Ghostrunners - 146 - Best Episode Ever?

Episode Date: February 21, 2022

They just don't make episodes better than this. Brad discovers the savviest Instagram trick of all time, Jake has a new conspiracy theory, they both personally know the coldest woman in America, and even find the time to discuss Wordle strategy. Ghostrunners merch: https://bit.ly/399MXFu  Become a Patron and get exclusive content from Jake & Brad: https://bit.ly/2XJ1h3y  Watch this episode on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3cQSPnw  Follow us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/33WAq4P  Leave us a voice memo and ask a question: https://anchor.fm/jake-triplett/message  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jake, as you know from our Gene Shorts video, Starbucks versus Dunkin', I'm a Dunkin' guy. Oh, yeah, Dunkin' Donuts. And so, you know, I was, yeah, you know Babs over at Dunkin' Donuts. You know, she gives me my sugar, she gives me my donuts, she gives me my coffee. You come home, you get more sugar from her. You get more sugar from Babs. You know, anyway, I was at the Starbucks drive-thru the other day and I go, any nice caramel macchiato? And they say, okay, it's $4.94.

And I say, okay, thank you. They say, go ahead and go to the first window and I go, thanks around. That's genuinely what I said. I was like, wait, you were at the Starbucks window when you said this?

No, I'm sorry, Duncan. I was trying to go really fast when I was talking. I was at the Duncan drive-thru. I would never go to that Starbucks crap. What am I, a gas boy? What do you think?

I'm some kind of liberal okay so she says have a nice day and you say all right thanks around thanks around so i think i was just like i was anticipating her saying all right go ahead and pull around and she's at first window and i was like thanks around all right wait wait ahead you have to do okay okay yeah um i have an around one all right right. Yeah. I'll, I'll pay it. I'll pay it. The round, the towns. Yeah. The, the time in the towns in the IRA. Okay. All right. Thanks. All right. You guys have a good flight. Have a good one. I mean, it's got to be your ball. Yeah, exactly. I think this tight beat means that it's going down with some random thoughts and white meat too. Midwest best friends eating fast food on repeat.

So come along, let's have some fun and go ahead. Get on your feet because it's the Ghost Runners Podcast. Every Monday morning we're taking round. Ghost Runners Podcast. Ghost Runners Podcast. We are back with another Ghost Runners talk show episode. i got a big old chocolate milkshake here what do you have brad i got i'm double cupping today i'm not trying i'm not trying to get a little wild up in here but i got uh dr pepper and i got just a straight black coffee hot dog what a combo how do you drink those two things at the same time you don don't. I think I've had a few drinks at the Dr. Pepper.

Now I'm going to hot coffee just to get my caffeine levels up. And then I think it's going to like have a nice cold refreshing. You know, I'm not a big hot drink guy. That's true. And so but I was like, I need my caffeine. So here I am. It's hard for you to imagine. Most people I know who enjoy black coffee aren't drinking sugary soda

because they don't even like the taste of those things anymore. So good for you. Thanks. I've kind of recently realized that this is a bad example because it's quick trip, like gas station coffee. But like, if it's a good enough coffee, then I don't need like sugar to it. Like, like I'm okay. I'll, I'll sometimes splash a little cream. I'll be honest. But, uh, yeah, not too much of the other stuff is necessary. I mean, specifically, it's just crazy. Like you go from taking a sip of sugary Dr. Pepper, then to like already bitter coffee. And it's like, that hits a spot.

No, it does not hit the spot. Let me be clear. It is at this point, the coffee is a drug. Like, let's be honest. Like, I might as well have just gotten some like, like smelling salt or something. You should have got those like energy pills that are like the impulse bisection of a gas station. Well, I tried to get those one time, but I got the wrong pills and different kind of

energy. Let's just say it was a tough road trip. Whoa, Albuquerque. How you doing? Yeah. No. Somebody changing the song. Oh, I guess I was. Whoa, you're driving stick. Oh, yeah. Whoa, Brad, you're not steering right away i am

good road trip good road oh yeah this is gonna be a good episode wow another never mind um speaking of hormones let's just get to this right off the bat at the start of this episode love whatever this is gonna be uh probably four days ago you were you called me i was in austin texas we hadn't seen each other in nine straight days and we're trying to plan this freaking event that everyone's coming to it's a great phone call where were you last week i was in austin texas and uh we talked about like 45 minutes but very like productive we you know played a lot of stuff and you're like by the way just random question how much would it take how much would it take i don't know if it was completely random i think it might have been like the arena we were in the arena we were in the ballpark yeah

yeah of of hormones or you know whatever it was it was like just a quick question whenever you like you bring rachel on stage to like announce, how much would it take just to make out with her in front of everyone? I was like, that's a good question. I was like, I was like, like, genuinely, like if I gave you $40,000, would you make out with her? Yeah, you said $40,000. And I think originally you said for five minutes. Yes, I did. For five minutes, which is. That's so long. That is so long. That is so past the point of like shock factor, just to the point of like, what are we, what are we doing here? Like people walk out.

Some like fear factor. Yeah. My, my, my wife would walk out. Like she'd be like, I can't watch this. Or at least like she would look down at her phone or something. Catherine would walk out early just so people could see her coat. Yeah. She's like, I want, you know, people are going to start walking later.

You know? Yeah. So I remember this a couple of nights ago and I was like, Hey, I was like, this is kind of funny. Brad asked me this question. You're like, you're like, this is kind of funny. Brad asked me this question. You're like, you're like, here's here's a random hypothetical question. Brad, Brad told me he said, hey, if you guys were alone in your car, how long do you think you could make out for it? Brad asked.

Brad challenged me. He said, yeah, Brad said I couldn't do 60 seconds. I'm going to go to the gas station real fast. Pick up something. Come back here. Don't move that steering wheel 60 seconds. I'm going to go to the gas station real fast, pick up something, come back here. Don't move that steering wheel without me. All right. That's right.

I do that. I got to stop playing with this. So wait, you asked her this question. Yeah. That's when you know you're getting comfortable in the relationship is when you can talk about stuff. Oh, dude, I've been so comfortable since like day two. Love it.

Yeah, we're there. We're way past there. Okay. I should say that. Way past there. Yeah, I'm not farting yet. Okay. When do you feel like you started the fart? You have to let her go first. Oh, that's never going to happen. we're there we're way past there okay uh i should say way past uh yeah i'm not farting yet okay when do you feel like you started the fart you have to let her go first oh that's never gonna

happen you'd be surprised they squeak out every once in a while i'm serious they do what do you gotta you gotta you gotta tickle her you just gotta let it happen organically okay here's what i do i'm dead serious uh i think i've done this to you before it's oh no not the fart i mean so so you know how have you ever had it where i like hug you and then i i let you pull back and then i squeeze you back that's a good one that's a good one so yeah so so often like if i'm just being goofy with somebody i'll give them a hug you know like hey thanks for coming good see ya and then we'll let go of each other and then i'll just rock them back into me you say seriously man seriously seriously it's great to see you

and she won't be she won't be ready for it. Her bowels will be exposed. Boom. Get a couple of toots. Yeah. I actually tickled Hattie the other day and two came out. Okay. It was a good defense mechanism. The toes to nose or whatever that got her going right back to the day.

Did that to Bo actually earlier today on accident as well. Just was playing with them on the changing table and just boom. So anyway, I got gotta try that with rachel before this episode comes out actually no dang it i'm not gonna see her till this episode comes out dang be a really healthy relationship we kind of go you know see each other for two days i leave for five days swan it's easy uh all right well hopefully she'll break the seal at some point she will i gotta not on purpose though it's gonna it's gonna be embarrassing and you just have to laugh and just be okay with it like wow yeah it is and be like that smells a lot worse than i thought and the healthy people

like rachel are the ones that smell the worst yeah so just edamame toots can't be good dude no yeah it's not good no shot all that b vitamins too much yeah whatever yeah get that out of here be inside my nose yeah uh so i asked her i was like brad you know wanted to know how much would it take for us to make out i was like five, five minutes, I think is a little extreme. Let's go in the ballpark of 10 seconds. Okay. I'm like, and everyone, the reason we're able to get top golf, Rachel is because she is my girlfriend.

We are going steady. I just dropped the microphone or into the microphone. I don't know where the microphone is. And then we start going at it. And so we thought about it for a little bit. Yeah. You know, and I really tried to think like because you can't say like all right that was a brad paid us to do that okay you can't say that

okay we established that you just have to like anyway guys um we have a lot of fun tonight you just have to move on well you wouldn't even acknowledge it afterwards maybe you get like a joke you get to say something afterwards okay but you can't say brad paid me to do this okay it's just straight up this while we were that's like gentleman's code like if it's a bet you have to like honor the bet without saying it's a bet like no i just wanted to do that okay so rachel and i we thought about it for a little bit we each came with our number okay if it was a if this was a buzzfeed thing the title would be jake and rachel uh asked how much to make out for 10 seconds the answers will shock you all right i'm I'm so hooked. I want you to also tell me your number for you and Catherine. 10 seconds.

Okay. Let me think. For Catherine, like, would I be trying to guess hers and my number? I think just your number. How much would it take for you to make out with Catherine for 10 seconds at the start of F12? At the start of F12. Who's paying me?

I'm paying you. It's just one. Yeah. One person paying me.'m paying it's just one yeah one person paying me because so for some reason that makes it seem more valuable like if everyone was pitching in five bucks that's different oh let's make it more yeah yeah yeah okay um man i am i'm pretty cheap and i'm pretty good at using my money for good things so i'm'm like, okay. Uh, okay. All right. You tell me your number. Then I'll tell you me and Rachel's cause we're pretty far apart for 10 seconds. My number, Catherine's number would be, you know, she's embarrassed of me. So she would never want to do this. I would take $4,000 and smooch her for 10 seconds real quick. Yeah. Okay. 5,000 is yeah. Seems,

seems greedy. 3,000. Not thousand not quite enough okay i was worried you're gonna say twenty five dollars or something i mean listen i love kissing my wife i think every man should love kissing his wife and i would love to kiss her for twenty five dollars but at the same time i think that that 10 seconds of bliss will will really hurt later on for me and so i know that i need to make sure it's like sweet look at this look at this money that we got for this so look at it look at it yeah uh okay so my number how many coats i can buy you yeah you know my number was eight thousand dollars okay rachel's five hundred dollars yeah yeah that's how they do it in Iowa, baby.

Talking about perv ball. $500? I could have made that happen. I'm regretful that I didn't ask her this question. From now on, yeah, if it's me and her on stage, I don't know these people. They're not fans. I don't care.

Like that pizza delivery guy I bet got a $500 tip. Probably. I would say, yeah, between two and 500 between. And I think, yeah, so we could have, we could, we could have put that in so much better use than that darn pizza delivery guy. I'm just kidding. Dang. Well, good for her.

She's confident in her own skin. Something. Or she needs to work in a nicer school district. Or she just realizes, yeah, Iowa is very cheap. And like $500 could take you a long way in Waterloo. And so. If I brought this back home. Yeah, like Californians, like $500 is like, you know, parking for one day, you know, in California.

$500 in Iowa, you are literally a king. That's so great. i couldn't believe it i mean i fully expected her number to be you know 10 times mine or something like these strangers that she yeah so i'll have to ask katherine and report back about her number because i i i think i know her well enough that she she does not like that kind of thing so i don't either yeah clearly yeah i said eight she said 500 for 10 seconds too i said i originally said five well i'll say this is maybe this is too personal we can cut it out if it is but originally i jokingly was like jake you're gonna propose on saturday night oh that reminds me sorry keep going and jake just laughed of course you know like of course you're not uh but you know rachel's parents were there your parents were there every other part of

your family was there you know all your family friends you know closest ghosties and it's like it'd be a perfect time and and then from there i was like okay okay obviously you're not gonna propose but like that would not be the perfect time perfect time you're up on the pedestal i mean it'd be perfect uh turns out my mom thought it was happening no way she thought that i was just gonna never talk about it with her not tell her and just hope that she comes and then just propose i don't know if she really really thought that but she had an inkling when it was going on but she was like so not to get too personal basically like there was like some family stuff going on some health problems so she wasn't gonna be able to make it i guess after my dad came to pickleball then he was like really like encouraging her like tr, Trish, you got to come. Like, this is so fun. Like the energy,

like you have to see all these people, like you got to come tonight. And so she was like, man, okay. Like my dad is like really telling me to come up there. And she knew that Rachel's parents are going to be there. She knew that I really wanted them to, you know, finally meet Rachel. Right. Then she gets the lyrics sent to her. gosh from the jingle right and i think she was like apparently she was just like i don't think jake would propose in front of 300 strangers but like look at the look at the the data his track record is just yeah you never know what this guy uh so yeah my parents think i'm some sort of idiot or some sort of crazy romantic or just think i just would not communicate with them at all making this huge decision well it's funny I mean I was obviously way younger than you and I got engaged not trying

to brag but um I don't remember how much I communicated with my family about it but I was also working at camp like all summer uh I think I I think I told I definitely called uh Catherine's parents but I didn't call them until the the morning of like i was like fyi i'm proposing tonight well yeah to katherine's parents yeah like i didn't it didn't like registered me like none of my family was there none of her family was there like that wasn't i still don't know if it's like a thing that has to happen yeah i don't know if it does i think it's way more convenient obviously now like but back then it was like literally we were at work like it was like we were working 24 hours a day so it wasn't like we were going to be able to see them or do much with them or anything but and probably less stressful to not have to like feel like you're hiding things from her like

buying these secret plane tickets or the secret party well i did yeah i did kind of like i orchestrated it all with camp because i was off that whole day yeah but still like yeah that was all i had to hide from her so um so yeah i so yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I can't blame your mom too much. Cause I don't think that that was the precedent back in her day too much. I think there was always like precedent of like asking the father's blessing, you know, that kind of thing. But beyond that, I don't know. I don't know what, what's, what's right and what's wrong, but that's so funny that your mom, like that, that just shows everything's going well. It's funny too. I don't know if I ever told you this, but over Christmas, this would have been the first time she met rachel correct yes yeah

that's that's perfect that that that to me is like like i don't even need to see if my mom like thinks she's great or not like it's gonna be fine yeah over christmas you know rachel i've been dating i don't know somewhere between two and three months at this point my dad out of nowhere christmas day we all just got done playing pickleball. Just the guys in the house. And he goes, hey, real quick, Jake, I just want to let you know, you need to know, like, you know, you need to ask the father's blessing, right? I was like, yeah.

He's like, just making sure. I was like, we've been dating like two months. We just got to play pickleball. Like, what's happening? I was like, dude. So this is like strike two with my parents just thinking I'm some sort of moron okay i don't know your parents that well but is that trish saying hey steve make sure you tell jake i don't think so okay i think it's my dad just not not believing in me he's like he doesn't know a lot he doesn't know how to back up a trailer yeah he doesn't know what a tractor

pole is he doesn't know how to there's no way he knows a deer yeah there's no way he knows about this well wasn't there something like uh similar to that where he like was messing with you about the house? Like there was like, he said like two things right next to each other that like one of them was like, you're going to be single forever. One of them was like, you're getting married tomorrow kind of thing. That's very vague in my mind. I can't remember it.

Honestly, it sounds like the thermos. Are you going to be able to pay for this house when you're married? But also like. Well, how much longer are you going to be living in it? Or something like that. Like you think, yeah, good memory. I can't remember. I can't remember exactly what it was, but it was just funny.

I was gonna say, it sounds like the thermostat where every button is the same. Yes. Set, hold, stay. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's so funny. Sleep. They're all the same.

It's all the same. True story. I had my like heating and air conditioning people come and like, just do our semi-annual tune up the other day. And I was like, do you mind just helping me like, uh, program the one in my shop as well? Cause he was the one that installed it and he was explaining to me and he was like, literally like just using the words as definition. So he's like, so the sleep is like when you like are like going to sleep and like the leave, the leave is when you're you like leave your house and

then like halfway through he was like stay is like stay yeah and then he got confused he's like and the stay is like you when you stay oh he's like oh and then he didn't know what to do either like even the people that are working like there needs to be a different name for one of those things so i don't know if there needs to be anything. Just have the temperature. Just do we need buttons? Just have an up and down arrow. Well, I kind of like the idea of scheduling it, like because it's it's inefficient

if you're not there to, you know, heat up your house, I guess. So I guess, yeah, I was thinking selfishly in my situation. There's always someone home. Sure. You know, Isaac's home during the day. Yeah, someone's home at night.

I mean, these days, though, like all the electronic, like the nest or whatever, it's so easy to see that on your phone yeah schedule it so um i've been bumping up the heat a little bit like i don't want to be cold in my own house which has always been a rule of mine but especially now that we're spinning it four ways like who cares yeah get it going you know okay let's heat this sucker up we're splitting it yeah that's all good okay anyway we are 17 minutes into this podcast and man have we covered a lot of ground hey guys thanks around for listening this podcast thanks around to and from yeah to all of

you guys uh valentine's day was yesterday it was and you celebrated it a couple hours ago yes how was it only fools or people that are dating celebrated on the actual valentine's day uh it was great um we went to Bella Napoli. Ever been there for our first time. Do not pass. Go. Do not. Thanks.

Come around. That's right. Uh, Bella Napoli. Anyway. Um, no, it was good.

It was Italian. Then we went to Betty Ray's afterwards. Two places I've never been before. Never been to be raised. Huh? Isn't that surprising to you? It is surprising to me. I'm a,

I'm more of a frozen custard than an ice cream guy, but man, it was good. Um, yeah, it was fun. So it was was chill her mom's been in town this past week and so we've gotten some um you know good free babysitting from her and she's very supportive of us so fun um yeah it was fun and that's that's about all i have to say about uh valentine's day tonight i have i have thoughts i have yesterday's thoughts a little bit but i want to say about Valentine's Day tonight. I have I have thoughts. I have yesterday's thoughts a little bit, but I want to hear about your Valentine's Day. Yesterday's thoughts.

Well, well, yes. And no, but that wasn't what I was thinking. I was thinking Valentine's Day. Hattie went to school and had. Oh, OK. So. Yeah, last time we played a basketball game, kind of. Yeah, because originally I was like, oh, Rachel, like Monday's Valentine's Day.

Why don't we like cook a meal together? That'd be so fun. Because I knew she would love doing that. I was like, shoot, we have a basketball game. And it's right at 630. We've had so many 930 basketball games. Yeah. This would be a great time to have a 930 basketball game.

Right. It's kind of right in the middle of the night. So I was like, I'll still do something fun. So I took her on like a themed date. The theme was bowl. Okay. So we listened to bowling for soup. Yeah. We got acai bowls and then we're bowling what oh that's fun i like the theme just because we didn't i knew i was

going to be sweaty for basketball afterwards like i can't do anything that nice supposed to do something creative for her that's way creative is always trump's fun or i don't think she would even like it that much like hey get really dressed up like somewhere nice last week when i was in austin texas uh i went to this really, really fancy dinner for like the culmination of this conference, like more expensive than I've ever spent on dinner in my life. Okay. And it was really, really good food and it was fun,

but it was also like, this would have been probably more fun if the food were half as good and, you know, half as much money. Like, like, because when you spend so much money on something, it makes it more stressful and more like, okay, this like like because when you spend so much money on something it makes it more stressful and more like okay this is like a really nice thing so we have to have this kind of conversation we can't do like whatever we can't be ourselves or you know whatever i'm still i'm

still bearish on spending money on food yeah it's waste yeah it's some of its energy so it's fat yeah but it's oh man people who just geek out on like $300 plates are just like, oh man, this. Yeah. And they're usually smaller amounts when the more expensive it is. Yeah. It's like the continental breakfast of dinner places. So, okay. Bowling for soup.

Do they have more than one song? They have two. Okay. Stacy's mom. Flavor of the week. No. I don't know. 1985.

Oh yes. Remember that song? Yeah. What was flavor who's still preoccupied in 1919 that'd be hey whoever sing whoever writes jingles out there that'd be a fun one to write too fun they also uh apparently because rachel identified it she said this is the theme song to phineas and ferb man she's young phineas and is that even the Phineas and Herb? Herb, I think. Herb. Yeah. We were like, oh, I squeezed her. I got her at Herb. So got it. I don't know. Phineas and Herb. Yeah. I had a weird roommate in college

one semester and he loved Phineas and Herb as a junior in college. Is it a kid's show? Oh, yeah. It's a cartoon. Yeah, I think. Truly had no idea. And he would like genuinely laugh at it. I've met like growing up. I never really watched cartoons. The only cartoon I watched was Recess. And so like, yeah.

And so I always thought cartoons were childish. And obviously they are kind of are. But American Hi-Fi sings flavor of the week. You were curious. Thank you. Yeah. How was Hattie's Valentine's Day? OK, so, yeah. So Hattie,'s so she's at such a fun age right now man she's like she's awesome

her voice is awesome her face is awesome her overalls to say hattie on them are awesome yeah dude okay so yeah last night she came to the basketball game and we can talk more about the basketball game itself because we didn't really actually play. But so long story short, we played half court for the second half and there was the other half was full or free for the kids to play around and run around and stuff. And some of the wives who had played basketball for Bree and Sam, they like basically made them run drills. And like I looked over at one point and Hattie was running bear crawls like across the court. And later on that night, she definitely had like chafed legs from, cause she was wearing her like overalls he got from the ghosties. Um, she's like, my legs feel funny. And I was like, yeah, that's what happens when you run around in overalls. That's basketball. That's how it works. Dad feels the same way.

Exactly. Every single time all over. No. Um, she, she's at such a fun age right now in so many ways like she's like really into like showing off for us like watch me do this watch me do that like dad come here like like really wanting to play with us and stuff um but another thing that she's getting into uh i don't even know if she's getting into it she's just getting more ornery uh so her preschool class for valentine's day is it's like classic, like elementary school. Like, did you have like a Valentine's box back in the day and you would bring all your own Valentine's and put them in and stuff.

I was just talking about this with Rachel at dinner just now because she teaches seventh grade and she was like, yeah, Xavier on wrote a Valentine and like no one responded. And I was like, maybe cause he was the only one writing Valentine's in seventh grade. Yeah. Maybe he's in middle school. Like he shows up to class and it's like, so should we do the Valentine's Day trade now? Or I don't see a lot of other boxes. He's got a plastic bag with like all the things taped to it.

Like the sucker, you know, taped it. When do we want to get this thing going? Yeah, to like the Allen Houston, you know, NBA, the holographic Valentine's. So anyway, we had bought Starbursts for the Valentine's card or Valentine's cards. And then also we had bought like a tin of chocolates for her to give to miss Suzanne, her teacher, uh, very fun. And there was one day, I mean, this was probably three weeks ago that we bought this very proactive for the L. Yeah. Not, not really on brand for us, but we did it.

You're doing good over there. Don't worry about me. Um, and so anyway, there was one time I walk in like, uh, often she'll turn or she'll, uh, shut her door.

So wait, what did you just say? Often she'll shut her door. Okay. Often she will shut her door when she's playing in her room. So Bo can't get in or whatever. Okay. So I open up the door to say like,

Hey, dinner's ready. And I noticed she's like chewing on something. I say what are you chewing on she's like nothing I was like I was like Hattie what are you chewing on some starburst and oh this what you told me yeah you told me about this did I tell you about this yeah because you couldn't watch up yeah that's right yeah we were supposed to watch up a couple weeks weeks ago. And, um, and so, so then a few days later, once again, Catherine finds her chewing on some starbs and it's like, Hattie, you know, you aren't supposed to do that. And normally for that, she would just get a spanking. Uh, we, we do spank. I mean, controversial, but we do it. And, but this time it was like, Hattie was ready for the spank she's like she's like yeah it was like it was like she was like weighing the pros and the cons she's like like six starbursts definitely worth it like she was like i guess i'll just have to get a spanking huh she's like

a spank is worth about four starbursts so if i can eat five by the time i get here dang it the camera stopped rolling when did that stop happening dang it something's wrong with the camcorder i record one f12 with it and now it's just not working um sorry you keep talking though if you want um how'd this bank go so so yeah katherine let's talk spanks katherine was smart she in her in her wisdom she was like she could tell that's what had he was wanting so instead she was like no like you're not getting a spanking this time. You are, we're, we're taking away your up. You know, we're not watching a movie tonight. And I guess she like unraveled, like she just absolutely could not take that was so bummed. She didn't know that was on the table for like, exactly. For a punishment. Yeah. She zigged when mom's oinked. And so it was like, boom, watch that.

So, um, anyway, so then yesterday, uh, we are like going through her room, cleaning up stuff. And Catherine, you know, brings me this like chocolate tin that's for Miss Suzanne and says, I found this in Hattie's room. I asked her, Hattie, did you eat any of these chocolates? And she said, yeah, I ate one. Catherine opened it up. There's like nine chocolates like total in there. All but two of them were eaten. Oh, boy. And so it's like, what? So it's like, chocolates like total in there all but two of them were eaten oh my oh boy

and so it's like what so it's like what do we do i don't like like like our our perfect not she's obviously she's far from perfect but like she's been very honest and perfect in that regard most of her life got a little bit of a sweet tooth and then all of a sudden yeah just like her dad honestly like okay i'll sneak some sneak some stuff like that and so i had to like talk to her she was so ashamed to like talk to me about it and it was it was a sweet conversation you could tell she knew what she did wrong and so our our you know consequence was hey you have to use your own money now to go buy something for miss suzanne and god bless the girl she's going to be financially stable because she went in there and she was about to buy like this ten dollar one she's like,

that one's $10. Well, how much is that one? I was like, that's three nights. That's $4. And she's like, okay, I'll do that one. Not the most generous girl in the world, but we'll have a savings account for sure. So anyway, that was kind of funny. And, um, so she went to, actually she went to school today and did this like Valentine's boxes and she brought him home and there's a boy in her class named tommy and i'm a little worried about tommy uh-oh ricky dicky tombo tommy and hattie might be having a little bit of a romance going uh-oh uh so this is a third week in a row that tommy has has written tommy and hattie on a piece of paper and given it to hattie okay and i asked i was like okay and then he also kind of seemed like

he gave a pretty nice valentine to hattie and i said okay hattie. Okay. And I asked, I was like, okay. And then he also kind of seemed like he gave a pretty nice Valentine to Hattie. And I said, okay, Hattie, like what? Tell me, like I'm interrogating my four-year-old about, about this boy. I was like, well, tell me about Tommy. And he said, all she said was, oh yeah, Tommy likes me a lot. He gives me a hugs like all the time. I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa. Talk to Tommy's dad. I'm giving Miss Susanna a $4 box of chocolates here for her to monitor these things. Yeah, I'm going to have to talk to Tommy's parents at some point. It's just one of those things that I'm not prepared at four years old to have to navigate. And yet here I am. I am right there with you.

I think I'd be like, oh, that's kind of fun. Until then, it's like, yeah, he hugs me a lot. A lot. All the time. I think she said all the time. That's like, that's kind of fun until then. It's like, yeah, he hugs me a lot. I think she said all the time. That's like, that's not as cute. I mean, I guess it could be, but I, I don't like it. Yeah. Why, why is he coming back? You know, you can have good hugs, but you don't really wrap your arms around me that well. Yeah. Maybe you hug him good once and then he won't want more.

Dude. That's yeah. Maybe it's my own fault. We do these things when I put her to bed every night. Now we do hugging contests. It's my, it's my way of like getting her to hug me, you know, for more, for longer. And so she'll hug me and like squeeze me tight. So maybe I'm just teaching her to be too good at it. And so now it's like, Oh, I've, I've, yeah. Achilles heel. I mean, if my, if my daughter's going to date anybody, she's not going to date a kid named Tommy, Tommy, at least Thomas. There's a kid named Thomas and a kid named Tommy. I would, I would be just fine if she went out with Thomas.

Thomas is a strong name. Tommy. Tommy's not going anywhere. Yeah. That kid's a loser. You think Tom Brady would become the athlete he was if he was Tommy Brady, which is funny. Cause he grew up Tommy.

Yeah. But, but he had, you know, enough self-awareness. Wherewithal. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not going to make it. Yeah.

If I'm Tombo. Anyway, Tombo. So, yeah, that's the that's the Valentine's saga of Hattie Louise. Love it. It was fun. We got to spend Valentine's Day together last night. It was. Our basketball game got canceled. The other team forfeited. It was fun. We got to spend Valentine's Day together last night. It was. Our basketball game got canceled.

The other team forfeited. It was lame. So they're like, you guys can still have the court for an hour if you want. And so we just played a little pickup ball. It was fun. Great workout. Yes, dude. The first half was, I was dying.

There's a lot of up and down. Yeah. Four on four for whatever reason. I think it's maybe because there's only eight of us there. Four on four, I think there's more fast breaks maybe because we, you know, there's only eight of us there. Four on four. I think there's more fast breaks or something. I don't know what it is, but it works you out so much quicker than five on five does.

Yeah. I think, sorry, I was sucking out some milkshake. It's probably some more space on the courts. You feel like you need to move around more. Maybe, you know,

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We missed you so much last week, Brad, when you weren't at the game. It was so fun. And I'm not saying this is- You guys just whooped up. Yeah, the team was legitimately better than us. Yeah. And we won by 22. That's nuts. Like there was like, it was towards the end of the game. In my head, I'd been thinking like,

this is a close game. Hope we can pull this out. And then it looks like, oh, we're up by 22. That's nuts. Like there was like, it was towards the end of the game. And in my head, I'd been thinking like, this is a close game. Hope we can pull us out. And then it looks like, oh, we're up by 16. Wow. I guess we're fine. It was so fun. Everyone was playing so well. And everyone was making all the shots.

And yeah, it was just fun. And you missed me much then. I realized afterwards, I was like, man, this guy I've been guarding all night looks so familiar. And he played basketball at CVO with Weston and Mike Weeby. And I went to college with his sister. So I just seen him in pictures. I was way more excited than he was.

I think I kind of creeped him out. I was like, JT Nixon. Yes, I went to college with Camry. I'm good friends with Mike and Weston. You spit off like 15 different connections. Yeah, Mike was at my show a few nights ago, whatever. And he's like, nice. Nice, dude.

Thanks for beating us so bad. All right, see ya. College athlete just getting whooped. Yeah, he was really good though. But the kind of funny takeaway from all this is like, nice dude thanks for beating us so bad all right see you college athlete just getting whooped yeah he was really good though but uh the kind of funny takeaway from all this is like yeah just we had the 9 30 game so we're just kind of you know no one's coming on after us we're just kind of like just basking on the bench afterwards just talking laughing how much fun that was one of my favorite parts of basketball yeah the after party the basket bask and it was just so fun

and we're talking about how good a basketball that was and garrett kind of walked he gets his things he stands up he goes to walk away and then he kind of turns around and like as sheepishly as possible not even to try to be funny it seemed like just an earnest he goes hey thanks for letting me play with you guys that's so sweet i was like it's not a not a make a wish foundation we texted you we want charity yeah we want you on the team he's like all right i don't know in my head i was like did he like i think he played bad i don't know what happened out there or do you think like we were desperate for people or something i don't know i don't know he was thankful or embarrassed or sheepish. That's so cute.

It was awesome. Yeah. It cracked me up. I was thinking about the whole way home. Garrett is like with his basketball shoes in his hand, just really limp. Thanks for letting me play with you guys. I love it, man. Good for him.

I think, I mean, on the same, I, on the same vein, like I think vulnerability within guys is fun sometimes. Dude. And my gosh, did you open up the floodgates the other day? Oh, I forgot about that. That was amazing. That's not even what I dooted about just now. I mean, talk about, well, first of all, just so many people saying nice things about F12. And it's been a good week for words of half. My gosh, has it ever. It's been enough to like filled me up for a long time. Dude, it's crazy. Like people could be very mean to me for a long time and I'm fine, but please don't. I'm like, I'll deflect it. Um, I got this DM. I get this comment. I got this text.

And no, but, uh, so Jake texted me and like three or four other of our close friends. And basically long story short, he said he was very, very thankful for us in many ways this weekend. And, um, yeah. And then that was cool. And I just expected all the guys to be like, thanks, man. You're awesome. But every single one of our friends were except for me, uh, which is like time out of their workday to like type out some, some messages. I mean, very nice messages. Yeah. Like, especially like Harrison is like the one that I was expected from the most. Cause because a he's like very in touch with his feelings and b he's a great writer yeah he's good and so he said something first and then he said

the president hi and then Isaac came I was like dang Isaac said things that I was like oh my gosh and then Gunner Gunner who misspells every other word usually just like spouting out wisdom and it was just like it was like this like my gosh, I love this so much. And even Scott, I, Scott had a great thing to say too, because I forgot it all started with you just inviting him to a basketball game two years ago. Yeah. That's what started all this. Yeah.

It's like, we just needed a guy. Yeah. We Garrett Gibson him. Just kidding, Garrett. We want you on the team. Uh, yeah, but yeah. So I forgot, I forgot all that when I was like, dude, because in the last hour I've gotten two texts, Grant Huterberg out of nowhere, which is funny because he had even had to preface it because it's how little

we talk this way in parentheses before the text even starts. He just says serious text. Like, I don't know why you had like you need to say. Grant sends me paragraphs and paragraphs about like how he feels about my life and how he's so proud of me and all this stuff. Yeah. And then I mean, not but 30 minutes ago, probably my good friend, Noah, who I've talked about, who's like the funniest guy I know. Yeah. Then he was just like, Hey, um, this might be too deep, but you know, yada, yada, yada. I'll always be appreciative of this as this.

I'm like, dude, I mean, the dudes are. Yes. What's happening? As affirming as ever. I don't know. It's that time of year, Valentine's day. Yeah, that's right. And the dudes are catching on.

Yeah. I was sharing all this with Rachel. She's like, I don't even know if I know girls who would be that open and vulnerable and like honest with each other. She's like, that's amazing that you guys are able to communicate this way. That's awesome. Yeah. I feel like I am. I'm definitely words of affirmation as well. I love it. Catherine is not, but I don't think, I don't care who you are. Everyone's got a little inkling of that in there. Like everyone likes to be encouraged. I think we all have all the love languages. You have a little bit of them. Exactly. There's a love of gift.

She's definitely not like... I'll write her a really long note and she'll be like, that was really nice, but I would love it if you unload the dishwasher. Not really. She really appreciates it, but it's just not like, holy cow, that filled me up for a week now. Um, whereas she wrote me a Valentine's card that like

was so awesome and so kind to me. And I'm like, holy cow, I'll do anything for you. Rachel did a scavenger hunt for me one time in each, like once I found the next clue, it came with like a note of like what it meant to her and what it reminded her of. Yes. Hot dog. That was like a month into it. That was awesome. Okay okay fun fact katherine came over to your house one time when you were out of town okay and some of these notes were like like strewn about she started doing it she's like brad i didn't look at any of them i promise i didn't look at any of them but i'm pretty sure isaac looked at one so you'd ask about it sometime i mean there's nothing yeah terrible we're dating a month how much can really be on there? But anyway, yeah.

Yeah. It's just so cool that people like guys, especially just, you know, pumping each other up, man. Yeah. It's been a great last few days. Yeah. For all that. And yeah, our friends are the best. Our friends are the best.

I've never been more thankful for them. They're incredible. I said this on my Patreon blog post about F12, but like, it was so cool to see the community that came about through F12, obviously within our ghosties and, and how, but I, but I also just like kind of was trying to analyze that a little bit. I'm like, people out there are so hungry for community, you know, that they're literally willing to travel across the country for it. And that's not, not trying to discount, like I would love every single person to be part of the ghosty community, but I'm also like, Hey, let's like do the same thing in your own community as well because i like that

you added that part in because there are so many people out there that want it in your city too want it yeah yeah like that want just what you want and they just aren't taking the initiative just like you're not taking it you know it's like just go out and find somebody like when were we talking about this was this on the podcast two days ago when we're like know, you go show up to Canada. Can you think I'm the only person? Yes. You know, and it's like, no, there's a lot of people who feel out of place. Yeah. Yeah. And, and yeah, that first year, I don't know how much I've talked about that, but my first year of camp, I did not enjoy staff training week very much at all. I think we talked about this too. Cause I was like, yeah, the first day and a half, I was like, I'm in the wrong place. I stayed there

for six summers. Yeah, exactly. And I was like, man, these people don't get me. I don't remember ever thinking like, I'm not doing this. This isn't fun. But I just remember thinking like, this isn't this, it's not clicking yet or something because I had kind of been warned about it. But the, after that year, every single year at staff training week, I was like, I'm going to make sure that I find that person that doesn't know anybody and talk to them. You know, like I would make sure to like on the microphone and say like, Hey, my first two days here, I did not enjoy it. Yes. I'm having the absolute time of my life now,

but like, it is okay. If you're feeling a little off, I promise you, you know, whatever. Right. Yeah. Yeah. So, and shout out TJ. He did the exact same thing last week in Austin, Texas for me. Like he was like, Hey, all the new guys are going to be feeling overwhelmed and like, blah, blah, blah. It's okay. I promise it's going to get better. It kind of, so people that are includers, yeah. Be includ that's that's huge so uh somewhat on grant huderberg topic i forgot last podcast to talk about a lot of things you gotta you gotta play it um the tulsa show was so fun i think that might have been the same show where there was some show last week where i was talking to the guy in the front row like i do and i was like you sir you're here with and right away

this guy was just trying to be a funny guy but he was kind of a likable funny guy he's like an older gentleman but okay he was just like i'm amish and these or no i said what do you do for a living i said okay alan or whatever what do you do for a living i'm amish and these are all my wives sitting next to like all these women and i was just so thrown off i was like all right nice i wanted to kind of shut that down because i don't want this guy thinking he's a funny guy he's like i'm not even going to tell you guys what he just said to me i was like what do you actually do for a living he gives me his job i don't remember where it was i go on and talk about it and then it hits me like

two minutes later i was like wait hold on i need to tell you guys what this guy just said he said i'm amish and these are all my wives that stereotype does he that's not even a stereotype that exists. Yeah. It took me like two minutes of like doing other jokes. I was like, wait, hold on a second. I don't know that much about Amish people, but I don't think that they're polygamous. Yeah, no, I've never even heard of that stereotype. Yeah. And so then it just opened up the floodgates where I was just like making fun of this guy for being dumb, but also for maybe being Amish and being a bad Amish guy. Yeah. You know, like he's loving the electricity, but he does. He does not feel the electricity with these women, clearly.

But I think that might be the same show where I got sent a video afterwards of this is Grant Huber's wife, who is the one who was given the watch at the wedding. Yes. Just an unbelievable story. Can you clarify that story for me from what you remember of it? I was trying to we were trying to relay that story the other day to Catherine's mom. OK. And Catherine and I have differing opinions about what happened.

From what I remember, which also could be different than the truth. Grant had, they'd kind of been set up in a way. Grant was really feeling her at a wedding. She was like, he probably does this everywhere. Yeah. You know, you see a five, eight guy, you know, you know, looking like airline and you're like ladies man yeah this guy this guy's got it all going on commercial real estate yeah come on and so i guess she was not into it and he was like no seriously like he couldn't he couldn't convince her that he was

being intentional and this was like rare for him okay she was like yeah yeah it's always like no like let me prove it to you gives her his watch it says i'll pick it up in chattanooga yeah on a date correct yeah i think so okay i don't know katherine was right okay i don't remember the detail about like him trying to pursue her and she was like denying it like you're not you don't really mean this yeah and not over days or weeks just that night of the wedding she was just not giving in yep uh also found out via hanging out with him when I was in Tulsa that Grant said, I love you four days after their first date. I was like, I mean, great. I feel like you and I are in similar boats where, you know, we haven't had a lot of experience, but I know not to do that. He's like, I know. He's like, I, I couldn't help it. And I knew it was wrong, but I had to say it. And I

knew she wouldn't say it back, but I had to say it. That'd be so tough if you, if you knew she wasn't saying it back. I think she just said, thank you. And he was like, that's great. That's totally fine. I totally get it. I haven't seen this. Just stay.

I'm going to go ahead and stay my horse. I do love you. Thanks. Yeah, thank you. Okay. Thank you. So you think in Italian or? Yeah, Bellinopoli. So that was kind of funny to learn that.

And Lauren was like, like i mean i knew it she's like it was such a red flag but he had come so highly recommended by all these other people i was like i guess i'll stick it out really yeah she's like thankfully i had like the recommend letters of recommendation or else i would have been out of there oh man okay anyway the point of the story i was trying to get to was lauren sent me a video which i think she was just recording me on state i don't think she knew something was coming. I don't think Grant knew that she was recording. This is just how he was acting to me coming on stage. It is just electric. It's a six second clip. The applause has died down when he gets his loudest i'm like already like

so good and i remember going on stage and being like i hear like something like something above everyone else i was like maybe someone's just yelling like on your feet or something let the big dog eat let the big dog eat baby another thing about that i had told grant i was like and after i'm done like if you want to come to the green room we can hang out but also like feel free to watch trey's set like it's fun it's good you know yeah and afterwards i'm like hey man thanks for being here after my step and he sends me some like really cryptic text like to hell or high water it's like i don't know i don't know what that means like no matter what i guess i don't i don't know what it meant anyway so i was just like all right i guess i'll just see him afterwards and

then i go to like a different part of like our dressing rooms to this other green room and grant and lauren are just chilling there it looks like they have been chilling in there for 15 minutes just talking to katie trey and alan oh really and he didn't like text me like hey do you want to come back here like no you're not back here or anything just very casually hanging with these people he doesn't i guess trey was on stage okay but yeah just hanging back there which is Do you want to come back here? Like, no, you're not back here or anything. Just very casually hanging with these people. He doesn't. I guess Trey was on stage. OK, but yeah, just hanging back there, which is like the crew.

Wow. Just so confident. I mean, yeah, the dude's got swagger. I mean, yeah, he gives his watches away. So it was just hilarious. Maybe we shouldn't dissect this too much because I don't want creepy people to come back there. But like, how did he get back there? I had given him a wristband

earlier it's like hey you can come to the green room later if you want gotcha and so i was gonna say because all you have to say it was like yeah i know jake and he's back there like gotcha had the wristband gotcha uh anyways that was fun gosh good times good time let the big dog eat baby big dog eat baby here we go jake because grant might have been the originator it might have been the earliest documentation of the phrase on your feet yeah potentially it's a video doggy, baby. Here we go, Jake. Because Grant might have been the originator. It might have been the earliest documentation of the phrase on your feet. Yeah. Potentially. It was a video on Queenstown, New Zealand. And Grant was the one just yelling out at the mountains.

Queenstown. On your feet. So he's a great catchphrase guy. He was the one who wanted to get our shirts wet. Yeah. Great catchphrase guy. Yeah. What's his next one?

Grant, if you're listening or if his wife's listening, let us know. Yeah. Lauren, let us know any catchphrases you've heard around the house from Grant. We'd love to hear it. That'd be great. Okay. I got a few different things. Just kind of small things here on the way over here.

I was pumping some gas. Nice. Take that Oregon. Yeah. And those Oregon guys are awesome. They're fun, dude. Yeah. They're very fun.

You do cool things in life. So gas boys podcast. If you haven't listened. Yeah. Check them out. I text them. Thank you so much for being here. I said, you guys feel like real friends to me, like actual friends. Like I would hang out with you casually. No problem. Yeah. Um, but on the way here, pumping my gas and there was a woman, I mean, it was like a busy quick trip. Cause quick trips, like the, the happening place to be for gas. You ever seen the Apple store? It's like that. It's like a busy quick trip. Because quick trips like the happen in place to be for gas. You ever seen the Apple store? It's like that. It's like the Apple store of gas.

And this woman like had her car radio cranked as loud as it could be. Like it was a Dodge Neon, like kind of a crappy car. Windows up, windows down? Windows very down. And was blasting Ed, I think it's Ed Sheeran. Who sings Shiver? Shivers. Shivers. We are sick of Shivers because it is the first song in the PowerPoint of Trey's show. Okay. Yeah, we hear it all the time. Is it Ed Sheeran? who sings shiver shivers shivers. We are sick of shivers because it is the first song in the PowerPoint of

Trey show. Okay. So yeah, we hear it all the time. Is it Ed Sheeran? Oh yeah. Okay. So like just blasting it and singing as loud as she could. Give me the shivers.

And like was dancing while she was pumping her gas. Yes. And it was like, it was like the definition of vibes. I was like, I was like, this is going to be a good podcast because this girl is getting me in the right mood. She was just bump into it. No shame, no shame, not even an inkling doesn't even know what shame means. Quick trip. So a well-lit place. A lot of people were seeing into this car, I bet to see her shiver. Well, she was outside the car. She was, she was pumping the gas outside

the car, just like dancing around. I mean, it was awesome. And like people, you could see like people walking by a smile, like that's awesome. Yeah. And I loved it. I was kind of like bopping a little bit. It is a good song. And then I realized it was the radio. Like she was literally just bumping the radio. Like it wasn't like she was like, who put this song? Yeah. Uh, so then the next song was miss Jackson by outcast. Okay. Fun radio station. Yeah. We were bopping a little bit. I was kind of singing along to that one, hoping she would hear me. Uh, but anyway, just like, yeah, it was just one of those things where it's like man i love i love this i i think more people should just be unashamedly like let's go for it like let's just be fun because like worst case scenario

she's there for three minutes and she leaves and it's like okay that was kind of loud and i didn't like it best case scenario she changes somebody's day yeah it's so easy to tell yourself hey i'm never gonna see these people again but it's very hard to live your life in a way where you act as if you're never going to see those people again. It's hard to get to that point. And like, and like, I think so often, at least for me, I convinced myself otherwise, cause I'm like, I don't want to be annoying about it, but it's like, that wasn't annoying. And if it was like, then get over it. People just realize it's like, it's going to happen for like just a few seconds and then she's gone. Like, yeah, whatever. So anyway, it was, it was dope.

That is awesome. Yeah. Kansas city is alive. Yeah, dude. Who needs the chiefs, man? We have Ed Sharon. Yeah, that's right. That's great.

That's great. You get, we get down on Wordle. You done that yet? Yeah. Yeah. I had a good street going and then I think I had nine in a row and then I lost one. You lost one. Yeah.

Wow. I don't want to talk about it. Okay. Sorry. Uh, it was like one of those ones where I had four of the five and then I lost one. You lost one? Yeah. Wow. I don't want to talk about it. Okay, sorry. It was like one of those ones where I had four of the five letters and I just got cocky. I was like, I'm not going to think about that much. And I think I missed it three times in a row with 45. Oh no. Yeah.

That's tough. It was rough. I haven't played it in probably a week or two. You get into it? I would just like to say today, second row. Oh. Second row. That's a good feeling. You were podcasting with one of the say today, second row. Oh. Second row. That's a good feeling.

You were podcasting with one of the smartest men in the country. Oh, yeah. Wasn't this, was it today the one that was like, I saw people like tweeting that it was really hard today. So. I mean, why not? Okay. Do you have a strategy?

Do you always go one first word like same? Yeah, typically. Yeah, I have. I go tiers. Tiers is great. Okay. You get TRS and the two vowels i always go house hey three vowels three vowels n and s the more i've been thinking about it i've been

rethinking my tear strategy because i think vowels are way easier to guess than consonants it's way easier or i would way rather know consonants than vowels because you can fill in the vowels way easier you're right so i think you should go consonant heavy even though i don't so i do tears and then i go regardless of like information i found out i almost every time go tears blind cough or sometimes tears blind pouch no matter what i think it's better to just gather information and then start your guessing you'll never mess up like i've never not gotten the word okay i like it but today i was just feeling it i was like we're scratching blind we're going whatever which it was aroma or something.

Bingo, bingo, bongo, aroma. Bing bong. I think it's the most genius. I love that you can only play once a day. It's kind of fun. Because it's like, it's kind of, it's just perfect. Cause it's like, it's addicting, but it's not addicting in the sense of like, I can't get off my phone.

You know, just this thing I'm going to focus on for three minutes every day yeah i have friends that are like man i couldn't fall asleep tonight because i was kept thinking about wordle and i finally got it right like so like it made it sound like he started at the beginning of the day it was like it didn't finish it i was like dude do it do it in one sitting do it while you're peeing not even number two yeah just just go house and then go tears and go cough yeah and you're good yeah i repeat an h in there but that's fine i saw some uh tweet and it was like my i just found out i know i saw a couple tweets about wordle one was like my boyfriend just found out that i started her wordle with gravy and he is furious at me i would be too put a v and a y in there and then one of the replies to that was like i found

out that my mom starts every word with apple and i've tried telling her oh my god and she claims it works for her so i just let her be i was like this is hilarious that's great there's so many different strategies out there gravy is just hilarious i bet it's not nearly as hard as everyone thinks to get the words right that's what i was like i've never not got it yeah the only reason i've not got it is when i forget to play it. Well, sure. Because, yeah, you just got to you can't try to guess it in the first couple. You just gather info, gather data. Have you ever I know you haven't actually posted. Have you ever even thought for a second like, oh, I want to I want to brag about this.

Today, when you got it on the second row, were you like, oh, I want to text somebody this. Well, what keeps me sane is that Rachel and I text each other every day. Oh, you do. If I didn't have that, then I'd be like, I got to tell somebody. Yeah, I got to tell somebody this. Well, what keeps me sane is that Rachel and I text each other every day. Oh, you do. If I didn't have that, then I'd be like, I got to tell somebody. Yeah. I got to tell somebody.

Can you believe this? Yeah. It's kind of infiltrated the group chat that I'm in with all my buddies. And like, and some of my friends are furious. Like, please stop doing it. Like,

this is not, no one cares. Like, it's like way worse than your fantasy team. Yeah. You need a significant other to care. Yeah. Or else it's like,

I don't. And even Rachel and I, it's kind of like, nice. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Nice. Yeah. What do you say yeah what do you say like oh cool yeah that's about how i was i found something the other day because i had a typo uh it reads better than it plays on via voice world world world world world so it's so just put an l in there yeah and you're guessing uh countries it'll show you type you had a typo that you actually found a game for yeah oh so i actually typed in worldle it's like you want to play okay sure only played it once by whoever did that good for them it's like goggle.com yeah uh which is illegal turns out called url squat. No, you're asking something else. Yeah. Yeah

That's like having Chris Bosch calm and not you waiting to like yeah extort someone for it. Yep Forgive me more of a rural boy now. I have a fun story. Not exactly about go ahead I don't need to talk about world. Okay, so this one of the guys in Austin, Texas last week with me His name is Gabe Gabe wad. What's his? Anybody called you Gabe Wad yet? Oh, what's your last name, Gabe? Anyway, his girlfriend, now wife, her Instagram name is Jess. J-E-S-S.

And I was like, dude. And she's like, so he's got like, you know, a million some followers. Let me look up Jess. She's got, I think like 2 million or a million something. And I was like, dude, like I saw her name is Jess. Like, that's crazy. Like how, like, like how did, like, how'd she get that? Yeah. Seriously though. Like, like if your name was Jake on Instagram, that's crazy. Um, there she is. That's just what she got. How many, uh, 2 million followers. Yeah. Like doing just fine and uh i was like how do you know this woman i know her husband got it gabe she posted her wordle on her story right now oh really oh jess

come on classic jess anyway uh he said that she wanted to like get that get the name jess i forget what her name was before jess probably with her last name but uh she contacted the account that had jess and was like hey i noticed that you haven't really posted anything on this account for a while. Would you mind if I used it or something like that? You know, I'm getting pretty popular. I don't know what she said exactly. And they responded back on Instagram and said, yeah, we would love to do that for, you know, whatever, $5,000. And right when she saw that you could instagram like or a screenshot it and send it to instagram that's like against their community guidelines to like sell and so instagram immediately no gave it to her like immediately for free isn't that wild that i'm flabbergasted

yeah that's so savvy yeah because i don't even know if they were like intentionally trying to bait and switch or anything like that necessarily. But if, yeah, I think if they could have like, they've been like, oh yeah, let's text about it or yeah, let's talk on the phone or something like that. But I think since they had it in writing right there. Within Instagram. Within Instagram. I don't know.

Maybe, maybe it'd be similar if you're texting or something because yeah, I've heard of people like, can I buy your account? Can I do this? Whatever. Same idea of URL squatting or whatever. Dude. Isn isn't that wild this is my favorite thing you've told me in a long time really that's amazing trey's gonna love this too right because oh yeah we geek out on like little savvy instagram you know social media things like this because josh back that he used to do some pretty savvy things some pretty cool things but i've never heard of that yeah because

that used to be the thing i mean that was really i was in that world 2017 2018 a lot of like instagram buying you know content curation like type accounts you buy them you can do ads whatever and i would hear all about these yeah instagram deals that went down and like how sketchy they were and it's not a good idea too because the way instagram is set up the original email that was set up on can always go retrieve it later so it's never safe even if they've handed you over you know two-factor anything. The original email can always get it back. Interesting. So it's sketchy. OK, but boy, oh boy, you get the big dogs and you get the big dogs eaten.

Wow. Fun fact for you. It is like you just get Jake. Let's go. Let's go get it. Let's see who has it. Let's bait and switch that bad boy. Oh, my gosh.

I could get the guy in trouble who kept trying to sell me Jake Triplett. I would never even hit him up. He's like, hey, do you want my account? Oh, really? I was like, he would solicit you. Yeah. And I was like, no, I'm good. He's like, I'll sell it to you for cheap.

Three thousand or something. I was like, no, I don't. It's not going to make a difference. Yeah. Oh, we might be in luck. Oh, we might be in luck because one, he is an active Instagrammer like he posted a few months ago. OK, two, he only has 13000 followers.

He's not like an influencer or anything. OK, interesting. I don't know. Let's set that. Let's cast it out there. I don't know if that that Jess account like was dormant and that made it easier or what. But I don't know. I mean, obviously it was active enough where it could respond to a message.

So I wonder how long ago that was too. Cause if you have the username, I don't think it was that long ago. Really? I would just assume they get hit up all the time, but just that you kind of know, we tell you when it's smart enough. I'm going to message this dude right now. Hey,

Hey, thanks around. You want to talk only on Instagram? Yeah. No phone numbers. Um, all I typed out was, Hey man. And I was like, I should probably do the podcast. So, uh, speaking of Gabe, Jess's husband, uh, after our conference got over in Austin, Texas last week, we went and did adult go-karts. Have you ever done those? Dude, love go-karts. But have you done like the ones that go really fast? It's hard to find.

Not that often. Bro, this is my first time. So fun. Where were you at when you did this? Austin, Texas. When? The heart of Austin, Texas, last week. Cool.

And I mean, so Gabe, he lives in Florida. He's like, yeah, I do this all the time in Florida. And I'm like, you do? Like, he's like, yeah, I have a membership at this thing. And I was like, what? And he's like looking at the track and like analyzing like like how much how hard could this thing be he whooped me dude really like because it's like they they track how fast your fastest lap is that's kind of like oh they track every lap i would love this do we have this in

city i think we used to i don't know if it's still if it's still around but you go up to like 40 miles an hour perfect like to the point where like like when i first got there i was like hey guys my goal usually every time i go go-karting is to get kicked out for like bumping and like like hitting on people you know hitting people onto the like the railing and stuff the after five minutes of being there somebody like wrecked pretty hard and i was like okay i can't no thank you can't do that anymore 40 is pretty serious you were in a helmet i'm guessing helmet helmet. And you have these like, uh, I think it was probably for COVID, but you have like these like face mask things like these like shields. I think kind of like what racers wear. I was imagining like Joan, Joan of Arc, like wearing like a metal, like face,

like ski mask meal or whatever the thing is. Yeah. Yeah. Kind of like that. But with, with cotton instead. cotton cotton yeah that'll protect you from the pavement uh but man like watching it i was like this looks kind of lame i was like i don't really know if i'm really excited about doing this it's pretty expensive and man when you're out there it's electric dude because it you hug the turn so quick i mean you feel the g's on that one yeah but all that to say gabe was so much better than me. I think it was one of those kind of like Mario Bowser kind of things. Well, I mean, like higher acceleration. Yeah.

He was a skinnier guy than me. He's not pulling as much weight, but his fastest time on a lap was like 31 and a half seconds. My fastest time was like 37.6. That's embarrassing, man. Six seconds. A long time on a short track. Yeah. Every single one of our friends got better time than me.

Oh, no. Including TJ. TJ was like, dude, I'm kind of scared. I'm going to like probably have like three seconds worse than you. TJ whooped me too. So. Dang. But it was so fun.

I just hooked it up. I don't think we have it. Really? But was it Derek telling us about adult laser tag that's here in Kansas City? Yes. Gotta try that out. There's a tactical laser tag that has like CO2 kickback. Yeah.

Which sounds amazing. There's like actual. Yeah. what's that called um kickback hold on and like in video games it's like oh recoil recoil recoil okay which now reminds me carson who uh underhanded pickleball uh scoop carson was at f12 was he yeah well how did that remind you of that we used to play video games together all the time. A lot of recoil. Nice. Take Carson to go.

Hey, Carson, if you're listening, let's go do tactical laser tag together. I think anytime you can get adult, like take a thing that we did as a kid and make it cool for adults is so great idea. Similar to almost the Topgolf model. Take something that is kind of boring and slow and make it interactive, fun, technologically advanced. What can we do that on? Can we? lame you think so yeah i've always i think bowling's fine i made it fun last night like every frame there was a new handicap okay so i was like this time you gotta do it left-handed this time you gotta go uh you have legs yeah you have

to get a running start at it from the stairs you gotta go i'm a big fan of like long distance bowling like so yeah one time i was like from the stairs yeah all the way back there yeah yeah um yeah what about like uh like putt putt bowling now we're talking it's like a it's like a course like you have to go through like and there's like multiple different avenues you can choose to go down it'd be kind of fun putt putt bowling i don't know things we did as kids though like laser tag was so fun as a kid and it's it's still so fun now like um go karts so fun as a kid way more fun now like do you ever have like a someone someone's birthday party in like a gymnastics gym like a foam pit balance city did your emerald city do you ever go oh yeah for k life yeah one time yeah so something like that like an adult gymnastics playpen yeah where you can't get hurt too bad but you can still have a lot of fun which is kind of what uh like the trampoline parks are

but there's so many children running around i want more foam uh not even foam can we come up with something better than foam foam sucks to jump into it discourages me from you know there's band-aids in there it takes me a while to get out because they sink pretty low it takes you a while to get out i'm in there for life um or what about trampoline laser tag? Oh, like trampoline obstacle course laser tag kind of all in one. Yeah, just in general, laser tag could just be, I talked about this, you know, on my Chick for laser tag date. Laser tag could be so much better. It's just kind of simple and basic.

So this tactical laser tag better knock my socks off because like paintball, there's like the fear of getting hurt and it's kind of sucks because it does, it is painful, but it's pretty fun. It's pretty tactical, right? It's like actual like obstacles. You like oh yeah there's maneuvers there's like strategy laser tech you can't just run around i'm very pumped about this tactical thing yeah let's try to get sponsored by them with jean shorts and so we can just play all the time great hey jean shorts blue jeans hit 100 000 subscribers hello on your feet for the jeans

it's kind of fun on one end it's just a very arbitrary number like sure it's nice and even you know but it's kind of like it doesn't because rachel's like so what does that mean i was like nothing well but but trade did think that it would trigger more brand deals that's true people people having more credibility it looks a little better yeah it's true but i've kind of been you know for the past couple years or so it's like you know i don't have the most traditional job things look a little different you know there isn't for me there isn't you and i both there's no such thing as like a promotion you know there's nothing for people to like where they celebrate so i try to like even though they don't seem like that big of a deal to me i try to in my head like consider it like

almost like a promotion or something like this is like a well upgraded version of what i was already doing it isn't a promotion in a sense. Cause it triggers like, okay, that means like the more subscribers almost positively, almost for sure we're going to have more money come from that. Right. And so it was like, okay, the more we get, the more money we're making. And yeah, so it is, it's like, yeah, you got to find, find some kind of, it's kind of like you have to make goals rather than just have somebody else set the goals for you with promotions and salary

and stuff. It's like, let's set our own goals. Let's, we have to hit a hundred thousand by X or whatever. So it's fun. It was one of those things where I feel like we were on the cusp for so, for so long that it's like awesome, but it's also like kind of, it's like climactic because we were right there. It's like the last 10,000 kind of took a while, but still, I mean, the fact that, I mean, what has it been since June, July, something? Yeah. So not that long. Crazy. So fun. It is. It's fun.

We filmed two today. We did media, then versus now, which I thought was a really fun idea. It's a good concept. Types of guys around girls, I think is also a fun idea. Yeah. That one was actually given to us by somebody's comments, which was fun. It's great. Great comment.

Don't you dare think that we don't read those comments and value them. They were great. So yeah, it was a fun one. What'd you think about the Superbowl halftime show? Oh, were you genuine question? Were you awake? I, yeah, you guys, I fell asleep for part of the Superbowl, which is very understandable. Yeah. Genuinely. I'm sorry for like, probably I haven't listened to last week's episode yet, but just the lack of energy that I probably had for that episode it was just tough just still recovering from it was the past few days have been and i felt hungover yeah and then yeah i still feel a little bit like off yeah i mean last night i didn't get to sleep very much at all and so today i was like gosh this when is it gonna stop right and tomorrow we have an early fight but uh anyway yeah i mean i felt i could not

stay awake for the super bowl so it's like yeah i was definitely just like zonked and yeah so out of it so i know i was awake for the halftime show uh i think while we were watching it i was like i like how quickly it's the it's changing yes i like how short they're keeping our attention span yes i was like i would love to go to a concert where every like a musician only plays one song and i they were never even the full song like it was like parts of songs i think that's fun yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think it's great. I think it's hard for hip hop and rap to translate over TV. I think it was probably way more fun. It's way more fun to be at a rap concert than it is to see one on TV.

That's fair. Compared to other genres of music. I think you can enjoy the genre is easier via like a video of it. You think so? Yeah. I think live music in general is just so hard to convey over TV. Yeah. It always sounds much more like empty. But yeah, I, I just, yeah, the whole thing was fun. I also, I think Trey

said it and I also read something similar of like, like, like you kind of, the, the torch was just passed to us as like millennials of like, you're now the old people because you enjoyed this, uh, halftime show and you know, all know all these songs that other people don't even know other kids don't even know you're like bopping too and know all the words too and like because it wasn't that long that the rolling stones performed and we're like oh my gosh get these geriatrics off the super bowl stage and then fast forward it's like that was awesome right you guys and they're like gen z is like ah we don't really know who right like how old do you think snoop dog is 48 he's 50 years old that's what i said that's that's crazy and so it's like

yeah some that's pretty old trying to rap you know they all they had kendrick you know and all that stuff but like snoop was dancing though he's a crip walk and he looks smooth out there snoop i'm he's gonna be doing that till he's 80. Yeah. Yeah. But man, I loved it. I loved it. And then it's funny because as we were watching it, Scott, whose mom passed away like three years ago, was like, man, if Valerie Peck were alive to see this, she would be just absolutely hating it. And then I got home and I talked to Catherine, her mom, and I was like, did you guys watch

the halftime show? And Catherine was, yeah, my mom hated it. Yeah. I barely. Yeah. And I was like was like what how could you hate on it and she said that was the first halftime show she's ever watched she thought like and so i was like well okay because she thought it was like very raunchy and like oh my gosh and like i'm not saying it was clean by any means like there was i'm sure there's some suggestive dancing but compared to j-lo and shakira compared to other you know past ones i feel like this one was not that ridiculous compared to uh jenna jackson i think was it who is that that girl i don't know that's not maybe maybe she had something

i don't know that's one of those stories you know it happened once and you never really talk about it yeah exactly that's just like uh just forgettable the kind of thing yeah kind of like a day of living infamy what even happened then what was that day yeah yeah anyway she she's did not i was like oh my gosh it was like i i said as i was watching i was like this is my favorite halftime yeah you called it in the moment i was like this is wonderful everything about it mary j blige was the only like kind of downfall um and that was probably because i only knew that one song of hers anyway. So anyway, all together, really enjoyed it. I would like to hear other people's opinions.

Like, are we truly like too old for this? Like, is that what it is? Or is it just like, because I have also thought like things that old people think. Like I see the way kids dress these days. I call them kids, first of all. And then I also am like, okay, you look ridiculous. Like, or that haircut looks funny or, you know, whatever, like things that old people say.

And now I'm enjoying 50 year old rappers at the Superbowl. So I don't know. Yeah. But it's the same with music. Like, like I'll, I'll listen to like still DRE and I'll be like, that is how rap should sound. Like that is when that is just classic. Yeah.

And I, I truly like every single one of those songs was so good. And I'm like, I don't, I don't hear music like that anymore. So, anyway. Let us know. Let us know. What was I going to say next? Oh, I have something I think you're going to like. Which of course, it started off as fun and now Peter's ready to turn it into a business.

So you know it's going to be good. I love when Peter gets excited about a business idea. Last week, some of us went golfing. Me, Peter, Luke, you know it's going to be good i love when peter gets excited about a business idea last week we uh some of us went golfing me peter luke and isaac okay all golf together scott scott was invited he just didn't want to didn't want to know he was like my work is spending like all this money on me to go to like this training about like milk uh he works for jerry farmers of america so it makes a little bit more sense he's like i can't get out of it whatsoever and so i was like uh someone had the idea i was like we should do prop bets for you know scott to bet on

while we're playing i forgot whose idea was but that's fun the morning of i start sending all these bets out i mean like pretty like, like it was an actual game. Like who's going to have longest drive on the first hole? You know, we got Luke at plus 130, Isaac plus 160. Oh wow, you even put odds on it. Yeah, yeah, like actual odds. And I think it was so fun for Scott. You know what I'm doing?

All right, we got a part three coming up. Who's going to be closest to the pin? Yeah. And then like we're like, who's going to be the first to lose three golf balls? You know, all this different stuff. I think Scott had just as much fun as we did playing yeah and i think peter is now ready to like turn that into an app where you can just prop bet on your friends doing anything it could be golf i think golf would be a popular thing to do like oh i can't go out with

the guys today okay but i can have establish all these odds sure and we can all keep track of like the money like the money stays in the app you can just like winmo or something and like the app takes whatever 0.5 percent of the yeah pot or something like even like luke and i are betting against isaac and peter scrambling but at the same time scott like has money in on it i like it dudes would get so into that i like it that would be so fun oh you just bet on being who's gonna be the last person to show up at the party tonight you know you just make a bet on it and you're hustling to get there yeah like not me not me not me who's gonna be yeah come in last at the tactical uh laser tech yeah yeah for who gets the most headshots that's funny just like a an app that's just built around dudes gambling on everything like that office episode just like

ever since march madness right i've been so bored i love it just just dudes let us know in the comments just classic guys like anything you can make a game of you do it it's just more fun that way it's so much more fun like like all yeah i i think that all the time like like all my best friends all we have to do is have a ball and we're content i've always said that if i you know for some reason or another who knows get locked in solitary confinement yep please i don't even need food just give me a ball yes give me like a a racquetball oh i could have fun with a racquetball i think it's bouncy very bouncy but not too hard it's still soft to catch yeah okay give me a racquetball solitary confinement i'd have i'd have a new olympic sport for you i was about i mean whatever i know the solitary confinement's not fun but that sounds

pretty fun to be in a room by yourself with a racquetball. I would do that for hours. Like, like, like, Hey, we're, no, one's going to bother you. Just sit in this room by yourself. You don't get a phone. You don't have like, not like you're not going to hear any other people. It's just you and that ball. Just you and a racquetball. That's a business idea. That's meditation. Like, like that is, that is just like a nice relaxing because while you're doing something you still have other thoughts you can still think about your life and whatever you need to think about while you're throwing this ball while you're trying to get this racquetball to land in your shoe that's fun trick shot i i can't explain to you how excited i am about the idea of a racquetball in a room i don't know why maybe it's the coffee and the dr pepper talking together

but i love it. I mean, there's so many different games. I'd like to get my dad involved with this business. This is right up his alley. There's so many things, just types of games you could play. I think when you're sitting on your back and you're trying to like throw it off the wall and try to like not move your hand, like can it land? Oh yeah.

Where your hand let go of the ball. Sure. Sure. Like all wrist movement. Sure. How consistent is your wrist? Yeah. I think you take your shoe off.

Now that's a goal. Can I get it to land back in my shoe? Off one wall on this shoe. Off two walls on this shoe. I was going to say, I want a double wall back to the catch right here. Oh, yeah, that's fine. I think you're kind of warming up. That's a good feel for the walls.

How are they bouncing today? What kind of ball did they give me today? Oh, my gosh, this sounds awesome. How are they bouncing? Okay, new business idea. We call it ballrooms. What do you think? Solitary ballrooms. Yeah, we have a royal ballroom a grand ballroom they're themed of course yeah that's fun prison ballroom yeah they're themed

and so then you got like a chandelier you're trying to get the ball on top of or whatever oh it sounds awesome have you ever been in those rooms they're called like uh i don't know what they're called but they're basically like they'll give you a hammer and old tvs and stuff and you can just go and just wreck them oh yeah no i've heard of that i don't know what they're called, but they're basically like, they'll give you a hammer and old TVs and stuff. And you can just go and just wreck them. Oh yeah. No, I've heard of that. I don't know where those exist,

but I've seen them on like YouTube vlogs. And I was kind of fun. Remember the Titans when they beat up the, the car, you know, like they have, what was that arm motion? That was,

that was him like passing the, uh, passing the hammer from one guy to the other. Have you never done that for a charity? Do that. I've done it so many different times at different points of my life. I think I guess points of your life yeah definitely high school this like youth conference i helped out oh yeah what was it called family church i think they had one uh

uh yeah it's different stuff like that i've seen the old beat-up car several places never beat up cars never gotten auctioned off you know it's just one of my things that i just have i've just been sheltered in life i haven't got around to it yet thanks around thanks around that was great i couldn't believe i forgot about being auctioned off. I couldn't either. I, I, part of me was like,

I don't believe it. I wonder like who else I, I need to ask, you know, who listens to the podcast? Who's on that mission trip? I'm pretty sure it was Reba. Remember meeting Reba?

No, you weren't there. Thanks a lot, jerk. You weren't invited. She was at the St. Louis show and my parents met her. Oh,

I love that. You equate me. You and my parents met her oh uh i love that you equate me you were my parents yeah reba i think you listen to the podcast yeah she was where ghost artist merch she has to yeah can you confirm please leave us a youtube comment or something i'm not crazy right what the honduras mission trip didn't we auction each other off for dates we did please let me know i forgot yeah reba listens i thought you're gonna say the honduras mission trip is the one where you just beat up a car and i was like well i think they needed that car yeah what we're gonna do is the ice bucket challenge over and over and over and then we're gonna go down and we're gonna build them a well isn't that fun fun who that's great so ballrooms ballrooms and it just prop bets yep i like it a couple episodes

ago i talked i end up cutting this part out but uh because of just the other things around it that we were talking about but i randomly took the stance that i don't believe in fossils anymore i was like just kind of a fun thing to just say you don't believe it like i'm not big on fossils yeah what do we call it uh fossils fossils or no farce farcels farcels yeah i was like i don't believe it i'm it's fake news or farcels anyway wow we can move on from that i forgot about that that was like two episodes ago okay yeah uh i have a new thing this one i believe in a little bit more except i don't believe in it i don't know if i totally believe in coats tell me more though there have been multiple times recently where I find myself being a cold boy. This happened a lot during like the ice storm, snow storm, Austin, Texas, whatever.

I'm like, ooh, kind of cold in this building. I like where you're going with this. I'm already wearing a t-shirt and a hoodie. Then I'm like, I'm going to put on this like down, like, I guess it's not, Eddie Bauer coat around me. I'm like, I feel no different. And I'm indoors. Yeah.

I'm indoors wearing a t-shirt, a hoodie, and a coat. And I'm like, I feel no different. And I'm indoors. Yeah. I'm indoors wearing a t-shirt, a hoodie and a coat and I'm not warm. You don't buy it. I don't buy it. Okay. What's happening? How am I not warm? That is like an interesting, like, like, uh, sometimes it's way more about like your blood or like whatever, like, like if you drink something cold, like, like I'll get into bed and I'm freezing and I'm like putting on all these covers and like getting, you know, getting my stocking cap on everything. I'm still freezing. Other nights I'm getting in bed in like absolutely nothing.

Other nights I'm getting into bed, not wearing much. The way you said that. There's a part of Parks and Rec where Donna's on the phone with doing a, like a telethon and you hear her go absolutely nothing what are you wearing absolutely that's actually what i texted you you texted me at the night of f12 like what are you wearing for this thing oh yeah you said absolutely nothing what are you wearing um no you're wearing that great cream colored sweatshirt i love that sweatshirt that's what that dude i love it You're obsessed with that. Dude, I love it. Thank you. Big men's fashion guy now. Yeah, right. Yeah, exactly. You're,

you're noticing things now you're like, you know, your, your, your shirt and your pants aren't the exact same color. And that looks good. Those aren't just different shades of red. That's pretty nice actually. Yeah. You don't have just like cherry red on top and maroon on the bottom. Huh? Huh? Okay. I'll tell you who did is Will Smith in that commercial for the Super Bowl. Oh, did he? He was wearing a maroon hat and a red shirt. And I think one of the Oregon boys was like, that looks bad.

I was like, it does. Yeah. Yeah. That's the new trend, though. If Will Smith do it because he's 59 years old, probably. Anyway, I'm just saying, like, it's usually just about about like, however you feel before you put the clothes on. I think it could be, I just felt like there were multiple times recently where it's like, I'm about to go outside. Let me put these clothes on. And then I start to realize,

wait, I'm not even outside yet. I'm cold. Yeah. I'm, I'm toast once I get out there. Yeah. It's weird. And I feel like I've started to learn in my old age, started to get better. Like layers are the key, right? It's always about the thickness of your outer layer. Just like the quantity of layers are so important. So I layer up. I'm doing my best. I don't know. This will be a test for you and Rachel.

For whatever reason, every time I'm cold, Catherine's warm. Every time she's warm. Dude. Rachel. Yeah. There's people out there listening who are probably like, oh, yeah, my girlfriend's pretty cold. Oh, my wife. Yeah, she's always cold.

My wife's always hot. But don't. i'm telling you right now rachel is the coldest girl on the planet you think your wife's cold she's not really rachel's the coldest girl on the planet i got for her for christmas i got her heated blanket you would have thought i got her 500 for making out with me she was so excited to get this heated blanket i think she wears it around the apartment i think she cooks in it i think she gets ready in it. Yeah. She is cold constantly. One time we were driving home from Iowa in her car. My side of the car was set at 67. Hers was at 90 with all three seat heaters on three levels of seat heaters.

Oh, my God. Something's wrong with this girl. I am dating a salamander. Yeah. How does that work? Yeah. I don't know. We've gone on trips with people.

They, you know, we're like staying at Airbnbs and like, oh, I'm going to sleep on the couch. Rachel in the bed. Like, oh, good for you guys.'m like it's not it's not i just don't want to i'm not getting into bed with something that you know it's got scales right that's there no way and does she like feel cold to the touch or have you not touched her yet uh no i have no idea she just looks looks cold. Yeah. Grandma Lori. No, I, okay. So you, are you ever cold around her?

Do you remember like the times when you're cold? I would say generally, yeah, I do skew a little colder anyway. So like, I think we're kind of on the same page. Like, yeah, it could be a little warmer in here, but she's just at another level that I've never seen. I think those Aubreyrey heatherly and uh jill harris this past week at f12 i asked them what they did like in between pickleball in the event and they're like we went home and we just had we took a nap and i was like that's awesome

like you know just get away like being kansas city like vacation like i like the idea of like yeah having some time yourself and they're like yeah we cranked the thermostat up to 80 degrees and took a nap i was was like, that sounds miserable. So I guess it's just a girl thing. I get down on that. That sounds kind of nice. No, it doesn't. I would do that.

I like the idea of like bundling up and getting cozy with some blankies. But like, if you're going to 80 degrees, you're not, you're not blanking up. Blanking up. You're just like, like sweating and like sticking to like the leather couch at that point. Just getting knee pit sweat. I didn't crank the thermostat to 80. I think it's at like the leather couch at that point. Just getting knee pit sweat. I didn't think there was that to 80. I think it's like 71, 72 in my house.

But today I took a nap wearing a hoodie and sweatpants and no blanket, no sheet on top of me. Just plop down. I was also so tired. It didn't matter. I could have slept in a coffin. I need something on top of me. Yeah.

Whether it's a person, a blanket, you know, H a blanket anything you know hattie you know yeah hugging contest yeah squeeze squeeze tight so uh yeah anyway she's a good test for you though because someday she's gonna be warm when you're cold i'm telling you she's gonna be warm i'm cool if she's the one wait what's the test it's it's like you you compliment each other so no matter oh no matter what she's always cold then you need to be warm yeah and vice versa like but every once in a while

you're gonna be cold magically she's gonna be hot it's wild dude all right it's wild how it works we'll see i don't know maybe that's just me and katherine i would like to hear other people yeah and their comment on that it is fascinating i'm still gonna keep talking about it i mean half the time i was like rachel how was your day she's like good i was warm. It's like directly affects like really it is entirely how our day was. Does she have like iron deficiency or something? Have you heard? Like, I don't know. That's like a thing that like my sister struggled with.

Like her fingers were really cold because like blood wasn't getting to them or something. Some people do have that thing where like their fingers turn like like crazy white. She doesn't have that. OK, so I don't know. Maybe she just needs to suck it up. Do we think that's maybe the issue? Yeah, a little stronger. I would say that. Okay. So I don't know. Maybe she just needs to suck it up. Do we think that's maybe the issue? Yeah. She needs to be a little stronger.

I would say that. A little mentally tougher. I would say that's probably the next thing you should say to her next time she complains about being cold. Just like, hey, do you mind just sucking it up a little bit? Do you mind just, you know, not feeling that way? Right. All right.

Thanks. Yeah. So. Cool. Well, anyway. So I don't buy coats. Little iffy on coats. Little iffy on coats little iffy on coats i think coats work um um i'll disagree with you on that one yeah i don't know um gosh i don't even know what

to talk about next there's still plenty of other things uh maybe get to some voice memos i think we need to we've been neglecting them a little bit haven't done that in a while let's have some fun okay let's voice my mode up oh my gosh excuse me oh i did not like that uh patrick from spokane i have no that doesn't matter um glad to hear f12 went well i could not make it nor could my other friends of the podcast i could give excuses but i won't't. That's best tried phone. Uh, here's my question. We, Jacob, uh, when you came to Spokane with Mr. Trey Kennedy, uh, we went out to breakfast and we talked about specifically the Ghost Runners Olympics and you took notes in your phone and we talked seriously about it and you're like, hey, we could do this. This could be a thing. My question is do you think that

is that still a thing that might happen? Cut this one out. I thought it was a pickleball tournament this summer. So what's, hey, is it going to happen? We'll talk about it. What's the deal? Talk with Brad Deuce. See you guys. Patrick. After meeting Patrick,

I followed on my Instagram, you know, back in the day. I think it was like June. We were there. And Patrick is one of those guys like everyone knows at least a couple people

you follow on Instagram who is commenting on like very large accounts. Oh, Gunner. Yeah, Gunner. I will see it. I don't see Gunner do it that often.

Actually, Gunner probably just DMs him. Yeah, just privately. Hey, good post. Sports Center. Patrick's a guy. I see him comment on Sports Center all the time or like Bleacher Report or something. It's nice to know Patrick's thoughts on it.

OK, a lot of times I see that you liked it. I see that Gunnar liked it. I don't know how you feel about it. Sure. I kind of know how Patrick feels about it sometimes. That's great. Yeah, so it's kind of fun. Wow.

What are your thoughts, Brad? Would you want to go full Olympiad or just a pickleball tournament? Um, that's a good question. I can be talked into either. I think the main thing is mark your calendars for summer it's summertime it's summer 22 we've decided it is going to be this summer and it will be this summer so have that date free i don't know if i have a strong opinion one way or the other kind of like it sounds like you would say um to me the simplicity of pickleball is, is fun. Yeah. We've also kind of been hyping up this Olympiad.

So maybe they could potentially be two different events and we could push the Olympiad back a little ways or something. I don't know. Um, yeah, I, to me, I'm more excited about pickleball because like, it was just like one,

like central place where everyone would be. Um, you know, that was part of the fun of pickleball was like, everyone was right there. Yeah. It was the Olympiad. I can imagine like if we played our cards right and did the logistics,

right. It'd be like, Oh, I'm over there playing spike ball while somebody else is playing pickleball. I got to go to the Y. I got swimming a four. Right. I got to the butterfly.

Right. So, I mean, yeah, the more we talk about it, I like just pickleball tournament and then just oh when it's summertime it's gonna be so much easier to like like the next coach runners gathering like pickleball tournament during the day royals game at night oh my gosh

we could all sit in a section together can you imagine how hype we get oh my gosh like 400 of us sit in one section just buy every single ticket and we could just make some crazy chance up and just take over the royal stadium this Oh, that'd be so fun. Yeah. On your feet. Yes. On your feet. Yeah, we could.

Yeah. It's a real game. Royal Stadium would be so fun. Oh, that'd be so great. Summer's just so easy. It's just so warm. I get it, Rachel. It's wonderful.

The warm's better. It really is better. It really is. We could do so many things. Oh, yeah. I had that thought even at Chick-fil-A the other night. I was like, if we did this in the summer, people would be outside hanging out in the patio area.

That's true. And dude, did you go outside today? Yes. I think there was a tornado happening for six straight hours. Oh, it was windy. Yeah. Oh my gosh. It was all.

Yeah. It was also like warm though. It was. But yeah, my truck, even my big old truck. There's moving around. You're showing Bo what like a wind is, you know, when like. Sorry, we don't need to talk about today's weather anymore, but okay. I think we talked about it. Yeah. We decided do one thing. Yeah. One structured thing. If you like Lucy structured,

my priority is community over, I mean, community and memories. Yeah. I'm not going to win the Olympiad. So I'm not, I'm not too worried about exactly that. So I'll be honest. After what I saw at the pickleball tournament, I don't know. I don't know the kind of listers we have, but we need to be. No, I'm kind of just trying to rile you guys up. But we can still do those things casually.

If it's like a couple of guys are like, hey, we should like do this, you know, and we should play golf while you're here. I mean, you can always bring out the spike ball, bring out the Frisbees, whatever. Yeah, not around Grant Huber, though. Do not let him see spike ball.urg though do not let him see spike ball that's do not let him see it man that sounds so fun i can't wait for summer to get we gotta do it

as early as possible mark your calendars early summer you want to talk about weather today did feel like very tornadic but it also felt nice and warm little springy it was like it's like it was like did f12 just mark like the end of winter did he see his shadow yeah or not i don't know which did phineas see his shadow you hear people like the groundhog died did he see a shadow yeah or not i don't know which poxitani phil did phineas see a shadow you hear people like the groundhog died and people were like oh my gosh poxitani phil died it's like you realize that hasn't been the same groundhog since 1863 right like people are like so sad about this groundhog dying we do now no anyway i didn't hear that that's funny people were like so sad like oh my gosh it's so sad it's like

the groundhogs die all the time that's probably the 30 i can't imagine the lifespan being great no i think it'd be funnier and more believable this day it's like did you hear about the groundhog oh what happened he's backing joe rogan oh now we're talking geez do we need to get a new one or like what's the policy cancel the groundhog i don't think i told you that the austin show uh we called up a woman to sing to he i think uh we called up a woman to sing to and her answer she was an indian looking woman and james we looked a lot like mr james mom and we're to her. We're like, where are you from? And she was like, it wasn't necessarily rude, but it was to the point. And it was an interesting tone.

She goes, I mean, India, obviously. And we're like, oh, okay. We meant like, where do you live? She's from America now. Yeah. She's like, Austin, Texas. So we're like, all right, great. And then we're like, who's here tonight? She's like, my boyfriend. He's like, Austin, Texas. So like, all right, great. And then we're like,

who here tonight? She's like, my boyfriend, he's white. Like, oh, okay. She's like trying to like be offended. Yeah. It was so interesting. And so I think Trey and I did a good job. They're like, oh, geez. All right. We're not asking, you know, about races and whatever. And so it was just like, it was very hard to try and gather info i'm like what am i gonna rhyme with all of her answers are so racially charged i feel like i'm nervous like i don't even know what i have to work with and uh anyway luckily i was able to think of something um uh the final rhyme was something like uh in this city keep austin weird is your slogan

the way she was answering those questions was like, she's going to get, that was a little wordy, but she's trying to get Trey canceled like he's Joe Rogan. Nice. When Joe Rogan's a big Austin guy. Sure, yeah. And so it was just like the right joke in the right city. Yeah.

It really worked out. Right timing of like. Yeah, the way she was answering the questions. It was really fun. That's good. Alan afterwards. I love when Alan would like make these weird, like just sports references

he's like dude nothing but triples and home runs lately man i was like what he's like i feel like you really hit your stride with these duets man i mean it used to be you always get on base but lately i mean just homer after a homer i mean really and i was like thank you man love it dude thanks i can't wait for the grand slam you know yeah someday yeah some sort of walk off homer that's great let's talk about isaac's walk-off homer and family feud that was great i mean it truly came down to the as down to the wires that can a family feud they're down to two or no i think they had a chance to steal they're down 298 to zero but it's the bonus round worth triple worth triple and he said mac and cheese bites and it was a walk-off answer number one answer even when he

said that i was like i don't think that's good i don't think like even though i know you love mac and cheese bites yeah the other answers were like so vague in general generic i guess is what that word is and then mac and cheese bites number one on the on the list i think the actual answer was mac and cheese and it was given to him by our proctor yeah which is fair yeah so it was awesome it was just so fun a lot of controversy in the pretzel so so the question was did we talk about this episode not much okay the question on this family feud you know fans versus friends thing was uh appetizers that jake would order at a restaurant um right yeah and uh one of the fans said bread which is a funny all, yeah, we gave him a little bit of a hard time.

Like you never, I will take bread, please. You never, you never have to order bread. Like bread either comes with it or they're not serving it beforehand, you know? And one of the answers eventually that we found out was pretzels. And everyone's like, well, you don't consider pretzels bread. And I was like, and later on, I was like, well, if that's, if that's your argument then like name an appetizer that jake would order at a restaurant you say food it's like or you say pasta and that just covers three of your answers yeah it's like food it's like what mac and cheese that's food that's food why didn't you put why don't you give that to us i said

italian yeah that's pizza bites that's the mac and cheese exactly so there was that and then also scott said that a squirrel would try to fend off jake triplet yeah and i was like that's pretty specific but then it was human was on there yeah that was good that was fun uh okay next voicemail thank you patrick hey guys my name is jayshif clark and i'm a senior at ku rock chalk my boy andrew markley introduced me to you guys when I was a freshman. And I'm so glad he did. D-Mark. Shout out. She's been listening.

I'm getting married in June. That's great. And I'm recording this on Valentine's Day. And Jake just announced his babe of the week. So I have love on the brain and wanted to ask you guys a Valentine's Day themed question. So Jake, what is a feature or quality that you look for in someone when you're dating or something you know is a feature that's just compatible with your personality? And Brad, what ways do you feel like Catherine has pushed you to grow in marriage and in what

ways do you feel like you've pushed her to grow? And if you have any advice on marriage and being newlywed soon, that would also be appreciated. And Brad, if you ever need advice on marriage and being newlywed soon that would also be appreciated and brad if you ever need a need a babysitter feel free to hit me up okay thanks guys bye-bye whoa that's awesome thank you that was a lot of things at the end there it was and also well yeah you got a babysitter maybe shout out shade dog yeah that'd be awesome it's her like college career she's listened to us have we been doing this that long that that was like a freshman to senior i guess it's possible is this our third plus year what are we episode 146 so going on almost a full three years so yeah wow two years 12 months two years 10 months two years 12 months wow i don't yeah yeah I still don't know if that's if that's right. Yeah.

But we should listen. Start listening at the very end of refresh. Yeah. I guess we started in May. So it's very end of refreshment year. OK. Wow. That's pretty cool.

Yeah. Good for her. She. Hey, did we start this podcast before you even work for Trey or were you? No. Like part time. Yeah. Very part time.

OK. It's wild, dude. How many different places have you lived since this podcast has come out? Probably four or five different homes. I think it started when I was with the Shoemakers. Then I moved. To Hyde Park? Yeah, Midtown.

And then you moved to Peters? Riggs. Then you moved to? Merriam. So I'm in my fifth house. Wow. Fifth house in not even three years. Jeez.

You're staying here for a while. Huh? No, no, no, no. Esteem. No, no, no, no. Okay, so. Okay, questions about our sweeties. I mean, yeah.

You want me to go first? No, I have some answers, I guess. So I think Catherine pushes me, just in general is maybe it's just too cheesy of an answer, but like she is so wonderful and like, uh, just somebody that I respect and love so much that I think she pushes me to work hard and, you know, just, just provide well for our family. Like, um, and I think I've learned that more and more over the years. Um, but, but nowadays, like, it's like, I feel bad if I don't work hard every day because I'll look back, especially because she's working so hard at home. Like she's working so hard with our kids, so hard at making our house look great. And you know, yeah, everything's just an order at our house. And so if I don't, if I don't work hard during the day, I'll look, I'll come back and be like, man, I, I just didn't do very well. So, um, she definitely pushes me in that respect of like just a good work ethic.

And not that I ever, I don't know, maybe I didn't have a great work ethic growing up, but, um, and then I don't know how I, I think I push her. I'm sure I pushed her in other ways, but the first thing I could think of is like, I've always had like this, um, kind of phrase or instinct of like, if, if, if, if I were to see you, you know, walk past me on the street and I look at Catherine, I'm like, Oh, I like that guy's sweatshirt. Like, or if she said, if she said to me, Oh yeah. Yeah. I always say you should tell him like, tell him like, and so I think I've maybe pushed her a little bit more of like, you know, words of affirmation, like, Hey, encourage people like that kind of thing.

I don't think, I don't think she was ever bad at that, but I think sometimes she would not be as comfortable doing that. So that's a really small version of, and maybe, maybe I do more hierarchy of like, that's a good push though. That's fun. Yeah. Something like that. So yeah.

Cool. That's a good answer. Um, she asked me, what do I look for in a girl? Which I feel like i've had a lot of time to i mean there's so many things i don't even know where to start uh athletic i feel like is a is a pretty non-negotiable for you yeah oh i've always considered that like a cherry on top okay i was just like that'd be great i'm never gonna be like that's a non-negotiable for me but oh that's rachel i was wrong d1 athlete yeah massive cherry on top dude it's awesome yeah

it's so fun i mean yeah we just got to play in our volleyball league tonight it was awesome i mean just she was setting me i was spiking and all we were winning that's it was so hot yeah um sorry grandma laurie um but no so many things i feel like i really value like uh like self-awareness is really big or confidence um even it's like social awareness uh social intelligence that's really big for me too just like knowing just like what eq eq like an equalizer like their lows and highs yeah like like make sure the mids are you know woofers they wake me up with a low voice borat borat what do you mean by eq oh eq is emotional like iq is like in like intellectual intelligence eq is like emotional it's like an it's like a 21st

century like corporate i was like that'd be ehi i like an emotional quotient yes someone who's like very good at like reading people and knowing like yeah being socially aware that's what gotcha yeah that's really big for me god is just like very just um yeah aware of what's happening socially aware of like yeah um obviously like similar values similar morals um oh being optimistic is so big uh the positivity that was one of the first things i was super attracted to rachel about which is like how just crazy optimistic she was like we really are similar in this way i think anyone who like just knows who they are and like where they're going they're like confident and like their trajectory of life knows what they want sure it's really big i mean i could go on and on i don't know all these things i should really look

for and rachel's got them it's awesome it's awesome i bet it's way easier to like spout these off right now because you're literally like thinking of a person like yeah probably easier i don't know like i mean this is pretty cool just like nice and uh yeah i don't know i mean she washes her hair like three four times a week at least and yeah sense of humor. Yeah. You know, fun. Yeah. So I'm just like, I don't know. And then newlywed advice, I think they said. Really? I don't even think I caught that.

I know. She said so many things at the end. I kind of babysat. Newlywed advice is just maintain as much perspective as you can because. That's good. So many arguments. Yeah, it is. It is a very good lesson in life. Easier said

than done. Probably just have perspective. It's so much easier said than done. You're going to realize how selfish you are when you're newlywed. You're also going to realize how selfish you are again when you have your first kid and then your second kid, whatever, all these things, every one of us is so selfish. So, uh, be selfless, maintain a good perspective and just don't get upset about small things. Cause so many of our arguments, our first year of marriage, we're like just the dumbest things. Like, like we had two light switches in our bathroom and I wanted to use one to turn on and off the lights, the bathroom lights. And she wanted to use the other. And like my pride just like got in the way of like, like why, why does

it matter? Just, just in our bathroom at the K-Life house, it was like two feet by two feet. It was like the tiniest bathroom. Like, it didn't matter. You didn't even need a light. You just use a bedroom light. Illuminate it. So, yeah, just I think those are all fun things. That's good. Thank you.

Perspective. And expectations. Expectations is another answer to most of life is just communicate expectations up front. That's good. I think I've talked about it over and over again. This podcast. Yeah. Knowing what your expectations are and not letting yourself be like let down because

of your high expectations can lead to so much, just more happiness. Expectations are so huge. That's a big thing I'm learning right now. Communicating that with somebody else so that you're not on different pages. Yeah. Good, Brad. You're wise. You're wise right at your years. You are on track. I would

say just right on par with 31. Yeah. Like you're, you're kind of like when you're reading a third grade reading that you are, you are just on track at an eight, eight year marriage. Talk about adequate. Yeah. You're right there. You are right. Married for seven years, two kids. I could guess it. That sounds right. Eight years. You're wise at your years. Okay. Thank you for the voice memos, guys. It is midnight. And I think Brad and I have had pretty long days.

Brad's even longer than mine. Who's counting? I am. Yours has been longer. Okay. I was jealous that you got a nap. That sounds awesome. I know.

It was a... Some naps are... Not all naps are created equal. Like sometimes you just wake up. You're like, why do I feel tired about this one? And other naps you wake up like that was great yeah and i feel like i yeah whatever it's just weird i don't understand um okay man the rim cycle uh reviews of the week mine is from molleth okay i've been a listener and seems like friend for almost two and a half years now when my son was was born, I had severe PPD.

And I remember some days were the hardest. Sorry, PPD sounds... Jeez, dude, you laughing at PPD? It sounds funny. When your son was born, he has PPD. I don't know. It sounds funny. I just listened to it real quick.

We don't know if it's going to be a boy or a girl. Oh, look, there's his PPD. Yeah, when my son was born, we had massive PPD. That just sounds funny. Come on. Hi. Well, I'm not, I'm not, I wasn't even like really trying to go there too much. Whatever. All right. I'm going to start the sentence over in a more, in the tone it should be read in. When my son was born, I had severe postpartum depression. How's that Brad?

Wait, is that what PPD stands for? Oh, I'm guessing. Oh geez. Now I feel bad. That's why I was like, dude,

why are you laughing? I'm sorry. I didn't, I thought it was like something about pod, like podcasting. Oh, I'm sorry. I feel bad.

Is it, is it a, I thought it was a guy for some reason. I don't know. Molleth. Either way. I think it shows that you didn't know. Yes. I promise.

I was like, dude. Severe. Also, if there is a family feud for which one of the two podcast hosts would be more sensitive to postpartum depression. Yeah, right. Jake or Brad. Gosh. Yeah.

Look, hey. Sorry. Maybe I'm wrong. Post podcast. Nah. It's it's it's PPD, dude. I'm so sorry maybe i'm wrong post podcast nah it's it's p it's ppd dude i'm so sorry i'm sorry yeah to be fair to myself a i didn't know that b i was looking up my review while you just heard the acronym all i heard was when my son was born he had ppd and that sounded funny to me i'm sorry looks and also i still tried to go along with it with you i was like i'll still make some crack some jokes like he's a dad he surely he knows i guess this is okay yeah this me i'm sorry looks and also i still tried to go along with it with you i was like i'll still make

some crack some jokes like he's a dad he surely he knows i guess this is okay yeah this is something different i'll make a ppt come on read the read the thing jeez i'm gonna go in the corner okay when my son was born i had severe okay this is not funny okay okay okay i'm sorry molly or molla whatever i'm sorry i'm sorry hold on okay i'm just gonna skip over that i remember oh god okay okay i remember that some days were the hardest to push through as a... Dang it. This is another acronym. Gosh, dang it. S-A-H-M? Stay at home mom.

Whew. Okay. I was like, oh, not another illness. Yeah. Okay. Okay. I remember some days were the hardest to push through as a stay at home mom. Gosh, Molly hitting us with the X.

I would listen to your podcast and find myself smiling and laughing through the hard days. My son would also dance to the jingles every week. This week, listening to the F12 episode, I found myself tearing up multiple times as a friend, hearing how far these two have come. I even texted my husband as soon as I, as soon as Jake announced Topgolf Rachel and said, Jake has a girlfriend, this is great. And he knew exactly who Jake was.

Thank you guys for sharing the light of God through a lighthearted podcast. Y'all are the best. Please do not make fun of my postpartum depression. I believed it. I believed it i believed i was like no way oh you made me feel so bad again i'm sorry i was like no molly seems cool molly seems like she's gonna understand and have a good uh good laugh at this and maybe, too, because he knows who I am. Right. Okay.

That was fun. All right. That was fun. Thank you, Molly. I actually am going to do an Instagram caption of the week. Oh, fun. Okay. Oh, yeah.

There's a lot of good ones to choose from. Just today. So many posts. Yeah, dude. And this is probably not fair to even just choose one because, like you said. Right now, there's like six different girls right now. It's like, could be me. And guess what? It's a guy. Yep sorry janelle sorry celia i mean so many wonderful ones seriously yes celia's maybe i should go to celia's actually but no so many

just like amazingly heartfelt wonderful captions this one stood out to me because i have gotten to know him a little bit personally it's's our boy, Jeff Boyer. Oh, fun. From Arkansas. You don't have to pronounce his name. There's something. Yeah, exactly. He told me Chef Boyer D.

Jeff Boyer D. Yeah, you get it? Pasta. So this one just kind of stuck out to me because I feel like. I'm excited. I haven't seen this. Had a great time. We can see this weekend seeing these dudes.

These dudes are. It was a picture of Isaac Harrison, Brad, Jake. Okay. Awesome. A finer group. You'll be hard pressed to find.

They're all just doing, they're all just going for it in life and doing it with a lot of kindness and levity. God is honoring that by giving them influence. And I know they will continue to steward that very well over the better part of the last three years. I've followed along with the podcast that Brad and Jake started. They're a staple of my commute to and from work every week.

Seeing folks descend literally from every corner of the country. And if my aging ears heard correctly, someone came from Ukraine. All because of this little podcast they started was so wild and is so inspiring. I can't wait to see what's next, boys. So, yeah, I just think that's really cool. He's with levity. Yeah. Sweet. Yeah, I like that word. Yeah yeah you want to try to use it more yeah i think it's i could be mistaken but that's like the term for gravity but on a different planet levity yeah it's like whoa working against me the rims in on

venus are actually 15 feet how's why how come? Because of the levity. Levity. Taking all of my PPD. Oh man. Dude, I'll just say right now, best episode ever. No way. Maybe.

Started out so hot though. Okay. Maybe. I like the vibes on that. It feels good. The late night episodes. The late night episodes do hit different. And honestly, I'm just so freed up to talk about my life fully. Right.

Like I wanted to like. I bet that is very free. Keep some things to myself. Just, you know, just as I, I don't know, just the way I chose to do things. But now that it's out there, it's just so much easier to talk about. You're not saying your friend over and over again. Yeah. Not just like, I shouldn't say that.

So. Yeah. Anyway. So fun. In addition to a bunch of other things gosh this is a fun episode let's end it with a fun jingle Brad okay okay okay are you ready to end it let's do it let's do it

is written by Rachel from Canada she's 16 years old. Okay. O.J. and Brad Every Monday morning make me feel so glad Playing silly games like Guess the Dad Getting big suitcases full of Amish jams. Oh, every single week you tune in. It's new topics about their lives and some advice to golf. Chick-fil-A.

Can I get a bit more on the side? That's what's up. Bob's Scooch down, that's all right. Oh, Jake and Brad, every Monday morning, shout-outs to Jake's dad. Underrated, overrated, hide the ham. Check out jean shorts It's not bad Ain't no mystery This pot is the best

Just ask the south Cause Biden is blessed There ain't no doubt That Jake is for real Get your merch And you'll get the whole deal Oh, Jake and Brad Every Monday morning, yeah, you'll get a laugh Merging on the highway, don't feel so sad

Just get with it with Brad and Jake. You'll understand. Oh, Jake and Brad. Yeah. Oh, wow. I was not expecting that to be the song. It just kind of got really fun there. It's a guy.

Surfaces is such a fun band. Check them out. I think Surfaces is a fun band because you are someone who really appreciates and knows music and you still really like them like you respect their craft thank you and i am very stupid when it comes to music i'm like this is great yes you know like i think both sides of the spectrum can like it's wonderfully simple but like so beautifully like yeah it's just perfect they're so good it's nice to hear something unique and not the many things i'm like this is different yeah what i'm hearing i think they're i'm calling them the

modern day beach boys is what i'm calling them like their vibe is they bring out they bring out so much just fun sunny warm vibes even winter though it's fun to listen to good call modern beach boys thanks mbb thanks write it down write it down type it out yeah uh while you're singing it just reminded me uh because of this card all the ghosties on sunday night who are still in town all went to main event yeah which is the origination of march madness and uh justin i thought he gave me a gift card so i texted i was like dude you'd have to give me a gift card because it said march madness on he's like oh it's not a gift card that's great that was just the card we used to play games on i was like oh

that's fun uh but it's fun they did that. They went to Funky Town. They did all these fun things together. So fun, dude. So fun to see him do it. See you guys this summer. Market calendars. Royals game. Pickleball tournament. Best episode ever.

Brad's going to make a... Like when Moe's does the table making display, everyone's going to sit out in your yard. You're just going to make a table for everyone. That sounds like a dream. And then we're going to eat on it afterwards. Yeah, big table. Just a feast. Big table.

Holy cow. I would love it. All right. We love you guys. We thank you. We thank. Yeah, big table. Just a feast. Big table. Holy cow. I would love it. All right. We love you guys. We thank you. We thank you. We thank you. And thanks around.

All right. Love you guys. Love you, Catherine. Bye, Hattie. Bye, Bo. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.

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