Ghostrunners - 314 - A Milkshake of our Own

Episode Date: March 18, 2024

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Ghosties, good morning. Happy Monday. Hannah Ryder on February 29th posts on the Facebook group, hey, what's the craziest place you've ever listened to a Ghostrunners episode? People said stuff like, in my deer stand, while in labor, hauling liquid hog manure, just things that you would say to those kind of things. And so I thought, what if we made a bingo card of places that you should, crazy places you should listen to the Ghostrunners and see if anybody gets bingo. Okay. So I'll go ahead and start with at the bowling alley. Oh, wow.

Okay, so these are like non-traditional places to try and knock off. A few of them. Let's get a mix. Mowing the lawn. Good. That one seems doable. Oh, yeah. As long as you don't outsource it. But it's seasonal. But seasonal. Yeah, take advantage when you can.

Let's just go ahead and say at church. I'm not saying during church. I'm just saying in the building. Church park. Okay, church parking lot would not count. Property. Property. Church property. Church property. Okay. I'm going to go a little tougher here. Downhill skiing.

Put that one in the corner. You don't really need to go for that one. Downhill ski. Can you imagine cross country skiing right now and be like, dang it. Why did he differentiate it like that? I'm just going to say this. Let's just say in a blue state. Okay. Just in general. I feel like we got a lot of red state people listening. This is like the toughest one on the list. I'd rather go down in skiing. People in Texas are like, I don't know where I'm going to go.

Darn old skiing was fine, but yeah. I'm going to go while bench pressing. Okay. I mean, yeah, a lot of people do it while working out. Running's easy. Right. Do it 40 more times. Not machine pressing either. I'm talking free weights here. Yeah, yeah, yeah lot of people do it while working out. Running's easy. Right. Do it 40 more times. Not machine pressing either.

I'm talking free weights here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. With a spot. Be safe. Just while you're hitting your PR and you just start laughing. And so we're just endangering people. It helps. Let's just go.

This is vague. In the pouring rain. Okay. In the pouring rain. All right? It could be inside in the pouring rain, in your car, while, you know, your rain. I like that. I'm going to, I'm going to go with while horizontal. Okay. Okay. You'd be laying in bed. Yeah. You could be some kind of zero gravity stretching machine. Oh, you could, you could double up bench pressing in horizontal. Yeah. So yeah,

kind of a free space. You get one, you get two on the second row there. I didn't even think about that. Yeah. Might as well be off the ground though. This, this horizontal row right here seems like it's in play for some people out there, New Hampshire, Vermont. Um, let's see. Okay. Next I'm going to say, um, Hmm. Let's go with timing. What were you gonna say? Um, let's go with time in what were you going to say let's go in a waiting room in a waiting room is good let's go at a trampoline park

while bouncing put it all down there I'm just kidding here here here bouncing yes bouncing at a trampoline park. Good. Rebounding.

Let's see what else. On horseback? Yeah, that's good. On horseback. You would, Tymon. Tymon Classic. Not just while doing chores. I think a specific chore.

Let's go dusting. Next one. Taking a bath in the dark. That's something you're going to have to be intentional about. Taking a dark bath. Taking a dark bath. That's a slightly different description. You're going to be like,

I listen to it in the bath sometimes, but I got to turn off my lights so I can get bingo. That's the only one you don't have to send a picture of you doing it. You don't have to prove that one. Well, if it's dark, we can't see anything anyway. Too risky. Be careful. Okay.

Let's see. While shaving. Okay. I was about to say haircut. So while shaving. While shaving. While shaving. Getting a public haircut. That'd be interesting. I'm just going to slip these in while you

give me my little scissors and scotch. Scissors and scotch. Let's see. What else can we do? I was going to say while assembling a bulletin board. Maybe a little too easy. How about just while assembling furniture or something? Assembling. Assembling.

Just while assembling. Just assembling. While assembling. People are going to stretch that out. At church or... Oh, yeah. If you're Assemblies of God, yeah, that could be... I meant more like assembling physical things.

I know. Yes. Yeah. You're just being goofy. Very funny. Being weirdo. Okay, last one. Let's think.

While wearing, fill in the blank. It's a Mad Libs. While wearing a scarf. While wearing a scarf while wearing a scarf all right it's gonna be tough to do that and mow the lawn so go for one or the other there are different columns all right time's gonna post on our facebook group um and we're gonna go from there with it so hope you guys enjoy get bingo it's uh monday let's make it happen uh oh oh i think this tight beat means that it's going down with some random thoughts and white me too midwest best happened. Welcome back, ghosties, to the best podcast community on the internet that we know of. Gotta be.

Gotta be. Last week, I believe, is when we talked about Signs of a Psychopath and had a lot of fun really taking a lot of the weird things you guys did. Two things I have to say from this. One, you know, last week's episode, my dad called in the middle of it, and we got to talk about our similar psycho behaviors. We have this weird foot thing and balance thing, and couldn't believe it was genetic. And then when that episode comes out, my sister texts me. It says, I'm listening to the Signs of Psychopath episode, and I do the exact same thing as you with feeling imbalanced if my right foot steps on more cracks than my left.

But I can't even it out just by stepping on another crack. It has to be the exact same part of my foot that hits the crack. Whoa. And I was like, I can't believe this. Of course. Like, that makes so much sense. Not every step is created equal. It's how much of your foot goes over the crack.

And this is so cool. It really is like that. I was like, do you also like shoot lines like out of your feet? And she goes, can't say I do that one. I was like, ah, you're like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was having a moment with my sister there for a second. Dang it. One too many, one too many freak. Wait, remind me what that one means again. I had never ever talked about it. Oh, you haven't. I was like my sister, I could talk to her about it. You said something one time, I can't remember, something similar to that. Maybe I did say it

before. Maybe it was as you're driving or whatever. Yes, you're right. If I'm riding in a car or something, it's like I'll barely put my foot down and it's like, I mean, this is just one of those weird things everybody does. Everybody does it. When your foot goes down, it immediately shoots out a line

perpendicular to where you're looking. Okay. So horizontally shoots out a line like a, like perpendicular to where you're looking. Okay. So horizontally shoots out a line. Oh, perpendicular. Yeah, exactly. Okay. Interesting. So you're not directly point your toes point this way. It's yeah. You're making a cross basically. Yes. Okay. With where my foot is facing and where the lines go out. So the line will go out. So if it's my right foot, it shoots out to my left. So like the big, it goes off big toe side. Oh, really? So, and I try to nail it with the power lines. So I'm trying to hit power lines when my foot steps down. That's a big thing.

A lot of shooting out lines of my feet and also a lot of imagining skateboarders grinding on power lines too. That was like, I was about to say like, do you think it's because we grew up in a generation of video games? I don't know. Like, do you think people older than we grew up in a generation of video games? I don't know. Do you think people older than us did that?

Had that kind of imagination of like, I could hit power lines with my feet right now. I could grind on that. I could grind on anything. Tony Hawk makes you be able to grind on anything. I don't know. I was just talking to Rachel, I think Sunday night, I don't know what night it was. But we were just, maybe it was yesterday. We were just chilling and didn't really have anything to do.

Didn't have volleyball, didn't have plans. We were just sitting. We'd both gotten done with our runs. We were just sitting there. And we were not on our phones, just kind of staring at each other. And I was like, you know, if we had lived even 90 years ago,

this is all we would do. And every married couple before that, this is all they did. They just sat around and stared at each other. I was like, what would you... There's no books. What would you be doing? Yeah, I know. Then Rachel made a good point.

She's like, oh, I'd be reading or I'd be, oh, I'd be cooking for you. That's where Rachel's at. Oh, I'd be knitting and I'd be slaving away for you. I was like, what would I be doing? We never really figured out. You'd be hunting. I said, if it truly was 90 years ago, I'd be slaving away for you. I was like, what would I be doing? We never really figured it out. You'd be hunting. I said, if it truly was 90 years ago, I'd be listening to the radio.

Let's see, 90 years ago was what? 1930-something? Good. 30-something. Four, sorry. I'm so bad with mental math forever with years. Well, that was good. 90 was the hard part.

Oh. Or knowing the 30s would have been the hard part. What? Oh, or like, you know, like knowing which the thirties, knowing the thirties would have been a hard part. Well, yeah, I knew the 19th part for sure. I know I'm for whatever reason, like with somebody who's like, I'm 75. What year was I born? It would take me two minutes to figure that out. How many, what year was somebody 75 born?

75. So almost 50. So 49. Okay. I believe you. Yeah. I think probably 49. That's good. Yeah. I have a hard 50. So 49. Okay. I believe you. Yeah. I think probably 49. That's good.

Yeah. I have a hard time. I don't know. I'm learning Hattie's having a lot harder time subtracting than adding. Yeah, it is a little more of a step up, I would say. But so I've tried to teach her like, you can do it in reverse. So I was like, 30 minus 18. What is that? She's like, I don't know, dad.

I'm like, okay, what's 18 plus what equals 30? A little algebra. Very simple algebra. The other psychopath thing I wanted to follow up on. So there was one person. So no profile picture on Facebook because I think she knows she's a psycho. She's hiding behind

anonymity. Anonymity. Maybe her name's Anna though. Anemone. She's Nemo. Yeah, she's hiding behind anonymity. her name is Anna though anemone Nemo yeah she's yeah yeah anemone her name is first name Bell last name the mast Bell of the ball yeah Belfast Sainer's Ico instead of using a planner or the phone's calendar I just typed the date and time into Google and keep the tab open until the event passes. Yeah. I saw that. That was the wildest one. That's what you're saying.

That's the silliest thing I've ever heard. I typed the date and time into Google. So do you think she has like multiple, uh, like tabs or do you think it's one? Definitely. Yeah. Google search. Okay.

No, I think it's, it's a wild amount of tabs for every event she has. What are you doing Thursday? Uh, let me see. Just a second. Hold on.

I got to go into, uh, shoot. It's on my computer from like one 30 to three on here. Yeah. So wild. And Rachel comments on that one's like, I don't do this,

but I kind of get it. Did you? Yeah. She said something like that. Like I understand the reasoning behind it. Yeah. Yeah. That's kind of fun.

Were you surprised at your sister? Oh, we got some happening. Oh, some kids. Everybody's here. Catherine family affair. I hear like, I was like, what are, what are children doing in this house? It sounded like Rachel was being overtaken. I heard so many different voices, dude. Uh, so this is, this is Rachel spring break week. You know, she's whatever we're going to have school. So she has this whole week off. And I told the kids that, Oh, Bo's going potty, um, coming over here to take a dump, Bo. Oh, just washing his hands. Just washing his hands. Dude. It's let's talk about that real quick. It's amazing how casually my kids poop. Like it's like how a dog does. Well, it's just

like, it's like, they're just like, I need to go to the bathroom. And then they go, it's like a declaration for me. It's like, I have to warn Catherine, I'm like, FYI, I'm going to take a while.

If you have something that would take 30 minutes to do, plan that out for later today. Just like, I got the kids lunch ready, but I got to go. All right. Just letting you know.

I texted Rachel like, hey, just have a ride. I got the kids lunch ready, but I got to go. All right. Just letting you know. I texted Rachel like, hey, just have I, I'm on my way home, but I'm not, I will not be seeing you when I get home. It's happening the other day. Get the epidural ready. It's pushing time. You ready to push mama? Yeah. The other day, like how do you, like we were, I was reading her bedtime story

and she's like, oh, I need to go to the bathroom real quick. And then like I go into the bathroom after her and you could smell, like, she pooped. She didn't mention it. She didn't say anything. It took her just the same amount of time as normal. Just came right out. What's their cheese intake? Their dairy intake? Oh, they're

decent in the dairy. I mean, they have yogurt often. We got string cheese. String cheese is alive and well. Cottage cheese. cottage cheese drinking that like unpasteurized like raw milk yeah we have yeah we have milk decent amount um eggs which is not dairy well that's gonna be my theory it's like maybe we just eat a lot more cheese than kids do but sounds like they're cheesing just fine they're cheesing just fine okay probably more than me honestly so hey good for you string bean uh yeah thanks uh let's see what was i saying about

kids washing hands maybe washing hands okay it's come oh oh i mentioned to the kids i was like rachel is free all week and she wants to hang out with you guys a bunch and it was like the cheeks won the super bowl all over again i I mean, those kids. I mean, seriously, Bo was just like, yeah, yeah. So excited. Right, Bo? Bo's just staring. I don't know what to think. Oh, they're helping bake cookies.

Wow, that's fun. Rachel got a new matching game to play with Hattie, and we tested it out last night night and it is a doozy. There's a 36 matches. I think. Okay. 72 pieces. I think that one that she has is like 50.

Is it really? It's crazy. And it's, I played with her the other day. It's not fair. Like she knows way more than she knows. It's her home course. Yes,

it is. Rachel hasn't beat her yet. I haven't beat her yet. Like, I think she might struggle more with this one because it's not. Because it's a baby and an adult animal. And so sometimes it's like, that's a wall where she's like, that's a seal, Dad.

I'm sorry. I don't know what to tell you. Like, no. Those are the same. Rachel's new matching game is garden themed. And so I was trying to tell her, I was like, this isn't fair. You are much more familiar with gardens than I am. Like, if we did a matching game with football players,

I know it's a brand new game, but I would have an advantage for sure. I know what a Monroe St. Brown looks like. Oh yeah. He has a podcast. Okay. Um,

yeah, which is a, come on, dude. You can see people on podcasts all the time. Yeah. Podcast. I think,

oh, I mean, I don't even know what they look like. Um, but this garden game, I mean, there's probably nine different species of flowers. I was like, this is not fair to the guy.

Yeah. Beat her anyway. Yeah. Bellflower. Bellflower. No problem. Iris. Iris.

Tulip. Tulip. I've never even heard of bellflower. Geranium. Geranium. Foxglove? Any foxglove in there? I thought you were calling me that.

Watch your mouth, Tyler. Yeah. Careful. Just because you go to Scissors and Scotch doesn't mean you can talk like that, buddy. Booked my next session at old Scissor's and Scotch show. The Monday, so next comedy special is being shot in Salt Lake City

for Saturday in April. So Monday, April 1st. I'm scissoring, I'm scotching. Let's go. Enough time. So wait, you say April 1st and Wednesday's special? Fifth or sixth, something like that. Both of those. Yeah, seems like a good amount of time. Yes. You don't want to do it.

Let it simmer. Yeah. Can you imagine those guys that get their hair cut the day before their wedding or something? That would freak me out. That would be. I would be like, don't mess this up. I think I was in a wedding and a guy got it cut that morning, trying to be like, Hey, you know,

fresh cut. Hey Rosie. Hi sweetie. There's no way you wave. And she goes, we got four of the fingers, four out of five fingers. Kath,

you actually shut the door. Do you mind? I think maybe it's just a little distracting to me. Hey, Hattie. Hattie's being weird. Dude. Hattie is like,

she has this thing. I mean, what's she doing this? No, she weird. Dude, Hattie is like, she has this thing. I mean, was she doing this? No, she did. Oh, okay. She's just like coming up, like walking into a room and just doing funny faces these days. That's what it was. Hilarious. I don't know.

I'm like, what are you doing? The other day, I mean, it was like one of those, like, you are my daughter kind of moments. We were at Raising Cane's and she got done with her meal meal and was literally just looking like a fool dancing around at the restaurant. I was in front of like 30 people, a whole restaurant of people. Didn't care. She's just going wild. I'm like, I did not know you had this in you. Goofy goober.

Yeah. Anyway, Rachel's free. Kids are excited about it. It's going to be a good time. Spring break. It's fun. Rachel's free. Kids are excited about it. It's going to be a good time. Spring break. So it's fun. Let's see. What should we talk about?

I got a lot. We did our Ghost Hunters getaway phone calls this past week. Yeah. And go ahead. It's fun. It got me really excited for Gulf Shores. I'm in the zone now. I'm in the Gulf.

Yeah, we're locked in now. I am so pumped, dude. Like we still have a few spots open for people i think we have two rooms now that are open as of recording this oh it is going to be last year was awesome i think this year is going to be so awesome like i was talking to brooks about the menu dude yeah he sent over the menu did you look at it a little bit a little bit yeah it sounds awesome like he's got like little like names for all the different nights. Like one of them, Slice of Americana.

Yeah. I love how seriously he takes it. I know, dude. And I mean, because we can imagine and because we've been in this house before, I know exactly what to expect. I know how we can like utilize it best. And it's just going to be, oh, it's going to be such a blast. I like that he said over the menu and said, first draft of the menu.

First draft, yeah. There's got to be revisions. Well, he was like, yeah, if you guys want to be such a blast. I like that he said over the menu and said, first draft of the menu. First draft, yeah. There's going to be revisions. Well, he was like, yeah, if you guys want to tweak it, however. So, yeah, I've been contacting Lamberts, rented a rental van. It's going to be a wild time, guys. Flights are getting booked. We locked down a little special surprise. And so it was fun.

The call was really great and just a lot of laughs. We raised the roof with everybody. That was pretty fun. Next time you really great and just a lot of laughs. We raised the roof with everybody. That was pretty fun. Next time you're leading or just on a Zoom call that you have some influence in, just raise the roof and see if everyone else does it with you. Hey, guys, all right. I got to head out.

All right, guys. Thanks, guys. If you do it long enough, you got to commit sometimes for like four or five seconds, but other people will see you doing it, and then all of a sudden, the whole Zoom's doing it, and it is so fun to raise the roof. We're on a Google meet call.

You can see 20 different screens and faces and everyone's arms are going at different times. All right. See you guys. This is a good call. Ming Ryan Trezza. Let's go. Hey,

see ya. So it's so fun. Yeah. And it's so fun. Like the dynamics are always going to be different every year. That's what makes it so exciting to me. It's like meeting new people, reuniting with old friends.

Yeah. That was really fun. Another little activity we had a night this week is did a little surprise birthday party for our friend Emily Duckworth, Gunner's wife. I feel like we got to talk about it.

What? Brad and I are just studs. We're just studs. I forgot about that. I wrote that down immediately. I wrote down, went to birthday party and got milkshakes. Milkshakes?

Because I thought it was so funny, like on brand with Jake and Brad, like we went to this party and it's got like a huge bar, like alcohol. And the plan was to get drinks there. It was like get dinner beforehand. We're meeting here to get drinks.

And I hear from Emily Madison, who's I can say she's pregnant. Emily Madison, who's pregnant. If you didn't want us to know you're pregnant, let us know once this comes out. She's like, hey, FYI, they got really good milkshakes here. I was like, now we're talking. I'm not spending $7 on an IPA that I don't even know what it's going to taste like

beforehand. I'm going over there to the milkshakes though. I've been doing pretty good with sweets, shugs, and then I had one little sip of Scott Caldwell's Reese's shake. I went over there. Got the small still. Me too, but the large was, do you see the sizes? The large was like barely bigger than

the small. Anyway, doesn't matter. We got like a milkshake of our own on the way there. So we're actually so rachel's gone she's out of town another bachelorette party this past weekend and so we're in the car so me brad and katherine all ride there together in brad's truck great car ride by the way it was a fun time but we're talking about rachel's bachelorette party we get to a stoplight about that same time we pull up next to what looks like a bachelorette party. So we're joking, Rachel,

you in there, you know, whatever she's in Savannah, Georgia, but, uh, somebody rented out a nice big old party bus, shuttle bus,

look at thing. And you could definitely see like a girl with like a veil on. So like, Oh wow, this is a bachelorette party. And we're kind of looking at them just investigating the scene. And then they start looking at us, right?

And I, I'm sitting shotgun. We just give them a little wave. Yeah, you did it. You're getting married. And then they keep looking. So we just and I, I'm sitting shotgun. We just give them a little wave. Yeah, you did it. You're getting married. And then they keep looking. So we just keep waving,

just being dumb. Yeah. Just thumbs up, waving, finger guns. You guys, yes, you got married. Raise the roof. Yeah, we did raise the roof

for a little bit. One thing leads to another and Catherine goes, oh boys, do not look. Do not look. Don't look back there. Don't look. Don't look.

What do I do right away? Pe't look back there. Don't look. Don't look. What do I do right away? Peer on back there. I never did get to see. Nor I. We missed it. Yeah. But apparently, old girl's milkshakes are out, and she's giving us a show.

And Catherine's just like, oh my gosh, I can't believe that. I was like, Catherine. That is not how you do it. Just terrible form. Press them up against the glass. It's tinted. We can barely see. Oh my gosh, dude. Hold your

phone flashlight on yourself so we can see them better. Oh, man. Yeah, she was, Catherine was like, I can't believe that. I was like, Catherine, it's us. We're stunned. This happens every timead and i are in the car together i mean this truck is just a babe you gotta know that right off the bat oh man yeah we were trying to convince catherine like catherine this happens all the time with us it would have been great so my truck that yeah catherine like this is run of the mill. This happened earlier this morning. When you're a podcaster like us and Amon Ross,

it happens all the time. Well, my two front side windows of my truck are not tinted, but the two back ones are, aka they couldn't see Catherine in the back. And so how funny would it have been if Catherine just rolls down her window and whatever. You go, girls!

Okay! We're giving the thumbs down. Catherine, thumbs down. Catherine, thumbs down. Girls, come on. Anyway, it was pretty hilarious. So, I forgot all about that. Yeah. And wrote down milkshakes instead.

We got flashed. Yeah, it was pretty awesome. Scratch that off your bingo board. Did have that on my bingo card on Emily Duckworth's birthday. So, yeah, it was fun. Just nice little, just a little treat.

We didn't even see anything, but nice little treat on the way to Emily's party. Just like, Oh, that's crazy. That's crazy. I didn't wear anything. Yeah.

So enjoy the view to your left. Hermodos. You're going to love it. Wild times. That's, you know, that's Kansas city girls though. That's what they're known for. That's hey, they're though. That's what they're known for.

They're fun. More than anything, they're fun people. Just like Cozy Earth is fun. Oh, yeah, they are. In the same exact way. I can't emphasize enough how much I love Cozy Earth. Yeah, it really is just a thing. I'm trying to think how to say it differently than how I always say it.

Because when you're a raving fan of something, it's just like, well, I don't know. It's just good. No, it's really good. You know what I'll say this week? Very good. I have been so pleased by what this viscose from bamboo material feels like, whether it's my jogs, my hoodie, my shirt, my bed sheets, that I bought new underwear this week.

And this might have been the first time I bought new underwear. I don't know. Really? I don't know when the last time was an upgrade for the wedding i did not uh no didn't really cross my mind didn't need that i remember in 20 either 2015 or 2016 leaving canna cook for the summer and my laundry got mixed up with someone else and i ended up with daniel evans pair of boxers up with Daniel Evans pair of boxers. So I know which pair of boxers are Daniel Evans. And I know I still wear those. Really? Okay.

So, I mean, that's like between eight and nine years. Wow. For sure. They don't get holes. I've got a couple pairs, but no,

for the most part, cotton's holding up. Wow. Lume knows what they're up to. Um, but I'll say this is still part of the Cozy Earth ad. I bought bamboo boxer briefs. From Cozy Earth?

No. But it was because I want that feeling all over me more. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cozy Earth does viscose from bamboo. And it is a unique just sensation is maybe too strong a word, but a unique feeling. Oh, it's just so comfortable, dude. Yeah.

It's very cooling. Ever since I've gotten their sweatshirt and sweatpants combo, I've talked about last episode. You're a hype beast. Dude, I have worn them every single night to bed. It's a tradition. Catherine calls it my sweatsuit. You wake up drenched.

Hey, I'm doing laundry. Do you want me to wash your sweatsuit? And I was like, sure. I mean,, you wake up drenched. Hey, I'm doing, I'm doing laundry. Do you want, do you want me to wash your sweatsuit? And I was like, sure. I mean, it is the most comfortable thing. I'm looking here for men. They have pants, joggers, tops, button down shirts, hoodies, and sweatshirts, pajamas, shorts, socks, robes for women. They have the same. And they also have bath, you know, towels, robes, everything. And then of course their bedding is just second to none. And remind me which one of those products come with a 10-year warranty? I think zero.

No, all of them. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh, yeah. Well, sorry. Let me ask you a better question. Which one of those products don't have a 35% off coupon code GRKC? Oh, it looks like site-wide, 35% off.

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You just won't. And if you do, 10-year warranty. But you won't. Yeah. They do have returns, but. Yeah, right. Cozier.com. Never known how to do it because I've never done it before.

Never will. Couldn't tell you about the return policy. What's the promo code? GRKC? GRKC. Wow. That's good. That is good.

Man, even like going to their website, like they just look, people look so comfortable in these ads. Yeah. Happy. Happy folks. Fun times. Okay, I did something in hindsight that was so dumb,

but for whatever reason, Catherine convinced me that it was not a dumb thing. On Saturday morning, post, you know, dadder days, post post a breakfast with the kids. I had the idea of like, I was like, Catherine, I'm going to try to give you more time. I'll go on a little excursion with the kids. You know, we go to Bass Pro Shop before we go to the park or whatever. And then I'll bring back, you know, maybe one or two of the kids and then go to Costco for shopping. And she's like, I mean,

the kids do really great at Costco. You could just bring all three of them. And I was like, I've never done that, but you have apparently. So yeah, it sounds great. It was the worst decision I have made in a long time to take all three to cost my gosh. Well, first of all, just like you, I've only been to Costco. Maybe I think this is genuinely like my second or third time ever. So like, I'm not familiar with the store. She's asking me to buy things that I have not definitely not found. I didn't know where vinegar was. Yeah. I didn't know. And so all of a sudden, and then Bo insists on being in the like shopping cart, not in like the place where you're supposed to sit the babies. And then Hattie wants to be in the shopping cart. So then all of a sudden Costco, all these bulk items, I'm just shoving them in

my, like in the shopping cart with my kids, like basically trying to bury Bo to the point where he will like finally concede, but he just keeps like crouching down. And I mean, it was just, it was just pandemonium. It was Saturday morning at like 11 o'clock. I waited like three minutes just to get a parking spot, thinking it was a good parking spot. I mean, it was just wild. I didn't know where anything was. I was literally having to ask Hattie, like, Hattie, where is this where the eggs are? She's like, no, the eggs are in that other cold cooler area. And I was like, okay, great. And, and then of course she's like trying to get all these samples. She's kind of not, not whining, but she keeps being like, can we go to the toys now? Can we check out the toys?

And finally, like, as a joking way, I just go, Hattie, if you ask me about the toys one more time, I'm going to shove you in that shopping cart and throw you out in the parking lot.

So it was hilarious. But like, I mean, there were so many times where we went up and down aisles, just looking for things, vinegar, uh, baking soda,

where the heck would you find baking soda yeah go to costco it's kind of a team sport you gotta like almost go with a partner and split up i would have loved to have anybody else there with me or minus a few people there yeah i mean it was just it was i i know i was like hey we can take our time this will be a great time killer but eventually it got to the point where it was a boiling point and i was like i'm ready to get out of here get on out because it's like costco it's like driving it's like you you have like you it's like almost like a one-way street or and you have to like like yield for people going in this aisle like there was one time i was like oh i'm pretty sure the vinegar is actually down this aisle so i go to like turn around and there's like five people behind me

waiting for me to go forward oh sorry and i was And I was like, ah, so he said like this huge loop around these massive like Home Depot sized aisles. It sounds like you went to a really busy time. It was exactly. So why did my wife should have known? I was so usually I text Catherine almost always like headed home exclamation point. No exclamation point this time. Head home. She knew. She goes, everybody doing okay? I said, I mean, we went to Costco, all three of us, on Saturday at 11 a.m.

So we're doing about as good as you can do. But it was a stressful time. Only got one sample. So Hattie was bellyaching about that. Bellyaching. It was just a wild time. You ever have the Costco food? I've never tried it. I've heard fine things about it. Like the whole thing just stresses me out though. When

you have kids, I'm like, I'm not going to try to navigate that area. Yeah. Yeah. You done it? The pizza. Yeah. I've had the pizza. Yeah. And it's not bad, especially for the price. What is it? It's like a dollar 50 or something. Yeah. Maybe. Yeah. It's awesome. And some old guy, the first time Rachel and I were there, you know, just classic old guy just approaching and just talking to you about stuff. He's like, you know what you're having, don't you? Cheese pizza. No.

You're having cheese pizza from the most popular pizza place in America. Bet you didn't know that, huh? They sell more pizzas than Pizza Hut, Domino's. Really? I was like, really? He's like, oh, yeah, think about it. And then did a bunch Hut, Domino's. I was like, really? He's like, oh yeah, think about it. And then did a bunch of math for me. And I was like, oh. Can you look that up, Tommy? Because I have heard like Costco is like the biggest wine seller,

S-E-L-L-E-R, in the world or something like that. But I wonder if Costco just tries to claim that for everything. Yeah. I mean, I didn't question him. I was like, oh, that's interesting. Yeah, maybe they are. That's neat. I never thought about that. Um, so yeah, the pizza is worth getting. Isaac has told me the chicken bake is really good, but it has bacon in it. So I can't have it. Chicken bake, huh? I don't even know what it is. Totally. It sounds fun though. I, uh, got a smoothie there one time and that seemed about as artificial as possible. I don't know if you'd recommend a smoothie if you're want something made of real fruit. Costco is just outside the top 10. So like all the pizza places you've ever heard of are outselling Costco.

He did the math wrong. Yeah, that's right. That's so fun. I'm almost positive that was the data point. He's like they sell the most pizzas. Because I have heard about wine. You can look that up time and see if that's true. And I think like, I don't know who knows what,

sorry, does Costco sell more wine or something like, I don't know. I see who, who wines the most. Does Costco sell more wine than there? It is largest, largest retailer.

Wow. So maybe he meant wine. And that's the funny thing. I didn't even see wine when I was there. Like I don't even, that, that place is wild to me. I told Catherine at the end, I was like, I have such a love hate relationship with Costco because even getting the kids to the car and then I'm in the truck,

you know, if it was in the van, that's one thing. But the truck is like, where do I put this food? I could put it in, you know, the back in the bed, but bed, but somebody parked so close to me behind me that I couldn't get the bed down. And so then- Oh, I see. And so then somebody else next to me leaves their parking lot or parking space so that I have an empty parking space.

Then somebody else comes in. So I had to park my shopping cart in front of my truck, walk to the side of the door with my stuff, open the door, put the stuff in, shut the door so I can get back to my cart over and over again. I was like, I need to be doing this better. I am bothered by how I have not hacked this system yet. It was just, it was just overall, just like this. I like this place. I like the idea of like stocking up, but I didn't like the way I did it at all. As efficient as a lot of these big companies are with different stuff. I'm surprised Costco has found a way to like,

you know, just a joke. People should, is there a better way to redo parking lots to where you can't really be boxed in like that? There's got some engineer out there. He's got to figure out a better way to do parking lots. Yeah.

Maybe for groceries specifically for bulk groceries. Well, whoa, buddy boy. Hey, Bo, you bringing them in? Bo,

can I get that drink from Miss Rachel? Yeah. You've been eating some dough? You got some on your face. Come here, buddy. He's got a floor-length apron on. It's amazing. Here, you bring me mine.

I'll give you a sip. Camera almost went down. You want to try some just no yeah just a little bit yeah bo do you have anything on your face or is it clean come here well what did you like to do at costco did you have fun at costco or was it a stressful time for you too? Did you feel like dad was getting short temper? Can't take his eyes off Mr. H. What are you baking?

What are you baking? You don't know? He might not know. They don't look like him right now. Are you baking muffins? No. All right. You want to sit here with me

or you want to go back to Miss Rachel? Go back to Miss Rachel. All right. Say, see you, podcast. See you, podcast. Okay. Bye. See you, buddy.

See you, Bob. Oh. I feel like Rory's going to trip on those cords these are so good that was a blast bubbler you want to sponsor us because man yeah bubbler currently training for me i've been you well sorry let's keep talking about costco um yeah i don't know if i oh they do have extra wide like... You know how normally they just have a single line for the parking spaces? Costco does have extra wide lines. You know what that reminds me of? You ever see international basketball being played?

The key, the lane is a little bigger, a little wider. Something like that. It just does feel like a different world at Costco. It's like, forget all the rules you know about. Start over. Also, dude, I don't know if anybody else has this. You're actually strong opinion. I can wait for that. But, um, their conveyor belt is, is, you know, like I've never seen a CB at Costco.

Well, what do you call it? Like, Oh, when you're just checking out. Sorry. I see what you're saying. I don't know. That's a pretty good word. Okay. Whatever the, the, the checkout conveyor belt thing seems 60% as long as a standard one and it fires me yeah you're like i got a 36 pack i have so much stuff for towels i can't fit and they're like they're like keep the big things in there but put all that out like the guy had checked out before i had gotten all my stuff and you have to show them your card before you unload and i was like this would be so much more efficient if this conveyor belt bigger wider faster stronger the whole thing thing was Costco is more. Yeah.

Why? I mean, and these things are four feet long. It feels like, so no notice that next time you're there. Yeah. I will. Now I'm getting fired up for the,

for the Titan that Costco is, they should be doing a lot of things better. Yeah. You can't fit that much wine on a tiny little conveyor belt. And man, I love wine. It's funny you say, I didn't even see the wine.

Cause we were talking about this on the ghost runners getaway call i was like i think i just don't see alcohol it's like when people like i just don't see color it's like i don't see alcohol because you were like hey as far as alcohol goes on the trip here's kind of our policy yada yada and you're like but last year i mean people still had fun like there were still drinks and people had beers and i was like i don't i didn't see a single beer yeah did you guys do that without me or like did i not see it? You do it privately in your rooms. I was like,

I swear all week long. I never saw anyone drink alcohol. Just poured into a tumbler. No one will know. I was just sheltered kid. Just like, why does it say Coors Pepsi? Huh?

That's weird. Kelsey's breath smells funny. I don't know what's going on in there. Just sheltered. Yeah. It must be Coke Zero light. Oh, they got a retro flavor that yeah diet

dr pepper l-i-t-e so yeah i just i just don't see alcohol it's my cross to bear i just don't i don't recognize it yeah man but costco figure it out yes that yeah yeah conveyor belts you can do a lot of fun things with conveyor belts take it to your car i mean outdoor conveyor balls i don't know get nasty or everyone gets their own conveyor belt yeah or you're just like you're as you get you walk in and you're like you guys are blue and instead of having shopping carts now you just put it on a blue conveyor belt and then you find it at the end yeah baggage claim but for oh okay stay with the airport theme there's certain airports where you guys have flown into where they've got Uber down. Okay.

And so, I don't know, Minneapolis, LAX, there's a few, I think, like this, but like when you order an Uber from there, it'll say,

you are L7 pink. Oh. You're like, oh, running trips, right? Is this football play or something like that? And then you go into the separate parking garage.

The whole parking garage the whole parking garage is just for like ride share and pickup and everything you just go to this exact column this color yada yada what if costco did that and they just had like people just like valets and just like you let them know on the app i'm checking out like five minutes all right we'll pull your car up you're gonna be an a6 that would be awesome i like i like the idea of just like having a personal valet kind of person for anything like this yeah 60 second butler yeah 60 second butler but just like a a one day hireable valet of something either either he's the one with the cart he's the one pulling up the car he's the one having to worry about the conveyor belt there's got to be something like that. Yeah, I looked this up.

So I've slowed down a little bit with suits, but I'm still watching it when I can. And this show is about just like these top-notch New York City, like Manhattan lawyers. And so they're always wearing suits. They're always doing things real uppity. But this guy, it seems like time to time has a personal driver. I was like, man, that is kind of cool.

I wonder just like how much they even cost to have a guy drive you around. And I remember looking up and it like wasn't that much. It wasn't that much more than an Uber. I was like, oh yeah, that's what an Uber is. You just get an Uber black or something. Yeah, but it'd be awesome to have it like on call.

Like he stays. Yeah, he's, yeah, just available whenever. Yes. Just for like a day, like a day you need to impress someone or a day you need to like, you have a big meeting where they're going to see you get out of the car

for some reason. Or even just like at your bachelor party or something. How fun a day you need to like you have a big meeting where they're going to see you get out of the car for some reason or even just like a uh like at your bachelor party or something how fun would it have been to like just always have somebody ready to go like yeah like all right i don't know maybe that wouldn't be as big of a deal like it'd just be fun to like be like okay we're done with this we're done with this lunch spot call maurice no maurice is there oh as long as he's Maurice I'm Maurice is Maurice is sitting there sipping a little affogato on the side

he's hanging out yeah he's ready to go Maurice that was fun what was the name of that coffee shop that we'd always go to next to our Airbnb in Arizona this is one of

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Yeah, baby. Mission accomplished. We did it. Let's see. What am I talking about? Played a, well, first, still fully in my chess face. Every week I go deeper in it than the week before. Loving chess still.

Are you virtual every time or are you playing? Last night, Rachel played over the board, as they say. We did one garter matching game, one chess game. Nice. And anyway. A hundred years ago, we couldn't have done either of those. A hundred years ago, we'd be going to the garden. What did we do a hundred years ago we couldn't have done either of those hundred years ago you'd be going to the garden what did people do 100 years ago uh so gunner and i text every day because we're still playing each other uh online and so we're

very in touch with each other i haven't seen gunner since the super bowl though yeah until this set but texting him all the time saw Saw him this past Saturday because we got together with the boys, played football, best, the highlight of my week. Yeah. And it felt like one of those moments, you've seen those videos that go viral where it's like, they've been playing Call of Duty together for 14 years. Today, they finally met.

It felt like that. Or it's like, dude, it's so good to just like see you in person, man. It's just like, you sound the exact same. Like, it's so cool. Like, do we play football, dude? It's just like, ah, it's just like. It's like when you trade pawns with me, dude.

I just get it. You think he's got a good strategy on the field, dude. You should see him on the board. The way he cuts, he's like a bishop, dude. He's just so diagonal at all times. Oh, man, dude. It was a really sweet moment. Isn't there like different positions on chess or like different?

Openings? Or no, like names, like places on the board. Oh, yeah. That's a grid. Isn't there like different positions on chess or like different openings? Or no, like names, like places on the board. Oh, yeah. That's a grid. E6 square. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like you guys call audibles. Like Bishop E6.

E6 knight. Knight. Because doesn't knight go right angle? Yeah, it's like an L shape. So you'd be like, hey, run the knight. Knight right. Knight right. Knight right. Knight right right night right night right three hey you two castle all right i'm two uh that'd be fun to have like that'd be so dorky like but awesome like you'd have your own little yeah like

lingo no one would know no one else no one else would know how would they know what's like uh what's the one that just goes straight up and down? Maybe there's a lot of those. That's like a fly route. Rook, yeah. Hey, rook them. Hey, rook them. Rook them.

Rook them. Hey, Nick's the night. Rook, rook. Nick's the night. I love it, dude. Yeah, there's a lot you can do. Oh, gutter's listening to this getting fired up right now. What else is there?

Pawn would just be like a hook, a curl or something. Is there a backwards? Can you go backwards? Yeah, most just like a little, a hook, a curl or something. Is there a backwards? Can you go backwards? Yeah. Most of these go backwards. Everything but a pawn go backwards. Okay. Anti-pawn.

Anti-pawn. Anti-pawn. That's when you know you're doing a lateral and you're going deep. Like a Philly special. Anti-pawn. Anti-pawn. Yeah.

What else did he have? Maybe a pawn is just like a, a quick, you know, slant, not a slant, but like a, just a quick route of some sort. Just like be looking

like, hey, I'm expecting the blitz here. Be looking. Yeah. Head on a swivel. Pawn, pawn, pawn, pawn, pawn, pawn. Mike, Mike, 55. Joe, you're my pawn here. You're my pawn here. It's like, you're my hot read. Yeah. What would the king be? You told me, brother. What does the king do? Maybe I'm the king. Hey, don't let him get to the king, guys.

Let's get some blockers in here. Yeah, gutter sacks you. He just goes, checkmate. Queen's gambit accepted. Is the king the one or is the queen the one that's like, you win if you get it? King is what you're trying to check in checkmate. If you trap it, you get it.

You win the game. Queen is, it's like a lion. It's like everyone looks at the king is like, oh, but the queen it. You win the game. Queen is... It's like a lion. It's like... Everyone looks at the king as like, oh, but the queen's the one doing all the work. Like the female lions. They're doing all the hunting. Okay.

Queen's powerful. Could she do anything diagonal or... Can't do what the horsey does, but can do everything else. It can rook them, can pawn them. Dude, those horses look so cool in chess. Yeah. By far the coolest looking.

If the chess pieces were Monopoly, you would play with the horse, with the knight? A hundred percent. I might go rook. I like the knights. What is that? I don't even know what that looks like. It's like a column looking thing.

Okay. That's what I imagine all of them looking like. Wow, rook on Google search does not get you chess pieces very quickly. What's it show you apparently it's a bird also it's a there's a bunch of earrings rook piercing did you type in hook no it's showing me fishing lures also it's like this peter pan propaganda um okay yeah rook that's a nice like table leg the people who like rooks are the same people who chose the top hat which also was me i like a nice just circular symmetry race car guy oh yeah that it's on par with the

night yeah yeah flashy edgy fun funny that's fun that you're playing with gun i love that yeah really into chess and also at emily's birthday party learn that josh madison's in chess we got a little game going as well. So now I'm two-timing. Yeah, you're good. Okay, so how long does it take, on average, to play a game via text? Like, is it a day or is it a week?

Yeah, maybe like 24 to 48 hours. Yeah. You know, it depends on how available you are. Gunnar's playing at a surprise 30-year-old birthday party this weekend, so I didn't hear back from Gunnar a lot. Not a lot of texts being switched out saturday but um but yeah day or two what about like just in general in chess what like it could you win very very quickly like in four moves or something if you if somebody i've only done that once yeah there's like certain traps you could do if the other person plays perfectly then like yeah you can win like five or six moves but have you been looking up strategy at all uh you know

when you a little bit but i'm not into it enough to where i want to sit down and watch this 30 minute youtube video on chess theory i'd rather just like well or i could just play the computer right now uh that sounds more fun that's the beauty of like youtube shorts these days is like you can search something and you can find a 12-minute long tutorial or you can be like, I'll just watch this YouTube Short. It's kind of like roulette. It's like, I'll take my chances on the short.

And if it works, great. Let's just see if it works. So yeah, it's a real good time. Also, Josh Madison at Emily's birthday party. We just got to talk about that. It was so great. So I was in multiple group conversations with Josh when his hat was complimented.

Guys just, I don't know. They just loved his hat. What was it? It had the old Maine flag on it. Right. And we all know what the state flags look like. I don't need to say it to you guys. Hepa Sig.

And people just liked his hat. And then I think we were ordering our milkshakes josh is five feet behind us we turn around josh got a different hat on but what's what what happened he goes oh i just did a hat swap like is that a thing you just jersey swap with a guy he's like no he just said he really liked my hat like do you really like the one you have on like not as much okay yeah it's okay. That was really funny and really nice of him. He was just like, yeah, I mean, he really liked it. And he said he was a Christian. We're like, when did you learn this? We were next to you this whole... You did a transaction and

learned his religious beliefs? Yeah. While I ordered one milkshake? Tell me your testimony, man. Like, just take the hat. I like the idea of, yeah, just switching clothes with people. I think that's pretty funny. Yeah. Hey, I'll trade you this for that. My friend, Matt Kelly, who went to Baylor would all, anytime someone complimented his shirt, he'd take it off and give it to him right away. Really? Yeah. That was a big thing at camp. Uh, if you remember like every school, every college had their own shirt. Oh yeah. You would trade. Yeah. Yeah. You, you would have like a staff shirt, like a K-State staff shirt, but you'd also have like just a general like can of coke. Everyone got the same staff shirt.

But like everyone told you like, hey, order like four or five staff shirts because you're going to get there and other people are going to have shirts and you guys trade them. Oh, that was so fun. I forgot about that. Yeah. Do you remember Auburn's? Auburn had the coolest staff shirt ever.

Depends on the year. Like there was one year KU had amazing ones. Another year they had a three-quarter sleeve baseball one that was hard to deal. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like most SBU years. It was hard. That was not a lot of good trade material.

I never saw an SBU shirt. It was like word art on there. Yeah, we tried our best. No, the Auburn one was like, it was a tiger, but it had all the letters of the tiger were like Kanaka KAA staff. Oh, that's cool. It was my first summer. So maybe it was before you were there, but I feel like you had seen it.

It was so dope. It was also the year that they won the national championship with Cam Newton. So everyone wanted the Auburn. Yeah, your big Auburn train. Yeah. Yeah, trading clothes is fun. Let's do it more often. You and me?

Me and you? Time? We'll figure it out. Anyway. Yeah's do it more often. You and me? Me and you? Time? We'll figure it out. Anyway. Yeah, that was the party. That was a fun time. Let's see. Couple updates.

Just mediocre life updates. Human versus hamster. Haven't heard anything. Guessing we did not get cast in it. You don't know, though. Yeah. But does it? You'd think they would at least give you a conclusive no,

right? Nothing conclusive yet. You guys killed the interview. That's what he said. And I'm sure he didn't say that to anybody else. Like that's like not like a standard thing. He said, I doubt he would exaggerate to make us happy.

That was like a December that you guys did that interview. Yeah. I was in Hawaii. Yeah. I interviewed. So yeah, it's been a while. I feel like you hear actors talking about it. It was just like months and months of silence

and finally I get the call. Or it could be like they chose somebody else above you and they said no and you're in. You're alternate one. You don't know. Hey. It'd be fun. It was like you would do a competition and the hamster would do the same thing alternate one. Yeah. You don't know. I'll take it. Hey. Hey. That'd be fun. What was,

oh, it was like you would do a competition and the hamster would do the same thing on their size. Yeah. Yeah. It's like a scale for the hamster. They said things like,

for instance, mazes or escape rooms or obstacle courses, archery contests. Yeah. Things that need opposable thumbs to do. Whoa. Hamsters are,

you are amazing. That thought. So human versus ham, probably not happening. Okay. Had a couple people ask me about Bondi bowls. Really, really slow moving right now. Nothing really fun to report. Well, you were there when I got a phone call.

I compared it to... Yeah, I don't know if we talked about it that much, though. I said my real estate agent called me on friday when brad was over and uh she was just like i've never had a deal in my 14 years or however long she's like i've never had a deal go this slow before i just feel bad like because i found the perfect spot we're negotiating and just going slow and um anyway she's like i'm just i'm really sorry i'm embarrassed and i was like it's okay it's just for me it just feels bad like i thought i found what i tell i thought i found my wife and I was,

I didn't have to look anywhere else anymore. And now I'm starting to realize I got to redownload Tinder again. And I got to get on LoopNet and I got to start trying. So I think the search might be back on trying to find the perfect spot again. So just not fun to have to like go back several steps. So from what I'm understanding,

they're just like not communicating much back, right? They're not saying no, right? More recently, they said no. They kind of said like we're having second thoughts about your concept. So we were trying to do our best to convince them otherwise. Gotcha. Dang. So still

excited. But you were so pumped about it, dude. Oh, yeah. But you never know. Okay. So just a couple of life updates of things that I talked about previously. What would be like a normal turnaround time from what you understand as far as like we place an offer for this commercial place? They get back to you in a couple weeks? Yeah, I would think you wouldn't.

Nothing over like 10 or 14 days. Yeah. And the last email I sent was the morning after the Super Bowl. So it's been a while. And I guess they haven't, from what I understand, those other places in there are not like food places? Do they have any other food places around? That's the problem.

They're worried if they have too many food concepts. Oh, too many? Because the Big Biscuit is there. Another Breakfast Spot is there. Another Broken Egg Cafe. There is Betty Ray's is coming in next to us. And then the bar is there. Dang. All right. That's a bad thing to have. I, I trust me. I have a lot of thoughts. Yeah. Yeah. You would think, I don't know. Now I'm going to have to look at commercial real estate and be like, how many food places they have in this strip mall? Like, how does that work?

Oh, yeah. I just can't imagine, which good for them. They have spent millions of dollars. They just built this, redeveloped it. So I'm sure they have a lot invested into it. They want to be very particular. But my thought is in a post COVID world where everything's kind of going online, way less brick and mortar stores than we've ever seen. Like if I own commercial real estate, I would be not doing too great the last four years, a little more nervous than normal. And if someone was begging to sign a 10 year lease, I'd email them back 10 years.

Yeah. Yeah. Especially like food. Cause food doesn't feel like it's leaving the brick and mortar nearly as much as like a boutique. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Online. You buy your clothes online pretty regularly. You don't, you order DoorDash or something online, I guess, but like, so the majority of people are still going to pick up their own food. Hey,

maybe we'll get an email later today. Release me to the dogs. I'll talk to them. Yeah. I've been trying. I, yeah, trying a few different things,

but I was like, man, we are begging to give you a half a million dollars. Really? Please. You know, over the course of 10 years. Yeah.

But, um, please let us do that. a half a million dollars. Really? Please. Over the course of 10 years. Yeah. But please let us do that. Nah. Not worth it. I don't know. I don't know. That's all right. So yeah, Bondi, Hamster, I Bought New Underwear. That's me.

That's what we do. We had a fun karaoke live stream the other day. I think after this, we should do it with us three again. Yeah. Patreon and live stream. Okay. Let's do it should do it with us three again. Yeah. Patreon and live stream. Okay. Let's do it. Oh, that'd be fun. Yeah. Apparently it's like a pretty big trend. I saw Justin Timberlake do it and Jake's like, oh yeah, I've seen a bunch of people do that. I was like, well, okay. But you just, you play a song and the camera can see what song it

is, but the person trying to sing it cannot. So you should try to guess the song and the lyrics. And it was so much fun. That live was the first time i'd seen it done it was that's cool it was so fun hey new thing new new trend just like going live new trend to us yeah it uh trend on a trend i've never tried to do it but i was trying to imagine what it'd be like and i think brad you were very good at it i think i maybe i'm i'm i'm truly not even trying to be humble i think it it's not that hard, but maybe so. Maybe. Yeah. I guess, you know, every person knows a certain amount of genres, but even just like knowing, it's not just like knowing the lyrics to start a song, but it's like knowing when to come in, which you had most of the time, or even if you realized you came in at the wrong time, you would get it back at the chorus or something, which is hard to do. Maybe that's

part of it. Yeah. I can tell. Yeah. It does. It does obviously take some musical. Cause what was that Adele song I played for you? There's almost no musicality to it but the music is just like i don't even think it changes the chorus like i don't yeah i don't even know if it anyway yeah and brad is just like they're just jamming out the whole verse is being sung and brad's just like, I have no idea. And it's like, this is awkward, so I'm going to be goofy with it.

And then the chorus comes in and then Brad just starts singing the exact song somehow. Like, how did you know that you went from nothing to just nailing it? I think there was one change. It was like a piano,

you know, whatever. I was like, oh, okay. The only one I couldn't get, which I was embarrassed, sir,

I want to buy these shoes for mama and like i even like as i was listening to it i was like i know this is the chorus and then i was like i know this here comes the bridge and so it's a minor chord i was like yep that's the bridge i don't know what song this is you had to give me a hint on that one but yeah we had a lot of fun with it so we'll do that again that was really fun yeah we'll do it today guys we'll do it today don't worry don't even worry about it uh let's see what else i don't have the our little agenda pull up in front of me no problem let's do some uh ghosties on a couch okay great great great some advice a little advice session time and feel free to uh answer some of these as well if you'd like to that's good um

yeah we we just sent out the uh the bat signal a few hours ago on the... Bath? Bath signal. Dark bath signal. Hey, send us some... Some bath. Some questions for advice. I think we kind of talked about this last week, actually.

It was kind of fun that Rendall Weaver asked this again. But I could talk about this, and I'd love even more hearing Jake talk about it, um, all day. Uh, what has worked for riddle? Weaver asked, what has worked for you in the YouTube game? Does higher quality always mean more views slash more dramatic thumbnails get people's attention. He's wanting to do a golf related.

Oh yeah. He's YouTube channel. I remember him talking about this when I met him in Pennsylvania. Um, higher production does not equal more views automatically, but it's a good way of setting yourself up for success, I would think. Yeah, that's good advice. Over time, people are going to enjoy

watching higher quality versus lower quality. Yep, I would agree. Thumbnails are... How did Scott describe your pizza oven? A fickle beast. A fickle beast. Thumbnails are a fickle beast. Yeah. Pum nails are a fickle beast. Like most algorithms and everything. I mean, it's always changing. So once you find something that

works, it's probably going to change in like six months. But I think just like psychologically, humans are drawn to faces. So I'm a big fan of putting at least one face up close. It's human nature to be drawn to faces. People stop. Like if you're running a Facebook ad, if you're running just even the openings, two seconds to an Instagram reel, don't start with just the pickleball paddle, start with a human holding the pickleball paddle. So I think you can never go wrong with faces. So yeah, put at least somebody's face in there. My cousin is a wonderful photographer and he'll like go to like Prague and all these really cool places and post all these pictures. And I scroll through every single one of them until he has a picture of him and his wife. And I look at those because it's a face. Yeah. It's a great, great point. My problem as a photographer,

and I don't photograph much, but even when I did was like, I would always zoom in too much just because I wanted the person's face to be so big. I just wanted like tight shots of faces because I know that's what like makes people stop and scroll. But at the same time, you know, it's girls like, well, I was hoping you could maybe like show my like the bottom half of my outfit or like my shoes. It's like, well, I'll see about the algorithm. So you're welcome. But yeah, I'm always taking photos a little too tight. I feel like because I just want like like it's it's the face, right? It's so important. Oh, yeah. And it's just yeah, I care about your jeans. I've noticed that when I will film jean shorts and I'm recording you oh yeah you are a little tight on those because

because you use your hands a lot and i'm like crap i should back out but i'm like but to me it looks so good right you know punched in or whatever so uh i try to i try to go back a little bit but um hey randall well let's say what we always say when we get done with these thanks for sitting on our couch yeah very good timon would love for you to join in next time it just makes us look bad when you don't join in when we all say our yeah our phrase yeah okay cody d similar um cody davis go bobcats i need advice on starting skit comedy and comedy videos how should i go about starting these and what are some helpful tips in the process i don't plan on it being a full time

but more or less on the side how to start you know it'd be fun if you have no presence online try to become one of those people that people follow because they're so intrigued on like what's going on here how's what's happening i think that'd be so fun like to be a tony p like start off being a tony p start off being a davis clark or a judah cause all these people we've looked at like i think that's fun do it like ironically and then a year from now i'd be like i was a genius the whole time i know what's up what's your advice time and you're you're starting to skit comedy you've gone viral uh well ai i'm yeah well true true i don't know i mean have a have have it like start like something interesting or exciting at the beginning, which is kind of obvious.

But on a video, short form, platform, your first three seconds are your thumbnail. Yeah, exactly. That's good. Big hook. But yeah, I don't know. I guess once I've seen any success with the Backseat Boys thing, I have more ground to give advice. Why do you think your video, your video on your page that went viral,

million views, why do you think that went viral? Break it down for us. Reverse engineer it. It was relevant because I was like a new... The AI thing was new. Okay.

It might have had to do with the fact that I was very like enthusiastic and like... Good. It started off like immediately. Yeah. No wasted space. It was a perfect loop.

Yeah, a perfect loop that helps retention. I don't know. It was helpful.'t know it was helpful i think it was like literally like you added value yeah yeah um i think that's great too well okay but like what about logistically starting a skit comedy channel like you did like like i don't know but anything i guess we could say the same thing but like yeah literally how do you how do we you know edit it or what what kind of i think software

are you guys using just simply it was i think so much easier for us because like i i'm already your editor zach had some like podcast equipment because he's like shooting a podcast for someone you just like happen to have the resources and just like a friend group that jokes all the time so like i think just like make something that has to do with what you already have yeah because don't like spend a ton of money on something if you don't already like have the access to it yeah yeah i don't think the the gear is going to make or break it initially yeah definitely i think audio is more important than video even like your iphone can do a very good job filming so if you have an iphone you don't need to buy a camera if you're first starting but

make sure the audio is good or else you don't even have a video. Yeah. Steven Spielberg said audio is half the picture or sound is how the picture. That's cool. Real quote. I agree. Steve. Um, Shannon wants to know,

is college worth it? If you're not sure about what you want to do for a career, that is a tough question. I don't think not knowing what you want to do for a career is a good enough reason to not go to college. I think there's gonna be more reasons than that because most 18 year olds don't know what they want to do for a career. I, I was 21 years old. I was a junior in college and my advisor sat me down and was like, Jake, I think

it's time you decide a major. And I was like, I've been noticing that other people were doing that. So that's a good idea. And even then I chose one that had never existed yet. You know, I didn't know I want to do for forever. So what's your name? Shannon. Shannon. Going to have to find a better reason than that to skip out on college, right? As your father, you're going.

Why did you go to college? I think my generation, this is like, we were taught that this is how you get a job. Like you would just go to, you go to a college and you get a degree. And if you don't have one, it's going to be very tough to get a good job. Is what we were told.

Because I think one of my main reasons for like not planning on college is because I feel like I wouldn't need it for anything specifically. I would agree. Yeah. Yeah. And that's probably what she's asking.

That's the tough rub for me too. It's like, there's so much intangible things I gained from college, but so little intellectual things I gained from college. Totally, especially if you're a business major like we were. Yeah. I mean, what can they teach you? I genuinely don't remember a single project off the top of my head right now.

And I can think of a lot of things off the top of my head right now. I cannot think of much that I did in college. I remember SWOT analysis. I remember reading a book called The Sail. No, it wasn't The Sale. Some book, and it was, yeah, it was about like a bottle. It was like supply chain or something. I remember every group project I was in, I was always only with women.

And I just remember, I remember a high to heel, the heel that converts into a flat in seconds. That's like your product? The girls were like, yes, it would be really good. I yes we really gotta all right if you all think so i guess uh but yeah it's very hard to like unless you're getting a hands-on experience it's very hard to teach someone business in a classroom setting yeah yeah so i think there's there's a there's a tension there because college is more and more expensive these days and so i'm kind of i'm, I used to be on the team, like go to college. It is such a great experience.

You've got to go to college. You'll, you'll be so bummed that you missed out on those wonderful years of your life. And now as a dad, maybe like thinking a little bit differently, I'm almost like, I don't think you have to go to college. Like I'm right there with you. Cause it used to be like, Oh, if you don't go, you're missing out on so much. It's like, it is expensive. Well, even with Isaac, like Isaac is a great example of like, I you're missing out on so much. It's like, it is expensive. Well, even with Isaac,

like Isaac is a great example of like, I told him he should go to college. I was like, you should go like everyone else. Your age is going to go. It's not like you're going to be behind if you go. Yeah. And if it doesn't work out great,

go do the business thing. And he decided not to. And I think it's worked out just fine for him. You know, I don't think he's, and I think if he was trying to find a corporate job, I don't think it would be that difficult for him to be like, well,

I have five years of experience running my own business. It was successful. I've been on a podcast a couple of times. Like, yeah, but you don't have a degree. It's like, you can also fake it. I've never showed a single, I don't know where I could prove it. If I don't have one, I ain't go to chapel enough times. Yeah, that's right. Like, I don't know if I said, yeah, it's just like, I got my business degree from K state. I don't know if I said, I got my business degree from K-State. I don't think anybody would be like, oh yeah? Where are the records? Let me see them. Oh yeah?

Prove it, mister. Prove it, buddy. So, I would say... Frank Abagnale that thing. It's hard to say anything definitively because we don't have the context at all of where you're at, but unless you are in a position like Tymon, or like where Isaac was, or at least see skills of yourself where you're like yes i am a self-starter you at least need to see the personality

traits to know like i'll be all right on my own i would say go to college call yeah college is awesome i'd be interested to hear how if people regret going to college because in our experience we have no regrets about college yeah even though we didn't get the thing you're supposed to like the thing we were promised and you know, we kind of went there and originally to get didn't end up mattering at all, but we got so many other. Yeah, anyway, yeah, Joanna wants

to know what color they should paint their front door newly moved here and is bright sunshine yellow, but not happy like the sun sticks out like a sore thumb against a nicely tan house tan house. Oh tan and and bright yellow that's yeah hmm i'm not great with i'll go white i guess i have tan on white bread um i think white's a good door color you stole mine we have white no white white just gonna show all the all the smudges and the dirt give me uh black we had a red door for a while red front door in our house i think that's fun and our house was blue for a long time so it was just like big

blue house with a red door it was like a kid drew it it's like are you gonna draw a house like only have four crayons okay i'm changing the more i think about it it is kind of like a kid drew it like there's like two little window things that stick out. Like dormers? Mini house roof things on them. It's just like how I would draw a house. Yeah, you draw a little triangle on top of a square. Good word on the dormer.

I'm changing my answer to barn door red. Barn door red. That's fun. It's going to be different, but not like whoa, sunshine yellow. Joanna, thanks for sitting on our couch. Just me again, guys. All right. Your mamasaurus

Rex. That's my real name. What age should I let my child start dating? 16. 16. I don't know. I've never thought about this before ever. Okay. Timon, do you guys have any rules? Have you heard anything about that? Honestly, not talked about much.

Yeah. But my logic is, what's the point until you're old enough to get married? That's just my logic. But hey. When are you old enough to get married? Sure. No. He said when.

When are you old enough? What age is that? time and the answer was absolutely I thought you were like agreeing with me I mean there's legal ages but I don't know I think just like when you're I think it's maturity okay so it's a little yeah subjective

so yeah could fluctuate I don't know spectrum hmm say how developed her son or daughter is? She sent a picture. Okay. Yeah. Man, I don't know.

This is a tough one. I haven't experienced it. I mean, I've experienced it as a kid, but not as a parent. But to me, it seems like even if you try to like extinguish that in your kid, they're still going to quote unquote date. Like what, what does that mean to date somebody these days? Like you can still easily talk to a girl on the, on your phone, even if you're not dating her, you know what I mean? Yeah. You're not hanging

out as much, I guess. If that's like your one thing as a parent that you're so strong on, that might be the thing that like turns them away. Like, well now I just want to do it even harder. You know, like, well, my parents are pretty chill. They just really don't want me to date okay why are they like gatekeeping that now i now i'm way more attracted to girls than i thought i was i'm so curious yeah i think yeah as a parent and as a person you see like it's probably not worth a whole lot of like putting your energy into in high school but you can't tell a high schooler that because they that's all they know is the high school life like Like they don't like that. Sir. Like it's a huge deal to them. Like this girl liking him or not,

whatever. So, uh, my answer, which I like, I like, uh, I like senior year of high school.

Sure. Unless they don't, unless they're homeschooled and then senior high school would be like 12. So we'll say 13. Um, okay. This is a fun one from grace fairly. Um, what to do when someone gets your name wrong. I often get called Gracie and it's not my fave. Do you correct them casually slipping it into conversation or probably take on a new name until the end of time? Uh, yeah, I've been there taking on a new name before. I think it depends

like how long, like how long do you expect this relationship to last with this person? Like you just met someone at work and they get your name wrong. You probably need to correct them in like a fun way. But if it's like a one day friend, the girl at the coffee shop was like, okay, Gracie got it.

You let it, let it ride. There was a woman at a church the other day. We were walking down the hall and I just hear her go, Caitlin. And Catherine looks back. Hi. Like this girl says hi to Catherine. And you know, we're walking down the hall and I just hear her go, Caitlin. And Catherine looks back. Hi. Like this girl says hi to Catherine. And, you know, we're walking.

I was like, oh, Kate, we're over here. We're over here, Kate. She's like, why are you calling me that? And then we say this girl again in the hall. And I'm like, Caitlin, come on. Let's. Kato. Kate, it's time.

It's time to get home. Kids are getting tired. Just to read for it. Yeah. As the husband, you've either got to come in and speak for Catherine. like oh i you know and like correct it for so katherine does have to or you just really convince the other girl she's got it right i did the same thing with yesterday we were at chick-fil-a with like i was at chick-fil-a with my friends and my friend gabby got told got called debbie oh wow gabby and it was like okay debbie it was like just taking her

order so i just like yeah i call it we called called her Debbie kind of the rest of the time there. That's fun. Oh, little Gabby. Little Debbie. Man. Yeah. Or just like the passive, not a passive aggressive, but just like find someone else to introduce yourself to while they are in your shot.

You know, like you get called Gracie and it's like, hey, I'm Justin. Oh, hi, I'm Grace. You're like looking back like, you hear that? You hear that, buddy? I thought you'd catch that. Oh, so, so you, your name is Gracie, but you want to go by You're like looking back like, you hear that? Yep. You hear that, buddy? Yep, thought you'd catch that. Oh, so your name is Gracie, but you want to go by Grace. And they're like, sure. Yeah, whatever.

Whatever. Good enough. Okay, how about, I feel like we get some semblance of this question a lot. Joseph wants to know, how do you guys find a balance between work, family, friends, and church? It seems like I can only give 100% to one thing at a time. Oh, wow. That is one of the hardest things I feel like growing up is learning that you can't do everything well. Like you can't do too many things. I mean, I don't think either of us would say we are super, super involved in our church, correct? Yeah. I'm not even a member actually,

because you have to attend four Sundays in a row, and that's not possible with my schedule. But I do think I'm going to volunteer. They're doing their own summer camp. And so I talked to them, and I was like, hey, here are my credentials. Plug me in wherever you want to plug me in. Cool.

So yeah, I had that conversation with them Sunday. Yeah, I don't... Yeah, I think you have to find realistic expectations between all of them. Uh, but I think one just really practical thing you can do to help yourself just be present more often is not being addicted to your phone or not being like not wasting time, like learning how to be as efficient as you can with your time so that you can give more when you're present. Um, but I know that's not like, it doesn't, it doesn't automatically

give you more time, but like if you were with a friend and you having a solid conversation for 45 minutes with that person or like whatever, an hour, that's a really great time. And then you're like, okay, I am done with this time. I need to go. I'm sorry. Um, cause so often I think Catherine and I, we struggle to find the amount of time, but if it's like, well, we had a really good conversation for 20 minutes today, that's way better than like us sitting around for an hour on our phones and talking intermittently kind of thing. You know what I mean? That's a great point. So I focus on the quality of time rather than the quantity of time. Like, you know, don't break it up. Like, all right, well, I'm going to spend two hours at church during the service, an hour

volunteering. Okay. That's three hours there. And be there. Be present there. Put it all in there and then be like, okay, I can confidently be like, I've done enough here. I don't have to be like, well, I don't know. I wasn't really present here.

So maybe I should stay another 30 minutes or whatever. Yeah. You know? Wherever you are, be all there. Remember that one from back in the day? I like it. Oh, I think it was like such a cliche. in the day i like it oh i think it was like such a cliche maybe the sbu circles it was that was a big one it was like right there with hang up and hang out when that just came out yeah yeah um let's see house buying advice for a first

time home buyer well that's fun thanks to look for stage of life yeah this is katie thanks to look for and what to stay away from. Getting married in November. We want to have a house ready to move into before then. You're probably not going to find the perfect house, so know what you're willing to budge on, what you're not willing to budge on. I'd say know, have a pretty good idea whether you're a DIY couple or you're not a DIY couple.

Don't get overzealous in like knowing, hey, we're not real handy. We don't want to do that. And then once you're not a DIY couple. Don't get overzealous in like knowing, Hey, we're not real handy. We don't want to do that. And then you, once you're looking at a house, it's like, all right, well, some stuff broken, but we could probably fix it. Right? Like be, be logical about it. Don't be emotional about it. That's good. Be logical. I, I'm not going to say the opposite of that, but I do think Peter talks about this as he's a real estate agent. And he's like, so many homebuyers are so uncreative when it comes to painting or like like you walk into a house and you see whoa this brightly yellow door

i can't have this house an orange living room this house is gross that's all like a mat just imagine this with a different color yeah it's amazing ai is good enough i bet you could take a photo of that and swap out to get jake allen could probably do it for you. You look at real estate listings and you see like they have furniture like added to rooms and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Jake Allen could rock it and figure it out. Heartbeat. So just trying to be creative in that regard. I mean, we bought our house and it was like a little bit of a DIY. We've done stuff to it, but not anything like super drastic. We haven't taken out walls or anything like that. We've just painted everything. Basically we walked in and it looked like your grandma's house. It was like, you know, wood paneling everywhere. And we painted it. I mean, this house, look,

this is wood paneling here. And how much different would it be if this was just dark brown, this whole room, you know? Um, so, uh, yeah, just be creative in that regard. Catherine's so good at like thinking of the process of everything, like so much more critical than I am. I'm always just like, yeah, cool. The garage looks cool.

Yeah. It's looking place. Like what about the lights? Like I didn't even look at the light. I mean, imagine, yeah, the,

the, the laundry is on the very bottom floor and our, you know, we were two floors up from the laundry like that. That could be a problem, you know, or okay. Yeah. There's no bath. We're in plan to have kids and I, you know, we were two floors up from the laundry like that. That could be a problem, you know, or okay. Yeah. There's no bath. We're going to plan to have kids. And I don't know all these different things that I'm like, I don't know. We'll just figure it out. So I don't really think I have much to say other than just like get people you trust helping you because

that's why I've had good luck or what do you want to call it? Good experience with home buying. But I think it's because I didn't get in the way way i let the people who are good at what they do just do it and tell me and give me good advice yeah yeah like translate whatever that just means you said something about the electrical downstairs that you're using your flashlight to look at down there what are you worried about this no all right me neither yeah exactly um yeah last tip this is a bad piece of advice you You ready for this? Whenever you get the inspection done and there's some red flags, don't worry about them. You think this house didn't have some red flags after the inspection?

I didn't worry about them. We're doing just fine. All right. The inspect. Well, I will say the inspection, the inspector is like, that's his job is to find every little issue. Yeah. And so therefore he's going to come back with a list of 150 things. Genuinely,

maybe like, well, the doorknob shaky, this lock doesn't work. You know, it's like, Oh my gosh, we're buying a piece of crap.

And then you realize like, okay, maybe two of those are a big enough deal to ask the buyer about. Yeah. That reminds me of like looking for like any kind of thing on eBay. Like I like read the descriptions, like a few scuffs, like cosmetic.

Yeah. Oh, I can't use this. They're like looking at anything I use. I'm like, oh, this is like scratched all over, but it's like perfectly fine. A few scuffs? No, thanks. People do that with golf balls, like really like purist golfers,

like, ah, I scuffed it. Like that does not affect the play of the golf ball. I guarantee you it doesn't. So yeah, that's fun. My inspection was color coded and I remember it was like green, not that big of a deal. Orange intermediate and then red. And I had a few red ones were fine.

Yeah. We like changed, like we had them switch out the electrical panel or something like that and maybe do one plumbing thing. That was it. And have you ever had a house fire or a drowning situation? House fire? Kind of in the chimney that one time.

That was aside from the electrical, but yes, we did have kind of a house fire. Thanks for bringing that up, Jacob. I forgot about that. Oh, man. Okay. Katie? Katie, thanks for laying on our couch.

Thanks for sitting on our couch. Thank you, Tymon. That's right. Thanks, Ty for laying on our couch. Thanks for sitting on our couch. Thank you, Tymon. That's right. Thanks, Tymon. Bring her back. Okay, Anna is graduating college in May, and she is terrified. Why? Don't be terrified.

My degree is in photography, and I would love to be a sports or wedding photographer. Any advice? Jake, you've done this. Sports and weddings seem kind of different. One is a lot faster than the other you're gonna need to get different shutter speeds probably right guys yeah yeah good good good job um wedding photography though you've you've done that or done in a time or two video more yeah how'd you get in the game uh you get in by having a

friend trust you and you do it for next to no money. And then you use that, you take it, you build your whole Instagram, your brand, your website off of that one wedding. And don't be afraid to post to Facebook. I know you're 22.

I know you're young, but your mom's friends, your dad's friends are on Facebook and they want to support you. So post it on Facebook. Somebody is always getting married. Don't be afraid to annoy people. Post. Yep.

And next time someone gets married, they're like, hey, Jolene's daughter is taking up photography. Seriously. Except they'll call it furtography. And that's normal. That's how they say it

at that age. She's doing photographing and maybe I could talk to her. And so you do that. And I mean, if you have a college degree in photography, you are way more talented than

most people doing, or at least more educated than most people doing wedding photography. I was going to say, I'm like, we should be asking her for advice. Like you're doing it the different route, officially educated on it. Yeah. So maybe the business side is what we should be giving more advice on, which is good. I think I'm such a fan of like post more than you think you should, because not everyone's seeing every single post you're posting. Like, like you're always like, Oh, maybe I'm annoying people with how many times I've posted about my business. And it's like, yeah, no one else is paying as much attention as you are for your business. So it's tough. I wouldn't necessarily know, just think out loud here, how to market myself as a photographer. Cause I know back in,

well, even now I follow photographers and it's confusing because I see their feed and I'm like, who are these people? And then I see what's posted by, I'm like, oh, that's them. You know, cause you're constantly posting strangers to your feed. So it's a hard way to market yourself through social media. I've never like, I mean, I'm not a great person at this, but obviously with furniture and stuff, um, I'm posting more of the furniture than I am of me. And I've always kind of looked at it as like the stories are more me. The like posts are more, you know, my Instagram stories, not the story of the table. Yes. Yes. Yes. Like posting stories of my kids every once

in a while or something that's more personal, like, Oh, this is a real person behind this business, but here's the finished product on the posts. But I don't know if that's the greatest thing. Cause I don't know how many people are looking at posts these days. Another idea I just had, if you're just starting out, think, write down 10 different ways to take a picture of a bride that you've never seen before

and then get one of your friends, pay for her, like to rent a wedding dress for a day. It'll be fun for her, fun for you and go take each one of those photos and start posting it. Post it on Pinterest, Instagram, Twitter, everywhere. And hopefully one of them catches the algorithm and goes viral

because it was so unique and original. And then you get business. There's an idea. You're in. That'd be awesome. Okay. Andy with an I. I have five days of PTO to use before October.

What's the absolute best way to maximize my time? I wish we knew what Andy was into. Do it with... You gotta bank it with some holidays. If a holiday's on a Monday, you take a Tuesday off. And you live.

And you come so early on Friday morning that you leave at noon. And no one gets upset with you. And all of a sudden you got most of Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, five days for one day off. Yeah. I think you just got to follow like a passion or a hobby or something. Something that's always seemed like, I can't really do that. I can't, I can't go fly fishing right when this, right when the salmon are sprouting, I'm always at work during then.

This is your year, Andy. So just do it. Just splurge on your hobby. Get out of town. Let your hair down. That'd be my advice. Let your hair down.

Let your hair down. Yeah. Okay. Fictional is the name. Oh, cause the name on the, I said your name, real or fictional,

fictional, uh uh online dating yay or nay uh it's so concrete so black and white uh i i did the apps for a little bit and while i was there uh was hoping i wouldn't find my wife there while also trying to find my wife there you know just like i don't want this to be how I'd rather like meet her in person. And I'm glad I did. But at the same time, I was like, if this is how it needs to happen, like you've ever seen those like, almost like cartoons or just like symbolisms of like, you know, there's someone like on a deserted island and they're praying to God.

They're like, rescue me, rescue me, rescue me. And God's like, I sent you like a boat basically. I think sometimes we're just like, I want this a certain way. And God's like, I've given you opportunities here. Yeah. You're just not taking the opportunity presented or you're not seeing it or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. It does seem, I was about to say a necessary evil. That's probably even too extreme of a statement for it, but it does seem like one of those things these days where, I don't know. I mean, especially as you get older, it seems like it's harder and harder to like just casually meet somebody without it being like, whoa, this guy's talking to me unless it's online. Totally. I mean, I went years being in Kansas city and all my friends were married. And when

you guys weren't meeting other single people to hook me up with, like there was no word of mouth happening. It was like, well, maybe I'll see someone at church, but I would never approach a girl to try and date her. That's not going to work. Yeah, it is tough. Apps can help. Okay. Let's do one more for today. We appreciate

all the submissions here. Bonus one. This is kind of a fun thing to think about ryan pitt wants to know who would win the foot race trump or biden i think biden wins that race really you think do i think i think he's i don't know you see him he bikes i mean he yeah he falls off bikes but he's he's biking i don't know then trump i feel like trump could do though trump can still go you think they would just both walk? Genuinely.

Like fast walk. I think Biden would run very, like I think he would. Do you think he could get both feet off the ground at the same time? Like doing a running motion? I think so. I think he would jog very slowly and Trump would walk. I, originally I was thinking Trump, but I'm kind of with you now. He is kind of spry. Like I could see him kind of just like doing an old man jog.

His arms are barely pumping. Like all those videos of him like falling down, like going up the airplane stairs. He's kind of, he's got a little, he's got a little like spring and he falls quick.

You know, he's got good, you know, quick twitch muscles, aerodynamics. Yeah. I think it's Biden in a,

by a landslide. I do. I think my initial thought was because I've seen Trump move more. I think, well, was because I've seen Trump move more. I think, well, I just,

I, you see like him like dancing or whatever, but like, yeah, it depends on how long this race is too. Like I'm, I'm imagining four years. Let's call it a hundred,

right? It's called a hundred meters. You know, that would be fun. That's a pretty long, you should do that. That would be awesome. There's like the end of a winner.

Take all. That's how it's, that's how it's decided uh okay let's see one more um hmm this one's interesting because i bet we have different answers for it brock wants to know what does budgeting look like in your life at this time are there certain limits you put towards certain items or categories is there a money amount you have to talk to your spouse before purchasing a specific item? Just overall thoughts on budgeting. I'm gonna let you handle this one.

Okay. It'd be fun to talk about. Me and Ty are in the same stage of budgeting right now. So, well, yeah, but like, what about like that?

That other question about like, is there a money amount you have to talk to Rachel about? We have not went over that yet. Yeah. Yeah. I think just in general, for the most part, it feels like we, we both trust each other pretty well with money. Like as far as, yeah, like, Hey, FYI, I bought this thing or, you know, like even like Catherine will go to

the chiropractor and sometimes she'll be like, I think one of the kids needs adjusted for this. And it costs a little bit of money to do that. But she like, sometimes she'll be like, I think one of the kids needs adjusted for this. And it costs a little bit of money to do that. But she like, sometimes she's like, tries to justify it to me and I'll stop her and be like, listen, I trust you. I, we don't need to talk about that. Like, and it's a nice quality though. It is a nice quality. And I think luckily Jake and I are getting to the point where we have more money than we used to.

And so therefore we're not worried about, it's not as much about budgeting as much, or it's not as much about like limiting your spending as much as like changing. Okay. We spend a lot of money at the chiropractor this month. Therefore we're not spending money on clothes this month or on some other, you know, discretionary thing. Yeah. Dave Ramsey calls the pocket fund or whatever. Um, yeah, just recently, Rachel did a similar thing. She was, I was busy doing something. So she had to drive herself to the airport and it was pouring down rain and she was running late and i was like well hey go to this go do garage parking and just pay for it she's like oh i bet that's expensive though uh i was like just please do it you know and she's like okay we'll see and i was like just just do it like just it's fine we

can cover garage parking like economy you have to wait on a shuttle in the rain like just we're good you can you can do garage parking right and we we have wives that are well first of all i mean katherine doesn't make money like she i make the money for our family and so i think sometimes she feels a little bit more like she has to ask for like as for certain dollar amounts or whatever. Whereas like if I know I'm going to buy a $1,500 tool for the business, I'm not going to be like, FYI, I'm thinking about buying the sink. It's just like, I know the finances. So I'm definitely the, you know, in Dave Ramsey culture, there's the nerd and the free spirit. Um, there's one person that just kind of leans towards, you know, the accounting

side more than the other. I'm definitely the nerd in our relationship and our marriage. And so I know our budget. I also use Dave Ramsey's every dollar to like budget things out. And that really helps a lot because then, and it's different for Jake and I, because we are, we are entrepreneurs that we, we don't have the same income every month, which is great and bad. Um, but it's great on the months that it's like, Oh, we made more than we expected. Therefore we can budget to different things. And so, um, I'm a big fan of like saving up for certain things and not buying them until you have saved for them. So, um, yeah, overall, I think it's just, it's something that you just develop trust in your spouse as far as like, listen, you don't have to justify why you bought this. As long as you, as long as you have regular conversations that are like, here's what the

budget is. If you notice it's like, Hey, we are struggling for money. And then you see your spouse change behavior because of that, then you don't have to talk about everything. Yeah. It's, it's nuanced. I think if Rachel had a history or a pattern of like bad spending, then it's like, Hey, let's talk about what each of us are going to spend or everything. Yeah, it's nuanced. I think if Rachel had a history or a pattern of bad spending, then it's like, hey, let's talk about what each of us

are going to spend or something. Sure. Hey, we should both try and lose weight. No, when you suggest it, it's just good for both of us. Right. But no, Rachel's good about it. Okay, that is going to end the ghosties on the couch. Wasn't there one question about good ranchers?

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I didn't see one about Good Ranchers. Oh, shoot. Let me scroll through that. Amanda F. Good Ranchers here. Yeah. Well, the one I was... Sorry, there is one at the bottom. The one I saw said,

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I don't know how that all works. I couldn't remove it for you, but I know of a way where you, it can just start off with MRN. No. MRN.. MRN nay. I'm raising my hand.

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is our discount for him. Just please, please support them as we continue to be supported by them bada bing bada bing bada boom uh okay let's do a really quick let's see how this goes memory lane uh great how long where are we at so far time in about hour and a half a little more okay about maybe like about an hour and a half. All right, let's just go. So I had this idea called Memory Lane, and I'm just going to find, I'm searching random word generator, and we're just going to pull up some words,

and if they remind us of anything, we tell a story about it. Great. Memory Lane. Trip down Memory Lane. Hey, take a little trip. Who knows what's going to come from this? So, all right.

First random word is bite. Bite? Bite. First thing that comes to mind from my childhood is like biting into an apple and you couldn't get it. So then you pull your teeth back out of it and then you see an imprint of your teeth. You're like, oh, that's kind of fun. That's what my teeth look like. Yeah.

It's like, whoa, look at that. That's a little jagged at the top. Okay. I can't think of anything. So that's great. No bite? Horse is probably classic. Oh, wait at that. That is a little jagged at the top. Okay. I can't think of anything. So that's great. No bite. Horse is probably classic. Oh, wait.

Yeah. Actually, wait. Now that you mentioned that. So grew up with horses in our pasture, like a whole life. One time, my little brother. No one likes a bragger. We could afford horses pretty easily. They were boarded at our, no.

But my little brother, Jesse, when he was probably like 3 or 4 he's like well maybe 3 I don't know sitting in this like sort of pushable little car thing it's like a little car you sit and strap your kid in and push him on a walk or something like that he's sitting in this I don't know why but he's like beside

right by the fence to the pasture and he's buckled into this thing so right next nearby this horse is like grazing they like to like stick their head like over the fence to get to like the fresher grass good grass yeah and so just like making its way down and like i can't remember if we were inside but like so i don't know he wasn't me like closely watched or something like that some suddenly we look over and this horse has i think it's like chilly outside. So Jesse's got like a, some kind of stocking cap on.

I don't know. This is why we do memory lane right here, baby. And so I think the horse, like, now I can't remember exactly how it happened. And some of this may be like changed by my, because now I'm thinking, is this possible? I don't know but i'm fairly sure that the story goes like he like basically the horse somehow like bit onto his like hat or something picked him up and lifted him and the like car thing off the ground no way so there's there's a story was hats with this like the that's what i'm thinking it was secure because

because now i'm like wait it was a stocking cap just going to... Or if it's the hood of his coat. Oh, wait, yes! He was wearing a hoodie or something. That makes more sense. That's amazing. We would have never heard that story. I haven't thought about that for a long time. Thanks for going down

memory lane. Sit on the memory lane. Just going to sing a little jingle of what you said was better. Alright, how about um applaud applaud applaud applaud there's no pair applaud i got something go off these keep me like the things that kind of have to do with them no that's great first time kind of ever like on a stage it was with um the first choir I was in when I was like probably nine or nine or so. I was in this choir at the Culture House in Kansas City before we did Greenleaf. Shout out to Star Peterson. And we basically like we're part of this like Child of Hope show.

OK. And we're singing like a song in it and we go up on stage like to rehearse. And I just is my first time realizing how different it is being on stage rather than watching because of the blinding lights. It was my first time ever being like, whoa, you can't see people at all. I'm like, I don't know where my mom is. Anyway, there was applause

and we probably got applauded. There was applause. I remember my first time applauding after getting married and it hurt. I was like, I'm going to have to clap different now because where my ring finger is hitting hurts. I made the adaptation. Pretty smart.

I'm still having a hard time thinking of great memories here. I was a funny character in a play in elementary school. It was a Lewis and Clark play and I was the Frenchman, Charbonneau. That was funny. People laughed at me and I thought, that's pretty fun to make people laugh.

That's about it. Little did you know. Little did you know. You'd be a Frenchman full time. All right, how about victory? You got any victory stories? I'll say one. I don't know if I've talked about this on a podcast before,

but I used to play Salvation've talked about this on podcast before, but, uh, I used to play salvation army, bitty ball, little, little basketball, uh, with my friends. And we were in the championship game and we were down by one point. And it was like fourth,

fifth grade. So it was like old enough to where we were all obsessed with shooting three pointers. But the coach got so mad when we got three pointers. And I remember at the end of the game, we had the ball and our coaches goes, shoot a three have to and me back in the day i had the worst form ever literally like kind of one hand shot always and i shot put a three ball in the hoop for game winner game winner but there was like five seconds left and our coach ran out on the

court and gave me a hug. Like, picked me up. And they called a technical on my coach. Fourth grade. Yeah. Salvation Army, you know, very technical. And the guy shot free throws but didn't make them. Oh, coach got his job back. It was assistant coach, too.

Oh, man. It was like a vibes guy. Like, we need Adam there for the vibes. He was there to hug the kids when they made baskets anyway i thought of just one victory one it was just like the memory of watching the first narnia movie for the first time and i was like eight or nine and like that battle scene i want to watch it for the first time again it's a great battle yeah yeah dude hattie and katherine are so into narnia right now they read two maybe three of the books the books are so good, Hattie and Catherine are so into Narnia right now. They've read

two, maybe three of the books now. The books are so good. Oh, Hattie was just obsessed. She's like, reading The Silver Chair now? I didn't grow up reading them, so I don't know much about them. I remember that book being kind of scary when I read it. Okay. I don't remember how old I was, but yeah. You got anything for victory?

Not really. Like, high school basketball, we won every game at home for like two years. That was pretty sweet. Was it a good, you had a home game. You're like, we're getting a victory. Yeah.

Yeah. It was, it was awesome. Whole town would come. That's awesome. Yeah, dude, it was awesome.

I remember when I got the K-Life job going to Shawnee mission East. I mean, this is a six, a school there three times the size of what Stratford was. And no one was there. The gym was smaller and no one could fill it. Yeah. like whoa i had a good thing in high school i had no idea oh yeah when it's only one school in one town and there's not a lot of activities everybody comes this is what everyone does on friday night yeah whatever interview team is good it probably

helps a little bit but still yeah that was the best there i think i think basketball gyms like high school gyms there's something i mean as far as america goes it's got to be on the top 10 list of things for america it's like high school basketball yeah the gym that you go to and the energy of a close game oh my gosh it's there's nothing like it dude yeah oh yeah but yeah i was our high school was the same way where it was like the big games all the students came but so many of them were like i'm'm not going to that one. We'll wait till the East. Every home basketball game, the football players would say what the theme was and then all the other girls,

they would just do a theme together. It was awesome. They would dress up every game. If you're in high school right now, do that. Start it. Make it happen. What about mole? Anything for mole? Oh, yeah. Back on the farm. Sure. Um, it's plenty. Oh yeah. Phony phrase based on this because it's an animal. Um,

was that what you thought of was a, was an animal? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Uh, back at Stratford, we have moles all the time and, uh, didn't matter which dog we had at the time, which one was, you know, on its way of being hit by a car, which one we just got from the pound. But they were good at digging up moles. And all kind of the same behavior. They dig them up and just carry them around their mouth and just play with them.

Alive? Yeah, they wouldn't kill them or anything. It was just kind of this fun toy, just like a friend. Really? Yeah, just dig up moles and maybe like have them in their mouth and just shake them and throw them and then go and get them again. And the mole would try to dig into the ground as fast as it could. And they'd pull them back out again. That sounds like a pretty fun game. It was a fun game for the dogs.

And yeah, they just walk around with them and kind of watch them and watch where they'd run. And they start digging, they'd pull them back out again. And so how bigger are moles? Like a little bigger than a mouse or like a little bigger than a rat, maybe. small yeah pretty small squirrel yeah yeah for sure yeah mouse rat size okay um fun black maybe blind but blind as a mole blind as a mole that's my phony phrase um but yeah i remember my dad always say yeah those moles just tearing up our lawn they're tearing up the lawn i mean there's like a four inch. Yeah. Of elevation where they've been burrowing. But yeah, that's bothersome. So interesting. Yeah, because I don't know if I've ever encountered a mole in my life. And you were like, oh,

plenty of bull story. Oh, yeah. It was fun to see. I remember Cookie specifically. The dog would just start digging and just shove her head into the dirt. I mean, just like forceful like that has to hurt your nose. It just get in there. Just and then smell which way the mole was digging and then keep following the mole via smell. It's kind of fun to watch. Really? Yeah.

Every now and then she'd scare the mole up to the top of the earth again and then you could see them the mole burrowing. No way. Yeah, it was like it was like when a needle's under your skin or like a trimmer in the yeah, it's like I was just barely under it. Sounds cool.

Yeah, yeah, I gotta get some dogs and some land. You get mole memories they should play a they gotta have a human versus mole show we gotta dig dig through life-size ground and clifford is trying to catch me that's great all right i'm gonna let's let's just end it there on memory lane all right that was fun yeah thanks thanks for sharing some good idea some ideas guys. A little something. Yeah, a little memory lane. Let us know if you guys have any mole stories.

Skin or animal. Review of the week? Yeah, let's do it. Review of the week. This one comes from Brook M-E-W. Brook Mew. Love the show. Y'all are hilarious.

I listen to you in the car or in the bath. Yes, I take baths. Do we have that? Dark bath. Dark bath. Are the lights on, Brooke? Oh. I found out about your podcast because I follow Trey on Instagram, and it came across a tag Jake was tagged in.

Fun. I don't know how old that must have been. Tag. Tag your tagged in. Tag your tagged in. It was a great experience. Anyway, love y'all. Looking forward to new episodes.

That's my friend brook uh brant blodgett five-star review from traverse city bob evans this week on schmores brad said i don't think bob evans have any brick and mortar locations but i would like to inform you that traverse city michigan has one every time i drive by i wonder how it's still open but i've been a few times and there's always a wait because of the plethora of old couples eating there. Anyway, thanks so much for doing the pod and you make me laugh every week. Well, thanks, Brant. I've got quite a few pushbacks on the Bob Evans. It's amazing

the things that like rub people like, dude, Bob Evans is amazing. I love the podcast, but what you said about Bob was not right. I almost thoughtlessly when you defamed Bob Evans like that. So fun. All right. So, fun. All right. Brad, Tymon's version.

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Well, we'll figure it out, Tymon. This one's from Katie Bennett Friday January 14th 2022 haha alright here it goes I like your new YouTube history you can see you've listened to anyone by Justin Bieber I know this

older guy who comes over all the time. A generous and frequent client. Good recovery. But sometimes he talks a lot when I'm working in the shop. How do I kindly say to him, please stop?

I know this older guy comes over all the time. I see a generous and frequent client. Sometimes he talks a lot when I'm working in the shop. How do I kindly say to him, please stop? I'd like to hide in my garage When neighbor Henry stops by It's hard to say and talk to him when I've got work to do But he provides great content for the pod.

He tells me He tells me about his son. His pitches and home runs, lists of his teammates, stares a ton. Nice. They practice by the

front door. His slider was bad before He went down south and brought it up to a four I just listened to this episode. Dude, this son is bitches And home runs There's not enough lyrics. There's time

Together. They practiced by the front door His slider was bad before he went down south and brought it up to a four hey I'd like to hide in my garage when

neighbor Henry stops by it's hard to stay and talk to him When I've got work to do But he provides great content for the pod I don't know what this version is, dude. Yeah, what is this?

Is where this is? Yeah! Hey! Whoa! Is where this is? Yeah. Hey. Whoa. Good instrumental, though. Hey, I changed clothes. In the middle of the jingle last episode, the power just went out.

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