Ghostrunners - 316 - Neighbor Henry

Episode Date: March 25, 2024

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So you know those noises that I've been consistently hearing in the basement? Hey, just a second. Actually, I need to make a call real quick. Sorry. Dang. All right. All right. Just a second. Hello, operator. Yeah, I'd like to make a collect call. First name, Brad. Last name, we had a baby. It's a boy. Hello? Collect call from Mr. Brad. We had a baby. It's a boy.

Yeah, you must have the wrong number. Who was it, dear? It was Brad. They had a baby it's a boy oh how sweet ladies and gentlemen we got him another one uh-oh oh i do i think this type beat means that it's going down with some random thoughts and white me too mid Midwest best friends eating fast food on repeat. So come along, let's have some fun and go ahead, get on your feet. Cause this is the Ghost Rubs Podcast. Every Monday morning we're taking round Ghost Rubs Podcast.

Happy Monday, Ghosties. The quiver's getting full, boys. Oh, what's that? Another arrow in my quiver. Whoa, whoa, whoa. It's hard to get those arrows out because that quiver's so full. Didn't expect that. I had no anticipation of saying that.

I wondered. I was like, did he play it on? No, I have no idea how we're going to do the sequence of events here, how we're going to talk about it. Yeah, I don't know how many people had a hunch, how many people already knew, but the secret's out. Catherine is not pregnant. Catherine was pregnant. Yes, she was ex-pregnant. Catherine, yeah, is formerly pregnant, currently with a newborn child in her arms. She's a recovering pregnancy addict. Yes. And she's doing just fine now.

She is. Yeah, she cannot stop. She's in remission. Yeah, she's doing all right. Yeah, we have a fourth child in the Ellis family. And I want to talk about it. I want to tell you guys all about it. Decided to keep it a little secret this time.

Yeah, I don't know. I hope, I wonder how the ghosties are feeling. Because I'll tell you, there's been a few times where I'm like, man, I just want to tell everybody. Yeah. Because like. Catherine's not sleeping well. She's just not feeling good.

She truly, okay. Yeah, I know. There's so many things that you go back on, like, and be like, okay, what was, yeah. I bet, I bet that was because of the pregnancy thing. Yeah, she like was truly sick. But then because she was pregnant, she couldn't sleep well, and so then she couldn't get over her sickness.

Yeah, it's just been a wild... There's been a few times where I'm just like, guys, if you just knew the week I went through with Catherine's been feeling bad, and so therefore, that's why I don't have that much to talk about this week, okay? Because I've just been home with my kids. Anyway, but yeah, I think... uh, I think, so just so

you guys know, each one of us is keeping a secret at all times. So Brad's is over with me and time and have got some big ones for the rest of the year. Okay. So stay tuned. And that's what it is. It's like, it's like, I don't want the ghosties to start thinking like, are they not telling us everything? Which of course, of course there's things I'm sure that we're not like telling you about

our lives, but like not intentionally. Like, I feel like we, we scrap and claw to think of anything we could talk about on this podcast. We're not like, like one of the things on my notes is like, I found an eyebrow hair that was really long the other day. My goodness. You know, last week it was the color of mugs you've been enjoying. Yeah, exactly. It's not like, I don't know. Brad just has these huge secrets that he's not telling people. Um, so anyway, I, uh, uh, yeah, it was, it was an odd, it was a, I don't know why we chose to just like, let's just keep it. It was one of those things where how are we going to tell him? And I was like, what if we don't tell him and tell him when it's here. And then one day it's just like, Oh yeah, by the way, we had a kid. Um, we thought Jake and I were brainstorming about

different ways to like tell. And one of them was just like, let's just have, have the way, we had a kid. We thought Jake and I were brainstorming about different ways to like tell. And one of them was just like, let's just have the camera on Jake the entire time and I'll just be holding the baby. And the first time the baby makes noise, we'll just pan over to me and be like, oh, it's my baby. You guys didn't know?

Another idea we had was just to like, maybe do a currently trending or like a mediocre life update. And mine is like, I try to find do a currently trending or mediocre life update, and mine is I try to find even a more boring one than usual. I've been doing a new chess opening, and Brad and Tymon are both like, dude, that's so interesting.

Dude, no way. That's really cool. And asking a ton of follow-up questions. Yeah, really talking about it for 30 minutes. We spend a ton of time on mine. Brad, what about you? And he's just holding his child. Just bundle of joy here. Got this.

Anyway, let's get into reviews of the week. Anyway, put him back in the quiver. I'm going to go tuck him back in the quiv. So, yeah. What is it? Who is it? Who is it? Let's just say it's a boy.

Let's just say his name is Henry. Let's just say that's why we titled the episode what we titled it. Yeah. So, it was funny. I don't remember the ghosty now, but somebody in the Facebook group was like, I feel like we haven't had a neighbor Henry update in a long time. The odds of this. Yeah.

It was crazy. It was like two days ago when we were recording this. I just responded. I was like, all time neighbor Henry story coming up, which is so funny. I mean, we thought about all these different things to name him. And, you know, when it's a boy, it's so much harder for me to name him because I'm always like, I know a million. Like Catherine's like, what about Marshall?

And I'm like, nope, didn't love Marshall growing up. What about Jordan? That kid was a jerk on Little League, like the team we played. A lot of girl Jordans. Yeah, sure. Yeah. Michael, though, pretty cool, Jordan. What about just Michael?

All these different things. So and it's so funny, like we thought of Henry and we didn't even until we pretty much had like committed to it. We didn't think about Henry down the street, which is so funny because like I think I guarantee you that's the first thing these ghosties hear about is like, oh, Henry. And I know a lot of ghosties are going to be wondering, does neighbor Henry even exist? Was he ever a real person? Or is it all just like a three-year plan of me finding my own neighbor Henry? Right. It's up to you to decide. There is no trust in the ghost of universe anymore.

Anything's up for grabs. I don't even think Timon's a real kid. They're just, have you seen that? Timon's AI. Timon's AI. Yeah. That's a great conspiracy. A tie.

We need more ghost hunter conspiracies or change words, conspiracy, anything in the, in the universe. I like Timon's AI. conspiracy. A tie. We need more Ghost Hunter conspiracies or James Schwartz conspiracies. Anything in the universe. I like Tymon's AI. Tymon's AI. I like that. Have you seen the conspiracy about how Tymon's just Scott, but Scott got hit in the nuts and so he talks higher?

Have you seen that one? Permanently. I have seen that one. I've seen that Tymon is with Kate Middleton and is doing her photo editing. That's right. And that's why he botched it. Yeah.

Jake Allen is actually going to be hired. The guy that's doing all the AI for us. All those images for Kate Middleton because they need somebody better. Let them botch. So anyway, yeah, let's just get into the story with Henry. Henry Lee is his name. Henry Lee Ellis. So if you guys

don't know, if you haven't been a ghostie that long... When a man loves a woman. Yeah. Give me a bagel and a pen. Because I'm hungry and you're going to want to write this down. I love that line. That's such a funny start. Like, alright, let's get into the story. Yeah. So when a man and a woman... let's get into the story yeah so what a man so the birds and the bees depending on how long you've been listening yeah me and katherine do

this thing yeah we have this we have this quirky thing we do once maybe twice a week okay anyway so this is our fourth child uh is's our second boy. So we have two and two. And with our third child, Rosie, we had a home birth and kind of crazy sequence of events. We ended up delivering her without the midwife getting to the house. And it was wild. It was a magical experience. A new township was named over there, right? What was it called? Rosie.

Puddle City. Puddle City. Oh, okay. I was like, township. named over there, right? What was it called? Rosie puddle city, puddle city. Oh, okay. I was like, Rosie, Rosieville, Rosie. Oh yeah. Yeah. I had a kind of a wild experience with the tub. It was leaking or maybe it was operator error. Who knows? It's up to interpretation. History books will decide. Um, anyway, so we decided we're going to do a home birth again this time. We really enjoyed the postpartum, I guess, of home birth, post-delivery aspects of it. It was kind of wild in the moment of like, I can't believe that I was here by myself. So I'll just say I was on high alert this time. I was like, this is not happening again. We are not delivering this baby by ourselves. And we know that Catherine

has, is, is more prone as our most moms, the more babies you have, the quicker they come. I don't know why Tymon's mom probably just blinked and it came out. Yeah. One heart sneeze eight months into it and you gotta be careful. Do you, okay. Let's, let's pause time. And do you remember any of your, your brothers and sisters being born? Oh yeah yeah like or like your mom being in labor uh yeah like just knowing that that's going on yeah really okay 100 because i obviously i'm the youngest jake you're three years old when your sister was born so i have no recollection of that i don't remember much either oh do you remember how quick you're like was it fast for

your mom um i don't know i don't think it's ever. I've never heard that it goes quicker as it goes. So maybe it's just some people. Okay. Well, I'll just say I was quick on the trigger. With Rosie, I didn't even have the phone number to the midwife in my phone. I had to get Catherine's phone. Couldn't even find it for a second. Catherine's in labor struggling.

She's like, I don't know where my phone is. You find it. When you caught Rosie, I know we're going back to the old story. Did you have gloves on? No. I should. I mean, you definitely should. The cleaner the better, obviously. That's what they say. I didn't have... I was not prepared at all for this. You had a baseball glove on.

Catherine said catcher. Yeah, I had receiver gloves. Is that what you mean? Like the ones with tack on them? Yeah. Yeah, I like palmed it. You're doing this and it like spells something. Rosie! Yeah yeah, like palmed it. You're doing this and it like spells something rosy. Yeah. Protect his house. Yeah. You put a city house. It's like when you palm a basketball and you put it in front of the camera. That's what I was doing with the baby with the umbilical cord still on it. Like boom, Dairy Queen Blizzard.

Boom. Yeah, that's how they do it at the queen. So anyway, all I have to say was very quick to call both the midwife and we have Jackie. Jackie's our doula. You know, Jackie. Yep. Juice man, Chad. If you guys remember the story of the chickens back in the day, juice man, Chad's wife, Jackie. So call Jackie first.

She comes over and already it was like, this is so much better than doing it by myself. This is awesome. Not by myself. Catherine did it by herself, you know, but like doing it, just the two of us, Jackie used to be a nurse. She knows what she's doing. She's had three babies herself. And, um, she brought over this ball, like an exercise ball, kind of like a yoga ball, but it was, it was not aired up. She's like, Brad, I figured you could air this up. I was like, great. I have some, you know, electronic pumps. You know, I got some battery powered things. Sure. So I'm in the, I'm in the garage. Catherine's struggling a little bit in the kitchen. This is Wednesday afternoon. We'll call it 1230. Oh, let me back up just real quick. Before that Rachel Coop came over because we were, Catherine was going through it. Catherine calls me. I'm at Black Dog doing some

work. She's like, Hey, can you come help out with lunch? I'm really uncomfortable. I was like, sure. So I come home thinking I'll be home for like an hour to help out with lunch. Keep the truck windows down. No problem. And then I'm like, oh no, Catherine's like going through something right now. And so I immediately text or call Rachel and say, hey, can you come over? I think maybe Catherine's in labor. Rachel comes right over, hangs out with the kids outside in the backyard for like an hour. She was a savior. Truly like Rachel. Thank you, Rachel. Uh, while Rachel's, you know, doing that, I call my mom, my mom comes and gets the kids eventually. So anyways, just Jackie and my, and Catherine and me, and I have this ball and this freaking ball was the death of me.

What's the best case scenario with a ball what does the ball get used for i think it just like uh workout yeah yeah so no i i think she can sit on it and just like it alleviates pain or like you know because when you're in labor you're just the contractions just make it feel like you're just having really intense cramps i think okay that's that i women out there i apologize if that's completely wrong it's just like a little bit worse than like you know when you get a charlie horse like a side it's kind of like a charlie horse but just like in a different area of your body um like your funny bone like ah yeah i don't know so i think maybe it's supposed to alleviate pain or like i don't know but i don't

know okay something about like hey sit on this and see if it makes it feel better dude i could not blow up this ball i don't know what was going on, but the whole, I mean, I came out, I went to the garage to blow it up and I came back like visually sweating from finally getting this ball blown up. They're like, you're okay. I'm like, yeah, yeah, I'm good. I got it. I got the ball. And then Catherine sits on it and it wasn't blown up enough. And I was like, all right, I'll be back. More ball there. So that's a bummer when, you know, Catherine has to push out a baby and all you have to do is blow up the ball and you're having trouble blowing up the ball. There's a, yeah, exactly.

There's a million times where it's like, dang, I have nothing to complain about, but I want to complain right now. Like, yeah, there was a time where she's, I mean, she's laboring. She's like screaming in pain. And I'm like, man, my back is kind of getting tight down here. I could use a ball. And my knees were like right on the hardwood with like no cushion. And I have kind of bad knees.

I was like, man, is there some scar tissue in here? It's really hurting me. And I'm like, shut up, dude. You're never going to get to complain ever, you know, except for on your podcast. So anyway. That would hurt. Hardwoods on the knees. Dude, it hurt.

It hurt really bad. And there was one point where I was like trying to shift my weight from one knee to the other, but I had both knees on the ground and like all my weight was on it was I was like trying to shift and it was just like, oh, but of course she's like struggling through it. So it feels like a very beta move to sit crisscross applesauce while your wife is giving birth. So I feel like you do have to be on your knees. You can't just sit and take a knee. Is crisscross applesauce while your wife is giving birth. So I feel like you do have to be on your knees. You can't just sit there. Gentlemen, take a knee.

Is crisscross applesauce okay? Crisscross applesauce is a beta move, period. Just at any point. What's your past kindergarten? Butterflies on the ground, you know? Yeah, butterflies. I would always fart during those. For whatever reason.

It opens it up. That's like a contraction, basically. So anyway, but she started struggling so i knew it was like this is it's go time here we go um and so yeah jackie was awesome this is so classic katherine like this is classic like our birth stories katherine earlier that day it started making cinnamon rolls and so it was like halfway done you're a baker now you understand how it goes yeah We can talk about that later, but she had it. She had like mixed up the dough in the KitchenAid. So the dough was just there and Jackie gets there and she's like, well, I'll make your, I'll make your cinnamon rolls for you.

Hey, I used to be a nurse. This is wild. This is awesome. And so she's literally like, as Catherine is like, yeah, as she's like laboring through this, Jackie's like, Brad, do you have any parchment paper I could borrow? And I was like, absolutely. I do. I'm like, how fun would it be if like the minute you get done making the cinnamon rolls, you know, the baby comes out. Baby's here, but in the oven, no longer.

So anyway, all that say, Catherine was going through it and I got the tub. We had the tub out, filled up the tub. This was another thing, kind of like the ball, where I was irrationally proud of my responsibility in the very small things. A couple months ago, we got a new water heater, so now we have two water heaters. Okay. 80 gallons worth, baby. Because we were not having enough hot water, Uh, and so I fill up the tub

and I was like, how's that? How's that water temperature? Like, like you guys like that temperature to feel good. Like I was feeling it, you know, like 15 minutes later, I was like, still pretty warm, pretty good. Still pretty good. Huh? Jackie, they ever have this in the hospital. So I doubt it. The midwife like got in there and she like put her thermometer in the water. She's like, that might be a little too hot for the baby to come out. I was like, you're darn right. It is. That's pretty good for the water,

isn't it? That baby's going to be screaming. Yeah. Uh, anyway, Catherine's struggling through it. I mean, so there's something in pregnancy and delivery called transition.

Have you heard that word? Um, heard of the word? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. The term is like basically,

basically from going from like, uh, this is, this is uncomfortable to like, holy cow, here we go. Time to push. I don't know exactly what this means, but there's something called a ring of fire. I don't want to go too much, but I know that's a term.

Yeah, I know. There was one thing I was like, maybe I should say that on the podcast. And Catherine goes, if you say that, Jake will pass out. And I was like, okay, you're right. I probably shouldn't say that. I'll tell you later. Time of computer will die. Yeah, exactly. Um, and so transition. So, so it seems like Catherine's in transition, which means like you're minutes away from pushing the baby out. Here we go. I mean, and that's when it's like fricking, you know, like max weight day at the weight room,

like time to yell, time to go, let's go put on 30 seconds to Mars. We're going to go, we're going to get loud in here. There's no, there's, there's nothing like, like who cares? Yell, yell, whatever you want. Like she's saying words. I didn't even know she knew. Yeah. You know, racial slurs and that's like the midwife's like, Whoa, when somebody like Catherine says that word, you know, it's time. And she like put, starts putting on the gloves, receiver gloves. And I'm like, here we go. I start crying like, oh my gosh, we're going to see our baby.

Oh my gosh, Catherine, you're doing so great. I'm so proud of her already. She's battling through it. And then all of a sudden, dude, her symptoms, they just subside. They just go away. Her contractions go way down. All of a sudden sudden she just feels way different. And long story short. Yeah. That was not a ring of fire. No, it was a ring of,

it was something who knows, dude. And she'd been having all these contractions like for weeks in advance, Braxton Hicks. I know you learned about that on correct opinions. Yes. Um, it's the name. Yeah. Just like contractions that aren't labor contractions so like she's been having all this discomfort so she's like maybe that was just a really crazy braxton hicks but it's like man i felt i felt i know what it's supposed to feel like so i'll just say like that you said the n-word i mean that's pretty serious he did not say the n-word i'm just kidding uh the word that she said was the S word shut up like shucks

shucks so anyway I wonder what Rachel will say jeepers Rachel's a big rats girl rats rats rats

or you know Rachel loves saying no over again no no no no can you imagine Oh, rats! Rats, rats, rats, rats. Or, you know, Rachel loves saying no over again. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Can you imagine? Yeah, it'll be so weird. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Typically when she wakes up in the middle of the night, she did it last night too. What'd she say last night?

I don't think we need to order that. Sits up in bed. Okay. Okay. You sure? And she says, so yeah, we'll probably be fine. And goes back to bed. That was last night. So we're good. Yeah, we'll probably be fine. And it goes back to bed. That was last night.

So we're good. Yeah, we're fine. Night, bubs. Night. See you, bud. I love the idea of her delivering a baby and being like, hey, bud. Hey, bud. First thing.

Hey, bubs. Hey, bubsy. You should call your baby bubs. Bubs. Anyway, so all I'd say, her symptoms go down. She still is kind of going through some pain and stuff. But all I'd say, like hours go by. And also, dude, while it seemed like she was about to deliver, we had this worship playlist on the TV, which is awesome

because usually we haven't had that going. And a Phil Wickham song came on. It wasn't even on the playlist, dude. It was like kismet because she doesn't love Phil Wickham. I love Phil Wickham song came on. It wasn't even on the playlist, dude. It was like Kismet. Because she doesn't love Phil Wickham. I love Phil Wickham. So I was like, if this baby is born with a Phil Wickham song on, I'm going to go nuts. What was the song? Was it about pushing?

I think it was Battle Belongs to You. Hey, that works. Yeah, battle. Yeah. Belongs. I was hoping it was going to be Johnny Cash Ring of Fire. What if? Well, now you have to.

You know, she's got like Ellie Holcomb and like christine knuckles and then katherine put this on how'd you do this brad yeah it was one of those classic like she had like 12 songs on there and then after that it played the radio of spotify or whatever so anyway i'll just say that night she does not give birth. She, the, the midwife lives seven minutes away. She's like, I'm going to go home for dinner, but you call me and I'll come right back. Uh, Jackie stays until like nine 30. So Jackie was there for like nine, eight, nine hours, um, leaves. Catherine gets some rest. Like she falls asleep, sleeps pretty well throughout the day. Um, or throughout the night. This was Wednesday night, wakes up Thursday and is like kind of somewhat annoyingly normal.

Like, like she's like, I feel good. I feel normal. Like this is, and in her head, she's like, I feel like I already kind of went through labor once, so I don't want to do it again. But at the same time, I'm ready for this to be over. Especially cause we're so used to, or at least with all our other kids, like the labor has been relatively quick, or at least straightforward, not back and forth. And so we go on a walk that morning. It's a good thing that women have visual proof that they're pregnant. Cause it would be, it would be tough for a woman to be like, I swear I was in labor and it's like, and now you're fine. Prove it. Yeah. Prove that you're pregnant and having contractions. Yeah. Yeah. Likely story. Just trying to get a few days away from the kids, fine prove it yeah prove that you're pregnant and having contractions yeah yeah likely story just

trying to get a few days away from the kids you know yeah workers comp that's not yeah that's what i was gonna say in realize that's not right maternity leave pdo paid paid or pto paid time off um pod payable on death i feel so alive Right. Here's nothing in there. Yeah. Here comes the boom. Um, anyway, so the next day we take a walk in the morning, she's like voicing, like, I feel almost embarrassed that I like, or like, maybe people think I was just like overreacting to this pain, but I was like, she's like, I know it was real. And then she's like, I feel bad for your parents watching our kids, even though we didn't have a baby. And I was like, Catherine, I think this is still the best case scenario. You wouldn't have wanted the kids at the house when

you're, you know, teaching them new words, you know? Uh, no, I'm just kidding. Uh, but yeah, that still would have been a really terrible situation to have the kids in. And so that whole day she's feeling normal. I'm feeling normal. I go get groceries at Aldi. I meet my dad to drop off some more clothes for the kids. And it seemed like everything was normal. So she goes on another walk that afternoon. Everything's fine. She's like, maybe I'm having contractions, but they're so mild. They're kind of like the contractions from last month or whatever. Um, and then, uh, we go on another walk. We'll call it twilight sunset. Uh, you know, seven o'clock, seven 30 dusk. Yeah. And we culminate the walk. We end the walk by walking past our good friend, Jake and Rachel's house.

Jake's not home. Rachel is. So we walk in and we hang out with Rachel for like an hour. Probably we just talked to her. It's a grand time. It's good to get this distraction away. Catherine's kind of feeling a little contractions going, but not really. Uh, we're just having a fun time talking. I can't remember exactly what we talked about, but it was fun. Um, and, and then Catherine's like, okay, I think it's time. We should probably let Rachel go. Classic, like Texas girl. Like we got to let you go. I don't want to bother you. So go home. We still haven't eaten dinner. It's like nine o'clock and I'm like, I'm going gonna make some good ranchers chicken. We'll get there in a little bit. And, uh, I decide to like, whatever, I guess just like saute it. What? That's not probably the right word, but just cook the, cook the chicken

on the stove. And I, I put some olive oil in there, put a little butter in there. And all of a sudden it's like a smoke show. Like it's so smoky in our house and i'm like this is probably not a good thing i mean it's like it's like thick and heavy and so i'm opening windows and whatever i'm like i don't know what i did wrong um because it's like i think you had it too hot whatever it doesn't matter so all of it like she's still feeling good she heard this thing from jackie about like there's something called the mile circuit where you do a certain like exercise like three different stretches basically um is this the mile circuit where you do a certain like exercise like three different stretches basically um is this the mile high club is this what they're talking about when

they say that it is well if you do it in in an airplane yes mile high circuit mile high okay go on it's it's if you do it at the denver broncos stadium got it yes with russell wilson there saying let's ride um so uh anyway, but she's like, hey, I'm kind of into it. You want some Andes? And I was like, sure, I want some Andes, always. So I go grab Andes. Seriously, there's no inclination that we're going to have this baby

anytime soon. Go grab Andes. I get back, and she's doing these stretches on the ground watching Amazing Race, because that's what she's been into lately. Also, she's watching reruns of a season that she's already watched of the Amazing Race. Is it something my dad would do? Yeah.

Like, it was like, she's like, well, I don't remember. And then I started watching, I was like, I kind of remember these people too, but I don't remember what's going to happen. It's kind of fun. So she's watching like, you know, 2012 seasons of the Amazing Race and doing these things. I give her some ice cream. If you don't have a good memory, television's amazing reality TV. It never ends because you just forget it. It's true. You get to watch it year after year. Also a sidebar. Have you ever watched survivor? Yeah. Okay. You like it? Okay. Uh, we watched some amazing race and we're like,

should we give survivor a try? Because there was one season where they had survivor people on the amazing race. Oh, that's cool. I watched it for like five minutes and I was just found myself making fun of it the whole time. I was like, I think I'm just going to like hate on it.

Cause it's not the amazing race. Wow. So I didn't know, I didn't know what was going on really or anything like that. But anyway, yeah. Survivor is awesome. I mean,

they've made like 45 seasons. I know people are obsessed with it. And so I'm like, what's, what's, I think I love the amazing race traveling aspect though. it and so i'm like what's what's i think i love the amazing race traveling aspect though yeah so i'm like wait they don't travel ever one island they're on the same island the whole time so what are you doing doing there um anyway has her andy's and

she's like well i'm starting to feel some contractions and so you're like that's the chunky monkey exactly that's the uh snow monster acting up on you. And so I'm trying to like read what she's in. She's like, no, I think these are like some real ones. I think that stretching thing or maybe the Andes, maybe dairy gets it going. So I text Jackie kind of casually because I felt bad about yesterday of being there for nine hours. Boy, you cried wolf, baby.

And that's what the midwife, as she was leaving, she's like, do not feel like you're going to, you're the girl who cried wolf. Like, do not feel bad about calling us back if you need to. Like, I like this, this midwife. What's her name? Uh, Amber. Sacred song is the name of her midwifery. Oh, she got her little LLC or something. Oh dude. She's running some things. Yeah. Okay. So she, uh, yeah. Shout out to sacred song. Um, so anyway, I text Jackie, I'm like, Hey, if you can come over in the next like hour or so, that'd be great. And if you want a third, that's what the Andy snow monster come on over. It's completely melted now, but it's the good part. Um, and she lives like 30 minutes away. Jackie does. Oh, that's a bigger ask. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. It's like, this is a,

and it was 11 o'clock at night at this point, I think. So it was kind of late. Uh, I was like, it seems like she's going through it. So then I texted Amber too. I was like, just letting you know, it seems like her contractions are getting more intense. Amber goes great. Let me know when they're four minutes apart. So if you understand what that, I mean, it's just basically like when they start versus when the next one starts. Um, and so I was like, okay, Catherine's going through it, dude. Ring of fire is coming on strong, whatever. Yeah. S S S S S S S S not really, but, um, and so I, I mean, we're going through it, whatever. I text. Oh, sorry. Well, one little thing I just forgot to say is the night before on Wednesday,

there were thunderstorms and tornadoes. And I was like, how cool would it be if the electricity went out and we just had this baby in a freaking thunderstorm? Like, just like the only thing it's like so i wanted to text you that night but i knew as last i heard you were guys having a baby yeah i'm not gonna text bad because i had been seeing a like golf ball sized hail baseball size hail we had in shawnee yes it's i was like rachel are you there she's like no i'm a game night prairie village i was like are we getting like crazy hail like oh i

probably shouldn't text brad but did we get hail i mean marbles maybe like but edwardsville which is 20 miles 15 miles away maybe not even they had baseball size fun i know how wild would that be it's just like raining cats and dogs with hail and thunderstorms and everything. You know, it didn't happen. So anyway, Catherine's going through it. And so I'm like, she said, you know, midwives call me when they're four minutes apart. They were five and a half minutes apart at this point. But I'm like, I can tell Catherine can really tell. She's like, this baby is coming quick. So I call my midwife. I looked back at my phone. It was 1158. Like I said, midwife seven minutes away. Therefore she could,

she could theoretically get there at 1205. I definitely woke her up. I could tell. Yeah. And so I'm Catherine's, you know, struggling through it. Jackie is supposedly on her way, but she's far, you know, whatever she's 30 minutes away. And so it's just us again. And I was like, we started to put on the football gloves. I'm going to go to the garage. I'm going to get my trusty football and my gloves. We can play some catch. Upturned bucket. You're going to sit on it. All right. Here we go. Hey, get a rip now, you kid.

Here we go. Come on now. Hey, two more. Let's see the slider. His name's going to be Henry. So anyway, I'm like, we are going to freaking do this again. I can't believe this it's happening. And so the entire time I am like peering out both window, like, cause you can either, we have a, we have a front and a back driveway. So I'm like, please.

And there were a few times where like cars would like turn onto our street and I'd be like, Oh, and it's not them. It's like, but you know, I'm trying to stay calm the whole time. Cause Catherine's like just struggling, keeping her eyes closed. Like, you know, basically like just dying in this tub and like. Cause Catherine's like just struggling, keeping her eyes closed. Like, you know, basically like just dying in this tub and like, Oh,

and I'm like, you're doing great. You're doing, and I'm just looking around. Come on. Head on a swivel. Finally, I hear the front door open Amber.

And I'm like, she's in here. Like, of course she is. She knows exactly where she is. Come on. And all, yeah,

she came at 12, like Amber came at 1215. Catherine battled through it jackie came i believe at like 12 30 maybe 12 25 and i mean katherine's going through this thing and she literally says she's like i can't do it like she's like she was mentally down at a zero like she was like i can't i can't do it and i didn't know what to say i was like you you have to you i was like you're doing it. You're halfway there. You already have three times. So ha ha, ha ha, you've already done it.

There's no rationalizing. Like, I know, yes, you can do it. Yeah. There's proof. Their names are Hattie, Bo, and Rosie. Like, yes, you can. And she's like, I can't, I can't do this. And then that's when it was awesome to have this midwife who's a Christian. She started praying. She's like, Lord, give her strength, you know? And Catherine's like, yes. And then all of a sudden, dude, just boom, boom with Phil Wickham. No, not really. Uh, Henry comes out and dude, it's one of those things. I don't care if it's your fourth kid, your first kid, your eighth kid time, you know, time. And like, you were just so unbelievably excited and proud of your wife and like, Holy crap, you did it. You did it. Baby came out. Yes, you did it. You,

you are amazing. Like, I'm so proud of you. And like, that's where I always get so emotional. I get emotional for my kid, obviously of like, Holy cow, please. Like, Lord, let me steward this child so well. But in the moment, you're just like, I am so proud of you. Because you can just tell it is the worst pain. This is the hardest thing. But look at the end result. Look how wonderful it is. And so there he is right there, man.

It's awesome. So he was born at 1234 AM. Wow. So I think Jackie got there. I thought- Bottom of the ninth. Initially, I was like, Jackie's coming as the baby's going to get coming out. But you say, welcome to both. Wow. So I think Jackie got there. I thought bottom of the night. Initially I was like, Jackie's coming as the baby's going to get like coming out. They, but you say welcome to both. Yeah. Come on in, come on out. Okay. So I mean, yeah, 1158 was my call to the midwife. 1234 was

when he was born. So all that to say, I think if we average out the two days, you know, four and a half hours per day or so, you know, not too bad for the midwife. So anyway, it was just a wild time. So he was born on technically what day? Friday. So technically started on Wednesday, was born on Friday.

Two day labor. Yeah. Yeah. So Captain labored 48 hours, give or take. Mainly take. Yeah. So anyway, it was, I mean, it was a wild time. It was so different than in the other, you know, labor that we've had. Uh, but then again, once it came, it was really quick, like Rosie's, I guess. So, um, I, so then Friday the kids came and met him with

my parents and that was so fun, dude. Like my, my background on my phone is just my four kids. And it's like four kids. This is wild. But it's just the three kids looking at Henry and Bo. Did I tell you Bo? That what he's that dead set on naming Henry's middle name. No. For the longest time we weren't sure. So it's Henry Lee is his name,

which is what Hattie and Catherine wanted to name originally. Bo was dead set, like seriously dead set on his middle name being Elephant. Like Hattie's like, I think Henry Lee Ellis sounds nice. No, Hattie. Henry Elephant Ellis. Yep. That's what it's going to be, Hattie.

And so, and like. Bo's like, I'm compromising. I'm not saying cowboy. Yeah. I'm not saying. It could be his middle name, Hattie. It doesn't have to be his first name, Hattie, I'm compromising. I'm not saying cowboy. Yeah. I'm not saying. It could be his middle name, Hattie. It doesn't have to be his first name, Hattie, but Henry Elephant. And so I was like, this is Henry.

We're calling him Henry Lee Ellis. And Bo goes, Henry Lee Elephant Ellis. He's like, I was like, great. Call him Elephant. That's fun. Elephant. Elephant. Yeah.

So anyway, they were fun with them bo i there's like a video of them and bo's like he's gonna like talking to hattie kind of whispering he's gonna sleep with mom and dad for a few days and then he's gonna be in my room and hattie just goes this is classic like oldest daughter like whatever he's like good because that would be way too many kids in my room. I'm like, oh my gosh. So anyway, both pumped about it. Rosie was like mesmerized by the fact that it was a baby, but she didn't like want to touch it. Hattie of course was so sweet and gentle with them. So, um, I'd say it's just, it's awesome. It's been fun. That is awesome. Can I ask you a lot of

questions about the specifics of having a baby in your home? Yes. After we talk about dwell. Yes. You just talked about having a Christian doula, Christian midwife. You think they listen to the Bible? You think they read the Bible? I think they, yeah, absolutely. You think they can, you think they have ears?

Yes. Two of, four total. Great. Between them. That's plenty for you guys out there to enjoy Dwell, the Bible app. Yes. You only need one. Only one ear to listen. And barely even that. A lot of medical advancements

these days. Yes. This is an audio-based platform. It's an app that reads the Bible to you. How nice is that? That is nice. Having a little trouble carving out time, having a little trouble carving out time, having a little trouble, you know, dedicating, you know, whatever it is, a routine or a rhythm for yourself, Dwell can do that for you. In the car, working out, bench pressing, in a blue state, on horseback, wherever you want to listen to Dwell.

We should do Dwell bingo now. Dwell is there for you, and it will read you the Bible. And so I know it's great for a lot of people to take it in passively, or at least while you're doing something else. It's really nice. The Word is with you wherever you are, filling your everyday moments. So give Dwell a shot if you haven't yet. That's right. What's the website for that, Jake? That is dwellbible.com slash grkc. So dwellbible.com slash GRKC. So dwellbible.com slash GRKC. We'll put the link in the description, of course. And you get 25% off on a yearly subscription if you use GRKC.

Put in the URL there and, yeah, have at it. Have at it. You can also do a free trial if you're not quite sure yet, but 25% discount makes it basically free. Yeah, yeah. So definitely feel free. Test it out. Nothing costs any money at the beginning. See if you like it. See if you like their voices. I think you will.

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Well, surely. I mean, everything makes noise. Yeah. Everything makes noise yeah not everything makes noise funny phrase um it's not like a like let me give you some parameters yeah on the far left we have like the sound of like a dog toy squeaking right on the far right we have like uh like a water slide here's what i'll compare it to jake let's say let's say you're cutting down a redwood in the forest oh yeah if no one's around does it make a noise no no no you're there you see this redwood coming you're like i know it's gonna go the other way but i'm gonna i'm gonna rustle on over i'm gonna shuffle on over just in case do your do your feet make noise of course they do

but that redwood is making a whole lot more noise. Therefore, that mother of this baby is plenty loud enough for everybody. Okay. And then you got a father who's also rooting her on. Go! Go! You got it! Yes!

To the 10! To the 5! Touchdown! And then you got some leaves rustling over there in the corner. Okay. Probably makes some noise. I will say, I don't know. Catherine, I didn't approve exactly how I was going to talk about everything.

So maybe this is too much information, but I don't think so. We had the baby in the tub this time. And so the baby was born underwater, AKA did not truly make noise this time. It was submerged. This is not how I was imagining. I know. This is the first time we'd experienced it that way.

It was weird for me too. This is the first time like I was face to-face with Catherine. She was staring at me. Her eyes were closed, but we were right here. And so I didn't even know the baby was out yet, which was kind of a wild experience, too, because the other ones, I was seeing it happen. Catching it. And that's fine because the baby's still breathing via umbilical. Dude. Yeah. Also, yes, this is wild. Um, people that are into birth, if you're not into birth, you might be like, this is too much. If you're into birth, you're like, that's crazy.

So do you know that like a baby is in a sack in the bomb? Yes, I have heard that. Okay. So I think all mammals are that way. Maybe so. So Henry, like when he started coming coming out his head was still like the sack was still intact yeah which is wild i don't think that's like a normal thing i think it broke eventually maybe that's what the water breaking is i'm not really sure oh i'm not sure don't don't

that's a good guess that's a good guess that sounds right that sounds right so it's a water sack yeah uh i i believe kirsty swick's baby was like completely born with the sack and tack. Sack and tack. That's like a horse store. Come on over to sack and tack. Sack and tack. No. That's funny.

Yeah. I mean, women, let us know, but permission to start saying, oh, my sack just broke rather than my water just broke. Yeah. Let's start using that. Yeah. just broke rather than my water just broke. Yeah, yeah. Let's start using that. Yeah, you tore your sack. My sack burst. Yeah.

He's coming soon. Yeah, you got a torn sack. I bet that's it. I'm not even trying to be funny. That's got to be it. What else is it? There's nothing else down there. It's not that complicated of a sack.

Okay, so he comes in underwater. It probably makes a noise we don't know how quickly i it sounds like you didn't see it but how quickly does he like splooge out of there good work pretty quick quicker than you think i remember with hattie it was like oh my gosh there's there's the baby's head the shoulder and i thought i thought that had his head i mean just in hindsight, ignorant hindsight, I thought her head was this, I thought something this big was her entire head. And then all of a sudden it's like,

whoa, no, there's the baby. It was something like, I thought something like the size of a squash ball. I know that's so random. A ping pong ball is like her head. Then all of a sudden it's like, nope, that's the head. So I feel like once the head comes out, then the rest of the body's pretty much ready to come.

So the head is the bottleneck, the bottlehead. Maybe, maybe the shoulders too, because that's the widest part. I'm worried about the shoulders. It's wild. It's wild to look at like, like that used to be in there, like seconds ago, like, holy cow, just wild. I'm guessing I probably asked this

question last pregnancy, but I don't remember it. How quickly does a like stomach deflate? Oh yeah. That's a good question. Um, I don't, I don't know if it's like a, you know, every one size fits all kind of thing. And I assume it's not like you just, uh, you know, let the the let your fingers off the balloon and like um i i don't know i mean that's a good question i think well i don't know yeah there's definitely it's definitely noticeable like almost immediately that's cool yeah i want some immediate like that's fun but i mean there's things that yeah still i feel like have to like happen biologically before

it's like out of there sure i mean yeah her body just grew an entire like ecosystem and yeah provide life so yeah yeah right not instant that's sweet though it is it is like well katherine talks about like how excited like when she's like nine months pregnant, she's always like, I can't wait to sleep on my stomach again. Oh yeah. Cause she's not allowed to do that really when she's pregnant. So anyway, uh, maybe the last question, let's talk cords. Who's cutting. How early are we cutting? Daddy cut that cord. Both the last two. Yeah. Uh, no, not all four. The first two, I was like tariff. I was like, no way you do it. You have a degree with Rosie. I gained not all four. The first two, I was like, tariff. I was like, no way. You do it. You have a degree.

With Rosie, I gained a new confidence, obviously. I was like, yeah, I can run for president. None of this is that hard. Yeah, come on. I'm not scared of anything. Do you have special scissors for this? Correct. Yep.

And do you just buy, like, do you own these? Do you rent them? No, no, no. The midwife had them. Okay, okay. Makes more sense to rent. The midwife basically, like, got it all set up, and then was like, this is where you cut the cord. I was like, okay, cool.

Nailed it. First try. It was pretty sharp, huh? Or maybe these biceps are just that good. Yeah, so I would say I think maybe there's something called, this is like a pregnancy thing, delayed cord clamping or something like that. I think there's maybe some, not controversy. It sounds like a bouldering move. Yeah. You want to delay cord clamping or something like that. I think there's like maybe some, not controversy, but it sounds like a bouldering move.

Yeah. You want to delay cord clamp here? Belay up, belay on. Yes. Lay on. Uh, so I don't know.

I feel like we waited like 30 minutes or something like that. I don't know. Maybe some people do it right away. I'm not sure. This is the last he's going to get to eat and breathe this way. Wild. Let him have his last 30 minutes. Let him soak it in.

There's something called skin to skin. You heard that? I know about skin to skin. Okay. What are the buzzwords? Because you throw out to your, you know, are there any other Johnny Cash songs? Is there a Folsom prison? Is that anything? There's not Folsom prison. There's a hurt where he's a cover of nine inch nails that he does. What else?

I can't think of other walk. The line is a thing. Like if you're having a hard time, that actually is like a way to like induce pregnancy. It's like stopping. Yeah. Curb something. Yeah. Curb walking. No, you got to stop. It's called Jabba walking. Yeah. You like walk on a curb. I don't know why that induces labor, but it's never worked for me. Never has. But, um, what, what'd you ask? Just, Oh, I was just wondering about the cord when you cut it, how you cut it.

Yeah. You did it yourself. So anyway, crazy time altogether. Everyone's doing well. Henry's he's, he's a champ. I,

you know, our kids are down in Texas right now. Um, and so part of me, you know, this, like I've talked about on the podcast, like I've,

since Catherine's been so sick and feeling bad, I feel like I've been doing so much around the house, which whatever she does that every single day. So I don't really have that much to like hang my hat on. Um, but I, I kept thinking like once the baby's born, like I'll have a little bit of a break, which is the stupidest thing. I mean, in some ways it's not stupid because your life definitely slows down compared to when you have three kids versus this one. But it's also like he sleeps for two hours at a time. He wakes up in the middle of the night. And so it's been, it's been more slow pace. It's been quieter around our house, but it's not like I'm not still

doing plenty of things, but we did watch a movie with you last night, which was fun. Yeah. Well, 90s movie night, 90s action movie night. What was it? The Client? Yeah, we watched The Client last night. Yeah. Got a couple more in the hopper. Yeah. What did we I'm trying to remember what we added to the list. Lincoln Lawyers in there, potentially, even though that's not 90s. Yeah, but it's like takes place in the 90s

I feel like, or around there, so it feels 90s-ish. What did we add to the list? We were excited. There were two movies we were really excited about. Let's take it to the ghosties for a vote. Catherine was baffled that Rachel and Jake hadn't seen You've Got Mail. And I was like, Catherine, I don't think that's as popular of a movie as you think it is. Especially

for men, and even for women. I don't think everyone's seen it. I doubt most men my age have seen You've Got Mail, but I would think a lot of women have seen it. What was the other one? We were excited about it. Dang it. We'll think of it eventually.

Yeah. I mean, just the Tommy Lee Jones era. It was so funny. Like Rachel, like, she's like, how do you know all these people? And we're like, I don't know. How do you not? But it's just a little bit before her time

because it was early on in our lives even. Yeah, I guess so. Yeah, she just didn't watch any of those movies. She didn't know The Fugitive or. We just saw all the reruns on TV, basically. Like they were new enough, but old enough to be on TV when we were growing up. Yeah. We should find it on Plex.

Your Plex watch list. Yeah. Yeah, I also know the client, a little Susan Sarandon action, which Rachel was reading it. We're like, here's kind of the cast. You know, it's got so-and-so in it. It's got this. And Rachel's like, oh, Susan Sarandon's in this? Susan Sarandon.

Which she had kind of a bad view of the TV. Yeah. I could see the end in there, but still. So the whole movie, we're just talking about Sarandon. Sarandon. Sarandon's got a little fight to her. Hey, Sarandon. Sounded like a dinosaur.

Did you find it? Yes. It was Green Mile. Green Mile. Yes. I think I'm the only one who's seen it. Yeah, Sarah Dunn. Sound like a dinosaur. Did you find it? Yes, it was Green Mile. Green Mile. Yes, I think I'm the only one who's seen it. Yeah. It's great. Three hour long movie, though. We got time. Let them watch. Let them watch.

Anyway, that's my life these days. Don't have much else to say. I had a weird eyebrow hair. That was crazy. Besides that, all you, Jake. jake also i mean just with the eyebrow thing let's talk like what in the world like i i kept it on here can you see it at all no it's like do you ever get like a random like super long hair that's just like yeah where did it it's fun that grow overnight yeah yeah i I always wonder. So odd.

Sometimes on my neck, I'm like, that thing looks like it was connected to Catherine's head and then just attached to mine overnight. It's just weird. I do wonder where they come from. I was looking in the mirror the other day and I was like, this thing. So anyway, I need to plug it. Do you ever find just a pure white strain of hair

on your arm or something? Yeah. It's like a defect, like a mutated hair follicle or something. Where'd you come from? Like it's not like my hair is graying on my head. It's just like, oh, my wrist. It's like bright white. How about that? I think I'm gonna pluck it.

The human body is wild because every once in a while, a lot of stuff going on. Maybe this is just me because I'm not as healthy as you guys, but every once in a while, do you just have like a random pain? I'm serious. Like we're at at, where I doesn't matter. I don't know. Uh, I like, I genuinely don't know. Like, um, maybe in my leg or so I can't think of exactly where it'd be. I mean, it's just randomly in the body and it happens for two seconds and goes away and it's like, that was kind of a sharp pain, but I wasn't doing anything. I wasn't like eating a certain thing or like, I don't know. I wasn't sitting in one place for too

long. It was just like, that was weird. I'm going to worry about that. If it happens again, I've had somebody that happened before where it's like, like a week of my life. Every time I would kind of bend over something in like my hip flexor would be really sharp. It didn't feel like it was a muscle. It was like, and there was an organs there. I don't know what that is. Yeah. Hopefully that goes away. And it did. But see, at least that's a pattern where like every time you do one thing, yeah. It's just like, I don't know what that was. Yeah. I relate more to Jake's thing than you. Okay. I think maybe that's just me or like a random, like, I don't know. I don't know. Maybe I'm just dying. Who knows? You ever see those, you were like looking at like a, kind of a light blue sky. And all of a sudden

you see those things in your eyes and you start following this like little thing in your eye. Oh yeah. I call them the aura. You call them the aura? To who? You named them. Well, are you talking about like, just like little dots in your eyes? Yeah. Like little, um, smudges. I don't know what to call them exactly. It's like they'll like float, like fall downwards. Yeah. You kind of follow them a little bit.

Well, that's what I used to get migraines back in high school, and that was like a symptom that I knew was coming on. It was like I would start to see spots as I was like looking at people. These might be different kind of spots of what we're talking about. Yeah. I really want to relate to you guys.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've looked at the sky and seen spots. All right, I'll look at the sky today and see if we're talking about something. Every now and then, I feel like I'm never looking for it. And then you just see something. It's like you went from vision way out here to vision right here.

And you're looking in your own eye. I feel like the sky probably makes it... Because it's one big solid color, so you can distinguish it. Because it's a very subtle thing. Yeah, it's almost always in the sky. Yeah, yeah, totally. Anyway, saw Twitter. you guys can't call yours aura though okay all right saw a twitter thread recently it's totally normal so we're good okay sounds good don't worry about

it normal for us to our stage of life normal for our stage yeah we'll grow out of it eventually um all right well i've got a lot to talk about. Yeah. Uh, I got a new neighbor, Henry, just fun. Never even met the original neighbor, Henry. So I need to text him and should I text him right now and say, Hey, Hey, just thought you should know. There's a new, new Henry in the neighborhood. See what he says. Yeah.

That'd be fun. What do you think he's going to say back? No, no, no. Don't you don't know him. So, but how many words is he going to respond back with? Between six and eight. Okay. God bless you and your family.

Something like that. Yeah, I know. I could see him. He's old enough and random enough where he could just be like, wonderful. Awesome. Or I could see him being like, me and Ginger will bring you over a casserole.

Let us know when is a good time for you. And hope you like green beans. Hope you like Polish sausage. I hope that's the response we get. I hope Ginger's involved. All right. So I'm going to go chronologically through my week until this Monday episode's over, and then we'll start over on Wednesday.

Wonderful. So we recorded last Tuesday, so it feels like it's been forever since we recorded. I got so many things that have happened. Tuesday night was the volleyball championships. And, uh, right. Wow.

It has been a long time. Kalen, uh, Brant was not able to make it one of the females on our team. So we're, we're scrambling to find people and I'm starting off texting, you know, the,

the studs and thanks man. That's, that's nice. I was like, I have weird pains. Everyone's like, I might get spots in migraine. So's nice. I was like, I have weird pains every once in a while. I might get spots in migraines.

So I don't know. And nobody's free. And so eventually I text Garrett Gibson. He grew up with a sister who played some high level volleyball. I've played with him before. He's pretty solid. And Garrett is very self-aware and even text me. He's like, dude, happy to play.

I'll be there. But if you find anybody like taller or better than me, get it yeah i'm like no dude like well first of all yes we have tried those people and we're down to you so you're in you're our guy he's like okay seriously you just let me know so about an hour before our first game i check my uh or no not not even I check, I get a DM an hour before the game. And it's from Ghostie Joan. She was at Grande Boom. Joan just messaged me out of the blue. She doesn't know the situation, man, anything.

She just goes, hey, if you ever need a volleyball sub, I've got a ringer for you. I was like, what are the odds of this? It's why I go, kind of joking, but I was like, is he free in an hour? Ha ha. And she's like, I'll check. And she gets back with me and is like, yeah, he's free. Wins the game. So I was like, 6.30.

See you then. Hy-Vee Arena, upper level. Any worry that Ringer had too much availability and therefore wasn't such a Ringer? I don't know. I trusted Joan. Yeah. Joan is the one that brought me a raccoon trap. Oh.

Still haven't used it, Joan, but thank you for that. She's great. So I text Garrett like, hey, sorry. I feel like you'd understand. We found a guy. And he did. So I meet, Joan shows up and Derek with an A shows up. Darik.

Darik. Oh. He said just pronounce it Derek, but Derekrick with an a darik and derrick is six five derrick looks athletic we're starting to get an arm i go over to figure out what court we're on i come back and derrick has put on knee pads like oh brother we're in good shape he didn't acquire those in an hour yeah yeah yeah exactly so i was like jordan's right this is a ringer i am so excited to to play we're gonna be awesome and we're kind of just getting to know each other we're about ready to play

and then a woman from casey crew comes over and oh at this point brad and hattie have showed up yep they're there sitting on the team bench they're ready to cheer us on and a woman from casey crew comes over and says hey just fI, there's no subs for the tournament. And we go, oh, wow, dang. She's like, yeah, I kept meaning to send out that email and I never did. I was like, well, it sounds like either way,

there's nothing we could have done though, right? Like if we just, if we only have six people on the team, one of them can't make it. Yeah. There's nothing you can do. She's like, yeah, unfortunately. Yeah.

And she was like, oh, also, for several weeks, when you guys needed subs, you kept bringing guys. I can do. She's like, yeah, unfortunately. Yeah. And she was like, oh, also for several weeks when you guys needed subs, you kept bringing guys. I can't mean to tell you, you can't have four guys, two girls. I was like, oh,

oh, all right. Well, I was curious about that. That's in the past, I guess. Cause I knew that there's like a rule that a girl has to touch it every time.

As far as I knew, it was just like, yeah, this girl has to touch it. Who cares how many guys are in there? Let's run five guys, one Rachel. Right.

Anyway, uh, so apparently we'd break it some rules, but they never told us. So we're like, shoot the night of the tournament and we're down a person we're down a division one setter this stinks um and then you know yeah brad hattie you're there celia shows up the mings and their whole crew there not the whole crew but sarah ming josh and rachel some other girl it was good to see him all. Her little sister. Yeah, yeah. Hannah.

And anyway, it was real fun. I thought I had seen Rachel try before. And after Tuesday night, I was like, you know what? I don't think I'd ever seen her try. Really? Because I thought she was trying when we were playing. And now I know confidently she was not. And it was so fun so we we lose that first game when you were there and we figure out how to play with five yeah and then the next game we beat them 21 nine yeah and

get double digits not even close and we win the third game so it's like all right the third set or whatever so we've made it to the semi-finals brad and hattie are like we might take off i'm like it's probably a good decision this is by far the best team in the league it's the only team we lost to all their guys are so good they have six we have five the first team that you played and you lost that first game I was like really I figured

they would like just you do the eye test it's like these people look like they could play kind of but not they're not like super athletic athletically dressed yeah it took a just took a little People look like they could play kind of, but not they're like super athletic, athletically dressed. Yeah. It took a,

it just took a little adjustment period. Figure out how to play with five. Second game. I was like, Patty, it's, it's kind of close to your bedtime. Let's get out of here.

I don't think it's happening much longer than this. Yeah. I mean, this team, every guy is taller than our guys. They're all solid. Yeah. They're just really,

really good. There was a girl in a sweatshirt that didn't even take off the sweatshirt. I was like, yeah, that's when you know, she's good. She's not even breaking a sweat in a sweatshirt that didn't even take off the sweatshirt. I was like, that's when you know she's good. She's not even breaking a sweat in a sweatshirt. And it was 85 degrees in there, dude.

Yes, it was. What's the deal with that? Hattie could not get over it. And I was like, Hattie, we're sitting. She kept saying, I'm boiling. I'm boiling. I hope when I get home, mom has a tank top ready for me because I am boiling. I was like,

Hattie, we should get ice cream all the way. I was just like, maybe we could just put it all over our bodies to make it colder because I'm boiling. I'm like, stop. And Josh was sitting next to her and I was like, he's going to think you're such a crybaby. It was so hot though. It was very warm.

In hindsight, we were like, man, we really should have won that first match two out of three so we didn't have to play three and then immediately played a really good team with five people so we're drenched in sweat it's it's we're boiling and so i'm like you guys can head out like it's going to take a literal miracle to beat this next team and uh somehow we we win the first set yeah like 20 21 19 or something we're like how are we doing this what just happened how we do that and i are we doing this? What just happened? How do we do that? And I think we lose the second set.

It goes to a third set. And dude, I've never felt nervous playing like a rec sport like this before. It was funny. Just like it was like, we have a chance to beat this team. We only have five. What a cool underdog story.

Rachel's playing so amazing. Isaac's doing so awesome. And it's 20 to 20. Wow. Okay. Now it's 21, 21. Okay. Now it's 22, 21. They're ahead's 21 21 okay now it's 22 21 they're ahead win by two and they're serving to us we have to have a perfect pass and then we tie it up and then it goes 22s then it goes 23s goes 24s no team can win two points in a row and then win by two or

is it it was one by two but they said hey it's uh i should have sent out the email i forgot to send the email once you get, it's just whoever... Rock, paper, scissors. It was first to 25 at that point. So it's just like, win by one once you get to 25. It was 24 all. So it's 24 all.

They're serving. Winner take all at 25. This is for all the marbles. So we're like, oh my gosh, this is it. We have to have a good pass here. Pass it to Rachel. Reset it to Isaac.

We know the play. And this girl, she's serving another team. She's been solid all night. Sweatshirt? Not sweatshirt. Taller girl. Lights were too bright. Couldn't take it.

The aura. Served it 16 feet out of bounds. No way! That's the rule of the game. It wasn't even like, maybe it's in, maybe it's out. It's like, good eye, good eye! It was like, what an idiot! Wow, okay.

And they were not happy i don't know what they were saying but they pulled the like the official aside and talked to the official for like five minutes maybe they don't even know what they're talking about straight up by to 25 yeah i don't know if it was that i don't know if they thought we were doing something illegal i don't know what it was but it was like that was so fun to beat them with five and then um anyway yeah then we play the championship game. And to be honest, kind of ran out of gas. We lose.

I will say at this point, I'm just thinking like, wow, what a cool story for the podcast. We're going to win with five people. They're going to make a documentary about us. They have to. This is so hard to do. You have to cover so much ground with five people indoor. And, but when you have the best setter in the league,

Rachel, you have the highest vertical in the league, Isaac. It just could cover a lot of ground luke did really well also yep um anyway we lose the first game 21 19 lose the second game uh 22 20 so it was as close as it could have been so you guys were like right there like they were not good enough where it was like oh they were just better like that second team felt like it was like oh they're just gonna be better than us and that's a respectable nothing we can do yeah and Yeah. And this was like, man, if we, if we could have paused and came back the next day, it would have been awesome. We would have won, but it was so fun just to see Rachel truly trying and how much better she is than every single person on the court. It was awesome. Dude. I came home and told that to Catherine. I was

like, I was like, Rachel is so good, but she's so effortlessly good. Like there were times, there was one time specifically I was thinking of, I told Rachel this the other night when we went to your house without you. I was like, there was a time where she was like running out of bounds. Let's say she was kind of parallel with the net, and she just goes, Isaac, and just bumps it like behind her, like backwards. And if she would have hit it a little bit too far, Isaac wouldn't have been able to get to it. And it would just got over the net or a little bit too back. Like he was, but it was like, it was like the perfect alley-oop like,

which is what she does, obviously. I mean, it was like, it was so effortless though. I mean, she just, Isaac. And I was like, I think that was kind of unbelievable when she just did there. And I told her, she's like, that was so easy, Brad. Like, you don't understand. Like, that's what I was like, shut up. No, it's not easy for everybody. It's easy for you because you're so good. That's funny.

Steve Coop, her dad told me a similar story. Rachel was in probably fourth or fifth grade and made some hustle play to run off the court, dive and bump it back onto the court for their hitter to get a good hit on it. And, you know, I think most coaches would have said like, Rachel, great effort, great job. And I guess her coach pulled her aside and said, that was a great job getting to it, but that pass needs to go closer to that where our hitter can get a good hit on it.

It's not good enough just to get it back. Yeah. So since like fourth grade, Rachel has been like coach, like you have to like, it's not good enough just to get it back. It has to go to the right person and in the right spot. It's not enough to just keep it alive. when you're when you're playing high enough levels or whatever you're always setting yeah but yeah the second and third matches it was a lot more of just

like uh they call i think they call them dumps in volleyball like all she's done all night is set the ball set the ball you're gearing up is going to luke risick luke risick and then she goes sideways and just dumps it across the net to like this open spot. It was awesome. I think I've seen- How much she can see out of the corner of her right eye and like knowing exactly where people are. Like, oh, this setter is kind of creeping over.

Boom. Boom. See ya. The blocker, two blockers over here. Boom. It's like the Dennis Rodman thing. You know, shoots that way. And I go, boom.

I'm going to rebound off the glass. And I go- Larry Bird's got this thing. It was like, boom. Great reference. That's awesome. Yeah. So she pretty much carried the team.

Yeah. Everyone was playing solid. Yeah. Everyone needs to be playing well if you're going to go five on six. But yeah, having Rachel like that, the teams we lost or that we beat, if they would have had Rachel, we're done for. Sure. Having Isaac is nice, too, because no one can get higher than Isaac, which is fun.

These other guys have all been playing a lot more volleyball. Yeah. But at the the day they can't get higher than him which is fun i tell you like had he had never seen volleyball before and so i was trying to explain it to him is it always this boiling yeah i can't even concentrate i am boiling i was explained her about out of bounds she understood that and then i'm like trying to explain to her some other things it It was like the very beginning of the game. And I mean, this is going to make her sound like, she's like such a great girl. Like, but she just had like a little bit of an attitude to that, that night I go. So how do you, the beginning, this person over here is going to serve it and they're going to hit the ball over the net to the other team. And that just goes, okay. And where did this come from?

Since when are you 15 years old? All of a sudden, uh, no joy. Dad was like, that's easy. Okay. And like,

it's going to take you years to be able to hit that ball over the net once. Uh, man, the way she said it, dude. Okay. And I was like,

and then they get three shots, you know, whatever, all this stuff. And so, but she was really, she was good at like keeping up with the score. Right.

Uh, until they did the thing that you talked about, um, that people do in volleyball where it's like, it's like 12 to six to nine. It's like, why'd you do that? It's also,

you're not even saving syllables. We have 12 or you have, do you only have two? Who is, who is two and who is nine? I don't even know. So I was explaining to her, like you say your score first and then their score. And she's like, you're not even saving syllables. We have 12, or do you have, do you only have two? Who is two and who is nine? I don't even know. So I was explaining to her, like, you say your score first, and then their score, and she's like, wait, why do they have two now? I'm like, ah, it's 12.

Just, they serve it over the net. The ones place. So anyway, they were, she enjoyed it, I think, overall. That was good. That was fun of y'all to come. It was a good time. Thanks to everyone who came. Shout out, Joan. Shout out, Derek. I felt bad. Just had to send him home. Just like, sorry,

dude. We didn't know. Hey, sounds like he's a good contact for next time. Yeah, I do need to get his number. Joan came up to Hattie and was like, are you Hattie Ellis from the Ghost Shores podcast? And Hattie thought it was so funny. She liked it. Yeah, she was definitely shy about it, but later on she told Catherine,

yeah, this lady came up and knew who I was. That's awesome. And of course Catherine's like, okay, do we know this? And I was like, yeah, she's cool. What else did she do to Hattie? She didn't give her any toys or anything, did she? She should have given her her autograph, I think. That's what Joan wanted, but didn't have a pen.

So that's why you travel with a pen in your sock. Always have a Sharpie. Yeah. It's something to sign in, like a portrait of you. You've been eating good? I've been eating good in the hood, brother. Good in the hood.

What have you been eating? I've been eating a lot of thick chicken and thick steak. Making the air thick. I really have. The first two days of Henry's birth, I made a steak the night that he was born. It was just like, this feels right to have some T-bones on the, on the stove

tonight. So made some, made some T-bones with Henry and Catherine and yeah, just thickened up the air in the house. We have something called the air doctor and it was going on air doctor, air doctor. It's like an air purifier thing. And it was making some noise, but it was like, that's some good smelling air right there. What's that 50 cent song where he's like, I'm the air doctor. Love doctor? Yeah, it's love doctor.

I'm the air. Sorry. I thought you really didn't know what it was called. I don't know. What's it called? Good ranchers doctor? What is it? Goodranchers.com.

It's American being delivered. I think I've had it. No, not two nights in a row. That's a lie, but I've had it recently a lot and it is real good. I made a little boo boo. Not something I normally do. This is not me, but I unplugged the fridge to do some Wi-Fi stuff. Forgot to plug in the fridge again and ruined our Good Ranchers

again. So that's the second time that's happened. But emailed them. Say, hey, I'll take no chicken box. Incredible customer service. And it was at our door in like two days. Yeah. It was crazy. They're awesome, man. It was very quick. So yeah, Good Ranchers is great. It tastes great. You can always tell when you're eating Good Ranchers

because of how much higher quality it is. And I have a very intense palate. So I'm like, there's no mRNA vaccines in this. mRNA, nope. Nope, nope, nope, nope. And there weren't. And there aren't. And there won't be in your Easter ham that you can get for free.

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So yeah, they're not, they're not putting MRNA vaccines in any other pigs. Um, and I, you can tell a difference. I had thought pork chops were good growing up. They were fine.

My mom made a fine pork chop. She did. All right. I'm a daughter of past, but my gosh, ever since I've gotten good ranchers, pork chops, there's something to behold with them. Uh, the ham same with the bacon say mrno.com

to see the full pledge on their mrna vaccines um without reading it you can just know it's going to be high quality meat it's going to taste better my mom actually was just talking about how good their meat was the other day i was because i don't even know how it came up but she was like it's just so good the chicken their, it's all good. Tasty. Go to gooderachers.com. Use the promo code GRKC for a little discount. And also, yeah, with any subscription right now,

get $119 value Easter ham. I think I mixed up the words there. Bigger than Henry. Bigger than all Henry K. Fun. So you don't have an Easter ham in your arms yet? Get one. bigger than Henry bigger than all Henry K fun so you don't have you don't have an Easter ham

in your arms yet get one American meat delivered our little Easter ham alright now we're on Wednesday of last week I flew to Roanoke, Virginia and I'll tell you

after playing three hours of volleyball the night before just back to back to back so much jumping so much running it's five people we're boiling in there. That mile

the next day was brutal. Just knees were so sore. My abs were sore from jumping, I guess. Isaac was like, is one of your legs way more sore than the other one? I was like, I think you need to jump differently. I don't know. It seems like that would be a symmetrical injury. You're jumping off one foot? Yeah, I guess so.

So yeah, I start. It's like I put it off all day it's seriously like 6 15 shows at 7 like i gotta get my mile in now i guess and so i'm just running like circles around the venue and my knees are hurting so bad and then someone is like flagging me down and it's tammy mason faithful ghosty and she was like you're right on your mile you keep going meanwhile i'm in so much pain like no no no no no no seriously no no i'd love to chat i'll just pause the mile real quick how's it going guys what's going on i run like a four minute mile anyway so it's fine yeah i was so quick to stop him i was very nice of her to be like just keep

running i was like no no no no seriously i already stopped it already stopped it i saw tammy like she commented like and jake is the nicest guy he's willing to talk to you and like take so much time which i i would like to think i would have done that anyway you would have but it makes the story funnier yeah that's amazing um no no no no seriously i would love to talk let's let's walk and talk come on part of it let's go get in uh you have any ice on you? You have anything cold? I could, I could really use some ice right now. Ice my knees real quick. Uh,

but no, it was great. Uh, met her family. And, uh, I also, I don't think I realized what time it is.

Like you guys are early. She's like, I mean, it's like six 20. I was like, Oh boy. Whoa. I guess I shouldn't get too sweaty doing this.

I gotta be on stage soon. Wow. Cinnamon swirl situation. Yeah. Performing gross. But, um, no,

I was happy to stop regardless. Um, I don't remember what I meant by this, but I wrote in my notes, Virginia people are so nice. Virginia's for lovers. So you don't, you don't love, you're not a lover. If you're a mean, a hater, that's true. Uh, people are so nice. There were a lot of ghosties at Roanoke. I mean, really at every show there were a handful of ghosties, but yeah, fun crew outside of the roanoke uh lobby and there was one guy specifically i mean i don't ask people that often um just because i don't want it to seem self-serving but i asked this guy i said how'd you hear about the podcast so glad i asked because oh go ahead i think he commented it which i was hoping to share on the podcast i know dude

yeah but sure he said yeah I haven't read the comments. Oh, okay. Time is for you. He said, so I grew up, I went to elementary school with a guy named Jake Triplett. Four or five years ago, I was curious what he was up to. So I Googled him, couldn't find anything about him, but everything was just coming up you. I just kept finding your stuff. And so I just like followed you on Instagram and then started listening to the podcast. And yeah, that was like coming up you. I just kept finding your stuff. And so I just like followed you on Instagram

and then started listening to the podcast. And yeah, that was like four years ago. And now you're wearing the merch? And now you're in the show? Yeah. No way. Yeah, and it was Nathaniel Wooden, I think. It was a name I like.

Dude, for sure recognized. He's a fan. He's a big fan. Yeah. Not like some like, oh yeah, maybe you listen to everyone's Watson. Okay. I'm pretty sure you listen every week.

Yeah, you've been in the comments. You've been like a voice memoir appreciator pretty sure a reviewer for years sure that's awesome i love you well it's probably because you're a virginian did you ever uh on facebook back in the day friend people with the same name as you i had people like i got a facebook message one time it was like me and like 19 other jake triplets and it was like hello boys i yeah there was like back in the day there was like facebook groups, boys. Yeah, there was like, back in the day, there was like Facebook groups for like the name.

For your name, that's fun. And so I think I'm Facebook friends with one other Brad Ellis. And one time on my birthday, he commented, Brad Ellis, happy birthday from Brad Ellis. I was like, oh, cool. So that's amazing that he was just like,

let's just try to figure this out. Yeah. This other guy's coming up. What's he all about? I asked him, I was like, did you ever find that guy? He's like, I know I can't find him. I don't know what happened to him. He's like, you're my Jake Triplett now. That's amazing. Wow. That was sweet. That's yeah. That's I, yeah. Like I would love to hear more stories like that. I think those are so fun. Any ghosty origin story is fun for me to hear just because it's never,

well, I mean, there's obviously like similar patterns for some people but like there's so many people like that that's about as random as it gets but yeah he told me that i was like i am telling now the podcast that's a top three story of all time that's as good as it yeah but even rachel like hers is pretty random like yes may she's not even sure she thinks it's from walk in love yeah i think a walk in love suggestion yeah in the middle of a half marathon puts it on yeah let's do it a couple times yeah just wild top golf top let's call top golf now so that is that is so cool nate nathaniel or nathan nate nate wood nate dog nate nate oh you don't need us to tell you your name uh update i remembered no actually someone remembered for me remember uh tearing down bridge yes and i had no idea what that meant and why wrote it down uh yes someone reached out

kyle hewitt one of my friends from canada back in the day he's like dude i think i know what tearing down bridges dude go ahead do you know what tearing down bridges? Dude, I might have to go get something real quick and bring it back. Wait, listen. Go ahead. I'll be right back. I'm serious. Okay.

This is not another... I'll be right back. You've got to go announce another kid real quick. Stall, stall, stall. Are you going to your house? How long do I need to stall? Yeah, I'm going to my house. He's going to his house. long do i need to stall he's going to

his house okay time in an io podcast uh do you want me to talk about the bridge or should i wait he's gone we just we just pause or i okay i get we'll we'll do the bridge stuff uh later sounds good um we're gonna talk about now let's talk about uh we spent a lot of time together yesterday timing yeah about a new camera How's the new camera? Have you looked at the footage a little bit? Yeah, it's like not even Really utilizing all the extra stuff because it's not like in log, but dang does it look good? It does it does be different Yeah, did you get a new lens as well? No same lens, but for some reason the lens seems better I think it's just it must be just like a mental thing

But it's like kind of rose-colored glasses. Like I spent four grand on this. Holy cow. It looks nice. Yeah. Yeah. Everything looks nice. Hey, you bought an FX3. Yes, I did.

And should last you a while. This is pretty future proof. I hope so. It better. So yeah. I hope they better not come out with some AR, you know, AI, AR, VR type filming soon. Yeah. And this is, so more, what's it called?

Picture profiles? Better log? Yes. Better color grading in the future? Yeah, color grading better. Is it 10-bit better, what's that called? I'm out of the video game now. Like bit depth?

Depth, better depth? Yes. Yeah, I haven't done many tests, but already I'm like, I just, now I feel like I just even more want to shoot a short film or movie or something like that. Does it give you better slow motion capabilities as well? Yes, 4K 120.

That's awesome. That's plenty. Oh, yeah. That's pretty future-proof as well. Oh, yeah, definitely. What have you done besides Friday Pickleball so far? Pretty much nothing because it was like the night before the shoot. Wow, that's pretty cool.

I think. Yeah, it was the day before. So you really haven't had time to play with it at all. Like you got it. No. You're immediately using it for a gig. Well, that's fun cool I think yeah it was the day before so really haven't had time to play with it at all like you got it immediately using it immediately for a gig well that's fun

hey brother get any spots in your eyes no did you jog yeah freaking sprinted do you want me to keep talking

sorry Catherine was in the kitchen she goes what are you doing I was like I just need to grab something I'm here she's like you freaked me out all right all right go ahead uh time i was just talking uh

camera gear ro90 ro90s yeah 90 degree roll 180 degree roll we'll get back to that uh but first tearing down bridge uh i think the reason i wrote this down is because i saw that canicuck is going to be tearing down the bridge that you proposed on yes and i wanted to talk about it how does it make you feel um it was bittersweet bitter because no uh yeah just a bummer because it's like yeah that's where's where we propose. I had heard for like, I don't know, three or four years they were going to tear it down. Okay. Why did they? Sorry, I have questions for you to talk more.

Why did they tear it down? I think it was just like structurally not safe. Losing, yeah. Like, I don't know if they used it this past summer. I don't know. But like, because there's this huge suspension bridge. And the middle of it is where the zip line went down for K country.

And then it connects to this other parking lot that can go to the other camps. Dude, this was me, the Springfield show. Really? When I had to go up two and a half flights of stairs and it's spread across the bottom and go up and then just like do comedy.

I'm never going to catch my breath. I'm like somewhat leaning into it, but also like I'm a little bit out of breath. Yeah. So, okay. Propose on the bridge, right? And along with proposing, so Catherine visited me in Spain back in the day.

In Spain, slash a lot of other places now, they have these bridges where you put these locks of love on there. So Catherine and I wrote our initials on this lock, put it on the fence there. So then when I wrote our initials on this lock, put it on the fence there. So then when I proposed, I had another lock that was engraved with our initials on it and put it on the Kennecock bridge. And they only locked it. No one else. I was hoping it was going to be a trend. No one else did it. Just kidding. Not really. Um, but we really did put it on the bridge. Um,

and so then I heard it was getting taken down i was like oh man be cool to get that lock but i thought it was like years ago they tore it down anyway here's what we say letter from well letter it just says brad and katherine read it like you're uh like it's a letter from war like i did for the major issues last week no i'm just gonna read that was good though i did like that dear catherine dearest catherine says brad and catherine they say you never want to burn bridges but sometimes you have to tear them down when some overpriced structural engineer says it's probably not a good idea to send a bunch of children across a suspension bridge built by a bunch of Ozark hillbillies in the 1990s, much less put a zip line at the top.

I'm pretty sure there wasn't even any steel left in the poles, but it was being held up by 30 years of oil-based red paint. It was a sad day when the bridge came down today after 30 years of memories. One of those memories was your engagement at the top. It seems like yesterday, but what a fun moment when your marriage journey began at the top. It seems like yesterday, but what a fun moment when your marriage journey began at the top of that bridge in 2013. As soon as the bridge came down, Michael

Sloan and I went looking for the lock amongst all the rubble. They waited till it came down because I guess it's dangerous to walk on. Yeah. Amongst all the rubble, we ended up finding it underwater in the slew. No way. So if you don't know, the slough is like this nasty Creek, whatever kind of, you would make up like lore about the slough monster. Yeah. Slew water and all this stuff. After some heavy equipment, a hot saw and some help from the Kennecock maintenance guys, we were able to cut it off and wanted to return it to that couple who got engaged on the bridge. Even though the bridge has fallen, know that we continue to cheer for your marriage. We're big fans of the Ellis's and will always be a lock when it comes to your marriage.

Dude, Canada Cuck's the best. How cool is that? Who wrote that? Sparky. Wow. The director of our camp. Sparky and Sloan. So you can see on here, BDE and KGH, 8, 7, 13.

I never thought about your initials are BDE. That's awesome. Yeah. Now they do it else. So here it is, like some videos or some pictures, I mean, of the bridge falling. You look like an old person who printed out memes. Some of the memes are my favorite memes from this week on Facebook. If you squint, you can see there's a swastika in the corner there.

It's like a conspiracy. Political cartoons. Yeah, look at that. I like the it's underwater and everything is that that's the most like sloan thing first of all if you guys know michael sloan like no we get in there we fish it out yeah we can do this like that'd be incredible and then yeah i mean it just meant so much that they sent it and so we're gonna like frame it or something do something with them yeah well yeah here it is that's really cool that That's not wild. Tearing down bridge.

Tearing down bridge. Shout out Kyle Hewitt. Shout out Colin Sparks. I kept meaning to like make that my win of the week and I kept forgetting. So thank you for reminding me. How fun would that have been if it finally solved tearing down bridge? Thanks, Kyle Hewitt. Yeah. Yeah.

That was, I don't know. I think they're building another one or something like that, but, oh yeah, I just sent the nicest text to spark. I was like, I can't believe you did that, man. That's so, cause I, I,

I just had given up on it a long time ago. I was like, it's a cool memory, but we're not going to get that back. Yeah. Which is fine. We weren't expecting to get it back. We were expecting it to be there for a long time.

Yeah. I also thought Joe white might just be like, what's this lock doing here? We're cutting that thing off. It's weighing the bridge down. Yeah. Well, no wonder this lock three here? We're cutting that thing off. It's weighing the bridge down. That's why it's in trouble. Well, no wonder.

It's this lock. Three pounds. So, fun times. All right. Also, Wednesday of last week, still going in chronological order, we got an email from Hewan versus Hamster. You know, just last week I said we haven't heard from. Yeah.

Let me read this to you. Hey, guys. Yada, yada, yada. Some pleasantries. Unfortunately, your team wasn't selected as one of the final teams. Personally, I think they should have chosen you guys, but I'm not the one making the final decision.

Either way, I want to thank you guys for being down to do this and being so much fun to interview and work through with the casting process. You gave one of my favorite interviews this whole season. I definitely want to hold on to your info and reach out if any other casting has come up

and I think you might be good for. Best of luck with everything. Cheers. T. T. So it does seem like he genuinely enjoyed us and wished we could have been on the show. So we'll see who they end up casting,

whatever comes out. Dude, I've been watching a lot of Amazing Race and I keep thinking like, how fun would it be to be on Amazing Race with Jake? I'll do it. I know.

I know. I'll do it in a heartbeat. That sounds so fun. That's what I'm always curious how they choose people though because it's like, okay, these guys are so fun

but maybe they already have four other people that are so fun. They're very fun. So they need the people that are like, well, these people are,

yeah, these people are unpredictable. Yeah, whatever. These people are, you know, a mother-daughter team that's just marriage is about to end any second let's get them on here deaf like we need that guy on here yeah just let's it'll be fun to watch him try to order a taxi in Abu Dhabi good luck yeah put him on the show yeah so yeah I just think about that a lot. And so I wonder about that

for like maybe, and maybe you just guys, you guys nailed it, but there were just other people like you. There are a bunch of similar personalities. Yeah. They already had the fun role filled. Yeah. That's a bummer though. That, that sounds similar to the, I got a handwritten letter from Joel Dolliff, you know, Joel from, he was a K1 director. Oh, I knew his son. He was, uh, he was the guy that interviewed me for Canada back in the day. And they said no to me. Did you know that initially? Wow.

Yeah. I got told like, you can't work at camp. Basically the same thing. Like not exactly the same thing. Not like human versus hamster, but like, Hey, love your interview. Really loved you. Wish we had a spot for you, but we unfortunately don't have any. Wow.

I really enjoy it. I like, and when you, when you work at camp, it's like, dude, there are always spots. Like it feels like, right. And so I wonder if it was, so I thought it was just lip service kind of stuff. You're like, was I too honest in my interview? Honestly, I was like, I don't know. I'm dating a girl and I'm honest about how, like we have codependency issues sometimes or something. I don't know. I wasn't saying like super salacious, but like anyway, and I was just like,

whatever, this guy is just full of it. Come to find out he was serious. So maybe T. Oh, T. Then I eventually got hired. So by Sparky,

the guy that saved my lock. Saved my lock. So yeah, I mean, we'll see if he ever reaches out, but I think he'll be a guy we just reach out to every couple months. Hey, any opportunities?

Right. We're still fun guys connected to yeah. Yeah, sweetie Speaking of game shows or watching amazing race. I haven't done as much daydreaming this week I did have one daydream. Okay, and I was like, I want to make my own pickleball game show someday Okay, how fun would that be and then I think is ever and just on YouTube. I'm not trying to get CBS involved Hey, if they come knocking. But yeah. Hello. It's CBS. Oh, come on in.

I'll open the door. Come on in. Come on out. Get on out. Honestly, though, why? Like, what would be the appeal of an actual TV show versus YouTube? It's almost like YouTube money. Like, yeah, dude.

Yeah, there's still a lot of money in network TV. That's true, because it's like, I'm thinking like, I feel like there'd be technically way less viewership opportunity on like a, well, not really. I think technically the ceiling is lower, right? Like there's only Americans watching CBS at 7 p.m. and YouTube is international. But there is a lot of people watching traditional television still.

Young Sheldon is crushing it as much as I don't want it to. A lot of people 50 and older are watching traditional television still. My parents are still paying for DirecTV. That's probably not going anywhere anytime soon. It's coming back. The way they're bundling all these things together. Yeah, I mean, we made a video kind of predicting this like three years ago, you know, like just the life cycle of TV.

Pickleball. That's fun, though. What would any ideas for the game show? Well, I think pickleball is so fun is because it's almost not entirely, but a lot of it is based on how much you've been playing. Like someone who is a little out of shape and might be 55 years old can be better than, you know, someone like a Harrison Pollard. It's the placement of it.

It's the yeah, it's like, yeah, you just played enough. You have more experience. You have better instincts. So I think it's one of the only sports where you can have an actual game show with people of very different ages, and it's still very competitive and very even. And with different ages

comes a lot of different personalities. And maybe a little romance in there. Hey, who knows what kind of game show this will be? This is like an elongated, not like a one episode, you know, two teams per episode. Yeah, you start with like 24. Cool. I like that.

Pickleball is blind. Ooh, there you go. 23 people are blind. One person isn't. They're trying to figure out who isn't blind. That guy's deaf. That guy's, yeah, tone deaf. Let's talk about Matron Roasters real quick yes we've been recording

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Got it. I went to decaffeine. Decaffeine. Decaffeinata. So. Decaffeinata. I think in America, sometimes they just shorten it to decaf. Decaf.

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Support them. Two syllables. Just go ahead and support them. I don't remember which show this was anymore. We're going to go ahead and say Richmond, I think. But I got done with it. You know, a line of people ready to meet me. And out of the corner of my eye, I see the people, a couple spots back in line. They got Kansas City shirts on. They got a Chiefs hat. I'm like, well, that's fun. So I'm going to They got Kansas City shirts on.

They got a Chiefs hat. I'm like, well, that's fun. So we're from Kansas City or whatever. When it's their turn, they come up, and they were so excited to see me that I'm starting to think, oh, shoot. These are people I should know from Kansas City. It seems like, oh, how fun is this? Yeah, we go to church together. Yeah, I don't recognize them.

Turns out we haven't met each other, but we probably should. These people are cool. KC people? Their names are Brad and Rachel. Like, oh, my two best friends. That's fun that that's your names. They're married.

Yeah, decked out in Kansas City gear. They went to Olathe South. They were just like barely younger than you and Scott and everyone. Maybe like three years younger or whatever. Keep talking, brother. They know. Was it Brad?

Oh, go ahead. I don't know. I don't know the last names. Go ahead. What do you think your last names are? Is he good friends with Luke? I don't know. Does he live in Richmond, Virginia now?

No idea. I don't know this guy very well. Rodriguez, I think. Does he look like a Rodriguez? Didn't look like a Rodriguez. Well, Olathe, I mean, if you're, if you have brown eyes, you look like a Rodriguez and Olathe. There's not much. He's not a Cuban Rodriguez. He's like

an Olathe Rodriguez. Yeah, he had a mustache. He's like a one-quarter Honduran mom, or a one-quarter Honduran dad married a white mom. Rodriguez. Okay. Yeah, they were just awesome. Rachel was so excited to meet me. She was just like, I've been listening

since episode four. I just can't believe I'm finally meeting you. Just spouting off things. She's like, one time I DM'd you five years ago about... At first she said, one time I DM'd you and you said, it's Jake playing with the big boy's triplet. I go, okay, you need to give some context. What? I guarantee I just didn't say that for no reason. What are you

talking about? Other people can hear this too. I'm defending my honor. Hold on. She's married and there's probably a that for no reason. What are you talking about? And other people can hear this too. I'm like defending my honor. Like, hold on. She's married and there's probably a good reason for this. And she was like, yeah, I did a few years ago and said, I bet I know more about Prince of Egypt than you or something like that. And I guess I responded, do you know who you're talking to?

This is Jake playing with the big boys trip. I was like, see, that's funny. That makes more sense. You don't just go up in front of your husband and say, hey, what's up? I'm Brad. What's up? Playing with the big boys. Nice to meet meet you your wife knows me by that we

used to dm a lot i was like geez uh but they were great and i was genuinely like man well if you're ever back at kent city it does sound like we would be great friends it sounds like we were so close to being great friends at certain points in our life i can't remember the other connections but they so do they know me at all growing up? They didn't say that? I don't think so. I don't think you've ever met them, but they just know of people that you know and stuff like that and similar churches and just everything. Because Luke Hoagland is like three

years younger than me. I think three or four. Is he now? So I think we never knew each other growing up either. Oh, be darned. So maybe they have connections. Did you know Luke's older brothers or were they too old for you? They were too old for me, but you know how you grew up going to the basketball game? Oh, you looked up to them? Dude, I thought he was an NBA player. Ross Hoagland.

I was like, this guy. And I think he was like the sixth man on the team. But still. Oh, dude. And then we went to State that year. I was like, dude, they're amazing. And then like, Ross, we're playing time. Because he looks a lot like Luke. And so when I met Luke, I was like, dude, I feel like I know you. Were you in the NBA for a little bit? How do I know you? Dude, I remember, uh, one time, you know,

Scott lived on a pretty busy street and we used to play full court basketball in his, uh, uh, driveway. Like we would put a, like a Fisher price goal on one end and like a seven and a half foot goal on the other. That's so fun. And we played with like one of those mini basketballs and sometimes the ball would go out in the street and often the cars would just stop and whatever. We'd go out. But there was one time, Kurt Niebuhr, star of the basketball team. He had to put on his brakes a little bit. He came out and he just cussed us out, dude. And it was like Michael Jordan.

It was like never meet your heroes kind of thing. I thought he was going to say he played with you guys. No way, dude. He was so mean to us. It was like Kurt Niebuhr is not that cool, man. Ross Hoagland is my guy now. But, yeah. He was so mean to us. It was like, Curt Nevers, not that cool, man. Ross Hoagland's my guy now, but yeah, it was like one of those, I mean, I wasn't that like in my head, he still seems like that high school kid still seems older than me. You know what I mean? Like, even though in my, like he was probably 16 or 17 and I was, you know, whatever,

10, but in my head, he seemed like the biggest deal ever. He could dunk. He could, I don't know. He could like touch the rim and like put the ball through it. You know, like he wasn't like throwing down or anything, but it's pretty sweet. I'll say, yeah,

I kind of knew Luke's, uh, siblings, but my sisters were closer in age to him than I was. Fun. Uh, that's crazy though, that these people from the South.

Yeah. There's real fun. What'd you think of Richmond? I like Richmond a lot oh yeah Virginia and West Virginia is great it felt like other people when I would talk to them wanted me to talk badly to their face about West Virginia they're like sorry I had to come to West Virginia what do you think about this place I was like

I don't know it's fine it does feel like one of like the top five punching bag like punchline kind of states out there. Yeah, West Virginia, Arkansas, Mississippi, stuff like that. Depending on where you're at, I guess. Ohio, apparently. People say that.

They're like Ohio. Swing state. Yeah, I guess so. But West Virginia, Virginia was fine. I might talk more about West Virginia on Wednesday's episode. Got some fun stories. Maybe in this episode, talking about we did an auction for our friends for the football draft this past week,

and it was so fun. It was everything I thought it would be. Really? Because we're doing this big football tournament this Saturday, and yeah, me, Isaac, Harrison, and Gunnar were the captains, and so 16 people signed up they've been mowed

they're in oh it's again money there's a little buy-in yeah there's money on the table wow people put it put money up before they knew their team yeah you gotta put 10 bucks in just to claim your spot just to be in yeah and so you said 16 people yep and then plus four of us captains so okay four teams of five and dude it's so fun i'm like spending maybe too much of my time thinking about football uh but the thing is i mean i gotta have it evaded somewhere i'm not more athletic than isaac i can't throw football better than harrison you gotta know the plays you gotta have strategy dude and andy reed's not more athletic than sean mcveigh is he yeah so and that's why i love football i've always talked about i want to be

a football coach someday because it's the x's and o's matter so much basketball just if you have a couple good players you'll be fine yeah baseball someone could throw it 90 miles an hour can't scheme up anything to really hit that at the high school level but football oh i can't wait i'm doing borderline too much like i i'm becoming a guy i never wanted to become but so basically i here's what i don't want to be i don't want to be the guy who huddles every play and it takes forever and then it's annoying to play that team so what i've come up with is this and i give everyone full permission to make fun of me after this nope i'm excited already maybe i will so over the past two weeks or so well it has to take it two weeks about two

weeks ago i drew up i found this like uh play football play designer online. Yeah. And it's very simple. And I do it with with colors. So each person instead of doing like typical football, you're the X receiver, you're the Z receiver, it's just colors, you're the green circle, you're the blue circle. And I've drawn up different plays, pass plays to run. And what I'm going to do is I've also bought quarterback, forearm i love it sleeves yeah and so what's going to be instead of like the the sleeve saying like trips right x bunch okie you know 80 whatever it's just going to have the pictures of the plays in it so no one has to memorize anything no one has to memorize this position just like line up and i say hey play

number nine everyone has one on their wrist and in five seconds, you know what play to run. Okay, I'm blue. Great, I just run this. Easy. Yeah. So I expect to get made fun of for buying sleeves for my whole team. No way. But that offense has got to be humming, baby.

Yeah. Can I make one minor suggestion? Please. Tournament's not until Saturday. Make it, make one, like a have a longer number than play nine Like make it like hey 946 946 and the second number is the player running Yeah, that way that way about the play nine five times in a row. They won't know Yeah, like on the place. She still says nine, but they pay attention to the middle number or something

Yeah, exactly or every every drives different. Yeah You know like so far about football, though. I know. You can do so many different things. I'm so excited to disguise coverage on defense. We're going to go in motion every play on offense. We've got to figure out what defense they're in. Oh, I'm so excited.

That's awesome. And I've already gotten a few little comments, but just like, who's playing quarterback for your team? Like, oh, me. You're playing quarterback? You sure? All the fuel I need, baby. Yeah.

Michael Jordan, and i took that personally that personally can't wait so we're gonna have plays every night i send my team i install four new plays okay i've had them ready for two weeks but how many how many plays you got so it's it's a sleeve where you can lift it up yeah and that's double size so you get 24 plays so we'll do six defensive plays no No, sorry, eight defensive plays, 16 offensive plays. Okay. So are you using any plays from other playbooks or is it just straight up from the Jake Triplett style of coaching? This is just from my brain. Sub-Zero from Blitz or Da Bomb or PAFB Flat

was a big one on Madden for me back in the day. No, just really learning or just using what I learned in high school football. I've talked about before. We had a really brilliant offensive coordinator and some of my fondest memories of high school football or when I got injured. And so our offensive coordinator would go up into crow's nest and he gave me the headset and I would call in plays and I would like help call plays. And like,

there was one drive specifically where the headsets died. Yeah. And so he couldn't talk to me. And so I was just like, I'll call plays, I guess. Yeah. And we led us to a touchdown drive and i was like man this was so fun i love the x's nose of football so i'm just drafting up my own plays and sending them to these guys hey here's a play we're gonna run this beats cover one and cover two hey here's a play we're gonna run yeah you know whatever loving it it's funny what you asked about um where are you

getting your plays from because dude we got – I think this video is so funny. Let me show this. We can put it on the screen maybe. So Scott Caldwell sends a video to our group text yesterday. Scott Caldwell, who works with Gunnar, is Gunnar's boss, sends this video yesterday. Can you see it? He's just – he's scrolling something.

Oh, is there plays? It's Gunnar at work. He's got three monitors, and one of them – he's on some flag football website just scrolling plays. And he's like his left hand is like on his chin. It's like looking at him. Okay. I thought that was so funny. Just in the middle of work, just like in a cubicle, like everyone could see it just scrolling. That's corporate America right there, man. Flag football plays. Dude. And Scott Caldwell said that and said, y'all better come correct. And, um, you,

uh, yeah, you gotta, uh, go a little no huddle too. Like if you can run place quick like that, that's what I, yeah. I was like establishing like the rules,

like what are the delay of game rules on the defense? Like, do we have to wait for them to get set or can I like bang, bang, bang? Did you figure it out? So I suggested, I was like,

I think you should make sure the defense is set at the start of the drive. Like, Hey, we're about to like, are you guys good? Okay. We're good. And once you run that first play, it's fair game. They got to get ready.

Yeah. Big fan of that, too. We would do that in high school football. In the first play of the drive, you call the next two, sometimes the next three plays, and you just remember them, and you're ready to go. I would be so pumped. Dude, it's so fun.

This is what I want, just to take it slightly more serious. We don't need to do tackle. We don't need to get upset at each other. I mean, everyone's putting $10 in. You got to take a little more seriously for that. Yeah, it's just how much more fun is it to know what your receivers are doing? You know, it's normally like playing quarterback. Like I don't know where they're going. So I guess yeah, and then they cut

one way and you just throw an interception. It's like, well, okay, do I love that? I yeah, that's fine. That's what I was talking about a couple weeks ago on irrationally strong opinions or whatever it was where I, I, uh, yeah, that's fine. That's what I was talking about a couple of weeks ago on irrational, strong opinions or whatever it was where I was like, it's, you gotta be a little competitive.

Like, don't be a jerk about it, but like, it's not fun if you don't try. Yeah. I still have a good attitude. I'm not gonna get mad at people, but if you lose,

you're not going to be like, well, this was the worst day ever. No, it's just, it makes it more fun to be a little bit more bought in. So I'll report back next week, how everything went.

what's the structure? Are you doing like a round robin tournament? Three things to say. First, I do want to close a little bookmark in this. I responded to this and I said, this is to the video that Scott Caldwell sent. And I said, this is Gunner's team Saturday. Our offensive coordinator is terrible.

He gets half of his plays off of Madden. Rookie mode. I mean, the guy is no good.'s good well john christ actually uh so yeah it's gonna be a little round robin establish the seating and maybe iron out some rules and then it's like all right now it's a tournament okay and yeah i will say uh auctioning off your friends was a blast but there's no rule book it's like I don't know how much to spend on Mason Capple. Gunner and I had $100 to spend. Isaac and Harrison had $95.

A little handicap in there. So they're worth $5 each. Yeah, they're worth way more than that, I feel like. But anyway. For four people, it's like... One person can make a big difference. I mean, you're fifth of the team. All right, so who is the highest player?

Let's see. How did it go? And how'd you do this? Did you do this over the phone? No, we all met up in person to do it. I'm trying to find out the draft board.

Yeah, it was just fun just trying to figure out, like, let's see. I think, looks like Luke Hoagland was the most expensive uh but yeah we all drafted privately we don't want to know we're not going to tell people who went for a dollar i don't want to know that i was just curious like how much was the most the highest somebody paid so you know my pre-draft board i had luke going for like 50 55 bucks i thought that's what he was

worth and luke only goes for 41. But I was so dead set on like, you can't, you have to have money at the end. You think? Yeah. The way it was set up, I can tell you more off the pod. I don't want to keep getting in the weeds of all this stuff.

I was like, you're just going to have to have money at the end. It worked out. But when the dust settled, Isaac has the best team. Isaac drafted really well. It's going to be tough to beat Isaac's team. Who's Ike's team?

He's got all the young guys. Not fair. Mason Capple, who's basically just another Isaac's team. Who's Ike's team? He's got all the young guys. Not fair. Mason Capple, who's basically just another Isaac. Yeah. Just tall, fast, can jump. Parker Willis.

Oh, don't be an honest. He's a soccer player. He's a stud soccer player. He could kick the daylights out of a ball. Yeah, if it comes down to a few goal kicking competition, we're done for him.

Yeah. He got Spencer Shipley, who's also another 23-year-old. And then... Spencer, I love Spencer. And then I really wanted Spencer. I really wanted Spencer. I was bummed right in the end. Spencer's a bruiser. And he's got good hands. And then he got Tim Finley,

who's just like a great tight end body. But I built my team to be quick, to be able to run man-to-man on defense. We'll see how it works. Dude. There's something about just sheer age. That just is amazing in, in pickup sports.

Yeah. Like by hour two, that team's going to be doing fine. There's so many times where I've played basketball against guys. And I'm like, these guys aren't very good, but they're in college and they just wipe the floor with us. Cause it's like,

they just have more there's in better shape than we are. So I hope, I hope that's not the case. I mean, they're a little bit out of college, those guys. Yeah. So they're fine. So it's just the whole process has been so fun. We haven't even played football yet. That is fun.

I'm loving the plays and my team. And every morning I text my team. I say, good morning. We're winning the championship on Saturday. All right. I'll have to bring Bo and maybe all three of the kids to watch. It's not going to be as warm as we were hoping. I mean, we'll be fine because we're going to be running around,

but watching, I think the high's only like 50. No problem. But Rachel might come. We're going to try to get some of the girls to come, so maybe to the end. Kids are in Texas right now, and Hattie didn't bring a coat, but my mother-in-law was like, Hattie, here's a coat you can wear.

I'm sorry it's a little small. And she just laughed. She's like, honey, I'm from Kansas. This is not cold. So most of the time, 50 degrees is going to be just fine for me. I'm sorry. It's a little small and she has laughed. She's like honey. I'm from Kansas. This is not cold. So most of the time degrees is gonna be just fine for I'm boiling. Yeah, I was gonna say she's worried about being boiling. So last thing also Saturday morning, we

are going to do a national anthem, maybe a little prayer and I talked about it's like how fun it would be to do a drone or a fly over and just like have it just time it at the end of the national anthem, just like fly my drone over the top of it so time it for free uh we'll just fly a bunch of drones football for everyone football for some drone uh henry henry did respond to me here oh okay uh four different texts i didn't see that coming first one excellent exclamation point

great congratulations no punctuation okay i think your last child was born on my wife's birthday march 29th how about that good for him for remembering that and then is that correct question mark so there he is big henry thanks hen that's fun thanks for texting him uh people are going to want to know, Jake, how did the banana bread turn out? Oh, yes. Had quite the live stream. We can talk about it more on Wednesday.

But banana bread, the night of, actually, it really surprised Rachel. I don't know why she was so pessimistic. I was like, I don't know. Follow the recipe. I imagine it'll taste good. She's like, I don't know. Anyway, it tasted great.

Really? Especially that night. After a day, I still am eating them. About every eight hours, I pop a slice in. But it just got kind of hardened up the next day. So yeah, night of, it was great banana bread. How'd you store it? Tin foil on top of the oven.

Oh, that seems okay. Yeah. Feels like if it gets dry because you just keep it out. Yeah, no, it was wrapped up. But maybe something better we could do. All right, we'll talk about more on Wednesday. Yeah, but turned out great. I'm still eating it dry because you just keep it out. Yeah. No, it's wrapped up, but maybe something. We'll talk about more on Wednesday. Yeah. But turned out great. I'm still eating it.

If you guys want some, have at it. Okay. I'll try it out. Make you some butter. So let's do our reviews of the week. Yes. Got one. Um, I just talked about Sean McVay.

Uh, yeah. Otis 1105 ancillary review. Five stars. Been watching some Friday Pickle videos. I didn't expect Scott to look like a practice squad QB that retired and is now the OC for Sean McVay. I mean that in the most complimentary way. He just looks like an ex-football player? He does kind of look like a Sean McVay protege.

Yeah, I can see it. Yeah. It's better to be compared to Sean McVay than Nick Sirianni. That's true. Romeo Cornell. That's my review. Oh, that was it? Wow, that's great. Mine's called Mother-Daughter Bonding. Yeah, that's a good one.

For our homeschool end of the year closing ceremonies last year, my husband and I took our daughter to see Trey and Jake perform. That's a funny closing ceremony. We all left thinking Jake was, oh, wow. I didn't read the second sentence of this review.

We all left thinking Jake was so funny. It was great. The funniest one there. And soon found ghost runners, which has been a blast to listen to this past year. As we've been thinking of ways to stay connected on a weekly basis, when she leaves for college this fall, she recently said,

mom, we are ghosties. That's a guaranteed connection. Thanks for all the efforts you all put into the podcast and for living lives that exemplify biblical manhood. No problem. That is cool. No problem. Great review.

Thanks for coming to the show. Thanks for liking it so much. It is fun to have connections with your kids on anything. I feel like, did you have any like thing that you and your mom enjoyed together growing up? Yeah. I mean, we were both, my dad only listened

to Southern gospel music. It would kill him to listen to anything other than that or Elvis. And so, my mom was the music one. She was listening to all the same music

that me and my sister were. Love it. Yeah. That's how my mom was too. Like my mom sometimes would show me songs. Oh, my mom still,

I don't know where she finds this stuff. Really? She finds good music all the time. And and she she earned her cred like it was like that's a great recommendation mom i'm gonna listen to you more often yeah it's just fun to have anything that specifically connects you to like only one person like there's a couple people on instagram that i feel like only me and my sister follow so it's fun to like get to talk about that or like other people like that you You follow like, Oh, me and this one friend,

this is the guy we always talk about. Right. So it's cool to be like, Hey mom, we're ghosties. We're going to, we're going to keep in touch about this. This is our thing.

Yeah. Did you hear Brad has a six kid, you know, senior year of college. Forever is getting full. Uh, jingle. We're doing one.

Oh, would you like to end this episode with one you know what I had the thought of throwing it back to the Henry jingle but I did not pull it up let me see if I remember that Henry Janelle Bunyel I feel like that sounds right I connected to the roadcast

I'm going to youtube.com let's see if I can find it yeah I think I found it look up I'll be Tymon do you know this song I'm going to forward you anyway and you can figure out See if I can find it. Yeah, I think I found it. Look up I'll Be. Tymon, do you know this song? I'm going to forward you anyway, and you can figure out the... Yeah, sounds good. I don't think I know it.

I'll Be. It's a great... Ross Hogan would have loved this song. Instrumental. It doesn't show that you're connected? Maybe try one more time? Well, try crunching it again. Oh, you're right.

I'll Be. Well, I'll Be. What about now? There we go. Nice. How about now? It's so hard to find a vein. How about now?

Wait, what's the... Okay. You type in I'll be instrumental and it's Foxy Brown featuring Jay-Z. I feel like that's not it. No, it's... What is that guy's name? Edwin McCain?

Yep, yep, yep. Pretty much a one-hit wonder as far as i know so all right here we go this is a funny song man man see where it comes in thank you i appreciate that The dance in your door From your pitching sun Shocked me Why'd you stand there

Good start to the song Took ball after ball Straight towards the house Buzzing right through the air And tell me more Razorback stars. Call them out, another name drop. I'll be captivated. Take notes on what you say.

Talk baseball and treetops. Don't stop, it is great for the pie And Henry, you keep coming over Henry, you never say hi Hi, I'm Henry. Let's check out that shimmer. Henry, I'm glad that you live nearby. That's great. Can you show me the screen again? Yep. And Peachtree, Kentucky coffee bean About as west as they come

Imagine the hug test at dinner with ginger 22 inches minimum And tell me more Razorback stars call them out another name drop I'll be captivated

take notes on what you say for baseball and treetops don't stop it is great for the past. Henry, you keep coming over. Henry, you's check out that shimmer Henry, I'm glad that you live nearby There's Wiggins, Pallet, Zach Morse

But he gave up five runs. Chateau, remember the things that you said. Henry, you keep coming over. Henry, you never say hi. And Henry, let's check out that shimmer. Henry, I'm glad that you live in.. Nice. Henry, you keep coming over. Henry, you never say hi. And Henry, check out that shimmer.

Henry, I'm glad that you live nearby Oh, I'm glad that you live nearby Is that a bassoon? Maybe a saxophone? Oboe in there? A little piccolo action? Time we got some reverb on there. Hey, thank you, Cleveland. Oh.

Cleveland was last night. Yeah. Remember that commercial? Want to get away? Yeah, we're just going back to all the 90s commercials today. That'd be a fun way to just start the podcast for a while. It was an old commercial. Parodying commercial.

Remember we, Ty, have you listened to the podcast where we like just re, like redid movie scenes for like 10 episodes? I think so. Yeah, that was early on. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, we just do remember the Titans scene.

Yeah, that was fun. Matt Foley. Maybe, I can't remember that many. Oh, we did a- I remember the Matt Foley one. The't remember that many oh we did a I remember the Matt Foley one the other guys that was the Will Ferrell

Mark Wahlberg yeah fun fun of us that would be fun to do some 90s let us know some fun commercials from back in your childhood

that we should parody Waza hey Brad they say that hey Brad pick up the cordless did they already say Brad they do one that's Waza and then they did one like after that was a they say that. Hey, Brad, pick up the cordless. They say, Brad, they do one that's was up and then they did one like after that was popular

for a while with white guys where they go. What are you doing? What are you doing? What are you doing? And then they're like, hey, Brad, pick up the cordless fun. What are you doing? Last thing to say is there is still a couple spots.

Yep. Ghost Hunters Getaway, session two. Yep. Potentially for some ladies. Some ladies might share a bedroom. Is that right? Yeah, unofficial. Unofficial right now.

So if you're interested, just DM us no matter what gender you are. All right? I don't care what you is. Yeah, there's potentials for both right now. It's getting fun. Group chats are firing. Yeah, dude. Session one is, well, I was about to say completely booked up. It's getting fun. Group chats are firing. Yeah, dude. Session one is, well, I was about to say completely booked up.

If you really want to come, holler. I have a king room all to myself. I'll go sleep with the boys down the street. I don't care what gender you are. Join us, session one and two. I don't care if you're black, white, or some kind of halfsy. That's an office quote for anybody that's now it's what katherine is saying during labor oh my gosh uh love you henry hey welcome to the world

buddy welcome henry thanks for you guys to listen on the podcast nailed it see you wed. See you guys.