Ghostrunners - 193 - Answering Questions Incorrectly

Episode Date: January 9, 2023

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Happy New Year, Ghosties. It is 2023 for us. The Jordan year. I don't know what it is for you guys out there listening or when you're listening to this, but right now it's 2023. And we're going to start it off with a fun little game. Oh, yeah. I played this with Rachel's dad at a wedding randomly this past week. And he said it's a little test he does with his students every now and then. And he said it's an easy quiz.

You'd be surprised how many people get it wrong. Okay. So I'll do it to Brad and I'll do it to Scott. Okay. The horse's name is Friday. Thursday. What subject does he teach? He teaches math and science.

This is just general knowledge, though. Okay. General knowledge. General knowledge. Yeah. It's just general knowledge. This is just like, I don't know, this is just general knowledge.

It's not like science or English. It's not like biology or chemistry. Just general knowledge. It's not algebra or calculus. Tremendous patience. Spanish one or Spanish two. Okay. Scott's laughing.

That's good. Okay, so the game is... I forget what he calls it. Language arse? Goddardman? You have to answer three questions in a row. Home economics? Incorrectly.

Okay. In only eight seconds. I think the game has some name similar like riding a bull or something you know riding a riding the bull you know you have eight seconds to ride a bull you guys oh yeah bull riding oh yeah we're big city boy i dabbled in rodeo my dad used to ride uh you guys know that no i didn't fun fact i don't know if i did as a boy how old was he mutton busting or was he I? Don't think it was like anything sanctioned. I think it was like hey, that looks fun You can I don't have a lot of supervision so like black market bull riding

Is that a thing like not saying like like you could have fun just like go out with your friends like let's just go Ride some bulls. I don't maybe he did it in a sanctioned way I are I don't know my dad right now is squirming listening to this. None of that is right, probably. So whatever. All right. You got eight seconds to answer these three questions incorrectly. Okay. Are you going to ask Scott the same questions?

They're both going to be similarly easy. It's just easy to like, everyone knows the right answer. The tough part. I'm tired of explaining it. Let's just do this. Scott's got a leg up if he goes second. Oh, no. It's going to be different questions.

Great. Yeah. I was going to say, they're all easy. Okay. Oh, no. It's going to be different questions. Great. Yeah, yeah. I was going to say, they're all easy. Okay, ready? Yeah. What is the name? I need to have a timer out. Okay, wait, wait.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry for making this too complicated. You want me to time it? Can I get it just completely wrong, or do I have to be in the same atmosphere? Get it completely wrong. Great. Don't get it somewhat right. Once you're done asking the question, I start the timer.

Once you're done, once I'm done asking the first question, start the timer. Eight seconds. Oh, all three questions in eight seconds? No, no,

no. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

yeah. Okay. Got it. Got it. Got it. Ready? Timer starts after the end of the first question. Yes.

After he's at, no, after the end, after the end of the third question. No, no, no, no,

no, no, no. The timer starts after he gets done with the first questions the third question. No, no, no, no, no, no. No, the timer starts after he gets done with the first question asking. So for instance, if I said, how many legs does a spider have? Boom, start timer. And then we're going. Okay, great.

All right. Okay. Ready? Go. What is the name of the toy cowboy in Toy Story? Buzz Lightyear. What is the color of an emerald? Blue.

What is something you hit with a hammer? Blue. A screw. Good. You did pretty good with that. You did it. It was about seven and a half seconds. See, but I just wanted to answer blue the whole time.

Was that a fit? Would that have been- Would that have been- Would that have been like remotely and- That's what I was asking. I don't know. I think whatever you're comfortable with. Fun.

Okay. Brad is comfortable saying blue for something you would hit with a hammer. No, I like trying to get hit with a hammer. No, I like, I like trying to get it like purposely wrong, man. I'm just kind of scared. Brad did that really well.

Whenever I thought I lost right away when you said, what is the color of the Emerald? And I said, blue. I was like, crap. I was going to say blue too, no matter what you ask.

Oh, interesting. All right, Brad, do you want time for me and Scott? I'm nervous. Uh, ready? I really gotta concentrate I need this Jake

I need this Brad needs a W tonight everyone ready if you freeze water what do you get snow what colors are the stars on the American flag? Blue.

What ocean is off the California coast? Atlantic. Wow. You guys are good. Well, that's no fun because you got it all right. Hey, I will say there's some pressure going on. I felt it. Let's keep going.

I want to beat Scott at something. Okay. Okay. Okay. Scott, time for Brad. Okay. Hold on. Okay. And this time we have to stare at each other. We can't Scott at something. Okay. Okay. Okay. Scott, time for Brad. Okay. Hold on. Okay.

And this time we have to stare at each other. We can't look at Jake. Okay. Let me find the three. All right. Ready? Everyone ready? Yes.

And which Disney movie is Elsa in? Cinderella. Who is Mickey Mouse's girlfriend? Piglet. Miss Piglet. Where does Santa Claus live? The South? Piglet. Miss Piglet. Where does Santa Claus live? The South Pole. Nice.

Miss Piglet. Miss Piglet. 7.7. I'm going to be honest. The mini, it didn't trip me up. I was like. All right. Go, go, go, go, go.

Okay. Okay. I hope you lose so hard. I hope you just stink. The timer starts after you finish the first question. First question. It's so easy to understand. Yeah.

All right. Everybody ready? Uh-huh. I'm going to start the timer right now. Go. No. All right. Let's begin.

Begin. Stop. Stop. All right. Go ahead. It's like taking a jumping photo in the office. Okay. Scott, you ready?

Which state is famous for Hollywood? Kansas. What type of fish is Nemo? Salmon. What do caterpillars turn into? Uh, no, spiders.

8.48. No. No. Bro, the fucking music. Uh, uh, oh,

ooh, I, 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 get on your feet because it's a ghost wow i froze hardcore Wow, I froze. Hardcore.

I freaking froze so bad. No! It's like uncontrollably my mouth was like, Butterfly. You were like Jim Carrey, the pen is blue. You were like, No! you were like jim carrey the pen is blue you're like no that's what i was hoping we would get to i'm not gonna play that again so did you fail i actually did it right and honestly props to steve because he didn't have questions in front

of him he was just coming up with easy trivia questions i mean maybe he's done this for years but um yeah maybe next time maybe sometime we need to get Steve Coop to do like an officially sanctioned trivia. Yes. This was, yeah, this was like, um, Steve triplet in the field, just, you know, slapping a calf and riding it. This wasn't like, you know, the official slapping a calf, slapping a calf. Anyway. Yeah.

That's kind of a fun start. Slapping a calf, man. Happy new year. Uh, who's got resolutions and are they new got resolutions? And are they New Year's resolutions or are they just regular old resolutions? Brad? New Year's resolutions. I have so many.

I got Ghost Runners goals. I got Gene Schwartz goals. I got my own resolutions. Where did I put them? Excuse me. I probably need to put mine on paper. I mean, honestly. They say the best way to reach your goals

is just keep them up here yeah just and just make them vague just hypothesize them be better yeah eat uh better meet a loose woman so they stay in the office it's not it's quote it's quote it's not me okay vander goons i'm just kidding I love you Alex okay I have lots and some of them

I don't even know if I want to whatever say the fun ones okay fun ones I don't know fun reading your bio

for 20 minutes every day minimum I'm just going to read them all okay they're all fun okay

I'm going to lose 52 pounds one pound per week these are personal goals or jean shorts goals? These are for my jean shorts. Not for the jean shorts. To fit in the jean shorts.

Just know that I'm very zealous, but I'm not overzealous. I'm just right there on the zealous peak. A little zealous. Got it. I'm going to work out 75% of all days, which is average 5.5 days per week. Oh, I thought you meant like 16 hours worth. Or whatever that'd be. 75% of all days, which is average 5.5 days per week. Oh, I thought you meant like, um, 16 hours worth.

Oh, whatever that be. 25%. Yeah. Yeah. You'll never see me. You got it. You should have 18.

You should have chose a frack. Like what is five sevenths as a fraction? I want to do 75% of all days. 714. Uh, look it up. I want to stop. I want to the limit.

I need to figure out how to do this better. Like more. Measurable. Measurable. Thank you. Smart goals. Right now I just put I want to limit my sugar and limit my dairy. What does that mean?

Hey. Sorry. It's Scott's business. I want to eliminate in my life soda and coffee. Okay. Okay. I want to meal prep every week. Grilled chicken.

Scott knows what I'm talking about. I even wrote down it's gonna be from sunday sunday from 8 to 9 p.m so i thought to myself when's the best time to do it smart goals tea timely yes thank you i'm gonna start doing intermittent fasting from january through march and i'm gonna reevaluate april 1st pranked not gonna reevaluate april fool. Tracking macros every day. Poor Scott, because he's a big guy for that. 150 ounces of water every day. So I'm going to have to be taking a lot of breaks. How many liters is that? It's 150 ounces.

Look for their plumbing. Along with reading my Bible, I want to read for 20 minutes before bed, five nights per week. Bible before bed? No, just reading. Yeah, just something. Instagram. No. Okay.

Jake, that's one of them, is that I want to turn off my phone one hour before bed. Paperback book. Paperback writer. I might do hardback. Oh. I'm not sure. Atomic hard work? Oh, yeah.

Ryan Guy. Can I tell you something to be wary of? I got Rachel a Kindle for Christmas. Wary. What I actually got Rachel was a pillow because I've seen this girl fall asleep reading every day since she got the kind I think that's forgivable if I fall asleep five minutes into my 20 minute reading I'll be okay with that I would say just get a water if you're a drooler get a waterproof one see if they have different softness okay because it is a pillow I

bought her a really expensive pillow honestly though yeah like katherine sleeps so well i think after she reads and i'm like i'm jealous of that yeah so just in general like turning off my screens and being less addicted to my phone uh sleep eight hours a night um that is one of my two i told you this one i'm going to only check the youtube results twice per day once at 9 a.m once at 4 p.m timely i've tried to yeah think about like when would it make sense you are blowing my resolutions out of the water. Yeah. You guys want to start? We'll go back.

We'll go back. No, no, no. Honestly, this is this is feeding me a lot of personal resolute. That's good. This is inspiring to me. I was just thinking of every aspect of my life. Marriage. I want to have intentional time with Catherine every week.

One hour minimum for each of these. One of them will be fun and dash experience. Games, outing, anything original. What do you mean outing? Out like a date. one hour minimum for each of these. One of them will be a fun in dash experience, games, outing, anything original. What do you mean outing out? Like a date,

like going out to eat or something like that. Um, one serious discuss financials, business, parenting, et cetera. I told her to Catherine. She's like,

Oh, that one makes me nervous. I'm like, it'll be good. Uh, and then I got some for being a dad, uh, intentional two hours plus on saturday mornings in parentheses dadder days with all three of my kids and then intentional two hours plus with each kid individually once per month just doing some kind of like me and beau

doing something just the two of us going to a baseball game uh yeah wasn't that cute um family i put go on one family vacation with just the five of us. Keep it pretty easy. Easy win. We'll go to Des Moines. Don't sleep on West Des Moines. Wichita or whatever. And then just some home projects.

Build and install entry lockers. Bathroom remodel. We're going to remodel our bathroom this year. Put can lights in the living room, dining room and kitchen. And get a new door for the back of our house. Jeez. How much time did you spend thinking like did you have like a like a set session where you sat down and put all? this stuff on yeah, I mean, I don't know it wasn't like a It probably is this a culmination of like several weeks of thinking. Oh, I mean, I think I'm always trying to think about ways I want to be better. It's just I I don't know. I was telling somebody,

hey, Catherine, like, I was like, I guess I think really highly of like, not myself. Yeah. I guess like, I'm really confident that I can do it. It's just like, do I really want to do it? Like, that's, I'm not necessarily, I don't think I can't, I can't lose weight. It's just like, do I really in my heart of hearts think it's worth it to lose weight or not? And so I, I really wanted to like analyze like and like get deeper into like i don't i don't think that these things are bringing me the joy that my mind thinks they are and so i want to eliminate the things that aren't going to bring me joy i want to get spiritually disciplined and be better so yeah i guess i probably spent like

30 45 minutes on it um that's good. So yeah. Go ahead, Jake. I only have two and one of them is get eight hours of sleep. The other one is make more Instagram stories. Yes. End of the list.

I love it. Catherine, since she's not here, she wants to turn her phone into a quote unquote home phone. In other words, just like make it

so she's not on her phone or having her phone attached to her all the time it like stays in the kitchen or turn it on like yeah a noise so like if somebody texts or calls her she can go you know check it when she needs to but not on her all the time because she was kind of convicted and i kind of i get it she's like i am always telling like our kids like hey don't don't get on my phone don't be looking we can't look at our phones too much go play and then they'll like literally go play in the living room and she'll be like whipping out her phone and yeah like scrolling on instagram while they're playing you know it's like so hyper whatever hypocritical so um that's home phone's awesome though like

back i think we might bring it back like really for hattie's sake like we might get a home phone so fun just because we don't want to iattie's sake like we might get a home phone so fun just because we don't want to i mean there's alternatives like yeah there's like little you know kiddie versions of cell phones but yeah that's like get her a jitterbug yeah if you want if you want hattie to yeah jitterbug if you want to talk to hattie you have to call this number kind of thing not bad anytime i saw you two nine one oh seven five calling i was like what up brad what we doing dog we have that uh that announced like the caller id oh yeah um my favorite one was uh the pentolas i don't know if you remember theirs i do yeah they would announce it their their last name is pentola

and adam and sharon and it got cut off at sh. So it said, Pintala, Adam, shh. That's it. That was like an advanced technology back in the day. Yeah. I don't remember how it announced your families, oddly enough. I should know that, but I don't.

What do you got? You got any goals? Crying pickleball tournament. We know that one. I do have a goal. Yes, I would like to win a five-0 pickleball tournament this year. I do have a goal. Yes. I would like to win a five Oh pickleball tournament this year. Um,

I also, I too want to lose some LBs cause I'm, there's a little fluff going on right now. A little fluff going on. Um, I do want to spend, I said at least 15 minutes in the scriptures every day, not quite your 20.

Um, but yes, I do. I, and I want to get up in the mornings and stretch that's what i what's i don't want my morning routine to be is to study some scriptures and stretch every morning heard stretching is good yeah i don't know why i truly am constantly sore always that'll make a difference yeah so i would like to i'd like to i think it'd be fun to be able to do the splits

one day. What do you think about that? You go ahead and put down a resolution for next year. Yeah. December 31st, we're all hanging out together. Live stream. Scott does splits. Scott just drops down in the splits.

Scotty splits. I think if you stretched every day, you'd be able to do the splits. You'd think so, right? Surely. But you also got to think I've spent the better part of 31 years not stretching. Oh,

you can, you could do it. So let's all do it let's split 2024 all right how funny would that be two years there's a picture of all three of us just smiling like this yeah i can imagine uh along with that i do have a i'm really really excited about this i don't know if i'm calling it a mantra a motto tagline whatever but for this year and maybe my life i don't know i don't i don't even know where it came from it's just been in my head lately the words make it count oh yeah the casey neistat video actually yeah you know about this no i have no i'll send it to you well it's not casey neistat video. Actually? Yeah. You know about this? No, I have no idea. I'll send it to you. Well, it's not Casey Neistat.

I don't know who. Maybe it was. You sent it to me, too? Is it a boy? I don't even know who Casey is. Yeah, yeah. Nike logo. Or Nike slogan.

Just do it. No, sorry. Nike paid him to do a video. It was a wearable thing at the time. Their slogan for this campaign was called like make it count okay and it's a pretty cool video because he took all the money uh that he was supposed to get for it um and he just blew it on like this 10-day trip across the world okay and ended up being this really cool story because it the video went crazy viral nike got their more

than their money's worth and kind of the funny ironic backwards part of it is that he forgot to wear the thing the whole time but no one even cares because it's such a great video. Yeah. I'll send it to you guys. Yeah. I don't know. I just, I really liked the idea of just whatever, however you want to interpret that, make it count, make it count. I don't know. I just, my, my daughter is five years old and she's going to be six this year. And it's like, holy crap. Like she's growing up quicker than I ever thought it would happen. It's like, am I making it count? Like, am I making it count? Like, am I making my opportunities with her account?

Am I making opportunities with Jean shorts, ghost runners count everything. So, um, yeah, make it count. I'm excited. Is it Dracula themed?

Oh, count. Yeah. Uh, I was thinking Sesame street. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Same idea. Yeah. I think so. You think, yeah, just have capes the whole time. Make it count. That's how you greet people. If you're think so. You think, yeah, just have capes the whole time? Mm-hmm. Make it count. That's how you greet people.

If you're in the make it count army. Hey. Make it count. Make it count. One. Two. There you go. Three.

That's beautiful. Thank you. Cool. Cool mantra. Thank you. Cool mantra. Cool mantra. Hope hope everyone had good christmas time i spent about five days in strafford about six days in isla or so just

non-stop action my with my family we stay pretty active you know we break into the middle school gym or whatever play some pickleball some new versions of it we play a lot of ping pong pretty active and then we go to the coop family whole nother level it's like hey we're going to the garage ping pong tournament hey go outside i'm gonna go to the Coop family, whole nother level. It's like, hey, we're going to the garage, ping pong tournament. Hey, go outside. I'm going to go snowmobiling for the first time. Hey, come back inside.

We're playing Cellars of Catan. Hey, I played ping pong a while. Let's go play ping pong. Hey, let's go, you know, whatever. Yeah. If I didn't text you back, it's because I was doing stuff constantly. There's still people

I haven't texted back. I had so much fun. We actually supposed to come back earlier and I asked Rachel. I'd asked Rachel. I was like, can we stay longer? What a blessing. It is. I told Angie and Steve, I was like, I'm so thankful that you guys are so fun that i want to spend time with you i hope i never take it for granted that's awesome

i had a good time we've been doing more wedding planning stuff we did some taste testing that was fun it turns out it's free did you know that yeah yeah okay you could potentially like schedule several meals with potential wedding vendors. That's what I asked Rachel. I was like, did you have to prove we're getting married or anything? She's like, no. I just assume if you're doing this. Oh, you know, that was,

I just thought of the restaurant that we were in is in an old bank. It was awesome. More people need to be buying banks and doing something non-banky with them. What was the, yeah, tell us. The vault was, like, door was was still there but it was open and it was like a dining room oh that's pretty and just the setup of a bank like an old time this

is like in a small town in like the downtown area it wasn't like a modern bank this was like one that was like built to hold cash and gold in the vault cool setup that is cool yeah they give you smarties at the end of your meal you guys get smarties at the bank i got dum-dums i would get those weird uh suckers that had like um uh it was like sour apple suckers that also caramel in them oh i love them oh yeah yeah that was our bank wow that's a that's a nice bank not bad flat ones you guys must be yeah yeah yeah we were doing just fine that was fun yeah um yeah you were gone for so long it felt like yeah to do laundry yeah well i was gone so long um oh i have an update for you brad uh we talked before you want uh maybe some pups and want to use the coop breeding service i think on the podcast we had talked about like how does that happen like how do you like yeah arrange two dogs to like get together right i forget what we hypothesized exactly but we were

very curious we talked about like is there a camera that they like use to like know that it happens like yeah who gets tied up and who comes to who sure i don't know the exact logistics but i did on just like happenstance like see the conversation happen it was at church oh business at church i know in the basement yeah this is in the basement and i saw angie coop uh kind of start the arrangement okay uh with the woman and she said hey we're thinking about uh maybe having some some pups with lila you think buster's up for it? Oh, Buster! Oh! I couldn't even say it with a straight face.

That was literally what she said. You think Buster's up for it? Up for it. Like, let's see what the dog thinks. Let's obviously get the dog's consent first. See how he's feeling. What an appropriate name. Yeah.

You're going to have to ask him. Buster's got a mind of his own. What kind of mood he's in. Anyway, you might get some of buster's buster's seed yeah coming to shawnee yeah you're like i can tell you got a little bit of buster in here buster yeah you grab the dog look at his hind legs yeah that's buster yeah that's a buster boy that's buster's boy oh that's amazing so buster and lila um okay i guess lila's gonna be in heat around march time okay and as we looked up i think it's like two months gestation uh-huh we're trying to have puppies by the wedding wow so you're gonna have them at your reception in a little corner

anyway yeah basket of puppies in the reception sure lila's just not quite like birthed them yet she's just kind of wallowing around yeah teats out yeah buster's like i did that see that one over there he's like buster's up for it oh my gosh it was so casual and then they just like, Angie is like serving food. And then this woman is like just grabbing like Casey's pizza. Be like, oh yeah, that'd be nice. I think. Yeah, that'd be good.

Oh, what is this? Oh, okay. It is pepperoni. Okay. Awesome. Yeah. Well, have a good day. Yeah.

Yeah. We'll inseminate with you. No problem. I don't know why, but I just picture Buster in like a doggy track suit. I guess Buster up for it. He just kind of unzips the tracksuit. He's like, well... What did you say, March?

Who are we talking here? Yeah, Buster's just like this old retiree in Florida. Yeah, well... We still got enough gas in the tank. You're like, slick back here. Let me do a few push-ups first. Right. I get swole.

A real hound dog. Are they both labs? I think so. Rachel, can you hear me? Is Buster a lab? Oh yeah. I don't want no mutt. Oh yeah, they talk about, I think Buster's a yellow lab. Lila's a black lab.

Wow. Oh yeah, because Gunnar said I was like, what a yellow lab. Lila's a black lab. Wow. So, Oh yeah. Cause gutter said, I was like, what does that make? And gutter said, Patrick Mahomes. Oh yeah. You're going to get a light skin. Oh, I love Patrick Mahomes. Yeah. That's awesome. So you'll get, I think one or the other. And then also just a fun thing about that same church service, Rachel was just, we were kind of looking at, you know, just the people down there and she goes, see that guy over there.

And I was like, yeah. And she she's like his name is Herliff I think that's an awesome name you should have played uh hangman with that like what's his name yeah h blank actually I think first Rachel told me his name was Herf which I really liked like h-u-r-f and she's like oh shoot I think it's hurliff we named a cat after him one time yeah hurliff either way i love those old names that is that an old name or is that just like a random name like i think it's probably like a german name okay i was gonna say do you think that i didn't know that was like anybody's name it's a german name i think so of german germans up there yeah i think uh i've heard this probably from yeah the coop you know family tree but i think germany and iowa have similar soil so a lot of germans came over they knew how to farm corn and

beans they came to iowa oh interesting i think yeah i learned that uh best farmland for corn is one county over yeah i really took a lot of steven eyes conversations and i'm now just having them with my friends yeah i was asking him because I think farming, the whole industry is so fascinating, especially like farms of that size. Like I grew up on a farm, but it was like cattle. And by the time I was living on the farm, I, you know, my grandpa was not farming it. It wasn't as big as it once was. When you're farming crops, I mean, it's a thousand times the size of what you can do

with cattle. It's massive. And what these industries, there's huge and they're buying and selling so much so much is going in and out i asked so many questions and yeah i was asking steve i said if you could have a hundred acres of farming land anywhere in the world where would it be because i was just curious like what is the best like where you know he's gonna say like ancient mesopotamia or something like that and he was like grundy county iowa which is like the county over from them grundy really he's like it's the best soil in the world yeah I was like, that is

so cool. That's where Buster's from, too. You say Grundy County? Grundy. Grundy. Yeah. Buster. A little Buster from Grundy County. Name your pup Grundy. This is Grundy. Some fertile soil over there. That's awesome.

Well, yeah, I have a lot of random, I mean, I tried to make as many notes as i could from the past what two weeks yeah it's been a long time um and i'll start out with one that's not very significant but i think it's just really funny for a podcast uh i was at mclean's the other day with my friend todd uh he was helping me he helped me install a light fixture in our house looks nice way brighter way brighter much like yeah what room or main room living room so the main room do you yep what's that say about you he likes to live you don't think the kitchen is a main room live golf or the bedroom or the bathroom

no um garage language uh basement maybe the basement and No. Anyway, but this woman, I had never experienced this and it was like one of the most simply uncomfortable things that has ever happened and could ever happen. So if you work, by the way, I want to imagine McLean's drive through. Yeah.

If you work at a drive through, do this to people and just, just enjoy watching them just very, very subtly struggle. So all she did was get just a little too close to me when she put it, put out her hand for the drink. Her body got too close to you. Like, so I'm going to bring, I'm going to come to you. So, so yeah, I order a drink. Here's, here's my drink. And here you are in the drive-thru. This will be an Australian drive-thru. Okay, market latte, extra shot. Yeah, that's me. Thank you. Right?

And it was like, oh. It's like she's a quarterback giving you a handoff. Yeah. Like, I don't want, you know, you got stuff in there. In the chest, in the numbers. Like, it was so tight. It was so tight that I couldn't bring my hand back there. Like, and then she did it three more times. You had three drinks?

She was like, okay, pepper jack burrito. Literally your armpit. And I'm like this. I'm like this. I am like this. Thank you. Okay. Okay. And then a side of bacon. Okay. And last but not least, a butter roll. It was just like,

this was a woman. I mean, she didn't seem like she seemed plenty comfortable working, but she, I'd never seen her before. I mean, it was one of those things that was like, that was so simple.

Like it was, it was probably six, eight inches max that you like were too overly extended, but man, that made all the difference so um yeah i just kind of laughed about that with todd i was just like did you notice that that's pretty funny he's like yeah you're kind of yeah it's kind of t-rex alligator arm yeah yeah so anyway if you're if you're in a situation where you can make that happen and document it

please send it our way because yeah it was just very easily uncomfortable yeah maybe not even drive-thru but just like film yourself handing your friend anything yes like hey here's your car keys and just put it in their armpit basically yeah it's just very uncomfortable isn't it like how am i supposed to get that from the top down yeah you either yeah you top attack bottom maybe just cup it in the armpit just don't even use your hands yeah so what if if somebody parked really close to the drive-thru window and you literally tried to reach in and put the drink in their cup holder in their car like fully lean all the way across them and try to reach you are yeah your feet are off the ground yeah you're suspended yeah you're balanced on top of the drive-thru window i mean

maybe it's maybe it's partially operator error on my fault or my part because i was too close to the window but too big armpit she's got to be able to recognize that. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So let's do a little touch pass. Anyway, that was pretty funny. Um, I want to shout out my friend, Isaac McDonald. Oh, fun. Um, the other night I was working pretty late on a project. Actually the next day was when this McLean thing happened and, uh, a tool that I had broke and it was like 11 PM, you know, no, no places are open, but I needed it done by the next morning. I thought it was like a very easy little thing that I was going to do to add to this table, but I needed it done or else the legs wouldn't be able to be attached. And so I called him and I was like, do you by chance have a tool

for this? He's like, I don't, but I do have something else that could work. I was like, okay, do you mind if I come over and get it? You know, it's like 1130 at this point. And he's like, you know, who am I kidding? I'm not going to bed anytime soon. How about I just drive it over? Oh, wow. That's really nice. And so, yeah, came over like 12, 1230 at night and yeah, brought me.

And he's like, do you want anything from Quick Trip? I was like, yes, I do. That's incredibly nice. Very nice. I got to meet his new dog, Tiger. Yeah. All the viruses out of tiger yeah i know whatever he had as far as i know he's doing all right no more yeast in the years anyway

just shout out to isaac i mean we don't talk about it as much as we used to because we don't see him as much but the guy is still just an incredible friend incredible guy still yeah you want to talk about trying to find you know you want to make puppies with somebody tiger i was gonna say isaac oh okay i don't have tigers of age yet i don't know how that works either um anyway yeah i got more you got more i got i got plenty of things random things can we just keep praising isaac for a minute yes yeah i love it so we were at uh harrison's wedding and i the whole night i was so worried about Palmer, like basically annoying Isaac because she loves him. She's like obsessed with him.

Like the whole night she was wanting to dance with him. Yeah. And like all this stuff. And I text him after and I was like, I apologize. My daughter is obsessed with you. But dang it, if you weren't so good looking, we wouldn't have this problem. And he said, dude, I love it. Please don't apologize.

You have no idea how kids like yours get me so excited to have a family in the future i love y'all oh yeah and i was like make some puppies good answer he's a stud man what a stud i can't wait for him to be a dad someday he's gonna be a great dad after he gets married he sent us some nice messages on christmas too that's right yeah's right. Yeah. Yeah. Feels like forever ago. It does. I asked my dad to be my best man on Christmas day. Yeah. It was pretty fun.

Yeah. It was a cool moment. Do you want to share? Yeah, I was. It was in a package of golf tees that he really likes. Golf tees? This feels like a very dad thing. He likes a certain tee.

They're advertised at a golf galaxy or something. It'll say four yards further. Oh, yeah. They're like those feather tees. The brush tees? Yeah. Yeah. It at like a golf galaxy or something it'll say like four yards further oh yeah they're like those feather teas the brush teas yeah yeah it's like a brush why would a tea make a difference it's just i guess slightly less friction like rather than like a plastic tea or a hard plastic or wood tea um it's like this yeah i mean four yards so maybe four yards it's like machine tested i mean i guess they're probably accurate. It's probably true. But yeah, it's more of like thin brushes, you know, that like can still hold a ball up, but I guess way less friction.

My dad had some of those. Really? Yeah. I think dads love them. Yeah. So I got my dad some of those and then wrote like a note in there and just kept it simple and be my best man. And so, yeah, it's pretty cool.

He is fired up to like plan my bachelor party which i did not expect at all i still remember when him and my mom were trying to figure out if they were going to maybe come to chicago to watch the the special like my comedy special being taped and he made some sort of comment of like i don't even know how to get an airbnb or something like that or like i don't even know what hotels would be in chicago you know He like said some sort of phrase to me. I was like, oh yeah, I guess my mom has always kind of done that. I don't know. Maybe I'm making it out to be more extreme than it was. But anyway, I just didn't think he, uh, had in him what he's shown me he's been doing the past week. And from now on, I think he's keeping it a secret and I don't know what he's going to do, but.

Are we sure that it's not just Trish? I mean dad my dad will email people and it's like there's no doubt my dad has dictated this to my mom and she's she's typing it out for him you know yeah she's on a typewriter he's like pacing behind her he's got like a pen in his mouth yep you know scratch that scratch that yeah so anyway that's that's pretty exciting i um i think it's gonna be really fun for some reason i always just imagine my bachelor party would be like something just kind of dorky and Branson. Yeah, I think my dad's really taking the reins. It's going to be really cool and fun. It's always fun.

Like, I mean, my dad was not my best man, but my dad was just a friend of mine. And it's always fun when you have your dad and your friends intersect. Like, remember when the Royals went on their run, like in baseball, we watched a lot of games. We loved coming into we went to this random bar. We found like a bar and grill called Ugly Joe's. The coming into, we went to this random bar we found, like a bar and grill called Ugly Joe's. Ugly Joe's.

And we went to Ugly Joe's for every game. Never saw the Royals lose. Oh, my dad was like, still talks about to this day, like, oh, Ugly Joe's was the best, you guys. You know, it's just so fun when you can like experience those times together. Then he knows your friends,

like he gets to know, you know, it's just, it's just awesome. So yeah. I expect my dad to come on the bachelor party still and have a blast with us all. He would love it. Yeah. So many memories. He loves all you guys. Oh, it's going to be awesome.

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Speaking of my dad, my dad, uh, we braved the storm and went to a KU basketball game that night. You did go that night. That was Thursday night. Yeah. I was like, yeah, it was the night. It is so funny because I think like the night before the two nights before we record the podcast and I was like, guys, I mean, let's stop complaining so much about the cold.

You can, you can get over, you can do anything for one minute. We parked decently close to this, the field house and probably walked for maybe two minutes. And I was so cold when I got outside my dad, like, so we like got a parking pass from somebody, like one of his friends that had season tickets that didn't go. But usually we park like seven minutes away and walk and my dad's like i don't think i could have survived if we parked that far and i go you couldn't have survived like what do you mean like

you mean you would have died out there like he's like i don't know maybe i'd have to turn back i was like no way get out of here that's funny. We were outside just briefly that Thursday in Stratford. And yeah, I think even the wind chill then at certain points was like negative 30. Yep. And I remember on our way to the high school gym, we were going to play some pickleball. We stopped at the gas station. My dad's gotta. Can't go anywhere without stopping at the gas station.

The one that I stopped at? Oh, I don't know. And got directions to your house? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Remember that? Yeah, yeah. That's so... I forgot you did that. That is so funny. station the one that i stopped at oh i don't know you got directions to your house oh yeah yeah yeah yeah that's so i i forgot you did that that is so funny um anyway and so it's me my dad and rachel and we walked into the gas station short walk yeah with the wind at our backs and we all kind

of made the comments like negative 30 ain't so bad maybe a little tougher than i thought i am you know what i'm growing up a little bit let's have a little dad strength somehow. And dude, walking back to the car with the wind in your face. Yeah, I think I'm like your dad. Like I would have survived 10 more steps. It was so cool. It was like something invigorates you. It's like you take your first two steps walking and that gust hits you. And we all started running at the same time, like without talking about it.

It's like you can't walk in this weather. I'm miserable. I found myself just over and over again, just saying the obvious as I'm walking. Wow. God, it's cool. Like I just said that like five times. Oh,

it's cold. Oh, the wind. It's like a hot take Brad, you know, nippy come through the past. Yeah. I,

I was very curious. Just, I, I sat outside. I do cold showers. Yeah. I forgot. We're off. Yeah. I forgot about that that i just sent it to you brad i uh i got outside with just a pair of shorts on when it was

negative 28 because i was like let's see how like does this feel like cryotherapy because my my legs don't seem like they get as cold as everything else yeah so i'm with you there yeah so i went outside literally just a pair of shorts no no shirt, sat on my back deck for about two minutes. Oh. And it truly was like almost more than I could bear. You sat down? I sat on a chair in my back porch.

I can't believe you did that with no shirt. No shirt. Was the chair subject to the elements or did you bring the chair out with you? Chair was outside already. Oh my gosh. Wow. No way. You could have got like. with you? Chair was outside already. Oh, wow. No way. You could have got like. That's stupid, Scott.

Yeah. Hypothermia and frostbite. That was my cold therapy for the day. It was nice. I felt very rejuvenated. There's no way your cold therapy is usually negative 28 degrees. No, it's not. It's not.

But I like to push the limits. You're fine. No Antonio Brown type issues or anything. No. Toes and fingers are all still good. But yeah, it was. It was.. No Antonio Brown type issues or anything. No toes and fingers are all still good. But yeah, it was, it was, I was like, it's kind of, I feel like when it gets cold, I just feel like how cold can cold feel. So I was like, let's go out and negative 28. I don't remember a time that's ever been negative 28. And that's what I was saying. I've never seen it that

low. I was like, let's see what this is like. And I was like, yep, this feels different than like 20 degrees. I was talking about that with Rachel. I i think like i think once it gets down to 30 in my head i'm like that's cold yes but the difference in 20 degrees and zero which we experienced a lot this past two weeks is the same as 50 and 70 that's a big difference yeah you know think about 60 and 80 anything in there 40 and 60 those are like monumental like what i'm wearing for the day differences yeah it's 20 and zero it's like like, ah, just winter coat. Yeah. I don't think about them differently.

Maybe it's a Midwest thing. Yeah, I think it is. Because it's like, I don't know. And then you go negative 20. That's a full, that's 40. And this is a random thought, but bear with me. Like if you're baking something in the oven, you may not think like, oh, bake it at 350 or 400.

That seems like it's not going to be that big of a deal. But then you go from 50 degrees to 100 degrees outside and you feel like how big how big of a difference in temperature that is oh that's why baking temperature matters that's why yeah yeah scott one time tried to do it like it says 350 for 15 minutes i just did 700 for seven and a half i crushed the numbers it's the same amount of centigrade per minute. So if one painter takes five hours, the other one can paint the house in three hours. So anyway, that was, it was fun.

It was, it was wild. It was like, what are we doing here? But it was awesome. So something about being home, I don't know if you guys experienced this, is you watch DirecTV with your parents and you get to see commercials that are on right. Two commercials that I am sick of.

I never want to see him again. Anyone sick of any commercials? Can you guess? I am sick of a few commercials. I'm trying to think of what they watch. A lot of pickleball YouTube streams. Oh, a lot of pickleball cocktail.

Jigsaw health. I've had enough of those. I guess one of them. I'm yeah. I, you know, I hate that I am sick of those. I guess one of them. Yeah. I hate that I am sick of it because it's two of my favorite people in the world. But coach, it happened again. Oh, the Andy Reid.

Look at the bottom of this. That was pretty good. Andy does do a pretty good job acting in that. I love how he kind of chuckles when he says faces. He says that word. He's like, I've been drawing mustaches on players' faces. He kind of does a little chuckle when he says that. I think he does a good job. Yeah.

I think he's got better comedic timing than Mahomes does. Oh, yeah. Mahomes is bad. And the story on the podcast with Travis Kelsey about the background of that commercial is pretty funny, too. Yeah. Wasn't State Farm nervous to ask Andy Reid? So they made Patrick ask him? And Patrick was like, no, I'm not doing that.

Yeah, that was funny. You can ask him. Okay, so the two commercials I'm sick of. Okay. We'll start commercial two. Okay. Are these in order? Yeah, so this is the second most.

I'm less sick of this one, but I'm still sick. Less sick. This is like a common cold. I'm just going to sing you the jingle. Both these commercials have to do with songs. BK. Yes! Have it your way. No, your way let me start where it starts whopper whopper whopper whopper junior junior triple bacon whopper whopper bacon double have it your way and then there's another one at bk have it there's another one that just goes chicken chicken chicken chicken

have you seen that one like oh I'm sorry I was just appalled I can't believe they made two of them it got past like the

you know somebody pitched that they're like yeah what if it's just one note just say whopper eight times whatever

yeah good idea sick of that one whopper whopper whopper whopper junior junior triple double that song has been stuck in my oh it's awful i hate that one um and then the other one i don't even this goes to show you that some commercials do work they're so annoying that they work the whopper one's working i don't even know what this one's promoting it was a christmas one so people are like doing some

sort of production and they start singing joy to the World and then this other guy comes in so it's like Joy to the World Joy! Joy! Joy! Joy! Have you seen that commercial?

That's Bill Nye the Science Guy? Basically. Yeah. He starts trying to like make it like a hip hop version and they're all like whoa, whoa, whoa. I don't think I've seen that one.

Oh, you've seen it. I can't stand it. Really? Oh, I hate it. Pull it up. Joy to the World. speaking of bad advertisements i finally watched pepsi where's my jet yeah fun that's fun documentary recommend it if you haven't watched it brad okay uh while you're right while you're doing that i think i found it you remember oh sorry you

got my favorite christmas uh commercial of all time do you remember remember that NBA? Like, yeah. Oh yeah. We're shooting all the three pointers. Yeah. The jingle bells. Anyway, that one's good. All right. We'll see. So make it loud for this group.

That's ready to give you a shout. Joy to the world. Joy. Joy. Joy. Joy. You recognize that? No.

Oh, it's the worst. Joy to the world. Joy. Joy. Joy. Joy. Joy. Joy. Joy. Joy. Joy. Joy. Joy. Joy. Joy. Joy. Joy. Joy. Joy. Joy. Joy. Joy. Joy. Joy. Joy. Joy. Joy. Joy. Joy., it's the worst. Joy to the world. Joy, joy, joy, joy, joy. I don't think I've seen that one. I don't think that's not. In Southwest Missouri. If it's on NFL, then I don't watch it.

Oh, okay. On DirecTV in Southwest Missouri, they're playing it 50 times an hour. Oh, my gosh. What kind of channels and things is your dad perusing DirecTV? Is he more of a movie guy? Does he catch 18 minutes of a sitcom?

He loves King of Queens. Yep. And not like wherever it's streaming, just like recorded on DirecTV. Oh, he goes to his DVR. Yeah, yeah. Oh, good for him. But then we'll also just like throw on The Office, not on Netflix. TBS.

Sorry, not on Peacock. But yeah, just like on Comedy Central Channel or whatever. So you can see a lot of commercials. Nice. Or just any like movie that's on. We're just like watching TV from like 10 to 15 years ago. Right. You know, just like what's on the guide.

And you just watch it. It's fine. But you see a lot more commercials that way. Love it. Love it. Had to get those grievances, some gripes off my chest. You've been griped. Gripeage over.

I have some. Honestly, like so much of my time, I'm calling it away, even though I've been here, away from Jake, has been just spent with my kids in Catherine, which has been so awesome. Make it count.

Yeah, make it count. Hashtag make it count 2320. So I have some Bo updates, some Hattie updates. Come on. One of them was, maybe I told you this already. Bo, I think it was that same night, that Thursday night that was so cold, started having like red cheeks and wasn't eating very well.

So it's usually like, okay, something's wrong. He's got a little fever or something, getting a little sick. And Bo is kind of notorious for like sleeping it off like pretty well. I like that. Bo went to bed at 7 a.m. Or sorry, I'm sorry, 7 a.m or sorry i'm sorry 7 p.m uh that night thursday night guess when he woke up 10 a.m he slept for 16 and a half hours make it count up at 11 30 a.m just perfectly fine did you guys like go in and check if he was

breathing i was gonna say yeah I was 9 a.m. I don't know what I was doing. Maybe I was with Todd, you know, getting shoved armpited. Actually, I think I was. That's wild. Sixteen and a half hours. Dude was just clean as a whistle. Just great.

I don't know if he's right thing, but yeah, he. Wow. Yeah. So, I mean, just literally just, yeah, waddled out like it was nothing. He had a sweat lodge in his bed or something. Another thing, yeah, another thing that he's doing these days, I don't know where it came from. Maybe it's for me, I don't know.

But like when you're tickling him, when you're playing with him, this thing that he does right now is just, he says, okay, over and over again. So I'll just be like, okay, okay, okay, okay. And so it's just kind of fun to mess with him. He'll just yell okay over and over again okay okay okay okay okay okay okay okay okay um a few other things for my kids let's see uh how you and i have been playing a lot of go fish and i'm getting to the point now where i'm like trying to like make her strategic

and smart at playing games and a little bit shady sometimes so what I've done you know Go Fish is just like you know she says do you have any eights I'm like I don't have any eights Go Fish and then I'll say do you have any blah blah blah I don't have any fives Go Fish and I'll pull a card and I'll look at it and be like oh man I got an eight

and I'll put it in my thing and so she'll be like do you have any eights and then i'll be like i was tricking you got six you know whatever you know and then i'll pull it the next time and i'll be like oh man i got an eight and then she's like i'm not gonna say it because you told me last time i do the same thing with rachel really yeah and then i'll be like I actually did get an eight. Do you have any eights? And so it's been kind of fun to like, yeah,

add like a level of strategy and like mind game to everything. Living rent free in your head. Yeah. You don't even know, man. The other thing, let's see. We went to Polar Express.

I took Bo to his first movie the other day at Union Station. Went and saw Polar Express. And it's an interesting movie. It's really, I don't know. I looked up things about it later. Because Tom Hanks is like five of the parts in the movie. Oh, does he? It's very interesting.

Okay. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Tom, do you want to have this role? Okay. What about that one? Okay.

Do you want to be Santa? Okay. Do you want to be the little boy? Okay. Do you want to be santa okay do you want to be the little boy okay do you want to be the conductor okay all these different things uh but only one time like we were just watching it i mean and bo just kind of turns me like so matter of fact and he just goes i'm pretty scared right now and i go okay buddy just eat some popcorn he's like okay i'll eat my popcorn and he's turd and then there was one time i mean we went to like one of those imax like massive screen theaters in union station and there's one i mean it's a ton of people there 300 people probably and i'm pretty scared right now it's pretty quiet and they're like going up this like room

and hattie just as loud as you can imagine, just goes, I wouldn't go up that room if I were them. I was like, how do you just got to whisper? That's funny though. It was so funny. Uh, so it,

cause she had seen it once before we went with her last year and just saw it. So anyway, that was fun taking them to that. Um, and then one more little story with them is Catherine, you know, more afraid than anything of mice.

And so the other day she found some mice droppings under the sink and she's like, we got a mouse, you know, whatever she's freaking out. So I went and bought traps, put them out the next morning. It's just classic.

Like my family always just seems to congregate in one small room of our house. So like all five of us are on our bed in our room. And Catherine's like, before I get out of bed, I want you to go check the, you know, check for mice.

And so Hattie and Bo, like just so joyfully like, Oh yeah, let's go check for mice. Ran out there. And then like two minutes later, you hear how you start crying and running back. She's like,

there's, there's a mouse in there. There's a mouse in the trap. I'm pretty scared right now. Yeah. Well then, then Bo walks in like, there's a mouse in there. There's a mouse in the trap. Hattie's like, I'm pretty scared right now. Yeah. Well, then Bo walks in like, you know, 30 seconds after her kind of just sauntering. There's some mice in there.

I was hoping Bo would be like dangling him by the trap. He's like, Shrek. Yeah, she's right. So then Catherine's like, okay, we need to go take those mice out and throw them away. And so Bo starts running back before I was out of the bed. I was like, Bo, don't touch the mouse. We get there and we had put out two different little sticky traps.

They both had two mice on them. One of the mice was like 10% on the sticky trap. I was nervous. He's still running around. Bo is 10 inches away from this thing. Just point at it. You see him? It's a mouse.

It's a mouse right there. It's alive. And it's like flurrying around and stuff. Bo belongs in Grundy County. Yeah. Well, I belong in Grundy County for my next move. I use a dustpan because I'm not that much of a man. But I use a dustpan to kind of scoop up the traps, put them in a plastic bag.

I open up the garage door door like the door to the garage and I just look back at Bo with the bag I just go, WABOOM! WABOOM! WABOOM! Like while you're making eye contact with your son and Bo goes are they dead?

Like yeah, they're dead buddy He's like giving you a fist bump Yeah, so he goes dad dad killed dad killed them like so uh anyway that's amazing i'm not coming back from that one oh and then i have i have one more story though i have i have plenty of stories with my kids from this week but uh was it last night yeah it was just last night um i knew it was supposed to rain but it was a freaking deluge out there. Did you see it set a record?

Set the record since 1897 was the last, like the hardest rainfall before last night. I don't know if it just didn't rain as hard up in Platte City. Everyone's talking about the storm like you are. And I'm like, yeah, it was kind of a thunderstorm, but it was nothing crazy. Maybe it was narrow. There were two separate times where it just dumped for like 30 minutes. So it was, what was the record? It was 1.04 inches.

I think it's because usually in December, it's a little bit cooler out. And so it might snow. So anyway. One inch of rain in what time period? I don't know. I think it was just in that yesterday in general. Anyway, but it's like a tradition with the men in my family that we always go to this uh sports bar called chapels it's like a museum of sports yeah we've got a lot of so cool yeah um and so i was like me and bo we're gonna go i knew it's supposed to rain a little bit but

who cares whatever and he loves putting on his rain jacket and boots rain boots and stuff um and so yeah we we load up to go and it's i mean it's right in heart like there's a few times on the highway where we're going 15 miles an hour because like there's flash floods and stuff wow um turns out like we're almost to chapels then we get a text being like hey plan b chapels is closed let's go to brgr in power and light which is burger place and uh yeah it's great it's uh but as we're getting closer as we're getting closer it's great. It's, uh, but as we're getting closer, as we're getting closer, it's like, oh, there's nowhere to park anywhere near this. And I'm like, I'm like circling, trying to find like a loophole, you know, me, like I'll,

I'll park anywhere. Ask, you know, forgiveness. Nobody's going to give you a ticket in a deluge. And so, uh, you know, but I can't find anywhere to even like fit my truck. And so we park two blocks probably away and it's pouring down rain and i look back at bo bo's got his like this like new garbage truck that he got for christmas in his hand and he's got his hood up with his rain boots on and i look back i you know put out my fist i say you ready for an adventure and he goes he like gives

me a fist bump he goes you should put your hood up, dad. You're right. I put it up and I run out. That's awesome. Take him out and we just run in. I carry him. And it was great. It was a lot of fun.

So can't wait for things like that. Yeah. He that's hilarious. He definitely didn't like it, but it was still really fun. So anyway, that's fun. Yeah. If you smored up. Oh, sure.

Smored up. The last time we did this was two weeks ago. And as predicted, I got smoked. And that's fine. Snacks aren't my thing. Apparently. Apparently. Eating snacks as meals like pizza rolls, more my thing.

Oh, there was some heated debate. I went to Scott's wife's birthday. Her name's Sam. Chicken and pickle. And Brie Dowd, Russ Endowed, do not think that pizza rolls are snacks. Do not think that cookies are snacks. That's a dessert. I think they kind of trashed puppy chow as a snack.

They did. They said that's a dessert too. I knew I loved the Dowds. Yeah, right. It's okay. There's an asterisk next to that win, I guess. Yeah. Britt's brother-in-law, Tyler, too. He was like, Scott, I don't want to tell you this, but I feel like it's the right time.

He's like, when we had puppy chow at Palmer's birthday party, I went home and barfed. Oh, Scott was, Scott was so offended by it. I was like, what? Scott, Scott, like he's, he's more proud, proud of his puppy chow than his daughter, I think. I was like, what are you talking about? I was like, there's nothing in puppy chow that's going to make you barf. I didn't use expired peanut butter or anything like that. And I'm like, well, what happened in the day leading up to this?

And he's like, well, I had been fasting for like 18 hours. And then I went to your house and ate a bunch of pizza and soda. I don't know if he put a number on it. I don't know if he put a number on it. He did. Yeah did yeah I don't know that was like his only meal though and I'm like well yeah dude you eat a bunch of pizza and puppy chow and and pop yeah that's your stomach's gonna react a little poorly to that seems unfair to the peach oh yeah yeah I will not have any disrespect for the puppy chow anyway I I won correct yeah he did yeah yeah so i get to go first this week uh the category is picked by scott again i believe uh cereals oh yeah um plenty to choose from this week

and they're all going to be cereal which is nice yeah should be no asterisks cereal um okay i'm gonna go first uh scott is going to go second jake is going to go third totally fine pretty standard order there and not only is this just the undisputed champion Okay, I'm going to go first. Scott is going to go second. Jake is going to go third. Totally fine. Pretty standard order there. And not only is this just the undisputed champion in everybody's heart, but it's absolutely my favorite. I know what you're going to say. This doesn't even make my list.

You're ridiculous. Go ahead. You're ridiculous. Yeah. One thumb way down for you. I'm not even going to put the second thumb up because I don't have to. Everyone. It's awesome because now Hattie is really into this as well.

Cinnamon Toast Crunch. That's fine. I'm glad you took the first pick. The greatest cereal. There is no, there's no like off-brand comparison. Like you can't go to Aldi and get, you can, they make it, but it's not the same. I'm going to. Texture's different.

Hey, round three. I'm going to rock your world. No, you're not. Yeah cinnamon toast crunch already buster style back in the day there was a cinnamon toast crunch rap that i listened to on youtube i mean just everything about it not only is it wonderfully great you know in the initial crunchy uh experience but cinnamon toast crunch milk second to none cinnamon toast crunch first and best which is so random because you wouldn't think cinnamon and milk would taste good together that's right you wouldn't and you would keep thinking that no i think it tastes

delicious oh why wouldn't you horchata i guess you have a point. Yes. Go ahead. My first round draft pick is going to be Reese's Puffs. Oh, wow. That is not a bad pick. Come on. What do you mean? I didn't say anything. I didn't either, buddy.

Reese's Puffs are so good. I think so many people really like Reese's Puffs. It sounds like they're on my list. Maybe I feel the same way about Reese's Puffs as Jake feels about Cinnamon Toast Crunch, where it's like- A lot of people like them. So many people think they're so good. I was never allowed to have, or not allowed to, but my mom never bought them, so I don't have an affinity towards them.

Great milk. Great milk. Yeah. Peanut butter milk. Yeah. Yeah. Peanut butter and chocolate milk. I really liked, I grew up with Peanut Butter Crunch, and I was a big fan of that okay so yeah i love reese's puffs i love the texture flavor and the milk

yeah the balls that kind of texture those balls was kind of nice i think it's a solid flavor or solid uh pick thank you you're welcome you guys are making me worried i i didn't expect it every time oh like a pick comes out of my mouth i just have have no clue. Could this be the one? Yeah. Is this going to be the one that I hear Kirk gets after? Scott has anxiety at night. Like, oh gosh. Scott is not playing to win. He's playing not to lose.

He's just playing not to embarrass himself. We're playing prevent defense here. He's a game manager. Yeah, just keep him in balance. Alex Smith over here for schmores. Right. Oh man. Okay.

Jake? I'm going to go with, to me, seems like the most classic just like well appreciated one in my family and for me my whole life lucky charms sure um not on my list mallows are great it's fun having the little grains not because i like them but because it makes you appreciate the marshmallows yeah they're they're there like you can't have them be all mallows no no because then you don't appreciate them right The grains keep you humble, which I like.

And they give you a nice texture crunch. You need balance. Yeah, it's nice. Yeah, you keep the grains on top. You got to eat Lucky Charms somewhat fast if you like them a certain way. But I guess that's most cereal. You like Lucky Charms or do you like the off-brand? Like, does it matter?

I'm trying to think. I've never been a big like off-brand cereal guy. Because you're, what are you saving? Like 20 cents? I'm like, let's just give me the good stuff. Those big bags, you know? Surely know surely yeah you save a lot well those bad boys i know luke crinshaw was a big just bag of operating cereal from all you've worked at all the yeah yeah um i think my knock on lucky charms is subpar milk really yeah oh i

don't feel like the milk is honestly it's not bad no but it's just not i truly think i love the milk after any cereal i don't even know how i would rank them just like it's all good i love cereal have you guys seen my cereal bowl uh you know i'm talking about like you've lost it hey has anyone seen my cereal bowl i just remember the ellis household having the cereal bowls with the built in straw that's right oh yeah yeah yeah oh exclusively i still use them yeah i love that i'm picturing brad in his leather chair hey get off you guys got your cell phones guys guys guys come on no screen time no screen time catherine's a home phone guys grow up seriously come on guys

once i know my milk you guys are in big trouble yeah don't make me come back there dad killed the mouse yeah yeah you bet i did buddy Yeah. Don't make me come back there. That killed the mouse. Yeah, you bet I did, buddy. Okay, good answer, good answer. I don't know what I'm going to go after this. They're all good. But I might go Frosted Flakes. They're probably my second favorite cereal.

So that's ready to go. What? Are those good? Yeah. Frosted Flakes? go. What? Are those good? Yeah. Frosted Flakes. Yeah. I thought you would say they're great. Yep.

Did you see that Tony the Tiger got his own bowl? Bowl game? I was like, he's got his own straw bowl too? He's got a straw. This guy? No, I was like, I don't know. Maybe they've done that before, but I expected it to be like the Kellogg's Bowl.

It was specifically the Tony the Tiger Bowl. I like that. Yeah. Big old tiger, 50 yard line. Bowl names are getting ridiculous these days. They're getting a little more spread out. Yeah, I don't know 75% of the companies that are sponsoring bowls anymore. Anyway.

Just Frosted Flakes. I think it's great. I think there's, you know, you could even, I don't know if it counts or not my home is magic crunch they basically it was just a frosted flakes knockoff you can't go wrong with corn flakes and sugar that's that that's why i think cinnamon toast crunch is the goat is because you can't knock it off what do you mean like like my home's crunch is like the exact same as frosted flakes in my opinion that's what i'm saying people want to like you know replicate this yeah yeah yeah okay frosted flakes is awesome it's it's a go-to like let's say who's been in that position where like it's leg

five night four of your stand-up comedy tour you gotta get off the bus you gotta go to a hotel for the night you're flying out the next day well the bus has ran out of snacks and you're a hungry boy and it's late at night and you find yourself in toledo and you're like what is the door dash option is going to be expensive and the hotel lobby has this little pre-packaged bowl of frosted flakes and you're like oh yeah i can't imagine this a pre-packaged bowl there's something like the gas stations like it's got the packaging on top it's got a oh yeah it's individual like wrapped bowl yeah i i don't i don't know if i've ever had that i've always just had the like i'm old school like back in the day there was they were in boxes oh like a small carton and you needed like three of those to fill up yeah yeah straw bowl those

were cute little boxes this is nice they were smart they sell them in bowls now yeah those are great lifesaver i'm done talking. Okay. I'm a little conflicted on my number two pick because I don't know how the rest of the draft is going to go, but I'm going to go with Cookie Crisp for my number two pick. Wow, dude. Very bottom of my list. Put on my list. Candy. Candy.

Candy. It's so good. Just cookies. Literally. They're miniature. Yeah. They're miniature. Miniature cookies.

Yeah. Scott's got cereals or Reese's. Just Reese's peanut butter cups and chocolate chip cookies. Next, he's going to say like a birthday cake crunch. You guys ever had that one? Yeah, what was that one? The Dippin' Dots cereal you tried that one time. Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. I forgot I made a video about that. I still want to try the Teddy Graham cereal too. Just pouring a bowl of Teddy Grahams. That's literally what Cookie Crisp kind of is. Yeah, it's pretty close. But kind of is like but they are delicious and they are good one thing i like in cereal is that it can hold its texture like when you get to the last few bites it's not just like a sloppy mess i would say cookie crisp is almost when you have to dunk a little bit a little too firm a little too firm yeah

cookies are you cookies meant to last like six weeks on the show? You can slosh it around in there, submerge it, baptize it a little bit. Yeah, you're right. And yeah, but they're delicious. I mean, it's cookies and milk classified as cereal. It's so funny. Like, yeah, that's a good pick. I grew up like having cereal every single morning for breakfast. And my mom, I think I think we got cookies, cookie crisp once.

But my mom was always like, no, it's just not good for you. There's no nutritional value in that. Let me buy you Cinnamon Toast Crunch instead. It's like, I think they were all pretty bad for you. In hindsight. Yeah, it's like, don't drink the Dr. Pepper. Get the Sprite. Right.

Get the Sprite. Dr. Pepper has caffeine. It'll keep you up all night. Sprite just has like, you know, whatever, 80 grams of sugar. I'm pretty sure if you look at the nutrition facts of any cereal, it's going to be pretty similar. Yeah, whatever. 80 grams of sugar. I'm pretty sure if you look at the nutrition facts of any cereal, it's going to be pretty similar. Not great. One that's very healthy, guys, because it has oats in the name, is something I like to call Honey Bunches.

Really? Oh, my gosh. That's a pick? I had that on my list. Oh. I love Honey Bunches. I did not expect to see that fly off the board tonight. Oh, yes, brother.

I mean, if I was scared that you guys were going to pick it, I would have picked it number one because I like it that much. I think this is an adult. This is a middle class adult pick. No, I've liked it for... I don't know. I've been an adult for a while. Did your parents eat it? My parents ate it.

That's how it got into my eyes. My dad was a big Raisin Bran guy. Yeah, that's terrible. And my dad filled up his bowl one third of the way. I mean, it was like, what? What is that bowl? You don't need no straw for that one. So Honey Munchers of Oats is my number two pick. My number

three pick. Wow. Oh my gosh, brother. Don't wow me. It just seems like if I had if I didn't care about health or sugar or anything and I had Honey Bunches of Oats and like anything else on my list, like, oh, give me all of this. Oh, I don't think it's that good for you. I think it's pretty. Have you had it? I think it's just as bad. Got oats in

the name? Exactly. Yeah, it is still pretty sug sugary some of the sources of carbohydrates might be a little bit better um okay and then oh okay i'm gonna go with my third pick i'm gonna go uh just classic don't do it cap and crunch berries okay on my list but not my next one. Just. Just nice. Just Crunch berries. Crunch berries. Yeah. I debated going oops all berries. Too firm.

But it's kind of like the. I had that recently. Marshmallows. Yeah. The marshmallow analogy where it's like, it's nice to have some of those yellow guys. You need the balance of textures. You need the pointy edges of the actual. Roof of your mouth can get banged up.

Sometimes it can. It can. But then I'll tell you what, that roof of the mouth mouth when you then get the milk going on it with the straw i mean it just washes it right away yes the soothing it gives you a nice like film up there yes and yeah it's nice so i think you have a very narrow window with crunch berries because like i got to get some of these kind of wet before i start consuming but now that they're wet it's go time let's where where is your what's your process uh, pouring of the milk. I'm a, I'm a, I pour on the side every time you pour.

Oh, I'll pour the milk. Uh, yes. Yeah. Yeah. And you stay in one spot, one spot. And I always pour it until I see a little bit of buoyancy, right? Yeah. You guys see some like, like it's like the buoys come up.

Like you're like, I can't tell how much it is. And then all of a sudden it's's like, ooh. We're good. The submarine surfaces. I'm a swirl. I do a little swirl. You would. Oh, really? DFA?

Yeah. Everybody gets some milk today. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow. We all get to know each other in the bowl. Melting pot. Everybody's going to get to know each other. Yeah, because I think, like, okay, even if I get a little too much milk, I love milk.

Yes, exactly. Who cares? Not enough milk? But there is such a thing as too much, i love milk yes who cares right not enough milk but but too much there is there's such thing as too much because then you're sloshing as you're going to your leather chair oh i think i never left the kitchen right out right of the bar the bar stool right there nice nice good picks good picks scotty all right my third pick is going to be golden grams oh i forgot about golden grams yeah they're kind of they're kind of forgotten kind of sneaky flavor but they're they're great they are unique grams good texture good flavor they get soggy quick

no your last two bites of golden grams are floppy yeah here's the chip here's the soggy spectrum you have cookie crisp and you have fruity pebbles uh those get soggy i mean the the second you put the milk yeah fruity pebbles. Those get soggy. I mean, the second you put the milk in, those are soggy. Yeah, when you swirl it, it does. It doesn't matter where you put the milk. I promise you it does. Fruity pebbles get soggy immediately. Okay, well,

golden grahams also. Golden grahams are delicious. Serial sogginess spectrum. Has anyone made this before? If there hasn't, then we just invented one. If not not then facebook group will make one for us i would guarantee that yeah that could be like a long form gene shorts video or something that's interesting that is a good pick i think similar to like cinnamon toast crunch golden grams kind of their own like flavor yeah hard to replicate yeah it's good nice yellow box too

yep all right i'm glad this one's still on the board love it i feel like when i think of it i'm like oh it always sounds good. Tricks. Oh, tricks is great. Gotta be the original shapes though. Yeah. Yeah.

They just turned them all the balls. Yeah. What? I think they do offer some boxes now that come in the original shape. They went back. Yeah. PR disaster. Yeah.

I go back. Yeah. I was never a big trick guy. I mean, I think, I mean, it's sugar. So I guess I know. I remember price six months ago

Harrison came home with a big old box of tricks and I didn't want to take his but I just went straight to the store About my own box tricks. Yes. I don't want this for a month. Oh, I love tricks And in my last pick which these are my first four options. So I basically just got to pick Choice here. Yeah Cocoa pebbles. Mmm. These are my four favorite cereals right there so love cocoa pebs it's great when i'm when i was in my sugar days i would usually go to the store and i'd get like frosted flakes these are my daily you would count on them you can make it count with them and then cocoa pebbles are like my late night okay cereal i do the same thing with pop

cards you go you get cherry and you get half a sunday one for the morning one for a glass of milk no cinnamon sugar maybe yeah yeah maybe so much sugar can kind of uh go both ways yeah anyway lucky charms frosted flakes tricks cocoa pebbles i'm done back to you scott oh boy there's three bring it home three picks that i'm i'm in between here's the. It's crashing down. Everybody brace yourself. It'll be a bumpy landing. All right. I'm going to go with my gut, guys. And that is Honey Nut Cheerios.

Oh, there it is. There is the rough landing. I believe Honey Nut Cheerios are truly delicious. They are good. They are very good. Very good milk, too. Very sweet, delicious milk. Wow.

Honey Nut Cheerios. Good good crunch there are so many good ones still on the board wow honey nut cheerios are like a staple i'm trying to be true to myself guys yeah good for you i think we all are trying to be true sunrise i i mean yeah it's like i'm trying to think of what a good. It's like, I'm trying to think of a good comparison. It's like, I don't know. It's pretty impressive you can pull an analogy out of it. It's like Derek Carr. It's like, you know, respectable.

Kirk Cousins. Never going to be a bottom dweller. But he's not. They're not taking you there. You know, they're not getting the crowd on their feet. They're just there. And they'll be there for a while yeah yeah they're not gonna knock your socks off but every time you have the bowl scott agrees with us i love it every time you know what now you think about it they're just consistently there they're delicious okay they're consistently there for you so many good

cereals to lift all right um my last pick is going to be cinnamon life dude i had that i didn't think anyone was gonna pick that i thought that was gonna be the one that got me ridiculed well ridicule me then i don't know no i'm not gonna ridicule it's so good i'm a big cinnamon guy cinnamon toast crunch cinnamon life uh brown sugar cinnamon pop tarts cinnamon rolls you name it brother uh love me some cinnamon life um i mean the the very last bowl of cinnamon life in the bag is so good because there's so much sugar yes and it's just a bunch of little crumbly residual sugar and i mean if you put pour that milk right i mean it's just too good crystals um yeah they are they are just straight sugar so i really thought that was gonna get me laughed out of this house i'm gonna have to eat a bowl of cereal tonight.

I'm looking at all these. They're so good. Oh, that's good. Oh, that's good. Anyway, okay, let me recap real quick. Let me do some honorable mention. This is a fun smores. This is a good one. I'll be interested.

I think it's very, like, just objective. It's like what cereals were in your house when you were growing up, you know? Yeah, those are the cereals that you're going to be true to. Cinnamon Toast Crunch, man, is just something else. Okay, so I had Cinnamon Toast Crunch, man, is just something else. Okay, so I had Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Honey Bunches of Oats, Cabin Crunch Berry, Cinnamon Life. Just saying that out loud just sounds great. Scott had Reese's Puffs, Cookie Crisp, Golden Grahams.

Honey Nut Cheerios. There's going to be Honey Nut Cheerios people out there. There is. That's the thing, though. Everyone's like, yeah, I like those people out there there is that's the thing though like everyone's like yeah i like those it's it's with that high pitch voice like yeah yeah oh yeah i haven't had those in a while oh yeah and then jake uh with his top four picks uh lucky charms frosted flakes tricks and cocoa pebbles good lineup oh cocoa pebbles or cocoa pebbles not puffs not puffs okay my head i was jake I think, sounds the strongest right out of the gate to me.

That's good. I mean, Brad has a heavy hitter with Cinnamon Toast Crunch. And Honey Bunches of Oats. I feel great about mine. Honorable mention for me. Have you guys ever heard of Cracklin' Oat Brand? No. Have you had it?

It looks like dog food. And it is, they had it at K-State, like in the cafeterias. And it is the most expensive, think uh cereal out there and it is little squares with the hole in them yes uh i pulled it up here um yeah i mean high in fiber i'll say that okay like should not have a whole bowl yeah but i always did and my roommate knew it so um i mean i just looked up crackling oat brand apparently there's a wendy's frosty uh cereal you guys know about that no oh why did that pop up when you search crackling oak because they're trying to get their work making ads um any other honorable mentions from you guys i think oh yeah i have some yeah go ahead

apple jacks fun cereal oh. Frosted Mini Wheats. Probably is my fifth favorite. Frosted Mini Wheats was one I can say. I have that on my list, too. The one that I was going to say is, I think, somewhat of a knockoff. Or it's its own thing. They discused it a long time ago. Do you remember French Toast Crunch?

Yes. No. That was amazing. The little pieces of bread. I wanted to like it so much. No, I didn't like those. Oh, I thought that one was so good. Yeah.

I love that one. I like those. And then Golden Crisp slash Honey Smacks. They were the same cereal, just two different companies making it. Like when you poured it, you could hear them, right? They would crackle. They're smacking. And then they also, your pee smelled exactly like it afterwards.

It was like asparagus. Oh, fun. Yeah, fun. So you out there, they don't talk about Dark Horse Rice Krispie clusters. Yeah. They would basically take sugar to combine rice krispies. Those are the way to get rice krispies. Rice krispies are way

too soggy. You have to put sugar on them. I put a lot of sugar on there. I had just regular Captain Crunch. I prefer that with berries. Cocoa Puffs. I also had Frosted Mini Wheats.

You guys didn't like Fruity Pebbles that much? They're just too soggy. I like Fruity Pebbles. I thought they were awesome. I didn't even write anything down this week. I was like, I know what I thought. I'll be fine. That's impressive.

Yeah. Anyway, okay. Vote for your favorites on our Facebook group. Thank you for voting and participating on there. It's always fun. Yeah, I was in between the Honey Nut Cheerios, Frosted Mini Wheats,

and Cinnamon Life. That's what I was in between. Oh, I'm going to have to ask him. You went with Cheerios. Yes. I did, Brad. Make it count, Scotty. Make it count.

Make it count. Did you guys do anything for New Year's Eve? Yeah. I was still in Iowa. Just had a good time. We played. I taught Rachel's family Sett New Year's Eve? Yeah. I was still in Iowa. Just had a good time. We played. I taught Rachel's family.

Settlers at Catan. Yeah. I've played so many games. I'm such a big board game kick right now. I just showed you guys Azul. Can we talk about that? I am loving Azul right now. Very well balanced, fun game.

I didn't even show you guys. The boards we played on, there's a backside. Oh, what? It's slightly different. I was curious about that. I was like, this would get old eventually if there wasn't, yeah. Backside. Backside.

Backside George Reverse. Backside George Reverse. They taught me pitch. You guys ever played pitch? I don't remember very well. I taught them pass the trash. You ever played pass the trash? I think we might have made it up in a triplet family.

I don't know. No, it was called something else, I think. Maybe more vulgar. Okay. I don't know. No, it was called something else. I think maybe more vulgar. Okay. I don't remember what it was called. Take out the trash. Or maybe I'll just play with you. I've heard of it.

Okay, gotcha. Anyway, New Year's was spent just having so much fun playing games. We maybe saw my insurance where we told Rachel's parents that we were leaving because we were supposed to leave. And so I kind of talked to Rachel the night of this wedding. We went to I was like, do you want to see the extra day? And Rachel's like, let's do it, but not tell anyone. Love it. And so I kind of talked to Rachel the night of this wedding. We went to, I was like, do you want to see the extra day? And Rachel's like, let's do it,

but not tell anyone. Love it. And so we said our goodbyes, you know, I went and parked my car somewhere else and we, we did everything imaginable and then made him a scavenger, made Rachel's at a scavenger hunt of all the things he had given up all year long.

And then the final gift was like us still there. Good surprises are so fun. Like we need to surprise people with good things more often. Yeah. doesn't like a good surprise yeah they're awesome like that looked so fun like rachel's dad was like full of joy he was elated yeah yeah the beer and the toilet that was amazing yeah that was great uh we spent or katherine and i spent all day together with my family and then katherine took the little two little kids home haddie all day together with my family. And then Catherine took the little two little kids home. Hattie and I stayed with my family and spent the night with them anyway. But we celebrated New Year's at nine o'clock p.m. Anybody know what's three hours ahead of us? Like time zone wise, central time. Nevada. What is over there? I had no idea. Like

is Guam over there? Is that like Nova Scotia? Here's the ones I do know. I don't know either of those answers. Did you say Guam? Yeah, is that Atlantic? I bet Guam probably is. It was like a lot of... No, Guam's in like the... Isn't Guam in like the Indonesia area?

I don't know. It was like Central... It was like South America. So we watched like a YouTube live of like Brazil, like their countdown. And we had sparkling grape juice you know hattie was like having so much fun and then bermuda that's what i was trying to think of bermuda's over there yeah and uh you know i got to give her a little kiss at midnight and like showed her like hey it's what you do you give each other kisses and then she thought it was so fun to

do cheers with everybody and then you know so many things like in my childhood, we had like all these random traditions like Chris or New Year's Eve. We always put on goofy hats and had root beer bottles that we drank. And, you know, it's like the simplest, most random thing in, you know, whatever. It was really fun. It's always like, I wonder, I want to make traditions like that for my family. And I don't think it's really that easy to just like enforce traditions. I think stuff like that, like let's put on hats and here we go. It's a tradition. And I think we have a new tradition. At least I thought it was so sweet

and so cute. And Hattie thought of it. Hattie goes, we should all sing. We wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy new year. Cause it's the new year. And so, you know, we had happy new year from, you know, Sao Paulo or whatever. And then we all together saying we wish you a merry, you know, and Hattie thought it was like so fun. And it was just a really like pure, sweet time. And yeah, we went home and she got to bed by 10 o'clock and that was the greatest night of her life. Here's a tradition for you and your family. You start drinking sparkling grape juice out of your straw bowls. I like it. It has to come naturally. only break them out of new year's yeah yeah well that brad's not

gonna let i don't eat that much cereal anymore oh that's true yeah um anyway and we haven't talked about christmas at all can we talk about christmas though i know we're kind of going back and forth here uh i don't know christmas is just so fun when you have kids and they're so into it. Bo got some cowboy boots for Christmas. Giddy up. Just thinks they're the coolest thing in the world. Like, you know, a lot of things from Santa were presents like gifts. We opened up, or toys, I mean, we opened up presents from mom and dad the night before

Christmas Eve. And so Hattie got some toys. All Bo really got was practical things like a book and some cowboy boots. We were like, oh gosh, I hope Bo doesn't get self-conscious about it. He doesn't get as many toys. He didn't care. He was so pumped about the boots. We went to church Christmas morning.

He's telling everybody, I got boots. These are my boots. I got boots for Christmas. Haddy had a bike. She was so pumped. I didn't know how she was going to feel about Christmas. That's cool. I had a bike, and she was so pumped. I didn't know how she was going to feel about that because it's like, cool, a bike, and it's snowing outside, so I can't do anything. We had the same thing with Palmer. Yeah.

He's like, I want to go ride my bike, and I'm like, it's negative 28. Yeah. So. But she was so pumped about it and really sweet. And then a pretty heartwarming uh story i think it was actually at new year's eve because we didn't actually celebrate christmas with my immediate like my sisters and my parents and stuff until the second of january so um but my sister julie was looking at under their christmas tree she had all these presents for all of us and she's like hattie i think there might be a present with your name under there and he's like really and they were looking and they couldn't find it for a while and so i you know i love doing like the

joke where i'm like uh i love doing it where it's like does anybody want ice cream i'm like hattie doesn't like ice cream she'll be like yes i do you know i think it's so fun so i did that with the present i was like hattie i don't think ann julie has one for you you probably don't like presents and hattie goes that okay. I already have enough presents. Cool. And I was like, Oh my gosh, just melt my heart.

Why don't you follow her? Oh, it's just so sweet. Like even like, I mean, Hattie, like she's just the most like first child. Perfect.

I mean, she's not perfect by any means, but even at new year's Eve, um, you know, we were getting, I was like, do you want root beer

or sparkling grape juice and she tried the root beer it was kind of funny like i gave her a first try of root beer i have a bottle and stuff she's like i don't really like that and so i gave her some sparkling grape juice she goes and can i have water too mom says i need to drink more water and i'm like who are you so responsible like you are yeah you're keeping yourself accountable more than your dad is so uh anyway just sweet moments with hattie and beau and rosie so anyway you have any stories for your christmas time um yeah i just echo what you said it's it's pretty fun to watch your kid react to opening presents but it's also trying to find the balance of like okay here's when you know it's like enough

like like i said palmer truly would never say i think i have enough presents you know she just always is like i mean she's a capitalist she's consuming yeah uh but it was funny the night before because one of the one of the traditions in my family is like my parents either hid or always wrapped a bunch of gifts christmas eve night so when i came down the tree was just loaded like two times the size of what we did that too i love that yeah with palmer we did the same thing there's a couple presents underneath the tree you know but sam and i did the bulk of the wrapping christmas eve okay and so sam was like yeah we'll just wrap all these and you know or tell tell her that they're all from santa and i was like no no no no i was like i'm not having some mythical

creature take all the credit yeah she's got the good ones yeah all the money we spent on these presents i was like we will wrap some presents in this wrapping paper and some presents in this those are from santa these are from us talk about a capitalist guy yeah you're like i'm worried about people knowing what i was like i used to know that we love her we get her presents yeah it's not just coming down here and be like hey mom and dad why don't you ever give me presents you know because she gets presents from everybody else right but yeah we sorry go ahead i was just gonna say yeah she got a ton of toys uh we've spent the better part of the last week like purging old toys yeah making space for

new ones which totally of course we'll be doing again in 12 months what do you what's your personality like uh like like katherine and i katherine has more of a tendency to want to spoil them on big events like their birthday and christmas and stuff and like go way too extreme like katherine was like talking at one point she was like maybe we should get him like one of those like you know oh what do you call like those cars like like that you ride on like the street you know those things like like not like a car a little motorized cars yeah yeah uh and like some of those are like 400 i was like no we're not we don't know like have like bugatti versions of those cars yeah she was like looking at a hummer one or like a john deere one

i was like no no we're not doing like like and, and she's like, I'm sorry. I don't know what's getting into me. Like, like she has like this desire to spoil them more on those occasions. And I'm a little bit more like rational, but then I am like on a random Tuesday on the daily. I'm like, oh, let's go. You want ice cream for no reason right now? Yeah. Let's go get ice cream.

Yeah. Yeah. You know, get it large. Yeah. Yeah. Why not? You know, let's watch a movie. Yeah.

Let's watch. Like, how fun is that? Drink some root beer. And you know, whereas Catherine's like way more like movies on Fridays, you know get it large yeah yeah why not you know let's watch a movie yeah that's like how fun is that drink some root beer and you know whereas katherine's like way more like movies are on fridays you know no screen time home phone um so yeah i don't know i think sam's like that she like she balled out big time for palmer's birthday this year right i mean it was confused for a kardashian birthday party which that's yeah that's the same thing for christmas yeah she kind of she got her a ton of toys right and then yeah i'm kind of the more like you know let's go get a treat or let's go do this or go do that right whatever more spontaneous anyway it's just fun if you're out there and you want to share what kind of parent you are let us know yeah something i just thought of as you

guys were talking about opening gifts is rachel's dad had like told everyone i don't want anything for christmas don't give me anything i don't want it of course everyone's gonna get him stuff sure so christmas day comes or at least the day we're celebrating christmas in iowa and he starts opening one of the gifts uh that we were pretty sure was to him and he opens it up and there's nothing in the box and he was like are y'all messing with me it was one of the boxes that rachel uh wrapped here to be a jean shorts prop. And we accidentally packed it up. And so we accidentally gave him nothing for Christmas.

And he was so excited. He's like, oh, somebody gave me nothing. But what was hilarious is it was apart from like a thing for my car that I had ordered. And it had a couple screws in it. And so he's like, this is perfect. I got a couple screws. Nothing else. It's the best gift I've ever gotten. He didn't want to open anything else the rest of the day you need some

extra screws every once in a while he was truly like i don't think he was faking a single bit of it he loved an empty box which is like two screws in it that's amazing it was the best accident yeah uh did you guys get anything cool for christmas dude that that's the funny thing is like i was excited about my gifts from katherine me two things. I got her one thing. And they're the most adult, like boring things in the world. I got a gray L.L. Bean sweater. Okay. And a reusable notebook.

Like you can, that's kind of cool actually. Like you can like. What's it called? I don't remember. It's not the remarkable. Okay. Those are sweet. Those are real dope. Really cool. No, they're not that. It's not the remarkable. Okay. Those are sweet. Those are real dope.

Really cool. No, they're not that expensive. Yeah. It's not that advanced. Um, what's a remarkable? Uh, it's like, uh, it's crazy. You like take notes and it will transcribe it into like basically type text. Yeah.

Type text. Oh, give me more. No. Mine is like, you can take a picture, like you can, you can take a picture of it and it automatically like goes to the cloud and do stuff. It's pretty it's pretty cool. But I don't think it's like it would be a good tool for like stand up material.

OK. Like, honestly, remarkable. Maybe. And then I got Catherine a deep freeze. She was very excited. Yes. So like a freezer for your like a like a garage freezer. Yeah.

Like the ones that are loading. She's like, oh, we can we can store up. We can stash up so much milk in here. I'm like, OK. Oh, good. Right. Yeah. So DFA, we're coming for you.

Good. So anyway. Yeah. She's so pumped about the freezer. That's all she wanted. Like, OK. Great. Great.

A nice adult Christmas. Yeah. So and I got I got more clothes and other cool things too. Jake, you get anything cool? Oh, moms are so nice. Jake got a nice coat. My mom got me so much.

Oh yeah, Rachel got that one for me. That thing is sweet. Rachel spent so much money on me. I was like, this is crazy. You bought her a Kindle. Rachel. Yeah, I guess maybe about. No, Rachel spent more money.

In an engagement ring. You bought that. Well, you pay me back. Rachel got me a massage. Oh, I'm so excited. Do be careful, though. Make sure you don't say you want a deep tissue massage. I think it's I made that mistake one time.

It specifically says, yeah, no, I've made that mistake, too. And Rachel, I think, knew that and got me like the normal one. OK, so that's fun because I've been saying ever since the tour got got over i was like i should get a massage and i just never book it for myself so that was such a thoughtful yet fun gift um my mom got me so much stuff and my mom even knew she's like i went a little overboard on just like random crap on amazon so just know there's some stuff and it was funny like we're all pulling stuff out of like different stockings and we're all like laughing at like, what is this? What a random thing.

Like there was a there was a funnel. It looked like a funnel for when you need to pour like motor oil in your car. You don't spill it. And we're just trying to figure out what is this device? She's like, it's a it's an ice scraper. And we're like, I guess it is. I've seen those. It looks like a funnel, though.

Yeah. And so people swear by him. Yeah. Yeah. It's different ergonomically. I don't have an ice scraper. Which end scrapes? I'll tell you when it ices i don't know yet okay uh but yeah so it's there was a lot of gifts there rachel's mom got me so much stuff just like like good stuff she got me like a gallon of diva detergent oh a gallon i didn't know they made them this big

dude huge that is a patagonia coat for it was diva she got me so much yeah fun stuff and yeah some chief stuff it was awesome the the whole coop family went in and got rachel and i like a like a backyard fire pit kind of thing oh cool guys those are awesome yeah so fun i would love to be invited over for one of those sometimes okay player result that was right oh yeah what'd you say it's like player cards right but it's a fun spin on it based on the game we played tonight we played for the first time uh scott catherine brad and jake and scott set the record for anybody who's ever played before and man was he fun about it hey should we go just like in pickleball where he just like makes these plays

you suck man that's all it was the whole line sounds like ah there was a lot of giggling from scott's side just everything that rachel was saying i just every time i would look over at brad and his facial expression oh it's so annoying is this game i I mean, it's not that complicated of a game. We picked up on it. It's like you can understand it pretty quickly. It took Brad a while to catch on, though. No, it didn't.

Catherine was making fun of me because I kept saying Portuguese instead of Portugal. Anyway, and like all these different things. But yeah, Scott has this background where he spent two years in Portugal. And it's like this Portuguese game. And so Scott kept like throwing out Portuguese words. And I was just like, Oh my gosh, shut your mouth,

dude. He's just dominating us. He's like, we had a drink like this in Portugal. We call it mama. Gotcha. Breeza. Yeah.

There it is. Shut your mouth. So that was my high school. Basically. Do we need to play another game right after this? Settle a score a little bit. Dude, I was like, shut your mouth. So that was my high school, basically. Do we need to play another game right after this? Settle the score a little bit? Dude, I'm down. If y'all are, I probably really need to get home.

But I do love Azul. I will absolutely. I mean, it's I mean, my sleep schedule is toast for tomorrow anyway. I'm not getting eight hours. Yeah, we'll see. I'm down. Just kidding. We'll see.

Give me another massage. Before we get to reviews of the week, quick rapid fire. Scott, get three questions incorrect. You ready? Yeah. Now it's a little bit later. It's 1135 at night. What kind of animal was Abu in Aladdin?

A monkey. Was he a monkey? Oh, frick. Did he even need to get a book? I was thinking of the jungle book for some reason jeez okay start over that's balloon start over start over start over easy monkey start over easy monkey didn't need the timer on that one okay monkey next one restart restart oh my gosh oh that's funny okay you ready for round two

yep what is the fastest land animal a monkey who wrote Hamlet JK Rowling who built the pyramids uh

the Jewish the Jewish some people might say they did the Jews the Jewish even if Scott got it under eight seconds Some people might say they did. The Jews. The Jewish. Even if Scott got it under eight seconds, I don't know if he won there.

The Jews. Not the Jews, the Jewish. There wasn't like a people group. It was like the entire belief system is what built the pyramids. Oh my goodness. Who built the pyramids? Judaism. It's a great game you get all sorts of judaism son that was great that i i think it's in my head now that's like i can't

do it again do it again it's a little hard after a zoo he needs to be you know, knock down a few pegs. Um, okay. Again? Me again? Oh, again. Again. Okay. Let me look. Oh.

Okay. Ready? Mm-hmm. Let me, okay. What do bees make? Strawberries. Strawberries. What do you write on Strawberries. Strawberries.

What do you write on a blackboard with? Markers. On which holiday do you go trick-or-treating? Christmas. Nice. 12 seconds. 12? No way.

Jake was laughing. I cackled a bit too long on that one. That was my bad. That was my bad. Oh, that's funny. I could listen to that all day. What do bees make? Can we just...

I know I'm like pushing the envelope too far, but can we just do it one more time? I just enjoy this too much. Hold on. I ran out of good questions on that website. I'm just Googling kids trivia and trying to find the ones that would have an obvious answer. My abs are hurting.

I'm laughing. Sheesh. You know what find some let me do reviews we'll do reviews and jingle okay i have one quick shout out before we go oh yeah yeah um i got recognized again guys let's go yeah i was uh sitting at a table at dfa eating lunch and a coworker that I'd never met before walked up to me and she said, Hey, do you have a podcast? I said, no, but I am on a podcast often. She goes, Oh, okay. I thought I recognized you. And I was like, okay, cool. And she's like, um, he's like, I don't actually listen to it, but my brother does. And he's obsessed with it. Oh, cool. And I was like, Oh, sweet. And I was like, what's your brother's name she said ryan root so shout out to ryan root man and her name's bethany holt so shout out to ryan and bethany what do they say in the office you uh something man or a root man

yeah yeah what is it it rhymes with root i think a glute man or a root man really no uh what is it everyone is listening and they know it. I don't know. I thought so. We'll look it up later. Yeah, so that was kind of fun. That is cool. Unexpected. Yeah, I had no idea.

Rachel and I went to a wedding and they had a guy kind of playing guitar during like kind of a social hour and he'd get up with a song and like no one was really clapping for him. And so I made a point. I was like, that's what I'm talking about. talking about do another you know i was trying to hype him up turns out he was a big g-sports fan so it's fun that we're already connecting and i feel like i

was being myself and being fun everything all the while he was like looking back we knowing like oh my gosh like that's cool so that was kind of fun steve the guitarist steve all right reviews of the week yeah i'm gonna go with uh pumping up my boy over here in the corner. Sleeper Scott steals a show. Llamacrafter123 from December 22nd, 2022. Five-star review. Sort of been a closet ghostie for the better part of a year now. Me too.

Our middle-aged mom's allowed to love this pod. Yeah. It's a gem to find this kind of humor that's clean and from dudes that live a vibrant faith and are actually hilarious. Oh, I struggled through that. Anywho, I love that Scott has joined the show on the regular. This week's Christmas episode solidified him as capital E Epic. Wow.

Nice. His voice impersonations and accents are so entertaining. Who the heck is this guy? Mr. Talent Pants. That was my nickname in high school. Yeah. Looking forward to hearing more fun characters come out. Love all you guys.

Merry Christmas. Minnesota Mom of Four. Nice. Yeah. Thanks, Minnesota Mom. Love the Minnesotans. Mr. Talent Pants. Appreciate you.

Love the Midwesterners. This is Mr. Talent Pants. Get a pair of pants and say it. Yeah. Mr. Talent Pants. What's that? One, two, three, four. Whose chair is that?

What was he saying about the pants? I don't remember. Oh, man. Justin, if you could, 4 whose chair is that what was he saying about the pants I don't remember oh man Justin if you could figure out how to put that in I'd be very impressed if he knows

what in the world we're talking about oh Justin's got it whose chair is that 1, 2, 3, 4 whose chair is that my review of the week

is it says alright alright alright alright four of them don't know if it's Matthew McConaughey or not I waited too long to start listening to

these guys alright I don't get the alright thing that's alright Jake went or not. I waited too long to start listening to these guys. All right. I don't get the all right thing. That's all right. Jake went to the same college as me, and I've casually enjoyed every realm of his comedy since he emceed at our talent show. All right. Thanks for always making me laugh.

And thanks for making me have a ridiculous hankering to get invested in pickleball. All right. All right. All right. Whoa, whoa, whoa. You skipped over. Shout out to Mantastic 2011. What is that?

You just you just tried to hide Mantastic?. What is that? You just tried to hide Mantastic? Oh yeah, I did skip over that. Weird. It was, I think, probably the name of his act. This guy's name is Josh Mitchell. I remember him. His username, Pizerk. I think it's been his username for as long as I've known him. Yeah, Josh Mitchell. Cool guy.

I didn't know if Mantastic was when you got auctioned off or something. Good memories. No, I think that must have just been like the name of the act that he did i don't know i don't know what it is yeah fantastic fantastic mr talent either way that's fun it's always so cool to know that people that i previously was like going to school with or whatever like found a way to listen to this now so right josh appreciate you listening dude all right all right all right i have a five-star review for the movie whiplash oh are you rushing or are you dragging i'm upset

yeah scotty yeah i watched that um there was a night that palmer and sam were both really tired went to bed early and i was like i saw whiplash is free on youtube with ads really i was like that sounds great life hack yeah so i went and watched it and i was texting you throughout and i was like this is this is fun the ending is awesome just like i was like wait no no no no no you can't be done like that yeah you can't be done like that oh and then i found myself uh we were driving in the car all together as a family and I'm listening to caravan and Sam, like probably is that like, it's like a nine minute song on the soundtrack.

We're like three minutes in and Sam finally goes, what is this? That sounds like something Catherine would do. Yeah. Like, like doesn't really recognize it for a while. And then it's like, wait a second,

this song has been going on a while. Yeah. I was like, dear, this is music. Listen. Oh, man. I'm so glad because, yeah, Jake really made me doubt it a little bit. Like, OK, he doesn't like it. Oh, I'm not a good movie critic.

I don't know anything. I'm so glad that you liked it. I loved it. Yeah. I've always kind of had an affinity for drums anyways. I always always. Mr. Talent. Drumline and Whiplash.

Two best movies from our generation. As I was going to say, Drumline was... I loved that movie when we were kids. Remember that? I was like the white guy on the big bass drum. Remember that? Good times, shaking them hips. Yeah, man.

Jake, sign us off. What? Sign us off. Do you have one? No, I don't have one. oh scott was gonna do one because he won azul it was we said whoever wants lindsay azul gets to do an improv improvised uh jingle so go ahead five six five six seven eight i don't know what to sing about but i want azul drinking brisa masa oh not oh not the Portuguese make it stop

sing us your favorite Portuguese song you gotta have one no sa no yeah I was just about to say assim você me mata ai se eu te pego

ai ai se eu te pego that's all sorry I didn't jump in it's okay I was gonna wait can we do that game one more time with Scott did you find some work oh yeah yeah last one Sorry, I didn't jump in. It's okay. I was going to wait.

Can we do that game one more time with Scott? Did you find some work? Oh, yeah, yeah. Last one. We're on a new website. These seem like they're a little more Hollywood driven. Should still be pretty easy answers. Abu was, yeah, one of them.

You ready, Brad? Or do we even need the timer? Let's just, how many avid questions. Just go until Scott just can't anymore. Okay. And, here we go. Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?

Patrick. What character in Aladdin is blue? Aladdin. What is the name of the princess in Shrek? Shrek. Which school did Harry Potter attend?

Olathe South. What kind of animal is Simba? Tiger. What kind of animal is Sonic? Armadillo. Nice. What do Willy Wonka's helpers called? Elves.

What kind of animal is Shrek? Duh. I don't know what kind of animal he's not an animal at all gorilla weird question weird question all right that's good man he passed good job scotty he passed fun game fun game play with your friends that game is in my head now play with your friends you know shove up drink too awkwardly close to them. Play Azul. Play Azul. Do all the things, guys. Yeah. Cool.

Oh, yeah. I was going to give a quick shout out at the end as to all the fans giving us good, like legitimate feedback about Gene Schwartz name change. I feel like a lot of people like spit time thinking about it. So I just want to say thank you. We always appreciate when we give you guys a little bit of a, you know, call to action. You guys always come through. Always are thinking and helping us out with stuff.

So appreciate you being along for the ride. Gene Schwartz, ghost runners, stand up, whatever it is that we're doing. It feels like you guys are here. Part of it. It's awesome.

Absolutely. Yeah. Appreciate you guys. Scott, thanks for joining Scott as always. Thanks for having me. Hope you'll have a great week and make it count. Hopefully I see some of you guys are in Orlando.

I'm flying to Orlando tomorrow. I really want to make it town to be the very last thing we make it talent. I really want to make it. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. That's this episode. Make it count. All right.

Good. Wait. Oh, shoot. OK. OK. I'm well, that has been episode one. Ninety three.

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