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So are we supposed to start the podcast? Ready? One, two, three. I'm killing it. Listener, it's unbelievable how good at podcasting we are. Yes. And it's unbelievable. We're just going to right out of the gate welcome you to I've Had It podcast.
The most positive podcast on the World Wide Web. Yes. Right, Pumps? No rage, just inspiration and toxic positivity. Journeys and manifestations. All of it. My name is Jennifer. I'm Angie. She's the star of our show, the single sensation in podcasting, Princess Diana herself. And today we have, backed by popular demand. Popular, popular demand. My husband-
Josh Welch. Hello, ladies. Hi, Josh. What a welcome treat to be back on the podcast. What about our new setup? See, we have a two-person setup, and then now this is our three-person setup. It feels a little bit more natural. Yeah, it feels like this is kind of a big deal. I mean, lots of things have happened since I was last here. I think probably all the things have happened because you were last here. Well, that's what I didn't want to take full credit. If you look at the comments, people do want me back.
You know what's interesting? While we were on the first leg of our hot shit tour, Pumps and I shared a hotel room and we would go back and we would FaceTime Josh and he was so sweet and he was so interested and he would send us these sweet messages. Remember your little friendship when y'all would sit on the porch and smoke cigarettes? That's all you have to do on stage. Our biggest cheerleader. Yeah.
Before the show, we get back to the room with FaceTime Josh and we tell him how great it was and how you know what an out of body experience it was. And then he would ask pumps in me. Did anybody ask about me? And I would say.
No, I didn't hear anybody say, how's Josh Pumps? Did you? I did not. I heard lots of Kylie. Lots of Kylie. I didn't hear anybody ask. And I knew immediately that that was bullshit. We were lying. Yeah. So all you have to do is see the episodes I'm on, read the comments, and you can tell that I'm a huge part of this podcast. You are a huge part. And it's success.
Absolutely. Well, tell our listener what you said recently to my friend Liz, that the whole reason I even have a podcast and how you'd like to thank yourself for that. Well, there is a friend of Jennifer's that we were talking to recently and this I've had it craze or demand by the public that's out there.
would not exist without some fuck up providing the content for this for like 20, 25 years. And when I say fuck up, that's tongue in cheek. But years of struggling with addiction, lose your bar license, all the awful, horrible things that can happen to a person have somehow miraculously all happened to me.
And so Jennifer has had to encounter all of these things. And in the course of encountering these hardships, I want to change encountering to endure, endure. I think that's a better word. Yeah. So in the course of enduring these hardships, she has all of these stories, all of this content that's limitless. Unbridled cynicism. Unbridled cynicism. And I, and I, I do say this sometimes I was like,
I would like to come on the show one time when it's not mentioned that I've been to rehab five times. I mean, don't come back if it's been six. When we hear five family weeks, I mean, let's just get an intro one time. Maybe just let's just slip that under the radar. Welcome to I've Had It. Our guest today, my husband, Josh Welch, five-time back-to-back champ at...
Drug and alcohol rehabilitation. Whether it's Arizona, Georgia, or California. You name it, listener. You name it, I've got you covered. You could do like an Instagram review, like a Yelp Instagram reviewing rehab. We could have a call in. If you have family members that are wanting to go to treatment, let me give you some ideas about all the different places I've been. Well, I will say, when you were saying that, there's a lot of truth to that.
Because obviously your behavior was deplorable. My ex-husband's behavior was deplorable. And Jennifer and I, that's where we got the foundation of our friendship. Because it was like...
She would pick me up off the ground and carry me one day. I'd pick up her off the ground and carry her one day. So it's like that's where our friendship. Listen, listener, this is called a trauma bond. That's a trauma bond from that. And one great thing going through all that is a we had each other.
And B, I think a lot of the times we would laugh about it. Like, how the fuck did this happen? There's nothing else you can do at certain times is laugh. Otherwise, you're going to... But it's so bad. Yeah, it's so bad. But...
Here's the thing, and a lot of people say this, and I think everybody will agree with this about addicts. If you get to the other side of it, if you can somehow manage to get sober or endure all of the bullshit, everybody's mad at you, you're broke, all that stuff. If you can get to the other side of it, you come out a much richer, a much...
better person. You also get better haircuts. You get better haircuts, but, and you get, you have better relationships, you have better, and so you can look back and you can laugh at some of it because it's like super, super painful. Right. And any listener, everybody's lives have pretty much been touched by addiction. Josh and I are just vocal about it and we want to normalize it. It is a disease that affects almost every family. Right.
But when Pump says that we were trauma bonding, there were moments where we laughed because we used that as medicine to help get us through it. Because sometimes you're taking something so seriously, and it is serious. And you have to take a step back and have some gratitude in the moment that I do have a friend here who's listening to me, and she's laughing with me, and she's crying with me, and vice versa. And when I would go to these five, one, two, three, four, five family weeks...
Josh and I would have moments of levity where we would laugh and cry. And that's just a part of the human experience. But listen, listener.
That's another episode on a different podcast about self-help. Today's episode and our podcast is about things that we've had it with. So I would like to ask our guest, Josh, what have you had it with? Well, let me first just back up to what you said. I think that this podcast up to this point has been way too informative and educational. So it's time we've got to get this thing back down a notch. Right. With some good I've had it. So,
You know, I've got a multitude of things that I've had it with. Let's hear them. So I've had it with when you order for about seven or eight people.
At a restaurant. At a restaurant. And it could be to go. It could be over the phone. And, you know, there's some pretty nuanced orders. Like some person may want a certain sauce with their side of pizza. The other person may want the pizza cooked well, done. There's all these things that variations for the order. And so after I order.
Right. Right.
And I tried that yesterday at this pizza place. And the girl looked at me and literally just broke out, busted out laughing. She's like, who in the fuck is this guy? What the fuck is wrong with him? But I said, no, you're off the hook completely. So if I get home and I'm three slices short, this is on me. But I can't go back and listen to, I need a side of ranch with that. I need this cooked extra well. This person gets a Dr. Pepper. We need...
A salad with extra chicken. We need extra vinaigrette. I can't go back and do all that stuff. Right. Doing it once was enough for you. Yeah. So I think that's a good philosophy. You can say you don't have to read it back. And I assume responsibility for all the fuck ups on the order, whether it's your writing it down or the kitchen messing it up. I'm not sending jack shit back. You're not getting a complaint. I'm not getting on a Yelp review.
A hundred percent. And I could see that when I told her that, number one, she was relieved. She started busting out laughing. She was like, really? So it doesn't matter. Because it was a $74 order at a pizza place for nine people. Right. So it's hefty. It was going to take six to seven minutes just to get the read back with all the sides and what people wanted. So there's just...
I would rather be two to three slices short of the order than endure the seven minutes of readback. I agree. See, I'm thinking about it because what I find so frustrating is when I go to great pains to order exactly like it's supposed to be and then they repeat it back and it's like,
What the fuck? That's not even what I said. No, this is what I said. And then I have to have the read back one at a time. But on the other hand, I think I'd be so mad that they fucked it up. And then I've already assumed responsibility for it.
You know, there's that little bitty side of me that would want to send it back. There's that Karen. There's that flirtation with Karenism that just keeps popping up. Yeah. No, I mean, because I am the first one to send an order back. First one. I do it for my friends. If they don't, if something's wrong with their order and they don't want to say it, I always do. We've been trying to talk about this. First step is maybe start faking it till you make it. Maybe quit saying it out loud. I do it so sweet. Maybe quit saying out loud.
on the World Wide Web, on YouTube, on our podcast app, that you're the first problem at a restaurant. I'm not the first problem at a restaurant, but I do respond appropriately to an issue with the restaurant. So if they get something wrong, you send it back immediately? Immediately.
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Okay, Pumps, what have you had it with? Okay, what I've had it with, and I mean, I've just fucking had it. I want to say up front, I'm an offender. I'm an offender and I've had it. Okay. I've had it with group texts. Yesterday, I was getting my lashes done, which is an hour deal. And so I put my headphones in, I just chill. And my group texts, I had three group texts in that span. What makes me crazy about it, I like the efficiency. I like the efficiency.
But when everybody makes a response and the responses are like they do that like button where they just hit the like button and all that. And I'm like, can't you just fucking assume that everybody got it because it says delivered? Here's a prime example. Someone says something.
All the other people respond, maybe just a K, like K. K, K, K. Well, then people come in and start hearting the K. Yes. And that point, you've said fucking nothing. Nothing. There's been a K and a hearted K, and it lights up. Like, if you've got 10 to 12 people in the group. You're so right.
It is a circle jerk of likes. Circle jerk of ridiculous likes. Yeah. I've noticed that too. There's just way too many like options. Way too many interactions. I got out of a pickleball match the other day and I went to my phone and I had 56 text messages in an hour and a half. About 70% of those were related to two different group texts that
All of which is information I didn't need. Right. Nor enhanced my life. Right. Nor was funny or interesting. But it was a bunch of that circle jerk of emojis with liking things. And check this out and check that out. The memo needs to be sent right here from this podcast to the world. Pump up.
the brakes on all that shit with group text. Not everybody's into it. Not everybody wants 37. I mean, I had three group texts. Everybody responded. So I think I had 66 text messages. Are you fucking kidding me? Are they saying the nuclear codes? It's seventh grade communication. It is. On your cell phone. It is. It's like, Josh likes this. Right. Jennifer likes this. What they've done is that used to be, you know, 10, 15 years ago, that was your Facebook notification.
Jennifer likes, you know, this post. Josh likes that post. And now that's been transferred over to the phone. And it's like a group text is almost like you get social media style alerts. Right. And I've had a group text. I want to take it back to the days where someone could just send you a text. It was informative. You could read it.
And it wasn't incumbent upon you to like it. It's like they've changed the social contract. Yeah, the like is now thought of as putting the stamp on it. Right. Like, I got it and I see it. I'm going to do it. It's like you have to send back received. I think that's bullshit. I think we need a new emoji.
That would, that tells the other person that, hey, listen, I want to stop communicating like this. Like maybe the bird or something like that would be like, listen, I want us to stop doing this. Like I'm against all of this. I wish that like when it went, then there was an option where you could just put like a blank line, meaning like I want to opt out. Yeah. Something. But you can do that on certain things. Yeah, but then it's like, then you.
Jennifer Welch has left the group text. Right. Sometimes I do it and I like it. I want everybody to know. I agree with that. Yeah. I'm just like, I've had one time I had a deal where I had like 117 texts while I was trying to work.
And they were all stupid. And I just put left the building. Well, then everybody left the text stream. Left the planet. Left the planet. And then they all text me on the side. Are you mad? I'm like, no, I just don't have fucking time. You know, the worst is when it's like a 25, 30 person group and three or four people in the group obviously had a situation happen and they want to share about it. Right. And they go back and forth forever. And the other 20 people in the group have nothing to do with the conversation. This is the takeaway listener.
If you're in a group text and you find that only two of you are communicating, take that conversation out of the group text and quit torturing everybody. Yes. And move it to your own one-on-one communication. Nobody needs to see this. This is in the same family of the grandstanders, power moms that click reply all, I'll bring the cookies. Right. When they can just tell the host. For these 18-year-old adults. Right.
Gatorade and it's like they need to go get their own freaking gate And I think that we need to make a pledge here too that we're gonna not use the light button anymore I agree. Let me tell you all what I've had it with. Okay, I have had it with People on social media that see little clips of us that literally take us seriously. I
They think we're serious as light attacks. Like we were talking about the food allergies and that we've had it with food allergies. The overblown. We say, okay, gluten-free people, we know if you have celiac, you're excused from this. Right. And so Kylie, you know, makes that into a reel and pops it up there. And then it's just...
I have this health issue, that health issue. That wasn't nice. This wasn't nice that y'all did this. Listen up, listener. We have a lot of shit that we have to get through. Everything, pretty much everything, 95% of everything that we say on this podcast, we're even not that serious about. They're minor irritations shared with each other. They get to have. And you all are friends. And-
The only thing that I will never take back and the hill that we will always die on, the only thing we're serious about is support for science, the LGBTQIA plus community, social justice causes. We'll fucking die on that hill, fucking rip us. Everybody else that's getting butthurt in the comment sections because we're upset about parking spaces, fucking ignore us. Right.
I can't believe that these people take us that seriously. And then they start fighting with each other. Yeah, well, some people, I think, just get on the Internet to fight. Well, I kind of enjoy that part. That's kind of the part you like. When they're fighting. Yeah. Why not? I mean, but no, I agree 100 percent. It's like of all the things. And I think that's a prime example of people just, you know, reading so much stuff that you just get irritated about things that are just not relevant to you.
It's too much time on the internet to where, like, whether we're doing it on the podcast or not, I'm going to call her or my husband and say, oh, my God, I was trying to park in this fucking bitch. Stole my parking space. I was so mad. That is a normal thing.
reaction thing that happens and what this podcast is do we walk around in a rage all the time hell no never because we laugh at it we move on and part of being a functioning adult is being able to get stuff off your chest because if you've ever flown through an airport and you have never been irritated with another human being you are a level of sociopath that I don't want to know
I don't want to know you. I don't think that's possible. If you've gone to the mall during peak holiday hours and people haven't irritated you, I don't know that we're ever going to be compatible. Right. We're never going to see eye to eye. If you've been out to a restaurant that's completely packed and crowded and stuff gets messed up and you've never gotten mad about anything or...
We're just not compatible people. And if you just keep all of that bottled up, then that fucking freaks me out. Right. That reminds me. I posted this quote from John Cougar Mellencamp the other day. You posted a little inspirational quote? Yeah, a little on my story because I thought it meant something. But it said something to the effect that, you know, if you're happy all the time, something's wrong with you. Agreed. Absolutely.
I agree. And then he goes into this thing about, you know, if you're going to change the world or make the world a better place, it involves doing a lot of things that make people unhappy. Right. And that's just life. That's living. And so it really kind of touched me that that he said that. So I don't put quotes like that on my story very much. I'm very cognizant of the backlash from the women of I've had it. Yeah.
about feeling good about something, about being positive. But every now and then I'll drift out into the abyss and do it. And so this was one of those occasions that I thought was appropriate for what you girls were saying. If you're walking around happy all the time, you're doing it wrong. Yes, and I will say this as well.
If you identify with something we've had it with, laugh at yourself. We laugh at ourselves all the time. I'm a complete nut. She's a nut. He's been to rehab five times. I knew we would get it in there. I knew it.
We have the ability to laugh at yourself. A few episodes ago, somebody was talking about panty lines showing. Yeah. I have on these cute little ivory, almost, you know, like cute little pants today. I turned around and looked at myself in the mirror, totally can see my thong. And you know what? I thought we just did an episode over having that. And I'm offending today. Right. On the podcast. So quit getting so butthurt about what two, one middle-aged woman and one older woman
almost middle-aged woman say on the world wide web, quit taking us seriously. But I will say this, if you get butt hurt and uncomfortable,
You're probably an offender. Because we call out racism or homophobia or fascism. If I can sit there and get uncomfortable all day long, because that is the hill and the only hill that we die on. And go fuck yourself. Yeah. In other words, we die on decency. That's right. Just being a decent fucking person. You shouldn't have to die on that hill, but I agree. That's right. Okay. I want to visit something that got quite a bit of traction on the internet. Okay.
I got a lot of DMs about this. I got a lot of follow-up on this. And it is when we were in Italy, and let me make my case before y'all step into it. It is when we were in Italy, and Josh and my darling nephew Joey were feeling Italian. They're feeling Euro. They went and bought some Italian swimsuits. Here we call them Speedos.
And they put them on and we went to the island of Ischia and jumped off the ocean, off the boat, swam in the ocean. It was a wonderful day. And this is how the demographic breakdown of this went. Gay men loved it. All right. Middle-aged women were kind of confused by it. Europeans couldn't even understand that it was even a fucking issue.
And the youth didn't care at all. Okay. So that was a, it was, it was fun. I loved it. Pumps was the most troubled by it. We'll get to that in a second. But after this photograph was taken, my nephew's wife was doing some Photoshop and filtering to the image before I posted it. And she just casually asked Josh, do you manscape? Yeah.
So I think that got up there and set in his craw for quite some time. So this past weekend, I was in Arizona with my friend Liz. Josh calls me and he says, I have a huge announcement today. And I said, what is your announcement? And he says, I manscaped today. And I said, well, what brought this on? Well, and he tells me about the comment from my niece, Madison.
about the manscaping and he's the most groomed man I know, but he has neglected the pubic area for the entire course of our relationship. That's right. So I asked him where he got this and this is where I'm going to let him take over because this is, it gets really good here. And I want you to walk me through the psychology of the store you selected and paint that whole picture of your first quote unquote journey together.
to manscaping. Okay. Well, for, for those listeners who didn't think I was gay before this episode, well now certainly I've won you over. Yes. So I, um, like, like Jennifer said, Madison brought this to my attention about seeing things that could be manicured a little bit better, had some, had some loose feathers and, um,
It really kind of stuck with me. So Jennifer is out of town and I can be somewhat manic, kind of OCD about certain things. Like if I want to do something, it's like the weight of the world has come upon me and I have to go do this thing now. And so I thought, you know, I think I've got a free Saturday ahead of me. Jennifer's in Arizona. The boys are doing their own thing. I think I'm going to manscape. Yeah.
I think this is the perfect, you know, it requires some privacy. So I've got the house to myself. Right.
So I did a Google search on like, so what do you buy for something like this? I've never done anything like this in my life. I've never shaped one part of my pubic area under my arm, my chest, my back, nothing ever. Had zero knowledge about it. Right. So I do a Google search and there's stuff you can order online. Then I see that Best Buy carries the brand, the actual brand Manscaped. Get in my car, drive up to Best Buy.
And right when I go through the very first doors that open, I said, do you all have like razors for grooming for men? I didn't know exactly what to say. And the guy points me back and he goes, yeah, you see that guy back there? He's right next to it. So I walked back there and there's this big, heavily tatted dude that's wearing the blue Best Buy shirt. And I go, do you all have razors to groom?
to shave your pubic areas. How about where's the manscape product. And I want to remind everybody he's at Best Buy. But, but here's the interesting part of it. This guy who's like heavily tatted wearing his Best Buy shirt. He's probably 35. He jumps right in without any hesitation and goes, yeah, come over here. He goes, this is the one I have, you know, and he's pointing at it talking about he owns this one.
And so then I start asking him questions about... I can only imagine the questions. About like, Link, do you put a guard on? Do you take it all the way down? Do you like square it off? You know, how do you get the hairs on the testicles? Like, do you raise the hairs? No, you're asking the Best Buy guy about shaving your balls? So he and I are going full-blown...
And he's not even, but the thing about it is he's showing zero reluctance to keep going. Like he's like, oh yeah, dude. I mean, you got to do this or you got to do that. Do you lift up your balls when you do it? Is that what he said? Yeah. So that, and you put the guard over the testicle and that's what gets the hair off the testicle. There's many, many ways to do it, but I didn't know any of this stuff when I was talking to this guy. And so the fact that he's so freely open
Discussed it with me. Helped me come back. Right. I love this guy. And then I manscaped. And, I mean, the only thing I would say about it is I took it down pretty tight. I'm just going to say. It kind of scared me a little bit. I mean, it brought back like, you know, eight-year-old Josh. When I got home from Arizona, of course he had told me on the phone. I was like, well, where did you get the manscaping equipment? And he said, Best Buy.
I'm just beside myself. And I'm like, what made you go to Best Buy? I mean, out of all of the places, I was thinking like Sephora. But when I got home and I finally got a view for myself, it was rather alarming. The difference? Of a groom. Well, that's like what happened to me at the pool that time when I accidentally screwed up and shaved my entire beave after a Fourth of July holiday. And then the next day I sat down on the toilet and I was like...
Exactly. I mean, it's like shocking. It's scary. It feels...
It's kind of uncomfortable. Did it itch? Looking at it. So no, it didn't really itch. But the thing that none of the instructions address and that if I ever get really into this thing where I want to go into issues and stuff like that, no one tells you the proper amount of shaving to do. The pattern. The pattern or the guards and how much they'll take off. So I went with what I thought was a pretty conservative guard. And I am bald ass naked down here.
Like bald as an eagle. From 1980s hair bands to bald as a cue ball. It's the opposite of a 70s bush. It is a 2000s silk version of skin. So first of all, I want to say this. How serendipitous that the first time you ever manscaped, you go to a pretty butch place, Best Buy. Best Buy is kind of a heterosexual male, I'm going to go buy a TV and a subwoofer type joint.
You go into Best Buy and you ask a sales associate in the blue Best Buy shirt if
And he's not only telling you what to purchase, but he's actually telling you how to remove hair from your balls. Tips. That's rather serendipitous. But I do think what we can have the listener weigh in on this is you've got a Brazilian, you know, which means you're bald. And that's what you currently have. And maybe we could have some of our male listeners say,
Relay to you maybe some patterns. Some patterns and how long. I like a landing strip. I have a little bit of a landing strip because Josh wants to know that he's having intercourse with a woman, you know, that has some hair down there. So it's very groomed, but there is a slight landing strip. The girls that work for me that are younger. All Brazilian. It's all Brazilian. So what we need to know, what from men is where is a happy medium like marriage?
my little landing strip. There's two things I want to say about this. Number one, I thoroughly enjoyed getting my sort of blue collar education about how to manscape your pubic hairs. Right, your first time you had a really good person. He did a very good job. Secondly,
Don't kid yourself that if there is a Gucci fucking manscape store in Oklahoma City, or even within two to three hours. Even in Dallas, if they had a Gucci manscape store, you'd be there. Yeah, I would have been there. I don't know that you would have gotten that service. You wouldn't have gotten that service. No, that's why I say I have no remorse about...
My exchange at Best Buy It's one of the best things that's happened to me I'd say the last 13 days 14 days It's a highlight Here's what I want to know Did he give you any tips on what patterns are out there for men? He said He showed me one of the guards Because we pulled it out of the package And it came with two different guards So you unpackaged the kit He said I use this guard And I said how often do you do it? He said he does it maybe twice a week
Oh, so he keeps his high and tight. High and tight. But I didn't realize, I mean, because obviously I didn't see his pubic hair. So I didn't realize. If you would have gone in the bathroom and flashed it, I would have died. Let me see what that guard does to you. So pull your pants down. So.
I didn't know, though. I didn't know when he said that he used that guard. I just didn't know it was going to be so tight. Because, I mean, it's like I'm bald. Is he Brazilian, your friend at Best Buy? Do we think he's a full-blown Brazilian? He has to be if he's using the same guard that he told me to use. Because, I mean, I'm bare. But he did give some good tips about the testicles. And, you know, the only problem was with the shower. You know, all of that pubic hair was going down. Yes.
And so I had to kind of accumulate it to where it didn't stop. I mean, 50, 50 years of pubic hair is just going down the shower. I know where it didn't stop up the stopper. Yeah. I have all this hair and stuff. So, but, but that's the joy of having that free Saturday just to take the whole day to devote to take a free roll at the manscape. Do you feel like your dick looks bigger?
It does. No, it really does. I mean, and I'm not just saying that. I mean, all guys are going to say, Hey, my dick looks bigger, but it really does. Specifically, it looks longer.
I don't know that it adds any girth to it, but it definitely adds maybe an inch, inch and a half of length. Excellent. Yeah, I'm excited. When we first started this podcast, people were like, y'all have got to have merch. And I'm like, okay. We can't do merch. We don't know how. How on earth are we going to do that and mail it to people and charge them for it?
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That's rocketmoney.com slash had it. rocketmoney.com slash had it. This has been, I mean, this is podcasting fucking dynamite is what this is. But, listener, we also like to hear from you all. And so since we have Josh in studio today with his pubic hair gone. His Brazilian whack. Josh Welch sans pubic hair gone.
hear it. I've had it. We want you to listen to a few of our callers. Josh has Kylie's microphone listener, so don't freak out. She's in here. And our first voice memo that we're going to hear from is from Ethan. I have had it with sports culture. Okay. You are not on the team. You are not LeBron James. You are not Tom Brady. You're not even like the Gatorade dispenser person. So
So I don't ever want to hear you say we won as if you somehow downing 12 beers and stuffing your face with spinach and artichoke dip every game contributed in any capacity to them winning. And then you have the audacity to look at me when I'm screaming at the TV when I'm watching RuPaul's Drag Race. Get the fuck out of here. I've had it. Love you both. Thank you.
I love Ethan. Ethan, Ethan, Ethan. I have to tell you. I'm an offender. Pumps, and this goes into the lesbian arc situation, is such a fucking nut. I am. That if her team, the Oklahoma Sooners football team, when they lose a game, she goes into a depression. I go into mourning. Josh Welch went to Oklahoma State University and he...
Immediately when OU loses, I'm going to call pups. I mean, the last second on the clock has not ticked off and it's my phone ringing. And that motherfucker, hey, what do you think about the Sooners? And I'm always like, go fuck yourself. Click. In fact, you were like, you're kind of mean to me. I'm like, I'm mean? You're the one that's calling and rubbing it in my face.
But let's get back to his point. The sports culture. No, I agree. And I'm the worst. It is the most obnoxious. It is obnoxious. You see people in face paint. People act like their workday is going to be ruined. All because these fucking kids. Right. Fucked up in some game. Right.
the world is going to end. I was like kickers. Yeah. Well, and I think Jennifer and I talked about this a few years ago when the OU fans were booing Spencer Rattler, the fans start booing Spencer and I'm not an OU fan, but I thought, you know, this is a fucking kid, you know, he's there to study. He's there on a scholarship. He doesn't know what he's going to be in his world yet. And you've got all these like grown ass people, uh,
booing him because he's you know throwing incomplete passes I just I think it's bullshit it's total bullshit and so I empathize and side with the kids like these days and sometimes yes I get pissed off when OSU loses or blah blah blah
But, you know, grow up. It's not the end of the fucking world. Yeah, no, it takes me a minute. I have to commiserate with like other listeners of people that are also heartbroken. I noticed what Ethan is talking about, how people say, we won and we did that.
And I have really probably in the last five years made a concerted effort to say, oh, you won or oh, you lost. Even with the team my son's on, I always say, you know, Luke's team won because I don't I think it's ridiculous for me to act like my presence has impacted the game in any way. It's absurd. I want to respond to Ethan's voice memo from two different positions. Number one is an athlete myself. Right.
From the athlete's perspective, you know, position. And then number two, as a fan, an avid tennis fan. And number one, you're completely correct, Ethan. I see all these people that have a resting heart rate of 150 tops sitting down for five hours, that heart rate's at 150.
Screaming mad at somebody who is an absolute genetic physical specimen, doing their absolute very best, and you couldn't even probably walk 10 steps. That irritates the fuck out of me. Right.
And then B, as an athlete, you know, you're out on the court doing your best. You know, I have a lot of pickleball matches all the time. I'm out there doing my best. Every single time I hit the court, I play the best I can. And I don't want any slack from my fans on it at Chicken and Pickle in Oklahoma City. And so I get it from both perspectives, Ethan. And I thank you for bringing this to my attention, both as an athlete
And a fan of tennis. I'm just glad that you addressed the fans that drive up to Chicken and Pickles to watch you so that they know. Which actually is a couple of the waiters. Right. They watch some of the points. If they see...
something they don't like, they do a pretty good job of, you know, keeping internalizing it and not being vocal about their favorite athlete, making them say stuff like it's okay. Just reset your brain. Just start over. And so I understand his, I've had it from, you know, uh, from both positions. Gotcha. And so I, I appreciate it as an athlete and as a fan, Ethan, thank you so much for advocating for athletes like myself and LeBron James.
I appreciate that. That is the biggest false equivalency I think I've ever heard in my life. I appreciate that. So next we're going to hear from Alexandria Bure. Hey, bitches. So what I've had it with is pumps. Okay. So you're just going to act like our date didn't even happen, that we didn't fall madly in love with each other. Like, okay, you're a liar. I touched the Sag and Dragons. I even complimented your men's fucking flip flops. So...
You know, I guess none of that even matters. And it's just I've had it. I've had it with you, Pumps. Okay. Love you. Bye. Sounds like somebody has some explaining to do. No, I can't think of who that would be. I'm sure you can't. I really can't. I'm sure you can't. Was it at a live show? Did you? Were you on Ambien? No. Did you have a lesbian experience? No, I didn't. No, I wouldn't.
Somebody's touching those dragons. Yeah, but like if somebody went like that, I wouldn't think anything about it. Yeah. I know, but apparently she thought something about it. It meant something to her. Right. And so for that, I feel badly that I didn't remember. But you're out there breaking women's hearts with these titties.
They are not heartbreak worthy, I assure everyone. Letting them touch them and then just dumping them. It's a touch and dump. Yeah, I don't remember any. I mean, definitely not. But I apologize. Yeah, that's not. And you don't remember it either. That's even worse. That's even worse. All this lesbian activity, she doesn't really quite remember. It's going to happen.
I'm just saying, listener, I'm saying the every single as this whole thing builds on the corroborating evidence just piles up. It's like a snowball going down, you know, Mount Everest. With all the buildup, I would definitely remember if I had a lesbian experience and I would definitely report it immediately. Well, I think that this is another way to look at it. Okay.
What to her felt like a lesbian experience to you just felt normal because you're a lesbian. Yeah, but it would have to have been like a like a brush across. I would I remember if somebody does this feel lesbian ish to you. Yeah. I mean, not lesbian, but like if you were like trying to readjust me or something, I wouldn't think it was weird. Does this feel like lesbian? No. No.
It doesn't because you're a lesbian. It feels natural. Yeah, it's natural. Okay, listener. I mean, we have tackled so many fantastic things today.
The feedback we need from you all, we discussed earlier regarding patterns for manscaping. Manscaping patterns. This is a very under-talked-about subject. I agree. Especially for a metrosexual like Josh that traffics in metrosexual circles. I agree 100%. And I do want some feedback from the listeners. Do I seem more manly on this episode or do I?
still seem gay because I mean, there's a huge gay vibe that I'm giving off. Maybe they have a crush on you. You should take it as a compliment. I don't know, but I mean, feel free to jump in and say he's totally gay, Jennifer, or you can say, hey, no, he's not. He's a man. He's a man's man. He's what the best buy do. I can't believe it took you this long to manscape now that I think about it. That's what I, you know what? I never thought about it until he called me.
It said I manscaped. And then I was like, first of all, of course you did. But then secondly, I was like, how have you neglected it? This right. If you groom every particle of your body ad nauseum, I mean, it's an obsession. It's really, that's really the shocker. That is the shocking. Let me just put it like this though. I mean, when you're grappling sobriety, manscaping, I've got sobriety by the balls. Yeah. Manscaping took me down until I was on the Amalfi coast. And Madison's like, wow, wow.
But now that I've conquered both manscaping and sobriety, it is tap, tap, tap. I mean, you're ready to rock and roll. Listener, thank you so much for joining us. Rule number one, don't take us very seriously. Rule number two, go to Apple. Five stars. Josh would love to read some five-star reviews about his sexuality and manscaping abilities.
Go ahead and just put that in the permanent record on Apple reviews and go to the link in our bio, the hot shit tour. You two knock it off. Hot shit tour is coming to a city near you. The link is in the bio each month. We're announcing new cities. We are having an absolute blast with this.
So much fun. It really is. Oh my gosh. We started the documentary club every Wednesday on Patreon. We are covering documentaries. We have hard hitting psychoanalysis and journalism from pumps and me, which is nothing short of a jet stream of bullshit, but it's good shit. We love documentaries. So please join us on Patreon. There's one new episode that drops every Wednesday. And other than that pumps, tell them, see you next Tuesday or Thursday or both.
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