Ghostrunners - 354 - 97% Humidity

Episode Date: August 5, 2024

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You want to start with that? Or are we starting already? Have we already started? Yeah, I don't know. It's started. Yeah, let's just start. Jake, what do you got there? No.

So someone posted on the Facebook group. They're like, hearing about Jake's mallet finger. My son or daughter, I don't remember. I'll find it while you talk. Was so concerned and thought that Jake needed to have a dinosaur bandaid on his finger. And I saw that and I was like, that's so cute. I'm ordering dinosaur band-aids right now. So a couple of things to mention.

One, they are humongous. Yeah, they're dinosaurs, dude. Yeah, I mean, I didn't get the caterpillar band-aids. Two, I am unable. No, no, I'm just trying to get myself a little slack. It looks like when you're fishing and you're like, I got one. No, I think you're just stuck. I think it's just stuck on the ground four feet from the shore. You're on a rock dude. No, I got it, dude

I got it. I got it. It's probably out of frame, but it probably doesn't look great for me No, dude, just a second one more I'm no it The things we can say when time is out here make as many gestures as you need to gross oh my sorry guys okay uh so you got you got so this is hayley rowland urschel said this about her yeah her three-year-old girl was very concerned about jake triplett's finger she suggested that maybe a dinosaur band-aid would fix it not saying it would work but when has a dinosaur band-aid ever made anything worse i thought that's a great point i gotta get me one of these so i bought some uh so i'm having a little trouble getting them out that's the second thing and then the third thing i just

opened this up uh this is you can see here this is a set do not separate separate is huge do not separate so i don't know in like what that means exactly i have taken one sleeve out of the package and now i've ripped one dinosaur away from its family please don't tell guys wait just a second i'm getting a call oh no hello you're kidding dude strafford strafford high school hold on i'm getting a call too did you hear hello yeah it's probably about the same thing yeah the guy who made that obscene gesture yeah he's sitting he's sitting right here uh-oh oh i think this tight beat means that it's going down with some random thoughts and white there was one time i remember way back in the day back when we were like just becoming friends with harrison this is this is a pg pg 12 comment okay guys okay just know

right off the bat but i remember back in the day like before we were like really tight with harrison but he was like getting into the podcast i remember jake back in the day especially in the mission house or no not in the mission house peter's riggs house okay uh it was really cold in the basement and jake would always rub his hands together people are always giving me a hard time rachel's always making fun of me for this yeah it's friction it's a court it's a court that jake definitely has yeah he would rub his hands together but there was one time i think know, it was videoed on the podcast. Jake did that like down in his lap and kind of made this face like this. And Harrison made a gif out of it.

And it's pretty awesome. It's pretty hilarious. So anyway, you chose the T-Rex for the bandaid. I think that's all we were sent. Well, I guess, I don't know. Could be some other shapes of dinosaurs. But yeah, I chose the red t-rex and i did separate it i don't know what that law is china man dude social currency i think it's the toy story in us it's just like now they all have feelings like they'll be they'll be sad if they get away from their families like they need to stay at their home together and he needs us uh speaking of feelings you watch inside out too yet i have not everyone's saying it's

great what do you what do you think about number one i don't remember it that much i think i saw it a one time way back in the day and uh i don't think i had any super strong feelings one way or another i kind of agree with that and katherine loved inside out one yeah not that there's anything wrong with it but i just i'm 30 years old exactly all all the above like i think i saw it when i was like 20 or whatever that was and i was like yeah it was fine it was a kid's movie yeah but it had adult whatever deeper meanings uh i'm sure rachel's you know the the therapist in her oh a counselor of stream probably yeah i don't know like she has never once brought it up oh really yeah so who are you hearing about it from it's online people talk i don't know i don't know where i've heard that conversation i don't know you said feelings

it was on my mind we don't have to talk about it because we both have not seen it let's dissect uh inside out too a little bit more talk about a movie we haven't seen the best thing about um our podcast is that we only talk about things we don't really know what we're talking about yeah it's a good point yeah dinosaur is smiley finger inside out too also that you just obliterated that dinosaur well what else am i supposed to do i don't know he's so much bigger than the finger just kind of crumpled it on the tip yeah it Yeah. I didn't want to interrupt what the gauze had going on. All right. Well, gauze and strip is what I call this.

How is... We used to have a name for the mallet finger. Have you thought about it? Oh, Mally. Oh, Mally. That's what I only refer to her as. Oh, Mally the alley cat. You're an alley cat.

You're a mallet finger. Sorry. What was the alley cat comment in reference? Or what is that even supposed to mean? So I don't know. To me, it sounds like some amazing old man reference that only your grandpa would say. You know, I used to have a friend.

We used to call him Alley Cat because you couldn't trust him. Like, Grandpa, what are you talking about? So there's nothing that I'm like, oh, Alley Cat means this. But you're thinking it's a negative connotation. Yeah, because I think he also tweeted. we're talking about joseph r biden he also tweeted during the debate like you cannot trust donald trump he's an alley cat so i think he had this prepared his team was like ready to like that make this statement okay donald trump the alley cat just kind of garbage maybe just out in the alley just eats old yeah food yeah just feasting on leftovers yeah i guess i never really thought about it you just you don't have a home you yeah

you're in the shadows because honestly alley cat sounds kind of cool it could be way worse donald trump's like wow i'm glad you didn't go after this this this or this actually i am the alley cat i that's that's my bowling team name house cats are scared of me i have 300 many 300 games perfect games incredible games incredible we we we we throw it right down the middle a little bit to the right 10 pins every time i have huge bowling balls they're very heavy i would never go to the left. They custom make these bowling balls just for me. They say, Donald, that's too heavy. Physics won't work.

And I'll say, with my arms, they'll work just fine. You can't even. I want to see you carry that bowling ball. Yeah, we can play if you carry your own ball. I carry my own ball every time I have 300. I'd like to see you even crack 100. Huh? I don't know.

That's fun. Sorry. I know we'll get back to the mouth finger, but have you seen any of this conspiracy stuff about how, you know, Joe Biden went away, he got sick,

and then he came back. Now he's tall. Dude, he does look tall. Have you seen this? I did see one video where he looked tall. It was also filmed from the lower angle, but regardless, he did look tall. Have you seen this? I did see one video where he looked tall. It was also filmed from the lower angle. But regardless, he did look tall.

Yeah, I know. He was a tall guy. I don't understand angles very well. But like the torso just looked like angles don't make you go from a 43R to a 46, you know, 43 long. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. It would be hilarious if like, you you know the government has all these body

doubles for biden but they can't quite get the body shape right like they've nailed the cadence they have the best actors in the world they got the the mask and the skin all perfect but they're like you think anyone will notice he's six five do you think yeah just like lower the ground a little bit around them or just like make give jill's body double a couple more inches yeah have it be uh kind of to scale right like make every other get a body double for everyone else in the crowd the podium has a body double the white house's body double the reporters have a body double yeah make the make the podium just a little bit bigger uh yeah i don't know also if if he had all these body doubles, he should have been using them.

Surely his body doubles wouldn't have fallen as much as he did. Yeah, he could speak a little better. That's funny. Yeah, his body doubles are a lot like... I've got four different splints that I use for different activities, and that's what he's probably got. He's got a podium body double, a walking body double, a speaking double, and that's... I get it.

I got a dinosaur double. So, Mallet finger going all right oh mally he's hanging in there yeah so i we're two weeks in as i'm recording this and so right now if i take this off my finger finger like goes perfectly straight okay so it's really tempting just leave it off because i'm like look it's working but i also think it's almost like stuck that way okay it's not like really healed it's just like temporarily stuck upright it's working but i also think it's almost like stuck that way okay it's not like really healed it's just like temporarily stuck upright it's kind of like you got tape on it but like if you push the tape enough it'll just dangle and it'll maybe still stick around yeah i think if i grab

this microphone it would like snap back into like droopy position a little bit that for some reason gives me a little queasy yeah yeah anyway still healing still annoying uh but i'm to the point of acceptance uh like most things i'm like all right just you're gonna miss it i am not i am not it's yeah it's fine but just dominant dominant hand middle finger it just i find myself doing my hair less i find myself brushing my teeth less i'm like showering less because they're all just minor inconveniences i'm like i just don't want to deal with like it getting wet or it get it you know whatever so yeah what do you do in the shower so you just rock just with the finger what what happens so first i turn on the water when you're in the shower i'm more like a six

out of ten warmth guys so i'm kind of. Do you feel like your shower in the summer, you are putting it at a different spot? Oh yeah. I think I'm, I'm, it's milder for me. Yes. I, my theory is that just naturally the hot water heater, it's just hotter in the summer because of the temperature. It's like where I'm putting it, like where I'm putting my dial is significantly lower than in the winter. Yeah. Like this water is just coming out hotter than it used to. Right. My dial is basically six o'clock in the summer and I'm talking eight, eight thirty. Yeah, it's drastic. Yeah.

Yeah. I want to I want to basically get out and like my skin be red in the winter. Like just a little bit like, well, I don't know if that was like the safest thing I just did. But yeah. I have mallet skin. Yeah. Anyway, in the shower.

So I have a shower splint. Okay. It has no gauze. It's got more of a, this is more of a metal splint. Okay. So that baby, metal with some foam.

Put that in the shower. Now, it's not the perfect shower splint because there's also Velcro across the top. Every now and then, you're kind of doing some of your hair, your Velcro gets caught a little bit. Like, ooh, pulled a few hairs out there.

So I found ways to maneuver that and make sure the Velcro's all the way around it's on the opposite side so you know a lot of figuring it out are you are you balding a little bit like no no just got velcro on my mallet finger splint you know how it goes no i've just been showering a lot with the with my mallet with my shower splint with velcro for my mallet finger yeah That's basically what you said. Yeah. Speaking of having to, yeah, just tell people about this. So this happens last night. By the way, I'm going. No notes.

No screen. No screen. I'm going to try something new today and Wednesday's episode. Great. Like I have my laptop here. It's not on. Nothing's. It's not even on.

Yeah. I have no. I'm going to try just like you too. Sure. I don't know., I have no... I'm going to try just like... You too? Sure. I don't know. Maybe. We'll see. I was going to try... I have some links.

...having like more of a conversation, less of like, I need to get to this. I need to get to this. I need to get to this. You need to talk about this? Yeah. I'm going to try and just, hey, just see what happens. We might have to refer to our computers for the ad reads at some point, but that's it. That's a good point. I do have those um anyway uh so for weeks leading up to last night rachel told me hey uh tuesday july 30th

there's like a all the teachers are going to my principal's house i'd love for you to be there the email said like feel free to bring uh your spouse or anyone so i was like great got it it a week out rachel's reminding me hey make sure next tuesday you don't play anything great so like people are asking me to play pickleball guys seriously can't can't hey you want to go we're gonna watch the olympics can't right show up last night uh to the principal's house nice home desoto kansas open the door shake hands meet the principal and then. Nice home. DeSoto, Kansas. Open the door, shake hands, meet the principal. And then as I'm kind of looking around her expansive living room,

open concept kitchen, I see, I'm looking at about 35 different women. There is not a single man in sight. Uh, not, no teacher brought their spouse. Whoops.

So it's just me. So not only, so just imagine with me as I'm meeting these people, a few things are happening. Yeah. So it's just me. So not only, so just imagine with me, as I'm meeting these people, a few things are happening. One, they're saying, now what grade are you? And I say,

oh, I'm actually Rachel's husband. Yeah. Oh, we got a husband here. Whoa. Okay, put her there. And then the next thing happens, oh, what's that? Oh, I have mallet finger.

So how'd you get that? Oh, we got a freak of a husband here. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. I'm doing great though. Oh, hey, we'll let you get you some food. We got, actually can't have the barbecue because of a tick bite.

You just look like a freak, dude. Like one of the other teachers is like, yeah, those parties are kind of a drag. She's like, listen, my husband is a super weird guy. He has stories for everything. I'll just bring him and we can just stare at him and ask him questions the whole night. He will spice it up. Not on purpose. He will hate it actually. Oh my gosh. Yeah. They were just, you were just so high maintenance feeling.

Is that what you're saying? Yeah. It just, all these conversations kept getting brought up that I don't, I wouldn't normally bring it up as soon as I meet someone. And then on top of that. Yeah. So I did, there was one other guy there has name tag said PE on it. It was like classic. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So PE was his name tag. Uh, Tim P E Tim P E Tim P E. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Where are you from? Uh, Phoenix actually. Oh, weird. Okay. So that was last night. So Rachel's kept me like, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. We got done. Rachel went back and reread the email and it did say, feel free to bring your spouse. So at first I was like, oh, this looks bad on Rachel.

How did she not know? But no, she did the right thing. How would she know? She hasn't even met most of these teachers. Right. She doesn't know the school system. It must have just been like classic first year. Like, yeah, it says bring your spouse, but like.

We don't bring our spouse. Honey, this is a lady's night out dude that's what's crazy is the principal is married and her husband wasn't there she like sent her husband off like it's just gotta be girl it's not gonna be fun get out of here it's just us and timpy you know yeah she's like actively trying to get men out of the house and i'm like hey guys yeah this is my this is my get together. Yeah, it's easier when I shake hands. My social splint. Yeah, dude. Obviously, a handshake is a first impression, but I would imagine you can't squeeze too hard,

or you got to be careful with it. Yeah, what I try to do is I try to go as deep as possible so that they can't feel it. It's more for them than it is for me. You get into the vein of the wrist, basically. You reach for that thing. Yeah, it's really deep into there. Every once in a while, they just grab your wrist on accident.

You just go. Sorry, that happens. My bad. Literally on the way over there, Rachel and I were practicing. I was driving over there. I was like, shake my hand. I was like, all right, could you feel that? No, I couldn't feel it.

OK, cool. That's the right spot then. What about that? Let me try. Actually, I have a new idea. Do you feel that? Yeah, I felt that a little bit. All right.

All right. OK, now I know. So was this get together justogether just like hanging out, or was there like a, oh, we're going to do introductions or anything like that? Very casual. Nothing structured, just hanging out. At one point, she was like, let's all go to the basement

and take some group photos. And we just kind of hung out in a new spot, didn't take any group photos. So yeah, it was fine. I wasn't like, at first I was like, this is a bummer. Yeah. But it was fine. I just made conversation and just, hey, there's something.

No notes, no problem. Someone last week on YouTube left us a comment that said something along the lines of like, they singled me out, but I will say, I think you are just as good, if not better than me at this. They're like, how do you engage people in such good, like small talk? And like, how do you get to know someone in conversation so well? Did you see that comment? I did try and find it. Exactly. It was like, you're meeting all these people all the time. Like, how do you, I need, I need help with engaging in small talk or something like that. Yeah. And so I thought I was thinking of that comment while I was having small talk last night. I was like, all right, what am I doing? Like without thinking about it.

All right. So I personally, sorry, you can read that real quick, but I personally feel like out of the four of us, you, me, Rachel, Catherine, Rachel and Catherine are way better at than you. They might even be. Yeah, they are. They are incredible. Like sometimes I'm like, I don't know. I don't have, I don't have anything else to say. I don't really care to try. I mean, if it's like my friends, sometimes I'm like, I'm, I'm good just hanging out here and Catherine will always have something to say. Yeah. And same with Rachel is like the most, you could can't silence her. I was, I was going to say, I don't know if this is really true. Maybe she's genuinely interested in everything she ever talks about, but she could fool me every time.

She seems so into every conversation. It's awesome. I even had those thoughts last night because I'm surrounded by women small talking. I'm like, women small talk different than men. Not that there's drastic differences, but I feel like women can keep their energy up higher but they're also more i think um they don't get anywhere with their small talk i feel like most of the time at least from what i noticed last night it's a lot of just like what's the common ground we already have okay let's just circle around that a lot so what's how's your classroom going and okay how has it been has

it been crazy you know just like generic typical questions you could imagine teachers having with each other right i never saw anyone get further than like we're teachers let's talk about teacher stuff okay yeah i was like i think if this was guys we would have like gone beyond our work right at some point figure out some other thing to talk like yeah it's not necessarily super deep but it's at least sports or whatever. Yeah, probably sports. Yeah. And not to say, yeah, I'm not saying like guys get super deep.

I think that is not in our nature. I think girls get deeper quicker probably. But yeah, but that was just what I observed last night. Anyway, so Malvin said, I got a question for Jake. I think you're really good at talking to people you don't know and making them feel comfortable around you with all the interactions you have with fans, etc. What are good questions to ask people you're just now meeting? Good lines of convo to start with someone new at church or small group. Something to make them feel comfortable

and feel like they're not just being small talks to. And then Daniel Miller also replied, said, I've been wanting to ask them the same question. That's fun. Yeah, I mean, I think it's not something I'm consciously thinking of, but I am, you guys have probably listened to this podcast long enough to know. I hate the idea of like being unoriginal or basic.

So I think that even comes out in small talk too. It's like, I don't want to just ask them questions that they've already been asked before. Can you think of anything that you've asked? Like that's a little bit, it doesn't have to be like crazy original, but just like a little different.

I think my go-t's are asking some like general questions about someone and then trying to figure out like, all right, if I had said those answers, what would I want to talk about? Okay. Cause that's how you make someone feel great about it. Just keep asking them questions, let them talk. And that person's got to come up with that conversation and be like, that guy was awesome. Right. I don't really know anything about him, but he let me talk about like, like a woman last night was telling me about her dog and she said it was an Australian shepherd mix. and she's telling me all these different mixes it had and i was like this sounds like my dog growing up where it's like we don't know what's

in it i was like show me a picture of your dog she was it was like she'd be waiting a thousand years for someone to say show me a picture of your dog she was so excited for me to ask that she's like oh my gosh yes i have so many pictures right here's one of him kind of laying next to our bunny oh my gosh you have a bunny a bun yeah what's the maintenance of a bunny like and you know what are your you said you had two daughter what do your daughters think your bunny you know how did you name it okay so i don't know just trying to like just go down an avenue yeah and don't be afraid to keep going deeper deeper deeper down that avenue because they probably want to talk about it and that's a good question what's what's having a bunny like rather than like

when did you get your bunny how long you had your bunny that's yeah that's maybe what i would do sometimes it's just like and that's a if somebody's a good conversationalist they'd be like oh we've had it for six months we got it here you know but like some people might be like oh i don't know maybe like six months or so okay oh neat uh what's the next so is he six months old or six months yeah or like did you get him as a bit like yeah i got him as arap. Okay. What's it like having a bunny like that? That then is like, well, let me tell you open-ended kind of thing. Um, I, I personally, well, first of all, Malvin's as name, I think her name. Yeah. Uh, person Malvin. Uh, I think if you are genuinely like trying to do this, you're not going to feel like you're not going to feel like

you're not going to seem like somebody who's having small talk no matter what, you know what I mean? Like that's first and foremost, like if you're worried about this, that means that you're probably not going to be just having small talk in general. So rest assured in that, even if you have to ask, like, how are you doing today or something like that? Great. Uh, I personally, I always am really interested in people's backgrounds like

you're good with families too i love you want to know families where are you from yeah what's your family like like and that's either sometimes it can be uncomfortable for people they're like my family's actually kind of dysfunctional or whatever but like and i'm not trying to like label them as like oh okay you've come from a hard past or whatever but it's just like i feel like you feel really loved if somebody knows those kind of things about you or you know whatever the more personal you can get the quicker the better it is yeah try to learn something about them and then let them talk about it yeah my dad is really good at asking questions that's always

like the thing he always taught me he was like just ask a lot of questions yeah ask a lot of questions ask like because if you're genuinely interested in them, then that's, that's good enough. So even like this is separate now, but like evangelizing, I think it's so much more effective rather than preaching to ask questions and just get, that's how you get to know someone. Cause then you realize like, Oh snap, like maybe I don't know this. Or maybe I, maybe I have doubts about this or I was like, wait, maybe I don't know this or maybe I, maybe I have doubts about this or I was like, maybe I don't believe that or whatever. It was like, yeah, something like that. Just the other day, this is not evangelizing, but I was hanging out with my friend, Will

and Will Severins. And he's like, so besides Jake, like who's the friend that you hang out with the most? And I thought to myself, I was like, I don't, I don't know if I have an answer for that. Like one-on-one, I don't really hang out with whatever. It was kind of like one of those like, oh, snap. I didn't think about that very well. Not that I don't see my friends or that I am dissatisfied with how much I hang out with people. But I'm like, okay, I go to basketball. I play pickleball, whatever.

But I'm like, I don't know if I intentionally hang out with friends very often. Yeah, that's a good point. The closest I ever got was two weeks ago when I came to basketball with Mallet. So I just sat on the bench and I got like three minutes at a time with whoever was sitting out. Because we had six people.

That's a fun little speed dating kind of thing. All right, let's go speed dating. Ding, you're out. Yeah, Gunnar sat down and got a call from Emily and Delaney was feeling sick. I got a lot of updates on how they were doing. So I back out, Harrison's in, hey, how's Rory doing? You know, it was a kid update.

Yeah, basically. Tell me about your kid. Speaking of basketball, though, I want to know. Okay. Tell them everything. So this week, guys, was the playoffs this past week. And if you don't know, the playoffs are the top four teams in the league.

They play, you know, kind of a four-team bracket. So if you win, you go to the championship. And so we had, we definitely had one game. We might've had a second game. Uh, so double header translation is, uh, if you're not, you know, 25, 22 years old, double header can be pretty tiring. And so we wanted to have a few subs, you know, or at least some reinforcements on our team. And we were down three, three men. We were down Jake O'Malley triplet.

We were down Peter brand new second kid, Casey. Yep. And we were down Nathaniel just got married and is hanging out in Disney world with his wife. Glidewell. Yes. So out of the seven guys, we were missing three of them,

a.k.a. we didn't even have enough to form a whole team. And so trying to get subs, we got our friend Rustin, who's an incredible basketball player. We got our buddy Link, who is way better than you think he would be. Like kind of a small guy, not the most in shape. He's got two kids, we'll just put it that way. He kind of shoots from his shoulder, but it's Drano. But it goes when I've been with him.

You know, so they were like, yeah, we can come. That'd be awesome. They both subbed throughout the season already. But there was lots of concerns about the sub policy. Because we've run into this before. Yes. The officiant at my wedding, good friend Joel Harney. Right.

Drove, how far has Fort Scott gone? Hour plus. Yeah, hour, you know, close to three hours round trip to come be with us, sub for us, and was told he was not allowed. Yes. Nightmare. I think they said something like, once you have five guys, you can't have any subs that haven't, that aren't on the roster or something. Yeah. So we were trying to really pay attention to the sub policy. What can we get away with this time? Yep. And so it seemed, and so I think the sub policy was no subs unless

you had to have five, I think, or whatever, but no subs and they will be checking IDs. It doesn't have to be like your driver's license, but some sort of ID. I got a text from Cooper and you're like, Cooper seems like a real good guy. And it said, this could be Facebook, Instagram,

whatever. Yeah. And I was like, first of all, my, my, my reaction was like, we've had the same refs

and the same very incompetent scorekeeper the entire year. The entire season. I was like, last week, they didn't even check. They didn't even like check us in. They just put our number down. They don't even know our names. They don't care at all. I was like, I don't think they're going to mind one way or the other, but I was like, I'm, I got it. I got to try just in case we've got to have some insurance policies

here. Uh, so Brad got to work. So I got to work Canva, Canva pro baby, CP BB, uh, went there and yeah, changed Jake triplets. I took a screenshot of Jake triplets, Facebook profile and changed the picture. Like just the profile picture cover photo was the same, just a profile picture to Rustin and his wife. And it just looked like Jake triplet, you know, graduated from SBU and here he is right here. And I sent it to the boys and they were like, that looks pretty good. And then I took a picture, you know, I took links, um, profile picture, Instagram screenshot, Glide's profile, um, took out like the, the posts from below because Gl glide just got engaged slash married to a black girl. And

link is very married to a very white blonde girl in his profile picture. So I was like, all right, got to change that a little bit. Um, and yeah, felt good, felt good about him. Got there that night, ready to like use them, ready to, ready to show them off. This is the part of the story where I don't, I, so I didn't show up. We were on our way back from Iowa. So I knew about all this, was really excited. And I purposely have not asked. Okay. Well, first of all, kind of a funny set the scene.

We get there. I drove Harrison, Harrison, Isaac, and I get there all the same time. Isaac and I go to the bathroom. And for whatever reason, I mean, we're playing in this old arena that's renovated. It's really cool. But the bathroom lights didn't turn on. Dude. Yeah done that does that happen to you there is a light switch but it's on the opposite side of where you come in oh really yeah but it's having to be before it needs to be like motion sensor i just yeah like we were just like surely when we get far

enough into the stalls here yeah come on hey and so as we're like peeing in the dark isaac's like dude i don't think this picture thing's gonna work work. I don't think it's going to happen, dude. I was like, yes, it will do. They're not even a check. No. Oh man. And so, yeah, we get done. We get out of there.

No, no, no, nothing. Nothing bad. Don't worry. Oh, I thought you were gonna say like the scorekeeper was in the stall. I was like, no way. He's like, oh guys, no. He's right behind me, isn't he? No.

Honestly, the story is not anything great because the scorekeeper didn't even double-check anything. No way. No. I mean, we get there and I'm like – I texted Rustin beforehand, like, FYI, you're Jake Triplett. And Rustin's like, dude, is this going to work? I'm driving a long time to get here. Yeah. You know, I'm bringing my whole family.

I'm like, dude, trust me. It's fine. I was like, if anything, we're leaving Link out. You're our fifth player. They didn't care one bit. Wow. The same exact thing. I was just like, hey, I'm double zero.

And he just wrote it down. Didn't even check anybody's ID. No, nothing. These guys were the most incompetent. There was one time Harrison dove on the ground for a ball. And these two guys just basically jumped on top of him on the ground. I was like, dove on the ground for a ball. And these two guys just basically jumped on top of them. I was like, and then they called a jump ball and, and not only whatever it was like right under the basket, there's a ref right here looking at him three

feet away. The guy like three quarters of a court back called the jump ball. And I, you know, me every once in a while, I just like, can't help'm like what do you how does that a jump ball you know just just kind of getting mad at the guy and um anyway so that's great that you so you got to play with six got to play with six because I had texted afterwards a little bit of like well how to go and someone said we had to play with four but we won Gunner's like dude I'm gonna text Jake and say we had to play with four but we won gunner's like dude i'm gonna text jake and say we had to play with four but brad got hot or something like that but then i saw gunner took a group photo later and all six people were sweaty yeah well something had to happen context clues gun um yeah so we played the first game against the same team we played last week anyway like pretty jalen hurts team yeah it wasn't there oh but some other dude that was not on the team who looked like Lamar Jackson.

Yeah. More like a, more like a, I don't know. Uh, Clyde Edwards, he layer just a short guy, but an athlete.

Cool. Um, and there was one time Isaac went up and looked like Isaac was going to try to dunk on this guy. And this guy met him right at the rim. No way. It was pretty awesome. That is cool. Because Isaac was like, you could tell he was going to try to dunk on this guy. And this guy met him right at the rim. No way. It was pretty awesome. That is cool.

Because Isaac was like, you could tell he was going up hard and this guy went up hard with them. And this guy's like five, seven, like short little dude. Anyway, played this team. They only had five guys and we, it was 63 all with a minute left.

Ooh, fun. And I think we got fouled. We scored one of two free throws, whatever. And so we had the ball again, one up by one minute left. We're like, get a good shot, get a good shot. Link shoots it, you know, in the middle of the key, misses,

but it pops out. It's like Robert, remember that Robert Ori shot back? He was always making game winning threes. Dude, that pops out to Harrison Pollard. Top of the key. Harry hadn't shot it all night. Dude, without hesitation, catches the ball.

Three pointer Drano. No way. We went by four points. Wow. It was great. So that was that was the first game. It was very Robert Ori. And the whole time, like the team that we were going to play in the championship, the

team that hadn't lost all week or all year was watching us uh cheering us on link had a jersey that said ice man on the back and so every time you'd make one they'd be like ice man baby let's go and then you know i'd shoot one oh big boy shooting you know like they were just like all about it they were so fun it's funny that they gravitated to y'all i don't know yeah i don't know why they were i mean we played them and we're kind of fun. I guess you're playing with them, but having a Jersey or whatever, this is Iceman on the back is so just like perfect guy.

Like, cause Todd has a Jersey that says bug on the back. Like guys just have weird shirts like that. It's the best. Yeah. I think this was like links, like intramural, like college IFC,

like, you know, like when he was working with fraternity stuff, uh, Iceman, but then like, so we, then we play these guys in the championship first play of the game, dude, guess who drains it? The Iceman. And I go, you guys got to remember about the Iceman. And then you make another, it'd be like the Iceman comment, you know, like just saying all this stuff. And started out pretty well uh long story short we did not win uh we learned later that these guys are 19 20 and 21 years old like very young yeah

uh one of the guys the tall like 6 8 guy plays in rockhurst yeah yeah i met his family a couple weeks ago yeah there was there they had their family that was another funny thing is that my mom texted me and my dad, like me and my dad and my mom in a group chat the night before. And it was like, dad and I would like to come to your basketball game tomorrow. Can you tell us what time and where it is? A little field of dreams kind of still rubbing off.

And yeah, I respectfully said, no, thank you. Please don't come. I don't know. Like it was like one of those things where it's like, I just,

I think this is just me and my friend. If my kids were coming, that'd be one thing. But I don't really want my parents in the stands. And then we get to this championship game, and the ref comes over to us. They're like, yeah, these guys over here, they always have their parents come watch them. And I was like, yeah, that's crazy. So anyway, they beat us.

I think they beat us by 10 or something. But we held our own. I think we were up by one at halftime. That's very good. But anyway, all together, fun time. I'm trying to remember anything else funny that happened. I mean, oh, there was near the end of the or like when it was close near the end of the game,

this big guy got down low. And of course, even though I'm not tall, I might be one of the taller guys on our team. So I was guarding the big man. And I just was like, I'm not going to let him get an easy shot. And these guys weren't calling very many fouls. So I just shoved this guy as hard as I could seven times and they never called a foul.

And then like later on, we got a timeout and the ref was like, Hey, Hey, double zero. You know, that's my, my number.

Hey, double zero. FYI. If you, if you keep using your forearms like that, they're going to, we're going to call a foul on you. I was like,

good. I was trying to foul. I was just like, I, yeah, I understand. That was a foul. What I did,

like I was playing football. Yeah. We get six. Yes. Try to use some, try to get in the bonus here. So anyway, that was kind of funny,

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Sad on that. Rachel and I just found that you can play same volleyball in Leagues of Kid City two on two. Dude. And Rachel was like, us two should play. I was like, really? You would play with me? I got so excited. It was all I talked about all night.

Yeah. And on that same night, I was just like, I know our parents are going to come and it would be so fun. I would love for our parents to come and watch us play two-on-two volleyball. I was like, you don't think I'm going to let the team down? I mean, post-Mallet, I don't know if I'll be the same guy. You won't have the same touch. Dude, two-on-two. We were talking about this

the other day. I was watching the Olympics and it's like... The summer games? Sorry, I was watching the summer games. I don't think it was. I was watching the SG's and yeah, dude, it's like you have to be in more better shape to play two on two volleyball at that level than anything else. I don't know what else would even compare to that.

A water polo. Maybe that seems exhausting. Dude, did you see that video of pedo? That looked is that what time is doing every Thursday? There's no time. It might be like a little bit of a physical specimen and we don't know it. Maybe. Yeah.

Five fifty nine mile. Yeah. It was in the morning. Yeah a physical specimen and we don't know it maybe yeah 559 mile vetoes in the morning yeah who knows i don't know that was a wild video join our facebook group if you're not in there less excited about two-on-two volleyball though i can't stop thinking about it i'm so pumped i can't wait to let her down you have to cover so much ground you're going to get so skinny oh that's fun yeah yeah you're going to be so tired yeah it will be a lot of fun but yeah hopefully we'll be in good shape yeah hopefully the mallet's healed it'll be a fun time cool man yeah i can't wait i i mean i don't think we'll be the most uh dynamic sane volleyball team i think typically you'd like to have a guy who could get rise above the net a little more right we'll have

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What, they have a URL for the logo? I use a URL called goodranchers.com. Okay. And that is where you're going to find, is that? It's just funny the way you say it. I use a URL called, like, it's like, make it sound like it's like this, like, like this, like I I've opted into the URL, good ranchers.com, you know?

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Hot. GRKC, goodranchers.com American Meat Delivered have you been watching many of the games with the rings no not really

with the interconnected are they interconnected rings yeah okay okay they have to be they gotta be right I've watched some highlights

do you know the five colors of the Olympic rings this was a cruise trivia question I'll say it like they did who can tell me the five colors in olympic rings i would love to watch steve coop like be like what did he say well the thing is it's steve coop it's my dad it's john i mean they're, they're all so. What did he say? Yeah. I think he said Olympic medals. Put Michael Phelps. No, no.

He said Olympic colors. Colors like nationalities. No, John. No, no, no. Not nationalities. Okay. Five colors. Not skin color.

I'm going definitely red, yellow, green. And then I'm going to go blue. And I'm. No. Yeah. Red, yellow, green. Orange. Call me crazy. White. Yeah. Red, yellow, green, orange. Call me crazy. White?

Okay. Red, yellow, green, orange, and white. Yeah. That is incorrect. I will tell you how many you have correct. Okay. You have three correct. Okay. Red, yellow, green? No. I'm in between it being yellow or orange. Let's call it yellow. Let's call it yellow. Okay. Red, yellow, green? No. I'm in between it being yellow or orange. Let's call it yellow.

Let's call it yellow. Okay, red, yellow, green. Let's call it gold. You don't think purple weasel its way in there, do you? Weasel its way in? You don't think, what is it in the ROYGBIV? You don't think violet from the rainbow snuck its way in, do you? Indigo, how'd you get here?

I'll go, I'll here? I'll go. I'll go. I'll go. I don't know. I don't see blue in there. Wow. I can't believe I don't know this better. It's a funny thing.

Yeah. Once you're quizzed on it. Blue and purple. Blue is correct. But there's one more you're missing. This is the wild card. Black. Black.

Oh, I was thinking white. I know. This is the wild card uh black black oh i see what i was thinking white i know this is the exact opposite me and brayden were kind of the ones putting our heads together did you get it uh we did but we were between white and black that was tricky to try and remember that's pretty cool that's pretty neat i actually just did i went to trivia last night. Where? Uh, Coco Bolo's. You heard of that? No. Prairie fire. Um, Oh, cool. Yeah.

Buddy invited me and I was like, he's like, Hey, are you any good at trivia? And I was like, I don't know. I don't know if I've ever really, like,

I don't think I've ever gone to a trivia night. Um, Rachel and I's first date. Where? Westport. Yeah. Westport ale house. I think it was called fun.

I just the two of you. Yeah. bold yeah we were bad because i was gonna say there was there was plenty that like i knew but there was i mean we still got third place and oh hey but but i came with these three other guys that go pretty regularly it's usually just the three of them and they invited me this time and they had a free 50 gift card for this place because they won first place. Great. They're like, we basically went almost every time didn't win this time. And I was like, I can't help but feel responsible for this. You got a bad plus minus. Um, what were some of the categories? Yeah. So they had eight categories total. One of them was just like warming up kind of thing. It was just like geography, Harry Potter. Bummer. Too specific. Yeah.

Harry Potter, logos, which I liked. Okay. Except I stood clear wrong. They did have Olympics as one of the categories. Oh. One of the ones that they do every time, they call it 8-bit bops. So 8-bit, you know what that is? Oh, the type of, yeah, like music style. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Kind of like Nintendo sound. Mario, yeah. So it was 8-bit bops. This one was specifically Disney songs. So you had to know what Disney movie this song was from. Harder than. So it was 8-bit bops. This one was specifically Disney songs. So you had to know what Disney movie this song was from. Harder than I thought

it would be. Got three out of five on that one. And then I think the last one was video games. Another one that was like, I don't know these very well. Yeah, it's kind of like

Harry Potter. It's like you either really know it or you really don't. There's no middle ground. Please ask a Madden one. Just ask one Madden one. Madden 06?

Ooh, but I did. I won. They had like just a lightning thing in between for a free drink. And I won that out of the whole place. What was the question? The question was Shohei Itani has the most home runs as a Japanese baseball player in the major leagues. What major league player would have shattered his record if they counted his Japanese career? Oh, Ichiro Suzuki. Incorrect. No way.

That was a, because I raised my hand and this other person raised their hand. They said Ichiro. And I said, I don't think that's right. And then they call it me. Do you have another guess?

No. He was after Ichiro or like still in the same time period, but any guess I have would be somewhat racist. Oh, yeah. Me. No.

Uh, play for the Yankees. I don't know. Hideki. Oh, Matsui. Yeah. Yeah.

Good memory. Yeah. Of course. Hideki Matsui. Yeah. Cause he had way more runs on Ichiro. He mashed. Yeah.

Yeah. Matt. Mashui. Dude. Great recall. So I, I didn't even use my drink i just gave it to one of my other teammates probably why we lost because they were a little inebriated i don't know i still remember rachel and his first date i don't know if i've talked about this on podcast before it was the hardest trivia i've ever done one of the categories was movie posters for movies that haven't come out yet. Oh, yeah. That was the category.

Yeah. So it was just like, all right, just wake me up when this is over. This is the worst thing I could think of. The cool thing that this trivia thing had is that at the end of every round. So the way it works is, and maybe that's how every trivia works. Bear with me if I'm just an absolute novice with this stuff. Amateur? Whatever.

But they have, we had like pieces of paper and every round was five questions and we wrote down on piece of paper, all five questions. And then after the end of every round, we would take that paper up to this guy. Is that what you do? Usually Rachel and I, as you had a, this is what made it fun. You had like almost a whiteboard and he would reveal your answers and they would say it out loud. So of course I was like saying dumb stuff just cause they would read it. Okay. That's fun. Uh, yeah. So this one was more like you didn't know how well other people were doing. They had like an app you could check or whatever, but cool. Um, but after every round, if you think you did so poorly on that round that you got two

or less, or I guess three or less, whatever, you could basically like get a one question, like save basically, like you can choose out of like the five categories they have. You could choose one of those categories. You roll a die and it would be from one to 20, depending on how high of a role you get. That's how difficult of a question you get. So you can be like, okay, I knew I've never seen Harry Potter, never read Harry Potter. I got zero out of five on that. Let me roll this die and choose sports. And if you get the sports question right, one question straight up.

It replaces one of your Harry Potter questions. No, you get three points total. So that is kind of the nice thing about like, okay, I don't watch movies that I've never seen before. Yeah. Like, so you could redo that or whatever. It's a cool way of doing it. It was, yeah, it was fun. cool way of doing it it's a pretty rough

way to meet somebody because I'm like these people could easily judge me right off the bat of like this guy's an idiot luckily I held my own alright I did steer clear or steer them the wrong way once the guy was saying the same thing I was it was this logo and they like take

certain words out and so i was like that logo looks like Ghirardelli chocolate i'm pretty sure and the guy was like i was saying the same thing but i wasn't gonna say anything until you said it i was like okay Ghirardelli lock it in and everyone's like dude nice one good one you're also proud of you yeah yeah but apparently a lot of people said Ghirardelli. It was bicycle playing cards. Oh, wow. Yeah. What's that logo look like? Yeah, it was one of those things, but they took out the word bicycle. It just said since 1885 or something like that. Wow. So anyway, that's fine. You're right, though. Yeah, it is an easy you say yourself to be judged a little bit like you're not good at trivia. Do not sign

up for this if you're in a group of people've never met before. And I've never done this specific trivia. So sometimes it was like, okay, is that a super easy answer? Or is that like a trick question kind of thing? Like do they do trick questions here? Because I think as the round got like later, the questions were quote unquote harder. You know, at first, like the first question, I was like, if these are the questions, I might be the smartest guy in the room. They're like, what does CIA stand for? I was like, if these are the questions, I might be the smartest guy in the room. They're like, what does CIA stand for? I was like, guys, are you kidding? But then there was another one that was like, what river separates Missouri and Illinois? And I was like, I mean, it's got to be the Mississippi River, but that's like, don't we all know this?

Right. That's like the one river that everyone knows in America. And so I was like, is that too easy? So it was. but let me think of a few other questions for geography we could do yeah geography okay um what what north american country is the closest to south america oh panama very good that was one was like i mean it's panama right yeah i had to think for like a second to like understand oh that makes sense yeah of course yeah yeah um let's see what other ones

geography oh this one was like almost two on the nose and we should in hindsight duh but they had like the classic windows xp picture remember like the background with like the green Hills. Totally. Yeah. And they're like, this picture was taken at Los Cerneros Ava or something like that. Carneros Ava. Uh, what state in America is that from? Dude, I've seen, I don't know Los Cerneros Ava, but I've seen one of those geoguessr content creators like go and find this place. Oh really? So that would be quite the recall if I could remember that. I don't know where, mean nebraska or something well that's the thing like obviously that sounds like a spanish thing so i'm like okay it's probably california but then the guy's like i mean windows they're from washington maybe it's washington and in the background you could faintly see this mountain

so i was like that makes sense that washington mount rainier maybe yeah whatever so we said washington was california was it okay dang of course yeah what other places have you know spanish names texas it's not texas yeah um what other fun yeah i mean i have a geography question for you great what asian country is the closest to the United States. Ooh. Is this like a trick? Is it Russia? Yeah, because of Alaska. Yeah. Because Russia is kind of both, right?

Asia and Europe? Oh, you're right. Yeah, yeah. But it's definitely a lot of Asia as well. Yeah. That's crazy that Alaska is so freaking far over there. Yeah. I think they're like a canoes trip away. Yeah. Sarah Palin could see it from her backyard.

Yeah. Big canoe. Also. Yeah. It's wild. That's fun. Good job. Anyway,

I feel like I held my own enough to where they're like, yeah, you can come back next week. If you have fun and get that Ghirardelli out of your system, but otherwise pretty good job. But yeah, there were a few of them that were like, who, who's gonna

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but took on a massive project flipping a, it was an old. Yeah. What did it used to be? I think it was a Swedish Baptist church. Okay. So it was a church. Oh yeah. Big time. I mean, it's very obvious when you walk in, like it feels like a church, but like, yeah, I mean, there's definitely like a balcony. I mean, it's's church looking but i didn't know what it was and oh they did an amazing job so much money so much time had so many issues vandalism yeah like just crazy things yeah all these different things and uh yeah it was really really cool to see like him you know this thing come to fruition kind of thing. Like you could tell how happy he was and how excited, um, they had this one room. Like, I think it was kind of like where, like the idea was like if the in-laws or the parents or whoever before the wedding would

be in this room, they called the lobby kind of thing. But, um, but they had all this history there, like all these pictures of the like old artifacts from the church. And there was this panoramic picture. I mean, I don't know how probably a foot and a half wide, whatever, six inches tall, not very, but of all these men, like, I mean, 250 men all in like suits, like standing outside the church from 1923. And you can see like model T cars in the background. That's a really cool picture. It was awesome. It was like men's morning Bible study from Swedish Baptist church. Swedish Baptist church.

Yeah, it was crazy. So anyway, that was a really fun, it was just cool to see Johnny and see all the hard work pay off kind of thing. And it's gonna be awesome. I think if you're looking for a wedding in KC, go to Melrose Abbey. Yeah, that's cool.

Super beautiful. I don't have much more to say. He was telling me like, that people in the neighborhood are like complaining about it because they're like, it's not right for a church to not be a church anymore. He's like, when I bought this thing, there were homeless camps with people selling drugs and like having like, like, like fires in the front yard. He's like, this isn't better than what, what I, you know, it's so annoying. Oh, but people are drinking in the basement of a church. That's not right. He's like, it's not church anymore. It's, you know, whatever I, it's like, this is, it's so beautiful compared to what was there before.

Yeah. That's cool. Speaking of hard work paying off, I know I already told you this, but I got an email from the landlord where I was going to put Bondi. And he said, hey, I know we haven't talked to him all, but I wanted to follow up and say, we would no longer like to have you park in our parking lot. So we are back to square one, folks. So it's all good. I was telling, I was on the phone with my sister last night and I was telling her, she's like, oh, I'm so sorry. And I was like, I've gone through the stages of grief so many times where there's nothing. I am so accepted. I have fully accepted anything you could throw at me. Doesn't even matter. Bounces off of me. Bring it on. New location, no problem. I'll have it picked out in two days. I mean, that's the beauty of Kansas City is this is a

sprawling Metro and there are plenty of options. I will say when Rachel and I were driving around that spot that I told you about I was even making the point I was like people who say the economy is not doing well right now look at this there are look at all these people look I mean I don't know anything about economy stuff but I was just like this is insane so many people are out of their home right now spending money I mean this parking lot is gangbusters right now. But yeah, Kansas City, it's a great spot. It's doing well. Yeah.

We did laugh about how there's a new business that opened up called Bonsai Bowls. Yeah. I didn't even want to talk about it on the podcast. Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry. No, no, no. Sorry. Not... Bleep it out.

Bleep it out. No, no, no. Not for that sake. Just because I didn't want to seem like I kept complaining about stuff. i was like i don't want to also and another thing but yeah i mean it was on the same street as where i'd plan on opening they opened a week like back in june and they're called bonsai bowls i was like oh my gosh i mean if anything else it could be like a happy accident like somebody coming to your truck thinking they're gonna get a bonsai bowl yeah like on the go and they're like wait this isn't oh i guess i'll just stay here you don't have rice bowls with lettuce yeah yeah luckily it wasn't the same product necessarily but just

another hilarious thing so back to the drawing board i mean that's a total drawing board i got a lot of this stuff figured out back to the location board yeah you'll get there baby i'm fine it'll be fine it was fun i got to talk to you because i saw you guys sitting on your porch the other night that was fun yeah just hanging out on the porch man we love we love the front porch and i i think i yelled or i was i was rooting you on as you were running and you're like i could barely see you over there man yeah i had the airpods in didn't hear anything just happened to glance over and i could see your arm kind of moving i was like is that brad? That was fun. What are you,

are you listening music or are you listening to podcasts? Usually I'll go, uh, 75 podcast, 20 music, five, nothing. Ooh,

raw dog. Yeah. Yeah. Just a free, free, free running. Yeah. Okay.

Two of my, the two fastest miles of the year have been no headphones in. Oh, interesting. One of them was the track. So I don't know if that counts when we all did it, but you know, live stream race. And then the other one was when it was pouring down rain. So I didn't want anything to get wet. And so maybe I was just like escaping the thunderstorm by that going fast.

I don't know. But there's a common denominator. Have you like, do you ever say like this? I'm going to try to run as fast as i can today or like whatever i will say this is just my own personal experience now that it's hot and humid there's no pr it's it is impossible to set a pr in this humidity yeah i just immediately your heart rate is so much higher than it would normally be right so it just feels impossible so so thick yeah it's just oh i got. So it just feels impossible. So thick. Yeah. It's just, oh, I got something to say about that.

This is what, hey, no notes, baby. No notes. The computer's off. I kind of spontaneously went to Iowa this past weekend. I can talk more about it. But the one specific thing I woke up. So I've got a few. I've started to develop some buddies up there.

Some buddies? Some buddies. Okay. And these are... Skuzz. Morning, Skuzz. Skuzz, Neil. Hey, how's the coffee?

No, these are pickle buddies. Okay. And I only text them when I'm in town looking to play pickleball. You know, just kind of a booty call. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Except at three in the morning, it's usually six in the morning. You up? Want a dink?

You up early tomorrow? Yeah. Before work? And so yeah, I texted my pickle buddies in Iowa, and they're farmers. And so they're like, yeah, let's play tomorrow. 6am. Dyke courts. Yeah. Oh, yeah. See you there. Yep. I'll bring my wig. And so 6am. Show up and we're playing. And it's not that hot out. So I was like that.m uh show up and we're playing and it's not that hot out so i was like that i think this is why we're playing early to beat the heat a little bit but i'm thinking we're sweating like kind of a ton right now and then an hour into it i'm like this is like what happens when you have a fever like this is why you sweat that much it was just like like you got out of a shower just like as wet as possible we get done playing and i think to check I'm going to check the humidity and just see what it is.

I took a screenshot. I don't know what I'm going to do with it someday, but I have it. It was Dyke, Iowa, 97% humidity. Have you ever heard of that? Almost the whole sky was water. How does that work? Yeah. At 100%.

Does that just mean rain? Am I underwater? Yeah. I don't know. I'm like, how close were we to a monsoon i i just couldn't wrap my head i was like i knew something that was insane right i knew that was not how it was supposed to be and so then i'm talking to these guys like guys i told you it was crazy i was like 97 humidity they're going uh iowa summers i'm like i think is it iowa

summer so i'm like well i can't wait to tell Steve and Angie and Rachel I get home. Like 97% humidity. And it seems like, oh, you know, there's some science. The corn, something with the corn helps keep moisture in the air. It's more humid here. Okay. Really? Either way, no one has been excited for me that I was in 97% humidity.

Everyone's like, oh, yeah, I am. Let me do it one more time. Go ahead. I was playing pickleball. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The humidity was 97%.

No way. No, no, no, no, no, no. 97.

You mean 79. You're dyslexic. 97. I was dinking with my buddies at 97% humidity. It was basically an A plus in humidity. A plus in humidity.

Oh my gosh dude no way this is how i thought angie coop would respond and she did it you're out of breath oh my gosh is that just like because of the the corn or like how does that what is this I didn't even know that was scientifically possible, dude. No way. You just like drenched like you're at a fever or something. It was like that. I was super sweaty and wet. Oh, my gosh, dude.

Thank you for taking this seriously. Thanks for having the appropriate response. Not serious. Like, OK. Like, do you have like documentation of it or something though like i have i have this screenshot do you really what are you gonna do with it i i'll just show it to okay people who want to see wow i don't know holy cow uh just real quick i i know i know we're recording but we can either pause or whatever.

You're actually, this is nuts, dude. This is crazy. This is crazy. Hello. Have you ever heard of 97% humidity before? Probably only in the bottom of the ocean. Isn't that nuts? It was in Iowa, Kath. Thanks, Kath. Iowa has 97% humidity at 6 a.m.

6 a.m.? 6 a.m.? I know! Thank you, Katharine. That is horrible. I can't believe it. I mean, can you imagine if we were playing pickleball at 6 a.m. at 97% humidity? I would die. know kath thank you catherine what was the actual temperature 70 70 degrees oh that's kind of nice but but with that much humidity it probably felt like 92 probably felt like 92 yeah exactly i i can't believe it i

i'm so glad that you're sharing my sentiment. We're just calling everybody and telling them. Yeah. Thanks. That is why in an Iowa. I know you think it's Northern Iowa. It's basically Minnesota. Well, Northern Iowa. Doesn't that kind of get close to Chicago?

Lake Michigan. I don't know. Is that all up there? Is it Chicago on the water? I think, yeah, I think Dyke is like a suburb of Chicago. Like,

like Dyke people are Cubs fans, but I think New Hartford people are White Sox fans. I think it makes sense. It does really make sense. I just, okay. I just had to call you. We're still recording,

but I just wanted to let you know, because that's insane right insane hey guess what I'm doing it's so funny I'm answering the phone with my left hand because my right hand is currently in the bottom of our dryer vent pulling out parlor beads oh no yeah

isn't that fun who did that I have no idea oh boy alright well I'll leave you to it so i can just be goofy on a podcast we can decide who has a harder life gotta work or i gotta let you go i'm really working hard here yeah yeah yeah sure okay okay bye bye bye all right love you bye that was great oh man if there's anybody that's gonna get fired up about whether it's katherine ellis that was so great you called her you want to you want to talk about like if weather, it's Catherine Ellis. That was so great that you called her. You want to talk about like if it's really cold, she'll really get fired up about that.

Get like mad. Oh, dude. Mad how cold it is. She just does not want to think about it. Same with Rachel. I looked it up. Corn crops in Iowa can contribute to higher humidity levels, especially in the summer. The process is called evapotranspiration.

Evapotranspiration. You know, I was like, let's take a syllable and then I'll figure it out at the end. And I did. Yeah, I have this thing. It just like... It evobarated. Yeah, dude.

They had like this puddle in our yard, but then like after the sun came, it did this thing called evoporate. And it just got out of there. It evoporated. I don't know. It's kind of like prorated, I guess. I guess they only pay for half. It's got out of there. It evaporated. I don't know. It's kind of like prorated, I guess. I guess they only pay for half.

It's like Desperate Housewives, like Eva Longoria, Evaporate. Hmm. Or maybe it's Spanish. Maybe it's Evaporate. I don't know. Evaporate. Yeah. Once I read the whole word, I was like, oh, I can probably tackle this.

What's it called? Evaporate. Evaporate. Oh, oh, I can probably tackle this. What's it called? Evapotranspiration. Evapotranspiration. Okay, okay. I got to the end of the word. Now I got it. Oh, my. Or slang called corn sweat.

Corn sweat. I had the corn sweats. Dude. I had the dyed corn sweats. Dude, I had that firecracker shrimp. It gave me the corn sweats, bro. Yeah, it's still on the bridge. You can still see it.

I planted my seed in the bridge, not GMO. No fertilizer? Nope. Just corn sweats. No till. It occurs when corn absorbs water through its roots and releases vapor into the air through its leaves. Huh.

For every acre of corn, around 4,000 gallons of water are released daily. So, yeah, Steve was right. Huh. That's fun. In fact, some say that Iowa cornfields can make the state muggier than the Miami beaches. Some say. Not everyone's fully on board with that, but some say.

I don't, I mean, obviously it stinks to sweat so much, but also you just feel like inherently productive when you sweat. Yeah. You're like, hey, I can, you know, I, cause I went straight from there and went to the quick star, got a donut. I was like, man, I lost some here. Yeah. Yeah. I never have donuts. I did so good on the cruise. I didn't have, you know, a lot of the dessert that was at my disposal at all times, but yeah, I needed that donut that morning. It was good. What's going on? I walked in here today. It's like a little potluck dinner of,

you got like four donuts on the table. You got like scotch-a-roo looking things, special K-bars or whatever. You know what I think you might have thought were donuts is the gauze wrap. Really? It looked like it had sprinkles. Oh, wait.

Oh, that, that, that. I know what you're talking about. Oh, no, those are donuts. I'm just kidding. Oh, wait. Oh, that, that, that. I knew you were talking about. Oh, no, those are donuts. I'm just kidding. Oh, no, no, no, no. Those things are donuts. No, so it's. So it's like fried, fried bread with like icing and sprinkles on it.

Those are sugar cookies. Okay. Angie Coop made them. You can have some. I'm okay. What about the no bake cookies? You can have some of those too. Oh, I love no bakes.

Do you put them in the fridge? They're on our table. We can put them in the fridge for you ifbakes. Do you put them in the fridge? They're on our table. We can put them in the fridge for you if you want. We'll put them in the fridge and I'll get some later. Yeah, so we have that. And then last night for the all-female gathering, Rachel made scotcheroos. Okay, fun.

So yeah, a little potluck. A little potluck. A little pea luck. That's crazy. 97% humidity. I had some made-to-roasters in Iowa. Did you really? Yeah, somehow I fought through the humidity. Yeah. 97% humidity. I had some major roasters in Iowa. Did you really? Yeah.

Somehow I fought through the humidity. Yeah. And the donuts. And, um, yeah, I had some coffee, put a little creamer in it. Mm-hmm. Uh, yeah. I love fake whistling. Uh, I checked, I checked the mail, uh, to see if we had any mainstream roasters.

And? Any. And? Any. Any? Any? Yeah, a whole big old bag of beans from MainStreetRoasters.com. I love quoting that kid. Anytime Rachel's like, what are you up to tomorrow? Pick up sticks.

Check the mail. Bo has some tendencies of him sometimes. Yeah. Main Street Roasters, though, baby. I had some this morning. Pick up bags. Yeah. Main Street Roasters, though, baby. I had some this morning. Pick up bags. Yeah. Pick up beans.

Pick up beans. Pick up beans. But they'll deliver them right to my door, so it's not that big of a deal. Any? Any? Any. Yeah, any kind.

They got discounts? I went on Ghost Runners Podcast to check if they have discounts on Main Street Roasters. Any? or I went on Ghost Runners podcast to check if they have discounts on Main Street Roasters. Oof. Any? Yeah, 10% off actually with GRKC. 90% of full price. We love Main Street Roasters.

That episode was so fun last Wednesday. By the way, if you haven't listened to the last Wednesday episode, I think it was a really good episode, especially the last, I forgot even what it was. I remember in the moment thinking the last like 10 minutes, 20 minutes, I hope people get to it. It was really good. We're recording this on wednesday so i haven't

listened to the whole episode yet but i listened to like 30 minutes of it this morning and yeah it was a great up because we did the five and ten it was so funny when time and what did he say he said never gonna give you up for whatever reason that was so funny to me because yeah all right time in five songs all right never gonna give you up oh'm freezing. And then he said, Jesus loves me. I saw Tymon's dad. All right, Maitre Roasters. Let's talk about me. I'll talk about Tymon's dad later.

Great coffee. Yeah, great people, great coffee. We're going to be there in October. I'm going to be there just impromptu in August. I'll let you guys know a little more. Are you really? I'm going that direction for a father-son retreat. We'll talk about it a little later. Dude, that's fun. You are going to love it and you're going to get recognized a thousand times.

It's going to be the greatest day of your life. What if I come in there like hoping like, hey guys. You're wearing a Ghostrunner shirt. It says, ask me about my podcast. You know that guy, Leo Gonzo. Leo Gonzo. So funny. I can just see him being like, it's me. It's me.

I'm here. Yes, I have arrived. Yeah. He's so funny. What kind of coffee do you think I want? Can you imagine him being like, can I take your order? What do you think I want? Since you know me so well, probably, right?

You think I'll probably just get the regular? You know that? You probably know everything about me, right? That's such a good impersonation of Leoo doing a character yeah that's really good yeah rachel and i love leo me too he's he's funny dude uh yeah well have fun for yourself for those of you who can't make it out support from afar get some delivered grkc you get 10 off mage roasterszers.com. Check it out. So good. What were we going to talk about? Wednesday episode,

Tymon's dad. Tymon's dad. Just needed some microphones. So Friday Pickleball bought some mics, but then Tymon usually keeps them because he takes the footage,

charges them, whatever. But Tymon's on vacation again. The only person who takes more vacations than me is Tymon. He's gone again. He's actually gone next takes more vacations than me is timing. Um, he's gone again. He's actually gone next weekend too.

Not that we need him next weekend, but Friday pickleball definitely could have used him next weekend. And so he's gone again. Well, he's next week in PPA. Yeah. Oh, bummer.

I think Derek's going to come shoot some stuff for us on Saturday. It'd be fun. So once again, if you're, it's the week you're listening to this, this like Scott's doing like four events. Scott's competing like Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday.ay i think isaac and i competing saturday come watch let him watch let him watch but we don't screw it up don't let us botch so let's see if this

comes out on monday we could technically get some merch to him by yeah wait merch to who if people want to wear some pickleball like oh if we want to if we want to make a shirt the capitalist in me is like we could probably have some people all of a sudden it's like why is this why is this guy getting more fans over here on the amateur courts than the professionals and it's like they set up a merch table this guy looks like he does it professionally he set up a merch table really efficiently isaac's over there slinging yeah um yeah so come out watch support if you want the ppa tournament all i had to say i was like time and can i meet up with you at some point to grab these mics got to reshoot some lipton stuff me and

isaac are going to make a video while we're on the road we can talk more about that later but um he's like it actually might be more convenient if you just meet up with my dad and i was like great perfect so met up with timon's dad and um jesse was also there jesse had just gotten done auditioning for the choir i said would you audition with he said the star spangled banner i was like your choice he's like no we all had to do it i was like oh that's probably good oh really it's july so that's just the figured it would win me over a little bit yeah um so yeah it was fun to see just me r Rachel and Brandon, Jesse. It's fun. Like after meeting Tymon's dad, it's like, oh, Tymon is like his dad, not like carbon copy, but like there's definitely mannerisms that are similar.

Yeah. And I got to see Tymon's dad joke around a little bit. Like Tymon, I think it was like really, I should say really nervous, but it was just trying to make sure that we found each other, that me and his dad did. And so when he hadn't heard from us a little bit he kept calling his dad and his dad kept like denying it because we were like in a conversation and then time and it keeps calling so if it's shaking answers it and he's like have you found jake yet and at times dad is like no i'm still looking for him and i'm just messing with him and he

time isn't texting me and he's like no he's right here i was like oh okay why didn't you answer my calls that's great great. Yeah. He's like, because I'm actually in a conversation with somebody. That's funny. Yeah. I never gave him a hard time about this. But did you hear about the time where Tymon left your microphones underneath your car? Oh, yeah. He was like dropping them back off for you or something.

And I don't know if he's had a panic moment or what. But out of all the places he could think to leave these things, he's like, I'm going to put them under Jake's car. And then that night slash the next morning, it rained a pretty good amount. Yeah. I felt bad. I'd ask you, I was like, Hey, sorry. It looks like it's kind of raining. Timon said he left the microphones under my car. Would you mind snagging them? Yeah. Thanks for doing that. It's like, it's like you have one of those mailboxes that's just like a nice flappy, just throw it in there. Yeah.

Just a great... I will say to his credit slash my chagrin, they weren't just right underneath the car. They were protected. They were down there enough to where I was like, reaching in there pretty good. Hey, good work, Simon. Yeah, I could have coordinated better with...

I should have like unlocked my car or something for him, i kind of forgot no it's just a funny it was just a funny thing of like okay this is the best thought here but i forgot he did that good times old timing uh you want to talk father son retreat sure yeah i'm kind of uh preparing for it right now basically a ghosty uh in indiana He works at a camp called camp. Oh, cool. That's the name of it. Yep.

I like that. SEO has got to be tough. Well, no, honestly, just camp with four P's. Oh, okay.

Camp. Yeah. Yeah. It's camp. Oh, it's something would anyway, um, out in like Northeast,

uh, Indiana. And yeah, at the end of their summers, they do a father child retreat, I think technically is what it is. Okay. And so I think it's, it's nothing crazy. It's like maybe 15, 20 dads and their kids. Um, but I'm, I'm like the, the speaker for the dads. Like I get to like, Oh wow. Yeah. Be like the keynote speaker for this thing. Cause that's something you're like bringing Bo to you're just like, uh, right. No, I'm like, I'm yeah, I'm getting paid to go. And, um, really excited about it. It's been, it's been a fun, like I take the responsibility of it pretty seriously. So I've been trying to not just whip something together in a month. So I've been working on it for a while now and

just trying to compile different things I've learned and different resources and stuff. So I'm really excited about it. Um, what are your, like how many talks for how long? Yeah. I think there's, I also got asked to lead some worship, uh, for it, which would be kind of, yeah, I'm kind of like the entertainment. Yeah. So I'm doing some kids worship, like a little more, more like waves of mercy. Pharaoh, Pharaoh. Remember that that one oh yeah let my people go i don't know if i'm gonna do that but um doing some kids worship some like nighttime have you ever heard the term vespers oh yeah where have i heard that i don't i think it's like like i think the right the right christians are gonna be like you've never heard of vespers yeah

we do it we do it at K-West. You called it that? Yeah. It's like nighttime worship is what I understand, basically. Oh, I don't think we did that. I don't know. You keep going. You keep going.

Well, yeah. It was like instead of Dementors for the Harry Potter part, we called them Vespers. The Vespers are everywhere. No, basically it's just like a little, I don't know, 30 minutes of worship and devotional. So I'm leading like two of those. So it's a short little mini Devo and then four talks. Four talks.

Four talks. A couple of them are like over an hour. Did you say, oh my gosh, dude, that's so much to prepare for. I know. Who found you? How'd they find you? Ghosty. Oh, okay.

Ghosty slash Gene Short. I think he was Gene Short's first, went to Ghost Runners. Wow. And he asked me to do it last year, but I couldn't do it. Oh yes. I remember this. Yeah. And so this year I was like, yeah, I'll, I'll make it happen.

So wow. Had enough time. And I'm really excited about, I would like to do more events like that, where I come and speak, I think specifically would love to speak with fathers, but parents of just in general, I obviously passionate about that. And I, yeah, I'm still, I'm obviously passionate about that. I'm still in the thick of it. So on one level, I'm like, I'm going to preface everything by being like, listen, I'm doing all this stuff with you.

It's not like I haven't figured it out. No. I don't have proof of concept of all this stuff being super effective. But the people I'm learning from do. That's cool. And it's going to be a lot of work for this time around preparing all these, but then hopefully you get booked more in the future and it becomes easier. Yeah. I have four different talks ready to go. Yeah. Sure. Hour long talks. Yeah. I think some of, I think two of them are maybe 45 minutes or something. And I, I've thought about like the end of it being more of an application time or something like, okay,

take 10 minutes to figure out, like reflect on this. Yeah. I don't know. Or ask questions that, you know, whatever, like facilitate more of a conversation than just me talking for an hour plus. Yeah. Um, that's cool. It's a lot. I can't imagine talking for that long with just like into the void like that. No, no one interrupting you or yeah. I'll just need you there. Like, you know, add some gaps once in a while, but, uh, I'm really, I'm really pumped about there. Like, you know, add some gaps. But, uh, I'm really, I'm really pumped about it. I hope it goes well.

I hope I've taken it seriously. Yeah. Cause they're paying me for it. And so I'm like, I want to do a good job and I want, I want these fathers to feel encouraged, but also challenged. And so when is it,

uh, end of August, I think August 23rd or something like that. You know, me dates. Cool. August something pretty soon. Yep. August 23rd. I nailed that. You know me. Dates. Cool. August something. Pretty soon.

Yep. August 23rd. I nailed it. Wow. Driving to Indiana. Cool. Yeah, that's funny you get to be up there. It's a lot of corn, a lot of Mennonites, a lot of Amish, and major roasters.

Camp Wildwood. Does that sound good? How many peas? Eight this time. Camp Lakewood. Lakewood. So it should be fun. Shout out to Tanner Ginder.

He's the, he's the guy that contacted me about it, but I'm, I'm yeah. So I've been, thanks 10 man. It's been occupying a lot of my time lately. It's just asking other fathers that I'm friends with. Like,

Hey, what would you like to hear at a retreat like this? Or asking other men who have done stuff similar to this. Like one of my friends leads the father son camp at Kanakuk. So I'm like, Hey, what would you like to hear at a retreat like this? Or asking other men who've done stuff similar to this. Like one of my friends leads the father son camp at Canacoc. So I'm like, okay, what, what have you learned from that? What do people like? Right. So I'm pumped about though. So I would like to do more stuff like that in the future. If opportunities arose, anybody's out there. So anyway, cool deal. Do we have healing waters, healing waters? Okay. Oh yeah. They're back. They're back. And they're, uh, they're ready to keep, keep sponsoring us. They, uh, yeah, I talked to water flowing. If you will keep, keep the well pumped, right. Keep that pump going.

Um, yeah, they, uh, I actually talked to my friend Mark, who's the kind of the guy that we've been in contact with over there yesterday. He's just so appreciative of everything. I think we're up to 120 some individual donors right now. Some of them have given a substantial amount, which is just so cool and so awesome to see. And yeah, he was just like, first of all, I think the message I want to convey to your fans is thank you. Like we are so appreciative of everything you guys have done. This is so encouraging to see, you know, all these new people learning about our ministry, you know, becoming aware of this, being able to support it. Um, and then also he's like, also we've hit our match goal, but that doesn't mean we have to stop fundraising. You know, obviously we've raised 20 grand for this cause, but in the grand scheme of

things, 20 grand is still whatever, no pun intended, a drop in the bucket for the larger problem of this thing. So, um, I think we're up to almost 12 grand now that we've raised from the ghost runners account. The thing about a drop in the bucket is if there's only one drop, it can Eve up how right quickly on you. Yeah, exactly. And so that's why you got more drops. You got to have more drops. So yeah, just once again, we are raising money specifically for this region in Southern Mexico, Chiapas, Mexico, their poorest region down there. But Healing Waters, I mean, it's just doing wonderful things for so many people that need the assistance, need the solution of clean water that don't have it. And we just take it for granted so often.

I don't know if I mentioned this last week or whenever, but we had a power water outage for like four hours the other day. Oh yeah. It was just amazing how that little amount was just like so inconvenient for me. It's just once again, I think about that so often. I don't even know if I said this on the podcast, probably like a week or so ago, you know, all the construction there, I woke up one day and just didn't have water. I was like, Oh yeah. What a love to heads up. Right. These people are born and they're like, Oh, we don't have water. I'll just live that way for 20 years. It's amazing. So, I mean, I think you can continue to donate at give.healingwaters.org slash ghost runners. You can see right now we, yeah, we've hit our, we've hit $12,000 now, $12,136 at the time of this recording.

So cool. But $30 provides child with safe drinking water for entire year. A monthly gift of $25 provides safe water for 10 children for a year. So let that sink in. I mean, I know that we all have different budgets and we're asking you guys to support a lot of different businesses here, but this is one that is certainly worthwhile. Think about $25 a month. If you can afford it, providing safe water for 10 children for a year, that's pretty amazing. So give.healingwaters.org slash ghost runners to support them, support them. That that's fun that's real nice that's real nice dude uh we kind of we we need to probably iron this out a little bit better

off the podcast but we did promise the ghosties we talked about branson and we haven't talked about branson oh yeah let's talk about branson. Okay. You want to give a, give a little preview from what you understand of what we're doing. So don't miss it. Don't touch that dial. Let's say, let's say by the time this comes out, it is on our website. Okay. Ghostrunners.life slash Branson. Fun.

Yeah. So what we're about to say is going to be anywhere between 80 to 90% accurate. But if you want the actual, you know, yeah. Logistics will be on our website when this comes out, but here's what we're thinking. Okay.

Saturday, September. Let me find, uh, September 14th is the main day. You're going to want to make sure you're in Branson. We understand that a lot of people might be driving in and they're still going to go to work on Friday.

Maybe they're flying in on Friday. Whatever you're doing, we don't want to have too much planned for Friday night because people are still getting there. But we are going to have some things planned for Friday night. Yes. Some sort of meetup on Friday night. Informal meetup, hangout,

potentially a pickleball gathering. Kind of a chicken and pickle type hang, potentially Andy's for ice cream, whatever. We've, we've brainstormed a few different places. We haven't solidified anything yet. Um, but something on Thursday or Friday to just hanging out and informal hangout, informal hangout probably won't go too late in the night because we got to, we got a full day Saturday.urday yeah and feel free to bring your spouse there'll be name tags like people are actually bringing their spouse to this tim p will be there yeah um and then saturday is just the day you don't want to miss it's going to be one of the best days of all of our lives i would get a lot of mainstream roasters beforehand if i were you. So we've been in talks with the amusement park

where I was raised, basically, where we had season tickets. Conceived too, right? Yeah. Yeah. Thunderation. Fire in the hole. Oh, man.

That's why my dad was so bummed they were taking it out yeah oh yeah midlife crisis go ahead uh every club at stratford high school would take a yearly trip down to this place like fccla about why you join because they go to silver dollar city every year that's the name of the amusement park it's the name that haunted me as a little boy with a speech impediment with my arts but i absolutely love it i've been there so many times say it with confidence now baby silver dollar city yeah baby silver dollar city it might be one of the only places in the world where i don't need

a map i use my navigation to get around kansas city still i use my navigation to get to chick fil a what if there's traffic but i don't need a map when i go to zoro city we blindfold jake he just feels the wood on the wall he's like yeah this is this is barn swing we're at barn wait time travel no it's not swing yeah that's that this is where the dulcimers are made that's raw cedar yep uh i i love this place and we're gonna be spending all day long there saturday september 14th yes uh basically if you go on our website, we're going to get group tickets. They're going to include some meals, also access to all the different things we're going to be doing throughout the day. So we have a ghostie who works for SolarRcity, shout out Natalie, who contacted us. It was like, would you want to do an event here? We're like, that would be a dream of ours.

We're going to do a live podcast, but we're also going to do throughout the day, different little breakout shows, if you will, different breakout sessions. And we haven't solidified exactly what those are going to be yet because we got to figure out logistics, but I would like to do at minimum three, maximum nine, no minimum three. Like, I mean, I'm talking maybe a little concert at some point with brad and maybe hey brad and timon or maybe we've talked about incorporating parents of some sort yeah we've talked about doing more improv stuff we've talked about whatever like a fun game session and so in between you know riding roller coasters and hopefully we're going in september where it's not going to be crazy where it's not going to be crazy hot

it's not going to be crazy busy and so they said it's a good time for them yeah i think we're being strategic there uh so we're going to be riding roller coasters you know seeing all these different fun things all throughout go see how a wooden baseball bat's made sure fun all these you know all these different things and then you're going to come back periodically throughout the day if you want to and do these fun things they're all optional and there's a theater inside where we will do these things um it's just gonna be so much fun it's uh yeah i i just can't wait we're intentionally trying to make this event as family friendly as possible not that it's it's never like inappropriate for kids but i'm just saying like we so often like

our ghost runners getaways are like, ah, I would love to, but I have three kids at home. You know, I can't just leave my kids for five days or whatever. Like we want you to bring your kids to this. We want you to have your family with you. Um, kids get a little bit of discounted rate anyway. So, um, anyway, all that to say, we're really excited about the whole thing. Uh, SDC all day on Saturday. It's going to be so fun. So yeah, like Brad was saying, so they're going to give us basically a theater,

like an indoor venue to use that we can just do whatever we want all day. So it's like, well, obviously we should do at least one podcast. Right. But let us know what else you would like us to see. Yeah, fair. Like give us a little brainstorming session.

Yeah. We'd love to hear. I think the concert is close to a no-brainer. Something with you and Tymon maybe is sure his friends you know something like that i mean people requesting hems you know a couple weeks back you have a little session i mean that's the most silver dollar city thing you could ever do i kind of like the the visual i like the idea of like me kind of like facilitating a q a with steve coop and steve triplett like they're on say you just ask him any question you want for an hour or just get them going on

some stories. I also thought about leaving them on stage and letting them complain for an hour. Just see what they say. What's on your mind. What are you bagging about these days? Um, so yeah,

anything else you'd like to see, it would be fine. We get Rachel and Catherine there potentially. Yep. But we have a, we have a venue all day long. Uh, people have asked about lodging.

We're not providing, we don't have any packages or anything like that for lodging right now. I think it's gonna be easier. Yeah. But Branson has a abundance of Airbnbs, hotels, everything like that. The main area that we will be in is that, I mean, Branson's not huge, but just make sure like you're within, I don't know, like don't, don't get something on table rock Lake. That's 45 minutes away from Branson. If you don't want to drive. Um, yeah, you should be fine. I mean, even if you're in a town called Reed spring or Hollister, you're still close enough. Hollister is great. Well, and then so since Sunday, this is all, Oh wait, it's not over on Saturday. No dude. That's the thing. SEC all day is the middle. It's the meat. It's the sandwich. We get dessert, but then you get dessert on Sunday. Um, We still need to solidify the location of this,

but we are going to do, not to get all Jesus-y on y'all, but we're going to do a little worship service on Sunday morning. Our friend Jensen, who's a youth pastor, is going to come and speak for us. We're going to do a little bit of worship. I mean, keep it simple. We're not trying to go, I don't know, whatever. We're not going to go for two hours. Phil Wickham is going to play.

No. And then probably just kind of a little bit of a hangout afterwards. If we do it at one location, we might play pickleball after and have a little potluck. You're not like a little lunch kind of thing. We're still figuring out the details on that. But all to say a weekend full of family friendly activities. Yes. We want to make it as fun as possible for y'all as,

and we want to make it like, if you don't want to come listen to the Steve's, then don't come go keep riding rollercoaster. Everything's optional. Go ride time traveler. It's a really fun ride. It's different every time. Cause it spends.

That's fun. Yeah. So anyway, go to go service. Dot live slash Branson to ghostrunners.live slash branson uh to get your tickets the fun thing is that the tickets are unlimited you know like it's not like it's not like we can't sell a boo or like dang we we already have enough you know whatever so um let's pack sdc with ghosties it's gonna be awesome i mean as it gets closer i think we'll come up with even

more and more fun things just like we do we can't help ourselves just like how do we make it even better how we make it even better who else could we get as a surprise guest there how many pickle paddles should i give away is 200 too much you know like i want to really like make it we want to make it really fun for you guys yeah because i know a lot of you guys are gonna be traveling in to do this uh answering other questions that are probably gonna come up branson's on a super easy place to fly to. I don't think, I don't even know if their airport is municipal or whatever you want to call it. Yeah.

You would fly into Springfield, Missouri or Fayetteville, Arkansas. You know, their airport code. It's like XNA or something weird. Oh, interesting.

Yeah. Cause they don't like Asians. I don't know. Is that, is that funny? Yeah. Is that funny? Um, yeah. How far is Fayetteville from

Branson? Hour and a half. Okay. Compared to like 45 minutes for Springfield. Yep. You guys look it out. Yeah. Yeah. Figure it out. Yeah. Um, but we're really excited for the whole, the whole thing is going to be so fun. We want to make it what you guys want it to be as well. So Silver Rock City is is just it's fun even if there's nothing ghostwriters related going on yeah i mean our families are going there all the time just to be there yeah i called my sister yesterday i said where you got she said i'm driving to branson i said oh my gosh yeah my sister has season passes for silver our city it lives here it lives in kansas city yeah yeah it's like yeah but they're like it's worth it so it's like did dana move yeah she's in

um so that's the that's the skinny on brains get your tickets it's gonna be so fun it's gonna be so fun so fun so um you got a review of the week you want to talk about i mean i gotta get out my computer to do it but we have a ton i don't know they kind of just update you know i know i got one that says mallet finger i one that says the word pish posh i really like that one person is holding another one star review hostage from us so i'm not going to review that because i don't want to give you attention but you know who you are please give us five stars is genuinely not funny to give us five stars. It's genuinely not funny to give us one star reviews. Anyway. I should have been laughing.

Sorry. What? Yeah, you. I'm looking still. Okay. Mallet fingers make for good podcast. Five star review from Joy. I found ghost hunters after listening to the Walk in Love podcast.

Hey, same with Rachel. In hearing the host often recommend the podcast. Thanks, Broken TJ. Brad and Jake have kept me sane during many sleepless nights with my 1.5-year-old. I like to, you know. 1.5, yeah. Give him the honor of the full decimal there. Sometimes they're a little too funny, and I can't control my laughter and nearly wake the baby.

Seriously, you guys have been a bright spot during some pretty difficult nights. Well, Joy, congrats on the child. And thanks for listening to the podcast it's funny listen to brick and tj as well yeah it is they're great three star reviews dot dot pish posh i'll do it five star this is five stars from way co way co huh that feels like a punny yeah yeah like they're trying to get us to say something we're a boombox brand yeah it's like it's like the cost headphones back in the day were pretty cheap. You either get Koss headphones or you get the wraparound Wayseals.

The Wayseals are like, they're nicer, but they are more expensive. Oh, the Wayseal CD player is a little more, but it does have the five disc rotating. Rotating. Yeah, which is really good. I've had it for like a year and it hasn't skipped. I haven't had any issues with the Wayseal. The Wayseal does come with a remote too, which is sweet.

The AM antenna is not very good, but I don't listen to that much. I haven't had any issues with the way. The way CEO does come with a remote too, which is sweet. The AM, the AM antenna is not very good, but I don't, I don't really use it. So it's fine. Yeah. I would recommend the way to almost anyone. And best buy as a,

yeah, they have a price match. So yeah, it's great. It's like Vizio's cousin. Yeah. All right. Way.

See, Oh three, three star reviews. Pish posh. Love the podcast. It's probably the number one talk show I listen to each week. It's a conversation starter for my wife and I who seem to share so many values and humor with Jake, Brad, and Tymon.

Especially the fact it is a clean pod and the hosts value faith and try to live it. Don't tone the fact that you guys have an active with down. Okay. Tough sentence here. Tough tough sentence you got this well i'll say it's probably saying don't tone down the fact that you guys have an active this is where it's tricky with down and just skip over and to heck with the three-star reviews if you're selling the pod to everybody and not able to share the cool God moments, all of you have and things that you that are helping you grow, I guess it would be still a good pod,

but not as great as it could be. Love you guys in the laughs. I look forward to each week, but as Paul said, don't be ashamed of the gospel. Thank you. Paul Shira. That was,

that was Paul Shira. The apostle Paul Shira. Oh man. Thank you. Way. So I have, I asked me, ask me, Shira. That was Paul Shira. The Apostle Paul Shira. Oh, man. Thank you, Waceo. I have a... Ask me. Ask me.

Ask me, baby. Brad, do you have a jingle? I do. Do you have one this week? Shout out. Oh, I'm not supposed to say his name. It said, please don't mention my name. Shout out to my boy.

We'll call him JF. Okay. Surely people won't figure that out. Are you connected to the Roadcaster? Not that I know of. I didn't think you would be, but it's not showing up for me. I'll try to get it to turn Bluetooth off and back on. Speaking of Paul Shira, tomorrow I fly to Boise for a show.

He has two kids that currently live there. How fun is that? You're going to see his kids. My cousins live there. Do you think you'd get them tickets? Yeah. Okay, I'll text them. Okay, I'll freaking text them.

Okay, frick. Why are you being so weird about tickets yeah okay i'll text them okay i'll freaking text them okay frick like why why are you being so weird about i'll just text them what are you complaining about i'll just take okay so normally time in timing's in the basement right now timing you could come up bud timing we can't connect to the road caster just jump one at a time with your shackles on you can get up the stairs that way. I don't know how else to connect other than turning Bluetooth off and back on again. We can pause or... Well, I can...

If you go into Bluetooth on your computer, does it show that the Rode... Oh, Brad's MacBook Air. You can connect to each other. I'm going to turn off Bluetooth, turn back on. Yeah. Yeah. Searching nearby devices.

I can just do it instrumental. It's not that it oh nope smart tv remote jake's macbook air i'll just do an instrumental hey fun it's it's a little um it's just it's just acoustic anyway i should have my guitar here but hey now now something together literally um no uh you know now now the now the youtube can listen hey guys enjoy this is uh to the tune of yesterday by the beatles bradley Bradley E, you're exactly where you're supposed to be. Filled with laughs and a sweet family. Oh, Bradley E, your energy.

Jacob T, used to film for the Trey Kennedy. Pickleball and stand-up comedy. Oh, Jacob T., your comedy. They are so funny and give smiles to so many and the Ghost Runners is the best and can't be Timony

is the Ghost Runners employee he can act and sing we all agree oh Timony you're so funny Every Monday morning is the best, I guarantee It's the Ghost Runners, so get up and on your feet now I'm sad

it's the end of this good episode Jake and Brad will miss you so dearly so Ghostrunners we won't let go Ghostrunners we won't let go. Ghostrunners. We won't let go.

Good job, J.F. Good job, B.E. Yeah. Good job, P.M. Paul McCartney. Good job, T.P.E. Tim P.E. Good job.

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She was the bat. She was. Oh, no. Good job. In S.H. 97 percent. National. NSH. 97% humidity. 97% humidity. Oh, that already spelled.

I thought 97% humidity was the hint. No, it was the answer. I was like, New Hartford. Oh, there's something in the middle. New School Hartford. New Schools Hartford. All right. That is another episode. Thank you guys for listening. Seriously. Seriously. Seriously, there's something in the middle. New School Hartford. New Schools Hartford. All right. That is another episode.

Thank you guys for listening. Seriously. Seriously. Seriously, thank you for listening. It's a lot of time you spend with us, so I appreciate it. Yeah. We'll see you Wednesday. Maybe see you at the pickleball tournament.

Maybe see you in Branson. Come on with it. Come on with it. Be awful fun. We love you guys so much. Thanks for all your support, as always. Support our people, if you don't mind. Get for all your support. As always support our people. If you,

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