Ghostrunners - 253 - Crying at Footloose

Episode Date: August 16, 2023

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Hey, happy Wednesday, everybody. Um, that was all I had to start. That's good. Just kidding. Um, Jake, I went golfing a couple of weeks ago with a ghosty slash friend, Jordan algae. Oh yes. I wanted to make it and I did it. Oh, it's cause I was golfing with, uh, Garrett. Yeah. Garrett Clark. Yeah. Probably would have chosen Garrett over Jordan myself if he invited me. Jordan, great guy, though, played a par three course. If you guys know anything about golf, that's when you try it. They're shorter holes. And if you forget your pitching wedge, which is your shortest club, it's kind of hard every once in a while. I would hit it kind of close and I'd be like, I've got to get that nine iron out here.

So your lowest lofted wedge normally is a pitching wedge. Which is already like not great. Yeah. And now it's a nine iron. That's kind of funny. And so like, yeah, I hit one that was whatever, 30 feet from the hole. Like not that close, but close enough to be a pitching wedge. And you don't have a putter.

No putter. Use Jordan's putter. It was, I never yeah whatever i i literally got out of my truck and pulled out my bag and i was like that the clubs look funny i don't i'm missing a club and i think i left it at when we were playing that very last hole that's borderline like showing up to pick up basketball and be like you know i realized i don't have a left arm so that's gonna make it harder. Or just like if you realize you don't have the right shoes. You're like, I can play in my normal shoes. Yeah, you got to play tennis in sandals.

Yeah. I go, oh, that's going to limit me. I can still volley, but yeah, if I'm running up to the net, I'm not running back afterwards. Yeah. Did you guys have fun? It was a blast. Yeah.

I never played a par three course. It was comical how close some of those holes were. I mean, I was like, it was a blast. Yeah. I, it was, I never played at par three course. It was comical how close some of those holes were. I mean, I was, yeah, I was like, it was like 75. Are they yards or are they feet?

Do they measure everything? We go yards. Yeah. 75 yards away. I was like, that's the hole right there. Um, but we had a lot of fun.

It was a nice day. Um, but right when you're real quick, just because I know you're going to get somewhere good. I, I'm excited for you to start going to other places, football stadiums, baseball fields, now that you're a golfer. Because you'll start to think, you'll be like, okay, from home to center field,

it's only 400 feet. That's divided by three. That's my pitching wedge. Wow. That's so easy to hit home run if it's golf. Yeah. That's crazy. That is wild.

You start to think of everything. You're like, well, a football field. That's my 56 degree. That's nothing. That's crazy. Wow. You can't even throw a football that far. Wait, like, well, a football field. That's by 56 degree. That's nothing. That's crazy. Wow. You can't even throw a football that far. Wait, wait, wait.

A football field is 100 yards. Yeah. 56 degree? 100 yards. 100 yards. Yeah. Oh, wow. Look at you.

It's pretty standard. And you're just mashing it. I think that's pretty normal. That's just normal. Anyway, what were you going to say? No, anyway, this course that we play is just like a public, normal course, pretty cheap course. And the guy that starts you is he called the starter i don't know um he comes up to us the guy who kind of waves the flag and he says gentlemen start your engine

it's crazy like you know golf you think of as like this really gentleman's sport they do a shotgun start every every like two minutes you know they're it off. And it's a real shotgun. It's not a starter pistol. Yeah. So this guy pulls up in his golf cart, and he's like, the iPad's down. It doesn't work today. I'm like, no problem. He's like, are you Jordan?

He's like, yeah, I'm Jordan. He's like, and you're Clem? I'm like, what? And Jordan signed us both up. So he got there a little bit before. I was like, what? I got here Jordan and Clem. He's like, no, his name's Brad.

He goes, well, it's Clem today. And so anytime I had a bad shot, I was like, that's Clem for you. Yeah, your Clem's coming out. You know, Clem's laying up with the nine iron. Yeah, Clem milk. What are you going to do? Clem is wild.

The real Clem Shady. How are you imagining it? C-L-E-M. Okay, I think I would go with C-L-I-M. Okay. For whatever reason, that's funnier to me. C-L-I-M. Clem.

Clem. So, anyway. Hey, it's Clem's day. Let's have a good one. Happy Clem's day, everybody! 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 Clem. Clem? This is my alter ego. It's funny. Like, you know, we talked about when we first played pickleball, how we called me Bog because of Tiger King. Oh, my gosh. What a memory, dude.

I forgot we used to call you Bogovan. Bog. And Scott held to it for like a year. Oh, he would still text. Come in, Bog. Bog, how you feel? Yeah. That's such a funny memory. Bog. Bogovan. And just what a person to like

be named after. Like this terrible guy. Like this like. Yeah, I think I wanted to be named after. Skeevy little perv. Bogovan. Just this like weirdo, like with long hair. Anyway. Oh, Bogovan. That's pretty funny. Prettyavan. Just this like weirdo, like with long hair. Oh, Bhagavan. That's pretty funny. Pretty funny.

Happy Wednesday, guys. Happy Clemsday. Happy Clemsday. We got a bunch more for you guys. Also got just some more to talk about from our past week. Rachel right now, she's babysitting the kiddos. And I was kind of asking her, I was like, what do you think you're doing today? I was like, rainy.

It's raining today. Got to have indoor recess recess what are we doing and she said she's gonna be watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles going to see that in theaters okay so I think the plan is she watches it she comes back she gives her review on it on it and upsets like half the women who listen to our podcast and no no people actually like the yeah Rachel anymore because yeah like there's not even that really many people who agree with her and Catherine say. And it's like wanting to make me watch Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Like, what is going on? Like, how bad is this?

Or how good is this? Maybe you're just wrong. Oh, man. Catherine did not love the backlash of comments on the Instagram post. Poor girl. I was just like, I guess I'm kind of used to it. So I just kind of, anytime somebody says something,

it's so much easier to remember the bad comments though, you know? And she's just like, oh, I just, it doesn't like that. I was like, sorry. Yeah. It's tough when it's a clip too, that, you know,

they don't get the full context. It's tough when they say something negative that's a comment. You're like, I would love to respond back, but what's going to happen then? What's the best case scenario scenario best case they respond back again and with a new comment yeah you got a thread back and forth um yeah anyway and of course

i feel like when the girls are on here they realize like oh it's a little bit harder than you think to like come up here and just say everything you want to say it's hard to share opinions sometimes right like a movie you've freshly seen probably yeah she probably was flustered anyway so okay Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles did you ever watch the one like the old one when we were not really I don't remember it that was like a staple of mine growing up you dirty rat

you kill my brother you dirty rat oh man great movie that's fun though yeah so she's doing that I forgot why Not familiar with that. Oh, man. Great movie. That's fun, though. Yeah. So she's doing that. I forgot why or where I was going with that. Maybe Barbie something.

I don't know. Maybe you and I will go see Barbie, see if we agree with them. I feel like that's going to be a watch it when it comes out kind of thing. I think between now and Grande Boo, we can't spend two hours watching Barbie. No. That would be a bad use of time. Absolutely not. We've got a lot to do.

I 100% agree with that. Yeah. Maybe afterwards. I've been thinking about, Rachel got me a massage for Christmas. Okay. Haven't used it yet. I think post-Grande Bu might take a well-deserved massage. Would you like to join?

Maybe. Okay. It'd be kind of fun. Tymon? They have three-person massage rooms, probably. Tymon, you doing all right over there? Tymon Okay. Kind of fun time. They have three person massage. Time and you do it right over there. Time is just in Nirvana. Uh, have you ever had a massage? Yes. I've had a couple. Well, one, I think we talked about the podcast. I know I made an Instagram story about it, but, uh, yeah, either way I've had a few, the deep tissue. Yes. That's

what I was going to say. I don't like it. Yes. Yeah. Maybe we've already talked about all this. Sorry guys. We talked for a million episodes, but yeah, it's excruciating. It was the worst experience I'd ever had in my life. I thought, I thought, you know, I had one massage when I was on my honeymoon. It was awesome. Don't get any ideas. Um, and then, and then, yeah, I was like, okay okay i think that's what i want everyone always says deep tissue so i just say deep tissue that's just like to me that's just like the generic like thing you get it's like a number it's like a number two with coke yeah hamburger and fries yeah exactly the deep tissue just you know do do the play the hits uh-huh you know and all of a

sudden i could not wait to i mean it was the worst 45 hours of my life. I had to play ushers. Yeah. In my head to just keep my, and at the end of it, the lady, he's like, you need to stretch more. You need to stretch more. I was like, okay, I did it. Can you, can you tell it's hurting me? It was so uncomfortable. So, so whatever you say, I don't know what you say to not get that. Just say, I'm delicate. Just give me the one that feels good right then. I don't remember my first one. I remember one with Weston Weeby.

We got a couple's discount rate in Hollister, Missouri one time on a 2-4. And that was really fun. And I remember probably four years ago or so getting one kind of by westport and they have a massage place and it was cheap but it was deep tissue and i remember it hurting i remember this guy putting a lot of his weight onto me which i didn't love and then dude i remember this is the part i remember making an instagram story about is he would take like my cheek of my butt. Yeah, buttocks. And take one cheek, and he is massaging the muscle, I guess,

but he would take it and spread it out. Not going up, not going down. You know what I mean? Taking the right cheek and moving it to the right. Like he's kneading dough or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like let's try and really flatten it out to the right. And then you take the left one and flatten it out to the left. You know, take the left one and flatten it out to the left.

You know, I'm just down there in my little thing just like. Were you like. Is this standard vertical? Is this standard vertical? Do you do this for everybody? I don't know if I care for you to do this, please. You can go ahead and move on to the next thing. Are you having a hard time holding in a toot?

I feel like when they separate like that, it's time's time to it's time to release the gates have opened uh-huh i mean i just remember anytime i've got a massage like all i really want is for you to like kind of like use your fingernails on my back like just do that or something you don't really need to like i don't actually care about muscle recovery yeah just make me feel good for 45 minutes just like take a little back scratcher just go up and down my traps. Don't even use your hands. Yeah, you don't have to even touch me. Yeah, take an old remote. That'd feel fine.

That's really interesting. He's just, you know, whatever, part in the Red Sea. Yeah, he was. The Brown Sea. Oh, gosh. Don't ask for a deep tissue massage. You will part your Brown Sea. They're not fun.

Uh, you'd rather have a guy massage you or a girl massage you in a guy, right? I feel like no matter if you're a guy or a girl, you want a girl masseuse. True. If this is a tricky, like marriage.

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no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Maybe if I'm a guy, it's okay. But I'm worried that a guy's going to push me too deeply into my tissue. This is a good question. I'm really thinking about it now. I'm trying to imagine. On one end, well, here's where my mind went. I was imagining a gay guy. And I'm thinking, I bet he'd have some soft hands.

Really? Yeah. Yeah? The gay guy that I'm imagining moisturizes a lot. Okay. I feel like that would be nice. Well, and if you're a masseuse, you're moisturizing literally every time you're massaging. That's true.

If you're a masseuse, I would expect soft hands regardless of sexuality. You're not calloused up. No, yeah, you're not working the field. You're not doing woodworking for seven hours and moonlighting in the massage parlor. Yeah, you're not actually parting any kind of sea or working with your hands. This is it. Yeah. You're a construction worker and then massage envy part-time or something. Dude, construction worker reminded me Isaac and

I played when we played golf and, uh, doesn't matter Indianapolis. I think, uh, we had a guy pull up behind us and it was like, this is a character in a video that I could not have even dreamt up so perfectly if I hadn't like seen it myself. So it was like purple, uh, like district champs, high school t-shirt at like a pretty nice golf course. Like already not a college shirt, not a huge deal. Um, what are those crazy sunglasses called? Uh, pit vipers. Yeah. Backwards visor. Okay. Probably about 20 years old. Yeah. Um, really short, like four inch in seam white shorts, four inch,am white shorts four inch probably four or five inch really high up okay and then we've got um purple like calf length nike elite socks so

he's really matching well i got the purple on purple calf length yeah like they're up there like up to the knees almost not quite i'd say mid-calf i guess okay okay um it just comes up isaac and i already chilling in the shade. It's the first tee box. We're giving them their space, their time. Sure. This guy just comes flying in, drives past us, and is blaring, like, I don't know, M&M or something to this tee box. We're like, dude, the social awareness.

This is crazy. Yeah. And then he's waiting for a little bit. It's taking a while. He leaves. We're like, all right, that's interesting. This guy is such a, like, tool's taking a while. He leaves. We're like, all right, that's interesting. This guy is such a tool golf bro looking guy. He comes back.

He went to his car and he changed shirts. He puts on a different purple shirt. This one is a tank top that's got like, remember in high school when we would cut the sleeves off and cut them all the way down? Oh, I love that. Yeah. So he had a purple shirt cut all the way down to his shorts. Yeah. So now that's what he's golfing in.

And now we notice his speaker. It's like a... Isaac knew the brand. Because this is where I'm getting with us. This guy for sure works construction. It's like a DeWalt Bluetooth speaker. Some kind of heavy duty, like if it drops, no problem kind of thing.

And so he is blasting music in this very serene area. And on top of it, so then now it's our turn to and it's like very serene you know right area and on top of it so then now it's our turn to hit as we go to hit he starts to get out of his car and like maybe you guys have seen those clips of like tiger woods like they call it like juggling and golf but like using a wedge and just like hitting a golf ball up in the air i know you're talking about you know and people could do tricks with it i can't but like you throw it up and you stall in your club or whatever this guy is doing it i've only ever seen people do this with it. I can't, but like you throw it up and you stall in your club or whatever. This guy is doing it. I've only

ever seen people do this with a wedge. Ever. Okay. And this guy is taking his driver and he's trying to do it with his driver. And it's just like... Was not working. Yeah, it's a really long club. It makes a weird pingy sound and it's like I'm like lining up to him

and he's like ping, ping. And like, you know, clanks it and hits the ground. Ping, ping, ping. Ping, ping. Did you say anything ever? No, we didn't. He was like, whatever. I would have thought of to do any of this for a video,

like to change shirts. Like, ah, this purple one's better. Yeah, yeah, yeah. To try and juggle a golf ball with a driver. And then just the whole day, like it just kept getting funnier and funnier. We would like kind of cross paths with them. once better. Yeah, yeah, yeah. To try and juggle a golf ball with a driver, and then just the whole day, like, it just kept getting funnier and funnier. We would, like, kind of cross paths with them, and like, dude, his golf cart is on the green right now. I've never seen someone

drive on the green. I think even Brad knows, you don't drive on the green. Yeah, I wouldn't even try. Yeah. Yeah, you know, that's sacred. Right. So this year's just hilarious, but yeah, it's just a nice construction, bro. Probably has rough hands. Wouldn't want him to part my seat. That's it. Ting, ting, ting, ting. Tie, tie nice construction, bro. Probably has rough hands. Wouldn't want him to part my C. That's it.

Ting, ting, ting, ting. Tie, tie, ting, ting. I would trust a massage from someone named Ting Ting. Yes, of course. Yas. Yas. Slay, Ting Ting. Yeet, Ting Ting.

Oh, yeet it, Riz Ting. Riz is a funny word, dude. It is funny. That's great. Okay, Ting Ting. Yeah. I have... Well, let's do an ad and then let's talk about our wins of the week. Yeah, we should.

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I got a long story on mine. Do you want to go? You go first. Mine is going to be, uh, I checked the metrics. One, I think podcast is growing a teensy tiny bit. A little titty bitty teensy tiny bit. A little titty bitty bit. It's fun.

No, but, uh, specifically the, the episode with Catherine Rachel, I think I titled it Catherine Rachel don't Hold Back. That is by far our biggest Monday ever. More than when I got engaged, more than when I got married. People like the girls. That's great. That's fun. So by far the biggest Monday ever on Spotify and Apple.

Cool. So that's my one of the week. Pretty jazzed about that. That's fun when people are like, hey, we like Jake and Brad, but we really like their wives. Yeah, I don't think that's probably common. Like you listen to a podcaster, you get really used to them, and then they bring in someone else. Sure. I don't know if that's normal to be like. Well, I mean,

Tymon, people did not give us good reviews on Tymon. No, we had to, we limit his internet access. We can't see those comments. We pay people $5 a kind comment on our Facebook group. Like, hey, just sprinkle them in there every once in a while because surely he's seen all those negative ones, isn't he? I've gotten sick of doing it myself.

Now I pay someone $10 every time they delete a comment that's negative about timing. So he doesn't see it. You give admin access to somebody else. That's fun. Takes forever. About the girls. That's awesome.

Yeah, I had no idea. Cool. Okay, mine is... Let me tell you a story real quick, Jake. So first of all. Stockings. These stockings. So the night is Thursday.

Vibes are high because daddy's about to go to Cincy the next day, right? Didn't happen. Yeah. But we went to Footloose. Tymon and I talked about this just very briefly last episode. I went to Footloose at Theater in the Park. Theater in the Park is just a theater in the park in Kansas City. It's awesome. First of all, Footloose, what'd you think of it, Tymon? I thought there was a lot of talent up there. I don't like the story,

but I loved the singing and dancing. It was awesome. There was a decent amount of language in it that I wasn't ready for. Yeah. A little PG, which is fine. I thought the main girl was very good. Oh, everyone was good. Yeah. Dude, like being used to like Greenleaf where it's like, you know, it's you, you sign up for the show. You don't like audition to get in. You like sign up, then audition to determine your part. Yeah.

So it's like, not everyone's like great. Yeah. And then like theater in the park, it's like, is it everyone? So is it like the show? Like, oh yeah. Would you ever want to do it? Is it, or is it kind of like a little bit secular? Yeah, I've been like told by adults who have done it,

like, just don't do it. Really? So I'm like, no, I'll heed their advice. Yeah, smart. Take their wisdom. I cried at the end of it. Footloose? Not completely cry, but like teared up.

Not because of Footloose, not the story, but the very end. The way he was doing this thing, and I was just, I was brought to tears. Oh! Oh! Oh!

Oh! Yeah. Oh my God. Oh! You got to turn it around. No. Are you thinking of Kevin Bacon? I miss Kevin.

I love Kevin Bacon. Seven Degrees. He's still alive. Yeah. Okay. Patrick Swayze is the one that's dead. Is he? Yeah. I get them confused. Footloose and Dirty Dancing. He's still alive? Yeah. Okay. Patrick Swayze is the one that's dead. Is he? Yeah, I get them confused.

Footloose and Dirty Dancing is like the same movie to me. Yeah. Never seen either of them, but it seemed like. Dude, the thing is, I get them so confused. I haven't seen either. I tear up at the end of large productions like that, because I know how much work it takes to do that. That's great.

I love that you appreciate that. They're finally getting their recognition, especially those last few people that come up because they're all doing the bows and then they're waiting on the main characters to come up. The main characters come up and everyone's just like, and I'm just like, they've worked so hard for this. I mean, it just blows my mind.

I think it's hard enough to learn how to sing all those songs and then you have to learn how to dance and do all the memorize it all anyway I'm just always very impressed I've never done a musical like that and so I'm just anyway Rachel's favorite content on the internet that I've ever seen her enjoy is what people like on TikTok would be like

POV you're watching like a high school theater like say thank you or whatever it'd be called like their curtain call she loves that style of video for some reason like the uh the bad guy all movie or all play geez i'm doing a bad job describing this it's so it's like the villain is this how the villain does a curtain call and so they're like oh so so they're kind of making fun of it yeah yeah they're like poking fun of what everyone looks like and it's like the sassy girl who is coming of age or whatever.

And they'll come up and like do this or whatever. And then, and then they, they become themselves like, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Tymon,

you ever done anything like that? I don't know. Yeah. I'm trying to think. Yeah, probably. Yeah. I mean,

if, yeah, just as an aside, if you know somebody or if you were in Footloose and you're listening to this, tell them it was incredible. I really enjoyed it. As somebody who doesn't go to Theater in the Park very often anymore, I feel like my standard was pretty low, and they did a really good job.

They knocked it out of the park. Even at the very end, they all bowed, and then they did another five-minute dancing thing. I was like, what in the world? They did a medley of all this stuff. Anyway, all I stuff. Anyway, all I have to say, Catherine and I were going there to meet up with our friends, Todd and Whitney, and we were stressed because we were about to leave. And we go to get like the folding chairs out of our little, our garage, you know, storage area. And I could only find one. And I'm like,

how mediocre of, you know, 32 year old people are we that we only have one folding chair? I know we have more, but I feel like I don't know. Catherine and I, as far as middle-age adults are, we are really below average at a lot of the things other people have down pat.

We don't have a cooler that we bring with us places or a go-to chairs or anything. Hey, if you ever need a lawn chair, I don't know a cooler that we bring with us places or like a go-to, you know, yeah. Chairs or anything. Hey, if you ever need a lawn chair, I don't know where mine is. I came to your house and I tried to like, I was hoping your back door to your garage was unlocked. It was not good. And so it was not, no, I was like, I'll just see if Jake has one. Uh, anyway, so we went to Walmart. We're, uh, you know, we're getting out of the car to go into Walmart. This is a long story.

I'm sorry, but it ends well. Going out of our car to go to Walmart, and Calvin's like, do you have a credit card? I was like, no, but I have this app, like the Walmart app. You can pay with it. Long story short, our credit card was declined because it just expired recently. And so we got in kind of a fight, like in the, in the Walmart, like checkout. Cause I was like, Oh, it's not working. I don't know. And I was like,

do you have your credit card? And she's like, she's like, no, I don't. And I meant to say like, do you have your credit card in the car? But I think I just said, do you have your credit card? And so I'm just trying to like mess with my phone. I was like, I don't know. I guess, I don't know. I don't think we can buy this. She's like, well, do you want me to just walk out and go get my credit card? And I was like, I just asked you if you had your credit card. She's like, I was like, you have your credit card in the car?

She's like, yeah. And I was like, well, then go get it. Like, I don't know. I was just like very- Don't ask, just bring it. When I'm running late, I am so much less like kind to Catherine. And I had to apologize very quickly. I was like, sorry, I didn't communicate that well.

And anyway, she got sassy with me. I got sassy. Although I'll just say we buy this, you know, $10 folding chair. We get there running late with Todd and Whitney. We're waiting in line. Todd sees us. He's like, let me take your chairs and we'll set them up for you. Nice guy.

And so we get seated at the end in the park, sit down and he's like, how often, how often do you use your folding chairs? I was like, Oh, not very often, actually. I mean, just, we just had to go buy this other one. He's like, when was the last time you think you used it? Um, and I was like, I don't know. He's like, well, how long, how long you been, uh, without that wallet that you've lost? And I was like, what are you? And I connected it and I was like, what? And he showed it to me, my wallet that I, what in the world? You know how, like, yeah, yeah. Like for the longest time, nine months ago. Yeah. I think it was November as I kind of tracked it down. Uh, yeah. Found my

wallet. Win of the week. It wasn't on John Kander wallet. So I'm, I'm transferring everything over. How, how did he have it? It was in his launcher. No, it was in my lawn chair. So, so he took my lawn chair to set it up. And he was setting it up, and it must have been the cup holder kind of thing or something. Yeah, you don't think to check the lawn chair cup holder. I know. I checked everywhere.

I was so convinced it was like I just left it somewhere and people didn't return it or something. Because wasn't it around when we got engaged or something? I think that was when you lost it, or shortly after you paid for the ring. exactly i tracked it down like the last time i could remember doing it was like or having it was november 2nd yeah so it was around that time right i guess right after 28th um and so yeah i don't know and i was trying to figure out like when did i use my lawn chair during that time bless you bless you um thanks anyway win of the week was

that we found the wallet that's awesome and double win of the week is that it had like 225 dollars in it not bad for bag of bone and so i was like yeah yeah baby and so that was that was a great part of the night right there and at first he was like how often do you use your lawn chair and i was kind of like getting offended like like hey i'm not an idiot all right hey just because we don't have a lawn chair i know how to work it like i mean i use it every once in a while he's like well since you've lost your wallet found it baby so

dadgum my win of the week was going to be that I held out long enough to my credit card to where I just got a new one sent to me like I had used my Apple Pay long enough to where I finally got a new one without having to report it stolen

or lost but then I actually found it back on the same month. Still fun. Yes. So anyway, found the wallet, baby. Proud of it. Good job.

But not John Kander. John Kander's wallets are better. Man, they have good wallets. Boy, they have good wallets. What do you want to do? Schmores? Comment of the week? What are you feeling?

Let's do schmores. Yeah, I like getting in with comment of the week. Let's do some? Uh, let's do schmores. Yeah. I like getting in with comment of the week. Let's do some schmores. Let's get after it. It looks like, um, last week's schmores. I'm going to be the winner.

It looks like excuses. One voting has been open for a few hours now. So, yeah. Um, congrats. Thank you. I don't remember the last time I won a schmores.

Yeah. You were on a cold streak. I'm on a cold streak guys. Not saying you have to vote for me, but that needs some confidence. I'm looking at, I kind of crept back up a cold streak, guys. Not saying you have to vote for me, but that needs some confidence. I'm looking at it. I kind of crept back up. Me and Brad are tied.

Whoa. That's a really awesome time. I think a couple hours ago, Tymon had like 2% of the vote. Really? He's a late bloomer. The shmores voting. Where are all the percentages now? Brad's at 15.

I'm at 15. Scott, 33. Jake, 37. Wow. Oh, wow. That's close between me and Scott. Okay. So you think Scott should start? Okay. Scott, you decide the order.

This order is going to be Riztastic. Riztastic. What if Trump does Gen Z? This is Riztastic. Okay. Riztastic makes me think of that Caribbean song, like Mr. Bumtastic.

Shaggy, dude. Oh, that is Shaggy? I think so. I think his voice is so deep in that one. Is it not normally? It wasn't me. That's normal.

Wasn't me. That's somebody else singing that one. Yeah. You're right. Yeah. All right. Mr. Bomb-tastic. Yeah. You're right. Yeah. All right. Fantastic.

Okay. So I'll choose the order. The category is school supplies. Oh, yeah. A lot of people aren't coming to Grande Boo because of school. School. Yeah. That was kind of the thought.

Yep. School's coming back. But if you are not in school or have school as an excuse, come to Grande Boo. It's not too late. I dare you. I think I'm going to go Brad, me, Tymon. Sheesh. Oh.

Sheesh. Can we add a fourth player in? Her name is Hattie Louise Ellis. Oh, did she come up with her own? As I was leaving, I was like, Hattie, name some of your favorite school supplies. Fun. And so I have a list of hers. Should she go first since hers might be taken?

Well, I don't care. I mean, we got have a list of hers. Should she go first? Sure. Since hers might be taken. Well, I don't care. I mean, we got a decent list for her. It goes Hattie, Brad, me, Tymon. All right. Her first one. I don't think you guys had this as your first pick. I don't even know exactly what it means. Wooden cubes.

Oh, like ABC on them? Wooden cubes. That's all she said. Yeah, maybe. There you go. Catherine was like oh katherine maybe thought they were math cubes or something i'm not really sure go off wooden cubes is her first off queen okay slay slay slay honestly slay um oh this is tough because

you don't know what's going to be there second round yeah no it's going to be there all right it's in the stockings okay i'm gonna start with um this stocking i'm gonna start with just my favorite way of writing in school especially mechanical pencils yep had it up top of my list yeah it's not bad you guys 0.5 0.7 people uh i'd rather go bigger you me too yeah 0.7 yeah i I'd rather go bigger. Yeah, 0.7. I don't know if it's mechanical. I'm a big like, I even have the specific kind of mechanical pencil I like more than the others.

The one that has the black base with the clear above it. Oh, yeah. The Bic versus the, whatever the other one. I think that's what we're all imagining. The kind of transparent casing to it. Yeah.

The red, yellow, blue on the little tab. Yeah. Like that little like shirt pocket clip. Yep. I, uh, I think mechanical pencils also had a much better eraser. I feel like eraser technology also got better between. Do you think it was the eraser? Maybe they just erased themselves better.

Like maybe it wouldn't have been. Honestly, it could have been a color thing. Your nice wooden pencil had a red eraser, and the mechanical had a nice white one. I feel like white just did a better job. The worst was when the mechanical pencil's eraser got a little nub

to it, and then you couldn't get it out to get more lead in. So you had to feed the lead through the top, or through the... Oh, in reverse, yeah. You kind through like the, oh, reverse. Yeah. You kind of call out the, uh, kind of the colonoscopy. Sure. The wrong direction. Yes. Um, yeah, that's exactly what we call it. All right. So mechanical pencils and wooden cubes are off the board. Sorry. All right. I'm going to go with a, a fresh pack of 128 count Crayola crayons with the sharpener in the back. You dog!

You dog! That was so good. That's a great answer, dude. That is good. Oh, the sharpener in the back. The sharpener in the back was next. I mean- That was a flex.

You were so rich. Yes. You were so rich if you had that. A hundred percent. It was such a luxurious lifestyle to sharpen your luxurious lifestyle You get the list of school supplies needed At the beginning of the year It was always like 28 count crayons But you know somebody's going for the big kahuna

Yeah I want a pack that sells Light peach in it 28's not going to have that The amount of variety Macaroni and cheese I got 6 different purples Robin's eggs blue blue. Yeah. Azul, blue, light blue, sky

blue, and cerulean? Are you kidding me? Yeah. And if it's ever dull, no problem. Those things work like once, I think, but still. Yeah, you had to kind of tear the paper, too, because the paper would get sharpened. I can't believe you picked that. I was like, I'm going to get that with my second round. People are going to love the

sharpener. I thought I could get it second my second round. People are going to love the sharpener. I thought I could get it second. Can we just talk about how ridiculous, like Crayola, the best, Rose Art, just the worst. Wait, what's art? Rose Art, you know what I'm talking about? Yeah, they were like a great value. I was thinking crazy art, like craze art. Oh, I don't know about crazy art.

A little generational gap here. No, Rose Art was like. Crazy Art. Like, Craze Art. Oh, I don't know about Crazy Art. A little generational gap here. No, Rose Art was like... Crazy Art. I mean, that was like the gateway drug into people that are now Android phone users. The Windows Media Player. Yes, dude. I do recognize Crazy Art.

Like the Microsoft Zune. Those were the bad ones for us. It was like, there's like a whole thing of crayons, and then it's like some Crayola, some Crazy Art. They look a lot like Rose Art kind of branding. I do kind of recognize that too rose art was trash dude rose art was the worst i mean people who loved rose art are still like using like wired headphones for sure you know they're like airpod what's the big deal with airpods these wired ones work just fine it's one of those things where it's like i don't have an opinion on that until you experience a terrible

product and you're like oh no they can make worse crayons than others. Yeah. Like I toilet paper. I mean, Charmin's fine. Yeah. And then you use crappy toilet paper. Right. And you're like, Oh my gosh, it has to be Charmin ultra soft that I, yeah, I care so much. Don't get me started on how coddled the modern anus is. Well, make your brands incorporated early. Sorry. rose products llc the parent company of crazy art oh so rose art changed their name to crazy art makes sense why the branding looks so similar yeah so both trash both trash bad bad bad bad yeah um good answer jake hope patty didn't pick rose art all right um so i'm gonna go with a certain brand of pencils nothing beats them Good answer, Jake. Hope Hattie didn't pick Rose Art. All right.

So I'm going to go with a certain brand of pencils. Nothing beats them. Ticonderoga. Yeah, it's on my list. Really? Yes. Never found... I was never a classic pencils guy. I was mechanical as much as I could.

I think like most school supplies... I'm just saying, if you're going for a classic pencil, there's only one to go for. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't even know if i we didn't really experience the ticonderoga really uh fast the trend it's just any other any other pencil it's like some there's someone's like oh it's cool like it's personalized has like a message on it or whatever but it just like it's the actual quality just yeah it just doesn't right and maybe

that's why i didn't want to pick like regular pencils because i never experienced the ticond there you go. Speaking of pencils that had words on them, I remember the DARE program gave us pencils that said, like, dare to say, no, wait. Maybe it just said don't do drugs. But once you sharpen it, and then it just says do drugs. Oh, they did it the wrong direction or something? Yeah, yeah.

Like it says don't do drugs up the top of it. That is the most elementary humor. It's wonderful. Do drugs. Oh, I sharpened it down to this knob and it said do drugs. Me and Keegan lost it. That's awesome. All right, time.

You get another pick. Here we go. Let's see. I feel like I underthought all these. Let's see. Usually I'm like, oh man, what am I going to do? This I was just like wrote down a bunch of random ones. They might not be that good.

Oh, here we go. The pencil case that for no good reason fully unzips i don't know if you guys ever had those fully unzips let me look at it's like it becomes flat zip no no no it's like it's made of a zipper you just start from the top you unzip the whole thing it's just like a long like strand of really they were so fun this is showing our age right they weren't practical but so fun okay all right that unzips yeah zip some had like neon colors some had like a like monster eyes on them fun yeah that sounds cool yeah pencil case that unzips okay good and this is where you got playing ahead there's one i love but i'm like i bet i can get in the

third or fourth round i can't wait to steal steal it from you. I will slap you in the back of the ear. Take it out. There's no way no one else is thinking of this one. I'm going to go... What if Hattie steals it? That would be awesome. I would not slap Hattie. I'm going to go with I'm not sure what to call them exactly, but the pencil top erasers.

The ones you could put on the end of it. When those were fresh and pointy, those could erase the daylights out it out of anything that's a great answer are you thinking the white ones that have like they were like edgy colored pink like they're you know blue pink green whatever you get a pack of these things that went on a real on any pencil yeah and they were kind of like a trapezoid like a pyramid triangle shape yep yep yeah it's like a those were great cool wig for your pencils. Trish triplet made sure I was stocked up. If you're stuck with a pencil,

it's not a Ticonderoga. It doesn't have a good eraser. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. How do you just got a bunch of those? That was on her list. So she's upset that you took that one.

Are they actually on her list? Uh huh. I think they're great racers. I think they looked fun and you could drop them upside down and they would bounce. Oh, fun little game. Fun.

Fun. If you're athletic. All right. Um, my next one, this one just is, is it's just me, man. It's just me. Okay. It's, it's not, it's not a sexy pick, but it's, it's a daily driver stocking. Okay. It's the, the, uh, college ruled notebook, spiral bound notebook. Okay. Yeah. I love essential. And. And I am very passionate about it needing to be college ruled versus wide ruled. Oh, yes.

Because I wrote small and I liked having a lot more, it's just thinner lines. Yeah, I like the wide ruled. But I get your pick. You're right. It's not a sexy one. Are you imagining the speckled black and white notebook? Nope. I want the spiral bound. Because I'm left-handed.

It doesn't really matter. But like left-handed, I would write on the other side of the page a lot. But I like the speckled black one as well. Yeah, those are good. Those are fine. But I like being able to turn it all the way over to write on the other side. The rings are nice. Yeah.

Because once you get to the last few pages of the whatever the word. Worthless. It's kind of pushing it as you're going. Yeah, you really got to push down as much as you're writing. Okay, so then Hattie's next pick. Wood wooden cubes, crayons, pencils have all been taken. And so her next pick is tape. Okay. If you guys vote for Hattie this way, I will know that you're just voting with your heart and not your brain.

Tape. And I guess she gets two picks, tape and then a pencil box pencil box because erasers was also taken a little close to timon's pick but okay okay you're right no okay that was a pencil bag it's a box is great pencil box great back to you okay um and then my next one which i don't know if this is the one that jake's gonna pick, but I'm passionate about it. I feel like Jake could also enjoy this more than the average person. The greatest technology we ever used growing up, I mean, we had to rent them out from our school because they were so expensive.

We didn't get them ourselves. The only calculator that anybody knows the model of, the TI-84 from Texas Instruments, the greatest graphing calculator this world's ever seen. I had graphing calculator on my list. Um, yeah, just the best.

You could, you could put Mario on there. You could do graphs. That's about it. I don't remember everything else we did. You could do math. I remember calculate. Yeah.

The trig in calculus. Yeah. I was like, Whoa, look at all the things this thing can do. They can make a sphere on here or something. I don't know what's going on. Dude. How does a calculator work? It's crazy. I don't know. Like, especially like a simple one, like it's really thin. There's no like technology in it. How does it come up with the right answer? That's one of those technology

things. I think we're just a hundred percent taking for granted. Yeah. Like, especially going back in time, you know, we have these calculators. No way. This always does right answer. Yes. It's never wrong. How does it work? I have no idea how they did that. Is there a motherboard? You're going to have to talk to somebody else about that one. I don't know. Sometimes they're even solar powered. But I don't know how that works.

Anyway, it was just so, I mean, just the way those things felt in your hand. You know, you got the little case that slides up. I mean, just a nice calculator. So, really proud of the old TI-84. i would have taken jake's pick but i didn't it's fine all right i'm gonna go with uh i think this is in the realm of school supply new backpack yeah yep on my list especially when it's like i didn't get a new backpack every year so when it was like new backpack year, it was like, whew.

Yeah, dude. I feel like I only got maybe two or three in my life. I mean, I wanted to walk backwards to school. I want everyone to see it. Or maybe I need to wear it backwards. Everyone needs to see this backpack. Yeah, it's St. Louis Cardinals themed. And I got the baby blue one for their throwback or whatever.

So yeah, new backpack was great. Loved the variety that came with new compartments, fresh zippers. blue one for their throwback or whatever you know like um so yeah new backpack was great loved the the variety that came with new compartments fresh zippers yeah every once in a while they had those those like some kids had backpacks that were like they they went farther than they did like like you know they're this big and their backpack is like spanning oh yeah two of them backwards yeah it was like they were fitting a dog and it's like what's in there how do you what do you got in there bud like a drone yeah my backp they were fitting a dog in there. It's like, what's in there? What do you got in there, bud? Like a drone?

Yeah, my backpacks were always a little more minimalist, but I love the extra pockets and little places where you put your pencils and stuff like that. Yeah. That's fun. Okay, new backpack. All right, let's see. I just had, this is essential for,

not like elementary, middle school, but just like a computer. Okay, okay. okay that's you can do everything on there especially like yeah i don't know because like as a homeschooler a lot of online online stuff and even as even public school you know it'd be interesting to college yeah oh it'd be interesting to hear like do kids even use three ring binders anymore i mean or not three sorry oh. Oh, gosh. Spoiler alert.

College rule notebooks. I'm sure they have them, but how often are they riding versus not? I have no idea because everything is on the computer. I just think a computer is so much easier in so many ways. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Tymon, are you familiar with a computer cart? You heard of that?

Know what that is or anything? I don't think so. You probably guess. Yeah. We're going to? Know what that is or anything? I don't think so. You probably guess. Yeah. We're going to piece together what it would be. But yeah, I mean, when Brad and I were,

probably Brad and I was in elementary, middle school, maybe even into high school for Stratford. Yeah. The like librarian would like every now and then

like wheel in like this big like industrial case that had like 25 laptops in it and they were just thick old Dells. Uh-huh. They were so slow and barely worked and

you would get to check them out and i don't even know what we do on i was gonna say i can't remember a single thing we actually don't know what we did it was so rare but you're like well we get a laptop yeah i had never experienced a laptop before and before that we would because like that was a big deal because before that we'd always have to go to the computer computer lab yeah classic great great time um computer lab was all computer lab. Computer lab. Yeah. Classic. Great, great time. Computer lab was awesome. Computer lab, not a lot got done in the computer lab. It was a lot of like fun games. You could get on mini clip if you go to this website first.

Yeah. If you go to this thing first and it like blocks that blocker for that and you get on E-bombs world and you can watch Toon Octoon Octoon and you can download YouTube videos from it. That's so funny. Good answer, Tywin. Did you do two? No.

Okay. Second one, got to pick it now. Shoot, it's my last chance. I'm going to go with, this might be two. I'm trying to think of things that aren't just relatable for my generation. For young homeschoolers. Yeah. Oh, this one.

At this one, I'm just like, I just love this pick. I'm not even like giving up on winning. Here we go. At one pen that writes in like super dark ink and like so smoothly, like you use it like sparingly because you love it so much. We talking about Pilot G2? I don't know. Just like the one that just like produces so much ink. No, not your average pen.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. The special one. You don't even know how you found it. It's just that writes so nicely. It's like no one in my family bought this thing. How do we get this in our house? It just like appeared in your possession. I don't know.

That might, someone might get it. Yeah. I think, look up Pilot G2. I think that's... That's what I'm thinking. That's a. Look up Pilot G2. That's what I'm thinking. That's a nice pin. Pilot G207. I'm a big fan of G207. Oh. That's not what you're wanting? The way it rides is nice.

Oh, it glides. But school supplies, I get a little bit nervous using pin in school. Yeah. Because you've got to erase. Math, be careful. You're definitely not using pin in math. Yeah. So, bad bag. Yeah, Pilot G2, that looks be careful. You're definitely not using pen math. Yeah, so rock backpack. So

Yeah, palo G2 that looks like pretty much what I'm picturing pin that writes super smoothly Sure, and I'm thinking he almost mortars like the richness and darkness of the ink. Oh really? You're you're see I'm left handed so Lee as well So if the ink is too wet then I'm just your spirit all over pop up up up up. It's too bad Beep boop up ting ting ting. I don't win. too wet, then I'm just blocking all over. It's too bad. If I don't win, that's fine. I'm just happy to share my heart. Yes.

Oh, I think that'll definitely resonate with people. I do. I really like those pens. I don't know if they're great school supplies only because they're pens. I think I use pens for school like a lot. Just because you're smart. You're good. Yeah, you don't make mistakes.

You're right. Maybe that makes you're smart. You're good. Yeah, you don't make mistakes. You're right. Maybe that makes you a better student because you're more diligent about not making mistakes. No, scared to make mistakes. I'm just kidding. I don't care. My pick, it's still here. Glad it's still here, is the blue variation of Elmer's glue.

Wow. Do you remember this? Wow, the gel glue Elmer's glue. Wow. Do you remember this? Wow. The gel glue. The gel glue. Oh, wow, dude. It was so cool and so sought after. It's so rare.

It dried clear, right? Yeah, yeah. Oh, my. Wow. I don't resonate with this very much. I did not have that on my list, but that is a good pick. Is it sparkly at all? From a distance, it looks like it might have... There's some iterations of it there's another one that's like

more like glitter glue but this wasn't sparkly this was just like a different color yeah i think it went on a little different dried a little different um it was just top tier glue yeah and just like it was just slightly blue i mean it looks like uh walter white's meth you know it was just like dang this is the good stuff. Wow. I don't know if I ever even owned it myself, but I would like, Connor, can I borrow yours? I coveted it.

It was great glue. Good job. Top-notch glue. That brought your blue glue and your unzippable pencil case. Because that's cool, too. That's super cool, too. And the Ticonderoga, of course. Even better, yeah. Alright, man. I have

a lot that I like, but none of them are like showstoppers like the Blue Glue. Showstoppers. Let's go... School supplies, I'm thinking of more personal. Is that right? Not like a corporate... Like a school building.

That wouldn't count. Like a whiteboard would not count. Yeah, yeah. I think something like your mom goes and buys for you. That'd be found in your backpack, maybe. Except the backpack pick. All right. I think this is just more kind of...

This is my passion project pick, like timing. Okay. Do you remember... I mean, just anything, like you were talking about the Cardinals backpack, pencils, like the pencil kit that you could get that had every single sports team's logo on them. Ooh, there's an old memory.

Yeah. Like you get a 30 pack of these pencils. Oh, I'm erasing the Rockies. Yeah. I'm sharpening the Rockies. Yeah, you got the Rockets. You got the old school Raptors logo. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm a, I'm sharpening the Rockies. Yeah. You got, you got, you got the rockets. You got the, you know,

the old school Raptors logo. That's a fun memory. It's just, yeah, it's just fun to have those. And like, I also had folders that were like, oh,

this is my Charles Barkley folder. This is my whatever, like all these different folders. Yeah. Kind of themed. Yeah. That's a good idea. Yeah.

Um, but my, my pick is specifically the pencils with the logos on them. That's fun. Yeah. Those are great. Yeah. Someone look at that. Someone, someone will get that.

Someone out there will kind of know. And then Hattie, I'm sorry, let's sports logos on them. Hattie's last pick is colored pencils. Oh, nice. Yeah. Good pick.

So, and that luckily is her very last thing on her list. That's still, oh no, thing for organizing closet is also on there. Oh, okay. She's like, I don't know, thing for organizing my closet. I was like, I don't even know Think for organizing closet is also on there. Oh, okay. She's like, I don't know.

I'm cool for organizing my closet. I was like, I don't even know what that means, but I'm right. So, um, let's talk about, uh,

the, yeah, what we said. And then we can do honorable mentions. We got, had, he said, wooden cubes,

tape, pencil box, colored pencils. Brad said, mechanical pencils, college ruled notebook, TI 84 calculator, pencils with sports logos. Jake said, crayons. What do you want to specify the big one? 128, 128 count Crayola

crayons, 128 Crayola, 128 count Crayola crayons with pencil sharpen in the back. Yeah. Uh, pencil top erasers, a new backpack and gel glue or blue glue, blue blue gel glue blue um timon said a ticonderoga pencil with his very first pick um just uh pencil case that unzips a computer and a pen that writes super smoothly like maybe a pilot g2 maybe um i think jake wins once again but let's go ahead and do our out of our mentions mentions I had three ring binder that was top yeah did you have like the one that had like a zippable thing so you could have like compartments within it

as well yeah yeah I had one like thick one in like middle school of those I think yeah I like those erasable pins I thought of that while we were talking and remembered how trash they were that's why it's honorable mention

yeah they didn't work a lunchbox just fun a globe a globe? yeah I know that's more like a corporate one we recently bought a globe for Hattie and it's so fun globes are cool

look how close Russia is to Alaska I know it's wild we don't think about it. It borders Finland too. There you go. An automatic stapler. Remember, that's another one that the teacher had it. But you went and you were like. Like a proximity sensor.

Yeah. The pen with all the different colors that you can press down and use. I had that written down too. That's a good one. Five different colors. Yeah. The pacemaker pencil box. It was the one that had all the little dots on the top.

Can't imagine that. I'll look it up. Gel pins. Gel pins had a heyday for a little bit. Yeah, if you're a girl. Okay. I wasn't, but I had a few. Oh, Pacemaker.

Spacebaker. Spacebaker. Yeah. Spacebaker pencil box. Yeah, those were pretty popular. Oh, dude. Everyone. If you have a heart problem and need to write something down. Yeah, those were pretty popular. Oh, dude, everyone. If you have like a heart problem

but need to write something down. Really quickly, conveniently locate them. The smelly markers, like the Mr. I think Mr. Sketch smelly mark, like you wrote it and then you could smell like, it smells like strawberries. It's root beer. Yeah.

This is the one I wanted to pick, but it was more of a corporate one, was the TV VCR on a cart. Oh, yeah, it's how I watch 9-11. Oh, wow. Yeah, like wheel it in like it's like one TV for all three classes in the pot or something. And then the folder

with the three ring like insert inside that you could put the things. Yeah, I was a big folder guy. I still am, but still am. Yeah, it's on Google Drive, right? That's fun. I had a yeah, I had a lot of those am. Yeah. Just on Google Drive. Right. That's fun. I had a lot of those too. I don't have too much left on our mission. Pencil grips.

Yes. I never like. Never loved them. Necessarily had them or put them on my own pencil, but whenever you borrowed one and it had a pencil grip, I feel like I was like, oh, this is kind of nice. Do you like? I kind of like this.

It's comfy. Do you like the ones that are like more like. Ribbed. Ribbed, but uniformly ribbed? Or do you like the one that are like more like ribbed, ribbed, but uniformly ribbed? Or do you like the one that are like trying to teach you how to hold your Oh, no, no.

I want just like straight cylinder. Same. Yeah. Don't give me like some, yeah. Ergonomic. Don't teach me how to hold it. I can hold it however I want.

As long as the writing looks fine. My body, my fingers. Yep. Fingers are part of the body. So yeah, pencil grips. The one I almost said, this one is probably fifth for me,

is a fresh purple glue stick. I had thought about glue stick as well. That's a good one. The purple one just seemed a little better than clear. It was more fun. Purple as in like the glue is purple, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's Elmer's still. Yeah, it's like white and orange on the outside.

Yeah, but a nice fresh, I mean like no, it's just perfect. You could share the gospel with this. It's like white and orange on the outside. Yeah, but a nice, fresh... I mean, just perfect. You could share the gospel with this. It's like, look at how God wanted it to be. See? It's perfect. It's pure. That's what's so fun about being parents

is that you get to relive all these things. Like, I used purple glue stick with Bo like two weeks ago in his high school class. Yeah. I think I was like that. Yeah. And then I think everything else got mentioned yeah by you guys so yeah that's it for school supplies like yeah backpack pencil sharpener

stuff like that just um what like your own personal pencil sharpener okay well i was thinking more of the big like the bigger kind it's like we have a kind yeah it's a cranking one and i like them i don't know they do the job wasn't wasn't special enough to be on my list. We have an automatic one, and Hattie goes to town on that thing. We had one, too, growing up, like at home. They're so nice. Every single day, I feel like she's sharpening pencils in there. Yeah.

Let's see. I had highlighters, like a small notebook, like a very conveniently small, just like quick jot down some stuff i don't know okay nancy drew um i'm just kidding i don't know and then okay hardy boy i had like just this one just randomly written down i wasn't planning to pick it but like there's this calculator that we have that's just like a big giant like absurdly chunky like a huge calculator just really fun like just like a thick big buttons calculator yeah the buttons are like like bit like comically large i can imagine it yeah it's fun and then oh i had

like headphones your earbuds because like sometimes if i'm trying to focus like put like the airpods in with the noise canceling yeah like some brown noise like i can focus so well yeah um i'm not familiar with what brown noise is. What is the difference between... I know there's different colors for noises. There's white noise, which is more like... Brown noise is like... Is it really?

It's deeper. Yeah. I didn't really mean to whistle there. They should have a different name for it. Brown noise, it's like... But there's also blue noise in there. I think there's a lot of different... Yeah, but brown noise is so nice.

It's thinestesious. Thinestesious. That's why they call it that. That's the noise is so nice. It's thinest seizures. That's why they call it that. It's the person that named it. I say we talk about Main Street Roasters, but Tymon, can you pull up some different colored noises and have that ready for us to play? I'd like to hear some colored noises. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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I don't know. Just thought about. What do I do? I wake up at 4 a.m. I don't have it. No, I liked it. You were getting there. You trying always makes me try to. Even if you don't think you have it, just try it.

I'll try to do it too. That's my first time trying to do a Mark Wahlberg impersonation. I don't know what to say. I have more of him. Okay. Walk me through your order of miniature roasters. It's Mark Wahlberg. Sorry. Okay. Walk me through your order of Main Street Roasters. It's Mark Wahlberg. Sorry. Okay. So I go?

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Give them to everybody. Tell your businesses. Tell your churches. Support this awesome business at MainStreetRoasters.com. Beantown. Beantown, USA. What do you got there, Tom? Here's some white noise. Well, you gave it away. Okay, so I guess it's white. Oh, shoot. That was the whole thing.

Okay, well, this is the pallet cleanser. That's white noise. Yeah. Okay. thing. Okay. Well, this is the pallet cleanser. That's white noise. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay. Moving on.

Guess this one. I have no idea how different these will be. Oh, that's low. That feels like what he said. Brown noise. Yeah. If yeah, our guess is brown. Brown.

Okay. Do I give it away now? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Okay. We have a word bank. Maybe. Whoa, that sounds exactly like the other one. Okay. I'm going to go green.

Is green an option? I'm going to go green noise for that one. Every color is an option. Any color is an option. Okay. Yeah, that's green noise. You want to hear the previous and that one again? They were the exact same to me, but yes.

No, the first one is way deeper. This was the previous one? No, no, no, the second. Yeah, that's deep. I'll listen to this one. But haven't we listened to three so far? Or four? White noise, brown noise.

First one was white noise. And then green noise. Then we did that one, then this one we're currently on. Oh, I'm so sorry. It's hard to keep track of. Yeah, okay. You just think green, just straight up? No.

I think it's forest green or? No, I think green implies you're in a forest okay no noise all right we're working together oh we are okay next up ah gray annoying awful what's the worst color it's not awful um oh i just hate that well i bet if you if you're only used to that one, it's not that bad. But when you heard green noise. Yeah. I would say like black or gray or something. No, I like if we're going on the premise of like, hey, the darker it is, the lower the noise is.

That one seemed higher pitched. So that one should be like a yellow noise. Okay. I don't know. Okay. Not black. Hey, I'm the synesthesia you know yeah you're right okay next don't hate it that's blue i was gonna say that that's the ocean that's

you're underneath the water deep blue sea right there okay and last one oh that sounds a lot like an ocean too that's a lot deep blue deep blue noise deep blue noise okay dude i'll start at that one it is literally called deep blue how did we just pull that off that's crazy I didn't even know that was an ocean. Boom! How did we just pull that off? That's crazy. Oh, that's wild. You were lower in the ocean. Not to spoil anything, but yeah, you didn't do quite as well in the others.

But okay, so the first one was white noise. Okay. And then this one, I think you said this one was... I think brown was the first one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You said this one was brown noise. Yeah. And this one's black noise. Okay, the first one. Yeah, yeah. You said this one was brown noise. Yeah. And this one's black noise.

Okay. Pretty close, though. Pretty close. And then this next one is brown noise. Yeah. Dang it. Green's close. This is what I like...

We started off with the wrong barometer. Yeah, yeah. You started the song too low kind of thing. Yeah. And then the horrible one is pink noise. Okay. Pink and yellow, both lemonades. Yeah.

Interesting. It's close. Pink noise. Then comes green noise, which was like... The first ocean. You liked green noise. Yeah. That was what we said was blue.

That's what you said was blue first. So we were. Well, bluish green, like the ocean, like depending on how polluted it is. That's pretty sweet. We got everyone wrong. The title is bluish green for the ocean depending on how polluted it is. So you nailed that. Yes. That's nailed that. Yes.

That's pretty cool. We got every single one wrong until there was an adjective in it. And we got deep blue. That's so funny. Wow. That's awesome. Thanks, Tyler.

That was a fun game. Yeah. We'll do that more often. You know, it was. You know that I think about it? I agree. Looking back, that was a fun game.

Okay. What is there to talk about now let's see go back in i was looking at uh colors for inspiration no um i have some go crazy time and this is this is a theater theory thing okay i mean let's talk about it yeah uh something that's like a pet peeve of mine is the spoken dialogue after the song has like music has started in the song okay you know i'm talking about like so like the song is definitely about to start they're about to start singing and they're like oh geez do you really have to do this now? Where am I going to go from here? Oh, come on. You know it's going to be fun.

Get over here. Everyone's doing it. And then you'll... I don't know. It's kind of just this lead up. Okay, just this one time. I walked in. I know exactly what you're talking about, but I don't know why it's a pet peeve.

I like it. It's very cheesy. It's probably something that I'm not as used to as you. I kind of just think it's fun. Also, just a huge pet peeve is slow songs and musicals. My gosh. Dude, you're so right. You're so right.

There were like four or five of them in Footloose, and every single time I just looked at Catherine, I was just like, thumbs down. I think there's like a a sketch or cover video on YouTube of it's just called the song in the musical that nobody likes. It's usually sung by a concerned mom. Some side character who you really don't care about, but they're singing this slow song probably so actors can get changed or something.

Cheer up, Charlie. I can't changed or something. Yeah. Cheer up, Charlie. I can't stand that song. It's like you're supposed to respect the older woman that's in the cast with all the high schoolers as the mom. It's like I don't want to listen to this at all. But you think it's like potentially a fluff piece? I don't know. I mean it usually has good meaning, but but that's just an idea I had.

It could just be like they're stalling for something. Maybe. Big set change. Anyway, the dialogue thing just kills me, man. Just because it's just like... Because it's timed out dialogue, too. It's like, okay, we gotta say this within this much time. Well, when you think about it, almost every piece of dialogue in a really

well-produced show is pretty much all timed out and stuff. Well, when you think about it, almost every piece of dialogue like in a really well-produced show is pretty much like all timed out and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. That's fun. That's fun. Rachel's been telling me

for a while now that she's like, you know, you're always surprising me, taking me on dates, whatever. Like, I'm going to have one for you. I'm going to surprise you with a little date or whatever. And there was one night

about a week ago where i guess it would have been last week she was in colorado two weeks ago i guess where we were both gonna be free it's just like all right you're not doing anything tonight i was like no and she's like all right um if you could do like anything tonight like what would you want to do and so i'm like thinking about it and i come up with this idea i was like all right what about this we haven't played geo guesser in a long time, so the night is themed like, the theme is like around the world,

so we will get like Panda Express, Hawaiian Bros, canes, you know, and some pizza or something, and we eat all this different food while we play GeoGuessr, and she was like, oh my gosh, this was the date I was going to do for you. That was it.

I was like, I guessed it? I was like, awesome. I was like, that's great. It was the date I was going to do for you. That was it. I was like, I guessed it? I was like, awesome. I was like, that's great. It was like a deep blue sea moment. Wow. Why did she ask you? Why didn't she just do it? Yeah, that's what she's like.

As you're saying this, I was like, I should have done it. I should have done it. I should have asked. I should have done it. I thought you were going to say like, she's going to plan a date night for me. And then she was like, the date night came. She's like, okay, what do you want to do on your date night? And you just tell her what to do. And she's like, okay, let's do that. So you basically plan it out again. But yeah, it ended up being really fun though.

That sounds fun. Yeah. Just different food and a little geo guesser. Sounds like you guys are on the same page, which is great. Yeah, it was great. But yeah, she was so bummed. She's like the one time I was going to play at something. How do you just guess it? It's so random. It's completely her fault for asking. It's like, what do you think you got as a gift this year, Jake? And you mentioned probably those golf clubs I've been hinting at

that are kind of a little bit too expensive. Oh, Jake. Actually, all I got you was a sweater. It's like, well, why'd you ask? Why didn't you just give me the sweater? I've been very happy with the sweater. Yeah, that's risky, too. Yeah. It's like, what do you'd you ask? Why didn't you just give me the sweater? I've been very happy with the sweater. Yeah, that's risky too. Yeah.

It's like, what do you think it's going to be? I think it's probably going to be, yeah, whatever. Grande boot tickets. How about just a t-shirt from ghostrunners.life? Yeah, that's good too. Yeah, yeah. Rachel claims that it's really annoying that I'm a sponsored golfer because she's like, it would be so easy to shop for a guy that it's in the golf.

I just get them golf stuff. That's what every guy wants. She's like, but you always get your stuff for free. Yeah. So I have to go find other gifts. Is that true though? Like I need to keep reminding you,

I am getting paid for this too. I am like supporting us. I don't know if it's all bad. And I think you would still be very happy with golf stuff. True. Brayden got me a personalized golf balls, um me personalized golf balls for his groomsman gift, and they were awesome. Yeah.

I'll have to show them to you. For a long time, I was like, I'm not going to put woodworking stuff on my birthday list because it's tax write-off if I buy it myself. Okay. And then I was like, I want this stuff, and I'm not always going to buy it for myself because I don't necessarily need it.

Yeah. I'm not sponsored by whatever. So I bet it's the same thing for you. There's golf accessories out there I don't have yet. A brand new towel. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

That's one thing. Water bottle. Golf water bottle. There's two, Rachel. It says hydrate the hole. Hyd's two. Rachel. It says hydrate hole. Hydrate iron.

I hydrate. The 19th hole is my mouth. And I hydrate it. I saw a... Here's something Rachel can get me. A personalized license plate parameter border thing. What is it called?

License plate frame. Frame? I don't know. I saw one the other day, Brookridge parking lot. It's on his car, obviously. It said, I'd rather be driving my golf ball.

Nice. So that's a pretty cool gift. That's good. I'm sure that was probably a wife that got him that. 100%. Yeah. Here's some golf ideas. Okay.

There you go, Rachel. Or just get him something from John Kander, Fortunato. 100%. Yeah. Here's some golf ideas. Okay. There you go, Rachel. Or just get him something from John Kander, Fortunato, Roasters, Good Ranchers. I mean, probably Nimi Skincare. Nimi Skincare. N-I-M-I Skincare. S-K-I-N Care.

Dot com. For your glow-ups and your hydration and your exfoliation. Tymon's been using the anti-aging thing. And he came in and I said, hey. Hey, Bo. Who's that fetus? Whoa, didn't know we were hiring fetuses these days.

I guess I'll go along with it, though. I said, bring me Brandon. Bring me your father. Yeah. And then Tymon showed up. So I think this might be Tymon's dad who's been using We just don't know. Yeah. Anti-aging cream. Benjamin Button

was actually just a Nimi It's one big long Nimi ad. Yeah. And well done. Yeah. But no, we've been talking about Nimi's skincare several episodes in a row now. Yep. And we... Hey, while you guys talk about Nimi, I gotta pee so bad. I'll be right back.

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That's close. Helps you look and feel your best, brother. Earth's natural goodness is good to have around. Things like they got vitamin C involved. They got peptide cream. Yep. They got AHAs, hyaluronic acid. Yeah, all those things.

Okay. Oh, I didn't know we had a hyaluronic acid. Daddy made me my favorite. Yay. They have all these different kind of bundles you can get. You can get the anti-aging, like we mentioned, the daily glow-up, or you can get the hydrate and protect ultimate bundle, which was the one that we got that we really enjoy.

It's got a simple daily routine to cleanse, moisturize, protect the skin. It also cleanses and moisturizes the face, touch up with the eye cream, and finish off with SPF protection for your most radiant glow yet. Obviously, we joke about it, but yeah, Catherine and Rachel are beautiful women and, uh, Nimi definitely does not hurt that. It helps that. So, um, we appreciate, uh, Nimi and just the wonderful effects that it can have. It's important to care for your skin. Uh, you're going to have it for the rest of your life.

Most do. So, uh, use it or lose it. They say 10 say 10 off nimi skincare.com promo code ghost runners ghost runners um time and can you come back in here switch the camera thanks just kidding rachel and her family last week went to colorado and uh i guess they were listening to our first few episodes of the podcast in the car. That's fine. I was like, man, I'm sorry. Yeah, what do they think? She was like, no, we thought it was good. I guess Rachel's dad said that it took us like 10 minutes to get the hang of it.

He's like, in 10 minutes, they had the hang of podcasting. I would disagree, Steve. That's very kind. He's really nice. That'd be fun to listen to how different we are. I think the main thing is our sound quality. Shout out to new technology and timing. Sure, SM7Bs.

Yeah. Compared to... I mean, there was one clip that I was looking at because I'm trying to do these slideshows for Grande Boo. And my microphone is four feet away from me. Yeah, just the difficulty that that poses. We did it. That's pretty fun.

I have every once in a while gone back and like just randomly fast forwarded to like 33 minutes of an episode. Just what are we talking about? What are we talking about here? And it's amazing what we can rattle on about for a while. For four years now. Yeah. That is cool though.

I'm really glad that we have the podcast just for like the time capsule aspect. Exactly. Do you know what I mean? Like COVID and marriage and engagement. Yeah. Like we're not sharing every single detail of our lives on here, but enough to where it's like, Hattie, this is what I thought of you when you were two years old. Like this is what I was learning about you and you were four, you know, like, yeah, just fun. So yeah, especially for kids did. Yeah. This is what, this is what we were thinking of covid when it first came out this is what we thought about it six months later pickleball was this brand new thing like somebody just commented like jake said he wanted to start a pickleball channel on episode

50 or something like that yeah it's been two years in the making yeah i don't doubt it yeah so obviously the thing the you know love story with rachel was just wild yeah that's pretty sweet so fun little journey that's you love nostalgia like that, man. You better come to ground a boo. I say so brother. You want to share some comments of the week or freaking what I do? Excuse me. I'm about to

burp. I have to then all go in between you. Don't you steal mine? I got mine. Olivia Guthrie. No, no, that was mine. How in the world we got a thousand comments? How do we have the same L. T. F. O. A. H. T. T. I got mine. Olivia Guthrie. No, no. That was mine. How in the world? We got a thousand comments. How do we have the same? L-K-F-O-A-H-T-T-I-S. Yeah. That was mine.

I'm going to gas up my boy. I know. That's crazy. Out of all the comments. That's crazy. My comment of the week is from Olivia Guthrie. 6195. She says, low-key freaking out at how talented Tymon is. She gets it. My guy. Thank you out at how talented Tymon is. She gets it. My guy.

Thank you. Shout out to Tymon. He is so talented. You're going to see more of his talents at Grande Boo. Hope you're titillated. My comment of the week is from Vicky. She said, sorry, guys. I've been with you from day one,

but I'm done now after another episode with that obnoxious air horn. It looks like it's here to stay since I seem to be the only person that bothers. Take care. Okay. Funny. That's crazy.

That's funny that you're like... You listened from day one? I did read that one. Oh, it's so funny. You listened to a podcast for like four years, 250 episodes. Tymon, do me a kindness. Do me a favor.

Yeah. Go to the very first episode we've ever released and play the very first one second of that episode right now. Oh. Do you know what it is? No. Just listen. So this is the first second of episode one?

Correct. All right. Vicky. Getting there. Sorry, Vicky. I didn't mean to say you're. Just listen. Getting there.

Yeah, it's a lot to ask. You got to pull up Spotify. You got to type in Ghost Runners I don't know scroll scrolling currently scrolling keep us updated

alright I'm there ready? wait I need to make sure it starts at the beginning smart oh yeah smart okay

wait wait sorry before you play it read that comment one more time and then play it vicky said sorry guys i've been with you from day one but i'm done now after another episode with that obnoxious air horn it looks like it's here to stay since i seem to be the only person it bothers take care here. Here we go. Welcome, everybody. Literally the first thing we've ever done in the podcast was me going, pew, pew, pew, pew. Which I know is not the same as us pressing a button.

That's really funny. But I remember that's such a random way to start the podcast. Pew, pew, pew, pew. Also, it was weird how it was just in my left. Yeah, that was weird. Mono versus stereo, I guess. I don't know why. That's so funny. I didn't know why. That's so funny.

I didn't realize that. She's been listening since day one, second number three. Yeah, maybe. Accidentally skipped in. I mean, it's all in good fun, Vicky. If that's really the thing that bothers you enough to stop listening, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to make that happen. Of course, we're not ever trying to make people not listen because of something like that.

We're not going to be pressing that button a million more times because we don't usually have access to it. Um, but it is funny. I remember that specifically because I felt like the first few episodes personally, I was a lot more quiet and reserved, but I do remember thinking like, I don't know if I was that quiet because I did the right at the beginning of the whole thing. And so I just always have remembered that. And so I think she posted that either today or yesterday. Yeah. And I was like, that's, that's too bad.

What a great catch that we started the podcast with that noise. Yeah. And 249 episodes later, she's like, I can't do it. Play like the first 15 seconds of that episode. I just want to hear what we say. All right. Here it comes. Here we go welcome everybody to our podcast jake and brad here we are live brad what's it called uh we are calling this the uh ghost runners podcast we uh we feel official we're in brad's

basement it's a little cold he's got a little blanket wrapped around him the mics aren't quite tall enough to fit uh or to get up to our voices. So we're using, what are these, shelves? Yeah. They're like the adjustable shelves from, we bought this house from a 92-year-old woman and she had all these. That's pretty solid. I mean, yeah, the rapport has always been there. Right. Just learning how to have enough energy and learning, you know, what to talk about. And I give us a little bit of, or I give myself a little bit of grace because we were recording in my basement with my two-year-old sleeping upstairs. I was like, I'm not going to scream as much as I did once we moved to the shop.

I feel like that's when I started like, hey mom, you know, all that kind of stuff. I also got to give you credit too, because, you know, right now I've started a social media project, Friday Pickleball, with Scott, who does not have social media. But it's not the first time I've done this because I started a podcast with you when you would never listen to a podcast. You're like, I mean, Jake wants to just sit down and record our conversations. Okay. I guess we can do this.

All right, whatever. Whatever you say, man. I'm going to have a blanket wrapped around me the whole time, though. So we did. No problem. Just did it anyway. Yeah, it's wild. You didn't even know what we were getting ourselves into. No, I had no idea. I was like, yeah,. Just did it anyway. Yeah, it's wild. You didn't even know what we were getting ourselves into. No, I had no idea. I was like, yeah, sure.

Make it happen. Make it happen, Kevin. Anyway, that's my comment of the week. Pretty cool. Pretty cool. What are you working on over there? I don't know. I took a screenshot the other day, I thought.

No, I'm trying to find it, though. It's fun. It was a fun... Oh, here it is. Eight years ago. Can I read this little excerpt from some Brad Ellis? Go ahead. It's just fun to just look at how God's like orchestrated things and think back. Like it feels like time just goes so much faster than it really. Where's this excerpt coming from? This is from Facebook. Eight years ago, I posted friends. It's with a great excitement and a little bit of nervous anxiety that I announced that I've decided

to officially leave my job at Cerner and pursue my woodworking business, Ellis Custom Creations, full-time. The decision hasn't been easy, and I want to thank all of my family and friends for their words of encouragement, wisdom, and advice throughout this process. Most importantly, I want to thank my wife, Catherine,

for her selfless and sacrificial spirit, always being so patient with me when I go out and work in the garage for six hours every night. And I put a quote, A ship is safe in Harbor. That's not what ships are for. I was blessed to have a corporate desk job at a large organization. I felt tremendous job security there. However, Catherine, I know the Lord is leading us in a different direction, the direction that will force us to rely and depend solely on him and his sovereignty. We're ready to take that adventure head on. Thanks. Oh gosh. Thanks to all of you for your love and support this far in our growing business.

We genuinely appreciate your comments, texts, phone calls, etc. Please continue to tell your friends and family about us and let us know if there's anything we can build for you. It's just fun to think about. Eight years. Hey, I guess God's calling me to leave this thing and then... Quit the big one. Boom, that door opens and then this door opens.

All these different things that has happened. It's fun to see that post um that's really cool yeah i think that was the only time i've ever posted like life update hey y'all so popping in yeah every once while i look at my facebook memories and there was one of them that's fun that was pre-kids pre you were you were working for k-Life at that time. Yeah, we were nabes. Just wild. 2015. You hadn't even moved away to come back yet. No. You know? No, I had not. That's fun.

It's also crazy that I moved away. I can't believe I left Kansas City. Do you remember when you told me? I remember when you told me. I was bummed. But I was like, I'm not going to be bummed. I'm not going to make them feel bad. I remember we were on the other side of the plaza. We're Main Street, we're Etcetera and Chipotle.

I don't know where we were going over there, but I just remember you being like, yes, I think I'm going to move to Dallas and do the thing with Juggle and Josh. And I was like, oh, that's great, man. And it wasn't because I was like, I thought we were going to start a podcast together, dude. What about G-Tourist, dude? It was just like, I'm we were going to start a podcast together, dude. What about cheese horse, dude?

It was just like, I'm going to miss you, you know? So thanks for moving back. Yeah. Did it take too long? Yeah. About a year. But yeah, I remember that specifically, because I didn't even know you were like mulling it over.

Really? Yeah. Or like how serious, I didn't even know it was like an offer yet. I mean, once I saw him juggle, I was in. You were, yeah, done for. You had me. So. That's fun. let's stroll down memory lane and a little stroll down wednesday lane hope you guys enjoyed this wednesday episode we are like we said probably a little shorter episodes

this week just because we have a lot to do and we're trying to make grande boo the most memorable eventful thing we've ever pulled off. And it will be. See you again. Anyway, this comes out. It's happening in like a few days. I'm sorry. I don't mean to be annoying. I'm sure I am to people. Everyone's smiling. I never mean to be. I'm just trying

to be fun. Being Brad. Just being myself. Just being my goofy old self. We'll see you guys at Grand Abou. And if not then... Another time. Dead to me. Love you guys. See ya.

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