Ghostrunners - 342 - On the Beach with 71 Jellyfish

Episode Date: June 24, 2024

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Uh, Jake, anytime that there's a sign that says road close to through, through traffic, I say, bring it on. Dude, we're back. We're back. We're back. We're back. I had the same thought. I mean, maybe last night I think that was.

Yeah. Truly had the same thought while, um, running down the street. And I was like, they don't mean it. There's no way they don't mean it. Yeah. They absolutely. It's, it's a farce. I, I 98% of the time it's't mean it. Yeah. They absolutely. It's, it's a farce. I, I 98% of the

time it's farcical. Yeah. Every once in a while it's a, it's a, it's a true truce. Yeah. I, I drove the Bondi truck through a road closed to through traffic. No problem. We'll see about that. No problem. Yeah. A hundred percent agree with you. Yeah. Every once, every, every time I see it, I'm like, I don't believe you. I don't believe the other side of this thing is closed to through traffic. I believe there's a sign that's like tilted over because it's no longer closed. It's road inconvenient to through traffic. From what I've noticed. Bring it on.

Road noisy to through traffic. Bring it on. Road annoying the neighbors to through traffic. Bring it on. Dude, you missed out. The road is great. Have you seen what's happening? Oh my gosh.

We come home and it's like half the road's been dug out. Poor Dennis. Poor Dennis. Poor Dennis. That's what I say when someone like... Catherine was like, that's exactly what Catherine said. Poor Dennis. We got this across the street neighbor from me and Rachel, and he's retired, and all he cares about

are his grandkids and his lawn, and that's in reverse order. I would say so. He's mowing his lawn. Dude, five days a week. I would say so. Yeah. He's mowing his lawn like five days a week. He's doing something out there, which I don't blame. I kind of, I kind of like his life. Like to an extent, I'm like, that's looks all right. He's, he's got a very manicured lawn that probably 45% of it right now is just, just dirt pile, which is grandkids probably love. Grandkids probably love it. I don't know how close they can get to it, but yeah, poor Dennis.

It's all he cares about is that lawn, and most of it's dirt now. He has nothing to mow. Yeah, what do we say about it? I mean, poor guy. At that point, do you care about the rest of the lawn still, or do you just say, yeah, we've got to worry about next season? Dude, there was a full 12-hour day where they were just working on his driveway.

I don't know. I'm sure they told him ahead of time, hey, you can't leave or go. There was backhoes digging up his driveway. So I don't know where you go if you're retired and all you care about is your lawn. He's probably just watching this, just cussing it out the entire time.

He's probably'm on a water tower somewhere just binoculars just like i hate those guys bleep and bleep yeah i it's been a very blue collar a week with the road with dennis road closed i've had to go to auto zone two times very night and day experiences at my auto zone all right first trip i i need need quite a bit of help and stuff fixed. And the first guy to greet me is a Gen Z 20-year-old with bright red dyed hair. Okay. I'm just thinking, anybody but him. No, please.

Yes. Give me the most prison tattoos. I want no social skills. Yes. Please. There's a few different demographics of people who work at auto zone. And it does feel like that's one of them for some reason, whatever reason.

Yeah. Okay. And just the last guy I wanted to help with me. Cause like it, dude, I, I don't know much, but I know more than you. What were you going there for?

Um, generator repair. Yeah. I do in my life. You know me, I'm the classic generator repair guy. Yeah. I've become such a blue collar guy. Yeah. The past. My life. You know me. I'm the classic generator repair guy. Yeah. I've become such a blue collar guy the past two weeks.

Generator repair, looking into maybe a dead battery, you know, recharge, stuff like that. And so, yeah, one thing he's going to do is look into my battery and recharge it for me. And so this is the night and day experience. This is the bad experience. He's got red hair. And he's like, yeah, we can get this charged for you. I'm like, great. And then we just kind of continue to look at each other for a while.

And I was like, he's like, anything else? And I was like, no, just the... Just do it. Just the recharge would be great. Nike. And he's like, great. And he kind of is like looking around and just kind of need air fresheners or...

Let me know if there's anything else and i'm like is he not understand and so i would like to reiterate like no i think if we just get the battery how's the ac do you want me to get one of those cans to pump up the ac in there yeah freon yeah it's getting hot out heat wave to a certain point i uv's up because i'm gen z it's like gen Z UV. Dude. And, I mean, this goes on for I don't know how long, where I'm like, no, that's really it. And then he's like, well, to charge this up, it'll be an hour. I was like, oh.

Okay. Okay. Got it. Yeah. So I didn't know that. Is that why you haven't started it yet? So that was a very awkward exchange. Like, all right. Great. I will leave. You should have said that. But then when I come all right great i will leave you should have said that but then when i come back great experience this guy neck tats this is what i'm looking for neck tats real nice guy and there's not very many places in the world that you'd you'd choose neck tat guy

yes yes we're good we got neck tat that That clean cut 20-year-old out of here. Thank goodness. Mad tatter. Neck tat and like 5'4". I'm like, this is awesome. Okay. Because he's able to get under things. Totally. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

He's squeezing in places. And this is, yeah, base case scenario. He comes back. I'm like, hey, I had a battery, you know, whatever. And he's like, let me go get it for you. He comes back and he's like, whew, all right. Good news, bad news. Good news is your battery's perfect. Bad news is I'm not getting any taller. I was like, oh, wow. So I'm going to go

get the trampoline real quick and we'll get this thing put back in. All right. He really fooled me and I really enjoyed the experience. It was great. It was a dad joke, but I was like, thank goodness I thought there was something really, really wrong with my battery. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because good news, bad news, great. Just a great tactic in general. It was. I thought about him for days afterwards.

Like he probably does that all the time. He probably gets a good laugh every time. Yeah. And I want to start doing that to people. Right. I don't know. Or maybe he just does it in multiple different ways. Good news, bad news, good news.

I got your headlights installed. Bad news. Bad news. know or maybe he just does it in multiple different ways good news bad news good news uh i got your headlights installed bad news bad news my wife can't divorce me twice i don't know i couldn't think of anything i think it's time to roll the theme music that's great uh-oh oh i think this tight beat means that it's going down with some random thoughts and white me too. Midwest best friends eating fast food on repeat. So come along, let's have some fun and go ahead, get on your feet, because it's the Ghost Rubs Podcast. Everybody morning, we're taking ground. Ghost Rubs Podcast.

Ghost Rubs Podcast. That's funny. Kind of forgot about the music. Just started podcasting. I know. I was like, I don't think we've had a natural break yet. This is great. Yeah, it's just been a while.

It's been, what, 13 days? Since we podcasted. Since we podcasted. Yeah, maybe so. Yeah. Last Tuesday? Wednesday? Thursday, I think. Friday?

Saturday? Sunday? Yeah, yeah. It's been pretty much two weeks since we've seen each other and since? Saturday? Sunday? Yeah, yeah, you're welcome. It's been pretty much two weeks since we've seen each other and since we've podcasted. Yeah, man. It's been a while. We've changed. Yeah.

Your hair's different. My hair is different. It's longer or shorter or something. I end every day with my hands dirty now. I go to AutoZone. And? I'm a completely different person. I like it.

You love it. It feels good. I do really like it. Yeah. I wish I didn't have to get my hands dirty. Yeah. Because it means that things are breaking. But dude, yeah, I'm so excited.

I texted you. I said, dude, I can't wait to podcast. I have so much to tell you about. You're the one who went on vacation. Yeah. I haven't even left my home. All I've done is work. But you have left your home.

I did. I went to basketball. No. You went to, you've been to the Dakotas and back. Oh, the Dakotas. Holy cow. It's been a while, dude. Yeah, okay.

Yeah, I've been to the Dakotas and I've been to basketball. That's about it. Basketball. The three nights that I've left. But you've been to Galveston. You said Galveston on the podcast last week. It's not Galveston. Try number two.

Oh, well, I saw something about cinnamon somewhere. Cinnamon Shore? But it's not galveston try number two oh oh well i saw something about cinnamon somewhere cinnamon shore but it's not even i mean yeah cinnamon shore is the right answer for like where we were but it's not outside of galveston it's outside of panama city closer corpus christi correct why did i think galveston my bad that's okay it's i mean to me it's all the same like texas coast is i had no actual that's not, I was gonna say I had no actual experience with Texas coast back when I was 12 years old. Whenever Katrina came, we were supposed to go to Destin on vacation. Last minute we couldn't because of Katrina.

And so we went to South Padre Island. Okay. So I've been to Texas beaches once. I thought it was a great time because the waves were massive because of this hurricane going through, uh, had like, that was the first time I'd ever gotten like shot into the water on my boogie board. Remember that? Like, you know, that feeling getting like tossed, like all of a sudden you don't know which way is up and which way I remember trying to swim up and going right into the ground. And it was a scary moment for sure. But it was also like, that was nuts.

Yeah. Katrina waves is Katrina waves. So yeah, I think someone told me I'm going to blame it on somebody else. They were like, did you know that Brad has to drive another eight hours after Dallas to get to Galveston? No. I was just like, yeah, that's where he's going now. Yeah. Okay. Galveston is outside of Houston. So maybe it's a, it's a little closer. I don't know. Texas people are probably like, no, Brad, you're stupid. But you were down there. I was down there. And you didn't get down there when you were supposed to get down there.

Buddy. Yeah, that's right. Oh, yeah. So last week on the podcast, we talked about the crazy idea of we're going to drive down for the wedding, fly back up for the Kansas City wedding, fly back down to Corpus Christi. We did not. We drove the entire time. Spoiler alert.

Because we were supposed to leave on Thursday, ended up leaving Friday because of Wednesday. Track with me here. Wednesday, Catherine goes out for a little girls' night. Catherine Rachel Abbey, I believe. And good, great girls' night. No problem. I got all four of the kids. It's fine.

Oh, and we had talked about doing something that night, too. We were going to... Yes, we were going to record Good's fine. Oh, and we had talked about doing something that night too. We were going to, uh, yes, we were going to, uh, record good ranchers. Uh, Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I kept being like, ah, maybe not tonight. Ah, maybe tomorrow. Ah, probably not good either. Uh, anyway, basically all pandemonium, uh, let loose when Catherine went to taco, knocko and, uh, for girls night. Um, Catherine leaves, uh, encourages me to make a good smoothie for the kids. Great.

I'm, I'm a smoothie master. I'm easy above average smoothie guy. I'm not acai Bondi bowls guy, but I'm work. Um, maybe I will just a fun little day with the ghost runners. Um, but I made a delicious smoothie.

Not only did I make it nice, I made it healthy. I put the entire box, like entire plastic box of spinach in there. Kids didn't even know. They were getting so much iron. Bo was looking like Popeye. I put the entire carton of expired

cottage cheese in there. It was awesome. You can't taste it. That's the thing. It's bright green. Oh, wow. I mean, and so it's, it's bright green. I mean, Oh wow. So I think I put, yeah, I don't remember everything. It doesn't matter. Fruit with spinach, bright green. Um, and the reason I am pointing out that as bright green is because I saw that bright green all over our white rug later that night. So I had the idea. I was like, this is Phil. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like we'll, uh, you know, we'll, we'll, if, if we eat our dinner quick enough, I'm, I'm

a big like incentives guy, especially when I'm by myself with my kids, we eat our dinner quick enough. We can watch a pop patrol before bed. It's pretty fun. That's all it takes. And so bow down to this smoothie and they were watching pop patrol, but I was like, Oh, before we watch pop patrol, we need to clean up the house some. Just keep incentivizing.

Keep moving the goalposts. Incentivizing, stacking. Yeah, exactly. So he's running around. And I mean, showing no indication of anything going wrong. And then all of a sudden, he's just standing there getting ready to watch Paw Patrol. I'm cleaning up the dishes while they're cleaning up around the house.

And I look over, and there he is just getting after it. Just, you know, I'm like, Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no. And I'm like, I've run in with a bowl. It's too late. It's all over the ground. And I'm like, I got to call Catherine. I got to, you know, see what, see what she would do about this, even though it's interrupting her girl's night. Oh no, this is bad. Um, just cause I didn't want to like mess up our white rug like what if this is something i have to fix immediately okay you know yeah i'm like i'm sorry i have to do this she's like no problem i'm sorry it's going on to you just put a towel over we'll get it later okay newspapers down she's like you just worry about getting the kids to bed put the kids to bed

and i'm like decompressing out on the deck for like five minutes. Had he comes out after she's been put to bed. She's like, I think Rosie just threw up all over her crib. And I was like, okay, no problem. Um, go in there. Yeah. Same. I know exactly what Rosie ate that day. Same. Um, so anyway, long story short, all I have to say the kids, especially Bo especially Bo and Rosie, yeah, got some kind of little bug or something. Hattie never got sick. Catherine and I never got sick. It was something maybe that they ate or something. I don't know exactly what happened, but we didn't end up leaving until Friday.

And so we decided not to go back to Kansas City for the wedding, just stay in Texas. It was a funny, I actually wrote down for a jean shorts video idea of like a road trips video because i mean everything about this road tripping with kids thing is hilarious and yeah so as we're driving on friday uh rosie gets sick again like 45 minutes into it rosie 45 minutes into it yeah dude not even like at the arboretum you know the over the park arboretum yeah so it's like it's close enough where it's like do we turn around yeah we postpone or do we just go for it and we decided we got to get down there eventually let's just go for it yeah suck it up uh because the day before she seemed fine and all of a sudden she gets sick again it

doesn't matter um and so all i mean i this is sorry, kind of gross for people, whatever, but so she gets sick again. Catherine's back there, like holding a bag for her to get sick in. And literally, I mean, this is just humorous at this point, literally as she's holding this bag for Rosie gets sick. Henry has the nastiest blow, like blow out you've ever heard. Like every once in a while, babies just have this noise. That's just like, are you boiling something down there? Like what's going on? Like, and so Rosie getting sick,

Henry's like getting like, like blowing, like blowing out of his diaper. And then Bo's in the back. Good. Like he's, he's getting sick watching Rosie and Henry getting, I have all this net.

And Hattie just has her eyes rolling her eyes. Like Bo, you're being dramatic. No, I'm not. I think I'm going to be sick. Hattie just has her headphones on and Hattie's just rolling her eyes like Bo you're being dramatic no I'm not Hattie I think I'm gonna be sick Hattie and so Catherine and me and Hattie

are all just like Bo no you're not like you're fine eyes on the road yeah as I'm driving 78 miles an hour down the road you're good man

you're fine Bo just let's watch a show anybody want to watch a show Andy Griffith we can watch Andy yeah let's watch Andy Griffith Anybody want to watch a show? Andy Griffith. We can watch Andy. Yeah, let's watch Andy Griffith. You know, whatever. All I have to say,

kids were okay once we got to Texas and yeah, ended up having a great time down there. But it was, so yeah, let me just, let's just brainstorm some road trip with kids parts of this video. Let me just say some of these things out loud

and we can kind of talk about like, is this a good idea? Bad idea. Road trips with kids. This is the name of this video. Let me just say some of these things out loud and we can kind of talk about like, is this a good idea? Bad idea. Road trips with kids. This is the name of the video, I guess. One of the things that happens to us all the time, Catherine will be like, let's try to leave by 730. Every time. Every time I can't help myself be like, okay, so like 830, 845.

She's like, why do you do that? Why don't you just... Listen, I'm just trying to be realistic. Every time we'll leave, she'll be like, 845, She's like, why do you do that? Why don't you just... Listen, I'm just trying to be realistic. Then every time we'll leave, she'll be like, 845, not bad. Not bad. You said 730. Okay, not bad. We're getting off pretty good.

We also, as we're leaving, we're like two minutes away. I mean, we just left and she realized she forgot her sunglasses. It's like one of those things where it's like, we're two minutes away. It's not that big of a turn around. It feels painful. But it's such a like, like, oh, momentum is bringing us south.

And so that's another one I wrote down. Oh, I did this one for the conservative dad on vacation, but fitting all the stuff in the back like Tetris. And then Catherine just throwing me one more thing. Yeah. Really? We're bringing her bike. Okay. Yeah. Maybe something like're bringing her bike. Okay.

Yeah. Maybe something like, all right, you know, kids were, we're stopping anybody. If you have to go to the bathroom, like now's the time to go.

I don't have to go. I don't have to go. And then you drive five minutes later. Yes, exactly. I kind of got to go. Uh, I got to go bathroom.

Yeah. Hattie, uh, we, we stopped and I was like, you need to try. And she goes, she's kind of getting into this a little bit of an attitude recently,

but she's like, Oh, every time I try, I do go. And I'm like, well need to try. And she goes, she's kind of getting into this a little bit of an attitude recently, but she's like, ah, every time I try, I do go. And I'm like, well, that's the point. Yeah. That's where we're getting at. Yeah, exactly. Same with Bo. So, um, let's see, you left how many lights on?

Well, the security company said, blah, blah, blah. Um, I put, this is like a conservative dad, kind of like hardcore guy, but it's like no more water, water equals, oh, you have to be a waiter. Dehydration is a good thing. If you pass out, it'll make the trip feel shorter. I don't know. Something like that. Just like, no, stop drinking water.

Yeah. We've already taken so many breaks. Yeah. You're Googling like, what's a, uh, what's that called? Like stop you up. Yeah. Like a X or what is that called? Like not a la. Yeah. Like a X or what is that called? Like not a laxative opposite of a laxative. Yeah. Yeah. What is that? I don't know. Constipator.

Constipator. Yeah. Yeah. But that's not the right word for it. But yeah, you'd be in the front seat Googling. It's like constipator at gas station for kids. And then, you know, come back, got cheese taquitos, kids. Everybody got to eat one. Everyone, yeah, stuff the cheese down your face. He just pooped and she just threw up. Now he's gagging at the smell of their poop and throw up.

Yeah. I know it's more expensive to fly, but I promise you guys, Buc-ee's will be worth it. Like talking about Buc-ee's or something. Playing the license plate game. You're a boy you don't need a rest stop just go on the side of the road who cares if it's the interstate like

boat loves going on the side of the road um i don't blame them yeah do you guys ever consider flying like do you ever look at it briefly yeah this time even like yeah and it was like katherine i think we would have if we didn't try to fly four days beforehand like like just like at the very end of our, you know, navigating all these weddings and stuff, Kevin's like, what if we just all flew on Saturday or Sunday?

I was like, well, it's going to be like $2,500 for all of us, really, especially Corpus Christi, like some small regional airport. Not that easy to get to anyway. Yeah.

But I think if we do this same trip again, and I know in advance, I'm going to save up my money and fly. Seriously. Yeah. But I think if we do this same trip again and I know in advance, I'm going to save up my money and fly. Seriously. Yeah. What's, uh, when do you not have to pay for someone like Henry would be good, right? Yeah. Two and under. So Rosie's just on the, no. Yeah. Over if they're two years old, you had to pay for him. So dang. Yeah. So she's out. But if you want them to have their own seat, you have to pay for them no matter what. Yeah. So like if you want to like put their car seat in there or something. Um,

yeah, made a lot, a lot of small little things. You can unbuckle for a second and get your coloring book. No problem. Hands to yourself. Can we stop at Bucky's? How many more towns don't make me come back there?

Um, Oh, this is one, another one. Like the younger kids are finally asleep. We finally have some peace and quiet, but then Bo from the backseat with his headphones on, like once once one episode gets over, he'll just scream because he's classic like kid. Like you have your headphones on.

I'll just be like, Dad, can we watch another one? So yes, yes, we could do it. Just shut your mouth. And then I thought the ending would be funny to like have Catherine or whoever be like, honestly, it wasn't that bad. Maybe next time we should get an RV. Yeah. Like after all this chaos, all this like pandemonium, like you kind of just have this revisionist history of like, it was at the end of the day, right. It was pretty easy. I was pretty fun. We should, we should go further next time. Smaller car. We should go to Patagonia.

Yeah, that's fun. Yeah. So yeah, the, the trip itself was fine. Henry had a hard time. Henry, not a car guy yet. He's not, he's not working at auto zone yet. So, um, he had a hard time, but everybody else, the kids did pretty well. And, um, yeah, it wasn't too bad. So anyway, I'll tell you more about my vacation but you tell me some stuff going on with you what's what's uh blue coloring in your life dude i don't even know i was i showered before this i was trying to think i was like do i say everything about bondi do i just do is that just its own patreon episode because there's so much to talk about and most of it's not fun most of it like most of the days i've spent since you've

been gone i end with more things on my to-do list than i started with just 12 hour 14 hour days where i go what did i even get done i think that's called owning a business uh yeah dude and that's what's crazy is i'm not even starting a business i'm just franchising it and it's so much work and it just um can you give me like examples of like what is bogging you down what's you dude if you want something broken let me own it okay put it in my name let me take control ownership for about an hour yeah it will break down okay it will be out of stock it will stop working um mainly like food truck related things a A lot of truck related stuff. I mean, there's, yeah, I don't even know where to start.

Let's see. Like, so I don't think I want to share all the details because I don't want to make anyone look bad. But the truck sitting in my driveway is a different truck than what was there a week ago. Right. I have swapped trucks. I did the old Bondi switcheroo. You did the truck swap.

Truck swap. It's a new reality show coming up. That's where you guys run each other's Bondi bowl businesses. There were so many times in the last two weeks, it's like, this would have been great had i known everything was gonna happen today i wish i was vlogging i should have paid time to just film me from the time i woke up to the time i went to bed because there's just some just some funny things that happen over the course so um yeah i swapped trucks and uh the new like doing a truck swap was hilarious because I've got to find a truck driver. I've never hired a truck driver in my life, but all of a sudden I got to do this.

I got to find a trucker. I witnessed this guy for a little bit. Yes. Yeah. He parked in front of your house, right? Yeah. He like came up and like knocked on my door. He's like, FYI, I'm going to be in front of your house for a while.

But he didn't even like block my driveway, but he's like, if you need, if you need to get out, you let me know. I'll direct traffic. And the dude directed traffic, like nobody's business. We didn't get out, but we were just watching this, whatever. It doesn't matter. He really took directed traffic seriously. Did you see him ever direct the traffic? I was never home when he was here. Rachel told me he'd do it. Rachel came over. That's right. Yeah. Okay, go ahead. So finding that guy was not easy, though. I mean, it took probably, I mean, I'd call 15 different trucking companies. This past two weeks, I've been doing my dad's old jobs. You know,

my dad used to be a semi-trailer sales rep, and my dad now works in food service, and I'm doing all that stuff. But it took forever to just get somebody to agree to do this. I'm having to call so many truckers using all this terminology that I'm Googling while we're talking about it. I finally find this guy. He goes down to do the truck swap. Well, I don't want some trucker I've never met before to be the one in charge of buying a used car for me.

So, great, Huber's dad owns Huber Ford dealership outside of Oklahoma city. So we work out this whole thing. Shout out to Joe pa Huber. Yeah. Dave Huber. He's a man. He helped out. So I had the seller drive the truck to the dealership. Okay. And then he floated all the money for me. He paid for the truck, got the title, got the bill of sale, all this stuff. And then I had my truck driver drive my truck to one spot and then pick it up at Huber Ford

and then drive back. So, so many moving parts trying to figure this out. And I'm trying to get this truck as soon as possible, trying to get health inspected, you know,

auto insurance, all this stuff. And he calls me on like Friday and he's like, it took me a little longer to load it up than I thought. And I was like, that's okay.

It took him so long, dude. Yeah. So this was loading it up in Oklahoma, but he had called me both times. Like, dude, it took forever to load it up. Yeah. Sorry. Because, because of the way it was angled with the generator on the back. Yeah. That was the kicker. He told me he did not like those generators. Oh man. And so he was like, so I thought it was going to be back to your house by 6 PM, but it might not be till 11 or something now. I'm like, hey, we'll be up. Sure. We'll take the truck whenever you want to drop it off. And he's like, well, nighttime's no good.

So it's probably gonna have to be Sunday. I'm like, okay, you know, maybe I'm not understanding. I was like, is it because, is there like a danger to like unloading these trucks under the cloak of darkness? You know what's going on? And he's like, well, that's the other kicker. The cloak of darkness.

The other kicker is I am a is I'm a seventh day Adventist. So I don't work from Friday at sundown to Saturday at sundown. And I was like, oh yeah, Desmond Doss. Yeah, of course. I mean, there is one seventh day Adventist truck driver in the world and I hired him. I mean, what are the odds?

That's insane. But yeah, of course, whenever, okay. So he brings it Sunday. So that's one aspect of like, what are the odds that this happened? And then other stuff starting to happen. I'm starting to order all my supplies. And oh, first of all, I, you know,

I go and get a company credit card, Capital One Spark business card. Good for you. Looks good. Good points. Jennifer Garner approved. Yep. Yep.

And, you know, you get 50,000 bonus points if you spend $4,000 by August 31st. And I'm like, man, I hope I can do that. Boy, 4,000? Did it in an hour. Check? I was seriously like, man, I hope so. If not, we could probably figure something out

and I could buy something. Yeah, I can do some personal expenses. I mean, the blenders alone, I mean,. If not, we could probably figure something out and I can buy something. I can, yeah, I can, I can do some personal expended. Yeah. I mean, the blenders alone where, I mean, three fourths. So anyway, I get these blenders and, uh, well, I don't get these blenders. I email this company and I realized, whoa, I bought these on May 28th and it's been 10 days. So I email them like, Hey, what's up with the blenders? They email back like, Oh, those are out of stock. I'm like, well, thank goodness I emailed you. When were you going to tell me? And so I'm shopping around trying to find these blenders. It turns out they're out of stock

everywhere. Even the manufacturer's website, they don't have them. I feel like it's one of those things that if they're out of stock, they're out of stock, you know? Cause you ordered from Webstron. Yeah. Yeah. I remember you saying that because that was a place that like, did I ever tell you like that delivered me the weirdest packaging like of stuff? Like I've delivered or I've had or table bases from them before. Oh, interesting. And the way like there was one time

they sent like this table base and like four different pieces or four different boxes. And one of the boxes was like, like the second biggest Amazon box you could get. And it was for like the tidiest little weird is yeah they're a really interesting place but anyway yeah they've been all right uh and so but i find this one website culinary depot sounds legit okay they say they're in stock i'm like great awesome i'll

take two of these blenders and i email them and i was like sorry to be that guy i literally just placed an order i'm just looking to get kind of an idea of when I can expect, when do these typically ship out? How long is processing typically? Once again, very sorry to be that guy. I just really need these as soon as possible. They email back and say,

due to the Jewish holiday Shavuos, we are observing that for the next five days. So you gotta work with Christians only, brother. That's the... I hired a seventh-avantage truck driver. I got some Jewish holiday I've never heard of. They're respecting that, and I can't get blunders until that's over with.

I'm like, how is this all happening? It's just stuff like that. When I did get the new truck, one of the generators didn't work, which two weeks ago, I saw this truck in person. I made the guy do every, I ran him through a health inspection. It all works.

Of course, now it's in my driveway. Can't get it to work. So, uh, really? It's like, what about it?

Like just not turning on or just not look like it couldn't get, uh, charged. That's why I kept trying to jumpstart. I kept trying to get the battery. I go take dollars on. They say it's perfect battery. It's fully charged. I was like, yeah, I was afraid of that. Then I got to find generator pair, man. That's why I kept trying to jumpstart. I kept trying to get the battery. I go take dollars and they say it's perfect battery. It's fully charged. I was like, yeah, I was afraid of that.

Then I got to find generator pair, man. That was very frustrating. I don't care if a website says we fix any and all generators. They're lying. Cause I call them. I say, yeah, it's power horse 7,500. I, and they go, Oh boy, we don't do that. I don't do pHs really. Cause I'm looking at your website right now and it says we fix any and all generators. And they go, oh, we got to change that. Well, we got, I mean, yeah. I had two. I'm not kidding.

Due to the Muslim holidays, we don't finish those power horses anymore. Oh, you said horse? Yeah. Okay, we're kosher. I can't do any horse. I have a guy. I have a guy for you, maybe.

I wish you would have given me some problems earlier. Oh, you're on vacation. I'm not going to text you with my problems. Hey, man, do you have any generator guys? Yeah, of course. My barber also has a food truck, and he's got a food truck guy. He's like, this guy's the best food truck guy in the world. Oh, that would be great.

So maybe he's the food truck mechanic. So hopefully, if you're a mechanic of food trucks, you deal with generators all the time. Yeah. Yeah. That was another thing that took, I mean, legitimately probably 15 phone calls before someone would agree to come look at my generator and I'm calling generator repair people. I'm not calling handyman and just like, would you want to take a crack at a generator? Um, it was crazy. And then I do get these two guys out there and, um, they worked on it for an hour and a half and not, you know, I'm trying to offer them water or anything we have. And like, no, and they were hard workers and, uh, ultimately couldn't get it figured out. Really still. So

one thing they showed me was like how to kick off the side of it and pull start it. Cause like your generator works. It's just this button, something with the battery starters not working. Yeah. Okay. So you have to do that every time like every time you have to be old lawnmower guy yeah yeah is it like one of those things that you think like could because your average worker like bondi bowl worker do it can rachel do it that's been on my mind yeah we ran rachel through it she was able to get it started had he do it had he could not okay could katherine do it i think katherine could rachel's a little more tone than katherine let's be real i think katherine could okay we should run her through it but yeah dude honestly at that point i had so many just bad things happening the fact that i could pull start it

i was like yes yeah baby it's working yeah i was so excited once you've been through the perils of like i i'm gonna have to buy a new generator you gotta win i will pull start anything so so it's the starter that's messed up or something connecting the starter but we have two identical generators so they were swapping parts and they're like but even like even if we swap the starter and the button on this one it still doesn't work so like something it's really messed up on the inside but pull start works okay who cares we'll do that until this generator no longer works so you have two generators yep so why do you need the second generator what's what that's how much power you need okay uh to run multiple freezers a fridge hot water heater water pump and the blenders okay shaved ice machine and you need those running 24

7 generator oh that's no i don't even want to get into sorry i'm just curious at this point like i i'll tell you everything off the podcast i just don't know how interesting it is the goal is to run the generators when we're operating and then plug into an outlet overnight. So the generators don't have to run 24-7. Sounds easy. Yeah, boy! Brad is back to talk about Good Ranchers. Let's go!

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Uh, basketball. Okay. You missed basketball yes and a couple quick stories from that one we show up and the intermediate league was full so we have to join the recreational this is the lowest level of league they offer yep which is really fine for most of us it's just isaac and glide probably it's like are they gonna fit in is this gonna be bad? And we had talked about, listen, sometimes in the past, we've played former international professional basketball players in the rec league.

And then other times in the intermediate league, we've played guys that are buns. And bald. Buns and bald. Yeah, that's about it. It is very inconsistent. But we show up, and the team we're up against it's an all-black team with uniforms okay it's like oh man yeah this is the rec league treatment we got last time

oh they had a they had a coach they got just a plain white tee no jersey and a clipboard that had like the diagram of the basketball court on see that's what i'm talking that's that's why it's like not that big of a deal what you choose. Because there might be an intermediate team that's like yeah, like Roaring Kitty over here. The Art Institute. Yeah, exactly. Was that intermediate? Yeah, that was the highest level that we could get to in volleyball.

Two Art Institute teams. See? They got to police this better. See, I was like, oh wow. So I said to Glide, I said, hey, we need it. Whatever you got, it looks like we're going to need it. We had multiple people cheering us on. We had Rachel and Glide's parents in the building. Oh, cool.

They were in town from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Nice. The other team, I feel like back in the day, hey, we've been doing KC Crew for a while. Oh, yeah. No one would come to these games. No one. No.

The other team had, I mean, maybe nine people watching, and there were two women. I don't know if they were live streaming or just filming it, but they filmed the whole game. Cool. I don't know where that's going. Did you turn up a notch for the camera? For the camera? Yeah, not for Rachel. For this stranger's camera, yeah. You look in there after every shot like,

that's what I'm talking about! A1! A1! Hey! But they were buns buns they were not good really yeah they were they knew their they knew their role they were in the right league okay yeah so how bad did we beat them i think we were like ahead by like 12 pretty much the whole game okay and just kind of did enough okay to um just win by that amount. Cause we got glide, Jake, Peter Harrison, Gunner, Gunner and Garrett and Garrett Gibson for that night. Yeah. And we will have Isaac eventually. Okay. So we'll be fine. It was really, really fun. Cause it's been a while since we've really had like our best friends on a team. Like Peter said, he hasn't played since Trey was on our team,

which is 2018, 2019. Whenever you introduced me to Scott. It's like we haven't played with Harrison much at all. Usually he's been on a different team. And so it was, I mean, I had a blast. Just like it was our best friends all on a team together. So a couple just notable things that happened. One is that at one point, I don't know how I was down on one end. The rest of the action is going on down there.

And so the ref is just talking to me. He's like, y'all are the weirdest team I've ever seen. And this is like maybe still the first half. I feel like Ben got that weird. You're not even there. No. I was like, dude. I said, dude, it's going to get a lot weirder.

Is this a new ref? Yeah, new refs. They're fun. Yeah. They were pretty good refs. And he was like, y'all are the weirdest team I've ever seen. And I said, well, dude, this isn't even that. What were we doing?

I didn't think it was anything that noteworthy. I don't even know what he was referring to. Because after that, this hadn't even taken place yet. So, wait. And Isaac's not there either. Isaac's not there either. Isaac could get real goofy. Isaac is one of those guys that's like, you should have done that, Isaac.

I feel like, I mean, Glide is like a very solid, very fundamental player. He, I mean, Harrison Pollard, Gunnar Dukkert, none of these people are doing anything that crazy. Gunnar's probably, what was Gunnar wearing? So I feel like Gunnar looked pretty normal. Okay. So it was so funny that this ref made a point to say this

because then after that, this happened, we're down there shooting free throws. There's maybe four minutes left in the game. We're up by 12 points. It is far from hectic or tense. It's just like, it's fine. Gunner shooting free throws. And I'm joking around with him.

I go, hey, make the first, miss the second. I'll take care of the rest. All right. Just joking with him. Gunner shoots free throw, misses the first one. Okay. I've at this point already just like forgotten what I've said. And also he didn free throw misses the first one okay i've at this point already just like forgotten what i've said and also he didn't even make the first one also we're up by

13 who cares and so then gunner gets the ball for his second free throw and he takes the ball behind his head and i thought he was like stretching like sometimes how you kind of like takes the ball behind his head it just at the front of the rim dude it was the perfect miss free throw boom comes right back to him like a chest pass yeah he got the ball instantly back to him boom right back to him goes up misses the layup that's just dying laughing um that's amazing yeah the ref had said we were so weird before that happened oh it was so funny it's like dude we're up by double digits he's intentionally missed his free throw let's save that once a game we should pull that out it worked phenomenally yeah it was great this other team dude one they

didn't want to they would never like even if we were shooting free throws they wouldn't send people down to rebound and the ref would be like hey white you might want to get some people down here what it would get down there and they would be in the wrong hey, Wyatt, you might want to get some people down here. What? They would get down there. They would be in the wrong spot. Like they didn't know where to stand for free throws. Are these guys like African-American or just African? Like they're like, like, did they talk? Like, like it was one of those things where it's like,

no, these guys are really good at soccer kind of guys. They like, are they Manute Bowles cousins? They didn't look like it. Okay. I know they said one word in English over and over again. They said movement a lot. I don't know if that was the name of a play or just a command. They'd get the ball, movement, movement. Oh, I forgot that they have a coach.

Stack, stack. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Movement, movement. Did you feel like the coach was active the whole game? The game had not gone well for them. They were shooting. I mean, they were probably six for 30 at this point. Coach comes in, coach starts playing.

He's just like, I'll just get into the game. Oh, space jam. So in the second half, yeah, he just was one of the guys. He just played, which is hilarious. In the regular shirt? Or did he get a jersey on? I think he put a penny on or something. But yeah, he just got in on the action.

Wow. It was really funny. It was, yeah, it was just a good time. So I don't know if they were African or something. But yeah, he just got in on the action. Wow. It was really funny. It was, yeah, it was just a good time. So I don't know if they were African or not. They were interesting.

I was just joking, yeah. But I'm trying to think what else happened. There was a guy there from This Made My Day. I didn't hear this, but there was a ref, there was a guy there

refereeing pickleball who came up to Gunner. Refereeing pickleball? I think he was over there. Oh, he had talked to me later, and he said they didn't know the rules, so he was over there helping them out or whatever, I think. It's the Beginner's League. And so that guy comes up to Gunnar and Harrison and says,

hey, is that Jake from volleyball? And they were like, whoa, is that Jake from volleyball? And they were like, whoa, I don't know about that. I guess so. And so I wrote it down, so I didn't remember. He said... So I didn't remember. What did you say? I wrote it down, so I didn't remember.

You just said... I wrote it down, so I won't remember this. Go ahead. Yeah, that's Jake, the volleyball guy. He's so good. Oh! I think Gunnar was like, do you mean his wife? Do you mean the rest of his team? Yeah, I couldn't believe that. It's one of those girls that's not hot, but like everyone

else around him is just a babe. And so it's like, that girl is fine. That's like, wait, stare at her specifically. Get everyone else out of there. So that made my whole day. They didn't tell me that till after the basketball game, but they're like, yeah, this guy came up and said, is that Jake, the volleyball guy? He's so good at volleyball. I didn't tell me that until after the basketball game. But they're like, yeah, this guy came up and said, is that Jake the volleyball guy? He's so good at volleyball. You would have been so pumped. I can't believe I earned that. He's so good.

That's crazy. Congrats. Thank you. Yeah, that was huge. That was huge. That was huge. But yeah, basketball's fun. This week we have a doubleheader.

I saw that. It's going to be a blast. I need to get some shots up beforehand. The first team we play lost to the team we beat pretty easily. Oh, really? So I wonder how they do their free throws. Should we try to do that every single time?

Like that could be our calling card. If we are winning the game, we miss our second free throw on purpose and try to get the ball back. That's a great idea. And everyone around the three-point line, hey, we're crashing the boards because you know this.

Dude, that's pretty fun, actually. If you master that, it sounds like Gunnar had a great version of it. It was so fun It's pretty hard to stop right? I mean, I guess it's not that hard, but it'd be fun You don't really have time to block out it happens so in because you can't get in the lane until after the balls released Yeah, and it's already happening. I mean the ball is already back to gunner Yeah, let's perfect it. Yeah, I'll practice so look like idiots in the

warm-up line just like boom everybody gets two i'm excited man yeah i was i was we we ended up staying in texas longer we we stay with katherine's family and it was really fun to just be down there but that was like the one thing i was like i do have basketball tonight that's katherine's like okay we can go back if you want to go back. I was like, no, we'll stay. So yeah, it's really, I died laughing multiple times. Just people missing layups, people, you know,

just funny stuff. It was great. What was something happened at Culver's too? Oh yeah. Just I had forgot that we used to go to Culver's after basketball. Good time. And Gunnar mentioned it and it was Father's Day. I couldn't believe that we got everyone to come to Culver's. But sure. Well, it Gunnar mentioned it, and it was Father's Day. I couldn't believe that we got everyone to come to Culver's. Sure. Well, it's Father's Day, so you can do whatever you want on Father's Day.

That's part of it. You get a free pass, carte blanche. Yes. Which, it was fun hearing Gunnar and Peter and them talk about Father's Day. They're like, this is way better than my birthday. Gunnar's like, my birthday's on a weekday, and I gotta work all day. Father's Day. Get treated like royalty. Yeah. So what's it like to buy your first

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never a part of that inside joke. Rachel and Peter are talking, and Rachel's like, Peter, what do you normally get here? And he's like, you know, the North Atlantic cod's better than you think. I was like, you've got to be kidding me. And then when he gets to the table, you know, they're like, 41, order for 41, and they set down chili cheese fries. I'm like, Peter've got to be kidding me. And then when he gets to the table, you know, they're like 41, order for 41. And they set down chili cheese fries.

I go, Peter, what are you doing? Peter is pretty well-versed in fast food. Like he knows the Taco Bell breakfast menu better than anybody else I know. Yeah, you know, specials. He knows when they're taking away items, when you put it back on. And he's the skinniest one of all of us.

Exactly. Something about that Southwest Missouri blood. You can eat whatever you want. It doesn't matter. So it was really fun. And I'm just so excited that we're doing this and so excited for Sunday. And for you to see, Glide scored every point for us,

by the way. Really? He's, he's, he's as advertised. He's good. And dude, it just,

we're all just rusty. We're just not good at basketball. Right. We played five minutes in both teams had zero points. It got very comical, very quick. We're, team to 10 wins first team to 10 and then um yeah it is something that like weirdly enough yeah it does take a second to like get back into basketball rhythm and and and when you're younger it doesn't take a second yeah when you're younger it's like i can play pick up right now but all of a sudden you're like your timing's off or like you can't dribble quite perfectly or whatever it's so frustrating

yeah just the strength of like how much legs do i use how much arms do i use like i can get it online but it's just right that's power right takes of some get tired easier like everything yeah man that's fun so fun something random this is a so on the way down to Corpus Christi or Galveston either way. So we went we went down to Dallas or Sherman where Catherine's family lives and then we caravan with Catherine's family down to Corpus Christi. So it was me and my father-in-law and Bo in a car and then the rest of the kids and Catherine's mom and Catherine in the van. Um, so we kind of got split up from them because Catherine had to stop to nurse and we're like, we'll just keep going. Whatever. Uh, we stopped for Whataburger, Bo's first Whataburger experience. Good times. He was

like, this place is awesome. I was like, I know, buddy, this is, this is what dreams are made up. No. Um, but, uh, we stopped for Whataburger in Kyle, Texas. Do you know anything about Kyle, Texas? It makes me think of Kyle field a and M, but no, I don'turger in Kyle, Texas. Do you know anything about Kyle, Texas? It makes me think of Kyle Field A&M, but no, I don't know Kyle, Texas. That's what I kind of thought. I was like, I feel like I've heard of this before. Oh, maybe it's because of Kyle Field. Chris Kyle.

Or Chris Kyle. Oh, no, it's not. I call my duos Chris Kyle's sniper rifle. I haven't looked into this at all. This is just anecdotally from my Texas family that told me this, but apparently Kyle, Texas, uh, did something where they tried to,

uh, gather as many Kyle's as possible. They tried to break the Guinness book of world records, uh, event for the most Kyle's in one place at a time. I love it. And they failed. Oh,

and that first, for whatever reason, I couldn't get over. I thought that is the funniest thing i've ever heard so embarrassing i mean people were coming from can you imagine you're you're kyle from rhode island and you're like i'm gonna do this like let's let's make this happen i have a friend named kyle let's reunite let's go down to kyle texas i mean it's in the middle of nowhere i mean not middle of nowhere texas but like it's not a cool city. It's not Fort Worth. No. And all of a sudden you get down there and you,

we're 200 short. Dang. Like, dang, could we, could we send out the bad signal? Like you call, it's pretty hard to like contact Kyle's like,

uh, there's just the idea of that just cracks me up to just fail at that. Like that is, imagine all these people, all these people named Kyle, like that's the only thing you have in common with these people and you're all in one place and you're like well i guess we we uh we didn't do it so hey good try guys maybe next year it's like no i'm not coming back next year yeah that was our one shot to do it what a funny yeah when you really start

to think of the details how funny is it that they gathered probably yeah several hundred people and they're all meeting each other but they don't need to because they know each other's names. Hey, I'm Kyle. Well, yeah, I know. I'm Kyle too. Yeah. So what do you guys want to talk about? Did you ever, do people have weird spellings of your name before?

You know, like, no. Did skater culture impact you at your high school? Yeah. I mean, yeah. You know, they're just shaking hands being like oh we already know yeah yeah yeah uh-huh let me guess you can call me ramirez i'll call you smith it's like okay uh but yeah i just love the idea like did they where'd they meet where they meet at a cabela's you know and a world record standing there and they're like well i guess this isn't happening so we don't even need to take our picture we'll just it. It's a world record, not based on merit or performance.

And they still didn't do it, which is so funny. Like all you gotta do is get a quantity game. Like I have, I have failed on live national TV doing a world record, but at least I, I tried, but at least it's skill based.

Yeah. At least I got it later. But that's funny that they were just like, yeah, drive it from all over. And they couldn't get like a like an estimate to know like, Hey, don't come. Yeah.

It's too bad. Okay. So I just looked it up real quick. City spokesperson, Alison Kelly said only 706 Kyle showed up. Someone's done more than that. The record is 1490. Oh, so they were off by 836.

It wasn't even close. It wasn't even like, dang, if we could just, does anybody like Facebook message? Hurry, hurry area. And so the 1400 number is Kyle's as well. Or is this like Mohammed's and like,

I think it's obviously, oh, that's a good question. Like the most people with one name altogether. Um, yeah, let's see. I find it hard to believe that largest same name gathering is what they're trying to break. Yeah. Um,

Oh, in Bosnia. Oh, now it's saying, Oh, maybe that's world record. 2,300 people in Bosnia named Ivan. Really? July 30th, 2017. Oh, man. Wow. Yeah, they got smoked. Good try. It had to be K-Y-L-E. It couldn't be anything.

Oh, it's so funny to me. Whatever. That's just a random thing that I'd never heard of. And I was like, just put yourself in that situation, especially if you're not from 20 minutes away. Yeah. Having to like, maybe you took off work. Maybe you're convinced your wife is going to be fun. Maybe who knows? Yeah. Yeah. Just come along Texas. We've always wanted to go to Texas. As someone who's broken a lot of world records, it's not worth it. You don't get anything.

It doesn't matter. You don't get anything. You don't even get a certificate. Well, they would split a certificate 1400 ways. True. Yeah. You don't get any. You don't even get a certificate. Well, they would split a certificate 1400 ways. True. Yeah. You don't get your own Kyle certificate. Yeah. It's so hard to get it. What was that word?

Adjudicated. It costs money. You have to have you have to fly someone from Guinness World Records out. So most of the time it's not worth. Okay. Even doing really. I would think that. So they actually they might have lost money.

They paid for a guy to come out. He didn't even break it. Oh, man. Bummer. That is. That's a bummer. But yeah. they might have lost money they paid for a guy to come out and he didn't even break it oh man bummer that is that's a bummer but uh yeah overall though cinnamon shore i recommend it it looked awesome uh yeah how do i so it's it's similar to like that that style of yeah carlton landing seaside where it's like you have these perfectly manicured, beautiful houses that are all really tight together. Um, and they have like local pool, local coffee shop, pizza, all these different things. You could rent a golf cart. So everyone's riding around in golf carts. I love golf cart communities. Dude, it's awesome. The kids, I mean, you want to talk about something

that the kids could do for days. It's just riding a golf cart. They thought was so fun. Every time I pulled up on the golf cart, Rosie would run in and just say, drive, drive, drive. And I was like, sure, let's go. And one of the things that I was blown away by, maybe, you know, this, maybe this is more normal than I've ever seen, but I've never seen this before in Texas. You can drive on the beach. Have you ever seen this before? Interesting. Like a golf cart is going on the sand, brother or cars, cars. Never seen that before. I didn't think it was a normal thing either. I was blown away by it. What kind of car everyone else is from Texas. So they're like, yeah, we've seen this before. Uh, I mean, you have to get a, like a permit to park on the beach, but I mean, four wheel drive

mostly because it's jeeps and trucks. Yeah. So jeeps, trucks, people bring like RV camper kind of like attachments. Like, I mean, it's a, it's a cool vibe down there. And so it's like, technically this is this back portion of the beach is a road. And so, yeah, you're driving down this road with all these other people. And I guess the sand is pretty compact there. It's not super loose sand. Yes, that's part of it. And that's, that's like great marketing by them calling it cinnamon shore.

Cause this, this sand is like dark Brown, not great. I mean that people kind of hate on the Texas coast. And there's a reason that like, I just always assumed that every beach was kind of similar to the beach and Gulf shores. Totally. And then you go to a different beach and it's like, Oh, I guess it's kind of Rocky. The sand is not very, you know, you couldn't even like put your feet in the sand. You had to like dig in there. Like you're a baseball player or something but um i thought that was really cool though driving your car on the beach yeah it feels wrong that's sweet though i kept asking people i was like did you know you could drive your car like and everyone else was like yeah that's a thing in texas which

is so texas like to be like let's just drive our car we all do it yeah why not um how we do it. Yeah. Why not? So that was cool. And yeah, overall, it was interesting not being, like usually with Catherine's family, we are in a house on the beach. This is, we're like in a house that you had to drive a golf cart down there. But literally you're driving your golf cart with all your chairs and kids and everything,

literally to like to your spot on the beach. It's not like you're parking, walking everything down or whatever. So that was kind of fun. That's perfect. It really was. It was a lot of fun. You guys go to the beach. It's not like you're parking, walking everything down or whatever. So that was kind of fun. That's perfect. It really was. It was a lot of fun. You guys go to the beach every day.

Yeah. Uh, beach multiple times a day, pool multiple times. Pool had a like service. Like you could get drinks and food and everything. One time, uh,

one of my brother-in-laws got a pina colada for Hattie, like a virgin pina colada. How you thought it was the greatest thing ever. Yeah. Oh, it was all of a sudden, like one of these things, I don't think she had expectations the rest of the week, but she was like kind of wanting one, like, and I'm in my head, I'm like, are you going to think that every

time we go to the beach now, like you get pool service, like somebody bringing you a lot of it is. Um, but yeah, it was, it was a blast, man. It was one of those times where I feel like our kids behaved really well, but also we were very easy going. It wasn't, It was one of those times where I feel like our kids behaved really well, but also we were very easygoing. It was one of those things where, like, if they don't behave well, then we have to be a little bit stricter. You know what I mean? Like, but they're behaving so well. So it's like, Dad, can we go to the pool?

It's like, yeah, we can do whatever you want. Like, you're doing great. All of a sudden, like, I don't think I disciplined really any of my kids the entire week. And Henry even did a good job sleeping. And so it was just a blast. Rosie does not like the water very much. So that was a little bit of a problem.

How do you used to not like it? Right. She used to be really weird about the sand. Okay. Which is almost worse. Like, because Rosie just loved the sand, love playing like right in her feet in the water and stuff. But like anytime I would carry her out, you know, a little bit farther, she would be like, no, no, no.

Really? But Texas beaches, I'm going to bag on Texas real quick just because they have so much going for them. Go ahead and bag. But they don't have the beaches. the, uh, first and foremost, uh, they, we all like, it was like a normal thing to get tar and oil all over our clothes and our bodies. What? Yeah. BP dude. It was like one of those things. It was like, we joked about it in that video. We haven't released yet, but, um, it was like, yeah, they're, they're called oil slicks or whatever. Like, and you don't realize it. And then you get out and you look at your feet, like look at my sandal.

That one's not very like, okay. It's like, whatever. You can't really see it very well, but like a little bit dark, little like stuff on the sides, like nothing crazy anymore.

Cause we like figured out how to get it off. So you're just like random patches of oil, random patches of oil in the water. That that's like trashy. Right. Right. Like you don't hear of that. No. And it was like a pretty normal thing to the point where like, there's like signs or like, you know, advice on how to get this tar off of you. Did they say where it's coming from? I know, but I mean, it's kind of like,

you could see an oil rig out in the, or whatever it is, whatever, one of those things out there. But I don't understand how that works or how the spill is or whatever, but it was kind of like you could see an oil rig out in the or whatever it is whatever one of those things out there um but i don't understand how that works or how the spill is or whatever but it was one of those things where it's like this is like a beautiful community but i don't know if that would be a deal breaker for some people fix the oil problem um and that combined with there was one day specifically where jellyfish were rampant i don't like that no especially with kids. Nope. Because it's one thing to like, I can avoid them. The water was pretty clear, so you can see them.

But like, man. And so there was one day I walked. There's like a South Cinnamon Shore, North Cinnamon Shore. North has a coffee shop. South does not. So I walked down there. It was a decent walk, maybe a mile or so, mile and a half. But I counted on my way back because there were so many

washed up on shore jellyfish. I counted 71. Hey, jellyfish, learn how to swim and not get washed up. It was wild, dude. It was like, this is crazy. You can't even hang out by the water without maybe stepping on a jellyfish. That is a bummer for humans.

Bummer for the jellyfish. Bummer for whatever was planning on eating the jellyfish in the water. It's just screwing everything up. So, so those things I, I, Texas, you're, it's cool. You can drive on the beach. Not so cool that you got oil and what a burger Bucky's. Yes. Great.

Sure. George Bush, but figure out the whole oil thing. Oil and jellyfish is the whole ocean. Texas people are like, I the whole oil thing. Oil and jellyfish. It's the whole ocean. Texas people are like, I love getting oil on my swimming suits. You know, like we spent like, you know, like not a ton of money, but like we spent money on their swim shirts and all this stuff. And they're just basically not ruined, but oil slick. They got, yeah, they got stains all over them. That's wild. Yeah. I've heard of all sorts of different things. Like, oh, you don't want to go to Cancun in December. That's when the red algae is there. Right. like oh you don't want to go to cancun in december that's when the red algae is there right oh you don't want to go here that's when the seaweed comes

to shore right i've heard of oil problems yeah yeah it was that stinks also they had bulldozers on the beach every single day clearing the sand like either getting the seaweed algae whatever off or maybe just like making it smoother for the roads i don't know well that's nice it's kind of an interesting that was another thing i was like blown but I was like, you guys see this thing. They were get swept away. Well, this is crazy. Yeah, the high ties ever take them. So anyway, it was a it was a fun time.

I'm trying to think of anything else like I love it. The beach is awesome. Awesome. Oh, sure. When we were in Gulf Shores and there was one day where the wind had finally died down and I could just play in the ocean and I nothing makes me like a kid. Yeah, and playing in the ocean oh yeah it's so fun Bo loved the waves yeah this is another thing uh yeah this is one of those like classic parent where did this come from why how did this thing stick but I he wanted me to come out with them so I'm holding

them in these waves he's got a little puddle jumper life jacket thing on. And I'm like, all right, big dog, let's do this thing. And for whatever reason, everything from that, that day on was big dog. Oh, that's amazing. So, so all of a sudden I'm like, oh, here comes a big dog, big dog wave here, big dog. Come on. And I mean, like, he's like loving it, like loving all these waves. We're jumping over them and stuff. He looks back. He's like, we got five more big dogs coming. Come on, big dogs. All on big dogs all right big dog we got this big dog and so from like next day dad can we go out and have some big dog way that like and then the one time i think katherine tried to take him out and she was like yeah you

say something about a big dog i don't know i was like oh bo you see some big dogs i saw some big dogs yeah dude i love that so much anything is big dogs all right come and get your burgers big dog big dog all right yeah anything is a big dog come on big dog yeah so paw patrol there's some big dogs on there decent sized dogs yeah so the big dogs that was a fun time with bow hattie had a blast i mean hattie is a vibe on the beach so is bow i mean they just loved running in and out of the water and having a blast. I literally there was one day Bo wanted to go out in the waves so bad. It was that day that all those jellyfish were out and I just prayed. I was like, Lord, just

protect us because I am so stressed right now and I think we were out there for 15 minutes and finally I was like, Bo, let's we got to go back. That's it. That's it. I God can't protect us anymore. I had your protection. He's about 10 20 minutes because I was like I was like praying Cause I was like, I was like praying. I was like, Lord, like, I don't know.

Is this stupid of me to do this? Like you've protected us so far, but I see all these things. So maybe, you know, what's the, what's the boundary here? Like how much do we, do we just say like, okay, I've seen five of them go past us that have not stung us. So is that your sign of like, okay, you should probably go in though. You know, like, is it a warning sign? Don't be an idiot. Like find the balance here. Yeah. I mean, did you Google like how, how much does a jellyfish sting affect a four-year-old?

Like, is it going to be pretty bad or, but I've gotten, have you ever gotten stung or whatever it's called? Yeah. Don't like it. Yeah. And it permeates for a while. It's not like, oh, that hurt for a half second. It's like, no, that hurt for like the rest of the day. Yeah. Don't like it. Yeah. And it permeates for a while. It's not like, oh, that hurt for a half second. Yeah. It's like, no, that hurt for like the rest of the day. Yeah. So I knew it's no fun. It would bum them out. But anyway, all to say great time. Jellyfish were good.

I just feel I was about to say something else, but I forget now. So yeah, a lot of tar and then you get it off and then you get tart again. You're- Re. Yeah. So that's too bad. You get tarred, and then-

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I did notice you got, uh, you got bleeped on correct opinions. I got bleeped on correct opinions, but not bleeped. It was just, uh, cut out. You said a word that apparently somebody, I don't know if it was Derek or Trey. Wait, wait, wait. When? I'm trying to remember the context without just saying the word. You were saying something about, oh, like the Mayflower and Plymouth Rock or something like that.

Okay. And you used a word that men that forcefully took it, took, took women. Oh, oh, oh. Yeah. That got muted. Yeah. That's funny. Because I was like, wait what what just did just skip and so i went back and i was like because i watched the video i was like oh interesting

it's so funny i wonder if that was derrick's choice or trey's choice youtube youtube just automatically muting people taking it down but um that's funny that's funny you listen to that yeah that was wild but yeah they like, when was the Mayflower? I mean, that was recent, right? I was like, are you guys messing with me? Yeah. It was kind of crazy how they didn't know anything. They thought the Mayflower was one of Columbus's boats.

The Nina, the Pinta, the Mayflower. I was like, y'all are messing with me, right? No. It's like Columbus is from Spain. You think one of his things is just called El Mayflower? That alone just was like, what? This is, no. Like, surely. Yeah. That really threw me off. Oh, Los Mayflowers. I was trying to teach Katie who came over on the Mayflower. They didn't treat women well. Sorry. Oh my gosh. It's history. Yeah. That's funny. You noticed

that. Did you feel like, um, how was your, uh, balance of like being gone, still working, thinking about work rhythms? I was so unplugged. Like, like literally how was your, a balance of like being gone, still working, thinking about work, rhythms. I was so unplugged. Like, like literally there was one day where I, my phone, I didn't bring my phone charger. Maybe, maybe it's a little hack for life hack because you're kind of always chasing the charge on vacation, all vacation. And so multiple days, there was one day I thought my phone was charging overnight. I borrowed like Catherine's or something and it wasn't. So it was at 2%. So it died almost immediately and the whole day. So it was at the house charging. Yeah. And then like, so the whole day I didn't have

it and then I get back and for whatever reason it didn't, the plug didn't work or something. So it hadn't even been charging. And so there was like a full like 18 hours where I didn't even have my phone at all. I definitely wasn't like unplugged completely. Like I still looked at stuff and whatever. I'm not, I'm not saying like I'm perfect in that, but like, it was really nice. I feel like sometimes like my default when I'm bored at home is often, let's see what's going on. Like, let's see what our analytics look like. Let's see what comments we have. Let's see what Facebook posts metrics. Yeah. Cause it's like, that feels like it's like me justifying them doing my job. And like, I just didn't worry about that stuff very much. And we'd already recorded podcasts. We were like ahead for that. And so I didn't have to worry about that.

So yeah, it was really, really, I don't know. It was just a good, healthy time away in everything. Like I didn't, I didn't worry about anything literally until I was driving home yesterday. I started making it to do list of things to do, but I was like, I, I didn't worry about anything literally until I was driving home yesterday. I started making a to-do list of things to do, but I was like, I didn't worry about anything. And you did such a good job, like in the few things that we did have to worry about. Like, I think on the way down, I was texting you like, oh, we should do this thing for good ranchers where you just use a sound bite of me or something. And then you just ran with it.

So I didn't have to worry about that stuff. So, um, yeah, it was great. It was a wonderful vacation. And like, I've been talking about, like, it's not, not a vacation. It's a trip. And it definitely was a trip, but it was like a trip where I was very intentional or had so much fun with my kids. Like my kids want to swim. Yeah. Let's swim until you don't want to swim in. Yeah. Like, like let's stay up late. Let's, you know, whatever, let's do all these fun things. Like cares? That's what vacation is all about. Yeah.

Looks awesome. Yeah, I just had a lot of fun with my family and love my kids, man. They're a blast. And it's fun. Hattie is still not very good at swimming, but I'm trying to slowly train her and get her better. It's just fun to watch wins happen with your kids. Another thing, since we left a day later, we were just all hanging out. Like we had nothing to do

that day that all the kids were sick. And Catherine's like, maybe you should try to teach Hattie how to ride her bike again. And I was like, yeah, that sounds like a great idea. Right. She's the only one not sick. Um, go injure. But yeah. Learned how to ride the bike. Cool. She's she's in, it was, it was one of those things. I think no training wheels. Yeah. People suggested it last time. They're like, you gotta, you gotta have like a balance bike. I was like, she's had the balance bike.

She's good with the balance bike guys. I'm not an idiot here. Right. Um, but basically the issue was that the bike she was trying to learn on was too heavy. And so we use the balance bike, but added training or added pedals to it. Um, cause we have like a hybrid the balance bike, but added training or added pedals to it. Um, cause we have like a hybrid kind of bike, super lightweight. And all of a sudden she did it literally within two minutes. Cool. It was like, she just all of a sudden just started pedaling. And it was like, how do you ride your bike? What a victory it was. It was great. So we

brought her bike with us, which I gave Catherine a hard time for get the bike, but it was me. I was so pumped for Hattie. I was like, we'll bring the bike. We'll do it. Have to bring the bike. Uh, I did set up an unfortunate precedent with her though. I've been trying to go on walks. And so I was like, how do you bring your bike? We'll go on a walk. And she's like, dad, let's race on the bike. So now every time we go on a walk with her bike, she just wants me to like sprint like half the time. And I was gassed after like 15 minutes of that. Hey, get ready for basketball conditions. It was.

It was like, I don't sprint ever anymore. That's great. But I wanted to beat her. I didn't want her to win every single time. There were some times, though, she's going downhill, and I was like, this isn't fair, Hattie. That's really fun. Yeah, it just looked like a great vacation.

I was honestly pretty jealous. I was like, that looks like Brad's just, just hanging out. It was great, dude. I was, I was just hanging out with my kids and my, I mean, Catherine, but Catherine, obviously less than the kids, honestly, because she was hanging out with her family too. But like, yeah, it was like, I just want to spend time hanging and relaxing. I don't think Catherine and I even gotten like a small spat, no spats, no spats, do that scene. Um, so yeah, I think we always try to do a good job of not bothering each other when we're on vacation. Nothing even like came up to like potentially bother you with, it was just like pretty smooth. I just mainly worked

on Bondi Friday stuff. The one thing I texted you about the whole time you were gone was I had Peter come over and try to help me with the generator. Oh, yeah. And we couldn't even get to the generators because he broke off the key in the lock. And so I had texted Brad. I said, do you have a, what is it, a grinder?

Yeah, you have an angle grinder. And that was the one text. And he's like, no, but that's hilarious. And I just sent him a video of Peter just like sparks everywhere in my driveway at 8 a.m. It's just I thought when you said angle grinder, you were going to use it for the drum

in the back. Oh, oh, oh, yeah, probably could have. Yeah. Next time you hadn't bought one, though or Peter did. Peter did have it. So how do you feel about going to AutoZone? Like that's one of those places I am so unfamiliar with,

but it kind of feels cool. You kind of feel like you're doing something. Yeah, it was nice. My hands were black, and I went into AutoZone, and I needed help with something. It was nice. If your hands are black, I know something that can get that off everywhere.

Okay. These last two weeks have been an interesting just like journey like learning about myself and learning what it's like to like with social media most of my job or most of my time as an adult has been spent like with autonomy and with like very little restrictions very little holding me back from doing what i want to do whether it's like posting or creating podcasting right it's so much of what i'm trying to do now is like i wish all i want to do is just smell sell smoothie bowls but smoothie bowls, but I don't know how to fix a generator. I don't know how to hire a trucker. Yeah. I don't know. You know, it's like, I have to rely on so many people to do this stuff. I have a landlord now and that is, feels like having a boss and I'm learning how to deal with

that. And yeah, speaking of that just real quick, and then I'll stop talking about this. You know, at one point I was like, Bondi, I think we opened June 10th. More recently, I've been like, June 28th, grand opening, even said it on Correct Opinions. That's how confident I was. After a little meeting yesterday, can't really talk about it. I don't know when we're going to be open.

Really? It was actually very, very deflating. I was very sad. Just very, very sad last night. We can talk more about it off the podcast, but it's just like, yeah, just not being in control. You know, just like, I'm off the podcast, but it's just like, yeah, having just not being in control, you know,

just like I'm at the mercy of other people's rules and contracts. And like, I don't know when, like it may not open until after the cruise. It may not open until late July, which at that point, then Rachel, it can't do it.

I can't work it at all. She's starting her job. Yeah. Interesting. So I received some bad news yesterday. Who knows? Hey, tell me, I'll fix it. I'm back, baby.

I have no idea what it is, but that's a bummer, dude. I'm sorry. Yeah, it's just tough. It worked so hard. I mean, seriously, like 12 hours pretty much every day the last two weeks with the finish line. Like, yeah, I'm getting closer and closer. And then yesterday, the finish line got pushed an unknown

amount of distance away. Okay. Here's what we do. So not truly, but this is a funny, this is a funny story that my father, I got to know my father was so well. Oh, great. Because eight hours down there, eight hours back, we drove together. Um, and so I'm just trying to ask him everything and learn about his life. Um, first of all, he's huge golfer, loves golf, just went to Ireland with some of his buddies. One of his friends is like one of the richest dudes in America, just oil guy. Oil slick guy.

Yeah, exactly. We're like, no problem. So he flew in a private jet to Ireland with his buddies and went to Ireland. Beautiful course. Anyway, unreal. Going to Aspen to play with this guy this week. He told me all these different golfing betting games, dude, do you know about them? Oh, uh, bingo, bingo, bongo. We didn't talk about that. I almost said that, but I was

like, is that one of those dink and flick a moments where like, I told you about, I talked to my black friend about dink and flick a one time. Yes. You like did crazy rock. Hey man. jacob dink and flicker he's like what um yeah but skins yes yeah all these different things wolf wolf another fun one yeah like he kept telling me all these different games i was like that sounds i want to play golf more now yeah ever um but he told me like back in the day have you heard of a shoot what's it called it's like at the beginning of a tournament you can buy teams have you heard about this buy teams no calcutta whoa you heard that word the word don't know what it means okay um i don't understand exactly how it

works but you can buy teams uh like you can basically like auction off every team in the tournament you'd be like i think that team's good tournament. You'd be like, I think that team is good. I'm going to pay 50 bucks for him. Somebody else, I'll tell you a hundred, but then you take all the money that's in the Calcutta pool and whoever wins gets all that money. Oh,

I see. I think, I think that's how I understand it. Anyway, he was talking about how he would play a lot in high school, college, all around West Texas, where he's from.

These tournaments had a blast, but there was one one in his hometown. His hometown is Dry County. Don't sell alcohol. Not allowed to sell alcohol. And so what this funeral home, this undertaker would do, is come out with this little pop-up tent, and they would have a dog show, is what they call it.

He's like, we had this mangy old Dalmatian dog tied up around this pole, and you could pay $1 to go see the dog show. And with the dog show came a free beer. And so everyone's like, man, I think I need to get it back the whole night, you know, whatever, around the turn to get, see the dog show. He said a dog, man, another dog show, you know, like, man, that dog was crazy. I gotta see another one of those. So here's what we do. I like this. We do, we do dog shows. Yeah. A little like a prohibition era. Yeah. Um, bootlegging. Like, I don't know exactly what your issues are and what's constraining you, but if it's something like that,

get around it and do a dog show. Nothing dog show can't take care of. Yeah. Yeah. Think about it. We run dog shows. We run dogs and we go all over the city so therefore they can't track our dog they can't find it yeah yeah nothing's yeah perfect that's fun speaking of father-in-laws mine just texted our crews group chat and said he just finally watched key and peel substitute teacher thing hilarious no content like a little bit like i mean a week ago uncle Uncle John, coach, called Braden Bilake, and Caitlin's like, that's not his name. He's like, it's from Key and Peele, substitute teacher, and then no one responded for a week.

And then just now, Steve Koop finally watched substitute teacher thing. Hilarious. So a little bit of context. Nice, Steve. Steve's on summer vacation he's just in the tractor all day now so yeah i'm glad glad he checked it out pretty fun man uh one fun update for you yes been watching more parks and rec dude it's awesome you inspired me i've been watching i've been watching early seasons yeah trying to kind of diagnose it myself like when when does ron become raw you know what i'm Dude It's awesome You inspired me I've been watching I've been watching early seasons Yeah

Trying to kind of diagnose it myself Yeah Like when When does Ron become Ron You know what I'm Tell me more It's great Rachel and I have tried to watch it

I mean we spend all day together And so usually we'll break for lunch And we watch one episode of Parks and Rec And I I'm mad at all these other people For years Who have told me

The first season You gotta get through it It's not that great. First season's great. Brother, but. And I'm sure it does get better, but so many people discourage me from watching it. And they. Because of that.

Yeah. Like you were like, I'm not even going to watch this thing because the first season. I thought it was going to be awful. And no, it's funny. It's so much. And when I compare it, the other comedy I gave a try recently, Ted Lasso. Parks and Rec is so much funnier than Ted Lasso. Yeah, for sure.

Not even close. For sure. Yeah, I just really enjoy. I laugh out loud several times an episode. Parks and Rec is so much funnier than Ted Lasso. Yeah, for sure. Not even close. For sure. Yeah, I just really enjoy it. I laugh out loud several times an episode. I think it's so funny. Let's do a weekly ranking of characters in your mind. Who are your favorite characters right now? Amy Poehler is so funny.

Okay, so Leslie Knope, number one? Yeah, Leslie Knope. Then Andy Dwyer, is that his name? You're already loving him. Yeah, he's great. When he took off his cast and he had all that stuff under the cast, that was really funny. That really caught me by surprise.

How far into it are you? Maybe eight episodes into season one. Somewhere around there. I'm trying to think what just happened. The banquet episode was hilarious. Leslie gets that haircut. I think it's when Andy gets the cast off. The men's haircut. Yes. it's when Andy gets the cast off. The men's haircut.

Yes. It's a Salvatore. And all the lesbian jokes. This is Anne. I am so proud of you guys. Thank you. So yeah, I'm trying to think what episode we just watched recently. It's when

I think two episodes ago is when they find weed in the community garden in the pit. And then that's where you learn Andy's living in the pit. I think the most recent stake out, they stake them out. Yes. Oh,

that was the most recent episode where they catch Tom breaking into his own stakeout car. And he goes to, so right now the, Oh, Louis CK is in parks and rec now. Yeah. So he's,

they have some huge names in there that you kind of forget are in there. Like Paul Rudd is in there for a solid season. Yeah. Louis CK. We were watching last night and I go, Catherine, do you realize that's like one of the most popular comedians of our time? She's like, no, I haven't. Who is he?

Yeah. Never heard his name. So I just watched the episode where Leslie is so nervous to go on a date with him. It goes through all like the funny dates that she's been on and okay so I'm looking at all this episodes here yeah it's just a good show and I'm

excited for it to keep getting better yeah it exactly it is like it's like oh this is a funny show like this is a yeah above average show but all of a sudden it's like oh it's now and i want i don't want to like over emphasize that because then of course you're going to be like well it's not that much better whatever but the same i okay so leslie andy give me give me

top five yeah who else do i really we got ron we got donna we, we got Mark, we got Anne, we got... Tom makes me laugh. Tom, of course. As he's in Sorry. Okay. Yeah, I'll put him at third. He's just had some pretty funny things. Yep. We haven't got to see much of Ron yet.

What's her name? April Ludgate. I feel like she... I did make the point, I was like, I like her character. I feel like I've never seen that type of character in a show before. Okay. So you like her, or you don you like her or i do like her she hasn't been in it that much okay um karen filipelli love her yeah i'm an i told katherine last night

i was like it's amazing i think she's very cute in parks and rec and i don't think she's very like i think she's of course a beautiful lady but like in the office there's something like just about her personality and maybe the way she dresses or something, but it's like, you're way cuter in parks and rec. Interesting. Maybe you, you just like a health professional.

You know that she's a nurse in this. Maybe you have a softer spot for it. She's just sweeter. I don't know. Yeah. She's more of the, the good guy. Yeah.

Parks and rec. Yeah. Um, so I'll, I'll put her at four. Okay. And then my fifth favorite is trying to think of other or some people we got uh they're not making him seem super likable right now it's a lot of just like him being like this womanizer a lot is most of his character at the

moment i yeah yeah i don't want to i don't want to say too much don't say too much but i agree um give me some other people who are in it let's see donna has she had much of a role not too much okay donna andy we got april jerry have you heard much from jerry yet oh yeah okay so jerry made me laugh that one episode it was a recent one i watched where they're all trying to dig up dirt on everybody and he's like we guys not do this. And all they do is just keep finding this awful dirt on Jerry. Oh, dude. It's like Jerry's adopted mother was busted for a marijuana possession. It's like, oh my gosh, you didn't know that? I didn't know it was adopted.

Oh, Jerry. Oh, Jerry. Jerry. I am so sorry. I didn't want to do this. I think everyone that has watched is just all collectively thinking, just wait, dude. Really?

Yes. Yeah. Because you're like, April, they haven't done much with her. Ron haven't done. Jerry, yeah, he's kind of funny for that one day. But it's like, Donna, they all just get so, they figure out how to write for all of them so well. Cool. And all of a sudden, it's just like humming jokes back and forth

and personalities. Cool. Anyway. Yeah, it's fine right now but yeah there isn't much from ron yet or april ron had a hernia in the last episode which is fun because just recently i taught rachel what a hernia was rachel had to go get a physical i don't even really know what it is uh something with your back no okay well herniated disc there you go that is more your back oh so there's a difference between a hernia and a herniated disc. There you go. That is more your back. Oh, so there's a difference between a hernia

and a herniated disc. I believe so. Okay. Here's my, uh, dumb sports marketing, uh, education understanding. So Ray tried to go get a physical, I think for a job. I was like, Ooh, I gotta make a turn and cough. And we were joking about that. She's like, what, what is that actually? And I was like, well, here's what I understand. Oh, I don't know. This is kind of weird to talk about. When a man becomes, when a boy becomes a man, he drops. Yep. There are like sockets, from what I understand, of like where they used to be. They're like still like holes, more or less. Like there is.

Okay. Your blue collar, baby. Sockets. There's a gap there. Okay. And so what they're checking when you're turning and coughing, they're like feeling up there to make sure nothing has like gone in there. That's not supposed to basically. Oh, interesting.

And nothing is like filled that gap. And that's a hernia? I think that's one of them is, yeah, you can get a hernia. And it's like up there from where you used to be. I always heard it was for whooping cough is why I was coughing. Really? I thought. Maybe I'm wrong.

Maybe I'm totally wrong. Maybe I'm just making stuff up. No, the sockets thing. You don't make up sockets. I think I made up the word. I don't know if the doctor would use the term socket there. Whoa, you got some clogged sockets, son. Whoa, what's up in there? We're gonna have to get in there and check that out. What's in your under socket? How does a hernia work?

How does a hernia work? That's a great... A hernia happens when tissue or an organ bulges through a weak spot in the abdominal wall okay no no socket so women can have hernias i don't know i thought i thought the turn and cough thing was checking where you used to be to make sure nothing had bulged in there what if you're still there? What if I were a friend? Either way, this doesn't sound fun. Okay.

And I'm sure people are loving hearing us guess about what a hernia is. No. And Perkins would know only surgery can repair a hernia. Many people are able to delay surgery for months. Nice try. Nice try. Big, big hospitals.

You can't fix it. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. Either way, Ron's got it kind of funny. Um, I have a few more thoughts on road tripping vacation stuff on here. Uh, number one is my father-in-law use something that I have not heard of or use for a while. I bet some people use it every day. Don't think you're a, you're definitely not a user of it. Can you guess what it is? Some people use it every day, but I wouldn't on the road trip.

Uh, somebody, some, yeah, he was using this thing, this technology, we'll call it. Oh,

technology. I was going to guess pliers, uh, technology. He was using like corded headphones. No, that's a good question. Good guess. He was using a,ed headphones. No. That's a good guess. He was using a something on your flip phone.

Oh. He was using like a like some weird app to take photos in like other than just your camera. No, but it's an app. He was using a weird app. He was driving. He was driving. Oh, a speedometer app. Oh, no, but it oh a speedometer app oh no but it

has a speedometer obviously what is it uh ways oh yeah when was the last time you used ways i never one and every like 10 ubers they'll throw on ways they'll like swipe up get out of the uber app and then get on ways because they like the traffic data it was that's what that's what i wrote down is how i mean the traffic data was kind of unbelievable. And I don't know if it's just Texas has more people reporting stuff on Waze. Okay. Because like it has traffic, but also has, look out, car stopped ahead.

Iceberg ahead. Car reported on the shoulder ahead. Yeah. Or police reported ahead. Yeah. And sometimes it looked like the car had just pulled off on the shoulder minutes ago. How does it know?

That's what I'm wondering. And my theory, don't know if it's true, but Teslas and other cars probably too have this technology where it knows everything that it's passing. It knows when it's a trash can, right? Yeah. And so maybe those ones are automatically sending things to Waze? Maybe, yeah.

As cars get newer and more technology advanced, there's more and more cars on the road that are sending GPS signal back to these maps companies or whatever. It was pretty impressive how much it knew. And granted, we were in Texas where there was a lot more people driving on these highways, but still, I don't think that many people are on Waze. I was going to say. And if you are, how many people are getting on there while they're driving and reporting police? Yeah. You know? Because I used to think Waze was a self-reported thing, but I feel like it doesn't have the user base to be this accurate. That's why I'm...

Anyway, just a crazy, like one of those things where I might start using Waze on road trips. Waze it up. Just for the police aspect, mind me. Yeah. Waze it up. It was also pretty cool like there was a few times where uh like there was traffic jams because it's texas and random cities and it would have you get off and it would like tell you like the average speed on this on this highway is people going 14 miles an hour

here's a frontage road yeah it's pretty cool that's fun i know ways is big like you know gimmick back in the day was like you get t-pain oh yeah you go hey we got one direction to do is just collabs with people and they would like read you your directions i don't know if you're still doing that or not i don't know but uh i will say this is classic like i just feel like classic like father-in-law old man kind of thing he's got a different like a british voice for siri hey look what i did know, like, it's just like, that's so funny. Like,

and it also announced who's calling him. Call from Susan Hansen. That's what I, yeah. I don't know if I've ever come across someone who's changed the voice of Siri. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, that seems like you're like a father-in-law.

Like, I feel like Steve Coop, like might have like a British Siri. I'll have to ask him. So, that seems like... But it does feel like a father-in-law thing. I feel like Steve Koop might have a British Siri. I'll have to ask him. So, yeah. Anyway. Fun stuff. Let's see. You know what we haven't addressed yet?

Maybe it's obvious. Tymon's not here. Probably should have mentioned that at the beginning. Oh, yeah. The open chair is for... Poor one out for Tymon. Yeah, our fallen brother. Poor one Main Street Roasters out for Tymon.

Tymon texted us over the weekend. It was like, guys, I'm sorry. I'm dumb. I realized I have like a backyard Bible camp all day long, all week long. Except for Monday. And I was like, well, I'm already... I'm in Texas. It's Sunday night.

So... Yeah. So Tymon's out doing Bible stuff in his backyard this week, which is great. So... Very good. I was like, can we do it without Tymon's out doing Bible stuff in his backyard this week, which is great. Very good. I was like, can we do it without Tymon? What would it be like to record a podcast with no producer? It's still red.

We're joking about this. I'm like, we should probably make sure we're good here. We do miss Tymon, though. It was fun listening to Tymon and Derek. I was doing this morning with you. Yeah, it was great. I wasn't too nervous about filling time, but I was like, I don't know. They are typically behind the camera and not talking. Yeah. And it was no problem at all. It was so fun talking to them and, uh, yeah, it was super easy. So we could have gone for,

for much longer. So I don't know how many people, other people feel this way, but I enjoy when people get in the weeds, like you guys did just briefly a few times about things that I don't know about. Like, I think sometimes I like, I project like, maybe we probably shouldn't go that deep about X, Y, Z, because people don't know about that stuff, but it's kind of fun to learn about all these different, like small terms of like, whatever, all these different things you guys talked about. I, I enjoyed that aspect of it a lot. There is value.

I think in like, not even experts, but just like educated people talking about what they're educated in. Right. Rather than me trying to guess what a hernia is, you know, it might be more interesting if like, if I know exactly what I'm talking about and then I get to teach you

something. Yeah, it was, it was great. And obviously you guys all have that background to an extent. And so, yeah, going back and forth about the different people you liked or the different setups or whatever, the glide, glide camera. Yeah. Glide cam. Yeah. All these different things that I had never heard of. So I have, I have a new thing in the arsenal. Next time I talk to a videographer, we'd be like,

were you around? Were you glide camming back in 2017? Yeah. We ran for the glide cam days. It's fun that time it is so much younger than us, but it feels like he started kind of when I started, like we experienced all the same things for the most part. He's been doing it for a long time. Yeah. Which was also cool. Like kind of coming to that realization of like, Whoa, homeschooling provides you some cool opportunities to like, it was cool to hear him talk about that early. Like, cause I agree. Like there was times where I look back, I'm like, that would've been fun to like spread my creative wings a little more as a kid. But like, I was so, I was so stressed about homework back in the day. Weren't you like, I mean, I was stressed, but busy. It was like,

I had sports and I got home and I did my homework and went to bed. Like didn't have much time to think about hobbies for sure. Yeah. The hobbies were sports and totally. Yeah. I was playing sports. We love that. And it was like on Saturdays I would play Madden. Yeah, that was it. That was probably all you did. Oh yeah. Saturdays I still went and watched film for sports. But anyway, yeah, I really enjoyed that episode. Thanks for, thanks for doing it. The one bummer or one of several bummers of not having Tymon today is that, dude, I've got a story I was so excited to tell you,

and it's like, it involves Tymon, and I guess I just got to wait and sit on it. Yeah, because I want Tymon to be here. Yeah. He got hit on in front of me. Woo-hee! So I want to bring it up to Tymon. I want to hear his perspective,

because I purposely not brought it up to time. It says I want to hear him. That's a heck of a cliffhanger. Yeah. Okay. So next Monday. Great. We'll bring it up right away. Perfect.

People think it's an all-timer with your aerial snafu. Yes, they do. I had forgotten that even happened until uh it came out and i was like what are why are people commenting this there it was yeah so we got a clip out of it i guess have to get time and edit that yeah that was truly i mean yeah you saw the clip even after i said it i still didn't even know how to correct myself those are like some of those words like uh for whatever like it's similar like ariana grande i'm like is it Ariana? I don't know how you guys memorize this stuff. It's all the same to me.

Is it Ari? Ariana? I don't know. I bet it is. Because her last name is Grande. Ariana? Yeah, if you're saying it like a Spanish. Either way, I think you'd sound fine saying Ariana.

Yeah, I truly don't know. It's one of those things. But then Ariel. Ariana. Ariana. Ariana Grande. Ariana. Yeah, I truly don't know. It's one of those things. Yeah. Ariel. Ariel. Ariana. Ariana. Ariana Grande. Ariana. Oh, fun. Another Texas trivia for you. Some people are going to be like, oh my gosh, how did Jake not know this? How do you think you pronounce B-E-X-A-R? B-E-X-A-R. I mean, I would just say Bexar. Bexar. Bexar. Nope. It's Portuguese. Bexar. Bexar.

Bexar Beach. Bexarshish. It's a county that San Antonio's in, I believe. Bexar County? Mm-hmm. If it's not Bexar. It's a trick question. Boucher.

Nope. Bobby Boucher. What is it? Something silent. I'll say that. Bear. Bear. Wow.

Fun fact. Yeah, that's not dumb of me for not knowing that. I know, right? That's crazy. Yeah, it's one of those say that bear bear. Wow. Fun fact. That's not dumb of me for not knowing that. I know. Crazy. Yeah. It's one of those things there. Texans know it, but no one else does. It seems like that they were like shaking their fist at Mexico. Like, you know, we're not even going to pronounce your main letter. We're bear dude. Talk about shaking your fist. Everything in Texas is pronounced wrong. The Rio grand. Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah. That's Rio Grande. The river in Waco is the Brasos

and they say Brazos. What else? I mean, like everything. Like, I don't know. Now I can't think of very big. Corpus. Corpus Christi even. Like Corpus?

Yeah. I don't know. There's tons of, oh, Guadalupe. They say Guadalupe. Guadalupe. Shorten it down a little bit. Just Guadalupe. I was always proud of Bolivar, Missouri.

We had one Mexican restaurant. It was pronounced El Rodeo, but everyone called it El Rodeo. Okay. I was like, good job, everyone. Good job. I could see that pretty good. If that was in Texas, El Rodeo. El Rodeo.

That's Salsa in town. If that's too busy, we'll go with Chipotle. All right? Mexican Vila. All right? If we have to. Oh, there's so... I mean, somebody should send in a voice memo

just about all the Spanish words in Texas that you just say like an American. That have been Americanized. All of them. Waxahachie. Pico de Gallo. Pico... Yeah.

Jalapenos. Yeah, guacamole. Guacamole. Guacamole. Yeah, that sounds ridiculous, but Guadalupe, they're like, no, that's how you say it. Guacamole. Guacamole. Guadalupe.

That's pretty funny. Maybe we wrap this episode up. Would you like to share with me your review of the week? Yeah. Yeah, let me pull out my phone for that. I'm not a charitable guy. I can share mine while you pull that out. Hey, Jake, would you like to share with me your review of the week?

Yeah. Her name is Madeline. Her last name is Gilliam, and her review was five stars. The title says, Cried When I Saw Jake. I got to read this one. I love this podcast. I've been listening for a few months and I really appreciate the humor and the community of sheltered kids

I could fit right in with. I feel like I know you guys so much that when I saw Jake at Fargo over the weekend, I pretty much cried when he came out. That's funny. She's only been listening to the podcast a few months and that was enough. My day was made.

My husband and I are keeping our eyes out for the next ghosty getaway so we can actually meet you both in person. Yes. I can't recommend this podcast enough. Five stars. Madeline, that is so nice. I could talk more about the Dakotas on the Wednesday episode, but yeah, I went out to the Fargo lobby. Lobby was cleared out.

There was nobody there. Really? I went out there pretty quickly afterwards. Madeline, I'm sorry I didn't get to meet you. There were a number of ghosties who said they didn't get to see me. And I was like, I tried. I don't know where they were at. Second syllable. Far. Go on out of here and go home.

They don't call it far stay. Far stay. Far lobby. Hang out. Far loitering. They don't call it that. Far go. They don't call it far loitering.

You think that's what the bouncer says? Listen, guys, it's not far loitering. You got to go. Far loitering. You think that's what the bouncer says? Listen, guys, it's not far loitering. You gotta go. Far loitering. It is tough. Far loitering. All right. Mine's for DN Price for Christ. A. Story time. Five stars. I am a stay at home mama. Say it, Jake. Stay at home mama. You got this. You got this mama mama. And relatively new ghosty, I love listening through old episodes of the pod while doing chores, et cetera, throughout the day. Tonight, my two-year-old and six-month-old boys

were being particularly demanding. That sounds about right. I really needed to use the restroom, but knew my toddler would follow me there and that my baby would scream. Sounds about right. So I grabbed the TV remote, set the kids down and whispered under my breath,

let them watch. Then started laughing. So I grabbed the TV remote, set the kids down and whisper under my breath. Let them watch. Then started laughing. Say it or psycho. Thanks for the laugh. Let them watch. That's great. Like I just just let me go in peace. Let them watch.

Let them watch. Pretty funny. Thanks for reviewing. Thanks for all the five stars. Five star reviews. Yeah. Thanks for all the five stars. Five star reviews. Yeah. Thanks for all the five star reviews. Somebody. The five star ones. Five stars.

We really, really appreciate it. Just five stars. It's five stars only. That's it. That's it. Deep tracks only. Would you like to end this episode with a jingle or would you like to wait until Tywin's back? I think I'll end it with a jingle with the chat GPT.

Okay, great. Give me a song. Give me a normal song, like a song I know. Okay. Well, you play it. That's what makes you beautiful by One Direction. Sure. Give me an instrumental of it is what I'm saying.

Gosh. Are we connected? We need timing. We need timing. It doesn't even show that Rodecaster is an option. Does it work for you? Do you go to Bluetooth? Is Rodecaster an option? I don't know how to go to Bluetooth quickly on my computer.

Do you? I always have to go to settings. Is that the way you do it? Yeah. It two clicks. Settings click and then the big blue B. That's a lot of clicks. I can connect to you.

I want there to be a Wi-Fi thing for Bluetooth on the top. Oh, yeah. Up top right. It used to. Yeah, it used to. Should I just connect to you and you connect to the Rodecaster? I don't know. I don't know why Rodecaster's not an option.

Time in. It's always an option. We don't have to do it. Just, you're insecure. Don't know what for. Fun fact, we sang that song to girls, sororities back in the day. That was like a thing.

We would do serenades at the beginning of every year. All the, all the different fraternities would do it. And most fraternities would do like classic, like hazing of the freshmen. Like you have to dress up ridiculously and grind on a sorority girl or something like, Oh yeah.

Kind of stupid. Like wear a diaper and go grind or something. Stupid. Like, yeah. Like you have to dress like pretty provocatively or whatever. Like, and only the freshmen did it. Whereas our whole fraternity dressed up. Nice. or something. Stupid like, yeah, like you have to dress like pretty provocatively or whatever. Like,

and only the freshmen did it. Whereas our whole fraternity dressed up nice, would have a couple acoustic guitars. Oh, yeah. Cajon. Cajon. And we would sing

some songs. Texas would bounce at Cajun. Yeah, we would always change it. Whoa, oh, oh, oh. That's what makes, or, what is it? That's what makes, or what is it? That's what makes Kappa beautiful.

Yeah. That's nice. That's what makes Theta beautiful. Did you switch the words and say, you're so secure? You're super secure. You're confident. Yeah. You're beautiful.

Just like my mom. Like what? Sorry. Maybe the Wednesday episode. We'll get Jing. I don't know. Like what? Sorry. Maybe the Wednesday episode. We'll get Jane. I don't know why it's we need time. And yeah, no,

we don't. Yes, we do. No, we don't. We kind of knew Wednesday episode. I'm going to tell a story about neighbor. Henry,

give me a call. Oh, that's some good quotes from old Henry. So good deal. Yeah, I got, I got Fargo and Sioux Falls to talk about. I can't wait.

Plenty of other stuff. So awesome. We'll see a Wednesday. Trying to closing thoughts. Yeah. I got Fargo and Sioux Falls to talk about. I can't wait. Plenty of other stuff. Awesome. We'll see you Wednesday. Trying to get closing thoughts. Yeah, check out Major Roasters. Check out Good Ranchers. Check out Bondi Bowls 2025. Yeah, you could swing by.

I would say you could search it on Google Maps, but our Google account was suspended. Gosh! Dude, anything can go wrong. Dude, I can't find my Apple Watch. I got a bird in my garage right now. What? Dude, just anything that can go wrong. Dude, I can't find my Apple Watch. I got a bird in my garage right now. What? Dude, just anything that can go wrong has gone wrong the last few weeks since you've been gone.

Our Google account is just suspended. Our pet's heads are falling off. Like, oh my gosh, dude. You need me. You need me here. I can't do anything without you. The blanket. I'm your blanket.

Yeah. So who knows when Bondi's open? Just, I'll tell you on Instagram yeah follow him but yeah we'll see you guys Wednesday last episode

ever without timing and then we'll be back thank you guys so much for your support always the ghosties are the best Derek said it wonderfully last week

of like you guys are the ghostie community is awesome and I was very thankful for it as well it was really cool that he made a point to say that

and just how cool the Facebook page was and how special you guys are. So we love you. Yes. Love you guys so much. Thank you. Thank you. That's my time.

All right. Thanks, guys. All right. They're hitting me with a light. It's not far loitering. Ha, ha, ha. Go for a podcast