Ghostrunners - 315 - This Episode is a Zoo

Episode Date: March 20, 2024

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I got a fun little trick, fun little joke for those of us who are still partaking in the ghost running challenge, running a mile every single day. I've still kept it up, you know, batting a thousand so far. So this kind of happened on accident, but I needed to have a phone call with Scott and Isaac this week. And I was like, when are you guys free? We're trying to figure it out. And I said, all right, let me, I thought this conversation might last a while. So I said, okay, let me go run my mile real quick and then I'll call you guys. Well, then Isaac texted me back and said,

all right, I'll probably have time for a quick call after that. So I was like, dang, well, Isaac doesn't have time. You know what? I'll just call him now or whatever. So life hack, you let your friends know you're going to be running a mile and then call them and then you wait about four and a Half minutes and then you call them super out of breath. Hey guys

All right, I wanted to hop on the call and they think you just ran a four and a half minute mile Oh, so that's that's the the premise basically and then you keep running Or did you you know i'm saying frick okay joke joke not landed it's basically they think that you ran a four minute mile but you didn't actually run the four minute you know what you ran in three and a half the podcast will be better once we get through the theme song so normally it's not it's not like this guys yeah i may not do comedy this weekend i might just stay at home and get better no no it it's the idiot in the crowd doesn't understand. The Indian in the crowd? Idiot. Oh my gosh.

Oh jeez. Now we really have to roll. What's that have to do with anything? Uh oh. Ooh I think this tight beat means that it's going down with some random thoughts and white meat too. Midwest best friends eating fast food on repeat. So come along

let's have some fun and go ahead, get on your feet, because it's the Ghost Brothers Podcast. Ghost Brothers Podcast. Everybody morning, we're taking ground. Ghost Brothers Podcast. Ghost Brothers Podcast. Welcome back. It's Wednesday, and this episode is brought to you by Good Ranchers.

America been delivered. And we just want to remind you, hey this episode is brought to you by Good Ranchers. America been delivered. And we just want to remind you, hey, there's got to be ups, there's got to be downs, and there's always got to be an Indian in the crowd. All right? So don't be too hard on yourself. That's just life, I think, is the lesson. So, man, I'm hot already. I'm hot.

That was a rough start. Rough start. That was my fault. I thought you were saying, here's what happened. Scott and Isaac laughed. Here's what happened. Scott and Isaac laughed. Here's what happened. Yeah, exactly. The idiot in the crowd didn't get it.

Sometimes I do this with Catherine, too. I just assume I know the end of the story. Oh, yeah, you get it right away. And so I thought your trick, your hack was just like, hey, it's going to feel like 10 minutes goes by really quickly if you're on the phone while you run. And so you were like, Hey, just four and a half minutes into your run. You made a phone call to help power through the run. And then you said the thing about,

they didn't think it's four and a half minutes. And I was like, okay, I kind of got it, but I thought you still continued to run on the phone. Cause you didn't have enough time with Isaac. And it's just me just assuming I know the end. And I didn't Jake, I should have listened better. I'm the idiot in the crowd. I'm assuming I know the end. And I didn't, Jake. I should have listened

better. I'm the idiot in the crowd. I'm the idiot in the cupboard. We play cowboys and idiots. All right? Let's go, Strafford idiots. Okay. Now that we've tried to joke around, we've analyzed the joking around,

let's get serious. Let's get serious. Tymon and I are starting a band. You know, I've been thinking about starting stuff with Tymon too. You go first. Well, we're calling the Karaoke Livestream Band. Okay. And it's just going to be mainly...

I like the name. What does it mean? Yeah, but it sounds so metaphorical. Yeah, it's not about karaoke livestreams, guys. It's not about ghosts. No. Yeah, it's not about karaoke live streams, guys. It's not about ghosts. No. Get on a live stream and do karaoke. Yes.

It's different. Yep. And it's going to be mainly just songs that are really emotional that Tymon can play air piano to and just really sing the women's parts to and sing it so well. I mean, we just did a karaoke live stream for the ghosties and man, did Ty and sing it so well. I mean, we just did karaoke live stream for the ghosties and man did time and nail it.

Fun. It was a great time. Fun times. Well, I'll just do a quick currently trending. I know we're not doing that today, but it's a quick currently trending with me. A few different things. One, just been daydreaming a lot.

If I'm daydreaming, I'm in a healthy spot. I'm just like thinking there's like new ventures, new ideas, whatever. So there was one day where I was just daydreaming about also doing music with Tymon. I was like, man, that'd be fun.

Because we had kind of a conversation on the way back from, where did we go last week? Canes or whatever, about writing music. And so anyway, that spurred that on a couple days later. And I was like, man,

that would be so cool. And then woke up the next day and had new ideas. Um, and then another day it was like, why don't I write a book? Like to my best friends, Alex and Will, they just do that for other people. Why don't I just, I give them a little business. I get a book. Sure. Win, win. Then that went away. And then yesterday, uh, that went away. You're like, you're done with it or yeah, yeah. It was just gone. Yeah. It's just a day long daydreams. Okay. And that's the title of the book. Daylong Daydreams.

Daylong Daydreams. I love that. What was the name of the song? Daylong Daydreams is a great title for a book. Dang. You're like, wait a second. This guy knows what he's talking about. That's a good title for a book.

He has alliteration. Daylong Daydreams. I trust him. And then yesterday, I came home, and I told Rachel. I said, Rachel, I'm going to go take a dump. And she said, good. I'm going to go to Hy-Vee. And I said, while you're there, I want you to be thinking, me and you start a podcast together. I was like, how fun would that be? And it's interview style.

It's not just us two. We always have guests. I said, I think you and I are both, you definitely better than me, but I think we're both good at like asking good questions. I think we could be good interviewers. I said, I don't know what it's about. I don't know anything, but just be thinking about it. And woke up today and that went away. I know, Catherine and I know what it's about. I don't know anything, but just be thinking about it. Oh, yeah. And woke up today and that went away. I know. Catherine and I have talked about it too. Yeah.

What can we do? We could talk about homeschooling. We could talk about parenting. And it's always like, we don't know that much. Or I don't know if I have time to do that. I don't know if we want to get in a fight about this. Yeah. Is the whole thing about that?

I mean, how big is the well there? Exactly. How much do people care? How much do like you know how much do we know about this so my first idea yesterday i was like what if we only interviewed people who had like very like unique personality quirks like yes they have ocd but the way like the things they're obsessed about are like things you've never heard of or whatever yeah r. Rachel was like, I'm just going to stop you there. I don't know ethically if I can really dive into that. Like if I can like be a, like what, why is that? I don't know exactly. I was like, you're right. Forget it. Okay. Next idea. Then I came up with, uh, was what did I say? Oh, make you laugh, make you cry. So we bring on, what was it again? We bring on people who've

always wanted to be standup comedians. Okay. So we give them a chance was it again? We bring on people who've always wanted to be stand-up comedians. Okay. So we give them a chance to make us laugh. Okay. And then in the end, we really dive into them. And we like, who are you? Like, what was your childhood? Like, what needs in your life are not being met?

And we try to make them cry. You try to break them down. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Make you laugh, make you cry. That's fair. But it's really it just hits all the emotions i feel like most comedians it sounds like have pretty like you know rough childhoods or something something comedy's a vice for something yeah yeah and so you could

that you're onto something there yeah that's fun and then rachel had uh i said who are we like what is our what is like what do we even have you know between the two of us and rachel said the people please your podcast i was like that's fun ppp i don't know what we do do we even have, you know, between the two of us? And Rachel said, the people pleaser podcast. I was like, that's fun. PPP. I don't know what we do, but yeah, the PPP,

you know me. Yeah, you know me. So, so you might still start one. Uh, yeah, I guess so.

Yeah. I'll wake up tomorrow and think of something else, but. I love that. I mean, I think I admire the fact that you can be doing so many things, but also be trying to think of something else. Like to me,

I'm more of like a, let's, let's have what we have and like do it well. And you're like, and I don't think I necessarily never think those things, but it sounds like you think that way five times a week. Yeah. It's definitely just one of those personality things. Just like whatever, however you want to describe it. But yeah, my personality is more wired to the next thing. Yeah. Or, you know, dreaming your personality is more wired to doing thing. Yeah. Or, you know, dreaming. Your personality's more wired to doing, probably. Yeah. I was gonna say,

I think I'm in a constant state of daydreaming, specifically about just like shooting like a narrative, like short film. $100,000 budget, $100,000 marketing. Something like that. But now it's been a little more like music related recently. Anything with me involved? Maybe.

Long pause. We'll see. I mean, I have a lot of talented friends. And they have a little more time on their hands. I don't know. Definitely, yeah. And when I've thought about doing high production videos and stuff, I'm always like, Jake would be involved somehow.

Yes. You did it, buddy. I don't get to rap. Dang it. Well, you don't know. Well. Have you ever seen a high quality rap video? Never.

I have. Oh. You could do it. You could be in it, buddy. Never. I thought we were going? Never. I have. Oh, you could do it. You could be in it, buddy. Never. I thought we were gonna make the first one. I think,

uh, yeah, that's why we, they need us. They need, if not us, then who, if not us,

then, okay, here's a, here's a random, this is, I wasn't planning on talking about this cause I forgot about it. Uh, but it doesn't,

it's not gonna make us cry, but it's kind of a more serious topic. I want to get your thoughts on it. I'll cry if you need me to. Okay, well, first of all, I'm on a Ben Rector kick right now. I've been talking about it for a while, still just really enjoying him.

And do you know the song very well by him, Heroes? Oh. I miss my old heroes. Yeah. Okay, really cool song, really pretty song. Yes, okay, but like... I miss my old heroes. So he's talking about...

Maybe I'll pull up the lyrics real quick. Um, but he's basically talking about how like you grow up and you, you lose your old heroes. Yeah. He talks about his old youth pastor. Yes. Um, and yeah, I miss my old heroes. I had to give them all away. I miss my old heroes. God, I wish they would have stayed. They could have stayed because it turns out that the hardest part of growing up is not getting old. It's learning how the real world goes. And then, yeah, I missed my Bible study later. Yeah. All these different things. Don't know if he still talks to Jesus, but his wife's remarried now. And I think he sells garage door. Like anyway, all that, like, I was just thinking about this and I was like, I think what I,

I don't know, maybe as a dad slash as a, I don't know, whatever. I, I, I think I want to cultivate and like treasure my kids innocence so much. Cause it sounds like basically he's just saying like, Hey, I got hardened to the world a little bit.

I miss all these old times. He's got a lyric in there about when his parents got divorced and how that was like, uh, his parents. Um, no, I don't know. I see. There's something about divorce. Yeah, you're right. Um, before parents't know. I see.

There's something about divorce. Yeah, you're right. Before parents got divorced. Yeah. I think just in general, like the idea of anyway, I was like, I don't think his parents are divorced,

but just like the idea of like, just capturing innocent or like contain containing innocence, shelter, sheltering your kids, whatever you want to call it. And I think, I don't think that this is exactly what makes you special or what makes Scott special, but I think you guys still have the innocence of like, Hey, I can do anything. Yeah. Like we can,

I can, I can make video. I can make music. I can do this. Like, and I don't think that Scott's the exact same way, but I think Scott's so, so excited about every little thing. He has like little passions for everything, which who else does that? Kids, like children have such passion and excitement about little things and little toys and like all these different things. And we just lose that over time. And I'm like, and I don't think, I don't think you have to, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know exactly how to like describe it. It sounds like it'd be a cool talk. If you really iron out what you want to say and a couple things rhyme, you'd have a good talk in your hands.

And then the deeper thing is he misses his old heroes because it seems like maybe those people aren't heroes anymore or maybe they're just not in his life. And then I'm like, okay, if you are affecting the next generation, be the kind of person that truly is a hero to them.

Does that make sense? If you're in a position where you're going to have an impact, be a hero persona. Yeah. I'm thinking like you and I did youth ministry forever. And it's like, I don't want them to think, I don't know if Brad's still a Christian. I don't know if Brad's a good husband anymore. He doesn't have the hero tendencies or characteristics that I thought he used to have. Right. It's like, oh man, I guess I was hardened by this guy. It's like, no, be I guess I was hardened by this guy. You know, like, it's like, no, like be worthy of, you know, something greater for people that they can look back on and be like, no, it's not innocence. It's just certain people are good. I don't know. Like,

yeah, I think that way sometimes I'm trying to, I'm trying to get it all out. I can't figure it out exactly, but I'll think about like someone who was a middle schooler when I was at K West and they probably did look up to me a lot. I was the guy in front of them, breakfast, lunch, dinner. I was in charge and I was doing all the fun stuff. And like, yeah, it's natural. They would look up to me, but it's like, I hope they wouldn't. If I saw them now, they would be like, man, why was I so like obsessed with you back then? And hopefully it would still be a feeling of like, I'm glad of who you turned into. Now I don't regret some of those feelings I had or some of the trust I had in you to tell me about Jesus or whatever it is, or to help me through my problems because

look at you, you've continued to like live life in a great way. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I just think, I look back at the song and it's a sweet song. He's so good at like eliciting this nostalgia in songs. Oh yeah, old friends. Oh, exactly. Time would please, can we play it at the end of the audio version of the song, of old friends. Oh, exactly. Tymon, please, can we play it at the end of the audio version of the song of this episode?

Okay, fine. Yes. We talked about Tymon's Old Town Road as well. Both of them. Dang it. That's why I was begging. That's why I was begging.

YouTube version, Old Town Road, audio version. Okay. Take what you want. Yeah, YouTube, that thing's not copyrighted. Yeah.

Tymon's version. Anyway, just been thinking about it and I'm like, man, I don't want my kids to say that. I miss my old heroes. I remember when I used to look up to him. I remember my dad. He was a good guy until he wasn't. It's like, oh, dang. I want my kids to be like, oh, no, dad is my hero.

You know what I mean? Yeah. So anyway, just thinking about it. I'm with you. So laugh and cry, baby. Make make you laugh make you cry yeah i'm with you um let's see what shall we talk about already talked about the fun prank on a phone call running the mile um we uh we talked about doing a rashly strong opinions this episode would you you like to do those? Sure. Yeah, let me pull mine up. You got any?

I have zero. I couldn't think of a single thing I felt strongly about. But then I have two sets of things that came to mind. Okay. One, I'm going to be speaking on behalf of Rachel. These are just things that consistently come up in Rachel's life that she does feel strongly about. So these are...

I'm Rachel's proxy. Rachel, not a very picky eater. She will eat anything. She will eat expired syrup. You know, it's just a lot of gross vegetables, whatever. But the girl hates ketchup. She can't stand how it tastes. She can't even believe that how it smells.

She like gets mad when she smells ketchup. She's like, oh, I can't believe they make things that smell that way. I can't even imagine like, I mean, I'm sure it smells like a taste, but I can't ever, it's not like a way. I can't even imagine. I'm sure it smells like a taste, but I can't ever. It's not like a strong smelling thing, is it? It's all right. Yeah. Mustard is like, oh, there's mustard on there.

I will say that. I'm like, I'm surprised you like mustard and don't like ketchup because mustard seems more polarizing. It's a little more acidic and a little more spicy. Ketchup has sugar in it. Yeah. Okay. She hates ketchup. Can't stand ketchup.

She just gets mad thinking about it okay um rachel's recent thing lately is she just so our trash day is wednesday so tuesday's the day we have to take it out which i that is like my duty like i am always trash guys because rachel has the nose of a you know basset hound or whatever um but rachel is always like i i swear it's always tuesday how can it always be Tuesday? How is it always trash day tomorrow? Like, I don't feel that way. I don't think it is always Tuesday, but she feels so irrationally strong.

Every time I think about what day it is, it's always Tuesday. I don't understand this. The only time I think about the day, it's just classic, just always Tuesday. I do have like a little bit of a rational fear of like, wait, is it Tuesday tonight? Like, do I have to need?

No, it's Monday. Okay. Like I had that feeling today when I woke up. I was like, because usually when we podcast, it's Wednesday morning. I'm like, I got to take the trash out. No, I'm good. That's funny.

She always feels like it's Tuesday. It's always Tuesday. Time's flying. We're recording on a Tuesday. Next time, I think she went to Ron, but I'll have her come in here and see what she thinks. How are you doing today? It's Tuesday.

It's Tuesday,, like always. Just another day, like all of them. Might have mentioned this in our story episodes, but Rachel had a good point. She's sick and tired of teachers, moms, you name it, talking about my house, my classroom, my fill in the blank. You don't want to see it it is a zoo she's like you go to a zoo there's nothing going on everybody's asleep that place is well kept

the place is quiet most time you can't see anything you're like it says there's a there's a bush-tailed monkey lizard yeah where is it yeah right i don't even know if it's in the exhibit find the students in here yeah so if your house is a zoo, I assume everyone's asleep. Sounds nice. Yeah, sounds awesome. That is such a good point. She should call it a petting zoo. Petting zoos are wild. My house is a petting zoo.

Whoa! There's little pellets everywhere. I don't know if they're poop or food. These kids were crazy today. It was like a petting zoo in my classroom. Woo-wee! Yeah, that's when it gets wild. At Deanna Rose, you can feed the goats and stuff or feed like, yeah, they're a little good. Kind of aggressive. They're not super aggressive. Yeah. They're, they're, yeah. They're, they're like coming up to you. See, and you have a

bottle and yeah, Rosie's getting run over. I remember, I remember our parents always saying that we couldn't buy the food. We would just like shake the thing and just like try to get like, you can get them though. Pretty loose. Yeah. Yeah. They're pretty loose. They come out like the vending machine,

essentially like shake it. Yeah. Same thing. Like a gumball comes out of something similar to that. It is like shake it. Just like put your hand, like kind of up the thing. If you can just like shake it.

Yeah. You get some food. Yeah, man. Oh, that's funny. Yeah. It is a zoo.

Oh, you mean like half the things aren't even open right now? Yeah. The lion looks dead. Cool. The lion looks dead. Last one. Rachel swears up and down that Dasani sums up with Dasani bottled water and gives her cold sores.

Dude, I don't know about cold sores, but Dasani bottled water is like… Canker sores. Whatever. Something like that, yeah. It's like widely known as the worst bottled water. Really? I think. It has a distinct taste at least.

So I don't, I like, I'll back her up on that. Those are some of Rachel's that I could think of. Okay. Strong opinions. Ratchet's strong opinion about Catherine from Brad. We have, just like every married couple, we'll call it 10 pillows on our bed when you make them. We're talking all these throw pillows, but every single night that I sleep, I sleep with

my one pillow that I put my head on, and then I hold one pillow. I'm a two-pillow kind of guy. You hold a pillow? I hold a pillow. I would say you have not lost your innocence at all. That is your new teddy bear. It is. Oh, 100%. I would love to cuddle with Catherine. She's not cuddling me. So I'll cut it with this pillow. I don't care who I get it from. Daddy's going to get it. I just need a pillow. Yeah. I need something, some kind of affection. So we, so what, for whatever reason, Catherine, every time she makes the bed, you know, she doesn't use a pillow along with hers. And so therefore this, this pillow that I'm holding, my squeezy pillow, is the odd man out.

And so she makes our bed every single day and takes my odd man out pillow and throws it in the corner and it bothers me. Because then, because every single night, I usually go to bed before her,

so then I'm taking off all the pillows from the bed. Get it ready. And then I throw them all in the corner and if I forget to grab my squeezy pillow first, it's buried underneath. And I'm like, ducklings at the bottom of the buried underneath.

And I'm like, just put it on top of the other ones. No one else is seeing Jake's never been in our bedroom until like two weeks ago. I didn't notice. Yeah. No, no one notices that bed.

So anyway, rationally strong opinion. Why, why you got to put my squeezy pill on the ground? That's fun. I get it. Yeah. I hear you.

Uh, Tymon, you got any, or you want me to just keep going? I don't have any. Okay's fun. I get it. Yeah. I hear you. Uh, timing, you got any, or you want me to just keep going? I don't have any. Okay. Uh, I, I saw some people saying like, Oh, rational opinion is just negative. So I have some positive ones. All right. Um, first one, Catherine and I watched, uh, the fugitive the other night, uh, Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee, just great, great movie. And so I just put the early nineties. We talked about golden age of television. I think the early nin we talked about golden age of television i think the early 90s is the golden age of like i don't know about movies in general but i think it's moved like realistic quote-unquote movies like as in like i don't know if it has the best

sci-fi movies ever but like we we made a list of all these different movies we wanted to watch from the 90s a lot of john grisham's a lot lot of John Grisham's. Yeah, just the Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones kind of marshals and whatever, all these different like agent movies. I mean, you know, the Tommy Boy, Home Alone, Age was great. Just so many fun ones. Die Hard is so good. So I just love those movies. They had a good era for movies.

Great era for movies. I'm ready to defend anybody that says otherwise um another one i just updated my iphone last night and i don't like the texting on it that's negative what happened um i was showing time and yeah like if you go and you say what's going on or something like that what's going on and i said yeah if you put what's going on or something like that. What's going on? And I said, yeah, if you put what's going until you put on the underline in blue, what's okay. It's just, it's just a little bit anxiety inducing. It's like, Hey, let me get to the end of my sentence before you say this isn't right. Or this is misspelled. Just like, trust me for a second here. Have you noticed? I just download. I don't know

if it's like new to everybody, but it does the same thing with like putting red underlines under things until you're done typing it. It's like just, let's see what's going. Oh yeah.

That's been going on forever. Now that I'm, now that I'm seeing it, looking at it. Yeah. I just updated and it bothers the heck out of me. I don't like it.

It's like, okay, just chill out a little bit here. I'm seeing it, looking at it, yeah. See, I just updated, and it bothers the heck out of me. I don't like it. It's like, hey, just chill out a little bit here. I don't like you type in the letters W-E-R-E, and before it knows anything about your sentence, it changes it to weir. Oh, does it? The contraction. It's like, I spelled a word perfectly fine. Why don't you wait and see what I'm up to,

and then you can change it. I think that happens for me, too. To automatically change change it as wild you can give me a red squiggly and think oh or blue squiggly oh there might be an issue here that's fine but to just assume ah you meant you meant something with a contraction and you just didn't put it there no i spelled a word a very common word correctly and it never goes back drives me now i gotta do it yeah i got i gotta do it myself then i gotta drive all the way back home, and I got to take care of it. Gas ain't free. What about, I mean, I want to know, people from St. Louis,

how do you spell your city in text form? Because every time I put street, like S-T, always corrects to at. Every time. Shoot. How bothersome would that be if you just write out the whole saint? Because every time you see it in typed writing, it's S-T, Louis. How bothersome would that be if you just write out the whole saint? Because every time you see it in typed writing, it's S.T. Lewis. Yeah.

I don't know. I don't think. Is it a geo thing? Like if you're in the area, it knows. Anyway, another one. This one is a truly hot take. I think that lattes that are made with whole milk actually make me more tired than they do energize me. I think the milk hurts me more than the espresso helps me. I've never felt like negative with whole milk. Whereas like if I have a cold brew

from main street roasters, if I have a hot coffee from main street roaster, whatever, like just straight coffee, I feel energized afterwards. Now, have you compared this with almond milk or different types of milk? I haven't, but I would assume yeah, no, I haven't. But in my head, it seems like whole milk is just

heavier and therefore is more likely to tire you out. I don't think I've ever noticed being tired after drinking milk. I don't know I've ever noticed being tired after drinking milk. I don't know. Okay. What's your freaking point? Yeah.

Are you saying like I've never thought of milk as like a like a melatonin inducing caffeine? Yeah. Oh, I think so. Really?

I think it makes you like sluggish. Huh? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh. Hey. I think. Now I'm. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh. Hey. I think. Now I'm second guessing it, but yeah.

Okay. If you have enough, which I think lattes usually have a decent amount of milk. And whole. Whole. Now whole. Whole. Think about whole. I have no idea.

I never, even when I was drinking lattes whatever like I never felt energized from coffee I've just like it's just a fun drink and what do you guys yeah you usually drink lattes you usually drink what well I've never

from any coffee like in any context and like energy drinks I've never I don't think I've maybe once or twice specifically felt different at all

really yeah just doesn't affect you one way or the other gotcha drinking a Lonnie New on an empty stomach you'll be buzzing and shaking.

Buzzing for days. Is that what you drank before you recorded at one point? There was one time. You were just like struggling all day? Oh, no, that was just, yeah, last week when I was saying, yeah. Oh, yeah. I'm excited to see people if anybody's like commenting on that. Yeah.

No, that was a bubbler. Bubblers got 69 milligrams of caffeine alani's got 200 yeah and uh yeah it's the only energy drink it tastes so good so you just you down it but then yeah my hands were kind of shaking it's like a melted popsicle yes it is the cherry slush one i'll pick one up at qt on the way home maybe we'll We'll see. Well, purge beforehand. I said empty stomach. I'm sorry. Yeah, wait. Prove it, too. Yeah, it doesn't matter. All right, a few more, just real quick.

I take more joy in building a fire in my fireplace, or just in general, than the average person. I absolutely love building a fire. That's a fun, almost like, subtopic. Like, what are things that you feel like, surely I enjoy this more than the average person? Yes. I don't know if I'm truly better. I'm than katherine at it okay not that she's bad but like i'm i'm pretty good but i don't know if it's like well brad is topped here at this but i'm i'm okay and i love the the idea of like creating something out of nothing

and all of a sudden it's thriving and it's's almost burned down the house. That's cool. That's a cool feeling. Yeah, dude. Building a fire is very fun. It's so fun. Yeah, it's fun to feel in control of it. Yeah. Yeah. Especially when it's like,

man, at first this was so hard to even get a little flicker, and now look at that thing. We are flickering. We are booming. I think mine would be packing. I really enjoy packing. Really? I love.

Oh, I hate packing. Oh, I get excited to do it. I love even packing up for like, hey, it's going to be a full day today, so I'm going to need to pack my first outfit from when we play pickleball, but I know for sure pickleball will go in here. I get to pack two outfits. That's fun. Love packing because it's about the future, and I love the future. Okay, is that what it is? It's not like the

physical act of like compartmentalizing perfectly in there? No, yeah. Folding doesn't do it for me. I think it's preparation that I get excited about. So then packing for your way home, not exciting? Correct. Okay, got it. Yeah, packing up. Packing up ain't packing, phony phrase.

Packing up. You can pack up. You can't pack down. Yeah. A few other rashly strong opinions. Speaking of coffee from Main Street Roasters, I go to Main Street Roasters East every once in a while. It's local.

It's close to my house. The dark gray mugs at Main Street Roasters, I like them way more than the light gray mugs. By Main Street Roasters, I mean McLean's. But they should sell Main Street Roasters beans. I don't know. I love the dark gray mugs. It just, there's one time they only had light gray mugs

and I got a to-go cup instead. Why does it matter that much? Simply aesthetic? I don't know. Yeah, I think so. It just feels warmer, feels better. They're slightly different look, I think. Not just the color of them,

but the handles are a little different. I don't know. Huh. I'm sorry. I don't know. I'm sorry. I don't know how much to add. I've never been a mug. Have you ever been like, I had this favorite cup. Do you have a favorite cup at your house?

Not as an adult. As a kid, I'd go to my grandparents' house and they had a Batman glass. I really liked that one. There was also one shaped as a boot that me and Caitlin would split. Oh, I forgot those. We'd share the boot glass. Yeah, the boot was fun. I bet Gulf shores at Lambert's are going to have some boot glasses. Yeah. Chocolate milk out of the boot. It hits. You're trying to get that last little bit, like out of the toe, swill it. The boot. Oh man. That's the kind of thing that's going to be so

fun as a grandparent is like, you're going to have so many silly things like that that your grandkids are just going to love you know i want to yeah a lot to be boot themed like yeah like you're gonna you could get one of cheese one of those fish you know on the on the wall that sings to you yeah like that's annoying to have at your house like i don't want hattie to play that every single day of our lives but grandparents house so fun. What was the song you would always sing? What was it? It was some country song,

wasn't it? It was some Big Mouth Billy Bass Don't Worry Be Happy. Big Mouth Billy Bass. Great product. Brad, as a grandpa, just says, only dark gray cups. Yeah, I got you the best ones. Just make everything about color.

Dark gray mugs. I mean, it's funny how much our kids already like, like there's a, we have a mug from Raising Cane's that has a puppy on it. Then we have another one from Kona Ice that has a penguin on it. Those kids fight over those two cups. Those are coveted.

They love them. Yeah. So last irrational strong opinion is actually about cups. I want my cups in the dishwasher to be loaded from the back to the front so that I always know how much room I have when I'm loading dishwasher. Oh, that makes sense. Who says otherwise to that?

Who do you think? Mom? Yeah. She's just throwing them in there real quick. Gotcha. I'm all about like back to front. I'm also about compartmentalizing my uh silverware you ever do that like put all the forks in one thing

oh yeah i tried it once i think after you mentioned it at one point and it it was a lot of extra effort i feel like on the front end and not that much worth it how hard is it what do you mean extra effort i mean everything is it's just i you mean extra effort? I mean, everything is I'm not dealing with you today, man. I think it's probably mainly because I'm typically the person that loads the dishwasher and unloads, but I'm not

typically the person that's putting the silverware back in the drawers. That's kind of like passed off to someone else. So then it's not really worth it for me. So you're selfish. Yes. Okay. Wait, what would you say the benefit is on the back end to compartmentalizing?

Unloading. You just grab like a handful? Throw all their forks together. Yeah, boom. Oh, gotcha. Instead of being like, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, fork. And then you're like,

oh man, how did I miss that fork? I swear I looked at all the forks. Hmm. Yeah. I suppose that saves a little bit of time. Oh, I'm talking seconds. Yeah. I suppose that saves a little bit of time. Oh, I'm talking seconds. Yeah. Seconds,

Jake. So those are all my irrational opinions. Fun. That's nice. Nothing about ketchup. I'll think of one. I can have an opinion on that. Ketchup.

I think ketchup is, is, is a condiment that gets diminishingly good the older you get. Like ketchup was awesome, awesome when I was 10 years old. And now I rarely use it. That's true. I go to Cane's and I get ketchup with that. No.

No, I don't eat ketchup. Cane's sauce. Yeah. There's so many other condiments out there and my kids basically, it's either dry chicken, dry, you know, whatever A cane sauce. Yeah. There's so many other condiments out there, and my kids basically, it's either dry chicken, dry, you know, whatever, or it's ketchup. I'm like, you don't know the joys of ranch. There is something called honey mustard out there for you,

and you're going to love it someday. Yeah, cane sauce. They've never even tried Chick-fil-A sauce. They were like, no, I don't want to try it. Yeah, I'd wait. It'd ruin their innocence. Exactly. Yeah, brain will explode out the back of their head.

They have Chick-fil-A sauce. So maybe Rachel's just wiser and more mature than us. And so she's... I would have this childish thing. She's grown out of it, yeah, before us. Yeah. Yeah. She's all grown.

That's it. That's nice. Other things in my life that have just consistently been happening. I've been recognized twice this week while moving, like while being in motion. Oh, fun. The first one was while driving in the Meadowbrook parking lot.

I was literally driving parking lot, not going super fast, but a guy flagged me down. Jeans shorts. I was like, wow, never been recognized like this. Leaned over the passenger side,

shook his hand. And oh, wow. It meant over the passenger side. Yeah. Foot on the brake. Still, it was fine. And he was like really leaning in the car to shake my hand shake my hand

shake my hand and then yesterday i was waving to you while i was on my run in between the first wave and second wave a guy was like getting out of his car he was in his driveway and he goes hey as i'm running my mile i was like hey neighbor and then he was like jean shorts and i was like oh yeah really i kept running but maybe i should have talked to him i don't mile. I was like, hey, neighbor. And then he was like, jean shorts. And I was like, oh, yeah. Really? And I kept running, but maybe I should have talked to him. I don't know.

But I was like, that's awesome. Have a good one. Wow, we have neighbors, neighbor fans. Yeah, right down the road. So twice in like four days while moving, got recognized. Wow. Never heard of that before.

Currently trending. That's pretty fun. Neighbor. Yeah, it was neat. There's a guy down the street. How far, how far down was he? Pretty close. Three eighths of a mile. Okay. Three eighths of a, you know, backyard

to the end. Okay. There's a guy down the street who's, who I've met a few times. Does he drive a van? But like a cool van? No. Is this guy black? Not really. Dang. He's white.

I do know him, though. That's what I was thinking of. What's a cool van mean? It was like Matt Gray. It looked sweet. Like a minivan, though? No, sorry. Like a cargo van, but it was Matt Gray.

It was sweet. Cool. Is this van the color that Brad would like if it was a top-off? If it was a cylinder with a top-off. I was like, man, that sounds pretty sweet. I'll take a pick today. I'll do my run. A cool van. You telling that next time?

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Or sorry, with most of my hobbies with acai bowls yet. But I'm on the way. I've been going to Smoothie King, and they make one of the worst acai bowls I've ever had. But it's so close to the house that I find myself getting it a couple times a week. What makes it so bad? It's not fresh, really. It's just like it's more of a mix. Like ice cream consistency.

It doesn't feel like that healthy. It doesn't feel like clean ingredients. just the fruit's kind of weird. But it's just like, whatever. It's still fruit. It's still a fun way to get fruit in your system. So it's tolerable. So I get it every now and then.

And I forgot what I've been up to. Maybe playing pickleball or something. But I look it up. I was like, ooh, a little fruit on the way home would be kind of nice. It's like 8 p.m. when I'm leaving Meadowbrook. I see, oh, they don't close until 9. Perfect. Get there.

Oh, no. I know. I know this has happened a couple times before. Oh, no. This is a different story. This is a little different ending. Sorry, let me listen to the whole know this has happened a couple times before. Oh, no. This is a different story. This is a little different ending. Sorry, let me listen to the whole story before I think I know what you're going to say. And I was out of breath talking to Scott and Isaac in Smoothie King.

I said, for a minute and a mile. And no, that's fair of you to think that they're going to turn me down. So I said, I'm going to take the acai, you know, Barry Hayes or whatever. And they were like uh let's see i i know sometimes we don't i'm going to talk to my manager has to bring the manager in right away like oh wow okay yeah and so uh manager comes out and it's like you want an acai bowl i was like yeah and you know i'm like double checking maybe they do close at 8.30 or something. I don't know. And she was like, okay, what time is it now?

And I was like, 8.30. And she goes, oh, we stopped selling Acai bowls at 8.25. And in my head, I'm thinking, that sounds like you just made that number up because you asked me what time it was. It wasn't like this is policy. What time is it? Oh, 8.29 is when we stop. Oh my gosh.

So she said 8.25. And I was like, oh, bummer, I guess. That's, do you guys close right now? She's like, no, we're open till nine. But acai bowls, we stopped serving at 825. And I was like, what are the odds? That's crazy. And I, what did I ask or something?

I was, I think I was just like, cause I really was craving. I mean, it's a 20 minute drive to get there. I was like, oh, I could have had something closer. Yeah. Dang it. Had I known it's always like, there's no way to make an acai bowl right now. And she goes, well, I would have to go back and get the fruit. And I said, well, I wouldn't want you to do that. God forbid you'd have to go get the fruit.

It's a huge store. I really did. I was like, oh, well, I mean, that sounds like a lot of work. So I wouldn't want you to have to go get the fruit. The fruit. It's really what she said. I would have to go out. I would have to go back and get the fruit out. It's like, oh, my gosh. Well, don't. Okay, sorry. I didn't realize. Anyway, you guys are only open for 30 more minutes. So that would

15 minutes there, 15 minutes back. Yeah, which wouldn't make sense. Yeah, yeah. If she meant to go to the grocery store to get the fruit, that's one thing. She gestured to the back kitchen. I was like, yeah. I mean, I assume that's where you keep it. Oh, I have to go get it.

It's like, what kind of stuff are you putting in your normal smoothies? Like there's no fruit in those? Yeah, exactly. Why is it just the acai bowl? Because she said, how did she phrase it?

There was some sentence at some point where she's like, the acai station gets torn down. We break it down at 825. So I assume like the, I don't know what even materials are involved but it's it's all back there they'd have to get it back out i mean listen here's here's my take on all of that is like this is a new one what's that oh sorry it's just saying like it was it was refreshing that it wasn't just like oh we're closed early it's like oh this is just my specific product. I think it's totally, and I'm not trying to be insensitive to people in these jobs or whatever, but I think it's totally fine. Let's

say for instance, at Chick-fil-A you close at 10, it's totally fine to start cleaning up the dining room at 9 20 or whatever, because likely, you know, at, you know, from nine 20 to 10 o'clock, there's not going to be a whole lot of people in there. Sure. But if a party of 40 come in and they use the place that you just cleaned, I don't think you should be like, sorry, you can't sit there anymore. I just cleaned it. Because, like, you're still open. So, like, I totally respect the idea of, like, listen, people don't usually order acai bowls, you know, this time of night. We're probably going to be fine.

Cut a corner here. Let's take a chance. Yeah, let's be more efficient. Then once it does close at nine, we can get out of here by nine 30. But then if someone comes in and they're like, Hey, I'd like this. You're like, bummer. That stinks. But I have to go. I have, we should still serve it. That is a fantastic point. Like I, I totally, I'm all about like, Hey, look at patterns and be like, okay, it's pretty unlikely this is going to happen. So let's try to maximize our efficiency.

There's not that many people here. Let's break down the station. We're chicken and pickle. We could shut down the chicken pot pie station. Yes. Any time of day, because no one is ordering that. We can just go ahead and assume no one wants that.

No one's doing public pot pies. No, that's a great point. Yeah. And yeah, it's like, if you can find a way to be a little more efficient based on data, based on patterns, by all means, do it. But then, yeah.

But then when your pattern is wrong or there's an outlier, you're like, look, hey. You don't make up a time five minutes before the current time. Because that's the thing. Yeah, I bet they broke it down at eight o'clock, not 825.

Yeah, say, how long has that been broken down? And honestly, it's not a big deal if it wasn't the manager, right? If this is some girl making $9 an hour, I understand why she's not incentivized to make me an acai bowl. Right. Because what's it to her? But when the manager is the one telling me this,

it's like, that's interesting. And you know what? I'm so much more fired up to build Bondi bowls at Kansas City. You're going down, sister. We'll see you on the other side, sister. I'm like, you know what? Who's next door? I want to buy the building from him.

I want to go next door to you. Is this the Shawnee one, you know what? Is this who's your who's next door? I want to buy the building from him. I want to I want to go next door to you. Is this the gym or the Shawnee one? Yeah, you went to. Yeah. Yeah, we should we should burn it to the ground arson. No, you make one of those fires. You're always talking about. I just want to test out the theory now and go at 825

dude. Try it. I think it was a Saturday night. Maybe but yeah, yeah 30. I we broke down the station. Also the idea of oh, we can't make that. I have to go get the ingredients try it. I think it was a Saturday night, maybe. But yeah, yeah, eat 30. Ah, we broke down the station. Also the idea of, oh, we can't make that. I'd have to go get the ingredients for it. How do you normally make things? That's your job. That's the thing that you guys... I'd have to use what I use to make it, to make it.

Your whole business, that's what you do, is make their business out of ingredients. So it's not like I asked for something that's very rare. I don't know. We already put the M&M's away at McDonald's. It's like, all right, I ordered the one thing that takes M rare. Like, I don't know. We already put the M&Ms away at McDonald's. It's like, all right, I ordered the one thing that takes M&Ms, a McFlurry. I just, yeah. It's like I ordered 95% of your menu involves fruit, I think. It's just, if it's on your, if you, because they, for the longest time, they had smoothies,

no acai bowls. Now they added acai bowls. That's, hey, yeah. If you're offering it, offer it. I'm ready to give you business. Yeah. It's like, I have money. Let me give it to you. Yeah. All right. I don't know. I'm sure that people in the food service industry might disagree and be like, no, dude. Yeah. They probably have their reasons. And I'm not trying to be insensitive to anything, but I'm just saying like, if it's open, it's open. If it's not, it's not. Oh yeah. Exactly. What you said is exactly how I was raised. Like, sure. you want to try to take a shortcut. But if someone's in there, the number one priority is making the customer happy.

You do not turn them away and leave them unsatisfied. What a terrible way to treat people. I know. Is there any like dark horses as far as like acai bowl places that you wouldn't think are good in Kansas City? Like anybody that we haven't heard of? There's a place where one of their one of the locations maybe their only location is like in a

extremely rough part of town i mean it's like the casey mo rough okay and it's called oh the juicery place ruby jeans ruby jeans i've heard of that and rachel got me an acai bowl from there one time and it was really good. Okay. And so, and I saw their Instagram. They like supplied the Chiefs juices like before the Super Bowl or something like that. Really? So I don't know what kind of connections they have. They do see, I feel like

I see them a lot. Really? Advertising stuff. So yeah, I don't know if they have another location or what, but yeah, their real estate plans seem interesting. It's like, why would you go there? But maybe it's working for them. Cool. Ruby Jones. But yeah. Everybody else,

pish posh. Yeah. Yeah. So a lot of it's about having fresh ingredients, obviously. That makes sense. Yeah. And don't have the blender two feet away from the cash register. Nectar. Yeah. And don't put knives in your blender so it makes it so... It just sounds like

it's like, what are you grinding in there? Take some teeth and put it in there too? It's wild. I took Joe Pfeiffer to Nectar. New friend Joe. And I was like, hey, when we get in there, I want you to pay attention to how loud it is. And he could not believe it. He's like, that is kind of crazy. He's like, so what do they do back there

if they blend out here? Great question. No great question no one knows where to keep the fruit i guess that's where they keep the fruit they can't access anyway fun little part of my week yeah didn't bother me too much it's very interesting man sorry one other thing i thought of that to start this interaction when i walked into smoothie king um it was kind of a cold night and the front door was open and i think they could see me like this is like the very beginning like my like body language like yeah it's a little cold in here we're just trying to get the smell out which is just a great

sign just to say that immediately so I don't know if that's just the smell of smoothie king or like something happened in here and they're like there was a fan blowing out the front door they just had the front door open on like a 45 degree night oh something must have happened. We're just trying to get the smell out.

Some sewer line burst or something. Yeah, I don't know. It smelled fine to me. I just smelled like Smoothie King. Yeah, which is maybe that's okay. It's got like a subway smell. I forgot about that. I've been really into Black Dog's burritos recently.

Just FYI. I don't know if you guys have been into anything recently. Dude, they're so good, though. Their breakfast burritos are... I thought McLean's had the best burrito in town, and it's really good, but this Black Dog burrito is filling. McLean's always leaves me wanting more. Really? Yeah, like one time

Jensen, Isaac, and I went there, and we all got two burritos. It was like, oh, that was good, but it was really good, but I just want another one. Is the CBS a burrito? No. That's a sandwich yeah gotcha chicken bacon sandwich but yeah anyway this burrito is unbelievable and they serve it to you whenever you want it yes that must be nice until 2 p.m i told you that story yeah i was there like i got there like noon thinking like oh but i'm not hungry yet so i'm gonna wait till a little bit later and then I go and it was only like 2 10 like they could have made an exception but you know what I saw the sign that said we stopped serving you know food at 2 p.m. and I

didn't whine about it I can honor that I was like oh because we live in a nation of laws and if you would have said oh we'll make it for you I would say gladly thank you but I was I thought I was like dang that's bummer okay so that's bum So that's bummer. That's bummer. That's just bummer. Um, something, I don't even know if I want to talk about this cause it's not even, well, the, the burrito thing was super riveting. So this is pretty exciting too. But, uh, have you ever heard of something called fire cider? No, I didn't think you would have, because I hadn't heard of it until a couple of weeks ago. Let's look it up real quick to see what it says. So Catherine, you know, has been all sorts of sick congestion stuff lately. Uh, Jackie Burton, juice man, Chad, they're married. Jackie's like, Hey, Chad just made

some fire cider. Uh, do you want to come pick it up? Say, is that where we're burning smoothie King with? And Catherine's yeah. Catherine like said it like it was like matter of fact like i should know fire cider um and dude it is i i would pay you 30 to drink it i would to drink a shot of it i was gonna say the first sentence i'm reading sounds great the rest of the sentences sound awful let me tell you what i'm seeing here fire cider is used to boost immunity help with digestion and warm you up on a cold day well that sounds awesome sure what's in it sign me up the basic recipe combines horseradish with root vegetables like ginger garlic and onions which are then dissolved in apple cider vinegar hot peppers are added to make it fiery dude oh it is. Both how crazy it like terrible it tastes, but how much it just, it, it, it works, dude.

Like I took a few shots of it and it's one of those things where it just involuntarily you just go, Oh, you know, one of those, you had fireballs, but you had, and then you just like, but it like clears up your sign is your sinus i mean there's something in it that just like yeah it's all those things and yeah chad was like yeah put some serrano peppers i in there she's going rogue just having fun oh yeah dude it was wild this also on the internet says uh fire cider is probably going to cause more harm than good if you have health issues like acid reflux or indigestion this combination of ingredients is likely going to make it worse. Oh, interesting. Cause I have not experienced in the acid reflux and I not like I'm prone to it or anything, but I'm a big guy that eats cheese sometimes.

That's what Bo's been doing lately. It's kind of like laughing as he says stuff like, and, and, you know, sometimes know sometimes i just uh i eat cheese sometimes so anyway it's it's a it's a wild thing and like i would i would take true joy in watching you squirm through i would not like it even apple cider vinegar on its own is enough to almost make me throw up oh really yes yeah i cannot the stuff. But do you drink it straight up? I have in the past. It's been okay. In the past when I was younger and like, I don't know if it's still for my younger siblings, but at one point it was a punishment. Oh, I'd like drink like a, you say those words to me again. You had some ACV or something like we would like have like disobeyed or done something wrong. I was the

really. Yeah. And so it was horrible. Like some people get their mouth washed out with soap and just take a shot of ACV. Yeah. This, I was looking into the shelf life of fire cider. It says, well, if you can keep from drinking it all right away, fire cider can last up to 18 months

in a cool dark cupboard. Idiots in the cupboard. But may darken over time. Oh. I like to use mine within 12 months and create a fresh batch in the late summer slash fall. Dude. That's it. Anything that can last that long.

Gross. No. Not anything like that. Okay. Water. ACV. All that stuff. Vinegar.

Vinegar. That stuff's lasting a long time. Yeah. Gross. Yeah. I know. Vinegar. You know, honey. long time. Yeah, gross. Yeah, I know. Vinegar. You know, honey.

I don't know. Yeah, honey's good. It's something. It's something else. And I'm sure, yeah, people out there are like, that sounds like the worst thing ever. And it is, but it isn't. It's like, I think my personality is just like,

I can endure this really quick, gross thing. Same with like the- The productivity shots. Remember we had those? Do you ever have those right here? I know Tom had some. Oh, that wasn't that bad. Yeah, Rachel like did not like the taste of it.

I was like, just down it real quick. Yeah, yeah, just get it over with. Same with like cold showers. I'll do that for a minute. And if it's really gonna boost me up for the rest of the day, sure. Oh, I can't do cold showers for a minute. I can't do it.

You just be a punishment when you say bad words. I'll come back. Hey, get in the shower, come out when you're done drinking your drink. Okay. I'll come back next week having done at least one. Okay. Wow. Cold shower. My, my advice is do it at the very end of your shower and don't turn on the hot water again afterwards. And don't get your head right. And don't put it. I've started putting it on top of my head for like the last second, but I used to put it. I used to just put my whole head under and it would give me headaches. Oh yeah.

That's what it's called. I've, when I've tried it in the past, I think I've done like with my head under it. So that's a good, good to know. No, because that just like freezes your,

like everything. Yeah. So bad. It's, but, but after you do it, you feel like same with fire. So you just feel like you're stronger than you used to be.

It's like you just thrown up or something. Yeah. It's like you get this like little bit of like boost. You go down so you can go up it's like okay i can i can withstand that nasty i can i can do a little and then you feel so good afterwards so yeah anyway when this episode comes out i think um march madness will start tomorrow does Does that sound right, Tymon? Uh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I think so, too. Maybe it's even like the first, however many, like first four in or whatever.

Last four in. Start Wednesday. Yeah, there might be a little play in game. Who freaking cares? Anyway, if it has already been posted by the time this is coming out, the Facebook group, whatever, just pay attention. If you want to be in our little ghosty pool, our friend, fan, listener

Jillian Crosdale is heading it up again. So I think there's going to be two different kind of leagues. One with traditional scoring, one with upset scoring. Ryan Guy offered to give the winner of one of the pools a 25 amazon gift card oh wow the other winner i think is going to get a very custom exclusive one of one uh like champion like

ghost runners march madness t-shirt that's so fun that jillian's got to create with the help of maybe some other ghosties so anyway hard to plan some of that stuff because we're recording this like eight days before then but just be looking for. If you're into that kind of thing, get on Facebook. I did write down in my notes this week, this had to be the most Facebook group post ever. It's popping and it's so fun. It's so, like, that's my biggest joy on the internet right now is going to facebook.com

and just letting the feed just show me what you should. You gotta check it every few hours. You're gonna be very behind. It's crazy. It's so fun. Everybody get on Facebook and check out the page okay we talked last year about the ai generated things from jake allen he has since generated quite a few more what's your favorite one you say last year he did say last year i was gonna let it fly yeah i'm sorry hey well just i'll bleep that well was it last are we sure sure? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I did see that he made the one, your face on the Kevin James meme. Yeah. He's got his hands in his pockets. And Isaac commented that he saved it in his phone for future use. Yeah. My favorite is the one where Tymon's kind of peeking around the corner. Yeah. The Pixar one. The Pixar one.

I really liked that one a lot. I think I'll go with Tommy Boy. That was a really good one. Yeah. I didn't look necessarily a lot like David Spade, but you and Chris Farley meshed was amazing. He also did one of me of both of them, which is funny. Oh, yeah.

It was like, I think that's a Chris Farley picture. That's not me. But like the Pixar one now that I'm looking at again, our eyes look a little funny. Both of us look like we have cross eyes or something. But timing in the quarter just is as cute as can be. So I don't know. I kind of want to just do something with these,

figure out what we can do. Yeah. Have you hit him up yet? No. Okay. I'm going to today and just figure out like, dude. Let's talk about this. Let's do something with this. This yet? No. Okay. I'm going to today and just figure out like, dude. Let's talk about this. Let's do something.

This is too good. Yeah. Figure out something for it. We need a group text. You want to do wins of the week? I do. Hey, I got my hand up. I do.

Okay. I'm going to go first because I don't want you to steal it. Mine is technology and the fact that our podcast on Monday got saved, even though the power went out. That is a big win. That would have been, would we have just redone it all? I don't know. I would not have wanted to just retell all those stories,

redo everything. Exactly. An hour, 40, whatever. And try to like have genuine reactions again or try to make it. It's impossible. It is. It's like,

what do we do with that? It's, it's just like, I guess we just tell them what happened and record a shorter episode and say new things. Yeah. Cause yeah,

I don't want to say the same thing again. Um, so, and I was telling, we were talking about it cause like, I don't think timon's generation this is making me sound like your generation doesn't understand you need to walk up both ways

but like our generation if you didn't save something if your if your thing just crashed it's it was done we grew up manually saving things your video game your progress yeah you know control s on your first home computer totally on word totally and so yeah back in and now it's like google docs you make you you go press a backspace and it's like document saved saved got it and like oh it looks like you uh accidentally shut down do you want to restore all your pages okay yeah i do thank you um so it was just amazing that it just like shut down in a flash. Yeah. But everything was saved.

Everything was okay. Truly. I don't know. Just no one could have called. That was the weirdest thing. It was just like. Yeah. Just a normal day.

Everything goes silent and black. It was crazy. So that's my win. That's a good win. My win is I remembered that one of my really good friends has lived in kansas city for a year now i kind of forgot about it his name is david harris and uh we were trying to get some extra bodies to play football last weekend i was like oh my gosh david harris lives in kansas city he's extremely athletic he could dunk a basketball he

ran an iron man yeah i should be inviting this guy to everything I'm doing. Oh my gosh. Invited him to volleyball tonight. He can't make it. He's a little rock. But yeah, so just win of the week is like, oh my gosh, this dude that I love, I just remember they lived in Kansas City again because he didn't used to.

In fact, I don't know if he ever has, but his wife is from here and they moved back. And I did programs with him at K-West in 2015. So we spent every day together for a summer. Yeah. I threw parties together. You guys are tight. Yeah.

That's great. David Harris. I want to meet him. I've never met him before. Oh, he's great. Fun. Nice guy. Time you got a win?

Yeah. I think my win was just my day yesterday. Okay. So it was just kind of a day with friends, which was awesome. It was like we went and saw Dune Part 2 in theaters. I'm Austin. It was awesome. I think it was like,

yeah, I recommend it. I think you should go see it. I think you guys should go see it. It'd be cool. And then it was just like... Who saw Dune 2? Coed? Yeah. Oh! Look out. No. How many Coeds? Just one on one? No, no. It was probably eight people, ten people.

Sure. You and one co-ed in the back, though. Yeah. One for each or one? Eight's a pretty even number. But yeah, it was great. Just saw that movie, went to Chick-fil-A, talked about the movie. Talked?

Had like a... Oh, Chick-fil-A. about the movie went had talked had like a oh big flame uh yeah then had like a choir like makeup class because we had missed makeup sorry go ahead makeup not bad and then hung out at culver's so oh chick-fil-a and culver's same day yeah dang homes dude co-ed co-ed culvers yeah dang it's aggregated though no it was two sides of the table thing it was like outside at culvers and it was just like one table and then other people it was like it just happened to be just like some people had left but just like the two girls over here and then it's like four guys and it was just a completely separate

conversation it was kind of funny that's how it's going to be for the rest of time yeah hanging out outside at a restaurant is so fun. Yeah. There's something about being outside. Yeah. Like the summertime hangouts out like getting some cream. Yeah. Summer is almost here. I can't wait. Dude, I had savings. What a great day. I love spring forward.

So much better. Yeah. So much better. One poultry with Culver's though is that I got a little I was like, I'm not hungry. I just wanted a side of cheese curds and a scoop of custard. Guess how much it was. Dude. $6.

No. Try, Brad. Yeah. $9.08. Nine. Yes. $9. Not bad.

Dude, the custard is killer these days, man. Ridiculous. I didn't even look at the price. I was like, this can't be that much. Yeah. Because I'm not even getting real food, really. These days, man. Biden's America.

I think with Culver's, if you get a kid's meal, you get a free scoop of ice cream with that. Life hack. So save your scoopies. Save your bags. Scoop-a-do. Fun. Good wins.

Before we get to comment of the week, still a little Maintree Roasters of the week okay so mine is the coffee shop where are you uh yes mine is the website timing um the shirts yeah that's great okay cool cool cool all right tammy mason did text me uh tammy mason super fan of the podcast yeah and said you said your favorite was Miller morning blend. We just had it. And Oh my gosh, it's my favorite now too. I don't know if it's just anything I say,

Tammy listens to, or if it's truly just that, that much better. But, um, uh, if you guys haven't tried out the old, old faithful Miller morning blend for main street roasters,

you need to check it out. Oh, faithful. I like to get to Miller morning. I get myself a mirror morning. Dear Abigail, I'm writing you today get the Miller Morning Blend. I get myself a Miller Morning Blend. Dear Abigail, I am writing you today from the beaches of Normandy and how I long for your touch and how I long to smell that Miller Morning Blend. That's pretty good.

Please do tell me how Caroline is doing. How's her leg? Is the dog still licking at the wound? She's as stubborn as you are. Best. Alfalfa. That was good.

André, drink Maestro Roasters. You're very good. That was very good. That was awesome. Let's have a character in our $100,000 movie. Yeah.

Okay, yeah. I think it's gonna be a comedy. It's the guy, he only just talks about letters for war. I do the voice for him. I don't write him. I'm so good. So yeah, I made sure I search calm support dearest Abigail and alfalfa and Everybody all over and the fine folks in Napanee, Indiana

GRKC is gonna get you 10% off if you like coffee if you know someone likes coffee Get it check them out And if you and if you fast forwarded go back and that was a good voice jake did hey thanks yeah for the skippers for the skippers uh comment of the week to round us out here yeah can i take scott's or are you gonna say that oh i was gonna take scott you say you say i could find that other one about uh mclean's okay great all right i'll read the one from scott um just scott first of all i love it his name his name on here is scott peckleball 95 37 which is just the stupidest pun i love scott so much but i also like to hate on scott okay so you remember scott public pot pie last week uh all right time for me to defend my pot pie. I walk into Chicken and Pickle, see a big sign that says Wednesday special,

chicken pot pie for $8.95. Cheaper than a scoop and some curds. Mind you, there is an entree on that menu cheaper than $10, so that immediately catches my eye. The $1.05 he's going to save. That's just so much. Feeling frisky and frugal. The fact that it's a daily special means it's made fresh.

Also, I've eaten there about a hundred times and I've never tried the pot pie a hundred times. So figured might as well give it a shot. Quote unquote, I'll have a pot pie in a water. Did feel weird coming out, but boy, did it feel good going down. Delicious rotisserie chicken and veggies inside. Crispy, flaky, buttery crust on top that's fun i

was tremendously satisfied with my meal while both jake and isaac had qualms about their own order it's true and then he puts in asterisk security guard from last dance shrugging long live the pot pie very well written i texas got immediately i was like this is some of your best work great Great comment. Mine's from Joy Richter. She said, you guys always talk about this McLean's place. Until this very moment, I thought McLean's was a sporting goods store.

I don't know why, but for the last 10 months, I imagined a giant sports store like Cabela's or Bass Pro. Deer heads on the wall, fishing department, basketball hoops, sample tents set up everywhere, a giant fish tank. It's a whole world inside my head. Needless to say, it's been the image in my head for many a story. The one that always stayed with me was Brad taking

his kids there on a Saturday morning to play board games. Weird? Sure. But I never questioned it. Just thought it was a bizarre place for board games. Today, I finally Googled it. It is a bakery. My world is no longer the same. That was also so well-written. Joy, that's funny.

Yeah. Just a little coffee shop, downtown Shawnee. Should get it confused with Shields, maybe, when we talked about that on the podcast. Yeah, I had to. The giant fish tank makes me think maybe, but so funny. Yeah, Jake and I went and did some work at McLean's.

Jake wore a suit. Yeah, Jake and I went and did some work at McLean's. Jake wore a suit. Yeah, all the different stories. Like I had McLean's to myself, and then the one other guy there was also in a suit. What a weird basketball shop. How in the world? How'd you have it to yourself? Was he also like, yeah, in the shoe section,

just hanging out? Yeah, just like going there to work on like your computer. Just the idea of that. Yeah, because every kid's city, Popeye, McLean's brad and i are almost always there she's like what are they why are they always getting fishing what do they need so yeah how many that's the kids like to watch the fish just kids like fish and so do i um anyway yeah really fun so thanks joy thanks for admitting that um anything else on your mind time get it off your chest now hi we're not guaranteed tomorrow so just let her rip what's her name from dune 2

go ahead okay time and here's a question sure uh zendaya not zendaya correct zendaya i believe yeah is she like like is she like the heartthrob of all your friends like do do people love her yeah is she like a she's like a babe yeah okay i feel like she's like their version of emma watch jamie oh jamie kennedy no jamie lynn spears remember him yeah be rad from malibu that's why people call me be rad uh jamie lynn spears remember him yeah b-rad from malibu that's why people call me b-rad uh jamie kennedy experiment wow that's the first like prankster on network tv or something i feel like the jamie kennedy experiment whatever it's called that's yeah from episode one of the office he references that does he really he's yeah because he fake fires pam jamie kennedy um

yeah i don't know. When you were talking about Dune 2 earlier at lunch, I was like, I wonder if Zendaya is like... Because I feel like Emma Watson, at least for us, it was like, she's the same age as us. She's a babe. Maybe. Did you see Harry Potter? Did you see her in other stuff? No, no, Harry Potter.

Oh, okay, yeah. See, I missed out on the Emma Watson craze. No HP for me. I mean, I wasn't crazy about her. I don't know if Tymon's like obsessed with Zendaya. But like, it's just one of those things like, man, she's cute. Like, she's just kind of universally, at least somewhat like. Enjoyed.

You know what's funny is, I looked up, they're five years apart in age. Who? Zendaya and Emma Watson. Oh, really? So it's funny. So Zendaya's older than you guys. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

She's 27. Oh, okay. What about, I'm'm gonna take a stab at gen z heartthrobs uh gina ortega yeah definitely like i don't know her my celebrity crush for a while let's go yeah let's go take it take that nice nice gen z oh i recognize her what's she do uh i knew her she's the first time i ever heard she was in like stuck in the middle like a cheesy disney channel show okay and she was like she was stuck in the middle like a cheesy Disney Channel show. Oh, really? And she was like...

She was in season two of You. That's where I saw her first. But I think she was in that Addams Family remake. I think that was... Yeah, yeah. She did Wednesday. Season two of You.

Oh, I just heard Hattie, I think. Hello? Hello? Hey! You want to be on the podcast? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Fun.

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Can you take me back when we were just kids who weren't scared of getting older? No one knows you like they know you. No one probably ever We'll see you next time. Cause you can't make more friends