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boboballew: yeah dude yeah nice yo
Jack Gardner: We are back. It has been quite some time here.
boboballew: yo
Jack Gardner: ah
boboballew: July fourteenth It looks like we recorded an episode July 7th of last year as well. So we probably backlogged like twice in like the end of June or something.
Jack Gardner: Oh, yeah. Yeah, something like that. But it's been a while. It's been almost a year. It's it's kind of funny. We used to do this like... I feel like we would kind of beat ourselves up if we didn't have one going out every single week.
boboballew: we were doing, i mean...
Jack Gardner: And now it's like, if we can get two out a year, we're we're pretty happy with it.
boboballew: Dude, I mean, because listen to this.
Jack Gardner: yeah
boboballew: So July 2025, we did July 14th, July 7th. the episode The last episode we did before that was May 29th, 2024.
boboballew: And then we did one early in May. And then 2024 is kind of when we really drop off, like March, February, February. like we we're doing a couple and then we like November 2023 before that so 2023 is probably like the beginning of like the real drop off but there was a while where we were like as consistent as you can be.
Jack Gardner: Yeah, I mean, it was during COVID.
boboballew: It
Jack Gardner: It was I guess there was just nothing else to do. And this was so funny whenever we first did it. Just the idea of it.
boboballew: it was the best like it really also I think got you and I in the habit of like talking regularly.
Jack Gardner: Yeah, yeah, that's what's been great. I mean, I feel like we were already talking on the phone a fair amount, which we still do. um But it's just nice to have like a scheduled time to actually sit down. And there is something about kind of looking at each other when you're talking.
boboballew: It's like a different experience.
Jack Gardner: That's a little bit.
boboballew: Like I saw your like, this is like the first time I've like seen you since your wedding and I saw your hand and I saw the wedding ring.
Jack Gardner: Yeah.
boboballew: I was like, Whoa, I forgot about the.
Jack Gardner: Oh, yeah.
boboballew: ring ah
Jack Gardner: Yeah, I was so uncomfortable wearing it initially, but I'm like completely...
boboballew: Do you feel used to it now? I'd imagine so. Right.
Jack Gardner: It feels weird not wearing it now. It's like if you wear a watch every day or something, you just get so like...
boboballew: Oh, sure. You're like your hand feels like naked or something.
Jack Gardner: Yeah, yeah, it does. It's kind of funny, but yeah.
boboballew: So should we let the users know how we find found ourselves in a position where we both had time to do a podcast this week?
Jack Gardner: Yeah, sure. Do you want to you want to give your spiel first and then I'll go?
boboballew: ah Your boy got laid off, baby.
Jack Gardner: I wish I had an air horn sound effect. I should have prepared that beforehand.
boboballew: Yeah, that was pretty good. That was kind of sick.
Jack Gardner: I need to, if we do this more, I need to just start like getting out a sound board.
boboballew: Yeah.
Jack Gardner: We can talk through it and I can have, cause you can, do you see them at the top there, the different sound effects or is that only on my end?
boboballew: I think that's only on your end.
Jack Gardner: Oh yeah. I'm a, I'm the ah producer, I guess.
boboballew: Yeah, oh, for sure. And then Jack, Jack has better news than I for his time.
Jack Gardner: Yeah, I just got a new job, so I have ah a week off from work here. But here we are. It takes it takes unemployment across the board for us to be able to make a podcast.
boboballew: Podcasting, baby. you yeah You know, what's pretty cool on today, you and I are full time podcasters.
Jack Gardner: True. Yeah.
boboballew: It feels pretty cool.
Jack Gardner: Yeah. So you just got back from Europe two days ago.
boboballew: Yeah, I got back on Sunday.
Jack Gardner: Is that right?
boboballew: Today is Wednesday, the 25th. I got back on Sunday.
Jack Gardner: Nice. Are you jet lagged still?
boboballew: I've been waking up at like six in the morning.
Jack Gardner: Okay. I just still, I was just going to say, I remember when I came back to New York, whenever I was on that really long trip, last time i was in between jobs and I came back, I actually flew from Turkey, oddly enough to New York.
boboballew: But I've been like, sorry.
boboballew: Yeah, yeah.
Jack Gardner: And I was like, sleep.
boboballew: um What were you doing in Turkey, huh?
Jack Gardner: to Yeah. Check it out.
boboballew: yeah
Jack Gardner: just have The most beautiful hairline. Um,
boboballew: You kind of did it before that became like a thing. Like at the time when you were there, I didn't think anything of like, oh, Jackson, Turkey.
Jack Gardner: Well, you know, it's.
Jack Gardner: Well, I didn't really know what a hair transplant looked like, but I saw people who had that done like in the Turkey airport.
boboballew: Like on your flight. yeah
Jack Gardner: Yeah. So it's like, I don't know why it's it's interesting that that country just has such a stranglehold on.
boboballew: That rules.
boboballew: Because it's so cheap.
Jack Gardner: On hair transplants, I guess.
boboballew: Like, because I think that's why people go because they do the operation.
Jack Gardner: Yeah.
boboballew: I guess it's like smart for like the economy to be like, we do this one thing that like, people weren't really like, it's cheaper to do it there, like literally fly to Turkey and like get a hotel and like do a surgery than it would be because I don't imagine health insurance here covers it.
Jack Gardner: Yeah, Ireland's got potatoes. Turkey has hair transplants. I guess Ireland doesn't have potatoes, or they didn't at one point was was the problem.
boboballew: Um,
boboballew: They had a they don't they had a little bit of a dry spell, but I think they're back.
Jack Gardner: God, imagine being known for potatoes and then just not having any.
boboballew: Dude.
Jack Gardner: That'd suck.
boboballew: So, um so you were saying you were fine from
Jack Gardner: I just remember being like unbelievably jet lagged because I think I didn't sleep at all the night before. And then I believe I landed in New York around like 11 a.m.
boboballew: It was like, ah because we like hung that day.
Jack Gardner: or something. And then we just like went out and we're like going all over the city all day. and then Bo likes to say that I was falling asleep at the bar or I fell asleep at the bar at like 10 o'clock.
boboballew: hmm.
boboballew: You totally were.
Jack Gardner: I don't think I actually fell asleep, but it was it was.
boboballew: Dog, you were out.
Jack Gardner: yeah ah It was time to go. I couldn't believe I made it that far because I showed up and i was like, yeah.
boboballew: Oh, because my roommates were there too. And we all looked at you we were like, we should go back. This this guy needs to sleep.
Jack Gardner: I was surprised I rallied that far. I mean, we were out for a good like 12
boboballew: It was impressive. I mean, i feel like it's also kind of one of those things too. Like, I mean, I was just in Europe for two and a half weeks and it's like, I feel like when you're kind of on the go like that, your body kind of like rises to the occasion a little bit. Like, obviously you do need sleep and stuff and you very much like did and needed it.
boboballew: But, um, I do think your body's kind of like, Oh, okay.
Jack Gardner: Yeah, well, if you get to new place and like in this case, I hadn't seen you in a really long time and I was just really, what a dude, you're getting blown up.
boboballew: Yeah. Like,
boboballew: No, because I was part of Oh, yeah, let me put my phone and do not disturb.
Jack Gardner: right ah Dude, the fans.
boboballew: I didn't realize. um This is why I keep it in D&D all the time. um
Jack Gardner: Yeah, makes sense.
boboballew: But, ah but I was like a big part of that trip. Weirdly, I remember because I saw you like two or three times like, because I remember when you went to Europe, like, you called me and you were like, Hey, I'm like in Newark for the night.
Jack Gardner: Yeah, yeah.
boboballew: And then like, and
Jack Gardner: ah Yeah, my flight got like something weird happened with my flight.
boboballew: yeah,
Jack Gardner: So I had to stay in Newark. That was awesome.
boboballew: And I was like, I was like at the movies or something. I stepped out and I was like, dog, I'll see you in a week.
Jack Gardner: yeah.
boboballew: If if that was like the only chance I'd have figured out going to Newark. But I was like, but because you like went to Europe for however long.
Jack Gardner: yeah
boboballew: Was that trip like a month, six weeks total?
Jack Gardner: Dude, it was it was crazy.
boboballew: Something like that.
Jack Gardner: like there were some There was a period of time I went home, but I was like pretty much gone for like two months um because I went to...
boboballew: Yeah, it was a long time.
Jack Gardner: i can't remember the order. I think I start yeah i started in Europe. I went to Greece and then Malta and then New York City and then Puerto Rico and then Buffalo.
boboballew: Yes.
Jack Gardner: And then I went home to um to Dallas for like... a week or something. And then I went to San Diego. It was crazy.
boboballew: Oh, yeah, you went to the West Coast, too, because when you we were in Buffalo, it wasn't for the bachelor party. it was the wedding proper. Correct. Is that the timeline and so you went to like the West Coast and probably soon after went back to Buffalo.
Jack Gardner: No, I think it was the bachelor party.
Jack Gardner: Yeah, I think I don't remember when his wedding was.
boboballew: Because I remember that summer being like, I kind of like saw you a lot.
Jack Gardner: Yeah, we did. We definitely hung out a lot.
boboballew: Yeah.
Jack Gardner: it was a good summer, man.
boboballew: there were Yeah.
Jack Gardner: Those were simpler times. That was like the the prime of TalkSauce, too.
boboballew: Totally, dude. That was also this.
Jack Gardner: TalkSauce was huge. We had dozens of listeners.
boboballew: Yeah.
Jack Gardner: Now we have a handful, if that.
boboballew: yeah Yeah, that was definitely peak talk sauce when we were like posting on Instagram about it and stuff. um
Jack Gardner: Yeah.
boboballew: But I it was so weird, like this trip to Europe, because I don't sleep in like in my life anymore.
Jack Gardner: But...
Jack Gardner: Mm-hmm.
boboballew: And I got to Europe and I was sleeping until 10, 1030 every day. Like I was like, I don't need set an alarm. I'll wake up at like 830. I'm in Europe and I woke I was waking up for like 1030 in the morning.
Jack Gardner: Yeah, well, I mean, it's just you're used to being six hours behind.
boboballew: Well, the the also the funny thing was also like, because the daylight savings and stuff, they hadn't done it yet.
Jack Gardner: Five hours.
boboballew: Like the time difference between New York and London right now is four hours.
Jack Gardner: Yeah.
Jack Gardner: but Oh, yeah. I guess they just did it.
boboballew: And like continental Europe's like five. Maybe they've done it since I've been back. But like it was, it was like much closer than like, oh yeah, because you, yeah, right.
Jack Gardner: That's actually crazy. Yeah, it's kind of funny. They do it two weeks after. That was always a thing at work because I have so many meetings with British people. And then all of our count all of the calendar invites get like messed up for two weeks.
boboballew: It's weird that it's not like one of those things that like the whole world has like agreed upon.
Jack Gardner: its says
Jack Gardner: It's weird that they also do it, but not at the same time.
boboballew: Yeah, i
Jack Gardner: i wonder i wonder who decided to defy the other. I just know we have that groundhog and he's involved somehow.
boboballew: Oh, of course.
Jack Gardner: I'm not sure exactly how.
boboballew: Punxsutawney Phil.
Jack Gardner: Yeah, fucks it to honey fill.
boboballew: Yeah.
Jack Gardner: He plays a role. I think he might be a different season, but it comes into play.
boboballew: de Do you think they have um like a Groundhog Day type holiday in like the UK, but it's like even like weirder than ours? like What would be like the the British version of a groundhog?
boboballew: like What's like...
Jack Gardner: I feel like they don't have animals.
boboballew: um
Jack Gardner: I can't even think of a British animal.
boboballew: ah Mammals native to England.
Jack Gardner: England has like literally no animals there.
boboballew: Yeah, it's a very strange place. I do like it a lot. Let's see. um List of mammals in Great Britain. All right, let's figure this out. We should move to Britain and start this holiday. um Rodents.
boboballew: um
Jack Gardner: It needs to be a rodent, I think.
boboballew: Is a groundhog a rodent, would you say?
Jack Gardner: Let me google it.
boboballew: Beavers, hamsters, mice.
Jack Gardner: It might just be a beaver, dude.
boboballew: Beaver could be fun.
Jack Gardner: i kind of think it's a beaver.
boboballew: Yeah, beaver could be. I kind of do as well. um Because beavers are like kind of cute. you know I get it.
Jack Gardner: Is it like if they grab the stick to put on their home?
boboballew: Yeah, yeah. What would it be?
Jack Gardner: Depending on the stick they grab, it like the season continues?
boboballew: if
boboballew: Yeah, if they grab a stick with a leaf on it, then spring is coming.
Jack Gardner: Yeah, yeah. and ah Okay, I like that. We could go and do that.
boboballew: What? Um...
Jack Gardner: I don't think the European mind could comprehend Groundhog Day. My younger brother, actually, he and his friend went to Puxitani and witnessed the Groundhog
boboballew: How far away were they? Like that, like.
Jack Gardner: and it was ah I think it was one of those things that they just started talking about it as a bit. And then it just eventually became like, who's going to back down first? And then neither of them backed down and they ended up flying out there and then like driving and then driving two hours from the the Pittsburgh airport.
Jack Gardner: And it was like...
boboballew: Because it's in the middle of Pennsylvania somewhere, right?
Jack Gardner: Yeah, like it's it's a couple hour drive, I think, from Pittsburgh.
boboballew: Like.
boboballew: Dog, that's so funny.
Jack Gardner: And then, and it was freezing cold outside. Like there was like record setting and cold, I think.
boboballew: Of course.
Jack Gardner: And it's so funny because I guess winter got extended that year or this year.
boboballew: Yeah.
Jack Gardner: Like he stayed down. um And they, people are like, oh, come on, no But they start yelling at him what if he stays under for winter.
Jack Gardner: It's pretty hilarious.
boboballew: Oh, really?
Jack Gardner: Yeah, they have videos of it. It's so funny.
boboballew: That is so funny.
Jack Gardner: But he was like, yeah, I think that's fun time thing.
boboballew: I wonder like how this whole thing kind of started.
Jack Gardner: I thought was the Bill Murray movie.
boboballew: No, Groundhog Day existed before the movie.
Jack Gardner: and I'm joking.
boboballew: Yeah. I'm joking.
Jack Gardner: Yeah.
boboballew: But i've been I've been waking up at like 6 a.m., all that to say.
Jack Gardner: um
Jack Gardner: yeah
boboballew: I've been like i've been like kind of jet lagged in like a weird way in a way that I didn't expect to. Like I went to bed at like 12.30 last night being like, all right, I'll sleep until like 8. And I woke up at 6.15.
boboballew: I was like, I'm going to freak the fuck out.
Jack Gardner: Yeah. So will you talk me through you're your trip?
boboballew: Yeah.
Jack Gardner: Like where you went?
boboballew: So I left on Thursday, March 5th at night. I lost my job Thursday, March 5th in the morning. So I, I literally got, like well, cause it was like a whole thing with my job, this like trip.
Jack Gardner: Yeah, I remember I talked to you.
Jack Gardner: yeah
boboballew: And then it just was like, I finally felt like I got through the weeds. It's like, it's fine. And then the the day I left for this trip, they were like, Hey, actually like you're being let go.
Jack Gardner: It's crazy they did it the day of.
boboballew: Um, Yeah, like I mean, it's pretty indicative of that company, I think, anyways, just like kind of messy, whatever.
Jack Gardner: Yeah, yeah.
boboballew: um So I was in London for a couple of days, and the highlight of London was I went to an all-female wrestling promotions version of WrestleMania.
boboballew: And that was like, it was so awesome, dude.
Jack Gardner: That's awesome.
Jack Gardner: I think I saw...
boboballew: Yeah.
Jack Gardner: did i Did you post about it on your Instagram?
boboballew: I did post something about it.
Jack Gardner: I think I saw a video of it.
boboballew: I tried to make like some piece of bullshit content everywhere. i went just because. So I went to London and then I went to Paris and I was in Paris like four days. And then after Paris, I went to Amsterdam. But we took a train through Belgium and I stepped out of the train in Brussels and like walked around for a minute. So I'm also counting Belgium as like a country I've been to now.
Jack Gardner: ah nice ah
boboballew: um And then I went to Amsterdam. And up until this point, all the cities we went to, I'd been to already. um And then after Amsterdam, we went to Berlin, which was awesome. It was so sick.
boboballew: And then from Berlin, we went to Prague.
Jack Gardner: Wow. How is Prague?
boboballew: Yeah. Dude, Prague, me and my buddy that I went with to do shows we were talking about, we were like, Prague is kind of functionally like Europe's version of like a Branson, Missouri.
boboballew: Like some like kind of, you know what i mean? Like it just like attracted like trashy like British people who were like drunk. It's like a party town like where people are just like getting wasted.
Jack Gardner: Oh, really?
boboballew: But it's like instead of like Dolly Parton's Dixie Stampede and things like that, it's just like medieval castles and stuff.
Jack Gardner: Yeah, the architecture there, is I've always thought it so cool.
boboballew: It's a gorgeous city, but you like walk around and you're just like, oh, this is like just like a pure like kind of kitschy touristy spot for people in Europe, you know?
Jack Gardner: Yeah.
boboballew: Like, I mean, it's definitely cooler than Branson, Missouri, but we're like, it kind of functionally serves like the same purpose.
Jack Gardner: Okay.
Jack Gardner: ah It's like medieval Branson, Missouri.
boboballew: Yeah, it's like functionally kind of like, we're like, oh, Europe kind of just has like things like this too, you know, where people like,
Jack Gardner: Okay.
boboballew: Like it was very interesting, but it was very cool. Prague. I was they have these things called traduncles, which are like ice cream cones, but the cone is made out of a donut.
Jack Gardner: I've got to look it up.
boboballew: And it T R D E N K L E N D.
Jack Gardner: T-R...
Jack Gardner: Tr...
boboballew: Tredinkle, Treduncle, something like that.
Jack Gardner: Tridelken?
boboballew: Tredelkin, maybe it's like an ice cream cone, but the cone is made from a donut.
Jack Gardner: Tridunken? It's not a turdunken. Turducken.
boboballew: It's her ducat. They have Prague ice cream cone.
Jack Gardner: That's like...
boboballew: um
boboballew: T-R-D-E-L-N-I-C-K.
Jack Gardner: Oh, okay. I got it, I got it, I got it. Yeah, that that is not a way that we would spell a word.
boboballew: No, no.
Jack Gardner: why
boboballew: you get You get further east.
Jack Gardner: Oh yeah, that looks pretty damn good. Back
boboballew: Dog-Eye, two of them. It was awesome. They also... out there
Jack Gardner: to back or at two different times?
boboballew: There's two different times. There's also Hooters in Prague. I went to a Hooters.
Jack Gardner: Really?
boboballew: Yeah, because was like, this is probably the last chance I'll ever have to go to a Hooters. So I went to a Hooters and bought a t-shirt.
Jack Gardner: Yeah, you got like it's kind of hard... going to Europe and not being able to go to Hooters. That's why every time I'm over there, I'm like, God dang, I wish I could go to a Hooter.
boboballew: yeah
Jack Gardner: So it's nice and that they they offer that.
boboballew: But they're all They're all, like, closing here. So was like, I'll never get to go to Hooters again. So I, like, wasn't hungry, but I was like...
Jack Gardner: Are they all like, they're going out of business?
boboballew: that Yeah, I believe so. They went bankrupt. So even like over there, they're probably about to close.
Jack Gardner: I always thought the Hooters business model is weird. i should it I just don't get it.
boboballew: was.
Jack Gardner: I feel like you keep those things separately.
boboballew: it hit It hit pretty different this time in like a strange way. like They had like like posters on the wall that were cautions, blondes thinking. was like, oh, yeah, sure. Okay, this was like the whole thing, wasn't it?
boboballew: But I bought a t-shirt.
Jack Gardner: Yeah.
boboballew: It's pretty cool.
Jack Gardner: That's pretty cool. I just Googled Hooters and the first thing that came up was a YouTube video that said the rise and fall of Hooters.
boboballew: Hooters Prague.
Jack Gardner: That's when you know it's bad.
boboballew: Yeah, the... I know the rise of all era, but so I was like, I gotta go in and it was just as weird as I kind of remembered it being.
Jack Gardner: There's a YouTube documentary on on your downfall.
boboballew: Um, but I was glad I went in, you know,
Jack Gardner: Yeah.
Jack Gardner: Nice, dude. Well, that's cool. I'm glad you had a good time, but I didn't realize you were going to all those places and you were telling me previously and was like, dang, and you said you did a bunch of shows while you were there, right?
boboballew: it was really great.
boboballew: Yeah. We did a lot of standup, which was really cool.
Jack Gardner: That's so fun.
boboballew: I felt like I was gone for like a year. Like I came back and i was like, oh my God, like I feel like a different person. You know what I mean?
Jack Gardner: Yeah. Well, it's kind of funny. I feel like you and I talked right before you left and then a lot of stuff changed with my life too. So you came back and I was like, a lot of, lot of stuff's happened.
boboballew: because it felt like things were like moving in that direction for you as far as like like those kinds of changes and stuff.
Jack Gardner: Yeah, yeah.
boboballew: Um, and then like, I came back and you were like, Hey, everything kind of happened. You know, it was like, things were still kind of up in the air before I left.
Jack Gardner: Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it was in flux.
boboballew: Yeah.
Jack Gardner: um Yeah, that was nice though. But dude, since I've been just at home, not working, I've been just doing so many like random errands that stuff that was like on the back of my mind that I hadn't gotten done.
boboballew: Like what?
Jack Gardner: So I'm a big not get my car inspection done guy because I've literally my entire time I've lived in Austin and I've never been pulled over a single time um in Austin.
boboballew: For that or generally?
Jack Gardner: Just generally, I've never been pulled over in Austin.
boboballew: Are you serious?
Jack Gardner: Yeah, I swear they don't. really enforce traffic laws. i like, you never see people getting pulled over here. It's interesting. Um, I don't do anything crazy, but I definitely like speed a lot, like not nothing crazy, but I'm like, you would have thought I would have gotten pulled over at least once.
boboballew: Of course. Yeah, for sure.
boboballew: Yeah, you might be going 10, 15 over on a highway sometimes.
Jack Gardner: Um, Yeah. Yeah. You know, 10, 15, 20, 25, you know, 30.
boboballew: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Jack Gardner: But I had my inspection was expired for the longest time and I'm going to have to go into the office for my new job.
boboballew: Mm-hmm.
Jack Gardner: was like, I need to get my inspection done. So I went to um get my, so actually before this, my engine light was on because there was like some valve or something that like wasn't doing anything serious, but it,
Jack Gardner: for some reason had to get fixed before I got my inspection done. So I took my car there, got that fixed and I went to get my inspection done.
boboballew: Mm-hmm.
boboballew: Yeah.
Jack Gardner: And then when I go, they were like, Hey, you can't do your inspection this soon after having your check engine light on because it reads that it has the same error that it had previously.
Jack Gardner: So I had to leave.
boboballew: Oh.
Jack Gardner: And then they were like, you have to drive for a couple of hours. So I left and then I came back the next day and I got my car inspected again. and then it passed that time. And then i went home. And i was like, all right, sweet. I can just go online and get it renewed. But since it was over a year since I have renewed it previously, they wouldn't let me do it there. And you can usually do it H-E-B, but I couldn't do it there either.
Jack Gardner: So I went to um the tax office and got it done today. And then it it actually didn't take that long, which I was telling you earlier. i was We were talking about doing this, and I was like going to any government appointment.
Jack Gardner: I just assume it's going to take...
boboballew: Yeah, you were like, I'm here for the long haul for sure.
Jack Gardner: Yeah. I'm like, I'm planning to be here all day. And then if anything else happens, but I was only there like 20 minutes. And then I went to, um, got my car washed. I got it.
Jack Gardner: Like it's the most, I would i paid a fricking a hundred bucks for this car wash. It was kind of absurd, but it was like, I got it it detailed, which,
boboballew: So you got like a really good car wash. Yeah.
Jack Gardner: They call it a mini detail. I guess like full details are even more expensive than that. But they like got in, they like blew air out on on everything. And then they got in the cup holders, like in all the crevices and stuff.
Jack Gardner: and And then my seats are leather.
boboballew: Oh, nice.
Jack Gardner: So they like shampooed the seats and stuff.
boboballew: oh
Jack Gardner: And my car looks so good.
boboballew: Oh.
Jack Gardner: I'm like, damn, this is.
boboballew: It like probably looks like new, kinda.
Jack Gardner: Yeah, I mean, I hadn't gotten it washed in so long. Like I can't even tell you the last time I got my car washed.
boboballew: What?
boboballew: um How often are you supposed to get your car inspected and doing all that stuff you did today?
Jack Gardner: Every year. Well, they actually changed it recently um in Texas to where you don't have to have the full vehicle inspection, but you have to get. So they used to check like your windshield wipers, for example, is something I failed for in the past.
Jack Gardner: But now they only check your um vehicle emissions.
boboballew: Yeah.
Jack Gardner: And that was something that was done. i don't know if they changed it recently, but it's it like 15 bucks.
boboballew: How much do they charge for that kind of stuff?
Jack Gardner: It's pretty cheap.
boboballew: Oh, so it's pretty cheap.
Jack Gardner: Yeah. But i did that. And then I've just done like random stuff around the house. I've been like cleaning stuff that I have been putting off forever. Just have so much time throughout the day.
boboballew: Yeah.
Jack Gardner: I've ordered like so much random shit on Amazon, like for the house. Like I've been ordering like towel hooks. I got this like shoe organizer thing that I have to put together after this.
boboballew: So you're making this motherfucker a home, dude.
Jack Gardner: I'm just.
Jack Gardner: Yeah, dude, it's just I just haven't had like time off. Without because even when you take vacation, typically your your work is still there when you get back, but also you're usually going somewhere.
boboballew: yeah
Jack Gardner: But I'm just like at home and not at work.
boboballew: yeah you're not like doing staycation type shit so you played every day this week so far
Jack Gardner: And I've just been playing. I played golf three times. No, I played Saturday, Monday, Wednesday. so I took a day off each time.
boboballew: saturday monday wednesday damn that rules yeah i want to golf soon i even was like i talked to my mom earlier i was like hey would dad run golf next friday when i because i'm gonna be in dallas for easter um yeah which is crazy that that's coming up over me uh i think i don't think he's gonna be able to because my sister is work off so she they're gonna want us to do like baby stuff
Jack Gardner: Mm hmm.
Jack Gardner: Oh yeah.
Jack Gardner: Did he want to?
boboballew: um But if anyone's in Dallas, Kelly and I are talking about doing dinner or something on Thursday.
Jack Gardner: ah nice.
boboballew: This is how we'll know if people actually are listening. If anyone responds and says they're Dallas.
Jack Gardner: I bet my brothers are listening. I bet at least, you know George is listening to this right now.
boboballew: Oh, for sure, dude.
Jack Gardner: Shout out George.
boboballew: Yeah, shout out.
Jack Gardner: He's our biggest man.
boboballew: Yeah. Papa George. Yeah.
Jack Gardner: Yeah.
boboballew: I mean, we need to start doing this more so your niece, right? Yeah.
Jack Gardner: Yeah.
boboballew: So your niece can start, um, start like listening early. Like, dude, oh, we should get your niece and my niece on the pod together and like, just get them to like, talk like baby stuff for a little bit.
Jack Gardner: We need to have her on.
Jack Gardner: listen
boboballew: That'd probably be like an interesting episode.
Jack Gardner: That'd be awesome. That's what the people want to hear.
boboballew: yeah Get a couple of babies on mic.
Jack Gardner: Dude. Yeah.
boboballew: Damn.
Jack Gardner: How old is your niece now?
boboballew: Um, like a year and a half, uh, may somewhere in between a year and a half and two years.
Jack Gardner: There's gotta to be like two, right? Yeah.
Jack Gardner: Okay. Cool.
boboballew: So like, kind of like 19, 20 months, something like that.
Jack Gardner: Dude. God, George's kid is so cute. Like every...
boboballew: Dude, babies are the best.
Jack Gardner: It's so crazy.
boboballew: Especially as you relate to a baby as like an uncle or an aunt.
Jack Gardner: Yeah, yeah.
boboballew: Where you're just like... The baby starts at crying or poops or whatever. You hand it back to the parent. you life And then when the baby's ready to play, you step up.
Jack Gardner: Yeah.
boboballew: It rules. Yeah. Yeah. everols
Jack Gardner: Yeah, man. Yeah, I'm going down to Houston for Easter, but not doing anything.
boboballew: yeah
Jack Gardner: i'm going to I told you going to Fredericksburg tomorrow morning.
boboballew: Yes. Yeah.
Jack Gardner: That'll be pretty cool.
boboballew: I'll probably, I'll probably be in Texas this summer too. So maybe we can coordinate some Austin shit or something.
Jack Gardner: Definitely, good time to visit.
boboballew: Oh yeah. Get hot and stuff.
Jack Gardner: Middle of the summer, yeah.
boboballew: I know it's going to be awesome.
Jack Gardner: Oh, maybe we can do a birthday thing.
boboballew: yeah Yeah. Oh yeah. Especially if I have like money coming in by that point, like we can like figure something out.
Jack Gardner: doble?
boboballew: um
Jack Gardner: Yeah, we should.
boboballew: I had an idea for it. Remember? And we were like, maybe we should do that. Do you remember what my idea was?
Jack Gardner: Is it a secret?
boboballew: I could say it. I don't care. um The two-door cinema club concert.
Jack Gardner: Oh, is it the concert? Yes. what What day is that on again?
boboballew: It was in September, I think.
Jack Gardner: Google it.
Jack Gardner: Dude, that lineup was was pretty sweet.
boboballew: It was like two-door cinema club, star fucker, fanagram maybe was the other one.
Jack Gardner: Phanagram, yeah. Yeah, September 27th. I just got to see, because um Alex's 30th birthday is on the 19th of September.
boboballew: Oh, oh 30.
Jack Gardner: So, yeah. So we're... um
boboballew: Are you guys gonna do something big for it?
Jack Gardner: Yeah, we want to, and I'm not sure what. Yeah, we might take like a small trip, so i kind of got to figure that out. But I would love to go. Those are like, Tudor Cinema Club and Starfuck are like two of my favorite bands.
boboballew: Imagine square garden to be crazy.
Jack Gardner: Yeah, I've always wanted to go to Madison Square Garden. Have you?
boboballew: I'm going on Monday.
Jack Gardner: oh who are you saying?
boboballew: Monday Night Raw.
Jack Gardner: Monday Night Raw? What? I called it. As soon as I heard Monday.
boboballew: I bought these tickets when I still had a job. Someone paid me like 300 bucks to make some video for Instagram that never got posted. And I was like, all right, I'm using this to go to Monday Night Raw for sure.
Jack Gardner: So you just made a video, but the video.
boboballew: Yeah, like I have a friend who works for some company in LA and they asked me if I wanted to make some video for some like thing they were doing. And and I was like, yeah, I'll do it if you pay me. And they paid me and I bought tickets for Monday Night Raw.
Jack Gardner: Good deal.
boboballew: Yeah. And the video never came out too. So it' was kind of a perfect situation.
Jack Gardner: Yeah. What was I saying just before this?
boboballew: Something about Doble B day.
Jack Gardner: And upon. I don't remember.
Jack Gardner: That's all I got.
boboballew: I mean, it would probably be a good year for Doble B day to be frank.
Jack Gardner: Yeah.
boboballew: I mean, cause we're both like in our thirties, we haven't done it. When was the last Doble B day?
Jack Gardner: It's definitely been a while.
boboballew: five years. We did it. Maybe we did one post COVID.
Jack Gardner: can't remember. We did one in New York, right?
boboballew: Yeah, was it the Giants game? The Giants Cowboys game? You and Kelly? Was that a Doble or did you guys just come up?
Jack Gardner: Probably not because the Cowboys, like the season starts in like mid-September.
boboballew: Yeah, probably wasn't we probably haven't done Oh, man, we're so do for Doble.
Jack Gardner: Yeah, it's just so fun.
boboballew: ah
Jack Gardner: and There's nothing like the um time change. like from because for I'm sure everyone who listens to this, to the four people listening right now, you definitely all know about this, but my birthday...
boboballew: They've probably all been at Adobe.
Jack Gardner: My birthday is the day before Bo's, we like to do it midnight. I like pass the torch to Bo for his birthday.
boboballew: Yeah, like to have a birthday party and the first half of it is Jax and the second half of it is my birthday party. It's pretty cool. Because we've probably done it in person three times.
Jack Gardner: Except now we're like too old to stay up that late.
boboballew: No, I mean, maybe to stay up that late, but we're not too old to do a doble.
Jack Gardner: Yeah, no, I'm just kidding.
boboballew: It just would like, it would just be like, all right, we're not doing like the late birthday thing, but like tomorrow's my day, you best believe.
Jack Gardner: ah
Jack Gardner: It's on a Tuesday. That kind of sucks.
boboballew: ah shit.
Jack Gardner: But what what has been fun, too, and is when if we're not doing a Dobley birthday and ah we call each other because you're an hour ahead.
boboballew: Yeah.
Jack Gardner: So there's an hour where it's like both of our birthdays for a second. We're like, oh, this is great.
boboballew: That's pretty sick, dude. Like, I remember when I was in Japan on my birthday, it was so weird because I was in Japan and, like, i basically had a whole day where it was my birthday but it was your birthday here.
boboballew: So like no one in my life was like telling me happy birthday. And then I woke up the day after my birthday and it was my birthday at home. So that's what like, like my parents would like text me and stuff.
boboballew: and I was like, Oh, this feels very strange.
Jack Gardner: Yeah, crazy.
boboballew: But oh man, I mean, we might have to try and figure something out that would be fun.
Jack Gardner: um
boboballew: We haven't done one in so long.
Jack Gardner: I'm down. Yeah, we got to at least hang out at some point.
boboballew: Yeah.
Jack Gardner: speak You know who I i always appreciate are like the random people that I haven't spoken to in 15 years who still post happy birthday on my Facebook wall. I feel like the numbers dwindle each year, but it's interesting.
boboballew: Yeah, sure. Oh, yeah.
Jack Gardner: I feel like there's people on there who just every day they probably go and they like check whose birthday it is and then hit them with a happy B-Day.
boboballew: Oh, totally. For sure.
Jack Gardner: Because don't you get that? like People who you're like, why is this person telling me happy birthday?
boboballew: Well, I deleted the Facebook that I had in high school. I made like a new one basically just so you could send me the podcast link. But like, so
Jack Gardner: But that didn't work today. so
boboballew: No, it didn't. But like weird, like random people like found it. So I might delete it again, just because like, I don't know, I don't check Facebook anymore. But it is like one of those things where it was like, it was really nice not being honest.
Jack Gardner: Me neither. buy stuff off Facebook Marketplace sometimes.
boboballew: Do some people love Facebook marketplace?
Jack Gardner: um Yeah, I mean, it's just I don't do it often, but I like to peruse, you know, see see what's see what's going on.
boboballew: Sure. Yeah, you're you're good peruser.
Jack Gardner: Yeah, I'm known to peruse every once in a while.
boboballew: Yeah, yeah.
Jack Gardner: All right. should we Should we wrap it up?
boboballew: um is there anything we want to say because this might be the last one for like a year again
Jack Gardner: Closing thoughts. Closing thoughts. um I'm going to predict...
boboballew: oh this is fun yeah let's i think we're going back to the moon next year like literally i'm fairly certain we're going to that um
Jack Gardner: We go back to the moon in 2030, and then we... Really? 2027. There we go. I'm already right. I'm very ahead of schedule.
boboballew: yeah
Jack Gardner: I don't know. When we do the next one, I do like making predictions.
boboballew: I think, yeah, we're going to the moon in early 2028.
Jack Gardner: um
boboballew: So we are due to go back soon. um
Jack Gardner: I'm going to, my prediction is going to be we don't go in early 2028. Even
boboballew: I think that's a good one. I think that's a good one.
Jack Gardner: ah ah even though that's, that's what they're saying.
boboballew: yeah That's actually... I would love for us to go back to the moon, but I think the smart bet would be is that like bureaucracy will get in the way. And we won't.
Jack Gardner: I, it, it absolutely will get in the way. Cause it's, there's, I don't know.
boboballew: Yeah. Just with how everything has been playing out recently...
Jack Gardner: In terms of like just economic benefits, it's not there. But could you imagine just like sitting on your couch and watching a moon landing be streamed to you?
boboballew: It would be awesome. I think it's important.
Jack Gardner: would be unbelievable.
boboballew: I think it's so important that we like spend in science, even though it's not like directly like what, you know what i mean?
Jack Gardner: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
boboballew: But it would be so cool to like go to the moon. you know um So hopefully it happens. My hope is that it happens.
Jack Gardner: Yeah, hopefully we go to the moon.
boboballew: But I think the smart bet is that like they'll find some reason to not do it.
Jack Gardner: but it doesn't. Yeah, it's kind of a bummer.
boboballew: But apparently there's some real like, like this, this would be a trip because I have a friend who's really in the space. So he was telling me about this, which is why I know. um He was saying like the purpose of this moon landing is explicitly to like start laying the groundwork to use the moon as a base on the way to Mars.
boboballew: So to like kind of hit.
Jack Gardner: Oh, yeah, i remember that being discussed.
boboballew: So this would be there's probably some economic incentive to actually go if that's the case, because, you know, like all those billionaires like want to do Mars shit now.
Jack Gardner: I feel like
Jack Gardner: Do you think they're going to go and then put like a FanDuel flag on the moon?
boboballew: Oh, dude, a Polymarket flag? Dude.
Jack Gardner: Yeah, Polymer.
boboballew: oh so So I don't know if you heard.
Jack Gardner: ah
boboballew: the Polymarket opened a free grocery store in New York City to like kind of like – Yeah, kind of.
Jack Gardner: ah We're sorry.
boboballew: Yeah, truly.
Jack Gardner: Get some goodwill. ah
boboballew: But they also opened a a bar in Washington, D.C. called the Situation Room, which is a sports bar tart type environment but for the news.
boboballew: So you can go and like bet on the news. at a bar.
Jack Gardner: That's unbelievable. There's this bar um in Austin. I can't remember if we went. Did we go to that cloakroom bar? It's like a dive bar that's underground kind of by the Capitol.
boboballew: The name sounds familiar.
Jack Gardner: It's in a basement.
boboballew: Maybe if I saw it, but I...
Jack Gardner: it's It's such a weird place, though, because people will they put on like the state Senate sessions on the TV there. And then people are just like hanging out in suits watching it and and drinking.
boboballew: Oh, like people who work for the government?
Jack Gardner: Yeah, because everyone who works at the Capitol like walks over there because it's a
boboballew: No, I've never been here.
Jack Gardner: this is bar it's really cool it's it's like a true dive bar but it's in like such a cool location but then it's like pretty crappy on the inside just selling like bottled miller light um i like it
boboballew: it looks kind of cool though.
boboballew: Yeah.
boboballew: That rules. you You know what bar I hate in Austin? Floppy Disk Repair Co.
Jack Gardner: that's that might be the worst bar in the city
boboballew: That's my hypothesis. Floppy Disk Repair Co. Going out of business by the next time...
Jack Gardner: Dude, I hate to tell it to you. They're not going out of business.
boboballew: Damn it.
Jack Gardner: They're going to get more. it's gonna They're going somehow floppy disks are going to be even more in demand for repair.
boboballew: I was literally telling someone like recently the story my the story of my experience at floppy disk repair co was actively getting mad. this probably ah
Jack Gardner: ah It's just, there's something alluring to people when it's like, here's a thing you can do that not everyone else can do and not everyone knows about it. Dude, there's this fly.
Jack Gardner: This fly has been in my freaking house this like for a week and it keeps...
boboballew: Is it paying rent?
Jack Gardner: Oh, dude, i actually have a funny story to tell you before we before we get off.
boboballew: Yeah, please. I feel like we found the second wind.
Jack Gardner: Okay. Yeah, we're back, guys.
boboballew: I say we keep going for a little bit.
Jack Gardner: We're going. This is going to be two-hour podcast.
boboballew: It's only been half an hour.
Jack Gardner: Yeah, I'm down. I was thinking we could do two, but I guess we can just do one longer.
boboballew: oh Oh, okay. Yeah, let's do two. That's smart.
Jack Gardner: Do you want to just end?
boboballew: Okay.
Jack Gardner: That's what I was thinking.
boboballew: This is a good cliffhanger. Yeah. Okay.
Jack Gardner: Okay, okay.
boboballew: Yeah. I thought you were just saying wrap up.
Jack Gardner: Hey, come back next time. Wait, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
boboballew: Yeah.
Jack Gardner: Next time on TalkSauce.
boboballew: Hmm. Yes. Next time on TalkSauce.
Jack Gardner: Jack tells a story.
boboballew: An anecdote.
Jack Gardner: a limerick.
boboballew: Bo gives a hypothesis.
Jack Gardner: Probably not.
boboballew: Jack debunks.
Jack Gardner: no
boboballew: Next time.
Jack Gardner: Okay, here's the theme song. but
boboballew: I'm going to go pee.
Jack Gardner: Thanks, everybody.
boboballew: So just give me the link.
Jack Gardner: bye
