Blessing Boys Show
Welcome to The Blessing Boys Show Podcast, where we take you behind the scenes of our family’s journey to transform overgrown yards and uplift our community. Join Justin and his sons, Ty, London, Judah as we share the stories, challenges, and heartwarming moments that come with helping those in need. Whether we’re tackling a jungle of a yard, meeting incredible people, or just having fun as a family, this podcast gives you an inside look at our adventures and the values that drive us. Tune in for inspiring conversations, laughter, and lessons learned along the way. If you’re a fan of transformation, family, and making a difference, this is the podcast for you!
Blessing Boys Show
The Joys And Trials Of Yard Makeovers | #BlessingBoysShow Ep. 01
From surprising homeowner scares to reaching over 100 transformed yards, Justin, Judah and Ty kick off the Blessing Boys podcast with tales that are equal parts inspiring and hilarious. Ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes of our yard transformations? We reveal the origins of our mission, the initial doubts we faced, and the overwhelming support from our family and community. Plus, get ready to laugh as we recount funny moments like a Ninja Turtles soundtrack nostalgia trip and a homeowner who got the scare of their life.
In this episode, we dive into the heartwarming stories of making a difference, like helping a homeowner with nerve damage by removing a troublesome tree. We also touch on the intense Texas heat, which tested our resolve but made each transformation even more rewarding. Find out which video skyrocketed to 18 million views and learn about our most memorable projects that left a lasting impact on both us and the grateful homeowners we helped.
Switching gears, we explore our newfound obsession with pickleball, share the challenges of dealing with cactus thorns, and debate the merits of various sports, from sumo wrestling to curling. We wrap up with a fun-filled rapid-fire session about our favorite foods, superheroes, and bucket-list activities like skydiving. With lively debates, humorous anecdotes, and heartfelt stories, this first episode sets the stage for many more adventures with the Blessing Boys.
And then the company that we partnered with to sponsor that specific video also gave us a gift to give her, so we were able to surprise her with $1,000 at the end.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you should have saw me whenever before we were about to give her the money, I was like jumping around so excited.
Speaker 3:He woke me up in my room, like woke me up from like I was dead asleep. And he woke me up and he's like I had this idea, like that was the first idea he thought of was Blessing Boys For the name. We just stuck with that and I was like was mom a big fan at first.
Speaker 2:No, she thought it was like yeah, and it was the hottest day of the year.
Speaker 3:Hottest day of the year and it just happened to be on Blessing Boys.
Speaker 2:My dad whenever we came home from our football practice and doing Blessing Boys practice and doing Blessing Boys.
Speaker 1:He was, like how did you do it? Like why? Hey guys, welcome to the very first episode of the Blessing Boys podcast. Excited to have you guys here, and I'm also excited about my co-host today. Normally in our yards we've got three of the boys, but we've only got room for two of them here today, so the lucky chosen ones are my big boy, Judah.
Speaker 2:What's up?
Speaker 1:And also our oldest son, ty.
Speaker 3:How y'all doing today.
Speaker 1:Awesome. So we're super excited to kick this off. You know, episode one is really going to be kind of like a getting to know us. This whole show is going to give you a little bit behind the scenes action. A lot of people ask what do we like, what do we do, all those different things? They want to get to know the boys beyond the yard. So that's what we want to do. It's going to be fun, super lighthearted and, yeah, we'll see where it goes. I don't know you guys in for that or what.
Speaker 2:I have no idea. I have not prepared for this. You mean, you mean you didn't, you haven't been preparing for days.
Speaker 1:I mean, the most I've done is that's awesome. Well, you know, we've been talking off camera and, uh, I think there's a little competition going on for who's actually going to be considered the co-host. What do you guys think?
Speaker 3:I don't know I I mean, I think, uh, I I guess that's one thing that's like, like when you got someone you got to see a couple weeks in whenever they do it, like three or four weeks in. When you got someone, like when you're playing like fantasy football, and you got someone and you got to wait a few weeks to see if you're like, ah, they could be good.
Speaker 1:But then so you're saying and we got to just figure it out before the trade deadline, and you'll know too, because they'll be on way less episodes.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Gotcha, maybe we'll give it to the audience. We'll let the audience decide who's the official co-host you? I don't know. Reading through the comments, Jude is pretty popular.
Speaker 2:I mean, can't stop them yeah.
Speaker 1:You're hilarious. So, boys, we've come a long way in two and a half years. Like, um, man, we've been doing this for two and a half years. We just crossed, I think a few weeks ago or a month ago, so we crossed our hundredth yard. Um, if, if you guys are tuning in for the first time, yeah, and you don't really know what we do Like, we started about two and a half years ago going out, me and the boys and serving our community by transforming overgrown yards and teaching the boys how to work hard and serve the community. So it's been super fun it's been. I can't believe it's been two and a half years. Like, what do you, what do you guys think?
Speaker 3:It was shorter than that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I remember in my mind.
Speaker 3:I mark it because it was right before we went on, went to Myrtle Beach one year, Yep. So I mark it like right before then. So it was in like June.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Right, it was in June or something like that. It was a while ago because dad he woke me up in my, in my room. Oh, yeah, like woke me up from like I was dead asleep and he woke me up and he's like I had this idea. Ty couldn't wait till. I'm like I had this idea and everything about it. He's like we're going to call it Blessing Boys. He was like that was the first idea he thought of was Blessing Boys.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:For the name. We just stuck with that and I was like, yeah, we never we never like I was like all right, yeah, you can do that.
Speaker 1:And then, like yeah, mom was, mom a big.
Speaker 2:She thought it was going to be like it's another thing that we'll try.
Speaker 1:But it's okay, we can try it, they're going to call me out, but I try a lot of new things so I get crazy ideas and so maybe thought that was another one of those ideas.
Speaker 2:But it worked, we're having fun, we're having fun, except for that one day that it was 105 degrees outside and I had a headache the whole yard.
Speaker 3:That was last week, bro. Texas heat it's different, it hits different and usually y'all know this, but we all play football. So after practice, we have to like, we have to, or we have to go straight from Blessing Boys to practice on most of the days that we do it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it was the hottest day of the year.
Speaker 3:Hottest day of the year and it just year. I'll stay the year and then just happen to be on Blessing Boys.
Speaker 2:My dad, whenever we came home from our football practice and doing Blessing Boys, he was like how did you do it?
Speaker 3:Like why Electrolytes?
Speaker 1:liquid IV. I couldn't do it. We were all toast Us old guys Couldn't make it. You're not that old. Don't tell them my age on here. Age, I remember when I was your age.
Speaker 2:Back in my day.
Speaker 1:That's right. We had to walk to work uphill both ways in the snow.
Speaker 3:And boiling on snow both ways.
Speaker 1:Awesome, awesome. So tell me this 100 yards, what do you think was? Give me your top 3 top 3 number 1 gotta be 17 million.
Speaker 3:1 cause we got 17 million.
Speaker 1:I can't believe I wasn't in that it's actually at 18 million now it is like literally yesterday I saw it.
Speaker 3:That's crazy. Definitely that one, just cause I mean we didn't expect that cause that one was literally like it took like 2 hours. Definitely that one. We didn't expect that. It took Like Two hours. Short yard, smaller yard, but it's much more the story. There was a lot of things that happened in there that made it a lot more emotionally Interesting in the video. But definitely that one. For me Just number one because it was the biggest one. Then what was the other one? Then? Baseball one was pretty good.
Speaker 2:I'm not gonna do baseball one because I kept hitting fire ant hills no, and also he had to leave in the middle because he had to go to practice. I was in the middle.
Speaker 3:We were almost completely finished whenever I left, because we were like well, no, we'd done the playground and the thing and then also half the field, so you only had to do half of the actual field left no, but we did it around it, we.
Speaker 1:We finished at about like almost dark, like it was like yeah, let me go back to this let me go back to this because our our top video is easy to find if you go on youtube and your most popular videos, our top one um, wasn't wasn't an extremely difficult yard to do, but it was funny because I remember going past it, stopping getting ready to go walk up to the front and obviously you know we record our things, you know our videos. So I set the camera down. Dude did not realize that the guy was standing on the porch. So if you go back and you watch this video, he actually, like it scares the crap out of me, because I remember looking up and he didn't say hello, he didn't say like, how can I help you? I looked up and he said how much do you charge? And I'm like, oh, like we're here, we're right in the middle of the conversation, bro, if I walked out with you.
Speaker 2:That would be the funniest thing in the world you would have saw me fall out.
Speaker 3:He would have squeaked, he would yeah, I would have squeaked like a rubber ducky yeah, we were in the car. We didn't even know I remember exactly what we were doing. We had, like just the night before, watch like Ninja Turtles or something like that, and we were listening to, like we were trying to for some reason we looked to find the soundtrack for it. So we were listening to some song. It was like nah, it was like something, some like teenage Ninja Turtles or something like that.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, like vanilla ice Ninja rap.
Speaker 3:Yeah, ninja wrap that was it. It was the ones from the originals and the old, new ones, and we were just seeing what they had on them, and it was that one, uh, the ninja one, and so we weren't paying attention whatsoever, I wasn't even like looking over there, so I had no clue that happened, yeah. Then I found out after yeah.
Speaker 1:But his uh, it was actually sweetest lady I've ever met in my life. She was so thankful.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Um, when she came up and realized what we were doing and, uh, yeah, it was so cool. You know, those are yards that you just don't. You never know what's going to happen or you never know what the people are going through. You know what I'm saying? Another cool yard. This just popped in my head. You remember the yard that the lady we uh went? It was in Chapel Hill and North Carolina, where we're from. We live in Texas now, but she had just gotten scammed. So the story was is the lady?
Speaker 2:Oh, I love that video. I forgot about that one that was like my probably top two or top one?
Speaker 1:Did you get to give her the money?
Speaker 2:Yes, I think so.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think so. I thought you gave her the money.
Speaker 1:No, no no, I think I let him do it. Yeah, yeah, but anyway, the lady got scammed, so somebody was supposed to do her yard, take care of it. She paid them ahead of time and then they disappeared, and so she paid them and didn't get any of the work done. So her aide, or her nurse's aide, reached out to us to come help, and so we did, and then the company that we partnered with to sponsor that specific video also gave us a gift to give her, so we were able to surprise her with a thousand dollars at the end yeah, you should have saw me whenever before we were about to uh give her the money I was like jumped around so excited because that was the first time we ever done anything like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, because it was just like I felt so good to like support somebody in that way and like it was just like one of the best feelings ever I know it was crazy because, like, it worked out perfectly because she was like, I think, in the yard we were going to give it.
Speaker 3:Where were we going to do that? Anyway, with whatever yard we'd had, we were going to give the person money, and then it just happened to be that she literally got, had a reason that we for us to pay her back so we could have done it, and it'd be somebody and they're like I mean, they're in there and they're just like you know, someone who appreciates it but doesn't necessarily need it. But in that one it was like perfect, because she just she's like I literally just got scammed for the same thing you guys are doing for me and you're paying me back for what they took, took from me.
Speaker 2:I'm like that's like perfect, that's exactly have you ever heard of somebody to pay you to mow their yard like?
Speaker 1:no, I've never had that happen.
Speaker 3:And like you have to, I wish.
Speaker 2:If anyone wants to do that, I'm fine with that that yard was kind of annoying because you had we had to like cut tons of bamboo like oh, yeah, yeah it, yeah, that bamboo was.
Speaker 1:It was a three-week yard.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was a three-week yard.
Speaker 1:We did it in three separate videos remember.
Speaker 3:Because we did the front and then we did the bamboo, and then we did the tree.
Speaker 1:But then we also did the tree Remember. We chopped up that tree. We had to call our friends Rodney and Mish to come help us.
Speaker 2:We did the front, then we did the back and bamboo.
Speaker 3:Then we did the, the tree, and then I remember the uh, the bamboo was like crazy because you'd like chop it and it's split into like 40 000 pieces everywhere. That was that was. That was a tougher one because it was like a forest of bamboo. We just it was like so thick, it was so thick and we still we still did got done. But we were also on, we were in like this kind of hilly area.
Speaker 3:There was, like this, where the road, was it like, curved, so we had to kind of find space to put him down and they were like super, super long but they were really light so we didn't chop them up for walking around with these like 30-foot beams like they were like, some of them were 20, 30 feet over, giant yeah, and I didn't notice like bamboo can get thick, like, yeah, really thick, but I didn't know.
Speaker 2:I always saw pandas eating bamboo and I always thought they weren't hollow, but they're completely hollow.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but I don't know if those Look at how they chew that.
Speaker 3:That's crazy yeah.
Speaker 1:Do pandas eat bamboo yeah.
Speaker 3:We're sorry, I didn't know. He's never had a childhood. Never had a childhood.
Speaker 2:Yeah, if he's never had a childhood, never had a childhood.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you can you can tell he did not pay attention, he didn't, he didn't know, he didn't, he didn't pay attention with elmo and everything like that he wasn't watching because obviously no, you know what it is is.
Speaker 1:I come from a time where if you wanted to look up something like that, it came in this like giant stack of encyclopedias that your parents kept in a bookshelf and it it was. It was very, very took a long time to uh to go look that you had to find the P. You had to go through the alphabet of the books, find the P, search for the Panda to get information on that. We didn't. We didn't have access to the internet, believe it, or?
Speaker 3:not. Back then, if you didn't know something, you just kept on not knowing. It was no google, because you could say absolutely anything and no one could say for sure that you were wrong, unless they wanted to go to the library that's true, no one wanted to do that, so you could claim anything I'd be. That was a great time. That that's why the 90s were so great I could say.
Speaker 2:I could say I'm the best football player in the world. Just believe it and they would totally believe me.
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 2:I mean, I'm the best middle schooler? Well, I'm not even the middle schooler.
Speaker 1:Go ahead, go to the library, find an encyclopedia.
Speaker 3:The moon landing Nope didn't happen. They released that recently. You can try to look for that, but it definitely didn't happen yeah.
Speaker 1:So try to look for that, but it definitely didn't. Yeah, so, uh. So tell me this, let me think you guys, when we first started the youtube channel, like what were your thoughts? Did you think it was gonna, it was gonna grow, it was gonna be like what it is today, or what were your thoughts?
Speaker 3:I had no clue, not like what it is today, but I definitely thought that it was something. It was something because it was very new at the time like it was not. It was the niche was like untapped into completely yet. So when we started it was like very, very new. So I felt like we were getting into it at the perfect time.
Speaker 1:So I was like there's a chance.
Speaker 3:I definitely wasn't like there's no chance, but I was definitely like there's a chance because of how like fresh it was yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2:I thought like maybe, like we had a chance, but I didn't know it would blow we've done YouTube before, so we had we had knew how it kind of worked.
Speaker 3:And when you find something that's new, you know that at some point it's something that's new and on the rise. You know it's kind of, if you, if you get into it, what at the perfect time, then you know it's gonna pop off at some point, you know yeah, some point yeah for us, but for us, cuz we got like 14 000 views in like three days on our first video or something like that yeah we thought that was crazy. We were like that's, that's kind of.
Speaker 3:That's why it was because, why we kept doing it so consistently, because our first video did good in our eyes for the time, like for your first video yeah, let me ask you this.
Speaker 1:So a lot of people, a lot of comments we get like they're shocked because you guys are. You know, you're ty, you're 16 judy, you're 10, london's 13 like typically, when people see kids, see kids like your age, they're just playing tons of video games. They have no no interest in in working hard or doing anything like that. Like you guys spend hours out there know we do do it once a day or once a once a day once a day, every day once a week.
Speaker 1:we do it once a week, so it's not like it's a lot, but those days are long Right? Um, like what do you do you guys? Like what do you, what do you see? I mean, let me think about how to ask this.
Speaker 2:Like what? What makes you so different? Why did why? Are you cool with you, know? Hold on, I gotta say something about that one today. Just go find it in a book in the library. Good luck with that in the encyclopedia.
Speaker 1:What makes you guys different? Why? Why do you choose? Why do you choose to work so hard?
Speaker 3:when we were little we were like overseas or whatever. So every we were overseas for like a lot of our lives when we were like younger. So everything they're like. Even if you had to like like, we just had to do like hard things a lot of the time, like whether it's like hiking to get food or something like that, or like just hiking like who, like how we like we hiked up like the himalayas to go to like a village and stuff like.
Speaker 3:So we've been doing that from the beginning. Then when we when we first started cuz that originally started, he had had the business for like how many years, like three years knowing he'd been in 19 yeah, he'd been mowing for like a while he like for a decent amount of time, and since that he'd been the beginning.
Speaker 3:I'd worked with him in the summers and in other parts of the year, all that summer mowing just normal yards that we got paid for and doing that just me, me and him like, and so I was already working for like a very I would already been working for a while.
Speaker 3:So for me it was definitely like I'd been used to doing stuff like that, like I was just used to it by that time, doing like, uh, manual labor or whatever, but to, but again it was, it was something it wasn't like I was doing, like something I didn't enjoy. Also because we like like I really liked that, like when I put on my headphones or whatever and I'll listen to, like whatever, and you get into it and it's just like, so like it's fun, and then seeing it from beginning to end, knowing that you made that thing that was so like such a problem to the person who owns it and made them something that they can even be like proud of.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Um what do you think was the cause? I like what you're saying. It's like it's not that everybody just wants to go around and work hard for no reason, just cause you enjoy hard work Some people do, but you you get to see what you've done, what you've accomplished. It's very, it's very, easy to see. Within a couple hours you see a transformation take place. But even more so, you see the response of the person the homeowner or the neighbor or the person that's affected by it, and it gives, it brings value to your hard work, right. So it's more than just hard work. It's actually impacting someone and that could change their life. So what do you guys remember? A certain, a certain? I know this is hard because we've done so many, but is there something you can think top of mind, that a certain person that was affected, where you kind of had that switch, where you're like, wow, this is really, really impacting people.
Speaker 2:Well, that, that one that we just did, it was you're like wow, we did something good for somebody.
Speaker 3:just now, after like two years in, he's like no, no, no, this is just the one.
Speaker 2:I thought, off of the top of my head.
Speaker 1:The one we did last week.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the one with the guy and his grandma watches us. No, not the one last week, it was the one with the guy. No, not his grandma, his mom, the guy with the nerve damage. Yeah.
Speaker 3:We chopped up, we pulled out that tree.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we pulled out that tree yeah, we chopped up, we pulled out that. Oh yeah, we pulled out that tree. I felt good because, like I know that, I knew that she like needed that and that was like a super big blessing for her yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely you.
Speaker 1:You can tell when people come out and they try to help as well, like they want to offer as much as they can, but a lot of people are not.
Speaker 3:They're not able to because of a sickness or something like that and it definitely feels more remote rewarding when you feel like they like not deserved it, but uh deserved, like help.
Speaker 1:But they needed it.
Speaker 3:They need. They needed it and we're definitely like the right people for it. They were where they like cause, cause, if you go and help somebody and they're just like yeah, I mean, yeah, it was nice, it was like. You know what I mean. When someone, when you help somebody and they're just like yeah, I mean, yeah, it was nice, it was like you know what I mean. When someone, you help somebody and they're like like they, it almost feels like it doesn't matter too much to them, and you know what I mean.
Speaker 3:Sure, you know what I'm saying and I see someone that needs it, that needed it so much and that it matters to them so much that they care a lot. When you do it, it just makes. It makes you feel like uh a lot more like you actually did something that really affected them.
Speaker 1:oh, oh, yeah, and you know, sometimes we'll get complaints Like if we do an abandoned house or something like that, people are like it's just going to grow back and stuff like that. It's just like what is your mentality? A lot of times we try if we, if we got into, if we got into trying to only choose jobs which we can't do, that are going to be the perfect person who needs it, who's going to be appreciative, and stuff like that, we would never do yards right. We just try to serve in general and we pray before our yards when we go out that God leads us to the right homes and the right people. Sometimes people don't realize that a lot of these yards, even if they're abandoned, it could affect the neighborhood if it's transformed. I think there's some really cool.
Speaker 3:That's the ones, that ones that are abandoned are sometimes the best one, cause their neighbors are like. I hate this, thick Springs and wild animals. They're like. I have rats in my house now because of my neighbor's yard is overgrown or whatever.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So it still affects people and people are like, well, the grass is going to grow back. I'm like, well, so is your hair. Like you know, you still cut your hair, you still shower. You know, even though it's going to, it's going to grow back or you're going to get dirty again. But it's about, like, really stewarding and taking care of your neighborhood. You do this once a week and it compounds and after a couple of years you've got hundreds and hundreds of of transformations and there's a lot of yards. Do you remember the, the ladies that we helped, uh, that were, uh, back in in Burlington and North Carolina on the way to from our house to Grammy's house, on the way to from our house to Grammy's house, and we get to drive past there a?
Speaker 3:lot of times and see that they're keeping up the lady that we helped fix her mower. Yeah, because we did her house and then the one across from her that like used to be her parents or something, but she has a friend living in now.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:That one. That's what I was going to say, because we actually, like, got to know her. She was one of those people where she completely like I'm so glad that she was the person that we like did that that was uh, lucky the turtle.
Speaker 1:Do you remember lucky the turtle?
Speaker 3:oh yeah, we did by the way, I saw someone said I wanted to name it bardis. Someone in the comments said name it bardis and I was like we have to do that, but the most, but we said most popular comment and it was like what was it? What'd you say? It was lucky, lucky, lucky, which I do really like because it's definitely appropriate for the term for that that name, but I love artists yeah, and that lady was really nice.
Speaker 2:But one thing about that year that stood out to me was the uh, what do you call it?
Speaker 3:it's the cactus oh yeah, I still have thorns in my gloves from yeah, sometimes I'm like what is that? Oh, I don't wear that there's a specific pair of gloves that we have that I try not to wear because they're cactus quilt like spines in them yeah I had. I had to pick them, pick out like this stuff from the the, the uh weeds that were in the cactus and stuff like that so they're all in my hands and we got like cactus proof gloves or something like that.
Speaker 3:We had gloves that were like cut proof or whatever. Yep and uh, they didn't work.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because they because they're made to protect, like big cuts and stuff like that. So we thought they'll work.
Speaker 3:great for the little spines and the spines stuck to them so well.
Speaker 2:It almost felt like they're like a magnet to them. Yeah but I had so many thorns in my pants, Like if I sat down it would be like Something you just I just said on like me.
Speaker 3:It was only like one little part of that yard that had those cactus.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they were, but they were there then.
Speaker 3:I weeded it them sometimes on accident. So they would like have spine to you know. Let me put his number that go.
Speaker 2:There would be, that would be kind of like that was a tougher one, but it was like probably my favorite one. Yeah, that would be kind of like a fun game, like somebody weeded it and you gotta like it's like saying throw a rock at me, I'll try to dodge it. That's not a fun game, I mean if you're okay with pain, then I guess, but I don't know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1:That's all right, yeah, no, that's good. No, it's exciting. I'm excited to continue to do it. The thing I love about it is uh is I? We enjoy it. Do you know what I'm saying? I'm like you guys are talking about me getting old. You guys are getting old, ty. You're driving now, bro. What is that like?
Speaker 3:I've said that because I have to, like I have to get around a lot, like with football. With football I always have to drive like really far to get to it. Like back in North Carolina I had to drive like an hour and 15 minutes every day for practice and I knew it was always a hassle to figure out rides or whatever for me, which would usually be me, but I couldn't drive by myself. So then mom and dad would have to like go out of their way to just get me to practice or whatever on time. But now it's way, way easier. I still have to drive kind of far. It's like 45 minutes to practice here. So now that I can drive by myself, it's like not a hassle. I don't have to like get home, we get home and then then we have to. Then we have to all eat dinner together at like 9 45 no, some nights we had to eat dinner at like 12 12 a night.
Speaker 3:Yeah, because practices were run late and traffic or whatever.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so that's probably one of the biggest things and that I can like take them out whenever, like mom didn't do something in the house or whatever, or just need some time or whatever, I can just take them. We can just go around. We'll be on the highway and I'll be like we should just go look at what's over there. We won sometime, or whatever. I can just take them. We can just go around like we'll be like we'll be on the highway and I'll be like we should just go look at what's over there. Well, not, we won't know what a building is and we'll just like let's go in that building and just see what it is. We did that. There's this someplace called fire, firefly or something around here and we don't know what it is, it was behind firefly.
Speaker 3:No, I'm talking about firefly. Oh yeah, we've seen it from the side, like we're going in there and they're like why? I'm like I kind of want to know what it is.
Speaker 2:Why not? Why I?
Speaker 3:was like, why not? And then right behind that we found this giant like sports complex with like a football field, two, two ice skating rinks and like pickleball and everything. And I was like, see, guys, I had a point.
Speaker 2:We would never know this was here if we hadn't go see whatever we still didn't find out what firefly I mean, I don't think we would never know we wouldn't know as soon though yeah but you also don't know if we would have never known I mean
Speaker 1:if you don't know, now you know yeah, we did get kicked out, though.
Speaker 3:They said I could, they said they said they said you had to be 18, yeah, to be able to, to be able to be in there by yourself.
Speaker 1:It was just like a sports place I was like pickleball because I think there's a. You know, a lot of people are getting injured playing pickleball I love it.
Speaker 3:I was a hater, definitely, just kidding yeah, I was. I guess I can get extreme when I first heard about it I was a hater because I go into like places and they'd be like like, like, really like rich country clubs or something, and it felt like something that like uh, old, rich people do originally yeah which I think it originally was, because pickleball's been down, been around for a while and I think originally that's what it was.
Speaker 3:You'd only see it in like crazy nice neighborhoods. They got this pickleball court over here to the side. You're like, why not a basketball court or something like that?
Speaker 2:and then we tried it and it was pretty fun it was I love it I can't hate on it now, but I mean I mean still like ties work, like there were some people that were just like these basketball people over here being too loud. Yeah, that was one thing I worked at a sports flex and the pickleball people.
Speaker 3:They played pickleball on two basketball courts and they were always mad that basketball had two more time slots, that basketball had more time slots than pickleball and I'm like it's called a basketball court for a reason. It's not a pickleball court it's a basketball court that seconds as pickleball.
Speaker 3:But yeah, I tried it and because that's the main reason, why was the people at this, at uh, the place where I'd like worked this like a sports thing just a few of them would like uh, would uh give me kind of like a bad rap, bad reputation, for pickle. But then when I because they were like super into it, would like show up early and like practice like on the side of the building, and we were like you can't be doing that and then I was like practicing pickleball Like it's just a for fun thing or whatever, then I like actually tried it and I was like I could totally get into this, yeah, because you just like, if there were like high school pickleball teams.
Speaker 3:I, If there were high school pickleball teams, I would be on a pickleball team.
Speaker 1:You think that'll happen Probably.
Speaker 3:That'd be pretty sweet. I'd rather play that than tennis.
Speaker 1:They're breakdancing the Olympics now, so you never know how long before pickleball becomes an Olympic sport.
Speaker 3:It should. That's the only thing in the Olympics I would watch. Honestly, I wouldn't. I don't really pay attention to the Olympics as much except for basketball.
Speaker 1:It might be the only, the only part of the Olympics where you would see people over 60 years old in the Olympics.
Speaker 3:Probably yeah, oh that would be crazy, actually, if you made other than shooting. They have shooting now, right?
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's true, there was a skit I saw and it was shooting. It was showing all the Olympic athletes. They're training together. They're like I'm training for him for like the four and a meter or whatever, and they're like training for all their like elite events. And then this guy with like a big guy with a handlebar mustache walks in there and he's like in the gym, he's like talk, trying to talk to him, like talk Olympics with him, but he's just so. He's like he goes in there to work out and he pulls out these little weights and starts weight lifting with his finger, while they're like training for a marathon and they're like, yeah, I've been training for years for this. He's like, well, I've been shooting a gun a lot in the back and like like this guy, it was so funny. I was like I didn't think about that, having like had these, all these elite athletes. And then the guy, he was like I mean I trained my trigger finger and that's about it or whatever like yeah, he was like.
Speaker 2:He was like whenever he did it. He was like um, can you can count for me? I was like can you spot one, can you spot me two, three, okay, that's all I got and then he's like he's like the other guy that's training for the marathon, he's like I'm gonna go over here.
Speaker 3:He's like oh yeah, that wasn't totally the whole workout, you know that wasn't my workout at all, or whatever I'm like hey, that's a sport If you're like, not an athletic build or whatever, or just like didn't get the genetics to be able to, like, be an elite athlete or whatever It'd be just a nice way to put it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, if you just didn't, if you're just unfortunate enough to not be able to like go pro at some which most people aren't go pro at some, which most people aren't go pro at some crazy sport or whatever, get into something like something where it's like shooting or chess or something like that, something that your actual physical body doesn't count on. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. If you enjoy it, of course.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but wait, is chess an Olympic sport.
Speaker 1:I'm not sure if people just got encouraged or insulted, but great job.
Speaker 3:Yeah, great job. If you're not, if you're not built different you're not.
Speaker 1:I mean there's always chess and shooting in shooting the or both, if you can shoot, if you're not an athlete.
Speaker 3:Just do that, that's right yeah there are, though I mean. I mean what? So? What's the sport that's like? Not Curling, curling?
Speaker 1:Do you know what that is?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I don't think it's a sport or it shouldn't be.
Speaker 2:No, it's in the Olympics.
Speaker 3:Apologies to any curlers out there. I'm sorry that's not that's. Do you really know what it is? Yeah, I do.
Speaker 1:It's where. Try to get in the circle. Let me ask you this is the. Is just the person who who kind of I don't even know the name for this stuff sends the thing down the ice. Is he the athlete, or what about the broomer I?
Speaker 3:would. I would say he's the team captain, they're. They're like the equivalent of of like bobsledders. Uh yeah, like they're the equivalent.
Speaker 1:It's like a team sport.
Speaker 3:But not they're, yeah, they're, they're much. I definitely give all the credit to the guy sliding it, because they might affect a few inches, which I don't know how much. They have the ice jacked up.
Speaker 1:Have you ever heard him scream at those sweepers? Have you ever watched a real match? Yes, they're like screaming at him like go, go, go, go, and they're lighting it up. Yeah, it's intense.
Speaker 3:The only reason that I say that I don't think curling should be not in the Olympicsics but as much of an olympic sport is because it took forever for them to get skateboarding in the olympics, but they had curling in there before skateboarding but I feel like that's much to their defense.
Speaker 1:I think a lot of times we as americans look at like just kind of what we find popular, not realizing that there's all kinds of other sports that are much more popular and in the rest of the world yeah, which skateboarding, which I guess that would be more nationally or even like what's like sumo wrestling.
Speaker 3:I feel like I would take that over curling as a sport. You know, that's pretty crazy. I've actually watched. I don't know why I got on. I got on, I just wanted to know what it was. So I saw this like video and it was just like professional sumo wrestler breaking down movie scenes about sumo wrestlers and he was like just telling you all the techniques and stuff they try to use, like you'll see a guy. He's like I see you wouldn't use that technique in a real match. You put your thumbs like this when you grab the person. And it was like the weirdest thing and I was like, okay, this is like a, like a thing yeah, and also there was athletes, those sumo wrestlers are like.
Speaker 2:Yeah, most of you know that we love the Bills, so we're full blown out Bills fans. So we actually signed. Bills Mafia Break some tables we actually signed an Olympic professional sumo wrestler that's true. Sumo wrestler, sumo wrestler. Whoa, what was it? Wrest it wrestler.
Speaker 1:he was just a wrestler he just, he actually just got hey, that would be legit a sumo wrestler. Put him on the line they would actually like just not like like I saw their regimen.
Speaker 3:Like they they can do full. They can do full splits. Like they're the some of the most flexible people you'll see and then they also, um, like very fast and great endurance like they. Their regimen is like one of those ones you hear about in like ancient greeks, how they trained for the like, uh, like the spartans or something like that. It's like that style stuff, like I think they could last. But about that bills wrestler?
Speaker 2:he just got cut today yeah, sadly I was, really I was so disappointed.
Speaker 3:I really liked him. I saw a video of him doing a round-off backflip. Really he did a round-off backflip and just a layout. He literally just no bend. He just did one.
Speaker 2:Bro, that's so cool.
Speaker 3:And he's like 275 pounds, good guy.
Speaker 2:That's actually really impressive.
Speaker 3:I'm like I can't do a layout Period and he's doing it like after. It was like what he did as a celebration for winning the Olympics. He has an Olympic gold medal. That was why it was so big.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:He wanted to be the first athlete to get a Superbowl ring.
Speaker 2:That would be.
Speaker 3:Yeah, think about this though. He wanted. He wanted to be the first athlete to have a Superbowl ring and Olympic gold medal, and he went to the bills because he wanted the Superbow interesting, alright.
Speaker 1:Well, I've got a couple rapid fire questions for you guys. Okay, I'm gonna go back and forth rapid fire session, and then I got a surprise at the end rapid fire top five dad jokes and I'm gonna let you guys rate them, okay, alright, favorite food my mom's lasagna or no pizza just insulted mom pizza.
Speaker 3:I'm just kidding no, it's pizza, pizza, pizza, fast food. Or your mother's cooking?
Speaker 1:uh, mom's cooking fast food oh, no, need what's your favorite food um pre-vegan, because dad's from buffalo new york. Pre-vegan is buffalo they might not know what kind of vegan is. You can't? Oh, we're vegan.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so we don't eat meat, or we don't eat an animal, or whatever comes from an animal. Yeah, yeah. It's nothing weird, we're not Weird, weird.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:It's just healthy, it's healthy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and we don't want to force it on you at all.
Speaker 1:Sure, eat a lot of plants. You have to do that, but I'm going to die at 98.
Speaker 3:Just saying Cool. So favorite food in general yeah, in general Mexican food. So probably like tacos when we do like the the giant all over the table you like table nachos, table nachos cool.
Speaker 1:This way better I'm not on a plate Judah, superhero or villain.
Speaker 3:Joker stole that from me.
Speaker 2:I don know joker or what's it called, uh hulk hulk, yes the question is would you rather be a superhero or a villain? Oh, superhero, for sure, because everybody would like me.
Speaker 1:I don't think you quite.
Speaker 3:Yeah, super sure because don't think about it if you fail, you're going to jail for life. If you're a super villain, not a, not just a villain. If you're a super villain, you're doing something pretty dastardly. You're kind of like.
Speaker 1:Did you just use the word dastardly?
Speaker 3:I thought about it before I said I'm like, should I say this right?
Speaker 2:I've never heard that about the joker thing.
Speaker 3:I literally told a bunch of people the other day we were talking about and I was like actually the j Joker is my favorite person, the superhero kind of thing, and everybody hated me for it. I was like I just like the Joker. He just stole that from me. Hold, on.
Speaker 2:One reason that I like the Joker a little bit better than I did before is because we went to Six Flags recently and the Joker ride was my favorite ride.
Speaker 3:I didn't get to go to that, I had football practice.
Speaker 1:Hey got to make sacrifice. All right, last two questions.
Speaker 2:Morning person or night owl, I have no idea what does that mean in general?
Speaker 1:Are you more of a morning person or are you better at night? Do you like it more at night?
Speaker 2:I like it more at night because I feel more cozy Cozy Not when you're in bed at night, do you like it more at night?
Speaker 1:I like it more at night because I feel more cozy night, cozy like, not when you're in bed, like like do you like to stay up late?
Speaker 2:or yeah, I like to stay up late, but like the mornings I'm just like my hair is crazy, you like.
Speaker 1:You like the evening vibe too, though, like you just feel more relaxed, like end of the day.
Speaker 2:I mean I feel more relaxed whenever I'm probably at nighttime, but if I'm still in the bed in mornings.
Speaker 1:Okay, your new nickname is Cozy.
Speaker 3:When he wakes up it's like oh no, he looks like a zombie when he gets up, so I'm guessing night, but he's good at falling asleep quick. What about you, Ty?
Speaker 1:I like taking showers, if you say morning, I might have to hit you with one of these sandbags.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I like it right after I'm up, Once I'm awake. I like being up early better.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 3:Once I'm actually awake. I don't like to be like I'm going to get up at 4 am today. I don't feel good in the moment, but once I'm up I'm like I'm already started.
Speaker 2:Everyone else is still asleep and I'm getting things done, but I think I do like to stay up late. I'm a go get a. I'm a go get a go. And also whenever, like, I wake up at like 2, am for like flights or something I'm like not tired.
Speaker 3:I like that actually.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like I'm not tired, I'm just like wide awake, like you just grab the day by the horns, you know?
Speaker 3:yeah, I think if I, if I, if I started waking up at like five, I would like it sorry.
Speaker 2:What does that mean?
Speaker 1:you gotta remember I'm still like the youngest generation it just means like you're just taking a hold of the day. So you're not. You know, when you wake up and you feel behind like it's not that, like you wake up, you take control of the day, you kind of accomplish things really early yeah, so yeah, alright, last question favorite thing to do on the weekend?
Speaker 2:weekend favorite thing to do skydive.
Speaker 3:Haven't done it yet, but I know I would like that wait, what did you say, skydive? Skydive. It would be if I could.
Speaker 2:Okay, okay why does it have to be 18?
Speaker 3:Not in Mexico. I could do it right now. We're not that close from the border.
Speaker 1:So you're shocked that you have to be 18 to jump out of an airplane.
Speaker 3:Well, I mean you're with someone. If you're tandem, I get it. There's dogs that have skydived and they're probably like three years old. They couldn't be past 18, past the dog's probably not past 18. That's skydiving.
Speaker 1:So but, uh, something that I actually like do, pretty like enjoy doing on the weekends, uh, do you think if you dress up as a dog, you could, they would, you could get away with it oh, yeah, for sure there's a.
Speaker 3:Hey, this is. I listen. I was listening to a podcast actually, and they were talking about there's a guy who had a dog. He made a 10 grand dog 10 grand dog costume and it looked so much like a dog. He made a 10 grand dog costume and it looked so much like a dog and he didn't even sell it. He just made it because he wanted to be a dog. So he walks around in public and gets people to pet him how much time do you have on your hands?
Speaker 1:Alright, so this one's going to go quick. Okay, got a couple dad jokes, 1 to 10. 10 is just horrible. Never say it again. 10 is absolutely hilarious, you should use it everywhere you go.
Speaker 2:You said ten is absolutely horrible.
Speaker 3:You said ten is the worst and ten is the best.
Speaker 2:I think I'll just go ten-ten what's the best.
Speaker 1:It's a little trick, a little sleight of hand, probably ten.
Speaker 3:I would go ten.
Speaker 1:One is the worst, ten is ze best.
Speaker 2:Ze best If you've ever heard, okay ready, kind of like my cheese.
Speaker 1:Ready. You might know some of them because I give you guys a lot of dad jokes.
Speaker 2:You might know the answers. He does some of his thought.
Speaker 1:With that into account, okay.
Speaker 2:Hold on. Before he said that, he said I rip them a lot. He rips a lot of things.
Speaker 3:Let he rips a lot of things. Let's just say that.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Whoa, this is episode one. Okay, you guys act like you don't ever have gas, all right.
Speaker 3:Why don't skeletons fight each other? Because they got. I know I've heard this one before.
Speaker 2:Because if they fight each other, they'll both fall down.
Speaker 3:Because they've got no guts, that's it.
Speaker 1:I knew it All right. One out of ten. Let's do this quick Seven.
Speaker 3:Because they've got no guts. I'm going to say ten is very high for me, so I'm going to say a good joke would be at like a four or five. So for me an average joke is four or five and that's still a good joke.
Speaker 1:That means it made me laugh. So I'm going to go four. Okay, fair enough, fair enough. Why did the scarecrow win an award?
Speaker 2:I've heard this one.
Speaker 3:I haven't heard this one. I'm good at guessing jokes.
Speaker 2:I can break them down in my mind One time a story.
Speaker 3:It's a good way to ruin a joke it is, though. That's why Then I don't end up laughing.
Speaker 2:One time my dad barely started. Are you going to? Let me get to the punchline.
Speaker 1:No, okay because he was outstanding in his field.
Speaker 3:I like that.
Speaker 2:That was a good one. I don't understand it.
Speaker 1:Why did the scarecrow, win an award.
Speaker 2:Because he was outstanding in the field.
Speaker 3:In his field. In his oh Like his field, like his job, like whatever he was doing, oh, I don't like that. Well, it's because you didn't get it. That's not his fault. That's a two I'm going to go seven on that one.
Speaker 2:Two, don't say that ever again, all right.
Speaker 1:Two more, two more. Why can't you hear a?
Speaker 2:pterodactyl. Go to the bathroom Because they're in the air.
Speaker 3:Because there's no P in it. There's no P.
Speaker 1:No In the names.
Speaker 3:There is pterodactyl. No, there is a P, so that would be.
Speaker 2:I just said there's none.
Speaker 3:No, it has something to do with the P.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry.
Speaker 3:We're homeschooled, so just give us a break, hey the fact that I knew it had a P Listen, listen. I knew it did, I just did opposite though, because the P is silent. That's it. That's what I was trying to think of, All right last one, grand finale.
Speaker 2:You didn't let us win it.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:That was three. I didn't like them. I'm going to go five on that one. That's in the middle, okay, I thought it was pretty good. I'm going to go in the middle Two down. I think I ruined it by trying to get it. I think me saying there, All right grand finale.
Speaker 1:Grand finale, you ready, drum roll please.
Speaker 2:That's a weird, I sound like a.
Speaker 1:Drum roll please. Bumblebee please, okay, all right, that's a whole, nother podcast episode. We can talk about my favorite movie.
Speaker 3:Show them the tat. Show them the tat Show them the tat.
Speaker 1:Right here the B movie, barry B Benson. Okay, shout out to Jerry.
Speaker 3:Seinfeld if he wants to hop on the podcast at any time. We want you here.
Speaker 1:The offer's on the table. All right, let me get to this. All right Grand finale. Why did the golfer bring two pairs of pants?
Speaker 2:Because there was a hole in one. In case he gets a hole in one. In case he gets a hole in one, in case he gets a hole in one. I'm going seven on that one too, I like that one.
Speaker 3:The first time I heard that one, it was pretty good. I'm going like 7.2.
Speaker 1:I like that one. That was one I like. All right, well, I had a blast hanging out with you guys. Yeah, one person that we missed today who London? It's London.
Speaker 2:London. The other blessing boy.
Speaker 1:Oh, the middle child, the other blessing, boy. Oh, the middle child, yes, the middle child hey.
Speaker 2:I'm the middle child too, but I don't get forgotten.
Speaker 1:That's true.
Speaker 2:You were the baby, the youngest, for a long time. I'm the younger middle child.
Speaker 1:Well, we will be rotating, so you're going to get to see all the beautiful faces of all the blessing boys on future episodes.
Speaker 2:There's only one beautiful face in this room, I, so you're going to get to see all the beautiful faces of all the blessing boys on future episodes.
Speaker 3:There's only one beautiful face in this room. I mean two beautiful faces in this room Barry Benson and me.
Speaker 1:Barry Benson on dad's arm and me.
Speaker 3:You guys, I don't understand you said, there's two beautiful faces Barry Benson on dad's arm and me. I get it I don't understand.
Speaker 2:I got it. Drum roll please, Tony Soprano's on the other.
Speaker 1:All right. Well, as this episode comes to a close, thank you guys for your time, thank you guys for hanging out with us on this episode. We really appreciate it. So, so appreciate the support, all your comments, all your engagements, everything you do to encourage us and keep us going. Super appreciative of that. And, yeah, look forward to the next episode. We're going to bring London in here and you can get to talk to him a little bit, but until then, we'll see you guys in the next episode.
Speaker 3:Comment down below what's your favorite donut and howdy? I was about to say he wasn't going to say howdy, I was going to say it for him.
Speaker 2:I was like I'm going to steal that catch line Cut.