cincinnati. So for those of you that are going to be that are listening from Cincinnati Come by the pitch tonight because I will be there. It's going to be a lot of fun Myself and Johnny Fair play will be there, but he's leaving me again everybody leaving me yet again

I do these I do these like less than 24 hour trips and I'm literally in the air longer than I'm in the city. I'm like go it'll be fun. It's like really the only way I get to meet all my fans and I get to meet everybody and I get to you know go to these smaller towns and just have fun and get to meet everybody. I think it's great as long as you don't lose um miss your flight and call me freaking out and I have to like change everything and cancel and redo flights. That's that's the only reason I would care Well, I'm not flying jet blue. Oh, no, I think we're okay. I'm there. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Yeah, so we all know Jack's fans Not good. I'm actually flying if you miss a flight and I'm not with you. I don't know what you would do Oh, but I'm actually flying spirit airlines Yeah, you said it was good and I did not mind the flight. They've actually they've up their game

I got a question for you. I got I was I was reading some stuff on social media. I was on a toilet. You know me. I'm reading through the news, right? So I got this just random question. What are your thoughts on partners, whether you're married or you're dating, uh, having each other's passwords or codes? I mean, I think it's fine. It's like a big deal. Like I, it's like, it's a trending topic. I think it would be weird. It's like a big deal. It's like trending topic and social media. I think it would be weird. It's like, it was like forced. Like, I have to have your passcode.

Like, you have, you know mine, I know yours, but I think it's just because we use each other's phones and stuff a lot. Because we're family and we're like, I'm married and we parent together. So it's like, we have to, I'm like, get my phone really fast or do this really fast on my phone and same for you.

So it's not like I was ever like, I have to know your pass go. Right, right. I think we're also in a very different stage of our lives where it's like, it's essential for both of us to know our child's passwords and our child's locations and all that. I mean, we're a family. We have children. It's just important. We're always, you're basically basically for you.

You're always doing things for me. I don't know. I think if you're being weird about that, you're doing something shady. Right. Right. No, I prefer you having all my passwords. That's what there's no questions.

Not that anything would ever happen, but for me, it's just it's easy. You always know where I'm at. It's not like I'm going anywhere crazy, but I just think it's essential. Especially people. But I don't even like check that stuff. You know what I mean?

Like I said, word is different. I need to like grab your phone really fast or call somebody for you or get a number for you or do something like that. Like that's the only reason I have your pass codes. I think it becomes an issue if people are being like, I have to have your pass codes like make it a thing and are weird about it and either owe too overprotective about it and checking everything in their phone. Like that's freaking weird too. Right, right. I think you and I like I said are in a different spot. I think I'm probably talking about the people that are maybe still dating. Maybe they're

dating and they're living together is that and they don't have kids and they don't have the responsibility that we do. I mean if you're living together, you're pretty committed. You're pretty committed, right? So you think so if we were living together, no kids, we were just living together, not married. And you said, hey, can I have your passwords and codes? And if I said, I don't think that's a good idea, that would be a flag. I mean, it depends on what you're saying. It depends on how long you're been together and stuff. And it also depends on the way it's coming about.

There's so many different ways that you can take that. I just think also though, the way today is to with like, you know, security and like, just I'm always worrying and there's just so many crazies out there. I think having our locations on is just essential. I think if you're committed, it shouldn't be such an issue. But I don't want it to be like a, you know, it depends on how somebody's asking.

If they're trying to be like possessive and stuff, then whoa, I got some married friends that are, like us and have kids and everything. And I have talked to them and my guys, and they're like, hell no, I would never allow my wife to have my past. But then again, I have guys saying, yeah, I need her to have it.

I need to go where I'm at, like, I'm a lost soul. I was like, I can't say it's age, they're own, just that we dumb. I just thought that was crazy. Because it's a trending topic right now that people are going back and forth that they're giving each other passwords, which I just don't think it's a big deal personally.

I don't think so either. I feel that committed. And like, if you're living together on, then I think it's all right. Okay, guys, I don't mean to jump around. I know you got a lot to talk about Britney But I just need to get into this because Britney gets me hooked on these freaking shows, right? So we're on this holiday baking show

Yes, I love it and when Britney gets me hooked on something it's like we marathon it and we we go all the Lingo we do we do all the lingo about flooding cookies We know about flooding cookies. We know about flooding cookies and wait, what's the start of the end with the clear glaze? Mirror glaze. Mirror glaze. I mean, we're really, really into it. And Jack's looks at me all the time. I was like, are they gonna flood the cookies? Are they gonna flood the cookies? I don't know. I was like, oh my God, did they over cook? Did they over cook? They look raw in the middle. Like we're nervous whenever they're putting the sugar sculpture on the top of the cakes like we feel like we're there.

You know, I can't really decide what kind of cooking shows I like best. The almost I like the ones that the ones where they're not the best cooks in the world because there's always like accidents and there's always like, oh my God, homebakers. They're still amazing, but they could, you know, I think my least favorite, but still fun to watch is the one that we're watching now just because they're so good And it's like they don't mess up and they're so calm and they're like they don't yeah, and lick the judges They go what are we watching right now? What's the big one we're watching holiday

Championship something. Yeah, it's like it's like where there's three people There's a there's a a baker. There's a designer and then there's like the each sugar Like each each other on the thing and like they're all like I'm not kidding you. They're all so amazing It's so fun to watch at the holidays because it gets you in the spirit It does I mean, you know, and then I let what I cook everything also motion would eat everything But you know what drives me crazy what pisses me off and I started yelling in bed this last night I'm like I turn this crap off and And because these judges are like, well, you know, the icing was a tad like a little bit runny. You're like, these are perfection pieces. Like these are amazing. Like, I don't know, how do they?

Because they're supposed to be that good. And the judges are even better. So they're going to be able to critique you. That's how you get better, babe. You're grading absolute masterpieces. But our favorite cooking show, I think we'll mind is, I don't want to speak for you Is the chocolate one that guy who's amazing designing a chocolate? He's in Vegas. He's absolutely amazing. I can't remember the name of the show, but it's so good you guys need to watch it I think it's a chocolate tier He's a young good looking guy and he's a master creator and I guess so since we are a reality hits podcast right now

We're all too reality baking show We're just obsessed like I said Brittany and I get into these fixes and when they make you happy like there's no like drama involved. The drama is only like oh gosh they dropped a marshmallow. You know it's not like. I know it's not like oh my gosh. She cheated and she smacked him and blah blah blah. She flipped the table. It's just easy drama.

So for those of you that asking the reason I'm saying this is because a lot of you guys are asking like what are we watching during the holidays. So right now of you who've been asking, the reason I'm saying this is because a lot of you guys are asking, what are we watching during the holidays? So right now we're flopping between murder, true tribe and baking. So once we get a lot of murder in there, we're like, we got to get off this. We go to baking. Yeah, I didn't. So we flip flop. We've been doing a lot of Christmas movies too.

Like we increased watch the Grinch a lot. We've watched all the home alone. But I hope everybody had a great time at Thanksgiving. I knew we're going to do our Thanksgiving update this week. It went amazing. I cooked all day long. I cooked everything that we had, except for the turkey.

And I think Kristen brought like a pasta salad and some of our friends brought desserts that were amazing. I'm gonna. Yeah, I cooked all day long. She did, she did. She did. She's all day long.

And I got it, I got to say there was one thing wrong There was one thing wrong what and this is for I don't the first time in my life with Thanksgiving We didn't have any leftovers. Yes, no leftovers nothing We didn't have any left so bad now if you're a guy like me I like to have leftovers for like the next three days You know you mix things up you put things on Hawaiian rolls or whatever. That's the best part about Thanksgiving is the leftovers Right honey? You were also it was also kind of your fault because you were buzzing at the end being like everybody take all the plates Oh, I don't want to keep any of this stuff

Our fridge is too full and then the next day you're so mad that all your leftovers are gone I gave the frickin' pumpkin pie Everybody about this. He's told everybody thatfooters are gone. I gave the frickin' pumpkin pie. He told everybody about this. He told everybody that the left-overs are gone. Well, I'm so mad about the no-ham. And I gave the pumpkin pie to our housekeeper, which I, she deserves it, but I was like, damn, and I should have left myself a piece. I didn't leave myself one piece.

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Let getting dressed be one less thing to worry about. So do we have any hiccups or any draw on Thanksgiving? I thought it went very well. Britney's family was here. Yeah, but I am and my uncle Shannon from Kentucky came with my mom a sister and we were just so happy that they're there. It felt even more like an actual holiday because somebody from my family was there. You know, we have all of our friends and even they were telling me how it's become a tradition for them and that means a lot to me.

It does. It's been amazing. We had one friend actually, I won't say any names. We had one friend that did drink way too much. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. He was, he was just acting a fool. Like his eyes were going one way.

His body was head and the other. I mean, it was something else. We had to send him home and over. Oh my God. Yeah, he was. But yeah, we didn't really have any drama, but I do have a lot of people, Jack's writing in asking if you were a grump and hungover that morning. Because remember last time you were get right to go out with Schwartz.

And you ended up at Colts Schwartz and Sandys with a sand of all and Schwartz. And you said on our podcast last week that you were not going to be hungover shorts and you ended up at Colts, shorts and sandies with uh sand of all and the shworts and you said on our podcast last week that you were not going to be hung over and you were not going to be grumpy. I wasn't over. Guess what folks? He wasn't that bad

but you definitely were grumpy. 1000% in the morning you were grumpy. Well, I'm always grumpy. And then but you promised me you were going to be. I mean, I wasn't grumpy to the fact that we're like it drove you crazy. I was just like ruined by Thanksgiving grumpy, but I was so annoyed in't gonna be. I mean, I wasn't grumpy to the fact that we're, like, it drove you crazy.

I was just so old. No, it didn't ruin my Thanksgiving grumpy, but I was so annoyed in the morning and I kept saying, you promised me that you weren't gonna be at a bad mood. I wasn't in a terrible mood. But listen, you went out and you vacuumed the grass. He did his little yard work

and then he came back and was a whole different person. I swear, like, doing his yard work is what calms you down. I get your mind right and then, like back and was a whole different person. I swear, like doing his yard work is what calms you down. I get your mind right and then like he was fine. Some people, some people, some people hung over for those of you who asked, he was a little booty, but it was just a quick little thing and he did his yard work and he was so happy after that. All right, my turn.

All right, let me tell you what, let me tell you what happened. Some people need to do yoga, some people need to go to the gym, some people who I need to do yard work. It kind of just puts me into my own zen. But now that you can't mo, he literally basically vacuumed the grass.

Because now we have artificial turf in the front and back yard, which by the way, is a life saving for you guys thinking about doing it. In California, it's really good. You should definitely do it. But I was vacuuming the grass, and then I came in and I was okay. But the reason I was hungover is it kind of went unplanned the night before

I planned on going barcrawling with my buddies and I ended up staying in shorts and sandies a little bit longer than I wanted to You know people were asking they saw the pictures that I ran into Tom stand-of-all and then him and I got into a conversation I lasted like 45-50 minutes me Tom and Tom and we. And we kind of just, you know, had a couple drinks and not Tom's in, Santa Bob, by the way, he's sober. But me and Schwartz had a couple drinks. We sat and we chatted and we just kind of caught up a little bit. So people were wondering what's going on there.

They saw the pictures. It was all over the thing. But everything's good. You know, I'm trying to put things behind us. Like I said, it's been almost a year. I think it's time to move on from it. We've all made mistakes in life. Do I agree with what he did?

Absolutely not, but I'm not gonna hang the guy for it. You know what I'm saying? I think it's time to move on. And I think everything's starting to heal. I think they're doing okay. But anyway, it was just nice to see my friends. It was just nice to hang out and have a couple cocktails and enjoy my friends bar because they come to mind.

So that's what happened that night. And yes, I had a couple too many drinks. Couple too many drinks is that. I think just too many drinks. Too many drinks. But he was definitely Moody Marvel. Moody Marvin. Moody Marvin. He was definitely Moody Marvin. Moody mermaid. Yeah, but you're a Marvin. Moody Marvin. I wasn't negative. Ned. I was just a Moody. Oh, negative. Ned. I wasn't negative. Ned. I was Moody. I like listen. He was moody Marvin. And then after the yard work, he was like pretty good. So that was great. Yeah. But it ended up being a good day. We had a lot of amazing people, a lot of great friends over Schwartz was here. Kristen was here.

I know a lot of people were asking who from Vanderpump rules, old and new were here. But yeah, it was fun. A lot of great people came by. But no leftovers. But no leftovers, so that was the only thing. Oh, I did, by the way, I did ask make everyone go around the room. Oh yeah.

I say what they were like, well, because I know I was, I came up with that while we were on the podcast because I know so many families used to do that and I hadn't done that a while. So I definitely made everybody go through and I'm going to continue doing that every single year from here on. Then we went to Disney the other day yesterday, the day before yesterday.

I know everybody was asking me if I saw the striker. No, I didn't see the striker. He was there the day before. I think he was there the day before. Now we went to Disney on Monday and met up Lollol and her mom and brother in Ocean. We had so much fun. It was a lot of fun. I saw it was crazy, guys.

I know a lot of you dads out there always looking for what's the best day to go to amusement parks such as Disney. And I honestly thought I had it all figured out. I was like, I'm really a guy like to go up between Monday and Thursday during the school year. That's kind of usually your window to go. I tell you what. You know what, you didn't think about Jackson. You know what we usually your window to go. Yeah, but you know what? You didn't think about Jackson. You know, we didn't think about Jackson. We didn't think

about that. It was Thanksgiving weekend. And a lot of people might have still been off. Nobody's off the next week. You never know. Some people might extend their vacations and take their kids to this. You know, you know, you know, I mean, clearly, it's, that would happen more than like next Monday. Next Monday might not be as busy as this Monday was. You know Monday was here's the here's the thing I'm saying now Disney is such is crack down No, we are season pass holders, but even being a season pass holder, which I talked about this before we still have to make Reservation to go there and so we obviously made our reservations ago. So I'm like, okay, we're good. We're going on a Tuesday It's a Monday. We're going on Monday. It's right after Thanksgiving, everyone's trying to fly back to where they're from. I figure, okay, it's a good day to go.

It was bananas there, guys. All I saw was just angry dads. I was over here in conversations. I heard this one day. He's like, why do we do this to ourselves? Why? Why? That's what you see when we are, didn't you?

I'm just walking around smiling, like sunshine, butterflies, Mickey Mouse, princesses are walking by. No, I wasn't, I wasn't built that way. Everybody was so happy. I was happy. I didn't tell you this, but I built a different way. In the beginning, when we walked through like the main street area, and there was so many people they were setting up for the parade.

So it was so hard to get your strollers through because then you got like people on those sit-down scooters. And there's like two, if there's two of those beside each other, it's over. You're not getting a stroll or something. And I just, and me, you guys all know me. I'm a realist, right? I walk through it. I'm just like, I just see dads just shaking their heads,

just fuming, just like, you know, in traffic jams with their struggles. I won't even move. It's screaming. And all the moms are just kind of like, duh, duh, duh, duh. I may jacks do the stroll or because I am not aggressive enough, he says, and I'm too polite.

Like I will like anytime I barely test my I'm like sorry sorry sorry and you can't do that It's because you'll never make it to steps. No, if we're busy you got to take the stroller and I'll just apologize to everybody Yes, we're going through I think she says I'm sorry a thousand thousand tons it drives Jack's crazy But that's never gonna go away. I think better be polite then I know I know I know but sometimes you just gotta turn it off when you're in a mission in those amusement parks You just gotta get there. You're gonna you're never gonna be able to ride anything. You're never gonna get a drink You're never gonna eat you're not even gonna be able to use the bathroom That's why I let you push the stroller only whenever we're in a busy crowd

So it wasn't too bad. You know what the best part about it was the last, I want to say the last hour there. We got like four different rides like bam, bam, bam, bam. And now crew is absolutely loved and he's starting to ride the rides and starting to see over the place where actually you can see all the rides. Yeah. And he's starting to get to the point where he's enjoying it. Yeah. He loves it.

People always ask us, you're like, why do you go to music parks when your kid is that young and he's never going to remember? Let me tell you why. because we like to do it. We're gonna remember this. It makes my day, and I know that he loves it too. He is so happy when he's there. The kids absolutely love it. They might not remember it in a couple of years.

I don't care if they don't remember. I'm gonna remember. These are memories for us too, and it's just amazing. And I think make as many memories as you can while we're here. You never know when it's gonna be too late. Let me ask you something. For those of you with that joy life.. Let me ask you something for those of you who've been to Disney What are your thoughts on updating the park a little bit like adding some new rides? Oh, I think that they could definitely You know what I was me and Jackson talking about they need to bring avatar land to the Disney here

They have it at Disney world, but it's like amazing it. I hope they bring it to Disneyland It's so good. Disneyland and they got so much property. I kind of look, I googled it and I saw the property around it. And there is so much space for lots of more rides. They can make the park bigger so that it's not so proud. They're like a frozen castle area. Like there needs to be like a moana area. There's like so many different content.

Like there's so many different ways. I mean, they, they, you know, don't give me a wrong. The other Lion King exit. Like, I feel like Lion King is just like, it's so many different movies I think. I mean, they, you know, don't give me a wrong. The other Lion King exit, like, I feel like a Lion King is just like, I don't even have any good rods for that. I mean, they should just add like, maybe she's just add like an addition onto where like some newer stuff, like it's a small world has been there since my dad was a kid.

Like, you know, I'm saying they need to like, update some stuff, like keep the old stuff. Don't get me wrong for the guys like me and the nostalgia people, but they got to update and for the new young kids coming in They have no idea what it's a small world is sure that they're gonna add to it over the years But it doesn't matter. I forget love it kids love it. It's so fun I was so mad because all these princesses walk past me and I missed it. I missed it

That could have been the cutest boomerang of the cutest little slow motion video with the princesses and their costumes Walk about was so upset. I. Pretty gets so mad at me. She makes me take all the videos, right? And I always forget to save them because she wants to do these real solvety. Oh, yeah. And that's another thing. I'm sure a lot of you moms out there know this,

notice this about yourselves too. I feel like I'm always taking photos of crews and jacks together and there's never any pictures of me and crews together, or any videos of me and crews together. Like I feel like moms always just think of it to take photos of every little thing. Well I do take pictures of you accrues.

I do take pictures of you accrues, but that every time I take a picture, you're like, this sucks, this is awful, this is terrible. I'm like, you know what you're gonna get with me. So it's like, you keep asking me. I'm trying to try and you to be one of those Instagram husbands that are like, whatever you ask them to take take a photo that give you every single angle move a rail Make sure you look good

That's what I want from you. I don't know. But anyway our Disney trip was a success Law law and ocean is so cute with crew. She just like runs and hugs and kisses on him I mean, it's a normal watching them grow up. It is. When reality hits is brought to you by Lightbox Labgrown Diamonds. Oh, I absolutely love the idea of giving labgrown diamonds for gifts. They are absolutely beautiful.

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maybe like to the Disney resort in Hawaii or the Disney to Disney world again, just something fun that we can do with Cruz. I think that we should do that instead of presence because all my family, you know, is going to get crew stuff. So I got a lot of questions and people are asking me like, what does Brittany get you for Christmas? Or what do you ask for for Christmas? And I got to tell you, I'm very blessed. I have everything that I could ever wanted, especially with having Brittany. I have everything in my beautiful son. I have everything that Praveen Brittany. I have everything in my beautiful son. I have everything that I want.

But if there is things that she's looking for, you know, to purchase for me, I always say you can't buy anything off of Amazon. It has to come from Etsy. I like personalized things. I like stuff that says, two dad from Cruz or, you know, it's just cool stuff that like. Well, of course I get that so for every single time.

I like all that kind of stuff. I'm not like thinking the things so anything that's personalized anything that says you know Cruises name on it or whatever anything that comes from Etsy is a sure win for me So that I know you guys were asking me like I got about six or seven questions. What is pretty get you? That's what I love things from Etsy. So there's your question For answer sorry Okay, another thing that we did this Thanksgiving weekend that we might add into like a new little tradition is we took Cruz to the movies to

see trolls. We were we took a chance on this. We were nervous. We were scared it was gonna be busy because it was a Sunday night but it ended up being perfect. There was like not very many people in the theater but Cruz did absolutely amazing. We lasted the entire movie. Yeah, actually, I got it. So cute. I got to be honest, I was more restless than he was. Yeah. You know, he did great. As for the first time going to the movies, like, like, pretty sad, there was six people in the theater. We were at the very, you know, front row. He did great. He sat in the seat and then he got up a couple times and just got to the

edge and watched over. We went and saw trolls trolls which by the way is a very cute movie. It's so cute. But what I can't thank it was it was so funny. I was like, I looked at Jackson next day and I was like, you know what? We were at trolls with crews and one of the trolls married us. That's true. Because they used all of, um, in sync music and they had like lancin all the income. So lancin's vast. Vass of course is one of the trolls and one of the in sync voices. Yeah they also married us. Yeah so we took our son to see him. That's very very cool but yeah it was a cool I can't tell you the last time I personally I know you have but I haven't been to the movies since the Lion King. That's the last time I've been to the movies. Yeah we all went to the Lion King together I think it was like me, you, Katie, Tom, they were still married. I mean it was a long time ago. Whenever the Lion King came out. Yeah we went to the line came together. I think it was like me, you Katie, Tom, they're still very good. It was a long time ago. Whenever the

Lion King came out, we went to solve, see that. And then I went to see the little mermaid was that and that was the last time I've been to the East. It's so fun. Is it a dying thing? Are people not going to the movies? I wanted to wanted to say we want to add this to do our tradition because I feel like well definitely since COVID I feel like it changed the way people went to the movies, but it is so much fun going back and I really enjoy it. We should do it more often. You know, I remember going to, by the way, Happy 33rd birthday to my one of my ultimate favorite Christmas movies, Home Alone, 33rd, the other day. And I remember going to the movie theaters to see Home Alone when it first came out. AMC. Hey, this is only two.

Yeah, AMC, I remember. I went and saw Home Alone with my family. I was like one and a half or two years old when that came out. AMC. Hey, this is only two. Yeah, AMC, I remember. I went and saw him along with my family. I was like one and a half or two years old when that came out. I wasn't even two. I would have been two the January after. For those of you that live in Michigan. And you remember. For those of you that live in Michigan,

I went to AMC in Sterling Heights, right across, right across from the old lakeside mall. I say old because they're tearing down my mall. I found out. Oh my gosh. My favorite mall growing up where I lived as a kid. It is finally closing. My sister, I'm sorry, I'm going to add a rant on this,

but my sister texted me. She walked through it. It was like a graveyard. It was so sad that they're closing down. I know. My childhood mall, malls are a dead, a dying thing. I think I was like my movie theater too. I think it was a you see we have it behind

it was behind people in my hometown of Winchester. But malls it was it was awesome that going on dates to the movies and everything else like yeah that's why I say we need to go to the movies more. Right yeah but I'm saying malls I'm saying malls like I just it's such a sad thing. I feel like we talked about malls for the past three podcasts. No we have it it's like it's again it's one of those things that's trending on Instagram right now that people are no longer going talked about malls for the past three podcasts. No, we have it. It's like, again, it's one of those things that's trending on Instagram right now that people are no longer going to the malls and they're turning them into like condos and stuff. And it's just so sad. I know it is sad, but going back to the movie theater, like, that was always the best dates.

Remember how like, you would have the biggest butterflies in your stuff. Whenever you went on a movie date, and you would feel like you were going to just, going to to the whole time. Oh yeah. Your stuff was turning. I remember those dates. I remember one time I went on a date to the movies. I thought I was so cool.

I had a Tommy Hill figure t-shirt on. A Tommy Hill figure book it had. And I had a hair wrap. You know how girls would go to the beach and they would get like the thread wrapped around their hair. All the way down to different colors. I'll never forget that. I thought I was so cool going on a little date.

I remember going to see Titanic with my girlfriend. Yeah, three hour movie. I have gosh, I was probably very young. When did Titanic come out? Oh, I need to know. But it was just it was. You remember you were on a date. I was probably like four.

Yeah, it was. It was interesting, but I missed those days. So yeah, he did really good. He did really good at the movie theaters. We're very proud of him. So yeah, oh guys, by the way, side note, our merch is finally up. It'll be updated this week for the number one, the number one guy in the group. Second generation look is coming up this week. And and Britney's Mammoth beer cheese. the number one guy in the group. Second generation look is coming up this week. Beard cheese and... And, Britney's Mammoth Beard cheese.

It's gonna be extra comfy sweat. I made sure these sweatshirts guys are super comfy. So get them like an XXL, so you can wear them to bed, you can wear them watching movies. Yeah, the Mammoth Beard cheese logo and the second generation number one guy in the group is coming up along with beanies, beer mugs, shot glasses, ash trays. I got bomber

jackets, car heart jackets, hoodies, t-shirts, I got everything going up. It'll should be all up by the end of the week. Yeah, Jack's never missed an opportunity to put ads out there. Well, hey, no, people, it's holiday shopping time. Yeah, I love the presents for sure. And right now, like, for some reason, merch is such a big deal right now. Nobody's wearing like Nike and Adidas anymore. People are wearing their favorite reality stars merch,

or their favorite TV shows merch. It's a big thing now. So why not? Support your local reality stars, whoever it may be. All right, well, since you're not talking, I'm gonna say my next biggest thing. Anyway, guys, here's another thing. It's a little bit further out.

I'm going to Nashville, December 9th. I will be judging the sexy Santa contest. That's right. That's right. That rolls our guys dressed up. It's supposed to be a cowgirl Christmas. Oh, okay. Oh, I didn't know all this.

I didn't know it was going to be a competition now. Well, that, and then I'm going to be... I'm going to be coming to Nashville, y'all. I will be riding the bull. I will be judging the beer pong contest. Oh gonna be at Nashville live it's gonna be at the draft Kings PBR bar sports and social I cannot wait for this I'm really excited I mean I've been to the PBR bar before in Vegas because Kara used to work there and we had the best time so I'm super excited to come to Nashville

December 9th make sure you guys are all there I can't wait to meet you all I'm super excited to come to Nashville December 9th. Make sure you guys are all there. I can't wait to meet you all I'm super excited to come to Nashville. I know he's gonna be a Cincinnati and then Nashville Mom is gonna get some a long time to So when we're gonna answer a couple questions from you guys before we go Thanks as always for riding in we really appreciate it. All right. This is from Rachel babe Did Jack's really tip his tooth on a corona in interviews for VPR? Is that a rumor? Yeah, yeah, that is true. That is true. Wow, wow. Like that's crazy that

you remember that. I was wondering if you could remember because I had no idea what they were talking about. So I thought it was going to just be a random question. Let me tell you, let me give you a little backstory on this. So they offer us liquor during these interviews. You know, during the interview times, there is liquor on set. And the boys, when I say boys, Tom and Tom always had cases of beer. Always had cases of beer by the chair.

And the girls would have wine or whatever. I was never a big drinker, never, never. But there was a couple interviews, as you guys know, where I was incredibly stressed, emotional, things I did not want to talk about. So yeah, there was a couple times where I had to drink a corona or two and there was one time before I got my beautiful veneers. Thank you, Tyler.

Dr. Tyler, for Orange County. Before I got my beautiful veneers, I did chip my tooth on a corona. That's crazy that this person remembers this, but wow, good memory. So yes, that did happen. Yes. Okay. This is from Sam 26, Sam 26. How would you celebrate Christmas Eve and Christmas morning? So we go to Kentucky every year for Christmas. Christmas Eve, we all go to Maimol's house. My whole family does. We wear ugly Christmas sweaters normally. We all exchange

gifts with one person that we drew. And then we all bring a gift in and play dirty Santa. It's like my favorite part of the whole thing because my family is so like country and funny and just the stuff that we bring. Everybody cracks up all night. Isn't that like one of the best part? It is, it's a lot of fun.

And for those of you saying, why are you talking to people you go to Kentucky, we have a family that stays at our house over the holidays. Okay, but anyway, just so you guys know, but yes, going to Kentucky is my absolute favorite thing. I we're actually been talking about it now for the last week. Sherry, Brittany's mother's been calling us non-stop every day, asking about presence. Mainly, she was she get for crew.

Mainly asking, trying to give us hints of what she wants. Yeah, my mom loves presents. She loves, but yeah, which is cool as you guys know, if you guys have followed us for a long time, that her whole family lives on the farm. So what we do is we kind of jump from house to house to house. Yes. We start out at Mammoths and then we kind of work our way to your aunt's house.

Christmas Eve is always at Mammoths no matter what. And then we go, we'll start by my aunt's, maybe she will live on this. Well, let's give it a real story. So Christmas Eve is always at Mammoths. There's a ton of people at Mammoths. And as you guys all know, Mammoth doesn't really allow drinking.

So what we do is we go to, we run the Ant Kim's house, which is right next door in the bitter cold. We go get licked up and then we come back to Mammoths. We finish it up there. Then we go home at Mammoth. At Mammoth. Then we wake up that morning. It's down the street.

We got to drive down the street to, which is the farthest we have to go, which is to Brittany's father's house. We have this huge breakfast and we open up gifts. We always have breakfast and my dad's with my younger brothers. We have three brothers, a sister, all the Nases nephews and my dad and my stepmom Linda. We have matching pajamas and Linda, which is Brittany's stepmother makes this wonderful breakfast,

fresh eggs and everything. It's just amazing Every year same thing then we all we all go into the living room and we all have food comment We all take naps and we watch like Christmas movies and home videos and we watch All the kids like pass out the presents and we all open our presents and then Then we get Dressed up and change outfits and then we go have Christmas at Mom's house. Everybody comes up to Mom's house

and then it's time for us to open presents. Mom is so funny. Let's tell her how Sherry does Christmas. Mom is so funny when it comes to opening presents. So she wants everybody to see everybody's gift. So everybody has to open their presents individually. And then my mom has to be last. and then we all watch my mom open her presence And she takes forever to open the present. She smokes up every single moment. It's the cutest thing ever. You literally

You literally think you're watching what is like the home shopping network because she not only opens the gift Then she displays it for everybody to see whether it's a lipstick or it's a boot or it's a dress, she literally shows it. And mind you, she's showing this to. I love this. And mind you, she's showing nephews who can care less. Like, these guys are just like, I want to go play with my toys.

They're like 16 and 18 and personally, it's like six and they're all like, okay, we want to play. But I tell you why. So cute, I love it. I love it. But it's so fun. It's so fun.

It's so fun. And my mom doing that every year is like as stifles will. Like it, we all know it's coming. We all have a good time. It's amazing. But yeah, that's what our Christmas Eve and Christmas Eve is. And she ain't shy about telling us what she wants. She loves her presents.

That's what our plans are. And they have been the same for years and years and years. So I absolutely love that. Okay. This is a question for Jackson from Impact Zoza. Love seeing Nebraska Husker fans at your bar. Any tie there for you guys. I think Jackson's free. Any tie with Nebraska.

Yeah. So when I opened up this bar, the reason how I got this bar is from my good friend Dave, who was in my wedding, if you guys watched the show, Dave, he is in Nebraska and alumni. And there is the show, Dave, he is a Nebraska alumni. And there is a lot of alumni here from Nebraska. And he asked me specifically, say, hey, Jack,

when you open this bar, can we do an Alaska, I'm sorry, Alaska, can we do a Nebraska alumni for a college? And I was like, yeah, absolutely. So yeah, I would have been game for anybody, but like I said, Dave's my good friend and he wanted to have the Nebraska college games there, college games there and that's how that went. And it's actually been really, really good.

It's been packed every, every Sunday or sorry, Saturday. It's been really, really good. By the way, karaoke is killing it for everybody wanted to know. We're having so much fun doing that. By the way, a lot of you been asking to in my notes. After the new year, we are going to start doing the live podcast. We are going to start doing the trivia nights. We just kind of want to get over over the holidays first and then we'll be laying

into that. So those are you asking I've gotten like at least 20 questions about the live podcast and who we're going to be having. That'll all be announced after the new year and we'll get into that. So thank you guys for asking. I cannot wait to have you guys in the room. All right. One last question before we go. How is Kristen? I really love your friendship. Kristen of course is going as having a hard time right now, but she's strong, she's gonna be okay. You know, I'm here for her, she needs anything, and obviously I love her so much.

So just everybody's in a prayer for her and sit there all the good you do, and I think things will work out for her the way that they're meant to be. And I just love her to pieces. All right, thank you guys so much. I hope everybody has an amazing week. We'll see you guys next week.

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