Ghostrunners - 260 - That Was a Mistake

Episode Date: September 11, 2023

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Welcome back, everybody, to another Ghostrunners podcast episode. It's Monday, and it's another Monday that's not Christmas. And we're not a super early Christmas pod, but we do like to give the people what they want. And lately, they've really been wanting a Tymon and Brad Christmas album. So, hey, it's on you guys. We're going to keep singing. If you want to compile them someday into an album, that's on you.

If that's what you want. So, Bradad and timon feel free to take it away well i've been selling my no no different different christmas song oh that's like the reindeer labor laws yeah yeah from their pov okay uh we have not practiced this believe it or not we'll see how it goes let's just do well let's do the beginning together and then I'll come into a little do-wop and then, okay. So a little, little interlude.

Okay. Oh man. Do-wop. How do I know this? Okay. You know, this will be good. Do-wop.

You know, Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen, Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen. But do you recall the most famous reindeer of all? Rudolph. Wait, wait, wait. That's the other one.

That's the other one. Okay, okay. Shadoom, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Had a very shiny nose And if you ever saw it You would even say it glows All of the other reindeer Used to laugh and call him names

They never let poor Rudolph Join in any Christmas games. Then one foggy Christmas Eve, Santa came to say, Rudolph with your nose so bright, you got my sleigh tonight. Then how

the reindeer loved him as they shouted out with glee. Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, you'll go down in history That's great. That's something. You're welcome, guys. Uh-oh, ooh, I think this tight beat

Means that it's going down With some random thoughts in 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 this is the Ghost Rubs Podcast. Ghost Rubs Podcast. Everybody, come on, it'll be taking ground. Ghost Rubs Podcast. Ghost Rubs Podcast.

That was nice. Was that your first time doo-opping bass notes? What do you think, Jake? I think it maybe was your second or third. It wasn't bad. In my head, I did it once five seconds ago right before we started this thing. Also, Tommy, does your version say

play in any Christmas games? No, I misread it. Christmas games? Radio games? Okay, I misread it. Christmas games? I just didn't know if I was taught wrong. You know how you can do, like, Rudolph and you say, then one foggy

Christmas Eve, Santa came to say... What'd he say? No, I'm just kidding. Ho, ho, ho, right? Rudolph, with your nose so bright, once you got my sight, and I always said, I'm just kidding. Ho, ho, ho. Right? Oh, right, right. Rudolph, with your nose so bright, won't you guide my sleigh tonight? I always said, sure. Then how the reindeer loved him

as it shouted out, with glee, yippee. Oh, okay. I don't know. And then Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, reindeer, you'll go down in history. I always said, like George Washington. And Catherine always said, like Columbus.

Yeah, I... The thing that came to mind for me was like Pinocchio. Like Pinocchio! I don't know why. It suits familiar for some reason. I think I remember it being like it was Columbus and it was like, oh, he wasn't actually like a great guy. Oh, like George Washington.

I'm pretty sure that's why the switch was made. Even George Washington. I feel like maybe we could do better than that. Like Mahatma. Like Mahatma. Like Mahatma Gandhi. Like Gandhi. Like Mandela. Like Malcolm X.

Like Malcolm X. Like Reagan. For some of you. Malcolm X and Reagan. All those things. So you grew up saying like... Like washington i like that one like that that seems like it just rolls off the tongue nicely like a nice little syncopation i'm not even making that up for some reason when you said that i was like yeah it's like pinocchio

like pinocchio is the same like like i think i've heard that like i think i've heard like pinocchio before i think it was like the elementary school version you normally know people in history so you're like i mean pinocchio has around. I've been hearing about him since kindergarten. Yeah, like Pinocchio. You know, historically, you know, there's the greats, you know, Jefferson, Roosevelt, Nokia. So. That threw me off that you didn't say Penn.

Well, this is his last name. His first name is Penn. Yeah, yeah. His first name is Penn. P-I. Last name is Nokia. Nokia. Penn Nokia.

Anyway, that's been Christmasmas that's right that's been christmas uh what do i talk about brad how was your week how was your weekend you went to branson yeah i did it was uh it was a lot it was fun i was only there for like 30 some hours probably got there seven o'clock friday night left early Sunday morning, however many hours that is. But it was action-packed, baby. Basically, all of Saturday was just doing stuff. So woke up, got some Casey's breakfast pizza, which is kind of tradition these days with the Branson boys.

You ever had it? There's something about it. In Iowa, they rave about it. Yeah. Casey's is their thing up there. And I'll say that the guy that kind of introduced it to us mr steeze back in the day if we talked about a lot he's from iowa now lives in minnesota and so he's like yeah we got to get casey's breakfast and i was like holy cow where have i been they love it up there and there's some casey's here so i need to eat it more often i guess but um anyway and then went and played

pickleball um at k kawY, which is so fun. And a lot of my friends like brought their families. I had no idea that was going to happen. So it was like kind of like this weird like camp reunion slash meeting all these friends' kids. That's always a fun time. But played pickleball. And, you know, I played with some guys that don't play very often. And so I kind of – it was kind of like at Estes Park where I'm like I should beat these guys.

And I think I'm just coming to the realization that overall at pickleball, I'm just not good at pickleball. You're coming to that realization. Yeah. Like, I think I've always been like, okay, there's part of my game that's like, you know, probably above average, but overall it's, it's definitely like a C minus, like add up all the different things I do. ACT composite score. Yeah. Like I might, I might've aced the, uh, you know, kitchen like hands exam, but like everything, you know, like I serve, serve shots out sometimes that's not acceptable. I don't really have a backhand. That's not acceptable. Uh, can't really bend down very well. Can't go lateral, right. Very well. Can't really handle the lob very like, it's like, okay, all the things I'm proud of really get overweight by all the things that aren't, I'm not so proud of. And so I'm playing with these guys that aren't

very good and yet I keep losing. And so then it's like, well, what does that say about you, Brad? Kind of like, kind of like that one year in rec basketball where we played those guys that were like 45 years old and we're like, Oh my gosh, I'm kind of embarrassed that we're even playing these guys. I feel bad for them and we lose to them. Yeah. And it're like, Oh my gosh, these guys, I'm kind of embarrassed that we're even playing these guys. I feel bad for him. And we lose to them. Yeah. It's like, okay,

I think it's time to look in the mirror and be like, Hey, maybe you're not good at basketball. Like you think you are, but hang them up. Yeah. Not hang them up, but just,

just lower your expectations. Okay. When you hang them up lower, yeah. Lower the, lower the hang hook. So anyway, it was really fun,

but also just like, yeah, I played Adam Kosh and mr steeze and those guys are the two worst guys you want to lose to uh because kosh is just a tennis like purist and so he's like pickleball is just stupid this is not the same and yet he was beating us he's like oh i get it now and i was like okay fine and so i just kept wanting to beat him and we played him best of seven we lost four to two so held our a little bit, had some good trash talking along the way. But after that, we went to KKY or no, we were at KKY. We went to their slip and slide. They had this massive

new slip and slide, dude. It's like three stories up. Yeah. I mean, it's so big. It's so awesome. I jumped on it the first time and I felt like a crack in my back. And I was like, I think that might've actually helped my back. Oh, good. Uh, didn't the next day I was hurting, still hurting today. Um, but man, it was awesome. And at the end of it, there's just a big pool, obviously that you go into. Yeah. Is it a ramp or is it just like a, a nice flush? It's just a launch into the pool. Yeah. Just a flush launch. And I, but I didn't know that like the first time you're going down, it's like,

I don't know if I'm about to fall into this thing, you know, two and a half feet or if it's just whatever. Can you go down face first, feet first swivel? I don't know if there's like rules normally, but obviously with us, there was no rules.

Okay. There, I mean, we didn't even use the mats. We're like, let's just go down on our stomach. A little Crisco on you. But you know,

there was like our friends, like two year old sons down there, like, and I get down there and I just like monsoon them. Like, just put a little Crisco on you. But, you know, there was like our friends, like two-year-old sons down there. And I get down there and I just like monsooned them. Like just absolutely. They were like, oh, that was amazing. So that was great. And then we jumped in the lake, had to jump in the lake. If you guys don't know, the lake in Branson is super, super cold,

teeny como, and it felt awesome. Spring fed, they say. I think. Like Pinoc I think like Pinocchio, like Pinocchio. I think that, um, Canuck accidentally was like way ahead of so many curves, uh, basically intermittent fasting and cold plunging back in the day. Like that's what, that's what that lake is, is a cold plunge essentially. And you would like be like, uh, you know, stationed there for the polar bear club, you know, and so you'd be in there for 30 minutes and your, your body would go pretty numb. Like you get used to it and then you get

out and it's 95 degrees outside and you're wearing a hoodie and sweatpants to lunch. Like later that day, I always found it interesting because I didn't know much about your camp when I first started working at camp. But what I did know is that when kids became 12, they would move up to K West to my camp and they loved the lake at K West. It's like, it's like these kids have never been in water before, but it's because our water was 85 degrees. Like this is amazing. I mean, it's insane how cold that is. Cause it's all, I don't know how the dam works, but it's something like the water gets released from the dam. And so it's cold. I don't know why. I think it's from a spring, spring fed.

Good. Yeah. Perfect. And so, I mean, it's so cold, but it felt so good. And so some of us jumped off the tower, did that. And then we went and played golf. How'd it go? Any realizations? I already knew I wasn't very good at golf. So that's all right. You just started.

But we won. Our team won the scramble. First time I've ever won the scramble. Good job. Out of the last three years, Res Bingola is the name of our, uh, league. I don't know why it's called that. Okay. But that's what it's called. I won the Res Bingola cup this year. Dang. And, uh, and it was, it was partially because of me. We used a decent amount of my shots. Really? Uh, whole 16. It was was a it was a par three and uh our best player you know obviously the other ones of us didn't shoot have a very good shot but he didn't

have a great shot onto the it wasn't on the green he's like we have to work for this par and i chipped that bad boy within like two feet oh sweet just maybe even closer i don't know it was so it was so perfect and we won by one stroke. So good job. Maybe that was me. But yeah, it was really fun while we were playing, you know, whenever I hang out with my friends,

my, my camp friends, they always act like I'm almost, almost like in like a jokingly like annoyed way. Like, Oh,

here comes Brad, Mr. Famous guy or whatever. I'm like, guys, whatever. Like that. Yeah. Our podcast Instagram

has 9,000 followers. We were like super popular. Yeah, exactly. And, you know, last year we were at having barbecue at Joe's and two, two people came up to me and said something. And so they were like, Oh my gosh, that just happens to you all the time. I was like, it never happens to me. Like maybe once a week, does this happen? Dude, Branson though. So it's a multiplier down there. And we didn't, we weren't really in public at, besides playing golf. Like we weren't doing anything really out in,

well, we went to Dana's one night, but anyway, but we were out playing golf the very first hole, you know, after I hit my drive shot, I was walking up to it and this golf cart just like, just veers right into the course and was like,

Brad Ellis. And I was like, hello. It and i was like hello it's like i'm a ghosty wow and i can i see on the golf course of course my friends start like bringing out their phones like like of course brad's already getting recognized yeah so natalie calvert is her name oh yeah yeah she lives in branson and she's like i already know exactly why you're here i listen to the podcast you know i know you're doing your fancy football draft here had a great little one minute conversation with her and she was on her way. Um, but it was just funny. It was like, yeah, of course my friends think this happens to me all the time and I

promise it does it, but they're like, yeah, sure. That's awesome. I remember on Harrison's bachelor party weekend, I got recognized on the very first hole of golf too. I was like, this is great. All right guys. Yeah. Not everyone at once should be 18 of these. Um, but yeah, overall it was a really great time. Just good time with, guys. Yeah, not everyone at once. Should be 18 of these. But yeah, overall, it was a really great time. Just good time with those guys. It's just we have a bond that no one else can share the same memories, the same sentiments. Can't make old friends.

You can't make old friends. Even if I'm talking to you about camp stuff, it's like you don't know the same camp people. You don't know the same. You don't know Polar Bear Club. I don't. You've never experienced Polar Bear club, bro. Um, but yeah. And then the last thing is on the way home, I rode with my friend Jeremy who lives in Manhattan, Kansas, but came to Kansas city

and rode with me from there. Um, we took my truck, which, oh, it's an old truck. It's not doing great. I heard a spray painted. Yeah, if that. I guess that's spray painted. It's rusted out the bottom. Whatever. I don't care. But as we're driving in Branson, there was a sign that said, battery not charging. It just showed up on my dash.

In those words, it just spelled it out for you? Battery not charging. That does make it nice and clear. Yes. This is exactly what's going on. Battery not charging. And it would kind of go away every once in a while, and then it would come back. And so I'm like, you know, just classic,

like, you know, head in the sand, Brad's just like, well, I bet that's just, that's just a glitch or we'll see what happens. Let's like, whatever. Um, and so sure enough, you know, later that day it was fine. Like it, it just, it just went away. And so I was like, I guess the battery's fine now. And so we drove it home and halfway through, we stopped to get gas and, uh, hadn't seen the sign or anything and then left the gas station. And all of a sudden battery, not charging came on and it wasn't going away this time. And you can see like, you never care about that battery thing on your dashboard until it starts going down. Like I've never looked at that thing in my life. I don't even really understand the numbers. It's like anywhere from one 40 to two 80. Yeah. Like the very bottom one is like

nine. It's not zero. Yeah. I don't, I don't understand what all that is, but all I know is that you're not supposed to have it in the bad part and it was veering towards that part. And so, um, I'm with Jeremy, who's kind of a, he's a small town boy. He's, he's done some little bit of work on cars. He's like, well, if we just pull over in Clinton, which is kind of like a landmark on the way home from Branson. Great halfway point. Great. Yeah.

Great spot. Um, you know, we can check it out and see, I can at least look and see if your battery is not connected, right. Or something. So we do that. We look at it, everything looks fine. And so we're like, okay, let's just, and I called Josh Brumfield. He's, he's an ex mechanic, ghosty Josh, you. You know, hey, man, what do you think about this?

He's like, oh, that definitely sounds like your alternator. I'm like, yeah, that's what I was thinking. This happened in the limo. Did it? Yeah. The battery not charging. Battery not charging. Yeah.

So Josh is like, I mean, maybe your battery is shot. I would go to O'Reilly's, get yourself a battery, drive as far as you can on it, and then replace it with this battery and see if that helps. And if not, you know, at least you're closer to home and I can, he's like, he's in Kansas City. He's like, I can come, you know, help you or whatever. I know super nice. He's like, well, you're in Clinton. I can just drive to Clinton. And I was like, holy cow. Well, let's just, let's just see what happens at the O'Reilly first. So I go to O'Reilly

and I mean, I could not describe how fish out of water I am at O'Reilly, right? Like you ever been to an O'Reilly timing or just any auto parts store? Like the only, the only part of it I understand is like the air freshener section. I'm like, yeah, that even that's like where do you twist this thing?

Do you put it on top of the, you know, mirror? I like the smell of the tire section. It smells great in there. Sometimes I like looking at the steering wheel covers and think who's buying these. I bought one of those in high school.

Okay. I had a nasty steering wheel. So it helped. Um, but anyway, yeah. Um, there's three people working at O'Reilly.

Two of them are men that are helping somebody. And then there's a woman and I'll be honest, sexist move a little bit, but I was like, you went to the woman. No, I wanted to, I was just standing there and the woman comes up. She's like, can I help you with anything? And I thought I would

rather have had one of those men help me. Um, it's like when you go to Hibachi grill and his name is Ryan Jose. Yeah. Yeah. And hand up. I was wrong. Cause this woman, Audrey was an angel. She knew more about cars than anybody else in the world. I'm convinced. Sorry, Brumfield. No, Brumfield was great too. But I explained to her what was going on. She's like, well, we can test all this. She went out and tested it. And dude, long story short, we sat or we were at an O'Reilly for an hour and we replaced an alternator.

Fun. All together, all three of us, me, Jeremy, and Audrey, just in the heat of Clinton, Missouri. I mean, by the end of it, like our hands and our arms were like greasy, you know, and Audrey did not care. She was just had the nicest attitude about the whole thing. She's like, yeah, normally we're not supposed to do this, but you know, I don't mind doing it every once in a while, helping people out. Uh, and it was not easy. Well, if you're a mechanic, you're like, that's actually really easy to do. But to me, it felt like I was building a new computer or something. I thought I felt so cool by the end of it. Um, and so it

was just like, you felt so accomplished and you're driving home. Jeremy and I were just pumped about it. Um, so shout out Audrey, shout out, uh, you know, women everywhere. They're, they're better than men at cars. I'm here to say it just sweeping generalization. I now have sexism the other way where I'm like, please don't give me a man at O'Reilly auto parts. In hindsight, it should have been like, well, of course, like if this woman's working at O'Reilly, she probably really likes cars, right? That makes sense. Anyway, she was great. Um, I almost had faith in people from Missouri cause Audrey was so nice. And then she's like, I'm from Michigan. And I was like, that

makes sense. Okay, there you go. So anyway, that's, that's Branson for And then she's like, I'm from Michigan. And I was like, that makes sense. Okay, there you go. So anyway, that's that's Branson for him. That's fun. I'm glad you made it back. I got a new new way to alternate. Yeah, I I think one of the first things that happened since we recorded last week's podcast is going chronological order. I went to Chick

Fil A off Metcalf. Yes, Domies and saw Domi and funnel conversation. I mean, it is iti and fun little conversation i mean it is it's breakfast at chick-fil-a and it is um it's very busy a lot of cars behind me but we always still talk and chat a little bit and drive through she can't help it yeah no sense of i don't care it doesn't matter they can wait and so she starts off asking me like how is your program like hey good to see you how is your program how's your program and i'm trying to figure out what the what the program is and then i realized she's talking about

stand-up comedy i think oh i was like okay she's like you know where can i see it where can i see it and i was like well there's there's an old one that is on youtube the next one will probably be on youtube you know in like a year or something. I don't know. And she's like, okay, we will watch. We will watch. I don't like comedians who make jokes about Catholics, though. Oh! You don't make any jokes about Catholics, do you?

And I was just like, no, I don't think there's any in there. She's like, good. My husband, he likes those jokes. He will be laughing so much, but I do not think those are funny. So please do not make any jokes about Catholics in your program. I was like, okay, no, we should be good. And we should be good. You know, I'm trying to like, at this point, it's kind of been a while.

There's cars behind us. She's like, because that's the thing. You make joke about Catholic. You're making joke at God. You make joke at God. And I was like, no, hey, I hear you. No, I get it. I get it. And she's like, no, Hey, I hear you. No, I get it. I get it.

And she's like, my husband laughing, but I, I don't see the funny, you know, she's like continuing to like, she does that sometimes. She did the same thing with like Catherine having kombucha.

Like I don't want to drink that. That's really bad. That's really bad. Yeah. No, don't drink that. That's bad. I think that's bad.

I know, I know it's bad. I know it's bad. That's, that's great. So, so it was awesome. I just wrote down, just don't be that. That's bad. I think that's bad. I know it's bad. I know it's bad. That's great. So it was awesome. I just wrote down, just Domi just preaching to me. Domi, just bringing it. She just preached to me in the drive-thru last week. That was nice. It was a good reminder.

Yeah. She just always wants to remind people you should go Catholic, but don't joke Catholic. You should really not joke Catholic. You should really not joke Catholic. You should really not joke Catholic. No joke about Catholic. No joke about the Pope. Yeah.

So don't listen to this, Domi, because I think we're kind of laughing at you here. But that's great. I mean, she's got a point. Don't mock God. So anyway, that's great. Yeah, that was nice. It was just good to see her, good to chat.

And did that on my way to Iowa. I went to Iowa for the weekend. Just a little Labor Day hang. We had our own little fantasy football draft there. We had the Ghost Hunters guillotine drafts the last two nights. Right. Those were fun. Oh, that was so fun.

I'm trying to think if there's anything noteworthy. I mean, the first night, Rich and I were driving back from Iowa while drafting. So it was a little hard to be super into the chat was rich, I were driving back from Iowa while drafting. So it's a little hard to be super into the chat. You said you were like reading a bow. I was reading like, yeah, good night moon and like picking Austin Eckler over here. Like, you know, whatever. Like, okay,

Malik Willis, I think he's going to be the backup probably, you know, whatever. Like, so that was a little bit hectic, but also like we have 18 teams in the league, so it's not that crazy. Yeah. Yeah. Guillotine wise, I think, you know, we'll be all right for a little bit.

There's a couple of teams in each league that have really done a number on themselves. Yeah. Yeah. Let's okay. Let's yeah. Go ahead and talk about that real quick. I'll say Tuesday League. Tyler Stoltzfus.

Yeah. You're great at videography. Evolved videography evolved videography is wonderful but may not make it past week one yeah and then there's a guy named josh in the other league who also there's a few joshes isn't there yeah there are there's roten and wood i think maybe i think wood's the one who's going down going down early or alexis alexis also uh looking too good yeah so hopefully if nothing else rachel and katherine make it Woods, the one who's going down, going down early or, or Alexis, Alexis also, uh, looking too good.

Yeah. So hopefully if nothing else, Rachel and Catherine make it through at least one week this year. Yes. So here's, I want to talk about Rachel and Catherine first, but I think we should have predictions and then recaps every week of the guillotine league. Just a quick, quick prediction of who's going to get on the chopping block every week. And then we're right. Yeah.

What happened? Who actually ended up being on the chopping block from the week And then we're right. Yeah. What happened? Who actually ended up being on chopping block from the week before? But yeah, Catherine and Rachel, it's just so funny watching both of them like care like they do care, but it's like it's like they care about something that they do not know anything about

like there's this receiver out there right now. I'd never even heard of it. That's impressive, though. It's hard to care about something you don't know anything about, right? Like there's a receiver named John Meche. You heard of John Meche timing. No one has even when they set aside. I go midgy. Yeah, he was picked

in the second round in 2022. He's from Alabama. So maybe if you're a college football fan, you know, John Meche, but he was a 44th pick in the second round 2022 place for the Texans. Just a lot of irrelevant words right there. And, you know, like it was their pick and they were trying to find a wide receiver

and they're like, man, do we go with Mechie or this other guy? And they were like so torn. Mechie or, I don't know. And it's like, you don't know anything about either of them. You're just looking at their names. Like, and it's the same, Catherine does the exact same thing with March Madness, where she'll my gosh ucla versus texas a and that's going to be a good game

oh i don't know how to pick that one it's like you don't you don't know anything about them like you don't like you don't know a single thing um marquette that's going to come down to the wire oh man marquette versus since i mean that mean, that's a historic rivalry probably, right? Both north of here. Yeah, it's just so funny. But I mean, they were genuinely having a hard time picking between picks sometimes last night. Or even kickers.

They were really torn up about which kicker to get. You know, there's Young Wae Koo. Young Wae Koo. And so they're like, Wae Koo? What about Wae Koo? Youngway Coo. And so they're like, Y-Coo? Y-Coo. Y-Coo could be fun. And then there was Matt Marr. M-A-H-E-R.

But it looks like M. Mayer, kind of. And so Josh Mayer's wife is named Maggie. And so we're like, should we pick Maggie Mayer? I mean, she could be a good kicker. Well, I saw there was actually, there is a tight end called M. Mayer. Oh, maybe that's who they were talking about.

It wasn't even the kicker. I thought they were talking about. Yeah, there's some tight end in mayor either way yeah they had an old nickname yeah maggie mayor could be good maggie mayor yeah they were just so funny and i'm going with jelliot jelliot as their kicker yeah j elliot missy jelliot it was great so i i just want them to be able to be a few weeks into it at least before they get booted off which i think they have a good team yeah which that's what we said last year like they had two quarterbacks they should have been fine last year what did one of them get hurt the first week dac got dac dac prescott got hurt like in the first quarter that's right his thumb or whatever yeah so that was a bummer anyway so uh

yeah guillotine league off to a great start it's gonna be so fun. So yeah, let's talk about our prediction for Monday League. I'm going with Josh and Tyler, no doubt. Josh and Tyler? Yeah. Oh, sorry, Monday League. Josh. Monday is Josh over Alexis? Yeah. Okay. And then Tyler for the Tuesday League. Yeah, Tyler's

done. Tyler like his second running back was Alvin Kamara, who's suspended like four games it's like yeah you don't have a quarterback and you don't also have a second running back luckily that's gonna be tough you know you know in those drafts you know there's a chat function on there and you got to be careful with how much you really roast people on there that's all i'm in trouble one time i i i hands up i was a little too harsh on people. Uh, and so, yeah, you gotta be careful. Luckily, Tyler can take it.

Luckily, Tyler's like, okay. Like we know Tyler well enough to be like, Hey man, we're messing with you, dude. He was texting me privately, like just actual texting me about five rounds. And he's like, Hey, just be honest with me. I totally screwed. Yeah, probably. But you never know, dude. All it takes is one bad week from somebody else.

Yeah. So, um, cool. And then I, I also had written down is one bad week from somebody else. Yeah. So, cool. And then I also had written down, Jake, and we can maybe come back to this so people aren't just like listening to football for 15 minutes. But I think it'd be kind of fun to do some quick predictions on the games this week and then see if we actually got them right.

I see. You know what I mean? Let's have football this week brought to you by Cozy Earth. Oh, yes, it is. In Iowa this week, I stayed with the Coops. It was great. I enjoyed my time. Probably the worst part about it was going to bed

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You're missing out on something. And hey, I'm spending eight hours there. I'm in the shower for 10 minutes. Sure. Big whoop. Eight hours without Cozy Earth? That's a long time. Absolutely.

But yeah, Cozy Earth is great. I mean, obviously, we talk a lot about their bedsheets because that's what's so great and so awesome, but they make all sorts of other stuff. I mean, loungewear, hand towels, bath towels. It doesn't have to be this huge,

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all time. There's no way you're like, that's, that's the gateway into the, into like, if nothing else, bringing the bamboo sleep mask next time on the road trip, it felt good around my occipitals. Yeah. Now I want it all over. Occipitals is nice, dude. It's not totally used correctly. Okay. No. I've never heard that word. Warm enough. I like it.

Or just high maintenance, sure. But bring your own pillowcase everywhere you go. It changes any pillow into a luxury pillow. Yeah. Don't hate it. My mom recently got Cozy Earth, and she's all about it. Yeah? Yeah.

What did she say? She said, I got the Cozy Earth, and she held up the bag, and she said, it's amazing. She said, she's all about it. Yeah? Yeah. What did she say? She said, I got the Cozy Earth, and she held up the bag, and she said, it's amazing. She said, I'm all about it. I'm all about it. Yeah, we love them. They're great. They have such a great deal for ghosties.

It's a massive deal. I don't think that they have this deal for most people. I think it's specifically for, if you're a listener of the podcast, maybe they do a few other podcasts like ours, but 35% off all products with a 10 year warranty. That's insane. I'll be honest. Here's, here's another thing. We bought bed sheets. I don't know, four or five years ago, like nice, comparable, expensive bed sheets. And they are ripping. There's a part of it that's ripping and they don't have a warranty on theirs.

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Back on fantasy drafts just real quickly. I also drafted on Saturday. The Koop family decided to do their own fantasy football league. We got my dad in it. We got Uncle John in it. So they're all in the league. It's really fun. But drafting...

Wait, wait. Who? Coach. That's my coach! My coach is in your league! Go, coach! Good pick, coach! Dalvin Cook, he's's gonna be good this year coach

coach you've always had an eye for talent coach uh but drafting uh fantasy football players in a room full of coops is the most chaotic experience you could ever imagine at the same time too trying to make sure my dad knows what he's doing, you know, back in Stratford. But also, just, yeah. I mean, five minutes before the draft, Rachel's dad, Steve Koop, is like trying to find his phone. Once he finds his phone, he's like,

all right, what do I need to download again? Sports Illustrated? Sports Illustrated. You should have said yes. Like, yeah. Sporting news, actually. All right, so who's doing which Sports Illustrated? I will take teen. Steve, you've got a swimsuit yep and yeah so it was for kids yeah for kids he was trying

to get sports illustrated or like it's not that that's great definitely not that and yeah just like i don't know if anyone ever knew it was their turn when it was their turn it was like hey it's your turn oh my gosh 30 seconds left and they're going crazy trying to find. And Angie, this is great too. Rachel's mom is so prepped, but prepped as if it was 2008. And it's like printing off cheat sheets and like highlighting them. Yeah, yeah, there's always one.

My dad's a big highlighter. Yeah, 100%. Yeah, which was awesome to see. I was like, wow, she's taking this seriously. And then Rachel's dad, of course, he's like, oh, I don't have any sheets. I didn't print anything off. And we're trying to tell him,

hey, the app will literally tell you who to draft, basically. It's not that big a deal. But it was chaos, and it was so fun. Were there lots of side conversations? Oh, yeah. I mean, they got a one-year-old in there running around, and Lucy's mom,

Corey, is trying to draft. Well, Lucy's freaking out because she wants her mom. Corey's like, look, I got, I got, I got a pick right now. So yeah, it was just bananas. Uh,

but it's pretty fun. Do I pick Mechie or do I go tomorrow? He's suspended. Yeah. Uh, so yeah, that's great. So it's just like basically your family is your mom plan.

No, but, uh, your dad and coach and coops, the coops. Yeah. It's like an eight team league. So the teams are pretty stacked.

So cool. That's what I'm trying to tell him. Like, you're not going to have a bad team with eight ofops. The Coops, yeah. It's like an eight-team league, so the teams are pretty stacked. Cool. That's what we're trying to tell them. You're not going to have a bad team with eight of them, so you'll be fine. Yeah. I don't think anyone did anything super dumb or anything. Everyone's got pretty nice teams. Yeah. It's all good.

That's great. I love that, dude. You want to do some predictions real quick? Sure. Lions-Chiefs. Chiefs win, first of all. As we're recording this, Travis Kelsey is questionable to play. He just hurt his knee yesterday, so we don't know

what that's going to be. Who's going to step up then? I mean, we have a bajillion receivers. And they're all really good. It is funny seeing on Twitter how we can talk about the Chiefs for so long, but I've got to keep timing in mind. Here's what I'll say. You see all these tweets. So the Chiefs have a lot of

unknown talent. You could call it like a bunch of guys who like should be all right and have Patrick moments as their quarterback. So they might be decent, but we just don't know. They've either been injured or they're rookies, but you look on chiefs Twitter and they're talking like we have eight hall of famers in our locker room.

Like, this is crazy. I mean, I can't believe we have to cut some of these guys. So this is the deepest receiver room that she's ever had. It's like, if you're not a chiefs fan, you can't believe we have to cut some of these guys. This is the deepest receiver room the Chiefs have ever had. If you're not a Chiefs fan, you haven't heard of any of our receivers. You don't even know their name. I guarantee you this is not... Chiefs fans are sipping the Kool-Aid. They think we've got all the talent in the world.

That happens every training camp, though. It's like, man, they look good when they're running routes against nobody. Against the second team, against the guy who's going to get cut. Yeah, he looks awesome against him. But that's my prediction for the Chiefs game is that they're going to win on whatever, Monday or Friday or whenever they're going to be covering the Chiefs on ESPN.

They're going to say, it's not fair that Patrick Mahomes now has these receivers. And it's really not going to be that they're that good. It's just that Patrick Mahomes makes them look incredible. Okay, good prediction. Chiefs win over the Lions? They win by 13. I think they win by four. Really? Yeah. You're going to bet on the lions. No. Well, they're, they're six and a

half right now. Okay. Um, any other predictions from the week, any big upsets or just any massive injuries? Oh yeah. I'm going to predict that. Let's let's, let's root for injuries. Like imagine like for the podcast, come on. Um, i think a big upset's gonna be the bucks over the vikings okay just the vikings are gonna yeah wet the bed a little bit like oh didn't see that coming uh the bucks are gonna win because the bucks have had really questionable quarterbacks i don't know who's gonna be good you know who's gonna even start i guess baker's gonna start and they're gonna they're gonna pull it out not not well they're gonna win like you know whatever 12 to 7 or something.

Just four field goals. Good Iowa score. Yeah, exactly. Okay. My upset is going to be Jets over the Bills. I like that. I would love to see Aaron Rodgers have one more little spurt. Give him a little occipital spurt.

Tymon, can we get a prediction from you? Dolphins-Chargers, Tymon and what do you think of that game oh and talk about the teams a little bit okay so dolphins they're they're pretty slippery yeah hard to tackle they are hard to tackle um what was the other elusive chargers chargers i mean you touch them and it's like you get shocked. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, it might be hard. No one will be wanting to tackle anyone. Yeah.

Right. But I think the Dolphins. High scoring game. Dolphins will win. Dolphins are going to win. Okay. Yeah. You like Tua?

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Okay, cool. All right, good football. Good football, guys. Good football. Good football, guys. Good predictions. Anyway, in Iowa, we played pickleball one morning and got done playing. There was some of Rachel's cousins, extended family. We're all there.

It was really fun. Good competition. Some other local members of the community were there, getting done playing. And I learned that my former teammate was the mayor. Oh, cool. Yeah. It's a very small, tough thing. I just wrote it down and played was the mayor. Oh, cool. Yeah. It's a very small, tough thing.

I just wrote it down and played with the mayor. That's wild. Yeah. Was he mayoral in stature? And did he carry himself like a mayor? Let's think. So he had a... From waist up, I would say, yeah, very mayor-like.

Okay. A little bit of a gut and was wearing a shirt that said, like, Dyke New Hartford football district champs. Okay. And had all the players on the back. Proud of his city. I think that's a mayor thing to do. Yeah.

Yeah, to have the district champs t-shirt on. Uh-huh. Shorts were about 11-inch inseams. You love the inseam. Those were pretty far down there. Past the knee. Yeah. Past the knee. Yeah. He was probably in his forties and took pickleball more seriously than anyone else there.

Maybe you want that in America. I think so. You think so? Any job you have, you take it, you do it excellently. Okay. Yeah. Perform with excellence. What about like the amount of noise he made compared to everyone else?

Like, uh, like while he's like physically like grunting or. Yeah. Like a ball, like hits the net and rolls over. and so he can't quite reach it or get to it he's frustrated frustrated not like uh not like he hits it like no not grunting uh moaning out of frustration on an otherwise peaceful saturday morning no you don't want that you want you want your mayor to be even keeled when it comes down like you, you want it to all be below the surface. Like, that guy could be freaking out, but up here, he's calm, cool, collected.

New Hartford's in good hands. Yeah, he's cucumber. That's why they got a Dollar General. Oh, exactly. Big news. Last thing, last characteristic. Drove there in a golf cart. Thoughts?

Oh, that's mayoral. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Lives close, probably. Lives close. You know, a man of the people, probably. While you're driving in a car, it's harder to say hi to people. While you're driving in a golf cart, you can have conversations and that thing.

They get to see your whole body. You're driving slower, so just literally more time to see people. What makes seeing their whole body a better conversation piece? Hey, 11-inch inseams on those shorts, huh? Did you see, like, easier to see him or something? Like easier to see his whole body. Yeah, there you go. You see more of him.

My friend Jeremy, who helped me with the alternator, is on the city council in his small town. And he got like kind of put on as like an emergency ad when somebody else, I don't know, died or moved or something. But I was like, well, did you have to like run the second time? He's like, yeah, there were like five people that ran and only three of us got voted in. And I was like, well, did you have to like run the second time? He's like, yeah, there were like five people that, uh, ran and only three of us got voted in. And I was like, so did you like campaign? Or he's like, he's like, no, the local newspaper asked us some questions. And, uh, the three of us that answered the questions got voted in. Wow. That'll do it. Why didn't the other two

people even answer? They don't want it. They don't have the drive. Yeah. So, uh, and he's like, yeah, I I'm pretty quiet on the city council, but I, I care about it a lot. I just don't have the drive. Yeah. So, uh, and he's like, yeah, I, I'm pretty quiet on the city council, but I, I care about it a lot. I just don't always shows up. He's like, he's like, somebody else has the exact same opinion as me.

I'm not going to say, I don't need to just waste their time. I'm like, good for you. That is the worst meeting quality ever is somebody who's like, I totally agree with him. Um, yeah,

we definitely shouldn't be doing it this way. It's like, you don't need to do that. I pride myself on like a group phone call or whatever. And when, you know, we're chatting with the company or something, you know,

like, all right. And Jake, do you have anything to add? No. Yeah. Even though it feels like you should have something to add or like, okay,

I haven't said anything in a while. Like, yeah, no, I'm good with everything. No, I completely agree with what you're saying. Yeah,

no, I'm we're all set. It is hard, like pridefully sometimes. Cause you're like, I don't want to seem like I'm not, I don't want to seem apathetic, but I also don't want to waste people's time.

Yeah. What do you think, we were trying to decide this, what do you think the salary of a mayor is in a small town where they don't even have a stoplight? Next to nothing, probably. That's what I think too. At first I was like, you could tell me $10,000 or $50,000, and I'd be like, oh, okay, maybe that is justifiable. But then the more I thought about it, I was like, I bet tell me $10,000 or $50,000. And I was like, oh, okay. Maybe that is justifiable.

But then the more I thought about it, I was like, I bet it's... You're a public servant. You're not a public billionaire. I have no idea. I guess I'm assuming that it's part-time, doing it on the side, like he's still a CPA as well kind of thing. Yeah. But I don't know.

I Googled it. I'm getting all sorts of crazy answers. So I Googled small town mayor. According to ZipRecruiter, a small town mayor, their salary is $63,000. I don't believe that. Small town mayor is a funny thing.

The salary range for a city mayor job in Kansas per year is anywhere from $73,000 to $92,000. That's not a very big range. I'd go be a mayor in a small town for that. I bet we have a mayor listening. Someone let us know, or you know a mayor. Let us know what their salary is.

You know what? New Jersey, if you still listen, there was a woman in New Jersey. I don't remember if she was a mayor, but she was somebody high up in New Jersey who I built a table for, and her and her daughter listen to my podcast. Our podcast.

My podcast. So, yeah, let us know. That's fun. Okay, there's mayors. Somebody's going to have some kind of information on this. That's the beauty of the ghosty community. Yeah. So I have a funny story about TJ that I forgot to tell you last week.

Oh, cool. Oh, and we can start. Sorry, we can talk more about New Hartford too. We'll come back. Basically, last week when we were getting our rental car, when we first got to Colorado, um, whatever Ian was also with us, Ian, so funny. He's always like one to upgrade. He's like, I mean, it's only another 150 bucks. Let's get the grand Wagoneer. And I'm always like, we, the Sorrento is fine. Um. Anyway, so we get the Grand Wagoneer. It's a nice, big, huge Jeep, suburban kind of looking thing.

And for whatever reason, the AC on it is terrible. Like literally does like, it was like, this seems like we're doing something wrong because it's the blow, like it's cold, but it's like barely blowing at all. And so we leave, we're like five minutes out of the rental car lot. And we're like, we're turning around

and getting a different car because this is so bad. Um, so we turn around, we go in, we kind of explain our situation. This guy's like, okay, yeah, you don't have to go through this line again. Uh, I'm just going to take you to the black booth. And we're like the black booth. That sounds prestigious. Black booth, the black booth. And this guy was black that said it. And I almost made a joke, but he didn't seem like he was that kind of guy. And so I was like, okay, no problem. Uh, we go to the black booth and they, they like give us a new piece of paper or whatever. Yeah. Just explain your situation to so-and-so you guys can get in the suburban or whatever. And so we get in it, we're leaving, you know, you exit the rental car

area and they have like toll booth kind of things that you have to give your papers to again. And there was a black woman that took our thing. She's like, well now what's this, what's going on here? And, uh, you know, TJ's like, yeah, we had bad AC on this thing.

And so, uh, she's like, and where'd you get, where'd you get the new, these new papers from? And he's like the, uh,

and he was so uncomfortable. He couldn't say it. He like paused for a good, like second or two, the, uh, the, the black uh, the, the black booth.

And I could just tell like going through his head, like, like whatever, there's nothing offensive about saying black booth, but at the same time, like, cause I think she was kind of like, what the black,

what are you talking about? Uh, so anyway, that's just a random story that we had there where we just, because I could tell, but I was trying not to laugh at the time about the black booth and then laughed about it later. So, um, I think he probably talked about that on walk in love as well. So check that out. But if the guy was white, you think he more confidently says, Oh, black booth, the black booth. Uh, yeah, I think so. I think he does

like that because whatever we're just trained to be like, Whoa, we can't say black, but it's a color. You just say black booth, especially, we can't say black, but it's a color. You say black booth, especially because the black guy said earlier, the black guy was like, yeah, I'm gonna take you to the black booth. But I was like, whatever. It's just funny. Um, funny little thing. Yeah. I'm trying to think if there's anything like that in my own life where you're just like scared to say something, even though it's so true. Right. Rachel, this is not that similar, but Rachel's always scared to to like tell the truth when it comes to like hey i want to do this thing friday night and they asked me to do it but i already have plans what do i say i'm like i think you just gotta tell me you already have plans

oh i don't want to say that really that's like hard for her to like that's not gonna fly yeah what if i'm just like straight up say what's going on you know no no that's well i would say beat around the bush for a while maybe just be cryptic about it just be like i don't think i can make it but i'll let you know maybe don't respond for a while see if she follows up and says hey don't worry about it then you're off the hook never mind no one else can come it's not even passive aggressive it's just passive passive passive yeah black passive black booth that's just passive, passive. Passive. Yeah. Black passive. Black booth. That's fun, TJ.

Wrote this down from the weekend. Just wrote, stepped on a frog. Uh-oh. The bummer. Where? Paint the picture, Jacob. We're in downtown New Hartford. A little creamery just opened up.

Fun. Pretty cool. It's one of the only, that sounds bad, but in like new hartford like they just don't everybody just farms there basically uh but yeah i got the little ice cream shop and of course the coops recognize the people outside so we're all just hanging outside 10 p.m seeing the stars the moon on the sidewalk it's great oh yeah. Eating ice cream. I go to put my foot down. I don't fully get everything down, but underneath the toes of my foot, I

am thinking, I stepped on a sponge or something. What is that? I look down, and there was just a frog underneath me. What did he do? Didn't smush him. We're fine. Good for you. I'm gentle on my feet. Light on your feet, yeah. Right as that happens, I was like, oh, my gosh, there's a frog. Rachel, there's a frog.

Rachel, Rachel. About that time, Rachel decides to do a little tap dance number, basically. She just starts moving her feet like crazy. Like, it's not such a frog, frog, frog. She's like doing a whack-a-mole, basically, trying to get the frog. Oh, whoa, whoa. Get him, get him. Hey, hey.

And so I think she might have stepped on his arm a little bit, but he was fine. Are they arms? She got his elbow. Yeah. Bummer. So you, you,

you stayed that calm after you stepped on the frog. Yeah, I did. I would have freaked out. I think I'm getting calmer and calmer as I get older. Yeah. With frogs, with frogs.

One thing about me. Yeah. Frogs don't freak me out anymore. Yeah. Actually, I've always been kind of, with frogs. With frogs. One thing about me, yeah, frogs don't freak me out anymore. Yeah. Actually, I've always been kind of cool with frogs. Have you? Yeah.

Amphibians I'm cool with. I always wanted to catch a frog as a kid. Yeah, and everything else I was scared of. I never, I feel like any of my friends who ever picked up a frog or a toad, it would just pee on them. So I was like,

well, I don't want to do that. Sure. That doesn't excite me. As far as like being near frogs. don't want to do that. Sure. That doesn't excite me. As far as being near frogs, yeah, no problem. That's fair. We had a dog. Oh, TJ would like it. This dog was named Black Dog. Black Dog. I think I've talked about it on the podcast.

He showed up. We didn't think he was going to stay. Like, oh yeah, that black dog's still running around. Anyway, his favorite thing, he'd do it every day, multiple times a day, was just run laps around our pond and scare the frogs to jump back into the water. That was his hobby. Would he ever catch one?

No, I never saw one in his mouth. He would just like, like to like spook them or like lunge at them and the frogs would jump in the water. That'd be fun to watch. Yeah,

it was nice. Yeah. Yeah, he was, I had floppy ears on this little dog and like a, like a beagle almost, beagle mutt mix or whatever. whatever. And so whenever he would run through

the field, sometimes the tips of the bottom of his ears would get bloodied. Like it would break open the skin of his ears. How? Because they were hitting the ground. Oh, from the ground. Yeah, yeah. Because his ears were so long. That's a country dog right there. Fun fact for you. City dogs, they can't handle that. City dogs would never. That's funny. In our driveway, there was a dead snake when I got home from Branson. Oh, that sucks. Well, yeah.

I don't know. It wasn't that bad. No, it sucks. It's better that it's dead. But still. Really? He's probably got a family. They're out for revenge.

You better hope that wasn't the mom. It is the mom. I asked. Now their kids are all. They left a note that said, better hope that wasn't the mom. It is the mom. I asked now their kids are all left to know. It said here lies mother snake. My mom. Yeah, thanks a lot. This is my mom. Thanks a lot. Black asphalt. Jeez, dude. That's what it was. Yeah, no, totally. I was shocked that it wasn't concrete. That's what I was reacting to. I was like, oh my gosh, it's asphalt. That's nice. That's good that you upgraded. Anyway,

but similar situation to you are stepping on a toe frog. I showed Hattie and Bo. Hattie, of course, is like, I don't want to get anywhere near that. Good. Bo, of course, is like, I want to step on that. Let's put it in my mouth. I was like, you can't step on it, dude. We got to, yeah, I got to get rid of this thing. How, how do you think the snake died? You don't normally just see dead snakes. I think it might've gotten overheated on the black asphalt. Oh, reptiles can live in all sorts of heat. Okay. What's your theory then genius? I don't know. That's why I asked. I guess that was my only theory. It was just, it was just like coiled up on the black asphalt. Coiled up. Okay. It was a clue. Yes like coiled up on the black asphalt coiled up. Okay, it was a clue. Yes,

had he so funny to tell any time. I like do anything like that. Like I'm like, okay, we got to get ready to get in the van. It's like you just gave away a clue clue clue clue like all right, we got it. We got a little bit of a drive. Oh clue. We're driving so far.

It's not Andy's. Andy's is close. Clue, Clue. That's fun. I love surprising Rachel with things all the time. Weekly basis, I'll have some sort of surprise for her. And Rachel's favorite thing is asking for clues. She loves clues too.

So that's probably why her and Hattie get along so well. It is fun. They should play Clue. They play a lot of Guess Who. Clue would be fun. That'd be next level for Hattie. I don well. It is fun. Yeah. They should play Clue. They play a lot of Guess Who. Clue would be fun. That'd be next level for Hattie. Yeah. I don't know if she's ever played that.

Guess Who and Memory are her games these days. It's fun watching Hattie and Rachel play Guess Who. Because Hattie will just go, will just try to snipe somebody. Yeah. Like second round of the game.

Okay. Is it R-O-G-E-R? Rachel's like, no. All right. Put that one down. One down. But yeah, they're fun together. They were playing together last night as we were drafting.

They were. They were. This morning, I woke up to the sweet smell of Main Street Roaster's coffee. How about that? It really does smell so good. Roasted and unroasted. Get it for your wife and have her make it for herself in the morning time. Yeah.

And you wake up and come to the living room and you're like, that smells good. And your wife will feel really appreciated that you bought her that. Like you provoked, you provoked that for her. Yeah. It's a win-win. Your nose, her mouth, your family. Absolutely. When you're, yeah, the Yeah, the whole head experience.

I'm looking at the notes here. It does say that wives are also allowed to buy it for their husband, and also unmarried people are also allowed to buy it. What about like sons and daughters for their parents? Let's see. I'm scrolling. Sons and daughters of snakes or humans. Yeah, that works.

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It was my dream to be put in this. Pickleball Content Creators Group Chat. Uh-huh. It's pretty exciting. Along with Big Gut Guy? Big Gut Guy. No? Sorry, I know what you're talking about now.

Big Gut Guy's not in there. I don't believe it. I don't know why he hasn't made it in. Who started this thing? I don't know who started it. There's like 19 of us in there right now. It's a big old group. Pretty much all of them make like game improvement content.

Hey, here's three things you need to be doing at the kitchen line. Oh, is it one of them Evolve Pickleball? Evolve Enhance? Maybe Evolve. Yes, Enhance. Enhance. I was thinking of Evolve Videography. Sorry.

Tyler, who's going to get knocked out of the game team. Yeah. Sorry. Sorry, bud. Done. Enhance. I was thinking of Evolve Video Review. Sorry. Tyler, who's going to get knocked out of the game team league. Yeah. Sorry. Sorry, bud. Done. Enhance. Yeah, I think they're in there. Yeah.

Yeah, probably anyone that makes like pickleball tutorial content is in there. So there was all this like, I won't go into it too much, but there's a lot of drama in the pro pickleball world. I think we maybe talked about it. There's two different leagues competing. So this group chat gets going and they're like, hey, like, what do you guys think about this? Like all the pro players are getting signed. Should content creators try to get signed by a tour? And the first couple of people who respond are like, nah, nah, not going to worry about it. So I pipe in, I'm like a hundred percent might as well try.

Sure. Right. Um, I said, um, all it takes is one of us signing with one side, and then they start fighting over creators as well. And then I was like, I should throw in a little joke here too. So I said, unless your last name is Epstein, it's a good thing when two billionaires are fighting over you. And that just ended the chat. Nobody replied for like 48 hours. Some people have a foot fetish.

No, 48 hours. Some people have a foot fetish. No 48 hours. I mean, just, it just ended the chat. I was like, are they in a separate group chat without me now? Did I get kicked out? They're like, dude, this guy's kind of a perv. Like what's going on with him? Uh, so yeah, I've done going to try to make jokes in there. Yeah. I just wrote down in my notes, uh, bombed a joke in the pick of all creators chat. So what was the next text that eventually came? Um, something completely different. It just like was part of it, but by no means, like didn't even address the joke. The next text was, yeah, realistically they would be stupid not to sign the creators who are way more influential right now than most players. So I was like, that was a good point.

You could have said that right after me. That was kind of what I was saying too. Um, they, they sort of said, I don't have anything else to say. I disagree with Jake. Oh man.

But yeah, I mean there's, cause it is such a massive group text. I was kind of like, oh, this will be fun and I'll expect some ha ha's right away, you know, and just nothing.

So always love it. You know, it keeps you humble. Just bombing jokes. Well, you just-ha's right away. You know, and just nothing. So always love it. You know, keeps you humble. Just bombing jokes. Well, you just, one to ten right now, you emphasize that. Guys, seriously, seriously. Because were they two different texts, or was that just one whole text with the Epstein at the bottom?

That was one whole text. Okay. Still? No. No? I got to get my rep back up in there. Dude, that's hilarious. Well, I mean, you said most of them aren't comedy guys. back up in there. Dude, that's hilarious. Well, I mean, you said most of them aren't comedy guys.

None of them are. Well, there you go. They don't get it. Yeah. And also, I don't have any of their numbers. I doubt they have any of mine. They're probably not thinking. They don't know who I am. So just like some random numbers,

said some weird thing about Epstein. Okay. I love how you guys have like a coalition of creators, though. Coalition's a great word. Yeah. great word not a lot gets done in there you're not missing out so if you're like ooh maybe I should make pickleball videos I just want to be part of the gang yeah not a lot goes on

it's your responsibility to cultivate a community coalition kitchen coalition it's so funny the pickleball world I don't know if I even told you this or not but probably like a week or two ago i um oh well hudson shout out hudson he's a listener to the pod um he's in the pickleball world as well but he sends me a screenshot on his instagram story it's a video that we made it's me on screen screenshot and in

the top left you kind of see the account it comes from it's a looks like an instagram story it's from some other account some like you notice just content curation account or all they do is just repost other people's stuff repost in quotes because they're just stealing other people's stuff um that's already one thing but they took it the next level so it's not like they put us on their story they're running sponsored paid ads with our content just doing it just like without telling us without paying us what the pickle world's crazy dude it's just the just doing it just like without telling us without paying us what the pickle world's crazy, dude. It's just the wild west is like, this is so not okay. Just be running ads with our content. So what'd you do? So we told them, I just emailed them and told them

to take it down immediately. And they were like, oh, that was a mistake. Yeah, we'll get it taken down. That was a mistake. Yeah, yeah, it was. Yeah, yeah. We've had a lot of mistakes lately. Whoops. Those five videos before that we all did the same thing on. That was a mistake. Yeah, yeah, it was. Yeah, yeah. We've had a lot of mistakes lately. Whoops. Those five videos before that we all did the same thing on, that was a mistake too. That was also a mistake. Yeah, we got to fire that guy. Yeah.

Whoops. Finger slipped and we accidentally posted that one. Whoops. Wrong one. Oh, I just ran a $2,000 Facebook ad campaign. Oh, targeting pickleball and tennis players. It's like Dwight on The Office like, oh, my hands, my hands.

Whoa. Carpet slippery. That was a mistake. Oh, it slipped. I had no idea how we put their description or caption down there. Oh, my gosh. It slipped. I downloaded your content and re-uploaded it to my own page and ran an ad campaign on Meadow with it.

Oh, my gosh. That is so wild. That was a mistake. How do we do that? Speaking of ad campaigns, if you're in Indiana, you're going to get used to these noggins in your face. That's funny, yeah. You want to explain what's going on?

Brad texted me, and he didn't even know I was 20 feet from him. So I responded in person. So, you guys get it? Thanks for coming. Yeah, we just got hit up by this random company, and responded in person. So you guys get it. Thanks for coming. Yeah. We just got hit up by this random company and we get hit up by people all the time.

And I'm like, it's either spam or like they're going to, they're going to offer $20 for us to sponsor, you know, that more or never. So, but I'm always like, yeah,

sure. What do you, what do you have in mind? And there's this one company that's like, we're trying to raise awareness, um, for electric vehicles and how great they can be in Indiana. Okay. Okay. And they're like specifically Marion County and some other County in Indiana counties in Indiana. We should pull it up actually. Cause there's one that's like, don't talk about this in whatever County. Oh, it was a County not to

talk about. Let me, let me pull it up. Cause if you're, we have a lot of Indiana listeners and they're at least going to know of these people. Oh, Jake's my pin contact. Marion County and Hamilton County. These are the two counties we're trying to push this in. So I would love to know if you know somebody or if you specifically are in one of these counties. Why did I say that weird?

Counties. Counties. Counties. But there's one thing. Let me. Yeah, it's one of those things where it's like, I don't know. Yeah, sure. We can do whatever.

So it's going to be so funny if all of a sudden we randomly make a joke about Indiana in one of our videos. Yeah. You know? Where does it say? Oh, for the Hamilton County audience. If you're in Hamilton County, listen to this. For the Hamilton County audience, don't mention climate change, which I think is really funny. Do mention Trump, DeSantis, and Kennedy.

Trump drives a Tesla, I'm pretty sure. Don't mention climate change or Greta Thunberg. I love the idea of, yeah. Hey, if you're in Hamilton County, don't listen to this next joke. Man, it's hot out here. More recently. Probably because of the climate change. All right, Hamilton County, don't listen to this next joke. Man, it's hot out here. More recently. Probably because of the climate change. Alright, Hamilton County. Unmute.

Unshun. Yeah, so we'll see. So Brad sends me a screenshot of like, hey, here's kind of what they want to do. Take a look at this. So I was like, yeah, can you send me their link? And the link that Brad sends me is t.

Let's just stop right there. url starts off with t dot t dot sidekick open 68.com so you click on that and then the url changes to gelatinous slash colony slash 081 dot notion dot.site slash Indiana slash persuasion slash just like and then 15 numbers. Yeah. So, Jake's like, this is fake.

Dude, I think it's almost too specific to be fake. I know. When I saw the URL, I was like, there's no way this is a real thing.

This is an elaborate hoax. I don't know how we're getting scammed, but we are. But then you check out the website and it looks pretty legit. And I mean, yeah, they're using like the right like verbiage for like brand deals. Seems like they get it. but we are but then you check out the website and it looks pretty legit and i mean yeah they

they're using like the right like verbiage for like brand deals seems like they get it it's just so funny that they hit up us hey hey you guys who make generic comedy content can you really hone in on electric vehicles in these two counties in indiana indiana like yeah sure of course for the right price we'll do anything yeah we're down so uh this job's a joke and there's yeah and then like they said like they would use our videos in other ads oh yeah you know that was okay and at first we were like i don't know if we like that we don't want to just like get it annoying everyone's seen our picture i was like well it sounds like we're going to specifically be annoying to the people of marion and hamilton county it's only two count i'm not

too worried about us like just infiltrating the United States with our ads here. So let us know. I love coincidences like this. Hopefully, there's a great quinky dink out there. Somebody's like, I'm the mayor of Marion County. Oh, that would be fun. Marion County is Indianapolis. That's a pretty big area.

Okay. Dang. I was hoping it was something small. I thought it was going to be a nepotism. VentureGoers.com. Okay. Hey, I'll look up Hamilton County. Oh, that is just north Indianapolis. Oh, Carmel. I did jokes about that. I think that's

the nice part of Indianapolis. I mean Carmel. EV. It's not the Nugget. It's not Heath. So we are going to go out to millions of people probably. Yeah. Fun. Okay. Okay. Well, we'll figure it out. Here we are going to go out to millions of people. Probably yeah, fun. Okay, well, we'll figure it out. Here we are figured out anyway. Speaking of paid ads, had some good ranchers this weekend. You already talked about ye ye ha brother. It was great. Angie

Coop whipped some up and it was really good it was it was seriously i'm not even that big of a food guy but it was one of the best meals i think i've ever had because rachel made smashed potatoes which she is really dialed in smashed potatoes smashed potatoes yeah from one of the cookbooks that probably one of the ghosties got us nice and then angie just made all this good chicken and then used shout out c3 bros for two different sea things on it. It was crispy sage and then a Parmesan one. Together? No, separate. It was like, here's the Parmesan,

here's the crispy sage. I got both. That sounds so good. And it was, dude, it was fire. It was really, really good. So I was excited to talk about Good Ranchers when I came back because they make good stuff. Tomorrow night for the Chiefs game,

going over Scott's, I'm bringing Good Ranchers over there. He specifically requested it Chiefs game, going over Scott's. I'm bringing good ranchers over there. He specifically requested it and I know why. Scott, yeah. Because it's good. Scott's a foodie

and Scott's like, this is different. This is better than all others. No anti-Bs. No horms. Nope. Of course, I'm talking about

antibiotics and hormones. Ever. Yeah, never. Sourced from small family farms. Yep. Humanely handled. Small family farms anywhere in the world or? No, Brad. Estados Unidos. Yes small family farms. Yep. Humanely handled. Small family farms anywhere in the world or?

No, Brad. Estados Unidos. Yes. United States, baby. Only. Right here. Only. Uncle Sam way.

You know, a lot of other people say, hey, it's a product of USA, but that's just because it's packaged here. It's really from China, Brazil. We don't want that. They're lying to you. We want it straight from Nebraska. Uh-huh. Colorado.

Yeah. Kansas. T-dot Texas Colorado. Yeah. Kansas. T. Texas. Western Pennsylvania, probably. South of Richmond. Boise. Yeah, the poor men in south of Richmond. Uh-huh. They're making the meat. Yeah.

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that's like, oh my gosh. I thought it was for... I thought it was Good Ranchers, Kansas City. Ghost Runners, Catherine Coop. Yeah, maybe. Coop Catherine. That's what I was going to say. Doesn't make any sense.

Either way. But that's what they think. These people are dumb. People don't know how to spell Catherine or Coop. Yeah. So, fun. Good Ranchie. Check them out.

So good. Please do. Tymon, what's going on? How was Check them out. So good. Please do. Um, time. What's going on? How was your weekend? It was good.

I was in Illinois. Thanks time. Uh, Oh, you were, I was good. Yeah, it was for a church thing. Nice.

Tell us more. It's fun. Actually, I talked to someone who is, who lives 10 minutes from Napanee, Indiana, and it's been to main street roasters. Seriously?

Yeah. And so I told him about the podcast. I was like, the podcast I work for is sponsored by them. That's cool. That was fun yeah um yeah no way what a small world yeah did you how'd you figure that out did you say have you heard napany or did you no he just he was from uh milford indiana okay which i and i was just like i can't remember how it happened it was like somehow we were mentioning uh oh he was mentioning other small towns nearby

okay like maybe we've heard of this, these towns. I was like, Napanee. Oh, really? Yeah, that's how it happened. Dude, that's crazy. It was cool. Cool. So what were you doing with church in Indiana?

Just like a weekend for a bunch of young people just together from different locations of church. Sweet. Yeah, it was fun. Just you by yourself or did you take the train? Yeah, it was a few people from our church's Kansas City location drove up together. Sweet. Yeah, it was fun. Just you by yourself or you take the train? Yeah, it was a few people from like our church's Kansas City location drove up together. Cool. It's like a youth conference, basically? Kind of, yeah.

Sounds like a small youth conference. How big? We talking? I mean, there were maybe I'm trying to think, maybe 200 people. Oh, that's a conference. But it wasn't really a conference, just like kind of fellowship, you know. Okay. Just hanging? Kind of, yeah. What was the highlight?

I don't know. I mean, it wasn't like a ton of activities, really. It was just like... It's a good conversation. Our church likes to sing together, lots of singing, like four-part hymns. Really? Yeah. That's amazing that you guys know how to do that. I'm musical, and I don't think I could do that.

Yeah. I could do like... I could read the melody. You could do the doo- and I don't think I could do that. Yeah. I could read the melody. You could do the doo-wop. Yeah, I could doo-wop. Yeah. Cool. That's pretty sweet. Yeah, shout out to Austin Beer.

Beer. Beer. The old beer belly. Beer man. Yeah. Beer me. What are you doing this weekend, Brad? Are you in town?

I'm in town. I think we might be hanging out with Isaac. Oh, are you joining? I think so, maybe. Yeah, maybe. And then we're also, Old Settlers is in town in Olathe. That's like our big parade. Old Settlers of Catan.

Yeah. It's like a big, yeah, like weekend long fair kind of thing. But the parade's on Saturday. I bet we'll go to that. You will see Greenleaf's choir. Really? I won't be there though. Dang it, Tymon.

Bummer. Where are you going to be this weekend? I'll be going to like a church work day and then Worlds of Fun. Oh, baby. So a pretty full day. It'll be fun. What kind of Worlds of Fun guy are you, Tymon?

Every ride. Every ride? Let's go. I mean, if I can. If you're tall enough. I love them all. Yeah. Dude. Yeah. It's the best. So fun. I love the rides. Cool. Isn't downtown Chenille having

Chenille? Chenille? Chenille? They're having like an old car or like motorcycle rally this weekend or something. Oh, I've seen that. I feel like I saw a banner and I was like, that's not my vibe. That's weird. Whatever that is. That's kind of Shawnee though. Shawnee's got like that kind of

they appreciate the old like model stuff and stuff like that. Yeah. I didn't see that, but I believe it. I feel like I've seen those in the parking lot before at one time during the year. When you said Settlers, it reminded me the Coop family is still very much obsessed with Settlers.

I think I showed it to them probably last winter. We played probably 10 games of Settlers just this past weekend. Wow. It was awesome. Really? For some reason, Settlers has really lost its luster for me. That is sad to hear. I know. Well, maybe you need to play with us

because about one every three games I think of a new way to play it, and then we'll play it that version. That's fun. One version was embargo, so we said no trading. Okay. You just have to like self-sustaining farms. Yeah. New version on top of that was called the stimulus package.

So it was only like five, sixes, eights, and nines, maybe some tens and fours on the board. So it was just bountiful resources. Yeah. Another version I thought of was a single dice Catan. So all the numbers on the board are one through six. Okay. So every resource has a like equal opportunity to be, every number has the same probability of being rolled. So that was fun too. Well, yeah, you are. Yeah. You're no wonder it's fun. It's because you're playing all these different fun ways. It's great. That's great. Okay, I'll try it. So still on a big Settlers kick.

You ever done grand reveal with them? Yeah, we did grand reveal one time. That was fun. It's always a good one. We did the grand reveal, but with the stimulus. So that way it's not that bad. You're not going to end up on a 12-2. Fun.

You know, still high numbers. Yeah, I think I get a little too, I don't know, kind of pretentious with my Sett settlers sometimes. You like to play it a certain way? Well, or just with people that know how to play more than playing in a certain way. Just like, I'm not very patient with new people or incompetent people are like, what are you doing?

Don't do that. Yeah. I try to very lightly throw in tips or like suggestions, but for the most part, we're all having a lot of fun. It's not like this needs to change a ton, but I feel like there's a lot of late game trading, which I'm like, I don't know if we'd

be doing this or even a lot of like just earlier medium game trading where like I don't necessarily need this card, but yeah, I'll still trade with you or something. I only trade if I absolutely need it. You know, like if it is like absolutely necessary for what I'm trying to do, not like, well, it'd be good to have weed. Yeah, I don't know.

Sure. Yeah. I was like, what? Yeah. They just blocked me because of that. Like, yeah, 100%. Yeah, you would not like it. Now that I think about it. I know. You would not enjoy it. I would get impatient and I would probably say stuff. I'd be like, what are you doing, Steve? Oh, I didn't know I shouldn't do that.

That is not how he talks at all. Oh, no? No, don't you think? He's got an ordered accent. Of course, I'm embellishing it. You're laughing because you know it's a little true. No, it's so... No?

That's funny. Don't you think? No, it's not like that. That's fun that you're uh gonna be around this weekend and it might be triple day that's kind of fun we'll see that's great yeah um one last thing that i want to talk about is a little thing that's spelled c-h-I-K-E. Chike! Chike! That worth the wait?

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That's crazy. That's literally absurd. Everyone that's tried trike loves the trike.com. That's insane. That's a great deal. That's crazy. That's literally absurd. Everyone that's tried trike loves the trike. Yeah. Trike, trike. Saying literally absurd just kind of reminded me. Rachel and I, I feel like, have been occasionally doing these characters that,

I would call them almost like Disney Channel sitcom type characters. Yeah. Where Rachel, she was doing it this weekend where like she would say something about Tim but like knowing Tim is like kind of around like he's right behind me, isn't he? Stuff like that.

She'll like say something weird like yep, she's certifiably crazy. Like I don't know if I'm quoting something specifically, but for some reason it just sounds like yeah, that's got to be in one of those shows, right? Yeah. It's like a certain way that they talk. Yeah. It's like you don't know if I'm quoting something specifically, but for some reason it just sounds like, yeah, that's, that's gotta be in one of those shows, right? Yeah. It's like a certain way that they talk.

Yeah. That's like, you don't really talk like that. Yeah. Don't. Yeah. I don't. Yeah.

Give me one more. I'm trying to think now. What else do we say? I never can remember these little character things I do. Yep. She's certifiably crazy. Yep. Yeah.

The principal, not again. Something like that. Dude, I had a friend, well, you know, Caitlin Zerker, my friend, Jared Zerker. Uh, he was like one of those guys that like, I'd always be like, what's that from? He's like, I don't know. I'm just doing a character. Like it was always like that. It was like, he seemed like he was quoting something. Cause it was like such a funny way. He was saying it like, no, no,, just talking. No, it's just like kind of sounds like Anchorman to me. The one that used to bother me so much

which I don't know if it's Disney Channel or just any children's thing. This bothered me at such an early age because I feel like I saw it everywhere. They would say, it's quiet. Too quiet. Oh, classic. Oh, that bothered me. I was like, I've already seen this six times. Every movie and show is doing this.

Oh, yeah. Stop saying too quiet. I think Shrek did it kind of as a joke to like, yeah, all the other people that did it. Good. I probably really appreciated that. Shrek was great. Too quiet. Rachel loves texting me that too.

Like, can't wait for you to come home. It's quiet here. Too quiet. And then she'll send like the emoji with the eyes. They're like straight lines. Rachel's funny, man. The more you get to know her, the funnier she gets yeah yeah she's great she's really funny we invited you guys over for dinner last night you had to you were late so you didn't come friday you still ate you still ate some i did i went i put a hurtin on that rice yeah you did i see three rows right um and uh but rachel back. She's like, I would like to come.

I'll bring ice cream. Yeah. I was like, that's, that's the greatest answer you could ever said. Yeah. The same time I'm texting, I got to shoot pickleball videos, but I'll be there when I can.

Rachel's I will, I will. I'll bring ice cream. I was like, Jake, you picked the right one. Yeah. Rachel's good about anytime we go anywhere.

She always brings something. Yeah. Ever shows up empty handed. Right. Which is very kind of her. Cause obviously like we're not ever expecting it, but it's like, thank you. she always brings something. Yeah. Never shows up empty-handed. Right, which is very kind of her. Because obviously, like, we're not ever expecting it, but it's like, thank you. She always brings something over.

It's in it for you to come to Scott's tomorrow night. She's bringing stuff over. Dang it. I know you've been gone a lot, and you like your kids. I do. I like, yes, we'll see. Are you guys familiar with the song Sing, Sing, Sing? It's a swing song, I think.

I say I sang Sing, Sing, sing last week chris tomlin version oh yeah yeah sing sing sing is the swing song it's a swing song are you sure it's not swing swing swing i am pretty sure i think it's sing sing sing and then parentheses it says like swing dance or something when i found it fun no i'm not can you play it just for like five seconds or something? Sure. I was having, I don't know what to call it. It's not quite a panic attack. It wasn't quite, it was just like this freak out moment. Rachel and I were watching a movie and I was like,

what is this song? Why is this song? Why have I heard this song recently? I was hoping maybe we've talked about it on the podcast or something. I'm still on the search to figure out why this song is like corrupting my brain. You did something wild like that, I don't know,

a year or two ago. Remember that with like some really obscure song from a movie? Yeah. And you're like, dude, I know that song is from this one movie that I've never, I like heard of, but never even seen. You remember that? Yeah. It's weird.

I feel like that happens with memory. Like you smell something. You're like, I've smelled that before. Dude. It's from my childhood. What is that? Yeah. You see somebody in one movie and like that movie or that actor is then familiar because

it's like, I know, I know that guy from something. And then I'll look at IMDB and it's like, oh yeah, I saw, you know, half of rat race once. And yet I know this guy, that's the only movie of his I've ever seen, but I've recognized this guy now. Yeah. So memory is interesting. Okay.

So you just want us to help you find this. Yeah. Like help me figure out why is this like, I may just be a popular song. Yeah. Interesting. Okay. So you just want us to help you find this. Yeah. Like help me figure out why is this like, I may just be a popular song. Yeah. Here we go. Is this it? Yeah.

It sounds like a Latin. Oh yeah. Skip ahead a little bit now. Yeah. Yeah. So what did that melody from the chorus. What is that? Why is it tickling my head so much?

Oh, I feel like it's a very popular song, but I can't think of like, yeah, it's something like a commercial or something. Well, no, this is what it is, dude. This is what it is, dude. You found it? This is what it is. I knew you would find it. This is what it is, dude. This is what it is, dude. You found it? This is what it is. I knew you would find it.

This is what it is, dude. It's from that song we listened to last week that we didn't really listen to the whole thing, but The Devil is Bad. Oh! It is. I knew it was recent, and I figured it was you. It's not exactly the same, but it's like,

Why don't you that feels so good because i was like for some reason this doesn't feel like it's old this doesn't feel like childhood this feels like a recent random small thing like seeing half a movie yeah you listen to a part of a song we didn't even listen oh my gosh rachel and, I watched this movie. Dude, I'm freaking out. I'm like, what is that? Pause it. What is that?

Yeah, you're like... My head's going nuts. What is that? Your autism is like going crazy. You're like, I gotta know. Have you seen The Accountant? Have you seen that movie before? Is that...

Ben Affleck? No. He's got some like crazy high-functioning something. And he like... If he doesn't... If he can't complete and he like if he doesn't if he can't complete a puzzle if like one puzzle piece is missing he like freaks out yeah and just like like just starts convulsing and that's why i imagine you doing like i was i was high i need this like i need this he's like so perfect that if it's imperfect he can't control like he can't yeah i was like unavailable for the next 10 minutes because like the movie's

still going and i'm just on my phone like just trying to figure that out whatever just just update me on what's going on just keep good notes i'll be back um how does the that song go again why don't you skiddley do That feels good. You are the devil and the devil is bad. Hey, you are the devil and the devil is bad. Hey, you are the devil and the devil is bad. Hey, you are the devil and you are bad. Yeah. That's great.

Because the skiddly part, I remembered. I don't do. But I couldn't remember. So I went into YouTube. I went into Google. I went into TikTok. You looked up skiddly do? I was. So I made it. I filled in the blanks. And into TikTok. You looked up Skiddly Doo? I was, for some reason,

so I made, I filled in the blanks and I did one, two, Skiddly Doo. Okay. That's what I thought. I was like, in my head, that seems like what it is. Did you try to hum it?

Ah, no, I should have. Do it now. See what would happen. Apparently, there's some Spongebob quote where he says, one, two, Skiddly Doo, so that's all I found there. That didn't help.

Dude, that's so good that you found that. Thanks, man.. Dude, that's so good that you found that. Thanks, man. All right. I'm trying to. No, I got to start over. See if that matches anything there. Dang it.

All right. Is that enough? Probably. Figure it out. Hey, can you figure it out, please? Do it now. There's not like a confirm, like search button. Oh, really?

Sorry, I wasn't able to recognize the song. Yeah, it's in the movie Don't Worry Darling. I've never heard of it. I'm just a big Harry Styles fan. I did not know what that movie I've never heard of it. I'm just a big Harry Styles fan. Ah. I did not know what that movie was going to have in it. A lot more to it than I thought. I just saw the cover is like Harry Styles laying in bed with some girls.

Like, oh, a little rom-com. Harry Styles kind of, his break into acting. Sure. Okay. Not a rom-com at all. No. It's like a Jordan Peele type movie or like an Inception type movie. Really?

Kind of. Don't worry, darling. Don't worry, darling. Well, give it, out of five popcorn bags, how many bags do you give it? Five popcorn bags. 4.05. Okay.

Just a little more than four. A couple kernels snuck in. I didn't know overflowing on one of the popcorn because of the song the 0.5 bags is because of the 0.05 bags

because that song good so there's that sing sing sing that's fun time and put that in at the end of this episode for the audio listeners yeah that'd be fun

yeah thanks for finding that. I had a feeling you were involved and you really came through. Would you say I rindled your weaver? Yeah. It's just been up there and I just need someone to rindle that weaver.

Just rindling around my weaver and I can't figure it out. He commented on the Facebook. That was awesome. The comments went nuts. Oh, dude. Everyone was so supportive. Like, dude, you're famous now.

He looks like such a nice kid too. Yeah, he's a famous now. Dude, he looks like such a nice kid, too. Yeah, he's a kiddo. Yeah, he looks like a... If Tymon didn't exist, we'd hire Render Weaver. We would, yeah. Hile? Hile! Render Weaver!

We'd hire Render Weaver. Yeah. Fun. Okay, what did you do our reviews of the week? Yeah. Mine comes from Ross037. Good one. Great one.

Jake, I know you said you didn't want your biscuit buttered, but here comes the country crock, aka my origin story. I started listening to the pod through correct opinions and do less God bless. I found myself relating so much to Jake's humor and had so many laugh out loud moments from him. I decided to finally

give Ghostrunners a chance, even though it was Jake plus some random guy. The first episode I listened to was Visiting a Chuck E. Cheese on June 28th, 2021, and by the end of it, I knew I was thoroughly entertained and would probably give the next episode a listen. But that's when it happened. The jingle. It was a rendition of I'll Be,

but was instead about some random guy named Henry. I had no idea who Henry was, but the jingle was so incredible and hilarious on top of the banter afterwards about how funny it would be if the song ever got back to Henry himself had me hooked. I made it my mission right then and there to go back to the very beginning and listen to every episode with the goal of finding

out who Henry was and piece together every joke from the jingle. Obviously, along the way, I became a full-time ghost and have never looked back. I never imagined a podcast of two random guys at Kid City would have such a profound impact on me over the last two years. Jake and Brad are genuine and relatable and are clearly using their God-given gifts to further join the world and spread the message of Jesus. I'm grateful to go from a stranger to a fan to a long-distant friend.

If you're on the fence about this podcast, give it a listen to at least hear about Henry and the man who inspired the greatest jingle ever performed. From Ross Farrans. Farrans. Farrans. Yeah. Ross is a Detroit fan. Greatest jingle ever performed from Ross Farrens. Farrens. Farrens. Yeah. Ross is a Detroit fan, so he's going to be disappointed. Ross is so great.

We got to finally meet him at Grande Boo. Didn't get to talk to him nearly as much as I wanted, but he's in the Fantasy League. He's edited some videos for us. He's a part of the, he's really adapted the Lenexa Pickleball page. Yeah, he is. Inside joke about no league. So I love seeing him in there. He just seems like he's got such a great sense of humor and such a

good guy. And he's doing a good job of like not overdoing it in the Lenexa Pickleball. You know, like, because eventually it's going to be like, okay, these people are clearly like messing with us. It's like just enough to like push the envelope to where we have inside jokes. One comment a week. Ross said he's really fallen in love with,

you know, on Facebook, you have all those reactions. Love, dislike, care. It's like when it has a little heart, a hug, he only throws out cares. He's like, I've been really enjoying care lately. That's amazing. All right. Mine is coming from KnackBaxter14.

Another imposter? I don't think so. I think this is real KnackBaxter. Okay. Timon has made me rethink another imposter. I don't think so. I think this is real knack Baxter. Okay. Time. It has made me rethink what's pus. I don't know. Um,

five stars time. This is, this is just high praise for you. I hope you guys savor every moment with that beautiful human. Wow. Honestly, I was back and forth about homeschooling my kids, but to see how cool time and turned out,

it's made me rethink what's possible. If you raise your kids, right? Well, you should meet Alice, uh, funny. I'm just kidding. That's what I would say. Oh my God. It's like, it's like 13 year old sister. I was like, wow. Yeah, she's 12. Yeah, no, she's awesome. Um, no, let's see if you raise your kids, right? Oh, see what's rethink. What's possible. You raise your kids, right? Funny, humble, mature for his years and pursuing a real craft of on his own. I remember not even having kids on the mind when I started listening to this podcast over four years ago, which is insane. And now I have a little Naki junior. I hope I can raise him as well as time and his parents did. You have a good life, son. You have

a good life, good, good life, sincerely knack. Wow. That's awesome. So much. I praise time and his parents did. You have a good life, son. You have a good life. Good, good life. Sincerely, Knack. Wow. That's awesome. Thank you so much. I praise time. That's high praise. Especially coming from Knack because he's a good guy.

We know him personally. He's a good guy. He's a good guy. It is funny to think like four years ago. Yeah, we had Hattie. That was it. And now just sprouting about left and right. What did I have four years ago?

Four years ago, you were living in... Nothing. I was living in a loft. Yeah. Or a carriage house. I was living in a carriage house. Carriage house. I was going to scuba shows.

Sure. I was drinking a lot of Dr. Pepper. A lot of sweet tea. A lot of sweet tea. A lot of... Planet Fitness tanning base. Yeah,ning yeah yeah yeah that was where i was doing a minute yeah good times all right brad you have a jingle for us this week totally okay if you don't i don't i really don't i i don't we could sing no let's just let's just we could

either play the henry one do you want me to sing the Henry one? Do you want me to just not do jingle? Why don't we put in, in post, the I'll be, the Henry one? Yeah. If I could find it. I mean, we know exactly which episode it came from, so perfect. Just more work for time, and we're paying them for something. Just sitting here. It'll be all right.

Yeah, man. Sorry I've been off my game with the jingles. I feel like it has been more of a whirlwind the last two weeks than I'm used to. And so I just haven't prepared slash, yeah, just don't have a lot of ones that I'm really familiar with. So we'll get there, though. We'll get back on it. I had one in my head halfway written.

I think it was one of those middle of the night thoughts of like, oh, I could parody Main Street Roasters with this one. And I totally forgot what song it was. It even like the word sounded like roast or something like that. I don't know. It was good. So that's my sing, sing, sing. Fun.

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Yep. It's a four-person room. Yeah, for the Gulf Shores trip. So check it out. Ghostrunners.life. All the info's there. And I think we do have one single male bunk bed available as well. Cool.

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but I don't think it's going to be a bad idea. I kind of want to just like throw up, not throw up, put up every single piece of merch we've ever made for like a week for just like this, this week. And then it's all going to go away. And then I'll probably do some fall designs later on, but like anybody that's ever been like, Oh, I love that shirt. I wish I had another one. You have one week. Like, yeah. What do you think? That's great. Starting today. What's a, oh, when this comes out?

Yeah. Cool. What's it called? What's this week called? What's it? Timon, what were you, you were going to call it something. What should the name be? It's something like everything is available.

Like the internet. Wikipedia. Wikipedia. Wikipedia week. You're getting there. Keep going. Wicca. Bezos.

Wicca. Bezos. Wicca. Amazon. All of our merch, even from a long time ago, is available this week. That's a working name. Working title for now. All merch. All merch on deck.

A-M-O-D. Amod. We'll figure it out. By the time this comes out, we'll have a new name for it ghostwriters.life 80 piece of merch we've ever sold available right now love you guys see you later see ya The dance in your door From your pitching sun It shocked me Why'd you stand there Took ball after ball

Straight towards the house Buzzing right through the air And tell me more Razorback stars. Call them out. Another name drop. I'll be captivated. Take notes on what you say. Talk baseball and treetops.

Don't stop. It's great for the pop And Henry, you keep coming over Henry, you never say hi And Henry, let's check out that shimmer Henry I'm glad that you live

nearby Dang, that's good. Meow meow. This is well written. And well sung. Thank you. And peach tree Kentucky coffee bean

About as west as they come Imagine the hug test at dinner with ginger 22 inches minimum And tell me more Razorback stars call them out another name drop

I'll be captivated take notes on what you say talk baseball and treetops don't stop it's great for the pot. Come on. And Henry, you keep coming over.

Henry, you never say hi. And Henry, let's check out that shimmer Henry, I'm glad that you live nearby Well, there's Wiggins, Powell, and Zach Morris But he gave a five runs Chateau Yens Remember the things that you said And Henry You keep coming over Henry, you never say hi

Henry, let's check out that shimmer Henry, I'm glad that you live yet Henry, you keep coming over Henry, you never say hi Henry, oh check out that shimmer Henry, I'm glad that you live nearby Oh, I'm glad that you live nearby Duke Silver on the saxophone, baby. That smooth jazz right there.

Hmm. That was fun. That was a good one.