The Random Show: ADUs and Co-Living, 2026 Goal-Setting, and Working with Your Spouse
The BetterLife Podcast
Brandon Turner and Cam Cathcart
4.8 • 831 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
This episode has no agenda… and that’s why it works!
We bounce from ADUs and co-living to 2026 goal-setting to the rarely discussed reality of working with your spouse, not because we planned to, but because these topics are quietly connected by the same question: How do you design a life that actually works?
What starts as a practical conversation about housing flexibility turns into a bigger discussion about tradeoffs—space, money, time, ambition, and relationships. We talk about why some “smart” ideas fall apart in real life, why certain goals lose their appeal as your life changes, and why mixing marriage and business can either sharpen everything… or expose every crack.
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Better Night Podcast with your host, Mr. Brandon Turner and my co-host here, Mr. Cam Cathcart. |
| 0:05.4 | What's up, Cam? |
| 0:06.0 | What is up? How are you doing? Dude, I am doing well. I just did a long travel day with my kids. You know, we've been bouncing around the world a little bit the last few weeks, but we're headed to, we're in Cordelaun, Idaho now. Gonna spend Christmas here. And what about you? I am in Maui, Hawaii. |
| 0:20.3 | It is 78 degrees in sunny. |
| 0:23.3 | It is paradise here. |
| 0:24.8 | This is, I don't want people to come here, but, you know, actually, I shouldn't say that. I feel like |
| 0:30.7 | there's so much, there's, I get it if you are a native here of not wanting people to come. There's so many, it annoys me so much where |
| 0:39.0 | somebody lives here for two years and acts like they're native and like, don't come, keep, |
| 0:43.5 | keep Maui local and native. I'm like, you moved here two years ago. Back in the day, do you remember |
| 0:48.2 | that whole thing that went down? A lot of people might have remembered this, I talked about it before, |
| 0:51.8 | but where somebody stitched together a bunch of things that I said about owning rental properties and then how I had a thousand |
| 0:58.9 | plus tenants at the time, this is years ago. And then I mentioned that I lived in Hawaii and they |
| 1:03.3 | stitched it all together. And I made a video about how to handle evictions during COVID. |
| 1:07.9 | It was during COVID. Yes. Yeah, it was during COVID. And there was a lot of tension and it went nuts with people on the island because whoever stitched together made it sound like I had a thousand tenants in Hawaii and I was evicting them all. I mean, it didn't really sound like that, but that's what they said in the description. Anyway, so I get like 500 DMs of the most angry, visceral, hate-filled, like, I want to kill you type messages. But the worst one, one of the worst ones, like, we went back and forth. And I don't argue with people, but this person I argued with for a while, back and forth probably 20 times and, like, you know, you howly and you shouldn't be here. Finally, I clicked on her profile. And it was a white woman from California who had just been living there for a year. And I was like, what are we doing? |
| 1:46.1 | Like, this is, this is ridiculous. |
| 1:48.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:49.5 | It is, to me, it's so like the gatekeeping from other Howlies like that live here. |
| 1:59.2 | It's so annoying. |
| 2:00.4 | Like I feel like they're like, you can't say anything until you've been here for 20 years or you're born here, something like that live here, it's so annoying. Like I feel like they're like you can't say anything until you've been here for 20 years |
| 2:03.5 | or you're born here or something like that where it's like, |
| 2:05.3 | but I get that all of the time or see that. |
| 2:08.4 | In our very first neighborhood that we lived in, |
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