966. Top 10 Things Contractor Husbands Say | Lawn Care Wife Edition

Summary

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Fullerton Unfiltered, Ep. 966

Top 10 Things Contractor Husbands Say | Lawn Care Wife Edition

Host: Brian Fullerton
Guest: Liz Fullerton (Brian’s Wife)
Air Date: May 15, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this lighthearted and relatable episode, Brian and his wife, Liz, bring listeners an entertaining “Lawn Care Wife Edition,” poking fun at the top (and most repeated) things that contractor husbands say. Through good-humored banter and personal anecdotes, the two highlight the quirks of running a family and business together in the green industry. The episode is full of laughter, playful jabs, and candid marriage moments, offering a window into the balance between work and home life for contracting couples.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Real-Life Dynamics: Opening Banter

• Liz and Brian open with playful teasing about family chores and division of labor.
• They joke about being armchair quarterbacks and giving each other lectures (00:35-02:00), giving listeners an immediate feel for their chemistry and everyday annoyances:
  • Liz: "You don't even sound like me, dude." (00:36)
  • Brian: "I wasn't stopping my task because you decided you needed me to do my boss over." (01:35)

2. Business & Family Overlap

• Discussion on “Together in the Trades” marriage/business retreat, upcoming events, and why it’s important for their marriage and the broader community (12:12-13:06).
• They share about celebrating Mother's Day and how business and parenting tasks intertwine, especially as entrepreneurs (05:52-10:19).
  • Liz: “I like having options, but I don’t like having to make the only big decision…that’s like my like, like, love language.” (06:45)

3. Top 10 Things Contractor Husbands Say

The main feature: The classic gripes and excuses contractor husbands always utter—broken down in a Letterman-style countdown (13:57-24:49)

10. “This Call Will Only Be 5 Minutes.” (14:07)

• Universally recognized as the biggest lie in the household, leading to expectations and communication breakdowns.
  • Brian: “It’s not the time, it’s the expectation that is set.” (14:15)
  • Liz: “Sounds like you need an attitude adjustment.” (14:30)

9. “I’ll Be Home For Dinner.” (14:49)

• The empty promise; everyone knows he won’t.
  • Brian: “It’s not the fact they’re missing dinner…It’s the fact that ‘I will be home for dinner’ when you know you’re not.” (14:59)

8. “If We Make This One Investment, We Won’t Have to Spend Money Next Year.” (15:30)

• Rationalizing purchases by promising future savings that never materialize.
  • Liz: “We’ll save a hundred thousand dollars next year by not buying these two things.” (15:41)
  • Brian: “…That is never actually in my account the next year though, like ever.” (15:47)

7. “That’s One of Ours!” (Spotted from Three Lanes Away) (16:56)

• Contractor pride when passing by a property they service—demanding everyone look immediately!
  • Liz: “You want to…punch something…You just want them to look!” (17:11)
  • Brian: "You act like you own the building." (17:07)

6. “Yeah, We Got Them for Snow...” (18:12)

• Every odd object is “for snow” or the business—extending to every vehicle, part, or tool.
  • Extensive banter about snow stakes, branding colors, and fellow contractors (18:12-19:20)

5. “I Did That Job!” (19:20)

• Every parking lot or grass stripe is a badge of honor—contractor as museum tour guide.

4. “Don’t Throw That Away, I Might Need It.” (20:25)

• The garage graveyard of valuable “parts” no one can identify.
  • Liz: “Some of our guys have that trait…There’s A bunch of junk.” (20:44-21:40)

3. “I Just Need One More Thing from Home Depot.” (22:15)

• The two-hour Home Depot odyssey: going in for one item, coming out with a cart and $600 lighter.
  • Liz: “Returns two hours later with Milwaukee packouts and a $600 receipt.” (22:15)

2. “Weather’s Going to Mess Up This Whole Week.” (23:31)

• Radar and weather-watching becomes a daily preoccupation.
  • Brian: “Contractors check the radar more than local meteorologists.” (23:31)
  • Liz: “Do you think we should do two inches or one and a half? ...you have no skin in the game…” (24:23)

1. “We’re Slowing Things Down Next Year…” (24:49)

• Immediately followed by expanding the business with more accounts or equipment.
  • Liz: “We’re not buying anything else this year.” (25:01)
• Honorable mentions: "I'm too sore to work out today", "The truck's making a weird noise", and more DIY disasters.

4. Marriage, Family, and Contractor Humor

• The couple swap stories about losing their wallets, tape measures (29:15), and belts (30:37), and the endless mystery of where to hang a belt.
  • Liz: “Where do you put your belt? Do you hang it on the loop in the closet?” (31:02)
  • Brian: “There's a hanger that you can put them on.” (31:24)
• Playful roasting of each other’s quirks, like Brian editing videos while perched in his underwear (32:27-32:49).

5. Fitness, Challenges, and Family Rivalry

• Discussion of the “Murph” fitness challenge rivalry between Brian, his brother, and friends (35:31-37:51).
  • Liz: “No one bet on you...but you were the underdog, and then you won.” (36:27)
• Mocking their YouTube fitness ambitions and family competitiveness.

6. Contractor Life = Constant Adaptation

• The couple reflect on how every season of life in the contractor business feels delusional, exhausting, but ultimately satisfying (45:45).
  • Liz: “This season of our life is...delusional, it’s ridiculous, you know? And it’s great. It’s great.” (45:45)

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Memorable Quotes

• Brian: “I slept in longer today than I did on Mother’s Day, which was yesterday.” (03:29)
• Liz: “If you were born, thank your mom. Let’s just start there, right?” (09:09)
• Liz: “Returns two hours later with Milwaukee packouts and a $600 receipt.” (22:15)
• Brian: “Contractors check the radar more than local meteorologists.” (23:31)
• Liz: “We’re not buying anything else this year.” (25:01)
• Brian: “Where do you put your belt?...There needs to be a spot. Like, it needs to be an event: ‘I hung my belt!’” (31:04)
• Liz: “This season of our life is...delusional, it’s ridiculous, you know? And it’s great.” (45:45)

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Notable & Humorous Moments

• The endless tape measure hunt: “We legit have 20 tape measures. I actually can’t find it.” (29:31)
• DIY projects gone wrong: “We can do it ourselves and save money…before a 3 hour project becomes a 14 week renovation.” (28:01)
• Weather anxiety debates: “You think we should adjust our trigger?...Stop talking.” (24:28-24:34)
• Losing track of belts and the 'Brian clothing trail.' (30:51-34:09)
• Midwest goodbyes: “If someone in the Midwest offers you coffee, that’s your cue to leave.” (43:51)
• Family camping nostalgia: “Emmy longs for the camper. Like, highlight of her life is the camper.” (43:23)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Opening Banter & Family Life: 00:22-05:52
• Mother’s Day Recap: 05:52-10:19
• Business & Regional Networking: 11:17-12:21
• Letterman-style Top 10 List Begins: 13:57
• #10-#1 Contractor Sayings: 13:57-24:49
• Honorable Mentions & DIY Mishaps: 25:01-29:15
• Tape Measures & Belts: 29:15-34:09
• Marriage Humor & Fitness Challenge Story: 35:20-37:51
• Closing Segment—Midwest Goodbyes, Family Stories: 43:51-46:13

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Tone and Style

The episode is friendly, candid, and full of authentic marital teasing. Brian and Liz maintain a playful, honest tone, poking fun at themselves and inviting listeners into the real-life intersection of marriage and the world of contracting.

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Summary

Episode 966 is a must-listen for married contractor couples or anyone in the trades who wants a cheerful, lighthearted break. Brian and Liz showcase the comic realities of blending business, parenting, and household management while poking fun at the universal habits of contractor husbands. The mix of affectionate roasting, inside industry jokes, and relatable family challenges is sure to resonate and entertain—offering both laughs and lessons about communication and partnership at home and at work.

Transcript

[Brian Fullerton]

Foreign.

[Podcast Announcer]

You're now listening to the Fullerton Unfiltered podcast. Straightforward, no nonsense business advice. Completely on unfiltered. Grow your business, grow your life. Now here's your host, Brian Fullerton.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

So I'm. I've got a call. I just have to make a call. I have to make a phone call. I've got an important phone call. I literally am saying that as we start the podcast.

[Brian Fullerton]

Welcome to Filtered. This is your host, Brian on Maintenance.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

You don't even sound like me, dude. What are you doing?

[Brian Fullerton]

I don't know.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Do you listen to the show?

[Brian Fullerton]

No.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Regular listener. Big fan. Regular listen to the show. Big fan.

[Brian Fullerton]

Favorite parts of the middle.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

The favorite parts of the middle. Exactly. All right, we're gonna change up today. We're gonna make it a another fun Wednesday podcast. Listen, I were just fighting for like the last 20 minutes, so I'm like trying to get back.

[Brian Fullerton]

You come in, I'm washing eggs, and you're like, hey, hand me a clean knife. I'm like, I'm in the middle of

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

a task, dude, you can't describe.

[Brian Fullerton]

Get up and do it yourself.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Because the gross incompetence of what was happening around me just made me want to take a nice pick to myself.

[Brian Fullerton]

Welcome to get up at any.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Oh, and I did. After trying to literally let you guys do it, let you all do it. Let you guys then delegate to maybe what you guys could do. Just, you know, throw some ideas and then. Still not watching it work after the fourth time I got up and solved the whole freaking problem.

[Brian Fullerton]

I mean, you could have just gone up and done it yourself.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

You know, I. I thought there's two working ladies that were able to apparently do the job of what, one man

[Brian Fullerton]

in the middle of a task?

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Dude. What?

[Brian Fullerton]

I wasn't stopping my task because you decided you needed me to do my boss over.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Here we go. Here we go. Okay, daddy, what else you got?

[Brian Fullerton]

You're not my dad.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

You're not my dad.

[Brian Fullerton]

I don't need a lecture. Brian's really, really good at lectures.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Oh, yeah, I've given a lot of lectures. A lot of podcast episodes have never made it to the airwaves, if you know what I'm saying.

[Brian Fullerton]

Quarterback.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Armchair quarterback.

[Brian Fullerton]

Is that what it. Arm.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Arm chat.

[Brian Fullerton]

Whatever.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Ever.

[Brian Fullerton]

You knew what I was trying to say.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

I don't need you to correct me. You're not my dad. I don't work for you. I'm not one of your employees. All right, so.

[Brian Fullerton]

So what are we talking about today, Brian?

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Together. The trades. Dot com. But you're going to Arizona. Get your tickets. Liz and I are doing our best to have Liz on the show a little bit more often. Just so I can have a. Like a video or an audio library recording to show folks what I'm doing. How blessed I am every single day is what I meant to say.

[Brian Fullerton]

Bless beyond measure, Brian.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Oh, my cup runneth over, my little proper 313 wife. So here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna do a show. Are we do it. You won't. And it's top 10 things contractor husband

[Brian Fullerton]

say, do you really have 10 of them or are we just like.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

I actually, I think I have like 15.

[Brian Fullerton]

Got a few too.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Well, let's. Let's just go through them. I don't have any. I don't have any, like, particular order. You guys really said you enjoyed last week, Wednesday's show. I don't. What was it about? We were on it together.

[Brian Fullerton]

No, we did a caricature of each other's day.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Fullerton]

You're still alive. Congratulations. You live to see another day. Only because we're in the middle of the day.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

What time did you make breakfast today?

[Brian Fullerton]

Shut up. I actually slept in today.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Oh, Jesus.

[Brian Fullerton]

I slept in longer today than I did on Mother's Day, which was yesterday.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

And then what time did you make breakfast?

[Brian Fullerton]

It was about 9:00am dude, what are you talking about? Okay, like 9:30, 10:00'. Clock.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Fullerton]

No, because I was on a call

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

with you at 10:00am exactly and you came in there at 9:59 looking like a mess.

[Brian Fullerton]

I made so many pancakes. I don't have to make pancakes tomorrow because I have extra pancakes.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

That's right. Oh, I'm gonna spell my daughter's name. And pancakes at that o'. Clock.

[Brian Fullerton]

I do.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

They love. Where's Brian at?

[Brian Fullerton]

They love my favorite thing to start the day with the kids.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Okay. Okay.

[Brian Fullerton]

Start the day. Making them feel Disney cruise yet? Not yet. Give me a minute.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

You sent me some other locations.

[Brian Fullerton]

Make it sound like I go to Disney all the time. I'm not like a Disney adult.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Disney adult.

[Brian Fullerton]

No, I'm not. I would love to go literally anywhere else, but our kids are so little. It like, doesn't make sense.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

You know, like the. Don't you know?

[Brian Fullerton]

Don't you know?

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

It's when you go, no, I'm not like, you have that same.

[Brian Fullerton]

Like, I sound Midwest.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Okay, here's what we're going to do today for all you Guys that are still listening to the show, all three

[Brian Fullerton]

of you, Canadian, Midwest.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Because I would. I would delete this thing and turn it off if I could, too. It'd be funny if you could, like, submit a delete request.

[Brian Fullerton]

Really? Not Midwest. Listen, we're like mid north.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Yeah. We're not great. We're like Great Lakes Northeast.

[Brian Fullerton]

We're not northeast.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Dude. You don't even know what's happening. You're freaking transforming like a freaking. You're evolving. Don't you mean to wish, Yo. Yeah, we got the jackets.

[Brian Fullerton]

Have you got your jackets? It might be cold today.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

It might be cold. We got the jackets. Get the jackets.

[Brian Fullerton]

Brian has trained her children that when I go, everybody, eat your food. Let's go. They all go, eat your food. Eat your food. Eat your food. Eat your food. Eat your food. You're terrible. But then also, when they like a meal, they all go, compliments to the chef. And they do, like, the Italian fingers, like, compliments.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

They say confidence. They. They. They go, confidence to the chef. So whoever cooks, we. While we had grace. We say confidence to the chef.

[Brian Fullerton]

They do it without being prompt.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Don't you know? Don't you know? All right, so we're still alive. We're still happily married, as Marty Grunder would say.

[Brian Fullerton]

Are we?

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Whatever, dude. I love you, bro. And let's see. We are. Yeah. I freaking love you, dude. I love you. I'm a mick. Love to you. That's how much I love you.

[Brian Fullerton]

Father's Day. So calm down.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Well, you did almost say Mother's Day might turn into Father's Day with how things went yesterday.

[Brian Fullerton]

It was a really good Mother's Day.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Yeah. What did I do? Tell everybody how awesome I am?

[Brian Fullerton]

You did, actually. You did a really, really great job. You sent me to go get a pedicure. We came home on Saturday, and my mom was here to watch the kids with you, apparently, because you can't watch.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

We did a craft.

[Brian Fullerton]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Oh, don't you know?

[Brian Fullerton]

And so I was gone. They did a craft, and I got my pedicure done. He called the salon, and he was like, what? The lady goes. He wanted to make sure that you got the best one. And it was really nice.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

One of the best for my wife.

[Brian Fullerton]

And then I got back, and they're like, you need to leave because we're not done with our craft. So I went shopping. Then I came home, we had dinner. And then Sunday. Oh, Saturday night, I went to go to bed, and under my pillow was this little door hanger.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Well, first off, I took it. Ice cream.

[Brian Fullerton]

Oh, you got me ice cream in front of me.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

I did get you ice cream.

[Brian Fullerton]

That was, you know, like, that was nice, but also, like, kind of harsh because you got me ice cream, but not the kids. And the kids are in the car, and they, like, didn't understand.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

I don't care.

[Brian Fullerton]

It's really me.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

It was Mommy's day, Mommy's weekend. Anyway, Sunday.

[Brian Fullerton]

And then I got this little door hanger underneath my pillow so that I could put in my request for my breakfast in bed. And, like, all the meals that I, like, he gave me. It was nice because he knows me, and, like, I don't. I like having options, but I don't like having to make it, like, the only big decision. So, like, it's like, do you want to eat at this restaurant or this restaurant? I can make that decision super easy. But if you're like, what do you want to eat? It's not the same thing. Like, give me two options, and I'll pick one. Like, that's, like, my. Like, like, love language. Okay. So he had, like, a couple options for each thing, and I just checked off what I wanted and, like, wrote in what I. My order and stuff. It was really cute. And then the next morning, I got to sleep in. Like, I really couldn't sleep in very well. So I ended up calling my mom to say, happy, happy Mother's Day while you went to get my coffee. And then, like, out of the movies, you know, when the kids come in and, like, somebody's crying and, like, they're like, happy Mother's Day. And, like, it was really cute with my coffee and stuff. Stuff. And then I got crafts from the kids, which I love.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Thoughtful crafts. We made some really cute things y

[Brian Fullerton]

a bouquet of, like, their handprints. Like, that was so sweet.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

And I got flowers laminated, because you said extra points.

[Brian Fullerton]

Extra points for a laminated craft because it lasts forever. And I can look back year after year. I'm sentimental that way. And he knows this. And then when the bordines.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Well, no, we got lunch. We got lunch.

[Brian Fullerton]

We got lunch. He.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Panera bread, grilled cheese.

[Brian Fullerton]

Yep. And he went to Home Depot and got stepping stones for around the chicken coop. And then we went to go pick out every year. The only thing, because I don't really want, like, gifts or anything, like, beyond, like, I love homemade crafts from the kids. Some moms like that, some moms don't. I love that our kids aren't in public school. So the only time I get crafts from, like, Stuff like that is if, like, Brian or my mom has them, make them for me. Otherwise, I'm the one doing the crafts with them, which is fine.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

I had to fix my headset. Sorry about that.

[Brian Fullerton]

And blow out somebody's speaker. So then we went. The only thing I really want for Mother's Day is flowers. And our. I have these giant flower boxes that I have on the house that I love having filled. And every year for Mother's Day, we do the planting for them. So we went to Bordeaux and picked our flowers out and stuff, because we actually have frost advisory for the next two nights, which is cool. So we're not planting them until probably next weekend.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

But the high is 50 degrees still. It's May 15th. We haven't had a. Oh, don't worry.

[Brian Fullerton]

It's going to be 80 degrees on Saturday. Have you seen that?

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

I hope so.

[Brian Fullerton]

I'm tired of the cold craziness. And I picked straight old school, like, 90s Americana summer red geraniums with some weight in there. It's. It's gonna look so pretty.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

All right, anyway, so I'm back to the regular show. Nobody cares. Happy Mother's Day. That was Monday's show. So I did say happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there. I said, it's. You better have a better. Thank mom because you know why? You were freaking born. So you don't get another opinion. Other way. If you were born, thank your mom. Let's just start there, right? You know what I mean? So I was like, yes, thank you to Mom. So it was a great show. Good morning show. Monday morning, I think. Mom show. And then we. We spent the rest of the day. And you got sushi, by the way. You did get sushi. Yeah. That was good. And everything you ever wanted, right?

[Brian Fullerton]

Yeah, it was great.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

And I didn't. I didn't bother you. You didn't change a diaper. I didn't make any. Any passes at you. Nothing. The whole day I didn't bother you. You're like, I don't want anything t. Touching me. I don't. If it came out of me, I don't want it touching me. I don't want anything touching me. I'm like, no problem. And if I had more autonomy, because a little baby, we would have probably just left for the day.

[Brian Fullerton]

Well, no, because, see, like, moms say that, but, like, I would not want to spend Mother's Day without my little kids while they're little.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Yeah.

[Brian Fullerton]

You know, like, that's the whole point.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Not like the whole day.

[Brian Fullerton]

No, like you just, you want to have, you want to be with them, but not like the stress of being with them, like changing the diapers and stuff like that. Because I genuinely do enjoy being with my kids and you only get so many when they're little.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Yeah, no, I lie about other things, too. I'm not lying.

[Podcast Announcer]

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[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

see you in Louisville. Let's pivot. Let's make a pivot. We're going to pivot.

[Brian Fullerton]

So let's talk about all the things you do well.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Hold on, hold on. We got a commercial bid, a lead commercial contract for a land contract available to us in Topeka, Kansas.

[Brian Fullerton]

Oh, perfect.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Right down the road from Michigan.

[Brian Fullerton]

Topeka, Kansas.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

I don't know if it's social media or just like our name getting out there or what, but we get, we get land bids from Pennsylvania, we get them from Louisiana, we get Topeka. I might just go worldwide with this thing. I'm subcontract out all the dollar generals. We get what? Let me see if there's a business listed. Oh, it's for the irrigation fertilization only. Very high revenue dollar, high net profit dollar. Oh, oh, it's. It's Vernon Nino and Sons. Totally gonna go with that one. That's. Those are on the, the list of never touching, so. But anyway, shout out to Topeka, Kansas on today's podcast. You get today's city honorable mention. All right, let's do this really quick. Let's do contractor things that my husband says it's got to be some for the wives too, but another show for another time. Do you have this list or do you want me to go through them?

[Brian Fullerton]

You're gonna go through them.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

All right, so we'll we'll read this off together. Hopefully. This is fun. If it's not, it is what it is. Let's do this. And there's. There's a lot more. So let me go through here.

[Brian Fullerton]

There are so many things you say that annoy me.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

All right, first things first. That's great. That's great.

[Brian Fullerton]

Together.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Calm, for real. Come to together. We can't wait to see that.

[Brian Fullerton]

If you haven't heard, it's our last big retreat one we are pivoting that event.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

It's gonna be a smaller regional pop up. So we might not do the big thing every year. It might do like every three or five years. But Grand Canyon is gonna be one of our last big hurrahs. So we hope to see you guys there and it will be a sincerely good time. And three or four more couples bought their tickets over the weekend. So that's really cool. So another eight or ten people that are gonna be joining us. Six to eight people will be joining us. All right, let's do this really quick. Top 10 things. My husband, contractor says this is David Letterman style. You know, David Letterman is.

[Brian Fullerton]

Nope.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Okay, so I barely know because I did grow up listening to this on the way to school every morning. School started at 7:20.

[Brian Fullerton]

David Letterman came in at like starting at 7, 7:20. What kids can perform their best at 7:20 in the morning?

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

No, kid. That's why nobody performs well at school. But anyway, David Letterman came on the News Radio at 7:18 in the morning is a. Literally like it was park at front. My mom dropped us off, listen to David letterman. I'm like nine, you know, or 12. Listen to David Letterman. I have no idea who he is. I didn't get 99 of the references or the jokes. But, you know, it was fun to listen to. And my mom probably was there enjoying the. The David Letterman show first thing in the morning and we get dropped off and then like running the first period, first class, you know, And I'm like, hey, sorry. He was listening to David Letterman. And they're like, who does that?

[Brian Fullerton]

I used to listen to the talk radio that used to make fun of me.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Rush Limbaugh or somebody or I don't know.

[Brian Fullerton]

I can't even remember.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Ernie Harwell.

[Brian Fullerton]

Oh, it's a Christian. I don't know. Anyways, never mind.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

All right, so let's do this really quick. We got to change up, folks. I don't want to just keep doing the same show every day. So top ten things contractor husbands say David Letterman style. Number ten. This call Will only be five minutes.

[Brian Fullerton]

The biggest lie. We've actually gotten into a few arguments where I'm just like, it's not necessarily the time that you take to go

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

and do what I tell you it's going to take.

[Brian Fullerton]

It is the expectation that is set. So if you're like, hey, I've got this call coming in. I don't know how long it's going to take, or, hey, it's going to take 20 minutes, or, hey, it's going to take 45 minutes. I don't care. But when you say it's going to take five minutes and then you're back in an hour, I'm. Do you know what I mean?

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Sounds like you need an attitude adjustment.

[Brian Fullerton]

It sounds like you need to adjust expectations. Part of your job is managing expectations in your business with your employees and people that you work with.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

I don't need a lecture.

[Brian Fullerton]

Setting proper.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

I don't need a lecture. I don't need. I don't need a lecture. What are you, my dad? All right, so let's. Number nine, I'll be home for dinner.

[Brian Fullerton]

Same thing if you said, hey, babe, I really hate to do this. I'm gonna miss you for dinner. I. I can't wait to snuggle those kids when I get home, though. And I'll bring home dessert.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Are you coaching all the men today?

[Brian Fullerton]

No, I'm just saying this is why it annoys me. Is it because it's not the thing? It's not that you're like. It's not the fact they're missing dinner. It's the fact that I will be home for dinner when you know you're not. I know you know you're not.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

I know you know that I know that I know that you know that I know.

[Brian Fullerton]

Let's just say you're not.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

He says, I will be home for dinner. Technically true. Just for tomorrow's dinner.

[Brian Fullerton]

Seriously, this is sad. Plate of food that's like, I know

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

that you know that I know that you know that I know that you know. All right, number eight. If we just make this one investment, we won't have to spend this money next year.

[Brian Fullerton]

There's so many times Brian's favorite thing to do is add up a running list of things that we've purchased this year that we don't have to purchase again next year and then tell me that that's the amount that's going to be an extra. The bank account.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

We'll save a hundred thousand dollars next year by not buying these two things.

[Brian Fullerton]

I have to imagine other people do this. I've never encountered this though, until being married to somebody who's self employed that you're like adding up expenses that you've had this year that you don't have to spend again next year. That is never actually in my account the next year though, like ever.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Dude, I'm with.

[Brian Fullerton]

It never happened.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

I'm gonna be honest with you. I know what you're saying. Like I'm gonna truck the Isuzu and the loader.

[Brian Fullerton]

We don't have to buy those things next year.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

150,000.

[Brian Fullerton]

Have $150,000.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

I'm looking forward to the fall, bro. You know what I'm saying? That's why we're going to Disney. We should have 157 or just the down payments, right? This should save us 20, you know, this would be $50,000. It's literally never happen. It's. I'm telling you, I've done this every. I've got a list of one time expense. I asked Chat. Yeah.

[Brian Fullerton]

I'm so irritated now when you say it to me because like I don't even. You're just wasting my time listening to you talk.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Do you remember the real that went viral like a month or two ago, the trend? It was like me adding up my expenses and realizing it was actually me and not somebody that stole money from my bank account. And I'm like, holy crap. There's no way the whole 29 a day is 10 grand a year. All that kind of nonsense. All right, number eight. No, that was number eight. Number seven. That's one of ours. Spotted from three lanes away while driving past a random commercial property.

[Brian Fullerton]

To look immediately or you get mad.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Look, look, look, look, look.

[Brian Fullerton]

Now look. Oh, wow. Grass.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Wow.

[Brian Fullerton]

Wow.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

It's not the grass. It's the site. It's one of ours.

[Brian Fullerton]

It's like.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

It's like my children.

[Brian Fullerton]

You act like you own the building.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

I do own the property.

[Brian Fullerton]

That's right. It's mine.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

You want to know? It's a bat peeve you not looking. Somebody got a husband or a husband? A wife maybe a husband. Anybody got a wife out there that doesn't look that you want to like take their. This sounds violent. You just want to punch something you want.

[Brian Fullerton]

I'm in the middle of doing something and you're like, look, immediately. You're just as bad as the kids.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

M.

[Brian Fullerton]

I'm. My head's going to explode. Like, I don't know what to do.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

I don't want to take you from your. All Important Facebook group fight. Sorry, I'm. I'm having an intense conversation right now with somebody on Facebook against another trad wife. She believes the gestation period is ten months. I believe it's nine and a half. You know, it's like, who cares? You get like. I'm like, look. And then you finally look, you go, look, where's this property? As went 75 miles an hour down the highway. I go, you know what? It. Like, it doesn't matter. Like, who cares?

[Brian Fullerton]

Like, it matters to you. It matters to me.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

I'm like, don't worry about it, you know? Oh. Oh, I'm sure. Had the straightest stripes and the best no plowing ever. I'm like, I will freaking murder you, bro. I will. I will.

[Brian Fullerton]

You.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

They will never find the B number six. Yeah, we got them for snow. We got them for snow. A contractor's answer for every truck, skid, steer, salted trailer, and tax write off.

[Brian Fullerton]

Yeah, we got those. Those are our snow stakes. That's my favorite. Like, not just. Yeah, that's our snow counter. Oh, yeah, that. We do that properly. Look, those are snow stakes. Like, they're any different from the other

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

or they're not fiberglass. They're straws. They're the plastic ones. See, other guys use fiberglass. We use straws because we use right dot com.

[Brian Fullerton]

Red.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

They have red. But I don't want to mark them for our branding. So people don't know our sites. Somebody that we know that's into the heavy pink branding has all pink snow stakes. And I'm like, hey, man, those people are rich that pay his bills. Let's go over all the pink sites. Just kidding. That's actually hilarious. But let's write that one down. Of course, those are, like, the world's largest mega churches where he's got, like, three loaders and seven trucks on him. Like, that's my whole business. All right, number five, David Lman style. Drum roll, please, ladies and gentlemen. Here's tonight's top 10. I did that job. I did that job.

[Brian Fullerton]

Oh, my God.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Every parking lot, retaining, wall, street mulch, bed and stripe pattern becomes a professional museum tour.

[Brian Fullerton]

It is cool. It is. There is genuinely, like, especially as the business has grown. Like, I went from knowing every single site. We had, like, all 12. All 12 of them. Because we also lived in the area too, you know?

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Yeah.

[Brian Fullerton]

To now when we go, like, I'm always so impressed that you're like, oh, yeah, we've just picked this one up. Oh, we. I'm like, we own the City. Like, I feel like when we drive through and you're like, yeah, that's ours. Yeah, that's ours. Yeah, we did that. That's ours. Those are just snow sticks. And, like, we own this.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Did we?

[Brian Fullerton]

Like, it feels really cool.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Is that why we moved? You don't hear this anymore. That's our site.

[Brian Fullerton]

We.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Paul, that site. That's my grass. I cut that grass. Rob does that site. Yeah, that's Rob's site. Yeah, Rob manages that one because he's one of our three crews now.

[Brian Fullerton]

What's cool to me is like, yeah, that's Route 1. Like, I really. Yeah, that's Route 2. You know, like, that's.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

We're big time, obviously, folks. We've got three routes.

[Brian Fullerton]

That feels cool.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

I got three routes out, three days. Where the work's old, it does get old. Need to get some more mulch jobs coming on in there. Don't. You know. All right, number four. No particular order. Don't throw that away. I might need it. The garage currently contains on 14 mysterious important parts nobody can identify.

[Brian Fullerton]

I feel like I'm worse at this than you are. When we were building the house, I was like, no, no, we can build, like, a chicken or something. And you're like, no, we're not saving any of this.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Well, that's because I was paying for all the material that came and went when they were, like, building the house. And when you're upstairs and you look over at the, you know, 20 yard or whatever, 30, 40 yard, whatever, they

[Brian Fullerton]

roll off dumpster, that's almost a full two by four.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

That's a whole sheet of drywall. And I'm like, dude, you could literally build a tiny house with that. And you probably could. You legitimately could have, but you're paying for it all. And I'm like, and not that anybody was excessively wasteful, but, dude, like, they. They don't care. You know what I'm saying? They're like, oh, two by two foot piece off of four by eight plywood. Well, it's used. And I'm like, you guys think you could, like, cut that down and use the rest of it? Yeah, that. That stuff's. You know what? You know, it's even worse than me or you having that trait. Some of our guys have that trait. I threw a bunch of stuff out the other day. I'm not gonna name who, because they probably listen to the show. And he goes, why'd you throw that good stuff out? And I'm like, ryan, it's fine. There's A bunch of junk. He's like, oh, no, no, we could do that. Go, Ryan. It's got an inch of dust on it. There's nothing in there.

[Brian Fullerton]

What got me is like, no. The other day, Gavin's like, hey, we don't have any weed whips. And I was like, what do you mean? Literally, to go to the gym in our barn, I pass a pile of them. Well, they were all broken.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

I guess that's what we ended up.

[Brian Fullerton]

What do you mean we don't have any. There's like literally a dozen at the end of the staircase there.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

There was six. And then about four or five other hand tools that you wouldn't.

[Brian Fullerton]

They're all.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

They're all. Exactly. Literally three or four of them weren't working. One, actually, we were able to salvage, which is nice. But. Yes. And so it was really funny throwing out a bunch. I. I've purchased. So much fun.

[Brian Fullerton]

I'm on team Ryan. I'm like, we could fix these. Like, fix these. They look fine.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

I'm on team Purge stuff. I'm. I'm getting rid of everything. All right, number three, in no particular order. I just need one more thing from Home Depot.

[Brian Fullerton]

Okay.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Just need one more thing from Home depot. Okay. Returns two hours later with Milwaukee packouts and a 600 receipt.

[Brian Fullerton]

My favorite is especially around like Lal. Brian's like, oh, yeah, I had to make a run to Home Depot and I got this for a giveaway or. Or you know, I got this because, you know, we can give it out as a Christmas gift. What do you. To who. What? They're. What?

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

I do spend a lot of money at Home Depot and, and I always want to like, over what are they under promise. Over deliver. Yeah, that's what the saying is. I. We do giveaways. A lot of giveaways at LAL. Mark your dates on the calendar. November 7th. By the way, we had a two hour planning session this morning.

[Brian Fullerton]

I'm so excited. There's so many fun changes.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

We are really investing, investing a lot of money, a lot of thought, a lot of time into this thing. Tickets are going sale mid June. We'll have master classes again, some great, totally new speaker lineup. It's. It's going to be very, very, very good. I'm making a huge investment into the event, but I always want to make sure we have enough stuff for giveaways. We do like, what are they called? The ticket?

[Brian Fullerton]

Raffles.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Raffles. And everybody gets a ticket that goes. And we do a lot of giveaways and do a bunch of stuff. And always the night before, I'm like, there's not enough stuff. There's not. We have, like, 20.

[Brian Fullerton]

We always go to Home Depot.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

And I always go to Home depot and blow 500 bucks on stuff. And I'm like, who needs some air compressors? All right. Number two, weather's going to mess up this whole week. Contractors check the radar more than local meteorologists.

[Brian Fullerton]

I hate, especially in the winter snow, it's so irritating because it's like a mute point. Like, it doesn't matter. You can talk about it for three days in advance. You don't know what it's going to do until it's going to do it. And so, like, talking about it is exhausting to me. I'm just like, just be quiet. Whatever's going to happen is going to happen. Like, just let it go.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

I'm sure every wife has heard, like, you think it's enough out there? How much snow do you think? You think that's two inches? You think that's an inch? It's an inch. It's an inch, isn't it? Yeah, we. It's like the Ocean's Eleven movie with what's his name, Brad Pitt and George Clooney. When they're at the bar scene, he's like, they got like, their team of nine or ten guys. He's like, you need one more? You think we need one more? And Brad Pitt's just like, over the bar. He's like, we need one more. Yeah, we need one more. I'm gonna get one more. And the Brad Pitt doesn't say anything the whole time.

[Brian Fullerton]

I've only seen. I think because of memes for. With Kit, like, about having another kid.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

That's what it is. It's like that and other things. Like, we're gonna get one more. We need one more. Yeah, we need one more. I'm gonna go get one more. And that's what it feels like with. With snow. I'm like, you think it's an inch, it's an inch. You. Things are. Yeah. You think we should adjust our trigger? Like, you have no skin in the game with the business, you know, Like, I don't know.

[Brian Fullerton]

Stop talking.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

I'm like, do you think we should do two inches or one and a half? Because everybody does two. But I really want to be better. But

[Brian Fullerton]

a lot of my role is just being your sounding board. Like, I.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

You do take it on. On the chin.

[Brian Fullerton]

I just listen a lot.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

All right, number one. And then we'll see if there's any honorable mentions. Because we had a bunch listed here. Number one, we're slowing things down next year.

[Brian Fullerton]

Yeah. Oh.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Immediately followed by buying more equipment and landing three new commercial accounts.

[Brian Fullerton]

It's going to be an easy new year next year. Things are, you know, we've done a lot of the growing, like, pain stuff. Like. Yeah, okay, okay.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

We're not buying anything else this year. Hold on. There's some other honorable mentions I got to do here. So that was a top 10 list. And I'm sure none of you guys listening and have said any of this out loud or to your spouse. Number another one was an honorable mention. I'm too sore to work out today after carrying plywood like an olympic event for 11 straight hours. I'm too sort of workout today or. I already got my workout today. I work 10 hours in the field. That's. That's. I'll usually say that a lot more than any of the other ones. Thoughts on that one? Oh, the truck's making a weird noise again. Translation. Turn up the radio and pray.

[Brian Fullerton]

It got to a point with like, I remember, like before thunder. There was literally something always wrong with

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

every month with that.

[Brian Fullerton]

Like, I wish that was an exaggeration. It's probably an under exaggeration Every month. It was probably every week. There was something wrong with that truck.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

The running joke. And some of you guys have heard this one before, but it had like a 4.6 liter V8. I don't know how many quarts, maybe six quarts of oil. And what I would do is it leaked oil so bad that every time I would, like once a day, once every other couple days, I would put another quart of oil in it. And to me, every, like fifth or sixth fill up was an oil change. You know, I'm saying, I'm like, I just keep thinning that thing out and purging it.

[Brian Fullerton]

You never have to clean it if it keeps leaking.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

That's what I'm saying. Like the fuel filter is probably. Or the oil filter is probably. I changed that once, once a year, but that was my logic. And go figure. Let's see. But things making weird noise. I'm like, let me know if it happens for a couple more days and then we'll worry about it. Like, similar but different. If I lose my wallet, which happens monthly, quarterly, for sure, I go, I'm not canceling my cards because it'll show up. And like clockwork, every two to three days, which is a long time to go without a wallet because I'm driving, flying, you know, like doing the deal I've made flying trips with my Costco card. Yeah, I'm like, I'm like, like, I don't know if this passes for national security.

[Brian Fullerton]

You can use your CPL to get through GSA because it is a government issued form of ID with your picture and name on it.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

I mean, that's. That's fancier than what I was proposing,

[Brian Fullerton]

which was they've let you through with the Casco card. And if you saw Brian's Casco card, it gets worse. It's. Casco card is a picture of us both. Because for some reason I thought it was funny to.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

We took a group photo because we can both use it. Not those bastards scan at you. Scan you at the door with a little TV monitor. You know, like we're in each other's photo.

[Brian Fullerton]

I haven't gone in Costco in like a year because our kid had a tantrum and I just haven't been back, literally.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Oh, yeah, you haven't been back since the Costco.

[Brian Fullerton]

I only do orders.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Oh, my God.

[Brian Fullerton]

I've only ordered.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Dude. It's been about a year.

[Brian Fullerton]

It's been over a year.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Yeah. Here's another honorable mention. This isn't so much us, but this, this is a lot of people in our community, in our industry. We can do it ourselves and save money.

[Brian Fullerton]

That is not us.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Famous last words. Before a 3 hour project becomes a 14 week renovation.

[Brian Fullerton]

Not ne naming names. Almonds.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

We already know. I'm gonna go in their house once in a while.

[Brian Fullerton]

They're talented, though. We're not talented.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

No, they can't worry about that. They can do all that stuff. It is actually pretty funny, but probably

[Brian Fullerton]

a blessing that we're.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

That's true. Dude. I remember going to their house. I think we went to their house and they gave us like the whole grand tour. And they're like, this is the door we made and this is all the wood for the. For the outside panels. This is the gutters we're doing. We're also re roofing the house. And no, I thought it was really cool because they were doing their own windows.

[Brian Fullerton]

They had wood that they chopped down at like their previous house or something. That's like. Was their mantle that Caleb, like, put together. And then you're like, redid the fireplace. Like, it's that too. If I could do stuff like that, like, I would. I would be a menace. But I'm not, so you're lucky.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

I'm not judging at all. I'm not saying it's a smart move. I'M not saying it's not a smart move, but they've also had times where they've had 14 week long renovation projects. So that's their story to share. They don't do a lot of that anymore. I couldn't get their attention. But Mark Bradley tells them what I tell them and. Oh my God. Mark. Hey, Brian. You ever heard this before? Nope. Never once. But anyway. Oh, this is, this is a relatable one. Have you seen the tape measure? Do you know what the tape measure is?

[Brian Fullerton]

Always takes it.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Dude. How many tape measures do you think we really do own?

[Brian Fullerton]

When we first moved in and we had the ladies organizer kitchen, we legitimately had like eight in the house. In the house.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

I have another eight or 10 in the barn.

[Brian Fullerton]

That's crazy.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

We legit have 20 tape measures.

[Brian Fullerton]

I actually can't find it.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

I have them in my bag. I have them in my bags. I have them in my tool bag. I have them in my truck with a little like, you know, 2 inch 1, little metal one that you get, you know, a freebie giveaway, you know, Stanley Black and duck or something. But.

[Brian Fullerton]

Well, bring it. Bring some in the house because I don't know what happens.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Well, that's the thing. They. They come and go right now, like

[Brian Fullerton]

if we're looking around because there's usually one.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

There's always. There's one on my bookshelf, typically. Is there one over there?

[Brian Fullerton]

No, no.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Don't touch anything. God forbid I hit the power cable. But there's. There's always a tape measure around also because I can't find them. So I just buy them in like packs of five. I'm not even kidding.

[Brian Fullerton]

They're cruise like favorite toy.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

They are. But we. I've spent hundreds of dollars on tape measures. Holy cow. Don't throw that away. I can use that someday. That's not so much us. We're usually a purge. The last one was. I'll be. I'll be home early today. And by early I mean when the kids graduate. That is pretty good. That's pretty funny. All right. That's our top 10, top 10 list. I thought that was pretty funny. Any. Any other, like things that I say or. I don't really have. Like I'll be bedded.

[Brian Fullerton]

Do I have any clean shirts?

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Any clean shirts?

[Brian Fullerton]

Where's my clean pants? So I'm clean Cujos. Where's my clean Cujos?

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

No, no. Have you seen my belt?

[Brian Fullerton]

Oh my God. I'm going to. Don't you know the belt thing for Brian drives Me nuts. He makes fun of me because I lose my phone a lot, but I'm usually wearing, like, leggings or a dress. I wear a lot of, like, dresses in the summer, and they don't have pockets.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Sundress season.

[Brian Fullerton]

And so I leave my phone places because I legitimately don't have a place to put it. Like, on me. Me. But this man and his belt, for

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

whatever reason, everything in my life has a spot.

[Brian Fullerton]

Not your belt. Then why do you so much?

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Dude, that's a great question. No different than women's pants don't have pockets. There's no pocket or a spot for a belt. Like, where do you put your belt? Do you hang it on the loop in the closet? Do you put it. Is it more of a closet item? Is it more of a bathroom vanity item? Do you hang it over the. The shower rod holder? You know, for the.

[Brian Fullerton]

There's a hanger that you can put

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

them on, is there. There needs to be like a. You know, like, when you go get a Mirac and you. And you crack the. The top, you know, and then the bottle top thing. Magnet catches it. Like, there needs to be a spot. Like, it needs to be like, an event. Like, I hung my belt. Like. Like. Like something lights up or I get like a. Like a. Like a breath.

[Brian Fullerton]

Because even if you have, like, something fun, do you know what happens? There's a trail of Brian when he gets home. He gets home. And the pant and the belt. Usually, first of all, it's the belt, usually. And then for some reason, like, the pants come later. Then there's a socks situation somewhere in the house. And then a hoodie.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Three pairs of socks under my desk. And then while I was wearing another pair, I had eight socks under my desk.

[Brian Fullerton]

And then, like, you know, he's home, but he's somewhere naked. Like kids now. Follow the trails.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

We have kids now. I'm not. My skibs. But before that. Oh, yeah. You know that real. Where, like, the girl sits on, like, his wrist.

[Brian Fullerton]

That was you editing videos in your undies. Brian used to do this weird. Maybe on a good day, he was usually naked editing videos at our dining table.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Thanks. That's exactly the scene everybody wanted to see.

[Brian Fullerton]

But he's, like, perched like, I probably. I don't know how to describe it.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Probably a solid three years of me

[Brian Fullerton]

editing, like, you know, the Asian squat. That's basically what you would do on our dining.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Like, if you're gonna use the bathroom, like in Chinatown.

[Brian Fullerton]

But our. Our chairs were fully wood, so he never Wanted to put his naked butt on them.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

No, I'm stinky, I'm sweaty, the chairs are cold.

[Brian Fullerton]

More sense. I don't understand you.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Probably a three year window of me editing YouTube videos on. Just perching. Perching and doing the deal.

[Brian Fullerton]

What's that in the bus?

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

That's. That's a robust looking man right there doing that.

[Brian Fullerton]

What's better is you almost look like you had clothes on because your tan lines are so gnarly.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

But seriously, where do you hang your belt? Do you hang it over the bathtub? Do you hang it over the shower?

[Brian Fullerton]

I'm telling you, there's a hanger.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Listen.

[Brian Fullerton]

That you can put in your closet.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Do you hang it over where your towels. If you have like a towel holder, do you. Do you put it on your shelf where your clothes are? Do you put it on the front door before you leave? You put over the couch. No. Put it on the. Where your drop is.

[Brian Fullerton]

No.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Like when you walk in.

[Brian Fullerton]

No.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Where do you put it? You put it by your desk. You put it over your computer.

[Brian Fullerton]

Pants off.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Do you put it over your couch?

[Brian Fullerton]

What are you doing with your pants?

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

There's a legitimate 8 to 12 spots that I could put them in the

[Brian Fullerton]

hamper in the closet, but then you're gonna get lost. Not if you put them in the hamper.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

What?

[Brian Fullerton]

You put your pants in the hamper and then you put your belt in the closet.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Where in the closet?

[Brian Fullerton]

I'll make you a belt basket.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Brian, where do you put it in the closet, though?

[Brian Fullerton]

On your shelf? I have all my accessories in there.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Okay.

[Brian Fullerton]

Where your watches are.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Okay, all right. Maybe. But like, I don't have a designated spots because they loop and they roll and then they unravel and then they fall on the floor. Then they get kicked around and then the kids play with them. It needs to be like. Like you put your gun in a safe, you put your wallet in the bowl.

[Brian Fullerton]

Put your belt in the back, you

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

put your keys on the keychain holder. Like everybody. Everything's got a spot. There's not a spot for a belt. Breaking news here. Just. That's why I lose it. Where's your phone?

[Brian Fullerton]

Right next to me.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

So where does your phone go? Everywhere you go. Except that you lose it because you go everywhere. All right, so anyway, usually in the refrigerator. You put your phone in the refrigerator a couple times.

[Brian Fullerton]

Or like in a pile of clothes I was putting away. Like, I put it in the most random spots.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Yeah. And then you find it. Then you go, hey, have you seen my apple Watch so I can ping my phone. That's the other thing.

[Brian Fullerton]

I got an apple.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Watch.

[Brian Fullerton]

I can ping my phone.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

I go, you're freaking kidding me.

[Brian Fullerton]

It hasn't been charged in like three weeks anyway.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

And who's got the whoop on right now?

[Brian Fullerton]

Whoop, Whoop. How old is your whoop? Say you are. Sensitive topic.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

I don't know if my whoop app is as up to date as it should be, but let me double check what it suggests. I am. How old am I today? Ooh, actually, no. Was I? No, I'm good. I'm at 43, so I'm 3.3 years older than I should be. Yeah, that's about where I was at. That's always. Fuck this screen. I don't like the screen. By the way, Adam, Joe and I were talking. Meh.

[Brian Fullerton]

Oh, no.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

We might do another 100 day challenge because Adam goes. Murph, in two weeks, which one of you fat fucks is ready?

[Brian Fullerton]

If you guys don't know this story, Brian, his brother, and his brothers, like their good friend from childhood, all did the Murph together as a competition.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

The Santa Claus movie. The Santa Claus movie picture.

[Brian Fullerton]

Brian's brother Adam from Branded Bowl. I don't know if he's ever missed like a week solid in the gym. Like, he might not go every single day.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Adam, he's a four or five day

[Brian Fullerton]

a week, but for sure, like at least five days a week. And if he's not in the gym, he's doing something at home. Like he's very like physically fit minded. And then Joe, their friend, I don't know, he's like in shape. Like he works out occasionally. Whatever.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Joe's not in shape right now. He just said he's die. He goes, it take me three hours of it that he goes, I'll have a heart.

[Brian Fullerton]

Well, and then there's Brian, who, like,

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

obviously is missing physical fitness.

[Brian Fullerton]

Like the least looking fit guy out of this group. Okay.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Whoa. That's an exaggerated claim.

[Brian Fullerton]

Just because they were like into it.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Oh, those two compared to me, sure. But I'm not like some fat. I'm not.

[Brian Fullerton]

No, you're not. Like, no, I'm not at all.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Christmas.

[Brian Fullerton]

But like, you didn't have everybody's bet. Like, nobody bet on you.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

But what the fuck are you doing right now?

[Brian Fullerton]

Well, you have your brother who works out like every single day. Joe, who like was in construction. Okay. And then there was you.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

What are you saying right now? The way you're saying everything is.

[Brian Fullerton]

I'm just saying you Were the underdog. You were the underdog. And then you won. And no, they're not over it. Especially your brother. Your brother's still big man about it.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

He goes, guess who decided the Nerf Murph at the left. Nerf Murph. Is that right? At the last second, I go, so 90 days of training versus the lifelong gym athlete goers. I said, scaled proportionally. And I said, same time, same place. Next year we'll run it back, Junior. I said, I mopped the floor with you gay boys. Literally had them off the floor after because you guys are so gross. And Adam sent me a photo of the gym Christmas or whatever they get. What's his name? The Christmas movie? Tim Allen.

[Brian Fullerton]

Tim Allen doing the.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

The pop on social belly. You know, I said, adam goes, you right, you right now. I said, I have to give you guys adequate time to prepare. I sent him Scrooge McDuck swimming in coins. I'm like, are you?

[Brian Fullerton]

You know, and somehow Brian still gets, like, super preferred, unlike life insurance.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Yeah, Joe said, I'm not ready. Adam said, we can do it in two weeks or in 54 weeks. Either way, I'll be ready because Murph is on Memorial Day. Like, I probably need 54 weeks. Joe said, we can push it out from a couple of months from now. I'm. I'm down to do another challenge sometimes.

[Brian Fullerton]

Do it for like the fourth of July.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Well, I thought about that, but that's like 60 days away. I would go into cardiac arrest if I try to do that. So I need like at least 100 day Runway, but I'll get it back together. And my body, that is. No, I'm not gonna do 75. No, I need, like a 100 day challenge. And I'll do something like that for. For those two. It's fun. It's, you know, that's how it goes. But anyway, all right, we gotta wrap it up. We gotta shut it down. We gotta land the plane. We gotta close it up. We gotta close the loop. We gotta call it back, circle back. We have to pivot. We'll have to take this offline. It's terrible

[Brian Fullerton]

not know what you like, though.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

I don't even know what that means, but I'm here to find out. On tomorrow's show, Fullerton filter unfiltered after dark.

[Brian Fullerton]

I need you to build the racks in the mechanical room.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

I definitely will. I definitely will. Yeah, no, for sure, for sure. No, for sure, for sure, for sure. I'm glad you brought that up on our call. Why don't we take this conversation offline, okay? And we'll talk more about this later. All right, I'll wrap it up.

[Brian Fullerton]

That guy. That guy.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Look after three o'. Clock.

[Brian Fullerton]

That guy. I don't care. That guy. That does like the.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

I'm leaving. Close it up.

[Brian Fullerton]

That's you. What's that guy's name? You know who I'm talking about.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

I don't know what you're talking about.

[Brian Fullerton]

PE Guy.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Oh, the something. Hildebrandt or whatever guy. He's real nice. He reposted my story the other day. Just saying.

[Brian Fullerton]

Wow, you're basically famous.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

You're such a douchebag. You're so gay. He reposted my story. Yeah. I was really excited about that. Did you get. When's the last time you get reposted by somebody who's got more followers than you? Huh? Huh?

[Brian Fullerton]

Are you a teenage boy?

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Huh? What?

[Brian Fullerton]

You reposted my story. I'm your biggest fan.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

He reposted me. Maybe I got a couple followers out of it. That's the goal, you know? Why are you making fun? We should. We both won, right? Are we a team?

[Brian Fullerton]

Are we?

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Are we?

[Brian Fullerton]

Are we?

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Get out of here. All right, folks. Come to together in trades. Or don't. Whatever you want to do. And. Be unto thy own self be true. If you come, great. If. It's gonna be awesome. If you don't. Nah, we'll catch on.

[Brian Fullerton]

There is no next one.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

There is no tomorrow. There is no tomorrow.

[Brian Fullerton]

Together in the trees.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

There is no tomorrow.

[Brian Fullerton]

It's dead.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

It's not dead. It's. We're retiring it. There's a difference. We're making a pivot and we're taking the event offline.

[Brian Fullerton]

It's not funny.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

It's gonna be awesome for the 75 people there because we're gonna say whatever that we want. I might just talk about sex.

[Brian Fullerton]

Two things that he's been wanting to do together in the trades is talk about whoopi. And also conspiracy whoopi.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

What are you, like, 14? So it's gonna be I want to do trades after dark, which is not what some of you already want.

[Brian Fullerton]

It's not the whoopee part.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

That's not what you guys are thinking. You're like. That sounds weird. We're not into that. But I want to do a conspiracy night where we all just talk about a topic. You volunteer. We've never for an hour and a

[Brian Fullerton]

half because we can't have our name attached to it.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

I thought it'd be fun. Just talk about Conspiracies like you got to present. It'd be awesome. I'll probably put more time into that talk than my trades talk. Just kidding.

[Brian Fullerton]

Stop.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

But then the other portion was we should just talk about being in love for an hour and, you know, get it all out there. We should have, like, a group discussion. You know, best practices

[Brian Fullerton]

for group trips like that,

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

usually they're on a cruise.

[Brian Fullerton]

Not that kind of party.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

My algorithm is punched. All right, I'm out.

[Brian Fullerton]

What is wrong with you?

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

My algorithm is so.

[Brian Fullerton]

Why you did it. You choose it. You built.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

It's for real. It's out of curiosity.

[Brian Fullerton]

Brick vibrant again.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

It's out of curiosity. I watch something. I'm like, did you see this? And then I watch it four times, and you're like, what do you watch down there? I'm like, have you seen this before? It's. It's crazy. And then you thinking that I'm watching that stuff, so it's pretty funny. Nothing. Anything else? I just said by three o'. Clock. Hey, I'm running a little late. Wonder why I should send them the episode so you can hear this very important, groundbreaking information.

[Brian Fullerton]

Visionary.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Yeah. Visionary thought process.

[Brian Fullerton]

Okay. All right. Well, bye.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Hey, this is the Lamborghini book that you got me. It's really nice.

[Brian Fullerton]

I got you that for Christmas.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

There's my chessboard. I haven't played it anybody yet.

[Brian Fullerton]

I don't know how to play chess, so I'm not playing with you.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

All right. By the way, there's an electric chessboard that, when you move, it moves a piece. It's all, like, computers and, like, a little motorized board. So, like, you don't.

[Brian Fullerton]

Sounds like something that's gonna break. What's what? You can't move a piece.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

You don't move the other side. You don't play against yourself.

[Brian Fullerton]

Oh, like you play against a computer. It's like a video game because you don't have any friends.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Why are you. Dude, nobody's taking your side publicly. Like, when this thing ends, they're like, yeah, the lady is.

[Brian Fullerton]

I get in these moods.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

You do? What the. You're so mean to me. I can't wait to watch Marty and little Lisa. You know, like, just. We've been together for 84 years, and we're just really nice. And we're rich. We don't have any. We've had some challenges. One time, I got the expedition instead of the Escalade, and Lisa was not happy with me. And Grunder Landscaping Co only made $4 million that year. Not 4.2. And we had to cut back a little bit on some dessert. You know, that year was tough. And we're over here, like. And we got a nickel for some propane. Gotta eat our camper.

[Brian Fullerton]

Oh, God.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

We haven't had heat for weeks.

[Brian Fullerton]

I don't know. Okay. I don't wanna get out.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Children are wrapped in clothing and blankets.

[Brian Fullerton]

Emmy longs for the camper. Like, I mean, highlight of her life is the camper. She asks all the time why we can't live in the camper.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

I'm like, honey, that's a. That's going backwards. That's called backwards.

[Brian Fullerton]

I just missed the camper, Mommy.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

I know, but camp was such the best time ever.

[Brian Fullerton]

Getting up at 3am and replacing the propane tank. I don't miss.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Yeah, she's. She don't have it all figured out yet. Nobody does. All right, folks, we love you. We appreciate you.

[Brian Fullerton]

Oh, Brian's doing the Midwest.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

I did. I tapped the damn table. All right. Gotta shut this thing down. Everybody's gotta make it out. You know that. I heard somebody say once, if somebody in the Midwest offers you coffee, that's your cutie. That's your cue to leave. You guys want some coffee? Yeah, sure. I'm gonna be over here. Yeah, sure.

[Brian Fullerton]

Do I have a refill?

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

We got three more hours. Let's go over here. Like, when you slap the table or slap your knee or you slap the book, it's.

[Brian Fullerton]

Well, slap.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

It's been fun, folks. Out of here. It's happening. Don't you know?

[Brian Fullerton]

We're both becoming more in Midwest. But you're more Midwest, dad. Every day. It's happening out there. Watering the grass. Yes,

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

I love water.

[Brian Fullerton]

My lawn brain loves to water your water.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

An acre with a hose.

[Brian Fullerton]

Why are you doing on my grass?

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Seed to grow. Haven't had enough moisture.

[Brian Fullerton]

It's been three years.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

I asked Chad Chat, why is. I'm a landscaper. Chat, why is my grass. I know it's cold. I'm like, there's gotta be another reason. Yeah, I wanted, you know, half a half acre of grass with a hose. Wrong with that. You know how hard it is to pull 300ft of hose to the end of that driveway?

[Brian Fullerton]

What sources? You got crew involved.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

He was pulling the hose inside.

[Brian Fullerton]

He goes, mommy, the hose hurts me. Shut up.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

He was pulling the hose down the aisle with me.

[Brian Fullerton]

I don't do that anymore.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

He's like, dad, I want to play with you. Grab the hose. Dad thought maybe we could do fire trucks to play in the dirt.

[Brian Fullerton]

Like, I Thought I was going to go on a Ranger.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Pick up the hose. Pick up the host, son.

[Brian Fullerton]

No.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Character development. Character development. Daddy, I want to play. I want to play. I want to play Excavators. No, we're playing water the lawn. This sucks. This game sucks. Dad, hold the flashlight.

[Brian Fullerton]

I think you rather hold

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

whatever. This season of our life is, is. It's. It's. It's delusional. It's ridiculous, you know? And it's great. It's great. All right, I'm out of here. I gotta go.

[Brian Fullerton]

The third slap. We gotta go.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

Getting really serious now.

[Brian Fullerton]

Serious.

[Brian's Spouse (Liz)]

All right. We love you. We appreciate you, everybody. Have a great day. Hopefully this broke up your Wednesday. We love you. Over now. Anything else you want to say, smart

[Brian Fullerton]

ass on that, though? Bye. Bye.

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