Ghostrunners - 351 - The Bellyflop Contest

Episode Date: July 24, 2024

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Jake, it's a rainy day today. When we're recording this, I don't know what it's like for the ghosties out there, but I was driving on the interstate down the highway and there was a sign that said, wipers on, headlights on. It's the law. And it felt kind of threatening. It felt kind of like, like, I don't think there's very many people out there that are like, my wipers are on, but I'm purposely keeping these headlights off. That's how I stick it to the man. Yeah. Who's, who's out there like thinking this is so rebellious. This is better for my car. I can drive better with no, I don't, I don't think that there's like, you need to threaten the law with it. You know, it's like, just do it. It's like, yeah. If a car, a car if a car's stopped in front of you don't hit it

it's the law it's like well yeah but also like it's just safe i'm gonna try to be safe a train's coming down the tracks stop and let it go it's the law it's the law it's like yeah i know i get it i would plan on it i think most of us are planning on it honestly i don't get the uh yeah the the wild wild guy it's just like oh i just i can't wait to not have my headlights on right now yeah who are these people who are these outlaws outlaw yeah who apparently are like fighting against this like no no way no that takes up too much of my battery i don't know like whatever Like, whatever. I got a bad alternator. Yeah.

It's going to take a while to recharge it, so don't worry about it. I mean, yeah. What else are these people fighting? What else do these people care so strongly about? I don't know. I don't know either, buddy. But we'll talk more about other things later on in the episode. So let's go ahead and roll those resources.

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we're taking ground Ghost Rubs Podcast. Ghost Rubs Podcast. Every Monday morning we're taking ground Go for the podcast Go for the podcast All right, happy Wednesday, Jake. Happy Wednesday. Still got plenty to talk about the cruise, if that's okay. Please. Okay. They had a men's belly flop contest on the cruise.

Yes. Okay. Earlier in the week, they had a women's cannonball competition. Okay. I said I'd give 20 bucks for my mom to compete in it and another 20 bucks for Paul to show up with binoculars and a clipboard. But the men's belly flop competition, it draws a crowd. I mean, it looked like biblical, like Jesus was in town.

I mean, people are on top of each other. Oh, yeah. I'm not supposed to on top of each other. Oh yeah, I'm not supposed to say that because of the review last week. People are up on the upper deck above it. I mean, it's hard to get a seat to watch the belly flop competition. So it was kind of fun. How many guys are in this thing? Probably 10 or so. And there's no diving board, but they give them a little platform, almost like a podium to jump off of. So would it would hurt yeah pretty fun pretty cool except for one thing that was driving me nuts so the woman who's kind of hosting it is after every belly flop she she wants to get the crowd into it i get that she's like you

guys are all the judges so after every belly flop you're gonna hold up a one through five based on how good you think it is and then instead of just kind of looking around and being like all right looks like it's about uh a four or so she kind of pretends to count up each and every one but she does it in like a really dumb way so like all right put your votes in for johnny what do you think okay It's time to count. 3, 3, 3, 4, 5, 5, 4, 4, 4, 3, 4, 5, 4, 4, 3, 4, 5, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 2, 1, 1, 1, 4, 4, 5, 4, 4, 3, 3, 2. What? And she does that until she gets through every single person. I'm telling you, it draws a crowd.

She's like, she's going panorama around this thing. And then people will put their arms down when they feel like they've been called on. And she's just like saying numbers. And dude, she'll do that until, I mean, it's probably 60 seconds per belly flopper where she just says numbers. Two, two, five, five, five, three, four, five, three, four, five, four, three, four. No way. She's auctioneering this belly flopper.

It's so annoying. Did you? Okay. This is what I would have done. I would have moved my hands the entire time while she's trying to count up. So at first she has like, she looks at you and she's scanning. I'll just go two, one, three, four. I would like, I would like try to like mess with her.

Why do you think she cares what number you're holding up? She's just going to say numbers no matter what. She's not even trying to like, oh, that was a four. I'll say four. That's a five. She's like, I'm just going to rattle through numbers one through five and pretend like I'm counting, you know, whatever. And it takes so long.

And then she does that for every single belly flopper. And so the flop takes 10 seconds and then she takes up 60. And so you're, I wanted to watch this thing, but I'm just, I'm about to just jump off the side of the boat. Yeah. You're trying to belly flop.

Yeah. I'm like, can you just, can we do it? What if we have three judges and then we get their scores really quickly or just like some other way to judge this. Oh, it was brutal.

And then he's poor bellywley flopper so then we oh when she gets done five five four four three so that comes out two of my calculations are correct johnny got four point one five four three two six no she didn't she would do that for every time too she would do seven decimals yeah just to be quirky yeah it's like just okay you're not the show the guys are the show i guess she's trying to take more time or something like make it last a little longer yeah i don't know i don't know what the you know it's not a youtube video you don't need to watch time i was gonna say i think there's enough fun things to do on the cruise where you don't have to take up you know 17 more seconds by doing more decimal places oh she drove me nuts and uh yeah and then the poor guy's belly flopping so then three of them

make it to the finals so then they have to belly flop again okay all right who can do that how many how many started 10 i think okay and then those three do it again and then when they get done i think they announce a winner and like what do you guys say you guys all jump off together so then they all did it again so then three belly flops from like a three, four foot platform. Like those guys probably know what they're getting into. God, I hurt.

So, okay. It's off of a diving board of some sort or something. A platform, like a podium looking thing. That was a first day, first full day of camp back in K country. Um,

we would do like a 12 days of Christmas skit to teach the kids the rules, you know? So like, don't run in waiters, no throwing rocks, always take your soapy, which is like what we called a shower shower. Yeah. Body shower. Yeah. And then, uh, and the very last one was, and always do a belly flop. Oh, that's fun. And so we'd like a different person staff no it was at first it was one guy that did 12 belly flops so by the end of it this guy is kind of ducking a little oh dude yeah like the the belly flops turn into like yeah kind of like those like yeah there's like cowering and eventually we got smart enough to be like let's do four people each of them do three yeah it's a little better we get we all get better flops because literally like the first couple ones towering. And eventually we got smart enough to be like, let's do four people. Each of them do three. Yeah.

It's a little better. We get, we all get better flops. Cause literally like the first couple of ones, like all you have to do is say on the first day of camp, my counselor said to me, always do a belly flop. And then the kids would watch.

Yeah. And then on the second day, my counselor said to me, don't run in waiters and always do. And so he's like, not only belly flopping, he's like hustling up the ladder getting back up belly flop i mean doing four of them in two minutes yeah that's probably i mean we should have had that lady with us on the system in eight nine four four four three three

third day of camp so yeah i love a good belly flop the day i graduated college i went back to camp in my cap and gown and when i showed up they made me do a belly flop that's awesome i have a video of that which is kind of fun i think if you do it right you can do them okay if you do them wrong you just feel like you got racked yeah wear a life jacket it's what i learned it takes a lot of the pain away. You still get a good smack sound. Oh, great smack sound. Yeah, but it was... Anyway, yeah, that was a fun thing.

There was so... Really, my only issue with the whole cruise... Well, I have a few little things that I think you would appreciate that I think you would be opinionated about. Okay. The elevator. Okay.

When the buttons are unpressed, whether it's up, down, or any of the numbers, there's a ring around the number that's blue. Okay. And like oh yeah go to the 10th floor it changes to a just slightly brighter blue oh so the whole time your elevator every elevator you're in the conversation is oh can you do eight or did you already press it i think i did uh i'll press really every single time yeah it just goes from blue to blue yeah Yeah. Easy fix. Blue to red, blue to anything. Yeah. Anything else. Yeah. Go from nothing to blue. Go to green even. Yep. Oh, that would, that would kill me. It was just every single time you're in the elevator, you're, you're aware of like,

this is bad design. I would just, I would say it really loudly if I press the button for somebody. Eight. Okay. Eight, eight. Got it. 12. Yeah. How many floors are there on this cruise ship 17 what big old boat i thought like maybe you're gonna say 10 now they think about it i think they skipped 13 because like sure yeah so 16 floors holy cow yeah you went to all of them you don't go down the bottom i wonder if i went to where the coal the 17th deck is for suites, so I didn't go up to 17. But yeah, I think I spent time on every other floor. Wow. I did go to floor one.

I think that might be employees. Yeah, maybe so. So, all the other ones. Whoa. Whoa, hey. Burp came out of nowhere. Did anything happen with the happy hour? With Coach and Steve?

Oh, LGBT martini hour. Let's see. I don't – no, I don't think so. I think we kept trying to – the closest we ever got to any kind of prank or anything like that is that – so my cousin Steve-O, he's 33 and he's still single. And his parents went, me and uncle, they took him like, hey, we should go to this, let's go to the Scooter's Bar. And it was like a singles get together type thing. So I think they took him there

and he didn't know what that was. And so John's like pimping out his son. Have you met my son's D though? Yeah, that's amazing. So they did that. But yeah, a lot of decks on the ship, a lot of elevator time. One time I walked in an elevator

and they said, what floor? And I said, 10, please. Two words. And they go, whoa, I like your accent. And I go, my accent? Like, yeah, where are you from? 10, please. And I said, where do you think I'm from?

They said, Texas. And I said, no, I'm not from Texas. Like, what does my accent sound like? Yeah. I don't know. It's just different. What did they sound like? They were Southern. accent sound like yeah i don't know it's just different what did they sound like they were

southern it sounded like you know chattanooga tennessee or mississippi or something they thought you had a texas accent yeah they were dumb i don't know 10 please ma'am i'll take 10 please i'll take 10 of those floors i reckon i'll take shoot damn shoot why not pick up why don't i get someone in pan uh anyway congrats on the accent yeah so the elevator buttons were annoying there were some other like really tiny thing like that the other thing i was annoyed by which you would also appreciate was the entertainment and like the host yeah so nor when i've got a cruise before there's like one cruise director and he does every game okay well this boat there's so there's 7 000 people on our ship geez it's massive i mean this is so much bigger than where i grew up

7 000 people okay yeah on one ship so there's stuff happening constantly so they you know one guy can't host all this so what they do so pretty much every employee on a cruise ship is international i think they're probably able to pay them cheaper i think these people are very happy to do this job like right they're very thankful grateful good employees and for the most part they're great as a waiter they're great as a housekeeper they're great as anything they're great except when it comes to like hosting entertainment. The newlywed game. Yes.

You just like, you have, you need English speakers to do that. There's just, there's a barrier here. And so that always bothered me. It's just like, this would be so much more fun

if I could, like sports trivia, like we're all going around like, what did he say? What did he say? You know, like questions like,

who is the only player with more homeruns than Babus Ruth? Like, I think I got it. And that, honestly, I might have done them a favor there. That might have been easier to understand. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because maybe he's trying to go faster than that. Babus Ruth, for sure.

Babus? Babus Ruth? Babus Ruth! It's just, like, hard to understand, which sounds, like, judgmental or whatever. But it's just, like, if it's trivia night, if it's the newlywed game, if it's just like hard to hard to understand which sounds like judgmental or whatever but it's just like if it's trivia night if it's the newlywed game if it's anything where we're supposed to be laughing and playing along you need there should be no comprehension issues well that was

an issue i mean even like public pa systems don't always sound great it could be echoey so that's another issue like sometimes it's hard to hear just a normal American-speaking, non-accented person in a room. Yeah, just like they're from a different part of the country than you. Sure. It's just reverberating the wrong way or the acoustics are off. That combined with somebody that's already kind of hard to understand, I'm sure. Yeah, so it's just a lot of just like they're laughing at things. I don't know why they're laughing.

And who, what kind of scar do you give them for karaoke, Sexy Allen? He would call his other co-host Sexy Allen for some reason. Scar. I thought he said scar. Yeah. What is their scar? What is a scar? For karaoke.

Sexy Allen. Sexy Allen. And then Sexy Allen would be like, this is tough to decide. I will have to say you decide for them. And so then it's just like almost like a certain point, just give them a score. Get on with it. Holy cow. Who cares? Move on to the next person.

So there was a lot of like programs type stuff. I was like, they could do way better. But you probably have to pay way more. You know, if you want better talent, you have to pay for it. The worst night when it comes to entertainment, anyone who went on the trip and is now listening to this knows which night it is.

We went to some game show. It was called the Adult Liars Club. It was at 8.30 in the comedy club. Perfect, we're done with dinner. The Adult Liars Club. Yeah, and so we didn't know what this meant, but usually these things are fun. So we go in there and it's almost like,

what was that old game show? It was the opening scene of Catch Me If You Can. That old game show from like the 70s and 80s. To tell a lie or something like that? To tell the truth.

To catch a liar. To catch a predator lying. Yeah, to tell the truth. Yeah, something like that. Where you go and you pretend to be someone else. Everyone pretends to have, to be the same person.

Yeah. Yeah. And you'd ask them questions about it. In a a sense it was a little like that where they would give you a word you've probably never heard of and then four people would tell you what the definition is oh balderdash i think is oh is that what that is i think so okay great so instead of pulling up people from the audience or honestly pull up me my dad john whoever like we would have dominated this game instead they had the four like entertainment directors from the audience or honestly pull up me, my dad, John, whoever we would have dominated this game. Instead they had the four like entertainment directors from the Philippines do this. And my dad, I'll skip to the end. My dad said he's never walked out of anything, but he walked it. We all walked out of that show. It was so bad. It was like, I mean, we are wasting our time. This is our vacation. We don't have to sit here through this.

Oh, it's so much more entertaining to have people from the audience anyway. It would be so much. Yeah. Yeah. Put them on the spot. Even if it's not that funny, it probably still is because they said something ridiculous. Right. So this was four people from the Philippines who have kind of a script to go off of.

So the first word was like, crapulence. The word is crapulence. And so each one of them would spend three to five minutes explaining what this is three to no yes way too long it should be 30 seconds max yes and it should be funny if you have time to prepare for it it should be funny if you pull up people from the audience right try your best to make it goofy okay the first guy goes and i guess there's a sense of like comedic prowess to it like he would like you would say like there's basically three levels to crapulence level one and then he went to he was saying like different kinds of farts basically okay this one's like a you know of course i'm

like this is dumb he's just doing like potty sounds you know potty humor and but there are a couple people laughed at certain times and in level level three, it's a, with us over there. You know what I mean? It's like, all right, people are laughing. But then the second guy that goes up, and he did a full five-minute set of what crappulence means. And, I mean, no one's laughing. We're just, like, sitting here. It's like I'm on Duolingo or something, just trying to, like, learn a new language.

And eventually, we all kind of looked around, and we're like, we got to get out of here. Dude, that's rough. And, yeah, so it's just listening to like learn a new language and eventually we all kind of looked around and we're like we gotta get out of here dude that's rough and yeah so it's just listening to all four of them go and then they got to the next word and it was algorithmic something some word we've never heard of or whatever and we all walked out and then we go uh we walked out of there and my aunt angie goes i'll tell you what crapulence means people who leave early or something like that people who gotta leave early so that was my only main qualm with the cruise is like you gotta get better attainment we're paying i mean good money for this exactly i was gonna say it's expensive enough of a cruise that you can afford to spend some money on the entertainment yeah and how how much more would people come back if there was great entertainment like wow

karaoke was so fun every game game show, so fun. Yeah. Sports trivia. I heard every word. Oh, movie quote trivia was funny. Hearing him have to say famous movie quotes. We are going to need a bigger boat. Did they use that one?

They used that one. They used that one. It was as soon as I got there. That was the first one I heard. There's no crying in baseball. So kind of the problem was like, I'm sure'm sure look i don't know any other languages so i shouldn't say too much but like i think it's probably tough to read another language too so they would just straight up get it wrong sometimes so like so then you have to choose like what do you think they were trying

to say like you want truth You can't handle my truth. No, that's not it, but I got it. Life is as similar to a box of cocoa beans. Life is like cacao beans in your pocket. Oh my gosh. Do or try not.

They cannot do it. there is no try the human cabeza weighs eight pounds you have me at hellosh portuguese yeah so the movie quotes is kind of funny it's like i don't think i've seen that movie but what did did he? No people, nobody here shall pass. Nobody coming to here is going to pass. Hey, you are a sorcerer, Harry. It's like, no, no. Wish you like a rojo pill? Or blue pill?

The blue pill. The blue pill. Oh, it's so good. Yeah, now that I think back to it that there's no place like my homeland there's no place like my homeland you know with the clapping of the issues no place like my homeland feel free to buzz in buzz in when you know it buzz in it also to reflect your how you are a leader, Capitan. You are making me dead, Smoss. You're making me dead, Smoss.

There's so many fun quotes. I see dead peoples. I see the muertos. Yeah, looking back now, it was kind of funny but it was that would be tough to yeah it's just you go there hoping to compete and you're like oh we can't really understand a lot of it oh well we'll just kind of talk amongst ourselves yeah but yeah so was all the entertainment kind of like that like there wasn't there was never and like uh there would be certain things probably like one per day where like the cruise director cory would like host it or whatever and cory's a great royal caribbean cruise director it's isn't

it perfect yeah and cory was pretty good at his job but i feel like wasn't a lot of life in those eyes it seemed like he's been doing this 10 years cory seats and stuff yeah it just seemed like he is just in a rhythm and so he's good he's like polished but there is just like there was nothing um you know like he'd be doing like something with the audience and they would give him like a softball like i don't and he would just like well i haven't heard that one before and move on i'm like i'm surprised you don't want to like he's ready to say one joke about it get in get out yeah um which i try not to critique people if they're doing something i've never done before so this is like something that's like i at least know how to do this.

I feel like I can somewhat critique this. You've led a crowd of people in a game. Yeah. It was great. Rachel and I got bored during some game. So we were like, let's try to find Corey on the internet. And so we were like finding his like,

I think we found his Instagram. We were trying to see who he followed. And we saw, I don't know why this like was weird to us, but we saw that he already follows the, the Hawk Tua girl. Oh. I don't know why this was weird to us, but we saw that he already follows the Hawk Tua girl. Oh. I don't know why, but that's just weird.

He's just very into the internet. Follows like 500 people, and she's one of them. Oh, wow. Yeah. He's not like a quick follower. No. Okay. Yeah.

Corey. Kind of funny. You ever lob one of those up to him? We're from Kansas, where they have jay hawks huh gory come on anything uh no he was good i've started speaking of a little bit i've started being a little more uh liberal in my followers you start and get rid of some folks no opposite oh yeah in my follows i suppose like i just i looked at my profile the other day and i saw that i'm following over a thousand people now just like if I find somebody that's like kind of

does some interesting things that he posts about, I just follow him. Like, sure. Why not guys? Why not? And then if it's like, this guy's annoying, nevermind. See ya. Okay. But right now I'm just, I'm just following. Just following. Just scrolling, scrolling the reels and saying, that's kind of an interesting business idea. That guy seems like he knows something about sales. Follow. That's neat. Maybe I'll phone more people.

I've also been more consistent with mainly just Catherine, but sending like reels to Catherine. Oh, I should do that. It's kind of fun. Catherine. Yeah. We talked about it last episode. Actually we talked about with Catherine, uh, the wolves are ticklish, uh, video again. I mean, she just can't get enough of that. I said to her again, recently the wolves are ticklish video again. I mean, she just can't get enough of that video. I said it to her again recently. The wolves are ticklish. That's a funny way of describing a video where I get blown up. No injuries that day.

No mallet head. Nothing. Maybe it was all starting right then. That's when it started. Yeah. Your ligaments became a little looser that day. Lasting effects. Kind of a Chernobyl.

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I was like, John, you're probably going to get a little more to shout out. I mean, I'm probably going to mention you quite a bit. Absolutely. And I've already mentioned them on Monday's episode and other stuff, but, um, a couple of things that just come to mind.

So one, there's a casino on the boat. She would have loved. They also, there was one day they had a, just a slot tournament, which is fun. It's like three minutes.

So it's like 12 machines. Okay. All around it. And then you just like go crazy, like trying to like get through as many games as you can. With your own money or like? You pay like upfront. Okay.

And then, so it's like, all right, all you can play for three minutes. Okay. And then they do four rounds of that. You're pressing the button a bunch of times? But then there's something on the screen.

So there's a. There's a little skill to it? Maybe a tiny bit of skill, like how quickly you could press these bonuses. Okay. That was fun. But John made something on the screen. So there's a little skill to it. Maybe a tiny bit of skill, like how quickly you could press these bonuses. Okay. That was fun. But John made it to the finals. And then at one point was in first in the finals.

And so we're all going nuts cheering him on. And he ended up not winning. There's no prize for second or third or anything. Winner take all. As it should be. No, I'm just kidding. But it was really fun. Blackjack, on the other hand, was consistently the worst I've ever seen it

as far as just like our luck and our... Oh. Just one that was like, all right, first night, wow, that went terrible. Well, can't be like this forever. Right. To the point where I'm like,

did they take out half the face cards in the deck? I need to pay attention. Yeah, you should have been... Automatic shuffler? Continuous shuffler? You know, one deck did have that. Okay. Another another deck they did old-fashioned style where they split apart the six decks and just take forever to shuffle them

yeah okay when you got a lot you can go up to the room and back before they're done shuffling you can go 17 floors and back but there was one a period where we know the dealer got blackjack five out of eight hands oh never seen that before get up and leave how is this happening i guess you do have plenty of face cards and then there'd be other times where just like dealer's showing a six i got dealt an eight and a three this is textbook that is literally as good as you get yeah all right my card's face down who knows dealer flips over a five oh gosh here we go then the dealer flips over another five okay we're back then Dealer flips over a five. Oh gosh, here we go. Then the dealer flips over another five. Oh, okay, we're back.

Then the dealer flips over another six. You're like, how is this happening? I mean, I lost a 21 versus a 20 so many times where I was like, this is mathematically improbable. Wait, that would have been 22 for the record, right? Oh yeah, so it would have been another five, yeah. Maybe that's why I was losing. 22, they win.

I'm taking my money and I'm not paying attention. It's a 22. Well, the game is 21. It's a Filipino blackjack. Oh, we're playing Filipino rules. I didn't tell you. Dang. So just like.

It was just like, oh, my God. Can't buy a blackjack. So that was not at one point we're playing and i will say even when we lost we had a blast and i think the dealer had a blast because we're going you know how are you doing this you guys got to see how good this guy is yeah we had so much fun at one point we it wasn't just all of us at table there were a couple other people next to us one guy on the corner who i would get out if he would play because he would bet 50 bucks a hand and just do do things that didn't make sense

he'd stay on a 10 against you know doesn't matter yeah smart and not enough face cards so that guy is sitting you know on the very end the guy next to him he got out early and he's like all right i'm going back to the atm and we're all been losing money so john makes some comment oh well you are just as dumb as we are then you know like laughing that guy in the end leans over to john and goes that guy is actually one of the uh smartest men i know i uh i consider him a mentor actually oh john's backpedaling well hey i mean you got you gotta you want to win some money? You got to put money back in.

That sounds smart to me. Scared money don't make money. Also, if you're trying to be like him and he's very smart, you should recognize there's something called sarcasm in the world. And hey, don't stay on 10. Maybe your mentor can explain that to you. Maybe just basic probability. You could never lose.

Yeah. This guy was interesting i don't know if he was drunk high both he would tip when he lost he was just like i gotta motivate this dealer to give me yeah i don't know wow fingernails were painted talked very slow okay interesting little cat you think he just like lives on the cruise ship yeah maybe do people do that like a victor devorsky in the terminal it's like he's stuck between countries he's like if i get off they'll arrest me but right here on this boat i'm just fine you know yeah he was yeah i don't know it might have been poker chips he might have made those himself gambling with him whittled him but that

was fun um try to think of other johnson i mean he just so, so funny. By the last day, he swore up and down that the showers had gotten smaller. He's like, I swear. I got body parts touching the sides. I've never had body parts touch the side of the shower. All the guys were sharing how much weight they gained since the cruise. Okay.

Wait, they have scales in the rooms? Sorry, this is like when they got back home yesterday. Oh, okay. I think my dad gained seven, Steve Koop gained eight, and then John said, I am north of that. Wow. Put the hurt on him. Because you'd think they'd walk around a lot, too. Yeah, well, you should have seen, I mean, put down some ice cream.

Really? I think on day two, I had had, so the pizza station is open 24-7. So on day two, I was like, wow, I've already had 11 slices of pizza. And my dad had had 10 ice cream cones at that point. So like, should we race? I was impressed if you had 10 ice cream cones. I don't know where we ended up. But yeah, basically.

Oh, that was the other thing. We talked last episode about Steve Coop being so generous. He asked the ice cream attendant, do you accept tips? Which like, Steve, that was the other thing. We talked last episode about Steve Coop being so generous. He asked the ice cream attendant, do you accept tips? Which like, Steve, yes, anyone within 500 miles of us will accept tips. He tipped the ice cream guy $35. Oh, my gosh. So he might have quit the next day or just sent it all home or something. Yeah, he's like, that guy's working hard.

He needs it. So, yeah, they got real close. That's sweet. Yeah, it was great. I love it, man. It was so fun. All we did was just laugh and have a blast. Yeah. It sounds like it, but it lived up to your dad's expectations because your dad was- I know. Had it on a pedestal. Ready to get let down. Yeah. At one point, I think he said, that's all I've been thinking about the last four weeks is

the cruise or something like that. Yeah. I mean, thankfully, the hurricane didn't derail anything. Luckily, our grandparents were in good enough health where he felt that he could leave. And yeah, it really was great. People got sick at different points kind of on the boat. Most of that was towards the tail end of the vacation. And so overall, we avoided any disasters.

It truly was so fun. Just a really fun crew people i don't think i ever want to cruise again without a group of at least 10 plus people because i think that's what makes it fun like even if two people are chilling or they want to stay in the room that night you still have a big crew doing something yeah you know it's not just like well it's just us and another couple i hope they want to do what we want to do yeah or it's just us to hope they want to do the toilet bowl yeah so yeah or it's just us to hope they want to do the toilet bowl yeah so it was fun they had the flow rider that was really fun we've learned on the last day you can rent that out because it's kind of like you have to wait in line for

maybe 20 minutes and then you get a very short time to learn it you know it's hard to learn something if you fall are you done so they have a rule if fall twice, you're done for the day. No. Yeah. The day. The day. Until you could prove yourself. Once you've proven that you have a hang of it and you could do it, you get the white band. I kept calling it the white belt. And that's all Paul wanted the whole trip. Because he was kind of like he was moving fine, but he looked just so jerky.

Newborn deer on the surfboard. He's a California guy. He's like supposed to be the one probably that's doing it. Yeah, it just didn't look smooth. So they would not give him the white belt. But we learned on the last day. He's like, Jake, like 40 bucks. Like I'll read.

I have scissors and tape. Yeah, I could do it right now on the back of the boat. We learned that you can rent this out. So like just our family had the whole flow rider to ourselves like an hour at the very last morning. Unlimited falls. Unlimited falls. Okay. And that was so fun.

That was the way to do it. Because I don't think my dad definitely was not going to do the Flowrider. But we rented it out. So he did. My sister did it. Brayden did it. That's awesome. So it was so fun.

And then afterwards, Paul, it's the last day. We're about to go home. And Paul's like, have any white bands to give out? And the guy is like, oh, let's see. Yeah, to you. And he points at me. Paul's like, oh, you've got to be kidding me. And so they were all like, oh, give it to him.

It's the last day. And so Paul did get his white band. And then Paul tipped him each $20. And he's like, this is what the white band gives you. Thank you. Yeah, that's great. So it was fun. And it was great.

And the Ghostwriters Facebook page, so shout out Ben and Danny, the people, the ghosties who happened to be on the same cruise as us at the same time. We ran into them very early on in the cruise, shared a meal with them. Saw them probably once a day or so. Yeah. Which was really fun. But Ben posted a photo to the Facebook page. First of all, one guy commented and was like oh

you were on harmony of the seas weren't you i saw that how did you and i yeah i looked at the picture and i was like okay what what gave it away and it was such a like the background the steel the ceiling was white and there was like a white like curved wall by you or something i was like there's nothing here that should show you that. I was on the boat and I couldn't believe he figured that out. I forget his name now. His name was like J- Geo Range. Some Geo gets her pro. Yeah.

Dang it. He had a weird name. Jazzer or something like that. Oh, really? Yeah. Okay. I screenshot it. You keep talking.

Javon. Oh, that's so weird. That's close to Jazzer. Javon. But then he also commented to say glad to see jake passed the stand-up surf exam white bracelet maybe we'll hear about it in a couple weeks wow i said that to paul i was like good thing we got the white bands people talk about the white bands they notice it i i started following i i'm i'm proud of you for you should have kept it on like that's like a you did you throw it away completely medal of have. Did you throw it away completely?

Medal of honor. Yeah, I did throw it away. Jake. For you, though, it's just another day. For Paul, I followed your sister on Instagram. I didn't know I wasn't, but I followed your sister on Instagram specifically so I could comment on all her stories about how good Paul looks. Because if you remember, Paul is Jake's dad's best friend,

lives in California. I commented once and Jake's dad did not like, you know, whatever I said. It's still Paul's ringtone. So when anyone calls Paul, it's Brad saying that it was that they're the same age, but Paul looks way better.

Right, or something like that. And so it was like the only picture I think that she posted with Paul was like that group picture of you guys. And I just commented and my, my intention behind it was like, Oh, I hope that if I comment enough that Caitlin will start telling Steve triplet about all these things that Brad say about Paul or Paul, you know, we'll hear about it or whatever. But all I said was Paul looks like he just got done with vacation. Not that he's about to start one. You looks so well rested already.

Wow. So tan. Yeah. He's naturally like that. Wow. I mean, he's youthful. This guy, he must go, he must live his life on vacation. That's funny.

Yeah. It was great. Got the white bands though. Great to see Ben and Danny and yeah. Speaking of little, you know, medals. Yep. Won the pickleball tournament. Got, got a medal.

Did you? Yeah. Did you put the tournament, got a medal. Did you? Yeah. Did you put the medal in front of your – did you? No, I had to show off the paddle. So I was like, who cares about the medal? Got to get some brand awareness for the paddles here. I'll be scrolling my Instagram next week, and I'm sure I'll see that picture of you on an Instagram ad.

That'd be fun. Honestly, I never took a photo with anything that I had, so I don't know where those pictures are. The cruise people took a picture. Oh, they did. I didn't play with Rachel or anyone on our crew probably like three days. Oh, I played in the ping pong tournament, and one of the people I played against, he was like, do you make pickleball content? I was like, yes, I do.

It was kind of fun. That's the only thing he knew me from. Had no idea what I did otherwise. Just knew me as a pickleball guy. Racket adjacent sports. Those people follow each other. He plays high school tennis. We became friends. I was like, hey, there as a pickleball guy racket adjacent sports they those people yeah each other he plays high school tennis we became friends i was like hey there's a pickle turn right at the end of the trip you want to play it together he's like yeah let's do it cool so you guys whooped we whooped pretty easily yeah i actually apologized to him i was like sorry for like making you do this i thought the competition would be better yeah we won the championship game like 11 to 2 so it was kind of and those two points were a little bit like let's give them a like yeah let's let's let's volley we

can play it off the basketball goal that's fine they had the basketball so it was it was an interesting court the kitchen was a foot closer on each side you felt when you're reaching in i mean almost at the net yeah it was a weird version of pickleball that's kind of fun though it was kind of fun you could attack everything so it's fun but yeah have the medal rachel ward around the house last night just a badge of honor yeah it's a good time okay i want to hear more about spam spammer but let's do an ad first great thank you uh let's talk about good ranchers.com let's talk about good ranchers.com here's what we do know chicken yes pork yes beef yes seafood brats they sell them all oh yeah that's pork yep good call good call they sell them all it's at good ranchers.com

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globetrotter that's you recognize that for them that i don't know if that was even it i think she's done like some content creation types up may i. I don't know. Say that. Say that again. That's really hard to say. Former. Former Harlem Globetrotter. Yeah. R is in there. Do it.

Do it twice. She was a former Harlem Globetrotter. She was a former Harlem Globetrotter. Nice. Got a little slurred there. I don't know if I actually recognize her. Maybe I just convinced myself I did. But either way.

Yeah. She was a division one basketball player. Stanford. Notre Dame. Globetrotter. But now she's like kind of an entrepreneur does her own content also started kind of a youtube strategy team and so she's a gamer had a great phone call with her was like it really encouraged was like i'm ready to hire this girl right away just like the way they do things they take it so seriously and none of the videos even come out yet. Well, by the time you're listening to this, Hey, one came out yesterday.

If you're listening to this on Wednesday, um, but been very impressed with how serious they take me as a client and how communicative they've been. And, um, see, I'm blown away.

There's like strategy people helping us out and they're animating cool stuff for us. And cool. Yeah. So see you, Stella. I've got a, I uh got a whole new crew now you're done you're done with yeah yep i just told her another thing that also i've never recorded

is johnson cola actually he responded to my dm and said i've never heard of her but there is a middleman that i talked to so she could be one of the editors but i've never heard of her yeah so it's like doesn't matter i'm done it's over so thank you to the ghosties who commented and posted and tried to help me out. Um, I think there's still a chance she might just be foreign and just didn't want to chat online, whatever it is. It doesn't even matter. I, I, I think we're done.

I think it's, well, who knows? You might be right. There's, there's a 1% chance though. I think it's a slim chance. It's done and it's over. And, uh, yeah, so those videos, they're going to start coming out on Friday. Pick a balls channel on Tuesdays. Those will all be edited by's over. And yeah, so those videos, they're going to start coming out on Friday Pickleball's channel on Tuesdays. Those will all be edited by this team.

Okay, so you're going to do Tuesday like instructional videos, Friday more fun videos. Friday fun. Fun, yeah. That's cool. So yeah, none of the videos have come out as we're recording this.

I really haven't even seen much of the drafts yet, but been very impressed by the way they do things. Do you think they're going to be long, like as long as the friday ones they're probably around the 10 minute mark i told her let's shoot for 8 to 12 minutes yeah um so yeah great man so that's the update there um i'm trying there's anything else i one last thing maybe from the cruise is I had one day where in the morning someone recognized me and said, are you in Dude Perfect? I said, no, no, but Corey, the cruise director is. I said, I'm not. I said, that's funny. You say that I do make videos online and they're kind of sporty, but no, I'm not in Dude Perfect.

Were you wearing your Dude Perfect hat? Oh yeah. I'm wearing it right now, but no, I wasn't. Didn't even take this on it. That guy ended up being super cool. It's funny. The crew is 7,000 people. There's some people you just see over and over. I saw that guy 15 times the rest of the trip. Later that day, in the afternoon, someone comes up to me, and he's like, hey, I got to talk to you.

He pulls me aside from my family. He's like, were you in Greece? So there was a production on the ship. They were doing Greece. You had that thespian aura to you? He thought I was someone in the production. I don't even know who. He's like, you really weren't.

I said, no. He's like, who was the blonde you were sitting with? Was she in it? I said, no, she wasn't. She was Sandy. We were just here. We're just like you. We're just watching the cruise.

He's like, man, I could have swore you were in it. So dude perfect. Then Greece. He's like, sing Grease Lightning real fast just you were in it. So dude, perfect. Then grease. He's like, send grease lightning real fast just to make sure. Say summer loving. Yeah. That night in a casino, a girl stops me and she says, are you on the Bible app? I said, sorry. She said, do you do like instructional videos on the Bible app? And I said, no.

You mean Tuesdays on Friday Pickleball? I said, I don't. That's so random. No, that's maybe someone looks like me. I don't know. Sure. Because I'm just like so taken aback. It's like, do I mention they'd make other? No, I'm dude perfect.

That's all I do. I'm one of the dudes. So I couldn't believe that. All three in one day. And it's interesting that they were all in like entertainment, but they all had it pretty wrong. Yeah. But they could just tell you were a big deal. You do stuff. You put your face in front tell you were a big deal. You do stuff.

You put your face in front of the camera for a living. You're pretty narcissistic, right? I can tell. I can tell you're kind of full of yourself a little bit. You have a dopamine addiction. Wait, so did you go to Greece? I didn't even go. Okay.

John went and said that Sandy, he said she was so short. She's like a pygmy out there. It really took me out of it. Why is Sandy three feet tall? Child labor. John did not enjoy Greece, but he refuses to leave things early. They were in the back row and Angie still couldn't get him to leave early.

Really? Yeah, he's very old fashioned. And that was like, no, we're here. Like you didn't pay for it. I respect the people and the art that they're doing here. He couldn't leave. Oh, that's funny. So yeah,

I didn't, I didn't see Greece, but, uh, let me give you a few, uh, just random updates of my life. All right.

Great. Uh, I went to the woodworkers guild recently, uh, to do some work and it's a new location. First of all, they, they moved a little bit farther downtown, kind of by where Trey used to live. Okay. Cool. Yeah a new location, first of all. They moved a little bit farther downtown,

kind of by where Trey used to live. Okay, cool. Yeah, kind of fun. And I was doing something, whatever. There's just a vibe there where it's just a bunch of old dudes. And that's kind of who oversees the shop and whatever. And they kind of look down on,

it feels like they look down on me. If you're going to be called the guild, you need to like, be mainly old guys. Yeah, maybe that's it. But I was using this sander. I knew what I was doing. I've used it a million times before.

These guys have seen me use it a million times. Oh no. And every once in a while, like I was, the sander can do a 24 and a half inch piece of like tabletop. Okay. Okay. I was using like 24 and three eighths

take like so it's like i'm maxing out this capacity yeah and so obviously like it is giving sometimes i i in my head i'm like oh i'm gonna peeve peeve off this machine the old gilders that's what i say no sometimes i think that like oh about the machine i'm like yeah yeah oh this is gonna work this thing pretty ragged. Okay, I see. And so I understand I need to be careful with this thing because if I try to take off too much at a time, too much wood, then it's going to peeve off the machine.

I see. And when the machine does get peeved, it makes a pretty nasty squeaking noise. Okay. And of course that alerts the old men to come over. And so I was being very careful, literally like there's, there's a, it's a digital thing that you can change the thickness of how much, you know, you want to take off. I was literally doing the minimum amount of thickness to take off at a time. You're trying not to upset the machine too much. And I knew that eventually it was like, it was getting a little bit, like it was working

a little bit harder, peeping off the machine a little bit. And then all of a sudden the squeaking starts and here comes Gary over. This is the second time it's squeaked at me. I understand like first time, like whatever, but I, and so I'm being very careful with this thing. And he comes over and he's like, you can't let it do that. You can't do that. And it's like, you know, the machine's going, I have my headphones, my work. So we're like talking kind

of loud anyway. And I just go, I only did it one time. I only pressed it one time. I was just doing it one time. And he's like, don't even do it anymore at all. Like it was, it was less about like how much we were truly mad at each other more about how loud you have. There's like a sander or a, a, a dust collection thing going plus the machine. Plus like, you know, I have my like noise canceling earmuffs on. And so I'm just like, I only did one. I only pressed it one time. Like I was just like, so like pridefully, like frustrated that this guy was getting mad at me of like, I know how to use it. I know what I'm doing. It's like, you've talked before. Like when Catherine asked, like, what'd you say the second time you have to say something louder, there's no way to say it.

There's no way to not do it. But I was trying to like, as he was talking, I interrupted him. I was like, I just did it once. I just did it once. I know what I'm doing. Like, and so anyway, it was just, it was one of those things where like, I felt better after getting like a little bit of stand-up but also i was like he's just a volunteer guy at the woodworkers guild i he's he's just trying to help not break the machines probably i guess so anyway i did it one time i only did it once no uh no uh only once but i guess on the flip side of that i got kind of mad at an old man i kind of cried to an old woman at church the other day. Okay. That balances out.

Yeah. Had a wonderful, Catherine stayed home with Henry. So I was just in the church service by myself. And this old woman was the kindest woman I'd ever met. Her name was Carolyn. And I was like, I love you. Like I looked for her the next Sunday. I was like, I got to find Carolyn again to say hi.

Oh yeah. She was awesome. And they had, sorry if this is getting too Jesus-y, I looked for her the next Sunday. I was like, I got to find Carolyn again and say hi. Oh yeah. She was awesome. Uh, and they had, sorry if this is getting too Jesusy, but they had baptisms at the beginning of the service. And there were a few kids around Hattie's age that got baptized. And so then later I was telling her all about myself.

I was telling her I have kids and I was like, and I just hope my kids get baptized like that someday. I mean, that's just so emotional for me, whatever, like talking about these things. And I start like, I wasn't like bawling my eyes out, but I was like, definitely, definitely

like you could tell there was some, some water in those eyes. And I was like, didn't expect to cry with this 80. She's 86. She told me. Wow. And of course, like I thought about my grandma and like, she just passed away. All these things. I'm like, this is so sweet.

So anyway, I yelled at an old man, but I cried with an old lady. So I guess that kind of evened itself out. The universe is in harmony again. A few more quick updates. We are planting cucumbers in our yard. We have, and the crop is coming. I bet we have 20 plus cucumbers. Good harvest.

Oh, it's crazy. The kids will just go out there and grab cucumbers and tomatoes. Hattie will bring them back and like eat them like it's an apple. You should have Hattie set up a cucumber stand. We should absolutely have Hattie set up a cucumber stand. Uh, she wants to do some pickling of some of them, but, um, but we have plenty more cause it's amazing. It's, I mean, as a non-agriculture person, it's crazy. Like all of a sudden it's just like, they're here. Yeah.

And there's just tons of them. And we don't, we just have like a little area that is growing cucumbers. So that was awesome. That's fun. I saw a video yesterday of how they remove cherries from a cherry tree. You ever seen that?

No. Pretty sweet. I don't know what the cucumber, you know, plucking is like. This machine will go in with a pole. It extends it. And then it like, kind of like clamps around, it grabs the small trunk of the tree and then it just shakes it like a dog. Really? And I guess those stems aren't on there very strong. And then it looked like it's raining cherries. And then a thousand cherries just drop

onto this tarp and they just load it up. Dude, it was awesome. I'm sure there's a YouTube video for this, but I want to watch more videos of just machines that you didn't know existed that'd be great you know like that like that sounds awesome i want to build a roller coaster like there's there's a million like i'm still discovering woodworking machines out there that are like what there's a machine that does that do you ever see back in like high school if like direct tv when we first got it how it's made you know a little two 271 or something. Yeah. And it was like a pretty boring show. And like, they didn't try to, it was like, they didn't try to

make it interesting other than like, here's how it works. Here's exactly how it was still kind of fun. Dude. I looked up on YouTube, I don't know, a year ago, maybe some of those videos to show Hattie. Cause I was like, this will be a fun educational thing. And there were a few parody videos out there that were like really inappropriate. They got you all of a sudden. I was like, what the hell this is. I turned it off. Luckily. I don't think she absorbed any of it, but like it kind of, it was one of those like first moments where I was like, oh my gosh, I wasn't even trying to find anything inappropriate online for Hattie. Um, so yeah. So I'm a little bit scared, like looking stuff up now be careful anyway yeah that's me

uh let's see a few more mediocre life updates i sold some cutting boards and some ghosties shout out to ghosties good um shout out to the ronaldo's and the coons for buying those uh i tried this chicken double chicken hack at chipotle have you seen that where you don't say double chicken until they give you the first amount of chicken? Oh yeah. It backfired so hard. This guy, I said double chicken and all of a sudden the second portion he gave me was at half at most. Dang. He didn't double the original. And I, I wasn't in a confrontational mood. I'd already got, I already, yeah. Come on. Like I already got mad at Gary that day. that day so um that wasn't great and then last but not least today i got my haircut uh and i it's i've made it i'm finally tight with my barber like we are like

really yeah we've texted a few times recently like he was more excited to see me than the guy that left you know what i mean like we were we're boys you're in yeah we're having good talks uh pretty honest talks about things that i'm not going to talk about here. Cause you get a three-star reviews, but yeah, just like really like actual, we're like friends. We're buddies.

Yeah. So those are my mediocre life updates for you. I've got one last update. And all I wrote in my notes are dolphins are awesome. Dolphins are awesome. I didn't get to see, uh, again,

touch them up close, but there was just one day I, I got separated from Rachel and her parents, which that's kind of a fun part of the cruise is you're just, you know, no one has their phones and stuff. Like it's hard to like do that sometimes, especially once you get off the boat. And so we get separated. So I'm just wandering around Mexico by myself. Um, they're by themselves. I realized I have Rachel's sea pass cards. I'm like, gosh, she can't get back on the boat until we find each other.

Oh, wow. All that aside, I walk up on this dolphin excursion and I know these things have existed for years and years, but I've just never seen it in person. Like a trained dolphin doing tricks. Yeah. And I was mesmerized. I knew I was getting sunburned.

And I was like, I can't, I have to keep watching. Have you ever done one of those? Like a dolphin my sister my sisters like swam with dolphins before yeah that's what they were doing okay i could i was by myself and just completely enthralled this dolphin like guys look at this i'm probably not telling you guys anything you don't already know but it was like it was doing trick shots on its own it would have a ring it would throw up the ring and then catch it on its nose and then like get it back in its mouth and then once people started clapping then he would come up out of the water like look he was standing up and then he would clap for himself he was so athletic they would throw stuff and he'd go out and dive for it when the thing was over he got

on his side he like waved bye to him i'm like i think we take this for granted that we've learned how to train dolphins these things are doing amazing. We should do schmores next week with time and schmores of animals, animal schmores, just straight up. Yeah. Cause I think dolphin is on my rush more of animals. I was, Oh, I was so amazed by the dolphins. It wasn't even my excursion, just free. Just watching other people have fun. I loved it. So next time you got to do the dolphins. Yeah, I think I will. I thought, you know, I've seen those as an option before. I'm like, am I going to have trouble? Like, I don't know. These dolphins, I mean, they're like, they took them out of the ocean and they're like

pimping them out. Yeah. Now I'm like, I will, I will have no qualms. I want to see that thing shoot a basketball. And it did. It was awesome. Um, that reminded me, shout out to Ray Cordero, Ghosty, who found that whale video for me finally. Did he really?

So, Tymon, let's put it in here. Because it's amazing. It's so cool. And the whale is so big. All right. I saw other people post, like, I'm trying to find it, Brad. I can't. This is the closest I could find or whatever.

The account is called Blue Life Wild. Okay. There so shout out ray but uh also shout out to mainstream roasters oh my gosh do not forget about the msr in your life um or the grkz which is the promo code which is the 10 promo code yep 10 off matrixroasters.com. Just go peruse their site. Go check out what they have to offer. If you're a coffee drinker, if someone, a loved one in your life would enjoy

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Dang. So get it while you can, which is always Mainstreamroasters.com, GRKC. That's great. Do you want to do a win of the week or a comment of the week? Yeah, let's do win of the week. My win of the week was just, honestly one of the week was just honestly recording with Catherine and TJ last week was fun. Um, and it was just a different, uh, vibe. I think it was, I don't know, you probably laugh less in that ghost roads episode than ever before, because it's right.

I mean, not because we weren't like trying to have fun, but it was also like, we talked about just like our lives, you know, it's just like whoever I'm podcasting with, I'm going to kind of mirror whatever their vibe is. And Catherine was – it was like 10 o'clock at night when we were recording, so Catherine was more chill. TJ, you know, is just more – is fun to talk about being a dad and stuff like that, whereas you and I, we talk about more fun stuff more often. So – but yeah, it was,

it was a fun time to just get to have excuses to like sit down with Catherine and have an intentional conversation like that. And same with TJ. So, um, yeah, it was just a, and I just, honestly, it was like kind of hard to like, okay, what do I, what are we going to talk? What do I, how do I do that? Yeah. It's like It's like I have such a security blanket with you. And so I was like, we did it. We made an episode. So one of the week is just Catherine and TJ being awesome and being willing to be on the episode with me.

Cool. I think my one of the week is going to go to, it's got to go to my parents for organizing this cruise and making it happen. It was such a fun vacation. One of the most fun ones I've ever been on. So, you know, my dad who had the vision for us all coming together, my mom who has every single thing packed you could ever need, every bit of organization. She knows everything. One of the

things on the cruise, like 3 p.m. we're doing Royal Caribbean trivia. It was just trivia about cruises. I was like, mom, you have to go to this. You know everything. You're not going to hear the questions, but you will know the answers. You just have to guess. So yeah, shout out to them. Yeah, it was great. We had so much fun. Just laughed. Laughed and laughed so much. Had a great time.

Dude, that's the best. Yeah. Yeah. That's amazing. It was great. Okay, my comment of the week. It's coming from a tried and true listener. You know her.

You love her. She played Sandy in the royal caribbean cruise her name is janelle benyel um she says i don't mean to brag but i used to upload photos to shutterstock haven't checked in years but i just logged in and i have a whopping 13 and 10 cents in unpaid earnings so that's fun the the money's out there you just have to you just have to hustle for it guys the money's out there there's one have to hustle for it, guys. The money's out there. There's one thing. Let me get a quick update on my... I've made quite a splash in the last...

Really? I don't know. Maybe I shouldn't. Never mind. That's too much. Just say it. We'll cut it out. How much have you made?

$18.91. Holy cow. And how many videos are you up to? I haven't uploaded any more videos. That's just in the original 75? Yeah. Wow. Snowball. Watch out. And how many videos you up to? I haven't uploaded any more videos. That's just in the original 75. Yeah. Wow. Snowball.

Watch out. All right, time. And you can come back, come back in now. Yeah. My comment of the week is, uh,

from, it's a Facebook post from Lauren Henslick. She posted, uh, two pictures, which really caught my eye. It was a minivan and Andy's frozen custom. What else do you need in life? She said,

we found a great deal on a minivan, so we dropped everything, including our kid, with my parents, and took a red-eye across the country to buy it. We only had two days to drive back from Baltimore to Colorado, so we were only able to spend a brief second in Kansas City. We got some Andes after hearing about it for so many years, and it

did not disappoint. So thank you for this podcast that has played every week for us and lifted our spirits in the good and the bad. Looking forward to getting our three-pack of bumper stickers for the back of the Wagon Ball Z. Wagon Ball Z is great. I really loved it. And they also look like such fun people.

Totally. So come back. Absolutely. Or come to Branson. Come to Branson. Monday, you'll hear more. Hey-o. You titillated? Mid-September, book it. That's right. Bring the to Branson. Come to Branson. Monday, you'll hear more. Hey-o. You titillated?

Mid-September, book it. That's right. Bring the wagon ball. Wagon ball Z. That's the thing. She could bring the whole family in that thing easily. Bring a spike ball kit with it. Oh, it's a dream.

I was just texting Paige Farr about minivans yesterday. Really? I was like, oh, you're going to love it. Paige texted me on the cruise and said, thanks for paying for my last two nail appointments. I had to really think about what that meant for a while. And so then I kind of, do you have any guesses? Because of the sponsorship?

It was the Friday Pickleball affiliate link or whatever. People have been using your link. There you go. You're welcome. Anyway, that's my comment. You could be an affiliate sponsor yourself if you want to out there ghosties yeah anyone who buys a paddle you get your own affiliate link so there you go yeah easy peasy just got to buy one all right all right that's all i got great thanks for listening guys thanks for

supporting us as always um yeah once again we are sponsored by healing waters international good ranchers main street roasters please support our sponsors it helps us a lot um also we have merch if you want to rock it ghostrunners.life um is the website that's not what the merch says it doesn't say that on it ghostrunners is life maybe is one that will be there eventually that's a nice nice thing and then we have a patreon yep i've been I've been bouncing ideas off people on the patron. Getting a little, getting a little transparent on their fun. Having some ideas.

Oh, I have a fun one for us. A fun idea for a different kind of episode. Cool. So we'll see you guys Monday. Time will be back. I'll have stories. I'm guessing of visiting major roasters, performing at a County fair, seeing plenty of ghosties. It'd be great.

Nathan Coley, Samuel, the Carmels, Alvaro, and Jesse Plattner. Alvaro? I'm planning on seeing all of them this weekend. Are you going Alvaro's way? Jesse Plattner texted me and said, I'm going to go to both shows because on Saturday, Alvaro is going to be there. I was like, fun. Let's go.

Whatever's happening. Can't wait. Ghosties are the best. Y'all are awesome. You guys have a great week. And yeah, we'll see you Monday. Love you guys. Peace. You're dismissed. You't wait. Ghosties are the best. Y'all are awesome. You guys have a great week and yeah, we'll see you Monday. Love you guys. Peace.

You're dismissed. You're dismissed.