Ghostrunners - 208 - One-Day Friends

Episode Date: March 13, 2023

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Hello, Brad. Hello, Jacob. So yesterday I got to go on a little trip. No one likes a braggart. I got to go to a golf course. Trey and I were looking for a kind of a home course in Kansas City. Fun trip. To where we could film all our videos.

We have a relationship with them. They let us film. Could be fun. Yeah. And anyway, I go in and they're talking and I was like, I think one of my buddies used to join here and I'm talking to this woman, maybe she's at this at Warren. She's like a real like businesswoman, real like, you know, no, no frills. Just like, it's good to point.

What do you want? What could we do for you? You know, kind of the thing. And she's like, do you have any, do you know anyone who's been a member previously? And I was like, yeah, Luke Hoagland. He was a member here. And she's like, oh, I think I recognize that name. Yeah. I always say like, you know know it's like i have 600 babies and i was like oh like a fish and she goes um she's like

like what and i was like oh nothing and she's like no what is it so then i had to repeat it again so it was it didn't get off to a good start and then later this moment's all business so i'm gonna make a joke about uh 600 babies in the fish yeah i was like like how fish like you know they have like hundreds of eggs at a time and she was like oh so like like like clownfish uh snappers uh wide mouth bass i was just recovering the whole time and so then she's touring around like this is like where people eat dinner this is you know what we do here This is where my babies hatch. This is where I got fertilized, right over here. And then she was like, she's taking me through the fitness center.

Right outside the fitness center is kind of the restrooms, locker rooms. This whole thing is a tour just for me to see everything. You're like, we just want to see the golf course. Yeah. It's just like, well, I didn't even need to. Honestly, I went there to negotiate a price. And she's like, come see the renovations. And like the pool is going to look like this in the look like this in the summer. Okay, whatever. Anyway. She's trying to justify her price to you. Yeah, I guess so. She is like, all right, you got to see outside of the fitness center,

the locker rooms. Now I can't go in there, but go in there and look around. Hey, so crawl on all fours and check it out. I didn't think much about what I was doing. I was like, oh, okay, yeah, I'll go see the locker room. Yeah, absolutely. Fully clad in no... And then I walk into a men's locker room. What's up, fellas?

With the command, look around. And I'm just like, this is... Take a peep, huh? Get to know some fellas, whip a few of them. And so I didn't know what to do. I see you found the rough. I was just like walking around. I didn't know what to do. I see you found the rough. I was just walking around.

I mean, men are showering. Men are naked. Nine irons are everywhere. And I'm just like, oh, playing shorter tees for you. Playing from the tips, huh? Uh-oh. Ooh, I think this tight

beat means that it's going down with some random thoughts and white me too midwest best friends eating fast food on repeat so come along let's have some fun and go ahead get on your feet because it's a ghost Is there beeping happening? Who is that? Is it a camera? Maybe. Is the camera out? Don't tell me the camera's overheating.

Don't tell me the camera's about to explode. There is a beeping noise. It's my computer. Jake has just a random beeping going on in his computer. That's interesting. Why? Where is it coming from? So I started a stopwatch so i

would know how long we were recording but it's just a google stopwatch why is it why does it beep did you set it like at a certain time like when you press start like when we start recording but like you didn't say like stop it at this time i didn't say like start beeping once we hit two and a half minutes. How fun. Oh, well. Well, if you guys hear the beep, which I doubt you will, that was what it was from. How fun.

Yeah, that was kind of weird. Okay. We are back. Oh, back. We are so back. We are back, but we are new and better than ever. Better than ever. We've talked about the phases of the new studio.

Phase one, we got some new gear. New gear. Phase two, new wall. New walls. Phase three is complete. Completed phase three. And I know we said this last Monday, but you guys have to watch on YouTube.

Or at least watch it for like 20 seconds. Let us show you what we can do. Oh, you like seeing Brad and I both at the same time? What about just me? Oh. Oh, and how about just me and both of us again how fun talk about phase three talk about phase three we have a new employee new new character of the podcast are we going to reveal his characters his identity or we're just going to keep it as a secret i think first and foremost we have to honor the fallen yes we have we have a brethren that is no longer

with us. He got kicked out of the fantasy league that is. Yeah, he's been guillotined. Ghost runners. No one goes to teen. Yeah, we're joking around, but I think it's because we're still on such great terms. So Justin is no longer the editor of Ghost Runners. Yeah, nothing to do

with Justin or how he was editing or anything. Well, oh, nothing. No. Yeah. Sorry. Yeah. Nothing to do with Justin or how he was editing or anything. Well, oh, nothing. No. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Sorry. Sorry. Private emails. Private. Yeah. Yeah. We'll put that on Patreon later. No.

Justin's the man. He I mean, we just got coffee with him Friday and consider him a good friend. And he's still going to be like editing Jean short stuff for us. Whenever the Ghost Runners go on tour, he's going to be our guy. He's going to be our tour guy. Yeah, so we love Justin. Justin's the man. But with the new studio and the new upgrades

and all the new cameras, we need someone here who has fingers here. Justin was like, I can zoom in, but I can't get my fingers there. No, he's tried. And so we put out a casting call. Yeah, and we said, send us your fingers. Send us your fingers.

Let me see your fingers. A lot of people heard of Feet Finder. Not a lot of people know about finger thing finder yeah um yeah we are some of the only people that have an account on it which is why it was so easy to find yeah um what was your screen name um i think it was fingy fingy one two four one two four because One, two, four, because you work all day, one day a week. Not 24-7, 24-1. One, two, four. Yeah. Yeah.

Anyway, so anyway, fingy, fingy, one, two, four. I put out an ad and then I believe the username I found was timing and Garfunkel. Yes. Let's just keep it at that. Let's just call them T's and G's. And I was like, these are good fingers. Yeah. I got to have these fingers. Incredible fingers. And believe believe it or not that is not how i plan on introducing our new

our new editor this has gotten a little weird but uh and he's not mic'd up today he'll be mic'd up next week but um timon timon timon's our guy timon says timon agarfunkel time and time again yeah time after time and uh he's our guy he's super knowledgeable about all things techie and um he's the man might have some surprises you know or oh we're gonna we're gonna use and abuse time i'll tell you that right not just the fingers either the guy's got a voice all right so uh yeah so a lot of fun changes going on and, um, let's talk about how we found time and real quick. I think, I think that's fun. Like, well, you already, I guess I just went over. Sorry. Yeah. Nevermind. You're right. Uh, no, from what I understand, he just DM you, right.

And it was just like, Hey, if you ever need any help with video editing, I am around, I'm in Kansas city and timing is 16 or 17. How old are you? 16 years old. And he's just the most responsible 16-year-old I've ever met. I'm like, I want Bo to be like Tymon someday. I love Tymon already. So yeah. And we were just like, well, we're looking for somebody that has some flexibility in their schedule

that can come for three hours a week, one day a week, you know, and push buttons for us. And Tymon's that guy. Tymon was like, yo, I'm super homeschooled. Yeah, so I can, I can do it. Dude is homeschooled. I'm just kidding. So funny to see right here. I know. Yeah, I could say it. I could say it's like, it's like when you're a big guy, you can call other people fat. Like don't you can't, but I can, I can be like, Hey man, that, that dude is big. It's like, you can especially say anything you want when you don't mic him up.

He can't defend himself. He has no way to defend himself unless he stops switching, and that's his job. We didn't give him a camera. We didn't give him a microphone. But as a homeschool dad, I think I can mess with homeschoolers. Totally. I'm a new dad to the game, but I feel like I'm rookie of the year so far, as far as dads go.

Congratulations on that. Anyway, yeah, Tymon, we're excited to have you here, man. It's going to be fun. It's going to be a fun time. It just feels like a new era of Ghostrunners. Fun Tymon. Fun Tymon's ahead. We got sound panels up here. We got a lot. Yeah, just we're fired up. We're fired up, baby. Brad, what are you fired up about? How was your week? My week's been great, of course. A lot of my notes have to do with kids things, because I feel like if I'm not with you, I feel like you know everything about what we're doing together. If I'm not with you, I'm with my family most of the time. But I do have some fun... Time in. Most of the time in. Yeah, just take out the word. Anytime we use I'm,

we always have to put an in at the end. Time thinking about. Yeah. So anyway, I'm in, uh, the nursery at church. Uh, yeah, we helped out. We were not like on a list for, uh, helping out at church yet. Um, I think we definitely could be don't, don't tell Sam who listens to this, but we definitely could be, we're not like so newborn stage anymore. Like before it was like, Oh, Rosie's still young. So we can't commit to every, you know, once a month or something. But every time anybody asks now we're like, okay, yeah, we'll help out. You think that Rosie's what kept you off the list? Yeah, that's what that's like. Yeah, for sure. But you think you deserve to be on the list? Oh, for sure. I did not deserve. I think it's more like we are willing to be on the list. I don't think it's a deserve thing. I think

it's more of like a, if you feel like you don't deserve it. I mean, I could, I could talk to Sam and you want to be on the list. Okay, fine. I deserve it. So anyway, we got asked to be in room one, which if you couldn't guess, room one is where the youngest babies in the world are. Cabin one. Yeah, exactly. Barn one, K country. So we were in room one. And so yeah, it was literally newborns to like one year old. So like Rosie was in our room. And honestly, if Rosie wasn't in that room, I think I would have been the biggest fish, the biggest kahuna out of water. You could imagine. Cause like all I did was hold my daughter the whole time. And I'm like, why are, why am I even here? I could just take her home.

I'm not helping out with any other child here. Um, but I had the thought like, of course, like with Rosie, I'm very comfortable. She's smiley. She's happy with me. We're playing, you know, there's some kids like crying and stuff doesn't phase me. But, but at the same time, I don't feel like I can help out with those kids at all. They're just going to be freaked out of this big man because I'm the only male helper. It's me and Catherine and four women. You definitely deserve to be on that list. I don't know why they've kept you off of it.

I don't know why they keep not asking you to help. But I have Rosie, and naturally with Rosie, I want to give her kisses and hugs and stuff. And there was this mom that came in at one point to feed her son. You start kissing the mom? No. Oh. But she came in to take her son, and there I am giving Rosie tickly kisses on the neck. And she's probably thinking, who in the world is this weirdo?

How'd he get screened and make it past the, yeah. Like what a, I know a list he's on registered sex offender. The RSO. Yeah. That guy's an RSO for sure. And here I am just like, I mean like making her laugh, having the time of our lives just over here in the little rocker chair, just, you know, all these funny things. And I thought to myself after that woman left, I was like, she didn't know that was my daughter. Yeah. Let's hope she assumes that and doesn't just think like

anybody can do that. But like, she just comes in right at the, just the worst time where you're like, you know, blowing, you know, raspberries on her belly and you're saying, oh, you're cute. Your mom's cute too. You're just like your mommy. Yeah. Your mom gets tickled, right? Your mom's ticklish there too. Yeah. So anyway, I just had that thought of like, oh, that's, that's gotta be weird. Hopefully that girl, you know, knows who Catherine is or something. I don't know.

Hopefully she knows that I'm at least associated with Catherine and Catherine's not just like in this room, like watching this weird guy do these things without, you know, consent of some sort. I don't know. It was just a weird, it was a weird experience later. Like, cause I didn't think about it in the moment. And then I looked back on it later. I was like, that woman might think I'm a freak. You're busy being homeschooled out of the year. You don't have time to think about, you know, extra, extra people. I don't have what?

Timing. Timing. Thank you. Yeah. Time and effort to do all that. Yeah. Very good. So anyway, but through that time in the nursery, I was talking to one of the moms there, and she talked about her six-year-old, who's in Hattie's class, going to the playground and talking about the idea of how kids...

I've experienced this with Hattie, too. They'll go to the playground, and they will have the time of their life with a kid. Are you saying time more than normal this episode? I don't know what you're talking about. I'm in, I'm in saying time and just the normal amount, you know, every time. And they go to the playground, they have the time in their life. Okay. Um, and I mean, it's just the best time and they're just having a great, uh great experience. There it is. Yeah. And I mean, they, they say goodbye to their friend there and I'm like, Hattie, what was, what was that boy's name? And she goes, I have no idea. And this, this woman was like, yeah, it's a normal thing

for my son. My son calls them, uh, his one day friends. And I love the idea of one day friends. I just think that's a really fun idea that as adults, we don't do that. Like they, they just fully accept, like, I'm going to go to this playground. I'm not even really going to know their name. I'm not going to get to know them beyond just like play and hide and seek with them. And then I'm going to leave and not think about them ever again. And I kind of liked the, and I think as an adult, as an adult, we could have a good time and with those kinds of people.

Yeah. Like, I think we could, uh, potentially do a one day friend kind of thing. And if it blossoms, great, but no, no expectations. What do you think?

Well, I'll tell you what it reminds me of time and things we've hired him for, for a suitable future. This is a one day thing. You're a one day friend. Yeah. We got another guy, uh,

yeah. Waiting in the parking lot after this. Garfunkel is on his way. That's right. But yeah, like that's fun. Genuinely, like you're at a coffee shop,

you're sitting there by yourself and somebody just comes and sits next to you and just is like, hey, and it's like, are you looking for a one day friend? Hey, I'm just doing ODF real quick. Like, what do you think? I mean, Luke Hoagland, he started off as a one day friend. He's coffee shop. Yeah.

Hey, what's up, dude? Yeah. How's it going? You want a mortgage later? Yeah. Okay. We can be more than one day friends. Yeah.

Now he's in my wedding. But yeah, that is fun. And no strings attached, platonic friendship. No strings attached. And I think it's one of those things that as a kid, it's not weird. And as an adult, you start being more self-aware. And so you think it's a weird thing, but it's like, no, just accept that it's cool. I like it.

Yeah. I need to start appreciating it more. Because I'm sure that does happen from time to time. Very casual conversations. Hey, are you done with that charger? Oh, yes, I am. Oh, thank you. By the way.

I love this. By the way, loves hey nice hair where do you get that bad boy cut yeah how often do you go there all the time um do you want the one thing i think i could equate it to is as men i think it's more common for men going to play pickup basketball i do think you become friends with guys and then i've never seen that guy again that's a one court friend like what's up your name's damion nice to meet you bro yeah cool and we play you know and if you win you run it back so you sometimes if you're on a hot streak you're playing four or five games in a row with the guy and it's like hey man way to play that was fun and you both know like i were not probably never

gonna see you come here often no not really oh okay yeah yeah yeah uh every once in a while okay well yeah good to meet you man yeah it is funny it's not really a dress like you meet someone yeah like pickup basketball is perfect. Dude, do you come here pretty often? We play all the time. I'm actually from out of town. Oh, okay. Well, dude, it was fun playing with you and you're not addressing like, oh, okay. I'll never see you again. Yeah. This, this interaction doesn't matter anymore. Oh, awesome. Okay. Well, I will forget about this in an hour and never be reminded of it because we'll never see each other. Yeah. I think that's fine. Cause you're a one day friend. because you're a one-day friend and that's that's totally

fine to be a one-day friend uh it kind of reminds me something last night it's going to take me a while to get to the end of this story but um i love those kind of stories no it should be fine we were at pre-world counseling and we split into small groups so there's two other couples with us and had us go around the room like what's your favorite quality of like your you know future spouse or whatever you said she said positivity wow you nailed it you said positivity dude really well in my head i was like i'm going to talk about rachel's like consistent optimism and just like how yeah much of a blessing that is yeah um because if it wasn't there i would you'd probably be done with yeah yeah and anyway but rachel goes first

and she says my positivity and so i was like well, well, that was mine. So I'll just talk about Rachel's family. Okay. And so I talked about Rachel's family. Yeah. And then Carla, our leader was like, oh, you're gonna make me cry. Oh, yeah. I was really getting after it. Anyway, I want to talk about what another couple said, because they were the, the girlfriend

was like, okay, my like boyfriends, like my favorite quality of him is like how intentional he is with his time. He's so caring. And she told a story with his time. She told a story. She's like, we're on a road trip. I I'm in such a rush. I'm very go, go, go. And we just stopped at quick trip just to like, go in, go to the restroom really quickly. And like, you know, my boyfriend, like I'm sitting in the car, I'm done. And I'm just getting so frustrated. Like what is going on? Why is it taking so long in the bathroom? Yeah. Only to find out that he made a friend and like got to know this guy and prayed for this guy in the bathroom, in the quick trip, maybe the bathroom or something like that. And so I just love those qualities about him because it sounds like he's making one day

friends all the time. Like he's really intentional about it. And so then I was giving him a hard time kind of once it got done. I was like, it sounds like, uh, Grant just had a little trouble in the bathroom and told you, no, I was actually... No, I was praying for a guy. I was actually praying for a guy. He's going to Nicaragua. He's going to Nicaragua soon, so I was praying for him, and that's what happened. No, seriously. I know you didn't see him come out, but that's because he was waiting on me to get done in the stall. I was praying for him while I was sitting there. I like to be seated while I pray. Yeah. He was kneeling in the stall. I was praying for him while I was sitting there. I like to be seated while I pray.

Yeah. He was kneeling on the floor. It was kind of a passive pay it forward thing. I prayed for him. So I think he's in there praying for other people. So we don't even wait for him. I wouldn't go in there and check on him. Because he's silent praying because there's no one else in there. Yeah. So yeah, that was kind of funny last night. I'd be like, yeah, right, Grant. Yeah. Like, oh, awesome. Yeah. You took too much time in the bathroom because you're so passionate i pray for people every

single day in my own bathroom at home that's what i'm doing on my phone for 25 minutes yeah and so that was kind of a funny thing because when rachel said her like good quality for me then i brought it back to i was like i'm just glad you didn't talk about how long i spent in the bathroom is it like yeah i know you spend a lot. Do you think, do you think it's every guy or do you think, I mean, I think it's probably guys more than girls on average, but do you think every guy is doing that? Like, I bet there's some freaks out there that are in there for, you know, 45 seconds and they're fine. Dude, I, I don't know how much I want to talk about this, but I don't know how Rachel is capable of doing what she does.

Okay. In the bathroom. Yeah. Yeah. We probably shouldn't talk about this very much. You're right. But what I will say is, well, I've like, I'm not studied it, but I've like tried to pay attention.

Okay. And there's no difference. You're going to stop. And it's like a 40. No difference. One or two. That's what I'm saying. Dude, that'll, I was going to say that'll change once.

I don't know if that's really, but like maybe she's like trying to keep you on your toes. Like, are you asking? No, you're just, you're just, you're just thinking like maybe she never goes to no five days in Florida. One trailer. I can monitor what's going on. She's going, she's like, okay, good night. Love you, Jake.

You got to go to separate rooms and then she's tiptoeing back out. That's the thing, Brad. When we're in Florida together, uh, Jake doesn't Love you, Jake. You got to go to separate rooms. And then she's tiptoeing back out. That's the thing, Brad, when we're in Florida together, uh, Jake doesn't get his own room. I am in the living room. You're on the, in the hallway. Yeah. I'm in the bathroom. So, um, anyway, Rachel would probably not like us talking about that anymore, but it's a compliment. It's impressive. I think really, okay, here's what it comes down to is there's a combination of time on the toilet plus time in the shower, time in the shower. Okay. And you get, you get 38 minutes total. Men like to spend 34 of those minutes sitting down on the throne. Women like to spend seven, no four minutes on the throne, 34 in the shower. Really? Yeah. Catherine,

Catherine sometimes like, I'm just going to rinse off real quick. And it takes her 45 minutes. I feel like, Oh really? Not really. That's an exaggeration, but it takes her way longer than you would think it would ever take somebody to rinse off. Rachel is so quick with everything. I feel like really, yeah, just doesn't matter. She does. Uh, what does she anomaly uh body wash yeah is that the term that's a there's a term that's body wash there's also hand soap conditioner um she does this thing what does she call it oh uh gosh shamu shampoo it's something i don't know what it is or just basically where rachel just like puts her hair up and and it's in and out of the shower in 40 seconds.

I'm like, there's no way I could do. Maybe that's the D1 athlete in her. Like, yeah, yeah. Quick showers. I don't know. Anyway, she's, she's, she's good. All to say grants praying for people in the quick. Oh yeah.

One day friends. Yeah. What do you think about? Like, is there anything else that as kids we should be doing as adults that we kind of give up on? Like another one that I thought of is sleepovers. Like I think like adult sleepovers would be so fun. We did get kind of excited about that. I think last Monday episode, I think we talked, yeah. How fun would it be once you guys are married? Like we all like get sleeping bags

and put them in my living room and we watch a movie together and we like fall asleep laughing. You know, you get slap happy at late at night, like telling stories or something, and then you fall asleep. How fun would that be? And then your kids wake up to Jake and Rachel on the floor and they have a lot of questions. And no, no, we just had a little sleep. It's going to be normal. Oh, okay. Just like one day friends. No problem. Okay. Yeah. No problem. No problem. Um, sleeping on the floor. Just remind me to, sorry, I'll get more. No no come back to your question things kids do um i was reminded of this kind of recently when i i don't think i've ever told this during the podcast i remember when i was a kid it's probably like 10 years old that's a kid does that check out yeah so far for you so far that's kid uh middle of the night i i wake up

and i gotta go to the restroom and when i walk out to the bathroom, I see that my dad is sleeping on the floor of the living room. And I remember just being like, oh my gosh, my parents are getting a divorce. Oh, like that was the most extreme thing you could ever imagine. Sleeping on the living room floor. Yeah. What else could it be? He's got blood on his forehead and he's sleeping on the floor. I don't know. I don't know what that's doing. But I remember, I mean, I, I feel like I I saw that. I couldn't even pee at that point. I was like, oh my gosh. I couldn't sleep. I couldn't do anything.

I was like, my dad. You were paralyzed. Has been kicked out of the bed. Wow. And anyway, come to find out the next day that my dad had just been fishing all night and stunk really bad and didn't want to like make the bed smell bad or make my mom like wake up. Oh, really?

Smell. Okay. So we're just doing her a favor by sleeping on the ground. Didn't think about maybe just getting some body wash going. I guess it doesn't work well enough on that. He was sleepy, so. That's funny. Anyway, so that is, just be on the lookout.

Any kids listening, you know, if your dad's a fisherman, you're fine. You're fine. If your dad's not a fisherman, I would look into it. Every once in a while, I fall asleep on the couch and I enjoy it. I'm not going to lie. I'll be watching this show and I'll fall asleep there. And I wake up at like four in the morning.

I think that was the best night of sleep I've ever had. Really? I don't know. I think sometimes there's something about not sleeping in the same bed that you sleep better. Because you're not... I think there's like a little micro waking up every time the other person moves in bed. So just wait for that.

Micro wakes. Micro wakes. I'll wait till I have my nice fitness sleep tracking ring. Yeah, absolutely. Tell me how good my sleep is. But don't say their company name until, you know, we seal the D. What else should adults do that kids do? I think we saw Palmer and Heidi do do this night at Superbowl.

Just like just staring at someone who's like, Hey, what's your name? Just doing that. Very matter of fact, we also saw them during the halftime show, do their own halftime dance. That was like very spontaneous.

I like the idea of us just being more improvisational. Like obviously you and I do this on the podcast, but what if you and I were just like, Hey, let's go, let's go to that parking lot right there where those people are standing. And let's just do like a comedy set for them real quick. Ooh, let's do a play for Rachel and Catherine. Yeah. Just like more spontaneous performances. No one is like, Hey, I wish, I wish people would perform less. It's like,

I wish I would be less entertained by people in real life. Yeah. I wish the fine arts would die down. And then, yeah. You know, on the other other hand like i think our standard for uh people's performances are too high as adults like those kids haddie and palmer were just gyrating around the floor i don't even know what they were doing it wasn't much they were just like stomping their feet and like running back and forth shaking their head a lot and then we would say oh my gosh wow somebody's gonna take a dance class so i think uh yeah i think i think just just being and then we would say, oh my gosh. Wow. Somebody's been taking dance classes. So I think, yeah, I think just being appreciative of anybody trying to perform at all would be great. Yeah.

So. This isn't quite speaking of kids, but let's say you're like a college kid. Okay. That's it. That's the scenario. Go from there. College kid.

Let's say you're a college kid. Okay. Hey, wow, dude. Have you done your Psych 101 homework yet? It was like totally hard. Mrs. T was tripping. Is that not how you were in college? Freshman year, maybe. Did you say they had turkey sandwiches at the at the dining hall you could choose your own cheese i'm doing dijon with pepper jar

maybe i need to give you more direction no no i think i got it let's say you're a college kid okay and you don't have plans this summer oh dude i just finished up my psych 101 homework because the semester is almost over and I'm looking forward to summer. But honestly, dude, I don't even know if I'm that excited about summer because I don't have any plans after the summer. And then I would say, brah, brah. No, you're going to be the I would say, hey, man, hey, you, you should You should consider working at Camp Choye.

Camp Choye? Yeah, they're sponsoring my podcast again. What's that? That just sounds like a funny name. Is that a real camp? The voice is amazing. Yes. So can I tell you a few details about it?

Because it is a real camp. Oh, God. Funny you say that. Yeah. Camp Choye is a place where Jesus Christ God. Funny you say that. Yeah. Camp Choye is a place where Jesus Christ transforms lives through meaningful relationships and outdoor adventures. Whoa. Those are some of my favorite things. That's why I always hacky sack out in the quad.

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Product availability may vary by regency. App for details. Brad, I went to a sporting event this week. Yes, I've been intentionally not asking you about it because I want to hear about it. Actually, before the sporting event, we'll get to it. I went to minor league hockey. Very, you know, Roy and Pam Beasley style. Yeah.

Before that, we went over to Garrett Gibson's house. Happy birthday, Garrett Gibson. And we played some games beforehand. Have you ever heard of Puns of Anarchy? No. I never heard of it either. It was awesome. Very much up our alley.

Me and Joel, officiant Joel, he was there. We had a good time with it. It was so fun. It's kind of like apples to apples format where there might be like a card in the center and maybe you all get passed out cards. And everyone's goal, you get like a card in format where there might be like a card in the center and maybe you all get passed out cards and everyone's goal. You get like a, yeah, like a card in front of you and then like a marker and you're, the goal is to cross out some letters and add new letters to like make a pun based off

the category it gives you. So for instance, like if it says food, food is the category. You get a card that says another one bites the dust. Okay. Which that bites is already great, but you, you you know another one bites the crust oh okay okay okay okay okay okay yeah i was trying to figure out like what you meant by like crossing out and doing things okay yeah you would yeah cross out the d and type in crust okay oh it was fun so we don't necessarily need to play it right now but just knowing like maybe that's a future like game

we play on the podcast maybe that's a live stream yeah i don't know what is i think we could do a really good job of it that's and it was so fun one of the categories one time which is called pillow talk and it just got out of control it was so fun so that was fun it wasn't was it easy enough for people who aren't super punny yeah i think so because like uh garrett another uh friend of ours brad and brady they were all like, oh, Jake and Joel are going to dominate this. Yeah. But I mean, I think we laughed

equally hard at everyone's. Yeah, yeah, yeah. For everyone that's like really good and really funny that some like didn't shock you and some were all like almost in tears being like, dude, I don't even get it.

It makes no sense. And then he's trying to explain it. You're like, dude, what I had came up in my head was better than that. That's amazing. You know, so it's kind of fun to have a balance of people on it.

Cool. It was a fun game. That's amazing. You know, so it's kind of fun to have a balance of people on it. Cool. Just a fun game. Just free. Tons of anarchy. Yeah. Free, you know, advertising there. There you go.

That's fun. Okay, but let's get into it. So have you ever been to the Cable Dahmer Arena? Okay, neither had I. But getting there, I was shocked at how much like parking was kind of a hassle. Like we parked so far away. I was like, oh, good for the, really for the maps, you know?

And of course, no shortage of just Dallas Mavericks jokes the whole night. I just couldn't stop. Where's Luca? Yeah, exactly. I had to come in Kyrie's team now. Right. And Mark Cuban,

you know? Yeah. So we got these tickets because, um, so Garrett, I think when he was doing a rotation, um, in St. Louis, he lived with some like old woman okay and i guess they really hit it off only spent like nine weeks there but she just doesn't

surprise me that garrett hit it off like like with an old lady yeah it's very sweet and like the grant huderberg type energy like yeah it does well with older women i think right and anyway this woman, I don't think he's lived with her for years now, but she was just like, hey, for your birthday, I got you 16 box tickets for this minor league hockey game. And so I was like, all right,

I guess I'll invite my friends to this minor league hockey game. So we're sitting in a box. I love that idea for a gift. Like something so specific, but so awesome. And you have to do it like you have to like like well yeah i mean there's plans for my birthday yeah i was thinking eight yeah okay 16 was a lot um does she have a connection with the team at first i thought it was just like this woman just loves hockey and like try to support the the sport but then like in the first period at some

point a woman came in or like a younger woman came in and she was that woman's daughter okay so that's the connection her like daughter works there cool um so i'm trying the main takeaway from minor league hockey is that not to anyone's surprise but i think they might be like hurting for money a little bit yeah every single thing is sponsored i love it it's amazing also you can't just like order like nothing is comped in the box it has to be like an order of like 50 or more so it's like you can order nachos but it serves eight it's only 50 for nachos oh wow you can order chicken tenders but it serves 12 it costs 90 45 chicken tend. So that's just one way. I was like, I'm kind of

hungry. And nothing was free. Like, they didn't have like a buffet of anything. No, nothing was in there. The few times I've been in a box, it's always like that. Yeah. There was, I think at one point they gave us some bobbleheads, which are not even of the players. They're not even edible. Not to most. They're not of the player. What were they? Just like a mascot oh yeah paper yeah actual dallas mavericks mark euban um but it was so fun because yeah every little thing was sponsored and a lot of us don't know hockey super world so we're trying to learn this sport as we're watching it but it would be like okay the mavericks are on like a power play now all over the led screens power play brought to you by you know so and so so so and so electric and then another team would have a power play that's an

away team power play. That's a different sponsorship. Smart. If there was a goal for each team, that's sponsored by someone else. If there was a goal on a power play, that's also a different company who sponsors that. And it's got to work for once I noticed that I was like,

okay, this is hilarious. I would be a little bit nervous being the guy that throws up all the sponsorship. Like, do I have this right? That was a goal on a power play by a left-handed guy in the 14th minute of the second period the shields i think that is shields yeah so that is once i start noticing that then i just start noticing it everywhere every little

thing is sponsored um so there was even oh i thought this was hilarious there was a so icing is like a penalty i remember it from like NHL hits back in the day or something. It's also delicious on top of cupcakes. Yeah. Should have been sponsored by Crumble. Right. It wasn't. But even icing was sponsored, which is hilarious.

It'd be like if in the NFL, like pass interference brought to you by Dr. Scholes. Like what if every penalty in the NFL like had a sponsor to it? And the ref had to be the one to say. Like the ref becomes commercialized. Holding on a... Oh, it's a sponsor to it. And the ref had to be the one to say like the ref becomes commercialized holding on. Oh, it's a guard. Okay.

So right guard, right guard. Yeah. Defense. Yeah. For bad odors. Yeah. So that was funny.

Offsides brought to you by crap. I didn't, I wasn't thinking about you didn't have one prepared off spray. Dean free. Yes, absolutely. Bug spray. Too didn't have one prepared. Um, off spray, uh, deed free. Yes, absolutely. Bug spray. Too many men on the field brought to you by Chippendales.

Omegle. I don't know what that is. Uh, well, that's a good joke. Okay. Um, yeah. Did you ever, well, no, I don't want to talk about it. Um, so that was fun. I was seeing how every little thing,

Tymon, did you get the Omegle joke? You know, Omegles thank you timon um uh every little thing is sponsored at one point they were like uh all right we're gonna do a thing you can buy these like rubber uh pucks and we're gonna have a game where we're gonna bring out a brand new chevy silverado and you're gonna have to throw it in like the sunroof of the Chevy Silverado. Okay. And if you do that, if you throw it from the stands into the sunroof, then you get a gift card to like, I don't even know,

like a $50 gift card somewhere, like Bass Pro or something, I think. Did you have to pay for the pucks? Had to pay for the pucks. Okay. But yeah, it was so funny. We were all like, whoa, whoa, whoa, we got to get some pucks. And like, you could win $40. Well, yeah. Whenever, whenever you did say like the sun, like I was like, dang, like I could probably do that. Like not every time, but on a good night, I could make one in there. You're going to win a

truck. I would. Yeah. Okay. But they really hyped it up. I think you got to find a good medium point between $50 and a truck. Like maybe like $500 gift card or something. Did somebody make it in? No. Really? And it ended up being, we were kind of misled,

it ended up not even being the truck. They made this like tiny little like Stanley Cup looking thing in the center. So I mean, hundreds of these things going in. No one made it. But if you happen to like miss by 40 feet and make it in the truck, then something else happened that I don't totally understand, too.

Because like we got three pucks in the truck. So that means that something, something I wasn't paying enough attention. You get a free puck for next time. Yeah. Like, how do they miss by this much? The truck was nowhere near the cup. Anyway, just fun. It kind of reminded me of all the time.

My first job, if you guys don't know or don't remember, was I worked at a minor league baseball for three summers. I was a statistician and it kind of brought me back to just that atmosphere like it's not as big of a deal everything is kind of sponsored but it's kind of fun it's just part of the atmosphere yeah like we make money how many people were in attendance uh let's let's say how full was it i don't even know how big of a stadium it is yeah i looked it up boxes dude i was googling stuff constantly which is one of those like how does hockey work how is this where you know like how many people could fit here what's the average salary of a minor league hockey player tell me any of those things yeah the internet's pretty split on that but i think they might make like

like a few grand a month i think yeah i think is what i found okay um what was one of the questions i just said what we're talking about how many people were there oh yeah i think there was like 4 000 or so there from my own tallies looking at the was that like half full was that oh probably like 70 percent full that's not bad yeah yeah yeah okay so that's good energy then and they play hockey like they do baseball kind of it was like a three-game series where the idaho steelheads were in town for the weekend oh like thursday friday saturday i thought you meant like they play three games at a time. Like at one night,

I was like, oh, sorry. Yeah, just like a tournament. Round Robin. Idaho Steelheads are in town. OK, they're going to play Thursday, Friday and Saturday, which makes sense

from like a financial standpoint of like financially. Yes, but hockey seems like pretty brutal on the body. That seems like a lot to ask of someone. Also true. Yeah.

So was it? I feel like when I watch the very few times I've watched the nhl on tv it is intense the entire time like there's been shots on goal a lot like dude i will say the last two minutes was so electric because the the steelheads which if you had to guess what is their mascot steelheads is a hammerhead shark kind of but smaller okay um a hammerhead like a phillips head shark yes phill Phillips head fish, both with a PH.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Phillips head fish. Yeah, just look like a little fish. But they were losing with two minutes left. I guess it's pretty normal. Makes sense. Now that I know you can do this, do it the whole game. They pulled their goalie. Oh, yeah. And so, dude, it's like six on five or whatever, you know, like, so they're just shooting just constantly and the goalie's just snagging

it, bouncing off of them, shoot it again, bouncing off of them, just shooting again. bouncing off of them and just shooting again. I mean, they were just firing. Yeah. Like I've never seen that in a sport before. You can't really do that in basketball. Eventually you can't get that many offensive rebounds because it's never six on five,

but you could always like cherry pick, I guess maybe like, just hope that you stop them on defense four on five and just chuck it down court. It was pretty, that was pretty exhilarating. Yeah. Because even though, you know,

we, the Mavericks were winning, I was like, I wanted them to score. I want more of this. Did the Mavericks eventually like get a point on the open goal or whatever no never got the ball back it was just two minutes of just fire and slap shots i love it that was pretty fun let's go to a game i know that sounds so fun i want to go to a game but like have it

like can we make sure someone's winning by one at the end yeah like i have there has to be a goalie pulled or else i don't want to go do they ever does hockey end in a tie ever do you know i assume there would be a short overtime and then maybe end in a tie feels like a hockey no penalty shots i don't know i feel like in uh my ducks they did penalty shots wait actually garrett might have told me something because i think he's been in one other hockey game before he said something like yeah maybe it's overtime and maybe i'm making this up because this sounds too good to be true. He said he saw a version of overtime where they start like, you know, six on six and then every like minute or two, then they take one down.

Now it's five on five. Now it's four on four. Like if no one scored. What? Then you, and I was like, dude, that's how basketball overtime should be. Yeah. So it's not five on five

and eventually no one is like, it's still tied after four minutes. Yeah. Now it's just LeBron versus, you know, Kyrie. Just one on one. Just one on one. That'd be so high. tied after four minutes yeah now it's just lebron versus you know kairi just one-on-one just one-on-one for that'd be so high uh the idea of like instead of like uh running out the clock in basketball and doing all the whole fouls back and forth thing it's just like after a certain point you add let's say 10 points oh yeah the leading team it's what the all-star game does yes and it's what

that high school basketball coach came up with it it's got a name for it. I think it's such a fun idea. It's amazing It's way better than the fouling thing at the end of a game I hope ten years from now we can say all basketball is done that way I wonder I maybe internationally they do it somewhere, too I'm not sure Serbia. It might be Serbia. It might be oh gosh who's Uzbekistan Kaz Kajikistan it's Kajikistan in Serbia. Yeah. They call that... That's the Fertile Crescent of basketball. Yeah.

Yeah. That kind of reminds me. Rachel's dad texted me last night and said... He gave us his own GeoGuessr. He's like, guess where I am. And I don't know if he meant to do it, but it was the blurriest pictures I've ever seen. I think it was supposed to be like a gas station.

And it looked like he just... Whipped it around. Punched his phone while taking a picture. But we got it. And it reminded me of all those viral phone while we're taking a picture, but we got it. And it reminded me of all those like viral clips you see of GeoGuessr where it's like guessing where I am on Google Maps, but my future father-in-law took the blurriest picture of all time in point one seconds. Wait, how'd you get it then?

What, how'd you, we saw like a, it looked like palm trees. So it was like, oh, I think he's in Florida and it looked like a gas station. And we have this memory of, I think the very first time I ever went to Florida with her family, Rachel's dad picked me up and we're going back to the trailer. And he was like, you hungry? I was like, I'd go for a snack. And so he takes me to this gas station, which I think I might even have said, like, is there a Wawa on the way?

Because I know that's, you know, it's the quick trip of down there. I mean, it's amazing. They got their own like kitchen. They got sandwiches. Dare I say, maybe better than quick trip. I know, maybe. Yeah. Food wise, probably better.

Yeah. That's where I learned about everything bagel seasoning, because I thought it was a suicide. They just put everything on one sandwich? Gross. It works. And anyway, I think Steve, how I remember the story going, he's like, I don't think there's a Wawa, but we can go to this gas station. And it was just the sketchiest thing you could see.

Like the opposite of Wawa. Oh, my gosh. The Awa. Yeah. Like it was just, it was very scary. And so we got laughing at it. And then, of course, we go about a mile down the road and there's a Wawa just bright lit up, you know, they're doing ministry in the parking lot, you know, just could not have

looked better. There's a revival going on in the bathroom. Grant's praying for everybody. And so I was like, this is probably what he's referring to. Man, that's great. Anyway, hockey overtime. It was fun. It was all a good time.

Also, Garrett was saying he's pretty sure that it's maybe kind of agreed upon. Like, hey, we need to get people in seats. So there's almost always a fight the first period of our time. When the game hasn't got that serious yet, like give the people what they want. Really? They fight at the end of the first period because you get five minutes of like time or whatever, I guess. Yeah. And so I, anyway.

And so those guys fought with like 40 seconds left, got done with the fight. They were smiling, laughing, and then just went to the locker room together. That's what, oh, really? Because they were like, well, I'm gonna have to sit out the rest of the period anyway. Oh, so I might as well just go in there. That's what I was curious. Like how mad did they seem like they were before they fight? Because sometimes I feel like with hockey, it's just like, yeah, you want to do it? Yeah. Let's fight real quick. No problem. That's kind of what it seemed like. Yeah. One day friends, you know? Yeah. One day fights. Yeah yeah once they showed the replay it was like oh these guys are smiling in the moment you're seeing punches thrown it's like oh this seems pretty like

vicious but then in the replay it was like oh i think they're just like wrestling with your brother it's like agreed upon beforehand so i mean you ever wrestle with your brothers yeah oh time is a wrestler yeah yeah he's younger than, we wrestle. Yeah, it'd be pretty fun if you're just dominating him physically. Yeehaw! Yeehaw! You know what that sound means? Brad's face was amazing during that. I didn't tell him I was going to do that.

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Yeehaw, brother. Speaking of fine food, Jacob, similar to Good Ranchers, I went with Hattie to a father-daughter dinner this past week for her co-op, homeschool co-op. Tymon, you know what I'm talking about? I mean, and it was a homeschool dinner. I'm just kidding. I was going to lean into that so much. No, but we went to the finest food establishment you could ever guess. We've talked about in the podcast before. Fazoli's. Even better.

Take Fazoli's and go two steps higher. Captain D's. No, take Fazoli's specifically. Two steps higher. Olive G's. Higher. What? Zio's?

No, higher. What's nicer than Olive Garden? I'll give you a hint. Harrison. Buco di Bepo. Harrison, see you next week forget the guy's name there's a story behind it you went with Harrison

and oh yeah what was his name Mitch see you next week that was so funny oh Sinzetti's Sinzetti's baby you went there with the homeschoolers I have not been to Sinzetti's I don't think since high school maybe I went once since then.

Dude, everything you could ever remember it to be in more. You been there, Tymon? Zeddy's? Oh, Tymon. Hey, corporate trip. Hey, company. Corporate trip. We're going to Zeddy's sometime.

It is just the highest and highest scale all-you-can-eat buffet ever. Yeah. I described it one time as, I think I said like a six flags of carbohydrates because it is just, it feels like a theme park. I mean, you get people in like a tank top and a guy in a suit in there. Yes. They said like, you know, cause of course like it's like a nice, like father daughter thing. They have like a room reserve in the back for us. And so they're like, wear a nice shirt, nice pants, like ties are optional. I was like, I'm not wearing a tie to Cincinnati's. But there were some, like ties are optional. I was like, I'm not wearing a tie to Cincinnati.

But there were some, like there were some dads that brought that even their grandparents or their grandpa was also there with the daughter. They were all going in. The grandpa had like a full on suit. You'd think he was going to like a funeral or something. Yeah. Like looking great. I went three times in August. And so I got a pretty good idea of the clientele there. Yeah. It would be like a guy in a wife beater putting more food on a plate than you've ever seen possible. And then another guy in a suit. Yeah. It's awesome. So much Italian food.

It was overwhelming at first. Hattie, like every once in a while in public settings, she'll kind of clam up. So she was holding my hand as we were just like walking through. So I was like, I want to make sure you know everything that there is to offer. Because I told her as we were going there, I was like, if you like something and you're done with it,

we can go and get more of it. This place isn't like home. Yeah. And then if you like that and you want a third, you can get thirds. And she's like, I can get thirds. It's like all you can eat. Yeah. And so, you know, and she loves pasta. She loves spaghetti. And so we were thinking we'd just get that, but there was no spaghetti without the sauce. And she was like, I don't really want the sauce. And I was like, you're going to get that sauce all over your, you know, white dress anyway. So we're not worrying about that. So we had a lot of garlic bread, a lot of cantaloupe and a lot of cheese pizza. And it was awesome. That's not bad. It was so sweet though. It was a lot of fun. And, um, yeah, since that, like it was, it was just

pandemonium in there for a good, like 20 minutes and it kind of calmed down, but we were in line. I think I told you this, we were in line for the garlic bread. And I look back and this guy just kind of smiling like really big at me. He's just like, hey, man. He didn't even say any words, but I'm doing an audio podcast. So that's like the nod he made. He's eyeing down garlic bread. And I'm like, hey, how you doing?

And he's like, and he had a late the South shirt on late the South Deca. And I was like, dude, I went to the South, too. That's awesome. And he's like, you did had a late the South shirt on late the South deck. And I was like, dude, I went to like the South too. That's awesome. And he's like, you did. I was like, yeah. He's like, I was just saying hi to you because I recognize you from jean shorts. Oh, he was eyeing down big daddy. Yeah, exactly.

Not the garlic bread. I was like, no, dude. Yeah. I went to like the South. How fun. And he's like, I love you guys. Chiefs parade video. And you know, he was one of like, he's in a sweatshirt and I'm in like my nice shirt

with my daughter. But anyway anyway it was a fun time we uh we went and we sat down they like gave us like assigned tables so i sat next to two people we never met before which is always kind of fun and interesting and you can make a small talk but then they also had a one day friends one day friend i would say and had he couldn't get over how funny this was that the other dad's name also Brad, she's like, Mr. Brad, not you, but the other Brad thought it was the funniest thing. Uh, but on our, um, on our tables, there were these cards that just were like questions to ask your daughter. And some of the answers that had, he had, we're just like, are you the perfect child? You might be like, uh, the first one was like was like, what do I always say to you? Like, what does dad always say to you?

And she said, you're beautiful. And I was like, oh my gosh. If you know nothing else, I just hope that you know that I think you're beautiful. That's cool. And you're wonderful. And then it was like,

when are you happiest? And she's like, when I come home from Awana and get to hug you. And I was like, my gosh. Okay. Hold it together, Brad. Get the sauce on the white dress. I don't care. Who cares?

We'll get you new dresses, baby. You're beautiful in any color. And then it was like, what makes you most sad? She's like, I don't know. I don't really get sad. I'm like, no, you don't because you're perfect. It's like, what's the most important thing that I've taught you? And she's like, about Jesus. I was like, yes, this is right. You're doing it.

So anyway, I try to remember. Oh, like, what do we have in common? She's like, we both like to watch Jayhaw. So anyway, I'll try to remember. Oh, like, what do we have in common? She's like, we both like to watch Jayhawks play basketball. I was like, yes, yes, we do. Oh, she's nailing that. I know. It was like, are you even answering these correctly? Did you get a cheat sheet from mom?

How are you doing this? Yeah. So anyway, a few other ones, I think. Like, if dad were to play a character in a movie, what would he be? And she said, Mr. Banks from Harry Potter or Harry Potter, Mary Poppins. I was going to say, wow. Introduced her.

Yeah. We're, we're doing that. We're going, we're going on traditional for that home. You know, no, you know, all only Harry Potter for a water and magic, kind of the two influences, you know? So anyway, Mary Poppins, I don't know. She said a lot of other fun things too, but she was just so sweet and loving. And like, you could tell she really appreciated it, I don't know. She said a lot of other fun things too, but she was just so sweet and loving. And like, you could tell she really appreciated it.

I don't know. She's had so many sweet moments recently and she's just really sweet. So hearing stuff like that makes me want to like, if, you know, Lord willing, I have kids someday, do that. But like almost like video, like time capsule version, like every year on their birthday,

ask her these five questions or something like that. We have something, I think they have like programs like that or like apps and stuff. We have one that's just like a book that has a question a day and you ask the same question. You know, it's like 365 questions. So you ask the same question like five years in a row. Cool. And so, yeah, right now it's just like one word answers, but I'm sure when she's eight

or nine, it's going to be something different. So anyway, fun times. Yeah. She's just been so sweet. I picked her up from Moana last night and like immediately, like they always have like a vest and a bag and she had to pull out her bag. She's like, dad, I have something to show you. And I usually it's like a picture that she paints and has like a stick figure on it. And I'm like, wow, no way. I've never seen a stick figure like that before in my life. Um, and she pulled like, I would have never guessed this is what she was going to pull out of her bag.

Just a loose cookie, a chocolate chip cookie, just in her bag. And she's so proud of it. She's like, she's like, I got two of them and I'm going to save one and give it to grandpa because my dad, you know, loves cookies and it's Wednesday night and she doesn't see my dad until Tuesday. And so I'm like, okay, we got to figure out a way to keep that thing fresh or something. But I was just like, how sweet are you to think about, you know, I don't know, as a kid, I would have just eaten both cookies. I would have absolutely dominated two of them and asked for two more and eaten those two probably. I think what you should do, this is what I would do if it was my dad. I would,

I would let that thing sit in that backpack for the next six days. Eat it, grandpa. And then, yeah, when it comes time, like, oh, hey, how do you show grandpa what you had for him he's gonna love it eat it right now in front of you i'm sure what's that on top it's fuzzy he would not eat a cookie from his granddaughter she would save it for him and like make my dad eat at least a bite of the cookie he's like oh it's good thank you oh yeah wow not too chewy good i like him i like him like this oh man anyway she's just been so sweet uh so yeah that's fun how he's great lover uh i was at a restaurant this week and heard the opposite of hattie's sweet sweet answers i overheard a guy just um i was at panera

okay and i just couldn't help like it is like penetrating my AirPods, like the noise canceling ones too. I'm like, this guy is so loud. And so I just like, it can't help but take in like, all right, what is this guy saying? Like, I'm just eavesdropping unintentionally. And at first I thought this guy

was maybe interviewing someone else, just on how much he was talking and like his like body language and everything. Okay. The more I started listening, the answer was like, oh like oh wow i think this guy is interviewing for a job and it's just dominating the conversation and um it's like couldn't stop couldn't stop like yeah just the way he talked was this is this live is it two people two people one-on-one and i'm in the booth right next to him what time of day is this about 9 15 a.m yep early okay and anyway this guy the way he talked it was it's just i hope i never talk like this guy does i

hope i'm never around people on a consistent basis who talk like this what so from what i can remember he would say things like yeah you know my thing is like and this is gonna sound weird you're probably gonna make fun of me but like i care about people you know, my thing is like, and this is going to sound weird. You're probably going to make fun of me, but like, I care about people, you know, like that's what I do. And it's not like fake deep kind of, yeah. Kind of just like, I'm so unique. Like the, the wild thing about me that like no one else like can really like grass quite like I do is just like, you know, I wake up and I'm like, I like to drink coffee when I wake up. Yeah. Yeah. It just like energizes me for the day.

So I don't know if this got passed down from my parents or if this was kind of a learned behavior, but I try to be polite to other people. I've always said like kindness is contagious. So catch it. And so I am kind. I've decided like if I have the option to like be kind or like not kind like i go ahead and be kind this is gonna sound dumb but yeah make fun of me for it a phrase that i kind of go back to and i just i came up with it one day and i don't know oh you're gonna make fun

i don't know why i always say this but life's a beach dig it dig it and it's not an actual shovel yeah you're gonna you're gonna you're gonna laugh because it's tattooed on my thigh but i have i have this acrostic that says y-o-l-o it's it's you only live once it's like top of the thigh like i'll show it to you after the interview's over but like it just means like it just means like sees day, like kind of like make it count, but like not as revolutionary. Oh, that's so funny, dude. That's a great bit. That's, that's usually a character that we do. So anyway, it was just like that kind of stuff. And I'm like taking an air pod out. I'm like, you gotta be kidding me. You're going to make fun of me, but he goes on, you know, you're either taking the air pod out or

you're going over to your phone and you're like, okay, switch to a transparency mode real quick. Do you know about the long hold long hold the right one the stem of the right one and it switches from no uh yeah to transparency noise canceling to transparency really you're wrong like long hold as if you're pausing it yeah so like instead of pausing it hold it down for like two seconds probably cool you can customize that if you want to be your left stem you can do left stem what if i can i do both simultaneously yeah and they have to be exactly simultaneously but yeah he was just the worst he's like you know i just i care about people and so i'm gonna go i'm gonna do whatever it takes to make my clients happy and oh and he started getting this metaphor dude he was like but i'm not gonna look i'll be honest with you i'll just i'll just tell you i'm not gonna i'm

not gonna be your your workhorse all hours of the night. You know, I like a good balance. And that's what I've learned. You know, working is like a soccer team, right? He said he would end almost every sentence with right. Right. You know, I'm just like, I want to be successful, right? You know, but at a certain point, it becomes too much work, right?

Right. Like you said over and over. So, you know, right. He's like, yeah, the way I see it is kind of like a like a soccer team right like uh a soccer team is made up of guys right who um are good at sprinting right right but they're not supposed to sprint all the time right right they can't sprint all the time right right? Right. They can't sprint all the time, right? The goal of a soccer team is to put yourself in a position where when coach says it's time to sprint, they are able to sprint, right? Right. And so that's kind of how I see it. And that's the way I operate is I'm not going to be your guy who's sprinting all the time, right? But if you put me in a position where I am

able to sprint, I will, I will sprint for you. Right. Right. It was brutal. I could not wait to tell Rachel because she was picking me up from Panera and I was like, I got to tell you about this Panera guy. And I was like, also, stupid metaphor. What?

Coach tells you when to sprint. You got to be in position to sprint. Maybe say you got to be in position to score. That makes a little more sense. Position to sprint? What are we talking about? Are you a four by 100? Who cares if Messi's a sprinter,

they wanted to score the goal. Yeah. I think he's got pretty good ball control. Maybe as a few other. Yeah. Oh, he's soft skills. So good at sprinting.

I got a team full of sprinters. They never played soccer, but they know how to sprint. Yeah. It's like being like, I'm like a racehorse, right? You know,

like, uh, when you need me in the stirrups, I'll get in the stirrups, right? Like, no race horses supposed to be fast. That's the thing that you value them for. Use them as the sprinting metaphor. You know, Hey, right. It's funny to think of one horse on another horse in the stirrups too. Cause I think the jockey would be the one in the stirrups.

You'd be surprised. This is nimble horses. These are the dressage and a buffini horses. They can do about anything you ask them. Right. Right that's amazing dude so yeah glad we got to talk about that yeah it's pretty fun uh yeah i i don't want to get into it too much because it's i don't know mild it's pg-13 get into it just a little bit but i did have a moment the other day at mclean's i've been kind of forcing myself well monday i forced myself to think it was spring. It wasn't spring yet. I was outside of McLean's and it was like 55 degrees. And I was like, this is too cold. I'm not comfortable, but I want to be comfortable so bad out here. Like it was sunny. And so I'm like, I think it's nice enough to be out here. And there was one, there was one other group, there was two moms

and their kids out there. And it sounded like these moms were, uh, from like, like friends from high school. And they just got to like revealing all these secrets about themselves to the other girl. Like, yeah, I made out with Jason Anderson. You did? Janderson?

Yeah. And they just like kept going back and forth about all these people they had like relations with. Back in high school. And I, eventually I was like, all right, let's talk about this real quick.

I'll listen to this. Jason is called the French tickler. Let's see about this real quick. I'll listen to this. Let's see why Jason is called the French tickler. Let's see what he's up to. Yeah. And so I was like, and they were just like, they were just like, I know.

Can you believe it? Yeah. Yeah. JV coach. Like, oh, wow. It didn't get that weird.

But anyway, it was one of those things where I was like, this is like awkward. Like, I don't know. Can you imagine me and Scott just like going out with Palmer and Hattie? They're like playing Connect Four, like, you know, Life Size Connect Four over there. And I'm like, dude, you remember that girlfriend I had?

Just swapping stories. Yeah. You know, that girlfriend you had, I kissed her too, bro. You know where the Scorpion nickname comes from, right? Like, oh, yeah, my kids are over here. Yeah. Anyway, it was a funny thing but um that's fun yeah that's fun should we uh get to our reviews of the week what do you

think uh yes let's do it also while we're pulling those up just getting your guys's thoughts time and included would you guys be interested in seeing the podcast like we've been talking more about putting the the video podcast on spotify potentially putting the video version of the podcast on apple i know a lot of people like to watch on youtube they always consume on youtube just let us know your thoughts um either on the facebook group or in the youtube comments like what are your thoughts like would that improve would that add some value to your life if there's like oh that's a funny part i would love to see what that looks like instead of going all the way to youtube i'll just i'm already watching on spotify anyway or do you like the youtube

aspect of going there and checking out the comments yeah or do you want to do both honestly we don't really know much about it we didn't even know we had access to doing that until yesterday it's like oh we could be doing this maybe we we do that maybe we should i don't know now that we got the the three camera setup i mean you guys, you guys got boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom,

boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, gets it. Those are those fingers we get hired right there. Five stars on finger finder. All right. My review is from Tammy B from Pennsylvania. It's a five star review link. They won a top five favorite things about G. R podcast that G. R stand for ghost runners or good.ers.com. Top five. I like the top five lists.

Number five, great recommendations. I just ordered my coffee today from Main Street Roasters and can't wait to try the K-Cups. Also, she didn't write this part, but also really excited about ordering from Good Ranchers and sending my college age kid to be a staff member at Camp Cho-Ye in Texas. Wow. BestSummerJob.org. Number four, guests and family members from Scott to the girls to the dads ghost runners just gets better and better. I think the episode with the dads was my favorite. Number three, so funny, so funny, so funny. Jake and Brad are hilarious and keep me

laughing. Listening to ghost runners on my drive home from work is so entertaining, so entertaining, so entertaining. After a full day of teaching, it's a great way to unwind. I always look forward to my drive home on Mondays and Wednesdays. Number two, I love the connections we have in Christ. I absolutely love that while GR isn't a theological podcast, thank goodness, we would struggle with that. Your love of Christ is evident and present. You share your lives with listeners while being authentic and reflecting who you are

in your day-to-day lives. Your love for Christ shines through and is encouragement to others. Number one, listening to Ghost Runners makes Missouri seem not so far from Pennsylvania. My daughter's a sophomore at SBU. Lick them! And while I miss her very much, listening to you guys helps me feel connected to Missouri. I love hearing all about the places you visit and your experiences. Even though she's a thousand miles from home, I know there are some wonderful people to Missouri. I love hearing all about the places you visit and your experiences. Even though she's a thousand miles from home,

I know there are some wonderful people in Missouri, and I am grateful for the ghosty community. God bless you both. Lick them. Lick them. Thank you, Tammy B. Tammy B. My review of the week is from Tyler.

Where did this go? I don't know. Tyler Stoltzfus, who we saw at the cheese spray yes yes um hello Jacob Brad I've been having a rough week being sick and possibly even rupturing my eardrum whoa whoa whoa yeah bummer uh but even on this

crappy Thursday you guys picked up my sad heart I smiled at something Brad said and realized that you guys cheered me up even in my sad state I began to pull to the side of the highway with a tear falling down my cheek and I stopped to write this review. Thank you sincerely. From Tyler. That's cool, man. Heck yeah. Thanks for listening.

Thank you for listening. Sorry about your eardrum. Okay. Sorry. I heard rustling. I'm like, oh, Rachel is back at her house. Brad, would you like to end this episode with a jingle? Yes. We're going to go another old school one. I've been, fun fact, next week I'm writing my own jingle.

Yeah, you are. Ghost Runners, Monday, Monday. Ooh. To KC Brains, give you Monday morning laughing pains You know we'd never forget you And so each week we'd come back just to vibe Witty joking The thought of two Midwest best friends from old Casey. You know, once you download it, why this podcast has exploded.

It's these two guys. Hey, Ghost Runners, ain't that Jacob Triplett on the microphone? Orlando, those jokes you spit ain't fair, you know. Thank you. Hey Ghost Runners, I don't want to miss a single Patreon video tonight. Hey, hey, how's your mom? Buy some merch. Always on time.

I'm so glad to find new episodes each week. You gave this group direction, a podcast friend connection. We can't deny. We're so obsessed. My family's bound for a GRKC merch Christmas. Or just whenever. Yeah. We believe in you.

St. Patrick's Day. Like the crocodile hunter. April Fool's is coming up. Not everyone's favorite joke, but I think it's fine. Arbor Day's around the corner. Hey, Ghost Runners. Ain't that Bradley Ellis in the studio? String beat flow. The way you sing ain't fair, you know.

Seiko Tamayo. Hey, Ghost Runners. I don't want to miss that jingle thing you do tonight. Ramadan. The way you can craft that wood. ECC is the only furniture I need. New table on that rug. It's exactly what I'm dreaming of.

You see, I can host my extended family. In fact, there's no one I can't see. I want them all to eat Thanksgiving on quality. Hey, Ghost Runners, ain't that Kirstie's daughter on the radio? Voice remote, the cutest kids ain't there, you know. Hey, Ghost Runners, we don't want to miss a single joke you make tonight. Hey, Ghost Runners. See this podcast sitting inside. No way.

No way. Don't go away. Never say goodbye. No way, don't go away. Never say goodbye. That's a little bit high, Tymon. Can you do the key down next time, please? That was kind of fun.

First time, new jingle, the new setup. Yeah. New computer, little reverb on the voice. Yeah, a little verb. A little verb. Any closing thoughts, Brad? I don't think so. Yeah.

Always thankful. Always thankful. Thankful for Timon always thankful. Thankful for timing. Yeah. Thank you for Justin. Yeah, seriously. We had Justin since episode 55 or something. I mean, right when we switched to YouTube, he was our guy. He's our, he's our boy. He's always going to, honestly, do we even call him timing or he's calm? Justin, like just, yeah. Justin is like the name of the guy who operates your video and audio. Yeah. It's a term like doctor.

It's like key grip, you know, executive producer, Justin. Like, hey, Justin's going to put that in. The Justin's name was Justin Orme. Was Tymon. Yeah. Yeah. It's now Tymon.

Yeah. So thank you. Thank you to our new Justin Tymon. I think thankful is a good word. It does seem like there's just so much, there's so much of stuff like the Facebook group. I mean, just in the last 24 hours, I mean, there's so much stuff going on. People are taking, I mean, just there's so much happening right now. It's so fun. I'm going to post a link on the Facebook group this week, uh, for camp Cho Yeh, if you're

interested in following that link in order to, you know, get hooked up with everything. So, um, and yeah, just, just if you have any sponsor ideas, so many of these sponsors are coming from people that are listening that say, Hey, we'd love to sponsor you guys because we know that it's effective for you and effective for us. So holler about all that. Um, Hey, kiss your babies in public, even if you're in church, you know, just do it. Just people assume everything's good. No problem. Some things coming to Patreon soon. Brad's got a lot of bonus episodes. Yes, I've been doing some bonus episodes

about integrating your family and your faith and your business together. A little more serious. It's kind of interesting. It was really interesting recording those, but very fun. Hopefully you get a lot out of it. And then something else coming to Patreon.

I think I'm gonna be doing some open mic nights where I perform stand-up comedy to no one. However, kind of fun little wrinkle, Rachel has offered to open up for me. Oh my gosh. That'll be amazing. Yeah, at least once. I was like, Rachel, you should do like a 60-second set. Yes. Because mine is only going to be like two or three minutes.

I'm just going to try like one bit. That's awesome. Rachel and I together performing on the Patreon. The triplets. Yeah. That's great. The triplet duet. That's coming. Check it out. We. Yeah. That's great. The triplet duet. So that's coming. Check it out. We appreciate you guys. Thanks for tuning in

wherever you tune in. It's going to be a good week. Yeah, it's going to be a great week. Thanks, Justin. Love you guys. Ghost from the Spotcast. Everybody morning

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