The Rambling Gypsy
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Jeeper Jammy Jam with The Real #JeepLove NB
Join Bonnie, Liza and the crew on December 14th at Billy's Icehouse for the 17th annual Jeeper Jammy Jam! They are collecting new children's PJs, ages 0 to 12 years for our local hospitals and there will be live music all evening, a silent auction, raffles and a pajama contest with prizes! For those who want to donate but can't make it, there is a donation booth at Billy's until December 24th. See y'all at the Jammy Jam!
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I put a blessing on it to real. That's the metaphoric. We just put the I in iconic, buzzin' like I'm electronic. Ah yeah, I put a blessing on it. See me drippin' in it 24-7 on it. I'm just bein' on a star, holy water drippin', drippin' from my neck to my crap. So I'm two-steppin' on it.
Speaker 3:Live Okay yes, uh, we're action.
Speaker 5:We are uh action, action, action.
Speaker 4:Jackson, no, you just stay on your one leg over there and relax.
Speaker 5:Hey everybody, this is Tiffany for your Ramblin' Gypsy podcast, and we are on On. Thank you, we're on to something. Yes, we are, we're on to something. So I have some really cool people here Cannot wait to tell you about this whole deal. Go ahead, I want you guys to introduce yourselves and explain to why I'm the only one that looks like I'm about to go to a board meeting and y'all are about to go to the best slumber party in the entire world.
Speaker 4:Well, we probably will. Well, I'm Bonnie Widener and this is my daughter, Liza, and about 17 years ago we started a little charity event called the Pajama Jam accident by accident we said okay, and I'm gonna interrupt and do all the things, but because we're, I want to go through.
Speaker 5:I want to get the whole. We've got a lot of time to talk we have but I want to get the whole explanation. I want to go from the why the house 17 years, 17 years ago, years ago, we used to have birthday parties because my birthday is December 16th and my oldest daughter, Stella, is the 17th.
Speaker 4:And her daughter is the 18th and Stella's daughter is the 18th her oldest daughter but we used to just get in our pajamas and party at somebody's house when we were kids and we got bored so we started going bar hopping in our pajamas, because in December nothing's happening.
Speaker 2:And you all did this in our hometown, yeah, so my first house was over at the north end of town and because I had the big house at the time, they're like Eliza, we're just going to have a party at your house, at your house. Yeah, okay, well, I guess we're throwing another party at my house.
Speaker 2:Okay, all right, so they all come over and everybody's in their PJs and we're all having a good time. I make sure there's food, we're drinking, we're shooting pool, and my sister just finished nursing school, okay, and she was just itching to do something.
Speaker 5:So this sister is older, yes, younger she's a year older than.
Speaker 4:I am and you have how many, four, kids, four, and they nurse stair step right now.
Speaker 2:Hold on, so so is the other so let's see how old I am you should know how old I am. You can't get to me come on after a while.
Speaker 4:I don't know how old I am and I don't call me a twin.
Speaker 2:And then I have a younger brother okay, wait, they're the older sister, yeah it's a nurse one that's the nurse.
Speaker 5:okay, was finished in nursing school. Yes, then there's twins. Yes, lane Lena and Liza, and then Josh and then Josh. Three girls and a boy.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, he was the youngest. We beat the snot out of that poor kid.
Speaker 5:Oh God love him. Somebody had to know Josh. So how did that? How was the boy? We're opinion easier than the girls.
Speaker 4:I don't know. Josh broke his arm twice. Some fat kid jumped on him and he broke his arm.
Speaker 1:You can hate when that happens.
Speaker 4:He broke it so bad you could set a pop can at it, oh Lord. And on the way to the hospital, are you okay, okay, does it hurt? He says shut up. When you talk, it hurts. And he's like you know eight, oh so he's a man.
Speaker 5:A few words, okay, all right. At the ripe age of eight, just told you how the cow ate the cabbage. Yeah, shut the hell up, mom.
Speaker 4:Yeah, don't talk just drive, yeah, anyway. But yeah, he, he, I don't know he, he's a exhibitionist when he was young I put him in the tub and I'd go upstairs to make a bed and I'd look out the window and my neighbors would be lined up the street and when I'd go out there he'd be running up and down the street naked with a towel around his neck Like a caveman, he's a superhero.
Speaker 2:I had a problem with clothes at a young age.
Speaker 5:Look, I saw you from the corner of my eye. Yes, I don't like clothes very much, I mean at home, you know. But next to it.
Speaker 1:I just run around and Nick's like oh, my Lord, have mercy.
Speaker 5:And I'm trying to be serious and have a conversation. Now she's just like, okay, what?
Speaker 1:And that's just what we do. That's just what we do. That's just what we do, yeah.
Speaker 5:So she's, she's gotten a little factor Anywho. Well, I have three boys, okay. So, and yeah, and my sister has three boys and, um, we were talking about the whole jammy thing when we were at you know, rios and we were discussing in this and we had you guys come onto the live podcast at Uno Rios and we were discussing in this and we had you guys come on to the live podcast. I just had my first grandbaby that I have been begging for and begging for, and begging for, and we have a little girl and she is literally the light of my entire life and I told my kids this so Gage Riley is just, um, absolutely an amazing, my daughter-in-law amazing human being.
Speaker 5:She's got her freaking shit together and I mean she cracks that whip and it is the. It is the best thing in the entire world. And she has got my son and my son's. All my boys are absolutely amazing. But, um, she, uh, she's got him. She's got him trained, impressively freaking trained. But we do. We have our little birdie and that's her nickname is Birdie, her first name is Drake, but she is my little birdie and she is an absolute gem. But when we were talking about this whole jammy jam thing. I started looking for some little jammies.
Speaker 4:Would we need to make her a little cheap?
Speaker 2:onesie, I make future Jeeper and Jeeper Junkie jammies, just for the jammy jam events.
Speaker 5:That was so many.
Speaker 4:J's All in one Jeeper jammy jammy, jeeper, jeeper, jammy, jammy, jam Jim.
Speaker 2:Joe, yes, one more jammy, annie who.
Speaker 5:I'm glad your kids turn out great, because I'm amazed that mine did, because you know, I tried my best to screw them up.
Speaker 1:I mean it just happened. You know I did. It's so awesome.
Speaker 5:So now, okay, we are 17 years for this event and it started because you guys were in your jammies shooting pool at your house.
Speaker 2:And we started bar hopping, we started having a crew, and that's why we left the house and started finishing nursing school First and foremost, 17 years ago we did not have Ubers and the Lyfts.
Speaker 5:We just had donkeys and a couple of horses that you could probably get on in your PJs and some bulls and camels and camels exactly. So who decided? I want to know who. The first one walked out that house in their pajamas and got in the car and said let's go, we're rolling. It was you. It was you. You're the culprit.
Speaker 2:Some guy comes straggling up to my driveway so I just finished his nursing school. Turns out that my neighbor down the road here is where it gets juicy Was having an affair and her husband came home early and the guy got his butt kicked and he had such a bad concussion, how much?
Speaker 5:popcorn was involved in this event.
Speaker 2:My sister wanted to stitch him up because she just finished nursing school they did.
Speaker 4:And I was like Stella. They're in the garage Stitching him up.
Speaker 2:You are not allowed to bust out any sutures in my house.
Speaker 5:How have we?
Speaker 2:never been friends. What is?
Speaker 5:happening. These are events that I should be involved in.
Speaker 4:They were in the garage stitching him up in the garage. No, she was trying to.
Speaker 2:She was trying to. I would not let her and I fine-talked my friend T Borges. He gets the guy out of my house and gets him home safe and everything's good. I'm like that's it. We're going out before any other strange people walk up to my garage.
Speaker 5:We're getting the hell out of here. We're getting the flock out of here.
Speaker 2:Yes, we are getting the flock out of here.
Speaker 5:Let's get clogged up.
Speaker 2:I'm like bet your ass if you came around just like this.
Speaker 5:And we did it.
Speaker 4:We had so much fun. We thought, man, we're going out all the time. I like Billy's, which is why we still go there.
Speaker 2:We've had the event other places, but.
Speaker 4:Billy's has kind of become a tradition. But we were getting a crowd and they were saying well, we'll sponsor your event. We're like we have an event. We have an event.
Speaker 5:So you guys go out in your skivvies here and you and you go to billy's and y'all were talking about it and you said I and we'll sponsor. At that point in time did you even realize that this was becoming an event?
Speaker 1:what the hell were they sponsoring? Did they know what they were sponsoring? Didn't?
Speaker 4:they just thought they were. They had no idea.
Speaker 5:We had no idea what we were sponsoring, you know, yeah, so how did that I mean, you know, got together a week later, we were all talking about it and I have a medical degree, my sister's in the medical field.
Speaker 2:We all have kids.
Speaker 4:We've all had kids in and out of the hospital and we were just like the little our hospitals need, and so mom went to the emergency room at santa rosa and says you know what happens here. A lot back then it was in the emergency room that's right, the kid the adults.
Speaker 4:They had stuff to put on them, but when a kid would get hurt they'd have to cut their clothes off or their. They would tape paper stuff on them Because they'd run out of children's gowns, cut them down, tape them on and send them home. So we decided we're going to bring pajamas.
Speaker 2:And why not? We were in pajamas, and so now they have clean pajamas, something clean to send them home in Right.
Speaker 4:And then also the kids that are up in the ward that are sick, and then they have families that come in. They know families in the community in need and they just do what they need to do with them.
Speaker 2:But we do have a rule, because the doctors always get all the credit, and if you've ever had a kid in the hospital, it's the nurses that are in there. Oh yeah, Every two hours monitoring, you know doing all the blood work, sticking them with the needle.
Speaker 5:Well, you know my best friend Kel Kel she's on my show all the time and she is a respiratory therapist and she is in when she is in the delivery room. She actually was there and delivered my birdie and she is, so she. We know all about that. She had three sets of twins last week.
Speaker 2:Oh, wow, yeah because that's more twins.
Speaker 5:We know a lot of yes and so she we we know about the yeah, what you run out of and what have you, but the fact that you went to the hospital and just decided to walk in and I mean what did you walk up?
Speaker 4:and they said can I have your?
Speaker 3:I talked to stella and her actually her friend marie and when we went I just went up there and asked him and went in the emergency room and asked him what is it you guys need that we can do?
Speaker 4:and they're like, and we just started talking and they said, well, you know, kids come in and this is what happens. I said, you know, okay, we can bring some pajamas. And at first you know, kids come in and this is what happens. I said, you know, okay, we can bring some pajamas. And at first, you know, it was just little Santa Rosa, when it was McKenna, right, and we brought bags of pajamas in there, yeah, and then it just so when you brought your first bag of jammies in, where did they come from?
Speaker 2:We put on a little of that, do you remember?
Speaker 4:the Holiday Inn the Prickly Pear.
Speaker 5:Of course that's where we had it for years.
Speaker 1:Harrison's dad was a musician and played there forever and ever, and ever.
Speaker 4:And he just passed on. But yeah, he grew up in the Prickly Pear and they could still smoke there, so we would come home and hang all those pajamas when they had the little food warmers. You'd get that cheese.
Speaker 5:We'd hang the pajamas around the deck to air out because you could smoke inside.
Speaker 4:Yeah, We'd hang them out overnight. Those were some good times.
Speaker 1:Good times.
Speaker 2:The bartenders we knew them all so well they would wear their pajamas and then after a while it just kind of slowly escalated into some better, because we had friends from Ohio come and do it soon.
Speaker 1:And it got to the point they were shipping us boxes of pajamas.
Speaker 4:I just got a box this week from my cousin in Ohio yes, I love that and we have somebody from Toledo that's sending them. She works at a Walmart.
Speaker 5:And my cousin was with us too. So we're 17 years now into this event. So when you guys very first started with your very first slumber, very first started. With your very first slumber, you went from a bag of jammies that you just was.
Speaker 4:It just, it's just just the family family about 30 of us family whatever did he know?
Speaker 5:did he know we've been at Billy's, knocked them? We'd set up a? We didn't bring no jammies or nothing.
Speaker 4:We have a bin at Billy's right now, but we'd set up a bin so other people could and we would have. I remember the first year when we had like 150 pair of pajamas.
Speaker 5:It was like that was incredible For the first year, 150 pair of jammies Just for sons and family. That's a shit ton. Yeah, honestly that, that's a shit ton. Yeah, honestly, that's a lot, yeah of jammies, yeah. So then you go to the second year and did the second year. Did y'all actually like give it a name? You?
Speaker 4:it was a pajama jam for years and years and you know, with just me and everybody, families growing up and getting their own families. It was hard for me to do everything by myself and so the jeeper group here that she belongs to last three years, stepped in and started helping me do a lot of the footwork, so now we're making it more community involved right, not just private family involved so third year, fourth year, now we're in year 17 I know does it feel like it's been 17 years?
Speaker 2:no, it feels like. Does it feel like you just did it yesterday? Yeah, yes, no it doesn't, maybe you Just to me.
Speaker 4:I'm like it went by so fast.
Speaker 2:I don't even remember after those years Because it was at the point she was adding more work to me because I type up all the descriptions and I do all the stuff that you do, all the paperwork.
Speaker 4:She does a lovely job that was 47 spreadsheets ago.
Speaker 5:Last year we had. She does a lovely, lovely job. It's wonderful.
Speaker 2:Because she wouldn't stop. We now have 17 this year and I had to retype three of them last night because she would not stop going to the businesses.
Speaker 4:People keep saying I want to give something, so I'd say okay.
Speaker 2:Okay, do you? Yeah, this year has been amazing.
Speaker 5:This year, people have just been giving us stuff last year, all the years prior, we really had to bust it. Let's talk about the process on how this works. So you've got it all set up. You are 501c3.
Speaker 2:No, you're not no, no, because we're not going to give the federal government 250 dollars.
Speaker 4:It's good it's more than that, because you got to pay every year yep to renew it, believe me.
Speaker 1:And then you have to make sure you hire more than that, because you got to pay every year yep to renew it, believe me.
Speaker 4:And then you have to make sure you hire a tax person because you cannot do it yourself right pay taxes on the goods and to me that's another pair of pajamas to another kid.
Speaker 2:There you go and guess what? You can still claim it on your taxes with that I love a hundred percent everything we donate.
Speaker 5:People that have started stopped, shut it down and then picked it back up because of that very reason we will.
Speaker 2:So that's a very good, interesting conversation. Much more that can go well. No, nobody gets paid.
Speaker 4:No, we don't get paid back for anything we donate. We pay for our bands, we pay for all the advertising. That's what we don't because, Because I got a friend in San Antonio who helps us with a lot of stuff. He did one year. He printed a bunch of cards that we just passed out of where we went advertising it. I love it.
Speaker 5:Okay, so we have jammies that are coming in Now. You guys decided so at first. They just went to the one hospital, which was um it was you guys know we're from.
Speaker 5:I'm from New Braunfels, born and raised and um, so that was McKenna, which was the my son was born in McKenna. I was born in McKenna. That was the only hospital in this town. And um, yeah, so now we have them everywhere and on every street corner, which is now Christian, christian, santa Rosa, and um, but yes. So you walked into McKenna at the time and said hey, look, what can we do to help? Here we are.
Speaker 5:Jammy jam 17 years in the making and now you have chosen, picked where obviously you're not sending. How many jammies did you guys get last year?
Speaker 2:Oh, this is where you need Ken.
Speaker 3:over here, Ken how many jammies did we donate? Last year we donated 350 pair of pajamas to the hospital in Seguin, which is a forever drop-off for us. Now we did 350 to Christus, and then there was a new HR down $35 on the southbound side.
Speaker 2:We gave them $350.
Speaker 3:And the Sagin Hospital got the $500 cash donation.
Speaker 5:So we have had this conversation, which was really cool, about how you reached out to the Sagin Hospital.
Speaker 2:That was me. I do all that.
Speaker 5:So and how that was established, and that is, oh my gosh. I should know the name of this hospital. Why do I not know the name of this hospital? I don't remember it either.
Speaker 4:They're forgotten for everything they're so small nobody donates to them.
Speaker 3:We had called the hospitals to let them know we were coming to drop stuff off and to have people ready, and it was a deep convoy that was doing it.
Speaker 3:And when we got there nobody was waiting for us at all and Liza went inside with another person and luckily there was a board meeting at that hospital that night, that was me that year. Yeah, you were there that year and so they came down. It took about an hour and a half to get three nurses out there and some of the board members to get the pajamas and the reason they're at Forever Hospital for us to donate to is they made the statement that people call us and telling us that they're donating things but they never show up.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, so they thought that we were just another one of those groups that we're gonna say we're gonna shove you under the rug.
Speaker 5:So this is a kind of ironic. So when um I started working at a very young age and um in child care and daycare business and um we talked about this I don't know if we talked about it on air. There's some things we talked about it on air. There's some things we can talk about on air and there's some things we can't. But I started working at a very young age and took over a daycare facility down in Seguin when I was young and younger than I should have been, and so there was a couple of little documentations and what have you. It doesn't matter at this point, it is what it is. But I did take this facility from only having a few children in it to a top rated facility and a waiting list in less than a year year and a half. So I was very, very, very, very involved in Seguin. I had 138 children at that facility and I worked there for 13 years.
Speaker 5:At that time time there was a government program. It was not involved, was not around Um when I started and I I should know this, but I don't it's kind of a blur a couple of years um into getting the facility where it needed to be. We brought on, um, this government program which helps single moms go out, find jobs, um, and so it pays for their childcare. They have certain stipulations that they have to do. They have to have so many interviews that they have to do, blah, blah, blah. The kids have to be there. I mean, it's all very well checked.
Speaker 5:Yes, there's a gray area and, yeah, there's a lot of cracks that a lot of people slipped through. But I used to, and this is kind of what touched me with your guys and what in, in what y'all did and what you are doing, um, what I did, I'm sorry. So, um, because, and I and I'm not going to say that it's because of a low income thing, because that's shit, that's not an excuse. It doesn't make a fucking matter what you make or what you do, but when these parents would have these babies, tiny babies, um, I would take, I could take them at four weeks of age and they would bring them into.
Speaker 5:They would be the first ones that would be there at 6 30 in the morning, at 7 o'clock in the morning. We were open from 6 30 to 6, and they would be the first ones. And and these littles would come in four weeks of age and they would smell like cigarette smoke. They would have not had a bath, their diaper bags would reek like nothing you've ever seen.
Speaker 4:See, that's. Another thing we could do is daycares when they need changes of clothes.
Speaker 5:We would treat their head for cradle cap. I would do laundry. I would do the whole night because it just it's something.
Speaker 4:Oh my gosh, it's something our facility was um government funded at a certain point in time you think some of these people probably didn't have washers and dryers?
Speaker 5:so and then the ones that did, because I knew a lot of history in the background and I knew, I knew the whole thing and I'm thinking, okay, this is what we're paying for, you and I as citizens, and it we can all deny it, we can all deny it, we can all make excuses and we can whatever, but at the end of the day it was about me and the kids. Yeah, if mom I had one mom that she had five littles, five different daddies, um, all the daddies were in the pen. I did have told Nick this story multiple times. It's a long story and we'll have that conversation later. I don't want to get into all that because I want to stay focused on what we're doing for the littles, but the things that I saw and that I witnessed were unbelievable, and it's not just Seguin, there's little tiny towns all over the place.
Speaker 5:They're everywhere so but I can relate to you guys and what you're saying with dealing with the hospital in Seguin, because of what I did and what I dealt with, you know what I was very involved in down there. It was a full on it, is it?
Speaker 4:was unbelievable. Yeah, because the bottom line it's about the kids it is, and about even the older kids that go there. They're up to what? 17 before they're considered an adult. Yeah, and so what? 17 before they're considered an adult? Yeah, and so you know if they're in there and they need something.
Speaker 5:I had the particular instance I was talking about and I'm not going to get into it, but I will tell you he was 14 and I was not supposed to have him there and I did because I knew this kid needed me. Yeah, and I knew what he was going through and, just like in any town, once again it's just when you think that there is not the bad side of town or the good side of town or the whatever they're everywhere.
Speaker 4:We have them here.
Speaker 5:They're everywhere. I have them on our freaking property at our undisclosed location. I have them here too. There's still that shit area where it is what it is, but I had enough of them on that side of town in to where you don't go to that side of town after dark I don't care what color you are red, green, purple, yellow, white, orange, whatever. You don't go there unless they know you, and they're not. You're not driving your wheels down there.
Speaker 3:You lose your rims, your tires still in motion. It's going to happen.
Speaker 5:But I had enough of them that I was. They all knew who I was, and I was just the little, the little white girl that was, you know, taking care of the kids over there or whatever, but I could go, go over there but that's where that they lived, on that side of town, and it was um, it was interesting
Speaker 2:yeah, it was, but I loved them.
Speaker 5:But I did, I took the sacrifice and I did the things that I did for the kids, just like the kids are doing, and that's exactly what it is. But I'm really glad that you, you guys, did find sagin and the other little town. So so so far. You guys have got new brothels that y'all are donating jammies to. You have Seguin, which will forever be on our list.
Speaker 2:On your list and we're hoping they should add San Marcos, san Marcos.
Speaker 3:We already know we're getting San Marcos this year. Nice, we've gotten a little heads up about a donation that will be coming in. Okay, and I'd love the event. It will give us San Marcos for sure.
Speaker 5:I love that. What does it take for you guys to acquire a hospital?
Speaker 2:We try to have a minimum of 300 pairs for a hospital. Our only other stipulation is we get to the nonprofit hospitals, the smaller hospitals. People don't know that all these large hospitals do not show their funds with the smaller hospitals at all. People are like why don't you go to the children's hospital?
Speaker 5:They need to share their band-aids because they're $980 for a little tiny one I know. Have you ever been?
Speaker 2:to the children's hospital. Those kids have everything we spent six days there with my son.
Speaker 1:I mean, he had Nintendo.
Speaker 2:He had PlayStation, he had Sega, he had movies, whatever that kid needed.
Speaker 4:they had you go to the hospital to hear it and that kid's stuck there. Guess what? They have nothing. And if they can't get out of bed they have nothing, because you know a lot of them have that playroom yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there ain't, nothing here.
Speaker 4:You can't go there if you can't get out of bed.
Speaker 2:Less trauma because, they have something comfy in the hospital and any little kid is excited over a new pair of pajamas.
Speaker 4:My kid's 24 and he still gets excited over new pajamas. Same I'm excited over mine.
Speaker 5:Yes, you should. This is very impressive.
Speaker 1:I mean for real.
Speaker 4:I'm hoping to win a prize.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Those medals are very coveted, it is we do have a lot our consumers.
Speaker 1:Who am I doing it?
Speaker 2:You should be doing it if you ain't having fun doing it. So a pajama party is the way to go.
Speaker 5:So how many hospitals are we at now? We are at three, Three hospitals but we also go.
Speaker 4:We went to Santa Rosa's little ER that they have at Creekside.
Speaker 2:That is one of the three.
Speaker 4:Oh is it.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:That's where. Three, oh, is it? Yes, that's what. Oh, so san marcus will be four. Yes, san marcus will be four.
Speaker 4:Okay, yes, wait a minute we did get san marcus when you're many years ago. But that's the work.
Speaker 2:I can't and it was before the new er here in town, so we had christos right and we had had our first option for a second hospital. Couldn't get a hold of one, got a hold of the other. They got a donation. I think that was like 2015 or something.
Speaker 5:So you guys have all these pajamas coming in. Let's talk about storage and house. Yeah, exactly, we have a question.
Speaker 1:Last night.
Speaker 5:Yeah, so where do you guys put all of these jammies? In my front room.
Speaker 4:And then they get sorted and bagged all different sizes, so everybody gets multiple sizes okay yeah, and then we bring them to the hospitals and they use them all year, okay, so question do these jammies have to be new jammies?
Speaker 5:they?
Speaker 2:do because used pajamas. The cleaning bill that the hospital spends is more than what it would be just to buy a new pair of pajamas okay.
Speaker 5:So if you had a company that was willing to take use jammies and donate the cleaning portion, is that an option?
Speaker 2:yes, as long as the hospital except that it has to be clean to their standards yeah, we'd have to look again, because that was years ago.
Speaker 1:We asked them yeah, because we took one.
Speaker 2:They just used one stone one year and they told us they couldn't use them.
Speaker 5:Well, I know that is a whole thing on bringing items in and what have you. But look, I just lost my father. We spent a lot of time. It was not supposed to go that way, it was downhill deal, but we also, um, oh, have bringing clothes. And what have you for older?
Speaker 2:yeah, people, or anyone at that matter, you, I mean you, you can still do that so I wonder if that is an option if we could, I have three different people I at each hospital when it comes to children's wards, they're a lot more picky than they are.
Speaker 4:My youngest was in NICU for a very long time.
Speaker 2:We're going to touch on that here in just a minute because it's already in my queue. She threw this.
Speaker 5:Yes, we do robes, but if we could find that out, I think that is really valuable one because of with my new granddaughter and the things that I know that we have all purchased and the things that we have inherited and that she has my lord she has worn. If she's worn five, she's that we have them coming out of our yeah, I actually have to call them on monday to start setting up.
Speaker 2:Well, it stops, you're gonna need mounds and mounds because I will ask who has a real pair of socks.
Speaker 5:I think if that were the same, that would be so beneficial. Normally they wear them maybe once, maybe twice, and then they're grown out of them. If we could get a, yeah a cleaning company to donate to do that. If the hospital would, I think this would take this to a whole find out yeah, yeah, because I'll let us know monday.
Speaker 2:Anyways, yeah, find out, because now apparently, we're doing a new level, honestly we're gonna have jeeps and bikes rolling out for the drop-off this year, so I gotta give them a heads up, okay all right, we're all coming, so um you guys own a jeep yes, I own a jeep.
Speaker 5:Um, there's jeep. Clubs are a very big thing around here. They're everywhere, they're all over the place, but you guys are very involved into the jeep club.
Speaker 2:Tell us about your jeep club so our little jeep club is the real hashtag jeep love nb. We are part of many other groups and our big thing is is it doesn't matter what group you're in. We actually have another jeep group, that is um, showing us a lot of support this year because we reached out to them and our goal is with this is to get multiple jeep groups to come together. It's community comes to community, it don't matter what group you're in.
Speaker 2:Let's all get together for something like that because, at the end of the day, one of our top models is, at the end of the day, we're all jeepers, right? Doesn't matter what group you're in, right, you're a jeeper right.
Speaker 5:So you, um, when did y'all start? The jeeps are the ones that deliver the jammies to the hospital. Is that my understanding? Is that what you guys were talking about?
Speaker 3:two years ago.
Speaker 2:So we had another group um show their support to drop off the first two years because they were coinciding it with their christmas with their christmas feel so we.
Speaker 5:So, if you guys don't know, this is where the jeep clubs light up their jeeps, decorate them, decor out the wazoo. Yeah, there's a guy in town that's got like the 17 deer or whatever he's got like 14 rudolphs and I think that's I'll have to look at it.
Speaker 2:It's a full-on thing, like he he did the halloween thing. I think he had like 30 skeletons or something with child team six, and they are the big group that is supporting us this year, and they're gonna swing by billy's that night and give us a great surprise I love that.
Speaker 5:I love that. Yeah, but um, so he, I think he's doing like a whole christmas deal. I read the whole of the yes they do.
Speaker 2:The delights runs through the neighborhoods, for the kids from thanksgiving hours every year, and so at the end of their run the night of december 14th, they're going to finish their run through the Deluxe Trucking Lot.
Speaker 5:I love that, so we all get to see the delights from that. That's going to be awesome.
Speaker 3:That's going to be awesome.
Speaker 2:So you guys get your jammies and you have your entire entryway is full, which I completely get and living room and front room and then Jeepers everywhere sorting and counting. So how do you decide what goes where?
Speaker 4:we just divide them by sizes and then we go around and pick a few every size and put them in bags so that every hospital has a whole variety pack.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, my whole living room will just be that front room will just be mounded full of pajamas so last year was the first year she was actually in Hawaii visiting my nephew who's a coastie, but their chief entertainment was watching me and Ken and all the Jeepers in and out of her house on the camera, on the cameras.
Speaker 1:On the scared out of it.
Speaker 4:And then the pictures from the pajama jam. Of course it was at the same time, but Gavin and I were in our pajamas in Hawaii watching the Jeep thing watching them going in and out of the house and sending me text messages because they had the wrong phone number. Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:So she was watching us on the camera and we're in and out of the house for three days straight because once all the fun is clear, we actually go on a big shopping trip before we count everything, love it and we take pictures and we get a bunch of volunteers.
Speaker 5:In the jeep group we bought out almost all the pajamas at burlington last year so much that we had to go to bras and buy more and bought out almost all of theirs which is so when you let's explain, bought out, because so, um, my mom has been the head person for CCJLSA for doing the benefits for the rodeo and all that. So growing up very young age I've been very involved in in fundraising and, uh, donations and how the whole process works. A lot of people don't know how that process works. So we would have, um, banks and large in businesses, individuals or whatever would donate just a cash donation and we would take that cash and then we would go and purchase items and what have you? Is that what you guys?
Speaker 2:are doing. We do so. We have a huge selling auction we'll have. We kids are there until about 8 30 because we only have a kids raffle, raffle to encourage kids to buy their own raffle tickets and get them involved.
Speaker 4:That's how that started, because they love buying their own the first year though it was hilarious because we had santa there and there was kids there and they wanted to buy raffle tickets. Well, we didn't have a lot of stuff appropriate for kids, so these guys went out to all their cars and jeeps Backed up candy and ducks Old Halloween candy and ducks in brown paper bags and the kids were so proud because they bought a raffle ticket to help a child and then they shared their crappy prize.
Speaker 4:They shared their crappy prizes with the other kids.
Speaker 2:So we decided we had to do better. If you want to get your kid out for a little bit, we have this year we actually, and last year we had Urban Air donate, we had the Children's Museum donate, the Snake Farm donate, and then I only went and got a ticket at Evo, so that family could go to the movies. So there's some big prizes, and then we have a friend that makes homemade blankets, so some of them have homemade blankets in them.
Speaker 4:But we just had to do better. That first year was a disaster.
Speaker 2:We had to drive the parents crazy because you know we would not be doing our job sending a kid home.
Speaker 4:I think that first, year we sold those for like a quarter ticket.
Speaker 2:Now they're what? 50 cents. We don't really get a lot.
Speaker 4:The donations don't account for anything, but they get to experience charity giving back to the community.
Speaker 5:It's the best thing ever.
Speaker 2:And they're like coming up on stage and picking their bag.
Speaker 4:Yeah, that's so fresh. But it was cute that first year how proud they were with that crappy brown bag with old Halloween candy. Oh it's terrible.
Speaker 1:I felt bad for them.
Speaker 5:I feel like it was my first Easter egg hunt when I was two. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:I was just picking up eggs. I wanted eggs. It was poop. You'll let me have it. Get that one honey.
Speaker 5:Throw it over there by that horse.
Speaker 4:And they spray painted it.
Speaker 5:They spray painted it a color all the turds everything's good. Where's the one with the dollar in it? Yeah, where's the golden egg? Yeah, yeah, oh lord yeah, yeah and uh.
Speaker 2:I think the children's museum gave us double the passes this year.
Speaker 4:Yeah, they gave us eight instead of four but fyi, I have an elf suit for male and a female, if somebody wants to dress up during the children's, if you guys don't have pajamas for the children's raffle, because we will totally let you guys have the children's raffle.
Speaker 2:After that you can take them off, Get out there and pull all the tickets.
Speaker 5:After that you can take them off. I mean, look, Signed up for us.
Speaker 3:I already have elf shoes.
Speaker 2:I've been wearing them for a while we know who Santa is, oh yeah.
Speaker 5:This is going to be so much fun. This is going to be so much fun.
Speaker 4:Well, we're not sure if Santa's going to show up this year. So I thought well, I have two elf costumes.
Speaker 5:Well, I got a couple in my back pocket that I can bring, if not? I actually have the OG Santa His name in my phone.
Speaker 1:is he changed his name?
Speaker 5:to Santa Claus and he would come. When I did my very first Christmas by the Cliff, I did it to raise money for the flood victims. I literally threw it together a couple of weeks in and we did that here and he said if you ever do anything around, we holler at you. But his name is freaking Santa Claus Years ago, when I worked at. Home.
Speaker 2:Depot. He's the OG, she knows the OG. He worked at Home Depot with me Santa Claus and on his apron, he had Santa, he had the white beard and he would run our children's workshop one of those Saturdays he was Santa and they're like.
Speaker 4:well, you know this is what Santa does in the summer he builds toys at the children's workshop at Home Depot.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I don't remember his name because all he had on his apron was Santa. It's in my phone, it's Santa, it is. Yeah yeah, did you ever have?
Speaker 4:that thing in your phone to call santa for your kids. No, he has a new number. He changed it.
Speaker 5:It's not a lie anymore on my phone. Yeah, okay, so this year 2024, jammy jam is happening. What day? December 14th? December 14th, billy's ice house. It's on the loop. Yes, five o'clock right now. What can anyone and everyone do to help?
Speaker 2:come have a good time. Wear some pajamas. Bring a pair of children's pajamas prior to now, prior to the donation, booth is already set up. If you cannot make the event, just bring my job off. A pair of pajamas, or it.
Speaker 4:You can leave a donation with bar all the bartenders you know, and there's fewer codes on the flyers.
Speaker 2:Right now there's accounts for this time of year is always set aside just for the.
Speaker 5:We will also set up locations for on our side where you can drop them off. You can drop them off at gypsy river resort. You can drop them off at all three of our liquor stores, Gypsy Liquors. That's all of Canyon Lake. You guys, please, Canyon Lake, y'all are a huge, huge, huge, great community and next year we will hit up Canyon.
Speaker 4:Lake to have date night at Canyon Lake, because right now we have date night at Creekside, date night downtown. We'd love to have a date night at Canyon Lake. We'd love to have a Date Night Canyon Lake, yeah.
Speaker 2:We'd like to see those businesses compete.
Speaker 4:I've been to the best restaurant up here at Canyon Lake Absolutely.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, I was looking to see if there was an ER in Canyon Lake, but everything I found said that they all go to either San Antonio, new Braunfels, and they go to the OG McKenna.
Speaker 5:Do they have?
Speaker 2:a little 24 hour place up here they may have one, but I know everybody that pretty much anything that usually happens they take them to the og mckenna right there that a couple of weeks ago because I'm like you can also drop anything off at foiket customs.
Speaker 5:We'll send you all the addresses and we'll have all the links posted when this podcast airs, and so we will set up everywhere. We'll have um bins where everybody can put everything in. We will find out. I think that's extremely important because I know what we have from Birdie and I know what we've gotten that have been gifted to us for Birdie that if we can get someone involved, our local cleaners which, good Lord, we've all donated to the cleaners around here. We have Common, we have Hill Country, we have Dutch cleaners around here.
Speaker 1:We have Common, we have Hill Country, we have Dutch boys, dutch brothers. We have them. I thought that's a coffee place. They've been around for a long time, but we have yeah, there's a lot of them here in town that we can reach out to that.
Speaker 5:I think that if we can find out, if there is a solid policy that we can get done, I think that would really I will find out.
Speaker 4:Because, yeah, the hospitals did bring up to us that they'd like to have us do a summer jam, but it's a lot of work. I know it's a lot of work and so maybe next year we'll just have to get on it earlier and tell people to start buying summer jammies to bring to.
Speaker 2:That could be in Gypsy River, I think.
Speaker 4:Do a summer jam at Gypsy River? Oh yeah, that would be fun. That is our jam during the summer.
Speaker 5:Yeah three months, we'll just jammy, jam it up.
Speaker 2:Because I think last time we talked to Krista she said that just the Creekside location runs out of pajamas within three months. Yeah Well, the donation, donation, we get them the 350 usually within three to four months, they're already.
Speaker 5:They're done. That's incredible. It's incredible so quick, um 17 years, we're at a going to be now four hospitals, a shit ton of jammies that are being donated.
Speaker 4:We will probably have more cash donations this year? Yeah, Because you know there's things that come up that they need, that pajama, socks and underwears just don't cover, and this way they can buy whatever they need. So let's set up some goals.
Speaker 5:This is what I was thinking about before Nick got ahold of her little board over there.
Speaker 1:Let's set up some goals.
Speaker 4:You're 17 years into this and we're just at jammies. Yes, so well, we're at jammies socks.
Speaker 2:So the last three years, the last three years we need a huge deal.
Speaker 5:We nice and they let you do that. Those are all new, yeah we put 500 cash from.
Speaker 2:Since we started doing the silent auctions and the raffles and everything. We put $500 aside every year. We pick a different hospital every year. As far as the ones we're donating to that gets that cash donation, they don't know until we drop it off. Sagina's still my favorite even over that one, because when they got it the lady called me three days later.
Speaker 5:What do they do with the cash donation?
Speaker 2:Well, that's the thing is, we don't have rules with our drop-offs, except for one we, I told the lady after she gave me all seven of her foundations- I told her you put it wherever it is where they need it, because we don't know where it is needed the most.
Speaker 5:Whoever is lacking the most, that's you give it to so if you give them the cash donation and you're saying so, explain that to me.
Speaker 3:So the cash donation can be for a entertainment cart, a gaming station.
Speaker 5:So it goes towards the children's area in the hospital.
Speaker 2:No, not always.
Speaker 3:Not always. It goes to the hospital. Now, if the hospital needs the gaming station, that's what they can use it for. Okay, they can use it for whatever. Yeah, so she listed off. They have their own foundations within the hospital needs.
Speaker 2:the gaming station. That's what they can use it for Okay. They can use it for whatever. Yeah, so she listed off they have their own foundations within the hospital. So when she called me they had seven different foundations that are all charitable and a lot of have to do with their community care Interesting. So I didn't know that. When she gave me all seven, she's like well, which one do you want to go to? I said seriously, which other one?
Speaker 5:do you?
Speaker 2:need. It's not for us to decide. We don't we just want it to go to the community.
Speaker 2:Our only rule with the drop-off is doctors don't give out to you Nurses only Because we're the ones who get all the crap done, and the nurses love it and it's their shiny, bright moment to be the good guy, instead of that guy who's always poking and brought in and run into us waking, waking you up every two hours to do all your monitoring, and so they get their shiny moment to be the good guy. I love that. Every year, when I tell the nurses our only rule is, their facial expressions completely changed from yeah, we're doing this, so oh. Oh, I like this. This is cool, we love this because the doctor's already the hero.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I was reading a deal today. Um, because there's a bunch of there's Emily's elves, that very good friends of mine that do, yeah, the Vegas, the Vegas sisters, and there's a whole bunch. There's um several, and I could mention them all, but this was a really cute story that my friend Nikki is involved in. But they do a sponsoring families and one of the littles had his Christmas. All all this little wanted for Christmas was pickles and ranch dressing. Oh, no, okay, stop. So they had reached out and because we have a little store downtown and it's called fickle pickles and so they had posted on there and says does anyone know who the owner is of fickle pickles? Because we've already got the ranch and usually when we put these things together we like to do like a little either a cup or a T-shirt or a hat or something merch wise Besides an actual pickle in a scoop of ranch dressing for this little baby.
Speaker 5:And so, yeah, they reached out and was like, hey, I absolutely, nikki, actually knew the owner and said reach out to Pickle Pickles, and so they're going to put together a little pickle gift pack for this little child.
Speaker 4:That's all she wanted.
Speaker 5:It just takes you into this and what you guys are doing this is a pair of jammies for a tiny little. They were once putting paper on and taping because they did not have that is going to make my eyes leak right now.
Speaker 4:You know, when you bring a kid to the hospital, you're not thinking well, I need an extra pair of clothes and I need this and I need that and you wrap that kid up and you run.
Speaker 2:These guys had to force me to go home to shower when Cameron was in the hospital because I didn't want to leave him, so to leave just to go get your kids clean clothes.
Speaker 4:And even when he was in the hospital I went and bought him slippers and a robe and some pajamas because, also going to give him his head down, he didn't care about the slippers.
Speaker 2:That kid is in love with hospital socks, which is the weirdest thing on the planet. He likes those ones that have the little grippers. Those sticky things on the bottom. He loves them so much they gave him two pair to take home.
Speaker 5:I have a child like that.
Speaker 2:He still has them. They're like totally, totally fine. I threw a pair yesterday. I was organizing.
Speaker 5:I was organizing. Like what in the hell? This is a nice shitty shade of blue. Yeah, yes, I know exactly what you're talking about.
Speaker 2:I've been in the hospital so freaking much I can't believe I don't have an old girl. I think I was charged like $80 per pair and I'm going Cameron, no more shots Right next to that damn shitty ass band-aid that they give us that cost us $900.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I know Believe me, I know.
Speaker 5:Believe me, I know.
Speaker 4:They're Walmart band-aids For real.
Speaker 5:They're not even that caliber. They're more like a DG. Yeah, the General, by the way, don't shoot me now, y'all, y'all relax, calm down, stop.
Speaker 4:Yeah, that's exactly oh yeah, they're going to over a band-aid. Oh, which one's your favorite brand Me? Yeah, mine are the HEB ones, are they really? Yes, because they have sticky stuff all around that white pad. Nice Target has bravery badges. Now Bravery badges.
Speaker 2:Bravery. Yes, I got those for our axe throwing basket.
Speaker 5:You know, I'm like a Band-Aid free. I'm like, oh, those are cute and they come in the cutest little boxes.
Speaker 2:You can use that box for everything.
Speaker 4:Yes, yeah we do have a basket from Loki's.
Speaker 2:Yes, for Loki's, and we did put a first aid kit in it.
Speaker 4:Okay, because that and the ski branch.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they did come with X-throwing Because.
Speaker 4:I know my kids.
Speaker 2:Nice for the X-throw.
Speaker 4:Well, I mean know about all the band-aids. I'm like, okay, yeah, oh, it looked terrible. I was like you know what do you do when you see your kid like that, his hands all wrapped up, and yeah so you didn't even ask about all the new people that are getting involved this year I do want to know Well, of course, you guys, first and foremost.
Speaker 5:Well, yes, thank you.
Speaker 2:And the Legacy Vets man. They have been showing up and representing big time for the Jammy Jam and for the community. And then we have Trail Team 6 that is getting involved. This year We've been reaching out to other. Jeep groups, and they have actually. Normally they don't show a lot of their funerals. This year I've had eight other groups that are all sharing it this year, really, so I don't know that they'll be there, but they are definitely sharing the joys, so we'll see.
Speaker 5:So that's super good and I think that me and Nick and a couple of others, we've been researching the stars and the moon and the things and they're all aligning and I will aligning. I love that stuff.
Speaker 4:It's interesting.
Speaker 5:And the thing is it's a bazillion years old. Stop laughing, that is why, all these Jeeper peoples that never got along before. All of a sudden, everybody's getting along, and the stars are aligning.
Speaker 2:Everyone's going to have jammies now, of course you do. It's her mini jeep have you seen her? Mini jeep. Yeah, she's in the jeep. I took a full ride in it. We have a video of it.
Speaker 1:We had it at the Jeepers giving.
Speaker 4:And the adults were worse than the kids went rides. I have one guy about jumping chairs, dinner what?
Speaker 2:next, of course, give her all the Manhattan's right in the cheek.
Speaker 4:Yeah, no, we did laps I felt like I was at the carnival she races the golf carts in the neighborhood.
Speaker 2:I just smoke them.
Speaker 5:Let me down now.
Speaker 2:They're afraid of the speed bumps we hate.
Speaker 5:My eight-year-old granddaughter loves to jump the bump too. Yeah, and she's driving. There's nothing like a good dose of air. And she's driving, yeah.
Speaker 2:She's teaching all the neighborhood kids how to drive sticks. This is so good.
Speaker 4:There you go, hey there are no stop signs Left, left, and right.
Speaker 5:Left and right, we're on it right. No seatbelts no nothing.
Speaker 2:We have that on our way here. Yeah, and step on it.
Speaker 5:That's good, that's good yeah, okay, so goals for this year. What are we looking for gaming wise, what are we thinking?
Speaker 2:I'm hoping enough to get a fourth hospital, hospital.
Speaker 4:And maybe another cash.
Speaker 2:To do two cash donations instead of one, instead of one.
Speaker 4:We just have to wait to see how it rolls before we know whether we have the funds to do that, but I think we might this year. I'm hoping so, because man these hospitals have so many other things going on and they know more about community needs than what we do. Right, like surprise, yeah, and that's how they're walking in the door.
Speaker 4:Well, that's how we found out we should start collecting socks and underwear. Somebody said, well, can we use it to buy underwear? I'm like, heck, yeah, right, use it whatever you need. So we just started adding it.
Speaker 2:I know a lot of little boys that would prefer to not wear underwear, so do we really need you? No, I'm kidding free ball yeah yeah, of course everybody's free ball oh yeah, I'll just say one boy, and if he for the longest time, if he could go without underwear, he would. Yeah, I will, until I told him one day he was just going to wear a red dress.
Speaker 4:If he could just go naked, he would.
Speaker 5:Yeah, well, it's a real thing.
Speaker 2:He did for a long time in front of all of our friends.
Speaker 4:Yeah, because he just did not care, same I feel like I might be related to that child.
Speaker 5:I don't know, maybe.
Speaker 2:Anyway, you got any northern roots in you.
Speaker 5:Because, if so, you're related.
Speaker 3:We're going to talk about that later.
Speaker 5:Anyway, right now we're talking about jammies and needles.
Speaker 4:And just remember, when you come to the jammy Jam dress, because I give out medals every year.
Speaker 5:Okay, so let's talk about that. So, everybody, this is a dress-up situation.
Speaker 2:Yes, it is Challenge you Challenge accepted?
Speaker 5:Yes, bring your jammies, bring your slippers.
Speaker 2:Wear your jammies, rock your jammies, dance in your jammies.
Speaker 5:Are we doing contests?
Speaker 2:Yes, I have first have first, second, third place medals we encourage we encourage our previous winners to come because it's like the wwe, how many?
Speaker 5:or the olympics how?
Speaker 4:many medals can you wear things?
Speaker 2:they're sashes it did used to be a traveling gnome, until a couple from houston wanted tears. No, they did bring it back one year and then it never came back.
Speaker 4:Or when I wanted and I thought somebody stole it. And all year goes by. Next Christmas I go to her house and there's that freaking gnome on her dining table. I found out who had it and all year this couple has been sending me pictures of him tied to a track and hanging from a tree and drinking.
Speaker 1:And they were mad. They were mad because I never responded.
Speaker 2:They sent it to some stranger, the whole year it wasn't my number, Like they were sending weekly pictures of this gnome. I wasn't mad because I never got it.
Speaker 4:I was mad all year because somebody stole a gnome from a charity event.
Speaker 5:And I don't know Only in. New Braunfels, Texas. Is somebody going to kidnap a fucking gnome?
Speaker 4:and tie it to a godforsaken tree and hold it hostage. Got those pictures? Oh my god.
Speaker 5:You're not going to get this dude back until you show me your jammies.
Speaker 1:All right, a random person is going to have to get there.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah.
Speaker 3:They had those pictures all year long.
Speaker 2:Why am I getting these?
Speaker 4:pictures, oh yeah. Of this poor terror and I love you, my whole backyard has gnomes everywhere. Did you know that when people come over, they're supposed to move them for you and not tell you so that you think they're doing it themselves?
Speaker 5:Somebody touches my gnome we're gonna fight.
Speaker 4:Well, I have to keep telling people because I go out there and I keep you just laid up nobody's moving anything I'm taking your drink away.
Speaker 2:That'll be okay.
Speaker 4:The only no my moved is when I was leaf blowing and I knocked my one of my favorite gnomes out of a pot and broke him, so now he looks like he's a harley, he's a heart. Yes, I did, he's a harley gnome and now he looks like he's been in a motorcycle accident and we had a bet, and the person who won, that's what happens when you pull him over the person who won the bet names the Harley Gnome Sue. So it's the.
Speaker 2:Harley Gnome.
Speaker 5:Dumb name, but we're sticking with it Avoiding exactly what I was about to say we are sticking with it.
Speaker 4:Who won that name? Adam, adam. Who won that name? Adam? Oh my god figures oh. Adam oh. Adam, that was lovely for Thomas this year oh yeah, I don't know T different Adam T won for.
Speaker 5:Adam alright, so we're having, we're having a jammy contest if there's a tie for first, there's a dance off there was a dance off last year, and I'll tell you what it got interesting on stage.
Speaker 2:It was fun, though they dropped their flaps. Well, no but okay so in all fairness one of them is my little brother and he dances like my dad and it's like a one leg shake and that's all he can do so he had a pedal. He thought he was winning with that one dance move and it just was not happening oh, I am so here for this.
Speaker 5:that's's like a dog eating peach seeds, yeah.
Speaker 4:We'll have to find some games. Remember that one year we had the thing on our head, the antlers, and we were throwing rings. You wore it on your head and other people and they're the. They're the blow up ones. Okay.
Speaker 5:So there's a lot of blowing. We're sticking with the theme here. We're doing what we can for the children, okay will blow. Anything for the kids, anything for these children yep way to go, mom, for taking one for the team.
Speaker 2:Sometimes things get a little rough, you know, but they're so the raffle makes you guys stay long enough for the raffle, because we have a grill is awesome liquor, Liquor cart, I mean carts, the glasses, the mix kits, everything you can eat including the liquor.
Speaker 4:It's a great one because you know I got that little Bartesian thing and we went through three bottles of liquor in one week. Vodka.
Speaker 2:We had to keep taking it.
Speaker 4:We had to take it out of the liquor basket and then go buy another one, put it back in the liquor basket, and then we'd run out. We'd take it out of the liquor basket and then go buy another one and put it back in the liquor basket, and then we'd run out and take it out of the liquor basket and then we'd just have three of them. There were like 25 people. If I would just buy one freaking big bottle of vodka, we wouldn't have to keep unwrapping that basket.
Speaker 5:You know that I happen to own three liquor stores, right? I mean, I'm right here.
Speaker 2:Okay, the jammy, jammy we all.
Speaker 5:Have you a little step stool, for fuck's sake.
Speaker 4:I do have a step stool. I do have a step stool for Gina, because she can't see the top of it, to push the button.
Speaker 2:I swear.
Speaker 1:I blew on her. She screwed it right over. Nicole, you've seen it. You've been there. You've seen it. It's a fun toy.
Speaker 4:They've already said I've got the best toys, so I do Okay all right we just took this to a whole new jammy jam.
Speaker 2:Hey, when we're at this pajama thing.
Speaker 1:When we're doing all our stuff, we're having fun.
Speaker 4:All our work is fun.
Speaker 5:She can only hang one pair of jammies at a time and you're throwing her all $3.50 at once. I had three pages of notes. She's like shit.
Speaker 4:At my house. You took three pages of notes. God dang.
Speaker 5:I thought I was bad, Like I don't leave the house without my notebook.
Speaker 2:I'm like it's jammy jam season.
Speaker 4:It's my whole life. What do you have in there? What did we do?
Speaker 5:We didn't do that much you need to worry about your flock. No, I'm worried about my. There's a lot of pictures.
Speaker 4:I just don't know how much this is going to cost me later on this year.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 5:Max went last night and he was like I don't know, did your note-taking skills?
Speaker 1:He's a lot of your students. It was not that bad. It wasn't that bad.
Speaker 4:No last night wasn't that bad. What was last night?
Speaker 2:We met up with Max, oh we got stuff from him and talked about the Humane Society, talked about the Jimmy Jam.
Speaker 3:You didn't do that at my house.
Speaker 2:No, the Humane Society talked about the Jammy Jam. You didn't do that at my house. No, talked about another one and then he said, okay, I gotta go. We thought he had only three things.
Speaker 5:We were good, everything's fine, so we've got it all figured out. We know where to donate. We're going to drop links everywhere, locations on where you guys and please come because it is so much fun to give at our event.
Speaker 2:It is a pajama party.
Speaker 4:I like to say it's a charity, but it is a pajama party.
Speaker 5:It's going to be so good and so fun. Oh it's always.
Speaker 2:It gets crazy every year. Yeah every year.
Speaker 4:I think there's something else somebody thinks of to do there.
Speaker 1:I got a couple ideas that just hit me right now, and I am not going to tell them Wait, I got my note, but you'll text it to me later.
Speaker 5:I am not telling any of y'all.
Speaker 4:You're looking at the two note people here.
Speaker 5:Yeah, no, I got something and this is going to be good. This is going to be fun. Jammy Jam 2024, billy's Ice, december 14th, 5 o'clock.
Speaker 2:One of our biggest years ever. We have double the prizes, double the silent auction, of course, always more than double the fun.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, I mean, come on like, well, we double the prizes because that's how many businesses just got involved I love it we didn't
Speaker 4:have to work so hard this year because people were actually yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, and we're like okay.
Speaker 5:Well, I cannot tell you guys how appreciative I am for your nonsense and for your first night of shooting pool, having some cocktails in your fucking PJs and branching out and turning that night into what you guys have done, going on almost two decades and that is freaking awesome.
Speaker 4:I keep thinking about that too and I think, wow, how did this ever turn into this A shit show?
Speaker 2:But it is a wonderful time Turned into the most amazing PJj party jammy, jam.
Speaker 5:Yeah, who would have ever thought it's freaking and that we had?
Speaker 4:you know, our friends, that live in different states know we do this and that and they love, they want to get involved and they send us my friend john is in dallas.
Speaker 2:She was a jeeper. She was out there two years ago and she has already brought me a giant bag full of pajamas and she's got two more that are already full, because she always comes down for the Jammy Jam and volunteers to help sell tickets and run the auction booth.
Speaker 4:We're here for it.
Speaker 2:It's a lot of fun.
Speaker 5:We're here for it. It'll be fun. Me and Nick are going to be right smack dab in the middle of joyful chaos.
Speaker 4:And you don't have to wear pajamas, but you'll be the odd man out.
Speaker 2:We know all the surprises that are going on, and they're all going on at once and it's just going to be like, oh my god.
Speaker 5:It's going to be good. I'm so glad you guys are here and y'all look freaking adorable.
Speaker 4:Do you want to know who's playing for the Pajama Jam? Should we? It's on the farm. You want to dangle a carrot? Sure? John whipple is going to play during the day him and the family band. He's a good friend of ours. He used to own tahas records and he puts on a uh singer songwriter festival every year. So he's going to come and play during the day and then three man front it all.
Speaker 2:Right, there you go and yeah is one of the. We called him dad growing up before we knew anything. I grew up with this daughter and he was just another guy we knew I love it. He just kind of let us do whatever we wanted on the property.
Speaker 4:Yeah, he has a 32-acre wildlife reserve, if we showed up crying.
Speaker 2:you know like an awkward dad would be like do to get Casey, or do you need me to go get mom? Just let me know I'm here. That's awesome.
Speaker 4:I gotcha, but let me go get someone.
Speaker 5:It's going to be fine, it's going to be a good time.
Speaker 2:I can't wait.
Speaker 5:I can't wait for the pictures, I can't wait for the jammies, I can't wait for all of it. Thank you guys for doing what you do. This is amazing. Thank you for letting us come on here. Thank you for letting us come to the next level and letting us be a part of this.
Speaker 2:Oh no, we are very blessed. The more people that get involved, the better. The more community, the more people become a whole, instead of people just living their lives for themselves.
Speaker 5:It would be really epic to see other g groups or just other groups in general yeah, start their own little things in their communities yeah we have some jam, all our little town has got some amazing, amazing groups, and I think that it's the more that we can talk about them, the more that we can bring them out, get them a little intermingled here I have not known about this jamie deal which is really shocking for 17 years we don't know what we're doing.
Speaker 5:We can learn something new every year yeah okay, we totally don't know what we're doing we, that's one thing, that, that, that and and I have to give a shout out to my mom, that's the reason that I do know about how to do that was with her involvement with with ccjlsa, and we, um, she's run that shit. Oh my god, forever and ever and ever since I was in middle school, she's been running that yeah, that's a, that's a big deal time ago.
Speaker 5:It's huge, and I mean hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars come through that event and and it's and it's for the kids and their animals and and what have you, and so, um, that's how, that's how I learned how to do all of that and so they support so many several festivals good fast that we have been gracious enough to help with and and take it to another level and and yeah, so I can't wait, I can wait, I can't wait to see the PJs.
Speaker 4:I know, keep it a secret because you don't want everybody to cheat. See, I can't win a prize because you know.
Speaker 2:All I hear is I have an excuse to buy a new pair this year.
Speaker 5:But, I want to make sure I put forth an effort.
Speaker 4:We're going to talk about it later.
Speaker 5:It's going to be a secret surprise. I got some things in my flap that I'm going to.
Speaker 4:That's what Ken's been saying he had a thing in his flap too yeah, you should probably dust that off from time to time, I want an old school union suit with a functional butt flap so I can unbutton it, just walk right on a non-functional butt flap is a fluctuation.
Speaker 5:No one likes a non-functional butt flap.
Speaker 3:I don't want the zipper ones.
Speaker 5:They have a zipper butt flap, yeah, they do now.
Speaker 3:That's all you can find.
Speaker 5:Look at the ass. No, that's not.
Speaker 4:Right, who's been zipping your asshole?
Speaker 2:first of all, that just sounds so wrong.
Speaker 3:That's why I want the buttons, because I got Santa Claus underwear that has mug shots all over it, and after the kids leave, Okay, well, I happen to know how to sew, so if you need me to adjust your flap holler, I'll be here all week.
Speaker 1:Holler at me. Have your people call my people, my people. We'll do a little flap adjustment we'll figure it out.
Speaker 4:Well, anywho, this is for the children yeah, this always starts out really good and then it just goes to a train.
Speaker 5:This is gonna be so good jammy jam 2024 billy's ice house, december 14th five o'clock. Be there. If you cannot be there, we will send you um once again. I've said it twice, I've said it three times locations where you guys can drop off cash donations um jammies. What have you? Thanks for being here.
Speaker 1:Thank you.
Speaker 5:Thanks for doing what you did and what you're continuing doing and we're ready, we're here for it. Yes, this will be fun PJ craziness.
Speaker 4:Yes, pj craziness.