Ghostrunners - 336 - Epic Madeira

Episode Date: June 3, 2024

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Brad and I like to dream about going on tour someday. How cool would that be? But if you guys wouldn't mind, we'd like to kind of just brainstorm now, live on the podcast, just maybe some areas of the country. Like, where would be fun to go? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, obviously, it would be fun to go to New England. New England.

Love the Northeast. Love, I mean, Maryland is great. Delaware would be fun. Delaware's nice. Yeah, just, I heard Dover in the spring. Yes. Can't be missed. That is one of the best.

When you think New England, I think, yeah, probably just Washington, D.C. maybe. Yeah, well – or is that south? That's true because it's right by Virginia. Yeah, D.C. is the south, I think. Trenton is New England. There you go, yeah. You think of New England, you think of Trenton, New Jersey.

Atlantic City. Yeah, A.C. Stuff like that. Hoboken. Anything in New York, I guess, really. Albany. Albany is like, I think, the heart of New England, they say. That's where the Patriots, well, yeah, I think that's where the Patriots play.

It's Albany, New York. Yeah. Something like that. They used to be called the New York Patriots. And then, obviously, we'd have to go to the South, the cultural South. Yeah, we'd go to D.C. We'd go to, yeah, Richmond. But then, like, the actual South, like Oklahoma. Like, we'd have to go to the South, the cultural South. Yeah, we go to D.C. We go to, yeah, Richmond. But then like the actual South, like Oklahoma, like we'd have to go there.

Well. The people who've earned it. But Oklahoma's kind of like the West, right? Because of the panhandle. They have the panhandle, which they say that's who. It's like the gateway to the West. That's who St. Sacramento is holding the panhandle. Oh, you want to talk Sacramento?

We got to go to Southern California. Oh, Southern California. Yeah, dude. That's right. U.S. USC. U.S. Sacramento. Yeah, University of Sacramento, California.

Yeah, that's right. USC. Go Trojans. And then I'm trying to think where else. Obviously. I'd love to go to the Great White North. Where is that? Seattle.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Most people think Minnesota is the the north yeah which i do um minnesota is also the north but seattle will be the great white north yeah you've seen the people there you've seen their skin we go we should go to the caribbean miami yeah for lauderdale yeah uh anything in there any of the forts my Myers, Lauderdale, Collins, I think. Good. And then obviously just the heart of America. Midwest. Midwest. Yeah.

Smack dab. Wyoming. Wyoming. Uh-oh. Ooh, I think this tight beat means that it's going down with some random thoughts and white meat too. Midwest best friends eating fast food on repeat. So come along. Let's have some fun and go ahead. Get on your feet because this is the Ghost Rubs Podcast. So that is a bit of a response to the backlash. And I mean the backlash we got for incorrectly knowing

what is and isn't a part of New England last week on the podcast. Who would have thought? People from the Northeast, a little bit particular. I mean, I think Brad and I do a pretty good job of generally kind of knowing how to talk, how things work. We messed up New England, and people let us know about it. We're pretty well-traveled, well-connected to people. I bet we have friends.

If we could count them out, I bet we have friends in at least half the states in America. Yeah, probably 35, 40 states. Yeah. But New England, I think you live in the Midwest and you just kind of think New England is the small ones. It's just- Just up there. New England has the same initials as Northeast.

So it's just up there. New England has the same initials as Northeast, so it's all up there. You could quiz me on what state is what up there, and I would get half of them wrong. And see, I just... I know Maine. You're good with Maine. Maine's up there. Maryland's the one that's shaped funny. Yeah, it's flat on top, and then it's like a stalactite.

They call it the stalactite state. That's the stalactite state. The natural state, right? And then Massachusetts has a cool shape to it. Other than that, Vermont, no idea, guys. Sorry. No idea what you look like up there in New Hampshire. It was just funny.

It wasn't just a few YouTube comments. It was like there were Facebook posts, there were emails, there were DMs. It was like people found us multiple ways to tell us, like, guys. Make it sure just in case you didn't see it this way. Know what New England is. And so now we know. Now we know. It is not

Vermont. It's not Massachusetts. It's not Vermont, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, or Delaware. Yeah, so it felt like we needed to put out an apology video. Like, hey, we're having good conversations. We apologize.

We're striving to be different. We're striving to change. We actually met with a New Englander this past week. We did, actually. We asked her all about it. Yeah, shout out Celia. She educated us. And even Celia was just like, you guys don't know that.

Like, Hey, we're coming to you for help. It was hilarious. Like the conversations we had because coming from the Midwest, coming from Kansas, small town, Missouri, like the questions that we have gotten asked, we were basically like treating her like the same way. Like, like, and I was like, so like New Hampshire, like what, do you have an airport you fly into there? She's like, yeah, we have an airport.

People are like, you live in Kansas? Are your neighbors with cows or what? Are the roads paved in Kansas? Yeah, how often do you see horses? Do you have highways or is this all back streets or how do you get around? Timon does, but no, we have highways. Does Amazon deliver to you guys like how does that

work you have like your own yeah and and like hilariously i was like to me new hampshire is just one neighborhood it just feels like a big neighborhood like in my head i'm like if you're from new hampshire i bet that this person knows who you are yeah same family oh yeah i know that last name of course that's how it would be yeah the o'briens of course so anyway um but we're getting better sorry for not knowing everything about everything guys um speaking of timings uh where he lives we went to his house yeah we said it's the last time we recorded it now yeah i went to timings grad party it was awesome we actually weren't there at the same time right but it was separately awesome i had to go early early for, my niece was in a musical.

We'll talk about that later. But yeah, Tymon, congratulations on kind of graduating. Do you still have history to do? Maybe. Catherine loved that, dude. Like, yeah, we'll see if it gets done. Like, yeah, I have history kind of, but I don't know, we'll see.

Yeah, it was really fun. First of all, my first impression, impression, I mean, we drive there. We're trying to only be there for like an hour and a half, maybe not even because we're going to this play afterwards, and we get stopped by a train. Classic. Tymon's like, yeah, there's two different routes. There's one you get stopped by the train, one you don't.

I mean, that's Amazon there. I mean, that's how they get milk and gas. They just pick it up. Yeah, they throw the milk off the train and say, Epsh! Epsh, two gallons. Here you go. Here's your call to heat up your house.

And then, yeah, Tymon's brother just comes in. He's got a little wagon. His knapsack, yeah. From the train station. Got some potatoes for you. Anyway, but I walk up. I mean, beautiful house. Awesome.

Have horses. Kids are so excited about the horses. Beautiful, just wonderful property. It's like in a neighborhood, but it's like also like acreage, which is the best of both worlds. Yeah, it's a nice balance. Yeah. And walk in, and the first person I see is this kid

who looks like Tymon from eight years ago. I was like, you are Tymon 2.0. And apparently that was Milan, as I call him. I was like, there's no doubt that's Tymon's brother. That kid is going to look exactly like you. How much younger is he than you? Oh, gosh. I think he's 11 or 12.

Okay, so he's six years younger? years younger yeah i mean did you see him i know exactly what you're talking about based on how you're describing him like there were some people get glasses yeah yeah yeah i was like i could tell i could tell that one you know is definitely timon's whatever but i was like no that's timing that's like that's like how'd you do that timon's ai they they figured out a you know first version of timing for this kid. And they nailed it. But man, it was awesome. The house is beautiful inside.

I know it's been going through a lot of. Yeah. I feel like it was like culminating for so many years to like, now we can really have people. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, I really liked the trifold, the, just the, all the old pictures of you and your

family. Rachel and I went back and looked at that probably two or three times. That's my favorite part of grad party. It's like the collage of pictures. Yeah. Just like somebody just like funny, just like time in when he's 10, like maybe his first selfie ever was like on there and like time in when he's like in Washington DC, like leaning up against a monument, you know, like this is just great. What was the one that was like a Photoshopped or something? I remember how to get in a kick out of it oh yeah it was like something i entered in the fair for a mixed media competition it was like i was on a baseball being thrown or something yeah yeah i was like how'd they do that hattie yeah i don't know that's amazing yeah so fun um so yeah

it was all around great time yes glad you guys could make i mean just genuinely like wonderfully hosted great food uh overall just great vibes got to hang out with brandon i wrote down timon's parents are awesome timon's friends are so awesome yeah those are my notes from the grad party everyone's cool yeah that's that's that sums it up right there yeah everyone is great how How was volleyball? Sunset Volleyball was good going as we left. How did it end up? It was fun.

It went till probably, yeah, 8.30 or 9 or something like that. Till it was too dark. That's fun. It was fun seeing high school people try to get this volleyball game going. Because they're all probably just meek or just homeschooled, reserved kids. And there's like one guy's like, see, maybe we'll play volleyball. And then time and say, I mean, yeah, I would play. And then, you know, Oliver's like, I mean, yeah, if you guys play, I would play. Everyone wants to play, but no one's playing for 20 minutes, you know, just like they've all agreed to play, but they're always kind of standing there. So

she's gathering high schoolers to do anything. It takes 20 minutes. Yeah. Yeah. Just going anywhere. Guys, we're going to take a group photo. We're going to take a group photo. I would love that. Okay. Oh, that sounds awesome. Come on in. We're taking a group photo. Yep.

Yep. Maybe it's just adults. Maybe it's just people in general. It takes 20 minutes for that. But, um, that was fun to see, but no, I got to meet some friends, got to see some of your friends. They were all so great. It was just fun.

And yeah, your parents were awesome. Yeah. I got to be branded for the first time. Got to meet some, some grandmas. Yeah. They were great. Uh was just fun. And yeah, your parents were awesome. Yeah, I got to meet Brandon for the first time. Got to meet some grandmas. They were great. Multiple? I just met one. Both pairs of grandparents came out. What the heck? It was great. The other ones, I met the ones from Illinois. Where were

the other ones? They were there. Where were they? They were out in the corner. They were swimming. You had to get in the pool with them. Did you know he had a pool? Didn't know Tymon had a pool. Tymon? It was awesome. Next time, put that on your resume, brother.

Tell me that in comments. That's valuable, man. Rachel is so ready to move that house or that house equivalent. Even like, what was it? Catherine had heard from Oliver's mom that a house is for sale near Oliver. And then Rachel's like, no, Oliver doesn't live around there.

How do you know that? What's going on? It was kind of wild. Like, Oh no, Oliver lives up North. Yeah. She,

he lives by Zach. It's kind of wild how much Rachel knows about time. It's friends. That is funny. We should. Yeah, she did. She was like,

yeah, he, he lives closer to Zach. I think. Yeah. I think that's baser or something. I don't know. Which is true,

right? Yes. Yeah. They're like two miles apart. Yeah. That is funny. She just knows that. Just quiz Rachel on time. It's friends. That's funny. But that was, that was fun. Yeah. They're like two miles apart. Yeah. That is funny. She just knows that. Just quiz Rachel on Tymon's friends.

That's funny. But that was fun. How was it from your perspective, Tymon? It was really fun. I was a little nervous. I was like, I don't necessarily like being like more or less the reason everybody's here. It's like. The reason for celebration, the center.

But it was great. I think I found a decent balance between trying to talk to people that showed up, but also having some time to just like be with friends and stuff. Yeah. But yeah, it was great. I think I found a decent balance between trying to talk to people that showed up, but also having some time to just like be with friends and stuff. Yeah. But yeah, it was great. Good. Yeah. So weird seeing like all these people I know from every different thing, just all in the

same place. That was kind of fun. Yeah, that is cool. We got invited to Graydon's as well the day after yours. Oh yeah. But that was, I was like, I'm leaving for Portugal in the morning. I would love to come. Yeah. And he he invited you probably like like with whatever what one day of no yeah yeah yeah it was the day before i was like i already have plans i'm sorry i think i was

on the way to your house yeah and got a text from a number i didn't know so i haven't saved your number yet great i'll save it now and i was like what is this and i was like oh a pdf i wish i could make it dang he did say there were cows. Yeah. It was such a like half or like what you'd call it just like a somewhat enthusiastic invitation like if you guys have nothing else going on and like you're in the mood to

see cows you can stop by tomorrow. Honestly that sold me like I would have gone if I could have Graydon. Yeah. It would have been great. I would have taken my kid anytime to see animals with kids. they're all about it. Yeah. That's all Hattie wanted to do the whole time we were at Timon's was, I think she went with your sister and looked at the animals,

like looked at the horses. That's fun. That's fun. The chicken coop was teased. The chicken coop's empty. Yeah. So, you know, Rosie was throwing a fit. I mean, she hated that.

Rosie was in the chicken coop trying to lay eggs herself. Wake up for the lack of eggs. No, that was fun. I feel like we've been going. We went to your house and it was so fun. And then you've had people over twice and like it's summertime. Let's keep this going. Let's not lose the momentum. Keep inviting me over to places. It's awesome. Because eventually it's going to

end and then it's going to be cold. Let's keep hanging out in backyards, guys. But eventually, dude, then football comes on. And then you're like, all right, let's go inside. Yeah, we're excited about that. Mahomes is throwing darts. Yeah, you had his new sport coffee.

If you don't pay a ton of attention to Mahomes' endeavors like we do, he just invested slash partnered with his own canned coffee. I haven't had it yet. I did DM him from Gene Schwartz and say, hey, if you're interested, we're big fans. And they're like're like yeah we'll send you some coffee haven't haven't received it yet dude so that's great you tried it yeah we uh bought some off amazon okay and it knowing what you just said it was awesome no what you said it was amazing yeah yeah yeah yeah that's why i brought it up that's why, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's why I brought it up.

That's why I brought it up, dude. You think I like drinking this? No. It's just all we have. I hide it behind the cup. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's funny. Anyway, football season. It's not good, though.

Honestly. It's not your thing. Let's be honest. I think you and I even have different tastes in drinks. You honestly might like it way more than I do. Yeah. Does Rachel like it? I don't even know if she's had it thing. Let's be honest. I think you and I even have different tastes in drinks. You honestly might like it way more than I do. Yeah. Does Rachel like it? I don't even know if she's had it yet.

Okay. I'm the one who just keeps taking one. Because what was that one coffee that you were like, I did not like? It was like some oat milk can or something. You didn't love that. Yeah, I think it might have came from Costco or something. Timon and I thought it was fine. Yeah.

Remember that? So who knows? Hey, everyone's different. That's true. That's true. That's the thing, dude. Everyone, here's my mantra. Hey, viral clip, viral clip, viral clip. Everyone, which one, Tymon?

This one. Everyone's different. Clip it. Clip that. Yeah. It's easy. It's too easy to go viral. Gosh, it's so fun going viral.

Everyone's different, and that's okay. And that's all right. That's all right. There's been so much, too easy to go viral. It's so fun going viral. Everyone's different and that's okay. That's all right. There's been so much, just speaking of going viral, so much content that either is going viral or just so much content being posted right now. I think it's so fun. It's just like the Bondi truck arrived and that was like a flurry of like,

I'm making these Instagram stories about that and I'm making Portugal Instagram stories. And then in the middle of that, I posted our wedding video. And then 18 hours later, i posted an episode with my dad and she's like wow there's just a lot of dopamine being sent my way right now this is crazy this is so fun uh but i did want to respond so as we're recording this the episode with my dad just came out yeah and we recorded that weeks ago uh in anticipation of my portugal trip and so you know we send this off to time and actually this is kind of fun we recorded that the ago uh in anticipation of my portugal trip and so you know we send this off to

time and actually this is kind of fun we recorded that the saturday of timon's grad party i record the audio on an sd card the video on an sd card we gave time in a card for you know graduating and inside of it were the two sd cards so i was like this is way easier than uploading do your work yeah there's like it once this is uploaded yeah it unlocks a 50 gift card once you upload it to youtube um but i kind of sent time in the i mean literally handed him the footage yeah typed up like here's what we're thinking uh for the episode and then kind of just have it touched it haven't seen it yeah and so in the episode with my dad, we're doing the schmores of best substitute cuss words.

Careful. And we'll just pull back the curtain since there's bits of it. Can we listen to it first? Yeah. I haven't listened to it. Okay, okay, okay. I did have time and you have it on there? Oh, yeah.

Are you Bluetooth connected? You're good to go? Yep. Cool. We used to always say it all the time, you know, you'd say, hey, you Asian. Oh, my. You can't.

I think that's like an actual cuss word. You can't say that. You can't say that. We're going to have to bleep that out. I mean, that's like a real. Yes, it is. Yes, it is. We'd always say you Asian.

Forget it. Just quit. No matter what you put in front of it. Asian. Don't say, don't say Asian. Country. That's just as bad.

That's just as bad. Hey, you blonde. No, it is not. You guys are messing with me. I have not even really heard that many people say that word, but I know it's bad.

Who have you heard say that word? We said it all the time. My pastor says it. I mean, I, I, Steve, no, that's, that's like, yeah, that, that's maybe like one of the top cuss words. I'm going to hear this nine times. I have to bleep it out each time. Oh my goodness.

Time and you silly little. That's great. Yeah. So peel back the curtain, Jake. Oh my goodness. Time and you silly little. That's great. Yeah. So peel back the curtain, Jake. So a few days before we recorded, I called my dad and I was like, hey, do you want to be on an episode with this? He's like, oh my gosh, I'd love to. My dad always says the same thing.

He's like, you know, I would never do this, but your fans are so nice that I know they're going to be nice to me. So I'll do it. So shout out ghosties. But I was like, all right, we're thinking about doing a schmores of substitute cuss words, so start thinking. And immediately he was like, oh, I have an idea. What if one of my substitute cuss words is like,

I pretend to say something awful, and you and Brad just react to it. So that was a bit. He had that whole idea himself, and so we were so excited. So my dad was not even saying a word. He was just like stopping talking. And I just told time, I was like, go crazy with the bleep button, make it as funny as possible. And, uh, we were like, I think people will think we're joking. People will get it. They'll know it's like a bit. And then it's only 9am, but people so far have been like, okay, what's he saying?

I'm a little nervous about what he was saying. My favorite, uh, my favorite comments are the ones that are like, I think I know, but I'm not going to say it. I know, but I'm not going to be the one to comment it. I think I've heard this word before, and I could see why he said it. That's the best one. It's like, yeah, honestly, I could say it, but then I don't want to get in trouble. Yeah, Steve, hey, I grew up saying it too.

We just got to be better. I said it last year, actually yeah let's clear the air the pandemic really changed me and i don't say anymore after the marches i stopped but yeah we hadn't even heard that yet so i was like we should listen to it on the podcast yeah that is really funny good work tymon thanks you're in that gift card golly uh anyway so what are you up to brad dude um uh have you ever heard of something called a water pick i'm gonna say it's some kind of like jet propulsion that flosses for you exactly okay maybe i've heard of it yeah yeah there's no way i just guessed that you heard of it timon uh no i i like told katherine i was like k, I bought a water pick thinking like,

this is like a somewhat new, the last couple of years thing. She's like, oh, I had one of those when I had braces back in the day. I was like, okay. I remember when Lincoln used to use those. I was like, I thought, whatever. I just kind of randomly, I bought myself a new electric toothbrush. Cause I've been going analog this whole time. I do like a good analog toothbrush. Do you? Yeah, I really do. I like the cheap ones. Yeah. I just had been using

whatever the dentist gave me, like the free ones. It's like sunglasses. If you don't buy a nice one, then you don't care if you lose them or they get dirty. Just buy a new one from CVS. So bought an electric toothbrush. It was like suggested, do you want a water pick? I was like, I don't floss. I would love to be better at that. Why not? I love when like you're in like a checkout section or just anywhere. And someone suggests something to you, you know, Amazon customers also like, I get it. I want that attachment, but I don't usually fall for it this time. I'm like, why not? I'm trying to be healthier. I'm trying to be more orally hygienic. Um, first of all, the, uh, the electric toothbrush every 30 seconds beeps at you.

And I, I assume that that means to change quadrants. Okay. Got it. Like, yeah, like you go from the ventricle to the atrium, right? So where would you start if it, if you were your mouth, where are you going quadrant wise? Uh, I think every time I go upper left, upper right, bottom left, bottom, right. Yeah. I, I don't know what I used to do, analog, but now virtual. Virtual. Virtual, just AI. I'm going top right, bottom right, bottom left. I'm clockwise.

Oh, yeah, you are. Yeah. Digital clock. But I don't know if I'm doing all. There's three sides of a tooth that you're exposed to. I don't know if I'm doing all three sides know, there's three sides of a tooth that you're exposed to. I don't know if I'm doing all three sides, 10 seconds each. You know what I mean? Yeah.

I think I'm neglecting the, the, the bottles or like the straightaways. Anyway. Have you ever used an electric toothbrush, Tymon? Yes. I have tried it all the time. No, no, no. I use only, I use analog. You're an analog guy too.

Yeah. Dude, it tickles me like crazy. I can't get over it. Really? It does make your nose itch. It just, it, no. I use only, I use analog. You're an analog guy too. Yeah. Dude, it tickles me like crazy. I can't get over it. Really? It does make your nose itch. It just, I don't know. I don't know if you're using it right if this makes your nose itch. Oh yeah, it always hurts your elbow. You're using a jackhammer, dude.

And the way it like gets all the earwax out, it's like, oh, I don't know. I actually might be thinking of just like occasionally, I mean, I was younger, just holding it to my nose for fun. Like not during brushing, but like. You really were? I genuinely might be thinking of just like occasionally i mean i was younger just holding it to my nose for fun like not not during not during brushing but like you're really worried i genuinely might be thinking about just like oh this is like this thing oh it's it's tickles i don't know now you think now i think about it like you're at a foot massage no i think yeah but it makes my hair fall out now that i'm thinking about it maybe i was just using like my brother with some

clippers on my foot one time. I was just touching my foot with them. No, I think I stand by my original thing. I think it's kind of like when you're doing like a vocal warmup where you're like, like makes your nose, nose itch. Yeah. Okay. That's normal. I feel like that would make my lips tickle because that's like what's moving. But you're saying like you move your lips a lot and your nose kind of itches? Yeah, it does sometimes. I'm trying to imagine. Maybe that is how it works.

It can make your, I'm just saying. Yeah, no, I mean, my nose does get tickled. I'm not saying my nose doesn't get tickled. I've used a nose trimmer once, I think. And that was a weird sensation too. Yeah.

It's also very warm. It doesn't feel like it does anything, but you hear it moving. You hear it making some. It's like when you're numbed at the dentist and you can hear the... I guess it's doing something. This sounds intense, but I can't feel it. Keep going. Anyway, I'll just say, this new

toothbrush, electric toothbrush, it seems less powerful than the old ones. The old ones, they were just flying around. Maybe that's what I had trouble with. Too powerful. Tickled me. This one, it's almost like, is this even any better than my analog? I guess so. Just like a straight cleaner.

Also, I did like an econologes worth of research on these things. I just, there were two different ones. One of them was $80 Oral-B. One of them was like $35 Sonicare. I went with the 35. Like they both had- Sonicare.

Like 5,000 reviews, like four and a half star average. I was like, okay, it's Sonic care might be the, uh, the sandals of, uh, toothbrush. Like I've heard of it. Yeah. How bad could it be? It's doing just fine. Anyway, all I have to say, been using, been using the electric toothbrush, the water pick. So this water pick thing, basically, yeah, you just put it up to your teeth and I might be doing it wrong, but I think that I'm doing it right. I watched one video for 30 seconds, a YouTube short, and it just shoots water through your teeth and supposed to get the gunk out. Um, cool. But the first time I used it, I, I, I didn't realize like, for some reason I thought it would like intuitively turn off when I took it out of my mouth. It's still,

so yeah. So it kind of like, I mean, it shoots pretty hard and it's like they say to like keep your mouth open while you do it. So the water just trickles out. I don't, that didn't work because then the water was getting on my mirror. So I was like closing my mouth and then the water would like fill my mouth up pretty quick.

So I like took it out one time and I took it out and just shoots and it just shot all over my bath to the point where Catherine was like, there was a lot of water on the floor. I don't know what you did in the shower the other day. I was like, it wasn't the shower. It was actually, uh, me trying to floss my teeth with a water pick. My mouth's going on a diet. So anyway, I, uh, well, water pick guy, I'm a electric toothbrush guy. Now that's what's going on in my life. That's cool. Oral health. Yeah, trying to be better. Trying to take that next step. When I was packing up for Portugal, I couldn't find my toothbrush holder

travel case or whatever. I don't think I've used one of those. I would if I had one. I like them. They're nice. And so Rachel and I both did the same tactic where you just wad up toilet paper around the toothbrush. And that became, Rachel would always say that like,

oh no, I know it was one time in Portugal, she couldn't, no, what was it? I don't know why she didn't have access to toilet paper or anything clean, but she just had to like put her toothbrush just like, just alone, just like in her bag, just pack it up. And she's like, good luck toothbrush. And then just like threw it in the bag. That's interesting. Yeah, I understand the principle of that. I just have never struggled or like,

I'll just be like, I don't know. It's good. I'll just throw it into the rest of the bag stuff. You really do? Yeah. Wow. I mean, like I have a toiletry bag, right? You have a toiletry bag?

I do. Yeah, sorry. I should have said when Rachel did this, it was like her like carry on bag, just like open in the carry on bag. Just with the dirty clothes and everything you bag? I do. Yeah, sorry. I should have said when Rachel did this, it was like her like carry-on bag, just like open in the carry-on bag. Just with the dirty clothes and everything. Good luck, toothbrush. Yeah. Going in. See you in Lisbon. Well, yeah, let's get to Portugal.

I mean, obviously, I have other little updates, but nothing. I mean, I started with Waterpik. Waterpik, yeah. Yeah, so it was a fun weekend. Timon's grad party saturday night sunday morning heading to portugal and things were smooth celia once again up at the house it was great new england celia she was great she uh she had she had made us coffee like uh something cubano yeah yeah yeah vanilla cuban i don't know what it was it was good though yeah it's amazing

it was really good so yeah i don't remember exactly it was it was good though yeah it's amazing it was really good so yeah i don't remember exactly but yeah it's like it's something with the way the espresso is made plus the milk plus all the sweet cream or whatever it's your ready sweet and it is nice so she had two of those ready for me and rachel put our names on them she had taylor swift in the car right now it was a great it was just like 70 degrees it was like it's so fun to just like yeah i don't know, it's just the vibes were all-time high. We go on the way to the airport. We learned that

Celia's nickname, she has two nicknames, like they, Squeals or Potatoes. Okay. So I'm only calling her Potatoes from now on. I'm going to call her Squealia. Perfect. My dad, he saw that she was somewhere, maybe taking us to the airport or somebody's like,

now remind me again, have I met that Cecilia? What's her name? So my dad calls her Cecilia. So you can call her anything. Love it. That was great. And we, everything was very smooth. We fly to New York.

We have a layover. We have to switch New York airport. So we have to go from LaGuardia to JFK. No problem. And JFK. I don't think I realized you had to switch. I don't think I did till about 24 hours beforehand. And then because you were talking about like, we might have eight hours to just kill. Yeah, but it was great. It was like, just take our time in each airport. No problem. And then we had a direct flight from JFK all the way to this tiny island. I can't remember how much I've like talked about what the plan was,

but there's this island that's Portuguese owned, but it's much closer to Africa that it is even Europe. It's just very South of Europe. And it's called Madeira. It's where Scott did his LDS mission back in the day. So random that they sent him there. So fortunate of Scott that they sent him there. Cause I've been seeing this place on Instagram for years.

And then people kept calling it the Hawaii of Europe. And I was like, that would be fun to go to someday. And then as we're eyeing this trip and Taylor Swift, Lisbon, whatever, it made sense. So probably three or four weeks ago, I was not seeking this out. I didn't even know about it.

But on the front page of Reddit, I get on Reddit every now and then. And there's just like, I follow some subreddit called like, you know, that's amazing or, you know, super whatever. And it just, the top voted thing that day is just like, you know, that's amazing or, you know, super whatever. And it just, the top voted thing that day is just like, watch this plane try and land at the Madeira airport. I'm like, what's up? Why is this going viral? What's going on? And yeah, it was just jumbo jet, the 747

massive plane, just wobbling, having so much trouble. It had to do a nose down landing, which is just like what you do to preserve yourself if it's not going well. Yeah. You just land on your wheels, but it's just not smooth. I watched that video, and it looked like it was a paper airplane. It did. It was like – That's a great –

I mean, it just was like completely out of control, like just like trying its hardest to stay in the air, but also gravity is trying to get it down. It was wild. And I think the title of the video was like, a plane landing nose down at one of the world's most dangerous airports. And then you go through the comments like, oh yeah, this is FNC Airport. This is Cristiano Ronaldo Airport,

which by the way, pretty cool. One, that Ronaldo is from this tiny island. How did he get so good? And two, they just named the whole international airport after him. Like, I mean, it's not going to get better in Ronaldo. I can't wait till MCI changes

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oh yeah. And then like people like giving insight, like, yeah, the runway is super short. Half of it's a bridge. Like it's a, and we got to see it and it is insight. Yeah, the runway is super short. Half of it's a bridge. And we got to see it, and it is crazy. Half the airstrip is unsupported by land. It just beams, just holding up the airstrip. In the ocean? Yeah, it's attached to land, but it's just like there's nothing underneath you

other than just structure. Well, so yeah, I read that like, yeah, every once in a while it just closes down for a few days and you can't land there. So I was like, what if Jake has something like this? And I told you a story about how I was like, I think it's in Tenerife is where I went when I was in Spain, that they were doing some architecture,

like trying to figure out where to put the airport. And they put an X in this one area. And they're like, and so people are like, okay, that's where we should put the airport. Apparently it was like, X was like the only place you shouldn't put a year. And so I thought, and I might still be right. I don't know. I didn't ever look it up, but then I realized Tenerife is like right down the, you know, quote unquote road from Madeira. Is it really? Like Canary Islands is like right there. Oh yeah, Canary Islands. Yeah.

And so I don't know if it's just that area is just tough to fly into or the way, or people are just idiots there and put the airports in the wrong spot. Or maybe it was, I thought it was Tenerife and really it was, they were telling a story about this place in Madeira. I don't know. From what I learned and looked up, basically you have a mountain on one side, a very steep mountain on one side and in the ocean on the other side. So you just get crazy wind. You get crazy wind plus a short runway. It's just difficult. And so I did not tell my

parents this. I did not tell Rachel this. You did tell me this. I did tell Brad and some other people. Since the prayer is up. But we landed, and I was very excited. And I don't know if Rachel could tell how excited I was. And then I said, this is, I was like, Rachel, this is one of, uh, one of two surprises I had for you on the trip. One is that this is one of the hardest airports to land in, in the world. And we did it. So that was the hardest part of the trip. I also got another surprise for you later. I also read that, like, you have to be like a certain class of pilot to fly. Oh, that makes you feel better. It's one of the only places in the world that like has like a distinction. Like you can't just be a 10 year pilot. You have to be like, it'd be like a limo driver of pilots. Yeah. Something crazy. Like,

so, well, that's cool. Kind of interesting stuff. So that's how the trip started. We, we found a direct flight straight to the Island and tried to spend as much time there as we could. You know, we, uh, uh spent we spent time in the kansas city airport we spent time in you know an hour in laguardia we spent four hours in jfk i mean these are massive airports you know those people never get recognized by anyone you know it's smooth and then we landed in the middle of the atlantic ocean and we're waiting on our airport or our rental car shuttle. And someone driving by was like, you're the Friday Pickleball guy.

I was like, they speak Portuguese here. How'd that happen? How did no one else know? I'm on my LDS mission. And Rachel was like, you knew her. You set that up. How did that? And I was like, I don't know who that was.

And then she ended up pulling over and came back around. And we talked to her. I was like, what are you? She's like, I just landed. I was like, I just landed. That's great. I was like, I don't know who that was. And then she ended up pulling over and came back around and we talked to her. I was like, what are you? She's like, I just landed. I was like, I just landed.

That's great. I was like, shoot me a DM on Instagram. We're going to hike or something. She never did, but it was very fun. She's Sarah from Texas. Sarah from Texas.

That was pretty fun. Friday pickleball. Didn't know me from anything else. Really? Was it a really touristy place? You feel like, uh, I think for Europeans,

for sure. I think it probably is their Hawaii. Like, oh yeah, you got to go down there. Yeah. Because, yeah, people talk about America being the melting pot. Go on a hike in probably anywhere in Europe.

I mean, there was just every language, every race, every color. It was crazy. And very few Americans. Yeah. So I was impressed. Most people on Madeira know English very well, or at least know it enough to talk and communicate with you. But there were, like, very few Americans there. Probably because it's just kind of hard to get to by the airport. know english uh very well or at least know it enough to talk and communicate with you but there were like very few americans there probably because it's just kind of hard to get to and

sure by the airport yeah um is it expensive do you know the cost of living wasn't getting there is like not sure sure the easiest like yeah we're very willing to move to madera yeah it would be affordable we thought the prices were awesome okay we got like two acai bowls for like 14 total that's great yeah and um yeah cost of living was nice but the one more thing on this airport they have they pilots must land there successfully because they would not have they have like a viewing deck it's pretty sick actually so part of the airport once you're like in past security and like at your gates they just have a door that goes outside to just like a patio, just this massive patio where you can just watch. There's only one airstrip. So you just watch planes take off and land and everybody's out

there because it's beautiful weather. I don't think they would have that. Or is it like, I think they would have it. I mean, if it's crazy, that'd be way more entertaining to watch planes like 50, 50. Let's see. Yeah. 50, 50. 50 obviously doesn't work 50 50 yeah 50 50 marlboro uh so yeah i mean that made me feel i guess better i was like well there's a bunch of watching us yeah so it wouldn't be that bad we documented at least if something happens and so we landed at like 9 a.m did not sleep nearly as much on the plane ride as we thought we would. So we were tired, but hey, let's make the most of it. And we get our rental car.

And oh, dude, rental car is $2,000 deposit. Holy cow. I never heard of anything like that. And this guy was cool. We had a good rapport. So I wasn't like gonna complain, but I was just like, I was like, do Americans normally get pretty alarmed at that?

That's like a pretty high number for us. I don't know what's common. And then he didn't really understand me. He was like, yeah, some, uh, you know, credit cards have trouble. And I was like, ah, okay. All right. Whatever. Yeah. But once I started driving on the Island, I was like, there's a reason I think this is so high. Cause I've, I've never driven a place like this. I am legitimately a better driver just spending three days on that Island. And this is so high because I've never driven a place like this. I am legitimately a better driver just spending three days on that island. And this is probably Europe to an extent, but it's also like this is the steepest area I've ever been. The whole island, nothing's flat. It's very European roads. I just want to say the movie's nailed it. Never been to Europe before, but every Jason

Statham movie you've ever seen. Every Amazing Race episode. Yeah, just like anything that Hollywood or anyone has portrayed of Europe. That's exactly how it looks. So maybe like Europeans, it's like a $20 deposit. Americans, it's two grand. It's like they're used to Minneapolis and instead they're going to this, yeah, tight corners and small little one ways

and stuff like that. Yeah, I mean, you would be shocked at what they consider a two lane road there. I was like, there's just no way there's no way. And then you go slow enough and you just, you're like, yeah, our mirrors just, there was an inch between us. Seriously. We did fit. Did you ever grace? I did so good. I, I never, um, I never missed a turn. I never hit anything, never bumped anything. I always remember the parking break on the Hills. There were times where I had to say, Rachel, can you, um, just kind of let me focus and maybe turn the music down too. Why don't we get these air conditioning vents on me? Cause I need to, it was like, you're, you're, you're

like tended to like palms are sweaty. Like, yeah, maybe not necessarily stress, but just like, I need to focus. I can't just like relax and just like drive. It's just like, so just like, just crazy, crazy steep at all times. And you're just driving this car you're not familiar with and the roads are narrow and all the time you're you're coming around a corner and oh it's only a one-way and they're higher than me so they have the right of way so now i have to back up on this crazy steep driveway that's only a one-way so now i guess i'll back into someone else's steep road and get by it was just it was just pretty just pretty intense the whole time. The one mistake I made,

I should have got a smaller car. I didn't think about this. It's going to be just crazy tight. A mid-size kind of thing? Yeah. Probably CRV-sized car. You should have gotten the

smallest scooter. I should have got a scooter, the smallest mini cooper scooter i should have got a scooter dude scooter would have been awesome uh but the first thing we did we went straight to uh this like cool like botanical garden thing i'd seen online and it was actually pretty cool as far as like gardens go because you go you just drive up to it felt i i can't i'm gonna keep emphasizing it because the the steepness of the roads it was like the beginning of a roller coaster it was like i've never been in a car and looked up like this like i've never like been at this angle in a car it's like surely we're about to flip backwards yeah like maybe bring our luggage to the front or something like this can't

be good and you're like lean forward rachel yeah turn down the music and lean forward have the door unlocked get ready to fail if we start falling. It was so steep. And so, yeah, you get up to this garden and it's like at 2000 feet elevation. And then the garden starts up high. And then as you go through the garden, you just keep descending and descending. And that was kind of fun is because you didn't know when it was ending. You just keep going lower. Like there's more. And you go lower and now there's this huge pot. Like this is fine. And then you go lower and there's this huge waterfall and you go lower. I tried to look it up. I don't know what the elevation drop was or, but I want to say it was like 12 stories, like from

start to bottom. So that was kind of fun. That's cool. It was a fun way to start kind of relaxing, kind of chill. And, um, did you feel like it was, uh, yeah, like I know I already asked, is there a lot of tourists, but like, was it very populated like this garden or like, was it like most of it? Cause I feel like Hawaii, when we went of tourists, but like, was it very populated like this garden or like, was it like most, cause I feel like Hawaii when we went even Maui, like road to Hana, even like the most popular thing in Maui to do wasn't like crazy, busy, whatever. Like it felt like there were times where Catherine and I were just by ourself in this beautiful area.

Like we weren't by ourselves by any means, but yeah, it wasn't crazy packed or like, Oh, we should go somewhere else. There's like so many people here. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It was just like, Oh, this is like a common tourist attraction probably. So, um, but yeah, that was a fun way to start it off. And after that,

we're like, let's go get some food and then let's go like check in our Airbnb. And that's where the driving got so stressful. I don't know if this is sexist of me, but this is just the reality. When I got done with all these adventures, I'm about to tell you about, I got back and Rachel had woke up from an app. She goes, how was it? And I said, if I was a girl, I would be bawling right now. Oh, you were by yourself? Yeah, because like Rachel was tired. She didn't like sleep at all

on the plane. I was like, you go nap. Let me go like park the car and figure all that out. Oh, okay. It would be hosted. Give me some instructions like now there's three parking lots. I would recommend parking here and then that's the close one. I'll load your luggage there and then you can go park here and do it just madness it's chaos it's my first day in europe i'm so stressed about all this driving and you know i'm getting yelled at by this parking attendant and they tell me to park here so i do and then i load the

luggage up and then i come back and i get a parking ticket i'm like geez that's a good start and then i can't find the address of where she said to park and so i'm i'm turning around multiple times i'm in these dark tunnels like maybe i can turn around in here. No, that seems dangerous. You know, I'm like going the wrong way by yourself. So you can't even like verbally process or you can't be like, can you look at the map for me? Check this out. I thought it was going to be such a simple process and I'm, I'm pulling over and I'm trying to Google it, but I don't have good service. I'm like, I'll just go back into town and figure it out. And trying to find this parking garage. When I do get in there, you know, that's just whatever. It's just, then this other parking garage guy, he's yelling at me.

And he doesn't speak English. And I finally figured it out. And then I don't know how to take, the Airbnb host has given me like, this is like a voucher so you can get in a park. But it's laminated, so I can't stick it in the thing. And so I'm like, I'll just, I just freak out. And I'm just like, I'll just take a ticket. And then I take a ticket.

Now I got to pay for it. You know, whatever. It's just all this stuff. And I'm climbing all these stairs and do all this. And yeah, it was just like, man, I think I need a nap now. So it was a little stressful to start today, but it was a movie. Ashton Kutcher and Brittany Murphy are in this movie. Let's see if I can find it. Just married. It's called just married. Okay. And I've only seen it once, so I don't remember very well, but I feel like they go to some European country and you should watch it with Rachel. I probably should. It's a similar situation.

I think they get the tiniest little rental car ever. But yeah, it's just stressful fun. Yeah, just like, I just can't believe that they just let anyone... I was just thrown into this situation where I'm having to reverse down a one-way street with homes on each side like the craziest incline you've ever seen and i'm reversing up it the transmission can't handle it you know it's just it was crazy

what i was like doing but i was like whatever we're good i got it right and uh at least you had an automatic car yes made sure to rent an automatic car right and it's given me so much confidence to fast forward a little bit when we finally got home i put on my instagram story we Automatic car. Yes. Made sure to rent an automatic car. Right. And it's given me so much confidence. To fast forward a little bit, when we finally got home, I put it on my Instagram story. We got home at 1030. We hadn't run yet. We're running at 1040. And there are storms going on.

We've run really quickly. And then I'm starving. I want American food. There's a storm coming, but I want canes. So I'm in my car. I'm driving kind of the back roads to canes. And branches are falling from the trees. And there's cars meeting me. And I was just like,

this doesn't even bother me at all. I don't even care. This ain't nothing. And that's going to wear off in a couple of days. But when I was fresh off of that, dude, I was seriously like, this is legitimately no big deal. Yeah, it's all relative, dude.

I remember, do you remember like when you first moved to Kansas City? Did you ever feel like it was crazy? Totally. Some of these exits and yeah. Well, I remember when we lived, because we lived next door to each other in Prairie Village, and Ward Parkway is a really busy street.

That's a weird road. And it's tight. I remember thinking, especially when I bought a truck. This truck is crazy wide, right? This thing is huge, dude. I feel like I'm next, yeah, touching this other car. And now I drive an even bigger truck and I don't even think twice about Ward Parkway.

That's such a great point. Because Ward Parkway, you're like, I feel like, I can reach out and grab me. I, get over. That's such a great point. Yeah, it's where Parker you're like, I feel like like I me I get over like surely you're not as close like yeah, you were driving word Parkway timing. I can't think of where that is. Oh, you're not ready. Oh timing. It's

like near the Plaza. Okay, so have you heard of the Plaza time? I hate driving in anywhere like yeah, busy Casey. Well, I remember like my friends from like Manhattan like small town K State. Well, I remember my friends from Manhattan, small town, K-State. I mean, it's not a small town. It's big for Kansas.

But yeah, they come to Kansas City and they're like 10 and 2. Like, okay, is there anybody over there? Can I get over? Can I get over? You know, like it's just all relative to what you're used to. Yeah, so the podcast just cut out just for a little bit.

It's like the one story Brad's told that cut out for Brad. That's kind of a bummer. Like, you know what? Can I say something real quick? Yeah. But what we're going to do is we're going to post just, so the audio stopped,

but the video kept rolling. So we'll post it later. And you guys try to figure out what Brad's talking about, because it's pretty funny. Maybe we'll post on Facebook or maybe we can even post it. Like as we're talking right now, like just a few, like a few screenshots or whatever,

but yeah, whatever. Not, not, it was not a life and death thing. It's not like Catherine's pregnant again or whatever. Yeah, whatever. It's not a life and death thing. It's not like Catherine's pregnant again or something. I'm not going to retell the story. She did it again. Okay, so our first full day, day two in Madeira,

I was like, all right, let's go on the hike that everyone talks about, everyone posts about. What do we call it? Who knows how to pronounce it? Portuguese, obviously it's Who knows how to pronounce it? Dude, that's Portuguese. You know, obviously it's like so similar looking to Spanish. Sounds nothing like Spanish.

It's very interesting. It sounds like French or something. It's very distinct sounding. I feel like I can tell when people are talking Portuguese, but it's like, because it's like, oh, you're talking Spanish. No, you're not.

Yeah, there's some Spanish themes to it, but it doesn't sound that Spanish. And even like the words or the letters are like, they got random scribbles. How'd that G get up there? Like, you notice that? Or like, or I think the A has a weird thing above it sometimes. There are weird squiggles.

Yeah. And it's, yeah, it's just, I could have gotten by a little better with Spanish, but Portuguese was, and from time to time you'd have those words, you know, you'd go to pull a parking spot and it says reservado. You're like, I bet I could figure out what this means. I bet that means... Elevadores are this way.

Okay. I think I know where the elevators are. Sure, yeah. But very few words were like that. But anyway, so I don't know what to call this hike is what I'm saying. Pico de Rio,

something like that. Okay. Is how they would pronounce it. Pico de Rio. Pico de Rio. Uh-huh. And it was awesome. We got up at sunrise and did it and it was a tough hike it was probably the hardest hike ever done just one of those where you're never flat much like the whole island you're just you're

going down you're going up the whole time i think i logged it on my watch and when it got done it said we had hiked like 1800 feet of like elevation okay gain yeah um that's a lot so it was a lot and uh in a few hours but it was it was really beautiful what was the elevation do you know i think we started off at uh like almost 6 000 feet 5800 feet or something so you're up there and yeah you pretty much do the the best hikes are the ones where the views are good the whole time yeah like i've been on some cool hikes in Hawaii, but it took six miles before we got to the Nepali coast and like, well now it's pretty, but this was like, you kind of start looking at,

so you start above the clouds and you stay above the clouds, which is awesome. Cool. So really fun hike. And it was great. And yeah, every now and then when it'd get tough, you'd see someone like smoking and doing it.

You're like, all right, I can do this. Like you would see cigarettes on the ground or like literally people were like, take a break and like, we're eating a gorilla bar and they're smoking. Right. All right right i can do this like you would see cigarettes on the ground or like literally people were like take a break and like we're eating a gorilla bar and they're smoking right all right we can do this or yeah what's nate bargetti's got the thing with like you got somebody like an old person like passing you or yeah somebody coming down with the baby or like they're they're bragging on the way down or whatever it is like yeah that's such a funny joke where he's he asked her something are we almost to the end or he asked

her something and then or they say it's worth it or is it is okay is this good enough are we close enough yeah is this good enough and she yeah yeah he thought i'm butchering it obviously she couldn't hear him or he thought she couldn't yeah i've ruined it but yeah just like it's funny somebody's smoking yeah the fact that like these people are not in incredible shape, and yet they can do it, so we can do it. Yeah, it kept reminding us. It was like, Rachel, we're active. We run a mile every day.

Like, we got this. Right. They'll let them get to us. Right. But beautiful hike. It was so fun. And we get on the hike, and I don't know if we were just hungry, but had one of the best pizzas of my life up there.

It was awesome. Up there. Yeah, up there. Had a little snack bar up there. Cool. It was great. Also, just occasionally throughout the trip, it was so fun just getting texts from Scott,

just like, check your location, dude. This is crazy. He just was always checking in and very fun. And we start to figure out what we want to do the next day. And I saw something on Google Maps called Epic Madeira. Okay. And it was like this adventure kind of like program, not program, but it's like organization

where they would take you like, you could go rappelling or ziplining. They could take you canyoneering, which is something I've always wanted to do. Street luge? I didn't see street luge. Was that the one you did in Australia? Yeah, that was fun.

Canyoneering is where you rappel down a series of waterfalls. So you're just like, you're in the elements. I thought it sounded so fun. I've seen that. Rachel's like, you could do that. And like, I could read or something. I was like, oh, it would be safe. It'll be fun.

And anyway, I'm eyeballing that. I'm like, maybe we'll do that tomorrow. But in the meantime, we're like, hey, let's go home. Let's shower. Let's have like a nice dinner tonight. We go to this Italian spot. It's awesome. We have great food there and also europe no tips yeah fun the best part about no tip is that they don't like rush you out or you don't feel guilty about

staying as long as you want that's a good point like they're like well you can stay as long as i don't i don't get paid anymore for this yeah waiter doesn The waiter doesn't care. Yeah. The ownership might be like, hey, let's get these people out of here. Get some new people in. Yeah. But it was great and had an awesome dinner. And then afterwards,

we went and walked to a gelato spot, had some of that. Fun. And I took down the gelato. It was awesome. Not eating a bunch of sugar these days still, but you know, on vacation.

I hiked a bunch today. Dude, you just... You deserve that gelato, brother. I'm going to take down this gelato. What kind did you get? I got chocolate brownie, and then Rachel got something in Portuguese that we didn't know. We each take a lick of it, and I was like, oh, yours is good. And she was like, okay, you want to switch? I was like, sure, whatever.

So I had hers. It was like a cookies and cream type thing. Take it down. It was awesome. And then about an hour later, things start to happen. And I'm starting to feel not that great. I'm like, Rachel, how's the gelato sitting for you? She's like, I'm doing great. I'm starting to feel some stuff.

And then I spent the next day doing epic Mediaria. And it was... Actually, I spent some of that night as well it was such a bummer on vacation like because if i could get better i would and if i did feel better i promise i'm not like oh i would do anything to not feel this way but yeah that night i'm getting up out of bed and i'm thinking all right if i could just get to sleep i'll sleep this off and then the worst is when you wake up and it's still there like dang, dang it. Yep. I'm still sick.

Dang it. I gotta go. Yeah. So that I just felt so bad. And Rachel's like, I know you feel bad because I can picture myself feeling bad that I'm running the vacation, but you're fine. It's a Rachel just read out on the porch. Yeah. Most today. And she loved it. I want to do that anyway. She she she was like, you do

your epic thing and I'll do this like you do your diary and I'll read but so. You do your Mediaria thing and I'll read. So our Airbnb was awesome and it had a great porch overlooking the ocean. It was really pretty. So she had a good time reading and I just kind of went from bed to toilet, bed to toilet for most of day three. So you think it was Gelato though or you think it was the Italian place before? So in hindsight, I think this was dairy related, but also tick bite related because I started doing some digging.

I was like, why does dairy not affect, anyway, I think it was just the amount of dairy. I had like, like a cheese filled, like ravioli that night. I had Parmesan.

And you had pizza that day, right? I had pizza that day and I had gelato that night. And so I thought I was, I was like, I think this is like a lactose intolerance thing, but then I started leaning into it.

I was like, well, dairy comes from a cow too, right? It probably has the same like sugar molecule that I'm allergic to. So I think that's what it was. And maybe limit my dairy intake. And maybe you were like so depleted of nutrients else, or like, you know, you did such a long, strenuous hike. Like maybe that, like, maybe my immune system was not immune, but like, I don't know, maybe you just like your body responded differently to it. Cause you needed it more or something. And true. So yeah, I'm a little scared of dairy right now. Okay. Well, his gelato, I remember gelato is different than ice cream is different than custard. Like, is that one more dairy based?

I have no idea. Okay. I have no idea, but it was, so it took me down for a while, but at about 5.00 PM I emerged and I was ready to go, baby. I was feeling good. I felt skinny, you know, and I was, uh, I honestly, I wasn't a hundred percent, but I was like, I'm good enough. And so we, uh, we still got our mile in that day and we hit the town and I don't even remember what we did, but it was a fun day just trying to cram as much as we could. And like the rest of the day, cause I felt so bad that we couldn't do anything until 5.00 PM. Did you make jokes about running with the runs? I don't remember. I don't recall those. Like, Hey, let's go on a runs. Seems, uh, you know, a pot of humor, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. No, but it was fun. We did our run in like a different spot every day. That was kind of fun. Yeah. Of course, very hilly, but very fun.

Just the craziest views. So it was awesome. And then I remember day four was when I was like, man, I'm missing Main Street Roasters. Right. And that's all I have written down. It's like, man, I wish I could just get a big whiff of them. Like they have espresso there, but does Main Street Roaster have espresso? Yes, it does.

Yes, they do have espresso there. Does Main Street Roasters have ground beans? Yes, it does. Whole beans? Yes, it does. Yes, it does. 50 different flavors? I don't know the exact number, but it's got a lot of flavors there on Main Street Roasters. Hey, there's a fun website. And in Portugal, they do.pt instead of.com..com, that reminds me of MainStreetRoasters.com. MainStreetRoasters.com. And you said you have to have a tip for, or you don't have to have tips there. You don't tip there. Do you have anything opposite of a tip called a promo code in Portugal?

Or is that only at MainstreamRoasters.com for GRKC for 10% off? I think that's the only place you can get it. I think so, too. Speaking of tips, here's a tip. Buy yourself some. I would say so. Take my word for it.

Yes, sir. Mainstream Roasters is great. Yes, it is. May be fun to go there. Man. Oh, yeah. In Portugal, you mean? No, sorry. Well, yeah. Well, Mainstream Roasters is great. Yes, it is. Man, it'd be fun to go there. Man. Oh, yeah. Well, in Portugal, you mean? No, sorry.

Well, yeah. Well, Main Street Roasters, they're based in Napanee, Indiana. Oh, that's right. Napanee, Indiana. That would be fun to go to. Northern Indiana. Hmm. Could you, like, do they even have airports there?

Are they in the Midwest? I don't know. It'd be fun to go there. Let's go to the, yeah. I think they're in the South. 90% of full price if you go down south to mainstreamroasters.com and get yourself a little discount come on on coffee and check them out espresso beans and stuff yeah uh let's see what else i think the i'll wrap up kind of the

the madera part of it uh the last thing we did it was kind of fun like we didn't fly out our last day until like 6 p.m so So we just like checked out of the hotel and just got to explore with all of our luggage and whatnot. And I thought these things would be cool. I was like, people are saying that we should go to this like one beach. It's like 45 minutes away, but let's try it. And yeah, we did.

And it was the gnarliest beach I've ever been to or just like the coolest view. Because pretty much the whole time I've been in Madeira, I'm trying to figure out like, is this better than Hawaii? Like, I don't know. It's so, or I should specify Kauai. Yes.

And I think they're neck and neck. Like Madeira might have a slight edge, like as far as like sightseeing and landscapes, beauty. But if you're in America, Hawaii is just a lot easier and cheaper to go to. And to speak English, they take the dollar. It's just less hoops to jump through. No passport.

Madeira was very pretty. And yeah, I'm going to guess it's Seixal Beach. S-E-I-X-A-L. Okay. Seixal. Seixal? Scott's just laughing right now. It's actually Quicksale.

It was just crazy. I just couldn't believe where we were and what it looked like. It was just so, so pretty. We absolutely loved it. So we came back raving fans of that island. If you have an opportunity, if you're already in Europe, go to Madeira and have fun flying in there and flying out. Oh, that was another thing.

We would watch other airplanes fly out. And dude, they're using every inch of this airstrip. They were like, you go to the back of it, you turn around and then you have to back up. It's like, we know it was like a, an aircraft carrier, like sending the Navy off. It's like Doolittle's raid. I know we need every inch of this. Nope. Not good enough. Not good enough. Yeah. Take off some weight. Yes. What movie is that? Oh, Top Gun Harbor. Oh, and Top Gun. Yeah. They do a top gun too don't they they yeah they're like timing them for something yeah they are yeah scott once again

so madeira is awesome i'm very glad we went it was beautiful that's great man i i'm glad to hear it i you know after the bahamas thing i was, I just want them to have a good time. Good. I know. And it was first three hours driving. I was like, we've done it again. We have done it again. What have I done? But you know, you build a little confidence and I feel like I'm a pretty competent driver. So I was like, no, I got this. Um, but yeah, there was a little bit of, it's like, what have I done? Um, while you were in Madeira, did you like listen to your Bible or did you read your Bible?

So I don't know. What do you think I should have done? I think you should use the dwell Bible app, brother. Now who remind me who they are again? I've got the silliest memory. Boy, it's, it's a Bible. Cause I'm an auditory listener. That's right.

How do I remember anything if I don't hear it? Hear this right here. I always say that, by the way, real quick. I always say I'm an auditory listener. I'm so dumb for saying that. Auditory listener. Auditory learner. Idiot.

No, I'm an auditory listener too. Okay. Timon? Yeah. Timon! Hey, Timon! Yeah. Are you an auditory listener?

I do listen auditorily most of the time. Same. Listen, there's a difficulty sometimes finding time to read your Bible, carving out the time to sit down and just focus reading. In my life right now, I just have kids. Who knows when they're waking up? Who knows what time Bo's bumbling out of bed, lead-footed. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

Hey, Dad. Yeah, I slept super well. Can I listen to your, can I listen to Toy Store on your phone? Hey, didn't sleep. Call the Toy Store, not Toy Story. Call us at Toy Store on your phone. A guy drove by the other day when we were on a walk,

and I was like, that guy looked like Al from Al's Toy Bar. And Bo goes, I know him. He's from Toy Store, too. That was fun. Anyway, I mean, there's all sorts of pain points there about how am I supposed to get in the Word? We all agree that it's important to read your Bible every single day or it's important to

experience your Bible in whatever. If you want to auditorily listen to it, you can do that as well. And I want to remind you guys of a stat that Brad once told me. 30% of people can't read. 30% of people can't read. 30% of people can't read. And so if that's one of you, I assume it probably is because you're listening to this podcast, listen to the Bible. Can I tell you right now, my daughter is a very smart girl and she is not a great reader yet, but she is absolutely consuming things. We were reading Genesis

one or two yesterday, and she said something that that was like, I didn't even know that Hattie. And like, like she knows things. She can remember things just by listening, just by hearing them, just by learning that way. So like it is effective for all ages. Uh, this is five-star review. It says I've been using dwell for a year and just renewed my subscription as a busy mom of young kids dwell makes it so much easier for me to get into scripture each day. I can easily squeeze in 15 minutes to listen. Whereas I would have trouble finding 15 minutes to sit down and read my Bible in peace. Highly recommend. I do feel like... Sound familiar to anybody you know?

Yeah, you read and I get so distracted sometimes, whereas if I'm taking the Bible in via my ears, while I'm already doing something else, you're almost more focused that way, even though you're multitasking. But it's like, I'm only cleaning and listening to the Bible right now. I'm not trying to focus on reading it. Yeah. And so there's other Bible reading apps that also read the Bible. It's really cool. Dwell has these soothing voices. You can choose all these different ones. Austin's my guy, personally. But hey, I'm an Austin guy. Keep Austin weird. Austin, Texas. But you can customize it however you want. You can make it go as fast as you want, slow as you want, background music, whatever's best for you. Um, and yeah, they have to dwell

daily, uh, um, dwell daily. It's a new daily devotional that they have as well. So check it out. It's dwellbible.com slash GRKC. Yep. Dwellbible.com slash GRKC. Check it out. 25% discount on a yearly subscription. Dwellbible.com slash ghostrunners. How about that? Oh, really? Either one, but try ghostrunners because I think that's it. Dwellbible.com slash ghostrunners. And you can get, yeah, a discount off your subscription. So, highly recommend it. It's been cool to see some of the ghosties getting into it. So, check them out. Fun, fun, fun. You want to talk about that play

you went to? Sure. Let's hear about it. You teased it earlier. It wasn't anything too crazy, to be honest. So, it was my niece's, I think she's 10 or 11 years old, Elsie. Shout out, Elsie, shout out Elsie. And she was in Matilda. And she was just a choir chorus.

Is that what they call them, Tymon? Maybe. People that are just like. Ensemble? Yeah, ensemble. She was an ensemble member. And it's one of those things where I'm biased, but I'm like, why isn't Elsie getting one of those parts? She needs to be one of the speaking parts.

She could have killed that. Whereas I watch her and she's dancing with, you know, 40 other people in the background. And I'm like, she's the best dancer there is out there. Best dancer. She's got this mama. Put her in the front. It was great. I compared it, kept comparing it to Sense and Sensibility.

It was Matilda. So it was kind of oil and water in that sense, in Sensibility. But, oh, Rustin just texted me and said, hey, we're driving back from Gulf Shores. What word is Jake's dad saying? People are curious. I'm going to say guess. Send me a guess and I'll tell you.

Yeah. Anyway, it was a fun time. It was fun to be there with my family. I really don't have that much to say about it except for just once again, it's just one of those things at the end of these plays where I'm just like, I'm so proud of everybody that did it. Yeah. I mean, it was a long play.

Did you stand up and give them the, hey, hey, ha-ha, yeah. No, it was just, I mean, yeah. Well, and it was also too long, I'll say that much. For this little kid play, it was like two and a half hours, something like that. Well, then again, since this ability was very long too. Yeah. I was like, okay, this one feels like it's about over. They did this amazing, like finale song. And then there was more to the play. And I was like, Oh, I thought it was over. I was, I was, I was cheering going crazy, but, um, all in all just fun to uh see i think they did six shows in four days is that crazy timing wow that's yeah that's great i mean amazing yeah so if it's that long of a show

and their kids that's a bummer for those parents who went to all those i know oh and depending on on how like big this thing was a lot, a lot of shows have rehearsals so many nights a week. Yes. Like green leaf. That's not nice about green leaf. It's like just once a week ever. Okay.

And then like show week is every night. And then, yeah. Yeah. I mean, it was, it was a production. I get, they did a great job with it. Um, and yeah, it was, it was a fun time. Um, nothing crazy about it, but, um,

I, well, that was an interesting thing. So I think it was like the fifth of six shows. And, uh, one of the guys, one of the characters in it lost his voice. And so he just like,

uh, animated everything. And like one of the directors had a microphone and just spoke for him. And so it was like, because he was so hilarious just in the way he looked and the way he would like move around and everything that like, they're like, we can't not have him do this,

even though he doesn't have a voice. And so one of the, he was actually playing Mrs. Trunchbull, like this like muscular, mean lady. That's such an important character. Right.

Yeah. Yeah. And, and so what the director was a man. I think there were two directors, a man and a woman. The man would say his lines, and then the woman would sing the songs for him. Wow. And he would just move around and mime everything.

Are they visible? Because you said you knew who it was or kind of knew it was the directors. Were they somewhere offstage where you could see them? They made an announcement at the beginning of the show that so-and-so will be sung by this person. Gotcha, okay. Spoke by – and I was like, that's a weird thing to say. But yeah, they were right in the front of the stage to the side kind of watching. Yeah.

So anyway. It's a fun way of getting around it. Yeah. I didn't think about that if I ever lose my voice doing comedy. I'll just stand still and I'll get you a transcript and you guys and somebody else read it. That'd be fun. But yeah, overall, it was fun. It's fun to be there with my family.

Oh, this is a funny story, I suppose. So after the show, it's in Olathe. And so there's some people there that I knew growing up from church and stuff. But they're like my sister's age or even older than them. And so one of the girls, um, was like, yeah, I actually, uh, I babysat Brad like back in the day that she was like talking to my parents. And so like this woman was probably, yeah, 12 years older than me, something like that. Uh, and she goes, I didn't hear this conversation luckily. Cause I was like, that's what'd be i didn't hear this conversation luckily because i was like that

should be so uncomfortable to hear but she's like yeah brad was uh brad was the first boy i ever saw she's like yeah it was the first diaper i ever changed was brad's boy i ever saw there that's a a good way of putting it because it could have been way worse i think she didn't i don't know if she said that exactly those were the first first donuts i ever saw i'll say it on the podcast those are the first lug nuts ever changed yeah uh yeah that a lot of ways that was my first stomp i ever saw exactly those are the first acorns yeah acorns next to a branch i ever saw uh yeah exactly had to include that detail and so so then i go up and i like i kind of remember Oh, yeah, exactly. I had to include that detail.

And so, so then I go up and I, like, I kind of remember her. And so I, I did not know this conversation when I talked to her, luckily, but she was like, I just have to say, I'm a little bit starstruck right now because I watch your videos and she's like, I didn't know you were Brad when I was watching the videos. I just thought you were some guy. And then Julie, my sister reposted a video or something. She's like, my brother did this,

this, whatever, chief braid, whatever. And she's like, that's your brother. I've seen him. I know everything about that guy.

Oh, what does he show on camera? What's patron get you? So that was kind of an odd, like interaction of like, okay. Yeah. And I told Catherine that later. I was like okay yeah and i told katherine that later i was like yeah she said you know whatever and katherine's like she told you that yeah it's like i was like no i didn't know any of it my my mom told me later so yeah it's funny like yeah it's

a little unnecessary we could have gone without it but kind of funny that she mentioned it like it'd just be so easy to just be like oh yeah yeah, I remember Brad. Yeah. Brad was great. Right. I remember. Oh, I remember. Just say it a little slower. I remember Brad.

Oh, Brad. Brad was, Brad was great. So they, uh, they also told me afterwards, uh,

they're like, you know, next time you come to a show, just like apply for like an influencer ticket. And I was like, I don't think I need to use my pole. I think I pay for my 11 year old nieces play. It'll be okay. But apply for an influencer.

There's something. Yeah. Big time. Some phrase like seriously, seriously, like you're a celebrity. I was like, I'm not a celebrity to my babysitters. Yes, but not all these people. Oh, I remember twisted told me I'd make me a celebrity overnight. I don't know what that means exactly, but

do that kind of rides, but we were sitting on your Porsche a couple nights ago and talking me, you, Rachel, you, me, Catherine, and it's Celia was still there. So still there. Celia was yeah, not taking a hint. No, it was great. And we said, I got to talk about dress codes in public school, private school,

whatever. And Rachel was saying, like, I know I've worked in elementary schools and there's no, there's no dress code because it's a public elementary school. And you know, they don't do it that way. And Rachel said, and she's like, it's tough sometimes. Like, how do you have these conversations? Like, sometimes there she's like, and it's tough sometimes. How do you have these conversations? Sometimes there are girls who, they're young, but they need a bra. And Celia is such an active listener, such a ADHD queen.

That's one of her nicknames, Potatoes, ADHD queen. External, verbal processor. So she's always such an active listener. And so Rachel goes, some of these third grade girls, how do you tell them? queen you know external verbal processor so it's just always such an active listener and so rachel goes you know yeah these like some of these third grade girls like how do you tell them like or no these third girls like they just like they clearly like need a bra and syria goes oh yeah and i was like don't say oh yeah don't don't respond oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah oh I know. Oh, yeah. Yeah, of course. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. It's just just lost it. It's just like putting her head in her hand. Oh, my gosh. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I just I have to listen that way.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Let her. What was something that Rachel Rachel is also an active? I am, too. Like, I think a lot of us like talk. Rachel, are also an active? I am too. Like I think a lot of us like talk. Rachel, are you still here? She ain't here. It was on the way to the airport in. Oh, I remember what it was. It was on the way to the airport in Gulf Shores, Alabama.

And it was mainly like we'll call it staff. It was Yumi, Tyler. Who else? Oh, just no. Well, yeah. Janelle was like and Rachel, I think. Okay. Maybe that was it. Us five. And Janelle was talking about Katie Bennett. Shout out Katie Bennett podcast listener ghosty who I don't think Rachel's ever met because she hasn't been to the event in a while.

But yeah, we were talking about Katie Bennett somehow. And Janelle's just like, oh, she's got the best laugh. And Rachel's goes, like, it's the most active listener thing ever. She just goes, oh, I've never heard it. Oh, I've never heard Katie Bennett's laugh. I just gave her such a hard time. I was like, Rachel, you have to get that excited about it. You don't have to be so empathetic.

Oh, I can't imagine how fun that laugh is. Oh, I bet it's awesome. I bet I just laugh right along with her if I heard it. I've never heard it. And Katie Bennett's laugh is so funny. Oh, I haven't got to experience it. She has the best laugh. Yeah, fun times.

Anyway, oh, I have something else, something new. New as in I'm following up from a couple weeks ago. You asked, like, we were talking about middle school, and we're talking about whatever, our school lives as in I'm, I'm following up from a couple of weeks ago. Uh, you asked like, uh, we were talking about middle school and we're talking about whatever our school lives back in the day. And you're like, is there one teacher? I was like the really cool teacher. And I was like, Mrs. Crooks. I think she won teacher of the year. I think whatever. I think her name is Lisa and, uh, talk to Scott. Yeah. Lisa Crooks. And so I was like, I'm pretty sure that's her name. Let me just Google it real quick finder. So I looked up Lisa Crooks, teacher, Kansas.

First thing that came up is this Kansas City Star article. Okay. You ready for this? Yeah. Retired Kansas City area teacher gets 10 years for pushing wife off cliff. Whoa, dude. She got pushed off a cliff. She got pushed off.

She got pushed off a cliff by her husband. Let me read more. Dude, I think I saw something about this free set. I didn't know it was Miss Crooks. Miss Crooks? Dude, I think I saw this. Let me just read the whole thing. We'll just have a little reading today.

A former Kansas teacher convicted of pushing his then wife off a cliff in a state park. Is there a picture of her right before she got pushed off? I don't think so. Oh, this is the article I read. That would be wild. I mean, there's not in this article, but judge on Thursday imposed the sentence on 71 year old Charles Black who was convicted of attempted murder in July.

Judge imposed a 25 year sentence, but suspended most of it, which is crazy. The guy tried to kill her. Retired Shawnee Mission East teacher was convicted of hitting then wife Lisa Zahn Lisa Crooks, I thought on the head with a rock before pushing her off an 800 foot cliff in Camden Hills State Park in 2011.

Both ended up tumbling down the mountainside and were hospitalized. Black later moved to Utah. Lisa Black, who now goes by Lisa Zahn, taught at Black Bob Elementary in Olathe and received a stack of awards, including the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching

and the Kristen McAuliffe Fellowship. She was inducted into the National Teachers Hall of Fame in 2002 2002 and the olathe mayor proclaimed lisa crooks crooks appreciation day no way prosecutors said the couple who had retired to maine had been in dispute about black's online affair and his spending some of zon's four million dollar inheritance without her permission they divorced in 2013 so lisa crooks all of a sudden, a little bit steamier of a path than I thought. Okay, crazy that she survived. Crazy that she survived. Also crazy

that it sounds like they both were hospitalized. Is that what it said? It sounded like he pushed her off and then was like, well, I got to make this look like an accident or something. Not a very good pusher. Also that 800 feet and she survived and he just kind of like rolled over maybe. 800 feet and she survived and he's, he just kind of like rolled over. Maybe eight.

Her feet is impressive. Uh, yeah, she's, that's why she's so good. I just couldn't believe any of the odds of that, dude. I was like,

you just like thought to Google her. Like, I just see what she's up. I was like, I just want to make sure it's her Nate. Like what? Yeah. Black Bob elementary.

Sure enough. There she is. That's crazy. That's insane. Just wild times. So enough, there she is. That's crazy. That's insane. Just wild times. So don't say anything interesting doesn't happen to people from Kansas. So don't you say it. I'm stunned.

What are the odds of that? That's crazy that we just talked about that. I'm glad she's okay. And she sounds like probably happily divorced. I would say so. All right, Lise. Yeah, $4 million inheritance. She's like, you're spending all my money.

She had that inheritance, and she was still that good of a teacher. That's service right there. That's right. That's what it says for you. That's how it goes. That's fun. Let's do our reviews of the week. I have got a fun one.

It's from Sweet Tea Hartman. Sorry, I'm distracted by Rustin's text. What did he guess? He said, we've been trying to guess for 30 minutes, and we can't come up with anything. And then he said two words that I'm not going to say on this podcast. Blank or blank is all we got. It's pretty funny to see him text these cuss words, basically. Back to me.

Sorry, go ahead. All right. Hey, Jake, Brad, and Tymon. It's Tyler here. I met Tymon at a friend's baptism last right. Hey, Jake, Brad, and Tymon. It's Tyler here. I met Tymon at a friend's baptism last year. Oh, yeah. Say Hartman? Great start to a review.

Great way to meet someone. Yeah. Yeah. Sweet tea, Hartman. Yeah. I met Tymon at a friend's baptism last year. When talking to him, I asked him what he did for a job. He said he worked for a podcast called Ghost Runners.

Didn't mention Friday Pickle. I didn't think much of it and later came to find myself listening to a different friend recommending it. I never miss an episode anymore. I've gotten multiple of my friends to listen. Three of my friends got together and made a group chat called The Brethren. We find ourselves talking ghosties, breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Love the inside jokes, clean comedy, games, and of course, all the Pickleball talks. It is incredible to listen to three guys hash it out while never meeting them in person, but adopting their way of speaking and the awesomeball talks. It is incredible to listen to three guys hash it out while never meeting them in person, but adopting their way of speaking and the awesome inside jokes. Love the work. Keep it up.

Tyler Hartman, we appreciate you. Yes, absolutely. Can't wait for you to talk about us and the brethren this week. I'm not trying to like, well, I guess I am in a way. I was gonna say, I'm not trying to have people just like,

you know, give us compliments. I'm more just curious, like because of the ghosty getaway and people like catching on to little things we do or little things we curious, like because of the ghost to get away and people like catching on to little things we do or little things we say, like what are people catching on to that are like, yeah, we're, we're, we're talking like Jake and Brad, like, what does that mean to people? Cause like, obviously you and I just talk. And so we don't understand that we say surely all the time. Yes. And he understood. I was like, I've never heard anyone say surely like

you guys say it. Now I say it and I'm like, i didn't realize that was like a quirk that we have you know yeah so what does that mean to them to talk like the ghost runners great question you know yeah very nuances of speech uh andrea benzine sounds like something you take uh if you have acne on your face uh be careful with andrea benzine it dries you up yeah you're gonna want to put some moisture on after you have some Benzene on there. Andrea Benzene. Oh yeah. Some of my friends took that in high school. Oh yeah.

We, we, we overdosed on Benzene. Yeah. If you put it on your eyelids, you can Benzene's you get high. Um, okay. I don't know what the entire thing of this is, but it says, honestly, what did I do in the car before ghost runners? Thank you. I'm not a podcast person, but when I found out that the Jean shorts guys had one together, I figured that was a

podcast worth listening to Jake, Brad and timing are quite the hilarious trio. And my car rides are now filled with inside jokes, witty humor, and fun games. Somehow I smile and have fun, even though they can't hear me playing along. I look forward to every episode and honestly feel like I gained two pretty cool friends plus a sweet younger brother in timing. P.S. I don't like coffee, but I just convinced my husband that we should order Main Street Roasters Coffee Grounds because I wanted to support you guys somehow. Perfect. He thought it was kind of weird that I would trust a podcast recommendation this much,

but after reading him all the flavors, he wanted to order three different kinds. I'm confident he'll be hooked. Love you guys. Andrea Benzine. Keep us updated, Benzine. Come on. Let's know what he thinks. I'm confident he will be hooked as well.

I'm confident. So thanks, Benzine. Thanks to all the listeners. Benzine. Oh. Would you like to end this episode with a jingle? I was going to say, I had one that I was going to prepare, and I haven't prepared it.

Ah. So I can't. Unless you want me to sing a song. Let's do, uh, get some chat GPT lyrics, chat, GPT, chat.

Open AI.com. Let's get some roadcaster or me. Yeah. You already connected. You got it. You find yourself a nice instrumental. All right. And, uh,

Brad will do the song. Give me a, give me some song lyrics. See how I'm not saying please. Good. Give me some song lyrics for a comedy podcast. That's not about ghosts genre for music. Any preferences? No, I want you to surprise me. Funk Catherine just texted me. What word is Jake's dad say? Wow. It's amazing

that we, I think I even told her like I explained to her what we did. I'm going to say guess. I'm just going to... You got something, time? Close. Had to add no copyright. Forgot about that. Man, I'm not a great... melody guy, so we'll see how it goes.

Hey, we'll see how it goes here. This is... Yeah, I'm asking a lot of you guys. Appreciate it. Oh! Oh! Yeah. see how it goes hey i'll we'll see how it goes here this is uh yeah i'm asking a lot of you guys appreciate it oh yeah welcome to the show it's a podcast guy where the laughs come fast and the jokes are live we've got tales of what a pinch of sass from margaret counters at the time we went out of gas podcast drive where we laugh and thrive. No ghosts here, just good vibes with a wink and a nod.

We'll keep you entertained from silly little quirks to the mundane. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey, hey. Hey.

Hey, hey, say. Remember that time we tried to cook a feast, ended up with smoke, and called the fire chief for the day we thought we'd be DIY pros, and ended up with glue on our toes. It's a podcast, Jack, where we laugh and thrive. No ghost here, just good vibes. With a wink and a nod, we'll keep you entertained from silly little quirks to the mundane.

Uh-oh. We've got puns and fun. We've got puns and fun. And maybe a pun. It's a comedy ride. Come on. Under the sun, no spooky scares. It's a podcast dive where we're laughing time.

With a wink and a nod, we'll keep you entertained. From Sunday to the book to the Monday. It's a podcast dive where we laugh and dine. We're going to dine. Good job. That was a fun instrumental for the song that said podcast jive. That sounded like the podcast jive. It's the podcast jive.

Yeah. Do the podcast jive. Hands on your knees in the podcast job. Dude, Catherine, the other day we did a blind karaoke. I did it for her. Yeah.

I was on that side of things. I, it's way more fun on the other side. It's awesome. Yeah. We did the song. She might even like be embarrassed. I'm telling you this,

but it's funny because she's like genuinely like didn't think to mess this up. However, this way, uh, the song, a million dreams, right. Is that what it's funny because she's like genuinely like didn't think to mess this up however this way uh the song a million dreams right is that what's called from yeah um and i think the line is however big however small part of it all and she goes she was like trying to remember she's like i like them big i like them small and i I just died laughing. What are you, my babysitter? I like them big. There was a few times

where she just like was either off, you know, or like whatever. And it just, it is so funny to do it. Like you guys have to do blind karaoke. It's so funny. Specifically, it's more fun to play the songs for somebody else. I think you just listen to them. Basically doing the words to Sir Mix-a-Lots. I like big butts. I like them

big. I like them juicy. It was great, man. So, shout out to Catherine for being fun. It is fun. I think when we do it, it's as an element of entertainment because it's impressive because you guys are good at it. But I think most times it's entertaining because people are bad at it.

She was not so bad at it, but she was so bad at it. She had a hard time keeping up with the tempo. She would go too fast. And so all of a sudden she's saying lines. You're like, no, listen, listen. And she would not sing the right amount of the verse. And so she'd go a pre-chorus while the verse is still going or whatever.

So not only is she going too fast, but she's also skipping lyrics. uh, seeing the right amount of the verse. And so she'd go like a pre-chorus while the verses still go or whatever. Like, so not only is she going too fast, but she's like jumping, skipping lyrics. And I mean, it's just, it was just a train wreck of hilarity. Uh, so just play some karaoke sometimes with your friends.

I'm glad you remember that. That's pretty funny. I like them big. I like them small. That seems like a great place to end it. Absolutely. We'll see you guys Wednesday. Love you guys.

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