Ghostrunners - 341 - Podcast Producers Become Podcast Hosts Ft. Derek & Timon

Episode Date: June 19, 2024

Derek (Correct Opinions) and Timon join the podcast for the first time ever! We talk about going to film school, editing for Trey Kennedy, and rank our favorite electronics. Check out Main Street Roasters and use code GRKC at check out for a 10% discount! https://mainstreetroasters.com Check out Good Ranchers and use code GRKC http://bit.ly/3KV86YU Ghostrunners merch: https://bit.ly/399MXFu Become a Patron and get exclusive content from Jake & Brad: https://bit.ly/2XJ1h3y Follow us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/33WAq4P Leave us a voice memo and ask a question: https://anchor.fm/jake-triplett/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a very special episode for you. We've got the men who make the podcast run here with us. We've got Tymon from the Ghost Runners podcast, and we have Derek from Correct Opinions podcast. Brad is on vacation. So one of the only episodes ever without Brad. And so it's gonna be very fun. Tymon's on camera. Derek's on camera. You got to get to YouTube. Brad's in Galveston, just watching cruise ships go by. I don't know what else Brad's in Galveston just watching cruise ships go by. I don't know what else you do in Galveston. But I just put something on your Instagram story, and I said, look who we got today on the podcast. Ask them anything.

It's only been about five minutes, but the results are in. Grace Keller said, that's what Derek looks like. Caitlin Ramirez says, that's Derek? And then Cole Ford, my personal favorite, said, Derek looks so much more normal than I would have thought. Thanks, guys.

Appreciate it. 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. Cause this is the Ghost Rubs Podcast. Everybody morning, we're taking ground. Ghost Rubs Podcast. Ghost Rubs Podcast. So yeah, it's going to be a fun episode. I told Derek, I was like, dude, don't sweat it.

It's going to be great. We have the nicest fans in I was like, dude, don't sweat it. It's going to be great. We have the nicest fans in the world. So thank you, Cole, for welcoming him by telling him how normal he looks. I think that's very nice. Yeah. I think that's what I said to Rachel when I first met her. I was like, whoa, you look better than I thought you would. Did he expect more of like a patriot look?

Was I supposed to come in with a... Yeah. If you guys don't listen to correct opinions there was a bit of an ongoing joke based on reality that derrick uh owns 35 weapons and um shoots off fireworks every morning um just uh just to remember what the boys did for us um but it's been fun we've been here in the studio just setting this all up for like 30 minutes. If Derek couldn't help himself, which has already been asking Tymon just like homeschool questions. Oh my gosh, yeah.

What did you ask him? You're like, I was on your Instagram. Is there like a quota of plays you have to be in? Tymon's Instagram's popping. He's got some really good demo reels of the live action plays that they've done. One Nazi-based one. Yeah, Derek Nazi based one. Yeah. Derek hated that one.

But yeah, you're crushing it with the videos on that. Thank you. But is there a requirement for homeschoolers to do a certain amount of plays? Not for my family. No. For me,

I could be, I don't know about my friends, but I just do whatever they do. So that's kind of the, I don't know. I mean, I just love it so much. So I don't know. I mean, I just love it so much. Derek, you ever done any theater stuff?

Performing arts? Yeah. My Spanish class that I had in high school, we did an Aztec-themed, I remember doing this dance. What? I didn't expect it to start with my Spanish class. Yeah.

I took two years of Spanish, can't speak a word of it, but we had this play that I didn't invite invite any my friends or my parents to do embarrassing But I got a passing grade on it. So that's my theater production everything else behind the camera usually So do you remember like what was your role in the ass as a dancer and then I got I got to throw the conch horn. Oh Yeah, like the shell or whatever yeah conch shell yeah That's incredible. That's fun time. You ever done in the Azte whatever. Yeah, the conch shell. Yeah, the conch shell. Yeah. That's incredible. That's fun. Ty, have you ever done any Aztec themes?

No. I will say I relate to the not wanting to invite people. I almost didn't invite anyone to my most recent one. But then it came together, and it was fine. And then Jake showed up, and it was fun. Like during rehearsals, you were like, maybe we shouldn't invite people to this. I don't want anyone to know that I'm in this. That's what I tell people.

Maybe you saw on my or Trey's story, but we are with the You Betcha guy this past weekend. Have you seen his videos? I think so. He does Midwest comedy stuff. I've never really aspired to do comedy, but everyone tells me I should. Maybe I will. Check it out. I told him, I was like, don't have anyone come to the first 20.

It's like a rehearsal. I always say, I don't want people to come to my practices like come to my games like come to the one game when it's over yeah do not come to watch me practice but anyway it's funny been in play what about you did you do any yes I think I needed

a fine arts credit so I did one in high school and one in college but didn't have any kind of crazy role or anything. It was fine. I would like to show up. And was your high school one a little more risky than the Southern Baptist University one? Yeah. When I look back at Stratford, they, it was a public school, but with very like Christian values. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Derek, you should let everyone know a little bit. I assume you've probably lived in what one spot You've probably what had one religion your whole life

Why don't you tell everyone a little about your your story a little bit born in Oregon lived in, California Then moved to the Ozarks. There's a chance that Jake and I played basketball against each other in high school Yeah, because we used to play in the Stratford tournament. We did win it. Yeah senior year, which I think I was like a high school yeah because we used to play in the strapper tournament we did win it my senior year which i think i was like a high school sports high school sports is it there like a dance that we thought we might have been at at the same time or so over the i mean derek and i've been working together for like four years now so there's been random mutual friends we have or girls we have on our phone or whatever uh when i did apply to work with you and and trey i did name drop a best friend or one of your good friends yeah i knew from my days in high school in willow springs yeah uh that you were on american idol with almost yes yeah that yeah that's kind of

random because i didn't really know brandon that well yeah um but you but i knew casey corneal is like through yes that's right yeah it was like my best friend high school he was purple grapes we did a ton of stuff together but sorry anyway so Oregon California didn't the Ozarks when are you in the Ozarks what ages third grade through high school I did move to two different schools in the Ozarks. Could you translate that to actual ages for me? No, just kidding. I was raised... I haven't told people this, actually.

So I'll tell people. Okay, well, don't say anything you don't want to say publicly. I was raised LDS. I know you guys have a lot of listeners who are LDS. And I still have family members that are LDS, but that was wild. Growing up LDS in southern Missouri, very Baptist community. Derek's our guy, I feel like, with correct opinions.

Or even just like when we used to shoot a lot of Jean Short stuff or whatever, Derek's like, if you want to make the Mormons laugh, you could say this. And then we're just like, all right, I trust you. I'm not even going to look it up, but I'm sure Derek you're like i feel like you're always in the know with like there's some mormon drama going on right now so growing up uh lds like if there's a famous guy who's lds that's like a big deal like oh do you know the guy from fast and furious he was raised lds so time and do you have that with homeschool like oh this person that is succeeding in life they were homeschooled one thing that's a great question like Billie Eilish the like artist

I think I think that's one thing that I'm like, oh she was homeschooled like she's like the pinnacle. Yeah, I'm not sure though Mom, let me make music in my bedroom. Yeah Yeah, I could do anyone else. I don't know wasn't there who's the politician? Who's LDS Mitt Romney Mitt Romney? Yeah, he's up there who's kind's kind of the other guys up top? Top Morms. Mitt Romney's a big one. The CEO of Delta was Delta Airlines. Marriott.

Okay. A lot of business. Yeah, very business-minded culture. And he's like a BYU athlete. Puka Nakua. Yeah. Ish. He went to the school. Most of your door-to-door salesmen were former missionaries lds they got used to the lifestyle they're used to door knocking

and possible rejection and being able to brush that off that's good yeah that's fun yeah bethany hamilton she lds am i making that up? She's Soul Surfer. Wait. Oh. I thought it was a girl from high school. I'm trying to think. No. Isn't that her name?

Soul Surfer? Yeah. Maybe she's not. I don't know. So my inspiration to get into video production was from an LDS guy, Devin Supertramp. Do you remember him back in the day? Oh, yeah. You remember him? So you still remember.

So I didn't know if that would be a generational thing because he's kind of not as viral. I feel like as I was getting into it, I was more watching his old stuff. He was kind of dying out maybe or in popularity. But I loved his videos. When I was getting into VR, he was at the tail end of his career, I feel like. And I wanted a glide cam. Well, I had the Devvin Superchamp Signature Series glide cam. For those listening, explain to them what a glide cam is

and why no one needs one anymore. I mean, what is it? Just like kind of, I don't know exactly. I've never actually had one, but it's just like how it's like weighted. It kind of stabilizes a camera. It's kind of like a gyroscope based off the weight and not like the motors that we have on our gimbals now.

Yeah, now everything. It's basically get smooth camera movement and tracking. And now there's like motors and they're really nice. But it used to just be like just like physics and like counterweight. And this guy was a wizard at it. And so I was like, yeah, I make no money with youth ministry, but I need to spend all of it on a glide cam. So that was fun.

If you're watching YouTube, you're probably wondering, hey, who's clicking those cameras around? How's that working? Well, I actually, if you're watching, I want you to guess who'd we bring in. Who's really qualified? Did you guess Rachel?

No, not qualified enough. Oh, you guessed one of Brad's sisters? Wow, that's a wild guess, Janelle Bunyal. No, correct answer was Timon's friend Oliver. So thanks for coming by, Oliver. He was the only guy. Glad to be here. I thought, I was like, one, he's super capable of using his hands

and pressing three different buttons. That's how it works. And two, I thought maybe this would help my chances of getting Oliver to live in my Aletha house. Is that still a possibility? We're considering it. Get out. It's not.

Dang it. I could tell. Oliver, were you in the plays with Tymon? I was, yes. Were you in the NAZI? Because he's a blonde- blue eyed beautiful man i mean yeah you're kind of cream of the crowd i was not in that one unfortunately um we weren't old enough to be in it yeah we weren't old enough trailer but i

i didn't meet the age qualification to be in the actual show it is very funny because like that was the show everyone wanted to be in yeah like it was very good it was like there was kind of a hierarchy like everyone aspired to be those specific performers yeah the nazi show i don't know if this is interesting but that female actor very good uh i was watching the lines that in the promo for that movie yeah yeah i worth watching some time everyone go yeah was it on my ever go yeah yeah yeah check it out it's somewhere down there she grew up to be Sydney Sweeney okay yeah homeschool we don't talk about as much she's changed a bit no Oliver thanks for thanks for helping us out today yeah of course appreciate it anyway so yeah

Derek you you grow up in Willow Springs, Missouri. You know, we got a few mutual friends there. Oh, I know what it was. We realized we probably played sand volleyball together behind the Missouri. There's a 100% chance because I was there like every night and we matched up the dates of when I was there, when you were there. We definitely played sand volleyball together like one summer. But then what do you do after high school? I go to college.

I play football in Virginia for a couple years. Yep. D3. More than me in time and play. And then I transferred back to Missouri State. I studied digital film production. And that's when like people weren't making money off of YouTube. So it was either like you go to LA or you film weddings

and I chose to film weddings yeah so Tymon I do have a gripe about you because like you're young getting in the profession stuff's very good but like there are the purest with comedy that think you need to go to the comedy studios for 10 years and just like

grind open mic nights and totally fail whereas like you and Trey, you guys had an audience, were able to jump right in. Yeah. Kind of fast pass. I ran into comedy. I feel like you kind of had that with video.

Like my first projects weren't doing these fun podcasts. It was filming weddings where the bride walked down to nickel back. So is that real? Yes. My first wedding I ever filmed, I'm struggling. Memory cards are getting full because I don't know what I'm doing. But then all of a sudden I hear Nickelback come over the PA system or whatever,

and she starts walking down the aisle. And so I was kind of trying to – you guys know a lot about Nickelback songs? Oh, so wait. You didn't put Nickelback in in post. No. They chose to have it. She, in real time, was walking down the aisle to Nickelback. And you're sitting there filming it. Yeah, just probably nervous out of your mind. I'm sure like because like two cards already filled up

Don't know what I'm doing. What camera without a bit on that was the Canon t3i. Oh Do you ever even have a rebel series my first real real camera was a Canon t2i. Oh, okay. Oh, wow He's earned his stripes. I didn't't just like... You didn't bypass it. Wow. That's way older than anything I ever had. I haven't always had auto focus. I have manual focus and stuff. Manual focusing on a nifty 50 where you move it a centimeter,

all of a sudden your focus goes 10 feet the other way. How did you get that wedding gig and who is this woman? It was a friend of a friend. I think I made like $150 on it. I was like, I'm making it now. I could be able to buy a memory card from this.

Have you done a wedding yet, Tymon? I've only done one wedding and I did it for free. It's on my YouTube channel. You can check it out. I bet it was pretty good. Did they walk out to Nickelback? No. No, I wished.

Hinder. My first wedding, I think I wished. Hinder. Uh, my first wedding, um, I think I did it for $400. Okay. And I was just like, just anything to get it out there. Sure. I can post to Facebook and let people know I film weddings now. Cause then I knew more would come. It's just like, you just got to get that first one. Just got to get somebody to trust you. Which in hindsight, it's crazy thinking that someone would like pay a wedding videographer $150 like either, either have someone do it or not. I feel like that's a, yeah, I guess that's a good way of getting a cheap wedding video though. Yeah. And they got you. So you go to film school and I'm sure the things you learned in film school, I mean, what that translates immediately to social media filming, right? Yeah. Everything we learned,

they taught us about jump cuts and like early like grabbing the audience in first three So everything was vertical. Yeah. Yeah, sure with the camera sideways like It was more like media theory stuff that I did learn at Missouri State, but it was still Two years obsolete. None of it matters You should really go to school like I don't know why yeah and university goes spin going into college debt for For what you can learn doing this. Yeah. Cause there's nothing on YouTube. Yeah. Information's not out there for free. Yeah. Dude, that's when, you know, it's just always a bit of a red flag. Not saying it's always a bad sign, but when someone like is doing a course on like something that's like already out there, it's always a little bit of like, do you think people

will pay for this? And, you know, there's so many videography courses or editing courses or how to grow on Instagram courses. Everyone's so willing to give that away for free. I was looking for an intern for a while. And so I had a bunch of people

send me their demo reels. And the ones that went to four years of school, those were ones where I was like, well, you need to call your professors and ask for a refund because it's so sad that this is your top of the top word so

that's pretty funny that's the idea like actually hey uh professor wilkins um i applied for a job and he said i needed to call you and ask for a refund can you help me out i don't know he's been doing it for a while okay so you go to film school where do you do that at missouri state so oh yeah yeah sorry digital film production um so i thought it was gonna be more like hey we're gonna film Okay, so you go to film school. Where do you do that at? Missouri State. Oh, yeah, yeah, sorry. It was digital film production. So I thought it was going to be more like, hey, we're going to film everything. It was more like a very liberal professor

telling you why the media is corrupt. That's what it turned into. So it wasn't much production, hands-on stuff. Not really. I mean, they tried to make it up as they go. But you could tell, you studied sports marketing. Yeah. And you kind of said they were kind of making it up yeah it didn't exist that's what they were doing with digital film production when i was at real estate interesting yeah that's funny and so

then what do you do what's your first job out of college yeah i was like i love videos my passion so then i got a software job with document management just nothing to do with video at all and i was like i need a real job because the $150 wedding videos isn't going to propel me into this. And then I realized, I don't like that. Came up to Kansas City. I was doing a few freelance stuff. And then Trey posted, hey, looking for a podcast producer. I was like, oh, that'd be kind of fun.

Like, I can fake it till you make it on that. So I was thinking about it. I took a shower this morning and for whatever reason that it popped in my head, I was like, I should try and see if I have the notes that I took during Derek's interview. And I was able to find them, the notes from all the people we interviewed.

October 7th, 2020, we had probably 50 people apply. We narrowed it down to like seven people that we did different like Zoom or in-person interviews with. And so here is what I wrote down for Derek four years ago. Wife and kid, comma, 30 years old. One kid at a time.

Okay. I have three kids now. Yeah? Yeah. Good job. Thanks. This is funny that I wrote this down, but I'm sure it was true. Had to look at his notes to know what he does for a living.

Yes. I kind of remember that. They're like, so what do you do? Like, what are you doing now? I remember you having to look down. So right now I'm doing some freelance videography, and it wasn't a red flag. It was just kind of funny.

That's great. I think that's a psychology thing. I'm looking down to the left to activate that part of my brain. Yes, that you're telling the truth. And then I wrote down, played college football, started his own video production company. Next bullet point. Basically freelance.

That was kind of hyping up a little bit. Yeah, that was kind of a resume. I put very qualified. Good job. Typically works on Tuesdays and Thursdays. That's why we... Maybe that meant like you work, like you're doing freelance stuff on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

I had another client entertainer that was Tuesday and Thursday. Okay, okay. Like some weird version of a seventh-day abatist. Like, I don't work five days a week. I have five Sabbaths. I can only help on Tuesdays and Thursdays. And then I put, all this seems like great things, and then I put, might be worth a coffee interview.

Yeah, it might be worth a second interview. So I guess like, yeah, it might be worth a second interview, but anyway. Do you remember the quality of the Skype interview? Because I kind of went all out on that. Yes, you're right. I do remember that. Yeah. Derek had like rigged up, I mean like a camera camera to do I had multiple cameras and a switch going.

No way. Yeah, like a side profile and a front profile. I brought in some lighting being like, guys, look at this. I do that that's something i would do i would do that for sure over the top yeah i think it was one of the first people we interviewed so we were like okay you know that's solid and then as we interviewed other people it was like oh okay derek like stands out a lot more you you had i don't know if as you were trey had a really good question during the interview it was if one was farted what would you interview. It was, if one was farted, what would you do? Like on the podcast? Yeah, if one was farted.

Farted. Homeschool. Do you remember my answer at all on that one? No, I don't. Do you remember any answers on that? Because I thought that was a great question. It caught me off guard a little bit, but I had to think in the moment of like.

I don't know if we even asked that to other people. I might've just been like, hey, we're having a good vibe here. I gave a perfect answer. Yeah. What was your answer? I need to protect the brand, and you guys have a certain appeal, so I have to

admit fault. That was the producer back here. Hey, guys, sorry. These guys are clean. These guys are great, guys. They wouldn't let that happen. They're professionals. I was all about protecting the brand uh that is a really funny answer maybe this is what got you the job

yeah i remember it was between you and one other guy and i don't remember what it is that he i think maybe he couldn't start until later and so we're like all right let's go with derrick um i don't know if i've ever publicly talked about this but one of the other people that made it to the interview, because I think Trey kind of like did the first like pass and like, I'm going to interview these seven people if you want to hop on and help do these interviews. And so one of the people that he passed on to the like final seven was a girl I had like somewhat recently been on a date with. And I think I told Troy afterwards.

I'm sure I told Brad. But yeah, I was like, obviously not going to bring that up. Maybe I did on the podcast four years ago or something. But something I know I definitely did say on the podcast because I used to never talk about this just because I, I don't know, didn't want to come off a certain way or anything. But I took this girl on a date.

It was like two days after i'd gotten my tesla so i'm very unfamiliar with it but this girl has agreed to go on a date and so i pick her up i go to pick her up from her apartment complex and she was like just like wait in the parking lot and i'll come find you like that's easier and it's a it's a crazy busy it's like really big and you know it's tough for her to find me and it's night time and so she's like really big, and it's tough for her to find me, and it's nighttime. And so she was like, just put your flashers on, and I'll find you. Well, I'm in this spaceship car.

It's just full of technology. I don't know how to do hardly anything in this car yet. I did like no research beforehand. I bought the cheapest one. I was like, it just sounds fun. And so I can't figure out where the hazards are. I'm going through the menu. There's no buttons. I can't figure it out. And so while, so for, I mean, I don't know, five minutes until she goes down, I am hitting the brake while flashing my

brights. I am doing my own hazards, just waiting for her to like come down. It was so embarrassing. It was like, I remember telling Brad that he was like, you have to tell the podcast um it was so embarrassing it was like i remember telling brad that he was like you have to tell the podcast i was like no i don't want to think make people think i'm bragging about my car or anything but cat's out of the bag but yeah i just did manual flashers for manual hazards for five minutes until she came down um and then yeah a few months later i was looking at her on a zoom call like hey how remind me your name again. And what do you do? And she did not get the job. But anyway, that's fun.

And now, yeah, it's been almost four years doing. That's crazy, four years. Yeah, I know that is a little longer than I thought it's been. Because it's been a few different brands along the way. Because at one point we had two podcasts going. There was Do Less, God Bless. Kind of two and a half.

Yeah, and Do Less Guest. We had a Patreon podcast. And Correct Opinions. And then you were filming for Gene Schwartz and editing for Gene Schwartz at one point. You were filming and editing for Girls Gone Mild at one point. And now doing Mood Swings. And then what else do you have going on?

I have a couple other clients on retainer that are more corporate stuff. I do a lot of sports videos. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cool. More of like a hobby thing, trying to relive the D3 glory days of CNN. Yeah, that's most of my time are those.

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Let's get to some questions. First one I see right now from Kalen Nelson. What does Tymon want to do for a career now that he's graduated? Well, hey, history update? Still not done. All right, not graduated. Hasn't finished history.

Oliver, you finished your history? I did, yes. Sorry, Ty graduated. Hasn't finished history. Oliver, you finished your history? I did, yes. Sorry, Simon. Are you guys the same age? Are you done? I have all my credits, but I haven't graduated yet. He's a little younger than me. I'm younger, though.

You're a year younger. I'm 17. But you have more credits than Simon does. I guess so, if you put it like that. Wow. Yeah, you would have been a great nazi oh we should have had you so smart um so what does it mean when how do you know when you've graduated homeschool is that a dumb question like it sounds like you're done but you're saying you're not graduated um i mean i don't even know how the diploma works really but that is a good question like Like, how do you... I think for me it was just like...

You have to shake your mom's hand and she says, it is finished or something. I mean, it's just like I, besides history, I guess, just finished my school, pretty much. There's state requirements for homeschool. So you have to get a certain amount of credits and then graduation, I think, is a little more loose. Yeah, it was just basically hitting that quota. It's like first the theater

shows amount, then how much school you got. That makes sense that the state does require some things. It's not completely just like off the grid. Just like, yeah, you've done it, boy. Go on and see the real world. What type of homeschooler were you? Did you ever see the Mean Girls and how they described the difference?

I haven't seen Mean Girls. I guess that I mean that's Are they making a they making anyone do they're gonna make some new one the other I heard isn't good yeah, but the original is just too perfect, but Do you remember the intro where they talked about the different styles of homeschooling they have the in Mean Girls? Yeah Wow I don't actually she's from Africa, right? So it's like the brainiac the one that does the spelling bee, the one that thinks dinosaurs were killed by the AR or something like that.

I don't know. I think I was just a very typical, fairly sheltered, but just Christian homeschool. Yeah. I don't know. And I think probably homeschooling made me like reading a bit more. Like I was like huge reader. Yeah.

I loved, yeah. I loved, loved reading into store younger. Yeah. But then, um, so I don't know,

I guess, but I, I feel like a pretty normal person, but, uh, uh, yeah, I think trying to think of what I'm,

what I'm trying to say. That's great. Um, Derek, you just sent over a link to some of this is what time is missing out on I don't know what your graduation was like but I do think you're missing out on some amazing content that comes out of

public schools I don't know how do we play that we'll just put it in post we can just watch it for now and react to it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let me... Rivers and roads, rivers and roads. Ready to embark...

Wait, wait, wait, wait. Elena, did you actually write this? Uh... My friend made a few edits for me. Your friend chat, GPT. Hey. Well, apparently you'll be less nervous if you imagine everyone naked. Gosh.

Oh no, that's just disturbing. No offense guys. Ugh, okay. We have the same name. Just kidding! For years people have always thought of us as a duo. Teachers. Classmates. Baristas.

High school was no different. You were there leading us to the right answer during that one multiple choice test. The answer was C, by the way. Are you upset you weren't socialized like these people? I wish I delivered normal sentences like this. That's so funny. That's interesting. So the caption is like POV, the average high school graduation these days.

And I feel like that is a bit of like a – there's like miniature TikToks in there. I feel like they're like doing different like TikTok bits. Like maybe this will work on stage in front of thousands. Yeah. I was calling a guy the other day. I needed help trying to fix a generator. And this guy who I called, I thought he was like in the middle of something. He's at a t-ball game or something.

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just like in control of the lighting and the camera side I feel like I'm not as much of a maybe not as much of a director What do they call it it like director of photography yeah like a dp that'd be yeah yeah that's probably like the ideal thing but i also love editing so i don't know i mean i'm sure i'll always do some of everything i think because like i think as long as you stay in production you'll probably do a little bit of all of it and yeah because i'm learning

kind of a lot of stuff at once right now so i just, we'll see where it ends up kind of zoning in. Is there one place or like event that you'd really love to film? Like is there, because I had a bucket list one of like this location I want to film at.

Yeah, not really. Really? Yeah, not yet anyway. I don't have like a list. I grew up, unironically, loving The Notebook. I thought that was a great movie.

It's a great movie. And like cinematography is beautiful. Yeah. So I was so pumped to like maybe someday get to film in Charleston, South Carolina. And then one of my clients, they're an earring company. And I got to do a shoot out with them in South Carolina at this old historic site. Wow. The footage was amazing.

Got back and started editing it. And then like that's the week that Ryan Reynolds got semi canceled for having a wedding at a plantation okay everything we filmed was at a plantation so then the brands like hey we can't put this out apparently people don't like the history not gonna respond well to this so my like bucket list of like I was so pumped to film in South Carolina grab all that footage Wow it all got trashed dang I feel like when I came up into videography every you know this is like 2015 16 sam colder you know all that stuff i feel like everyone was going to

iceland and so for forever that was like my dream spot like i gotta film the black sand beaches in iceland there was a direct flight for a while kansas city iceland some uh airline that's out of business now it's like four dollars this is crazy well yeah it was crazy they're bankrupt what was it called it It doesn't matter. Yeah, it's still there. So I guess we could always go. It's not as, honestly, it might be better to go now because it's not as trendy to go there. But yeah, I-CEN would be really cool.

Next thing, give time in my greetings. He'll know. Any guesses who that's from? Is this my cousin Andrew? No, it is Jesse. Jesse Plattner. Yeah. Yeah Hannah Ray said no question, but I gasped I saw Derek I don't know if that's a backhanded compliment. I just think that's me

I did have people at the show say it feels like it's illegal that I could see your face. Yeah, there's really not many people asking questions. They're just like, Derek face reveals so nonchalantly. I don't know what Derek looked like, so thanks. It's all just about your face. Wow. Tymon and Derek, what is your favorite sport to play? For me, pickleball. Yeah, pickleball phase right right now it's just not that hard to play like

okay so that's it's so much fun yeah I played like almost every day for like a couple weeks oh you're in the thick of it yeah that's awesome yeah that's awesome do I love football and basketball back in high school and college you can't play that when you're older though it's way harder to find so i've been playing um my second child she just turned three we got her a pedal bike so i've been playing running down the road with her i saw that on your story she doesn't steer she just leans she has no steering capability it's just that's great and she falls over every time but she's getting ready i mean isn't that how they turn on like high speed like motorcycle and like they're like careening around the corners or Whatever that word is and that's funny. That's how they do it

How do your parents feel about what you do? One question from to either of you guys They were very supportive my mom kind of always pushed me to do something creative. Oh, awesome. So, um, I think she bought me my first video camera back in college. It's like 720p action camera that I took snowboarding a few times. It wasn't like a GoPro. It was like a, kind of like how a zoom was to the iPod. It was like that to the GoPro.

Dude, do you remember there was an era? It was probably the same era. They used to call these cameras, they would call them flip cameras. That's what I had was a flip. But they didn't flip. It was just like a.

The USB like flipped out to plug into your. It wasn't like a cell phone. It was just like, why is it called flip? It was like a, it was just a brick. Maybe it's just like an acronym for something. Yeah, maybe it was. I don't know. Did you know what that was?

Oh yeah, my dad had one. I haven't heard of this. Yeah, I mean, it wasn't great. But I think my mom got that was? Oh, yeah. My dad had one. I messed with it all the time. I haven't heard of this. Yeah. I mean, it wasn't great. But I think my mom got me a flip, too, like freshman year of college or something. And then GoPro came out, and I was going to do all that crazy footage with it. I got one, and my footage didn't look anything like that. I filmed a wedding with, like, the B cam was a GoPro, so everything is, like, super fish-eyed,

wide lens. Yes. Every time I've ever looked at GoPro footage, I think, wow, that's zoomed out. Wow, I can't really see anything. That's obviously a GoPro. Yeah, you don't remember when you buy a GoPro. It doesn't come with extreme skills of snowboarding, biking. That was during my longboarding phase.

And so we thought we were really good. But then we started filming ourselves on GoPro and realized, oh, we're not good at all. That's pretty slow. There's footage of people sliding down these hills, and stuff like that we're going in like parking garages and like kind of turning pretty flat thinking it's lit man yeah that's so funny um well that's nice they were supportive your parents my parents are happy with it yeah yeah i don't think they ever like had a specific direction they really wanted me to go i mean i'm young so it's I think it was just like

when I was probably 12 or 13, I started making random videos. And so they've always been like, that's fun. Yeah, that's what you like? Yeah. Keep doing it. Yeah. Yeah, that's awesome.

That's probably the beauty of homeschooling too. It's just like there's not a finite amount of extracurriculars. It's kind of like unlimited, like whatever you're into. I don't know if I had enough time to develop a skill while being homeschooled or something like that. Yes.

I think for sure if I wasn't homeschooled or something like that. Yes. I think for sure, if I wasn't homeschooled, I wouldn't like have quite the headstart or just like quite the amount of like just fun projects under my belt. I feel like, yeah, not only a headstart from like your own tinkering and playing around, figuring out what you like,

but like work experience, like you are ready to go. Like, yeah. Um, with pretty much any project similar to this. Um, on that note,

here's a fun question. What's the biggest mistake? This is for either of you. Biggest mistake you've made producing or really even say like editing, maybe just like biggest mistake ever, like from a production standpoint. Oh, I'm trying to think.

Uh, there was one, we were recording a podcast and a drive filled up is this correct opinion yeah correct okay and uh we had no video for like 20 minutes of it so i had to like put the logo just bounced around on the youtube version of it uh that stunk i think that's not awful though i think mine is worse and like some ghost know, I think it was when me and Brad were recording an episode and we had like probably 15, 20 minutes worth of like it was when we called random ghosties. They would like give their number and stuff.

And we called like Rendall Weaver was about to go on a date. And like that was like awesome. And like all these people. And I think we had 20 minutes where I can't remember what happened, but like I'd either stopped it or something. It just didn't exist. And it just didn't exist. There wasn't even audio.

That was a big bummer. When you guys were on the Ghost Runners vacation and the delivery guy came over, was there something wrong with the recording? Because I was watching you guys panic or something like that in the video you showed. So I was trying to guess. I think someone bumped the extension cord that had it all plugged in, and so we lost Audio and so we had the onboard camera audio and oh, I got a better like mistake. Sorry

My first wedding I filmed the Nickelback one Right before the kiss my 8 gigabyte card ran out of space so I ejected that card out of my T3i and grabbed one from my back pocket and shoved it in and did get the kiss, but I missed the words right before it. That's some impressive reload time.

Like they're about to kiss, and you just like, it's like a tactical. I was a patriot, or I am a patriot, so I had those quick hands with that. Yeah, I was able to reload pretty quick. That's great. But legs are sweating that was yeah terrifying that is have you ever had where you push record after everything's done

oh that's the worst feeling i've had that at some point i well even i mean just like a small one we recorded friday the other day and like oh yeah i just the intro i get back start recording oh well or stop well I didn't even I just realized it wasn't recording so you had to redo that but it's not like that happens all the time it's like how am I not seeing that I did have the microphone unplugged one time for like a quick line that I think it was Trey got and like it was just like oh can we just redo that like real quick so nothing big but for a couple weeks later he's like hey he's a microphone he was a little uncertain off of that like there's like one sentence that i messed up that gave him enough doubt you know i i used to tell people or i don't know i think i wasn't

saying this often but maybe it told rachel like at some point like when my time had come close to an end with filming for Trey, I remember at one point mentioning to her, four years or however long it had been, I've never lost a file. Because the microphone I use, you have to manually turn it on. It doesn't come on with the camera. It's an easy thing to forget doing.

It's kind of crazy. I was showing her the setup. I've never forgot anything. The very last shoot we ever did, microphone is off for it. Had to redo it. It was kind of fun. So I forgot, I was going to bring this up on the podcast anyway, and I forgot to write it down.

So I'm glad you brought this up about missing the recording of the last Friday shoot. So Ryder, our editor specifically edited something for me and just said, this is hilarious. So we'll put this on the screen as well. But there's a little context beforehand. Yeah you guys met time i did he's the best as far as we know we haven't met everybody but you know out of the people we know

he's the best we have played 5.0 women before on this channel but they were never this old that's right we are playing playing AARP members today because this is our best chance. Tymon, as always, let's come back here and I'll talk about the free paddle thing. Okay, we got to do it again. All right, we're going to do it one more time. Tymon, it's not the best.

That's so funny. It was funny right after the setup. Like, oh yeah yeah, you guys my time and yeah, it's the best Guys, I was not recording the intro. That's do you have any pet peeves with the editing process of like you give something to? Jake but he's like hey, can you adjust this? Is there something really? I don't know. I think out of anyone I think Jake is like really easy to work with just cuz like I think it's great that You have experienced in it cuz yeah, you just understand stuff so much better. Yeah I like to think I know what's like an easy ask and what's a hard ass did you have anything that feeds in like?

I can but that is It's like changing the music. That's a cliche one. Yes Yes, when everyone talks about that, it's there's a reason everyone talks about it Yeah, I think I had one bride one time you know i specifically asked her like i even like foresaw this being an issue so i was like every bride i work with i want you to tell me the music in the wedding video that way i don't have to go back and change it even then she was like i'm not liking the music now it's like well everything is to that beat yeah and that song was five and a half minutes and now you want a three minute song

so like there goes like i don't know 40 of your wedding video just fyi you know that's the worst um so that's funny you asked the next question i was gonna ask you anyway um uh anna asked what is the most tedious thing you've ever had to edit out of a podcast? Oh. Do you have anything? So edit out or just editing? Yeah, I guess just editing. Yeah, whatever you want to answer.

The Shelter Kids series took forever to edit. Really? All the interviews and everything. Yeah, because we did cut them down a little bit. Yeah. Kind of trim some of the fat. So those ones took a long time. The clips sometime could be tedious in that like,

it'll be a really tight 45 second clip. And then I get the tech. Jake's knows where I'm going with this. Yesterday was my bad. I forgot. I forgot. Sorry, keep going. Can I get a 61 second version?

Because if you guys don't know on TikTok, if you have over 60 seconds, monetization is a little bit better. So that is the goal to post like a 61 second version on TikTok. And sometimes you're really grabbing at everything to make that 61 seconds. I had forgot because normally it's like, honestly, I'm the one creating those videos. And I forget about the TikTok version all the time. I always forget about it. And so Trey is always the one reminding Derek, like, and I forget about the TikTok version all the time. I always forget about it. And so Trey is always the one reminding Derek, like, hey, let's try to get a TikTok version of this.

There's one that was like 38 seconds. He's like, hey, can I get it to 61? I'm like, I have no clue where to pull it out. And I forgot just like a week or so ago, Trey was like, hey, just an update. TikTok's kind of changing their policies. They don't really pay out like they used to, so we don't need to worry about this as much. I completely forget about that. Derek sent a clip over yesterday. It's like already 52 seconds.

And for the first time I've ever thought to text, I'm like, hey, maybe there's nine more seconds here. We get a TikTok version. And then Trey's like, well, we're not doing that anymore. I was like, oh, of course. I'm an idiot. I forgot the one time I've suggested it. And then Derek will always throw these like gifts in.

I'm just like this guy, like getting angry or like not knowing what to do, like this way, that way. So yeah. Can you think time? If you had any, like,

have we ever asked something that's like been really annoying or really tedious to, I don't know. Some things that are just tedious or like recently when we do the, when we do the viral games, it's like, it's like five minutes of something trying to cut it down to like 59 seconds. That's been interesting

because it's like, I just go through it. I have like a, oh, I have a one minute 45 second. All right, first pass. I have a one minute 13 second. And I'm just like, and I'm just cutting out every millisecond

of like pauses and stuff. I like that though. It's fun. I always say videographers, I don't know if it's, it's a kind of a chicken or the egg thing. I don't know if you need to be decisive to be a videographer or being a videographer or an editor i should say makes you more decisive but i think they work very in

tandem i think like doing videography for as long as i did has made me a more decisive person because you have to be you can't just be like i don't know i like it all it's like well you have to decide it has to be 59 seconds um with any project you're editing i mean a wedding you got 40 gigs of footage like i got all right it's down to six minutes yeah um so yeah well hey glad you like working together dude glad it's relatively easy adding bleeps sometimes adding a lot of beliefs when you don't even need it yeah um let's see rachel said, not a question, but I had a completely different mental picture of Derek. Again, I don't know if these are good or bad. No, I'm sure they're all good. It was really cool meeting the ghost

who's out on tour with you and you and. That was always fun. We'd always hit the lobby together and then we would just like go do our own thing for 20 minutes and come back and have our own stories. That's fun. Because towards the tail end of the tour, Derek would go out there to film like fans for like promo videos and stuff.

And yeah, he'd always come back and we would like sometimes cross Paul night. He was like, do you see the drunk lady with a kid? I'm like, yeah, I saw the drunk lady. He was like,

she was great on camera. I'm like, she wasn't great one-on-one. So I'm glad you had fun. Um, dear Laura Jean said is it hard describing your job to people what's that

don't worry about that not really I think I just say like freelance videography I don't know I have it kind of narrowed down okay but yeah I guess well kind of a little bit because I'm not doing it that's not all I'm doing

I'm like also just kind of a little bit because I'm not doing it that's not all I'm doing I'm like yeah also just kind of trying to have time to be with uh I don't know like hang out with friends this is one of my last summers I feel like totally I'm not necessarily trying to like really provide for myself thanks um so yeah I don't know that's kind of interesting to be like well I'm not not really always doing this but I of, and then when people ask if like, I, if they want me to do a job for them, I'm like, well, it's hard to decide. I'm like, I don't know how much time I should, uh, dedicate to it, but yeah, I don't know. Yeah. Cause we even had that conversation. Like there's more stuff I could probably put on you, but I'm also like, I don't want you to feel like you need to

say yes to this. Cause this is summertime and it's awesome. It's tough, but it also also like, I don't want you to feel like you need to say yes to this because this is summertime and it's awesome. It's tough. But also it's like it's tough because I also like doing that. Like it's it's not that much of a chore. You're getting paid. Yeah. Yeah. That's fair. Derek, you have a tough time describing your job.

Yeah. I did do the shoot one time where one of the guys that was also working with me, he did BTS photos for Imagine Dragons. Remember this? Dude, this is so great. Yeah, one of our most popular Gene Schwartz videos ever. It was like the worst types of guys around girls. And we're all brainstorming. And I think we'd already written the video.

Derek comes by to shoot it. And then he just like tosses out this little thing like, hey, I don't know if this helps or not, but I had a friend who- Not a friend. I had this enemy sorry you can you can explain it but basically what derek's about to say we loved it so much that we made this my entire character for multiple videos we made this my character because it was so

good uh yeah this one guy he was on a different totally different shoot had nothing to do with magic dragons but he at one point in his life did behind the scenes photos for Imagine Dragons and he made sure anytime He introduced himself. He said yeah, I did photos from Magic Dragons one time I did not want to be like that to be like yeah, I do stuff with Trey and Jake Yeah, I didn't want to name-drop all the time So that makes it kind of hard that I don't name-drop it like I do safe media videos I've ever seen You ever seen Trey Kennedy?

So yeah, this guy, he was always Imagine Dragons this, Imagine Dragons that. Yeah, we thought that was so funny. We're like, we don't even need to change the band. Like that's already the perfect character. And so, yeah, all these different characters. It was like, yeah, the worst types of guys around girls. And Brad was like the guy who's just like really loud. And I think Brad also played kind of like the creep of like, where's my hug? You know, all these eight different characters.

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we're gonna do a schmores of electronics um so um yeah timing i think you won the a schmores of electronics. So, yeah, Tymon, I think you won the last schmores. I forget the topic now, but iconic duos. It's never as close as I feel like it should be. Why is Tymon running away with this? What did he say? Frodo and Sam got me a lot. Yeah, that's crazy.

I really thought I had that one in the bag. I just had all the classics. Chips and salsa. Okay. I really thought I had that one in the bag. I just had all the classics. Chips and salsa. Yeah. Swords of electronics. Decide the order. Okay, so I'm going to go me, Derek, Jake. Okay, great. And we do this

snake draft style. I'll do two and then you'll always be in the middle. I guess it doesn't matter. Oliver, I forgot to tell you we're doing this so you just keep clicking those fingers, buddy. I will, I will. How's it going, by the way? How are we feeling? Oh, we're doing good.

Pretty comfy? Yeah, okay, right on. Okay, I'm going to start off. I'm going to use to my advantage. I think this is like probably the obvious answer is a smartphone. I think that's electronic everyone uses, and it's very helpful. I'm going to just make sure I have that one. Yeah, that's probably – this is a good source to probably go first on.

I feel like that's kind of a tier of its own. I was kind of glad I had that. I had that one, one. We're all addicted to them. I try to justify my addiction to smartphone being like, well, I'm doing it for work. Oh, it's work. So I need to know what's trending.

What's the new editing trend? Yeah, I need to see all of it. Dude, that's how I am too. I'm even like, well, I need to see, I need to go on facebook and scroll facebook because i want to see what other people are doing for facebook ads that's work i have to see that yeah um yeah iphone's a great just one it's the first one i wrote down smartphone great pick yeah derrick what do you think smartphones and i have a bias toward iphone specifically iphone but smartphone i'll just say smartphone i specifically said sony cameras that's what i shoot I thought you and I wanted to take it from you to have on my list. Yeah of like that's my livelihood

That's so camera. Yep. I film our skits with that mood swings even the comedy special My little camera, I think that's all Trey's videos have been shot on Sony for the last six years or so now so we have any Drake any fans Because the Sony camera. That's the reason. I'm going to go with the Wii as my first pick. I feel like when the Wii came out, it blew my brains out.

That was pretty fun. That was like, it knows my arm. Obviously, there was an aspect of like, I have to do this dance, and it has no idea what my other extremities are doing. I feel like I can just do this with just my right arm. Obviously there was an aspect of like I have to do this dance and it has no idea what my other extremities are doing. So it's like I feel like I can just do this with just my right arm. But I like the Wii was like an all time like guys were starting to be in the future. This is it. This is like the first step of the future is here. And they were more honest than like the Xbox connect, which totally promised the world. Do you remember

that? I actually I had the Xbox connect. OK, it was wild. The world, though, like it's going to you're going to be able to talk to it. Like what we have AI now. Yes. You're right. It did. Like, it was like, you won't need friends. Yeah.

You won't need anything. You won't have a button ever. And you know, everything will be voice or your actions will like put on King of Queens. You know, it'll all be motion detected. You will do it all with your body. You can record anything. Yeah. They did promise a lot. Um yeah i'm gonna go we and then next up i'm gonna go specifically the ipod nano it was my first ipod and it was just like to me it's just like the it's just like nostalgic and iconic for just like what it was like i think that's when

they first started coming in i don't even know i. I was going to say in color, but there might have been an iPod video in there. I don't know exactly. The iPod Nano, it was awesome. I think two gigs, and that was plenty. Yeah, that's nice. All right. I have the Bluetooth speaker from 2016 that everyone has. It has not had to replace.

This little pill will go with you anywhere. It's reliable. It may have micro USB instead of USB-C charging. Yeah. But that speaker, you'll never have to replace. Yeah. That's great. Specifically, like the pill from 2016 Bluetooth speaker.

That's a great electronic. And honestly, it gave me an idea for something I'm going to choose later. So thank you. Okay. Tymon, what are your next two? I'm going to go later so thank you okay time what are you next to i'm gonna go um a macbook laptop i think that's what most of my life or like my work is i'm just like if i'm ever working it's with this thing so that's really important and then i think uh the nintendo ds oh yeah like we never had any kind of, like, really gaming console growing up. Yeah.

Never had, like, a TV or anything. So it was very much, like, my gaming experience was a Nintendo DS. Yeah. And it was awesome. That's cool. That was your entire, 100% of video games for you. Pretty much, yeah, for a long time. That's fun. All the kind of

video games you rock in your house. Um, DS. I don't know. Now we have like no consoles, but for sure the Wii. Oh, you did have the Wii back in the day? Yeah, we did have the Wii. We just had a Switch for a while. We did have a Switch.

I don't know where it went. Switches are nice. Switch houses. Okay, that's fun. I got the NES thermostat. So I don't have to get up to change the temperature. Yes. 75 that my wife sets it to every time.

Like right now, if she's at home working, I can bring a cooler. And I do like that. I change our thermostat. It's not that brand. But in here, I was getting hot in here. Change it. There you go. It's nice.

So I don't want to get like all Kevin Malone, but like 69 is the perfect temperature to set the house at. That's how you prefer it? Yeah. Yeah. I do like that for a car temperature. I feel like that is a good go-to. Yeah. Yeah.

I feel like I'm at 70 in the car, but in our house, like pretty much year round, it's like at 73-ish or so. We're pretty cold people in general. And if like Trey's house, if he had it his way, it'd be at 64. Like all the time. It's crazy. Trey is always hot. Okay, fun picks. Those are great. We've got a lot of nostalgia in here. Alright, my last two.

I'm going to go any brand. I don't care what it is. I'm talking about the invention of the backup camera. I feel like we take it for granted. That's pretty awesome. You get a backup camera, you get a rental car that's got a backup camera on it, like this is sweet.

The rental car I had in, and this isn't the same thing, so it doesn't count, but the rental car we had in Portugal had like a front camera. Whenever you would get close to things, it would pop up like what the front of your car looks like

to know if you're getting close to a curb or something. That was nice. Anyway, but the backup camera, you really appreciate it when you're driving a food truck and you Anyway, but the backup camera, you really appreciate it when you're driving a food truck and you don't have a backup camera and you go, wow, that would be nice

if I knew where I'm at in the world right now. So I'm gonna go backup camera. And then my last pick is gonna be FM transmitters. So I had nothing but junk cars pretty much my whole life. And they never had any kind of like, um, I guess my first car had a cassette. So I would play this cassette that had an ox to it. So you'd put the cassette in and then plug it in your phone. And that was pretty

good. But then most of my life I had like early two thousands cars that didn't have an ox cord, but didn't have a cassette player. They only had a CD player. So there was really no work around. They didn't have Bluetooth, obviously. The work around to do this was you plug in this FM transmitter to your like cigarette lighter thing. Have you guys used these devices? You know what I'm talking about? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Van right now. Yes. They work amazing. I never had to replace it. And then, so yeah, for the people that listening who don't know, you plug it into your cigarette lighter and what you do your phone connects to this transmitter via bluetooth and then the transmitter connects to the radio by magic um i think you just find like an empty station i think or like an empty yeah some like 88 one or something how is this like fcc like

allowed because they have rules. Yeah, I don't know how it's allowed. You can just take over a station. It's just in the air and it's mine now. Occasionally I've driven next to someone and gotten a little taste. No way. A little taste. It's kind of fun. Oh, I get a little, oh, they must be homeschoolers

in a Billie Eilish. That's so awesome. But I mean, I bought one for like 20 bucks on Amazon. Yeah. And I used it for five years and never had to replace it. It worked phenomenally. Unless you go road trip, then you get out of market. We got to find a new radio station now that I'm in Springfield

or something. I don't think so. I think that I'm fairly sure I might not know how this works. You never left town. Somehow emitting a signal that like your van is just or your car is just connected to, I think. I feel like I would go somewhere else and then all of a sudden I would get their radio station. Oh, actually, that makes sense. Like it's not empty there.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah. But yeah, those little suckers were awesome and truly just like worked perfect forever. Yeah. I had an honorable mention. I already listed all mine right wait no i think we go back around right or no that was it no there's you you did your last two you have one more left and you have one more left i have because you started off i have one more

yeah yeah yeah okay yeah so i'm kind of piggybacking off of it a little bit the skiff proof portable cd player it's like in middle school i had a little emo phase where like when you're sitting in the back of the bus, you don't want your good Charlotte or blink 182 getting disturbed by the bouncing of the bus. Or you don't want your disturbed getting disturbed if that's who you're listening to. And so, yeah, you're just, what kind of headphones are you rocking with the CD player? Just some cheap ones that like went over the ear foam. Do you remember those that had the slits for the top of your ears to go through?

Mine had like they went on your ears, but then the rest of the, you know, there was plastic that went behind, so they would like I don't know how to describe it. Yes, the top of my ears stuck out of it. That's what I was rocking. That's funny. Skip proof.

That's great. Yeah. So I have one more. Yeah. I think it's your last pick. Okay. I'm trying to decide. I think I'm going to go refrigerator. Oh, that's great. That's it. It's very useful and pretty necessary. So I like, I like a good refrigerator. Yes, it is. I got the, uh, the Kansas, uh, agricultural department of health coming by in about 30 minutes to check out my refrigerators on the food truck. So I'm gonna be real thankful for him if she approves me here soon. All right, that's fun.

Oliver, do you have anything that you came to mind as you were listening to this? I'm still stuck on the Wii. I don't know. All I can think about is the Wii. I had some honorable mentions and then I realized, oh, I think that's software.

That's not an electronics because I got down a rabbit hole like GPS. Oh, my gosh. Google Earth. Oh, what's better than Google Earth? LimeWire. I was like, this is all software. I don't think this is electronic. I had one somewhere.

I don't know if it's the 5G towers. I had because, you know, obviously the speed's nice, but I really dove into the conspiracies for a couple months. Yes. And then the people tearing down the 5G towers. So it's like what they give us and also what they give other people. The content that came from the 5G towers was great. Any other honorable mentions?

The electric keypad on my gun safe. It keeps my family safe. Bond with Patriot. And then AirPods. I keeps my family safe. And then AirPods. I've lost three pairs. I have AirPods on there. I was trying to decide between AirPods and refrigerator.

Every now and then I'll think maybe I should get some cool really nice headphones. But then you put your AirPods in and you're like, this is pretty good. I don't really need better quality than this this have you done the nodding yet with it the yes or no have you seen the update where instead of saying yes or no you can you can

move your head up and down to like reply to a text yeah oh wow so it's got like motion control now i've seen that like a adaptive like we know if you're in a conversation we'll mute your music or whatever but I'd also, I'll just take it out or whatever. I don't trust it. So my honorable mentions I put flat screen TV when that came out that rocked my world. I put blank CD.

That was very fun to be able to make your own mixes with a blank CD. Did you ever burn a CD? No, I don't think so. No. Do you ever burn a V? No, I don't think so. No. Did you ever burn a VHS? No. My dad would get me blank VHS tapes, and then when something came on TV that he wanted to record, that's how we got all of our movies.

And then you write on there, like, this is Tommy Boy, this is Dumb and Dumber or whatever. I mean, every comedy I ever watched was from a blank VHS, I feel like. That's fun. My last two honorable mentions were, I don't know if this counts or not, Topgolf. Is that an electronic?

Just like, it seems like one just kind of cool electronic thing going on. Lightning and it's electronic. I mean. Storms. Yeah, magnets. No. And then my last one was just the Game Boy,

similar to the DS, but it was like my version of that. Just that's how I played everything. So. I had a washing machine. More appliance-based. And then just like camera. I didn't have Sony camera.

Electric toothbrush. We were actually just talking about that recently. Tom and I, we tried the electric toothbrush and we get tickled by it. We can't put up with it. Me and my wife, our two sound like chainsaws, so neither one is sleeping through the other one brushing their teeth. They're just

that loud. Cool. We'll get to just a few more questions. Does Derek sing too? Not even at all. Yeah, same. That's fun uh someone said how long have we been going which is an inside joke because trey asked that every single episode and people have started to give him a hard time about it like how long have we been doing this um let's see i'm trying to find

very early on i mean one of some of the first questions were all some weird... Yeah, okay. So Ross Ferens, he's hilarious. Immediately, as soon as I posted this story, he goes, Derek, Kim Trails, what's going on? So they want to hear some conspiracies from you. Specifically, let's start with Kim Trails. So I'll give you a little background. I don't know if this is what he's referring to,

but probably just a couple weeks ago on the podcast, Brad was kind of like being like, I mean, what is some of this stuff behind the airplanes? And I was like, it's science. It's like really hot air being produced and like really cold air really up high. And Brad was like, I don't know. I don't know.

The whole like being able to make it rain with the planes going through and putting the salt. Oh, like they say that it's happening like Dubai, right? So they actually are doing it. And like, it's not a conspiracy. They are making it rain. Here we go, guys. This is what you want to hear.

This is it. They are making it rain in Utah who had a crazy drought, but they've been working on setting the planes up with these things that shoot out the salt that makes the water heavier, makes it fall. That was a conspiracy 10 years ago. And now they're making it mainstream that like, hey, that's an actual thing.

So go on keep going Conspiracy ten years ago and now it's like they're gaslighting us be like no we've always done this It's just science like it's like of course we can make it rain No, we're crazy tinfoil people for saying you can make it rain So the chemtrail stuff I haven't dove in too much like, you know, what are they exactly are they doing? But the weather thing, real. And then growing up, did you ever watch Independence Day, the movie, like 1994? No. They talk about going to Area 51,

because Area 51 wasn't a thing, and that was a conspiracy if you believe. Oh, I see. That even that base existed. Interesting. And then a couple years ago, people stormed, or they people stormed Area 51. I don't know.

So what's next? What's next? Which one will get proven next? Yeah, exactly. I think a lot of the 2020 stuff is going to come out soon. Not the political stuff. Well, kind of political. Well, some of that is, right?

That week, you weren't allowed to say it at all. I'm even nervous to say it now, Well, some of that is, right? I mean, like it was... Lab week. That was... You weren't allowed to say it at all. I'm even nervous to say it now, but I think it's proven, right? Like COVID... I'm nervous to say it, but it was made in a lab, right? Once Jon Stewart said it,

we were all allowed to say it. Yeah. That's how that kind of turned out. But before he said it on Colbert, we weren't allowed to talk about the... Yeah, you get like deplatformed for saying stuff like that. Like you're...

Yeah, everything... During a crazy pandemic, why can't you question where did this come from? They're like, nope, that's... Yeah, you get like deep platform for saying stuff like that. Like you're, yeah, everything. During a crazy pandemic, why can't you question? Where did this come from? They're like, nope, that's, yeah. So. Interesting. I don't have any strong opinions on the chemtrails, moral of the story. I know I got off on Area 51, COVID, and weather.

Yeah. But. Remind me, what is the chemtrails theory? Like, what is that supposed to be? I don't even know. If you know, you see like a southwest plane high in the sky and there's just like trails of like what looks like small clouds behind her or something. I think the most common theory is like it's a sedative and they're trying to

keep, uh, keep the, you know, the new world order. They keep us tranquilized down here or something like that. The amount of people that would have to be involved with that is great. Like you think the guy has to know about it too.

It's like the NFL being rigged or something. Yeah, the amount of people all keeping quiet is very impressive and all going along with the script. That's a good job, guys. I forgot how fired up I got about that last year. That was so funny. That got me so mad. Yeah, so that's the chemtrails theory.

I know there's probably some people even more into it. No, that's what most people believe, but I know there's price to be even more into it like no That's not that's what most people believe but I believe this I'm going to be educated red pill me on the chemtrails a little bit if you want to No strong opinions yet. Yeah This one's from Emily Murray kind of switching gears, but how is Derek and his family after the their crash? I've been thinking about his family. That's very nice. I actually messaged you. I was like, hey, something happened because all of a sudden I got 50 Instagram followers

in a matter of a couple minutes. I couldn't figure it out for a while. I was like, no, dude, I think you've just been crushing it. If you look at my Instagram, it's just posts of my family. I don't know. I appreciate the ghost he's following, but I saw that on your guys' Facebook page, someone found out about the accident. We were visiting Utah. It was the first full day we were there. We page, someone found out about the accident. So we were visiting Utah.

It was the first full day we were there. We were about ready to go in the mountains. And we were going through an intersection. And this guy was on his phone. He admitted to being on his phone, ran a red light, and T-boned us. So we had a couple days in the hospital. My wife had broken ribs, broken pelvic bone, broken hip, punctured lungs, partial collapse.

So it was a rough vacation. We're still working our way through with insurance. That's been a nightmare. I know. I feel like every time I see Derek, I'm like, dude, how's Becca? And then he's like, Becca's doing a little better, but insurance is driving me up the wall okay yeah I should always start with the health of my wife she is doing a little bit better she's

able to walk she gets tired but yeah but yeah like it's crazy that like even if someone's insured like and it's not your fault you still don't end up not even ahead but you still don't end up at par or whatever once the accident's over, like we're going to still pay money out of our pocket. Like it's crazy that you have to pay anything. It's crazy that you were telling me that like, they started to tell you that like, Hey, this guy's saying that it's your fault now. And you're going, what in the world? No way. And then you've reread the email and like, Oh no, he says it's my fault. He, so yeah, the other driver put a claim on our insurance, which we were in a rental car. So they,

he shouldn't know how how who our insurance is. Don't know how he found it. Someone like leaked our information. Conspiracy thing. Kim Charles. Yeah, Kim Charles. But he made a claim. And then so our insurance is calling like, hey, he's saying like you guys are at fault

for the accident. We're like panicking. Like, no, it's clearly he ran the red. He admitted the cop that he was on his phone. And so the lady's like, no, he said you guys ran a red. So we need to get official statement from you. And then Becca's like, no, he said you guys ran a red, so we need to get an official statement from you. And Becca's like, can you actually read back word for word what he said?

And she just misinterpreted it. He said, I ran the red and hit them, but I'm still going to make a claim on their insurance. So if anyone's an insurance expert, reach out to Derek. He's like, this is crazy. Yeah, hopefully you could figure out a way

where you don't have to pay anything. I think you definitely shouldn't. You have hospital bills. You have... Our vacation was ruined. Yeah. We're doing fine. A lot of people from our church,

people on our street, they brought us meals every night. How were some of those meals? I won't eat lasagna for another four years. Should I reveal on this podcast. Yeah, it'll be fun There's one couple that was very nice and ordered us old Chicago food and they know I eat like a 12 year old we got that food and All sudden like all the adults got very sick that night

Yeah, you and Becca Bo I mean had like a full day's worth of food poisoning or something, right? Yeah, food poisoning. I couldn't, I didn't have an appetite for a whole week. It was Trey and Katie that did get us that meal. I haven't revealed to them that like, hey, I really appreciate it, but we did get sick. Very, very nice, the thought, but it destroyed us for a good week. Yeah, it's one of those things like. It's not their fault. Yeah, it's not their fault yeah it's

not their fault but it's also still like it probably don't need to tell them all they're gonna they can't change it all they can do is feel bad but yeah when you told me that I was like that's pretty funny I whispered it to you don't ever take food from train they do something to the food

they put something in it good deal all right I think that's that's an episode Do something to the food. Gem trills. They put something in it. That's funny. Good deal. All right. I think that's an episode. Thank you guys for tuning in. This one was really fun.

This was Rachel's idea, by the way. So shout out, Rachel, for bringing everybody together. Great. So, yeah, anything you want to say? Anything you want to plug? We can also talk about it. If there's one thing you want to ask Derek, ask Tommy, anything you had planned on talking about and we hadn't got to talk about,

now is your opportunity. Oliver, you had your hand up? What's going on? No, no, no, I'm good. I'm good. We can talk. We can talk. Stop talking to me, dude.

I'm thinking about the Wii still, dude. Oh, my goodness. How did that Wii remote work? How did it know? Wii Fitness. That was crazy. No, the community you guys have here is awesome. I generally love the Facebook page.

I'm constantly checking it. Obviously, you guys were very nice when we got in the accident and seeing how you can help. Love the community you guys created here. It's generally cool. Yeah. Thanks, dude. And I think everyone is being nice about your face in a very neutral way. Whoa, Derek's face

Interpreted everyone Yeah, I think this made me realize like it's kind of kind of worked out Well, I didn't have to get narrowed down for a bunch of people. I just like oh to be hired here Yeah, just reached out appreciate like oh, that was like pretty easy, but like I'm really thank you for hiring me What would you do if Jake or Brad farted? Let out a giggle, I think. And then... A little giggle. I think they'd acknowledge it.

Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, I'm trying to think. We keep it pretty clean. You know, it's a pretty small room. I think out of respect, we, you know... It's like, I'm not afraid to fart in front of Brad, but it's like, it's pretty small in here. It's probably for the best that we don't.

And honestly, if we did fart, Rachel would smell it from the back bathroom and she would text me. She's kind of a Rottweiler. Yeah. What was that? Yeah, she's amazing with her nose. Cool. Well, yeah, thanks for joining. I know you each had to drive 30 minutes

probably to get here. But yeah, this was fun. Yeah. And honestly, very easy to do, I think. When I told someone else I was doing this, they're like, it's going to be tough to fill time. I mean, these guys are normally behind the camera. I was like, it'll be fine.

I've known these guys forever. So, cool. Well, check each of these guys out. I mean, Ghosi's here already. He's so supportive anyway. But if you're into insurance, give Derek a follow. And if you want to see Tymon, you know, do his high school graduation at some point, I'm sure he'll post that.

Once he's got his Nazi trailer. Once he's got the Nazi trailer. Yeah, check it out. Check out Matri Roasters, Good Ranchers, and we'll see you guys next Monday. Back to our regular schedule. So, thank you guys. Ghost from the Spotcast. Ghost from the Spotcast. Everybody morning, we're taking ground. Ghost from the Spotcast. regular schedule. So thank you guys.