Ghostrunners - 173 - Won't You Be My Neighbor?

Episode Date: August 29, 2022

Jake has stories from performing in Virginia Beach and Brad is back from his trip in Colorado with several other Christian ~influencers~. About 56 minutes in, some of the biggest news in recent podcast history is dropped so get on your feet for that! Get a personalized video from us on Cameo: https://v.cameo.com/e/fvERn6rrysb  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

Brad, I went to Virginia Beach this past weekend. Oh, yeah. And. You got water there? It was. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Plenty of it. And during the day, I would go golfing, which is really fun. You got grass there? Yeah. Oh, OK. Yeah. Fescue, Bermude. A little bit of blue.

Zoysia. How is your grass knowledge coming now that you play golf? Yeah, I think that's all. I still don't know my species. Wait, do you actually. Is there like a benefit to like this fairwaysways fescue fescue fairway the only the only thing i will say is bermuda is the one grass i'm like okay i can tell that's bermuda but like every golfer thinks they know tree species and grass species and i'm like why is it does it matter like that's what i'm

asking like it can play a little differently yeah Yeah. Go a little bit faster. Or just an oak. You know, not let you hit it through as quickly. Oh, they have thick branches. There's no way you're getting through the oak, no matter how hard you hit it. Oh, that's oaky leaves. They slow it down a ton. They take the spin off. That'll do it.

I have no idea the difference. I'll just say, sometimes you're looking up a course to book a tee time, and it'll be like, you're going to enjoy our Zoysia fairways and Bermuda greens. I'm like, okay. Great. I will never, ever care. Anyway. Zoysia. I've never heard that. Fun word, though our Zoysia fairways and Bermuda greens. I'm like, okay, great. I will never, ever care about it. Anyway. Zoysia, I've never heard that.

Fun word though, Zoysia. It sounds like you're making it up as you're saying it though. Thank you. You're going to enjoy our Zoysia fairways. Zoysia. I don't know, maybe Zoysia. Anyway, it was fun because a lot of the time that we toured last year was through the winter.

So we didn't get to golf that much during the day. So try to take advantage of it. Alan and Trey didn't want to golf the first day. So he's i'll still go and i get paired up with two guys you just went by yourself i love that oh yeah of course it's awesome and um doug and the other guy's name was griff you know actually he said his name was herbert but call me griff i was like even better i like it the next time you go by yourself in a foreign land you need to be like my name's jake but uh call me terrence like just throw off a little bit yeah like some really cool nickname like my name's jake but you can call me ace you can call me slick yeah call me bubba before we even teed off i

learned a few things about griff one his nickname griff two uh he goes doug i don't know if i'm if i told you or not but i never did get that fridge working and so i'm like oh maybe he's like helped doug with the fridge and i'm like what's the story here he's like uh yeah my refrigerator gave out on me in june so he just hasn't had a refrigerator since june he was like yeah i've been living out of coolers i was like okay is griff a family man or is he by himself so i was like like, this is Virginia. This is Virginia. That's the Virginia stereotype right there. And Griff in the cooler.

And then dude to top it off, I am not making this up. He was like, where are you from? And I said, Kansas city. And he goes, never heard of it. Not ringing a bell, buddy. Uh oh, ooh I think this tight beat means that it's going down with some random

thoughts and white me too Midwest best friends eating fast food on repeat so come along let's have some fun and go ahead

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just in that round of golf so i would open my uh set with that story i didn't have to exaggerate a thing i was like let me tell you about griff and then there's another story i did kind of have to exaggerate that a little bit but i probably don't hold like four or five we've been playing for 30 minutes now and the whole time we're playing i feel like i can just hear like it sounds kind of like gunshots but i'm like i don't want to i don't want to upset griff i want to just assume and um eventually doug speaks up he's like you hear that and i was like yeah i do and he's like so uh if you hear anything from over here that sound is seals and so so I was like, oh. And then slapping?

So that's what, so on stage, how I would deliver it was maybe like, and me knowing we're near an ocean and then the crowd would just lose it because apparently it's a very military area. But if you don't know that, if you're just visiting, you don't know that. So that guy was messing with you? No, no, no. So it was like, seriously, it was like the Navy SEALs Combat training area is over here. Do you think? Right those are seals

Yeah, that's so that was the joke I did in the set I was like, I figured they'd be more high-pitched than that and so people loved that joke But it's really so what he actually told me because when he said seals, I mean for yeah for two seconds That's what I thought he's ago seals anything you were here were your seals anything over here here over here is the marines so that was enough for me to contextually put it together right but on stage i would just make it seem like he's like yeah that's the seals and i'm like that over there the seal even the seals like that's the seals that's the seals over there and me knowing the ocean is that way endangered i mean yeah there's the people aren't uh you know going know, going after him quite as much. Huh. You just let them kind of live that way. That's interesting.

Yeah. I can't imagine the housing market being great. That's loud. So I'm trying to think of like the Kansas city counterpart to that story. Like if you're playing golf with somebody out of town in Kansas city, I don't know what you have to warn them about. There's some construction noises. Yeah. That's the deer. Yeah. John Deere. Nice. That's not a construction thing, but, uh, but later on the round i did find out doug who told me all this was ex-military and so then i bring that up on the set too and i was like and to top it off this man was ex-military and so i looked him in the eyes and said i'm sorry this is what you fought for sorry i don't know better i'm sorry this is the

freedom in a pink shirt yeah golfing yeah that's amazing so um anyway i guess we'll just roll right into that roll roll right into that um virginia beach was pretty fun i i was so excited to get back up there and do stand-up again and comedy clubs again and just perform again and the very first show was really fun just that that nervousness you feel and the exhilarating feeling it was going up there like this is a lot of new stuff this is untested yeah material here's here's my question or my assumption is along with the new material i would assume to an extent it might be almost a little nerve-wracking in a smaller crowd true or false most of my nerves no i don't think okay i mean it's sold

out so it's it's a packed house it's a a good crowd. I guess I'm just imagining like, what is it like 200, 300? Yeah, probably 250. So like if, you know, whatever, let's say you got 1500 people and 100 of them laugh. That's pretty loud laughter. So that's what however many percentage of that is. That's less than 10 percent. You got 250 people and 18 of them laugh. That's not very.

That's really quiet. You know what I mean? That's what I'd be nervous about is like, man, the percentage game you know goes away you have to really hit him that's a good point and i'll tell you sorry not to make you more nervous on the small one the low percentage was correct that was really true yeah i mean that happened yeah i and this is the first so what i'll say is i think everyone who came to a show had a great time because you know now i've got enough you know material under my belt so I would right off the bat I would do the Virginia joke I do some jokes about Trey so I knew I would warm them up great but then when it came time to

my material it's like all right now we're rolling the dice but um I would ask someone's like you know we're back on tour for the first time ever just gonna curiosity who's seen us perform before and every time it was less than five people so it's like okay great I could do old stuff if maybe so if I got into a bit and it wasn't working it's like all right i can go back to this that i know that works all right now let's try a new one so no one left being like jake is not good you know i got a lot of dms and everyone's really nice but the new stuff was not hitting yeah dude it was pretty humbling and i don't know maybe it just you get to a certain level you know once you've done 100 shows that you know i'm sure one in my standard is raised right if i had done that same set in 2019 maybe i was saying i was like this is great so i was curious about was like

yeah back when you were i don't know in phoenix or whatever like when we saw you like would you have thought those same same thoughts you know yeah and even now i'm wondering i'm like i wonder if my standard's just too high and it's like because i was ready to scrap everything i was like i need to go back to the drawing board almost none of this is working um and you just got to remember i really do think the less people like like people like sometimes i just don't laugh out loud and i probably would if i were at a live comedy show just to like show them that i think it's funny but sometimes i'm just like like and that's like i really enjoyed that yeah but like you're not gonna hear you know 180 people go like like you're like oh they love that you know yeah so maybe it's a lot of that this is the first time

i experienced um i don't know if it's pride or entitlement i think it's something wrong with me but just like the the feeling of wanting to blame the audience i never felt that before you know what i mean you you would hear that wouldn't you like on tour back in the day like in the smaller towns people they they're the worst here they don't understand that these crowds just don't like openers that was ridiculous for you or you know whatever it's like he was like spokane crowds just don't really like openers i couldn't believe he said that yeah and then you're kind of like not really thinking those exact things but you're like you know like they just aren't really appreciating me a little bit they are stupid here virginia they've never even heard of kansas city

like how are they gonna get my jokes yeah i'm not proud to admit it, but I'm just being honest. I did feel those thoughts a little bit. I was like, man, I feel like what I wrote is like pretty clever. And they're not laughing at the clever stuff. They're laughing at like the more dumb stuff. Well, I will say that sometimes your jokes are, yeah, clever enough where it's like, wait, let me think about that for a second. And so like, those are the jokes that I don't laugh out loud as hard at because i have to think about it for a second so then it's time to go and i was like

well that's that is encouraging you're moving on the next one it's like wait i want to let's let's laugh at that well other one back there let's go laugh at that you know but it's like hey i don't listen to what you're saying next so that's yeah so it was just like covering up for you a little bit there was part of me that was like man i mean am i just am i writing too many jokes for my own peers and not a primarily mom audience or like regardless of how i think this crowd felt or what i feel like i wrote it doesn't matter this is going to be the audience you need to like figure it out so i kind of like stopped the pity party pretty quickly it's like all right you got to figure it out who cares don't the blame is on you the audience is always right so it didn't last too long but i did

feel a little discouraged coming out of the weekend i'm just like man i was really excited about a lot of stuff and and some stuff still hit so it's like i did have a standard like okay this new thing got everyone to laugh okay that's great and so but it was like but a lot of the new stuff was like huh and on top of that which this is not an excuse at all but this is just like um the microphone yes was so wait what'd you see oh yeah yeah i was like yeah brad's gonna love this so that was just like all set it was like you couldn't get it to fully connect and so you just you'd be like so um when i was a kid i went to speech class. And the funny thing about speech class is... Yeah, right.

It's like... All right, all right. No, sorry. Okay, so the funny thing about speech class is... It would just keep cutting out on you? Yeah, it was like it knew when the punchline was coming. So anyway, speech class, you know, like math class is like... Like somebody can kind of hear you.

And so it's like, then you're then you like okay i have to repeat it for the person who heard me and that was the thing their monitors didn't work which is great all we had we didn't even try to show a video this time it's like we just need a functioning microphone and that didn't work and the monitor didn't work so sometimes this would have been brutal to watch back but i think i didn't even realize the mic wasn't on i just kept talking you know it's like i just yeah because you know you don't have a speaker playing to you so it's like how loud you are yeah i was like i don't think they heard the last few words but i'm not positive when it cut out i guess i'll just go back so that probably didn't help things but i don't think that was a major factor what's gonna fluster you up though yeah yeah there was one

show i was like i'm sick of trying to like figure it out so i just put it on the mic stand went hands-free and i was like this is nice i got both hands free like the one time i perform and i don't bring my juggling balls yeah i could have done it my parabolas i just don't know what to do with my hands now my instruments um yeah you've never done you've never tried the uh the stand the ted talk is that answer is no there's no one ever go dude go that route i've never i think if you're going on a mic stand just stationary you need to have a prop probably i don't know i've never seen anyone do it okay i was like i'm sick of messing with this thing i was like i have touched this i was like i'm doing borderline illegal things to this microphone right and i can't i can't hold

it away where the mic is gonna work so let's put it on the stand oh man so so that was just one night though that did that or was it three out of the four shows the microphone was really bad there was one show it got so bad that i did put it on a stand they didn't fix it like? We kept telling him, we're like, hey, the mic's not working. He's like, oh, okay, okay. I'll take a look at it. He's like, I switched out the cord. It's like, okay. Switch out the mic too. Yeah. But still, shouldn't we check? Yeah. So it was probably the connection was loose on it or something, right? Exactly. Oh, get some duct tape or something, man. Yeah. So our fourth show, we got a new mic and a new cord. It worked great great crazy how that works yeah imagine that yeah wow yeah so but for most part it was just like all right i've got

a lot of work to do before the next set of shows and um you're not as funny as you think you are humble yourself and figure it out i do well and i know i will figure it out but it was just a little bit like dang i was just hoping to just crush it right off the bat yeah like some bits yes but for the most part i'm like i don't even think i'm going to talk about any of that anymore. I'm just scrapping it completely. So for Jake Beach, the only people who got to hear me talk about my time at SBU, I'll just say that. I tried it. I tried it. I pushed back a little bit on that because I think, I don't know. I think a, you could make it a little bit like funnier in delivery or something. And B, I think there's like, gotta be like a law of averages of like, if, if you do it five times,

it doesn't work. It's not funny. Yeah. But if it's like, hey, this was just a, you know, whatever, this kind of crowd, they didn't get it. I don't know. But then again, I'm sure I've never felt that way that you felt on stage where it's like, OK, that's not going great. You know, like to put yourself through like through that for another five shows is kind of torturous. Was it all four shows that were kind of iffy? I had enough content. So this was what was fun about the first show. I rambled so long about Virginia stuff and then Trey that I looked up at the timer and I was like, it was like my time was up and I was 40% of the way into my stuff.

So it's like, oh my gosh, sorry. Okay, I'll just wrap it up now. So I had enough stuff where like, you know, stuff got thrown in. everything probably got two or three opportunities throughout the weekend so it wasn't the same set every night i tried new stuff every night and um and yeah it was never like just completely silent i don't even think i just bombed so hard it was like crickets right but it's just like i mean i know what a good laugh feels like and i know what like 18 people laughing yeah feels like and yeah yeah there's a lot of like clever stuff i felt really good about it was just like man nothing that's virginia yeah i'll go i'll go back to that point too of like hey you yeah you're used to what a crowd of 1800 people feels like yeah

a thousand people whatever like you just gotta like try to remember back to the time like what does it feel like when a bunch of kids at k-life laughed at you or something like that like because that's where you gotta standard just just remember you're better than 98 percent of people trying to do stand-up comedy 99.9 i gotta go over my i've been to the rhino in north oh man that was so bad that was so bad scott and i went that one night i was gonna go brad got hosed out of a spot in the lineup yeah that was that was something else but and so we're like i guess we'll just sit here wait and watch for a little bit because they did the same thing we're like you guys can stay and do at the very end if you want and i didn't want to do that again no yeah and so scott's like

i guess when we were here let's just see some of these i was like dude it's not fun and scott you know scott had the best attitude ever he's like no how bad could it be and we sat there and you know maybe like one one or two in he was not like laughing out of awkwardness anymore he was just like this is terrible well just i mean the very first guy that he wasn't even an act he was just like the host but he did like a couple minutes of a bit yeah and i i mean just eyeballs yeah we're like you're like my watch is this guy's saying yeah and you remember there was that really weird guy the old guy singing the whole time that was really weird song he sung it was uh it was like a it was to the star wars ballad it was to the he's saying he was singing about some sort of i mean it

was so odd is it i think it was trey's story he has an experience where he went uh to a comedy club and a guy was doing a really poor performance. And he was like, all right, I want you guys to pretend that you're all live in Chicago. And this is my audition to be a Chicago tour guide. I was like, OK, this is already pretty different. I hate that. First of all, it is unique. It is different. I think I could see how that could be funny.

No, right. No, there's part of it. It's like, OK, this is different. This is a unique way of comedy so far. Yeah. And they said, where's the Wgn building and go socks yeah from the south side yeah and they said for five minutes there was no punchline they said he just rattled off like chicago knowledge and they were so confused like what what is this this could have been great maybe but it was just like over here you will see

the sears tower you know there's just nothing to it so even that though like i think you could make that funny without a punchline if you were like good enough at being awkward like like but if you're just like bad at it i don't know like yeah over here we can we have this you can know that we the chicago river goes through the whole thing, right? And it's green in the March, in the St. Patrick's Days. And then that over there is the Chicago Tredunes. Anybody know what a Tredune is? It's a periodical newspaper.

Periodical. That's a great word. And here is Wrigley Field, known for its ivy walls. Ivy checking those out, if i were you uh last thing i'll say i did try a trump joke for the first time you would have thought i learned my lesson in virginia but it got a laugh okay yeah it just compared like when i was in college how i would get called in the dean's office all the time for these parody twitter accounts i was starting and how they like they hated me just like tweeting and all this stuff you okay Big Daddy sorry I thought that was Scott's phone I was like turn off your phone

is the phone going off right now yeah Wichita Kansas you want to answer it yep hi this is Brad hi yeah who is this yeah who is this? Yeah, who is this? Krissa? Krissa?

Oh, come on! That's all it takes? That's all it takes to get it to mispronounce their name? Chris, did I say Krissa? I was going to go on for seven more names. Crystal? Chrissy? Christine?

Chrysler. Chris. Oh, Chris with the T at the end. Like have the right pronunciation. I do have to Hattie. Like Hattie's the perfect age for that right now. And it is the most fun thing ever. Dude.

She'll be like, no, just Chris. I'll be like, oh, just Chris. She's like, no, not just Chris. Just Chris. Dude, no joke. I wrote that down in my notes because i've been doing that with palmer the last couple days is like she'll tell me the name of one of her toys like she has a little doll she calls it barbie camping it's like it's a camping set yeah and i was like

narby wamping and i would just like every every different i would start with a different letter every time she's like like, Dad, no. She's like, I can't believe that you're actually messing. And so she would sound it out with me. She'd be like, Barbie? Farby? Throwback to Hadley Perkins. Yeah, that's right.

Oh, that's so funny you do that too. Anyway, okay, so tell me about the Trump joke. Oh, it was just, yeah, it was just a true story. I would get called to the dean's office about these Twitter accounts. And, you know, so then I was like, you know, I remember the dean telling me like, Jake, you can't just rattle off, you know, whatever. Right. You're thinking that day, trying to be funny on Twitter. That's never going to get you anywhere in life.

And then I told him, you know, why don't we wait a couple elections? Yeah, there you go. Something like that. I tried it different every time. Like, why don't we see who you vote for in three years? And it seemed like they got kind of a laugh. So good. Yeah.

It wasn't silence. Well, no, I think I'm scrapping the entire SPU thing. Nothing else around it worked. Nothing really. I tried. I tried. That's fun. Yeah.

But anyway, it's gone with you. You were gone. Now you're back. Gone. Now I'm back. As is Scott. Scott, welcome back. Scott was gone.

Now he's back. I'm back. Yeah. I was gone to colorado for three four days sunshine state yeah it was very sunshiny i get i see why they call it that closer to the sun you're high up yeah i thought the rocky mountains would be a little rocky i know i posted something i posted that john denver's and then like dot dot dot on my instagram story i like that and like the main like leader of the retreat who's like this very godly man like reposted he's like it's gonna be awesome and i'm

like oh yeah that was just the one line i always wanted to quote as a kid but i never wanted to swear and it's just it's one of those lines where you can't like say that john denver's full of crap yeah this is not as funny yeah what is i'm just kidding yeah so it's the same uh same conference integrated that i went to in austin texas this one was in estes park colorado um sunshine state and so we went to estes park colorado and went to the ymca of the rockies who ever heard of it pretty sweet have you ever been to estes park of colorado yes i have i think for a cafe i heard jonathan paclua speak there oh nice yeah yeah it was it was great like the ymca the rockies nests part colorado was like i don't know just beautiful like probably 100 different little lodges and stuff cool uh

not super it's pretty rustic place but like i just love colorado in the summer is one of my favorite places because it's just nice cool cool weather, you know, high of 79 low of something lower than that. 54. Okay. Um, no, but anyway, it was, it was a great time. We, uh, it's just this conference that's based all around men who are, you know, faith, family, business like related. And so I was telling you beforehand, like there was a few guys there selling their business for nine years. Every, every podcast please don't please don't give it away um you know every time i go there i always feel so humbled because it's like i mean not that i feel like i'm a big deal in kansas city but obviously like we get recognized sometimes you're definitely not when you go to anagram

no uh we were going around the room and all the new guys always introduce themselves so this guy's like hey what's up my name is colin my net worth yeah and beth keep jefferson beth like if you know him if you know him it's like this isn't that surprising but it's just such a he's such a funny quirky guy like to me i would be like don't don't say that but he just goes colin tell him what you just exited your company for like what you just sold your company yikes and he just goes uh 150 million and we're like okay you know i talked to colin probably 30 minutes before that just had a great normal conversation i'm like i don't i can't just talk this guy like he's a freaking pro athlete like with that kind of money i like to

think that you thought that colin was really normal and then when you hear that you're like come to think of it he did blow his nose with a hundred dollar bill come to think of it yeah yeah exactly there you go there you go so and that's yeah that's fun uh dumb and dumber by the way uh estes park is where i think the like the scene where they're going up in that like to that banquet in the tuxedos yeah that's the hotel that they're they go in yeah really it's the same one as the shining too i thought they filmed it in breckenridge but it was supposed to be aspen uh i think that hotel i'm pretty positive okay we have a think pad uh can you please look it up i would trust colin whatever colin says colin didn't tell me anything i just i i think that's brad dallas knowledge can you let me know on that i know it's the shining that was filmed there but um anyway so it was just really great time it challenged me it made

me be like i don't know this park Estes Park. Okay, thank you. Estes Park, Colorado. Stanley Hotel, Estes Park, Colorado. Stanley, Colorado. Estes Park, Colorado. Stanley Mug Hotel. Anyway, it just challenged me to like think, it's all about like inter,

integrating your family within your, you know, business and everything like that. And just like, how can you, yeah, not just be like work-life balance, but make like when you own a business, it's like, it's you, yeah, not just be like work-life balance, but make like when you own a business, it's like, it's all encompassing kind of thing. Um, this is so cool that you're at this place. Sorry.

It's just really dawning on me that your woodworking business is at the same conference. It's a guy who sold a company for $150 million. I mean, the principles are the same. You've heard, I mean, you've heard the term imposter syndrome. I mean, imposter syndrome left and right. And even like, so,, wonderful, walk in love. He's actually the one that like sponsored me to be in this group. Like, I don't know if he wants me to say that or not publicly, but he like paid for me to

be in this group. Brad, why don't you go ahead and tell everyone how you got in this group? TJ from walk in love, who's awesome and wonderful. And I think he's been very successful, but he's not $150 million successful. And so, you know, every once in a while when people will be talking, like the very last day we had a session that was just all about like, like advice on investing. And so it was like, these guys giving different advice of like, I think you should invest in this or, and they were using terms and like rates. And there's one guy who was like a venture capital guy is like, geez, he's like,'s like you know don't don't invest a hundred thousand dollars in one thing just just just i know you guys are

tempted and i know it seems easy and tj and i just like kind of look like oh thank you he goes just right just plan on writing like a hundred two thousand dollar checks you know just just just like to throw it to different businesses and see which one basically sticks. You're probably going to lose 99 of those, you know? And I'm like, Oh, I don't, I'd rather not. If you guys are looking for a thousand dollar checks to write, LS Custom Creations is not taking funding. You guys talking $2,000 checks. Hello. 65 of those. Yeah. So, I mean, TJ, like that, that probably happened 20 times throughout the week.

That's so fun to have TJ. Like kind of like, yeah. And there's multiple, there's other guys that, like that, that probably happened 20 times throughout the week. That's so fun to have TJ. Like kind of like, yeah. And there's multiple, there's other guys that are like that too. But I mean, you kind of assume like if you're not one of those obvious guys, it's like you're doing amazing, you know, but, and there are certain guys there like, yeah, one of my friends, he's become a friend, Adam Busby. Yeah. He's the one that's got a TLC TV show or he did, he's got Quinn Tuplets.

And so he's, yeah. Out daughtered or something like that. And I think he just made tons of money from that and he's doing great things beyond that and but yeah it's just crazy like it's like okay and he was he was wearing like new amazing shoe like he had five different pairs of shoes during the like we had three days there and i think every time i saw because it's something different i love any of the speakers just coming up like today we're talking about where to invest in your fifth home. Lake, beach, mountain. Okay. So one of the things in this investing, I mean, it wasn't all about investing, but I think

that is part of like setting your family up for success is building like generational wealth and whatever. But during this investment talk, it was more like a round table, you know, discussion, like people would throw out questions and somebody was like, does anybody have experience? I know we've talked some about like investing in real estate. Does anybody have any experience in like investing in buying out businesses? And one guy's like, yeah, I mean, I have a little bit of experience. I've bought five businesses and I'm like, okay, that'll do it. I, yeah, I was thinking about investing in a newer van for my wife someday, you know, like, like golly. What's up guys. My name's Clint. I'm going to be the

speaker today. Today. We're talking about which building at a university do you want named after you? A lot of people go library. Football stadium is fun. We're going to get into it today. It's the most unrelatable. Yeah. And I mean, I think just overall, like, it's like, Hey, even if you're not there yet, like we hope that you get there and so let's plan for that now but we had this discussion i was kind of telling you this too like what to do when your resources uh like exceed your expectations or exceed like your like necessities basically what to do when you have too much money and one of them like i'm not even joking one of the bullet point lists that jeremy this guy put out, one of them was like help a city or like help.

Yeah. Help a city. The next one down. That's crazy. No, no, no, no,

no. Wait, Kansas city. Never heard of it. Help a city was one. The next one down, build a city. And I mean,

I think that the, like the literal, like sense was not like go out and like create a massive city infrastructure. I think it was like, Hey, like create a community of, of like, of no no no i like build a city build a city yeah atlantis connerville kansas let me see if i can find it i mean it's just like a whole okay yeah oh yeah build a city yeah and there's another one adopt a city was number three yeah build a city take a piece of geography and shape that piece of geography around your values is what I wrote down. So, um, fun piece of geography. I mean, and so like, yeah, on one hand it's like, I am so far away from that, but on the other hand,

it's like, Hey, it's, I I'm such like a live in the moment kind of guy that I'm like the future. I don't, I can't predict the future, so I'm not going to worry about the future. And it's kind of this weekend kind of challenged me a little bit on that of like okay you can still like put in steps and like things to help you yeah yeah down the road so i love the future yeah number one strength on the strength finders test futuristic oh yeah interesting love it mine is individualist maybe woo is on there you got a woo you was five i think i'm a two woo woo stands for winning others over just for everyone out there for the layman thank you i was a layman he was in portugal he didn't he was yeah he wasn't around for strength fighter hey i can't wait for the ellis

custom creations ipo though yeah let me know when we can get in new york stock exchange six businesses one of them was ellis custom creations it was a huge mistake talk about negative returns yeah he hired this high school guy and it all went downhill when that guy was laundering no ac in the shop yeah right he says it would like literally make it a sweatshop and it would be better but um no anyway it was great a few things real quick that i wrote down where did i put them um just just some quick biffs. One biff. So I drove there, which everyone gave me such a hard time for. They're worth nine figures. Of course.

I literally borrowed my mom's Toyota Camry. Did you take your truck? No. I was like, Mom, I was going to rent a car, but I asked my mom if I could borrow it. She said yes. But I'm probably two hours down the road, and I left pretty early in the morning. So I think I left at like six. But Catherine calls me okay first biff by the way i left at six because it's gonna take 10 hours to get there and i needed to be there between like five and six and so i was

like okay if i stop for lunch or gas whatever i'm gonna get there around then stop do a little investing get back on the road drop invest in a gas station in goodland kansas not even joking one of the things this guy said was like gas stations. There's something about like the tax breaks you get if you buy a gas station. I'm like, well, how much does a gas station cost? But there's something crazy. Like, it's like, it's like if anybody else there knows comment below, but like it's something like a hundred percent of like, I don't know. I don't know. It was how much you get. Hey, think pad. How much does gas station cost? Yeah station cost yeah anyway uh so i leave it like six i'm listening to you know listen to the podcast or whatever

on on like the stereo and then katherine facetimes me probably when they wake up at like eight cool i'm two hours down the road and i go to pull out my airpods to put them in only one airpod in the case oh no one of the worst feelings that's sad because you're just like i'm never gonna see this other one that's what i would think i knew i had slept with it in my ear the night before oh i'd fallen asleep with it like and and then the morning of when i woke up like five in the morning i didn't think to like look for my oh so you knew it was just back yeah it was okay it was like on my bed or on the floor so what you're saying it was like wedged in your earlobe and you're just like i knew where it was oh i would love that

two inches in my head no problem just can't get out get a plunger um i was bummed though dude it was like it was like this airpod is meaningless now like the noise cancellation doesn't work very well only one you know and yes like it's like yeah it was just and as an audio guy i don't know it just messes me up to have one i can't do it really really really bothers me i'm sorry and so i would have been so bummed if i had lost it but just knowing i still possess both like i i used that airpod for our cameo session that we did and that was like not torture to me but like close it was not fun like if i would have watched any kind of media on that i would have been very bothered so biff biff one and two and then let's see oh i need like there

were a few guys that i was talking to at the event that i said i will shout you out on the podcast i promise so shout out to andy shout out to scott o'malley are they gonna watch the podcast they're gonna listen i bet oh well great yeah yeah andy's a big jean shorts guy and he's like you never respond to my comments. And I said, I don't know if we responded to 10 comments the whole time. I don't really think that's one of our things. Yeah. But I will try if I see.

What does Andy do? Andy is. He owns a bunch of toys that come to life. No, I'll give you. I'll tell you what state he's in. And then you try to guess from there. OK. He's from Wisconsin.

Owns a ton of gas stations. No. Let me guess this guy. Wisconsin. Wisconsin. Andy does. Brewery. Cheese. there okay he's from wisconsin owns a ton of gas stations no i guess it's um wisconsin wisconsin andy does brewery cheese cheese no but on the right path dairy farm farm uh not dairy cheese farm cow like yes he sells beef cows he's like a farmer and he sells meat to people angus yeah he's a butcher i think he's like good luck you're andy stick your. Yeah. He's a butcher. I think he's like, good luck. You're Andy. Take your head off

of a butcher. Anyway, Andy's awesome. Like he actually, let me tell you this about Andy. Like he, I think the second

or third day comes up to me and I feel like we hadn't talked that much. We hadn't had that much interactions this time or the time before,

but he comes up. He's like, Brad, I'm just so glad you're here, man. Like you just have such a positive spirit about you, man. Like you say, thank you. A very individualistic,

but it was like such a compliment. I mean, I get compliments like that. Not that exactly, but like people compliment me online all the time. There is something different about someone coming up to you like straight face to face and saying, I know it's kind of obvious, but like that meant so much to me. Like it was like, thank you's so kind so uh shout out to andy and then scott o'malley as well he's he's i think you would actually really be interested in him he's a professional photographer but he does it for like crazy high-end weddings like one and a half million dollar budget weddings whoa yeah like he i think most of the places or most of the people he's done it for he signs ndas and so he can't even tell you yeah but i know that he was just like on the cover or the front page one or two of martha

stewart living like wedding magazines oh i probably have that um edition yeah i'm a subscriber yeah yeah oh yeah yeah yeah no just like her stuff just interested in martha stewart just you know um anyway but he's never know he's really cool he's, he's from Seattle. So he's just like oozes like hipster, like he's cooler than me. Cool. You know, so shout out to them. Glad to listen. Um, and then lastly, okay. So this is another, just like classic Bethke thing, I think. So like the first, uh, conference in Austin, Texas, um, we were all like gathering around for a talk and there was this one guy, actually the guy that's like bought like five businesses okay he's doing doing just very well for himself um he there was

there was this like smaller like kind of flimsy looking chair and the guy sat down and he's not a big guy by any means luckily thank goodness sat down and just busted it okay like just fell right on the ground really hard and like of course of course, like my reaction was like, Oh dude, Bethke just died laughing when this guy genuinely, like he might've even pointed like, like just dying laughing. And so then this week,

I mean, it's just, it's just like one of those things where it's like, he was so quick to do this. Just like he was so quick to like laugh at this guy falling from his chair. We were all in this talk. Like there was one guy speaking about, you know, financial stuff or whatever. And this guy goes to the bathroom, which is like right there. And there's a little bit of a pause in the talk. And you hear this guy just like absolutely bomb one. i mean a good three seconds long let's let's count to three refresh

one two three you know like a freaking it's a good one and you know it was it was like muffled enough where i think people like have been like whoa but beth he's just like oh my gosh everyone hear that who is in there you know like and beth he's not doing the talk he's just like there like just an audience but just immediately like just pauses it just happened like i'm sorry we all were thinking it right it's like i don't know if anybody would have like gone up like actually like spoken up and said something yikes be careful around this guy yeah but then like they're the the main the other guy jeremy his family is like helping out at this like event center. Like,

so he's got four daughters and the guy's bathroom, the girl's bathrooms right there. We didn't know who was in the bath. Oh, it truly could have been. I'm like, what if dude, like what?

And this guy walked out of the bathroom. No one said anything, you know, but I'm like, people look at them or, I mean, we, we definitely did.

We were like, Oh my gosh, skeptical ref face. Like, Oh, I mean, anyway, did. We were like, oh my gosh. A little skeptical ref face. I mean, anyway, but this poor guy, same thing twice in a row. But I think he's probably, you know, a multimillionaire. So I think he's doing all right.

He can handle it. He's got 12 businesses. Scott, how much does it cost to buy a gas station? It says $250K up to $2 million. And it says it's one of the most profitable businesses in the United States. No way. I mean, it's kind of weird because profitable businesses in the United States. No way. I mean, it's kind of weird because I never really thought about like, of businesses you could open like, hey, I just want to build a gas station.

Or yeah. You just build it and then you contract with somebody to supply your gas. I learned a lot about building gas stations. There's a whole blog about it. Really? Oh, yeah. Okay, let's think about it. Any ghosties out there know anybody with a lot of money or have a lot of money themselves they want to invest?

Ghosty gas. Ghosty gas? Ghosty Gas. Ghosty Gas. Ooh. Petroleum. Pudding. Expecto Petroleum. Podcast Petroleum.

We just do one by Harry Potter World and call it Expecto Petroleum. I see. Do you think that would do well? I think it would. Yeah. I don't know. Just themed gas stations. Expecto Petroleum.

Expecto Petroleum. So, yeah, that's kind of, I mean, Colorado was awesome. themed gas stations. Specto petroleum. So, uh, yeah, that's, that's kind of, I mean, Colorado was awesome.

I'm tired. I got home last night, like five and then got, you know, eight dinner and went right to church and then been doing stuff this morning too. So just been a fun time. Fun time.

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Okay. Documentary's been on a big documentary documentary kick we talked a little bit about this yeah your phrase was you've been plowing through i've been i didn't notice that too i mean that's how i feel i just plow through it yeah last night i started one at 10 and finished it at one o'clock that's a plow yeah that's a big plow yeah that's a combine wow yeah i've just i love documentaries in general and i feel like netflix has had a lot of good ones recently so i've i've had the man tai teo which you watch that you have not watched that no i'm willing to talk about now though if it's worth talking about one quick thing i'll say rachel and i were watching it together

um you know obviously there's gonna be a lot of like uh well it doesn't matter they'll show like screenshots of facebook or like they'll show a cursor being like ad friend or whatever one of the like screenshots are using um i was like rachel pause it and i was like go back one i was like i think i met that guy one time like one of the just like random people who's not main title you know i was like are you serious yeah it's just like a random guy in this like really i don't know how i even noticed it i was like this is gonna sound crazy i was like yeah go back go back i was like okay yeah i mean that looks like a guy i know named travis and his name right there is travis i was like i met is going to sound crazy. I was like, yeah, go back, go back. I was like, okay, yeah. I mean, that looks like a guy I know named Travis and his name right there is Travis.

I was like, I met him one time four years ago in Los Angeles. Megan Pavelka, if you still listen to the podcast, you know who I'm talking about. So I'm like, no way. So I look him up. I'm like, this is him. And so I end up finding, so I'm like, what in the world? Like, why is he in this?

Like, is he catfished? Who knows what his name was? But anyway, he works in la and worked on the production team that made the documentary oh so i guess they just use like real people that's pretty crazy though that you actually like yeah in a split second too yeah there wasn't a ton of time i don't know how i saw it but yeah and i just met him one time yeah i think is that documentary uh will my wife enjoy it oh yeah my wife like be grossed out like so many documentaries i watch and i'm like you're no no it's too whatever if anything you'll probably just

feel bad yeah that's not her it was it was very illuminating to me because so i i was on my mission mainly for most of his collegiate career came back end of 2012 so 2013 is right when he was going into the draft and everything you know was already out there yeah everything came out and so i just i mean i completely bought into what the media was saying like this dude made up a girlfriend for like a cool story oh yeah are you serious that was the narrative was that he oh yeah that he made up a girlfriend to have like a more compelling senior year or like senior season that his girlfriend and his grandma died on the same day and that people thought that he was covering up that he was gay yeah that was a big thing oh it was just point blank ask him yeah like so you're gay right dude yeah it was like poor just like sheltered i feel

like you couldn't do that today like katie couric just in a live tv interview are you gay i'm just like that i don't know why that seems like such a weird question right now have you seen that video clip it gets memed pretty often um i forget who it is but he's like why are you gay have you seen that well you can imagine and you did a great job it's very illuminating on like what really happened and you just i view man tito completely differently i'm like wow what a guy yeah pretty naive to not pick up on a lot of the red flags. There was there was plenty of red flags. It'd be like, hey, this is a little sketchy,

but good documentary. Let's have him on the pod. Yeah, reach out to him. I will. LDS. Well, yeah, we got the brotherhood. Another one is Breaking Point. That's another untold documentary.

It's like a sports one about tennis. That's fantastic. Cool about tennis. Yeah. OK. Oh, I'm intrigued yeah it's about andy roddick and marty fish and uh basically like mental breakdowns in sports gotcha it's kind of interesting uh keep sweet pray and obey oh yeah that one is disturbing yeah um you know about that one? No. Oh, it's like.

I don't ever get on Netflix anymore. Like I don't ever scroll. Look, we're all very proud of you. We're very happy that you don't get on Netflix. No, no, I'm a Hulu guy. I'm a Hulu guy. I'm not saying. No, no.

I watch modern. I watch stuff. It's just a lot of modern family episodes. I think I've just seen people talk about it. It's about, what are they called? Fundamentalist? Something like that. Yeah, so that's the Fundamentalist Latter-day, Fundamentalist Church of Latter-day Saints,

FLDS. So they're an offshoot of the LDS church that practices polygamy and basically oh they practice it boy do they practice uh yeah there's a guy who you want to talk about late night plowing yeah really scott's got his hand on his forehead he's ashamed oh boy um but yeah it's it's basically the story of this guy this guy who becomes a prophet of their church and just absolutely abuses his power like to the max and yeah it's i think the highlight thing there is like it's crazy how you can brainwash people with religion like it's disturbing yeah that's that's one reason why i feel like religion has a lot of like it just gets a lot of bad publicity sure people that are anti-religion

are like yes look at this like look at what this did um and then last night's last night's plow was uh woodstock hello and we don't have to go into too much detail about that but captivating so we call it woodstock free on the couch yeah performance but yeah just just loving documentaries recently and playing an obscene amount of pickleball good i mean good just so much pickleball i played with tayvon a couple weeks ago oh nice battle. I thought about bringing that up to him. But was that actually the same guy? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Played with Tavon. Oh, wow. Nice guy. Nice guy to play chess with on an airplane. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, just playing a ton of pickleball, kind of moving up in the world a little bit

in pickleball, which is exciting. How do you know? The pickle letter. Just hanging with some of the upper crust, Bradley. That's how I know. The upper crust. Upper crust of Kansas City pickleball uh playing a couple tournaments this fall yeah doing some 50 tournaments hello yeah we're dabbling uh plowing good yeah yeah i'd say at

one point scott and i were maybe like you know top 30 top 40 in kansas city and now i kind of stopped playing and scott's probably like top 10 now I wouldn't say top 10 okay but I think I think I'm in the top 25 I feel comfortable saying that cool humble brag um and then lastly did you guys know Tyson McGuffin is in Kansas City right now why in the world yeah he stayed at our house on Instagram I thought you followed him I think I follow him but i don't know like i i guess i'm not like watching his stories it was more of like a rhetorical question like hey did you know let's go into obviously tyson mcgoffins in kansas city right like let's yeah i stopped that mcguffin kansas city i don't know if you could like feel it in the air when

was he in a tournament or something no he's doing a camp and uh it's a two-day camp can you want to play guess the price of to attend a two-day camp with tyson what does that entail yeah i think i want to say it's like three hours of and it's like a one to eight coach to player ratio that's what they say so i think it's like three hours a day two days what do you think it costs limited spots with t gov i don't know what they call mac tabby i always feel really bad when people do this if i guess too high too high let's hey because then it's like no hey let's just try to guess we're both gentlemen we're gonna try to guess accurately all right if we burst scott's bubble we both scott's bubble i can't man that's the way six hundred dollars is my guess. Ooh, I think more. Two days of this?

Three hours a day? I think so. $950. $700. Look at us. I did it right, though. You got close and you didn't burst it. Yeah, that's the goal.

I should reach out to him because he follows me on Instagram. We've never talked or anything. He seems like a very approachable guy, too. I was talking to another guy. He's a pickleball athlete. Dude, he's big. No. He's a pickleball athlete. He's big. No, he's a pickleball athlete.

Yeah, pickleball is huge. You got 25 million people playing pickleball. Okay. That doesn't matter for professional athletes. I don't care how many people play it. He was featured on Barstool Sports. Yeah.

Tell Brad what they called him. They called him the most electrifying man in sports. Can you believe that? Yeah, we were all talking about that. Ben Johns would be so upset. I was like, wow, the most electrifying man in sports follows me on Instagram. Who would have thought? Just because a sport is popular doesn't mean the athletes are popular.

That's what I'm trying to say. I bet if you asked. No. No, yeah. If you asked a bunch of people who play pickleball all the time right if you if you ask the one percent of pickleballers they'll know some professional pickleball athletes no more than one percent of pickleball players no i bet 90 percent of pickleball players know who dies no way no maybe 75 the like majority of people that are playing are either like 12

years or younger or like 60 years or older they're not watching dude old people love watching pros oh they gobble it up no way yes i think here's the point is that the pro athletes are not anything special the most the best guy in the world has 18 000 followers on instagram and tyson that's embarrassing for you right like how bad you're how wrong you are i'm sorry to burst maybe you're like 12 right no so tyson has 57 000 hey but let's go i wouldn't celebrate so soon hold on you guys can i just finish this can i just get done with this uh he definitely bought them because his engagement is trash he has 120 likes but only but has 57 000 followers 120 likes but i bet 90 of people know who he is that play pickle ball no focus on the ratio that's ridiculous you're just trying to fight scott i'm saying

he bought his followers like he so like the most electrifying man in sports is only getting 120 likes right so how many followers do you think he actually has maybe like 10 000 yeah i would say 10 or less next time i'm out at a crowded pickleball court, I'm going to record a video walking up to people and asking them if you know who Tyson McGuffin is. No, let's make a bet about this right now. Please, Scott Pickleball, this is content. This is content. I bet. I bet. Title of the video,

I have a score to settle. That's not a good title. I wouldn't title it that. Okay. Tyson McFrauden. How many? Tyson McGuffin's a fraud everyone's tyson mcbluffin if they say they don't know who this is um i think the title is seeing if people know pro pickleballers and then the thumbnail is you don't know tyson mcguffin question mark you're welcome great thanks jake yeah i've been dragging on the channel dude i

haven't posted in like nine days i mean the subscribers are just begging for some yeah all 400 of them you've been plowing too much um too much time on the plow i just like i want to try to predict how many people would actually know him but i need to know a little bit more like is it when you're going with your early morning group of guys no i would try to go on an evening where there's a full court like i would i would like to come with you i'd like to come with you okay i think i think let's do it i think 28 or less we'll know 28 28 oh it's gonna be over 50 there's no way i guarantee you okay so let's go in the middle here let's say 37 well 37 i agree confident in that you said it's over I'll take the over on that 100%

All right, what are we betting? I'll buy you dinner. Perfect. I'll buy you dinner. Okay, Jake you have this cap of will you buy Jake and I both dinner? Just turn seven or under no, yeah, it's your y'all's thing. Okay, I'll just be there with 37% There's no way you're gonna tell me if there's 30 people out playing pickleball. You think less than yeah good way 30 30 people out playing pickleball you think less than yeah good way to start with 30 he's like as he's doing he's like yeah it's like that's a difficult fraction dude there's no way 100 people you think less than 37 know who tyson mcguffin is

100 i think we've talked about tyson mcguffin 20 times on this podcast i bet half the people listening we're like who's that guy again? I bet every single person would be like, I'm going to try pickleball. You know what happened four minutes ago when we were talking about Tyson McGuffin, a bunch of people were like, all right, I'm going to skip through this because I don't want to hear him talk about this. And they just got to this part. Like they're still talking about Tyson McGuffin.

Double tap the YouTube video. They keep skipping ahead. Like, wow, they're still talking about it. How far do I have to fast forward until they're still talking about they're still talking about double tap the youtube video they keep skipping ahead like wow they're still talking about it how far do i have to fast forward until they're not talking about this start doing time stamps oh man is the sorry real quick is the whatever course the practice session what's the camp is it tomorrow as well uh i don't know the last day i think it might have been today and tomorrow okay i'll reach out tomorrow i'll bring him to court with me. Hey, anybody know this guy?

Yeah. That's what I thought. It's kind of like that tournament you played in with the winner of survivor and Branson or whatever. Hey, congrats. You get to meet Tyson. Oh,

cool. Awesome, dude. Yeah. Is he on like a gas station? Make a wish trial or like, anyway. Okay.

I have a crumble cookie story for you guys from my dad. Talk about ears perking up. Yeah. You guys want to, you guys want to hear a biff let's let's talk about davis's biff um and i'm not gonna butch i'm gonna butcher i'm not gonna do it exactly justice but um my dad lovely guy wonderful guy every once in a while i think he's getting older so he forgets things every once in a while so um, your podcast? Camp already ended. It was yesterday and the day before. Okay, your podcast again. So my dad realized the other day, oh, I lost my credit card.

I don't know where it went. And so my mom, being the technologically savvy person she is, they go online, they look, okay, last purchase that you used your credit card was crumble cookies. And so my dad's like, okay, I must've lost it there. So he goes right. So he goes back and he's like, Hey, FYI, I think I lost my credit card. Um, can you see if you have it? They look through their stack of credit cards. They're like, Oh yeah, Dave Ellis right here. So I give it back to my dad, you know, whatever. My dad's good for a few days. Uh, but it hasn't used his credit card yet. Goes to use his credit card and it gets like denied. My dad's like, well, this is weird. And my mom was like, you know, we had, we've had experience

with your dad losing his credit card before. Usually, you know, you can, you can call and they'll give you a new credit card. So maybe the credit card company knew that it was lost or something. I don't know. And so they call the credit card company, like, do we need to get a new card or whatever? We don't want to have to go through that process, but I guess we can if we have to. And they are like, well, that card was reported stolen two years ago. And my dad looks at it. Oh, I see. I see what's happening.

Oh, my gosh. This is the wrong card. My dad has lost two credit cards at Crumble Cookies. What? And so my dad goes back. He's like, gosh, I hope it's not the same person again. He has to go back and be like, can you look through those again? He's like, and luckily it wasn't the same person, but he's like, hey, my name is Dave Ellis.

I think I left my credit card here. Do you mind seeing if you have it? And the person's like, yeah, I'll definitely check, but I'm just not really sure where they keep the lost credit cards. My dad's like, Oh no, it's right there. It's in that left drawer. Yeah. Uh, top one there. Yeah. Right. Yeah. And there he was right on the top. Dave Ellis. Wait, no way. Two years ago. Yeah, I think so. But there wasn't even a crumble here two years ago oh yeah sure there was no i don't know okay well i don't know the exact time it was like at least last year no yeah yeah i think the point of the story is that he lost it twice look who you're talking to brad and i'm more shocked i'm

really good with dates though he lost it in a place like crumble i mean there's no interior dining like how do you even like no i think we're losing it in like a bodega or something he put it in the chip and i don't think he ever took it out left it which is liable to leave it anywhere right oh yeah totally it's hilarious because every time yeah i know i've tried to tell him that every time you put it in there when it's time to take it out it dings at you it's annoying like it's like take it out um so anyway my mom and dad told me that story. And my mom, of course, is having fun telling me. Yeah. And then she called me back or I was talking to her on the way home from Colorado.

And she's like, well, I have my own. I have my own story. I was making fun of your dad. So I feel like I should tell you this one. You know, my mom being the good citizen, she is. She had a dollar fifty late charge on her library book. And so she's like and she's very technologically savvy. So she's like, so I very technologically savvy so she's like

so i go to pay it online and i uh look at my credit card a few days later and i realize for my dollar 50 fee i accidentally paid them 150 dollars big biff yeah and so she's like so they just took it as a donation but i am going to go back and say i do not want to donate it oh i'm having to undonate to the library imagine gladys working at the library sees that come through yeah like whoa go ahead order kind of like mr deeds when he gives that one guy so much money he just falls backwards um anyway so i thought that was great too my mom like because my mom doesn't mess up like ever you know my dad my dad he's he, he's, he just, he has a lot of stuff going on. He messed up all the time. My mom is so sharp with everything she does. And

so the fact that she also messed up is also pretty great. So that's fun. Yeah. You gotta watch, you gotta watch your decimal places. When we sold our house in Baser, Rustin was our, our real estate agent. And he put the listing up and listed it as 2.9 million dollars i like it instead of 299 000 aim high resting well like venmo i think you have to put in like the zeros for the sense i think yeah but paypal is different yeah yeah and they're owned by the same people right really i could be wrong about that scott elon musk helped start paypal you know that paypal our paypal and then question is are paypal and Venmo owned by the same company? Yes.

Okay. Decimals, real quick, are on to me. I'm pretty sure, you know, whatever I would have been. Sixth grade, learning about decimal points or whatever made me earlier. They were like, no, decimal points are important. You know, they could be, you know, make a big difference. And the way they taught, the best way they thought to teach us that lesson was like, for instance, you guys know how doctors have really been bad handwriting one time a doctor wrote you can imagine like writing a five and at

the bottom swoop of the five is where he wrote the like decimal point so he's supposed to prescribe someone 0.5 you know milligrams or something he's like but because he didn't put 0.5 uh the whatever the pharmaceutical person pharmacist pharmacist yeah actually prescribed them five milligrams and that person died so make sure you use decimal points i still remember that and we're like jeez and make sure you also put a zero in front of it that's that's the bigger moral story no one does that yeah that would be weird yeah but i mean i guess the pharmaceutical worker yep would have been like whoa zero, 0.5, that's weird. Maybe it's 0.5.

Sure. The pharmaceuticalist. Yeah. Pharmaceutical science. Venmo is owned by PayPal. Good job, Brad. Two for two, baby. Business guy, business guy.

That's just part Colorado now. Yeah, YMCA mastermind. Just do some, that's right. Titan of industry now. That's right. We're not quarterbacks. Vince Young, Mario. See you titans of industry upstairs speaking of houses um fun little thing uh brad texted me what probably last monday

you think that's gonna happen yes just kind of randomly just like hey um my neighbor posted in our neighborhood facebook group he's putting in the house on the market. I don't know if you're kind of wanting one, but it's across the street from my house. Yeah. Like literally I, yeah, two doors down and two doors across the street anyway. So I'm like,

okay, you know, whatever. I was like, is there like a link? He's like, no, it's not even on Zillow yet.

Just like, it just let you know. Yeah. I had seen a Facebook post. It wasn't a marketplace, but yeah, go ahead. Okay.

Gotcha. Yeah. And then I think the next day we're at Trey's house shooting G-Trope stuff. And so we're kind of talking about it in person. Brad's like, I mean, what are you thinking? You know, I think Brad's like really excited, but not trying to like push me too hard. Totally. Because it's like, I don't want to.

Yeah, whatever. And I'm telling Brad, I'm like, I mean, it just doesn't feel like the best time. Like for, you know, the timing of different things. And like, I don't know, it's only got like a one car garage and like a few different things. And we're kind of talking about them. And then Wednesday. And I was kind of joking about it.

I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah. I mean, it'd be really cool. It'd be really cool. Yeah. Think about it. And then Wednesday,

it goes live as a listing on MLS on Zillow. Yeah. And so I text Rachel. I'm like, hey, this kind of this funny thing. I think I seem like a screenshot. Like, look at Brad trying to convince me to like buy this house. This is so funny. She's like, well, let me see it. And so I was like, OK, I'll send you the link.

And Rachel text back. It is so cute and perfect. And so I was like, I mean, well, if she says it's cute and I mean, I guess that's worth looking at. And so then I text Peter. I'm like, hey, what do you know about this house? Rachel said it's cute or no, I know it was as you put me and Peter in a group text. You were trying to get the ball rolling like midnight. It was a little at midnight and I knew it was my neighbor.

I texted my neighbor a little bit, done a little something. I forgot about that. Yeah. You text me and Peter like, hey, peter look at this jake's thinking about it i'm like i don't know if i am origination documents going yeah but then once rachel takes that so i'm like all right i was like peter rachel said she really liked it um is there a time we could go see it uh and he's like maybe tomorrow i was like i leave tomorrow um you know to see griff in virginia and he's like okay i can maybe do it like 7 p.m tonight i think it's gonna go fast so we we should probably do it tonight so i'm like okay great so all of a sudden i it's 7 p.m that night i'm looking at a house that i had

really no interest in 24 hours before this um it's all me and rachel go peter goes rad shows up catherine shows up walked over after our kids are in bed like no problem yeah catherine just walked around the house with a baby monitor in her hand. Because it could reach. You put the antenna up, it could reach. Well, that's good. That's actually pretty cool. Yeah.

Yeah. You made the point. You're like, I think my garage door could work from your garage. 100%. Which is cool. 100%. So we're walking around. It's like, I mean, this house is built like the 1930s.

And it still is like looking pretty nice. It's all redone on the inside. Everything is like they went and remodeled it two years ago. It really does look really nice on the inside. And we're like, dang, I mean, this is actually kind of surprising how much I like this. Rachel's fully on board. And so I kind of think about that night, talk to Rachel. It's all happening so fast.

My parents have no idea. No, none of my friends know. I mean, still to this day, I don't think Isaac knows. Like, you know, really? Yeah. Anything about this house and so you gotta you gotta prove for it like immediately oh that's right oh wednesday was crazy because it's like all right i guess i'm looking at a house wednesday night so i was like luke hoagland.com i was like i guess i'm gonna look at the house he's like right now you know today i didn't know we were in the market i was like sorry this is like so last minute i didn't either brad just told me that brad has been

texting me a lot. I was like, do you think you get me like pre-approved for something? He's like, how much? I'm like, I don't know, dude, as much as I can. Let's try and make this work. And so Luke is able to do that. Peter, it's so nice having friends who can do all this. So I do get pre-approved.

We go see the house. And that night at probably like 11 p.m., I text Peter. I'm like, let's do it. Let's put an offer in. Wake up the next day. I text Peter. I'm like, let's do it. Let's put an offer in, um, wake up the next day. Um, go to Virginia golf with Griff on time. It's about an hour before I'm about to perform. We just got back to the Airbnb from golfing. And I'm kind of like, I thought it was going to have like an hour to like shower and prep or whatever. And then Trey text me. He's like, Hey, we have some last second brand deals. We shoot so i'm already like of

course dang it i was really planning on like having an hour to myself to just like really like go over my set and make sure it's memorized yes and so he said we gotta shoot these brand deals i'm like crap and i gotta shower really quickly and then i get a text of peter says call me i'm like oh boy because we had boy was it that thursday morning with garrett uh we just had coffee with him or whatever that's right yeah he called you then and he's like and so you went over and i was like garrett like dude like is this and you're like it's nothing it was something about the labor of appraisal something i don't understand um anyway i actually i think our first show was friday so i think this was actually friday where all this went down and so peter's like call me

so i hurry and the whole time i'm shooting this freaking EA Sports Mad thing. I'm like, do I have a freaking house? What's going on? And then. Am I in the game? Yeah. And. My rumble back is going nuts.

That's funny. And so I edit it super quickly. Before I hop in the shower, I call Peter and he goes, dude, two houses in one year, man. Are you seriously moving next to me? I'm moving across the street. Best news since Rosie. Dude, what? Crazy.

Literally. Are you serious? It happened so fast, dude. Right there. It's going to be right there. Oh my gosh. It's like we're eight years old again. We're in the same neighborhood.

Dude. Find me a house. Find me one. I knew Scott would be like, Sam, we got to move. Get me in JoCo, baby. Come on. Dude, that's incredible. It was incredible.

That's so sick. Because some other details. So I know the neighbor personally. He's a pastor. He's a great guy. He's a. It was incredible. That's so sick. Because some other details. So I know the neighbor personally. He's a pastor. He's a great guy. He's a younger dude. I know, dude. It's amazing.

And so I had kind of like massaged it. I was like, I know that I'm going to try to get like Jake into this house. So I texted him though. I was like, hey, man, really sorry to hear that you're leaving. Only that though at first. And he's like, yeah, yeah, we're bummed. We'll definitely try to see you before we leave, whatever then i texted him a few times more and then i was like actually i saw that you had a sign up like are you guys gonna be showing the house i have a friend

who's really interested you know yeah not really true uh my friend i mean i think i mentioned it to you and you're like that's crazy that'd be cool yeah i wasn't like against the house necessarily i was like i mean i just wasn't i don't have a download on my phone right and we had talked a little bit about like hey i mean eventually maybe you'd want to live in a different house and rent out the house you have now whatever all these different things um but anyway but like i was like this would be i mean it's a small-ish house it was a lot bigger once we went inside than i thought it was going to be like it's still pretty so i think it's like 1500 square feet you know it's three or four bedrooms i think three bedrooms three bedrooms two baths yeah like not like because i was thinking

like oh this is a perfect like because i i thought of yeah no it's amazing it's crazy these neighbors were awesome and so i was like oh bummer like you never know what's going to happen to your new neighbors so they could be smokers seriously though and so can you imagine and so i was like oh bummer but i was like well maybe I could like try to find somebody to be those neighbors. So I thought and I thought Jake and I thought Will Severin. So those are the two people I texted both. But like Will Severin, like that is not like a huge family. Like he's already got two kids.

He's not going to be able to build much more of a family in that house. You know, whatever. I was like, Jake, this would be perfect. So I texted you. But then I had also been texting my neighbor and he's like, yeah, we got four offers already. And that was before I'd even looked at it. They had four offers. Well, yeah, I think actually maybe. Yeah. Cause I think when Peter caught, you were bringing or you went and got Hattie during that time, Peter called him.

Yeah. I think, yeah. Anyway, it doesn't matter. I think that they, anyway, you were the fifth offer and then they got a sixth offer. And I was like, well, that's crazy that Jake even is considering it, but it's not going to happen. Like, what are the odds? But I don't know. I don't know if you were the highest offer or if you were just the chosen offer because he knew that we were friends. Do you know? I don't know. Peter said, it sounded like there might have been another offer the same price, but they liked our terms is the way Peter phrased it.

Yeah. Peter, good terms guy your terms like terms where i will put on a small comedy show for you and your family i will sing and dance for you yes i will um do some plow through documentaries if you know what i mean um i will video your next wedding but jake so i was i was working at the woodworkers guild on this friday afternoon i guess and that hour of my life was great peter calls me and i'm like dude i can't this is crazy but i have to go like i can't even really talk about this so so i get a text from jake and it's like classic it's just like the elvis thing where i didn't even think twice about it at first like when jake was like hey fyi i'm gonna wear an elvis costume for the podcast okay okay like he texted me and he goes hey you remember how you and I were both really into Mr. Rogers

as a kid? And I, and I was like, I don't get this, but I'm like, I'll just go with it. I was like, so I started being like, yeah, totally. And then I was like, wait a second. And I just, I just texted like, dude. And then I kept texting again in all capital letters. And then I texted Brad a GIF of Mr. Rogers saying, won't you be my neighbor? It was awesome. And then we talked, I went out in the. Rogers saying, won't you be my neighbor? It was awesome.

And then we talked. I went out in the Woodworkers Guild parking lot and paced that thing. I was like a speed walker walking all around that thing. Like, dude, I can't believe this is amazing, dude. I think it's going to be a really good investment for you. Like, you're going to love the area. It's going to be amazing. And then like all, oh, this is a funny story.

Because all night at dinner, Catherine and I were talking about it. So we talked about, I was like, the things we can do now yeah yeah yeah like oh yeah we'll dig a tunnel in between our houses like i was like like rachel could cook for us once a week and we could cook for them once a week and we could like have dinners together and like all these different things oh that would be amazing katherine's like um rachel could like homeschool hattie she could go across the street for math she did and rachel was like okay yeah um but anyway uh but so i'm getting home from the woodworkers guild it's been kind of a busy day hectic day i'm getting home and i was like calling katherine to kind of check in as i'm getting there and she's like hey fyi i'm not mad at you it's one of those classic like marriage things like i'm not mad at you but i'm just kind of angry like kind of

aggravated right now. Okay. She's like, I was trying to print off something on the printer for like three hours. I don't know if it was three hours, but a long time. And it just was like having all these issues, which is classic Catherine, but it just wasn't working.

And so I'm just really angry. I finally got to work and I go, and I was going to go, well, next time you'll just have to go across the street to see your neighbor, Jake Triplett, and he can help you with that. But I go,

well, next time. And she goes, no, I don't want to hear it no I don't want to hear it like because he thought I was gonna like lecture her of like next time just wait for me and I'll help you plug it plug it back in yeah like next time just text me when you're having an issue she goes like she is she thought she knew what I was gonna say and so I think she was like I told her about that later she goes like she is she thought she knew what i was gonna say and so i think she was like i told her about that later she's like okay i didn't realize that's what you're gonna say obviously that's funny yeah well next time i don't want to hear about next time oh man so anyway um yeah can't can't emphasize enough how excited i am so when do you when you move in so um rachel will move in first actually She'll move in there in like November.

Make the house a home. She'll, yeah. Make it a home. So she'll be Brad and Catherine's neighbor for a while. And then eventually, if all goes to plan. When did you say it was that she's moving in? November. Okay.

If all goes to plan, it'll be our home. Which I know is a little bit of putting the horse before the cart, I believe is the phrase. Yep. Putting the cart before the horse. No, the horse always goes in front of the cart. I believe is the phrase. Putting the cart before the horse. No, the horse always goes before the cart. I thought you were joking. Putting the refrigerator out. The farm boy is like, you know, did that horse go first or the cart?

Is it a motorized cart? And it like pulls the horse? That's what that means. Because it keeps the horse in shape. It's a racing horse. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Put the engine before the car. But the way you guys should all look at it, you know,

you guys have all heard of promise rings. Yeah, SPU. Yeah um you guys should all look at it you know you guys have all heard of promise rings you know maybe some of you yeah you guys get them um you know rachel and i there's no engagement ring yet this is our promise ring it's a really really expensive promise house yeah the promise house i love it yeah so it's a promise house yeah and um yeah i guess we'll close here in a few weeks and then have like a month and a half to kind of just get it ready. There's a few things we'll have to do, but like fun bands.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Cool. Fun thing. Oh yeah. I've been, I've been telling my family,

I was like big news for us this week. It's not even our news, but it's like, I mean, it's going to affect us so much. It's like, this is so like, this is the closest any of our friends have lived since the K-Life house.

I think, you know what I mean? Yeah. We started as neighbors, didn't we? Yeah, we did. That's kind of cool. It is cool.

So we'll bring Slugfest back. Is this not even the big news that you were going to tell me? No, this is definitely the big news. No, this is the big news. What does that have to do with the lemon? I'm just throwing you off the scent, dude. Literally. Success.

I was just doing a clip. Yeah, so yeah. Jake had texted before the podcast to Scott and I, and it was like hey have you told scott yet and i was like no i'm not it's suspense baby we gotta we gotta wait and see in person and he's like okay cool and scott's like i think i know what it is uh but i'm gonna wait so what was that what you're thinking it was i thought you were gonna open like you were gonna perform with jake and trey oh that's what i thought sure yeah that would be big news yeah and so yeah he's like i think i know what it is so i texted him like that i literally looked i looked up random in the gift keyboard and i found this like lemon with like arms and feet it was like a lemon that looked like mr potato head yeah

and i was like i was like does this seem like is something in this make you think what were your theories like did you did you stretch it from there at all like i was like maybe i was like what is lemon the state fruit of somewhere where jake's performing oh no i am performing in florida lemons i am performing somewhere next week though i'm going to san diego california san diego yeah so san diego san diego for uh whales San Diego San Diego for a whale's plow um uh yeah so there's this guy from our uh

integrated group named Jordan who has a who owns two Chick-fil-A's in San Diego one of his other friends also owns a Chick-fil-A is turning 40

having this huge blowout birthday party Glenn Glenn Murdoch he uh I was talking to him he said he's been following me since the jake and josh days yes dude it's kind of cool yeah windy yeah so originally yeah jordan reached out to me he's like hey does jake do stand-up comedy like for other things i was

like yeah sure he's like would you and jake want to do it together i was like yeah i don't yeah so i think i text you that like hey fyi somebody might be contacting you about california or something i don't i don't know anyway contacted jake jake ended up not being able to do it and so jordan was like hey do you do stand up and i was like yeah yeah yeah sure sure sure remind me about things that bo's saying these days it's really funny um but and i was like yeah i can do it and so this guy's in a like rush it's like literally on tuesday so oh wow yeah you got material ready or you i'm getting there yeah let's just say there's a guy with arms who's a lemon let's just say yeah it's pretty funny i'm gonna walk on stage yeah i'm a little bit this guy just

seems super fun and yeah super like uh i don't know just he seems like he's like i want to do it right like it's like he like was like it's a gift for my like like people that are coming so it's like a variety show essentially so this guy used to be a juggler so that's why he like knows about juggling josh jake and josh everything but he's got a magician uh the organist from the san diego padres good brad ellis stand-up. This guy knows how to book talent. Yeah. No, he loves it. He's like,

I love all these. And then he's like, one of my favorite bands of all time is this band that performs at Disneyland called Billy Hill and the Hillbillies. Cool.

And so it's us four and maybe he's going to do some juggling. How much time do you have to do? He said, it's up to me kind of. He was like,

I just want your solid, like your best material. So like, he's like, if that means 15 minutes, great. If that means 30 minutes, great. So I'm like, I'll just see how it's up to me kind of like he was like he was like i just want your solid like your best material yeah like he's like if that means 15 minutes great that means 30 minutes great so i'm like cool just i'll just see how it's going yeah and he even said that he's like yeah if it's not going well just bail out like he's like i don't want to go like stretch on or anything okay that's it for me yeah no but it was it was really fun like hearing his affirmation of us because yeah he was like i've always been a jake fan uh he like he made that channel so much more fun with Jake and Josh. And then he's like, I love Jean Schwartz. And he honestly was like, honestly, I don't think Trey's that funny, but I think I was like, Whoa, really? You never hear. I mean, it's like, I feel like everyone always loves trade. So it's like,

cool. And, but then like, they were talking about it. Cause I literally just like confirmed this today. And he was talking about with his wife yesterday of like, I don't know if we can make it work because I, like transparently, I was like, I'm not going to do this for scraps. I've been away from my wife a bunch. I'm going to be away for like from her again. She's already sacrificing so much, you know, to watch my kids without me. And so I was like, I'm going to make sure it's worth it. And so, but he's talking to his wife and his wife's like, well, let's pull up some like of his videos. And like, cause like, like it was just great like if you don't know what to do and your wife's always a great litmus test and so it's like so they like she'd never seen any of our stuff it's really she

loved it she's like he's worth it yeah and the video like i'm always curious like this is the video that really like we love the most and you never know what they're gonna say yeah and that like her favorite one was the guitar guy's video oh oh it's just short yeah which is so funny like so random so anyway but i was like that's awesome thank you i'm excited so i think i'm gonna be in san diego for like a little over 24 hours like tuesday and wednesday and wow coming back so look at you yeah we'll see how it goes we'll have some stories one way travel in the country big lemon big lemon big lemon traveling around um yeah so anyway it'll be that's cool i have another quick story that i think uh scott especially will appreciate uh it's golf oh we were both at top golf this week yes i saw you were there dude dude i have can we

resurrect top golf tuesdays uh i would love to it's when we do jean shorts now that's the brad's gotta go to san diego on tuesday and i also go to San Diego go to San Diego every Tuesday so we went to one in Colorado first of all we had first like main floor bay not as fun which just really shows you how not that good you are at it like I thought I was like pretty hard like far hitting it you know but on the first floor it's like well first floor it's like oh that just went really my ball doesn't go that high no it's good it really did be like am I am I never hitting it high? Seriously. I hit a lot of stingers.

But the other thing is like, apparently, you know, Colorado, and maybe this is true, but their tees are like nubs. Top golf. Yeah. Isaac and I even asked, can we get like higher tees? Like that's as high as they come. You just got to wait for the mat to slowly get like worn down. Is this going to take years? I i mean how long does the erosion process

take i mean wait for the earth to settle a little bit they said it was like a legal thing because if it was any higher than you could hit it over the net in like on the highway or something else that's a point that's it i can see that yeah really i mean i know it's dimmer like altitude and whatever but like first i'm on the first of all i'm on the lower floor i'm not on the top i don't know i just that's it yeah high t's on the lower floor they should install that i was really like it really like kind of dampened my mood both those things i mean you can hit other shots besides things that require a t though i know and i did okay okay but it's fun to bring out the bird off the ground dude they didn't have p's they only had s Well, that's because you were like an even numbered bay.

Yeah. Dude. So like. That's it. So like one bay. No, I got a left handed club set. Oh, that makes sense. I'm going to push P.

So instead of pushing P, you just had to like. I had to push S. Slap S. Half S it. Yeah, exactly. Just like when I had to hit it really short, I had to half S. Yeah. Yeah, so.

Slap an S. Slap an S slapping anyways but yeah we did play it was fun nice yeah how was your time there uh pretty fun just isaac and i went which is fun you know kind of less people you get a lot more reps and it's kind of fun do the virtual course thing fun also the verge once you go virtual course you yeah it's so boring without it it's i love that you're like not even a golfer you're like i gotta do virtual course it's so much more fun no it is so fun yeah it is like even we were doing like games we were just like hitting like driving range top golf but even then it was like that isn't as fun i did angry birds one time with like rachel and her roommate and her boyfriend and angry birds is the lamest game i've ever seen at top golf it almost didn't anyway whatever yeah

the story so as soon as i get there there, I get there a little before me. And there's a guy who's like so casually and so closely talking to Isaac. Like, oh, maybe Isaac invited a friend. I was like, who is that? He's like, that was a waiter. I was like, oh, really? I didn't even like see the front of a shirt, I guess. It just seemed like he's like, yeah, you just came over and talk to me for like five minutes.

So I go, OK, cool. And about an hour passes by. He's starting to hang out a little more around our bay. And he's looking at like, are you pushing P? It's a nice ass, you know, stuff like that. Stage one was him telling Isaac, you know what I think will help. And we started with lessons.

So it started with Isaac getting lessons from our waiter at Topgolf. Oh, geez. At a certain point, you know, at one point I took videos of it. I was going to post on my story and then I kind of forgot. But at one point he is not just showing Isaac what to do with his body, but he's like, here, give me a club. And so he is using. So he's making Isaac stand back in the red line.

Well, he shows Isaac what to do at the bay. Eventually he just is hitting balls. He's hitting balls in our bay while it's like our turn to go. I've never seen anything like it. Okay. So that was just like, and then he walks away and Isaac was like, well, that dude's tip is going way down. That was just so weird.

Yeah, he participated. He took time away from us. You know, it's like we didn't ask. We weren't like, hey, are you a scratch golfer? If so, I would love was he good. Yeah So he wasn't bad. Yeah, it look like he had a pretty good swing everything you saying made sense But it's like still I'm just I'm gonna talk about meeting nachos. I am NOT I don't want a golf lesson right now No, yeah, and so it didn't in there though. That was just stage one. Oh boy stage two as he says you guys want to make a bet And okay, he's like we start a new virtual

course game you guys versus me you beat me i give you the last 30 minutes for free and so i was like uh if we don't what if you don't then we just pay for it yeah so i was like i'd say up the stakes bro well i just didn't want to like the anytime he's hitting it's time that isaac and i are not hitting you know it's just not as fun when there's a random guy there yeah like you're not getting to talk and hang out with isaac it's just kind of weird so but of course we're like yeah you know just nice guys yeah sounds good i mean it's out of nowhere dude he pulls a golf glove out of his i don't even know where it came from he had a golf glove ready oh glove i think it's a club do you think it's a club no i heard glove he pulls a glove out he's just got like a tireless golf glove on it's like do you always wait tables with this

glove in your pocket just waiting visor on it's like on the fresh prince episode where phil uncle phil like it's like i don't know fifty dollars a ball for pink or billiards uh he goes jeffrey breakout lucille yeah yeah it's like a total vibe shift yeah he's like okay 30 minutes no problem but the thing was is like he saw us not doing great we're still barely over a year into golfing isaac was having trouble and neither one of us are scoring well he's like you guys want to play against me it's like i mean you look way better than us but like sure you know it was kind of a weird bet to start he pulls the glove out and so we get going first hole goes by and uh i think i made like a birdie right off the bat he makes bogey so right off the bat i'm already up two strokes on him and here come the excuses oh yeah it was great because

ah that's what i get for not warming up yeah i mean you've been warming up the last hour intermittently yeah i was like i mean i saw you earlier in between refills i'm eating nachos between my hits so it's not like i'm extremely dialed in, you know, whatever. So not only is he making excuses between hits, but then he's still an employee of Topgolf, so he's still waiting tables. So sometimes it'll be his turn. And you're waiting. He's just gone. He's just gone.

Like waiting. Like you're just serving other people. It's like, this is unbelievable. I'm texting Rachel. You're not going to leave this. Like senior video. She's like, this is the kind of stuff only happens to you. I'm like, I don't think so.

And so then he's oh, one of his other excuses or that is like these these top golf clubs are trash, right? And I was like, oh, like the like regular shaft. And he's like, I mean, everything, man, the grips and the heads. I'm like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The plumb bob's he's in offers the zanxious rotors i mean that's not zoysia down there astroturf instead of zoysia so enough excuses to go by with the clubs he's like hey you mind if i use yours so then he's

using isaac's clubs he really had a crush on isa on Isaac. He's using Isaac's clubs at our bay during our time. And then, so we're beating him. I think I was beating him still like four holes into it. And then he, but we still have like time left. There's holes up. He brings us our checks and he did give us the last 30 minutes free, but still it's like this awkward thing. I don't know.

It felt, it was a very weird thing to like pay him and tip him while he's like three feet from me and like not leaving anytime soon it was just like oh yeah here do you want it or do i should i just put it in the i would have waited i would have waited until right before you left so we're just like paying and like signing you know he's like saying like hey jake you're up while i'm like deciding how much to tip him it was so weird dude and yeah it was just a weird just like top golf experience i mean surely there's a rule do not play top golf while you're working like that seems like a number one rule like just you're not allowed to do that and he was like not only was he like let me take the clubs and show you he was

like and i would like to play pretty like involved with you like that's what's wild how many holes did you guys play i think we got through like six probably before time was up so man um and so you did you did win i by six holes he actually came back he beat me by a stroke so he did eventually win by one he gave you the still gave you that but he gave us the last 30 minutes for free nice to him yeah so it was it was so weird and yeah just just good times me and isaac and whatever this guy's name was this week yeah this this week? Yeah, this was past Tuesday. Yeah, he called me. I was pickling at Meadowbrook. Isaac did? Yeah.

He's like McGuffin fans. Yeah. I can't wait to shoot that video. I can't wait for you to be so wrong. No. And get your world just absolutely rocked. 2.5 million people know what you know. It's going to be so fun to hit up Lenexa

when it's just mobbed and everyone's like, McGuff? Oh, yeah. I watched his instructional videos. McGuff, yeah, yeah, yeah. I hope that's how they respond. McGuff, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, McGuffin oh yeah i watched his instructional videos i hope that's how they respond mcguffin yeah yeah what's the deal with mcguffin

he was just here you know seven hundred dollars yeah that's right we all went now but i'm better it took his camp i'm one of his five thousand followers one of the real ones yeah that's great um another one real quick brad let's talk let's talk diet let's talk about you start and then i have some things to add i hear i hear about yours how'd you hear about mine i'm a fan of uh the correct opinions i'm a do you really friend someday some weeks not every week that's nice of you i appreciate it my diet is a little more lax this past week oh lacrosse diet yeah yeah i went to colorado you know no los angeles

international airport oh lax airport diet no uh something you take whenever you're constipated oh yeah um no it's just been you got one oh it's it's the well it's just been... You got one? Oh! It's the... Well, it's that thing you volunteer for. The Lonely Animal Xylophone. Oh! That was so dumb. I wish you didn't say it. I wish you didn't say it.

Justin, take it out. Stupid! No, my bad. I haven't... Yeah, Scott. I apologize to Scott becauseott's been so good at like checking in on me and i just i feel like i've been a little bit busy and off my routine and everything so i have not been doing a great job with yeah intermittent fasting and i was in

colorado and then i got i got buddies coming in town this weekend for fantasy football so i'm like i'm gonna be good but i'm gonna fudge so yeah, I mean, I went out, we had breakfast, Catherine and I did this morning. And so I haven't been intermittent fasting as much lately, but, uh, and I haven't weighed myself in the last week or so. So I don't even know how it's going to go. You can't get COVID if you don't test yourself. Yeah. That's what I've always said.

You can't gain weight if you don't weigh yourself. Yeah, exactly. You can't join the mob if you don't get the swab. I don't know. And so I think I, yes, but I feel, I feel like I'm doing pretty well um overall with it i think yeah i think i've still like being very conscious of what i'm eating and everything but yeah i don't know don't know results when we're visually i notice a little difference in you yeah did you you know so what's she look like which way are the restrooms in the gym? Wait, what is that?

Don't do the weight room, Tommy. What is that reference from? What's she look like? Say it again. What's she look like? I don't know. Scott, you know this immediately. Is that Napoleon Dynamite?

Yeah. Okay. Uncle Rico. I thought you meant it was from Scott. You're saying Scott would know. No, no, no. I was like, Scott knows this immediately. What's she look like?

So what's she look like? Now he gets it. Now he gets it. Now he's back. Justin, put that clip in. Yeah. What does she look like so what's she look like now he gets it now he gets it and he's back justin put that clip in yeah what does she look like oh uh by the way awesome uh website that jake told me about last week get yarn.io right yeah no sorry sorry it took me well i was just thinking like i was thinking like justin's gonna have a hard time finding that this website, get yarn. Y a R N dot I O is like, you can find it. I've, I've never not found what I'm looking for. It's like five second clips. It's really short, like bite-sized clips because there's any bites,

bunch of crunches. Shout out to like gifts. Yeah. Uh, with audio though, audio clips, like it's just short videos, really? Yeah. There's a, there's Corey Fisher. One of our fans works for brio awesome company uh he was talking about like hey fy brio has this really cool new thing and brio is so expensive uh so it's like 250 i was like man that's a lot of money i don't know if i can justify it but there's this uh clip from brooklyn 99 doug judy is his name the character he's the uh daryl from the office and i And I just like literally went and like tried to clip this one part. And he just goes,

but the crazy thing is I'm tempted. I thought it was such a funny thing. So I was like, yeah, I mean, it's $250. I can't afford that. And I said, but the crazy thing is I'm tempted. Steven Swig texted us yesterday and I wanted to reply with, I couldn't find it in GIF form.

And so I went to Yard, couldn't find it in Yard form either. Really? It's Skyler Wyatt saying like, how big does this pile have to be? nice because he would switch text us he's like hey my buddy is trying to franchise essentially just drinks you guys went in it's oh yeah i was trying to send something like that but couldn't find it the only uh i've only used the office on there and i think i looked up that i'm tempted eventually but like the office i found every

single thing i've ever needed whole catalogs on on there. Yeah. Great site. Get yarn.io. Nice site. I mean, it's awesome. Yeah. I'm sure if you have a Mac or a PC, it's going to give you viruses, but max are good. So check it out.

How about your work PC? Is that a good one? Yeah. My quick diet thing. I woke up Monday. I just texted Rachel. I said, Hey,

I'm not getting sugar anymore. Dude. I just out of nowhere. I don't know why. I'm ready to burst this bubble. Surely you're eating sugar somewhere. There's a few things that rachel's told me afterwards like that probably has a little bit of sugar uh like everything has sugar you could say i'm not eating added sugars that's what i've done that so yeah no added sugar so i ate an apple for breakfast

yesterday morning so that has sugar but no added sugar no no yeah um nature sugar like probably i mean so many things have sugar in them yeah so she's kind of helped so even if i'm having sugar it's very minuscule it'll be like um there might have been some sugar in the queso but i had chips in queso right it's like crazy yeah and it dude it is crazy i mean just realizing things it's like wow i think i was really addicted to sugar leaving trey's house monday afternoon after like a long day of working there was nothing i wanted more well anything i stopped at a gas station get a get a donut and a pop tart dr pepper i mean there's so much sugar i mean stop it it's like mcdonald's carrying out of the picture i stopped mcdonald's get a blueberry

muffin and a sweet tea i'm like i wanted a sweet treat so bad and then i'm like look at nutrition facts in the gas station couldn't even have honey roasted peanuts because those have sugar oh dude yeah you can't have anything with like- There's nothing. So I've discovered Propel. Propel- Which has sucralose, which is- Which is not as a ton of sucralose.

I looked into it compared to like some other things like Prime, a lot of sucralose. A lot of sucralose. Not as much, but just regular peanuts. Regular peanuts are good and not much else. Breakfast is hard. We did the Whole30 back when the whole 30 was like new and yeah it was like no added sugar and i remember being like there's sugar in tabasco like there's sugar

in ketchup there's sugar yeah there's in everything oh yeah it's insane so yeah i'm learning but so far we're four days in so give me some examples of things you're eating dude i mean just like a lot of protein rachel made me like salmon and broccoli one night um love salmon yeah it's nice yeah trying to eat a lot of chicken and um nice dude nice yeah the peanuts on the golf course is where it's especially tricky because we have no option yeah yeah so i was a hungry boy but i stayed true i didn't have a gatorade i had peanuts and water over and over and over again i couldn't wait i got sick before worlds of fun yeah Yeah, true. Careful about that. I mean, that's the hardest thing is the social aspect of dieting.

Yeah. Because it's like, yeah, you don't have as many options. You can't be as picky. And it's like, well, I can either not eat or I can eat wrong. And it's like, what am I supposed to do here? I think when I start golfing around, I'm just going to make myself sandwiches beforehand. But then, of course, Rachel's like, well, it'll be white bread has sugar in it. I'm like, geez. I know.

This is hard. It's crazy. Your eyes are opening. Yeah. But we'll see. Cool, man. Have you, have you felt like mentally, physically better? Not necessarily.

I feel hungry all the time. I feel the craving, uh, anything, you know, anything. How interesting. But yeah, I'll be interested. Like it's only been four days, but we have a basketball game here in less than an hour. Yeah. But, but I'll be interested to see, even if you feel different you know just from that like like there was a couple years in high school where i didn't drink pop and that was like i

didn't like train extra hard during the summer or anything like when we do summer workouts like everyone else was dying and i was like right it's like i haven't been training but i didn't get as tired as they did like not drinking soda has got to help a lot of things. I think so. That's a hot take. Can you look it up and see if soda is good or bad for you? Yeah, sure. Dude, I was looking up in the pro shop today how much sugar is in stuff.

Because there were a few options. It was this weird brand of sweet tea. There was Gatorade. And then there was soda. And soda has the most sugar of all those. I love how you're just realizing all this. And then I was like, well, what about soda? S soda has the most sugar of all those and i love how you're like just realizing all this and then i was like you know guys so much soda guys this stuff's not good for you man i just it didn't seem like they even get away with this it seems like there's not even

enough room to pack that much sugar in it and so how do they do that i was like okay corn syrup jake maybe sprite maybeite isn't as bad. Just as much. 64 grams. Just as much sugar as Sprite and dark pepper. That seems crazy. I thought it was more, like, I thought those lemon and, like, those lighter drinks sometimes have more. Lemon with some arms? What's up,

San Diego? I don't know if anyone's laughing, but Scott is. Scott is laughing. Okay. You should send Justin the picture you sent but Scott is. Scott is laughing. Okay. Send Justin the picture you sent me. You can put it in. Okay. One last story.

And then we really do have to go because I'm going to pass out on that court if I don't eat something before we play basketball tonight. But last night, it's like 9, 10. I'm like, I still haven't eaten dinner yet. I'm going to go. I'm going to eat Panda Express. Like, that seems like hearty. That seems good. I call Rachel.

I'm like, what can I have from Panda Express? She's like, orange chicken's not going to be good. I'm like, really? Oh, yeah. I was going to say, most of the things you got to have at least a little sugar. She's like, even teriyaki sauce. She's like, you should have, which Rachel's surprisingly well. She's like, oh, you can have that.

You can have a little sugar. She's like, you don't need to just go cold turkey. She's like, it's your birthday Saturday. You should have some sugar. I'm like, no, I'm not going to have it. She's like, please have a sugar. On your birthday? Yeah.

I don't know. Just when I start something, I'm going to see it through. I get it. You got to fudge, though. Yeah. So anyway't know just when I start something See it through I get it Yeah, so anyway It's from Parks and Rec gourmet fudge Justin put it ultimately I decided to go with gourmet fudge you got fudge a little bit Anyway, we're game planning this whole meal. I can't wait.

Like, you know what? Yeah, I'll just do the teriyaki fried rice. You know, this is gonna be a good meal. I'm going to load up. Can't wait. I get there. It's like 922, maybe, maybe 920. And I see a guy on the parking lot who was just like leaving, going home.

And he's like, oh, we closed. And I was like, oh, don't you guys close at 930? And he's like, uh, well, not, not tonight. Tonight we close it. It's not, we close at nine 20. Yep. And that makes sense. And I was just so hungry and Rachel and I literally game planned around this meal. I was so excited. Options are running out now in like nine 30 at night. We get it. Right. And so I, I was a little bit snarkier than I would have liked to have been. And I'm not proud of this. I'm not, I don't love this word, but you were have been. And I'm not proud of this. I'm not,

I don't love this word, but you were hangry. Yeah, you were, but don't worry. This, this story comes around. Why is that so funny?

What's wrong with Scott? Okay. I'm just going to keep going. Keep going. This story does your microphone freak or podcast. Why is that so funny? Um, don't like this word,

but you were hangry. Let's call a spade a spade you were hangry it's not a real word anyway go ahead okay but um so i was like tonight you close at 9 20 it's like yeah tonight we do and i was like oh okay i was like what time do you guys close tomorrow love it and he goes uh 9 30 i was like okay what time do you got did you guys close yesterday he goes 9 30 i was like oh but today you close at 9 20 he's like yeah i was just like i just wanted to make him admit it because that's crazy i don't know i'm not gonna say it's my favorite version of jake but that version of jake is like very entertaining i can get real logical

real quick yeah i can go lawyer on you pretty quickly and like just very rhetorical questions of like just showing you how dumb you are and that's i that's all i said i didn't say anything like well this really you know of course i wasn't's all I said. I didn't say anything like, well, this really, you know, of course, it wasn't actually like rude to him. I didn't say anything like aggressive. I was just like, oh, OK, just wondering. And so I drove off and try to find other things.

And then I'm like, what else is open? And I find something that I've never been to. It's called Schlotzkies. Oh, never been to Schlotzkies? I was too nervous to pronounce it. I could never suggest it around friends.

You guys want to go to that sandwich place? You guys want to go to Schlotzkies? Schlotzkies? So Schlotzkies is still open. How do you say it? Schlotzkies. There's so many consonants. Schlotzkies.

Schlotzkies. Schlotzkies. Schlotzkies. Schlotzkies. Yeah. Okay. That just seems jumbled. Like the sugar in the Dr. Pepper.

Okay. So Schlotzkies is still open. And I'm like, they're open on the inside too. I was like, you know what? I didn't feel great about the interaction. I'm going to go in to the sandwich much place and I'm gonna have a good interaction there I'm gonna have a good ass interaction good ass interaction so I go in there and I meet a guy who I later learned is named Marcelo and I'm walking in to the place and I'm

like I've never been here before I know what I want and he's like trying to end a phone call and I'm trying to signal him like take as much time as you know the phone call I don't know what I want and he's like hey sorry about that sir that was my I'm trying to signal him, like, take as much time as you know, the phone call. I don't know what I want. And he's like, hey, sorry about that, sir. That was my son. I was like, you call him back if you want to. I was like, I don't even know what I want in here. And he was like, I was like, how's your son doing? And he's like, oh, he just started college.

I'm like, oh, that's awesome. Like, how's he like? And we're talking about his son. He's like, yeah, I just don't get to see him much because he's going to college around here, but I just work so much. And I was like, oh, what are your like your hours? And he's like, well, as soon as i get done here like for instance tonight i'm going straight from here because i have another job at ups i'm like oh wow i was like how long

will you be there he's like my shift ends at three i was like your shift ends at three i was like what time do you start here and he said some days eight but some days six whoa i was like dude i was like that is crazy i was like so i mean how much are you sleeping? He's like, the last two nights, hour, 20 minutes. What? Wow. This guy's a hustler. I was like, dude, this is crazy. I was like, I can't believe, I was like, you're not even a human.

People should study you. I was like, how long have you been doing this? And he's like, uh, three years. I was like, you've been, you've had both these jobs for three years. I just wanted to make sure I get all the facts right. He's like, yeah. And I was like, and that's just typical. You work till three and then you sleep either until like seven or

until five or something he's like yeah and wow i just couldn't believe it i'm like skipping over this to kind of tell it fast but it was like the most impressive guy he's a manager work ethic it kind of i got manager vibes from him yeah it's because that's why i was like maybe i have an opportunity to help someone when i heard all this so it's like why do you work so much and it sounded like yeah one he's a manager and two i think he likes it that was what i took away from it his english wasn't great but yeah i think he just likes working he said he loves his eps job loading the trucks he's like keeps me awake he's like if i was a driver i would fall asleep if i was driving but he's in the warehouse yeah he's just loading trucks so i was like okay cool and um anyway yeah he said his

wife doesn't work she stays at home so he just provides for his family that way what a guy and uh yes and his son to college so it was phenomenal and um yeah so if you see marcello slavsky's at like 119th yeah aletha we should do like a like what we did for that pizza guy yeah invite him somewhere something yeah no that would be cool that'd be cool it was really fun to talk to cater or something yeah i'd have him bring it that's cool yeah he was the man it was really fun and just um yeah just cool glad i went inside made the whole night and uh homeboy homeboy at panda express can't even stay another 10 minutes yeah we talked who doesn't sleep ever yeah we talked for 10 minutes yeah it was great i just could everything he would say i was like whoa i was like hold on tell me that again so interesting if rachel lets you fudge a little

bit on stuff i think hawaiian rose is a good option too oh that's pretty safe yeah i'm sure i'm sure there's gonna be some sugar in that sauce but if she's like if she's letting you do panda she's gonna let you do i kind of like that phrase there's gonna be a little sugar in that sauce but yeah i mean it's relatively good for you and it's open late that was what i was thinking whenever you're like cool trying to find a place. New house, real close to where I am, bros. Where Brad lives is the mecca of food options. That's what I really am.

And guess what? Chick-fil-A's coming. Yeah. The mecca of fast casual. Sam, if you're listening, it's time. It's time. I had told Rachel for months, I was like, you know a spot I'd love to live someday is like Shawnee, like Brad's area. I think that's the McLean.

Shawnee. Oh, McLean's. I always forget. Don't forget about it. I'm so excited about McLean's. Oh, brother. Butter my rolls, baby. Oh, baby. Get them all rolled up in there. Plow my rolls. Plow my rolls.

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Fade out. Fade out. Coming in. Stop! Stop! I can't wait. All right We are gonna lose by 15 points tonight no we're not hey It depends on Scott shooting really it all comes down to Scott Scott's our score Scott's our score What color we're gonna get we can talk about this on our way out. I've got a black shirt.

Black, I guess. Good, fun episode. There's still several stories I didn't even get to. So I can't wait for next week. Cameos. We did cameos in the alley. We didn't even get to talk about that. Oh my gosh. Cameos in the alley. I really feel like I need to eat something before I play basketball.

I got some of Taco John's before basketball. Taco John's? What else? That's a MacGuffin of pro athletes. Think about what is on the way from my house. Colvers, Freddy's, Subway. Okay, Colvers, Colvers, Colvers. Pizza Shop.

Okay, Colvers. That sketchy sushi place. Jumping Catfish. Jumping Catfish. All better than Taco John's. Okay. The Potato Olays. Culver's pizza shop that sketchy sushi place jumping catfish jumping catfish all better than taco john's the potato olays the potato o'nays

brother taco john's is just quick I don't know yeah because no one ever goes there alright I'm keeping them afloat

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