Ghostrunners - 333 - Hypothetically, Would You Drown a Mouse?

Episode Date: May 22, 2024

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Are you ready? Yes, sir. In fact, I'm rolling. Timon, are you ready? Yes. And in fact, Funny you should ask. I'm recording this.

I'm more than just ready. On air. Happy Wednesday, Ghosties. We're back for more giving away merch for jokes. New merch is out at ghostrunners.life.shop if you want to check out all the new designs. If Jake or Timon laugh at your joke, you guys win merch. So here we go.

What do ninjas drink, Jake? Let's see if I can guess it. They drink Mountain Dew. Do your... Okay. All right. Nothing there? Yeah. Mountain do your... What? Okay. All right. Nothing there?

Nothing. Yeah, that was... When's a door not a door, guys? When? What? When's a door not a... When's a door not a door? When's a door not a door?

When? When it's a jar. Okay. I think I like that one. Crickets. Have the crickets sound bite ready to go. All right. Ooh, look at Tymon go.

He knows the buttons. Hey, hey, what do you call a deer without eyes? Cy- I know this one. Blind. A deer blind. No idea. Close!

Close! I smiled. I smiled. Oh, I think this is it. Ready? Wait, what was the answer? No idea? No idea. That's funny because there's already a thing called a deer blind. That's great. What did the DJ name his son?

What? Eric? Madeline Gilliam! What is the joke? Eric? What did you say? Oh, Eric. Eric?

Eric? Eric? What's her name? Madeline Gilliam. Madeline Gilliam. Hit the sound. Yeah! There you go!

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh-oh. Ooh, I think this tight beat means that it's going down with some random thoughts in white. Me too. Midwest best friends eating fast food on repeat. That one's all in the delivery. I know that these ghosties, they're counting on me to give good delivery, so I tried to make good delivery on all of them. I thought you did great. No idea.

I listened to my first ever full episode of Joe Rogan podcast the other day. Did you? Sebastian Maniscalco was on there. Famous comedian. I don't know if you've heard of him, but Italian dude. And I just, I could listen to that guy talk all day. Really? Just the way, the way he says stuff, you know, like the way I kind of, the way I was like, when's a door, not a door, Joe, when's a door, not a door. That's pretty good. You know, when it's, when it's a jar, Joe, I don't, I don't, I don't mess with that, Joe. I don't know. Just the way he talked, like, he's just funny without

even trying to be funny. I listened to my first Dave Ramsey episode because he was on Theo Vaughn's podcast. How was that? I, I, I'm pretty familiar with Dave Ramsey. Like I only catch what other people say or what I see culturally or in memes or everything. So I never listened to him. I've never seen him. I've never like done financial piece, any of that stuff. So for the most part, I loved it. Cause I'm not, I'm guessing he does these catchphrases pretty often. Maybe that's a part of his personality.

I deserve. Yeah. He just had, he just had a lot of funny, like old man sayings. You know, he's like, I remember we had a buddy that I used to work with.

I mean, this guy, he worked for us. I mean, he had more degrees than a thermometer, but he didn't, he wasn't a hard worker. He just went to school for forever.

Right. You know, something like that. Yeah. It's a little funny thing like that, which pair well with the Ovan. I feel like, um, so you didn't listen to Dave Ramsey's podcast. You just listened to Theo's podcast. Yeah. Dave Ramsey was on Theo. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Um, yeah, he's, he's like a, you would like him a lot. I think he's got like that Southern charm, very, very like Steve triplet kind of ask, I think. It was a fun listen. I feel like I learned a lot.

Theo did a good job asking him questions that I feel like everyday Americans want to know. He would just ask them, I don't know, good stuff. Just like, why are we always told to buy a house? Why are you... Whatever. I can't think of a lot of them. I saw a clip

of that, but I should listen to it now. It was good. The one thing that bothered me, Dave spends his whole life on the radio talking. And there'll be times where Theo would ask him a question and he'd start talking. He's like, well, I mean, if you look at interest rates over the last few years,

and I mean, that's this thing. I got a good situation. Oh yeah, just like mumbling through. And like, I've turned up the volume three times in this podcast already. I can't keep turning it up. Right. Dave talk. Yeah. Talk louder. He would get so quiet. If for some reason it would drive me nuts. Yeah. It's like, dude, he must, the microphone he uses must be different or maybe he's just used to, yeah. Having it not as much of a conversation

more of a, yeah. Cause like I would give most 60 year old men a break. Like, Hey, this is tough to do, but it's like you, you've been bragging about how many podcasts you do a week, so I know you know how to talk because you've been talking about it. Have you seen how he does them? He has a headset. I was going to say, he has a headset. So he's not having to talk into it, maybe because of that. Whereas I think most of the other people on the podcast have a normal mic.

That's funny. He's a headset guy. He's a headset guy, and it's awesome. Yeah, that was the only thing. Otherwise, yeah, it was fun. I liked listening to Dave. Did they keep it clean for him? Yeah.

Yeah. I feel like it. Yeah. That's fun. Yeah. I've never listened to Theo. I don't listen to that many. I don't seek out podcasts very often.

It was my first Theo Vaughn episode, too. Yeah, I see the clips, and they're hilarious. I'm like, I should listen to one of those. So I'll give it a chance. It's funny. Theo is doing his Theo thing every now and then. I mean, you talk about like, he's like, you know, my first job I used to sell. What did he say in this episode? I used to

sell raccoons outside of a nightclub and Dave gives no reaction. Don't even like make a noise and just let's Theo keep talking. And then probably second job I had was scalping baseball tickets or something. But it's but just like dude you didn't want to ask about selling raccoons outside of a nightclub or whatever he said it was something like that dave's got the redneck in him too though he's like yeah i knew people that did that it's not the markup on

raccoons better deliver pizzas yeah whenever you whenever you see like theo von like kind of lean back in his chair put like fold his arms that's when you know it's about to be good. You know? Yeah. I remember I would, uh, yeah. First job selling raccoons at a nightclub.

It was just like, Oh, this is perfect. Yeah. I think he's a lot smarter than he leads on and he knows what he's doing. Like he's, he's capable of just making up all this stuff on the fly and making it sound believable.

And when people question about it, he just makes up a backstory too. That's where I'm like, to me it's like, I think I believe him. But it's also so crazy that it's like, should I believe, am I an idiot for believing this?

I would probably guess most of them are made up. I'm sure every now and then he does have a friend who had like a third arm there for a little bit. But for the most part, I think he's just making stuff up. Anyway, it was fun listening to Joe Rogan. I mean, because, I don't know,

I listen to him sometimes, and it's like, it feels like I always listen to like 30, 45 minutes of an episode, and then they start talking about MMA and like boxing and stuff. Deer meat. I turn it off. I have two and a half hours left of this. I don't need to listen. Jamie, pull up the clip of this MMA fighter from Russia in the 80s.

I mean, look at this thing. This guy's a unit. It's like, I don't care about this. But I powered through. They did that for like 20 minutes. I powered through it, got through it. But it was fun listening to them kind of reflect on, I mean, Joe's been doing podcasting for like 15 years or something. Yeah, he's an OG. Yeah. And it was really slow for a long time and then finally kind of hit. And I don't know, it was just cool listening to Sebastian Maniscalco. I mean, I showed his clips to Catherine. Catherine didn't think he was funny at all.

I'm like, this guy is so funny. Really? See, I'm not a big Sebastian fan. I don't think his comedy is so physical. Whereas like his body is the joke rather than the words. And he talked about that.

Cause he's like, he's like, Joe, I'm getting old, Joe. I need to go in the car, Bracta or something for this. You know,

like he's just like, cause I got to move my body around for comedy. Yeah. Cause yeah, it is. It's totally like, that's what makes him funny he's a funny looking guy he's funny sounding and then he yeah his his words are not that funny if if you break it down like that if you're into that if you're the kind of guy it's like i need words to laugh you're not a charlie chaplin guy

but uh anyway it was kind of a fun i was kind of reflecting as I was listening to this because they're like Joe Rogan is the biggest podcaster in the world. And he, there's so many times where I'm like, this is so low energy. How do people just want to keep this? Yeah. Or like, there's like just dead spots in the conversation. I'm like, I feel like Jake and I cannot handle more than two seconds of silence. Oh yeah. I mean, that's my whole thing is like, even if I'm not funny, at least hopefully I'm not funny, at least hopefully I'm energetic and fast. Like, if the unfunny part will get over quick.

Right. That's the thought. It's like the non-entertaining part, at least it's almost over. Yeah. So props to him for hanging on. Speaking of speed, we didn't totally hit on this last episode,

but we listened to the AI song of Timon running his model, but we need to talk about Timon. Yes. We have the haters wrong. Absolutely. I forgot to really talk about that. Tymon, sorry. Thank you for your platform. Courtney Miller, several episodes ago, said,

I don't buy it. Tymon's mile time. He's running 6'12", 6'15". There's no shot. Sure, he's got some lung capacity from singing, but can he really run? Homeschool theater boy. Those people can't run. No way. How could they do both? They can't pump their arms opposite of which leg is running. They wouldn't be able to figure that out. No so last week a lot of you guys saw it we went to the track

shiny mission northwest some ghosties also went to the track yeah that was wild we got some very like sleuthy some encyclopedia browns in the in the audience timon went first i went second and on my very first lap there were some people underneath a little shade tree waving at me. I was like, well, that's cool. Hey, guys. And then I had the whole lap to think about it. I was like, I bet they're ghosties, actually, because they don't look like they are high schoolers. I don't know

what's going on. And so every lap after that, I was just like waving really big. Oh, wait, this was for your lap that you were running. Okay, yeah, yeah. And come to find out, they were on their way. They were driving from Denver to Ohio. Happened to be in Kansas city that day. They're all big fans of the podcast. They got 75 kids.

They're homeschooled. They're just like timing. And, uh, you know, their kids are like, you think we'll see Jake and Brad. They're like,

I doubt we're going to see him. We're only in Kansas city for a day. And then, yeah, uh, she was like, Oh, I screenshotted the live stream.

When you first went live, I screenshotted the hurdle. It said Northwest. That's why I kind of figured it out. Amazing. She found us. But yeah, Tymon, what was it like? You ran your mile.

How'd it go? It went well. I think I started out way too fast. Then I kind of, I think I could have done it faster if I had started slower, I feel like. Ooh, so he's saying he's not even, he's got more in the tank. He's not done. I don't know. After running, I was like, I don't know if I'm ever trying it again.

Because it was, yeah, during it was not super fun. But yeah, I don't know. He started off, I think your first lap was 117. So that pace is just a little over five minutes. Yeah. Quite the pace to start off with. Yeah, if I'd kept that, it would have been crazy. But yeah.

Did you figure out, did you like time every lap individually? Yeah,ake and razor kind of shouted out my kind of my lap time as i'd pass so what was like what was the final laps lap time oh i don't know i don't remember off the top of my head yeah i can't i can't think of it but it was fun we went to the track and we first got there there were two other people there and so like dang i was hoping it would be empty there's like one girl training to run the hurdles with an adult man. So we were kind of like, is this allowed? He just, some guy just pulled this girl out of school to be out here alone with her. Does he ministry safe? Rachel was like, I bet she's like a college athlete, something. So when they were like, all right, well, they're not supposed to be here either. So this makes us feel better about what we're doing.

They're using a track too. I feel like I've've always seen like like when we go out for pe and stuff there will be people running and stuff so the this past which sorry go ahead no uh this past saturday we got we tried to play a pickup football and we got kicked off a field and we were told by the maintenance people that the track is public use but the field is not oh interesting so i learned that after the fact that i guess a public high school track is i mean maybe not during school hours i don't know how that works but that's lame though that you got kicked off anything. Yeah, I know. It was like a younger guy.

Yeah, it was a Saturday morning, and we're just like not doing anything wrong. And you've done it a hundred times. Yeah, he was just like, sorry, I got to kick you all out. We're like, do you have to kick us out? Like, what's going on? Was he like doing maintenance on the field?

No, he said, he's like, my boss just told me if I ever see large groups on here, I need to kick them off. on the field no he said uh he's like my boss just told me if i ever see large groups on here i need to kick him off and that's one of those things where you're like i don't want you to get in trouble by your boss yeah and i was kind of like well what if we just kept playing yeah what's i know that that's that's the classic like people pleaser in me like you too probably it's like i i can't i can't do that we have to leave but i'm curious like what's the heart what's doing this the hard way right the cops show up in an hour and then they kick us off what have we got an hour of extra play in no one's gonna yeah no one's gonna do that

but but yeah so we show up and there's two other people there but like all right no worries we'll just kind of avoid her training on the hurdles and at right as we're about to start uh class breaks out and just like 30 high schoolers wander onto the track. And there's no teacher in sight and no structure at all. We've got Frisbees. We've got golf clubs.

We've got basketball, soccer. There was so much happening at once. It was unbelievable. We got kids just laying down. We got a kid with his, he hasn't seen the sun in four years. He's got his jacket over his head. We got kids

laying down on the track it was anarchy and uh i feel like it started as i was like almost like starting to walk to the starting point like it was perfect the timing was insane it was just hilarious we were like we took this homeschool kid to a public school like it'll be fine it'll be fine he said no one's gonna be out there's other kids. I don't want to talk to them. And yeah, then they all showed up. And so Tymon had to dodge public schoolers and beat his mile time. And he did it. He ran a 5.59, which is crazy impressive. How close

were you to hitting a public school kid? Or any kid. It doesn't have to be public school. Just like only ever within, like, in the next lane. Yeah. I don't know if I ever even really had to. Rachel had the most debris. Rachel had like on her final stretch. Yeah. She like went the wide way, just like dodged everybody.

Yeah. She had to go in like lane five at one point. They were really forming a blockade in front of her. Yeah. It's so funny. And there was like no organization. There was a PE coach up on the tennis courts and he would make announcements like, if anyone wants to play tennis, I'm up here.

I don't know if anyone went up and what in the world kind of I mean like you hear about like you know school is not the same these days but like what class is this that's just like like I remember Isaac back in the day was a part of team games it was like he was in PE and he was in team games was this a team games class I don't know what it was. And I think something between me and Rachel, a second PE class came out there. So that's why it got even more crowded. And there was one teacher just walking in lane eight. So that's kind of what she did. She kind of walked around and she just wanted to go outside.

And she's like, yeah, it was probably an English class. Yeah. Like whatever. But yeah, it was crazy how easy of access we had to like children. Like this is kind of a loophole in the public school system. Like Rachel was like, as much as like security is talked about and pounded into our heads and like all these measures are taken to protect kids.

We were just out with 60 of them for an hour. Right. Just kind of outside. No problem. Don't you feel like this? It's the same way with like, uh, like airports and stuff.

Like they work so hard when you're going through TSA to make sure nothing's bad. And then you're just up in the air and there's no law and order up there. What do you mean? Like, if someone's deranged up in the air, who's stopping them? The flight attendants?

Oh, I see. They don't have like a... Yeah, I see. Like TSA is like so... They're in charge. You have to be very like... We're going to be very like particular about what you're doing here, how you're coming through, who you are.

But then once you get in the airplane and you're up in the air where you can't go anywhere if there's something bad that happens. Like if someone was violent or something. You're not necessarily saying like a weapon because that's like what the other measures... But you're just saying like a violent person. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. It's you're not necessarily saying like a weapon because that's like what the other measures, but you're just saying like a, yeah, like a violent person. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. It's just the same idea of like, yeah, these schools

like try so hard and then all of a sudden it's like, well, except for we'll just throw them all out on the track and no problem. I mean, I don't think an active shooter would choose PE, so we'll kind of roll the dice there. Right. That's fine. That's fine. Flight attendants will take care of it. So, Tymon, did you feel accomplished

like was it like terrible afterwards what was the after effects um because i mean you've run you've run a mile basically the same amount before yeah pretty pretty close to it i it definitely was like the worst i'd ever done i think it felt the worst really because i was pushing myself so hard yep um but yeah just i think within four minutes i was i was fine yeah yeah it was great we all had a fun time timon beat his time here in 559 i beat my pr i ran like a 631 and then rachel ran like a seven what rachel no rachel ran a six something no 720 something yeah yeah yeah 631 is really great thanks yeah it was the track is nice do you like the track yeah i liked it because you can measure you can be like i know how much i've done i know

where i need to like i can look towards the goal i think there's something about being on a track and being in a lane you feel like more of an athlete than running through your neighborhood you're like i'm competing at something right now i can run fast so flat surface and the flat is nice yeah so yeah 631 it made me feel like wow i should be running harder each day i'm probably not I can run fast. So flat surface and the flat is nice. Yeah. So yeah, six 31. It made me feel like, wow, I should be running harder each day. I'm probably not bettering my cardio health by running nine minute miles

every day. I've got a six 30 in me unless you're running three miles, four miles a day or something. Yeah. So maybe in the future I'll, I'll start running harder, but I'm just impressed how consistent you've been like that. That in and of itself is impressive.

I think. Thanks. It's been fun. Just a lot of different ways of running miles. Late at night, early morning, kicked off of places. Utah track, stage, wherever. Manhattan, New York City. It's a fun thing. Yeah, what'd you do in New York? Where'd you run that? There was one day... What did I do

some of the other days? I know one day specifically, I had ran out of time, and I was having to run just through the streets of Manhattan. It was miserable. I mean, just like truly dodging people. I felt so in the way and yeah, just on like these skinny sidewalks, just stopping and starting over and over. But I bet you got a mile in, but yeah, that was, that was a bummer. I did a mile a couple of days ago talking to my dad on the phone. That was the first of the year. Nice. I was like, I could talk to these first few minutes. I'm going to need you to carry the conversation for the last half of it.

I'm going to be a little out of breath, but cool. But that was fun. What do you got for me? What are you up to? Well, I haven't been running, but I've been walking a lot with Henry. That's kind of been new. A little, little phase for us is Catherine had the idea of like, you got, you should go on a walk with Henry

after dinner every night while I put the kids to bed. And I'm like, that seems like a good compromise for both of us. Cause like Henry, like he falls asleep better on walks. And then, you know, bedtime's kind of hectic anyway. It gets even more hectic if Henry's crying and whatever. So yeah, I've been really enjoying that. Honestly. It's been, I think I told you that or not, like our neighborhood, I really like our neighborhood. I think I talk about a lot of like how it's not the nicest neighborhood, but there's pockets of like, or not even pockets, but there's like, there's houses on it that are like, this is a really fun house. This is a really cool house. This is a really beautiful house, really well-kept normal, small house, whatever.

And the fact that they're not like, you know, full streets of these houses, but just like little, it's almost like a scavenger hunt to find, like, let's find like a beautiful house on this street, you know, like that's kind of a dumpy one, but then you go a little bit farther and it's like, Oh, that's a really beautiful, fun house. And like, we don't live in the suburbs really. I mean, we are in like kind of the outskirts of town, but we're not in like some like cookie cutter, suburb neighborhood kind of thing. And so, you know, every house is different. Like, like you'll see houses. I mean, like there was one, I mean, there's also like really quirky people that live in some of these houses. Like there was a sign

with like their cat on a, like a picture of their cat on it. It was like, Mr. Fluffy for president 2024 or something like that. And I'm like, that's just quirky. That's funny. Like some people like Prairie Village are not posting those very often. You know, like this is more of a personality thing for our neighborhood. Um, but anyway, it's been fun just walking with them. Um, and just, yeah, enjoying getting out. Um, and Oh dude. And one time recently, I know we, it's well-documented that I get nervous around animals was walking. Do you ever go 55, uh, sorry, 55th street. We'll say, uh, like down, like where those Hills are. Have you ever ran on those Hills? No, I try to go as flat as possible. Super hilly. Like, yeah, just a little bit west of us.

And I was walking down this hill and I went into this neighborhood. So I was like, this hill is almost, it's almost worse going down this hill on my knees than it is going up. It is. Yeah, it was especially like holding this like car or stroller. I'm like, if I drop this thing or if I let go of this thing, I couldn't catch it. And we would have issues. So we went to this neighborhood and as I'm walking, I see this, I'm like, I see this thing off to the side, side street. I'm like that. Surely that was just a big dog, but I'm going to, I'm going to check this out. Whatever's going on over there. Go off this side street deer, dude, deer. And I was like, that's cool. I'm going to walk towards the deer.

Yeah. I'm going to walk towards it. I got this. And as I'm walking, dude, four. And I was like, that's cool. I'm going to walk towards the deer. I'm going to walk towards it. I got this. And as I'm walking, dude, four deer came. That's awesome. It was wonderful. It was like, you know, that, that time of day, seven 30 at night, like just like nice little sunset going, got the deer coming out. And so I just follow these deer and the deer were kind of getting a little bit nervous. So they're running away from me. And I was like, I don't, I'm not scared of these deer. Who would be scared of deer they're beautiful they're majestic creatures and then these deer get to like the end of this like cul-de-sac i didn't realize it was a cul-de-sac and like find like a like basically a dead end at these people's fence and i was like uh-oh it's me

or the fence there yeah and this fence is tall i was like i don't know what we're gonna do here but i think they're gonna turn back around and come towards me. Luckily, they're deer, so they went to the thicket, went back out, no problem. But it was a fun little experience for me and Henry. I'm like, listen, Henry, we're not afraid of deer in this family anymore. Yeah. Went right towards them.

You're a man. I love seeing deer. I do too, dude. I always try to feed them on the golf course. I always want to domesticate a deer and just like I want it to love me. Yeah. And get to know me. I thought about,

I was like, what would happen if I went up and pet this deer right now? What do you, do you feed it nuts or what are you feeding it? Yeah. Usually I got peanuts on me and they like those. I can't, I've never gotten one to eat out of my hand,

but I've gotten pretty close where I can get it to follow me around and kind of Hansel and Gretel it, but never out of the hand. I actually saw a video on the internet just like a day or two ago of a guy in his backyard fighting a deer. Like this deer wasn't scared of him. I was just fighting him. And then the comments were like,

this is probably like a young buck who just got like puberty based, like has testosterone and doesn't know what to do with it. I can, I can take this guy out. Yeah. Yeah. It was kind of a, it seemed like a pretty fair fight. The guy was doing just fine. Oh really?

So yeah, I think you'd be fine. I guess a deer antlers would be tricky, but, yeah, a little deer is fine. Didn't see any antlers on any of these bad boys. So, yeah, it's just fun because we do live in the city still, so we don't see a ton of deer. So then when you see them, it's like, that was fun. Yeah, I love when it snows out and you get to see all the animals that walk to your yard night after night.

It's kind of fun. Yeah. And I don't know animal tracks that well, so that might have been, I don't know, that might have been a moose. Who knows how big. I think it is usually a that well, so I just, that might have been, I don't know. That might have been a moose. Who knows how big. I think it is usually a moose, almost always. Speaking of animals, I have a situation. Hey, hypothetically, let's say hypothetically I got back from, let's say Gulf Shores.

Let's say hypothetically I got back from Gulf Shores and I checked the bucket in the garage and there were two mice in it alright hypothetically and so hypothetically I go and I I dump them out in their little spot

to let them the fox get them or whoever wants them sure anybody they're not mine yeah you're mine you're takers and

then I just kind of put everything back and don't think about it. And then let's say hypothetically about three nights ago, I am laying in bed and I hear a noise and I know that noise. That is the noise of a bucket. That is the noise of a bucket being moved around.

So hypothetically, I am like, let's see. So hypothetically, I would imagine I probably like head to the garage and I check. And hypothetically speaking, let's just say like there was no water in the bucket. I had hypothetically forgotten to refill it. But there was a mouse caught in the dry bucket. Hypothetically, what would you do in that situation? Hypothetically? I'd kill the crap out of that mouse.

How so? Any way possible. I'd drown it, probably. Really? Yeah. You would just take a hose and just spray him? Yeah. Dude, I don't think I have an ounce of sympathy for a mouse, dude. I don't get... I don't... I have an ounce of sympathy for a mouse, dude.

I don't get... No. The mouse don't have feelings. Yeah. It's a mouse. Catherine's the same way. She hates mice so much. And then when we catch one in a glue trap, I told you that one time, I smacked

one up against the door or something. She's like, you smacked it up against the door? Poor mouse. I'm like, Catherine, you wanted this thing gone out of our house. I'm taking care of it. It is weird that you smacked it against a door. I don't know. I wanted to make sure it was dead.

I guess in my head, I'm like, I don't want this thing to have any chance of getting out. Totally. I'm not catching and releasing mice. But the thing is, I don't want to physically see myself kill it. It could drown on its own. It could get caught in a trap on its own. Then look the other way. I'm just watering the garage.

If it happens to get in the bucket, so be it. I'm just getting my garage wet. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just fill up the bucket to wash out the floor. Yeah, what would you... Or just take it, take the bucket, make sure the lid's on there and just give it a few rattles, dude. The sound of that?

Oh, I would never. Yeah. Just what'd you do? Poison? Who knows? Who knows what I did? Hypothetically, he's still in there. You want me to take care of it right now?

Hypothetically, he might still be squirming around in that bucket as we speak. You went the old, you know, you need food eventually to survive route? It just kind of was like, let's just see. Hypothetically, this happened on Monday. I'm going to avoid the garage for a few days and see what happens. Hypothetically, it's going to stink in that garage for a while. So, I don't know. I was just wondering, just out of curiosity, what would you do in that situation? Hypothetically, have's going to stink in that garage for a while. So, I don't know. I was just wondering, just out of curiosity, what would you do in that situation?

Hypothetically, have you checked the garage recently? I did yesterday. I was like, oh, it's been a couple of days. And? Surely, he can't survive that. Still kicking. No. Put it out of his misery.

That sounds so much worse. Really? Oh, yeah. Than drowning? Yeah. Drowning, it's so much quicker. If you're thinking mercy for the mouse, drown it. It's not even mercy.

It's just physically watching myself. You don't want to dominate another creature, dude? Not like that. You are the alpha. Dude, humans are the apex. He could die all he wants. I don't want to see it. I just don't want to feel as responsible as I am. Even though I set

the trap, even though I filled the bucket with water. Hypothetically. It feels wrong to like spray him and watch him struggle. Yeah. And just like watch him just get doused in my water. Okay, here's what you do. You just get a big bowl, you fill it up with water and you just dump it in there. Walk away. Walk away, Joe. You just walk

away. Really what I was giving him was the opportunity, like this is like a Disney movie. He got caught in a bucket. Yeah, Dark Knight style. Dark Knight Rises. Not a Disney movie. Yeah, just like someone's got to break him out. Toy Story 3. I would have loved to have gone in there three days later, and he's not

in there anymore. Great. He found a way out. You deserved it, buddy. If he found a way out of there, that's pretty impressive. Some monkeys in a barrel type situation where they connected their tails and went down in there and got him. Yeah. Truly, that would be fun. Yeah. If the other mice, if they cared about their friend, they would have found a way by now.

Instead, there's letting them die in there. That's fair. Also, what if there's more mice, but they are about to go in the bucket and then they see that mouse? They're like, oh, psych. This is a bad idea. I was hoping the pheromones of a dying mouse would bring them in. We need to see that dying mouse. I thought it could be like bait. This is how you catch the big mouse.

Wow. Hypothetically. So anyway, yeah, the rubber's going to be thrown in a couple days. We leave for Portugal, so I'm going to have to do something. But I plan on filling it back up again, leave it in the garage, see what we get, tail into Portugal. That'd be fun. Yeah.

Also, what am I paying these pest control guys for? I'm catching things in buckets. They've come out twice to try and fix this. I would talk to them about it. Say, listen, what's going on here? Hey, me and one bucket are doing more than your whole operation. Also, can you please kill this for me?

Also, how would you get rid of this? A bit of a hypothetical. Yeah, man. I don't know. I, I, I, for whatever reason, I think a lot of people have this common sentiment of like, man, I don't want to, I don't want to see that thing die. And it's like, why, why do you, why you hate on at one moment? And then on the other moment, you're like, ah, I have sympathy for this thing. You know, like Catherine's the same way. I don't know. There, maybe there is something about like looking it in the eyes and like, just seeing like, cause for me way I don't know there maybe there is something about like looking it in the eyes and like just seeing like because

for me I haven't like I haven't done anything with like a pest and like I don't know I haven't like seen a mouse in forever maybe they're cuter than I remember must be nice because like when he's alone in that buck he looks kind of cute mice are kind of cute until they're until until like your wife absolutely hates

that's the thing I'm like this this came up on up on a group chat that I'm on a while ago. It was like someone's grandpa shot a squirrel that was being an absolute pet, getting into their garden, all these seeds, all this stuff. And then it was like a quotes chat where it was like grandpa just sees, oh, there's a squirrel out there,

and he gets a shotgun and shoots it. And everyone replies like, oh, the like oh whatever that's so sad yeah and then it's like uh and then i think like yeah my friend grayton's just like they don't have souls like what i don't know i'm just like especially if it's a pest like if a squirrel's just minding his own business yeah just don't no need to shoot it for fun sure but then then mice came up and like my friend gabby's like oh i don't like killing my just just relocate them like i can't do that well i heard something about like raccoons like if you relocate them you have to relocate like 30 miles away i remember you saying that something like that yeah i'm like no i'm not relocating nothing i don't know's different. It's different for me when it's like,

and I think you probably agree, like when you're doing it for somebody besides just yourself, like you were, I guess you set some traps at one of your houses, but another house you're like, yeah, we have mice and that kind of stinks, but you know, but now it's like my wife hates mice. So therefore I'm going to take, I'm going to take care of these mice. Yeah. I just, something felt wrong. Something in me. I just can't drown it while looking at it. It's got to do it on its own.

I'm reading here, mice can typically survive two to four days without food, but wild mice can go longer because they're more resilient and can forage for food. Resilient. That's what I'm talking about. What if he just swims? I'm just filling up the thing,

and I just see him just swimming. I would be proud of that mouse. So resilient. This says... He turned that water into cream. Google says mice can swim in tread water for up to three days. So you don't have to watch it die. Just fill it up.

You're just refreshing the kid. He's probably thirsty. He's just going for a swim for a few days and then he'll be done soon. No shot of mouse could tread water for three days Throw some water in there but also give him some food So maybe you'll strengthen him up a little bit Maybe he's just having a little beach day for a little bit Yeah I come back and he's just huge

He's still swimming Oh man Yeah Mice are opportunistic feeders And may consume food debris and human food, which helps their energy needs. Me too. Me too, Mouse.

I'm right there with you. Man, that's great. Anyway, Mouse in the house all over again. I have tons of little family updates. You want me to give you all those? Sure. Maybe go back and forth, whatever you want to do. Sure. Yeah, I got stuff. We went to the Royals game, Bo, H. Um, maybe go back and forth, whatever you want to do. Sure.

Yeah. I got stuff. Uh, we went to the Royals game, uh, Bo Hattie and I, and it was fun, man.

Uh, I know I mentioned it last week, but, um, I, I am a little bit worried that I introduced too many fun extracurricular things about the Royals game too early. Uh,

because I mean, yeah, the kids just wanted to go play on the merry-go-round and get all the food and everything. Like we were in our seats that I spent a decent amount, like not crazy amounts, but decent amount of money. We were in them for two innings of the nine. Okay.

Wow. Um, partially because it was in the sun. And so we, we did sit in other seats throughout the game, like more in the shade and stuff. Cause you know, how do you was I'm'm boiling i'm roasting yeah whatever um but i i think overall my my mindset is just like if they think about wanting to go to rose game and they would love to go that's a win for me and hopefully eventually as they get older they care more about the baseball game than you know the merry-go-round uh but we did do the little k which is like yeah a little diamond yeah they have like a like a little mini field where you can hit,

and you get like five pitches or whatever, and then the last one, when you get a hit, you run around the bases. And so Hattie wasn't sure if she wanted to do it. Bo had done it before last year, and so Bo did it this year. And Bo, on his last hit, got a hit, and they're like, all right, Bo, you're going to run the bases. Go, go, go. And Bo runs straight from

home plate right over the pitcher's mound to second base and back and uh yeah kickball two base yeah basically just went straight back like forwarded back uh which was hilarious and great some uh baseball diamonds have a path you know they cut out grass from the pitcher's mound of the plate so it probably looks like a base path yeah Yeah. I don't know if little K did that, but we'll say they did. That's how we knew. Yeah. Bo still doesn't quite understand. We were playing baseball the other night in the backyard with your bases,

and Bo got a hit. He was on first base, and then he was like, then Hattie was up to bat. He's like, I go get my glove now. I'll go get my glove. Now that I'm at first. I'm going to catch the ball at first base. And I was like, no, Bo, you're on her team um i won't give him credit when we got him bases he knew they were bases immediately it was kind of hard to tell him that package what they even were

yeah he's reading baseball bases it was incredible he's like bases and he even knew he's like this one's the pitcher's mound this one's home plate yeah yeah he got them all picking up stuff um hattie i did have a glimpse with hattie. So we were on the third base left field line, and there was a play. Royals were up 3-2. There was a guy on second base for the Brewers. Base hit into left field. The guy got the ball.

Second base is going home. The guy throws him out at home, the Royals guy. And so it was electric. Yeah, it's awesome. What a play. Sixth, seventh inning, something like that. Big play. And I explained to Hattie, if they would have scored, the Royals wouldn't have been winning anymore. Uh, he had to throw

it and get it all the way there. And it was like something connected to her for her. And she was like, Whoa, that was really cool. You know, like it was one of those like electric moments for her of like, okay, I think she's starting to get. And then at the end of the game, when the Royals won, she thought it was like, that was so cool. We, we won by so many, that was so fun. We got them. We got them. So that's fun. Do you watch much baseball in the house? No. Like I think it's so unaccessible these days. Really? You have to have like a cable package to watch the Royals. Oh, you can't watch on YouTube TV. No, I don't think so. I think maybe MLB TV, but I don't even know. Sometimes those things are like localized where you can't watch your own like team locally. That is a bummer. I think maybe MLB TV, but I don't even know. Sometimes those things are like localized where you can't watch your own team locally.

That is a bummer. I think that's how I learned sports so much back then, which is watching them on TV. I know. I want to watch at least the highlights or something, but we're just not watching TV that often in general. But baseball is so good to have though. Baseball is so much better

because you can just kind of have it on in the background and still be doing stuff and look over every once in a while. But yeah, it was fun, man. It was fun to watch Hattie did the bases and everything. She's actually getting pretty good hitting. Um, oh, it was school day at the K uh, which means like all these like kids were there, like elementary school kids. Oh, um, which is so fun. First of all, it was fun because they did like they did science experience beforehand. We didn't make it for those but they did have a robot throughout the first pitch whoa which sounded honestly sounded cooler than it really was yeah the robot was not like a

whatever it was like a little cart that had like a little pitching machine on it or something okay but it probably took the thing 30 seconds to throw the ball like it was like i don't think the robot's working i don't think it's wake them up and then all of a sudden you see the ball just like and that was like the kids were more excited about that than anything like we gotta see the robots um but because it was school day at the k all these kids were sitting in the upper deck for the most part elementary school kids and you remember as a kid even as some adults i think see this but like every time a fly ball is hit and you're in the upper deck, you just think that's a home run. Yeah, it always looks like it.

And so it's so fun, dude. Every single hit. Kids were going nuts, dude. Pop up to the second baseman. Didn't even get out of the infield sometimes. And yeah, these kids were just going absolutely bonkers for it. That's fun. I know my Uncle John, your coach.

Yeah, coach. That's my coach. There was one time ever, he had those like diamond club seats, whatever. You're sitting directly behind home plate. Yeah. And I remember him saying, he's like, they're cool seats,

but every pot fly, he's like, we look like an idiot on national TV because I would stand up. Really? He's like, I would stand up and start cheering. Yeah. Yeah. Wouldn't leave the infield.

Yeah. It's just everything looks like a home run. And everything's probably sounds so good right there. So loud. Oh my gosh, he nailed that thing. And sometimes he probably does hit it 300 feet just straight to the center fielder or something like that. It's funny once you've become a golfer,

which you're right there too. You go to a baseball field and you look and you're like, I could hit my pitching wedge like out of this park. That's crazy. Why is it? Why is it so hard to hit a home run? It's 140 yards from the home plate to out of this park. That's crazy. Why is it so hard to hit a home run? Come on. It's 140 yards from the home plate to out of the park. Yeah, that ball's huge compared to a golf ball.

Why is it so hard? That's great. So anyway, yeah, the whole thing was fun. Remind me for next time, anybody out there, if I say I'm going to the Royals game, just say get the cheapest tickets you can get. Because you're not sitting them anywhere. It doesn't matter.

Yeah, they're not going to check. They checked when we were going to our regular seats seats but they didn't check anything else whatever i i upgraded my parking pass so i could walk less with the kids look out didn't matter they still parked me so far away they're like oh that parking lot's already full so you have to park back here and so by the time like we were i was carrying bow on my shoulders back hey he's like i think we should be at our car by now. I'm like, totally. I don't know where it is. Just parked so far away.

Anyway, overall, it's just a fun time with the kids, and hopefully it's one of many, many times we'll go this summer. I very much look forward to that. Yeah. Whenever we have kids. Wait, did spoiler. Did Jake just say he was adopting triplets. I can't believe I just did that. Oh, what am I doing?

What am I doing? Oh, brain burp. People have been people have been embracing that. I've seen like some things and it's so funny. Yeah. Oh, you can't English today. I have more updates, but you have any updates for me? I got tons written down.

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Five minutes after he texted that, I said, holy cow, I just put the last five minutes. I have a hundred things written down. I texted back and said, we couldn't be more opposite. I can't think of one. So I have no list of mine. I just have them all out there. Yeah. Just whatever comes to mind once we start. We'll see. I'm not going to think about it too much. Did we put too much bread? Tymon, you choose the order. How about that? That way you can choose to go first if you want to or you can figure it out. I'll say

Jake has a lot, so Jake first, then me, then Brad. A lot of pressure. The first pick for fictional characters, I'm going to go the OG, the best, Santa Claus. Oh, good one. What's better than Santa? Whoa, whoa, whoa, kids, hey.

Fictional. I mean, Chris. We're doing non-fictional characters. Fictional means totally real. Fictional means the best. The best. I love reading fiction books. I can hold a fiction book in my hand.

It's a real book. It's like frictional. You could feel it in there. You could feel it tangible. Right. Yeah, absolutely. Santa Claus. I'm like frictional. You could feel it. You could feel it. Tangible. Right. Yeah. Absolutely. Santa Claus. I'm going to go Santa Claus. Great answer.

He's been around for how many years? Not one scandal. I mean, not a bad thing about him. No bad PR. Guy's getting movies made about him left and right. Gives everybody a present. Has really evolved his toys, too. If you told kids in the 70s that Santa would someday be making iPhone 14s, they wouldn't have believed you.

No way. I'm like, how is he doing this? iPad minis? What? What? Really? And he's doing it.

He's contacting, you know, like undisclosed native tribes. Like we are not allowed there. Santa can get there. Yeah. He could do it all. He's the modern day Magellan.

He's just the best. So my pick is Santa Claus. He's doing all right. All right. Good answer. He's the modern-day Magellan. He's just the best, so my pick is Santa Claus. He's doing all right. All right, good answer. I'm going to say Spider-Man. Ooh, Spider-Man. I think out of any, like, maybe superhero or character in that genre, he's the most that I'm just like, I want to be, I want to have that.

Like, that's so cool. It's the most, like, athletic power, I feel like. Getting to swing and dangle and connect. Yeah. I was always envious of that. Superman could fly, though, so you don't even need the web. But hey, I said Spider-Man. That's the wrong guy.

There's a dog on my answer. Spider-Man's cool, because Spider-Man's got that, like, a little bit more of the relatable flaws of a real person kind of thing. Superman's just Superman. You know? He's just Clark Kent. Like Peter Parker, he's got a little dorky guy that just all of a sudden is a superhero.

Yeah. Sound like anybody else you know? Tymon does kind of give a little, what's his name? Tobey Maguire? Tobey Maguire. Andrew Garfield. Andrew Garfield and Tom Holland Tom Holland is what I'm thinking of yeah I see I see um cool but Andrew whoever you want

to look like Andrew Garfield too Tom is just a good looking guy um man it's it's tough to pick here guys uh my first pick I'm gonna go Sherlock Holmes. Oh. Sherlock Holmes. I thought about him, but I was like, there's just so many others that are better than Sherlock Holmes. The guy is iconic. He's been iconic for years. Just solving all the mysteries.

Yeah. Pretty cool. He's a fighter. He can fight. He does? Yeah. I didn't know that. At least in the movies.

I don't think I know too much about it. I've never seen a Sherlock Holmes movie. The Robert Downey Jr. ones are awesome. He's about to fight this guy who's seven feet tall. This giant guy. As the guy's about to swing at him, Sherlock Holmes breaks down everything he's about to do

for the next ten moves on this guy. Like a Jason Bourne thing. Spoiler. My next pick is going to be Jason. Like a Jason Bourne thing. Spoiler. My next pick is going to be Jason. No, I'm just kidding. And then my next pick is going to be one that probably is going to lose me the draft because not that many people are going to relate to this,

but the people that are are going to be like, good answer, Master Chief from Halo. Did not have it on my list. No. I mean, just a boss of a dude from a boss of an enterprise of video games that's quite the pick I didn't think about video game people oh yeah he was master chief was he in the campaign mode is that yeah he's like the guy you play with on okay gotcha I was multiplayer man like said and

own the game it was just a cousin's house yeah I mean yeah the guy you play with this yeah in halo basically just a boss Just a boss. Just a boss. Hey, Mitchell Bowser texts us again. Should we do another rap of you reading his text? Tymon, can you beatbox something while Brad reads his text? Sure. He always records while we're recording.

Oh, hey, great episode today, boy. Boy, boy, I have a really serious question, though. What are you going to try out for the amazing race? I have zero doubt you will win, especially if one of the roadblocks is the land. A plane, just something to think about. Alternative team idea timing and bow that's great that he's the only two times he's texas has been recording the last two weeks timing and bow would be great timing and bow give me what a duo oh man bow gets so annoyed with you

timing and vice versa like bow is just so bow is to be a great salesman someday, man. Cause like Bo, like, like is so convinced of things that are not true. Like he knows he's lying, but I'm like, you, you might not realize you're actually like, he's just so like stands his ground. Like,

no, no, I, that's true. Dad. That's true. A dog is pink that I saw. No,

it was, I, I, I saw it. Yeah. I saw it. I saw it. No,

you didn't i saw it he'll do stuff like that all the time or like yeah like rosie said that she would share that with me yeah she said that's what she said she did i'm like no she did well yeah she i she did like oh you're lying um so anyway all right my next pick is dory from finding nemo okay okay maybe i do have a chance in this draft no i'm just kidding i think um just start in terms of like comedic characters she's really funny and i like i like her so i already i already hate my draft i'm gonna be to be honest. Really? Yeah. What about Master Chief? I have Diamond.

Oh, but the Master Chief, man. All right, go ahead. Good answer, Diamond. Thanks. That's fun. Yeah, would you say Dory? That's great. I had a few characters like that.

I don't know if I want to do them or not. Let's go. Oh, I have two. Let's do Forrest Gump. Okay. And Donkey from Shrek oh okay nice donkey is uh yeah similar to dory i just like just unanimously loved and really funny and i watched shrek a couple months ago when i was cleaning the house and i was like man donkey gets it that's funny eddie murphy's great in this yeah so that's great forrest gump is obviously great one of the best movies of all time.

My favorite movie. Fictional character. I just watched it for the first time. Did I mention it? On the plane to California. That was my first time watching Forrest Gump. How'd you like it? A lot.

It was good. Yeah? Yeah. It's such a good movie. It's such a cool idea for a character. Yeah. An IQ of 75. How in the world did someone think of this?

That's the thing that I love about that movie. I love movies where you think how, like, this is just like so much creative genius to think of. Right. It's original. Yeah. Like the,

get to see life through the lens of a guy who's slightly more simple, but also happens to find himself in all these crazy scenarios. It's just fun. It's just wholesome. It's like, yeah, going through the history of America is so fun to watch. Yes. Yeah. The Watergate or the, you know, war in Vietnam and all this stuff.

You should look up, maybe you can while we're doing this time, but there's something with Forrest Gump too. It was going to come out or something. Have you heard about this? That's kind of sound familiar. But somebody like said, no, the first one's too good or something like that. I don't know. Yeah. Cause the first one, I mean, it was based off of a book. So you feel like you could trust that. Okay. Second one's just a screenplay. i don't know because the first one i mean it was based off of a book so you feel like you could trust that okay second one's just a screenplay i don't know if they can yeah because then it gets too ridiculous and it's like okay that kind of ruined the first one first one's ridiculosity this this little thing it said um like someone had given

the directors or whatever their his blessing to make a sequel but apparently it had something to do with 9-11 that they didn't i I don't know what that, maybe there was something with the story. I don't know. That's interesting. Okay. That was just, that's just one little article. So I don't know. Interesting. All right, Tymon, you're up. All right. I'm going to say Ron Swanson. Dang it. For Parks and Rec. Oh,

good answer, dude. Thank you. That's a fun answer. I, I should have, Sherlock Holmes. You got Master Chief in though. You got Master Chief! Good answer, Tywin. Ron Thompson's good. I don't watch a lot of Parks and Rec, and I'm not super familiar with, what's his name?

Ed? His real name? Nick Offerman. Nick. But I slowly but surely the last few days while eating meals have made my way through the movie Dumb Money, and he plays a hedge fund investor in there. It the movie about gamestop and the oh is it reddit thread i liked it it was interesting yeah so i wasn't super into all that so i kind of like what exactly happened robin hood what the good guys bad guys it's always interesting it took me like seven meals but eventually i just knocked it out nice so and he's in that movie so okay yeah ron swanson not completely but i i could be content

being ron swanson for my life yeah he's just got a lot of he's very like firm in his convictions he's a man's man you know i don't know he's just i like him yeah so he's great good answer dude thanks that was on my list uh that was actually second on my list after well i'll tell you there but um all right i i should have picked these two first because they're my two favorite disney movie character kind of main character people uh robin hood okay just i mean the app yeah yeah i just mentioned it you stole mine it was really really good. Robin Hood is just the man, just no matter who's portraying him, but I'm a Fox Robin Hood guy. Yeah.

Yeah. That was my Robin Hood. And then do I want to go? No. Yeah. I'm psyching myself out now in this whole thing. Do another video game character. Mario. No character. Mario.

No, not Mario. Like a random, like a toad from that or something. Okay, Master Chief is cool, Tymon. I'm sorry. All right, dude. Just the people that like him, like him. Master Toad. All right.

I'm going, I'm not going to go with that person. I'm going to go with someone else. I'm going with John McClane from Die Hard. The dude is a freaking boss never seen it never heard of it is it anything like never heard of him i think i've heard of die hard before i've heard of john mccain did you mean john mccain because he's real i think i'm pretty sure that guy's real i've never seen him but he was pow uh no john mcclain john mcclain just i mean die hard's awesome you You got to see it, Tymon.

Okay. Got some language in it, but besides that, relatively okay to watch. All right. Tymon, let's watch it together. I mean, it's just the epitome of 90s movies. Like, these terrorists come in and try to take these people down, and this guy just defends them by himself. What the?

What the? Yeah. No, he gets guns, though. He gets guns. He got guns. He gets guns. He gets gets explosive he's just a freaking man he has a he has a line where he just says welcome to the party pal it's awesome john mcclain john mcclain so it's one of those things where not that many people have probably seen the

movie and then so i'm gonna lose this job okay okay okay okay i'm back and forth but i'm gonna I don't care. I don't care. I don't care. It's okay. Pick a ball. Okay. I'm back and forth, but I'm going to go George Bailey from It's a Wonderful Life. Okay. I think that's... He's wonderful. Great movie. Yeah. Just universally loved movie.

Yep. I watched it just kind of like by myself during the Christmas kind of time, and yeah, it made me cry twice. Did it? Wow. It's so good. Let's go. Can you give us a quick impersonation of George Bailey? What are some things he says? I'm trying to think of any lines.

It's a wonderful life. Wait, one second. Give us a Clarence. I did one of his monologues for an audition one time. It's bad that I can't remember. But yeah, it's just like, it's like,

what is it you want, Mary? What do you want? You want the moon? Just say the word. I'll throw a lasso around and pull it down. Hey, that's a pretty good idea. I'll give you the moon, Mary. That was perfect.

Thanks. That was great. I like that voice. You want the moon yeah what do you want Mary then you can swallow it and it'll dissolve see

boom beams shoot out your fingers and your toes and the ends of your hair am I talking too much that's good alright Jake my last one

can't believe it's still up there Michael Scott oh okay just what a phenomenal just character one of the best ones I mean up there all time with Michael Scott. Oh, okay. Just what a phenomenal character. One of the best ones. I mean, up there all time with the best show made up characters.

Santa Claus, Forrest Gump, and Donkey from Shrek, probably. Yeah, or I was just going to say, even just like thinking like Joey from Friends or Kramer, just like Michael Scott, like he is like the funny man of one of the funniest shows of all time. Yeah, that's a good answer. I was thinking more like cool people than funny, perfect characters.

But I love that. It's great. You can do your list however you want to do your list. Fictional characters. You guys got any favorites of the... I have a lot of honorable mentions. I won't read them all. But you got any favorites?

Other ones that make me laugh, I put Ricky Bobby, Genie from Aladdin. I think't read them all, but you guys got any favorites? Other ones that make me laugh. I put Ricky Bobby, uh, Jeannie from Aladdin. I think those are amazing. Oh yeah. Characters as far as like not funny ones, but cool ones. I put kindness, Everdeen, Jack Dawson, love Jack Dawson, Titanic. Yeah. Okay. Um, Romeo and Juliet. Okay. Uh, you don't, you don't get them both though. You'd have to choose. Yeah. I would have to choose Walter Mitty. Oh, very little known one, but yeah,. You'd have to choose. Yeah, I would have to choose. Walter Mitty. Oh, I've never seen that. Very little known one, but yeah, just a great. Love that movie.

Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Happy Gilmore. Yeah. Always loved Ali from The Notebook. Rachel McAdams character. Okay.

Last one. Last two. Marty McFly. Yeah. Great character. Yeah. And then I thought of Timon since he's AI. That's funny.

My first one I put down was Batman. I should have chose it. Batman's the freaking man. I had him on my list. TJ Detweiler. You ever watch Recess? No. Dude, I just love TJ.

He's just a normal guy. Benny the Jet Rodriguez. James Bond. Harry Potter. Winnie the Pooh. I had that one. That's the second one I wrote down. Peter Pan was the one I thought about picking

instead of John McClane. I like Peter Pan a lot. Luke Skywalker, Woody and Buzz, Danny Ocean from the Ocean's movie. Wow. This is amazing how many fictional characters are out there. We don't even really have the same list at all. No.

We've got 30 people on this list and they're not even the same. Tarzan. I did have Tarzan in bold, actually. Almost chose him. John Henry. You guys know who John Henry is? Oh, the legend of John Henry. Yeah, he beat the steam engine. Yeah. Yeah, it's pretty cool. Is that the one that

made a movie of but it like flopped? I haven't seen it. Oh, I've heard it was like a failure. I don't know. There's like a little Disney like short film that the kids love. Huh? But you get into fictional sports characters. I did Rudy. Rudy's kind of real more, right? That's true. I had the same thought. I put coach Carter down. Rudy's kind of real, right? That's true. I had the same thought. I put Coach Carter down. I was like, I think that's based on your story.

And you're right. I think Rudy might be too. Okay, Rocky Balboa then. Happy Gilmore. Rocky Balboa is not a real story? I figured not. Because I think that's the joke is like Philly put up a statue

of a fake person. Like it didn't even exist. Like it's like Stallone, not like a real, yeah. Being the Jet Rodriguez, that's what I... Yeah, that's your athlete. Yeah.

I try to think, cause like remember Titans is my, one of my favorite movies, but that's all real. Um, do you have any animals? I guess you had Winnie the Pooh. I had Aslan.

Okay. Um, Yoda. Yoda's just crazy. Cool. Yeah. But animals, not too many.

Charlie Brown's on an animal. He's a cartoon. Um, Aslan's. Yeah. Good, good answer. That would have gotten some votes. Cool. Yeah. Oh,, not too many. Charlie Brown's on an animal. He's a cartoon. Aslan's, yeah, good answer. That would have gotten some votes. Cool animal. Oh, I love Aslan. Of course you do, buddy.

I'm just kidding. Buddy. Kronk. Oh, that's a good idea. Kronk is good. Kronk. Even Goose Go. I like Goose Go.

Goose Go. Goose Go. The one that I had written down that has not been said was, I wrote down eight total. The one I had that was not written down that has not been said, it was, I wrote down eight total. Uh, the one I had, it was, that was not written.

I was captain Jack Sparrow. Oh, okay. There you go. That's a pretty good one. Atticus Finch. Yeah. All right.

Cosmo Kramer. We talked about Kramer. Yeah. Kramer. Yeah. I couldn't figure out what it meant to be the best fictional character. You know, I tried to figure out what that meant.

So just Santa. So Sherlock and Halo. So then I tried to figure out what that meant. Just Santa. So Sherlock and Halo. Something I want to talk about this week, Malachi, who's just consistently been a great fan, just really funny. I feel like anytime you see a comment or a post from him, it's always solid. But he put up a post this week on the Facebook page that I really liked. He said,

Suggested segment for the show, Little Toes. The Little Toes often ignore ignored, not seen and deemed insignificant until something is wrong with it. Then you realize what a major role it is and how difficult life would be without it. My little toe for the day is how smooth highways are.

Oh. I like it. How it feels like your car is going to break or launch into orbit when there's the tiniest bumper wave in the highway. What are your little toes? I love this idea.

Yeah, yeah. Because I find myself often finding it just like, man, I've got to have thumbs. Holy cow. Right. Thumbs make things so much easier. Sure.

Or even just like lungs and stuff. It's always my body. I feel like, but yeah. Anything, anything related to like health is so the fact that I don't have to think about my heart beating. It's not a conscious decision. Like beat, beat, breathe, beat. But let's, I mean, let's even go way more minimal and like, let's talk about like, if you have a cut on the edge of your finger or something, platelets, platelets, platelets,

they're going to fix that. Yeah. Yeah. Like anything like, or just like when you can't taste like that's a bummer. Yeah. I think Janelle commented like breathing through both nostrils. That's her little toe. Yeah. Uh, I never think of it until I get sick. I just like HVAC systems in general. That's good. Like it just is the worst in winter. If you don't have heat and summer, if you don't have AC, I was going to say that. Yeah. Air conditioning or like air conditioning in a car. Sure. I mean, same thing, but still, yeah, my first car, like the heating and AC did not work very well. And so, yeah, especially in the extreme times, it was no fun. Scott would have to pick me up from like for school in the winter

because my car didn't defrost. Yeah. Ashley Clymer said, how essential ice cubes are. We just went to dinner and asked for a refill on my soda and they brought it back with just soda. Tasted awful. What? Psycho move by that waiter, dude.

That's wild. Yeah, I agree. Ice cubes. yes, 100%. I agree. Or just cold in general. Making it cold is a big deal to me. Yeah. Sarah McCracken said muscles.

Imagine if we didn't have them. Just bones and fat. Taylor Stobie said the battery. I've been having electrical issues. The mechanic is having an issue tracing. So I've got a lot of use out of my jumper cables lately. Definitely something you take for granted when it's working. Oh, yeah.

Just, yeah, cars in general. Yeah, when you have one that's unreliable, it's just, it's so debilitating. That's all you could think about. You know, anytime you pop the hood while your car is running and you see everything that's going on, like, I can't believe this just goes all the time and i don't even think about it the belts and the pistons and everything yep the 25 to 1 mix yeah totally that's what you put in the car um yeah my my first car i had to like anytime it was stopped for too long it would like just die yeah and so i had to like put it in neutral every time i was

like because it would like idle up too high and stuff. And one time it died. Like as I was trying to cross a four lane, like intersection, like I was just trying to go across it. And I like went over this little, like bump in the road and just died. And I was like,

I could, I could get hit real easily right now. That's scary. So me and my friend just pushed it across. Angela Birdwell says driving on big bridges. Okay. I guess just that the bridge is going to hold you. Right.

You don't have to worry about it. Yeah. Just structural engineering. Getting over a big body of water easily. Yeah, crossing a water. What about just like salt? Salt's nice. Really helps vegetables. If you don't have it in a water. I, what about just like salt? Like salt's nice. Really helps vegetables.

If you don't have it in something that needs it, it's like, Oh, what happened here? Thankful for salt. Yeah. I think how accessible food is nowadays in America. That's a little toe.

If we didn't have it, I listened to a podcast. I was like 10 minutes of it. I'm like, this is bumming me out, but they brought on a nuclear war expert and we're just asking a bunch of questions like what would it look like what is nuclear war actually like world war three you know she's answering all these questions how how quickly missiles get from russia to us and what would happen if they dropped all these bombs and basically it was just like

yeah it's all gonna be awful like we're all gonna starve to death is what's gonna happen if nuclear war breaks out because you everything will be destroyed and no one will have any access to food. I was like, man, I'm glad I can just run a Chipotle whenever I need it. Yeah, that's great. Yeah, it is wild. Like we're trying to like, we have a little garden in the backyard and I think we've been trying to grow strawberries for months now. I think last night we had six strawberries and it's like, that's not going to last very long if we need, if we need to rely on it. Rachel and I've been trying to do a Chipotle garden and we got one burrito last week, but we had to split it. So it's, it's, it's a waste of time. These gardens, I just go to the

store now. Yeah. Just, uh, just go ask for one. Yeah. Hattie was like really distraught that the, uh, that, that the strawberries were not looking better. And I was like, Hattie, so I just checked and we can go to the, like there's these stores that we can go to. I just checked. I mean, yeah, I always say stuff like that. Like, Hattie, I just checked the book

of things that you should and shouldn't cry about and strawberries not growing right is not on the list. I just want to start laughing, you know, whatever. But I'm like, I just checked and there's these stores and they have tons of strawberries. So we can just go there if we need to. So things you're not allowed to cry about. That's funny.

That's like one of my strategies when she's crying is just to add like, yeah, try it. Try to bring some levity to the situation. This just did a breaking report. There is no more crying allowed. If you're not a baby, you're not a baby.

It's a baby. See, what about like a printer? When a baby see what about like a printer when a printer works great when a printer doesn't work is the most frustrating thing yeah any piece of technology you just assume it's just zeros and ones yeah yeah airdrop yeah a text like i needed this text to send yeah just like service on your phone like all of a sudden you don't have it and it's like this is incredibly debilitating when you're used to having it, not having access to a phone charger when you need it. That's a bummer. That's a more of a big toe. Yeah. That's a medium toe. It's true. Yeah. I, I like left my, I took my phone charger out of the truck for Gulf shores, like to use as my

charger cord and hadn't put it back in there for a few days. And there were a few times where I was like, this is rough. I don't know. I don't know what I'm going to do here. I use my phone for Apple pay. I use it for my credit card all the time. So should we get back to what Mitchell actually texted us and he wants us to apply for the amazing race? Yeah. I like that Facebook post. Someone saw in the Aletha like newspaper or something that there was like an Aletha specific or something that there was an Aletha-specific Amazing Race and they wanted us to show up, even though it might only be kids, which is really funny to think about.

We would dominate those kids. We would not show any mercy on them. I hope we dominate them. That would be fun. The three of us should go. Tymon could document it. That would be fun. Instagram Live. I'm going to try to find that post in our Facebook group.

Type in Amazing Race, see if I can find it. I complain about it every week. The search doesn't work. I type in Amazing Race, and it's a picture that you posted of me and Rachel the night before our wedding. Dude, it's wild. Why does that come up? I mean, yeah, no wonder Google is so valuable. It's because it seems like anybody can do a search engine.

You go on your iMessage and you try to search something. Apple, Apple should be just as good as Google at searching things. You would think. Yep. Can't do it.

Little toe search working. Search working. Because now I can't find this. I'm searching for scam call. Do we answer it or no? Answer it, baby. Oh, so loud.

Yo, yo. Yikes. Hello. answer it baby oh so loud yikes hello hello you there boop they were not there but yeah amazing race would be very fun

most people recently have also been talking about applying me applying for survivor i don't even remember where that came from exactly but i think you just mentioned that you've watched it before really i see i haven't watched it in 20 years probably so yeah i don't know where that got started but um thanks for thinking someone just posted on the facebook group that i would be good at survivor so thanks for doing that i don't know where that got started. But thanks for thinking. Someone just posted on the Facebook group that I would be good at Survivor.

So thanks for doing that. I don't know if I'll apply. Just the bugs. Yeah. It's a million dollars, but think of the bug bites. You're too like, yeah. Yeah, you're not. I don't know.

I haven't watched Survivor, but you're not super outdoorsy, like that kind of outdoorsy. Oh, I was joking about bugs. You would be okay with the bugs? For a million dollars? Yeah, no, I was joking about bugs. You would be okay with the bugs? For a million dollars? Yeah, no, I was joking about like, ah, I don't know about the bugs.

Like living outside and stuff that wouldn't like get to you eventually? I wouldn't want to do it on my own, but if I'm being filmed and it's like for a million dollars, oh, yeah. No problem, bugs. I mean, I grew up camping.

Yeah, but how long does the survivor last? I think it's like 30 to 35 days if you make it to the end. You think you'd be all right with that? I think I would do better than most people being outside. Yeah? Great. I feel like you get bothered by the heat.

You're like, I'm hot. But then I get what you're saying. A million dollars. Yeah, of course. Yeah. You can press on. In your truck, there have been times where the heat is on and I will get hot and I will remove my sweatshirt. It's one of those things like, and I feel like back in the high school, I was just fine sweat. If I'm a basketball practice, I'll get sweaty. Of course,

we're playing a sport, but in PE it's like, I don't really want to get that sweaty right now because I have three more classes the rest of the day. Whereas like if you're on survivor, you're like, I'm supposed to be like this. I'm mentally going into it. Like I'm going to be uncomfortable. I'm going to be eating weird stuff. Yeah.

There's got to be bugs and there's got to be, Oh, I get skinny though. They're always skinny by the end. Are they? Yeah. Yeah. They don't eat that much.

Then again, granted. Yeah. The last season I saw was probably season six. So I don't know what they're up to, but regardless, thank you people out there for thinking I'd be good at Survivor. I've never thought about it.

My friend Ty Gatewood, who I did a limo trip with, made it a couple rounds to Survivor system or whatever and didn't get on the show, but he deserves it more than me. He would be a character. He has long hair.

Yeah, he does. So that kind of makes sense. And he likes having his shirt off all the time. Yeah, that would be fun. Yeah. It'd be fun not having access to a razor to see what kind of beard i can grow in 30 days i would love that it'd look gross do you think they give you sunscreen good question i would need that that would not be good you do one competition you're literally cooked i just i'm out there like all right today we're gonna be doing a race on the beach i've got just like a whole palm tree like i brought my own shade.

I need this. You guys won't give me sunscreen. Yeah. Look at my skin. I'll just hold this while I do it. How do they do like clothes and stuff? Cause it feels like everyone's like in loincloths. Is that true?

Yeah. They give them, what do they call them? Buffs. They give them buffs. They don't just let you have the clothes that you bring. Wait, wait, wait, wait. No, I think they do. I remember there was a guy. What was his name?

Simon or something, but he no Rupert. He had a tie dye shirt. So maybe you get I think you get to show up in your clothes. Okay, and you're just those clothes the whole time or something. Okay. Yeah, honestly, I know there's a lot of people who are still really into Survivor. I know the Hudebergs love Survivor. My parents love Survivor. Gosh,

big Survivor guy. Yeah, so they would know more, but Jacob Daniel, this guy that posted this thing. Gosh, big survivor guy. Yeah. So they would know more. Jacob Daniel, this guy that posted this thing. Oh, thanks, Jacob. Yeah. Yeah, that was really nice of him to say that. Better than Traders. Oh, yeah. I forgot to even go back in and watch that. He was so European.

He's so European. Oh, man. so european oh man uh let me tell you about uh a business very close to our house that i am a raving fan of let's hear it uh so katherine's birthday was on saturday we went out friday for her birthday dinner just uh the two of us and she decided she wanted to go to the wandering vine oh the castle dude it was unbelievable was unbelievable. Really? We should be going there all the time. We should. So Catherine and I, by the end of it, we're like, we want to go here once every season, like fall, you know, you know, the seasons, spring Q1. Yeah. Q1, Q2, basically every, every economic Q. Um, so we get there. First of all, uh, we did a table setters event. You know,

I'm doing this thing with my friend will, um, for fathers, you know, in Kansas city, business owners, whatever. Um, and we did that in the park and it was awesome. It was so much fun. We had everybody came, even Johnny Yusuf came, which like Johnny is so busy right now. He's a big deal. You guys should follow Johnny you on Instagram. He's got some updates. He's every day. Amazing. Renovating this, uh, church to be a wedding venue in Midtown Casey. And then also doing this like really cool mansion in Casey, just grinding. So like doing so much work right now. Anyway, he came, the cops are always involved. Like every Instagram story is like, I got vandalized again. Yeah. He gets breaking into this thing. He's like, I don't know why I do that. Anyway, super interesting guy. Uh, I was like, no way Johnny comes to this thing. Everyone came. It

was awesome. Johnny to the point where I was like, I don't want to leave. I don't want to, I want to keep doing this, even though I know we have these reservations for, uh, the castle. So we leave a little bit later than we should have. It's a little bit stressful. We're hustling home to drop off the kids with aunt Cindy and Charlotte. And, uh, we get to wandering vine, this, this castle, like 30, we call them and we're like, we're running late. Uh, you know, whatever, explain that we had to feed the baby beforehand. We get there and it's, and we're stressed, like walking in. And this woman at the front desk just was like, just want to let you know, this is a stress-free zone.

Like, I think she could just feel it in our, you're in the vine now. Would you like to be outside or inside? And we're like, let's go outside. And it was the perfect night for this patio outside. Just like nice, like jazzy, like music going on. They, they had all these different wine selections. I'm not a wine guy at all, but it was like one of those feelings of like, I think I should get wine right now. I didn didn't but it felt like that kind of spot guys dude i didn't it was it was just a fancy spot with like historic like it's it was built in the early 1900s 1905 good for them for keeping it around it's it's so cool dude and but like inside so cool too they have like multiple fireplaces in there i'm like this would be a fun place for it chocolate dessert for q4 or q1 or Q1 or yeah,

or the Q1. Um, anyway, just overall, overall, it was just so fun. They had like multiple, uh,

round tables at seat six. And I was like, look, they have tables at seat six. And Kevin's like, I don't think I would want to come here with all our kids. And I'm like, no,

not for our kids. Who are we taking here? I'm talking about Jake and Rachel, Isaac, you know, not Isaac, Gunnar and Emily, whoever.

Not Isaac. Not Isaac. Nevermind. Isaac would embarrass us there why did i say isaac uh but overall dude like can't say enough if you're in kansas city go to the wandering vine it's so cool so fun uh i mean it's it's an expensive place but it's not like holy cow i can't ever afford that it's just a nice special occasion place just don't get the wine oh man anyway highly recommend it apparently they they were voted like best, one of the top 100 brunch spots in America. Wow. According to some, who knows what, you know, survey, but the only place in Kansas or Missouri that was on the list. So, um, check it out. That's pretty neat. Uh, just anyway, huge, huge fan. Can't say enough good things. Like the whole time I was like, this is so great.

This is great. Like, I love this so much. enough good things. Like the whole time I was like, this is so great. This is great. Like, I love this so much. We both just could not get over it. So yeah, I run past it all the time, but I need to need to go have wine there. I was like, Catherine, it's crazy. We've lived here, what, almost seven years now. And we have never, it's crazy that we haven't been to this place.

Like it's so, it's literally maybe the closest business to our house. You know what i mean so anyway highly recommend it speaking of dinner we're doing dinner tomorrow night with all our friends yeah should we go there or is it like at your house or what's the detail oh it's at our house okay see i just found out about this recently and i didn't know if it was a surprise so i haven't said anything to anybody i just kept it to myself like i don't know who knows who doesn't know what surprise who's it for i honestly don't even know what it has evolved into. Like it's, it's for Catherine's birthday. And so I should know. But then like, I was trying to like organize, she's like, Oh, I've already been

talking to my friends about it. Like, okay, great. So I was coming over your house tomorrow night. Yeah. I don't know if it's dinner or if it's dessert or what the, what it's evolved into. Cause I think maybe initially it was just like our friends have like a little fire pit hang out on the deck, good vibes outside. And then maybe now kids are coming i'm not really sure okay so either way i'm so pumped to see our friends yeah it's just been so long that's like katherine's love language just like hanging out yeah i like it too obviously everyone does but like she's really excited like that's all i want to do for my birthday is just have just chill time with our friends oh it's gonna be great it has been too long.

It's, it's, I talked about this last episode, but it was a great week for me to just work hard to be by myself and just work all day long because there was a reward at the end. And it's Friday where all our friends are getting together. Saturday time. It's grad party Sunday. Uh, go to Portugal. Yeah. So it's like there is a finish line here and I can't wait to get to the end of it.

Yeah. How are you feeling about Portugal? Good. Uh, yesterday I Googled, uh, us passport, go to Portugal. Like, is that good enough? Cause I are in New Zealand last second. I realized, oh, we needed a visa that didn't have access to. So in the airport, I'm like doing all this stuff. Really? What a work visa, since I was like going to be like making money there or something. Yeah. That's different. And so I was like, well, let me just double check. So yeah, I've been doing a ton of planning. Really last minute. No, I mean, yeah, I mean,

I booked everything a long time ago. And then more recently, I was like, I need to think through what I need. So like I bought like a European outlet adapters and like, I think I'm going to buy a disposable camera and take a bunch of like pictures like that while we're on the trip. And that's cool.

I need to pack and do laundry and everything still. But yeah, I got the, US Passport's good for 90 days in Portugal. Okay.

They love us over there. Oh yeah. US Passport's like gold. Yeah. But yeah, it'll be fun. It's, Rachel put something

on her story yesterday like, what do you know about Portugal? And she was like, Celia actually gave me a lot of suggestions. I was like,

has Celia been to Portugal? She's like, I don't know. I was like, well, that's funny. Maybe she's Googled it a lot. I just want to help you. Yeah. Just looking into things.

So feeling good. It'll be really fun. Kind of one year anniversary trip. And yeah, I could see Taylor and ERA's tour and see Madeira and the place Scott did his little mission. And yeah. What are you like looking forward to? I mean, obviously those things, but like anything within those cities or anything within those places that are like i'm excited to see where

we end up running our mile okay because last time we did a trip like this we were not yet doing the daily mile we were in australia and so okay that was fine and i found ways to do it but this i'm just imagining i've never really been to europe moscow doesn't count technically it does but it doesn't so i like i'm just imagining like a bunch of hills and like really tight core i feel like it's gonna be hard to run a mile but it's gonna be fun to see where we end up running our miles yeah yeah yeah i i feel like yeah portugal's gonna have some good long stretches i bet right i think they're gonna they have you have a river or something oh that'd be fun in Lisbon and Madeira too. But, um, we have a rental car in Madeira. So I, if nothing else, we can drive to like a park or a track. I'll have, I'll, I'll send you my, my blog post from back in the day, please. From, uh, I was, I was reading it

last night when Rachel asked like recommendations and I did write things in there. I don't know. Are you like interested in the history, like of because Portugal is, I believe the oldest European country. Cool. Something like that. Older than sharks. Older sharks. Yeah. And so like, there's just tons of history there. Like, would you be interested in like going on a tour of the history of it or anything like that? Maybe we won't have that much time. It's a pretty jam packed trip. Uh, so it's like three days in Madeira, which I think will be mainly like sightseeing, nature, waterfall, hikes, do as much as possible. And then

it's only like a day and a half in Lisboa. So I don't know how much time we'll have for history, but maybe. Send me your best. I didn't remember anything until I was reading it, but I was like, oh yeah, we did this thing and all these towers and whatever, all these different things.

I'm interested to hear how you like Europe because you won't be able to speak their language. I mean, obviously, they'll be able to understand English. I will not. I did download offline Portuguese and Google Translate. Google Translate has come a long way. The last time I used this was when I was in Russia. I haven't used it since.

And now, I mean, between AI and even just Google Translate coming a long way, it can do it live. Like I could talk in English and it'll say it out loud in Portuguese and show it to them in Portuguese for them to read too. So that is cool. So that'd be nice. So yeah, I'm feeling prepared and it'll be fun

and just hoping, you know, anytime you have all these different details and with traveling, you're just hoping you didn't forget anything. It's like, I think I have everything booked. Hope we don't get to an airport one day and realize, Oh, I didn't get this book, but it should be fine. Yeah. Just multiple Airbnb is multiple flights, multiple airlines, you know, it's just a lot, but yeah. Are you doing Airbnb for the most part? A hotel in Lisbon and then an Airbnb in Madeira. Cool. Fun, dude. So I'm excited to hear all about

it. I'm sure it's, yeah, I feel like you kind of, not that you need like a do-over for your honeymoon, but like a, yeah, what's the word? I don't know. Just like a better experience. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I thought it'd be fun. You know, and most people I talk to who have kids

and I tell them, or even when I told them we were thinking about doing this, they're like, you should definitely do this now. Just FY. Definitely do these types of trips now. It's going to be way harder. I'm not saying it's impossible once you have kids,

but just kidding. So I'm like, yeah, let's do this once. This is probably not going to be a yearly thing. Every, every anniversary, we're going to new continent.

We're making up for the honeymoon. It's going to be, we're going to make it up for the Portugal trip. Taylor only performed for three hours and 15 minutes. So we got to make up for that next year. So it's become a fun thing.

Yeah, I'm excited. It'll be fun. Thanks for asking. I just looked up fun facts about Portugal, and one of the things that they put on the list, I don't even know how to... It says salted codfish is not Portuguese. That's such a random thing

to have. This is from AI that's such a random thing to have. This is from AI that's giving me these things on Google. Salted codfish. Not Portuguese. Hey, I know everyone's thinking it, but it's just a stereotype. Salted codfish, not Portuguese. That is so random. Afternoon tea was a Portuguese habit. Yeah, Europe's oldest country.

That's fun. Oldest bookstore is in Lisbon. The world's oldest bookstore. Rachel would actually really love that. That's pretty cool. That's pretty cool to say. I've been to the world's oldest bookstore. That's pretty sweet.

Thanks for looking that up. That's the crazy thing about Europe. Is that like America is so young compared to Europe, you know, like you're so young. Oh, you're so young. So innocent.

So that's fun, dude. Cool. You want to do wins of the week? I do want to do wins of the week. Tymon, do you have a win of the week? Brad will go first. Probably besides the camping trip.

That was awesome. I'd say I'm finally done with my math class. It's been going on. It's been annoying every Monday. And I, yeah, no more math. Did decent on my final and I'm done. with my math class that's been going on. It's been annoying every Monday. And I, yeah. No more math. Did decent on my final and I'm done. Let's go.

So what do you still have left to do? Technically, I technically have some history to finish up. It's just like at home, homeschool curriculum type stuff that I got behind on. We'll see. It should happen. But it may not. It may not. You not you're like mom and dad once i had the grad party i'm good i got my gifts i have yeah i have intentions to do it and i hope it i hope it does finish because i'd feel bad if it just like probably the last fourth of the curriculum or

whatever or third i don't know so you got a little bit of history a little bit history that's that's basically it that i have left. Oh, wow. You're done with every other subject. Wow. Cool. That is a win. Start hanging out more. Yeah.

I'm going to school, basically. That's awesome. My win of the week is this past week was Mother's Day. Just all the exceptional moms in my life. I mean, obviously, my wife,, Catherine is unbelievable at being a mom, even though sometimes I think she has hard times and doubts it. And I don't know if I'm doing good enough, whatever, like she's incredible. But then I was reflecting on my mom and what a great example she was and how excited I was to have a family. I think that was so much because of her. And then

I think about all my sisters and all my family and all the friends, mom, whatever. It's just, I've seen so many great examples of moms in my life and that's a huge win for me. So it's fun. Like I feel like mother's day is like a becoming more and more of a recognized holiday on Instagram and stuff. Like people are posting about it more. Maybe it's just cause I'm in the stage of a lot of my friends are moms, but like anyway, win of the week for sure is just moms being wonderful and just how much of a blessing it is when there is good moms in the world. So, yes, that's it. Yes. Yes.

Shout out moms. My win of the week is going to be, we got a picture of Brock Purdy using a Friday pickleball paddle. I wrote that down. Yes. Pretty fun. I mean, obviously, I think I sent a podcast like Rachel's friends with his wife and we sent them Friday paddles as a wedding gift in addition to some other stuff but

i don't know if they got it or if they used it or anything and then yeah jenna posted on facebook like mother's day recap we had a fun time this weekend and they're brock and jenna are using friday paddles holding up pretty intentionally it looks like like yeah showing that friday off you know yeah it was really cool i of course, texted our like Friday group chat and everybody was freaking out and, you know, people were like, what do we do with this now? How do we use this?

You know, I was like, I don't think we should make him the face of the website, but you can send in like a newsletter or something. Totally. Yeah.

Holler at him. Be like, hey, any chance you want to send us a few more, man? Come on, Brock. Send him a few more? No,

send us a few more pictures of you. Oh, Brock. Send him a few more? No, send us a few more pictures of you. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that was a fun win of the week. Didn't expect that, but really nice of them to post that. Maybe in a couple years, he could be like part of the Friday Pickleball team. We need a quarterback. Yeah. We don't have one yet. When he retires. We have a guy who works for

Smuckers, and we have a guy who never went to college, but we don't have a quarterback. Smuckers? Hostess? I thought, didn't Smuckers buy out Host have a guy who never went to college, but we don't have a quarterback. Smuckers? Hostess? I thought, didn't Smuckers buy out Hostess? Did they? Yeah. So he's a Smuckers guy now.

Yeah, I think that happened six, 12 months ago. Okay. Yeah, he's a Smuck guy now. Smucking. Or maybe Hostess bought out Smucker. I think he's a Smuck. I think he Smucks. Okay.

Big Smuck guy. Yeah. Smuckers is a great name. It's funny. Yeah, I work for Smuckers. Yeah. I doners is a great name. It's funny. Yeah. I'm a, I work for smuckers. Yeah. I'm a big smuck.

Good for him. That's great. Uh, so yeah, that's my win of the week. Uh, do you have a comment of the week? Uh,

yes, I do. Let me pull it up real quick. It is from Tammy Mason. Oh, I love Tammy. Tammy is a constant on the old Facebook group. It just says,

Happy birthday, Tymon. I've loved seeing you grow in confidence in the pod. You guys truly have an amazing ability to take younger guys under their wing. The guys truly have an amazing ability to take guys under the wing and help them become confident, bold young men. I've loved seeing this place. Gosh, I've loved seeing this take place in you as well.

I pray God's hand of favor goes before you all the days of your life. You're going to do great things and this community loves you. Yeah. Just a kind word towards Tymon is always something I'm like, I feel like we're like proud dads. You know, it's like, yeah, we love Tymon. I'm glad that people love him too. It was crazy to see all the Facebook posts. How did that many people know it was your birthday? Yeah. I don't know. I didn't post anything about it. Because I was planning on posting something for your birthday, and that being kind of the way that people found out. And then, I mean, I woke up 7 a.m.

People already posted about it. I was like, well, cat's out of the bag. Yeah, it was awesome. Thanks, everybody. Had you mentioned it recently? I knew in my head I'm not a good birthday guy. I knew in my head that it was coming up. It could have been on one of the episodes.

I can't remember, though. Or maybe you're just Facebook friends of these people and they saw your birthday on... Maybe. Not most. Definitely not Tammy. No, but anyway, I would love to hear people's comments of your favorite time and moments.

I just think it'd be fun. I mean, time is blessed, the podcast, so holler back with some time and moments if you want to. Holl be fun. I mean, time and time is blessed podcast. So holler, holler back with some time and moments. If you want to holler back, holler back, youngin. Good song.

Uh, my car from Sophie Porter. I was listening to episode a hundred this week. And someone asked what you'd be doing by episode 300. Brad, you said you wanted to be down to 145 pounds. The name's nickname string bean. You wanted the same job

and would maybe hire someone. And you'd have two more kids. Oh, really? Good job. Jake, you had no idea, but you said your daughter would be two in four years. That's funny.

I wasn't even dating at the time. Let's see. Yeah, episode 300, my daughter will be two. It's only been three years since that episode, but I thought that was interesting. That is kind of fun. I love any kind of time capsule of sorts. That's only been three years since that episode, but I thought that was interesting. That is kind of fun.

I love any kind of time capsule of sorts. That's what the podcast is in a sense, but especially when someone asked us to make predictions, always a good time. Yeah. Let me give a few time capsule. Bo right now is calling people buddy a lot. We're calling me buddy.

I think I call him buddy and he'll, he'll like imitate me back to me. Like I'm being going to sleep or he'll be going to sleep. I'll be like, all right, love you, buddy. Love you,

buddy. He kind of, he kind of like, he got to have this little accent. Love you, buddy. Okay, buddy.

He like gives me a, okay, buddy. I love you, buddy. Um, so that's fun. And then,

yeah, Rosie right now has been saying, Oh, a lot. So it'd be like, uh, yeah, Rosie,

dad, dad's got to go. Oh, okay. Oh. Okay. And we witnessed the other day Rosie nailing her face on the truck tailgate. She was in such a good mood before that. That was a bummer. Was literally just running around my truck

and then just ran her eye right into the corner of the tailgate. That was ajar. Rosie's awesome, though. Yesterday we were on that walk. I just like peek over and look at her. She's kind of soft smile. Kind of unintentionally. Yesterday we're on that walk. I just like peek over and look at her. She's kind of soft smile, kind of unintentionally just potty trained her this week. All right. Like not, not officially, not completely, but like, yeah, it's just out of diapers now all of a sudden for the most part, except for at night and yeah, just doing great. It was one of those things.

Like you always hear like parents be like, yeah, I don't know. We just kind of potty trained our kid and they did it really easily. And I'm like's never happened to us but maybe with rosie i think rosie might be the yeah that's fun when i saw hattie yesterday i was like hattie well how's it going she's like rosie's wearing underwear i was like no way look at him yeah that was her like main life update when she first saw me yeah so. So anyway, kids are fun, man. Hattie just got done. She's pretty much done with homeschool for the year. She's got a few more reading lessons.

And you know, it's classic, kind of the same thing with like, oh, we got 9,000 new followers? Whatever. Like, I only have three more reading lessons. I was like, for the rest of the week, right? No, dad. I was like, oh, for the rest of the month. You know, whatever. No, for the year. That it let's go so what equivalent she's finishing first grade yes cool yep and even homeschool you guys take a break over the summer uh yeah i think you can

choose to do it however you want but i think that's that's standard there are some families we didn't hang out with them that would go through through the summer. No, I don't know. Yeah, I feel like it is like... That'd be interesting. Random. Yeah. Do whatever you want, I guess. Yeah. People do a lot of different... You have more... Like my sister, I don't think they do this necessarily, but like my brother-in-law is super busy in the summer and has so much

time in the winter. So I bet they take more time off during the winter than most families. Yeah, it'd be fun if you homeschool, you know, like, hey, we're taking actually February off because February sucks and we're going to go to a warm place. We're going to have a vacation in February. Well, Catherine would always, they would go skiing, but they wouldn't go in, yeah, like December, like Christmas break. They would go in February when no one's there. Yeah.

Something like that. Take the whole kids and just do school until June. I mean, like Rachel's family growing up, I'm sure her dad was so busy in the summer for harvest, you know, and for farming things, right? Or is it fall? I think spring and fall, spring, you plant, fall, you harvest. Yeah. So like summer you pray. Yeah, there you go. Maybe. Yeah. So I guess that would be nice for them then they'd have the summers off, but like, yeah, they can figure out whenever they're busy and whenever they're not. And yeah, that's nice. Make it happen. So here's a little toe. One last one, just flexibility. Yeah. Whether it be

touching your toes, whether it be your Yeah. Whether it be touching your toes, whether it be your schedule, whether it be homeschooling, whether it be your job, literal or flexibility is awesome. It's true, dude. Just in general,

having, having a job that has flexibility is so valuable. And when you don't have it, you're bummed. Can't touch your toes. That's right. Can't touch your little toes. Can't touch your toes.

Uh, very fun. Very cool. Anything else you want to add this episode? I'm going to Hawaii in October. How about that? TJ is doing a dad's on Maui. Cool.

You've heard like walk in love TJ and Brooke. They've done moms on Maui before they're doing a dad's on Maui. And he's like, would you like to be my assistant for this thing? Oh, so fun. Yes. That'd be so much fun. And so, yeah, if you want to be, be my assistant for this thing? Oh, so fun. Yes. That'd be so much fun. And so, yeah, if you want to go, go to their website and sign up and we can hang out for some time in Maui. Trying to figure out if I can have a kid by then. Yeah. I could be a dad. You don't have to be a dad. It says, Oh really? Yeah. Just call it that. But I think it's like anybody that's like looking for this retreat time away. I mean, obviously it's men,

but, um, yeah, I'm excited about it. So that'll be in October. And that's so funny. It's too bad the Olivers won't still be there. I guess maybe they could get reassigned back in Hawaii somewhere. But yeah, I was texting Gabriel recently and he's like, you coming? I was like, dude, we are out of money,

but I would love to. But we got Portugal and then a cruise with my parents. I would love to. Yeah. Anyway, I'm excited about that. Hopefully that's so fun. How long is it? What's the plan? I think it's like five days, maybe something like that. And you're assistant to TJ. Yeah. Anyway, I'm excited about, sorry about that. Hopefully that's so fun. How long is it? I think it's like five days, maybe something like that. And your assistant to TJ. Yeah. So I

don't know what that, yeah. Assistant to the TJ. No, I'm TJ. Yeah. I, uh, yeah, I don't know exactly what I'm gonna be doing, but I'm, I'm kind of excited. Cause I don't, I don't feel like I'm often like just specifically like, Hey, just fill in the gaps guy. Like, you know what I mean? Like, and so it'll be fun for me to just be like, I can either bring the energy, bring the tone, whatever you need. I can clean up. I can do that. I can gap here, gap here. Hey, I'm flexible. Yeah. Yeah. I can cook for you. I can try my best to cook or whatever. Anybody need potty train. You might want to ride a bike. He might want to put a towel around you and figure out how to ride that two-wheeler. So it should be fun, man.

I'm just excited to see TJ. Anytime I get to hang out with him, it's always great. Dad's on Maui. How long is it, did you say? I think it's like five days. I'm not positive. It's a good amount of time. Yeah, it'll be great.

All hanging out at TJ's house and going to the beach and just getting good time together. So check it out if you're interested. Yeah, that's fun. But don't commit all your time to it. and it's getting good time together. So check it out if you're interested. Yeah, that's fun. But don't commit all your time to it. Hopefully next week we'll have some. But don't spend like your travel budget all on just that. Oh man.

All right. That's about all I got for this week. Cool. We will see you guys next monday uh with another episode like always i'm in portugal doesn't matter we're coming out with them next monday and then next wednesday uh yeah it's a little previous next monday's episode you're finally going to hear a little uh bondi bowls update i think we're going to break out the speech jammer app one more time and then next wednesday my dad will be joining heck yeah i'm excited about that yeah it'll be fun some s'mores with steve steve s'mores let's go all

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