GGs Level 12: Coming Home — Where Do You Call Home?

Asked whether today had been decent, Mama Bear deadpanned that her therapist had canceled on her — "so it was a better day" — then rode the bit into the injustice of no-show fees running one direction only. Bubba, delighted, said if he were a therapist he'd just mess with people: "You failed. Say me now."

Bubba ran through shout-outs and announced the final NinjaCat badges, stickers and swag packs were assembled and shipping — with a little extra thrown in for Ava and Cody — "nothing crazy, no feet pics or nothing." Cody's proposed additions (a Smith & Wesson, a six-shooter) were noted as unlikely to clear the Canadian border.

Ava popped up specifically because Mama Bear had: "okay, it's not just two cowboys. I gotta hold the ground too." She welcomed Bubba back and ribbed Cody for supposedly calling him "all day, every day" — a callback to a video that had apparently made the rounds. Bubba clarified Cody had actually behaved himself.

Bubba recapped the cabin trip he actually managed to unplug for — white-water rafting, a scenic train, and the real train wreckage left from The Fugitive. His advice: don't overplan, just take the time off. He also confessed that of everything he missed at home, the biggest surprise was the bidet.

Ava, drawing on a life spent moving across countries and continents, offered the line the room kept returning to: you can be in the biggest, most beautiful house and feel empty — home starts within and grows out from the people and memories. Bubba matched it with the story of his son's only real tears coming over selling an old $400 minivan full of memories.

Cody shared some "PG pillow talk" — pride that he and Ava have spent two years straight in a 600-square-foot hunting cottage with no washer, dryer, or closets and come out closer, something he knew he could never have done in a past relationship. Bubba gave them full credit, noting his wife's take: she'd have "murdered" him by now.

In the parenting stretch, Cody talked about giving his boy the same love his nan gave him growing up — "I kiss the shit out of those cheeks every time I see him, and I tell him it's coming" — and how life came full circle with his son now flying back every summer, his turn to give that love back.

Off-script, Bubba stopped to name what was happening in the room: the team plus Mama Bear plus newer regulars like No Credits felt like the cast of a sitcom, and it clicked that NinjaCat is bigger than the project. "This doesn't replace a chart… it just is more comforting to me than seeing a pump happen and disappear."

Cody recounted a round of the camouflage game where he, Bubba and Wander were on the same team call and he couldn't even figure out how to lie down on an object — so he used reverse psychology, asking Wander if he'd seen Bubba while creeping up behind Bubba with a shotgun. Bubba's counter-image: a clip of a guy who paints an arrow on himself pointing at his own hiding teammates.

After a Saturday night of Mecha Chameleon, No Credits admitted he went to church Sunday morning, looked up at the rafters, and thought, "Yep, I can hide up there." The game, he confirmed, does weird things to your brain.