Josh: 0:00

Hey guys, so you've heard me say a million times that premium content is coming. And that's going to live over on Substack where you can subscribe to the work that we're doing outside of our main feeds for a very small fee and get access to all sorts of other stuff. We decided to sort of let you behind the curtain today and give you a taste of what that content is. So here's a chunk of some premium content that started off in life as a hot mess Madeline episode and kind of turned into a hot mess Madeline episode meets tequila Tuesday. So it sort of became one thing, and we're not sorry. It's just kind of how it all went down. But we wanted to give you a little taste of this, and we hope you enjoy.

Pamela: 0:40

Because it's not uncommon that things eventually devolve into tequila with us.

Josh: 0:46

So true.

Pamela: 0:48

We hope you guys enjoy. We love it. And I'm honestly excited for you guys to see a lot of what we've uh done behind the scenes because it is hilarious.

Josh: 0:59

So much fun. Here you go. Welcome to a preview of a premium episode of content. Oh, yeah. That will go behind our Substack paywall that will be live by the time this releases, because I'm saying it into the microphone. Therefore, it will be true. So that's how that works. We are going to have a we're going to have some premium Substack content that will um kind of it will vary a little bit in nature, but the the two things that we know we want to do is we want to do some episodes with our good friend Madeline, who just lives an entertaining life. And we're going to do a little something called Tequila Tuesdays. Whether or not it's Tuesday when you hear the episode is irrelevant.

Pamela: 1:40

Because we drink and we know things.

Josh: 1:42

Right. That's definitely I think we wrote that line. That's an original line.

Pamela: 1:46

Yeah, they definitely stole that from us.

Josh: 1:48

Right. But we uh we're excited to kind of bring you a little bit of a preview of this and hopefully it's engaging enough for you to want to support us because why wouldn't you want to support us? We're awesome.

Pamela: 1:58

Oh my gosh, we're so much fun.

Josh: 1:59

We're the best. And so and humble. And extremely humble. So without further ado.

Pamela: 2:05

Humility is my middle name.

Josh: 2:08

Without further ado, we want to introduce you to our friend Madeline. So Madeline is a neighbor of Pamela's. Yep. And I uh have had the pleasure of hanging out with her and her family some uh this summer as we have basically camped at Pamela and Josh's pool uh most of the summer. So welcome. We're thrilled to have you. And how did you two originally meet?

Madeline: 2:31

Well, first off, I really want to say thank you for that because all I got from that little spiel was I'm a premium kind of lady. You are. So thank you. Thank you, guys.

Josh: 2:42

Exactly. Yeah.

Pamela: 2:43

But me and Pamela, how did we meet? Um, so how I remember it is our neighbor across the street, her daughter was in your class.

Madeline: 2:56

You know, I forget about this sometimes. The dark ages when I was a teacher. Yeah.

Pamela: 3:00

So and so they were always talking about you just living down the street. And then I think I actually met you at the graduation party for for the older child. For the oldest daughter, yeah. Was it? I just remember the pool.

Madeline: 3:21

I mean, it was raining. I mean, maybe my memory is not the best. In my head, I was like, our sons are best friends. Oh, like that's what that's where my brain went. Yeah, I went a little, I went a little deeper. Oh, yeah. Um, honestly, I probably thought we met like met because you just moved to Texas and you're trying to like get the feel out for who the crazy people were out here, and you're like, this bitch looks crazy, and I gotta figure her out. And you did, and I am crazy.

Pamela: 3:47

What's funny about that is the same neighbor was one of the first people to come to our door and bring us like cookies, and the whole family showed up at the door to like say, Who did that into the neighborhood? Who? No one did that for me. Who did that for you? Well, I don't know, but I think that they knew that they were like, No, we need her on our side of the neighborhood dynamics, the neighborhood drama. And they were bribing you with cookies? Listen, it doesn't take much.

Madeline: 4:21

I don't know. I must drive a hard bargain. I mean, I'm like, cookies, did you bring me milk? Right. What else you got?

Josh: 4:26

Bourbon.

Madeline: 4:27

Yeah.

Pamela: 4:28

But they were like, yeah, we wanted to make sure that you knew the who the the correct neighbors to be friends with were. And I was like, okay.

Madeline: 4:36

Correction, I'm the correct neighbor.

Pamela: 4:38

Well, y'all are you're on that side. Oh, you know, you're on the you're on the then I agree. Yeah. But yeah, like maybe it was a graduation party. I just I know that they had mentioned you your name, your last name, because you were a teacher at the time. Um, and then yeah, we met. I don't know, yeah. And then our sons became friends in school, and they started hanging out, and then that's how you essentially make adult friends.

Madeline: 5:07

Well, hold on now. I knew it was over, and I was like, that's gonna be my bestie right there. It's gonna be my great neighbor when they said that they're from Kentucky. Yeah, anytime I meet somebody from Kentucky, I'm like, oh, so you like I I say whiskey, I would get shot, I'd get shot. You're like, you like bourbon? You're a bourbon girly? So am I. So I knew it was over right then and there. But yeah. But she does judge me. That's okay. I judge everyone, I judge myself. So I get it.

Josh: 5:35

So, how did you actually get into teaching? What was the path to getting into teaching?

Madeline: 5:40

So you want to go to the dark places so early. Damn. No, okay. I uh where to start. I graduated, graduated college with a degree for clinical psychology. I was trying to get my master's at Pepperdine, you know, and I was like, I need a job because I just got divorced. I got a job actually at Fidelity. And then I found out that my ex-husband opened up like a bunch of credit card debt in my name. Had no idea. So I didn't get the job at Fidelity anymore, obviously. So I I actually um I knew the principal. My family's been teachers in the school district for a real long time. So I just they got they hired me because they were like, oh, psychology degree, you're probably a great person. I am a great person. I am okay. I'm a kid.

Josh: 6:27

So why what was actually the path to the psychology degree then?

Madeline: 6:31

So I wanted to be a counselor, I wanted to be like a therapist, you know. Like I wanted to do something that helped people. I and I love drama. Like, tell me your drama. I like I just like it. Yeah, but you can't repeat that drama. Right. I don't need to repeat it. It lives in my head, actually, not rent-free, about like $200 an hour, all right? Like that's there's a charge for that. Yeah, oh yeah.

Pamela: 6:53

So so we get ours from Love Island, right? And love is blind, and she gets it from the source.

Josh: 7:00

Right. Yeah, that's exactly what I wanted. Real humans.

Madeline: 7:04

No, I I always wanted that though, like to be able to like talk to somebody and then like them like talk about like their boy problems. And I'm like, show me a picture.

Pamela: 7:12

They're like, oh yeah. You're like, yes, ma'am, I see it. I see it.

Madeline: 7:16

Or you're crying over this troll?

Pamela: 7:18

What?

Josh: 7:19

Yeah. Yeah. See, and you're a handy person to have around them because you're just gonna you're you're gonna turn real negative things into real positive things. You're crying over this troll? Like disgusting.

Pamela: 7:30

I mean, honestly, I would pay someone $200 an hour to tell me that.

Madeline: 7:35

Yeah, yeah, like would you not just like to love to roast somebody with your therapist? Like, I would just sit there with them and just like go in.

Pamela: 7:43

I don't know. Is there some sort of like legalities against that?

Madeline: 7:46

Or are you talking about like ethics and morals, though? They get in my way a lot, but not there because that's what is that? Uh that's confidential, all right?

Josh: 7:53

Right, yeah, yeah, that's true. Doctor patient.

Madeline: 7:56

Yeah, and if they're gonna go spilling beans, I'm gonna be like, they're in therapy. Right. You're really gonna believe what they're saying. So just kidding, I wouldn't do that. But I'm also not a therapist, so you can't hit me up for ethics and morals on that.

Josh: 8:10

Is there is there any desire for you to actually get into that field at any point?

Madeline: 8:14

Uh, there would be. Like if I married rich and I could like do the job I wanted to, because like I always tell people, they're like, Madeline, why do you work in cybersecurity? It's cool, but like sometimes you follow your dreams, and then sometimes you follow the secure path because you got them kids to worry about.

Pamela: 8:31

You follow the money. Uh-huh.

Madeline: 8:33

I was trying to phrase it, you know, nicely.

Pamela: 8:35

But yeah, the money. Listen, we all know teachers don't make jack. They make nothing. They make nothing for what they have. They make nothing, period. They definitely make nothing for all the shit they have to put up with.

Madeline: 8:51

Uh actually we do. That's actually the point. Like, okay, no, and so like respectfully, people are like, teaching is a thankless job, right? I tell my coworkers this every day. When I was a teacher, those kids would like draw me pictures. They'd be like, wow, I love your nails today. None of my coworkers do that shit now. Nobody draws me pictures. Not a single freaking person.

Josh: 9:18

Right. It's it's a real letdown.

Madeline: 9:21

It's almost disrespectful.

Josh: 9:23

Right. Like if you really loved me, you would draw me pictures of comedy.

Madeline: 9:29

I want stick figures. I want us holding hands beneath a rainbow. Like, come on.

Josh: 9:33

Yeah. You got into teaching, and I I get the impression that you might have determined it wasn't for you. No.

Madeline: 9:41

So so you lasted a whole one school year. Yeah, one year. But like the thing is, I was not, like, I did not go to college to be a teacher. I actually grew up with teachers and thinking in my head, damn, I don't want this life for my kids. I would never be a teacher. Yeah. I mean, like, props to you teachers, you know, props to y'all. And I really respect y'all, but I'm not you guys. Like, I can't do that. I like paying my bills. I like PTO. Like, actually, my job hit me up. And they're like, Madeline, you need to take PTO. You've been working way too hard. You got too much PTO saved up. You need to take time off. I'm like, what the fuck?

Josh: 10:14

That's pretty interesting.

Madeline: 10:15

So tell me, what does that look like? So oh, they got onto me because I'm like checking emails and replying while on PTO. They're like, get off of the computer. I'm like, sorry, I for I didn't know I was respected here. My bad. Okay.

Josh: 10:28

So that's pretty fun. So uh what was it that kind of drove you away from teaching other than the paycheck?

Madeline: 10:35

Damn kids. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. But like you can talk to your kids a certain way, but other kids it's difficult. Like, okay, you're watching extremely inappropriate videos on this school-issue device and you're telling people what decapitation is. You're nine, okay. To a little girl who couldn't even have witch hats on her paper. Okay, so let's keep that into mind. But then I took away his iPad, he threatened to stab me.

Josh: 11:06

Oh god.

Madeline: 11:07

No, no, no, that's not the worst part. With my scissors. He didn't even want to bring his own weapon. Right. He was gonna use mine.

Josh: 11:16

Right.

Madeline: 11:16

Yeah. The audacity.

Josh: 11:18

The audacity. Yeah. I've heard that there's quite a bit of drama that can go on between like school staffers, like faculty and staff and things like that.

Pamela: 11:28

I've heard it's a cesspool of gossip.

Josh: 11:30

Uh yeah.

Madeline: 11:32

You heard right. Yeah.

Josh: 11:33

So what what takeaways did you have from that, like part of the job?

Madeline: 11:39

Well, let me preface this by saying I worked at Twin Peaks, I worked at Bone Daddy's, Oh's Locos, Tilted Kilt, all the things. And I have never ran into drama like I have as a teacher.

Josh: 11:54

Man.

Madeline: 11:55

I baffling, baffling, right? So it was me the teacher night. And you know, after me the teacher night, it's like a long night. You just want to go out and eat, right? So I went out to eat with my at the time boyfriend. And he lived in the same neighborhood as I do, zoned for the school I work at, right? So he's a parent there. Um we go out, and apparently somebody from the PTA sees us, takes a picture of us from behind our backs, sends it around to all the PTA, sends it around to teachers, right? And was like, oh, looks like this dude does date teachers, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Right. So, you know, once again, I don't think anything of it. Like, okay, whatever. You're a little drama.

Pamela: 12:35

That's not like illegal.

Madeline: 12:36

Right.

Josh: 12:36

That's not that weird to me.

Madeline: 12:38

No, I mean, if you just want to know who I'm dating, ask me. I'm a blabber mouth. I'll tell you how it is. I'll probably tell you too much, actually. Don't ask. But the thing is, like, I didn't, you know, I didn't mind. But then my principal came into my room and was like, hey, I just want to talk to you about like another teacher that came to me and was worried about your ethics as a teacher. And I was like, that's weird. It hasn't even been the first day of school. Like, how y'all caught me slipping this fast? Whew.

Josh: 13:09

Yeah.

Madeline: 13:09

Well, oh, so you don't even know if this kid's in your class. Yeah, it was like a teacher. It was a coworker that complained about me, right? And so I talked to my principal. Wow. And turns out my daughter's second grade teacher went to him and was like, hey, I don't think this lady's a good lady because she's cheating on her husband with a dad at the school.

Josh: 13:33

Oh no.

Madeline: 13:34

I'm not married. I'm not married. I said, oh man. Like so wait, did you know this teacher? No. I did not know her. And then I connected the dots. We had meet the teacher night, and I'm obviously a mother, so I gotta go meet those teachers as well, right? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. So I go there, and I'm like, oh yeah, my daughter, she likes loves doing this, that. And then I mentioned she loves drinking out of the champagne flutes that I got for my wedding. And since I said that, I'm assuming she thought I was married. Like divorce doesn't exist in this day and age. But whatever. And so she thought I was sleeping around with a dad. And I had to talk to my boss about this. Not only did I have to talk to him about it, but teachers were talking about it. Parents were talking about it. And I okay. I mean, the teacher in me wants to school him a little bit.

Josh: 14:27

Yeah.

Madeline: 14:27

All right. MRS. Married. Married. MS. Me. Me. Not married. Right. And so obviously they weren't schooled enough. But that's what I'm here for. So it was just awkward as hell. Like walking around for months with these teachers just like side-eyeing you like that little skank. Yeah, I'm a skank, but not in the way you think. Like that hurt my feelings. I would not cheat on my husband.

Josh: 14:54

Right, right. I'm the right kind of skank.

Madeline: 14:56

Yes! I'm not that kind of I've got ethics. Yeah. Like I said, ethics and morals get in my way, all right? I'm a good person, okay?

Josh: 15:04

Yeah.

Madeline: 15:05

I'll f you over right.

Josh: 15:06

Right. All right. That's amazing.

Pamela: 15:10

So you'll f people over and sleep at night. Yeah. Exactly. I get it. Yeah.

Josh: 15:18

You are teaching for a year, you figure out this shit is not for me. Yeah. And then what? Like what was your path out of that? Because now you, you know, you've got some stability, you've got a career that seems to be going well. But what was that transition?

Madeline: 15:34

Teaching went well. Oh, like now my ops. Yeah. Oh, so when I was a teacher, I was also in school to get my master's degree to be a therapist, right? You know, that was but I was also working a second job for a DevOps team for an airline. And so I was teaching, getting my master's, and working for an airline.

Josh: 15:53

You didn't have time to sleep with anybody else. That's the thing!

Madeline: 15:56

What husbands? Who do I have time to cheat on? Not even myself.

Josh: 15:59

Right.

Madeline: 15:59

Not even myself. Like, oh my God. And so yeah, that's how that's how I made it out. I got that job. Oh, this is actually really embarrassing to admit, but this goes to show you networking is everything. I was an intern on DevOps. Next job, right out of that, infrastructure manager.

Josh: 16:16

Wow.

Madeline: 16:17

Nice.

Josh: 16:18

Yeah, you make it.

Madeline: 16:19

I can manage an infrastructure. I can manage the people that manage the infrastructure.

Josh: 16:25

Yeah, exactly. Yeah. You know what strings to pull and when to pull them. Right.

Madeline: 16:29

Yeah, women and tech, you know, we get shit done. Right. Whether that's by our own brains or other people's brains, we do it.

Pamela: 16:34

And especially moms.

Madeline: 16:36

Oh.

Pamela: 16:37

Like a mom can't because similar-ish, not not quite, but when COVID hit, I was going back to school for my masters. I was working full-time. I had small children, you know, very a lot of parallels there. And still getting my job done, still getting, you know, good grades and and all the things. So yeah, I definitely it's it's sometimes I wish we could put that on our resumes. Absolutely. Exactly. Like I I manage an entire household.

Josh: 17:13

Right.

Pamela: 17:13

You know, and schedule and like, or like we always like to say household manager or house manager. Yeah. I'm like, that is a whole job. I I remember when I had kids and talking to other people who didn't have children at the time. I'm like, yeah, I'm going, I'm leaving my full-time job to go to my next full-time job.

Josh: 17:30

Right. Right.

Pamela: 17:31

Yeah. So yeah. It's and then you, so you got two full-time jobs, home, work, and then you also have you do a bunch of side stuff, like side gigs.

Madeline: 17:41

So I'm I'm always I'm money motivated, career driven.

Pamela: 17:45

Yeah.

Madeline: 17:45

But that's what happens when you have a family to feed. It's like, ugh, I gotta keep working. Life is rough for the millennials out here.

Josh: 17:55

It's irritatingly rough. Like the the amount of work that I feel like the millennial generation has to do to achieve the same outcomes as most of the generations before us. And I realize that this is a little bit of beating a dead horse. Yes, this is said often. It's said often because it's true.

Pamela: 18:16

Like inflation is not made up.

Josh: 18:19

No, it's not. And this this is exhausting, man. Yeah.

Pamela: 18:23

And there's no way that our income is keeping up with the cost of living. Mine's absolutely not.

Madeline: 18:30

Let's go. We're just the two homeowners.

Josh: 18:33

Nope, I'm not.

Madeline: 18:33

Oh, thank you. You're my both. Yeah. My people. Yeah.

Josh: 18:36

Yeah. So I was, and I played the game pretty well. Like we we bought our first home on the Fort Worth side of town, and it appreciated. We just got lucky. I I and I I really I don't mean this with any sort of false like humility. We were just lucky. We bought a home in the right place, it appreciated the right way. And then when we sold it, I'll never forget it. So Krista and I put it on the market and the market was pretty good at the time, but we thought we had some time until it actually sold. The first weekend of showings, by the end of that first weekend, we had five offers, and two of them were above asking. And and my wife, in her wisdom, she was like, let's just take the best offer and lease something for a couple of years for a year or two and figure out where we want to be. Because we hadn't even started shopping yet. We weren't even looking at homes yet. And so for us, it was really overwhelming because our buyers wanted to be in in 30 days. Like they they they wanted to be in right away. So she actually found a home and signed a lease on it before I even saw it, which is fine because as long as it meets her expectations, it'll meet mine.

Madeline: 19:51

So we do have a happy wife, happy life.

Josh: 19:53

Kind of, yeah. And so and her standards on that kind of thing are just higher than mine anyway.

Madeline: 19:59

That liter that's also literally what happened with this house.

Josh: 20:01

Yeah.

Madeline: 20:01

But this is also a great house. You see that pool out there? I see that pool out there.

Josh: 20:05

So we yeah, all of us collectively are grateful for you buying that pool.

Pamela: 20:09

Our house.

Josh: 20:10

Our pool. Our pool. Yes, we, it's our house now. I did this, I did this for you. Right. I know you did.

Pamela: 20:16

I didn't even know you, but I knew he did it for us.

Josh: 20:19

I manifested this. Right. Yeah. You really did. So we uh cool house, cool friends. So we sold that place, and then we just kind of played the real estate game. So we bought and sold a couple other homes, or we bought at a dip and sold at a peak. And and all I was trying to do was play the game. I I wanted to try and move up in the real estate market as fast as I could. And it was working until the last home that we owned was an absolute money pit. And we we pumped tens of thousands of dollars into this place, and we were nowhere near done needing to spend money on it. And we were in a period where Krista was really trying to transition out of a job that she had no love for at all. And the bottom line was the fastest way for us to get her out of that job was to sell this house. So we sold. And uh, we've been renting since then because when we sold, interest rates were close to eight percent. And I was like, absolutely not.

Madeline: 21:19

I'm a baby, but that sounds high. It's that's really high.

Josh: 21:22

Well, to in context, the last home we had, our interest rate was two and a quarter, which is almost free money.

Pamela: 21:28

Which was the house we had in Kentucky. We were two, we were 2.1 for 15 years.

Josh: 21:36

Yeah. Okay, you guys were a little low, a little lower than that.

Pamela: 21:38

We moved here, it was uh 5.8.

Josh: 21:43

And that interest rate makes a huge difference.

Pamela: 21:45

It makes a huge difference in your monthly payment.

Josh: 21:48

And so, like when we sold the home that we owned, I couldn't have afforded to turn around and buy the same home again because interest rates were so different. Like there was such a huge difference between a two and a half percent APR and a 8% APR that the payment would have been out of reach for me. And so at this point, we're just kind of renting and seeing what happens. And I'm not optimistic. Like it, but at the same time, you know, we are I'm grateful for the place that we have. It's met our needs, it's fine, but we also plan on not renewing our lease where we are right now, which is fine. Um, but anyway, we are not in fact homeowners, not at this point, and honestly, it's it feels a little out of reach to me right now.

Madeline: 22:36

That's exactly like I was literally talking to my family about this yesterday, where I was like, you know, I feel like, you know, because like the stereotype is oh, you have 10% down to put on your house, blah blah blah. I got a lot of kids, right? I need a big house, and the prices just keep skyrocketing. And I'm like, if I'm gonna have like 10% down, that's gonna take me forever to save. At this point, my kids are getting so damn old by the time I save the amount of money for my down payment. F them. They're out of college. I'll go get myself a high rise in downtown Dallas. Right and go do my thing. You know, like who needs a home? I don't know about downtown, I guess.

Pamela: 23:12

I go back and forth because we when we moved here, I wanted to go straight into a home and you know, neighborhood. Like, I pretty much was like, we're gonna move and that's it. And so there was a lot of pressure on this house, but sometimes I go back and forth of like, should we have just rented? You know, because we have talked about going back home, moving back home. Don't do it. I'll be sad.

Madeline: 23:41

Cry.

Josh: 23:42

You and me both.

Pamela: 23:43

Well, um and and so I'm like, well, should we have just rented? Um I don't know. I I go, I just it's tough because the economy is all over the place, interest rates are all over the place. Um, and the sad part is like, I don't think we'll ever be able to afford to move back to the neighborhood that we were in. Um we've Kentucky? Yeah.

Madeline: 24:05

Does it make me a bad person to admit I'm kind of happy about that?

Pamela: 24:09

No, but my friends back home are like, don't listen to them.

Madeline: 24:14

If you're friends at home, this is your home, and I'm your friend. This is my hand. What do you call me?

Josh: 24:19

This is my house.

Madeline: 24:20

House friend. I'm not a friend from home, I'm a friend from a house. That is so sad. I mean, you can come home with us. Actually, I've been considering, uh I've been looking at houses in Colorado.

Josh: 24:33

I love Colorado so much.

Madeline: 24:35

I'm a renter, and so I have to talk to my investors and be like, hey guys, can y'all buy a house out in Colorado? And I rent from you guys, because I can't afford this.

Josh: 24:43

Right.

Madeline: 24:44

The house if you don't think these houses are bad, but to be honest, like it's just like the weirdest dream I have is like right now when I'm doing dishes, I have this huge circle mirror, and so like I do dishes and I just like stare at myself in the mirror, which is like a beautiful view. I get it.

Pamela: 24:58

But I want to be like screams narcissism, but okay. Okay, whatever.

Madeline: 25:03

When you're doing dishes, you just want to look at something pretty to distract yourself, and that's me. Okay. Okay. But that's fair naturally with that to the side. I would love, it's my dream to be able to do dishes and look out the window to mountains instead of myself. But you know, like both are great. The mountains would just probably be a better choice for me. But just we have to move the mirror to this wall. Right.

Josh: 25:26

Right. Right. Have you considered putting a picture in place of the mirror of mountains?

Madeline: 25:31

Have I considered depression? Yes. Yes, I have.

Pamela: 25:34

Or you could have the mountains and a picture of yourself. Or I could just move to the mountains.

Madeline: 25:40

Let's not overcomplicate things. We gotta talk to the investors. Get the house, all right?

Pamela: 25:44

Listen, we're all analysts, okay? Like we are going to get pretty views while I hate life.

Madeline: 25:50

Okay.

Pamela: 25:52

Well, you complain about inflation and inflammation. Oh my god. Where did how did that start?

Josh: 25:58

Jackbox. Jackbox? Yeah, that was a jackbox.

Pamela: 26:01

We talk about Jackbox a lot.

Madeline: 26:02

Not Jack in the Box, Jackbox.

Josh: 26:04

Jackbox. Are you familiar?

Madeline: 26:05

I'm I'm not. I feel familiar right now. Jack being in the box.

Josh: 26:08

I want so badly for her to be here next time we play Jackbox.

Pamela: 26:11

Wait, okay, so it's funny you say that because usually when the when Jackbox gets brought up by the kids, we're all like, uh. But it's actually a lot of fun. It is. Um, it is an online game you play on your phone, but it's projected like from the Switch. Love those. Love those. Okay. And you've got you've got some, it's like different prompts and stuff. Um, honestly, this tequila is getting in my head. What are we talking about? Jackbox, Jackbox! Talking about me coming over for game night.

Josh: 26:38

Let's leave it more tequila. Who gives a let's lean in?

Madeline: 26:42

Uh I thought the tequila tasting wasn't yet.

Josh: 26:45

Oh no, we blended them. Oh yeah. Yeah, it's kind of it's hitting me a little bit too, but I like it. I do too.

Pamela: 26:51

Uh, where were we going with this?

Josh: 26:53

So Jackbox. So um Jackbox is a game on Nintendo Switch. And it can get uh it you can use up to eight players, but each player plays from their phone or iPad.

Madeline: 27:05

Hold on. Four, eight, twelve. We got 12 people. So who are we kicking out?

Josh: 27:10

I mean, I would happily sit out some rounds to give you guys a uh that works for me.

Madeline: 27:15

Well, guys, well, I hate to say this. I I'm very, very competitive, no skills to back that though.

Josh: 27:21

Well, but that's the beauty of Jackboxes, you don't need skills. Yeah, yeah. That's my game. Yeah, you don't need skills. Well, what you it gives you these text prompts and you respond with answers that you think are funny, and you're trying to get people to vote for your answers.

Madeline: 27:38

Oh, how do I not know about this?

Josh: 27:40

So I don't know. We in in our main uh in the main podcast feed, we actually had a conversation pretty recently about how we the first time we played jackbox with the kids, we didn't know that there was a family-friendly toggle switch that we needed to turn on. And so our We're not family friendly here. Well, oh, y'all are with the kids.

Madeline: 28:03

With the kids.

Josh: 28:04

I because I'm interrupting the episode now, and I'm not sorry because I would love for you to jump over to Substack and to check out what we have going on there and maybe consider supporting the show uh in that way. We would love to share the rest of this with you, and there's an easy way for you to get it right over on Substack. So if you enjoyed what you heard, which you obviously did, then please consider supporting the show in that sort of way.

Pamela: 28:31

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Josh: 28:44

Right. Oh, yeah. Very much at us. Sometimes with us and sometimes at us. And that's fine. We're at peace with all of that. Yeah.

Pamela: 28:51

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Josh: 29:14

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