Ghostrunners - 213 - Scott Makes His Return

Episode Date: March 29, 2023

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Ooh, I think this tight beat means that it's. We're back with another Wednesday episode. It's a Wednesday on a Wednesday. Wednesday. Fun start. Fun start. So this is going to be a fun Wednesday. We were like, should we do like, should we do a segment? Should we do, should we bring back maybe a guest or whatever?

What if we did every segment and and a guest how about a smorgasbord yeah yeah brad proposes at the end and i was like yeah it sounds like mario party it's like rather than play madden for three hours let's play a hundred mini games if anybody's ever uh played fusion frenzy that was the xbox version of mario party didn't have that there was a demo of it on the original halo for xbox shout out fun fusion frenzy fusion wednesday yes how would you like to start a spread uh let's start with our wins of the week okay yeah wins of the week um i have i have like three can i just can i do three hit them it's a it's a fusion wednesday um so uh first off just i think we alluded to it uh in the

monday episode but we had a uh video call with the ghosties uh that are going to florida with us uh last night and it was so much fun it was just a great time and that's just a win because it's like these people are really cool and really fun and it's just going to be a great time yeah so you know because we opened this up and we're like i don't know who's going to sign up for this thing. Anyone is allowed to. And we can, like, we got off the call and we're like, that was so fun. This is going to be so fun.

It's going to be a good trip. So first off, win of the week that way. Second off, it's kind of two and three together. Hattie's birthday was yesterday. And if you're listening to this on Wednesday, Fusion Wednesday, then it's Rosie's birthday today. And so, you know, six years ago, I became a dad.

One year ago, I became a dad of three. You became a lifeguard. Yeah. And so, I mean, just the craziest story I've ever told on the podcast, just delivering my own baby in my living room. Rosie was born and she's one year old today. And so it's just a win right there. And Oh,

also with Hattie, just real quick, just win of the week for just the, the, the firstborn in the family is just wild because Hattie went for her birthday. She went to an aquarium with my parents and aunt Cindy, which is just funny by itself.

Like three people, you know, 65 to 70 years old, like in Hattie um and then they went to chick-fil-a for lunch she had an ice cream cone there and so then at dinner time with katherine and you know with our family our immediate family we're like we got you pink ice cream strawberry ice cream she goes i probably shouldn't have any more ice cream i already had some today and i'm like if that were beau he would never like he would just be like yeah give me all

the ice cream yeah thanks, thanks, Dad. I mean, yeah, I want two scoops, Dad. I want two scoops. So we did convince her. I was like, it's your birthday. You have to have, it's like, what parent has to convince their six-year-old to eat more ice cream on their birthday? She's so sweet and so, like, responsible. So shout out, Winds of the Week.

Also just fun to reflect on one year ago you know was birth and rosie you know she was she was puddle city puddle city was happening um so it's just been a crazy fun year it's it's fun to think about like that was a year ago wow um but she's brought so much joy and fun to our lives so when of the week if you get caught up with the podcast this week listen to that episode yeah So, win of the week. If you get caught up on the podcast this week, listen to that episode. Yeah, craziest birth story of all time or something like that. It's the only one we have about delivering a child. Yeah, I think you'll be able to find it.

Yeah. So, anyway. Those are fun wins. My win of the week is, on Monday's episode, I talked about helping out that group of nurse practitioner moms, you know, and on the joint FaceTime, I knew one of them really well and the other one the whole time i was like why does this girl look so familiar i never asked or anything i

was like i'll just look it up afterwards i looked up afterwards and you know i find who morgan follows named natalie or whatever i go to her facebook and i'm like oh that girl's married to hungry luke that's why she looks familiar. Which we, I texted the group me in the Florida group. I was like, have I told the Hungry Luke story in the podcast? And there were a lot of people

who said no, but there were people who were like, yes, you have told it. So clearly I have told it before, but just the really quick version. So my win of the week is that I got to relive this

and I got to, I like sent a voicemail to Crenshaw. Yes. Just like reliving it and getting to retell Rachel like how that, just how fun that period of life was,

how fun this story is. It feels like something you see in a sitcom or something. But really quick bullet point version. This is pre-podcast. This is still living at the K-Life house. Luke Crenshaw is my roommate, and he's having some friends over. We're watching some game on TV or something, I think.

He went to Arkansas. He invited a bunch of Arkansas friends over. I don't know a ton of these people, but it's mixed company. A lot of boyfriends, girlfriends, husbands, wives. And Luke offered like, hey, you come over. I'll cook for you guys. Was it a Super Bowl party? It might have been. I think it was. It could have been, yeah.

And right away, so this is confusing because the main two people in the story are both named Luke. They're called Crenshaw. Crenshaw and Hungry Luke. Yeah. So Hungry Luke, right away, we don't know this guy. His wife is just like a the main two people in the story are both named luke crinshaw crinshaw and hungry luke yeah so hungry luke right away we don't know this guy his wife is just like a friend of other friends and just immediately it's like comes to the kitchen how are we looking on that food just like brand new into this environment like the food almost done like oh no you know because

super bowl starts like the kickoff is until five people are probably over 4 30 it's like no dinner isn't ready yet so the time it's just always asking like okay well just let me know when you get like the the pizza's ready or like i can help or whatever yeah yeah starving already like it says it's preheated so you want me to go and throw the pizza in the oven storm in yeah i bet yeah and then crinshaw is also i think gonna be making some chili okay this dude is always just like it was almost like in wedding crash it was like mom meatloaf yeah yeah cr crinshaw how's the chili what's the chili update and so that alone i feel like crinshaw and i already would have had a heyday debriefing like you we got to talk about how hungry this guy showed up to our house right that was so interesting and weird anyway it takes

it a big step further so there's one time it's like maybe a timeout. Maybe it's halftime. A lot of the guys are in the kitchen getting food, of course. And anyway, we break out some cookies. And Hungry Luke, who's already had a couple bowls of chili, several slices of pizza. Now the cookies are out. He's like what Bo would have been in a second time with ice cream. Thank you.

And just going nuts. I mean, it was comical how quickly he was devouring these cookies and once again i think critch and i looked at each other like we gotta talk about this there like he's eating these cookies like a madman fast forward 15 minutes where is he eating him in the kitchen okay we're all in the kitchen the girls are still in the living room closed concept house you can't see each other you know sure kind of separate yeah we go back out in the living room 15 minutes later but equal still and we're kind of talking maybe it's a commercial or something and kind of going around like let's get some updates or whatever and hungry luke's wife is

kind of saying it's like well one thing we kind of been doing for the last uh i guess it's been a month or two now is um we've both been dieting and we've both we said no sweets and she grabs hungry luke's knee she's like and i'm just so proud of him he has done such a good job i know it's hard i know it's hard but he has been so disciplined and dude me and cringe shot is looking at each other like yo dude what is going on and i was like we're not gonna say anything i guess it's just cookies but at the same time it just what an uncomfortable, awkward situation. And I haven't really thought about it much since. And then I was like, hey, I learned now.

She's a mom. The secrets have either ended or just never been found out. So they have three kids now. They seem happy. Maybe it was one of those like, hey, it's Super Bowl. I'm going to nibble on a few cookies around here, around back. That is so funny. Just once we heard that, we're like, this all makes sense. have all of it makes sense i would have loved to be a fly like i would

love to go back to that moment and just been able to see his face when she said it yeah just like like like like i bet he was just looking straight at the ground like thanks for saying that but i think my thank you so what tell us about yeah what you guys are gonna say like and just whatever you're gonna say let's just let's all look at this with the idea like nobody's perfect right right and that's why we need jesus because we all fall short anyway uh anybody else want to give an update yeah just please move on to the next person yeah so anyway that's what i was saying so when's it's oh the halftime show's on you guys want to watch it okay well what was your you said you had an update go ahead is it nice outside i want to check and see if it's nice outside. Let's go throw the ball around.

Let's go throw the ball around real quick. Where do you have those crumbs from? Oh, those are crackers from the chili. Oh, okay. Icing on it? No? No, no. Actually, I was looking for a baby picture of Hattie

to post on my Instagram story. And when I found it, I also found a picture of you and Lukeke at a quick trip i like ran into you like one time at a quick trip like i think probably the week that had he was born and there's like a picture of like luke has like a pajama pants on with like a quarter zip and you have like your strafford like red hoodie on and it was just a great time that's maroon i love finding old photos of me like that yeah um because i sent it it to Rachel. I found one, an old picture, not even that old, like two years old.

Someone took a weird photo of me in a Chipotle because I'm a big fan or whatever. I had it on my phone. I texted Rachel. I was like, this is how I dressed in public four months before I met you. I just want you to know. I didn't always used to be like this.

I've grown up. She's like, thank goodness. You wore so much maroon. Oh my gosh. Wait, maroon is not the thing that's the problem thank goodness that you wore so much maroon oh my gosh like wait maroon is not the thing that's what the problem oh you don't you don't like maroon you oh yeah totally maroons out okay i feel like you're cool but yeah that's fun yeah the crunch out days life was good man yeah still good he was he's one of the funnier people like and like brings brings humor to every situation like it's like he just i mean there's a little like it's one thing to be like really really funny in a funny Like it's like he just, I mean, there's a little,

like it's one thing to be like really, really funny in a funny moment. It's another thing to be like, let's create this amazing inside joke out of nothing, like thin air kind of thing. And that's what he was really good at. Like we had so many inside jokes within the OJ documentary that were like not even that like funny by themselves. But like when you push into an inside joke enough times

it becomes hilarious this is our joke now yeah he was the king of it i remember the whole rat debacle which i think we've we've had to have talked about on the podcast at some point but yeah luke and i cridshaw and i were trying to create this like elaborate like you know labyrinth of a way for like this mouth to like all right he'll smell the peanut butter pierce we'll crawl up the two by four and then he'll do this. And anyway, Brad was kind of the king and showed us how to, did you end up getting it? Uh, I don't, I don't know if we ever caught as many as you did. I mean, you had several families worth. That was the crazy thing is I think the only reason I caught so many is because I was out of the house for like an extended period of time.

Yeah. I came home to like eight of them. Word got around. Hey, 79th street, a lot of peanut butter. Yeah. Tell your friends, tell your friends, but how did we get do we get around they would yeah they would yell it while they're still on top of the bucket you guys a lot of peanut butter there's a smorgasbord but yeah good times oj and i think i've talked before critchon i really bonded like he just moved in the house i didn't know him at all like imagine just getting paired up with a roommate. Didn't know him. I met him. Yeah. The first time I met him, I was like, this guy's not going to get along with Jake at all. I remember thinking, this guy seems really type A, really healthy. Wakes up early, works out.

Very disciplined. And I was like, he is the anti-Jake. Totally. We had very opposite schedules, but he was so great. And our biggest initial bonding moment came from watching something, and it wasn't a sport is we watched miss america together and we only knew one person competing and it happened to be we both knew this girl from arkansas that's how crenshaw knew her i met her through arkansas as well and anyway she winning miss america and while we were watching it live and so it's just like yeah just me and luke just like dude we like hugged like those savvy shields let's go we know her it was awesome it was like it was just big upset you know yeah not the not the betting favorite you know yeah it was like two weeks into knowing this guy existed and we're just watching

miss america together that's hilarious dude um all right fusion wednesday what's our what are we getting to let's let's go let's go back to the old uh you know madison mccalla if you're listening it's time to make a new graphic oh We're bringing schmores back, baby. Just us two? Timon, your hand was up. No. We're calling bullpen. Righty or lefty?

He is right-handed in throwing, left-handed in batting. Golf's right-handed, though. His name is Scott D. Peck. That's right. You know what the D stands for, right? David. Got it. We name is Scott D. Peck. That's right. You know what the D stands for, right? David, yeah. Got it.

Yeah. All right, we'll call him now. Also, we don't even know what the s'mores topic is. It's just going to be improv. Let's figure it out. Let's do this quick. Scott's only got like 15 minutes in between. Well, he's going to say, hey, boys.

Hey, boys. All right, Scott, we're going to do some improvised s'mores with you real quick. How much time do you have, by the way? I got about 27 minutes. I can take you in the car on the way to my haircut. I got a haircut at 1230. I'm very excited about it. Yeah.

Anyways, I got about a half hour. Give us a quick update, Scott, on your life, if you don't mind, because you have a new job. Just tell the people what they want to what they want to know quick update i went from milk and cows to sling and twinkies um so yeah i made that made the change to basically do similar stuff to what i was doing at dfa which is packaging uh now i work for Hostess. So your favorite delicious treats of Twinkies and Ding Dongs and cupcakes and all sorts of fun things. Oh, yeah. You get unlimited supply? Not unlimited, but I've received, let's just say, several boxes worth now. I've gotten to see two

bakeries, which is fascinating to see the stuff produced at a mass scale i feel like i'm on an episode of how it's made or unwrapped if anybody watched those shows back in the day but uh there's this one lady it was it was pretty like you i think you guys can imagine how i reacted because we finished the tour and then the lady grabbed a big box and then just went to the various production lines and just started grabbing cartons off of the production line and shoving them into the box. I mean, just very judiciously just plopping stuff in the box. I would be worried that's going to mess something up.

I'm like, is this going to mess up the count for the day or anything? This is fine to just take this off the rack? Oh, they've got robots for that jake those robot things yeah laser like all the high speed cameras and the robots and stuff that's what like really fascinates me about those places there there's some stuff like it's it really is like that's the best word it is fascinating like the machinery and some of these things to i'll have to send you guys a video. I have a video of these little baby Bundt cakes getting their

icing drizzled on top of them. It's like the most satisfying thing you've ever seen. Give me some of those baby Bundt cake videos. Baby Bundt cakes. That's great. I'll give you some baby Bundt. I'm enjoying it more. It's a little crazy, but

I'm enjoying it more because it's a very fun industry to be in where you're just, you're making sweet treats all day. Yeah. From milk and cows to sweet treats from teats to Twinkies. Teats to treats. Teats to treats. Teats to treats,

baby. That's great. And pickleball, you got anything to tell us about? Oh, sorry. What'd you say? I just said,

I've always wanted to do that in my career, go from teats to treats. Yes. You got anything to tell us about? Oh, sorry, what did you say? I just said I've always wanted to do that in my career, go from teats to treats. Yes. You got anything to tell us about pickleball? And how it's just taking over the world? Yeah. I told you guys this a few weeks ago. I was very, very, very close to having a crying meltdown

because I got silver in a 5-0 tournament. And then last week I played another 5-0 tournament and got bronze. So we're still in pursuit of the elusive gold in 5-0, but she's coming. She's coming. She's on the doorstep. Yeah. She's coming and I just can't wait to just

bawl my eyes out. Like you have that baby Bundt cake right there. All you need is the icing. Little thing on top. Just needs the drizzle, baby. A little drizzle on top. That's fun. Every Pickleball tournament you go to, you get recognized by Ghosties, too.

The Norwines, this time it was Acacia. So keep finding Scott when he comes to your city. Yeah, hey. Keep an eye out. I'm on the circuit, baby. Circuit city. Spontaneous s'mores. No one will have any prep here.

Let's make a very quick group decision. I'm going to give three different options. I'm sure you are. That's the best part. You spent so much time preparing for the s'mores before. You always had so many honorable mentions okay i'm gonna i did actually spend a lot of time okay um i'm just gonna give a few that i have on my list here and let's just pick one really

quickly so we can't think about too much songs that everyone should have on their playlist their playlist you know just their playlist. Favorite meals your mom makes. Ways to spend a free Saturday. Things you looked forward to as a kid. Sports plays. Okay. I'll throw one in as well. Video games.

Oh, okay. Video games. Is it satisfying noises? Satisfying noises. Any of those stand out to you, Scotty? Definitely not songs, because that is way too overwhelming to think about. Okay. Especially spontaneously. I think I could do meals, things you look forward to as a kid, video games.

I think those would be my top three. I like things you look forward to as a kid, video games. I think those would be my top three. I like things you look forward to as a kid. That's what I was going to say. Things you look forward to as a kid. Great. Okay, Tymon, really quick, just tell us an order, Jake, Brad, Scott,

in whatever order you want. You can say Brad first if you want. What am I doing here? Just the order of, there's Jake, Brad, and Scott. What order are they going? Okay, boom. Jake.

All right. And then? Brad. Okay. And then Scott. Okay, great. First... Things you look forward to as a kid.

Things you look forward to as a kid. I'm going to go with Snow Day. Ooh, okay. Ooh. That's a good one. Waking up on that Snow Day is nice. Yeah, it's about a 24 hour build up or so um it's just a very intense time just waiting to see that uh you know you're trying to

stay up late waiting to see uh strafford r7 school district on the bottom ticker you wake up in the morning it's like seven o'clock but you can just tell how bright it is outside that there's been a lot of snow out yeah it just feels quiet you know like there's yeah it's muffled and it's bright it's like this is good it's a good combination nobody's on the roads so good good first pick uh my first pick is going to be christmas morning i just you i mean just imagine the the build-up for that and just the wonder of christmas there's nothing like it there's nothing like i mean it's hard to sleep that i mean your your your parents usually have, like, you can't get out of bed until X time. Yeah, you're buzzing. Because you're so looking forward to it.

You're buzzing for Nick. So buzzing for beans. Yeah, good one, Scotty. So, yeah, Christmas morning. What do you got, Scotty? All right. I get the twofer. I love it.

Yeah. Good thing, because I couldn't decide between these two. I'm going to say Last Day of School. Yes. Dang it, yes. I don't know if you guys, I don't know if you want me to specify summer or winter, but I think equally awesome, but probably summer is more awesome. Summer is the GOAT, yes. Yeah. Yeah, Last Day of School, and it's... Go ahead.

Go ahead. I remember last day of school and it's good. Good. Well, I was going to say, I remember when, uh, when I, I discovered the song by Alice Cooper schools out for the summer, it was the most fun thing to blast in my, you know, my mom's minivan. Yeah.

Just blaring that thing. Yeah. School's out for summer. It's like, have a great hags guys. Yeah. Hags. Thanks for signing my yearbook, Lauren.

I have a crush on you. Maybe I'll see you twice this summer. You know? Dude, how much did you read into those messages? Oh, my gosh, bro. So much. I feel like I spent most of my time deciphering what that could potentially mean. Oh, yeah.

I purposely never read them when they signed the yearbook. i made sure to go home and like let's let's look at these things oh yeah analyze them i feel like we definitely would go home and compare yeah yeah yeah because it'd be like whoa she said you're such a great friend she said i love your humor like she said you're a friend she didn't say that about me yeah totally dude she likes you dude or it's like whoa that girl has been writing forever dude she has yeah something going on for you and then you realize like no she wrote the exact same thing in mind yeah she writes everyone long messages yeah that's just ashen that's just how she just wants to use more of her gel pen all right scott you got you got a second one okay my yeah my second pick is going to be sleepovers

okay okay dang it that's kind of i i loved love love sleepovers as a kid because you're just like you know you're about to like you can go over to your friend's house they're probably gonna have some fun food you know like like anytime i came came over and spent the night at your house george james always whipping up something good or we're getting pizza or something i don't know yeah and then you just play video games all night or you message chicks on aim and chicks hey man chicks we never call them chicks hey dude let's go find some chicks sure we did you think so oh of course we did okay uh but yeah just everything's so fun about sleepover especially if you had like fun stuff to do the next day because sometimes if you did it then it's like once you go to bed you're like well now sleepover's kind of over

but then if you have something fun to go do the next day like spend the night before a baseball game or something and then go play the you day, like spend the night before a baseball game or something, and then go play the, you know, your baseball game on Saturday or whatever, that that's fun stuff. Uh, that,

that segues perfectly into my next one is there's going to be things I look forward to as a kid is playing like a specific sports game. Like, like when, when the game is coming up, like it's often like, you know, Monday and you're already looking forward to Saturday's game.

Like you're like, we're playing the sllammers this week. This one's for first place in the baseball league. It's us or them. I think we can do it as long as Joe stays healthy and has a good game and Sam doesn't drop any third strikes and we're going to do this thing. When you're playing 12 and under kid pitch baseball, dropping the third strike felt impossible to get him out.

You could not throw it to first and time to get him out. And it was so often like drop third strike equals a triple. Because it's like the catcher tried to get it to first, way overthrew it into right field. Right fielder sometimes would get their time. Right fielder was often me, aka the less athletic kid

on the team. So he's running over to get the ball on the side of the field. And yeah, the guy's at third base. And you struck him out. It's the worst. the worst happened so much that was so debilitating as a pitcher when when sam would drop that third strike on a filthy curveball yeah come on man that happened for years too not even just 12 and under i mean up to like the jv level i think it was like we're not getting this guy out if we drop it and the older you got the the deeper the backstop got and so it's just more and more impossible um anyway so yeah that's my that's my next one let's go and put a bookmark in deep backstops got a story for you okay it's

not a metaphor just literal um okay my two are going to be looking forward to track and field day remember that yes you don't like it i what did the field day is what we call that we call it field day is it it was just field day yeah um i liked like like there was like 30 of the stuff that was like amazing the balloon stomp remember balloon stomp scott oh we did not do like carnival games yours was like pretty serious like yeah yeah no ours were like we did like a a grade-wide balloon stomp and it was magical it was so wild if you got because eventually like if you're the one of the last like 10 left they put you in the we were doing the gym they put you in like the small like circle where you do like the tip for the basketball like right in the middle and it's just wild so uh but i i i mean i wasn't 40 yard dash you think i'm

looking forward to 40 yard dashes i don't know shot put discus yeah javelin was fun whoa they let kids do javelin it was like a plastic javelin and it was awesome okay fun yeah yeah i remember as a kid my whole identity was in sports i could not wait to get to seventh grade to be able to represent my school and play school sports but my little slimmer glimmer of slimmer uh was in fourth grade you know it's like i mean the gym or basketball uh you know, we got just track and field day where I got to compete against the other kids and it was just so fun. And all these like just long jump, triple jump hurdles.

And I do everything. I don't even like the mile. I'll do it today though. Did you have the opportunity to do like all of them? I think so. We, we did all sorts of stuff. Cause you're a smaller school. I feel like it was like, you only got like three events each.

And so that was another bummer for us. Oh, it was just so fun. Because it also came kind of towards the end of school, but also springtime. It was like we're finally getting towards outdoor recess anyway. Beautiful day. You're outside the whole day. We get like half the day off school just to go run around and get sweaty.

It was just an awesome day of school. Did you clean up on those trophies? I'm sure I did okay. I really don't remember, though. Okay. I don't know. And then the other one, I was going to say, just taking like a family vacation.

Sure. We didn't take many of them. So it was like, hey, it's a big deal. We're going to, actually money's tight. We're going to Branson this year. But still, we're going to ride all the go-karts you want to do. As a kid, you don't know money's ever tight though. You're like, Branson sounds awesome.

That's great. I would love to go to Branson. Like go-karts are the pinnacle for me as a kid. It was great. I don't need a fancy hotel. I don't remember any of the hotels we stayed whitewater yeah sure armada in that's great that's great so yeah just any kind of vacation as a kid really fun thing to look forward to because you've traveled so little in your life at that point okay um my third pick you know it's on the brain uh it's rosie's birthday today kids it's amazing watching how excited hattie has gotten

for her birthday and looking forward to that and And I remember always looking forward so much to my birthday growing up. You know, you have like the ring. Remember like the ring countdown where you could like cut off a ring every day? Oh, I know what you're talking about. They're like intertwined rings. Like monkeys in a barrel. Am I making sense with that, Scott? Like construction paper, you like put rings together, and then every single day that it got closer, you cut.

You know what I'm talking about, Tymon? Yep. You cut them. And so I remember thinking like those rings together and then every single day that i got closer you cut you know i'm talking about timing yep um you like cut them and so i remember thinking like those rings are never going to get cut i'm never going to get to my birthday and then i finally did it was glorious so uh scott i was just mentioning uh last monday uh or this this yeah monday's episode you haven't heard it yet you haven't heard it yet but there's a great part about you in there and i talked about how we have been friends forever, and you went to my birthday parties when I was a little kid. So I look forward to you giving me gifts as well. Nice.

So what was your third pick? What was your pick, parties or birthdays? Birthdays, birthdays specifically. My birthday, my own birthday. Oh, your own birthday okay well what i was gonna say with my next pick is birthday parties i don't know if that like is different or i feel like it's different because it's not just my birthday like i was excited to go to other friends birthday parties because we had some iconic birthday parties at our friend group

yeah i feel like sam always had really really fun birthday parties sam our friend group. I feel like Sam always had really fun birthday parties. I'm going to stick with that. That's fine. That was going to be my answer. I was going to specifically say the rich kid's birthday. I was like, oh, that's going to be awesome. Yeah, totally. The rich kid. The one that's like, whoa, they're not going

frozen pizza, they're ordering pizza. They're going to have a cotton candy machine. Absolutely. Okay. You got one more? Okay. And then the last one, I think I'm going to say Halloween. Okay.

Yeah. It's a good thing. I think outside of Christmas as a holiday, I don't think there's another holiday that I was more jazzed about than Halloween. Like, it's always fun. You know, you get dressed up, you get to debut your costume at school. Yep.

And then, you know, that night you're just grabbing a couple pillow sacks and running out to get the candy. Absolutely. So that was probably my favorite holiday outside of Christmas when I was a kid. Not Easter, huh? Not Easter. None of costumes. Yeah, there's only one guy you could go as.

No one wanted me to dress up as Judas. Okay, those are all great picks, Scott. You did it. you had a you're better on the fly yeah yeah maybe maybe this should be your thing um okay what do we constitute as a kid i'm sorry for getting in the weeds here but 13 and under okay great then my answer is going to be uh things you look forward to as a kid hearing back from your crush okay back from your crush so like talking about uh a.i.m you know talking about chicks yeah you know hitting up the chicks on a.i.m hollering at the honey um whether it was like whether it was like you know kind of communicating through

another girl that was this girl's friend like hey can you see if she likes me or you know am i in her top you know seeing if like maybe you're writing a note or you know even like the the yearbook example like something just seeing back some kind of feedback about what does this girl think of me it is exhilaratingly like like just tantalizing i can't i look forward to it so much yeah so yeah okay mine is kind of adjacent to that i mean all these are pretty similar but i was gonna say when scott said halloween it made me think of valentine's day at school. Sure. With all the boxes.

Yes, dude. You're so excited to debut your box that your mom slaved over all night. Oh, yeah. And then also just like, you know, what am I going to get today? And like, because you always, at least we did, I don't know about you, but like I would always get like from Walmart, you know, you could just get like the packs of Valentine's like. Yeah.

You fold over and you put a piece. But there was some that are like better than others. And would save those yeah yeah yeah yeah like there was always like one big one yeah yeah like i'm not giving that to like ethan no way he's a jerk yeah no like definitely the girls are getting like the best valentine's right like i always got like basketball players yeah it's mine and i'll be like i mean i gotta give her you know i gotta go for vince carter probably carter maybe tracy mcgrady i'll go steve nash ration no way keith van horn like I'd be like, I mean, I got to give her, you know, I got to go for Vince Carter, Carter, maybe Tracy McGrady. I'll go Steve Nash ration. No way.

Keith Van Horn. Like she's, she's better than that. You know, Glenn, Glenn Rice, get, get him out of there. Yeah. Something like that. And of course the girl has no idea who this person on there is. It means nothing to her. She's been in a Scott the whole time.

Anyway, I could have given her Carrie Kittles and she would have not been the wiser. That's a great answer yeah thanks yeah it's fun honorable mention for me oh yeah i said kids or rich kids birthday party but also also the first day of school really i had the thought of oh sorry go ahead it just it doesn't i don't think it makes the top four necessarily but it wasn't something i dreaded it was like this is gonna be kind of nice new teacher new seating arrangement new new kids have moved in i love the change yeah i was gonna say uh the first, like when you realize, when you see who your class is.

Because at least for us, we had four classes per group. And your teacher, and your teacher. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like, let's exchange who's, I mean, that's one of those high risk, high reward kind of things, though. It's like, this is going to be a brutal nine months. Yes, 100%.

Miss Cogdell? Like, Scott, have we ever been, were we ever in the same, no, we were in the same kindergarten class, but I don't know if we were ever in the same no we were in the same kindergarten class but i don't know if we were ever in the same no we're at first and second grade were you miss meyer soap yeah i was just miss meyer first and second grade and i thought there was one other no i don't think one other grade that we had the same teacher but we definitely had classes together like at junior high and high school though yeah yeah yeah but like third through

six was a drought dang Dang. Who were your teachers? I had Ballinger, Colter, Giffen, and Roberts. And I'll tell you who you had real quick. You had... Oh my God. Well, actually third grade, did you have Miss Hetherington? No, I had Mowry. Wasn't that her name? Yeah, Miss Mowry

and then you had Mrs. Crooks. And then you had... Chase and then you had Chase and Hannah. Nice. Yeah. Impressive boys. I can't believe I remembered that. Wow. I knew you would, but I can't believe I did.

All right, that's a fun little thing. Any other honorable mentions? Anything else come to mind? I had one,'t it already escaped go ahead scott um mine i had like visiting certain family members or seeing certain family members yeah i thought about like whether they came to you or yeah yeah or like i had my cousins on my dad's side that lived in utah i didn't see them very much but when i did i truly was like more excited for that vacation than anything like going out to their house in utah i didn't see them very much but when i did i truly was like more excited for that

vacation than anything like going out to their house in utah they had like a basketball court and a trampoline and all this fun stuff and i really look forward to seeing them going to the four brides house was like oh it's gonna be fun they had some cool stuff yeah they had video games i didn't have yeah exactly it's like they have video games yeah they have a trampoline they might have a swimming pool they had had like a big screen TV. Like I'd never seen one of those before. Right. It was huge.

High-speed internet. Yeah, DSL. That's good. The only other thing is... My last one is a little deep. You know, something I look forward to as a kid is I always look forward to getting older. And now that I'm old,

I just wish I could be a kid again. That is deep. You're very kid-like, though. You're hanging on to it better than most people. forward to getting older and now that i'm old i just wish i could be a kid again that is that is deep and you're very kid-like though you're hanging on to it better than most people yeah you're very youthful wow you really did look forward to getting older huh bke big kid energy what i like to bring absolutely that's why you're still slinging twinkies you know that's something i looked forward to as a kid was lunchtime. I'll tell you that.

I did look forward to PE. That's another micro version of field day, I guess. Do you remember you would ask the other kids in other classes that already went to PE that day, what did you guys do? They would say, do you remember Jedi, Scott? It was kind of like Capture the Flag. What did you guys do? And they would say, you remember Jedi, Scott? It was kind of like Capture the Flag or what's the other one? Kind of like Capture the Flag, but you could move around. It was like dodgeball version.

It was so fun. We played Jedi today. It's like, oh. Cool, man. Well, thank you for hopping on here, Scotty. This is always a pleasure. I'll get you in the studio soon. Hey, this... It's great to be back

uh i it was funny i was listening to that that clip yesterday that i messaged you guys about jake where you're laughing at brad with the eight out of ten stat and it's just like i don't know why it just hit me harder than any of the other episodes i was like i feel like if i was in studio for that i would be crying laughing because I basically, I basically was. Yeah. I mean, I was losing it by myself. So yeah, we would have been like just rolling off of each other. Do you have any hot takes now? It just basically hit me. I was, it basically just hit me. I was like, man,

I miss, I miss being in studio with those guys. And I, I have to reiterate the time and to understand how good he has it because all the equipment in the world, he has it because he's got all the equipment in the world. He's not using a think pad and a janky mic. He's got all the power. So Tymon needs to appreciate the life of luxury that he has there. He does. Do you have any hot takes for us? Any controversial topics that we can riff on once you're gone? Off the phone? Yeah, like WNBA or no more school.

I'm on the road right now, and I see a shop called Muddy River Tactical. It's a gun shop. Okay. You want to go down that road? I'll get demonetized pretty quick. Yeah. I know. That's a tough thing to... I'm about to drive by

a police station, too. Okay, yeah, yeah, we do that. Guns and police. George Floyd. Let's go ahead and hit all the hot topics. All right, go enjoy your haircut. Thanks for driving us. Thanks, Floyd. Thanks for having me.

It was fun. Love you, Scotty. We'll see you soon. Peace. Love you, brother. See ya. See ya. What a guy. That was fun. I'm glad we got that working. And it was fun. I love that Tywin's like, I don't even know what s'mores are. What are you guys talking about? What do you need me? What am I doing here?

Yeah, I was like, do the order. Do the order of s'mores s'mores order um brad what's what's going on next to you on your microphone this is a book right jake you idiot that's a book they're literally sponsoring the episode spine on my side maybe you can't see whoa what is that every time i try to set up that what they literally we talked about we're doing an ad for Elizabeth Virgil's book Rescue We talked about what we're going to do in the middle of the episode Dude this is so unprofessional

Dude like gosh Edit this out Tymon This is a book You literally said it there We talked about it We talked like Rachel and Catherine have read this book It's a great Dude I don't know why that just

I don't know why I couldn't remember what a book was in that moment I'm sorry Well it's not any book though Oh it's a great dude I don't know why that just I don't know why I couldn't remember what a book was in that moment I'm sorry well it's not any book though oh it's not it's rescued by Elizabeth Virgil abused but not abandoned did I say that weird

it's it's rescued by Elizabeth Virgil it's pretty simple really it's just it's called arrested by Elizabeth Virgil really I mean that's what she wants the ad read to be

hey guys just keep on reading it all so you didn't know this is a buzz and in my buzz there's heads and this is a bus and with bus there's pages and you read a bus and there's letters and a bunch of letters took up and put in the words and then there's sentences and there's some good sentences in this book okay this book has incredible sentences and you put those sentences together big old sentences small sentences they're called

paragraphs and then paragraphs together make one big chatters and then chatters make a whole book and this book is called rescue by elizabeth time it's ready to have this be his home school from now on this is great i'm listening to everything when you talk like this okay everybody pound everybody pound that is really funny rescued rescued elizabeth virgil she has been one of our biggest fans for years and years and uh if you've ever yeah seen anything we've posted you've probably seen elizabeth virgil comment below yeah she's it's a very positive nice thing we that she says all the time and uh yeah she wrote a book she's very very transparent and vulnerable in her story,

not only in the book, but even just like, I feel like we've DM'd before and she's talked about stuff, even publicly in comment sections of like her life and her kind of story of being in an abusive relationship and funny and cool enough, I'm actually in the book because for some reason or another,

you know, the way that Trey and I were able to communicate in our Do Less, God Bless podcast, which we just started to like have something to do during COVID, it might have been only started just to help Elizabeth out. It's really cool. You should check out why that was so impactful for her. And it just kind of, you know, showed her that good guys are out there. And anyway, she's got a really cool story. I've read probably half of it, I would say. Rachel and Catherine have each read it. It's a really easy read.

Yeah, Catherine read it in one sitting. Yeah, it's like 89 pages. Read it in a couple hours. And it's fun. I love that the ladies in our life are like, oh yeah, I'll read this. Yeah, absolutely. Let me read the description that she gave us. It says,

The book explores the psyche of a woman living in abuse, but then tells the miraculous story of how God rescued her. Elizabeth shares her real life experience and struggle with suicidal thoughts and abuse to help recognize red flags in the lives of those around you or for anyone living in abuse to know that they're not alone. This book was written to give you hope that just as Jesus didn't abandon Elizabeth in the dark times, he won't abandon you. Um, and this is one of those things that's like, it's good for people both, you know, in potentially similar situations,'s like it's good for people both you know in potentially similar situations but it's also good for people not in those situations because uh so much of it

that's really interesting to me is like you know she had people in her lives that just didn't recognize what was going on and so this would help you know those people recognize those things help somebody who might who you might know that might be struggling with this thing so totally one in three women in america experience some kind of domestic violence. The sad reality is if you're not living through it, you probably know someone who is. That is crazy. We want to do something about it.

Elizabeth wrote this book. She wants to do something about it. So she has a website here. It's pastorsagainstabuse.us. Pastorsagainstabuse.us. The book's $15, but you can use the code ghosty right now ghosty g-h-o-s-t-i-e for 20% off so

three bucks off that's that's good math right there might as well and I did like she said that she said even though it is heavy topic you will not finish this book feeling sad and depressed if you know Elizabeth yeah you know that she joyful woman of the Lord in her yeah so it's thank you wanted Thank you, Elizabeth.

Wanted to sponsor. Are you? That's just what I was going to say. Yeah, it's always, it's our favorite when go sees themselves want to sponsor the podcast and we want to do our best to highlight whatever their product or service is.

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availability may vary by Regency app for details. All right, Brad, what's our next Fusion Wednesday? Let's go for some voice memes. Great. Some VMs. Ready to go. Yeah. Let's do it. Hey, Jake. It's Nak. Nak Bax. Yeah. so everyone should get a colonoscopy i think between the ages of 45 and 75 okay um it's like preventative screening who's this from um male and female it doesn't matter but if you have a history of colon cancer like uh in my family i think it's like 10 years before the person got in your family got colon cancer. So if they got it at like 50, you should get it at like 40. That's off the top of my head, not my area of specialty.

But yeah, don't be afraid. There's a lot of ways to make it more pleasurable for you and your doctor. My father-in-law, his friend, it was his colonoscopist's birthday, so he wrote happy birthday on his hindquarters. Yeah, there's a lot of ways to make it fun. Okay. Don't be afraid. Bye.

Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid. What a fun way to end a phone call. Don't be afraid. Bye. Hey, don't be afraid. Out of context. Don't live in fear.

See ya. Yeah, man. So yeah, sounds good. Let's meet tonight at six. Okay, yeah, sounds good. Okay, don't be afraid. See ya. All right.

God is bigger than superstition, so don't be afraid. Bye. Sounds good. Okay. Don't be afraid. See ya. All right. God is bigger than superstition. God's bigger than the boogeyman. See ya. Don't be afraid. I love Knack. He's the man. Hopefully we get to see him again out on the road, but that's great. A lot of ways to make it. What else can we think of? Other ways to make it more fun for you or them or anyone else?

I think this is a simple one but just wearing an extra pair of pants like so it's like it's like okay go ahead and remove your pants and you remove them and then there's just jeans underneath that's pretty funny never go anywhere without them yeah just you don't double layer on jeans on things like this i thought the x-rays like lead poisoning and stuff i was worried about it so i just doubled up like yeah have some sweatpants on and then you'd pull them down and you got some dungarees on underneath having words on your cheeks is pretty funny too because also like he couldn't have written that himself either like someone else was in on it like they had to write it that's true yeah that's that's pretty great double to apply on your pants i don't know what else i

mean the only thing i think of is more like i'm like i think every time i use a bidet i think it's just it's the you know what are they called the gateway the gateway drug the gateway device every day i use a bidet i get closer and closer to thinking what's the big deal yeah yeah bidet is like a 116th colonosc it's the airsoft gun to a rifle exactly yeah it's like i mean it's airsoft to the air 15 yes exactly very good so yeah yeah it might sting a little but it's not penetrating right no it is not whereas colonoscopy straight through you yeah straight through you right through that's fun neck straight through you straight through you so anyway that's fun yeah i think a while ago we asked him because we were talking about it i had some fact really really wrong and oh it was like i don't think everyone needs a colonoscopy i was

like i'm pretty sure that's a thing you get when you turn a certain age yeah thanks next votes out thanks for being a doctor appreciate you protecting us next one's from hayley hey jake and brad it's us the hush and sisters this is hayley hi i'm anna um for the first time we're in the car just kidding we've been in the car before for the first time ever i played pickleball and we encountered a pickle snob if you will um anna you want to tell us a little more about that i'd love to so we were playing pickleball um just having fun um we didn't really know the rules but it was it was a grand time then someone from the chapel hill pickleball team came over and joined our game yep and then proceeded to tell us that we were really amateur players which we kind of already knew but um then he insisted um sorry it was a hard turn okay then he insisted that we use his

pickleball because it was a real one which we had a pickleball and they looked the same they were both yellow his was just more neal that's a real pickle we love the podcast bye bye okay go ahead sorry what were you gonna say i was gonna say there is a difference between pickleballs and Bye-bye. Okay. Go ahead. Sorry. What were you going to say? I was going to say there is a difference between pickleballs. And once you get used to the quote-unquote correct one, and then you play with like the indoor one, it does bother you. Sure.

But if you're playing with people who are clearly playing for the first time, I would never. Don't be a dork. Yeah. Correct them or, yeah, tell them. I know it would help, you know, if we use this ball. Because that ball, the outdoor ball is harder to use. Probably.

It's a little faster. It's less forgiving. Yeah, it just cracks easier. It's like, use the indoor ball. It's going to last you. Why not? Who cares? That's so funny.

I also like the way they were very like, Anna, do you want to tell them about that? Yes, thank you. They really passed it off to each other well. Let's take this over to Anna now for the full story. She's also in a car for the first time. Thanks, Haley. I'm here in the passenger seat and you wouldn't believe what happened in Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill Pickleball Club.

Yeah, that is too bad. I think there are a lot of pickle snobs. My Facebook feed, I'm in like a couple of pickleball Facebook groups and they always suggest things to me and Facebook will say like, do you want to see less of this? I'm always tempted, but it's fascinating, dude,

because it skews so old and they're weird folks, dude. If I just get on my Facebook right now, I'm sure it'll be at the top. They're bonkers about it. They're bonkers. Very top of my Facebook. I just open Facebook. It's always Pickleball and just this guy just writing like this, just blog.

Game changer alert and then we'll just post like his thoughts on like i suggest we watch squash players footwork as this was the perfect position to be in rather than the back foot slide i gave it some thought but i put it on the back burner you know it's like the oldest like comment everything you're thinking that's a long post and then other people will say like uh disagree moving on and then he'll reply to it and be like um well if you don't like it you don't have to read and it's just like it's just such a contentious like these old people and pickleball it is not like the best community well it's just funny because pickleball i feel like they they are still like super like we are the pioneers of

this thing yeah no one else knows about it this is amazing and therefore i'm really good at it because i'm like pretty new to this thing and like and so there's a little bit of elitist elitism that way too i remember when pickleball got on cbs steven colbert did that thing and the pickleball facebook groups are just firing like i this isn't even real pickleball i mean emma watson barely knows how to play and this is how they show our sport we finally get on cbs what do they do just like play it on the colbert show no it was it's like one of those special one-time events they do. Do you remember when Steph created the putt-putt thing for just one night? It's like a one-night-only event, primetime.

Okay. So they just had a bunch of celebrities play pickleball. Will Ferrell was there. Oh, really? I guess it just wasn't a high-level pickleball, and the boomers were so peeved about it. Oh, yeah. It was like, we finally are on CBS, and this is what they show. They're using an outdoor ball inside.

Interesting. Um, that's funny. This is a, just a great example too. So this guy's thread is all about, I don't know, positioning or something.

And so he posted like, this is how it should be. And he just replies that to every comment. He just replies the same. He's got that ammo. He wants to use it. Yeah. It's on there again.

They're just like five times, right? Oh my gosh. It just keeps going. It just, it's everywhere. This they're just like five times right oh my gosh it just keeps going it just it's everywhere this is a visual joke but it is it is good if you can see it on i mean at least at least nine times right there yeah it's just funny so pickleball is weird sorry about the snobs yeah we don't have to get too deep into the pickleball thing but i did talk to scott and you i was like i feel like like if once pickleball starts making enough money,

all these people who are professional pickleball players right now are going to get, you know, left in the dust because people that aren't that good at tennis, but there are pro tennis players are going to be like, well, I can make a bunch of money playing pickleball instead. Totally.

I mean, Tyson McGuffin has gone on record saying once tennis players get in here, we're all done for we're done. Yeah. Cause they're just naturally more talented. You said there was, there was a story of a guy like a couple weeks ago who was like a college d1 tennis player he was a mediocre he wasn't even that good yeah yeah he was like not

that not a standout by any means i don't know if he ever lettered played pickleball before like not much at least and like entered this first tournament ever first pro tournament and he got second yeah in singles crazy so it's like if that shows you where pickleball is at yeah at the singles levels because singles is more like tennis doubles is kind of its own sport but yeah tennis players could come in and dominate singles pickleball if they want to yeah it's very interesting yeah so if you're out there tennis players yeah about it think about it anyway that's when pickleball let's do let's do one more great voice memo you go with that brad yep don't say you're good with your not good with it brad i'm good with it all right i'd even do two

brad hey jake brad my name is alden cronin um from north andover massachusetts i'm 13 years old but um you know i think i have a record for your podcast i've listened to each episode maybe like get there nine times i want to say nine times which i know it seems like a lot it seems like it might be exaggerating but i honestly don't think i am because i probably listened to at least two episodes a day and i've been listening to um i've been listening to your podcast for a very long time but we should utilize my question is how did you meet all your friends like how do you meet harrison how do you meet gunner how do you meet esther how do you meet esther um just all the guys but all the boys uh thank you so much your podcast is really awesome and that's all the time i have thanks alden and i gotta run uh don't be afraid bye

don't be afraid i like i like uh getting voice memos from people who've listened to it nine times because part of me is like surely we've told how we met gunner before but if he's listened nine times he would probably know i guess we haven't and that is so fun these listen nine times alden thank you that is so cool thanks i appreciate that yeah um okay let's just rapid fire we met as a lot of it's through kannikuk slash k life yeah right uh especially those three examples so um esther we met through like she was a volunteer at k life um when jake and katherine worked there gunner was a volunteer at k life and then his now wife lived next door to jake for a while i met them years before that

though working from yeah i met a gunner at a dumpster we were both throwing away things at Now wife lived next door to Jake for a while. I met them years before that, though. Working from... Yeah, I met Gunner at a dumpster. We were both throwing away things at the same time. It was really fun. And I drove away and I was like, I like that guy. This is gonna sound weird to say, but I feel like I hit it off with that guy. And then... The audio just kind of cut out.

I don't know exactly what you heard. But yeah, basically met Gunner at a dumpster. He's the man. And then met Emily maybe like a year before that. I went to a date party at Oklahoma State with the Pi-Fis yeah and uh Emily and her twin sister were in there and we met there uh Harrison we met through working at Chick-fil-a yes when he we didn't work there he did as he was moving up here I feel like people in our life like Will Severance was like hey you got to be friends with this guy yeah it's like okay awesome so that was great we got set up with a friend

um Isaac we met through, uh, K life. He was a K life kid. He was like a seventh grader probably when I met him. I remember he was Duncan. I mean, he had the craziest,

he still does have amazing vertical leap. Yeah. So he was doing these crazy things. He could tell the chicks were digging it. The chicks. I met Peter on the intramural football field at SBU. Okay. We played against each other a few times.

He was a little spazzy. His team was good. Yeah. Yeah, good team. Peter worked with Catherine, and so that's when I met them together at K-Life. Do you remember meeting Scott? Yeah, I do.

Actually, pretty genuinely, I remember we were in the cafeteria line together, and he turned around to me and he said, do you want to be my friend? Oh, yeah. I think it was that sweet and that quick and innocent, i was like yes yes thank you we were ever since then we were you know little little man and big man together don't be afraid um yep so i do remember meeting scott um i met scott because we needed an extra for for like rec basketball you're like i

can text my buddy scott oh yeah he was he's pumped about it he loved it yeah that's what started it all um i met luke hoagland i've told the story before but by just uh making eye contact at Text my buddy Scott. Oh, yeah. He was pumped about it. He loved it. Yeah. That's what started it all. I met Luke Hoagland. I've told this story before, but by just making eye contact at Pilgrim Coffee at the same time, we were sitting kind of diagonally from each other. Both look up from our computer at the same time. What's up, dude? Hey, dude. Yeah, I think I've seen you around here before.

Yeah, what's your name? Yeah, we've had like 50 mutual friends and became friends ever since. Now he's at my wedding. Yeah, I used to go to basketball games and watch Luke Hoagland's older brother play basketball. He's pretty athletic. Lay this out. Yeah, way better than Luke.

Better than freaking Luke. Anybody else? Any regulars? Met Garrett Gibson at college. Do you remember meeting Garrett? I'm trying to remember. I think maybe at the casino. We went to the casino.

Oh, that's fun. It might have been there. Yeah, I bet it was. I met Alex Dimchek the very first day of welcome week of SBU. I forgot he went to SBU. That's how you guys originally were friends, huh? Yeah, it became really tight. Then he moved on, but he was back in town this week.

I got to hang out with him, Rachel and I, and went out to dinner, and then you saw him the next morning at the gym. That's awesome. It was so fun. Small world. Yeah, it was great. We talked to him for a while and aaron his wife if you're listening uh hit us up sometime about talk about homeschooling oh yeah yeah they're into it yeah so i met aaron on on a roof of a house fun fact aaron critchfield really in columbia missouri

how'd you get up there uh ladderder? Jumped. Just freaking jumped. Just parkoured that thing? Anyway, I like that question. That was kind of fun to think back to. Just origin stories. Yeah. Yeah, I'm sure there's more. Let us know if there's more.

Alden, you want to know about? Let us know. All right, next segment, Brad. What do you want? Let's do a little GIC. GOC. Ghosties on a couch. Ooh, okay.

Yeah, yeah. GOC. GOAC. Dominic wants to know, how to hit on someone you don't know super well over text but in a cool way i see you don't know super well or texting yeah and then he also says or just figure out how to get them to like you how to hit on someone you don't know super well over text but in a cool way well you and i know this a little bit you don't think timon knows a little bit better than us though right how to do this i mean he's got both of his hands up

timon's like please tell him uh no we won't put you on the spot unless you do you have do you have anything timon he's gonna say i i don't trick her yeah tricker just uh don't be your tried and true just trigger how to hit on someone you don't know super well over text but in a cool way i don't be funny be funny give, but in a cool way. Be funny. Be funny. Give us a funny text. I mean, it's all contextual. Just like they... You got to establish some inside jokes.

And then don't hit on them too much, but just... I don't know. Be funny. But don't send a lot of ha-has and LOLs. No. Be confident in yourself. Okay, I was a big... Be confident in your sarcasm.

I was a big smiley face guy. Gross, dude. No, what's wrong with the honeys you throw the emoticons in there no not not emojis literally just the the that's what i'm saying the emoticons is that what it is yeah yeah yes colon close parenthesis yep only that one though you started eyes first and then smile because that's how i yeah we gotta start with the eyes of course there's the groin of the face let's start start with them. And then, oh, what face is it going to be? Smiley.

Yeah, when you smile first and then eyes, it always just looks like a frown face to me. Yeah. Yeah, dude. That ain't right. That's not how God intended it. Honestly, red flag right there. Yeah, there you go. No, thank you.

If you don't take nothing away, do colon and then parenthesis. Huge smiley face guy. And that'll be cool. Probably overemphasize the smiley face. And not even just like in a flirtatious way, just I was a smiley face guy. I just like being happy. They're not bad. Yeah.

But I'm not a big emoji guy. No. I'm getting there. It's amazing watching Rachel text her girls versus how she texts me. Really? Night and day. The girls love the emojis.

Yeah, Catherine. Yeah. I remember back in the day, back when she was good with the iPhone, she would be like, look at these hilarious emojis. Yeah, Catherine, yeah. I remember back in the day, back when she was good with the iPhone, she would be like, look at these hilarious emojis and think how funny she is. Just carefully curating these emojis.

Interesting. And I was like, I see those really quickly and I just... I'm not thinking about them. They're not words. They're not letters. Letters or words. There's no smiley emoticon on there. Hope that helped. Yeah. Figure out how to get them to like you. The inside joke thing is letters or words. There's no smiley, there's no smiley emoticon on there. Um, that helped figure out how to get them to like you. The inside joke thing is the most practical,

um, thing I could, I could tell, or I could say as well. I think it's just, that's everything is just like having an inside joke that you can always fall back on in and just having some kind of like pattern of an excuse to text them.

That's the only thing I can think of. It's an excuse because we're playing this texting game where I give you a random fact about me, and then you give me a random fact about you. And then we have inside jokes about that, and then I respond to those things you say. Smiley face, smiley face, smiley face. Smiley, smiley, smiley.

Ask questions until she gives you a funny answer, then there's your joke. There's your joke. Tom B. wants to know how to get middle schoolers to stop bullying you as a 23-year-old. questions until she gives you a funny answer then there's your joke there's your joke um tom b wants to know how to get middle schoolers to stop bullying you as a 23 year old ah hopefully he's a teacher yeah or uh the church yeah church helper um how did you get middle school i would say bully them back i would say meet them where they are in the sense of like, yeah, bully them back. First of all, you have so much cloud over them.

Like you literally are stronger than them. Like physically you should be pushed them on the ground. First of all, I'm in charge. Second of all, while they're on the ground, just say some like really, really bullying thing. Messed up stuff. Not even about them. Moms, dads, siblings, nothing's off limits.

The car that they got dropped off in. Oh yeah. Ford winstar it was that thing still have hubcaps you couldn't afford rims stuff like that yeah yeah yeah ford winstar one one sliding door oh my gosh what is this 1996 and they're like i don't know i wasn't born yet and they're like ah okay okay okay we're fine. Okay. And just try to be exactly like them. That's what I think. That's what I've noticed. If you are not dressing exactly like them, if you are not grittying all the time.

Yes, dude. If you're not just subconsciously flossing while you're in line or something. Just kind of while you're talking. So tonight we're going to be in First Peter after 15. Yeah. If you're not TikToking, if you're not Friday Fit Check, stuff like that. I think an easy thing that will, not only will the children like it, but some of the older leaders in the church will like, is kind of get down and sit in a small room like, what's going on with Addison Rae?

Yeah. Right? Is Charlie falling off? Have any of you guys watched the D'Amelio show? Stuff like that. Like talk about TikTok drama. Like, what's going on with Addison Rae? Yeah. Right? Is Charlie falling off? Have any of you guys watched the D'Amelio show? Stuff like that. Like, talk about TikTok drama. Yeah, you need to find your own version of the Stimp thing in golf that I found.

You need to do that with these middle school kids. As much as you can be dressing, acting, and talking like them, you're going to be fine. Yes. Use the words they use. A few more here. Have Riz with them. Yes, riz. No, no, yeah. Say riz over.

Like riz can... So that's the cool thing. I don't know... You can't say riz too much. That's what I was going to say. I don't know if Tom knows about riz, but riz is like one of those words. I forget what exactly the definition or the term is, but it's a noun, a verb, an adjective, a pronoun, and an adverb.

Yes, an onomatopoeia, I believe. Onomatopoeia. It's an onomatopoeia. And so you can literally say it for anything. You can be like, yo, that riz is riz. Or you can just call him like, hey, well, if it isn't riz. Hey, we riz- Your mom's poor.

We riz-ing later. Yeah, we riz-ing later, Ford Windstar. Stuff like that. Yeah. Hey, blue jeans, you leave the riz at home? That actually works. Yeah, on accident. On riz. That was on riz. And that leave the riz at home that actually works yeah on accident on riz that was on riz that's and that's on riz and it can be positive or negative yeah yeah wait is that facts

or is that riz yeah is that riz or is that cat like either way you're gonna sound cool doing it all right tom it's fun having time in here for like a, just like a little validation. Yeah. Immediate validation. This is dumb, man. You guys are old. Um,

all right. Dave C wants to know, we'll move on from that. Dave C wants to know what are some good tips or ideas for professional networking? Oh, I default question. Yeah.

I default to an introverted personality, but I recognize that being able to meet new people and grow relationships can be extremely valuable in the workplace. Valuable. You both seem to do well at this. So I was wondering if you have any basic things that you could consciously try to do when making new connections. First thing that comes to mind, let's say you are more naturally introverted and not

like, okay, I'm not just going to sit down and have a beer with a guy for 45 minutes. You know, that's not my thing. So what you can't do with, you know, outgoing thisness maybe i think you make up for in thoughtfulness like it's going to exhaust you to talk to this guy for more than five minutes but if you can remember a couple different things about him connect on just a couple things get his email get his number you follow up wait a while and then you remember something specific you talked about show that you're thoughtful guy girl whatever i think like oh that stands out to me he remembers this that's a good word and like at least personally for me yeah i think that's great and i'll add to that of like

in that thoughtful thing make it a little bit longer than you think you need to potentially like make it like the follow-up or the initial the oh i guess no yeah the follow-up the follow-up like email or text is what i'm imagining in my head like that shows to me that oh you took you might have only taken five minutes to talk to me, but you took 10 minutes to write this thing. To type this email, yeah. And that's very intentional. And that shows me something about their character of like,

oh, this guy's legit. This guy's intentional with his words. This guy is somebody who's going to follow up and I don't know. It just shows me something personally. It just shows me something about their personality though, of like, okay, they're,

they're trustworthy. I think for whatever reason that feels trustworthy to me when somebody does that, it's like a long, but not like a copy pasted email or text or whatever. It's like, this is written for me. Yeah,

that's a good, I think that's great. Um, cool. Cool. Let's do a few more. Okay. Allie Ray wants Allie, Allie ali ray that's the tiktok girl

you're talking about with the domelios yeah i think allison ray yeah yeah she's got the podcast with her mom on spot allison ray allison ray wants to know unconventional ways to find a husband she's already tried her hand at husband calling the way they do at iowa state fair but no luck unconventional ways to unconventional ways you try the conventional route the husband calling that didn't work um unconventional ways um bake sale oh my gosh yes lemonade stand even cake walk okay they should have ring toss it's something at the yeah it's still something in the state fair you need to go to the iowa state fair like like the thing where you world's strongest man yeah yeah but don't hey if he's whatever that's called. But don't... Hey, if he's too high or too low, you don't go for him.

Only go for people like five out of seven on the scale. Ring toss. Yeah, just carnival games. Yeah. Ferris wheel rides. Work the carnival. Honestly, yeah, Ferris wheel rides. Just buy unlimited tickets and just go.

I mean, there's your speed dating. Yeah. Just go on Ferris wheel rides. Co-ed only. Just go around and be like, I got a token for this thing. You you want to join you want to be my token date and ferris wheel ride minimum six minutes maximum probably 10 right yeah go out find a county fair with a short ferris wheel if it goes well you could follow up if not you're not committed to too much if it goes wheel yeah wheelie wheelie well that went wheelie well honestly i like the ferris wheel idea

we talk enough we'll find it. I like that idea with my friends. I'm serious, real quick. Hey, you mind if I be dead serious real quick? Do you mind if I just get really personal and real, real quick? Real, real? I like the idea of getting 20 friends together that we haven't hung out that intentionally, and we just interchange Ferris wheels, and we just have conversations six minutes at a time.

Like metaphorical Ferris wheels? No. Oh, no, okay. I would actually go to the fair. Actually, that's California. Fairs always mean warm weather. It sounds great. Let's call them out right now.

Scott Caldwell. Yeah. Calvin Beck. I'd like to ride a Ferris wheel with you. The Duckworths. Yes. Harrison and Abby. Yes.

Rachel. Yeah. Say Catherine. Catherine. Yeah. Say Catherine. Catherine. Catherine. Say Catherine. Hey, say Catherine, please. Yeah.

Bo. I would like to do this. Just me and Bo on a Ferris wheel. Dude, I would love for Bo to interchange Ferris wheels with other people, too. Like, that would be an amazing way to teach him some social skills. Honestly, yeah. Have some conversation with other people. One in every six is a rando. They've been vetted.

But it's just like, Bo, let's see how you can do you know what let's get some um you know segregation no sorry what's the opposite segregation integration let's get some integration there let's have matt ford come okay okay you know hattie was a little bit scared of matt because she didn't see very many black people i don't want bow to feel the same way yeah that was too bad yeah matt's also just a scary looking guy no he's not he is, six with like massive cornrows dreadlocks. You know, else, you know, I'll sit here. I can't reach him. He's Moses is back there.

He's huge. Yeah. He's a big guy. Yeah. Anyway. Okay. I think that I think we nailed it. I think we nailed that.

Okay. One more. You got your eyes on. Yeah. Let's see. Let me do two because there's one. this one's a quick, simple one. Lauren from Iowa. Bible study or devotional for men slash husbands slash fathers.

I'm just looking for a devotional resource for my husband to help him dig more deeply into the word with a focus on being a husband and father. I don't have one specifically for that, but I have one that I really, really like. And if you remember Garrett Perkins on the podcast a long time ago. First ever guest. Yeah. He and his company do something called Sola journals, S O L a.

And it just stands for Sola scriptura. Just like literally it's, it's a, they're, they're just devotionals, but you know, it's talking about the patience of God, the grace of God,

the sovereignty of God. And all it is is like, it uses scripture for you to study scripture. And it's really, really cool. And it's, it's been really effective for me. So that's my answer on that is Sola journals,

S O L a good. Um, and then this one, let's see, uh, Demetrius, Demarcus, Bartholomew,

James, the third junior hilarious. When do I have enough financial security to quit my job? I'm doing a side hustle and it could produce very good income, but I'm not sure when to go full time. I think that you should answer this one. Um, cause you have done this. I think that you should answer this one. Um, cause you have done this.

I think, I mean, let's, let's like mathematical, just practical answer is if you have six months worth of, like if, if you don't make money for six months and you can survive and you're excited about doing this,

then do it. Yeah. I think, I think anybody, anybody that's asking this question like this is probably responsible enough where in five months, if they haven't made a dollar, they could go find a job. Start looking. Yeah.

Yeah. Like, that's what I always kind of lean back on is like, I could find a good enough job out there that would make me enough money and have a career. Ferris wheel worker. Ferris wheel worker. Ring toss worker. The goldfish, you know, ping pong ball in a goldfish. The impossible to make the basketball hoop shot worker. Ring toss worker. The goldfish, you know, ping pong ball in a goldfish jar.

Impossible to make the basketball hoop shot worker. Yep. Those like clown looking troll things that you throw, you hit over with the. Yes. Big Bertha, I think it's called. Big Bertha. Impossible to balance on that like ladder rope worker. Oh my gosh.

Yeah. That thing. Yeah. I bet you were pretty good at that back in the day. I don't know if I ever tried it. I think I was just told like, oh, that's a sucker's game. Don't do it. So I said, okay, that's the whole fair. Um, yeah, I think, I think that's the, that's the, that's the simple answer is just if you have enough like security outside of, you know, making the money for your job. And I think the big thing, I don't know if you're married, Demetrius, but you make sure your wife is on board and you're, she's supportive because it is not fun. I mean,

I can't imagine it because Catherine, Catherine has been very supportive the whole time, but I would imagine it would not be fun if she's not really on board. And then all of a sudden things are going sideways and she's like, then there's like strife that way. So, um, Demetrius Barthol, if you're, if you're not married, do it, get after it. I'm such a product of like taking chances when I was young and single. And now I'm to the point,

not, I'm a little more tied down to things, but I'm so happy with where I'm at. I want to be tied down to the things I'm tied down to because I took chances when I was younger, when I knew I had like the privilege to do so. Good word. Thanks.

A bonus question real quick. Steve Triplett wants to know how to tell my son he's adopted. wait wait steve triplet that's your oh my god he's he's joking he's joking around time do you have something no uh yeah i think he's joking around that's probably like uh like a bachelor party group text sorry i just got a text from oh don't read that one okay sorry what adopted he probably doesn't mean literally adopted like yeah adopted in the kingdom like yes like i've adopted you like into like we want to pay for the rehearsal dinner like he's like really giving you guys like he's adopted you into my budget yeah it's got to be because you can be pregnant with like emotion uh-huh so people use words

like with kids going in and out all the time metaphorically yeah yeah yeah oh we conceived last night how do we even know a new idea how do we even know this is the real steve triplet too that's the thing anyone could have said that And is he the only one in America? I don't know. His real name's Steven, right? So it's not. Okay. Hey, don't think about it.

Real quick on the topic of my mom's husband, Steve. No, but I was thinking about him recently. Like, I don't know if your guys' dads, well, no, your dad is the sweetest man on earth. But I grew up, my dad was so sarcastic. But at the same time, I think he's very like humble and self-deprecating. And, you know, it was very funny. But so this kind of, it came out in certain ways. So at one, for instance, I remember like, like, I'd be good at sports as a kid and my dad was like you know i don't know where you get it from you know i i was a terrible

high school athlete and so i just believed him i was like wow that is crazy you know i guess it's my grandpa or something let's be my mom and then i was an adult i'm like you're very coordinated obviously that's where i got it from yeah and then but even i'd bring home like a report card in like fourth grade always and my dad would be like that is amazing i mean i i barely pass high school you know i you're getting straight a's and i'm the dumbest guy on earth and i truly believed he was the dumbest guy on earth so you just walked around being like like other people be like yeah my dad's an engineer be like my dad could never be an engineer yeah that guy's an idiot well at the same time i feel like i was very proud of like we talked about role

models in class and they're like oh you know mine is oh yeah uh superman mine's derrick cheater i like mine's actually my dad because he's a full-time accountant and he's the dumbest guy on earth that's crazy yeah he had no he taught me how to ride a bike he doesn't know how to do math he's the dumbest guy on earth and he still taught me how to ride a bike isn't that crazy it's wild i just really believed that for a while. Like that is crazy. He's so dumb. Yet I'm getting straight A's. You're such a sweet, innocent kid. Kind of like that story you told about your dad sleeping

on the floor after coming back from fishing. Marriage was good for a little bit. 50%. They end like this. That's awesome. Anyway, should we wrap up this episode? This has been a great episode. I think we should wrap it up. Thanks to everyone listening. Tell everyone the things they should do. should we wrap up this episode this has been a great episode i think you should wrap it up thanks thanks to everyone listening yeah tell tell everybody the things they should do well wrap up comment of the week brad so i have one okay it's coming from timon's

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