From Bob's Office

12/3/19 We welcomed our good friend Kyle Vitwar to this episode of the podcast. He is another member of the Valley Christian community and came to summer camp with us a couple years ago. We battled sounds from the outside world as there was work being done on the roof, so don't mind the hammering, pounding, sawing, whistling, and any other random noises that you hear in the background. We started...

11/26/19 This episode's guest is Ian Silva. He has been a good friend of Jake's since they were both little, and it was a lot of fun letting our audience get to know him. Another alum of Los Altos and Valley, Ian is currently studying sports management at Grand Canyon University. And he's another big sports fan. We also have our firsts sit-in guest, Owen! In our intro we talk about our weekends an...

11/21/19 Our guest on this episode is Ethan Scherch. We are very excited to share this show with you, even considering its length, because Ethan had a variety of topics to go over with us, and we had some amazing conversations as a result. We started with a preview of a couple of this weekend's NFL games, including Colts/Texans, Packers/49ers, and Rams/Ravens, which Ethan and Jacob will be attendi...

*If you want the full experience, just let it play out. But if you would like your ears to continue to work, you might want to skip or mute the episode from the 1:02:50 mark until the 1:03:12 mark. We had our first bad technical issue and it created an unpleasant noise multiple times. 11/19/19 On this episode we welcomed our first female guest! Faith Negron is a recent graduate of Valley Christian...

11/14/19 A last-second guest change means we were joined today by Mateo "Swipa" Dominguez. He hails from Gilroy, California and is a freshman at CSULB studying criminal justice and playing ultimate for Long Beach Pyramid Scheme. After an intro describing the presence of some background noise and a sad fish story, we briefly previewed a couple of the games for this NFL weekend (0:00-17:52). From th...

11/12/19 Today's guest is Jason Dunn, the worship pastor and all-around handyman at Los Altos Grace. We had a great time hearing about his journey through life, church and faith. We started by recapping our weekends in going to games, taking pictures, and Disney+ (0:00-18:26) Then we recapped Rams/Steelers, Packers/Panthers, 49ers/Seahawks and had some NFL MVP talk (18:26-34:20). We followed that...

11/9/19 Special bonus episode this week! Jacob helped coach some ultimate frisbee in San Diego on Saturday and while driving three of his players down to the tournament, they all agreed that recording an episode would be fun! Don't mind the white noise of the car and the freeway in the background. But come along for the ride we had talking about ultimate, movies, how the three guys got to where th...

11/10/19 Our guest today was Alex "Ajax" Grimm. He's in his fourth year at CSULB getting his degree in history and pursuing a career as a teacher and he's the president of the ultimate frisbee club team on campus, Long Beach Pyramid Scheme. We started the show with anticipation of Disney+ starting on Tuesday, so there was a lot of Star Wars talk, with other Disney topics and then some Harry Potter...

11/5/19 We were joined on today's podcast by Kyle Oscarson. Jacob was a leader in the high school group for Kyle at Long Beach Grace and now Kyle is a CSULB graduate and pursuing being a physician's assistant. The guys covered their weekends in the intro (0:00-10:45) before getting into a recap of the Packers/Chargers game and other news from the football weekend (10:45-35:10). Next was a couple q...

10/31/19 Happy Halloween! Our guest today was Ryan "Crash" Lepore. He's a CSULB alumni working on getting hired as a firefighter. He's a huge sports fan and has played sports his entire life, including professional ultimate for the L.A. Aviators. In our intro we introduced our first sponsor (thank you Emily Harrington!), discussed our pumpkin carving with youth group last night, a fire across the...

10/29/19 Today's episode with Bethany Church high school pastor Jacob Nielsen was an adventure from start to finish. In recapping our weekends, Jacob B. talked about the retreat he went on, and Jacob N. described a couple birthday parties he went to (0:00-17:10). We followed with a recap of the sports weekend, including Packers/Chiefs, the World Series, and the NBA (17:10-55:55). Jacob N. gave a s...

10/24/19 On today's show we welcome Jesse Smith, a quarterback coach and former player at Valley Christian High School and invaluable member of the Los Altos community. We start with a quick look at the first two games of the World Series (0:00-9:50) then break down the first two days of the NBA season (9:50-23:35). We spend some time previewing some of this weekend's NFL games, and Jesse breaks d...

10/22/19 On today's episode we welcome Cody Kirtz, a huge sports fan, aspiring teacher, and good friend of the show. We opened with talking about our weekend's, including Jacob's last wedding of the season and Jake's weekend trip to Arizona (0:00-8:12). Then we discuss the football weekend, focusing on Cowboys/Eagles, Packers/Raiders, Rams/Falcons, and Patriots/Jets (8:12-31:00). With the basketba...

10/17/19 In today's episode we welcome Blake Wall, a friend of Jake's from high school who is a big Pittsburgh Steelers fan and is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Following the show introduction (0:00-9:10, the three of us look at the entire slate of NFL games and give our picks for each one (9:10-37:30). Jake gives us this week's "Minshew Minute", followed by some ran...

10/15/19 in today's episode we interview our friend Mike Jentes. We start with a quick update about our weekends (0:00-8:05) followed by a late recap of Dodgers/Nationals and some more baseball goings-on (8:05-19:15). We give a brief insight into the world of uploading podcasts, including Jacob's frustration with what should have been a much easier and quicker process (19:15-23:25). We spend some...

10/8/19 In today’s episode we welcome our first guest to the show, Bob Mabry! We give an intro and talk about our weekends (0:00-5:55), then Jake and Jacob give a run down of current sports events, including Cowboys/Packers, the Minshew Minute, Dodgers/Nationals, and “cot darn” Dave Peterson (5:55 -36:00). Then, Bob shares about his love of surfing and some of the adventures he has been on in Hawa...

10/3/19 Jake and Jacob introduce themselves and their favorite teams and players. They tell a story from the previous night. Then they give introductions to their lives and faiths.