Ghostrunners - 374 - Positive Affirmation Socks

Episode Date: October 14, 2024

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Hey, good morning, Jake. Good morning, Tymon. Morning. Morning, Brad. I had a doctor recently give me some pills and say, take this with food, but make sure you don't have any dairy. Which I said, doc, that's nearly incalculable. What kind of pills are these, too?

I was like, yeah, what? You don't think I have yogurt, cheese, or milk with every single meal, doc? Every single snack that goes into my body? I'm trying to think what I've had recently and it's all yeah, it's all dairy. Yeah, because I mean, unless I'm currently sick, then it was like, OK, crackers and Sprite. That's the one time a year I don't consume dairy. Yeah, every other time.

You're just fine with. Yeah, that's it. It seems impossible. I just I wanted to say something to him, but I said, OK, sure. And I thought to myself, I'll figure it out. I'm sure I'm sure I can do that because like in my head, of course, I'm like, OK, I could eat I could eat some vegetables. But I'm like, is that going to really help the medicine that says upset your stomach? Yeah, it feels like it needs to be different.

Like vegetables, obviously, they're good for you, but it also feels like they're not real food. Like it's not like like Catherine sometimes I'm like, I'm so hungry. She's like, why don't you snack on some bell peppers? I was like, that's not going to help anything that I will. I will take five minutes out of my day to do that, but that's not messing with me. Anyway, I just couldn't, it was incalculable. And so I was like, it's like, Hey, let's go on a road trip, but let's make

sure we don't take any highways the whole time. Oh, okay. Doc. Sure. That's not, that's not calculable doc. Yeah. Hey, here's what I want you to do. I think it's gonna be good for you. I need you to experience turbulence on an airplane, but not get the over-reveling fear that you're dying right now. Oh yeah, exactly. I can't, sorry. I have to feel that way. Or, hey, it's cold outside. So, so bundle

up. Oh, but you can't wear anything with sleeves on it. Okay. That's incalculable. That's incalculable. It's like you have to exercise daily, but just keep your heartbeat below 60 BPM. That's what you'll. But like, yeah, don't breathe heavy ever. Yeah. Yeah. Obviously play it cool. Stay calm.

Hey, here's what we need you to do. Take two, call me in the morning. Then we need you to go on a Ghostrunners type trip without Janelle Benyell there. Is that possible? Hey, can you communicate with that person, but not use your phone? It's like, well, how? Messenger pigeon? Here's what I'm gonna need you to do. I'm gonna need you to go to a pee diddy party, but no baby oil. Oh, come on. What? My hands get so dry.

I'm gonna need you to go see the cobbler, but don't put on any shoes. Yeah, right. Uh oh, ooh I think this tight beat means that it's going down with some random thoughts and white meat too. Midwest best friends eating fast food on repeat so come along let's have some fun and go ahead get on your feet cause this is a Ghost from the SpotCast. Ghost from the SpotCast. Every Monday morning, we're taking a Ghost from the SpotCast.

Ghost from the SpotCast. I had someone in person this week, randomly bring up the cobbler quote to me. Who was that? It might've been Gabe Oliver. Now think about it. And I was telling him, I was like, dude, Tymon got me out of nowhere last week at the podcast

when you brought up the cobbler thing. So I love it. You just randomly call it back. I can't remember what it was. I think it was in the middle of having trouble saying Scorsese and give away, you know, revolution. None of us could say anything right. The cobbler.

The cobbler knows. I don't remember actually. Man. Yeah, let's, let's. Good times. I'm going to try to think of more phrases to say and see if you guys have heard of them. Not right now. Just throughout.

Just throughout. So anyway, here we are. It's a Monday. Happy Monday to the ghosties, the ghostie universe out there. All who celebrate. If you're listening in New Hampshire, happy Monday. If you're listening in South Dakota, happy Monday. If you're listening in South Dakota, happy Monday. If you're listening in Trinidad and Tobago, happy Monday.

It's Monday everywhere. Yep. Well, well, yeah. If you're in Indiana, a special happy Monday to you. Yeah, top of the Monday to you. Because we're, it's almost about that time. We're coming your way. If you don't know, if you're a new listener,

you've been missing out, skipping, we're coming to Indiana. All the details on our website. I checked, I manually counted last night. I don't know a better way to count on our website. I did the same thing this morning because I was doubting your counting. I was like, is that really right?

What'd you get? 95. Okay, so I was probably right. Yeah, I think you were. Yeah, but it always is like a couple of state or deviations off probably. Yeah, yeah, because I was probably right. Yeah, I think you were. Yeah, but it always is like a couple of state or deviations off probably. Yeah, yeah, because I had to refund, because there's certain people that bought tickets

and then bought the VIPs later. I had to refund some as well. Yeah. But overall? 95, so five more to get tea on C. Time is all of a sudden, I gotta worry about what to wear. I gotta.

And time as of now, tea is not even coming to MSR. No. What if we can't quite get to 100? Now tea's gotta buy a tea. Ticket. Tea's gotta buy a tea. Yeah, or get somebody to buy a ticket. Make it figure out, yeah.

That's kinda fun. Yeah, so it'll be. Thank you for buying tickets. Yeah, please come. Please come hang out with us. It's gonna be a great day. Details, ghostrunner.life slash. Ashley, please come please come hang out with us. It's gonna be a great day details Go store dot life slash Ashley B. Just ordered two items from your store totaling fifty dollars. Those would be the MSR's

Yep, that's two. Wow, so we're up to 97 MSR for tea Alvaro 25 minutes ago Alvaro one item from your store totaling at $25 All right, two more left Alvaro is making then he's making a case to be the new Janelle Bignot. Cause I don't think Janelle's coming yet. And that's not just cause they're skin tone. That's cause of their support. That's not cause they're exotically ambiguous. Ethnically, exotically ambiguous.

Exotically ambiguous, yeah. Their car, what kind of car is that? What kind of handbag is that? Dude, I tell you in Gulf Shores, we, on the way to, maybe the Sunset Cruise, our car one time tried to guess what everyone drove, what kind of car everyone drove. Oh, yeah, yeah. It feels like a dangerous game. Because it seems like it'd be fun, like, oh, match your personality to it, but you're kind

of matching their, like, wealth to it. Yeah, yeah, your wealth and also, like, what you think that of me? Like, why would would I why would I drive that kind of car? Let's go around everyone say how much your house cost and the square footage. This would be fun. Let's see Alvaro You've probably dude. I bet you're rocking just a pale blue Jetta It's like why duplex with four roommates. Yeah Why would you say that about me? I? Don't know I try to think of other that you could try to guess for somebody. It's like, ah, you know, probably shouldn't.

It was a fun game. Like eventually we figured out, cause like, especially like Noah Potrats. Remember Noah. I just saw they announced they're pregnant and they bought tickets to Major Osters. Wow. Within a couple hours of each other. That's really time to celebrate. I don't know what I'm more excited about.

Congratulations Noah and Nicole. But Noah, just big old, like strong ex gym teacher, I believe. Former college track star, but looks like a former NFL linebacker. Yeah, just a strong dude. Top heavy. Drives, I think, the tiniest little fuel efficient car.

It's like Mr. Incredible. He does look like Mr. Incredible. And I'm pretty sure he drives a small car in the movie in the major motion picture. And so, you know, we're trying to guess like, dude, I bet you drive like a Dodge Ram. F-150, 250. He's like, oh man, no, no, like.

Chevy Bolt. It was some Chevy, I never even heard of it. And so you keep going down the line of like, ah, okay. You know what would be a fun game to play with people is guess what? I'm gonna guess what you get offended by. That would be fun. Cause then they get offended either way.

I bet you're offended by like, I don't know, like Democrats. Like, hey, why that? What makes you say that? Now I am, I knew it. Let's see, you seem like kind of a bigot. So yeah. Try to think which people group you kind of don't see

equally. Yeah. Philip. Interesting. Okay. That's fun game. You're sitting around the fire. Yeah.

Just play with it. Yeah. Guess what I get offended by. I think I've talked about this in the podcast before, but I was listening to another podcast and he was, he went to improv class and they were trying to like, or maybe acting class, something like that. And they were trying to like guess what kind of role

you could see him playing. So they were all shouting out at him like, what do you look like? And yeah, it just like, it's really mean like, like frat bro, like stay at, influence, like stay at home basement day trader stuff. It's like a data for who doesn't care about his looks anymore. It's like stepdad who's given up.

Yeah. No, no, no. Pedophile, pedophile. Yes. Stepdad who's given up. Who says no. Everyone likes. Okay.

Good. That's, that's what we'll do for you. Yeah. Ironically, that story comes from a guy named Cody Ko who is now canceled for underage stuff. Oh, is he really? A little bit. Dude, we don't have to get into this too much because it's a dark, nasty subject.

But what in the world is happening with, like why is there a Venn diagram of, hey, I'm really powerful and therefore I'm going to use my power and fame to do these crazy things. Dude, I think about this sometimes and I'm like, do we only, maybe we don't know how widespread these bad things are and we're hearing about it because celebrities are getting in trouble for it. Maybe this is a, maybe 30% of Americans have thought about the same thing. Yeah. Is it just we're hearing about it because they're famous or because it's like

even just like big, like huge, like pastors, it's like are always like getting in trouble for stuff. Yes. Like is every like a whole bunch of pastors that aren't famous. Do they just the ones in like that much power? Yeah. Be sure to know. Like if you look at some specific crime, you know, whatever it is and look at like, what's this like for people who are not famous? What's the percentage that now let's look at like, what's this like for people who are not famous? What's the percentage of that? Now let's look at people in the public eye. Is it the same percentage or does it go up?

Like do certain crimes go up once you hit, you know, a $50 million net worth? Cause it's like, cause I said this to my friends the other I was like, is there, is there just a normal celebrity anymore? Like, is there just a normal people out there? Keanu Reeves. I hope so. People's champ.

Yeah. Yeah. Like even like I heard, I thought to myself, Chapelle Rhone, like this girl that's from your hometown. Willard baby, go Tigers. It's like, surely she's normal, right? Like she's coming from Southwest Missouri. Is she corrupt yet?

Like, you know what I mean? Like, I, uh, I met a woman at this pickleball tournament that I played in this weekend and I asked where she was from and she said Willard. I was like, oh my gosh, I used to date a girl from Willard. And she's like, really who? And I go, she's like, no, I'm just kidding. But I did date a girl from Willard.

That's pretty fun though to like, you should have just gone with it. Just like, ah, dang. Then I would have been in trouble because she was like, how old are you? I'm like 33. She's like, that's not good. Oh, let's do that math. I did it recently and learned she was from Willard.

Is she pretty young? I think so. So we talked about this a couple of episodes ago, like how cool, that's crazy, she's from Willard, whatever. Garrett Gibson texted me and said, I have a buddy who did date her in high school at Willard. Is that me? He said, I said, cool girl?

Question mark. He said, he said, she sort of started to become a psycho. LOL. Probably just bitter he didn't bag that dough. Could be a case of that. Recently she's become a psycho? Maybe even like late high school. Okay, like as she started to turn a bit.

Gotcha. You gotta have a little bit of evil in, or like that like mad scientist to you if you're that good at music. Yeah, I think so. You know? I recently have become really obsessed with just like talented people.

I just wanna like, I don't want anything from them other than just like to like walk around with them for a day. Like I feel like you're just like, people don't talk enough about how there's difference. There's differences like chemically. And I think like really talented people. I don't put any of us in that category and I'm sorry.

You know what I'm talking about? Like there's like crazy genius songwriters. They're just like people who've started and sold seven different businesses. I'm like, I wonder what we do on a day-to-day level that's different. You brush your teeth different than me. You email different than me.

Yeah, we're like the common characteristics of these kind of people. Or like, how'd you grow up? Like, do you have a parent? Because so many athletes had like a dad that was like crazy hard on them. And it's like, well, look at the results. But every one of those dads and those kids is like,

I wouldn't do this to my kid. Or I regret doing that to my kid. Andre Agassi, Tiger Woods, Serena and and Venus Williams like so many star athletes had like even the Lance Armstrong documentary I was watching. Oh, he's like stepdad was like yeah, I was pretty hard on him I'm ex-military and I did not let things go Basically, he was like, yeah, he didn't throw his sock. Oh, you didn't put a sock away in the drawer. Oh, yeah I hit him. Oh really? He was like very intense. Have you heard about the like uh what's that Caleb Williams the quarterback for the Bears number one draft pick? Zesty.

He but like I think I forget like a fourth grade or something he's like I decided I wanted to be a quarterback in the NFL and so like everything I did from that point on was to be a quarterback in the NFL like his parents like that's trained him, like fed him certain ways, worked out certain ways. Like to the point where it's like, that's cool. But now that he's there, it's like awesome. But also like, was it worth, I don't know, giving up your entire childhood essentially for this. Yeah.

And just so intrigued, like you can't just do this to anyone. You have to have the genetic pool to even like pull this off. You know, if you're just like, we're gonna work really hard. None of his parents have ever touched a field or a court, but we're gonna do this. We're gonna sign up for these training. But I feel like Rachel, in a sense, was kind of the same way. We're like, in like second grade,

she became obsessed with the setting. So she's like, that's all I'm gonna do. I just love setting. And I'm even intrigued by that. I was like, where does that passion come from? Is that like, how do you get so dead set on something like that and like dedicate yourself to it? Would she say there was like a moment that had happened?

Like did she go to a game or like see somebody else? Or like- I know her hometown is just like, they went state every, they just have a good volleyball culture. So I bet every little girl who like grows up in that area, like wants to become a high school volleyball player. But a lot of guys grow up wanting to be a professional athlete.

But most of us don't, didn't ever have the work ethic to do anything close to putting in that much work. Yeah, not as focused. I do feel like the athletes, like the professional athletes of the world are just truly mentally built different because it's like they don't have any mercy. And I think that's the difference between us.

It's like, man, I feel, if I played pickleball with Tymon and I was beating him 10 to one, I would go easy for five points. And maybe he'd screw up and maybe I'd win 11 to three, but at least I would try to make it fun for both of us Yeah, I've no killer instinct I think I think if

Patrick Mahomes played pickball against time and he would try to try to serve in the smack it at him every single time and beat Him 11 to 0 I bet my home is a time would be a pretty close pickleball match though You think how much time can mom was possibly put into being a pickleball player? Yeah, that's true. Well, I Don't know that reminds me time and gonna have an idea for us in Vegas. So we got a handful of pros who have agreed to shoot with us. Actually, wait, that's separate. That doesn't matter.

Basically, I wanna do a video of like, we hold up a big sign, right? We're gonna be at the PPA events. There's gonna be pickleball players, spectators, bystanders everywhere, hold up a sign, beat us at pickleball, win $100. We've had this idea to go up to like BDA here in Lenexa, no leagues and do this.

But I had an idea what it could be is like, all right, yeah, the sign says $100. That's if you think you could beat Scott and TJ. Okay. We'll give you $50 if you'd like to challenge me and Isaac, and we'll give you $10 if you can beat Tymon and Zach because they'll also be there. Love it. So it's like they get to like scope out each of us.

And then who knows that they choose time and Zach, I guess I'll hold the camera and like I'll film it for whatever. But I think that'd be so fun. Yeah, that'd be awesome. So there's you. I do love those. Like they're going to learn quick to hit it at Zach. I'll say that. I'm so sorry. I don't know what I'm doing. I, yeah. Zach is getting better though. We've played more recently and he's getting better.

Good. But yeah. Yeah. I remember those like, uh, those things back in the day where it was like, Hey, would you rather take a chance of a free throw for a million dollars, a free throw for a hundred thousand? Uh, no, it's the opposite of what, sorry, go ahead. What is it? A layup for- Layup for 10 grand. 10 grand. Pretty much an automatic 10 grand. A free throw for a hundred thousand,

a three pointer for 500,000, a half court shot for a million. Yeah. What would you go for? I think I would at least go free throw. You gotta. I would definitely not just do a layup. But then if you miss,

you just, your muscles tense up just a little bit. After you get one shot, one shot, half court would be pretty fun. Half court, no way would I do half court. I think I'm so out of like basketball. Like, I mean, I don't know, do I get to warm up a little bit? You get to warm up for 10 minutes, 10 minutes.

If I get 10 minutes of warmup, then let's do free throw. If I'm walking onto a court, let's just go half court. They all have the same probability. They all have the same probability. It seems like it. I'm like, just to stand there, just cold free throw. I don't know what my routine is anymore. I don't remember, how much legs do I use for a free throw?

You know, I'm out of. Yeah. How many bounces you go? I changes every time. Does it? Just what I'm feeling. I'm a three bounce. Boom, boom, boom. Quick spin, bend down, shoot it. Miss it every time. Boom. Front of the rim. Didn't use my legs enough. Yeah. Anyway.

What would you do? I would, I think realistically I would probably do free throw. Yeah. But man, if I'm feeling good after 10 minutes, I might three pointer. I would never do a half court. Three point for half a million is great. Because my half court shot, I feel like the ones that are really good at shooting half court shots shoot it like a real shot.

I chuck it. Yeah. Yeah. I'm kind of what's it called? Gathering, heav shot. I chuck it. Yeah, yeah, I'm kind of, what's it called? Gathering, heaving. Heave ho, yeah. So I think I would, I might go three pointer and if I did go three pointer, it'd be top of the key

and I pretend like I'm gonna like set up a play. Like I'd be bouncing down, be like looking around and then just quick one before they even knew it was going up. It's pretty fun. So if anyone wants to offer us that, any brands out there, get a corporate sponsor involved. Yeah, so yeah, that's a fun idea.

It'd be fun to get time and exact, potentially playing pickleball on camera for Friday. Yeah. Fun little thing. It's like told me, sorry. I was trained in subject. Zach told me he was, he like sales pitched someone on a Friday paddle last night after choir. He just like talked about, I think it was like talking about the Vegas trip.

They're like, yeah, like ask him about it. He was like, yeah, it's Friday pickleball. And then he like, let me just see what he texted me. He was like, I'm such a salesman. He, he was like, I told Zeke he should buy one. I found the need. I made the name need seem bigger than it is I talked up the product. I told him why now is the best time to purchase Provided them link to buy and prove there's a large demand It's like good job Zack is gonna be a good salesman someday

From what I know about him, yeah, just got that contagious personality But also like I can trust Zack what he says. I believe him. Yeah just got that contagious personality, but also like I can trust Zach. What he says, I believe him. Yeah. Zach texted me Saturday morning, said, Hey, man, do you think if I ordered Friday Pickable merch, it would come before we left for Vegas?

Now, what's interesting about this is we do not sell Friday Pickable merch. That has never been a thing on the website. Anyway, so that doesn't exist. So of course I responded, what merch did you have in mind? He said, I haven't checked the website. I just know I need to,

I know I need to get dropped out. Dripped out. Dripped out gas. Gas. I'll check one sec. The next, I let this just, I just let him figure it out on his own. About 10 minutes later.

Do you have a separate website for Friday apparel? I said, ah, no, sorry, we don't sell apparel. Oh shoot, nevermind then, sorry, bro. I'm gonna bring him a shirt though. Sweet. Do you mind if I share a text from Zach? Gee, Zach, leave us alone, dude. This is from August 31st of 2023.

Over a year ago. I'm turning Timon into an absolute unit. Here's Timon. No way! Get me after him. What in the world? The gym, baby. Did you just do a, what is that, deadlift?

Yeah. I forgot about that. I think that was before recording the podcast, early one morning. August 31st at 7.53, he texted me this. I'm turning time into a unit. Also, he texted me, Merry Christmas on December 25th. Nice guy.

Not bad. See if I have any other texts from Zach. So Zach is coming with us to Vegas, but he's paying for his own flights. And so I went ahead and bought him and he went to reimburse me. And so I was like, yeah, it's this cost, whatever. Pumped your coming, gonna be helping out.

It's gonna be awesome, dude. He said, cash or Venmo. And I I said how much of a red flag would it be if I was like cash? It has to be cash. Yeah, well, I would pay me back in cash, please Cash cash cash, please. I Think I think I've told you this before but that when Snoop Dogg did that feature on Ben Rectors Yeah, it was like Ben Reck Yeah. It was like, Ben Rectors son, it was either like, hey, a million, I don't know what the number was,

but it was like either whatever, 100% of the costs any way you want, or like 30% of the cost in straight cash. So we've got- Yeah, that's interesting. What's he up to? Is he like burying a bunch of money or- I don't know. Mattressing it.

Who knows, man? Don't ask, don't ask, don't ask, don't tell for Snoop. That's right. Anyway, it's a big day here in Shawnee. Yes. Big day for Jake and Brad and Tymon because he's over here a lot. Chick-fil-A is opening three minutes down the road.

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We've reached out, we haven't heard back. True it. Well, is that true? True it. True it. True it. Well, is that true? True it. True it. Ish. The Cathy family has not confirmed or denied. Yeah, that mainstream roasters is their favorite coffee. But I bet it's true. I bet it's true.

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No, the cup. I thought it was quality. Quality and convenience. Oh, great. That's why there's, yeah, anyway. Great. GRKC gets you 10% off, mainstreamroaster.com. So, I did go to, they had a little like soft opening, not even a soft opening, but like

a little serve, little like coworkers and family party the other day at Chick-fil-a. How'd you hear about this? Friends with the owner kind of thing. Who is the owner? Drew. Oh, I know him too. Yeah. Yeah.

I was like, do you not know? I forgot. I think it was one of those things. I was talking to his brother, Will, and I was like, Hey, not know? I forgot. I think it was one of those things. I was talking to his brother, Will, and I was like, hey, what are you doing this week? And he's like, oh, dude, I'm going to this Chick-fil-A thing. You should come. I was like, I don't know if I need to. Yeah.

He's like, you know, you're good friends with Jackson Malmes. You think you could bring him? You and Jackson coming out. It was fun. It was a, they didn't serve Chick-fil-A there, which was kind of odd. Made sure? No. Had some taco truck though, which was nice. Interesting. Kids got to experience corn tortillas. Okay.

I wasn't a fan at first. Yeah, but they grew into them. Good. Little Betty Ray's ice cream, little face painting. Oh, yeah. That's fun. Great times. Yeah. Nothing too crazy about it, but it was just a fun, fun time with the, the family. And yeah, just cool seeing like, like Drew, this guy that now is starting, you know, they don't own the Chick-fil-A's, but kind of, I mean, they run the Chick-fil-A's. Chick-fil-A technically could like take it away at any time if he's not doing a good job.

Yeah. But, uh, Drew, 10 years ago, like he was like, I just got laid off from a job 10 years ago. Yeah. He was homeless. He was like, I mean, laid off from a job 10 years ago. Yeah, he was homeless. He was like, he's in a real tough spot. He was on his side. Yeah, I was going to say, yeah, he was going through it now. But he was he was talking about like, he's like, man, like, as I think everyone just assumes, like, oh, those Chick-fil-A guys, they must just always kind of like you're saying, like there must be they must be built different, but in sold seven cup whatever like you just think of those guys as like always have it together and he was

like I just want to tell you it's the grace of God that did this like it was just a cool speech that he gave of like I didn't I wasn't always like some guy that's very successful like this so. Chick-fil-A is a good model I mean like they are willing to put you in a great position if you're willing to put in the work I mean it's it's just like classic, like corporate America, but with like a very like ideal position in like 10 years. Yeah. Like if you do it right, it's like winning the lottery, owning a chick. Yes. Like how many chick flays have you ever seen go out of business? Surely next to none. I was talking to a different owner operator in Kansas City. I know several. What's one? Two, I know two.

Yeah. And he was saying it's tough to find employees right now because it's tough to find like, it's tougher 18 year old, 19 year old, whatever to see the vision. When in reality it's like, if you spend even a little bit of time at Chick-fil-A, you can get like, what's it called?

I've never worked a job, promoted. Yes. Promoted's the word. I was like motivated? Not relegated. never worked a job promoted. Yes, promoted. So I was like motivated, upper relegated up to up stirred up, propagated like pretty quickly. And yeah, you stick around here 10 years, you could have your own Chick-fil-A, but it's tough for people to catch the vision.

And they just want a job. And yeah, rather work at tropical smoothie or something. Can you imagine? No, gave me a maybe the last time I puked, maybe it could have been tropical smoothie. No way. Iave me a maybe last time I puked maybe it could have been tropical smoothie. No way. I actually pardon not the last time I puked but there was a day it was the first day I got the oculus and none of the games were ready to download yet so like you could do there's no connection to the oculus it was all tropical smoothie. They were like well it comes pre-loaded

with the roller coaster and so I did the roller coaster and then I went to tropical smoothie and I was like let's roll the dice on a little bacon mac and cheese and so that was the roller coaster and then I went to tropical smoothie and I was like, let's roll the dice on little bacon mac and cheese So that was the one-two punch The day last time I threw up So who knows what I was? There's no connection. Yeah, I don't know. What was the last time you strapped on the old Ock? It's been a while. I think last time I strapped it on was for a video like for a pickleball video like hey This is gonna help you out. You know, I got Mario tennis loaded up in here yeah so no you think you're gonna keep it like you're

not gonna sell it I don't yeah it's even worth selling anymore is it like old technology by this point it feels like Apple made something so much cooler so like who cares yeah what are people enjoying the Apple thing I don't know I don't? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know anyone rich enough. So I guess they're what the thousand some. They are so expensive, like two, three thousand thirty five hundred for one or something like that. Oh, my gosh. What does it do? What's so cool? You can watch TV, but not actually. You do this. You seen that? Oh, that's how you like you have a it's like a computer in front of you.

But this is like how you like select things. It's got a little camera and so it sees you. Really? Do you have to move your head the whole time? Like you, it can't just be locked in. Okay. Yeah. I don't know, honestly.

So is it, is the idea of it, sorry if you don't know any of these things, I'm asking all these questions about, but is the idea of it that it would replace your computer I Think it can I think you can have like just a AR Monitor and just like a I don't know how you'd navigate exactly alternate reality AR. Yeah augmented augmented reality So no system reality. I don't know I think I saw like some youtuber trying to like edit a video on the glasses, but that seems really difficult without a mouse So I don't know what's possible and what's not what does seem cool is like you can just have a

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At church the other day, apparently in Sunday school, they were playing some just innocent game, like either at the end or at the beginning, like kind of just passing time. And it was like, they would show a picture and then the kids would try to guess what this thing does. And it was old technology essentially. Oh yeah. And Hattie dominated it.

No way. Because- Little house and the plaring? Well, it's not that old. It's like nineties old. And so like, and Hattie still listens to like Catherine's old books on tape or she has a CD player downstairs

that she listens to stories from. And so like, but I was talking, it was fun like talking to her and Bo, Rosie was there too. But we were at lunch the other day after church and I was explaining to them, I was like, you know, like right now, if I wanted, cause Catherine and Henry stayed home. And so I was like, if I wanted to communicate with mom right now, what would I do? And Hattie was like, well, you would call her on your phone. And I was like, yeah. And where's my phone? She's like, in your pocket.

I was like, when I was a little boy, no one had phones in their pockets. Or if I don't wanna talk to her, but I wanna still send her a message, what would I do? She's like, send her a text. I was like, when I was a little boy, those didn't exist.

Just talking. I was like, oh, if we wanted to listen to this story on the way home, what would you do? You'd get it on your phone. Or what about this story? You'd get it on your phone. It's like, back in the day, you had to have different CDs for everything.

It was just a fun conversation to watch their wheels turn and that of like, wow, you can do a lot of stuff on your phone these days. It is nice. Phones are great. Phones are great. Hot take. That's how I justify usually having a new-ish iPhone model.

What do we use more than the phone? As far as investments go. Yeah. You break it down into every day. Like OK I just spent five dollars on food that's going to last me four hours. Yeah. Or I just spent five dollars a day on a phone. Now you're probably two dollars down. I don't know what the breakdown would be.

I don't either. Yeah they're great. I mean it's the most useful tool be. I don't either. Yeah, they're great. I mean, it's the most useful tool in everyone's lives these days. At the same time, I think I saw something that Apple's thinking about not coming out with a new phone every year. I think they're even starting to admit like,

yeah, they're not that different one after another. So maybe we wait two years instead of one year. Interesting. Yeah, I wonder how that would affect them. Because surely they still boost their sales every single year with a new phone. It's really not a negative return yet. And maybe they got to do like a summer Olympics, winter Olympics thing. Like odd years, it's like iPads and Apple watch and all the other fun things.

Even years, new iPhone. That's what I'd do. Cause when was the last time that an iPhone really had any kind of revolutionary features on it? I feel like iPhone 10 took away the home button. Yeah, had the swiping fun. Before that, iPhone 5 had the thumbprint fingerprint scanner. That was pretty sweet. Siri was like iPhone 4.

Yeah, that was pretty fun. Big deal timing. Remember that? Oh, I'm sorry. I wasn't talking to you. Got an update on the Knack Baxter conspiracy theory. Yeah, it's still swirling. Yeah, theory is still swirling. Very much, Jerry is still out on this.

I think they both think they're Knack Baxter. That's what's so fun. No one has come forward claiming to be the real Knack yet, but I need to get an email from a guy. Shout out Matthew. He's like, hey. Oh, we got a new guy? Yeah, now Matthew's in the mix.

Matthew said, hey, I have Knack Baxter's phone number from when he put together the 100th episode video from the Ghosties forever ago. If you want to compare and contrast, Vin diagram it up. Corroborate. Yes, you can see if who you called is the real NAC slash Nick. And so I said, I love this. This is the number of the person I called last week. He said, interesting. The number

I texted, completely different number, completely different area code. Might be possibly changed numbers. No, no, no. There's over three years ago. Let me give you, let me give you this number. I have Nicholas Butler's phone number and I'm gonna give it to everybody right now. No, I'm just kidding. 330 area code.

Yes, okay, that's one Matthew gave me. When's the last time you texted that number? Oh, two days yesterday. Wait, what? You texted him yesterday? Knackbacks? We're friends. He texted me about, he's like,

I need Butcher and Cream Hunt to do well in Fazy Football tonight or I'm done. And I said, you've seen all this conspiracy theory about the Nacbaxers? And he's like, I haven't listened yet. Oh, wow. Let me find it. Yeah, yeah, oh yeah.

Okay, so this is... Oh, this is a real phone number still alive and well. Okay. iPhone 16, I don't know. So this pretty much verifies it then. What we had is kind of what your theory was last week, is we gave Nicholas Butler the nickname Knack Baxter, only to not realize there was a Nick Baxter

also listening to the podcast who thought we were talking about him. Which his mind is blown right now, don't you know? I'm 90% sure. Either way, pretty clutch that he has ran and operated food trucks for 10 years. So you have your neck. I have my neck. Right. You scratch my neck.

I'll scratch yours. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. I've tried to find his. Yeah, there he is. Yeah, I just screen shot the ghost was out of context because this week they posted who is the real Knack Baxter. So good, dude. So fun. Timon, what are you up to? Pretty much.

Pretty much. Pretty much. Since we last recorded, all I've done is go on this like church weekend trip thing and play pickleball. I feel like you say that every episode time No, I was going to Was on my way. Yeah, we all say the same things. Yeah, how was the church weekend? It was awesome Yeah, it's like a just a whole bunch of kind of just like young single Christians. Just like hanging out and ladies. Yeah single Christians just like hanging out and ladies. Yeah. Yeah. What am I? Matt Gay?

I'm not going all the way to Illinois for a bunch of dudes. Where was it? Illinois? Close to Illinois. Taylor, Missouri. Oh, okay. It's like close to the border, I think. So yeah, but it was great. It was like, there's probably like highlights is just like singing was like, there's probably like highlights is just like singing worship songs and there's like a kind of airplane hanger type

like shed thing, which is the acoustics are like beautiful. Just like the echoes and stuff. So yeah, it was probably like maybe like a hundred people. Yeah. Just like all singing all into it. That's how do you find these things? Is this through your church? Yeah. Yeah.

Cool. And are most people there like are you in the minority not being like Mennonite there? No, just a random guess. I don't know. I'm basing that off of like Jesse Platner and like when I've spent time with like him and him telling about his whole family and extended family. Yeah. I know you guys were like a similar church. Yeah. Well, it's the same denomination. There's like, I mean, various, I don't know, like levels of, you know, beliefs or whatever. But like, I mean, yeah, I don't know. It's not anything crazy. Are most people homeschooled there? There was a decent amount like, yeah, I don't, I don't know everyone. I didn't know everyone

there, but like, I think you could tell there was a Writing was on the wall on Saturday morning. It was like, you know We're just kind of tucked in shirts work work projects in the community and stuff It's like helping people out and like our group there was like probably a slight majority homeschooled Ray, but what was your in general? What was your work project? cutting down like tree branches and stuff and hauling them to a burn pile and things like that. Beautification. Yeah. Did you use a what are those called? The tree? Oh, is that what they're called?

I don't know. I like saying loppers. You use it like to cut down limbs. Yeah. It's like a chainsaw that's 20 feet long. Oh, you're talking about like the electric one. I don't know if those were used. I I'm trying to think I was never actually Cutting them down. I was always hauling them and like we were driving. You're a hauler unloading and stuff. I don't know pretty responsible guy loppers are more than

Yeah, those were definitely used. I don't know about the edges and about the long chainsaws though Those things are dope what you're talking about. Those are cool Oh, it's fun for two minutes and then you can't raise your arms up anymore. Yeah, I mean, just impossible. I'm pretty strong, so I wouldn't know. That's true, I forgot about that. That's fun time.

Yeah, it was great. Man, the two weekends you're about to have, Taylor, Missouri, majority homeschoolers, church weekend. Yeah, what's the Vegas schedule look like? In two days, we will fly out at 6.05 AM. I think direct flight there. That's Vegas, baby. So that means we land at like 7 AM.

And I'm thinking I take the boys by the strip on our way to the tennis facility. I think like you, you know, you go by at 8 a.m. Not too bad. You're not going to see too much. All you can eat breakfast. That's about it. Take them to a buffet. Yeah.

And then Thursday and Friday, we're just there to like, hang out, shoot content, do whatever, make the most of our time, trying to get a bunch of stuff done. Like I said, we've got some pros who are down to shoot with us. So we're just there to like, hang out, shoot content, do whatever, make the most of our time, um, trying to get a bunch of stuff done. Like I said, we've got some pros who are down to shoot with us. Um, and then Saturday is the day we're actually competing.

Scott and TJ doing five. Oh, I mean, Isaac doing four. Oh, and then fly home Sunday morning. Nice. And then time and in Zach are going straight to a choir concert. Uh, yeah, Sunday call time is technically one 30. We'll see how that goes getting there. If we're landing. I don't think we're, there's a lot of like 11 something, right? Yeah. We'll see. I'm not worried about making it. Yeah. Well, you guys are going to stop by like a really nice, like high end coffee shop on the way. That's like 50 minutes out of the way. Like you did in Minnesota. Yeah. Yeah. So you'll be, I wasn't getting it. I know I could tell I could tell I was nodding along

Like yeah, yeah, totally. I'm gonna get there Line Catherine texted me earlier this week. No yesterday doesn't matter when asking Her sister texted her and was like hey looking at Christmas presents for my husband. Uh, thought about maybe taking them to Jerry Seinfeld, um, in Casey. Oh, wow. Uh, would just Brad like them.

Would you like want to go to that? She's like, I was thinking of that or Nate Barghetti in Vegas. Oh, and she's like, would you want to do either of those with us? And I thought to myself, I don't know. Obviously I don't think Catherine's like number one destination in life would be Las Vegas, Nevada. But is it even worth like I told Catherine was like, I don't even think we should go to Vegas. Oh, you could find stuff to do. You think? Yeah. But like, but I'm going to want to do stuff that she's not what you guys could find stuff to do. I was listening to a podcast to do Las Vegas is the number one

like a hub of rock climbing in the United States. Boom. There's one option for you guys. And I'm big. Yeah. Come on, belay on. Just think if that's there, what else do we not know is there? That's fair. Yeah. That's a good word. Hoover, darn. Could be crazy. Yeah.

Like big old wall diseases. People here don't care about diseases. I, I don't know what else is there, but we could scout out for you. I also didn't know if I wanted to see Seinfeld that bad. I kind of feel that way too. I here's how I feel about tell me what you guys think of this take. I think standup comedy live, no offense Jake, is not that much different than standup comedy watching on YouTube. Oh, I disagree. Okay, talk to me.

And not much is funny to me watching it on YouTube. I feel like it's harder. Really? Yeah. Because you're like, there's more laughter in the room? I don't know, just the energy in the room, I guess. It's just like, everything has always been funnier to me in person Okay. Well, okay

Let me backtrack a little bit I think there's a difference between going to Jake Triplett Trey Kendi show and being Fifth row and being in the mix versus like Nate Barghese show in an arena We were seven rows from the top. Yeah, could hard like sometimes hard to hear him if I laughed too hard It was like that was bad sound that night. It was bad. I was really surprised at how bad it was. That's a good point. You don't take the venue into consideration because an arena is a little bit like watching it on TV because you're watching the screen.

And yes, you can hear the laughs, but I'm not watching him. I can't really see his facial expressions. And I think if you're a really good stand up comedian, you're funny on TV. Like, that's true. I should say, I don't think see his facial expressions. And I think if you're a really good stand up comedian, you're funny on TV. That's true, I should say I don't think it's funny. I follow so many comedians on Instagram and they make jokes all the time that I find hilarious. Yeah, anyway, because I was like, of course I would be excited if she got me Seinfeld tickets.

I would be very excited. He's a living legend. It'd be really cool to be like, yeah, I saw the Beatles perform, I saw Seinfeld, you know, whatever. It would be cool to see you perform. For sure. Like I wouldn't be upset really cool to be like yeah, I saw the Beatles perform. I saw Seinfeld, you know, whatever It would be cool to see you saw him perform for sure Like I'm not I wouldn't be upset but I was also like but it's probably pretty expensive Yeah for how much fun I would have I don't think it's worth it

I'm a big opportunity cost guy ain't if Nate's doing new material like oh, I'd be so fun to see that You see him on SNL actually listen to it during my run last night. I YouTube premium member so you know, put on the YouTube video, turn it off, throw it in your pocket. Sheesh. Hey, hey. Oh. Monologue, six out of 10.

Yeah, yeah. I was hoping it was material from what he'd been touring with that he didn't do the last time. So it's like, sweet. I like forgot some of those jokes. It was all new material. Was it all new? Okay.

Yeah, I hadn't heard it before. I thought maybe his first joke, I was like, maybe I've heard that, but I wasn't, maybe it was just similar to other things he said. Six out of 10 is a good way to describe it. Just a nice coast. Yeah, it's like, there are a couple things that kind of made me chuckle,

but it wasn't vintage Nate. Like when we saw McCade city, what he was touring with, like his hour was so good start to finish. Yeah. So it'd be fun when he comes out with that. The George Washington skin again was so funny. I haven't I've been saving that. Okay. I know what I'm saving it for, but I haven't watched it yet. Save it for Chick-fil-A and Shawnee. But I saw I saw the golf one. Pretty good. Yeah. Pretty just nice, good, clean, fun humor. Yeah. Fun. Kind of a Scott Sterling.

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I need to- First things? Oh, there's, sounds like there's gonna be multiple things. I need to send you guys this photo. Not that you can really see that much in it, but we could put it on screen for everybody. So it was a little thing called a notes. It was like a little kiosk at chicken and pickle. Kiosk is it's just a board with a, it was a rack.

It was a rack of socks. Rack of socks. Rack of socks. Rack of socks. Rag'em. Rack sock. Rag'em. Rag'em. Rag'em.

And it says, oh gosh, what have I done? I said open with preview, now it's in photos. All right, whatever. Oh wow, these are funny. Yeah, so pretty interesting. I looked at them once, didn't think much of it. Then you take a second and third look and it catches your eye.

So they're notes to self, positive affirmation socks. So already, you know, just, is this where we need our encouragement from? Our socks? 15.99 a pair for these affirmations. I'm a mental health advocate. I got a wife who's a licensed professional counselor. Sure.

But if you're getting them from your socks and you're paying 16 bucks a pair, you need a sock that says stop wasting money. If you're willing to listen to your socks, sharpie some on that say don't buy dumb stuff. Yes. Anyway, that is actually not the problem I have with this. The problem I have with this is the lack of skews here, if you will, the lack of different.

So you're probably thinking, okay, positive affirmation socks. It looks like they have, I don't know, 12, 16, I don't know how many different like little- I'm seeing, yeah, how many here? 12, is that right? 12 different like, what are they called? I don't know, it works in retail.

I don't know what these things are, options. Yeah, little hookies. Yeah. And then you start to notice there's only three different affirmations here. Only three different ones you could choose from. So let's start with- One of them's not even affirmation.

That's right. Sorry, sorry. Let's start with, I am crushing it. Oh, okay, hey. I got a big job interview today. I got a big pickleball tournament. I'm gonna put on, I am crushing it. Oh, okay, hey, I got a big job interview today. I got a big pickleball tournament. I'm gonna put on, I am crushing it socks, okay? Positive affirmation, we're out the door,

we're feeling good, I'm crushing it. Crushing it, yeah. Second one, hey, this makes sense. It's being sold in a chicken and pickle. I love playing pickleball. Not really an affirmation, kind of just a reminder of your hobby, but hey, at least I could see how these are my Not really an affirmation kind of just a reminder of your hobby. But hey

At least you I could see out these are my pickleball socks because I love playing pickleball They don't really have to do anything to do with positive affirmation, but they're pickleball socks fun. Yep. Yeah, of course Let's have those a chicken pickle and then the third one says I am lucky and it's trademarked Which I love the only one that is trademark that is trademarked. I love it. I love it. It's like, that's the one. That's the one guys. I was talking about this is I am lucky, not the opposite of an affirmation.

Like that's what I was going to say. I did really good today. Take off my shoes. Oh, I'm just, oh, I just got lucky. It's humbling. Yeah. Yeah. Positive humbling. Yeah. Socks. I love the idea of like needing to read them on your feet like you're playing pickleball

You know real quick you're dominating time in nymphs, you know, it's you're hitting the ball to Zack every time It's it's 9-0 and you're like, oh baby. Oh I'm crushing it. I am crushing it and then me mom over here. I'm actually the one playing with time and hey, we're coming back Oh, it's 4-9. Oh, it's six, nine. It's 10, nine. Oh my gosh, we're about to win this. Oh, my shoe came off. I'm lucky.

I am lucky. This whole run, I've just been lucky. And so then I come back and I hit one and it's a great volley. I hit over the net, but barely. I skim the net and it just falls over. We win by that point. I go down.

I am lucky. And then I look at my other foot because I got mix and match dude. I love playing pickleball. How many feet do you have in this scenario? Oh, I double up. I don't want to get any blister. Come on blisters. Come on dude.

I went down to my third foot and I notice I love playing pickleball. Probably because I have three feet. I could get around. They said I have two left feet. That's what I mean. So, yeah, I thought that was interesting. It's just funny, like funny, the price funny.

They have 12 different racks, but only three different types of socks. They couldn't come up with more than three affirmations. They're like, I'm I got to be honest, I'm stuck. And they couldn't even just put like four of each. Like a little mix and match. You gotta have them anywhere, like everywhere and anywhere. Yeah, I really like the fake feet at the top to show you what a sock is.

The fake feet are, so, is that a duck's foot? What is that? It's like a swimming flipper. Yeah, it's a kid's flipper. This is a child scuba diver who wears these socks. What in the world? Is that Shaquille O'Neal's foot? But take all the fat out of it.

It's like so bony. Yeah, it's a platypi. Goodness. Hybrid. Anyway, so just weird socks. And yeah, just so good. Just one of the affirmations is I am lucky, trademarked. So not an affirmation. It's just fun to always think about the origin stories

for these things. Yeah, is this one person who, like, this is a company, like this is a separate company from a company who already makes socks. Like what if we had a second division, it was like positive affirmation. It's like, we've said no to this girl's like last 20 ideas. Throw her a bone.

Let her have the positive affirmation thing. No, I think it's the opposite. I think it's like a mom and pop kind of thing. You know, there's a guy, I mean, Pickleball's main demographic is what, 50 and 60 year olds? Yeah. There's a guy out there that's been working mergers and acquisitions, climbing his way up the ladder

for the last 30 years, getting ready to retire, but he just got the bug for pickleball, but brother can't quite get there without some positive affirmation. So Steve, what do you do? Oh yeah. I was in M and A, you know, at, you know, whatever this firm for a while, but I quit it all. I risked it all for this dynamite idea. I have was like, imagine you're playing pickleball and you take off your shoes, and all of a sudden you realize you're lucky. Or don't steal that, you can't.

You can't steal it. Nice try. No, I'm gonna tell you the second one and you can't steal, you actually could steal this. So I'm just, I'm gonna take your word for it. Please don't, yeah. Or if you do, merge with me, cause I'm a merger of nexuses.

It says, I love playing football If your shoe falls off while you're playing just a reminder don't steal it once again So yeah, that was kind of fun way to start the day Yeah, I talked last week Isaac and I we played a tournament on Friday It's kind of fun little workday pickleball tournament and we bumped up a division Just because why not? We felt like we were maybe getting better and good PPA tournament prep, why not, you know?

Play the best. Right. Not quite the best. Scott and TJ do a 5-0. Me and Isaac do 4.5, just one little step below. Scott and TJ, they win 5-0. They're the best. Handily or Was it close?

It was close. I think they were actually down in the championship game like 10 to seven. The other team had to serve too. So it was like game point multiple times and then rather back and won. So against the wall. Good job to them. Me and Isaac, the night before the schedule comes out and it's like, so I'm looking up who we're playing.

All right. First round. This is not a, it's not pool play. This is like just a double elimination bracket the whole day, 16 teams just randomly assigned. And so like, all right, we gotta win out. First game, it's against some guy. Look him up on Duper. He's a 5.2. I go, here we go again.

Why does this keep happening to us? Why do we have to play a 5-0 in these tournaments? Cut to the end of the story, smoke them. 11-2, 11-4. He's like, I'm a fraud 5-2. Honestly, Isaac made a good point. He's like, I looked him up and he's from like a small town in Nebraska.

5-2 in Nebraska. That's 4-5 Kansas City. That's exactly, yeah. Yeah, he's a Nebraska 10, but in Kansas City he's a six. He's a corn fed 10, vegan eight. So that was a fun start today. I was like, all right, we're crushing this. Next game, we're planning to get some really nice guys.

One of them went to SBU with me at the same time, was good friends with my sister. I didn't know him particularly well, but it was pretty fun, Timbo. And we beat them. Now we're in the next round, and then we just get smoked by these guys. They were just like, someone asked me afterwards.

Whoa, not even that good. This guy was nasty. He was like 50-something years old. He was left handed, wore a golf glove in his left hand, and wore like, cyclist sunglasses. I mean, he was accessory-ed out. Really nice guy, though. His name was Doug, and he's cyclist sunglasses. I mean, he was accessory out. Really nice guy though. His name was Doug and he's from Ash Grove.

That's like right around Stratford. Oh really? Love Ash Grove. Wow. Also dated a girl from Ash Grove. Dang boy. I know. Get around.

It was, that was two of three. But anyway, so he like, he knew her parents cause they're in the school system or anything. So we got along great, but anyway, this guy was nasty. Someone asked me me afterwards like hey, we're about to play them. What should we do? I'm like, they're just really good. I don't know what to tell you They're just they were gonna beat us no matter what strategy they use. They were just better than us Really we go to the losers bracket and now it's one game to 15. Hey, we're still battling. We're fighting 15-4 No problem 17-15. Ooh, that was close. No problem. Oh

15-4, no problem. 17-15, ooh, that was close, no problem. Uh-oh, now we gotta play these guys again. The guys who've knocked us out. Doug. Dougie. Doug from Ash Grove. Doug and Randy. Oh no, those are some Southwest Missouri names. Yeah, they are.

And anyway, it was very fun because Scott was giving us some lessons, some strategy advice. And anyway, come back, beat them. Now we're in the championship game. We made it all the way through the losers bracket. I knew it. I knew you would be.

We're in the championship game, 4.5. This is crazy. This is great. Now it's back to best two out of three again, because the championship game, we beat them. 11-6, 11-8. Oh my gosh, we win? No, it's double elimination.

Oh sure, because they hadn't lost yet. They haven't lost yet. 11- 6, 11, 8. Oh my gosh, we win. No, it's double elimination. Oh sure. Cause they hadn't lost yet. They haven't lost yet. 11, 6, 11, 8. So it was a close game, but yeah. But still only took two games. Yeah. Now towards the tail end of this,

what we thought was a championship game, Isaac starts, we have to call some timeouts because Isaac is starting to cramp. And cause it's been there. So I think I put a picture on our Instagram story. At the end of the day, I had worked out. My pickleball workout was over six hours long. Yeah, that was brilliant.

And like, how many calories? 3,900 calories. Crazy. Yeah. And I wasn't like leaving it on while I was standing there. I was like, you know, I'm going to press play when we're playing, I'm going to pause when we're done. Over six hours of like-

You played pickleball for six hours? Yeah. Wow. We were there all day. So much pickleball. Really fun though. Yeah. So yeah, it's been a long day hours? Yeah. Wow. We were there all day. So much pickleball. Really fun though. So yeah, it's been a long day.

We haven't eaten, we haven't drank much and Isaac's cramping. You know, TJ's running and getting him pickle juice. Other people running and getting him stuff. And then we find out, oh my gosh, we have to play another game to 15. Very early on, Isaac goes to jump and just like locks up. Like, where are you cramping?

He says, everywhere. He says. My body is deteriorating. Yeah, it was crazy. Just like his body slowly break down on him. Cause at first it was just his hip. And he says, I can't extend my leg or else it locks up. So he had to take really short strides everywhere.

And then his calf started to lock up. And so he said, I can't stand up straight or it'll start to lock up. So then he had to squat. So then he had to stay in a squatted position and take short strides everywhere. It was seriously just like one by one, his body going down.

And then in the end, you know, the championship game, we just kept having to take timeouts and Isaac's over there trying to like chug Gatorade and they smoked us, we came in second. And the final point of the game, Isaac jumps up for like a big like smash, body locks up in midair, just like collapses on the ground. And it's just like pulsing on the ground.

And I was just dying laughing. It was great. It was just a great way to end the game. Meanwhile, the tournament director comes over and this is like feeding him pickles. Isaac's just eating pickles like you would put on a burger. Just lying there on the ground. Was it in?

Was it in just eating pickles? So that's so Isaac to be like, hey, I can't barely move my body, eating pickles like you would put on a burger, just lying there on the ground. Was it in? Was it in just eating pickles? That's so Isaac to be like, hey, I can't barely move my body, but I'm gonna jump up and smack this thing. Yeah, there's such thing as like, yeah, like halfway preservation a little bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Do what you can do. Like make the mistake kind of thing. And it was actually a backhanded attempt. It was nowhere near inbounds. But the whole day though, Isaac played incredible. It was really, really fun. It was nowhere near inbounds. But the whole day though, Isaac played incredible. It was really, really fun. It was very encouraging and confidence boosting. It was like, dang, we can play.

All of a sudden we're four fives. We're right there with Scott and TJ. I told you. Kinda. You believed. I did. You believed more than I believed. And I said, I kind of predicted,

I was like, the thing that's gonna make you bad is if Isaac kind of becomes Isaac. Cause like, what the heck? Like you, you sweat a lot. Like you didn't cramp up. I've never, I was talking about this with Mattie Oliver at a volleyball last week. I've never had a body cramp.

It must be a genetic thing. I don't know why I need to ask my sister if she's ever had one. You don't know what it feels like to have like a cramp. No, I mean, we're going to camp and as a camper, and this is when I first learned about it. Cause kids going through puberty, they're starting to experience cramps in the middle of night.

I'm like, I don't know what kind of stuff they're on or what's going on. You're talking about girls? Yeah. I was in the girls' cabin. These girls kept complaining about cramps. I was like, just eat a banana. Yeah, potassium.

Yeah, never had body cramp. Really? I don't know why. What about side cramp? Oh yeah, side stitch. Yeah, those take. Those aren't really cramps. Those are more. Really? I don't know why. And I got side cramp. Oh, yeah. Side stitch. Yeah. Those are those aren't really cramps. Those are more just like, I don't know, those cramps. I shouldn't have Dr. Pepper.

It feels like somebody's like wringing out your muscle kind of thing. I mean, they look awful. I mean, you see people just drop to the ground and they get stretched out. Yeah, it looks awful. So for whatever reason, I'm not even that healthy of a guy, but I've never had one. How interesting. You must just have maybe you have a lot of salt in your diet. All right. I bet you do. Thanks. What do you had one. How interesting. You must just have, maybe you have a lot of salt in your diet. All right.

I bet you do. Thanks. Don't you think? I like it. You're a salt guy. When I have like a big pretzel to quesadilla, I always have it with salt. You're never a, you're not, well, you are a sweet guy.

I was gonna say, I feel like you prefer salty over sweet, but I don't know if that's true. I asked Rachel this question last night. I was eating some canes and I said, what if you put sugar on french fries? Would that be good? Instead of salt. Instead of salt? Yeah. Or both, I'm open. I would and I said, what if you put sugar on french fries? Would that be good? Instead of salt. Instead of salt?

Yeah. Or both, I'm open. I would say a little, little both. Sugar and salt. Little sweetness. Like brown sugar and salt, I don't know. Yeah. Let's see.

With a little marshmallow sauce. I don't know about that. You ever had sweet potatoes with sweet potato fries? Oh, I see, I see, I see, I see. I don't know. I can imagine. There's something there. Anyway. Hey, Bondi bowls. Bond something there Anyway, hey bond eyeballs, buddy

We now sell fries cook some fries fun little day pickleball. It's good times. I I'm sorry that you didn't win at all, but it sounds like you you got as close as you could Yeah, we proved it. We beat him in the first round two out of three and you took down Doug, which was your nemesis Doug Doug got my name message me on Facebook. We're buddies now. Okay nice guy on Facebook Yep, I miss half the messages I get on Facebook. It's tough to see them Like what do you Facebook's trying to not make me communicate with people? How do I miss this thing? But I'm excited. Okay, so sky's the limit in Vegas. Make sure you bring some yeah

Electrolyte like I bought some element and bring it with me okay maybe Tommy do you ever had any of these like liquid enhancers or anything no pretty good really salty huh yeah the salt I mean normally you're drinking them because you're really thirsty though so you don't care I mean I think No. Pretty good. Really salty. Huh. Yeah. But also the sugar. The salt. I mean, normally you're drinking them because you're really thirsty, though. So you don't care. I mean, I think if you were just like eating dinner with like liquid IV, that would be

a bit salty. But I do it. Really? Not with dinner, but like just in the first thing I drink in the day. Oh, that's a good idea. Does that compare to like pre workout or like something like that? I don't know. I guess that's different good idea. Does that compare to like pre-workout or like something like that? I don't know. I guess that's different.

I think pre-workout is caffeine. This is just like getting electrolytes and salt. Okay. Because I've had some of what I think was pre-workout that Zach gave me one time. It was like everything was like tingling on me. Because you were becoming a unit. How much caffeine is in pre-workout? I've never taken it.

I think it's like coffee. Right. I don't know for sure, but I think, let's see. Caffeine in, I mean, of course it's- Maybe there's something weird, because I've never felt an effect of caffeine, I don't think. I've heard people talk about,

I think it's called C4, or some type of pre-workout like that, and I think it's common to feel tingly. Okay. Pre-work, this is AI from Google. I think my ear is itched. I don't remember correctly. AI from Google said- Unless it's fit in all time.

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So yeah, last night, did you go double TV for Chiefs Royals? I started to, I just started to split screen it. Yeah, we're recording this on Tuesday, October 8th. So, yeah, it's coming out a little bit late. Yeah, last Monday, the Royals had a playoff game at the same time the Chiefs played on Monday Night Football, which was fun. Pretty cool experience.

Both teams won. Yeah, it was pretty funny. Like on one hand, I'm like, this is really overstimulating watching two games at once. And then I realized almost every single time I ever watched sports, I watched the screen and then I looked down at my phone. I'm like, well, this is not that much different.

But it was awesome. I went and watched it with my parents because Catherine and the kids went to Texas yesterday. And so went down there. It was just wholesome vibes. My mom made some meatloaf for dinner. I saw she was doing puzzles. Yeah. She's yeah. We just got her a puzzle for her birthday,

which I remembered eventually. Yep. And yeah, she was doing her puzzle. Dad had his notebook out. I don't know. People were like, what's your dad writing on his notebook? I was like, I have no idea. He's always got his notes out.

He's writing something. He's making a list. Are they sports notes or is this like work related? Truly, truly it could be any. Okay. Fill in the blank. Sometimes I think it's like hobby, just like fun lists. Sometimes it's to-do lists. Sometimes it's prayer requests. Sometimes it's like, I need to call these people back

or this is my schedule for the week. Or let me look at the Atlas, like somebody's like Atlas out to be like, okay, now this guy's from Weber State. Now, Weber State. Where's that from? You know, whatever So I wonder if it's a generational thing or just a personality type But Rachel has said her mom has one note on her phone for everything. Yeah, so it's like things I need to do this week Passwords for certain websites flight confirmation I mean just any gift ideas like there's one note for every single

Thing you would take notes on rather than like you're saying you'd have separate notes for I love creating your notes really yeah Separating them what do you think time I go back and forth like to an extent I like the separate notes, but I almost like separate headings within the note itself Like one note that has multiple because then I'm going back and forth between notes I might forget something from one note when I go to the other. Yeah, I don't know I'm not organized enough to have a good preference. I feel like I don't know like I think having one note for too many things Just wouldn't work for me. Yeah, I just looked in last week. I have Used seven different notes like in my notes. Okay, seven different categories You Like in my notes. Seven different categories.

You want to tell us? Some of them. Friday YouTube expenses, Janelle contract, Rachel in sleep. Then what are you doing? Vegas PPA video ideas, Friday ads, script, podcast. Okay, yeah, all the different. Pretty separate.

Yeah, that's fair. Those are different. Tommy, did you watch any of the games last night? Nope. What were you up to? I was in choir I felt bad for all the sports fans in MNU choir all six of them No, there were I mean just a few people MNU mid-american Nazarene University. Yeah, I'm in like the bigger choir they have there. I'm not a student, but like whatever. The Dr. Smith.

But whatever. Oh, because he's your choir. Here's he's your voice teacher. Yeah. Okay. It was like a couple people like just kind of like sneaking in on their phones, kind of like checking stuff. Watching.

I was like, I couldn't care less. But yeah. How often are you doing M&U choir classes? Every Monday night. How long have you been doing this? A couple semesters. You're telling me you're telling us all about Illinois, but you're not talking about M&U choir?

I don't know. I mean, it hasn't been anything crazy. That's the choir concert I have on Sunday. It's with them. Yeah. And it's like, I mean, the difference from Greenleaf is incredible. I'm not hating on Greenleaf. It's just like bigger choir.

Obviously, like a professor of this, you know, it's a little different. But yeah. What do you enjoy about singing in a choir? And what do you not enjoy about singing in a choir? I don't know. I feel like it's a lot of positives. I mean, I just I'm trying to think of specific things. It's just I think I've liked it a lot more.

There's pros and cons to this big choir now because it's like, I know less people or like a less percentage of the people, but it's just like everyone there, a lot of people like this is like what they're doing, like what they're like going to college for, like in just like music related things and some not, but just like everyone, there's just the ratio of people that really care is bigger.

It's more fun to be around people who are like passionate about what you're currently doing. I don't know, but it's a ton of fun. Is it pretty easy to tell when somebody's not very good at singing in choir? Cause I always think that our church, we have a choir at church and I'm like, there's no way all these people are good at singing, but in a big choir, how would you know it masks it a lot better? Yeah, I mean just like if everyone in a choir sang a solo you'd tell a lot quicker. Yeah, I think you can be You have a lot more flexibility to be a little off pitch

But while you're while you're in the mix you are in the middle of the crowd. Can you tell like whoa? Zach is uh, that needs clear throat only if they're very close to me. Okay. And that's, that doesn't happen much. Like, yeah, for. And M and U. It's not happening. No, yeah, not them. No. That is not happening. Yeah. I did check your location last night. Sunday at 3 30. I'll be in Hawaii. Ah, oh yeah. Bummer. I'm gonna miss the NFL game, Dakota Timon's choir concert.

Chiefs have a bye week. Wait, is it 1.30 or 3.30? Call time's 1.30, so I think it'd be like rehearsing for a bit. They have to call you. Jake doesn't know about live performance, so. Yeah, they call you, say, are you coming? You say, yes, two hours.

Be there at 3.30. That's fun. How you feeling about Hawaii? You leave tomorrow? Yeah, I've been kind of fighting a little bit of a cold sickness thing, so I'm really hoping that gets. You need some socks. Maybe.

I am healthy. I am not sick. I feel fine. I will not go to Tropical Smoothie. Honestly, I never grew up with allergies, and so I have a hard time figuring out what's allergies and what's sickness these days. I'm grew up with allergies. And so I have a hard time figuring out what's allergies and what's sickness these days. I'm right there with you.

I'm like, cause, hey, no dumb questions. If it doesn't rain, does that mean there's more allergies in the air? Honestly, doesn't rain like stop? I never knew there was any correlation. Yeah, I never thought about the rain. Oh shucks. I'm not saying you're not, no, I-

Cause like pollen is more like freely in the wind blowing around because it's dryer out. That's my thought process. So we haven't had rain much in a while. Have we? I don't know. I just don't know. I just don't know if I am really sick or if it's just like allergies. Yeah. I believe you don't take me not knowing. We're a dumb. We're in the same stage of life. So am I though. Not knowing rain. Don't take me not knowing. We're a dumb, we're in the same stage of life. So am I though. Not knowing rain, allergy.

We're all dumb. But, and so part of me is like, maybe once I get to Hawaii, I'll just feel better. It does seem like that should clear up anything you have. Sickness or not, allergies or not, you'll be better in Hawaii. Warm weather just makes everything better. Yeah, and you're at sea level.

That's probably good. Yep, I think so. We're high up here in Kansas. Rachel and I were taking a walk this week and speaking of high up. Sorry, now I'm switching gears on myself. I added a widget to the front of my watch face that's elevation. OK, they talk about this recently. I love just looking down and see what the elevation is.

For instance, between here and like where we say at like downtown Kansas City or something, we're like 250 feet higher here than downtown Kansas City. You wouldn't think so 250 feet higher here than downtown Kansas City. You wouldn't think so. Really? And so Rachel and I were walking around, I mean like, think about our house being 200 feet up right now.

Yeah. That's so high. That's interesting. I do love, we have some rolling hills here in Shawnee. Yeah. Anyway, that's one thing. I'm just always checking elevation. That's fun. Other thing I was gonna say,

Rachel and I were on a walk around here recently and just got a whiff of something that smelled awful. And it was a combination of it. First, it smelled like weed, but then it smelled like a really like only we both came to the same conclusion at the same time. It was a dog's fart. You ever smell that? You're like, oh, my gosh.

Where did you smell that from the house? Just what we were walking around the neighborhood somewhere, but like how where do you think this dog was? Oh, I don't know If it was actually a dog's fart, it's just like what's the air smelled like it just smelled like it Yeah, but Rachel was saying I was like, oh, it's that dog fart weed and Rachel said it sounds like a pollen You'd be allergic to dogs either ragweed or dog fart weed. I'm allergic to something. I don't know what's going on right now. Has it rained yet? It could be dark for read. Yeah. We need some rain. The dog for our weeds. Yeah. Anyway, so I'm, but I'm excited about Hawaii. I think I've said it before and I'll say it again. I'm excited about the idea of just being the helper, the enhancer, like just like your liquid IV. I am. I am. Yeah.

Salt them. I'm a real light guy. Okay. I'm not. Oh, like element. Yeah. Like Redmond, the relight, like, I don't know. I can't wait to get them to sponsor us. So you have to only know Frank. Yeah. I think it'll just be fun. I did. I still have not gotten a very concrete example from TJ about what we are doing as far as food prep goes, because I'm not a great cook. I'm not. I have some experience. I can follow a recipe.

Okay. You like the grill. But I'm like, what if, what if he's expecting things out of me that I don't know how to do very well? And all of a sudden, I even asked him, I was like, so give me some specifics on food and everything. He's like, yeah. So Brooke's going to send me like their meal plan of what the moms did. You know, she'll send me a meal plan soon. And I'm like, I, I know Brooke and I know that she's a good cook and she's going to think things that are really easy or like for her, they're really

easy for me. It's like, I don't know how to stuff ravioli. I don't know what that means. You know, whatever. It's gonna be difficult. I can, I can do breakfast really well. I can do pancakes. I can do eggs. I can do bacon. No problem. But no overall to be fun. I, I just hope, I hope I do a good job for him. I hope it's, it's good for him. And I think overall it's just like, it's not like we're having any kind of like set like, Hey, we're going to have a talk about this or we're going to sit down and intentionally have this kind of conversation. So I think it's just a lot of kind of like

Ghostrunners getaway style where it's just like, let's just hope good things happen. You know, let's hope that people have fun and we're going to go jump off waterfalls and go hiking. And that's really fun. Yeah, go to you know, whatever Haleakala ten thousand feet up or whatever. I've still never done that. It'll be fun. So how many days you out there? Dude, I don't know because it's Hawaii and so it's hard to know I fly out tomorrow Which is Wednesday and I get back Thursday afternoon. So I think it's like six. Oh, wow full days You're gone a lot longer than I thought.

Me too, honestly. I was like, oh snap. I didn't realize I was getting back so late. So anyway, yeah. I said goodbye to the kids for like 10 days the other day. I was like, be good for mom, please help out. Is Catherine in Texas the whole time you're gone? She comes back, no, early next week.

I think for, because we have Mother's Day out and Awana and CC. CC, CC, CC. So, uh, cool. Yeah. Well, fun. Let's do our reviews of the week. Let's do them. Thoughts? My, my review of the week is coming from Brand Animal.

It's a five star review. The title of it is Partner in All of Life's Mundane Tasks. Love this podcast for all the laughs and uplifting conversation. You both remind me of hilarious people I've known in my life and somehow managed to discuss opinions my husband has buried deep down inside that can only come out when we listen. My only poultry is that Brad mentioned getting an amazing washer. I'm in the market for a banging washer. Not going to share with us. Let me find it for you. I don't know it off the top of my head,

but I will, it's a GE washer. I will say that Catherine cares about this wash or cares about different things in washers than some people. What does she care about? She's really into the agitator in the middle. Oh, okay. In our current house, this is my first time using an agitator.

And? I don't know. How would you ever even know if it's better or worse? There's something about it that she there. I don't know. Yeah, it works better. It cleans better Also, she really likes the fact that you can Soak things like some some Washers if you lift up the lid it's lifted too long. It'll drain out the water But she said with this one you can soak

things longer I don't know what that's about it is a four and a half cubic foot high efficiency agitator top load washer from GE I got it Lowe's also one more time looks at his for his review four and a half cubic foot high efficiency efficiency agitator, top load washer. The item number is 5300458. Model number is GTW585BSVWS. Quantity, one. That's it. The credit card that I use is Visa. No.

That's it. Thank you, Brand Animal. Fun. I can't find the review I'm looking for. So I ordered from Lowe's.com. So I'm sorry. I know somebody left a comment or a message or an email somewhere that was like, I can't get the reviews to work.

So here it is. And they asked a really good question that I knew Brad, Brad you have really good answer for I'm gonna find it eventually I bet Wednesday we can read it if you find it by then But for now, I will read a different one This is from who Honored hon it First of all, I would give anything to hear Jake or Brad read my title in their best forest gump voice Okay, great. The title of this review is called,

Sometimes There's Just Not Enough Stars. Sometimes there's just not enough stars. That was better. Good job. You warmed me up. Where do I begin? I've been meaning to write a five-star review for quite some time now. I'm a Gen X OB nurse slash lactate, hold on, this is a lot of information to take in.

Okay, I'm Gen X. And then for work, I'm an OB nurse slash lactation consultant. I thought it was an X, O, B, G, Y, you know, whatever. Okay. I'm blessed to have been married to my high school sweetheart for 28 years. Congrats. We are lifelong Nebraskans, husk'em.

And watching our four kids grow up to be amazing young adults has been the joy of my life. I stumbled upon your podcast back in 2022 after my therapist recommended that I find a way to inject more humor into my day. Dude, they're marketing strategy. Get with the therapist. Yeah, we advertise with the therapist.

Who'd you marry? Rachel Coupe Triplet. And what does she do? Comma LPC. Leewood Presbyterian Church. Listening to the news constantly on my commute to work and at home was increasing the anxiety and depression that I was experiencing during my years

of brain surgery recovery. Sheesh. The brain stem tumor I had removed in 2016 was benign, but life-threatening and caused a lot of physical deficits that I slowly recovered from or learned to live with. Although... Oh no, it cuts off.

Although I had overcome a lot, it was apparent that my focus on physical recovery had caused me to neglect my spiritual, mental... Dang it. Yeah, it did stop. I noticed that too. All right. Let's fill in the blank. Spiritual, mental.

Acuity. Acuity. Health. Good, good word. But listening to Ghostrunners like my therapist recommended was in fact just what I needed. Thanks to Jake and Brad and mainly Tymon. Yes.

Because he reminds me so much of my middle son. Yes. Whose name is Simon. Simon. Simon says. Thank you for that review. Because he reminds me so much of my middle son. Yes, whose name is Simon Simon Simon says Thank you for that review. Yes, so fun always appreciated All right Timing which like to do a dingle. I would oh Instrumental is called bedroom pop xnd rock type beat. It's called October. Oh

The title is October and the chat should be to your lyrics is called beautiful October day Okay, good. You ready? Can you imagine next week or whenever it happens getting some tea on sea for this? It's gonna be nice Go first out life slash MSR Do your part. All right, no one else bought a ticket. Let's see what happens. Oh, I know this one. Oh, this is October.

The morning sun is rising slow, casting gold on every shadow. The air is crisp, the sky is clear A perfect day, it's finally here All the seasons, they come and they go But something about today, feels like home It's a beautiful October day Where the world just seems to say This is great. Oh! Yeah, yeah, track it up. You're doing great. Everything just feels right In this golden hour I feel alive We're way off on words but

You're doing great Feel alive The scent of pine and burning wood The simple things that feel so good A cozy sweater and boots that walk I am lucky. I love playing pickleball. Others bold in this October Stories told, it's a beautiful October day Where the world just seems to say

Slow it down, take it in, feel alive With the autumn light, it's so bright Everything just feels right With the autumn light, it's just so bright Everything just feels right In this golden hour, I feel alive, this beautiful October sky. I'm making up now the sunset glows in shades of fire. A painted sky, a heart's desire. Well done, dude. Beautiful October day.

Yes. Where the leaves and memories sway. Oh. And in this moment We are free Dang, dude. I felt it towards the end I told me airplane hangers with no music can do that right there. That is something different about there. No instruments Not bad. That's funny the different songs you probably sing in a given week They were singing those when they were burning the brush. October sky.

Oh, that's great. Good work, boys. That was such a summery song for being called October. I liked it. It sounded like we were on the boardwalk. But hey, I'm going to the beach in October. You're going to Vegas in October. Who says you can't get warm in October?

Hey, next time you see us, Wednesday. We're gonna be tan. Oh of three of it I Dare you know I dare you to go sans sunscreen sans sunscreen. Oh, is that what we're raising the roof for? I don't know. I haven't worn sunscreen in eight years. So oh problem on that probably No, I don't know. I just feel like I never do You should you should. You should. Sorry.

You should. Then again, equinox, earth's tilt, maybe not that strong these days. See, what your reign for allergies is, is my equinox earth tilt in October. I don't understand why you just said. Well, sun's not as intense right now. Is that mainly it?

Kind of like it's not hot in Phoenix in September. Yes, it's not hot. It's a facade. 110 won't feel like it. It's different. A hundred degrees are relevant, right? Okay, well, we'll see you guys on Wednesday. Another fun episode.

We're gonna do no dumb questions from the ghosties. No, yeah. And they better not be dumb. Hey, we love you guys. Love you, love you, Catherine. Thanks for letting me go to Hawaii. See ya. See ya.

Ghost from the Spock town. Ghost from the Spock town. Every Monday morning we're taking grand baths from the Spock town. Ooh. Go for a vodka?